Chapter 3 In the Train

No one can understand true pain unless they've experienced it. This experience doesn't come to everyone. There are people who have had the pleasure of leading a comfortable life. I guess I just wasn't one of those people. All I am is a machine. I kill and destroy. There's nothing for me except violence now. When I think again though, I see everyone I've cared and care for. My family, old teammates, new friends, and the friends I'm still fortunate enough to have. My life is one giant ball of confusion. When I feel like I've found a way, I lose it. I truly am lost on the path of life.

Now I'm in the wizarding world at King's Cross. I've met the famous Harry Potter himself. Harry is small and skinny, but he is loyal to his friends. He puts those important to him before the task at hand. Even though his story's horrible, it's nothing that can compare to mine. I believe that not knowing a bond is better than building a strong one just to see it all come crashing down. I don't even know why I try. I just feel like I have to.

"Kakashi?" the brown-haired girl named Hermione said breaking the trance I was in. "Are you alright? You're being a little... distant."

"Yeah," I replied.

The Golden Trio was to help me around and get used to Hogwarts. This would allow me be able to protect Potter much more efficiently. Everyone that knew what my purpose was wanted me to get close to them, but I told them an sign of emotion in a mission would just be the end of it all. They didn't quite understand, but Moody seemed to agree. Well that's how I'm here now, sitting in the train to Hogwarts next the brown haired genius.

"Say Kakashi," Ron started, "What's Japan like? Is your magic any different from ours? I can see that you don't have a wand."

"Japan's alright," I began to answer. "We use wandless magic. That's all I can really say about it."

Silence.

"How are you so fluent in English?" Hermione questioned. "Japan doesn't exactly teach a lot of English."

This was getting on my nerves.

"Let's just say," I replied rather annoyed, "my magic helps a lot."

They all looked at one another confused.

"What's the symbol on your headband supposed to mean?" Harry asked next.

"It's the symbol of my village."

"Why do you cover your eye with it?"

"I guess you could say I lost my eye a few years back."

They all gasped. Well I did lose my eye, it's just that the eye I have now isn't mine. It's Obito's.

"How?!" Hermione shrieked out like a mouse.

"It was an accident," I replied cooly.

"Kakashi," Hermione started again. "That other mask you had. The painted one. What is that?"

"It's something traditional."

After that they all stopped talking to me and resumed talking amongst themselves. Harry eyed me a couple times in curiosity.

"Kakashi," Harry said, "do mind me asking how you're going to take some of the classes without a wand?"

"During those periods," I began to answer, "I will be listening and taking notes. My school is thinking about using wands, but we are afraid of breaking our tradition of wandless magic. So I am to introduce some wandless magic in the school year."

Ron was excited about this and started rambling on about how he was going to learn how to use magic without a wand. Hermione on the other hand was rather doubtful of the idea and so was Harry.

"Harry," I called.

"Yes," he returned.

"How did your trial go?" I asked trying make conversation even though I knew.

"It went well. Why?"

"Just curious..."

Just then a new voice came in through the sliding door of our compartment. "Hermione tell Crookshanks to stop bothering my poor Tsuki."

"Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry, Onkei!" Hermione apologized.

That name. It's the same name of Obtio's missing twin sister.

"It's alright here's your cat back," Onkei said giving Hermione her cat back.

Should I look? Is it really her? There could be a lot of other people with the same name, but I remember her so well. If it is her, her voice definitely matured. I remember her always being with Obito, and always being scared of me. She never talked to me, all she did was hide behind everyone else's backs when I approached her. The last time I saw her was just a normal day, and then Obito showed up with a sad face saying that Onkei had gone missing.

I took a glance and to my surprise she looked like the older version of Onkei. In the midst of my staring, our eyes locked. Her eyes grew.

"W-who's he?" she stuttered.

"Oh this," Ron started to reply. "This is Kakashi Ha-ha uhh something like that."

"Honestly Ron," Hermione said. "This is Kakashi Hatake. Kakashi this is Onkei Uchiha."

Oh God. This could ruin the whole mission. I gave her a look that said keep your mouth shut and I think she received the message because she than said,"Well it's nice to meet someone else of the Japanese culture. Kakashi-san, why don't you come out and tell me all about how Japan is now?"

I nodded and followed her down the train into an empty compartment. Well almost empty, it had a black cat in it. The cat's eyes and my eye's locked and then it's eyes turned into an eye much too familiar to me; the Sharingan.

"Kakashi-san," Onkei started in our native language. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm on a mission," I replied feeling relieved to finally speak my language again. "There's no point in lying to you."

"Does kaa-san and otou-san still hate me?"

"They mourn over their dead son."

"Of course. I was stronger than him, yet they still loved him more. Can see his eye? I never got to say goodbye properly."

"You know?"

"My parents sent me a rare letter telling me everything and they told me that if I was there to protect him, then he'd still be here. Or instead of him dead, I would be."

Why were her parents mad at her. It should be me. I haven't talked to them yet, so I wouldn't know.

"Don't be so hard on yourself," I reassured her. "It should be me they should be mad at. It was my fault he died."

"You think I don't know that," she said through her teeth angrily.

My eyes grew in shock as she looked at me right in the eye with a pair of red eyes with three comas in them. Was she threatening me?

"I can't get my vengeance in the way I would like to," she whispered threateningly. "You're lucky Kakashi-san. I know all about your mission, Dumbledore told me someone from my nation would be coming to protect Harry, and I was hoping it wouldn't be you. However since it is you I have many different ways of getting to you. In addition to that, if you fail this mission, I will take the pleasure in giving you your punishment."