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Ch 4. The gift

When the red color disappeared, he saw how brown orbs watched him.

Her eyes were narrowed and they pierced him like knives. Streaks of tears made trails on her round cheeks. The kunoichi broke down before him. Her gaze fell at the eroded ground, bangs hiding her face.

Obito's attention was dragged to the crying girl. The way she looked like called back memories. Memories that he thought that had died long ago. The way her hair framed her face. The same form of her eyes, and the same round cheeks. Even her fast movements reminded him of something he thought he lost long ago. However, this girl was nothing similar to his memories. Instead of a gently smile, her face was filled with vindictiveness.

He gritted his teeth and let out a small growl while he watched her.

He was taken aback as he watched her look up again. It wasn't the same girl with the buns. Instead of the face of despair, she smiled. A small blush formed at the cheeks with the usual purple tattoos. Like a ghost from a long time ago, she stood there before him. Nothing had changed in Rin.

Trembling he backed as something clenched in him. Rin was there. She stood there before him, alive and breathing. It was like before… The man hit himself mentally. Rin was dead. There was no chance that she would be there right now.

Obito raised his hand to eliminate the illusion he saw before him. Disgust filled him as he saw the bun-haired girl rise to attack him again. With a trembling hand she held a kunai. The Uchiha man just snorted. His hand approached her chest while she approached him ready to kill him with the kunai. How naïve… Obito knew that she had no chance… He would use kamui and let her body pass through him and then he would attack her from behind.

"Are you going to kill her?" a familiar voice asked him. His hand stopped. The kunoichi stopped. Everything stopped. The wind was still and everyone stood there, neither moving nor breathing. He saw how both Kakashi and Gai floated in air with eyes widened by fear. Everything was still, like a picture or a snapshot of a memory. "Please, don't."

That gentle voice sounded so familiar. Even though he hadn't heard it for years he still recognized Rin's voice.

"Rin…" Obito tried to mouth her name, but it felt like all his muscles refused to cooperate with him. She was there, somewhere. He tried to break himself free from the paralyzing, but it failed fatally.

"Don't take her away from me." The voice touched him like a strong wind, giving him shudders.

As he heard the words a seething pain started to spread in his head. He gasped and tried to support his head with one hand. But once again his nerves refused to give moving signals to the other body parts. He tried to let out a cry of despair, but all was in vain. This whole situation made him feel so vulnerable, like he was handicapped.

"Rin viewed her as a last gift from you…" this time the voice sounded different. Obito recognized the bored tone that Kakashi usually spoke in.

Kakashi's word made his head feel heavier and heavier. And by the same time his vision started to fog up as everything in the scene started to emerge in darkness…

When Obito opened his eyes, he was almost blinded by the bright light. He groaned as he felt a pain pound in his head. Weakly he opened his eyes again… He could discern some shadows hunched over him. It took few moments for him to understand that it weren't shadow, but faces. He couldn't really see who these people were.

"He is awake." A feminine voice called. Some other voices discussed something in the background. They let hysterical and they constantly interrupted each other. It sounded like they were quarreling about something. Obito didn't know what they quarreled about, nor did he even care. He tried to shut away the noise, but it just worsened his pain.

And then there was that narcotic smell of disinfectants and pharmaceuticals that made the Uchiha man groan. Those smells told him that he was at none other place than a hospital.

"Ino, go and bring Tsunade." A strict voice was heard somewhere from the room.

While he heard the footsteps become lower and lower, Obito tried to remember what happened before he entered the torture chamber. His weak mind didn't have the energy to sum up everything that had happened during these days. His nightmare had already messed him up even more.

Unknowingly his thoughts were drawn back to the dream again. The picture of the bun-haired girl had glued itself back in his memory. Obito had a small feeling that he knew who she was… And it made something very uneasy twist inside him.

With angry steps Tenten made her way towards the quarters of teacher apartments. Behind her she heard Shizune call desperately for her, but she ignored her. Tenten needed answers right now. She wanted to know the truth about herself.

How many knew about her past? How many hadn't even cared to tell her anything at all?

"Even though my team is no more you will always remain as some very precious people to me."

A picture of her sensei appeared in her mind. Before it had always brought her warmth whenever she remembered everything about her team and teacher, but now everything was bitter emotion of betrayal. Why had Gai never told anything to her?

Tenten pushed herself through Genma and Raidou, who happened to be in the way, ignoring their shouts after her. She ignored all shocked looks some of the other Jonin instructors gave her instead she made her way up to Gai's room and slammed her fist on his door.

"Tenten, wait…" the flushed Shizune let out as she made her way towards the young kunoichi. Once again she was ignored.

"Open it!" Tenten growled as he hit the door again. The girl knew that she had made a scene when some other doors opened and some looked out to see what was going on, but Tenten just wanted answers.

"Gai is not here."

"Kakashi-san." Shizune sighed in relief when she saw the man.

Tenten stopped her hand in midair. Letting it fall down by her side as she glared at Kakashi with fury. The Copy didn't react to her anger at all. Instead he looked like he had been prepared for this. "I may help you." He continued. "If you are angry with Gai then you are angry with the wrong person. I am the one you should blame."

"What do you mean, Kakashi-sensei?" she watched him with big eyes that slowly turned from angry to confused instead.

"About your past... I will tell you about it soon. But first, calm down!" Kakashi sighed as the girl was taken aback by the shock. He knew that sooner or later he would have had to tell the kunoichi about her parents. Still Kakashi hadn't imagined things to turn out this way. And all this happened just because the man behind the mask turned out to be his old teammate.

"You better do it!" Tenten glared at him again as she felt the shock melt for a bit. As her troubled thoughts had calmed down she felt exhausted, there was no other option but to just do as the Copy nin ordered: to go home and collect her emotions.

"Since we have got all information from you we have decided to free you and let you live." Tsunade glanced at the Uchiha man, who didn't seem like he listened at all. To Obito freedom didn't mean anything. Nothing mattered. He just wanted to be left alone.

"However, you will be constantly watched by ANBU," Tsunade continued, a bit peeved by the lack of response "and you will have to take care of Tenten."

"Wha-?" Obito glared at the woman. How could she even put a responsibility like that on him? He couldn't take care of someone, and he didn't want to.

"You are her parent and it's your duty to take care of her." Tsunade's eyes pierced him like his pierced her.

"And you expect me to be able to act like a parent?" Obito hissed. This girl… He couldn't care for her at all. Even though she was Rin's child he couldn't care for her. The fact was that he had lost the ability to love again, and likewise nothing would matter as long as it wasn't about his failed Mooneye plan.

"In the future you will be able to." The Hokage wasn't going to give in to the man. Tsunade hoped that there was a chance that he would be able to find a new reason to live on.

"And if I turn out to be a danger?"

"Then, I will let you be executed." She hissed icily. "Besides, we have done a restriction in your power. You will only be able to use your sharingan and ninjutsu if it is to help Tenten, otherwise you won't be able to use them."

Obito acted calm, but inwardly he wanted to curse and break the woman before him. All he had wished for was to stop breathing and leave this world and all his mistakes behind him. But now he was forced to continue this hell, and worst of all he was forced into another person's life, a person that probably hated him.

Obito remembered how the girl had darted towards him with that intent to take him down. Her face had shown nothing more than hatred towards him.

"When you have recovered you will start your new life." Tsunade glanced at the man a last time before she left.

Was it possible that he somehow could change the Hokage's decision? If so was it possible that he finally could be free from everything. Was it possible that the rest of the world would feel better without him?

Neji Hyuga

Tenten let her hand trace over the cold stone where his name was engraved in. She hadn't really had the courage to visit him at all during the week and being there right now made her stomach to twitch.

Tenten put a flower beside the stone, a rose, meaning passionate love. Even though none of them visible had shown any affection towards each other there had still been something more hidden behind all actions.

They had both understood it, they had known both that there was more than just comradeship and friendship. But never had they cared to show it further than just behind some words, some genuinely caressing or helping outs. As a shinobi there was no time for love, life was cruel. People promised to arrive home from the battlefield, but then they never kept their promises and people were left alone to grieve.

Tenten was one of those that was left alone while Neji… She shook away that memory and forced herself to think better thoughts. A wind blew her hair and caressed her cheek… and a brief moment it felt like Neji was watching her.

"Neji, I hope you are here now… I need you… There have been happening so many things during these days." She thought about the sight of herself in the mirror, while she wondered how everything was possible.

Never ever had she thought that she would be from the Uchiha clan. If so, how come that she survived that massacre? How come that the other Uchiha never had cared about her existence? There she had been the whole time, in the same village living side by side and still none of the Uchiha had ever noticed the orphan girl who sometimes stole food or caused ruckus. Was it possible that none of them wanted to notice her at all? Had her parents been so ashamed that they sent her to an orphanage?

Tenten sighed as the questions popped up in her head. Today she would know the truth about herself. Even though she had braced herself for anything, she was still nervous.

Tenten twitched when she heard a voice shouting her name. She turned out to see Gai-sensei come running towards her. Once again her stomach twitched at the thought of Gai's betrayal and she rose to leave. But the man was fast enough to be there by her side before she had even the time to move.

"Kakashi told me everything," he looked at her with softer look than always, "I am sorry, Tenten. I should have told you long before." Something in that soft look formed a lump in her throat but she swallowed it.

"Why didn't you tell me then?" she threw the words into his face, anger boiling.

"I am so sorry." He repeated. Tenten swallowed another lump. She had told herself that she wouldn't cry anymore, but still her tears seemed to never stop.

"There there." She let him reluctantly pat her. "Today I will tell you everything you deserve to know."

"Fine…" she sighed as he motioned to the east side of the graveyard.

"There is someone that I want to introduce to you." He told her, receiving a suspicious look from the kunoichi. He just answered her look with one of those youthful smiles.

Before they went, Gai greeted Neji and promised to visit him another time.

Rin Nohara

Tenten read the name a few times and tried to remember if she ever had come across the name before, but the name was totally unfamiliar to her. She was about to ask who Rin was when she saw her sensei watch her with a bright smile.

When Kakashi entered the white hospital room he found his old friend sitting up like he had expected him there. His mismatched eyes burned Kakashi as he approached. In silence he sunk down at a chair beside the bed.

"You wanted to see me," the copy nin glanced over at the Uchiha "what for?"

"Tell me about her."

Kakashi furrowed his eyebrows in suspicion. It was hard to interpret Obito's stoic face, but Kakashi had a feeling that he wasn't really asking for pure interest. This man before him didn't seem interested in his own child at all. There was another reason that he asked… "Why would want to know?"

"Simple, because I want reasons not to live in this hell anymore." An evil smirk formed on that scarred face of his.

Kakashi glared at his old teammate while he wondered how low Obito had sunk. Was it even possible to get him out of that darkness? Was it even worth a try, or was everything just wasted time?

"I am sorry, but you'd better ask Gai about that and I am sure that he wouldn't be glad that you used the facts of her to your own pleasure."

Obito didn't let that smirk fall at all, even though something small clenched inside him. Once again he reminded himself that nothing had a meaning anymore… He pushed away the emotions. But still there was a small fury inside him, a fury that wasn't supposed to be there. He growled and tried to ignore that.

"You didn't know anything?" he growled, trying to ignore the spreading anger. Obito hated to show his emotions right then, he hated that he was so messed up. Everything thanks to the intrusion in his mind.

"When Naruto became the jinchuriki he was in a greater danger than Tenten, therefore I had to keep a better eye on him." Kakashi shot him a glare that reminded him of another of his committed crimes.

"Why didn't you send her to the Uchiha?"

"So that she would have been slaughtered together with the other Uchiha during the massacre?"

"Wha-?" Obito was slightly taken aback by the statement. The smirk faded by the seconds, a dark void filled him. He shouldn't care for such things at all, he shouldn't care for that girl he merely had seen at all. But still the truth made a bigger hole in him when he was reminded of massacre that also had been organized by him.

Once again he forced away all emotions. Everything that mattered was to end this awful life, and forget that he ever did these mistakes. To live and bear with the facts that he would never be forgiven for this was unbearable.

"After your death, the Uchiha got suspicious of me and Rin when they heard about that I got your sharingan. They thought that I tried to steal their clan blood limit," the Copy nin sighed sadly at the memory "Fugaku Uchiha made it clear that he would kill us if we tried to steal more of their dojutsu, not even Minato-sensei could do anything. Having Rin pregnant with your child wasn't easy at all, also when she was so stubborn to keep the child. So to survive she kept herself isolated during the time she was pregnant."

Obito stared at Kakashi, shocked about everything he had heard.

"Why would she…?" he asked, even though he deep inside knew why. He dug after the photo of Rin and held it in a tight grip in his hand, crushed by the truth. If Rin really loved the child, then he couldn't leave things like they were…

This whole time he had thought that the discussion only would help his own selfish needs. Never had Obito thought that he instead would be left empty handed. He hadn't learnt anything about Tenten, but the things he heard had filled him with an awful feeling, regret.

"I see." Tenten was still taken aback by the story of her mother. She looked at the grave with her name engraved and traced the name. It pained her a bit that she never had a chance to know Rin Nohara.

"Tenten…" Gai looked a bit unsurely at his student as she processed the truth. He wondered if she had taken it hard.

Tenten turned around with a smile. The first real smile she had showed since the war. Her muscles felt tense around her mouth but she didn't care. She finally knew something about her family. A warm sensation spread through her.

Tenten hadn't been abandoned for nothing. She had also had a mother, who had loved her to the end. Tenten would always be proud of her. From that day on she would also come and visit her grave every time she visited Neji.

A/N End of chapter

In the next chapter I will introduce some other characters, one of them will have an important role.

And the first scene in this chapter was a messed up flashback dream Obito had after they had intruded his thoughts to search for information. Just saying if you were confused.

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