Kenta: Woohoo! I never expected so many people to like this! Glad I wrote it!
Anyway, sorry about the delay. I had meant to post this story Monday, but since then I've had to go to the doctor, find out I have to get an M.R.I and most likely get surgery...AAAAHHH! I DON'T LIKE THE WORD 'SURGERY'!

Man, Now I'm freaking out again...

So! I'll be heading up to Chicago to visit my family this weekend and decided to throw out this chapter, possibly the next one too. Though this will be the longest chapter so far.

Btw, for Haru Inuzuka, YOUR QUESTION HAS BEEN ANSWERED!

Enjoy!

Kenta Raikiri

Obito was trying EXTREMELY hard to not fall asleep right now. Lately, he hadn't had the energy to prank Kakashi merely because the past two weeks he had been retraining his body. He had now remastered the Fireball jutsu, almost to the degree he had on his last mission, and was now learning another firestyle technique that his cousin had been showing him.

It was the next step up compared to the fireball technique, and it was called the Pheonix Flower technique. He was happy because he had never learnt the technique before. He had also been practicing his skill with the substitution technique. After the babysitting incedent, Obito felt that he wasn't fast enough with the technique, so he had begged for his cousin to help him train. He was about Obito's age, but he was already a Jonin, now training to become an ANBU. That's right, Obito had been taught the Pheonix Flower technique by Itachi Uchiha, the living prodigy of the Uchiha clan. (Wierd time thingy, I know...)

However, right now he had to deal with another boring meeting of the Uchiha clan. He had tuned out most of it, but had heard bits and pieces of 'new routines' that were going to be set up. He hadn't really cared much, merely because it was for all the adults to worry about, and since he was only a Genin, the meeting didn't really matter to him. All they ever talked about was how great the Uchiha clan was and that they were going to take this war and make it an opportunity to show off their strength. In all truth, Obito couldn't care less. He was going to show everyone how great HE was, not his clan.

That was something he hated about his family. They thought that because they were Uchiha, they were the best. He would admit that at one point, he was just like them, but after having been put on a team with Kakashi he had realized that your lineage didn't make you great. YOU did. Sakumo Hatake, Kakashi's father, had commited suicide, scarring Kakashi for life. Obito found himself in Kakashi, or, how Kakashi was, and wanted to fix that problem. So he had decided that pranking was the best way to break Kakashi's shell. Not to mention that it was GREAT exercise for the both of them! Obito noticed that everyone had been dismissed, and stood up to go. Heading out to finish up his training that he was still in the middle of, Obito sighed.

Man uncle, at least try to say something other than power or glory for one meeting. I'm going to start pulling that Nara habit and start sleeping through clan meetings if you don't change it up soon.

Stretching his stiff limbs, Obito went for a jog through the village. He had done this almost everyday now, and it was becoming a routine for him. Normally he would just jog around the compound, but lately he had been so irritated by the clan that he had to start running outside of the place. He noticed everyone was still tense, as if expecting the wall to explode or something and Obito couldn't blame them. The war had been on everybody's minds, and all Obito could hope for was that it would end soon.

"Obito-kun?" Turning, Obito found Rin walking out of a store.

"Oh! Hey Rin-chan!"

Running up to her, he found her to be missing her ninja gear.

"Where's your ninja gear?"

Rin looked at herself only to pull up the groceries she had run to get. "I'm shopping, we don't have any missions today, remember?"

"So? We're in the middle of a war as much as I hate to say it, but we have to be always ready for anything! Look, even though I'm still training I've still got my gear on me, and take a look at all the nearby Jonin and Chunin. Not a single one of them is missing their gear." Obito said pointing around.

Rin blushed as she noticed he spoke the truth.

"I just don't want you to end up getting kidnapped or, worse, killed." Obito said scratching the back of his head awkwardly. "The war's been on everybody's mind. I can only hope for it to get over with quickly." Shaking his head Obito started smiling again. "Anyway, nice to see you here! I actually think this is one of the first times I've ever seen you out shopping!"

WHAM!

Rin blushed furiously as she walked away, leaving a smoke-headed Uchiha on the ground in pain. "I can shop! If you've got a problem with that then you'll meet my fist!"

"Yep...still violent..." Obito said sitting up and nursing his throbbing head. "But then again, the meek ones always do whatever you ask of them, they never show any backbone." He smiled before standing up and turning around, accidentally bumping into someone.

"Oh! Sorry about that..." Obito noticed the man was too lost in his book to care. Obito also noticed it was an orange book and that a book just like it fell out of the man's pocket. "Hey!" Obito yelled after the man, picking up the book. "You dropped this!" He would have run after him, if not for the crowding people. Obito sighed as he looked at the book.

"Icha Icha Paradise...neh?" Obito put the book into his pouch and continued on his jog. "I'll take a look at it later."

He had remembered his uncle, not Fugaku, reading it once. He kept hiding it from his wife. Obito also remembered one of his older cousins getting caught reading it once. It was burned right then and there.

Why would Mokona-nii burn a book right off the bat? She's the biggest bookworm in the Uchiha clan! Not to mention I've seen a few Jonin and Chunin reading it, and all they get is a bunch of glares. Is the book a bad book or something? Maybe the story plot's really bad or something...well, I guess I'll find out later.

A few hours passed and Obito walked out of his shower, a relaxed grin on his face. He walked to his room and picked up all of his gear before stopping. Pulling out the Orange book, Obito found it was the first book. He thought about reading it until his cousin's incedent resurfaced in his mind. He shuddered before putting the book back in his pouch. Nodding, Obito decided to head for the park to find out about this mystery book.

Kakashi Hatake, the village's perfect Shinobi. Or, at least that's what Kakashi dreamed of being. He wanted to show how great he was, not how pathetic his family was. His father had been a great shinobi, yet he dishonored his family. Kakashi wanted his family name to be looked at with fear and respect, not pity. He also hated the Uchiha clan, as it was a very honorable family. He sometimes wished for the whole clan to be wiped out. Not really, but he sometimes wished for the clan to be burnt to the ground by their own jutsu. Nowadays however, he was changing his opinion.

Obito Uchiha had become a part of his team, and had not once bellowed out about the greatness of the Uchiha clan, only when Kakashi had referred him to a weak clan. However, he had gained respect for the boy. He had known he was a coward, hell, it was pretty obvious. However, he knew that Obito had been drastically changing himself. By day, he pranked Kakashi, acted like an idiot, and was just plain annoying. But when he was alone...alone seemed to be the key word. Kakashi knew he had taken out the group of bandits by himself. No help whatsoever. Not only that, but there were those past few nights...

~Flashback~

Kakashi tossed and turned in his bed. He couldn't sleep. The babysitting mission had been bugging him for quite some time now, and he was seriously getting annoyed at his lack of sleep. At least Obito had layed off the pranks for awhile. Grr...Obito Uchiha. The boy had been plaguing his thoughts constantly now. He was supposed to be a coward, never doing anything as he was too afraid of everything to DO anything. Yet somehow, he had completely done a 180 in personality. Well, not really. He was still the annoying prankster he used to be, but something was definitely different about him.

Annoyed, Kakashi got out of bed, strapped on his ninja gear and headed out for a walk. He knew that a walk at this late an hour was odd, but then again, not alot of shinobi had been able to sleep lately with the war plaguing their dreams. Kakashi walked with no real destination in mind, it was just to make him feel tired so he could sleep. Looking up, Kakashi wasn't really surprised when he saw the Hokage mountain. However, something seemed to be moving by the faces. Curious, Kakashi jumped on top of a building to try and figure out what it was.

The figure would jump off the top of Hokage Mountain, fall for about a good two minutes, then whip out a grappling hook of sorts and swing himself to safety. He would then climb the mountain with no support, save for his grappling hook, and then jump off the mountain again. Kakashi wondered why in the world someone would do such a stupid thing. To fall from that height would be downright terrifying to a civilian. Yet ninja had to do such things all the time. And by the look of the Kunai-like grappling hook, Kakashi knew that it was a ninja. But why would they be out here this late at night?

Kakashi, wanting to see who in the world was doing this, got closer, moving only when the figure was climbing back up the mountain again. When he recognized the Red and White fan of the Uchiha clan on the figure's back, Kakashi nodded his head. It was probably some training an Uchiha Chunin or Jonin was doing to get stronger. But then Kakashi saw something glinting in the moonlight off to the side. Looking again, Kakashi's eyes widened.

Next to a sleeping roll, which was hidden underneath a tree and some bushes, lay a pair of orange goggles.

~End Flashback~

Kakashi's eyes narrowed.

He's been training at night in secret...nobody knew about his training, and he sure as hell didn't give any hints away save for the small moments of speed or something. And what were you thinking, jumping off of a cliff in the middle of the night?

"DYNAMIC ENTRY!"

Kakashi turned to see a foot heading straight for his face. Being a tad bit too slow, Kakashi went flying backwards and into the nearby lake at the park. A blast of water erupted as Kakashi went under the water, while a strange, green spandex wearing Genin landed perfectly nearby.

"HAHA! Kakashi, you have always gotten everyone's attention when Obito-san was asleep or something. From this day forward, you and I are eternal rivals!"

Kakashi rose to the surface of the water before swimming back to shore. He looked up to see Maito Gai, the creepiest guy from his class. Sighing, Kakashi got out of the water before glaring at Gai.

"Can't you attack me when I'm NOT thinking about something?"

Gai looked appalled.

"But Kakashi! You are ALWAYS thinking! Also, as youthful as I am, I cannot read minds! Even if I could, it would be most un-youthful!"

Kakashi slapped his forehead. Great, he was spewing out crap about youth again. If Maito Gai wasn't challenging Kakashi to sparring matches, which Kakashi usually won at, he was talking about youth.

I swear, if I wasn't always so stoic, I would have taped his mouth shut, thrown him in a room with rabbid dogs and locked the door.

Gai suddenly shivered while in a nearby tree, an Uchiha Genin got the urge to prank Kakashi some more.

"Kakashi! I challenge you to a sparring match!"

Kakashi was about to reply with his usual 'No', but the thought of Obito surpassing him made him reconsider. Taking a deep breath, Kakashi nodded.

"All right, I don't see why not."

"YOSH! If I do not win, then I will run around the village 10 times without a break!" Gai said exhurbantly as he shot his hands up above his bowl-cut of a head.

Kakashi shook his head before leading Gai to a clearing in the park. Meanwhile, Obito was up in a nearby tree, his eyes wide and his face stained with a crimson blush. He would constantly close the orange book in his hands, take a few deep, DEEP breaths and open the book back up, reading a page or two more before repeating the act.

HOLY CRAP! I know dad told me about the birds and the bees, but seriously, I didn't think it would matter at all! A giggle escaped Obito before the Uchiha realized what he just did. All those Chunin and Jonin are always giggling, not to mention all my cousins...HOLY CRAP! ...so this is why they're always giggling...

Obito held the book out in front of him in contemplation, the scenes he had just read still in his mind, keeping the blush on his face. At first, he was passive, as it didn't really have anything too interesting in it. THEN he found out about the main character's hidden life, and from that point on, Obito was flying through the pages of the book. He had now been in the tree for a good three hours, and wouldn't be leaving anytime soon. He had just gotten to a love scene, and the twelve year old's mind was spinning.

I didn't even THINK of doing those things! But...now that I think of it...

The noises that would wake Obito up in the middle of the night suddenly made sense. Shuddering, The boy shook his head violently.

Crap! Now I'm gonna be hearing it even more!

Hearing some noise off to his right, Obito peeked out from his hiding spot to see Kakashi and Gai sparring in the middle of a clearing.

They couldn't have picked a better spot?

Obito sighed before noticing something. There were alot more people here now then he last remembered.

Hey! I remember him from class!

Obito smiled as he saw a black-haired boy watching Kakashi and Gai spar for a few minutes before glancing to his left and blushing. Obito turned to where the boy was glancing to and saw a girl with black hair.

Sarutobi Asuma and Yuuhi Kurenai. Huh, didn't know Asuma had a thing for the red-eyes thing. Obito chuckled. Better watch out for my cousins then.

Glancing around a bit more, he saw a rather common sight. Jiriaya, one of the Sandaime Hokage's students, was trying to get a date from a blonde-haired girl named Tsunade. They were probably in their thirties, and Obito giggled as he watched the White-haired man get denied a date from the lady. He also noticed their other member, Orochimaru, off to the side rolling his eyes.

Eh? What's HE doing here? I thought he had already left the village by now! Obito's eyes narrowed as he stared at the snake man.

It was well known that Orochimaru was associated with snakes, as the man would apparently use them in battle all the time. Obito had even heard of the man summoning an enormous purple snake and flattening an entire village. Obito would always feel this dark aura around the man, but now there was hardly anything threatening coming from him. Maybe this was how he was like when he was still loyal to the village?

Still, I better be careful around him. Eh?

Obito grinned as he saw who was with them. Minato was off to the side laughing at his sensei's misfortune, while Kushina Uzumaki smiled off to the side before walking up to Tsunade and exchanging a 'high-five'. Jiriaya mumbled something along the lines of 'you two are in cahoots, I know it!' before Tsunade pulled her eyelid down and stuck out her tongue. Obito's smile widened as he saw a purple-haired girl watching the two Genin spar. A blush was on the girl's face as she stared at Obito's white-haired teammate.

So Anko's here too eh? Hey! This must be when she starts getting feelings for Kakashi! Oh man, I still don't really know how to get those two together...man, it's gonna be tough.

Frowning deeply, Obito put the book back in his pouch before jumping down from his perch, effectively landing in front of Rin. Said girl squeaked before bashing the Uchiha upside the head.

"You scared the living daylights outta me!" She said while taking deep breaths to calm her rapidly beating heart.

Obito half-glared at her as he was once again nursing a lump on his head. "Its not like I meant to. Hell I didn't even know you were there! Another minute and I would have landed ON you."

"In which case you would be in MUCH more pain then you are now."

Obito shook his head before getting up. "Well, now the entire team's here. Dunno about you, but I gotta go talk to sensei." Heading over to the Sannin group, Rin noticed who was with them.

It's that Anko girl...who is she staring at?

Rin blinked before following the girl's trail.

She's staring at Gai? No...Kakashi-kun? Huh...wait a minute, I should be irritated at that! ...why aren't I?

Looking back over at Obito, she saw him walking a bit away from the group with their sensei. They started talking a bit with Obito glancing at Kakashi then back to the group Minato was with a moment ago. Minato blushed for a moment before laughing. Obito leaned in to whisper something into his ear, to which Minato suddenly smiled. That smile grew and grew until he was chuckling. Patting the boy on the head, he walked back to his group. Obito was grinning before looking back at Kakashi's and Gai's match, as they were about finishing up.

I wonder what they were talking about...

Obito smiled. Kakashi was finally accepting Gai's requests for sparring matches, meaning he was finally opening up a little bit more. That or he was becoming competetive with himself and wanted to best the young Uchiha. Obito hoped it was the first option. Sighing, Obito stretched his arms before heading off to train some more. He couldn't let Kakashi catch up just yet. Glancing back at Minato, who smiled in return, Obito grinned before taking off.

Kenta: Hey there everybody! I know some of you are wondering about Orochimaru and I wanted to quickly clear this up. I've heard of this theory before, but I can't remember where I heard it.

Going back in time, a man had heard of the outcome of a recent election. A wartime hero had won the election, while a tyrant had lost. Smiling, the man went back in time to see some exotic animals. He was strictly told NOT to get off of the path. Upon going back in time with his guide, the man saw a T-rex off in the distance. Ignoring the guide's outraged yelling, the man stepped off the path and took a closer look at the creature. The man was pulled back onto the path and taken back to the present immediately, and was banned from ever going back again. However, he overheard the two men talking about the election before he departed back in time. They were grumbling that the wartime hero had lost the election, while the tyrant had won. The man, horrified of how this had happened, froze. He looked at the bottom of his shoe to find a dead butterfly.

Because he had killed the butterfly, a chain of events started and, for one reason or another, made the war hero lose the election thousands of years later.

Because Obito is doing things differently, things aren't going to be the same as his life was before he died. Meaning that a certain snake sannin might have stopped his experimentation after the Third's warning, instead of continueing on. Understand now? Not everything goes the same way twice.

Hope you all continue to enjoy the story!

Kenta Raikiri