Obito's father was long out of shape, and it was easy for Kakashi to overpower the older man despite the fact that the man was taller and heavier than he was and had decades on him when it came to experience both with the Sharingan and the ninja arts. When the man attacked upon finding him in his home, he rather swiftly disarmed him and pinned him to the floor. The noise of the altercation woke Naruto however.

The child seemed afraid and looked torn between running and hiding, and going over to see what was going on. He ended up choosing the latter though.

"Kashi!" Naruto yelled upon spotting him.

As the boy started to run over to where he had Obito's father pinned, the man frantically struggled beneath him. This, and his efforts at keeping a hold on the man which was proving to be somewhat difficult brought the toddler up short.

"Wha?" Naruto asked curiously, wondering what was happening.

"Go back to bed Obito!" Obito's father yelled.

Obito? Obito? Naruto's name most definitely was not Obito. It was Naruto. Sensei had given him that name, and nobody had the right to take it away from him. Especially not this sick bastard who was apparently using the boy to replace his dead son. He would be having words with the workers at that orphanage. Words that involved weapons and pain. Giving Naruto to someone who was obviously fucked in the head was beyond the pale.

Naruto wasn't staying in this place any longer, not if he had anything to say about it.

He swiftly knocked Obito's father out since killing him would open a can of worms he really didn't need right now considering how strained his relationship with the Uchiha clan was. The man was also a Konoha citizen and fellow shinobi despite the fact that he was insane, and killing him would open him up for a court martial if he weren't summarily executed on the spot. After making doubly sure that the man was unconscious and therefore wouldn't be coming after him anytime soon, he then grabbed the now crying Naruto and ran with him.

"Shh Naruto. It's okay, Kakashi's here, and he won't let anything happen to you." he said, trying to comfort the boy as he carried him out of the house and out of the Uchiha district where he most definitely didn't belong.

Uchiha Fugaku had been trudging to the office where some sort of crisis that required his presence had sprung up seemingly minutes after he'd gone to bed when he'd seen the flash of silver making its way though the district. It took him a moment to realize exactly what it was, and when he did, his blood ran cold. Hatake Kakashi had been poking around the Uchiha district again, which was an occurence that no member of his clan would be happy to hear.

There were some who feared what the boy would do should Obito's eye fail him, and they didn't want him near them, their homes, or their families. One man who most definitely wouldn't want Kakashi near his home was Shuichi, but that was for a different set of reasons, reasons that had more to do with the fact that his son's death had been Kakashi's fault. Shuichi wouldn't be happy to learn that Kakashi had been poking around near his home, but he would have tell the man in the morning after this crisis was resolved though, seeing as the man deserved a head's up.

He'd nearly been at the gate that separated the district from the rest of the village when there was a yell of "Obito!" and the alarm went up, the alarm that the clan prayed that they'd never hear. One of the children had been stolen, and he could rather easily guess who. He also had a sneaking suspicion that he knew who the culprit was as well.

Running in the direction that he'd seen the Hatake boy in, he made to give chase.

Over in the Hyuuga clan compound, Hyuuga Hiashi groaned as he awoke from his spot at his desk where he'd apparently fallen asleep over some stultifyingly boring documents the night before, drooling on several important papers in the process. It would seem that his years of relative inactivity as he led his clan rather than fought in the field had taken their toll if the fact that he'd actually fallen asleep at his desk was any indication. The reason he had awoken from an apparently sound sleep was that there was an almighty racket coming from the Uchiha compound. From the muffled swears he could hear nearby and the yells coming from the Inuzuka compound, both his and the Inuzuka clan which were the closest to the Uchiha end of the village had been awoken at stupid o'clock in the morning. He honestly wouldn't have been surprised if the whole village was woken up by the noise that the Uchiha were making.

As he tried to figure out why the fact that he'd fallen asleep at his desk was bothering the hell out of him and causing a small mental alarm bell to ring, there was a yell of "Hey! What the hell are you doing on our property?" outside.

Normally, he would have a serious discussion about decorum with the person who was yelling practically outside his window, but he figured that he would let it slide since he too felt like swearing at the moment. Seeing as he was awake, he decided that he may as well go and see what was going on.

Once he got outside and made his way to where the source of the minor commotion in his own compound was, it had been to find that one of the Branch House members who was still in his pyjamas had incapacitated a masked intruder. When they removed the man's mask, it was to find the face of the ambassador from Kumo underneath.

"This creep was trying to climb into Hinata-sama's window." the Branch house member whose name escaped him at the moment said.

"Tie him up, and find a police officer who isn't involved in whatever the hell has got the Uchiha district acting like a kicked over anthill." he said as he scowled down at the man he'd dearly love to kill but knew he couldn't since it would spark a war between Konoha and Kumo if he did so.

"A guy who ran by said something about a kidnapping." another Branch House member who'd come to see what was going on supplied. "Do you think this is related?"

"Probably." he replied hoping the Uchiha roughed the Kumo bastard up a bit as they were wont to do with prisoners, and wishing that he could be there to watch.

Seeing as the ambassador had obviously been after a portable and unsealed Hyuuga who possessed the Byakugan, it wouldn't surprise him if the slightest if he or one of his staff had gone after someone with Konoha's other Doujutsu earlier in the evening. It was a pity that the ambassador wouldn't be getting what he deserved considering that whole diplomatic immunity issue.

Out just beyond the village boundaries, Kakashi held Naruto as the small toddler sobbed in his arms. He'd just gotten out of the Uchiha district when the alarm went up. Fortunately, he and Naruto were safe for the moment since he'd managed to make it to his bolthole before anyone had spotted him. He didn't know what he would do now, but he would figure something out. Naruto wasn't going to spend another moment with that sick man who had tried to use him to replace Obito, even if he had to run away to make sure that happened.

The Hokage would understand though. The Hokage would understand why he had taken Naruto from that place, and would be able to help him keep Naruto away from that man. He would have to get to him before someone found him however...

Edited 4/13/13.