First week of second semester of university can be a crazy thing. I don't own the characters.

Obito ran his finger across the thick tomes that lined the shelves of the Konoha Public Library and he sighed as he pulled out yet another book he thought might be useful in their investigation and added it to the already huge pile of books sitting on the table. Rin was pouring through everything she could get her hands on, her eyes starting to droop after spending the entire day in the library.

Obito, concerned with how it might affect her and the baby circled his hands around her and kissed her gently on the forehead. "Hey, we can get some rest now. We'll continue tomorrow morning," he whispered as he felt her shake underneath him. "There's no way I can stop now. Not after what I did to Kakashi. If only I had checked and see if he was actually fine, or even yet heard what he had to say about the transplant, he wouldn't be in this mess," she whispered as tears began to flow from her eyes. She furiously rubbed them away and turned to flip the page as Obito placed a hand on hers.

"Kakashi is my friend too, Rin! If anyone can handle themselves in this mess, it would be him. Have more faith in him Rin!" Obito snapped as Rin tried to stop crying. Obito pulled her against him and kissed her on the forehead, letting her release her sorrow into him as the dim lights shone around them. He was glad the librarian wasn't around to see them doing that in the library and he knew how nasty the old woman could get.

"Hope I'm not interrupting anything," a voice came from the shadows and both of the sprang apart as Minato walked into the room, a small smile on his face as he watched how they blushed. "You two are married. No need to be shy," he muttered as he slapped a file onto the table. "Details on the mission you undertook that day," he said as Obito opened the file, his eyes scanning the page as Rin shrieked, "Wait that's it!"

She snatched a book and flipped the pages before giving it to the Hokage, who pursed his lips as he read the content. "Myths of the Land of Fire?" Obito wondered as Minato looked grimly at him. "As I feared, they really exist," he said as he showed him the book. Obito's eyes widened as he saw what was depicted on the page. A human, or what looked like a human had red eyes and a beady pupil, tentacles waving behind it was depicted on it, the tentacles ripping into flesh and shoving it into their mouths.

"In ancient times, monsters known as ghouls were known to prowl on travellers in the forest. They yearn for human flesh and although they may look human, they need to feed on humans to survive. Hunted down, their numbers dwindle drastically and they eventually became extinct, going into legend as monsters that eat fellow humans," Obito read out loud as he scanned the book, his skin crawling as an image of a ghoul tearing into a human popped up.

"I had heard rumours of them emerging more these few years but I didn't expect them to make a bold move of striking ninja from our village," Minato said as he closed the book. "And what happened back then could have been a way for them to infiltrate our village?" Obito muttered. "Impossible. Kakashi would never betray us because he's changed. He's too loyal to the village in that sense," Rin said. "I trust him but I'm not sure if he is the type to leave it to us to solve it. I'm pretty sure he left for the ghoul village and might very well be there now," Minato said as Obito frowned.

"Well why don't we go save his sorry ass and bring him home?" Obito groaned as Minato muttered, "You don't even know where the village is so how do you expect to find him like that?" "Don't you have a tracking jutsu on all of us, sensei?" Rin asked as Minato shook his head. "I think I might be able to find him," he muttered as he raked his brain for any sort of tracking jutsu he had before saying, "Give me something belonging to Kakashi. I should be able to track him then." With that Obito dashed out of the building and into the night, flying across the rooftops as he prayed, "You better be alive when we find you, moron!"

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Kakashi walked out with Teku into the outside room to find the guards missing. Teku cursed under his breath as he walked out, kunai in hand to meet with a blow in the face. Before he could react, a tentacle got him in the gut, causing him to scream in pain as he was lifted into the air and tossed into the wall. Kakashi quickly formed the hand seals on his hands, a ball of electricity forming in his hand already as the assailant walked forward.

"Tch don't make this harder for us already. Ever since Ayume got to you, there has been nothing but problems erupting around. Now be good and let us kill you," the man said as his tentacle waved menacingly at him. Teku groaned from where he was and Kakashi wondered how he was even still alive. "Oh no. I won't kill them. We have so few ninja in our village and its so hard to get people to think in the right way," the man hissed as he nicked Teku in the shoulder with the tip of his kagune.

"What do you want?" Kakashi growled as the man sneered. "You killed my fiancé so its only fair I kill the man who killed her, no?' he said as Kakashi charged at him. "Your people slaughtered my kind many years ago and now that we have grown in number, it's only a matter of time for them to come and hunt us down again. I'm not going to sit back and listen to that old goat telling us to stay hidden when we have all the power to take down another village," he growled as he managed to dodge Kakashi.

His kagune flashed as they made their way to Kakashi, who used a substitution jutsu and came up behind the assailant, kunai in hand as the man smiled, "Too slow." Kakashi was slammed into the wall and he groaned as he was sent through several of them, his back aching as he tried to stand up. "You may be a ninja but since you're a human, you're bound to have more limits than we do," he said as Kakashi's kagune began to come out from his back.

"Well well, your kagune looks so much like Ayume's," he said before he cracked his knuckles. "That makes me want to kill you even more," he snarled as he rushed at Kakashi, his hand balled in a fist as his kagune attacked Kakashi. Kakashi repelled the blows and started to perform the hand signs for his jutsu when he felt a stabbing pain in his arm. He yelled as blood sprayed from the wound, slowing down the seal formation as he yelled, "Mud wall!"

Several walls erupted from the ground, shielding him from the assailant and allowed him to make his way out. As he fled, the assailant walked over to Teku and dragged him to his feet, his blood staining the ground as he hissed, 'You will serve as a little prop for our propaganda." "The people wouldn't be stupid to follow you to their deaths, Ayato" Teku growled as the man laughed, "People listen to what they want to hear." With that he slammed a fist into Teku's gut and combines with the pain from his wound, the ninja lapsed in unconsciousness. As Ayato walked out, he smiled as he thought, "I will now create a world you would love, Ayume."

Hope you guys are still with me on this. Just having some problems writing it...