That was really hard to write.

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Change of plans

Beta'd by Black Sparrow

Obito wasn't quite sure what he should think about the dead bodies of Orochimaru and Kabuto in his pocket dimension. On one hand, Annoying! Because this meant Bakashi was now able to activate Kamui too and Obito would have to be more careful from now on. On the other hand, he had just received the Akastuki ring from Orochimaru back… and there was still that thing with him having to run around the pocket dimension and destroy the last of Orochimaru's creepy little soul snakes… Obito wasn't sure if he found that frustrating or thought that it was a good way to relieve some stress…

Though now that Orochimaru was dead it also meant that the reanimation backup plan that he had been playing half-heartedly around with had finally been obliterated. Obito sighed, well that was Kakashi for you, always destroying his hard work. Though even while he thought that he couldn't really build up any anger against his former teammate… for that he was too aware what time had done to him. Kakashi was… not the shinobi he had once been but a broken shell that went through the motions. Obito had to admit that when he had first realized how truly broken Kakashi was some seven odd years after releasing the Kyuubi he had felt vindictively satisfied… though that feeling had lasted all but two days until he realized that should it ever come to an open confrontation between Obito and the world he tried to subjugate, Kakashi wouldn't be the rival and former teammate he once had been. In the wake of THAT realization Obito had obliterated whole parts of the Mountain graveyard, that furious he had been. The Uchiha had felt cheated out of his rightful vengeance. Now years later he could barely look at the broken state of his former teammate.

And then Hatake Kakashi had defected from Konoha.

It was so unbelievable that Obito himself had taken over the surveillance on the silver haired ninja for the following weeks after he had checked out that fuck up with the Uchiha clan. Because while Madara had wanted him to, Obito hadn't really intended to eradicate the clan. Yes they were fuckers and yes they could go to hell but Obito was confident that the power of the ten tails would be able to resist the Sharingan, no matter what Madara had ranted about making sure. After all once their Moon Genjutsu came into effect, none of them would be able to do anything anyway. So yeah that massacre came a bit out of the left field for him, though he had to give Danzo credit where credit was due, having their own heir do the slaughtering with only a few Root shinobi as backup was another level of horrifying. Obito hated to admit it but he was kind of in awe of that kind of cruelty… hey he never said that he wasn't a sadistic fucker only because he didn't see the sense in immediately massacring his own family out of a vague suspicion.

Anyway during one of the nights following Kakashi's defection Obito had cast a Genjutsu on the sleeping shinobi. Now Obito wasn't bad in Genjutsu, he was fucking terrifying for normal standards but he also knew that his skills would have never worked on a healthy Kakashi. The Uchiha just had the luck that the silver haired Jounin was so emotionally exhausted that it was relatively easy for Obito to slip into his dreams and just observe his mental state.

It was a sad place, even worse than his own mind and that actually meant something. Obito noticed that it consisted more out of instincts, paranoia and flashbacks than actual thoughts.

It was here also that he learned about what truly happened all those years ago when Rin died.

His Rin, the light of his life had committed suicide via Kakashi.

When he had found that out he had to Kamui away or he would have given himself away. Rin had killed herself and saddled Kakashi with the trauma of being responsible for not only one but both deaths of his teammates. Obito Uchiha, the clumsy idiot that had been part of Team 7 had after all died when he had been partially crushed under that rock. Obito still wasn't sure what he should think about Rin doing that to Kakashi. There was killing yourself to save the village and then there was throwing yourself onto a technique of your teammate without any warning…

And then after a few weeks of wallowing in self-pity about his destroyed world view he had revisited the memory in his head and had taken a close look at the ninja that had chased Kakashi and Rin… Mist ninja.

Madara had manipulated him… well fuck… he had seen that coming in one way or other because he was an old bitter man but Obito hadn't expected the old Uchiha to have orchestrated Rin's death… now what do you do when you find out that the plan you have been realizing for over a decade and to which you have sacrificed your sensei, his wife and a good part of your former village had only become necessary because Uchiha Madara manipulated you into doing what he wanted?

That hadn't been a good time for Obito, he had left Akatsuki and Mist to Pain and his Mist marionettes and had destroyed a few dozen islands in the sea before breaking down and wallowing in guilt for the first time in nearly ten years… it had been an experience.

In the end he had decided against completely scratching Madara's moon eye plan. It WAS a good solution to the problem no matter how you looked at it. So most of his plans didn't change but there was one crucial difference. Madara could forget about being called back to life, that fucker could rot in hell for all he cared.

This incident also changed Obito's anger about Rin's death; the blame was now solidly laid at Madara's feet… and Kakashi? Well in his mind Konoha was responsible for destroying his other teammate.

After that revelation Obito had left Kakashi to his own devices, it didn't seem as if he would have too many problems even with most of his mind gone… stupid genius. Instead the Uchiha had put a Zetsu clone up to keep an eye out for Kakashi now and then and redirected hunter nin that were after him from time to time, but that was it… Obito wasn't sure if he could take it if he became invested into this broken Kakashi only for him to get himself killed somehow.