Obito watched as the pink haired one that had run screaming from him the day before as he'd chased her around in that neat exercise ball Naruto had gotten him fussed over the Boss. Why the Boss was so frightened of Minato-sensei's son that he didn't even try to attack him, he didn't know. The Boss was the Boss for one reason, and that reason was the Mangekyo. The Boss rarely used it since he didn't want to go blind, but everyone knew he had it. Why he didn't use it on Naruto was a mystery of the ages.
The pink haired one whose name was apparently Sakura pulled the Boss out of the blue exercise ball Naruto had gotten him that morning so he could run around outside without worrying about a bird or some other animal picking him off, and was trying to comfort him. It seemed to be working, but the Boss flinched every time Minato-sensei's son said "Dattebayo" which seemed to be an odd variant of his mother's "Dattebane".
That was a rather odd thing to be afraid of.
The jerk Kakashi was being very hard on Naruto today for some strange reason. He would have to get back at him for that. Maybe he'd take a piss on the man's toes.
The rat that Sasuke had dubbed Shisui, which most likely meant that it was little Shisui, returned in the middle of training with a cherry tomato in his teeth. A cherry tomato which he proceeded to eat in front of Sasuke, much to the boy's ire. Apparently Sasuke's favorite food which was onigiri stuffed with tomato and salmon was too big for him to carry, so he settled on Sasuke's second favorite - and a close second at that - instead.
The day was shaping up to be a nice one so far. After growing bored with the antics of Team 7, he'd gotten in a couple of laps around the training ground in.
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He had been in the middle of a discussion with Naruto about having respect for the dead, and why he shouldn't have named his new pet after Obito, when the rat that had been named "Orange Stripe" the day before walked up to him, got on its hind legs, did something that almost looked as if it were miming unzipping a pair of pants, and took a piss on his foot.
He knew he'd probably feel guilty about it later, but then, he'd just sort of reacted, and kicked the small creature. It went flying and smacked into a tree.
There was a cry of "Obito!" as Naruto dropped his other rat, ran towards the rat that was either unconscious or dead, scooped him up, and yelled "I'll get you to a vet!" as he ran off in the direction of the Inuzuka compound.
He picked up Naruto's other pet rat with the intention of giving the exceedingly timid creature back to its owner. The animal shot him a look of pure hatred before...Were those handseals?
He dropped the rat, and apparently just in time since he found himself dodging a surprisingly massive fireball.
The rat shook its head dizzily but remained undaunted. The next thing he knew, he had half a pound of furious rodent running all over him biting and clawing any and every bit of his skin he could reach. Which was quite a bit since the creature had managed to make it up one of the sleeves of his shirt.
And just when he was thinking his day couldn't get any worse, Maito Gai ran up to him.
"Kakashi! I want to show you my most youthful pet! It can do Taijutsu!" Gai yelled, apparently oblivious to the fact that he was currently trying to get an enraged rodent out of his face-mask.
A Uchiha who had had a monster crush on Gai before she'd died smirked from her position on Gai's shoulder. She'd figured that if everyone else had finally stopped pretending to be the rats they now were and were leaving the district, she may as well go and spend time with the man she'd loved and had been forbidden to date since the freedom of being a rat rather than a Uchiha had come to an end and she'd be forced to be a "Proper" Uchiha otherwise. Watching Hatake Kakashi get his face gnawed off by one of her relatives was amusing to say the least.
It was at that moment that Naruto showed up crying and holding a rat that was obviously dead, apparently having come back to retrieve the hellbeast that was furiously clinging to Kakashi's mask and woulnd't let go. The boy spotted him, yelled "You killed Obito!", and furiously launched himself at him, forcing him to deal with both an angry boy and an angry rat.
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Obito found himself in human form sitting in front of a fire.
"Great. I'm back here again." he muttered.
It was at that point that Hatake Sakumo noticed his presence.
"Kak- Obito! Welcome back!" the man said, sounding honestly glad to see him.
Well, it had been a while, and the man had had nothing to do but sit there poking at a fire while he waited for his son to come.
He felt somewhat guilty, but inside he was chanting "Please don't make me stay here. Please don't make me stay here..."
A moment later, he was blind and squirming against something warm. Yes!
As soon as he was weaned, he'd be heading back to Minato-sensei's son.
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Izuna sat sealed in the blue sphere the boy had put him in before training. He was in the Hokage's office, and the man was deciding his fate. Actually, what the man was deciding was the point at which he would yet again be reborn as a rat. Death tended to be annoying and inconvenient since it meant that he'd be small, blind, helpless, and bored out of his skull for a couple of weeks.
Death probably would be a good thing in this instance since it would get him away from Her descendant and the "Dattebayo", at least for a little while. He had no doubt that Fate would insure that he met the boy who was named after a ramen topping again, and that the boy wouldn't let him go. He may as well get it over with in this lifetime, and hope that he suffered enough to finally move on.
On a side note, the Mangekyo Sharingan, so totally not worth it.
"But he was upset because Kakashi had just killed his friend! Dattebayo!" Naruto said as he clutched the sphere he was in protectively.
"But the matter remains that your pet attacked someone outside a mission or training, and the law is very clear on the consequences." the Hokage said sadly.
"But Uchiha-san..." Naruto started, arguing further, only to be cut off by a hand gesture from the Hokage.
An ANBU moved forward to take the sphere that Naruto was obviously reluctant to give up.
"I'll make sure it won't hurt him Naruto." The Hokage said. "It'll be just like he's going to sleep."
Naruto's response was to clutch the sphere so tight it cracked, run, and jump out of a window with the ANBU hot on his tail. Eventually, they lost the ANBU and ended up in an alley that contained several familiar looking rats.
"Here you go Uchiha-san. They won't be able to tell which one you are now. I'll find you later." Naruto said as he opened the sphere and shook him out.
It was at that point that one of the rats ran up and attacked Naruto.
"Ow you bastard! You bit me!" Naruto yelled at the rat before getting an evil gleam in his eye.
A moment later, the rat was wrestled into the blue sphere and sealed inside. A few seconds after that, the ANBU that had chased Naruto from the Hokage's office showed up and took the sphere from an unresisting Naruto.
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Fugaku growled as he charged the side of the blue rat ball. He had been getting his revenge on the little brat who had done his best to make his final days as a human a living hell when the little twerp had shoved him in this thing and sealed it shut behind him.
A second later, the boy had handed him over to one of the ANBU who had carried him to the Hokage's office and set him down on his desk.
"That creature doesn't seem so tame to me." the ANBU said.
"No it doesn't." The Hokage said. "And, it's brown."
"Huh?" the ANBU said.
"Naruto's pet was black." The Hokage said with a sigh.
"Either way, it should be disposed of." the ANBU said.
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The rat who had once been Uchiha Mikoto mentally hummed to herself. Now that they were all in the open and Sasuke knew who they were thanks to Obito, she could take a more active role in tending to her son. The poor boy hadn't been properly cared for in the four years she'd been gone.
The poor boy also now had hundreds of little brothers and sisters to play with like he wanted when he was little, which she would introduce to him later.
For now though, she would make sure that her son had a proper home cooked meal.
If only she could turn the stupid stove on.