X: new world
When the young Hatake opened her eyes carefully the next morning, the pain was still there but not as strong as the day before anymore. Tobi seemed to have treated her with medical jutsu for almost the whole night what probably was the reason that she didn't wake up every ten minutes. The hold around her body softened as he noticed that she was slowly waking up so he let her twist between his arms so that she carefully sat up. The chakra of Tobi within her body gave her strength to slowly move which would have never been possible with just her reserves. 'If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here in the first place, though.' Shaking off that thought as fast as it came up, she felt slightly dazed as if she would have been fighting all night or something. "You can continue sleeping if you're not feeling well already?" The low and quiet voice of Tobi scared her for a second and she could feel his hand resting on her stomach to calm her down a little. "Sorry.." He pulled back and sat on the opposite of her, touching one of her legs a little so that she would know where he was.
"We can take that thing off your head today, if you feel like it." This would be her decision to make though, he decided far too much in her life already. Sayuri nodded slowly, reaching out for the bandage on her head as if to make sure that it was still there and the reason for her not seeing anything. The pressure that pushed down the bed a little where Tobi sat was about to fade so Sayuri curtly grabbed the arm of her friend, signalizing him to stay. "C-Can you do it?" Followed by a short sigh, he sat down again completely, afraid what he might see in her eyes once he was able to look into them again. Hatred, anger, fear. So many emotions justified for what he did to her and he was about to face them involuntarily. "I.. Sure I can? If you want it." His voice was quiet, a barely noticeable murmur before he came close to her hesitantly. He couldn't deny her any wish she had after what she looked like for the last few days.
She heard Tobi taking off his gloves so that he would be able to take the bandage off her eyes before she frowned recognizing the warm body and chakra that came with his touch. The silver haired woman smiled inwardly, not showing Tobi any emotions though. "You know.." The man started slowly, taking care of not touching her too much and scare her while laying hands on the bandages. "I won't touch you again if that's what you're afraid of. I will be leaving you alone if you wish for it." It was hard for the girl to tell what that tone within his voice was but it somehow seemed apologetic while she didn't show any reaction.
It would be a matter of what he did with her eyes if she will forgive him or not. "Close your eyes." Tobi suggested her to do and so she did lightly smiling at the feeling of fresh air touching her eyelids as he had removed it completely. Sayuri's hand still rested on the shirt of Tobi where she had grabbed him as he wanted to stand up, fearing that he might run away as soon as she was able to look at him again. "Don't open them yet, please. I would like to ask you some things.."
"Hmn?" Confusion was to be heard out of her voice but he didn't let that irritate him. "Will you let me protect you, Sayuri? Will you stay?" There was something she had never heard in his voice before, anxiousness. The great Tobi, the invulnerable, was afraid of – well, what? Her leaving him? After all, where did he think she would be going after she ran away from him? They would find her anyway if they wanted to, he knew them well enough to be able to tell that and on the other hand she would sign her own death sentence if she would leave on her own. She was a missing-nin now, whether she liked it or not and she would either have to live with that or die by the hands of the village that was looking for her.
The girl sighed and held on to his shirt even tighter. "I don't have anywhere else to go anyway, have I?" Sayuri heard Tobi breathing out relieved, literally sensing the weight falling off his shoulders that he seemed to carry with him for the days she had been sleeping on the bed here. She felt him coming closer a bit, taking another look at her closed eyes and Sayuri was almost able to sense his breath on her skin. He wasn't wearing his mask again, she realized quickly which somehow made her more comfortable. "I'll do some last jutsus on you to make the pain go away once and for all, alright, Sayuri?" She frowned at him saying her name again, she somehow missed it. Also, she missed the untroubled Tobi she had trained with for the last years.
There was no way of denying that she couldn't hate Tobi for what he did. She was alive after all and as she thought before, he probably didn't have another chance but doing this to her. It was for her own safety. "You didn't even betray me, you know that, right?" The surprise in Tobi's quiet "Huh?" made her smile and laugh a little. "I'm alive after all, you took care of me." She would make the best out of her situation. If she had to be a missing-nin, she would be a good one and if she had to stay with Tobi forever, she would make sure of them to trust each other again. "I can't hate you and you know that.." Her voice became a little quieter as she said what she was thinking out loud. She couldn't hate him the time he slit her cheek and she can't do it now, not even knowing why he had such force on her.
"I.." Another thing she wouldn't have thought of being possible happened when she made him speechless. Grinning with her eyes still closed, she clapped her hands for a few times, laughing. "Yes, I made you speechless." She triumphed teasing him and literally felt him smiling at her too. Then she fell silent again after she realized that Tobi was done performing his medical jutsus on her and she breathed in a few times. 'Ready or not..' Sayuri didn't dare to open her eyes just yet, afraid that the pain might come back after she opened them for the first time and maybe also afraid of what was waiting for her to be seen. Tobi wouldn't fool her again, right? "Tobi, do yo – " He interrupted quietly. "Obito." – "What?" Confusion all over again as she cocked her head to one side, still eyes closed. "My name's Obito. Uchiha Obito." Maybe some other weird kind of protection for him? Whatever, it was just a name after all and Sayuri appreciated him being honest to her once in her life. "There are a lot of things I didn't tell you but I will. And I promise my intentions have changed."
What was he even talking about? She shook her head some times coughed quietly before looking in the direction where she would assume his eyes were. "Do you trust me, Obito?" The name was weird and didn't suit Tobi at all but if he said that this was his name, she would call him that. He seemed to pause for a second which made Sayuri wonder. "Right now I do. I don't know if it will stay like that. Depends on how you will react to certain things." She stacked out her tongue and gave him another smile she knew it would make him happy. He had always told her how much he had loved her smile when they were both younger. "Then trust me and close your eyes." Obito probably narrowed his eyes before twitching his shoulders. "Done?" The questioning tone within his voice made the silverhead grin even more, showing more teeth before she carefully opened her eyes, needing one moment to handle the light.
It was a beautiful young man sitting on the opposite of her, his face half scarred and his raven spiky hair standing in every direction. It took her one moment to realize that she had imagined him so differently. Obito had always acted far older while he only seemed to be like four or five years older than her. 'Well, fine with me.' She thought smiling, getting back to her actual intention by getting a little closer to him. "Can I open my eyes now?" Sayuri laughed innocently, still flashed by the good looks of him before leaning over to him further. "Count to five and you can open them." She sat up more straight while she listened to Obito counting to five confusedly and used her hands to quickly sort her naturally straight and shoulder long hair a bit.
"Four, fi – " The no longer masked Uchiha wasn't able to finish counting, still opened his eye though as he surprisingly felt her warm and soft lips on his. Sayuri felt his surprise but didn't let it bother her before she started caressing his lips with hers, slowly moving them on another. It took the man with the actually good reflexes a while to reply to her kiss but as he did, he carefully laid one arm around her waist, laying her on her back again and leaning over her. He looked so beautiful it made a weird feeling come up in her stomach as their bodies touched when he was above her. His lips were so soft, he tasted so sweet and her need for him made her groan quietly between their lips. Giving her a break, Obito looked at Sayuri grinning, his sharingarn twisting while realizing that her body was still pretty weak and physical contact with him made her heart beat faster.
"You sure this was a good idea?" He questioned teasingly, putting his lips onto hers again, pushing her into the pillow a little further. It was right now that she realized how long she had been waiting for this moment to come but she never realized it because she had never felt something like that before. The need of having someone close to you. Maybe this was why she could never hate him, even if she wanted too. Her breathing sped up and so did her heartbeat underneath his body before he stopped, making her protest weakly. "Why'd you stop?" Sayuri asked breathless before noticing how weak her body and her voice were, laughing quietly. "You're really asking? I don't want you to collapse underneath me." Obito smirked and let himself fall to her side.
"Obito?" It sounded more weird the more times she said his name but considering that she saw him without his mask for the first time, she would get used to it very fast she hoped. As the Hatake girl hat caught his attention, he turned his head to her side, looking at her predictably. "Huh?" – "Why is your one eye closed?" Obito sighed but wondered why she asked about his eye first. Normally he would have expected her to ask him about his damaged half of his body first. "Let's say I lost it in an accident a few years ago. I will tell you about that another time, alright?"
He turned his body in her direction again, pulling her into his arms again. She was in need of chakra again and if he would have anyone else's chakra within her, it would surely be his. "Rest now, we will start training in a few days, once you have your strength back. This will be fun." Still smirking, he bowed down to her face a little bit, kissing her again softly, carefully, before letting her pass out and sleep once more.