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Shattered Dreams

Chapter 12

"It's.. it's nothing" Miho whispered. Kakashi stared at her for she knew he was lying. Obito only looked upon the two with an expressionless face. He couldn't put his finger on it but something about Kakashi and Miho was different. Was Kakashi starting to give in to his emotions?

Kakashi leaned forward over Miho and helped her to her feet. He looked from Miho towards Obito.

"We leave now." He turned his head once again towards Miho, "And you will be journeying back to Konoha." Kakashi's eyes now bore into Miho's. She couldn't read his expression; was it a remorseful look or something else? Miho only stood there in surprise while Obito moved forward to object.

"She can't journey back now," Obito was now standing directly in front of Kakashi now, "We've gone so far!" Kakashi stepped forward merely centimetres from his companions face.

"She has to go, otherwise, all of our lives will be in danger." Obito bowed his head in dismay. He knew Kakashi was right. Obito just stood there deep In thought.

'Wait a sec… why am I getting so worked up over Miho coming or not?!'

He noticed Kakashi take Miho by he arm and bring her towards himself.

"Obito and I have decided." Miho looked hopefully up at Obito, hoping he changed Kakashi's decision.

The last thing she wanted was to be apart from the two people she cared about the most.. Especially at this point.

"We are going on without you." Miho knew deep in her conscious that that would be their decision, she just didn't want to believe that after everything, they would abandon her. Kakashi turned his back on Miho and walked through the village back up to their encampment. Obito slowly walked to Miho's side.

"You know, personally I would rather have you come with us, but Kakashi does have a point to his decision you know." Obito looked towards Miho and she turned to face him; An enquiring but heartbreaking look on her face. "He's doing it to protect you, he hates to see you in pain."

"Urusei.." Miho's head was now resting against Obito's shoulder and her arms had wrapped around his forearm. A slight blush crossedh is cheeks as he look up at the sun and stared calmly at the clouds floating freely in front of it. A while had passed before anything was spoken.

"It's getting late, we should get back to camp." Miho lifted her head lazily from Obito's shoulder and started walking up the stone ledge towards the camp while Obito soon followed.

'Don't do it Obito... don't even think about it." were the thoughts running through the raven haired man's mind. but he couldn't help it, he couldn't help feeling something more towards Miho.

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Meanwhile

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Back at camp Kakashi had just finished packing the three bags of supplies when Miho walked out from the ledge of the hill.

I see everything is packed," She said as she noticed the three packsacks leaning against a large boulder.

"Yeah.." Kakashi picked two of them up. He threw one over his shoulder and the other towards Miho's feet. She reached down and picked it up.

"Good-bye Kakashi." She swung around and bumped into Obito. He looked into her eyes and noticed she had tears welling up inside of them. Before he could say or do anything, she had already made her way past him and started down the hill.

(whack) Obito fell flat on his back and grabbed the packsack that had been thrown on his chest. Stumbling up he pulled the straps over his shoulders. Without words, the two ANBU walked the opposite direction of the village.

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1-2 hours later

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Obito and Kakashi had stopped for a bit to eat lunch. For some reason they couldn't stomach eating in that village, it just didn't seem right. All the while Kakashi's and Obito's thoughts lay on Miho.

Kakashi:'Should I have been so cruel?'

Obito:'Stop thinking about it!!!'

Kakashi:'Was it right to leave her alone??'

Obito:'Well... she DOES have a nice rack.. wait WHAT!?! this is miho i'm talking about!'

Kakashi:'Am I really protecting her by leaving her alone?'

Obito:'DAMN! That's it! I'm gonna forget about everything.'

Kakashi:'I have to go back...'

Slowly getting up, Kakashi looked down upon his friend who had a mouthful of and two handfuls of riceballs.

"Warft aw oo foing?' Kakashi looked puzzling at Obito.

"What?!" Obito swallowed the lump of rice in his mouth and repeated.

"What are you doing?" Obito already knew what was going on but asked anyways.

"I'm going bac.."

"back to get Miho," Obito finished. Kakashi turned a sort of pinkish color and nodded. "Well you have fun with that, i'm gonna sit here and sleep so hurry up alright?" A smile spread across Kakashi's face as he dropped his bag next to Obito and started back in a jog.

Kakashi hadn't thought about it but how was he to find Miho?? She could be hours away by now. He had already passed the crimson village and decided to sit down underneath a full grown wilow tree when he was hit with hat seemed lke a whip. He immediatly jumped off the ground, pulled out his kunai ad calmly scanned the area.

"UP HERE BAKA!!" He looked up and saw miho strung up by the ankles on a branch above, holding a long flexible branch.

'So thats what it was...' Kakashi rubbed his neck where he was hit. For someone who had been tied up by the ankles and hung upside down, she looked quite happy. Throwing his kunai up into the tree he caught the falling girl and set her on her feet.

"KAKASHI-KUN!!" Miho jumped right back into Kakashi's arms and pulled him into a hug. Kakashi wasn't sure what had just happened but he returned the hug. Somehow it felt so right. Not even two minutes had passed by when Kakashi felt a strange chakra..

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