Title: Dysphoria
Summery: Reincarnation isn't always like it is in the fanfictions. Sometimes, you end up in a body you would never expect to have ended up in. Sometimes, you end up in a body, that is completely wrong. SI OC
Beta: SirKnight
Notes: This story contains possible triggers, themes that may make you uncomfortable and rather erratic thought processes.
It was the second time I was at a funeral for a teammate. This time, it wasn't enough to make me cry.
Inoue was a good guy, but I never connected to him in the short time he'd been with us. He was just... there. Our team still felt broken and shattered.
"Is it bad that I can't cry?" Rin asked me softly as we watched the body burn. I shook my head.
"I can't either." I replied. Minato heard us, he was right next to us, but he made no movements. His own eyes seemed dry as well.
What does it mean, when we can't cry at a teammate's funeral? He was only with us for two months, but he was our teammate...
Or was he? We trained together, but he seemed more interested in picking my brain apart then training. He always told Gai to leave, not like... I closed my eyes and turned my face down, finally feeling tears come.
But they weren't for Inoue.
-0-
"So, you completed it?" Rin asked me, watching as I drove my hand into a tree. I nodded.
"Yep, took me years, but I did. I made it." I had finally created... well... not the Chidori. Sure, it was a similar process, chakra around my hand as a blade, but it was... less dangerous. I went for flexibility instead of strength, and I still got a damn powerful technique that I can control. I don't need to run in a straight line.
I looked to my right, where... where Obito should have been, and felt my heart clench. Even after a few months it still hurt, but I could feel myself getting better. He was safer this way, away from me and Rin. I highly doubted he would get anywhere near the same amount of danger as he did with us. Team Seven was cursed after all, everyone knew it.
"So... now that you're a chunin, what do you want to do first?" I asked Rin, turning around and smiling, my eyes going into the famous U. Inoue had died in the tournament, an accident with a tiger in the forest, but Rin was promoted.
I still felt guilty for being happy about Rin and not caring about Inoue.
"Uhh... Oh! Kushina said she'd teach us a trick to keep enemies from grabbing our hair! She said she'd teach it to us when I became a chunin."
"If it's the lightning coating I already know it."
"Kushina can't do any lightning jutsu, remember?"
"Oh yeah... how many blocks lost power again? Twenty?"
"Twenty-five."
"Ah... she's scarier getting something wrong then she is when she gets something right."
"You can say that again."
-0-
The Council had been started by the First Hokage because the civilians who moved into Konoha were nervous about being ruled over by ninja. The Council oversees the coming and goings of merchants and travelers, as well as the real estate and minor economic issues.
In truth, the Council has no say whatsoever in any aspect of the village. Sure, they can say no to this merchant or that, but the Hokage always has the finale say. However, to make sure the civilian's don't freak out and panic, the Council stays as a smoke screen to make them believe that they have some influence over the goings on in the village. So, the civilians are fooled by the show while the shinobi laugh behind their sleeves.
Of course, a lot of the Council realize this when they get a seat, but don't bother with it much because they are of a higher status now after all. But some... well, let's just say that they are denser than a rock.
But, we have to keep up the appearance of the Council being in any kind of power for the other civilians, so instead of being promoted- which I should have been- after my sixteenth C-Rank that went perfect, I was given one more 'task' to complete. For me to lead a successful mission, with no help from Minato, with two chunin subordinates. Rin was one, but I didn't know who the other was.
I was given the mission scroll, and when I opened it, I knew something bad was going to happen.
It was the mission to Kannabi Bridge. I prayed as I walked into the Hokage's office that the Council wouldn't...
But, they did.
Obito was standing there in the room, with his bag on his back, looking out of place and highly uncomfortable.
He was my second subordinate.
"Why the hell is he here?" Rin snapped, I just stared at him. I hadn't seen him since the incident... but...
He changed so much.
He wasn't wearing his goggles, I noticed. He was wearing the typical Uchiha clothes as well, making my heart just... hurt. This wasn't Obito... this... this...
This was just a mockery.
"I'm your partner Rin-" Obito began.
"You have no right to call me-!" Rin began before the Hokage interrupted us.
"Enough!" He barked, looking annoyed. "Rin, Obito, leave. I have things I must discuss with Kakashi." They obeyed, and he looked at me with eyes that knew too much.
Sarutobi was old, very old. But he could still kill me in an instant. All that bull Kakashi- the other one, not me- talked about young ninjas being able to beat older ones, is bullshit. In a fight against the Hokage, I'd be dead in a second. The only reason Orochimaru beat him at all was because Sarutobi was weaker than the previous Hokages combined. If he'd fought him one on one, Orochimaru would be dead. But nope, that snake took the coward's way out.
"Kakashi, I had no choice. Gai and his team are on a mission and no one else knows Rin and your dynamics well enough." He leaned forward. "If you can't do this, tell me now."
Could I? This was hell. Kannabi was where it all can go to hell. Where everything could turn horribly wrong. It would be safe for all of us if I said no, if I turned away. Not only that, but Obito was so different, so unlike himself... I didn't know if I could handle this with a clear mind, with a good conscious. But...
If I said no, I'd show I can't work with fellow Leaf Ninja if I had a bad experience with them. I'd show I was immature, and the council would love to jump on that.
So, I did the only thing I could do.
"I can do this."
-0-
Destroying the bridge was the easy part. We finished it quickly, with only a minimum amount of bickering. Obito seemed off the entire time, acting way too cool and collected, it was way too freaky to even comprehend it, as we headed back.
I was just glad it was over, though I was confused on why we didn't run into trouble. Wasn't it this mission that screwed the canon team over? Or was it something else that did it? It just confused me as we headed back to the village.
Then... they struck. Two men came at us, startling me out of my thoughts. They went at Rin, and I moved, intercepting them, and throwing them back.
I didn't know their names- really, who pays attention to things like that?- but I knew they were the ones who would lead us to the cave.
All I had to do was keep Rin away from them, and everything would be alright. One of them- who had bandages on- came at me low, so I jumped over him, and slammed my foot onto his head. Obito unleashed a fireball at him as soon as I was in the safety range, and Rin went after the other one, with me tagging close behind.
Obito came up behind us, and I felt training take over, as I dropped to my knee. We had practiced it a few times, the maneuver, and it seemed...
Like he hadn't forgotten as he used my shoulders a launch pad, going for the guy's face as Rin went low, her own training kicking in. I felt a rush of accomplishment, unable to understand why canon had them fail-
Then all I knew was black.
-0-
Obito isn't sure about being on Team Seven again. Kakashi, despite her- HIS illness, is a good leader, and keeps Rin from sniping at him (to)[too] much. He missed them, the fights, the training and the friendship. He missed talking with Rin, and spending time with Kakashi... his best friend...
But, Kakashi needed help, right? Sh- HE needed help to get her- HIS dammit, head on straight, because according to Fugaku-sama, Kakashi...
Oh, who was he kidding? He knew, in his heart, Kakashi was a woman. She was so... beautiful and kind and generous... He cared for her... dammit, he loved her. But he also loved Rin a little more. Kakashi just got into his head, and he couldn't let go...
"KAKASHI!" he cries out, seeing the limp form of his best friend being held by the Iwa nin.
"Hatake Kakashi?" he asks, a smirk on his face. "Well... isn't this interesting." Then, they were gone, leaving the two ninja alone.
"Kakashi..." Rin whispers in horror. Obito just stares.
No... not her. Not Kakashi... not her...
Never her.
-0-
I woke up to pain, not from the back of my head, but from my stomach as one of the men kicked me. I looked up, to see him staring at me, holding my mask. Shit.
I was too fucking confident, the bastard got me from behind due to my carelessness- just like how he got Rin in canon. Kakashi was prideful, too self-confident... a trait I shared.
"Well, if it isn't the tranny brat of Hatake Sakumo, the fucker who started this war." he sneered at me, his black hair seeming to make his face even darker.
"If it isn't dumb and dumber, the idiot act." I snarked, earning a stomp on my leg from dumber. I yelped as he leaned down, slamming his fist into my head.
"Normally, a genjutsu would be used for this. But... this war your father started cost me a fair few friends." he stated. "So... I'm going to do this the fun way." The other chuckled, and it began.
I had only ever been tortured once, and it wasn't pleasant... but this was something else. My fingers were broken systematically, and my right knee was broken. I was slapped, punched, kicked... even burnt. But other than screams, I made sure not to talk. Not too hard when you had to spit out a tooth or two. I would need to get some fake ones when I got back to the village.
"Well, how about we try something else?" one of the men said, holding the Kunai he had been skinning my left hand with. My left leg was broken, along with my fingers. My right knee was broken, my left hand and arm was skinned down to the muscle, I was covered in cuts, and my shirt was gone- one of their attacks on my mind, claiming it was a male chest through and through loudly in my ears, which I ignored. "Isn't the saying 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?' We already have a tooth..."
What happened next haunts me still, being held down as a man cut out my left eye, laughing at my screams as he ripped it out of my skull none too gently. He dug around my eye with the kunai, slicing right into the eyeball, as he ripped it out, piece by piece, letting me bleed.
As the blood slipped down my face, all I could think was that it was kinda fitting...
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I'd lost my life to pay for my past sins, but it seemed karma wasn't done with me yet...
Omake: The Talk
Kakashi stared at Sakumo, who was fiddling with his hands. She blinked as he opened his mouth, and then closed it, before he groaned.
"Okay, Kakashi, we need to have a talk about... uh..." He went red, and rubbed his neck before sighing. "Sex." She didn't even bother resisting, glad her mask covered her grin and she folded her hands and leaned forward.
"What do you want to know?"
Well... hope you liked it! I tried to explain reasons why things happened in this chapter:
The Council is a bunch of bullshit, but Sarutobi just goes along with it to keep them satisified. If they really tried anything, he'd show them just how powerful he is.
Kakashi gets kidnapped, because she was a dumbass who thought herself better then she really is.
Review please!
No question this time... no idea what to ask.