A/N: I am so sorry that I haven't updated in like forever! Please don't shoot or flame or bring out the pitch forks! Oh and sorry if the last chapter was confusing. I tried to explain that it was a justu that Fugaku used to bring Sasuke in the genjustu that the Sharingan uses and then transported him there when finished. Sorry if I didn't make it clear enough.

Kakashi POV

It's raining. The sun isn't shining due the darkened sky. I guess I should be grateful to the rain after all I don't want Sasuke to see me cry; right Obito? Hell with this eye of yours if someone could mention a kicked puppy I'd feel it tear up. I can't remember the surgery at all Obito. Sensei just said I collapsed after the battle and that he had the medic give me your Sharingan. I don't think your family would be to happy if they had found out what you had given me, but then again they really don't have a say now do they? It's a cruel joke I know but at least it means I am feeling something. I wish I could Sasuke is right now but he isn't. It is like he is just numb to the world and is now just tolerating living. He is only a child and he has already been through hell and I am afraid that he might not come back.

"Kakashi you look like you are arguing with yourself." I turned to see Sensei in his Hokage uniform only it was black. "Do you need to talk?"

"No." I said coldly. "What I need are my two best friends back! I need the people who I could confide in! I need my son to have his favorite Uncle Obito and Aunt Rin around! I need to know that he isn't just living and that he wants to do more then just sit by the window all day and watch time go on like no one was taken away from him! I need…" Sensei cut me off by pulling me into his arms. I don't know what triggered it, if it was Obito's eye or something in me just broke but I began to bawl. I clung to his arms pulling in his cloak as tight as my fingers could hold. "I need my life back." I whispered as we sunk to the ground. He was still holding me and stroking my hair as I cried like a little boy who just woke up from a nightmare. I would give anything for this to be a nightmare.

"I know Kakashi, I know but we can't change the past. Somehow we are just going to have to move on. I don't know how but I do know that we will. This didn't just happen to just us. When tragedy strikes one person it strikes the village. But as a village we are a family and in a family no one gets left behind." I wanted to ask then why Sasuke was left behind by his actual blood family but that was no way to speak of the dead, and I didn't dare mention my father leaving me. That scar still had not quite healed yet.

We remained on the floor for another twenty minuets or so until Kushina and Anko walked through the door with the kids. I was able to stand without Sasuke or Naruto noticing. Then again both were devoid of not only emotions but an attention span as well so I didn't take them not seeing lightly. When Anko walked over she gave me a quick peck on the mask and then whispered, "What was that about?" I could hear the pain in her voice. All of us had it. It was like we were afraid to speak thinking that somehow the topic of what happened last week would slip out.

I leaned into her, "Grieving." It was a simple answer but still it felt like I had to force the word out of my mouth. And that one word felt like a dagger to my heart. It just confirmed all of the death.

She turned and gave me a hug that I couldn't refuse. I could feel both of our muscles relax as we melted into each others touch. It was good to feel another person and both being warm for once. Usually when we hugged someone else only one would be warm and then their warmth would be taken. Like a flame that was being passed on and once it left you were in the cold until someone took pity on you. Those times were few and far between with the depression spreading through out the whole village. When we parted I wasn't cold. I looked into her eyes and she seemed the same as before. "This can't continue any longer." She was right everyone was slowly dying from all of this.

"I know but it will end soon." I was lying though. The village might move on from this but for our family it would be yet another scar on each of our backs. Life just kept swinging down the whip and it was starting to break me. I don't know how much more I can take.

"Dad?" That woke me up. This was the first time Sasuke talked in days. When I looked to him I saw him finding his feet more interesting then my face. I walked over to him and leaned down on my knee placing both hands on his shoulders. He needed to know that even if that whip was starting to hurt me I was still going to stay strong for him. No matter what.

"Yes Sasuke." He looked up and I could see him trying to push back the tears in his eyes. "It is okay if you need to cry Sasuke what happened was nothing easy." He bit his bottom lip still holding on. I didn't know what to do now. Should I sit and wait for his question or pull the kid into a hug like Sensei had done for me?

"Will they be put on the memorial stone? Will they have died with honor?" I could hear his voice crack when he said died. He was the first one of all of us to admit to their death. Here we were grown adults but it took a child to admit to death. I couldn't do anything but slowly nod my head. If I had spoken I know that I would have shown Sasuke what I meant when I said that it was okay to cry. "What about the clan? What will happen to them?"

"They will be buried." I said but couldn't tell them their names would not be engraved. I knew he would figure it out but still I couldn't say it. His lip began to tremble and I knew that it was time to hug him. I could feel his small little hands pulling the back of my shirt as hard as he could so he could know I wasn't going anywhere. "I am here Sasuke, your mom and I aren't going anywhere." I told him holding him tighter.

"T-that is what Itachi said." Anko had now bent down and we made room for her in our little family hug. If only the circumstances would have been better. "P-please don't leave me alone." It was like he was begging us on his knees.

"We aren't going anywhere honey." She was stroking his hair like Sensei had done for me. I could sense Kushina and Sensei holding Naruto telling him that his best friend would be alright and that he just needed time. And they were right. It was what all of us needed and that was a little time. Time that we could not afford.

"Excuse Me." A gruff voice said as the door opened to reveal Ibiki. "I'm sorry but the funeral is about to start." We all nodded standing up ready to lead the precession. It was Sasuke who took the lead seeing as he was the last living member of the clan. He held onto Anko and my hands as we walked. Behind us were Sensei, Naruto, and his wife all in a line. We made a triangle as we walked down the streets. And as we walked villagers joined in once we passed. We were headed up the Hokage mountain when I looked back to see every villager and ninja behind us. And my little boy was leading the pack. He didn't stop and tugged my hand when my arm was out stretched as far as it could go so I started to walk again. And it was still raining. All of us were wet and trudging up to the top of the bloody mountain to go and stand in the mud. But no one protested in the least. It was the duty of the village to honor the dead and morn them.

When we reached the top and everyone had gather I took my spot on top a stone for all to see. I took a deep breath and saw all eyes were on me and the village was utter silence. When I sighed I realized everyone had heard me. "We gather here not for a happy reason. Last week we learned just what one angry man can do. This village has endured many hardships. Love ones have not returned home from war, we have been ambushed and beaten, kicked and whipped till we are at the point of breaking but we never dreamed of something as catastrophic as this. One man acting alone out of spite and hatred. One man that put his back to not only his clan and his son but his village. And today this one man is being buried because he died in the mists of the chaos he unleashed. It took him and what he did to a poor innocent child for this village to get a wake up call. Because before it was okay for us to act alone. When we looked at each other we didn't see what we are beginning to see now. And that's a family. It took not only a child to be beaten and cast aside for us to see this but a mass murder. And within those deaths there were two that had been beaten in a different way. Rin and Obito loved each other like I have seen no one love before. They had a passion for life and each other. But consistently they were told that they could not be together. But now they are. It just took them dying for them to finally be where they wanted to be. We gather here to honor and to morn those who we have lost. As a wise man once told me I don't know how we are going to get through this but I know we will. Because when tragedy strikes one person it strikes the village. But as a village we are a family and in a family no one gets left behind. We almost left behind a small boy as he was tortured for not being what his father wanted him to be. But now here standing in front of you this village will not stand for anything like that anymore. We stand and act as one from now on. Just as we will stand and honor those we have lost…thank you."

A/N: I know this one is extremely short but this felt like a good ending point. I will try to post sooner but I have two different novels assigned to me at once and I have got to get some reading time in along with a project. Hope you like it please review.