Disclaimer I don't own Naruto only my oc's
"Hey mama, papa." I place a bouquet of sweat pea, aster tataricus, and white chrysanthemum on both of their grave.
"I came to say I won't be here for some time. I'll be leaving for a small town near takigakure, don't worry I'll always have you two in my heart and I'll be safe. Tobi will protect me, I know you two would have liked him if you got to know him. I'm helping him get rid of all the pain in this world making it into a perfect one. I know it's not the dream I always wanted, but I'm happy knowing I'm a part of something this important. Anyways I don't know when I'll be back, but I will always visit you both when I do. I love you mama, papa." I get up an walk over to where Manami and Haru were buried.
"Hey my Onii-san, onee-chan. I hope you are not making Haru crazy up there, Manami. This will be last time visiting you guys for awhile. I just wanted to say I love you both one last time. " I place a bouquet of flowers in their graves. They had the same flowers as my mother and father's. I force a small smile onto my face and leave the cemetery.
"Thank you for everything lady Chouko." I say while hugging the women that help me so much. If it weren't for her I would have been a homeless orphan.
"You make sure you come back as much as possible. Thank you for all your hard work Rina." She pats my back. We untangle from the hug and I see lady chouko had a small tear forming in the corner of her eye. She sniffs and wipes the rear away. She was a very tough old women and it surprised me seeing her react like this.
"I won't be gone forever." I say reminding her I will be back. She just half smiles and picks up the container on the table next to us.
"I know. Here you go Rina. It just some mochi for the road." She gives me the container. That warmed my heard and gave me a bitter sweet feeling. I squeez her into one last hug.
"Thank you obaa-chan." I say. I hear her take a sharp breath. She gives out a weak chuckle.
"Please stay safe Rina-chan."
"Mhmm." I give her a teary eyed smile and leave the restaurant.
Making sure I had what I needed packed I sling the bag over my shoulder. I walk around my now empty home remenincing of all the memories I made here. The holidays, birthdays, tears, the good and the bad. Taking one last look, I heard to where Tobi was by the entrance.
"You ok... you're crying." He points out. I reached to touch my face and felt it wet. I didn't even realize that tears were falling from my eye. I nod my head and quickly wipe them away.
"I'm fine, like you said we endure and I will see them again." I sniff. Tobi stays silent for some time and walks past me to the living room. I fallow him wondering what he was doing. I see he then pulls out a storage scroll placing it on the ground. Making the necessary handsigns he slams his hand onto the scroll and a white box appears. He then rollsthe scroll back up and puts it away. Tobi gets up from the ground and hands me the box. I take it and open the box to see a black wig and a contact case.
"What's this?" I ask. I take the wig out of the box and examine it. It was short length and had bangs going to right.
"It's your disguise." He says. I look away from the wig to look at him with a confused look.
"Why would I need a disguise? I don't have any history of being loyal to any nation or even in the bingo books?" He just stayed quiet and looked to the floor.
"Tobi?" I ask trying to break his silence. He shook his head and let out a tired breath.
"You remember when I said that you look like a kunoichi and I thought you were spying on me...Well that's why you need to wear one. Since you two look so... so similar, people will confuse you with...her and it can cause you difficulties." He says in a quiet voice that sounded forced to keep calm.
"Yeah I remember you telling me that when we first met. Is she someone I need to worry about, is she highly skilled?" I ask. Tobi then again takes some time to respond. He mask wasn't even facing at my direction, but to the floor.
"No... she won't be a problem." He says in the same tone as before, it sounded like it pained him to say it.
"How come you never talk about this kunoichi was she someone special or did you hate her?" I ask trying to figure out what was wrong with him and comfort him if he needed it. He stayed quiet still having his masked face pointed to the direction of the floor.
"Tobi...You alright?" I began to worry about him. I noticed his his hands were in fist at the side of him.
"It nothing."
"But I want to know who she was to you and why you are acting like this." I wanted to see just why his reaction was like this towards this mysterious kunoichi. I reached to touch his shoulder but he moves away from my hold.
"I said drop it!" He looks at me and I see his once charcoal eye blazing red. I jump back and hold my hand to my chest. I look at him wide eye, I guess I crossed the line.
"Ok, I won't ask anymore." I say slightly annoyed, I just wanted some answers.
"Go put the disguise on. I'll wait for you outside." He shakes his head and walks past me to leave the house. I take a couple seconds to shake my shock and go to the bathroom to put my disguise on. I put my real hair in to a wig cap and slip the black wig on. I run my fingers through it to make it look natural as possible. Next I take the contacts putting them onto my eyes. Once I was done I look at myself at the mirror. I did look different the black hair only reached above my shoulders and my once dark grey eyes, now light gray. I put away my contact case and leave my home. I see Tobi there with his arms crossed, he just looked at my direction to examine my face then back away.
"You have everything?"
"Yes." I say feeling slightly hurt that he wasn't paying attention to me. He puts his arm around my shoulder and teleports us on to a dirt road.
"This is as far as I can take you. I don't want people thinking you are allies with any shinobi or organization." He says in a monotone voice with lack of emotion. He lifts his hand from his shoulder and I look at my knotted fingers.
"Ok." I say not looking at him. More silence past. Maybe I should apologize for stepping over the line. If he wants to tell me what bothers him then I should just wait for him to tell me. I adjust the strap on my shoulder.
"Umm Tobi. I'm sorry for..." I turn to face him, but he was gone. I look around and sense he wasn't anywhere and that hurt me. He didn't even give me a hug or even say goodbye. I look at the dirt road ahead of me and begin my journey.
That was the first time since the time at the restaurant his eye shined red. Did he hate her or love her. He mistaken me for her and thought I was a spy, but who was she to him. A sister, friend, enemy. By the way he reacted it sounds like he was really close to this person. Is she still alive? Maybe she is, maybe if I can find her I can ask more about Tobi. I can finally solve the mystery that is Tobi. He said I can't question anything about who he is or what he does, but he never said anything about me discovering who he is.
I see the entrance of the small town of Okayama. Taking a breath to shake my nerves I enter the town. I think it's been long enough for Tobi to be a mystery and I'm going to find out who he is.
(Authors note: In Japanese culture they have a language of flowers called flowers Rina uses have their own special meaning. Sweet pea means goodbye, Aster Tataricus means remeberance, and White Chrysanthemum means grief.)