DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS/PLOTS. I ONLY OWN MY OC'S.

"If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment."

William H. McRaven, University of Texas Graduation Speech

Rin's Kidnapping

Haruka

Haruka took a deep breath and was able to catch the scent of the people she was trying to find: Kakashi, Rin, and the group of Kiri-nin that kidnapped her. Kakashi's scent was strong which meant that he was near.

"Come on Raijin, we need to follow this." She continued running, the black wolf following closely behind.

"Pup, I understand why you're worried, but you're borderline paranoid right now." Raijin said to her as he caught up to the running girl. "Do you know something that I should probably know?"

Haruka opened her mouth to say something but she suddenly whirled around and knocked the shuriken in the air away from her. "Enemy!"

"You know just because you're not wearing your hitai-ite, it doesn't mean I won't notice you're from Konoha." A man said, walking out from the branches. Haruka and Raijin both let out a growl and got in a fighting stance. "Oh?"

She knew it was pointless, but she tried asking anyways. "Just let us continue on our way." She needed to go; any second she wasted could lead to Rin's death.

The Kiri-nin –who really wasn't one- raised his hand up and pointed his kunai at her. "That is something I just can't do little girl."

Haruka's face got red from anger. "Kami, what's up with everyone calling me a little girl?" She ran forward, her own kunai out.

The Kiri-nin was obviously powerful, but with Raijin also backing up Haruka he had no chance.

"Raiton: Jibashi!" She shouted out. She touched the Kiri-nin in the back of his neck and let the lightning chakra flowing through her shock the man, killing him instantly. "Come on, we don't have time." Without giving the dead man a second glance, she started running back on the path towards Kakashi and Rin.

"Pup-" She held her hand up and started sniffing around.

Haruka caught the scent of dogs, which meant Kakashi. "Kakashi's close, which means Rin is too."

'Not to mention Obito.'

Kakashi

Kakashi and Rin were panting, they were only a few minutes ahead of the Kiri team behind them and in their current condition, they both knew that the enemy would be onto them soon.

"Kakashi, you need to listen-"

Kakashi held up a hand, silencing Rin. "Wait, I hear something." He listened closer and could hear the sound of a battle coming from the direction the just came in. "Someone's fighting the enemy."

Rin looked at him, her eyes wide. "Who?"

"I don't know, they're too far away for me to tell." He groaned and rubbed his face. "Come on, we need to keep heading back, we don't have time to stop and rest. We need to take advantage of whatever's happening behind us." Giving his teammate a smile, he jumped onto the next tree with Rin following close behind

After a few minutes of running Kakashi took a deep breath and noticed that he caught the scent of a very familiar person, a person that he was very close with. He looked behind him and noticed said person trying to catch up to them, her wolf following next to her.

"Haruka?!"

"Thank…Kami, I caught up." Haruka said, stopping in front of them.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Kakashi asked, still looking behind her for the enemy team. He waited for a response but he received none so he looked at the two girls, only to be shocked at what he was seeing. Haruka had ignored his question and in turn was staring at Rin's stomach; her shirt was pulled up revealing black ink on her stomach.

"I was right…" Haruka said to herself.

"Guys, we need to go now before they catch up to us." Kakashi announced. His white haired teammate nodded her head and stood up.

"Kakashi's right, we should go now."

"But Haruka, the seal-"

"We'll get Sensei to look at it so don't do anything stupid, alright Rin?" Haruka asked sternly. Rin nodded her head, indicating to Kakashi that they could leave.

"Let's go." He jumped to down to the ground and started running, the rest of his teammates following closely behind.

They were all running for a few minutes when Kakashi was hearing the enemy team from behind them, that meant that they had caught up to their group. Kakashi mentally cursed and stopped; at this point he knew that they would have to fight instead of run like what he wanted to do.

"Haruka, Rin, stand behind me." Haruka grabbed his arm, her face revealing how annoyed she was at the moment.

"Kakashi, this group is too much for us. We need to get Sensei-"

"He's on a mission, we can't disturb him."

"He said to use it whenever we're in danger, like hell am I going to let you get yourself killed because you're too stubborn. I told you it was obvious that we're weaker than them, look at me and Raijin!"

Haruka knew that she looked like a mess; there was blood from both her and the enemy, not to mention she had a large cut on her forehead that was spilling blood over her face. Despite having black fur, she could also tell that there was blood on Raijin's hind leg and a cut on his ear, making her regret bring him along.

"We need Sensei; this isn't something we can do alone." She pointed to Rin, who looked about ready to pass out. "I've seen enough seals, the one adorning her stomach is unstable, it could release whatever inside her at any moment." She gave Kakashi a pleading look. "Please."

Kakashi ripped his hand from her grip and gave her a glare. "Goddamn it Haruka, fine. I'm still fighting the enemy until he gets here though, got it?" He finally said. Hearing that Haruka could finally feel all her worries disappear, Rin would be saved! She grabbed the kunai in her pocket and without a second thought Haruka pushed her chakra into it, indicated to the seal that she was in trouble.

"We finally caught up to you brats. You guys are weaker than we thought, right Gannro?"

Haruka's face turned into one of disbelief. "Gannro? What the hell kind of name is Gannro?"

"Pup!" Raijin said to her, his tone revealing how shocked he was at what she said.

"What did you say to me you brat?" The man who was probably Gannro stepped out from the group.

She gave him a shrug and took a step back. "It's true though; it's a pretty weird name." She pointed a kunai at him. "You have to admit that at least."

"Why you-" He was never able to finish his sentence because at that moment, the man that was feared throughout the Shinobi Nations had used his Hiraishin to teleport himself to where his students were.

When he saw the group of menacing Kiri-nin in front of his students who looked like they'd been through hell, the only thought on his mind was kill the enemy.

And within seconds, Minato had killed the group of Kiri-nin.

"Rin, what happened?" Minato asked his student as he stared at the poorly written seal on her stomach.

"I was kidnapped…and that all I remember." She said to him, her face pale. He shook his head. He already knew what this seal contained and it was obviously a Bijū, something that worried him greatly.

"Well, be thankful that Haruka used the Kunai when she did." Minato drew a temporary seal over the original and activated it with his chakra; he stood up and looked at the rest of his students. "That seal was very unstable and could've broken at any moment."

"R-Really?" Rin asked from behind him, fixing her shirt.

Haruka knew that this was the best plan, Rin's seal was stabilized and Kakashi wouldn't have to stab her.

The only thing missing was Obito.

"Sensei-"

"Rin?!" Everybody went still when the heard the voice, it was one that they hadn't heard in months, a voice that belonged to a person that should've died. "Minato-Sensei?"

Minato immediately flew into action; he grabbed all of his students and Raijin behind him and stood in front of them, his body ready for a fight.

"Sensei, it's me-"

"Who the hell are you?" He asked the person standing in front of him. It was enough to kidnap his student and make her into a Jinchūriki but to disguise as his dead student?

Minato was at the limit with his patience. "I won't repeat myself."

"I'm serious!" The boy pulled down his hood and it revealed a person who looked exactly like Obito. "Please."

"Stay away or I won't hesitate to kill you-"

"OBITO!" Haruka suddenly shouted out from behind Minato. She already knew who it was and by being able to smell his scent that was when she was certain it was the same Uchiha. Evading her Sensei's grasp she jumped onto the boy, tears streaming down her face. Obito fell backwards, kind of shocked at the reaction of his white haired teammate.

"Haruka-"

"This is Obito Sensei, it is." She said as she pulled away, tears streaming down her face. Haruka looked at her teammates and realized how much she had changed, how much she actually cared about them.

"O-Obito?" Rin asked quietly.

"Are you okay Rin?" Obito asked her. She nodded her head and did the same thing Haruka did to him, she ran towards Obito and jumped onto him.

"Y-You're alive, you're a-alive Obito." He wrapped his arms around her and nodded his head. He felt tears stream down his face and he buried his face into her hair. Rin was safe. Madara was wrong, he wouldn't go back. He had no need too, being in Tobi had somewhat healed his destroyed arm which meant that he had a new one for some odd reason. Although half is body is made out of something weird and he may be weaker than before but Obito knew one thing.

He was home again.

Minato stood still as he watched his students reunite with his lost student. Minato knew now that Obito was who he was saying he was by sensing for his chakra. Something had been altered but Minato could tell that it was him. He looked to his right and stared at Kakashi, the only person not standing over by Obito.

"What's wrong Kakashi?"

Kakashi furrowed his forehead and looked up at his sensei, not sure on how to word his sentence. "Something was off about Haruka… It was as if she knew what had happened."

Minato's eyebrows rose. "I thought she was with you the whole time?"

Kakashi shook his head. "She came halfway through us running away. She completely ignored me and first and went straight for Rin's seal."

"Oh…"

"I'm not accusing of her anything, no no no. It's just that it's weird, it was like she…already knew." Kakashi took a deep breath. "Look at her reaction with Obito, she didn't seem as surprised as everyone else."

"What are you saying Kakashi?"

He shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe she has visions of the future." Minato was about to scoff at that when he remembered something about Haruka's family. If he remembered correctly, the head seer was someone who could see the future and see prophecies like the Ōgama Sennin.

For all Minato knew, seeing visions of the future could be a special power of Haruka's, a side effect of being a prophesized child.

"But I don't know, she may just be being the weird person that she is." Kakashi said. Finishing the subject with that, he realized that it was time to welcome his former teammate back. Kakashi gave Minato a smile and walked over to where Haruka, Rin, and Obito were standing.

"You kept your promise Hatake, you protected them both." Despite their differences in almost everything, Kakashi looked at the Uchiha and gave him a genuine smile –even if his mask was hiding everything the crinkle next to his eye let people know he was actually smiling.

"I promised Obito… Didn't I?"

A/N: You may or may not have realized that I was having trouble with this chapter; after all it's been over a week since I last updated. Not to mention that this chapter's is barely over 2000 words… (Story wise) This is actually one of the worst chapters I've ever written (I think so anyways). I'M SO SORRY PLEASE FORGIVE ME, I SWEAR THAT THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE BETTER. I might come back to this chapter later to revise this chapter, but until then I guess this will have to do. I never actually wanted this chapter to end up like this; I had to rewrite this chapter so many times until I finally gave up and realized that this was the best chapter I had written. Oh my god, you don't understand how hard it was to publish this chapter, I'm so sorry guys.

I hope you can forgive me for it.

Anyways, just a heads up the next chapter will either be a mini filler chapter or a timeskip that'll go straight into canon. I still haven't decided yet.

Hope you guys didn't think too bad about this chapter! I CAN'T EMPHASIZE HOW SORRY I AM ABOUT THIS CHAPTER.

Well, I recommend Naturally by yuugiri, it's a SaixIno one-shot that got me hooked onto that pairing, it's so well written and I just fell in love with it xD The author describes Sai's character so well and I usually can't find stories with him written well.

Anyways, I swear that the next chapter won't be a long of a wait as this one!

Until next time!~