Naruto had finished getting dressed out of his hospital gown. He was ready to leave the hospital for a long time. After waking up they kept him over night to watch him but nothing happened except that he was really bored.

Naruto smiled when he saw Obito enter the room. "Hey what's up?" Naruto said happy to see his brother.

Obito shrugged his shoulders, "Nothing much, just some Hokage business."

Naruto nodded along putting his left sandal on and he stopped after putting the right one half way on. "What do you mean Hokage stuff?"

Obito let out a big sigh and sat on a chair in a slumping position. "The endless amounts of paperwork that have been left for me." Obito looked at the dumbstruck Naruto. "Did I not tell you?"

"No you didn't tell me!" Naruto shouted throwing his sandal at the Uchiha. "When did this happen?"

Obito caught the sandal and smiled at the blond, "When you were unconscious. The council named me the Hokage after Tsunade." He said with a massive smile.

Naruto took his sandal back and slipped it onto his foot. "Does this mean you want me to start calling you Lord Hokage; cause it's not gonna happen."

Obito chuckled, "Wouldn't dream of it. Now c'mon everyone is waiting for you downstairs." He said walking out of the room.

Naruto didn't understand what he had meant by that so once he was sure that he wasn't forgetting anything he left the room and made his way to the stairs that led out of the hospital. He got to the last door and saw Obito standing there waiting for him. "You ready?" He asked the already confused blond.

Naruto looked at him confused before Obito opened the door and let the sun light wash inside. Still not understanding Naruto went out the door and saw the massive crowd all waiting for him. He tried to back up out of apprehension, he didn't like a crowd forming around him.

Obito put his hand on Naruto's shoulder. "Naruto Uzumaki: The Hero of the Hidden Leaf!" He shouted before the crowd joined in chanting the same thing.

Naruto's eyes became wide as the crowd approached him all cheering. He saw most of his friends there as well, what he had not expected however was the crowd to pick him up and start throwing him in the air cheering for him.

"Uzumaki!" They chanted as the laughing blond was thrown in the air. Obito stood back watching Naruto finally get the recognition he always deserved.

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Sasuke was in his own back yard going over his personal katas repeatedly until they became like second nature to him. They already were but he wanted his body to move on its own without him having to think about it. He heard his front door open and close but he was going to ignore it.

"Sasuke are you in here?" Rin asked poking her out the door. She was wearing a baby carrier that had Kakashi inside of it. "Oh there you are." She said with a smile coming out to see him.

"What do you want Rin?" He said not stopping his movements.

"I was worried about you." She said looking at him with sad eyes, "We all are."

"Oh so are you going to yell at me now too?" He said stopping his movements but not turning to her.

"Who yelled at you Sasuke?" Rin asked approaching the boy. "Talk to me."

Sasuke turned to look at Rin, she seemed genuinely concerned and not ready to snap on him so he decided to tell her. "Hinata came over here yesterday, we had a fight about everything that was going on." He started up his motions again.

"If it were that simple you would've already spoken to someone else about it." She said rubbing Kakashi's back.

Sasuke let out a scream and the grass around him shook for a moment then stopped, "Of course I'm not ok. I watched my brother die and thought I was going to lose the other two." Sasuke sat down where he stood, "Itachi died thinking that I hated him."

Rin felt herself get emotional but she knew that wasn't the way to help Sasuke. "Either way Itachi never stopped loving you."

Sasuke gripped the grass beside him in anger. "None of this is right, people like him don't deserve to die. Good people shouldn't die."

Rin carefully sat beside the boy taking care not to hurt Kakashi. "I know how you feel. I've seen many people that I care about die in my lifetime and I wish I could tell you that it gets easier but it doesn't. We just have to keep moving forward and not burn the bridges we already have with the living, when you become obsessed with the dead you lose a piece of yourself." She held Kakashi tighter in her arms.

"He meant that much to you." Sasuke said looking at the baby, "Kakashi, I mean."

Rin nodded her head, "Our team was very close, none of us really had a family. Kakashi's father committed suicide when he was very young, Obito never met his birth parents and I lost mine during the second war. We all seemed to be there for the other, Obito was actually the one that brought us all together."

Sasuke noticed the far-off look in her eyes. "What happened?"

Rin looked down at the sleeping form of Kakashi. "During a routine mission we were to demolish a bridge to cut off the Stone's supply line. I got taken when the others were busy fighting. Obito came to save me all on his own and almost died but Kakashi saved him and lost his eye for it."

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Obito and Kakashi stood away from the second ninja that had taken Rin. "She's a tough one. We managed to put her under the genjutsu easy enough but she still won't give us the intel we need."

Obito clenched his fists his newly acquired Sharingan boring into the man. Kakashi was checking the straps on his bracers.

The man put his hands out, "So kids," He said in a taunting manner. "Are we going to do this or what?"

Not needing another invitation Obito and Kakashi ran forward ready to battle the man and save their friend. Kakashi pulled out his tanto and swung it at the enemy who easily blocked it, Obito seeing an opening swung his kunai at the open side only to have his attack blocked by the blade on his other hand.

Kakashi jumped to slash at the now distracted man and as he was about to slash the Stone ninja began to bring the blades together. Using his Sharingan Obito saw what was happening so he stuck his two legs out to block it and immediately begun hand signs, "Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu!" He screamed and at the same moment Kakashi's blade sliced into the man's shoulder a fireball flew out of Obito's mouth burning the man alive.

He fell with a thud after he stopped screaming clearly dead and the two ran over to wake up Rin. Kakashi laid his hand on the medic ninja and held his other one out in a seal, "Release." He said waking her up.

"Kakashi, Obito?" She asked looking around the room confused.

"We're here to rescue you." Obito said reaching his hand out to the brunette who took it.

"We need to get out of here and head to Kanabi Bridge." Kakashi said eyeing the exit.

Obito followed his line of sight, "How many are out there Kakashi?"

"I've counted at least twenty maybe more." He looked at his two teammates, "Before we go out there I want to thank you guys for everything."

Obito patted the silver haired jonin on the back. "Don't sweat it, after this mission is over you can use part of your promotion bonus to buy us all dinner." He said with a big smile.

Kakashi nodded and they all exited the room and saw the ninjas ready to attack.

Kakashi performed a set of hand signs and the lightning began to crack around his hand, he had not noticed Obito follow his signs exactly and was now holding his own ball of lightning.

Obito reached his hand out to Kakashi, "Link them together." Kakashi nodded to his friend and as their hands touched the lightning began to intermingle and move as one. "Rin you watch our back ok?" The Uchiha said to the brunette over his shoulder. "And if we don't make it out of here I just need to tell you that I…" He stopped when he felt Rin's lips on his cheek.

"Give em hell." She said to both boys who without another word took off straight for the oncoming attackers.

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Sasuke was sitting cross legged still next to Rin. "So that's when it happened." He said with a smile, "I figured he would do it in some cheesy way just like Naruto did." He chuckled to himself.

Rin put her hand on Sasuke's shoulder, "If you care about her Sasuke go fight for her."

Sasuke nodded and gave Rin a short hug but from Sasuke it was a big deal. "Thank you…" He paused for a moment before another smile crossed his face. "Big Sister Rin." With that he walked off leaving the Uchiha matriarch looking at the setting sun.