When I first woke up I was confused, I didn't know where I was or what had happened to me, I couldn't remember any recent memories but all my older ones seemed much cleared than ever before.
I was initially overwhelmed, it seemed like my senses were muddled, I couldn't see or hear properly, my body felt heavy and it took so much effort to simply move my limbs. It took a while but eventually, I managed to perceive enough to guess what happened.
Apparently, I was a baby, I couldn't remember how I got here but I read enough that it wasn't too hard to assume that I had died, strangely I felt nothing at the thought, my previous life was there but it felt detached like it wasn't me anymore.
The first clue as to where I was was the headband my father wore, the symbol in it was distinctive enough that as soon as I saw it I the implications burned through my mind, the second was the features of my parents, pale with dark hair and sharp faces, the eyes were what finally made me accept it, dark deep eyes that seemed to stare into my soul, the day I first saw them shift was also the day I first learned my name.
Yochi Uchiha.
I couldn't help but to chuckle at the irony, or at least come as close to a chuckle as a baby could, I think when they named their daughter Foreknowledge they meant that I would be wise or that I would shape the future or something like that, they were right, though how much not even I knew at the time.
As I grew older I found out that we had just finished the Second Shinobi World War, I knew we were heading for the Third and I couldn't help but to think I didn't want to be one of the nameless cannon fodder that died meaningless deaths and were mostly forgotten except by a name on a stone.
I started training as soon as I could, I was an Uchiha and in times of war there were no resources spared in making sure the next generation would defend the village and honor the clan with their lives, I didn't care about any of that, I just didn't want to die and be forgotten.
I suppose I should be glad for the particularly good set of genes and for being born into a powerful clan but honestly, I didn't care about the Uchiha, I didn't hate them or was planning to betray them but I just wasn't close to any of them, not even my new parents had a bond with me.
The years passed and I trained hard, with how early I began and with my older mind I like to think I was pretty good for my age, people soon started to call me a prodigy so I must have been doing something right, my family was not the main house of the clan but we were close enough that my growth and drive to get stronger were noted and the clan head at the time, Fukagu Uchiha, who had recently taken the position after his own father's death at the beginning of the Third War and as such was eager to prove he could handle the position and live up to his predecessor's legacy, was more than glad to give me even more resources and ways to get stronger so I could go out there and honor the clan with my accomplishments.
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I was 7 when I met him, I was on my way back from one of the Uchiha training grounds when a boy came running, both of us were distracted and we collided with each other and fell to the floor. I muttered curses in annoyance when I heard him say.
"Hey, are you okay? Sorry about that, I guess I just had my head in the clouds"
I couldn't see him properly as the sun's glare only allowed a silhouette but I could hear the friendly tone and given how most Uchiha are closed off and cold it surprised me, so much so that I kept staring at him until he said.
"Hey come on, let me help you up"
I took his outstretched hand and he pulled me to my feet, when I finally got a good look at him I saw he had black eyes and short, spiky, black hair. He wore a long-sleeved blue uniform and a blue jacket with an orange collar and trimmings, the jacket was fastened to the rest of the outfit by two buttons on the collar and had the Uchiha clan crest at the back. He also wore a white belt, shinobi sandals, and a pair of goggles with orange lenses connected to ear protectors.
He smiled at me, something that confused me as I had rarely if, at all seen any Uchiha smile and the few that I did were not the carefree smile that he gave me, I must have looked like a fool because he scratched the back of his head and said sheepishly.
"Hey...stop staring at me, it's embarrassing"
I blushed and said.
"S-Sorry, I didn't mean to"
"It's okay" He said with a smile. "What's your name?"
"Y-Yochi" I said, still a bit stunned as I realized just who was in front of me.
"Yochi!? The famous one? The one everyone in the clan talks about!?"
"They're just overreacting, I'm nothing special" I said, embarrassed.
"Oh man, it's just my luck to embarrass myself in front of the clan star" He said with a frown, looking down.
"Hey it's no big deal, I embarrassed myself too"
He looked into my eyes and for a moment I swore my heart skipped a beat when he grinned, his eyes then widened and he said.
"S-Sorry, got to go"
He started to run off but before he could get very far I shouted after him.
"What's your name?"
"Obito" He shouted back and I couldn't help the small smile that appeared on my face.
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Apparently, I underestimated just how much the clan expected from me because unlike most others who joined the academy as soon as possible I was only allowed to join a few months after my encounter with Obito.
Before that, I had any Uchiha that was available, whether the ones returning from the frontlines to rest or retired and disabled ones, according to Fukagu-sama I was valuable to the clan, and as such, I needed to be the best I could be to make sure I honored the clan properly, I certainly wasn't complaining about the personal training.
As it turned out due to my special training I was already moved to a more advanced class, ironically Obito's, I had run into him a few more times after the first but we usually were so busy that we barely had time to talk, he had joined the academy a year earlier and while he was decently skilled he wasn't going to graduate for at least another year like most of the other kids.
He was quick to join up with me and I always found it adorable when he would snap at the other guys that came to talk to me, I was glad that we finally managed to spend time together and even with the constant training and the fact that we would have to join up with the war after we graduated or perhaps because of it, Obito was the first real friend I had since being born here.
He always talked about wanting to awaken his sharingan and become Hokage and despite knowing that wouldn't happen I ended up cheering him on, he was my friend and I didn't have it in me to not believe in him like most of the clan did.
We trained together day in and day out and I found myself enjoying it, for once my training wasn't just for my desire for survival or for my drive to get stronger, it was fun to train together with Obito, and even though I knew that if I trained by myself or went to one of the older Uchiha I could improve faster I found myself not caring if I slowed down my growth if it meant spending time with Obito.
I still remember when he asked what my dream was, I said I wanted to be remembered as a legendary ninja and he said he knew I was going to be one of the best, other people in the clan had said the same but it was the conviction in his eyes that got to me.
I blushed and punched him at the time but I still smile softly every time I remember it.
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The year ended and I was soon sent off as a newly minted genin, a war for me to fight and the expectations of the clan in my back, with all the training I did I ended up not qualified for a genin team but instead running around with a team of chunin.
We did mostly lower ranked missions and didn't see too much combat but the little we saw allowed me to make my hard-earned skills shine, I wasn't back in the village much but I apparently had a reputation because one time that I was Fukagu-sama called me into his home and after some tea, with his pregnant wife he gave me a scroll for one of the jutsu reserved for either higher-ranked Uchiha or the members of the main family.
"Use it to bring great honor to our clan" He had told me.
I definitely made good use of it and apparently, I gained the nickname 'Phenix' because of my habit of raining fire jutsu on top of my opponents, I admit that I felt proud about it.
During one of my missions I was caught by surprise and ended up alone behind enemy lines, it was a tense situation with most of my team dead and me surrounded by enemies on all sides, I was glad that my sharingan choose that time to manifest, though I'll never admit to anybody that I was thinking about never being able to see Obito again.
I managed to make it to our side of the border with two half-teams chasing after me, I had killed the other members of them and they were out for blood, I was lucky that a patrol happened to be nearby and they fought my pursuers off as with how banged up I was I doubted that I could have done it myself.
The next time I was in the village I hugged Obito and when I showed him my sharingan and he went on about how he would awaken his I made sure to engrave his picture in my mind, despite everything I knew I couldn't help but to worry.
I went into a few more missions after that but as the rest of my old team was either picked off or placed in other assignments I ended up alone just as my first year drew to a close.
I was called back to the village and officially promoted to chunin, I was told I was to take a few days of leave before I was slotted in another squad but I knew Obito was graduating that day, I went to Fugaku-sama and used the influence I had with the clan in general and him, in particular, to be put in the same team as Obito.
He was a happy man, his first son had just been born and the clan was doing well for wartime, given how much praise he had received due to my achievements and the amount of influence it gave him he was more than happy to pull some strings, he gave me a pat on the head and a rare smile and told me to continue to make the clan proud.
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A few days later I met my new team, Obito was there and was elated to be on the same team as me and while I didn't show it as much I too was happy we could be on the same team, then there was Kakashi, whom Obito had developed a sort of rivalry with, something that I found cute.
I don't remember what they were fighting about but I do remember Kakashi looking at me before looking away with a blush, Obito looked at me in shock before he looked ready to murder Kakashi, I just laughed, Obito and I were 9 while Kakashi was only 5 so I couldn't help but to find it hilarious.
Our sensei was Minato Namikaze, the man I knew one day would become Hokage, he wasn't quite the legendary shinobi he would one day be but he still was an elite jonin and I looked forward to learning from him.
He gave us the bell test and while initially working with Kakashi proved hard Obito was more than willing to follow my lead, Kakashi soon understood the meaning of the test and we passed, though not without quite the beating from Minato-sensei, I knew that he couldn't really do anything to me concerning my rank but I would be disappointed if I called a favor with Fukagu-sama only for the team to disperse because we failed the test and for me to be forced into another team.
I saw one Rin Nohara on my way home after our first official team meeting, I had no reason to interact with her so I ended up just walking past her without a word, I would later learn that she was sent to the Suna frontline with another team and killed during an ambush, I didn't really care.
Team Minato's missions slowly but surely grew in difficulty and while they started fairly easy for me they soon became very dangerous, the war was heating up and we ran into combat more and more, I found myself thriving in this environment, and with each battle and each training session with Minato-sensei, I grew better and better.
Our sensei had a lot to teach, he taught us the rasengan and while Kakashi eventually modified it into the raikiri I managed to add my fire element to it to create the Great Flame Rasengan, I admit that the explosion of flames it causes brought me more glee than it should, much to my team's fear.
Sadly Obito never quite got the rasengan and in the end, he decided to learn another jutsu instead.
We fell into a sort of routine where we would train together whenever we could and always take at least one mission a week, thankfully we managed to stay in the fire country or patrol missions as I heard that the front lines were bloody, both Iwa and Kumo were getting aggressive and while Suna had mostly retreated from the war Kiri was still holding on, if barely.
I ended up meeting a lot of familiar characters, Kushina was energetic and it seemed that I caught her fancy because she would fuss over me and make me use makeup and try different clothing, I made it seem as if I found it annoying but deep down I was glad to actually have a mother figure I could bond with, I and my actual mother weren't close and I sometimes missed having a caring mother instead of a cold one, she didn't dislike me but she wasn't the most open person by nature and I guess I ended up comparing her to the mother I had in my previous life and she came up short.
It also helped that every time I came out dressed like a princess Obito would turn completely red and even Kakashi had a light pink in his cheeks, I got the feeling Minato-sensei did it just to mess with us.
I didn't waste the opportunity however and asked Kushina for fuinjutsu lessons, she agreed on the condition that I helped raise the baby, the room was silent for a moment before it dawned upon the boys what she meant, Obito was happy and even Kakashi seemed somewhat more chipper but it was Minato who stumbled for a moment before he asked if she was telling the truth.
Upon receiving a nod he grabbed her and the two laughed, I thought we were intruding in a private moment and tried to take the team and leave but Kushina grabbed me before I could take two steps and dragged me into a hug, saying how I was now the baby's big sister and as such part of the family.
For a moment I forgot what was to come and just promised that I would do what it took to make that baby happy.
I also met Jiraya but that didn't go too well, he said something about how I would be a hottie when I was older, Obito glared at him so hard that I thought he was going to manifest his sharingan right then and there, I'll admit I enjoyed sending Jiraya to the hospital covered in burns from my Great Flame Rasengan more than I should.
On a related note, I was now friends with Tsunade.
Soon our team was nominated for the chunin exams, well Obito and Kakashi were, I was already a chunin, something I liked to lord over the rest of the team much to Obito's constant annoyance and my enjoyment, and while they got paired with another genin to take the exams I worked hard on my own jonin exams.
I passed my own exams and even managed to pick up the wind element to enhance my fire element in the process just in time to help Obito train for the exam finals, since it was wartime we only had a week until the finals but he managed to pick up enough to make it to the finals, he lost to Kakashi but still made chunin and I was proud of him.
And so my team had me and Minato-sensei as jonin and Kakashi and Obito as chunin, we started to build a reputation as one of the teams with the most potential and while Fugaku-sama was annoyed that his own accomplishments in the war weren't giving him the same level of fame as Minato-sensei got he was proud of my progress, so much so that he gave me unrestricted access to the Uchiha library with the only exception being the S-class jutsu, I already had plans for what I wanted to learn next but I still used my sharingan to memorize all the information that I could.
Time passed quickly and soon we got the mission I was both expecting and dreading at the same time, Kanabi Bridge.
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I knew what was to come and I was determined to save Obito, I knew it was foolish and it could change so much that I just might end up causing the apocalypse down the line but I couldn't let Obito go through that, I had finally recognized that I had feelings for him and I didn't want to lose him.
Minato-sensei put me in charge of the mission, Kakashi had just made jonin and Obito was expected to make it by the end of the year, Obito and I had both turned 13 recently and at 9 Kakashi had been one of the youngest jonin to ever exist, even I hadn't made it at that age.
Our mission was supposedly simple, blow up Kanabi Bridge to cut off Iwa's supply line and weaken them in the frontlines, I knew it was going to be anything but simple so I was wary, Kakashi didn't say anything while Obito thought I was exaggerating.
I had encountered changes caused by me before, usually, they were pretty minor and I didn't worry too much about it, one of the changes, however, was that given my reputation on the battlefield and the number of ninjas I killed, most of which were Iwa-nin, I had a very large bounty on my head, it wasn't on Minato-sensei's level but I was known to be quite a threat on the battlefield due to my use of fire and wind jutsu to decimate my opponents with incredibly hot flames in large areas, I had even graduated from my old nickname to Yochi 'Hellfire' Uchiha due to my managing to mix both my fire and wind and infuse the combination into the rasengan to create my very own S-rank technique, the Hellfire Rasengan.
Minato-sensei was still jealous as he still couldn't add his wind element but he refused my help and said he would manage on his own, I didn't get it but it was his choice.
I was shocked when the ground we were about to step on exploded and dozens of enemy ninja came from the trees, it was a hard battle and my team took out quite a few of them but in the end, I was low on chakra and had to use myself as bait to get the remaining enemies away from my team, I thought they would kill me and while I was disappointed I couldn't bring myself to be scared.
In the end, they captured me and intended to interrogate me before sending me back to Iwa, I had no doubts what they would do to me there and would have chosen death instead but before it came to that both Kakashi and Obito came from the trees, Obito had his sharingan proudly on display and for a moment I smiled before what was happening dawned on me.
I tried to stop them but I was still low on chakra, not to mention restrained and drugged so all I could do was trash on Kakashi's grip as the cave collapsed and buried him under the rubble, only half his body visible.
At that moment I forgot everything, there wasn't Konoha or the clan or even my previous life, there was just me and the boy I loved dying in front of me.
"You idiot, why did you do that!?" I shouted at him, tears streaming down my face.
"I couldn't leave you behind" He said between bloody coughs.
"Damnit Obito, why!? I love you, why did you do this to me!?" I confessed between sobs.
Despite everything he still gave me that infuriating smile I fell in love with and said.
"I love you too, be safe okay?" He told me and I couldn't take it, he said something to Kakashi but I was too deep in my sorrow to listen.
When I got up we were surrounded, my eyes hurt even though they were closed and when I opened them they weren't the regular sharingan I was used to, no it was my recently awakened mangekyo sharingan, its pattern looked like a flower and even years later I would smile when I thought about just how much it reminded me of the flower Obito gave when I first graduated the academy, at the time it was just an embarrassing gift but it would soon become one of my most prized possessions.
I lost myself in that battle, I don't remember much but what I do remember was snapping out of my trance amidst a battlefield of scorched trees and barely recognizable burnt corpses with Minato-sensei hugging me and Kakashi standing behind him with burn wounds, my chakra almost nonexistent and my eyes burning with pain.
I collapsed and only woke up back in the village, I spent some time in the hospital and was only let out in time to see Obito's name being engraved in the memorial stone, I went home and cried, I had failed, I knew he was still alive but I failed and the Obito I knew was gone.
I spent nearly half my leave locked up in my room, Minato-sensei, Kakashi and even Kushina came to check on me but I refused to let any of them in and when I finally stepped out I knew what I had to do, I wasn't going to give up on him, being with Obito mattered, everything else didn't.
I went straight to Fukagu-sama's house and spoke to him about the mangekyo, it was a lengthy discussion but in the end, he told me everything he knew about it and gave me access to its files in his own personal library, it had been determined that they were too valuable to be left even in the S-rank part of the Uchiha library and as such only the clan head and whomever he chose to trust could see them, apparently I was the only non-main family member to see them in quite a few years.
My mangekyo had some powerful abilities, though the cost of using them was great in chakra, pain, and eyesight loss.
Kaze-no-Kami(God of the Wind) allowed me to manipulate the air around me however I saw fit, I could harden it into a shield or shoot it as sharp projectiles towards my enemies, I could even take control of my enemies' wind jutsu and manipulate the air in their very lungs, though the latter two took significantly more chakra, concentration and time.
Kuebiko(God of Knowledge) allowed me to push the sharingan's predictive capabilities to the maximum, letting me see a few seconds into the future, and letting me react to any events that would happen in those seconds even if I didn't see them coming otherwise.
After that I went back to my team, they were worried about me but I knew I couldn't afford to play around anymore, with my strength and the strength of my team I had gotten comfortable and stopped striving to be my best. that couldn't happen again.
I threw myself in my training with reckless abandon, I trained until I collapsed and as soon as I could I got up and started again, I used my sharingan to speed up my fuinjutsu lessons with Kushina to the max and with the baby coming she couldn't leave the house anyway so I took the opportunity and decided to spend as much time as I could with her learning.
I initially wanted to learn the hiraishin but I think Minato-sensei was worried about me and refused to teach it until I coped with Obito's loss, I still sneaked a few peeks with my sharingan at his formulas and while I didn't understand them initially with each lesson with Kushina I understood them more and more.
I still had to take missions and it was in one of those missions that I ended up on the border of Kiri alongside Kakashi, being chased by Kiri Hunter-nin. I felt awful doing so but I recognized that mission and while I could slaughter my pursuers with little difficulty I knew what I had to do.
Being captured by them wasn't nice and having the Three-Tails sealed in me hurt a lot but despite it all, I could think about was how I was going to be with Obito again, I escaped them and ran, I caught up with Kakashi halfway towards Konoha and as we kept running I found myself in a familiar clearing.
Kakashi prepared to fight and as soon as I heard the thousand birds chirping sound I moved without hesitation, I could see the look in his eyes when his chidori pierced right through my chest, I saw how the sharingan that Obito gave him morphed into the mangekyo and I had to stop myself from searching for Obito amongst the trees.
I collapsed to the ground and despite all the blood and pain I smiled as I saw Obito drop in front of me and the unconscious Kakashi and dash towards the Kiri-nin with murder in his single mangekyo eye, I felt the Three-Tails try to heal my wound but I knew it was too late, I was lacking a heart and it was a miracle I was still alive as it was.
The darkness started to swallow me and just as everything was about to disappear I felt a spike of pain in my eye and smiled.
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When I woke up I was blind of one eye but I didn't care, Izanagi worked and I was alive, I couldn't feel the Three-Tails inside me but just in case I checked, there was nothing, the only sign that it had ever been there was that I felt that my chakra reserves were larger than what I was used to.
I looked through the trees and saw Obito bury the fake corpse I left behind, he looked so sad and haunted that I froze for a moment, when I snapped back into reality he was ready to leave, and just as he was about to dash away I couldn't help myself and ran towards him, tears falling freely from my eyes.
I saw his eyes widen in recognition and him lowering the arm he was about to attack me with before I crashed onto him, we fell to the floor but I didn't wait for anything as I pulled him closer and did what I wanted to do for a very long time now.
I kissed him.
When we separated he whispered, his voice full of hope.
"Y-Yochi?But how?"
I laughed but the tears didn't stop and I pressed my face to the crook of his neck.
"Obito...you're here"
I couldn't bring myself to move from that position and we stayed there for a very long time, it might have been amidst a battlefield filled with fresh corpses and he might have been covered in blood but honestly, it was the most romantic thing in my life if you ask me.
After a while we were eventually forced to move and found ourselves in a cliff a few miles from there, overlooking the ocean.
"I don't understand, I saw you die" He said.
"And I saw you crushed by that rock but you seem to be in one piece" I said back with a smile.
"I guess that's true" He laughed.
After a moment of silence, I said.
"I don't want to leave you Obito, it took too long for me to accept I love you and I can't lose you again"
"Hey, nobody is losing anything, I'm right here" He said while hugging me
"I know but...I can't, we're always at risk and there's the war, why can't we live in a world where we can be happy?"
He paused for a moment before he said.
"I know, I...when I thought you died I...I don't want to lose you either, not to this, not ever"
We were silent after that, both lost in our thoughts, soon it became dark and he turned to me.
"I can't return with you, I-"
I cut him off and spoke.
"I know...I know and I don't care!"
He looked at me like I was mad and I continued.
"I'm not leaving you Obito, it hurt too much being away from you once and I'm not doing it again"
"But everyone-"
"I don't care! I love you and if you aren't coming back then I'm not either"
I looked at him, I found it funny that each of us had opposite eyes, his sharingan stared into mine and I could feel he was saving this moment in his mind just as much as I was.
"As long as we are together I'm happy, if I have to take on the entire world I will do it, as long as you're by my side I'm happy no matter what" I looked down and continued, my tone pleading. "Please don't leave me"
For a moment he did nothing and I was afraid that he would reject me, that I would look up and find him gone, those fears disappeared when he gently lifted my face and made me look into his eye, the genuine love in them made me smile as he spoke.
"I would never do that"
He closed in on me and when our lips met my world came alive.
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When we returned to the mountain graveyard I met Madara Uchiha, even in his old age he was still impressive, giving an aura of power and danger despite just being an old man.
He was initially distrustful of me but as the days passed he grew to tolerate me, if only barely. I agreed to the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan, claiming that as long as Obito and I could be together I would support him in whatever he chose and that if we could have a world where we could live in peace then I'd help achieve that.
We spent a few days there as Madara completed his final preparations and when the time came he entrusted Obito, and by extension me, with fulfilling his dream, he then disconnected himself from the Gedo Mazo and sat on his throne, dying soon after.
Both I and Obito got replacement sharingan from Madara's reserves and soon after we got started, Obito, Zetsu, and I went to Amegakure in hopes of securing the rinnegan by manipulating the recently created Akatsuki into joining us.
Obito was almost able to persuade them but in the end, their leader, an orange-haired young man by the name of Yahiko, declined his offer, we had to find a different way and the opportunity presented itself when Zetsu came to us with the knowledge that Danzo Shimura had conspired with Hanzo of the Salamander, Amegakure's current leader, to kill Yahiko.
We intercepted the ninja meant to protect Yahiko and killed them, I initially wanted to save him and try to use that as leverage to get the Akatsuki's cooperation but Obito had other ideas and we decided to just follow his plan.
With Yahiko dead it was easy to manipulate Nagato into reshaping the Akatsuki to suit our needs, he started to recruit powerful missing-nin and since Obito decided to stay in the background I chose also not to join directly.
I always laughed when he would assume his Tobi persona and act like a goof, I'm pretty sure he did it more than necessary just for me, he was sweet like that.
We spent some time getting the new Akatsuki up and running and while Nagato, now going by the name of Pain, and his friend Konan did most of the visible work Obito and I worked behind the scenes to make sure everything went smoothly, Zetsu worked on gathering information and together the three of us worked on the plan for world peace.
While at work we were serious, Obito had to keep his persona as Madara and I kept to the background most of the time, when we managed to get some time alone he would go back to being the happy idiot I fell in love with, he made me happier than I ever was in both of my lives and with every little thing he did just to see me smile my belief that I made the right choice grew.
I thought about telling him about my old life but decided against it, with Zetsu around it was better to not take any chances, plus I had failed him once and refused to do so again, it might have been selfish of me to decide that on my own, hell it was thanks to me that he never met the girl he would originally fall in love with, but I didn't care, he made me happy and I did everything I could to make him happy in return.
I didn't stop training, before I wanted to survive for as long as possible and be remembered, but now I had him and I refused to let anything hurt him if I could do something about it, I knew he could take care of himself, on the few times we did spar his mangekyo gave him an easy win, but I still worried.
Soon we were no longer required at the Akatsuki and we moved to Kiri, Obito wanted revenge over what they did to me, Zetsu was against it but I said that I too wanted some payback, we led the Mizukage's forces into an ambush where Obito killed them all.
I, on the other hand, chose to go after Yagura by myself, Obito was against it but I managed to persuade him I could take care of myself, and with his forces busy I sneaked into his office easily and confronted him.
The problem with jinchuriki is that they usually rely too much on the power of their Biju and as such are caught weakened when the beast's power is useless, Yagura didn't even have time to fight before my mangekyo had trapped him and his Biju in a genjutsu and made them my puppets.
While I was there I took a look at the files and found quite a few Uzumaki scrolls that Kiri had looted from Uzushio during the attack, scrolls that luckily had amongst other things the last pieces of the puzzle I needed to recreate the hiraishin.
I ended up being the one to recruit Kisame, he ran into us while we were in Kiri and he said something about how I was a pushover because I was a woman and how I needed Obito to protect me, I knew that he was just trying to get a rise out of me but I decided to humor him, I managed to test the hiraishin, put Kisame in his place, and recruit him to our cause, though Obito had to spew some bullshit about 'a world without lies' for the last part, despite our rocky meeting we ended up as friends.
Things were going well, the Akatsuki was growing stronger, we ruled Kiri through Yagura and I had completed the technique that made Minato-sensei famous, that night Obito and I decided to celebrate our progress, that night was the first time he made love to me.
Time passed quickly, it seemed like just yesterday I was walking through the academy halls chatting with Obito and now we were 16, on our way to bringing world peace, I smiled when I thought about all that had happened, it hadn't been easy but I was happy with the life I had.
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One day Obito came to me with news, Kushina was about to give birth and he wanted to use the opportunity to take the Kyuubi, I paused for a moment, this was when Naruto was born, I was going to help Obito orphan him, then I shook my head, a plan coming together rapidly as we started preparing for it.
We arrived just outside where the birth was taking place and I told Obito to go ahead without me, he raised an eyebrow, or at least I think he did behind the mask he wore, but trusted me and went inside.
I knew what was coming so I prepared myself, as soon as Obito and Minato-sensei teleported away to start their fight I sensed where the marker of the safehouse was, I flashed towards it and found myself looking down at a baby Naruto.
I hesitated for a moment but shook my head and placed my marker on him, I knew Minato-sensei would be able to sense it but I hoped that he would either miss it in the chaos or not have time to question it.
I wasted no time and flashed away, then I waited, I saw the Kyuubi vanish from Konoha and appear a few miles outside, I knew I would have no time to waste so as soon as I saw the chains manifested to hold the Kyuubi down I flashed.
I appeared right next to Naruto and my mangekyo activated as I formed my Hellfire Rasengan, my eyes showed me where Minato sensei would flash to dodge and I was flashed there at the same time.
I think it was him recognizing the jutsu that made him just slow enough that I could hit him with it, the rasengan burst into a giant explosion of flames and when it dissipated I saw him, his entire body was covered in burns and both of his hands had been incinerated beyond recognition.
"Yo-Yochi!?"
I looked into his eyes and he must have recognized my mangekyo because his eyes widened in recognition.
"Sorry sensei, I wish it didn't have to be this way" I said under my breath but I knew he heard me.
I wasted no time and with a quick movement I stabbed a kunai right in his brain, he must have been out of chakra and in a lot of pain, because he didn't even try to flash away, the last thing in his eyes was a flash of regret.
I turned my gaze to the Kyuubi and with the power of my sharingan the Biju was completely under my control, it was at that moment that Obito came out of Kamui next to me, he was pretty banged up but I could see it in his eyes that he was much more worried about me than his injuries.
I assured him I was fine and gestured towards the corpse of Minato-sensei, he was silent for a moment before he noticed I had the Kyuubi under control, he motioned for us to leave but I shook my head and moved towards Kushina, who was standing protectively over Naruto and looking at us warily.
I removed my mask and watched as she recognized me, I told her she was going to die, that we couldn't let the Kyuubi go back into her and that even if we did she would not survive, I then gestured towards Naruto and said.
"I'll take care of him, I promise"
I meant it, we were orphaning the kid for our own sake and it was the least I could do to give him the love we were taking from him, I still remembered my promise to her and I intended to keep it.
I saw her look at Naruto one final time before she gave him to me, I don't understand what made her trust me, especially after everything that had happened, but she did and the moment I took him in my arms I knew I would love him like he was my own son.
We put her out of her misery at her own request and I listened to her final message to her son, swearing I would tell him when he could understand it, after that we went back to base and while Obito didn't question me I knew he wanted answers.
"So now we have a kid, I think maybe we're moving too fast" He said with a chuckle.
Naturally, he had the most Obito way to ask.
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I had never been a mother, not in my previous life and certainly not in this one, so it stands to reason that I was half excited half terrified at the prospect of raising Naruto, I couldn't bring myself to leave him to the wolves in Konoha when it was our fault he didn't have parents but I had no idea how to properly raise a child.
Obito wasn't much better, he didn't know the first thing about children but what he did know was that the moment little Naruto first smiled at him he was in love with the blonde angel and would do anything to make him happy.
It wasn't like we had anyone we could ask for help either, everyone we knew was cold-blooded killers and bloodthirsty maniacs, even ourselves fit on those categories in one way or another.
My point is that raising Naruto was a learning experience, and what experience it was, he was a loud baby, he demanded attention all the time and since Obito had to go out and play big bad Madara Uchiha I ended up alone with him most of the day, the strangest part was how one of the White Zetsu had taken a liking to him and played with him all the time.
As he grew we started to discover that raising a baby was almost as hard as being on the battlefield and twice as stressful, he learned to crawl, and soon we had to worry about not leaving weapons in easy to reach places, he learned to talk and suddenly all he did was babble on and on, Obito gave me an incredibly smug look when the first word Naruto said was 'Tou-san', he learned to walk and now we had to leave a Zetsu constantly with him to make sure he didn't go anywhere dangerous.
I felt so proud when Black Zetsu glared at me, Obito busy trying to think where we could move with little Naruto because he was growing and the mountain graveyard was hardly a place you could raise a child.
Soon after we moved to a large house in Kiri, Obito wanted to make Kiri miserable but I talked him out of it and we were instead improving the village with hopes of using it in the future if we ever have to go to war to achieve the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
Obviously, we loved every second of it.
We once visited Ame with Naruto, he was taken with Konan's origami, pulled on the Deva Path's hair, and said he would grow up to be a big strong ninja and join the Akatsuki so he could help bring peace too, one oversized cloak latter we had the newest member of the Akatsuki walking around the sunny Amegakure, something I was was sure never happened, with one of the Paths of Pain playing with him and glaring murder at anyone who even looked at him funny.
When he was old enough he asked for ninja training and while I was initially hesitant I decided to teach him in the end, he had a lot of talent, he wasn't very good with theory but when it came to practice he learned fast, it helped that I snuck into Konoha while under disguise and brought him a bowl of Ichiraku Ramen, he loved it and I had to admit it was pretty good.
Things didn't stop because we were raising Naruto, however, the whole mess with the Uchiha massacre was still going on but Obito asked me not to get involved, I was conflicted but decided to trust him and after a few months, Itachi joined the Akatsuki.
The following years were pretty quiet, all things considered, I stayed in Kiri with Naruto and helped manage the village while Obito stuck in the shadows and made the Akatsuki stronger, without bloodline purges there was no reason to have a rebellion and Naruto actually ran into Mei when he was playing outside, the woman found him adorable and I was sure he was going to be quite the heartbreaker when he grew up, or maybe not, Infinite Tsukuyomi and all that.
When Naruto was 12 the Akatsuki began moving, most of them didn't know the truth but they played their parts well enough.
Due to not having the Kyuubi Konoha was put in a bad spot, they managed to keep the Kyubi's absence secret but they lost their Hokage and with Naruto going missing they assumed there was somebody involved, they never knew it was us though.
Zetsu heard of Orochimaru's plans to invade Konoha and during the chaos two of the members grabbed Garaa, they were seen but nobody knew about us so all they knew was that somebody kidnapped a jinchuriki.
We managed to corner the Two Tails' jinchuriki and after a lengthy battle, our members captured her and brought her in, though one of them took heavy damage and didn't survive his wounds.
We already had Yagura and we made him name a successor who was also one of our pawns to ensure we still held control of the village.
The jinchuriki of the Four and Five Tails were both from Iwa and I decided to take part in that mission, it was good to be in the field again and while they were tough we managed to grab both without casualties.
The Six Tails had been a missing-nin from Kiri for years and we made the new Mizukage send hunter-nin after him, I heard they suffered heavy casualties but brought him back and we took him from his cell.
I almost felt bad for the Seven Tails' jinchuriki, I heard about her life and she didn't deserve it, but in the end, I didn't care enough to do anything about it.
Our assault was so sudden that when the nations realized we existed the only one left was the Eight-Tails, Itachi chose to betray us then but it proved pointless, I had secretly placed hiraishin marks on every member of the Akatsuki and before he managed to even cast a jutsu I teleported to him and burned him to ash.
The Raikage tried to hide the Eight-Tails and call a 5 Kage Summit but by the time he arrived at the summit both me and Obito had already gone and personally captured them, Obito decided to gloat a little and appeared before the Kage.
He mocked them and told them it was useless and that we already had the Eight-Tails, he even mocked the Hokage, Jiraya, for what happened to his students and told him what happened when the Kyuubi attacked.
I knew I would have no other chance and while Obito was busy with the Kage I killed Black Zetsu and razed the entire mountain graveyard to the ground, destroying everything inside, Nagato and Konan were understandably upset but after I told them what would happen they begrudgingly decided to follow my plan, I was glad for that as I'm didn't want to have to kill them.
Kisame wasn't so gracious but at that point, I was not taking any chances, I hit him with three separate Hellfire Rasengans before he could even draw his blade and decapitated him before he could regenerate, he died instantly and the others were quick to fall in line.
Obito was shocked when he came back and there I told him the truth about Zetsu's real plan, how he had manipulated Madara and was using everyone for his own goal, I honestly expected Obito to flat out not believe me or at least put up some fight but no, he looked me in the eyes and told me he believed me.
We already had the Kyuubi and soon we formed the Ten-Tails, I was shocked when Obito asked me to become its jinchuriki and bring peace, I tried to refuse but he wouldn't budge and in the end, I took it in me.
And that's how my story ends, without Zetsu Kaguya would forever remain sealed and with me, as jinchuriki, I was able to prevent the Infinite Tsukuyomi from transforming its victims into Zetsu.
Before I cast it I resurrected both Minato-sensei and Kushina, they weren't pleased about what happened but they were both too busy meeting Naruto for the first time to complain, the world was soon covered in a genjutsu where I controlled everything, I tried to make everyone inside as happy as possible.
I knew I made the right choice when soon after we entered the perfect world we worked so hard for I felt a new life inside me, Obito was incredibly happy and Naruto said he would be the best big brother ever.
I was with Obito and I was happy and in the end that was all that mattered, my life had its ups and downs but if you ask me I wouldn't change a thing.
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This idea came to my head and I just knew I had to write it, I played around with the timeline a bit but I felt that the story was better this way, I hope you guys liked it.