bleuxe AN: I took a break from writing I hope you enjoy this story still and for keep coming back!
It been hours since Obito left Hinata back in his old room at Pein's tower. He remembered just gently laid her in the bed as she smiled beautifully while clinging to his arm before passing out.
Pushing a pillow into her arms so she wouldn't wake up from his sudden escape. Watching as she squeezed and cuddled the pillow close to herself making him wish he didn't pull away from her.
Obito shut his eyes tight not wanting to remember anything anymore. He just couldn't say goodbye to her face and felt like a scumbag because of it. Attaching an explanation letter of why he left to the pillow she held so lovingly. Knowing that she would probably never forgive him.
"I don't need Hinata's forgiveness as long as she stays put in Ame...she stay alive and safe," Obito thought clutched her necklace in his gloved hand.
It was midday from the shadows of the trees the rouge nin watched the group of people as they set up camp in the woods. From their headbands they were from Takigakure. Two bulky looking shinobi and a kunoichi with long brunette hair. None of them could sense him or the fact that he been observing them for an hour now.
Obito need the woman to be a fake Hinata because if came back to base without her by his side. It would raises too many questions especially with Madara and he already would had to lie his way out on how he gotten the Rinnegan.
Purposely had his foot crunched on stick nearby alerting them of his location.
Immediately Obito fazed through the kunoichi who try to stab him with a kunai. He grabbed the kunai from her hand stabbing one of the males in the ribcage. Then he kicked it deep enough to puncture a lung as the waterfall nin stumbled forward on the ground drowning in his own blood.
"Akito! No no no stay with me!" the woman dropped to her knees holding her dying teammate.
"You bastard!" the final teammate roared blinded by rage and attacked the rouge nin.
Obito easily strike the shinobi down to the ground dead.
"K-Kaori r-run..." Akito barely had the strength to whisper before he died in her arms.
Kaori frozen in disbelief watching both of her teammates being brutally murdered in front of her for what? They were on just heading home from a simple C-rank mission.
"Thank you for not running because I'm not in the mood to chase you, " Obito crouched down to her level. He had no remorse and didn't even let her asked why because she was already in his genjutsu.
He penetrated her mind with images of Hinata. Making Kaori stand up and dropped her teammate completely forgotten. Instantly she used henge no jutsu to look like Hinata. The rouge nin put the necklace around her neck with his hands lingering longer than he meant too. It was like looking at Hinata's identical twin and suddenly he couldn't stand looking at her.
"Put this on and never show me your face!" he pulled off his Akatsuki cloak throwing into her arms.
Kaori merely nodded dully after put on the cloak and pulling the hood down over her face. He snatched by her wrist as they both vanished from the scene.
Weeks has past since that encounter and there wasn't a day Obito didn't think of Hinata. To pretend that everything was alright while having her double walking around was agonizing. But he couldn't do a complete 360 from what he really wanted to do because this plan was his only hope. The lie about how he got the Rinnegan to Madara easily worked and him explaining Konan's "death" meant the Rain village was out of this war.
"Kisame was truly loyal to the end," Obito said somberly received a scroll of his suicide on Island Turtle.
"But ultimately failed... it seems that all the Akatsuki been doing while under your watch Obito," Madara remarked while black Zetsu snickered in background.
"I think, if you want things done right then it time to do them myself," he said unfazed and put on his new mask that he had made as his mentor nodding understanding what he meant.
"The advantage we have in confusing this Allied Shinobi Forces because you are still pretending to be me. They will not know what hit them!" Madara said hoping for an actual good fight.
"See you on the battlefield Madara-sama," he left the room be confronted by white Zetsu.
Obito didn't know who he hated more his mentor or Kabuto who seemed to be unable to the leave dead alone.
"You are to stay here till Sasuke is fully recovered which should be soon," he immediately ordered and made a beeline to his office.
"Finally letting the princess out of her tower Obito," Zetsu commented lightly seeing how protective he been over Hinata these last few weeks.
"Quiet Zetsu, remember your now a clone. I'm sure Madara wouldn't mind losing one now that there several hundred of copies of you," he said not in the mood for his shit.
"Touché I like you better when you were being Tobi because you were nicer than," he said before morphing into the ground and disappearing.
Obito ignored his words because soon none of them will know what hit them. He sucked up the fake Hinata in Kamui and walked outside of the lair to command all the past Jinchūriki that Akatsuki killed over the years because this was his undead army for now.