PROLOGUE:
"A war to end all wars? But how would you do that?"
"We'll see... are you with me?"
AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION:
So, what's the real deal between the Akatsuki and the infamous man behind the spiral mask?
I know you all have that in mind...
Our story begins before and after Tobi's true identity was revealed. Right at the heart of the Fourth Shinobi World War. So, sit back, and have fun reading. Reviews are very much appreciated!
By the way, the first dialogue you've read during the prologue was a conversation that took place between a master and his apprentice. Before the events of the War Arc.
Curious about who were these two?
You'd better be. Although I can guarantee you they are NOT who you think they are!
Well then, if you're as curious as I am, just read the whole story to find out... ^_~
Naruto, Kakashi, Guy & Killer B VS. Tobi
Tobi: "Call me nobody. For I am indeed nobody. I don't want to be anyone. All I care about is completing the Infinite Tsukuyomi. This world is completely worthless... there is nothing left in it but misery."
Well, that's what I think on the very least.
Naruto: "OH SHUT THE F*CK UP!" Naruto is busy forming another rasengan on his right hand with the help of a shadow-clone yet his wide-mouth never falters. "I've said it before, and I'll say it once more... I WILL NOT LET THAT STUPID THING TO HAPPEN!" he aims the jutsu straightly at Tobi. "...So go suck that moon-eye plan of your's!"
Tobi: "Really? that thing again, huh? You can barely scratch my mask with it. You're only just wasting the nine-tails chakra with that stuff-"
Naruto: "I said... SHUT UP! And take this! RaaAAAAssEEnnGAaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaNNNNN!"
Tobi's POV: Oh this brat surely doesn't know when to give up.
I look around to where the other two ninjas were. That spiky white-haired man standing next to a guy in green jumpsuit with super thick eyebrows and coconut-shaped hair, seems very familiar. But I don't know whether we've met before or not.
I have no idea...
I glared on them. But I doubt if they even notice since am wearing a mask.
"Oh no! Kakashi look! Naruto's rasengan just slip through that masked man again." I heard the man in green jumpsuit speaking. "What are we gonna do?"
Hatake Kakashi. The famed Hero of the Sharingan. The copy ninja. I don't know why am always been curious about this guy.
We've met a couple of times. First, when I stop him and his team from interfering with Sasuke and Itachi's fight. The other one is when Sasuke faced off with Danzo. Perhaps that's why I can't keep my guard down when he's around.
I saw Kakashi fell silent. And gently casts an intriguing yet skeptical look on me. Is he planning on something? Perhaps. Or there could be much more. I can sense the feeling of unrest in him. Why is he acting like that?
Kakashi: "Gai. I need you to look closely at him."
"His eye..."
Tobi could feel the tension in Kakashi's voice and a tinge of disbelief.
Kakashi: "...is connected to my Kamui." He gave me Tobi an inquisitive look.
Gai: "WA...WAIT! What do you mean, Kakashi? Are you saying that his and your eye techniques are connected?". But the Eight-tails snap him off,
Hachibi: "Does it mean the space-time ninjutsu is always connected no matter who uses it?"
Kakashi: "No. I don't think so. Its probably between me and him." Kakashi answers the giant octopus back.
Kakashi keep his head low, as if trying to comprehend whatever is going through his mind. And for instance, Tobi somehow feel like he knows what the white-haired ninja might be thinking.
Tobi's POV: Almost like an open book. I can easily tell if there's something troubling him from the inside. No matter how calm his composure were. His emotions are something he can never hide from himself. Not even on me.
I don't understand... but I have this feeling that me and this white-haired guy has a long history of complicated past.
Eversince Madara took me in his shelter, I've suffered a great deal of short-term memory lost. It's like a frequent amnesia where I lost all of my memories prior to the events on the Kannabi bridge from time to time.
Does Kakashi hold the key to my past? I've got to find out.
Kakashi: "Where did you get that eye?!".
Tobi: "...at the Kanabi Bridge. The place where you got to be called 'Sharingan Hero Kakashi'" I answered him without any hesitance. I know from the start, eversince the first time we'd met when I cornered his team on the tree, to keep them away from Sasuke and Itachi's battle ground, that our eyes are the same. Yet I couldn't tell how and why...
Kakashi (Shocked): "YOU?!"
Tobi: "Don't you know its best to shut up when on the middle of the fight?!"
"I'm about to begin my plan; the Infinite Tsukuyomi! I want to build a world where heroes don't have to make pitiful excuses in front of their comrade's grave!"
Gai (Concerned): "Are you okay, Kakashi!?"
Naruto: "BASTARD! Why are you still blabbering about that?!"
"Let me tell you something, I won't give up my dream of becoming a Hokage!"
Gai: "Kakashi, are you listening? Its important to create diversions we can't let Naruto fight alone! He's your subordinate but he went ahead before you! There's no time to indulge in feelings! You won't suddenly go senile because of this right, Kakashi?!"
Naruto: "I'm not alone! Don't forget about Kurama, Octo-pops, Thick-eyebrow Sensei, and Kakashi-Sensei too! We're in this battle together!"
Kakashi (back to his senses): "...Naruto. I'm glad to have you as my subordinate. Alright let's go, Gai!"
Gai (excited): "My rivaaaaal, that's the spirit!"
Tobi: "I'm not afraid of you..."
Tobi and Kakashi: "I'll show you the real power of KAMUI!"
THE REVEAL
Kakashi transported Naruto's kagebunshin with rasengan activated on one hand to Kamui. Tobi thought the move was in vain, but much to his surprise when he slipped to his own Kamui dimension, there was the bunshin waiting. And it landed an attack directly to his face that breaks his mask into pieces.
Kakashi much to his shock and utter disbelief could only scream the masked man's name...
"Obito?!"
Gai: "Is he really Obito? But isn't he suppose to be dead?"
Tobi/Obito's POV: These two seems to know a lot about me...
Kakashi: "This can't be... How...how did you survive? Obito, if you were alive how come until now..."
*WHOOSH... BOOOM!*
A man with long hair and old-fashioned armor clothes suddenly appear to Tobi/Obito's side.
Madara: "Looks like you're having fun here, Obito."
Kakashi & Gai (Shocked to see Madara)
Naruto: "Wait... is that, Madara? The real Madara? What happened to other Kages?"
Madara: "I don't know. Not good, I guess?"
Kakashi's POV: Its the real Madara. And he knows about Obito. But how?
"Obito... What happened to you?"
Madara: "I'll get the Hachibi and Kyuubi myself. You'll deal with these two, Obito!"
Gai: "I won't let you take them!"
Madara: "Great so I'll deal with you, too. Obito, you take care of that white-haired man! Show yourself some use..."
THE CONFRONTATION
Kakashi: "Obito, what happened to you? Why you're with Madara?"
Tobi/Obito: "You keep calling me with that name, but to me it's not important.
And to be honest, it's irrelevant whether 'I ' survived or not.
Kakashi: "A-are... are you doing this because of Rin?"
Tobi/Obito: "Why should I?"
The cold expression of Obito's face renders Kakashi motionless. And Obito knew it...
Kakashi: "A...aren't you... Aren't you gonna blame me?"
Tobi/Obito: "Haha. Relax. Don't make that face Kakashi. Its pointless to blame you with this stupid reality!"
"But if you really insists...then I have no other choice."
Kakashi: "Obito..."
Tobi/Obito: "JUST SHUT UP AND FIGHT!"
**FLASHBACK**
OBITO'S POV
I was 12 year old by that time. When Madara took me in to his underground cave beneath the Kanabi Bridge.
A man called White Zetsu informed me that I was unconscious for few days. They said, I managed to slip through those rocks above as if I moved passed through them without hindrance.
Madara took me under his wing and infused me with Hashirama's cells to help regenerate my crushed right-half body. I had no recollection of what had happened before they found me. How I ended up like that on Kanabi Bridge.
Why my right body was crushed by a dozen boulders, and why, of all things...my left sharingan was missing from its socket.
"Young Uchiha," that's what Madara used to call me. "A person's life were saved, just because your body got smashed by massive boulders. Wasn't it?"
"I-I don't know," I told him honestly. "I can't remember anything. Who am I? Where am I? Who are you? What am I doing here? What happened to me..." panic suddenly floods through my young innocent mind.
"I...I-I should leave!" I announced at him.
"If you really want to leave, do it. That if you can only move your body, ofcourse." the old man whom I didn't know was Madara by that time, informed me.
"Just who are you? And why did you helped me?" I asked.
"I'm... a ghost of the Uchiha." the old man responded.
"You keep calling me, Uchiha. But what is it about? Is that even a name?" I asked again.
"That was a name bestowed upon the most powerful ninja clan in Shinobi World who co-founded the Konoha Village, where your ancestors along with their sharingan came from."
"...and I'm an Uchiha? Like you?" I ask once more, and with a perplexed look on my face I add succinctly, "Then... why are you here? Are you hiding from something?...someone?"
"Young Uchiha." he said flatly, "You and I had lots of things to talk about history."
From him, I learned a lot of stuff about Ninjutsu, Hiden, Kinjutsu and everything that a shinobi has to know.
Even how to use mangekyou sharingan formidably in battles. Secret dojutsu techniques that exclusive only to the Uchiha clan members. Even how to fully use Susanoo. Aswell as some knowledge about tailed beasts and their capabilities.
I learned from Madara, that after he lost the fight with Hashirama at the Valley of the End, he used Izanagi to fake his death and hid from the villager's eyes. He take with him a handful of Bijuus: the One-tail (Ichibi); the Three-tails (Sanbi); Five-tails (Gobi); Six-tails (Rokubi) and the Seven-tails (Shichibi).
And he used them to gain favor from another villages. Thus, preventing his exposure and his existence was kept hidden to all shinobi.
He also told me about Nagato Uzumaki. The man with Rinnegan. Although Madara told me that the boy's left rinnegan was his in the first place, I'm quite skeptical about that.
I didn't know how long does it take, but I'm pretty certain that its been quite awhile since Madara took me into his cave. And every night, I had dreams about a pretty young girl with great innocent smile and a white haired boy with a dagger rests on his back standing next to me. We're waiting for someone, whom we called Sensei to start our next mission...