Chars: Kakashi, Rin
Location: Before Fox Identity timeline. (Pre-Kyuubi attack)
Foreword: The 1st of the Forgetting segments.
Fox Identity: Lost Segments
Forget Me Not
-Edge of Paradise
By Arkhe
"I'm glad it didn't cause as a big an uproar as we expected." A young woman with what appeared to be painted tattoos remarked, a little cheerfully.
"Yeah. That's what worries me." A silver-haired, masked, male teen replied.
The female gave a wry smile and gently softly punched the younger boy in the arm.
"Chin up, soldier!" Her voice lowering an octave. She laughed when he gave her a half-lidded stare.
"Sensei's always looked out for us before!" She said confidently. "I'm sure he'll be with you every step of the way, so stop worrying so much Kakashi-kun!"
Her melodic tone had Hatake Kakashi lower his head.
"I know, I know..." He sagged. "But, you know... I guess that I've just been such a jerk." His hand went to cover his ey... his friend's eye.
The young girl marched over until she stood in front of the other boy and removed her teammate's hand from his face. Her medical side felt she needed to step in and stop him from rubbing the irritation and possibly making it worse.
"I'm just glad that you can see your mistakes now." She spoke low watching him at eye level.
"Though, a little too late, Rin..." He mumbled, darkly. He couldn't meet her eyes.
Rin also bowed her head and looked away. It had been some fewdays since Obito passed away and though Kakashi and Obito had never been close, it would seem her masked genius teammate took it the hardest. Probably because he was their platoon's leader for that mission and felt responsible for all of them.
"Obito knew the chances, Kakashi-kun." She said evenly. "We all do."
Kakashi knew that but... there was still... regret.
They were silent for a time.
"They argued about it, you know." Kakashi suddenly started.
Rin wandered for a second what he was talking about until he started reaching for the Eye.
"Some said that since it's the sharingan, they should take it back..." The young ANBU leader said.
"But in the end, they agreed that since he was so useless, his eye might not even be worth the effort." He finished, making sure to pronounce 'he' in a respected way.
Rin bunched her hands together into tight fists. Obito deserved so much better than that!
"You'll prove them wrong, right?" She said, whilst removing Kakashi's hand from rubbing the eye again.
Kakashi looked from her hand to her eyes, in a questioning look.
"What?"
"Stick it to them, okay?" She had a fierce look in her eyes. "Show them that Obito deserved so much more than they gave him credit for!"
His teammate's passionate words reminded Kakashi of a time when Obito had been on the receiving end of said anger -most often, she would punctuate it with 'Grow up, Uchiha!'.
When queried as to why he always got her angry, he admitted that their female teammate looked cuter when she was mad. Kakashi never agreed vocally, but he did think so too...
...only he made sure to never be on her bad side. Sure she was cute when she was angry, but she sure was -dangerous-. Obito could attest to it with the many bumps and bruises he received.
"Hey? You there?" He blinked when she waved a hand in front of his eyes.
Kakashi looked away, trying to ignore the heat rising to his cheeks.
"Don't worry. I'd made a promise to Obito to show him the future." And to take care of you, he didn't vocally add.
Rin smiled at that. However, she lost that smile when his hand came up again to the eye.
This time, when she pulled it away, she fixed him with a half-lidded stare.
"Why do you keep rubbing that eye?" She asked exasperatedly. "Does it irritate you somewhere? I don't think I missed connecting a tendon..."
Her own hand went to go over the side of his face and chakra probed here and there around Kakashi's eye socket.
"No... It's just that..." The young ANBU captain blinked and shook his head slowly.
"I'm getting dizzy. And when I cover my eye, it feels better."
Rin's brows furrowed.
"You moron!" She admonished. "That's chakra drain! You do know the Sharingan requires chakra to use?-!"
Kakashi blinked. He'd never even considered that oversight. Mostly he never noticed or thought about it, since he'd usually keep the eye closed, since seeing odd little details and chakra half-there was kind of... disorienting.
"So how do I turn it off?" He asked worriedly.
She glared at him for a bit longer, then her hand went over to rest on his forehead. He was wondering what she was up to up until she grabbed his forehead protector and fiercely yanked it down over his transplanted eye.
"Hnn!-?" He nearly panicked at her rushed movement and squirmed a little.
It was Rin's desired reaction. At his confused look, she merely stuck out her tongue cheekily.
"Grow up, Hatake!"
Kakashi really was glad he had a mask that covered the rising blush from his cheeks.
End... 1 of 4.
Author's Notes:
I personally dislike writing flashbacks in the middle of a story section... They seem so... forced.
That's the reason that I present a full situation here, and then I can draw on it a little vaguely in the main story. I think it would have a stronger feeling, to keep both the main story on a single rhythm, but provide a more detailed back-story here.