Somewhere out there, Team 7 is chasing down a particularly stubborn ostrich.
Obito, who's wandering between plains unknown - by him, at least - and engaging in battle with numerous missing nin on the regular, knows which is safer.
The moment he checks in on the group and sees what they're after, he pulls off the fastest kamui he's ever done in his life. He, at least, will be safe from evil Big Bird's wrath.
Maybe he's exaggerating, but if Australia can lose a war to emus, then S-Rank missing nin (or a man who should be one, if you squint) can get demolished by an irritated ostrich with enough kicking power to take his head clean off.
Horrifying.
Unfortunately, since looking after (NOT stalking) Team 7 is off the table, he does have to find another way to occupy his attention.
He considers tracking down Zabuza and Haku to see how they're doing, but he's fairly certain that if Zabuza sees him so soon to their last encounter, he might get turned into an Uchiha shish kebab, so—
Obito takes the next, logical step and sniffs around Konoha until he finds Danzou's place of residence, and promptly spends several hours moving everything a centimeter or two to the right.
He doesn't think he's ever felt so much joy than he had when he watches Danzou stub his toe for the third time in a row. Yamanakas can buzz off for now, because he will not be deterred from the sweet nectar of schadenfreude.
…Though perhaps he should look into therapy at some point in the future. Maybe when he's not hiding from sentient aloe vera with mommy complexes, a corpse with more magical bullshit eyes than the Sharingan, a woman with killer (hah) origami skills, and any others who clearly need to pick up a dictionary to learn the definition of peace.
At this point in time, however, he finds himself dropping two kidnapped children (read: trained killers) off on Tsunade Senju's doorstep before flitting off to cube-land, because his impulse control is absolute shit, and the moment he'd seen that Shin was alive, all common sense was thrown out the window.
At least he'd managed to grab their files before leaving. Plus, Danzou will probably be distracted with everything he'd set up to mess with him. And Tsunade already took care of Tonton and Shizune (and her teammates, who might as well both be children themselves), so who's to say she can't take care of two incredibly traumatized children who are probably (definitely) emotionally stunted?
…
Yeah, he's sure that everything will turn out just fine.
A/N:
I know it's short but I had no idea what else to write before the chuunin exams and I didn't want to do an AU chapter so soon after the last one, so I'm throwing this out and hoping for the best
and if you couldn't tell, the two children are Shin and Sai :)
...anyway
Thanks for reading!
