Alright people! Massive spoilers if you don't read the manga. And I mean massive as in right up to chapter 661 and further on... If you haven't read up to those and are still In the filler episodes of the anime, I recommend you DO NOT READ THIS until you are! It is only this chapter that contains spoilers after all… but you would miss like half the story if you skipped it, so read at your own risk…

The sixteen year old sighed as she walked through the woods, she was searching for something; although the thing she was looking for was just as much a mystery as how she had gotten lost out there. Her fingers touched and she pulled them away from one another; she refused to let that habit start back up. She heard a thump nearby and she silently made her way over to the cause of the noise. She was curious, but as everyone knew curiosity killed the cat. Her hands just barely brushed the tree bark and the person called out to her.

"Ano, is someone there?" His voice sounded stressed so she walked out from around the tree a bit. She saw a figure on the ground, a mask covering his face. He appeared to be holding his side in pain, she heard his heavy breathing and her lip trembled. She was at a loss as to what to do, she did what felt right. "A-are you alright?" She asked and his head lolled to face her. "Eheh...Not quite..." He said, his voice sounded like he were forcing the way it sounded. She furrowed her brows and took two steps forward. "Would you like s-some help?" She asked and he nodded hesitantly.

"Tobi is a good boy. Tobi won't hurt you." He said way too cheerfully, but it still felt forced. Her brows furrowed a bit, but she still made her way over to him. "Y-your name is Tobi?" She asked and he nodded lightly; she understood that if anyone else would have asked her if she were dumb, because he had just said his name. Hinata smiled a bit, he seemed to want to comfort her instead of scare her. She crouched next to him and he moved his hands a bit and she heard him grimace from under his mask. "What happened?" She asked softly as she tried to pull the fragmented wood from his wound. "Ah...Tobi doesn't really know...Tobi hasn't gotten hurt in...A very long time..." She listened quietly, his voice wavered between tones, but if you weren't used to just listening; you wouldn't have heard it.

She was curious as to why he spoke the way he did, she supposed it was so that people would look over him and make them think that he wasn't a threat. It was smart, Hinata could do something similar, but she wasn't much of a threat either way... She sighed as she used her chakra as a light to see. It was a very nasty wound. Whatever had been broken off inside him wasn't fully there anymore, but if left untreated he would die.

So she began carefully pulling the fragmented wood pieces out of his side the best she could without hurting him more. "I can't h-heal you c-completely, b-because I'm not very s-skilled at medical Jutsu yet, but I will c-come back every day and use s-some of my healing salve...it works really w-well even if I c-can't help all that much..." She said softly and twiddled her fingers. "Tobi thanks you! No one ever helps Tobi...they always treat him badly..." He sighed while rubbing the side of his head and she blushed lightly when he reached over and ruffled her hair. "I s-suppose people a-are just m-mean..." She said and she saw his single eye sign his smile from the single eye hole in his mask, although it was difficult for her to see she knew it was there. Hinata tucked a stand of hair behind her ear and pulled the healing salve from her hip pouch, she always carried one with her in case she got hurt while training. "How old are you, bunny-Chan?" He asked and she blinked and tried not to drop the canister of salve. She blushed and gripped the container.

"Sixteen, Tobi-san." She said and he nodded lightly. "Tobi is twenty four." He said and made an attempt to count it on his fingers but realized there weren't enough there and dropped his hands with an exasperated sigh. Hinata giggled lightly and he chuckled. "Y-you said you h-haven't gotten hurt in a long time... W-what do you mean by t-that?" She asked as she gently moved the cloth away from his injured side. "Tobi means just that... Tobi hasn't felt any pain since he was a little kid not much younger than you..." He said with the tilt of the head and she nodded as she fiddled with the cloth around his wound to try and pull it back the rest of the way.

Tobi had seen her struggling to get the cloth out of the way, so he shrugged halfway out of his cloak and lifted his shirt, she noticed the small fact he would only lift it on one side keeping the other from being exposed as well. She wasn't going to pry on it because it had nothing to do with the injury at hand. He did so in as few movements as possible, so she assumed he was in an ungodly amount of pain. "This should h-have been fatal..." She stammered lightly and her blush that was caused from him exposing himself to her so easily, faded away. She understood well that if you are in pain and someone was offering to help you, you have to make it easy for them to do so; she just wasn't expecting him to be so compliant.

At the moment she had said that, his entire body tensed up, but just as fast it relaxed because the gaping wound in his side sent a fire through his being. "You mean Tobi could die?" He asked and he watched as her brow furrowed. "Don't be s-scared, Tobi-san, I may not be the best m-medic... But Tsunade-sama has thought m-me the basics... I w-won't let you d-die." She said and smiled as a flickering green light coated her hands. The green chakra reacted with the salve she had placed on the wound moments before and the pain started to fade. Now Hinata had seen men shirtless before when helping Tsunade at the hospital... but... This was particular man was a bit distracting to her for reasons even she didn't know.

She blushed, ashamed of her thoughts and wandering eyes, the man could have died for heaven's sake and she was sitting here, easing his pain yet gawking at him like she had never seen a shirtless man in her life. She blushed and shoved her thoughts into the back of her mind. "T-that's all I can do for tonight, Tobi... I will be back tomorrow... b-but before I g-go, would you like some help finding shelter?" She asked and he waved at her with both hands with a nervous chuckle. "No no bunny-Chan! Tobi is going to stay right where he is at, no one will hurt Tobi again. Promise!" Tobi said and she smiled lightly and bowed. "Hinata Hyuuga." She said and he cocked his head to the side. "My name...it's Hinata." She said and he nodded. "Goodbye Hinata-Chan" he said and waved at her, still weary of his side in case it decided to hurt again.

That had been the first time she had met him, never in her life had she met a man like that. He intrigued her, which had led to a second, third, fourth, and even a fifth meeting. By the fifth meeting there wasn't a scratch left from where he had been hurt, she had healed him in a professional manner, despite her internal wishes of wanting to be able to meet with him longer. She held her hand out to him and he took it. He stood for the first time in a week and a half. He had not wanted to stand for worry of what she had already healed splitting open once more.

She watched with a soft smile as he twisted energetically and stretched animatedly. "Tobi feels even better than he did before!" He cheered and she giggled, but her soft laughter faded asks she frowned at her feet. Add if he sensed her change in moods, he looked over to her. "So I t-take it you must l-leave now?" She asked sadly and he stiffened. "Tobi can't stay..." He said, but it sounded like he didn't really want to say it. "Tobi had other things he had to do, And he can't stay here. If he does, Bunny-Chan will be in danger too." He said in the same voice she knew he was forcing. "Please don't be like t-that. You can't hide anything from my eyes." She said and he turned to face her, surprise showed in his stance. "You're hurt somewhere else..." She said and he stiffened.

"I'm watching you, even if you're trying to hide it from me." She said and saw the wear that showed in his stance. The exhaustion and defeat that seeped into his stance let her know she had figured him out to an extent. "I-I won't stand for someone I help to s-still be hurt even if I h-help them." She said and she heard his desperate chuckles, they sounded filled with despair, they sounded defeated. "You're just like her." He said and she could hear the pain in his voice. "You're n-not physically hurt... I know this." She whispered and his head jerked up at her.

Her hands were fisted over her chest, her eyes avoiding him, and her was lip trembling. "The worst pain is the one that won't go a-away..." She whispered and he made a move to sit at the base of the tree. "I know t-that you force yourself to talk and act that w-way... Losing someone changes people..." She whispered and he jerked to look up at her once more. "I see you know despair as well..." He said and his voice was different, deeper and harsher.

"You realize I cannot let you go unsupervised now, correct?" He asked and she watched as he pulled one leg up so he could rest his arm on it, while the other rested limply against the leg that was stretched out on the ground. She had smiled. That was how she had handled his threat, as she knew it was just that, a threat. That fifth meeting had been scary, but she got used to how he really was, and it didn't faze her anymore. It hadn't bothered her that much in the beginning, her father spoke to her in the same harsh tone that he used.

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That fifth meeting had led to many others. Nearly twenty five to thirty meetings later, she had truly begun to realize her feelings for this man were changing. She wondered if he felt the same way, although she doubted it nothing its ever a storybook life is it? "Tobi-kun!" She called and he appeared in front of her in a swirl, she had found that to be the most amazing thing she had seen. She smiled at him and he reached to trace his thumb over her cheek, the tips of his fingers falling over the side of her forehead and temple. She blushed, but followed him to the river as she always did.

She was curious as to why he always did that, he always had to caress her face in such a manner, as if he feared she wasn't really there... Sensing that was probably what it was, she had formed a habit of saying, 'I'm here' when he did so. She could see it visibly relieved him. He plopped down by the river and tossed his feet in with a content sigh. He still spoke in the 'Tobi' voice, but she didn't mind. She knew he had his reasons. "Tobi likes you, Bunny-Chan. You make the pain go away." He said and her eyes went wide, she started at him in shock.

Her hand found its way to the place over her heart, a blah dusting her cheeks. "Y-you make my pain g-go away too." She whispered and he ruffled her hair. She knew the way she felt for him, was much stronger than what she had ever felt for Naruto. She understood that, but she want going to confess that she loved a man she had met three months ago, and had yet to see his face. It wasn't until later that he allowed her to see his face, the encounter wasn't quite what either of them had been expecting.

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She sat near their usual meeting place, but he had yet to show up. It was about a month after Pein had destroyed the village and the Kage were due for a meeting to discuss what to do with the Akatsuki soon. She had tried her best to save Naruto and she knew that she no longer loved the blonde like she once had, but she was not going to let him get hurt. She had gotten seriously injured, but her newly acclaimed brother was not going to get killed if she could do anything about it. Naruto had readily accepted her proposal of self acclaimed siblings, so they had been spending time getting to know each other over ramen. She flinched and placed her hand on her side.

Her side hurt still and she knew she shouldn't be out and about, she was still supposed to be in the hospital but she didn't feel like being secluded up in the tiny medical ward with the stench of sterile objects. Her thoughts drifted to Tobi. She hadn't spoken with him in about two Weeks, she was curious as to what he was doing and if he was alright. Her questions were answered when he showed up right in front of her. She squealed and fell into the water in her surprise. "Ohayo, bunny-Chan." He greeted and held out a hand to help her up. His stance changed from the leisure one, so she figured it was important. "Let's find a place further from the village today; I don't think they would like me being this close." He said in his real voice. If he was talking in that voice, then something must be bothering him.

She nodded with a smile a she followed him through the woods to the waterfall that was hidden in the depths of the woods. He sat by it and she watched as he dunked his toes into the water like he always did. It was like some sorry of old habit for him or something. She smiled and followed suit, placing her toes into the cold water. It was nearing October now and everything was getting colder. "Hinata." He said all of a sudden, breaking through the peaceful silence between them. She looked over at him and blinked curiously.

"Yes?" She asked and he faced the water for a moment then turned to look at her. "You know what I do, you know who I work with; and yet you stay by my side and help me when I fall... Why?" He said and she frowned. It was true, she knew he was in Akatsuki, she knew a lot of what he had done, she even knew that he had once trained under the real Madara Uchiha... She wasn't sure why she stayed, she wasn't sure why she wasn't scared of him... She wasn't even sure why she didn't hate him for knowing that Pein was going to attack and hadn't told her… She just didn't understand why she felt no negativity towards him, she only understood why she wanted to stay with him.

"I... I believe... that s-somewhere, deep down... There is something you know y-you can change about yourself to m-make your wrongs right..." She said asks fiddled her fingers. "I believe t-that there is a will to change within e-everyone, there just n-needs to be a little b-bit of a push to get them to s-see it." She said, but didn't lift her eyes from the water. She heard him move, so she looked over at him. He was rubbing his neck and looking at the ground. "Is there anything you would like to know about me?" He asked are she turned to smile at him lightly. "I don't need to know much more about you...Obito..." She said his name carefully, testing how it felt as it rolled off her tongue.

She never said his name, not because of him telling her she couldn't; because he had told her she was the only one who could. "Because... I'm in love with you already." She said softly and he laid back against the ground, not moving just staring at her. She turned to smile at him, it was a nervous smile and her stomach did flips; but she waited for him to say something. "You remind me so much of her... But you aren't her and it makes me wonder... I loved her..." He said and Hinata listened carefully.

"It makes me wonder if I was supposed to wait for someone else... I want to know... Can you still love me? Even like this?" He asked and she blinked as she heard the clasp of his mask come undone. Her heart raced as she moved closer to him. He had paused as he moved the mask to uncover the left side of his face. A light lavender ringed eye stared softly back at her from under a half opened eye, his emotions were unreadable. He was hesitant to move the mask away from the other side of his face, she was curious as to why, but as she reached up to push the mask further away, his ringed eye narrowed at her slightly. She was sitting on her knees beside him. She pulled her hand back and decided a different approach.

She smiled and laid herself out on the ground beside him and she rolled over on her side and carefully pulled the mask back over his face. She could tell he was surprised but all she did was smile at him. "If you think I would leave because of something of appearance, then don't show me." She said and his hand moved back to his mask. He was less hesitant this time. "I want to see if you will stay." He said and removed the mask fully. Her eyes softened as he revealed his scarred face to her. It looked as if it had taken a very long time to try to heal, so she could tell it had been a very bad injury.

He had rolled over into his side to face her, his hand keeping his hair from getting in the dirt. His eyes were mismatched and he sighed as they slid shut and he reached for his mask once more. He made a move to slide it back on but soft fingers gently pushed it away and pressed themselves to his cheek. His eyes were wide as she looked over him with curiosity glazed eyes. "It doesn't make you feel any different?" He asked and she smiled at him. "No... It actually makes you d-defined. M-makes you one of a kind." She said and his lips twitched up a bit, it wasn't quite a smile.

She could tell he didn't smile a lot, he had defined lines signing he frowned more them he should. He rolled towards her and she blushed as he ran his thumbs over her cheeks before he stood. "I'm still here..." She whispered as she leaned up towards him. He helped her to her feet and was a bit surprised when she hugged him. "I'm still here." She said once more and he nodded and wrapped his arms around her shoulders lightly. "I need to go, but I arm unsure of when I will return." He said she nodded as she stepped away from him. "I understand, I have to go as well, father may be looking for me. I should still be in the hospital." She said and he had furrowed his brow at her in a slightly scolding manner before he nodded, and ran his thumb over her cheek once more before he vanished once more.

She hadn't realized then that he was headed off to crash the kage summit, nor did she know that he was declaring war as well... he hadn't told her these things. So, when she had seen him standing there, beside the real Madara; she was betrayed, hurt, and lost. She didn't know what to do… What could she do?

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He stared right at her now, she could see it despite the fact no one else could. She knew he was watching her, observing her as she watched him kill off the people nearest her, but not hitting her; he would never hurt her. Her eyes shook with fear and betrayal; her limbs trembled and betrayed her as she took fearful steps backwards, away from his gaze; away from the people piling up near her. The man beside him looked from him to her with a curious gaze. "So she was the one who had caused you to go astray? She's just a child..." The older man said and Hinata turned to look at Naruto.

He was staring at her with wide eyes, along with her father and Neji. The Juubi had sent out some preliminary spikes, seeing how many it could take out with one sweep. They had fought with the Juubi and they thought they had had it down... But it broke free... And it had begun sending tailed beast bombs all over the place, no one had really realized what it had been trying to do until it had killed the intelligence unit... but not before Shikaku and Inoichi got one last message out to the group. The Juubi released this horrid animalistic laugh and reared back for a pinpoint attack once more.

Then she heard Obito speak once more and her adrenaline went into overdrive. She ran around in front of her best friend/ Self acclaimed sibling, she was going to protect him with her life. She saw how this had affected Obito as his eyes went wide before she spun on her heel and squeezed her eyes shut, her arms outstretched to protect Naruto. She had waited for the hit to come but it never did. She never felt the pain of the hit that had threatened her, she hadn't quite understood why, until Neji fell to his knees behind her. That was when it had clicked.

The tears were suffocating her, her throat wouldn't open and she couldn't breathe because it all hurt too much. "Naruto, I thought you said you wouldn't let any of your friends die..." He said and Hinata managed to look up at him. She then looked at Naruto and he looked about to give in with every word Obito spoke. This was her fault... If she hadn't saved him...there would be no Obito... Neji would still be alive... This was all her fault... "Hinata-Chan." Obito called out and she looked up at him. His eyes held a pleading look she had never seen there before.

"Don't make me have to hurt you... I really don't want to..." He said, his deep voice sounded sincere. "Join me... Hinata... Please." He said, holding his hand out to her. "In another world... You can have everything... We could have everything... You could have everyone back... I can't go without you... don't make me do so..." He said, his voice slightly pleading, but still slightly monotonous all the same. "I saved you… Because I thought there w-was a chance… but now I s-see… I cannot go with you to a world that isn't real!" She sobbed and he looked a bit surprised. "I see..." He mumbled softly his eyes drooping slightly.

Hinata turned to Naruto and had begun trying to get through to him. His eyes were dulled over and he wouldn't respond to her, her just held Neji, tears in his eyes. He looked as if he was going to give up, so she did what made perfect sense. Her hand connected with his cheek and he looked up at her. The tears that flowed over his cheeks mirrored hers. "Don't give in… If you do, then what Neji died for will be nothing. As you already know, we are all willing to die for you. Don't let our deaths be in vain. We need you." She said, her voice was strong, but the trembles in her voice weren't unnoticed. He nodded and she smiled through her pain, through her tears.

A lot was going on around her and she couldn't quite figure out what to do, but Naruto grabbed her hand and it all became clear, she needed to fight to help him. His chakra flowed over her and she watched as he took off, touching everyone he went past, and they touched one another. He was spreading the chakra about, just as Shikamaru's father had explained to do. She felt the confidence of the people start to heighten. Her eyes landed on Lee, who was crying while holding Neji. She clenched her hands over her chest, the pain of losing him was too much, but she was not going to lose anyone else. They all worked together to attack the Juubi, but that was all in vain as Obito sealed the beast within himself.

she helped fight to return him to what he had been before. She understood that he was trying to prove something to Madara now, but she wasn't quite sure what. But even after all that... All the horror, death, and betrayal... that he had forced her to endure, forced her to witness… she still did what her heart said to do when she had seen Kakashi lunge for him. There she lay, her body protecting his Kakashi's hand centimeters from her back. She could feel the electricity spark off onto her back. Minato held Kakashi's wrist.

Kakashi's eyes were wide as he stared at Hinata. "Don't kill him...please..." Hinata said softly pleading tears forming in her eyes. Minato and Kakashi exchanged glances. "Hinata..." Obito began and she looked at her hands. This is what happens when you associate yourself with the wrong people...when you save a stranger... "You killed my cousin...and I will never forgive you for that...but I know you know… there is more you can do to save us." Hinata said and sat back on her feet facing away from him.

"There is..." He said and she turned to look at him. "I will fix this..." He said, his eyes never leaving hers. He held his hands up in an unfamiliar pose. "Rinne- rebirth." He said and a black thing took over half of his body. She fell back on her hands with fear in her eyes. Kakashi grabbed her and pulled her away from him. She saw the creature coat Obito halfway. It spoke on its own and had already begun to take control of his body. His Sharingan eye drooped closed slightly and she bit her lip and reached out to him, her tears falling even faster than before. "O-obito..." She called out, her eyes watering and her lips trembling as he stood to his full height now.

She struggled weakly against Kakashi, trying to get to Obito, to see if he was still ok. "Hinata." Kakashi ground out, but she struggled still. "Something isn't r-right I h-have to talk to him, I have to make sure he is-" she began but he clamped his grip on her tighter. "Miss Hyuuga... That isn't Obito anymore..." Minato said and her hair fell to cover her eyes as she hid her tears from the world. Kakashi patted her back lightly as he set her on the ground so she could stand on her own two feet when she was ready.

She cried as she watched Kakashi and Minato fight with the controlled Obito. Despite everything he had done, her heart still raced when he looked at her. Despite him causing her so much pain, she still loved him. When she finally stopped crying, she felt something was off so she activated her byakugan and turned to see Naruto falling from the sky, at first she couldn't understand why. It didn't click fully within her mind until he was face down in the dirt, just as Sasuke was nearly a hundred yards away, just as Obito was lying on the ground a few feet away, his life fading as well. Chills fell down her spine and her eyes went wide. "N-na-Naruto..." She managed to stammer as she watched all the kyuubi chakra fade from around the others. "O-Obito…" she stammered lightly and her hands fisted in her ground as she stood and stumbled forwards.

"Hinata..." Obito called to her weakly, but it didn't register until he called for her louder, and it wasn't Obito, but Kakashi yelling out to her as she fell to the feet of the man in front of her, Madara Uchiha. She looked up at him and he looked down at her with interested eyes. "You… You took them from me…" she said, her voice broken and he smirked. "Took who from you? Hm? That useless man laying back there that I used to revive myself? The ignorant blonde who wouldn't give up? Your cousin? Who?" he asked and she tossed her head back and screamed at the top of her lungs, the reality of everything hitting her hard.

He crouched in front of her and she looked up at him weakly, her sobs becoming nonexistent as her eyes became hollow. "You stole everything away… They Kyuubi from Minato-san… Naruto-kun… Obito…You took everything from me… I will find a way to stop you." she whispered and he smirked wickedly. "Just as well. If you think you can stop me, then let me at least give you a fighting chance. It would be no fun if I killed you, you will just see that despair is going to consume you and you will have no choice but to join me." He said and a swirling vortex similar to that of Kamui opened. Obito's Sharingan eye went wide as Madara kicked Hinata into the vortex.

"Hinata!" she heard him yell her name as she vanished completely.

So! Yep… This is an Obito Hinata. I must say I feel sorry for Obito… Uh… this story is going to focus more on Hinata and where she is at instead of the war and all that…