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Rin
Rin is as happy as she can be – she has her boys and Sensei and they make a great team, even when a team is the last thing they may look like.
If she were to have a dream, then she would dream of them together. Four against the world, fighting for their village, always watching after each other, all of them walking into the golden sunset at the end of the day and knowing there is no person in this whole wide world they would trust more than one another.
Then, they lose Obito to the cave in and a part of her heart shatters like ice, cold seeping through her skin into her every fiber – a cold that eats greedily away at each blanket of fuzzy warmth and comfort and safety she felt around her team.
Truthfully, Rin is scared, even when she tries to be strong – strong for Minato-sensei, strong for Kakashi, whom Rin knows well enough to notice breaking and precariously trying to pull the pieces back together.
Strong for herself too.
When she is kidnapped, she realizes just how much she blames herself. For Obito, for what is to happen now.
She feels the wrongness deep in her bones when Kakashi frees her. It is dark and looming and so incredibly hateful that she feels as if she's drowning in a pool of freezing water, deep into the pits of hell.
There is no time for planning, it is now or never and she takes the first opportunity she gets. They are soldiers and the village is worth more than one life, so Rin doesn't regret sacrificing herself for Konoha.
What she wishes, is that Kakashi may forgive her someday – for being weak, for letting herself be kidnapped not once, but twice and both times with dire consequences.
For forcing him to take her life so selfishly.
For their team losing another member.
With Obito, they've lost their heart. With Rin, they lose their glue.
She only hopes Kakashi and Minato will one day reach that golden sunset, that they will have healed the cracks she and Obito have caused, and will think warmly of them and their team as they walk under that pure, brilliant sunshine.
She thinks of Kakashi and Minato and that with the two of them, her dreams may go on living.