So a lot of people don't agree with my reasoning for Raven trying to kill Kakashi, I disagree. I've been on the receiving end of a an angry parents wrath after dumping their daughter and while I admit there was no attempt on my life, I also wasn't dealing a bandit with no problem killing to keep their presence a secret. If you don't like that explanation then all I can say is that it was a small plot point so you can get over it. Enjoy.

Kakashi laid back on the pile of pillows behind him, in his hand was his book and he was enjoying his day. The house was empty with Yang and Ruby both at school and Tai teaching, he was still bed ridden to he couldn't do much anyway. After passing out in Yang's room she'd started screaming for help, Tai obviously burst in and found Kakashi laying on the floor covered in blood. Without thinking he picked the boy up and carried him to the clinic in town.

They end ended up calling a helicopter to take him to a hospital in Vale, he had surgery performed and spent several days in recovery. He'd lost an enormous amount of blood and had been told that if he had cauterized his own wound shut he would've died only a few minutes later. Once he was stable and only required further rest he was released to go home, when Yang found out his apartment had been completely destroyed though she demanded they take him in until he was completely recovered and could find a new place.

The girl had been at his side nearly every second she was able to, she even tried to get him to let her feed him. They'd had plenty of time to talk, he hadn't told her about who'd put him in that state, he instead lied and just said a burglar broke into his home and they'd fought. He didn't want to lie to her but felt it was better than telling her the her own mother had done it. While annoying some times he'd admit it was nice having such a beautiful girl doting on him in such a way.

"Hey kid." He heard from the door, Qrow stood leaning against the frame, in his hand was a glass of alcohol with a few cubes of ice.

"You finally dropped by huh?" Kakashi said raising his visible eyebrow.

"I actually visited you while you were still at the hospital but you were asleep." He shrugged as he walked over to the chair next to his bed that Yang always used. "So, is he dead? I know some robber didn't do this and so does Tai so give it to me straight." He said sipping at his drink.

Kakashi sighed and leaned back. "Obito didn't do this, if it was him I'd be dead right now." He said shaking his head.

"Then who was it?" Qrow asked leaning his head on his fist.

"Your bitch sister." He said looking to Qrow with his visible eye, his other was covered by some cloth. He'd demanded the doctors keep the way his eye looked a secret which they were force to do through doctor patient confidentiality.

"Raven? Shit." He growled.

"I gave almost as good as I got so it wasn't completely one sided." Kakashi said.

"Really, well then I doubt she'll be coming back for you, if you managed to hurt someone like Raven then you've probably earned a bit of her respect. Maybe enough to let you hang around Yang." He said grabbing his drink and draining the whole glass. "But that raises a few question I've refrained from asking for a while now. I know you don't have your aura unlocked, that was only confirmed by the doctors at the hospital. You're not in any hunters, civilian, criminal or military database anywhere on Remnant before I found you and brought you to Vale. Just like that other kid, you might as well not exist." Qrow leaned forward with a serious look. "No normal teenager would have any chance what so ever of surviving my sister trying to kill them, even a huntsmen in training at your age wouldn't last long enough to even try to land a blow, but you're claiming that you injured her."

"So either you're lying to me about my sister doing this, or your a lot stronger than someone without aura should be." Qrow leaned away from the teen who was simply holding eye contact. "Now if you were anyone else on Remnant I'd put all my chips on it being the former, but after seeing what 'Obito' is capable of and the fact that you seem to believe you're somewhere close to his level, I'm leaning towards the latter. Then there's that eye of yours." Qrow finally managed to get a reaction out of the boy, he raised his hand to his covered eye. "Yeah, I took a peek while you were sleeping in the hospital, that's the same eye that Obito had when I found you both in Mistral. It's not normal, and not just because of how it looks. Now so far I've kept all of this to myself instead of going to Oz like I usually would, but I'm gonna need some answers kid."

Kakashi nodded silently, grabbing the cloth he pulled it from his eye revealing his sharingan. "One question. That's all I'll promise."

Qrow thought for several seconds. "Who are you really?"

Kakashi reached over to a night stand next to his bed and grabbed something off it, holding it up to the hunter he answered. "I'm a shinobi."

Mistral

Obito jumped from one branch to the next through the seemingly never ending forests of Mistral, he'd been there for over a week at that point and searching but wasn't having a lot of luck. After posting the drawing of who he now knew as 'Qrow Branwen' he attempted to get information on him, unfortunately the man's files and information was marked as highly classified and very well encrypted. What he was able to learn however from a less than reputable source was that Branwen was a rare name, one that was shared with a notorious bandit clan in Mistral. If this Qrow was a strong hunter then chances were that he had some kind of relation to the clan.

Learning this he tried to find out where the clan was, that lead to his current problem. They never remained in one place for very long and did a rather good job at staying under the radar. Being a sensor Obito was good at finding people, one would think that it shouldn't be to hard to find an entire bandit clan, any who thought that didn't take into account that the only real lead he had was that they were usually located 'in the forests of Mistral'. That left him with half a continent to search. It was like trying to find a nearly microscopic needle in a swimming pool sized haystack, and unfortunately he didn't have a magnet.

He was currently headed in the direction of a bandit camp that was pointed out to him by a local village, in the distance he could see several small streams of smoke rising into the air. Picking up his pace he arrived on the outskirts of the camp within a few minutes, it was a small camp with only about a dozen tented. Reaching into the cloak he wore over his clothes he pulled out a mask he'd bought while in a small town near the coast of Mistral. Like his old one it only had one eye hole, this one however was orange with a spiral pattern.

Placing it over his face he used the body flicker to appear in a blur of speed at the center of the camp, those who saw his arrival were startled by the random appearance and quickly began drawing their weapons. "Where is the chief of this group?" He asked loudly and clearly in his Madara voice.

"Who the hell are you?!" One of the bandits demanded walking over, he tried to grab Obito's shoulder but was surprised when his hand went right through him.

Without any hesitation Obito turned to the man and slammed his open palm into his gut, only a few heartbeats later sharp wooden branches exploded out of the mans back covered in blood and organs. Yanking his hand away from the man with a sound of snapping wood he looked to the rest to the camp who were staring with looks of horror. "I'll ask once more, where is your chief?"

"T-that would b-be me." A bald man holding a large ax stated, his face was very pale.

Just by looking at him Obito could tell he didn't have aura, none of the bandits present did. With frustration Obito noted that this likely wasn't the bandit clan he was looking for, they were weak and definitely didn't have what it take to build a reputation like the Branwen clan. What made this even more annoying though was that this was the third time he'd been in this situation. At this point he was simply asking about nearby bandit groups and investigating, when it wasn't who he was looking for he'd wipe them out before moving on.

"Are you familiar with a bandit clan called the Branwen clan?" He asked the man who somehow grew even paler.

"Are we on Branwen territory?! I had no idea!" The man fell to his knees. "Please sir, let Lady Branwen know we meant no insult or challenge. We will pack up and leave immediately!"

And like that Obito felt his mood improve slightly, this was the first person he'd encountered that seemed to know anything about the group he was looking for. "I am not one of her man, but I am looking for her. You wouldn't happen to know where I can find them would you?"

"You looking for... I can't help you." The man said nervously.

"Oh I think you can, now will you answer my questions willingly." Before any even registered his movement he was standing behind the chief with his back against the chief's. "Or will I have to squeeze it out of you?"

Patch

Kakashi stood upside down with his feet against the ceiling, his chakra holding him in place, sweat dripped off of him as he performed squats like this. He wasn't fully recovered yet and wasn't suppose to be doing such exercises, or being out of bed really, but he had been feeling the itch to do some training lately. In the time leading up to his fight with Raven he'd greatly neglected his training, his muscles had weakened, his reflexes had slowed and his chakra control had become a bit sloppy.

Had it been Obito who attacked him he wouldn't have stood a chance, he knew that if he wanted any chance of pulling his friend from the darkness he would need to not only return to the peak of his abilities, he'd need to get far stronger. That was why this was such a good exercise, being upside down made you work against gravity to strengthen the the muscles in your torso as well as you legs, it was like doing squats and crunches at the same time. Holding him to the ceiling for long periods of time was also great chakra control.

Once he had fully recovered he'd begin working on his jutsu as well as his sharingan use. So far the extent of his sharingan use has been simply reading an enemies movements and copying jutsu, but he knew there was far more to it than that. The mangekyou sharingan, he'd only heard about it until he saw Obito using it, until he used it by accident on that night years ago. He knew he was at a severe disadvantage in using the eye against Obito, he wasn't an Uchiha so he lacked the natural stamina they had when using their eyes.

Cutting the flow of chakra to his feet he dropped to the floor below with a small wince, his side still need more time to heal. Walking out of the guest room he entered the bathroom and stripped before stepping in the shower. The hot water washed away his sweat but stung his burns, closing his eyes he thought back to his conversation with his father, Rin, his Sensei and Kushina. He'd had a lot of time to think about it lately.

The logical part of him wanted to explain the whole thing as nothing more than hallucinations brought on by blood loss, but his heart kept telling him otherwise. In his heart he knew they were more than just a delusion, what they said was true.

"Cyclops!" He heard Yang shout and begin banging on the door, which was odd as she shouldn't be home for another fifteen minutes. It was only then that he realized the water hitting him was now cold. "You know you're not suppose to be out of bed!" She shouted banging on the door again.

Shutting off the water he grabbed a towel on a rack next to the tub and wrapped it around his waist before grabbing a rag and tying it around his head to cover his eye. Pulling open the door he was met by a glaring Yang. "I smelt bad." He said half lidded, not really caring that she could see the lower half of his face. She'd already seen what he looked like so as far as he was concerned she was the only one who got to look at his real face.

"Then you should've wait for someone to help you walk to the bathroom, the doctor said you shouldn't be walking yet." Yang said angrily before looking down at his exposed torso, it was nothing she hadn't already seen, he'd gone swimming with her and her family before. Her dad also liked to walk around shirtless so she was use to it, the scars however always caught her attention. He had so many, the large burn on his side only being the most recent.

"Yang, I can walk myself to the bathroom." He smiled at her.

She maintained her glare for a few more seconds before nodding towards the guest room earning another smile before he entered the room closing the door behind him and drying off. He dressed himself in a clean set of boxers, shorts and a t-shirt. After laying back on the bed Yang entered holding a bowl with steam rising from it. "Dinner." She said setting the bowl on the table next to the bed, she sat herself on the edge of the bed.

"Thanks Yang." He told her, before she grabbed his hand, a sad look growing on her face.

"The police said their closing the case, there aren't any leads on who attacked you. I'm sorry Kakashi." She frowned.

"It's fine, I don't really care anymore. I'm in a better place now thanks to them anyway." He replied earning a blush from Yang who reached out and grabbed his hand.

Slowly the pair moved closer together and pressed their lips into one another's, they remained that way for several seconds until Yang pulled away for just a second. "If we're gonna keep doing this, we should at least make it official." She smiled.

"Alright, if you'll be mine, I'll be yours." He told her without reluctance.

"I thought you'd never come around." She said before pressing her lips back into his, the pair simply enjoying their embrace. Then a small click and a giggle caught their attentions. Looking to the door way Ruby stood holding her scroll up while trying to hold in her laughter. "RUBY!" Yang shouted before jumping off the bed to chase the girl who had already taken off down the hallway in a storm of petals.

"I'm sending this to dad and uncle Qrow." He heard her yell back while laughing.

"Delete that or die!"

Kakashi only sighed and grabbed the bowl before he started eating.

Mistral

Obito looked over the map in his hand, it was a map of the continent. A large area on it was circled, that was suppose to be the general area of the Branwen tribe. It was still a very large area to search but if it was true then it had reduced the amount of ground he'd need to search substantially. Standing from the box he'd been sitting on he fold up the map and stowed it away in his cloak.

He gave one last look at the destroyed bandit camp, corpses littered the area. At least the innocent around here would be a little bit safer with this trash out of the way.

Without another thought he disappeared with the body flicker.

I think that's good for this chapter. Also I just thought I'd make something very clear, though I thought it was already as clear as can be. I did not de-age Kakashi or Obito. They came to Remnant on the night of Naruto's birth, chronologically that would make the both of them around 14 years old. They are not grown men who were turned back into teenagers, I know that happens a lot in fanfiction but it did not happen here. Leave me a review and let me know what you all think. LATER.