What If Ch 3
Hey guys I'm really sorry for taking over half a year to update, blame it on writers block and a lot of things happened in the last couple months (including surgery) I thank all of you guys who favored and are following this story I want to finish this story at some point, and I promise it won't take me nearly this long to update again.
Obito: Would you hurry up already!
Me: I KNOW I KNOW! Now if you would.
Obito: MrPsych77 doesn't own Naruto or its characters, just this fanfiction and his OCs.
Me: Thank you my main character, now enjoy the chapter.
So that you know my name is Ashu." That was the last thing Obito had remembered before everything went black.
Obito opened his eye and observed his surroundings; he was in a forest from the looks of was not anywhere close to the village. "What's going on now was it all just a dream after all?"
"WHAT IS MINATO-SENSEI DOING?" he suddenly heard.
"Who's speaking?" Obito thought.
"You know the yellow flash." He heard again.
"Th-that voice, it…it can't be-" Obito thoughts were interrupted as he saw a hooded figure racing through the woods. And his body suddenly gave chase to the hooded stranger.
"What is this, why am I seeing this?"
Obito then watched as his younger self-conversed with the spiral Zetsu.
"Madara said the Sharingan works best when both eyes are working together!" Said the younger Uchiha, "On the battlefield, it will return to a full pair when I'm with Kakashi. Our combination will be STRONGER! Kakashi and I will protect RIN!" The younger Obito proclaimed knowing that he and Kakashi will always look out for their comrade.
Obito couldn't help but scoff. "That poor deluded fool. He has no clue what's coming."
Then he saw what he expected; Kakashi impaling Rin with his lightning blade.
"NO!" older Obito shouted. "WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME RELIVE THIS AGAIN!" Obito hated this moment with all his heart. It was when he first realized how cruel the world was. Seeing the death of the one, you care for heartbreaking. To watch from an older perspective and still not being able to do anything about it is even worse.
As he shouted, the painful realization was that no one could see him or hear him. He watched as this piece of his past played itself out with awakening the Mangekyo and the slaughter of the enemy shinobi with a combination of wood style and Kamui. In midst of death the unconscious Kakashi remained unharmed.
"Make it stop. Make It Stop! MAKE IT STOP! PLEASE!" Obito shouted, but no one could hear. "Why must I see this?" Obito thought sadly, as he cradled Rin's lifeless body feeling just as broken as the day she died. Obito experienced the true pain of memory the one where no matter how hard you try burying it or calling it a bad dream, reality will never let you escape it.
Obito's eye flew opened, and he woke up in a cold sweat, he didn't wish to think about that ever again. Almost instinctively he reached to his right grabbed a bottle of water and chugged it down quickly. He then took notice of his surroundings. Once again he was in that same bedroom as he was in when he first met this little girl called Sinon calling him "daddy."
"Ugh great, I'm here again just great." He said annoyed to be back in that house.
He gets up and notices he is still in his jonin outfit without the vest. He looks over at the clock which read 7:39 PM. And the sun was beginning to set. Obito just sat there and thought, "So I'm guessing it's still the same day here just later. The Academy should let out at about three so where is that brat? Is she here?"
As If on cue Obito suddenly heard the sound of a window opening and then a few seconds later he heard a little girl scream shortly followed by the noise of a small body and many small objects tumbling onto the ground.
"I guess that answers my question," he said with a sigh as he got up and proceeded to check out the noise. Obito left the bedroom to find Sinon covered with some books, as she appeared to have knocked off the wall while attempting to sneak through a window.
She saw Obito and laughed sheepishly "hehe, I'm sorry I'm late."
"Why do I get the feeling that this is not the first time she said this." Obito thought with a sigh.
"It's late." Obito said bluntly.
"Well, there was this old lady who's cat was stuck in a tree, and I wanted to help her, so the cat had to come out of the tree, but it caught on fire while I was climbing down, so I had to-"
"Really" Obito replied. He had to admit it was strange to hear the "why I was late excuse" after so long.
"I was kinda in detention." She said trying not trying to avoid eye contact.
Obito stared at her blankly.
"Well…I kinda tried to beat up this one kid." She was hoping that bit of information would help in her defense.
"..."
"You remember that kid who was making fun of you?"
"I kinda slugged him in the face at lunchtime."
Obito just stared at her blankly.
"He was making fun of you! He kept laughing saying how stupid it was to stand still and get kicked in the face." She shouted trying to justify it.
"I don't care what he thinks it's meaningless."
"But-"
"I don't care!"
The little girl was about to tear up.
Obito sighed before asking "Did you at least win?"
"Yes"
"Well at least she not too weak?" he thought.
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah," she said smiling a bit. And then her stomach decided to promptly growl.
"Are you hungry?" He asked directly.
"Yeah" She said blushing.
Obito sighed he might as well put up with this for the time being, at least until he found a way to get back to the hideout. Besides who can cry on an empty stomach.
"Where would you like to go?" he asked.
"Can we go to Ichiraku?" She asked slightly excited.
"Ichiraku wasn't that a ramen shop?"
"The ramen shop really?"
"Oh yeah, I love going there."
"Well, what else is there to do?" Obito thought and then he just sighed "Get changed and clean this mess up then we'll go."
"Alright," she said ecstatic and immediately began picking up the books.
Obito just went back in the bedroom and out of curiosity checked the nightstand drawer and, sure enough, there was, in fact, a large stack of money. And underneath low and behold was a note which read:
TONIGHT
*Take you're little girl out for ramen
*Add the money you just picked up to your wallet
*Say thank you.
-Love Ashu
Obito scowled so this annoying old man was stalking him too, Oh great.
"Dad I'm ready can we go?" he suddenly heard.
He pocketed the money and left the room, and was greeted by Sinon, who had changed into a black skirt and a long sleeve dark blue shirt but had left the goggles on.
"You're wearing the goggles?" Obito said with a brow raised
"Yeah, they're the special pair you gave me."
"So they are my old ones."
"Come on let's go" "This is annoying; I got to get out of here."
Obito and Sinon left the house and strolled through the village to the shop.
Sinon was chatting away about her classes and her friends, but Obito wasn't paying much mind to it. Obito was more concerned about surveying the village so he would be able to take the nine tails later on. It looked much older and more developed. He had to admit that time has apparently gone by. Obito still couldn't help but raise a brow when he saw taking notice of them and even smiling and waving at them. "This is strange."
The two eventually made their way to the shop, once it was in seeing distance, he felt a slight breeze beside him where the girl used to be, and he then looked and saw that Sinon was already at the shop.
"Well if anything she has the speed of a ninja" he mused as he observed the owner already cooking for her while she greeted the young female server. Obito sighed as he made his way to the stand.
"Well this shouldn't take too long, how many bowls could she possibly have?"
Fourteen bowls of ramen later Obito swore never to ask a rhetorical question like that ever again. Sinon despite being tiny and young had managed to down 12 bowls in the time it took him to eat two.
Obito was somewhat impressed well actually he amazed to tell the truth. "She can't possibly be older than 9! She is only 4 feet tall. HOW, JUST HOW!"
In the course of one hour, Sinon not only eaten all that but she also managed to have multiple in-depth conversations with the server Ayame, the cook Teuchi, one of the village gatekeepers who was on break, and then tell him about her lesson and what she learned from the jonin sparring fights. Unless she was, a jinchūriki or an Uzumaki, Obito could not imagine where she got her energy.
"Hey, Dad?" Obito heard taking him from his thoughts.
He turned his head to see the little girl looking at him a little concerned.
After a few second Obito finally decided to break the silence.
"What is it?
"Are you feeling alright? You've been acting weird today; I mean you hit your head, the lesson at school, brought up something you said never to mention. Did I make you mad? Are you sick? What's wrong?" Sinon was concerned for father because of his strange behavior.
"Ahh He's probably just getting frustrated; He hasn't had a real mission in a few days." They suddenly heard.
Obito turned to the source of the voice to see someone he (and apparently Sinon from the expression she gave) knew well. He had sky blue eyes, spiky blond hair and a white cloak over his shoulders.
"Him of course," Obito thought bitterly looking at the Fourth Hokage and the Yellow Flash.
"Uncle Minato what are you doing here?" Sinon asked happy to see him.
"Getting some dinner with my son." He said with his usual cheerful expression.
"Your son?" Obito said blankly he didn't see any child when he came up to them.
"Yeah where is Naruto?" the little girl asked.
"Oh yeah I told him I'd race him, and if he beat me here I'd make him Hokage on the spot, then I teleported here." He said with a laugh. "He should be here in about 10 minutes."
"Oh, that's mean." Said the owner as he, his daughter, and Sinon laughed.
"Hey if he wants that position he better surpass me. Although I doubt I'll be the one appointing him if the time comes." The last part he said glancing at Obito.
"That's it I don't want to look at him." Obito thought bitterly.
"I'm heading back, you coming?" He said not wanting to be in Minato's presence any longer.
"What? Now? But Minato just got here." Sinon whined disappointedly.
"You can see him later it's time to go," he said in a dry voice as he paid for the meal (which cost the exact amount of money he found in Ashu's note) and left with Sinon hesitantly following.
"Say hey to Naruto for me please," she said before rushing to catch up with Obito.
"Oh course," Minato said back before looking at Obito as he left. "Something is off about Obito, he may just have had a bad day I heard Guy hugged him again, but I better look into it just in case." He thought before turning to order food for him and his yet-to-arrive son.
The fact that he saw his former sensei wasn't that big of a shock for Obito, after all, he was fully prepared to face and kill him for the sake of his plan the previous night. But at this point, it felt like a different lifetime.
"This is getting annoying, whatever this cheap trick is I will end it. I have a paradise to create." He thought very annoyed as he continued walking down the street.
"Hey wait for me!" he heard
He turned to see Sinon running behind him trying to catch up. "I didn't even get to say hi to Naruto." She said disappointedly.
"It's late," he said resigned to the fact that he was stuck with her for the time being.
"You didn't even say goodbye to Minato. Why?"
"I'm tired."
"But you never forget even when you're running late."
"I don't want to talk about it. Drop it."
Sinon froze a little hurt but nodded with a slight pout. She didn't say anything until they reached the house. As they walked in, she broke the silence.
"I loved it when you kicked Guy's butt, especially after he hugged you."
"Me too, I guess the 'power of youth' wasn't enough," he said with a slight chuckle.
His eye widened when Sinon started laughing. "What the heck did I just make a joke?" He thought. This is strange; it almost felt like it was second nature to him. Where did that come from?
"Go to bed" Obito just wanted this day to be over.
"What! It's only 10" she said like he had said something ridiculous.
"Girl, do you plan on being late again?"
"Probably I'm used to it." She then assumed an 'I'm cute' pose and her pupils seemed to grow larger "Can't I stay up a little longer?"
"No," he said coldly.
"Fine," she said with a pout and thought "Crap that usually works. Why is he so grumpy today?"
Obito was caught off guard when she ran up and hugged him "Please feel better," she said.
"This is really odd, when did I become some babysitter? Why on earth am I going along with this?" Obito scowled, here he was Obito Uchiha the destroyer of the world, and trapped in a small house with a little girl he doesn't know who does not even slightly fear him who he cannot harm. He was prepared for many things to happen on his mission to take the Kyuubi but being a father was not in the handbook.
He needed to find this seal and get back to the hideout; the plan could wait till later. He walked upstairs to his bedroom. He began to undress and sat down on the bed.
"What am I doing? Why the heck am I playing house with this annoying brat?"
He lies down to rest for a second and closes his eye.
"What if huh? Well 'What if' I just go back?" he mused. "This farce will end." Before he can think about it anymore, he is suddenly hit with a feeling of drowsiness and passes out.
Meanwhile, across the street, an individual man sat on the rooftop just drinking tea just chuckled
"I thought you were smarter than that Obito; you think it's gonna be that simple? Hahahaha"
He took a sip of his drink and just grinned.
"You wanna see? Fine, I'll just show you then. Get some rest cause you're in for a surprise."
Well, I hope you guys enjoyed that chapter again really sorry about that. I'll try to have more regular updates.
Obito: You better
Me: I will I will
Sinon: Hurry up I want more screen time.
Me: Sinon how did you even get here?
Obito: She followed me.
Me: Well welcome to the author's note, would you like to address the readers?
Sinon: Sure what do I say?
Me: (Whispers to her)
Sinon: Oh ok. Thank you all for reading. Also please review he wouldn't mind hearing what you think about the story, so don't forget. How was that?
Me: Perfect! But seriously please review if you enjoyed it, and again sorry for the wait.