Yoko stared at the
thing that was in Kakashi's outstretched hand then looked up at
Kakashi himself. She took them from him, "Why are you giving me
these? Did you steal them from Obito-san?" She slipped the
goggles onto her own head, "Where is he? I'd better go give them
back,"
Kakashi just looked at her and for once she saw
grief in his eyes. Rin, she noticed, was standing behind him looking
extremely upset, "You guys? Say something!"
"Obito-
he said to give those to you. You always liked them," Kakashi
attempted.
"Wh- What? Why?"
Their strange behavior seemed disturbing to Yoko. If they were trying
to worry her to death then it was working, "You guys, where's
Obito-san? What's wrong with you? Why are you acting like somebody-?"
She cut herself off and looked up into his eyes and then her eyes. It
was Minato who had to tell her the whole story. Her best friend was
dead.
She cried a lot after that. Cried
until she couldn't remember what she was crying about. But then she
would remember and cry even more. She didn't speak either unless it
was to ramble about him while she was dreaming. In her waking life
she was depressed and quiet, driving everyone away from her.
One
person didn't leave her, though. Kakashi seemed to have taken an
interest in her (No not THAT kind of interest.... sicko). He had
noticed that she had been less and less involved in school. He knew
Obito wouldn't have wanted that and he told her so.
She
just looked at him.
"Aren't you gonna
say something?"
She shook her
head.
"Well are you going back to
school or what?"
She shook her
head.
"Weren't you listening? Obito
wouldn't have wanted you to quit! Why are you so intent on it?"
She wrote something in the dirt, 'People
stare at me,'
"So? They did before
too,"
'They're mean to me now,'
He
sighed and was quiet for a minute. Then she wrote something else,
'will you train me?'
"Me? Are you
sure? It won't be easy," Kakashi warned her.
'I
don't care,"
So she trained with him all through her
childhood and he was right- it wasn't easy. But nothing had been easy
in her life so it suited her just fine. Eventually she left the leaf
village. Illegally, but no one really seemed to notice except for
Kakashi. He wouldn't go after her or report her though. It wouldn't
do any good.
She didn't even really know
where she was going. She just knew that she didn't want to go back.
So she wouldn't. Besides, she had a good feeling about today. Like
she would meet someone important. Well she did meet someone but the
circumstances seemed rather unlucky to her.
