Chapter 36
Hey guys, I finally got off my ass and decided to write this chapter. I want to ask your opinions on something. This story has become quite epic compared to what I originally wanted but it still only has 'chapter 35' etc as the chapter title. So I'm going to change that, I'm either going to be doing play on words to fit the chapter, a phrase that I like OR I'm going to have a song title that best fits the chapters theme. You can help me decide. And a quick note, my use of the word 'Vizard' refers to it as a 'masked warrior'. You'll see what I mean as you read.
EDIT: Sorry if the last version of this chapter was little off. You told me with your reviews and if you're not happy with it then neither am I so I went and changed it.
Anyway, on with the chapter
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Kakashi faced the orange masked Akatsuki member, now called Tobi, with menace in his eye.
'This is a member of the Akatsuki, no matter how immature they are, they are still powerful' thought Kakashi while he sized up his opponent
"Tobi will rip your mask from your dead body, Tobi hates masks. Remind him of bad times"
"Too bad, masks are what make me" said Kakashi "Kuchiyose No Jutsu!"
Kakashi summoned his Hachi Ninken to the battle with a puff of smoke and a howl of appreciation at being let out.
"Tobi hates doggies, doggies piss on rocks, Tobi hates rocks" said Tobi "TOBI KILL DOGGIES!"
Tobi charged at the dogs with a speed that Kakashi couldn't see.
'Holy shit, I realllly underestimated this guy.' Thought Kakashi as he pulled his forehead protector up revealing the Sharingan.
Tobi had just slashed the throat of Pakkun forcing him back to the summon dimension to recover. The others had been made to retreat in the split second it took Kakashi to lift his forehead protector.
Kakashi charged with his reaction time increased due to the Sharingan at Tobi. He lunged with a punch to the head but it was blocked at the last second by a foot. Kakashi repeated the action but was blocked again by a foot.
"Vizard is fun to play with, but he is nowhere near as strong as Kisame-senpai." Said Tobi "Maybe he can beat me after this fight"
Kakashi took advantage of his distraction to throw a punch at Tobi's head, he succeeded. Or so he thought. Tobi was thrown back onto the ground with an arm in a very wrong position and what looked like a broken neck.
The mask that Kakashi hit was melting slowly into his body. Tobi's arms and legs melted into his body as did the body melt completely. The mess of black, red and orange then started reforming. The mess started to flow upwards and created a humanoid shape, this then solidified into the shape of Tobi.
"What…. Are you?" muttered Kakashi
A voice seemed to answer it but it was caught on the wind before it reached Kakashi's ears.
"Vizard is stupid to annoy Tobi, Tobi was going to paralyse you and let you live, now he will kill you"
Tobi charged with a renewed vigour aiming a head butt straight for Kakashi but Kakashi ducked down to avoid it. Kakashi didn't dodge it. What he did get was a foot planted straight into the crown of his head, concussing him something awful.
Tobi flipped out of the kick position and landed 10 feet away from Kakashi before going back in for another attack. This time Kakashi was on edge even more after that last attack but even that wasn't enough to stop the inhuman Akatsuki member.
Red, Black. That was all Kakashi saw. Only his extreme mental training exercise stopped him from crying out and begging him to stop. The unpredictability of the attacks meant that Kakashi couldn't even defend properly, it was the perfect guard breaker.
"Vizard is sad, why are you sad" said Tobi stopping the onslaught for a moment to question the helpless ninja. Kakashi was in a really bad shape; his arms were broken as were several of his ribs if his basic medical training was anything to go by.
'What is this guy? He had me in a corner ready to kill me, but he stopped and asked me such a useless question'
"What are you talking about?! I am your enemy, why should you care?" almost screamed Kakashi
"I care because a shinobi should be glad to die for their village; it is the greatest honor of all to die in battle for the good of your fellow shinobi. Now why are you sad?"
A flicker of colour sped across the clearing as Tobi asked this question.
Kakashi gave in and decided to answer, hell if he died its not like this guy is going to tell anyone. "I am sad because I have failed a promise I made myself and a friend. I promised I would beat you so he could fight your leader fairly, and I failed. I broke my own rules. And as another friend of mine told me; 'Those who break the rules are trash…."
"But those who desert their friends are lower than trash" said Tobi in an entirely different voice
A small gasp was heard but Kakashi stayed silent.
"Tobi has heard that somewhere before, where…….NAAAARRGGHHHHHH TOBI DOESN'T KNOW, TOBI IS CONFUSED. YOU CONFUSED TOBI, YOU WILL PAY!"
Tobi ran forward and gave Kakashi and uppercut that knocked him up into the air where he hung for a few seconds before plummeting, assisted by the Tobi weight.
Kakashi knew his arms were broken but still attempted to make seals to end this. He made a few seals as he heard the bones grinding and gnawing at each other.
"RAIKIRI!" yelled Kakashi as he ran towards Tobi with the very last of his strength. This was enough.
Tobi was hit by the Raikiri straight in the mask, it slowly started crumbling as Tobi staggered in pain but he held the mask on with his hands.
"That hurt Vizard, you will pay for hurting Tobi" said Tobi as he held the mask on with one hand and attacked Kakashi with the other. "Now I only have one hand to use, I can do what leader said only for emergencies"
The tree's rustles unnaturally but Kakashi was too busy with his pain to notice.
Kakashi stared at this as Tobi placed the hand with his ring on under his mask for a second then withdrew it.
'What the hell?' thought Kakashi with interest and fear.
His question was then answered as Tobi began glowing with bright green chakra. He then started gaining a large bulky appearance because of the chakra as a tail came through near the small of his back. The chakra then held the mask in place so Tobi could use all his limbs again.
"One, two, three. Three tails, this is the Akatsuki that contains the Sanbi." Whispered Kakashi to himself
"You will DIE!" came a feral voice from the mass of chakra in front of him
Tobi flickered and Kakashi was forced back several hundred metres, through several trees and finally stopping when he hit a low cliff formation. A nice, deep, Kakashi shaped hole soon appeared in the cliff. Kakashi was trapped there, not that his position could get any worse. Then he saw Tobi walking towards him, calmly.
"Tobi is taijutsu specialist of Akatsuki, only Kisame-senpai could stand up against Tobi but that was with his sword. Without it, even he cannot stand against me. You were good to just last as long as you did"
"Can I ask you one question then?" breathed out Kakashi
"What would that be? I am obliged by my morals to answer a dying mans please"
"How did you switch around your body parts like that?"
"Hehe, I am very odd. Kakuzu-senpai couldn't sew my body together again so he cut me off from the head and made he from his special black chakra ropes. They can merge together and form any shape."
"So you are basically chakra?" said Kakashi
"Yes, I am 97 percent chakra."
"I know why you are childish though!" yelled another voice from behind Tobi
Tobi turned around, annoyed that someone interrupted their battle. Kakashi looked up, relieved that someone interrupted their battle. They both had a similar expression on their faces, stunned.
A woman had jumped down from the tree. Couldn't have been older than 30, with shoulder length blonde hair and green eyes. A lilac hakama with light grey trousers was what she wore. She had a white band crossing her chest with various packages in it. It was something that Kakashi hadn't seen since he was a teenager.
"Rin……" said Kakashi quietly as he put his head back down in exhaustion.
"Hey Kashi-kun, this is the almighty jounin you became all those years ago? I thought the way you was going you'd be Hokage by the time you were 18" called Rin
Tobi just looked at her then clutched his head as if a realization hit him, then Kakashi realised 'It must be like Naruto's chakra, if you use it for too long it will damage you till death'
"Rin, he has a Biju under complete control BE CAREFUL!" called Kakashi with some of the little strength he had left
"Kashi-kun, he is still just a boy. 'Look underneath the underneath' right?" said Rin
Rin slowly walked up to Tobi and gingerly touched his face. The chakra burnt her until she used Mizu Hira No Jutsu (Water Palm Technique) so it wouldn't affect her as badly. He flinched as she touched his skin but didn't fight back, as if he wanted this. She gingerly held the edges of his mask and pulled it off his face.
Kakashi looked in shock at the face behind the mask. It was hideous; the entire right side was made of black. Black writhing chakra tentacles made up the majority of the body except for one part of it. The left side of Tobi's face. It was a face of a twelve year old, not a day older than the day Kakashi last saw it.
Obito.
"Obito-kun, why did you become like this?" asked Rin slowly
"I wanted to live, to surpass my eternal rival Kakashi, so I decided to live on however I could. Zetsu found me and brought me to Akatsuki, he knew I was an Uchiha and thought that I could be useful. They fixed me up like this then trained me. Then they got Itachi and I was pushed to the side. I wanted recognition, they wouldn't give it to me, no one would. So I was turned to this. Tobi." Explained Obito, the tears pouring freely from his eyes as the green aura dissipated "This mask completely represses my personality, I am Tobi with the mask on. I am Obito when it is off. You took my eye, and the other was crushed. This left me blind until Kakuzu made my body again, the chakra linked to my brain gave me back all my senses except for one. My sense of decency."
"But…. How could you live like this? As tentacles and half a head, this would make some fucked up Doujinshi." Said Kakashi raising a small grin, the previous tension making way for relaxation as he realised his friends were here again.
Obito returned it "So you did develop that taste for porn I gave you?"
At this Kakashi gave a true grin on his face as he slowly peeled from the cliff "You gave me Icha Icha Paradise volume 1, I've read them all up to volume 34, got them signed by the author and had several inspirations sign them too. That and I've got all the specials as well." Said Kakashi choking back a sob
"I'm sorry Kakashi, you will never believe how sorry I am to have hurt you so." Said Obito as the tears continued to pour off this face.
"Obito, knowing your alive is worth more than a thousand begging apologies." Said Kakashi with Rin nodding in the background
"Well, I have to tell you. The Sanbi is with me till death, and I can't live like this Kakashi, Rin." Said Obito
"But Obito, my ex-pupil is a Jinchuuriki, and he is now the Hokage" said Kakashi while Rin and Obito stared at him "You're meant to be an honourable Uchiha, how can you do this"
"When Itachi joined the Akatsuki, he gave away the last piece of honor that the Uchiha clan possessed"
Obito then drew a kunai from his pouch and held it in one of his hands.
"I am so sorry" was all he said as he thrust the kunai towards his head. His last bastion on humanity. To Kakashi, time stopped the second it entered Obito. The blood was held in the air, the look of terror on Obito's face, all etched permanently into his memory with the Sharingan. This was the one time he ever regretted being given the Sharingan as a gift.
The chakra tentacles soon disappeared as the person who made them was no longer alive to sustain them and neither was their host.
Kakashi had gotten out of the cliff and was now standing next to Rin. She slowly wrapped her arms around him as he did the same to her. He laid his head on her shoulder and for the second time in his life, cried his eyes out. The only time he had cried like this was when he found his father after he had committed seppeku.
"Rin, where were you all these years?" ask Kakashi "I thought you abandoned us after the great war."
"I never abandoned you, I just couldn't face seeing all the people who'd look at me in pity as 'the kunoichi on Obito Uchiha's team, poor girl'. I couldn't handle the sneers from the Uchiha, blaming my medical skills and criticising the smallest detail. I just asked for an indefinite training trip and left. I trained all over the world but I always planned on coming back, for you Kashi-Kun"
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With Naruto and HiketsuNaruto had just given Hiketsu a heavy blow to the chest when Hiketsu was enveloped in a green glow that disappeared as quickly as it came.
"So Tobi has fallen to your ninja, they must be somewhat strong to take down the Sanbi" taunted Hiketsu as he launched a Mizu Dangan at Naruto which threw him into a tree.
"You will die Kazama"
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A/N: Alright guys, hope you enjoyed the chapter. Sorry if it seems a little OOC near the end of the fight but it was a bit of sad reminiscing.
R&R but give your opinions as well please :) .