A/N: Sorry for taking too long for updating.I had to re-write this chapter since I lost it, I hope you like it, this chapter introduces a new pairing (ObitoXAnko). I would like to wish an advanced Happy New Year, think of it as a new year eve special, ahahaha... Don't forget to R&R!
Games of Fate
I thought...
We were joined,
By the red string of fate...
In truth,
I didn't know that,
The string was white,
It was coloured red,
By blood.
5
Dear old friend…
You opened my eyes,
In the very last minute you closed yours.
It enlightened my pathetic soul…
I embraced reality…
Letting you fade into fantasy...
Will I ever be a better person?
I don't know, but I will live on...
Spreading the legend of a ninja,
Who copied thousand techniques...
You've made it there Kakashi,
Open your last copy of Icha Icha and read on...
Wait for me pal,
We'll go there,
And end our final journey together.
~P.O.V of Uchiha Obito Tobi~
Hey there... silly bastard...
I wish I could take your place Kakashi. But thinking about that, I wouldn't have my name or history being spoken after like yours. I wish I really had died that day, or this wouldn't have happened. If it wasn't for Madara, I wouldn't be standing here... in front of this kunai shaped stone every night, to stare at your name that is newly carved on it. I am standing here, to contemplate in silence for the death of someone that I hold dear, you. Well, the fourth Shinobi war would've happened even without me in it but, it wouldn't be that nasty. If I hadn't anchored the war using the moon eye's plan to create a world of illusion, and if I hadn't recruited most of the tailed beast powers, it wouldn't have killed so many lives.
Besides that… they say catastrophe is a chance in disguise. Good or bad, what I did was ugly in the end did nothing good to me but, at least you could rejoice with the fact that the five nations are finally united and are pretty much working together, forcibly if not willingly. Yes, I know that now Kakashi... Witnessing Rin's death by your hands and my clan's demise... Loss after one loss lead me to the path of hatred, the depth of the hate that I harboured led me to serve for the one man I shouldn't have met. Uchiha Madara... he is the man who saved my life, the man who lived a life so meaninglessly just to carve his name as the most powerful Uchiha that ever lived. Well if I could, I would give him a name.
Hmm... from my judgement, he is the first to introduce the means of attaining eternal Mangekyo sharingan by killing someone close to them and taking the eyes of a sibling in order to create a revolution. Do you know what would I name him? Yeah, you're right. He's the greatest Uchiha fool who ever lived. (Chuckles) and me? I don't have the intelligence to call myself with names, so I let your disciple Naruto take up that part and do you know what he said? Haha... he called me Sensei.
I was shocked, surprised... behind the bars no sinister criminal sheds tears you know. The one who knows the meaning of real pain chooses one out of two ways, which is falling into revenge following the path of fools, or otherwise be kind to the next generation spreading teachings and preach about peace following the path of the wise, letting go of the past and cherishing the present. I chose the first choice out of agony, being swallowed up into anger like an arrogant joker, I ridiculed you. What I could do was to act tough in front of him and laugh at him reflecting on his silly joke. I ridiculed the name he gave me, because it should belong to you Kakashi. Your student called me, the one who killed you his sensei. He wanted me to guide him, to take up your place. But I declined. I cant Kakashi. I never was a teacher, I was always a student. I still have many things to learn, but your student bugged me most of the time I was behind the bars even on my nap time. I lost my sleep mostly due to his torture. The imprisonment wasn't a big deal but your student's loud voice and determination was. I cant help but to think how much he resembles myself when we're young. You taught him well Kakashi. Finally I made up my mind and told him something... I offered to be his subordinate. I want to learn what you had taught him Kakashi, to my surprise I heard him say a very familiar phrase.
"the ones who abandons their comrades are worse than trash.."
My heart sank hearing to that. My own words were repeated to me. If someone had told that phrase to me before when I was Tobi, I would've questioned the person's sincerity I would've taken the option to kill the very person in one strike. You took my words seriously as I did and lived up to it till the end. Nobody can be like you, not even I. I lost you, I lost someone close to me, my best friend, my rival, my team mate.. I caused your death. Sanity came back to me in the cruellest ways possible. I didn't know what did I do to deserve this cruel fate, being an Uchiha and also the traitor who tried to destroy my own homeland and being the most wanted S ranked nin in the bingo book, I was only imprisoned to death.
But I escaped now Kakashi. I escaped the curse that runs through my veins, and I breached the Konoha prison today. The first thing I wanted to do was to come here... I triggered the alarm and most Anbus are now on their way to find me. I'm off to go buddy. See you later; there's something I must do. I very much hope that would be the last thing that is left for me to do. I must save your other student, the other surviving Uchiha out there. Your favourite student escaped a month ago and I am going after him. Naruto came back injured with his team mate Sakura-san, it looks like the other kunoichi who went with them for tracking Sasuke lost her life in a fall. Naruto was not in the condition to pursue his team mate any time soon, if we lag time the hawk would fly off somewhere hard to find.
~end of P.O.V (Uchiha Obito)~
'whoooosssshhhhh…'
"Cobra, have you located the target? Over."
Her eyes stared holes into the back of a dark figure that was retreating from the position of the Konoha memorial stone. She watched him in the shadows as he stood there for hours that she didn't bother to count. Did any of the Anbu made it here? Or is he only visible to her eyes? Why did she always get caught up in the most troublesome things? She cursed her fate for having to confront him of all people. When she was about to reveal her presence her walky-talky buzzed again.
"Cobra do you copy?" the annoyed Anbu asked again.
"…."
'Sheesh' she cursed in her mind. Reluctantly she held the device closer to her lips and whispered softly, she hated having to do this. Tsunade-sama is going to kill her for doing this, not to forget her other team mates. It's too late to brood over something like that, it's useless. She had little time to decide and the decision is made regardless of the outcome.
"Negative. No sign of him. Over." She replied coldly in her professional tone.
'what a decent lie.. better now or never..' the woman in her late twenties inhaled deeply and exhaled her breath.
She concentrated on her chakra once more after being hibernated for hours behind the trees, she hid her chakra from being noticed by the man that she was supposed to capture. The sudden surge of pure chakra energy pulsating through her body totally refreshed her head and cleared her mind. The woman was filled with her usual vicious, venomous yet obnoxious aura. The kunoichi she was is back. She sprang ahead tip-toeing over the tree branches and landed softly in a thud over the grassy clearing land.
'Thud...'
The sound made the retreating S ranked criminal froze a second on his steps. But then after the halt the man stood still not facing her, he stared at the road in the woods ahead.
"It took you so long..." Uchiha Obito commented on her appearance. He didn't have the need to see her since he already knew who she was.
A grumble escaped her flushed lips sounding more like a groan, the woman walked ahead of the Uchiha not bothering to look at him in the eye.
"A day" She said suddenly.
She took off her Konoha Anbu Cobra mask and burned it within the palm of her right hand.
"You gave me only one *bleep* day to decide whether or not to stay or run off with you! What the hell are you thinking?" she yelled while glaring at him over her shoulders.
Her sudden outburst made the man's lips twitch, curling upwards. He smirked at her as he watched her stomp her way through the forest of death. She was the only one who can help him now, both to escape and to relocate the other surviving Uchiha. She was furious, he noted. Despite being a notorious killing machine, she was a mischievous ninja back in the genin days. Talented, certainly she is and that was the reason why Orochimaru stole her. One of a kind she grew into quite a woman, he had to admit that. On one glance anyone could tell she is a well-developed lady, despite being 'skinny' in her young ages. Her sudden outbursts, strong-willed, enthusiastic, almost inhuman vicious cruel tactics of surprising people, the fun ways of her scaring children away is too much similar to the legendary Snake sannin, it is something he was used to. And this is how he got to know her.
"Eh-hem" Obito cleared his throat and continued once he got her attention, "correction. 1) I gave you 24 hours to think. And 2) I requested you to locate Uchiha Sasuke-kun. Do not misunderstand my intentions, I simply do not wish to elope with a woman like you for any other reasons."
Anko stared at the Uchiha who stood before her with a disgusted, disbelieving look on her face, she scoffed and said, "oh puh-leaze.. Uchiha don't you have any idea in what situation you're in? You're at my mercy, if it wasn't because of me, you wouldn't even be out here to visit Kakashi and you'd have been counting the number of bars in your jail…"
The Uchiha chuckled and said with a proud look on his face, "Don't underestimate the Uchiha's powers…"
"Just shut up. Talking about a minute with you makes me tired." Anko rolled her eyes and travelled through the forest with the Uchiha, bickering over and over again.
Obito lifted his brows and said mockingly, "Oh? Then I suggest we could rest up in the forest and leave later Mitarashi?"
Anko stilled for a moment and threw her kunai into the bush that she heard the bustling sound came from. They walked up to see what is the target was a very large, gigantic centipede.
"You sure are jumpy once you're tired, shall I carry you? Perhaps you could rest on my wide, broad, strong, masculine, sexy che-"
Anko whacked the Uchiha on his head before he could finish his suggestion to her.
"Rule number one, be quite. Rule number two, stay low and follow my orders, simple Uchiha?" Anko asked in a murderous tone.
Obito nodded his head carelessly and said with a bored face, "Agreed. Huh... you're a boring chick as always... no sex appeals at all..."
Anko's eye brimmed with anger and agitation that was triggered by the low comment she got from the one person she ever wanted to be with, the only one person who could drive her cool personality into a steaming hot kettle.
"Shut up! And no more comments! Perverted gestures or suggestions! Keep your distance at least 3 meters in radius away from me! And no touching!" Anko yelled to his face.
Obito stared straight at her gazing into her eyes with a bored look he said, "look, the same goes to you, I am an extremely valuable relic.. People want me-".
"Cuz you're a criminal dammit!" she interrupted.
"People craze over my body-" he was interrupted again.
"Cuz you're listed as #1 wanted criminal in the bingo book with a hefty prize!" Anko said.
Obito continued "One look from my eyes people will fall to my feet-".
"Cuz your genjutsu manipulation with sharingan!" Anko said.
"Many would die for me-" he said.
"Cuz you brain wash them!" she said.
The man sighed tired of it he said, "Okay look, the one touching my collar... holding me closer than 3 meters radius border, talking and spitting on my face isn't me. It is clear from my verdict and visible proofs that, I am not a potential harasser. It's you."
A little annoyed by his response she released the collars of his shirt go, she huffed and warned him, "I'm warning you Uchiha… Don't get any closer to me, I'm serious."
Obito walks off adjusting his collar saying something to her incoherently, "don't worry, Uchiha Obito never touches an unwilling woman... It wouldn't happen even if I got crazy. You can dream on for the meantime Mitarashi... I wouldn't mind being in one of your fantasies..."
"What was that?!" Anko yelled as she catches up to him.
"Hn... nothing. By the way Mitarashi, who was your first experience? Was it Kakashi?" he dismissed his previous babbles and went on changing the subject after jumping over the fence.
Anko hopped from one tree branch to another turning fully flushed, she sneered as she said "Shut up."
"Ah. I see..." Obito rubbed his chin and ducked over avoiding a shuriken flying over to his side which was thrown by Anko.
"Don't go creating things on your own! Dumbass!" she yelled only to earn a chuckle from Obito.
The two followed a path through the forest of Death and escaped from the route. Once they reached the borders the Anbu started tracking them. Anko left wrong trails and she set up simple booby traps along the way to confuse the ninjas who were pursuing them. She didn't know how long would Obito will need to track Sasuke and what would happen by then. She hid the proofs of her Anbu identity behind a genjutsu and began the travel across the world to find the other Uchiha.
"I think we should leave Kaori-baachan... its already very dark..." Hinata suggested.
Kaori finished picking the leaves in the clearing. Both of them were there for quite long to get some herbs crouching down to get the leaves were making her knees weak. She's getting old after all; she looked up at Hinata and smiled at the kunoichi.
"Ah... I think we could do that. Well then, (sigh) could you help me carry the basket Hinata-chan?" Kaori asked.
Hinata smiled warmly and said, "I'd be glad to help you Kaori-baachan…"
The woman smiled and stood up from her position. She thanked the polite Hyuuga for helping her so generously. Hinata dismissed saying that it was her pleasure for being able to do so. The two women walked ahead, out of the dense forest to the cottage. The journey was light, calm and relaxing for both of them. Not to mention Hinata tried very hard to not let the old lady notice the presence of someone in the forest, when they were walking back out of the forest she felt someone's eyes boring through her for as long as she was there. She immediately knew she was being followed, the Hyuuga wanted to send Lady Kaori back into the cottage as soon as possible, she didn't sense danger but she wanted to be prepared for it.
Once they reached the cottage, Hinata pretended to search for something and looked at Kaori, "Kaori-baachan, I think I left my pouch behind in the forest… you get into the house I'll be right back."
With that the girl dashed back to leaving no room for the old lady to stop her, Kaori felt worried for the young girl as she watched her fade into the forest. The lady sighed and hoped that she'll be back safe.
Juugo who was out for air came across the old lady, he looked at her worried face and asked her "Kaori-sama, where is Hinata-san?"
Kaori spared him a glance and said with worry latched to her voice, "The child went back into the forest saying that she dropped her pouch…"
"Shit…" Juugo muttered under his breath with a foreboding feeling as he scowled at the forest, he ran passing the entrance of the house leaping onto the tree branches.
The man looked back at the old woman and said, "I'll be back with Hinata-san, Kaori-sama please rest in the cottage…"
She dashed into the forest as her white eyes activated on its own, she scanned through the forest finding the Anbu that was after her. She wanted to know that the ones that were with her are not in trouble because of her, Hinata lifted the blinding branches darting her eyes around at the dark forest.
Nothings seems out of order as she scanned thoroughly, growing even more suspicious she yelled, "Who is there? Come out right now, what do you have with me?"
The Anbu that she sensed was not seen anywhere, no reaction was there, she went back to the place where she and the granny were plucking herbs just a while ago, the woman froze in her steps, she was startled to see a kunai in the middle of the clearing right on the spot where she had sat before. Scowling sceptically at the kunai, she noted that the Anbu was indeed very skilful to be able to escape from her Byakugan. She activated her eyes again to see any kind of traps laid around it, sensing it was negative she reached out to the kunai. Inspecting it closely she took out the small note that was wrapped around the kunai's handle; she opened the letter to read it.
'Be safe… Hinata-sama'
It was all that was written in the note. It made the Hyuuga gasp; the writing in the note was too familiar. She whipped her head around the forest involuntarily activating the pair of white eyes that she had. The woman ran into the forest, desperately searching in the dark for the Anbu. He wasn't there to capture her or kill her, he was there to make sure where she is and her safety. The person who would call her 'Hinata-sama' should be someone from her clan… she knew it.
Tears leaked out of her glistening eyes; does this mean that the clan doesn't want her back anymore? She needed to know the truth. The girl searched desperately yelling out for the Anbu to hear her, "Who are you? Please come out… Please…"
She stood on a tree branch of a very tall tree, her head was in a bow, her veil of indigo blue hair hiding her tear streaking face, as she said softly, "I… need to know something…"
Suddenly lifting her head she looked up and yelled out, "Am I that useless?"
They had stripped her off her title as the clan's heiress, giving the position to her younger sister Hanabi, and she was also disowned by her father through the council's decision, what do they wanted more? Is it true that she was merely a trash to their eyes?
The Hyuuga was walking deep into the forest, her head was hung low; she sniffed and sobbed softly as her tears marred her vision. She didn't know where she was going; she searched for the Anbu for a long time but was unsuccessful of finding him. She was frizzled for over using her eyes and chakra. Her thoughts in her head were all clouded with pain and confusion; she wanted to know what the clan had decided of her fate. She wanted to know did they finalize the decision to discard her completely. Does this means she can't return back to Konoha? Most probably… it would be just that. The clan doesn't want her anymore.
Hinata bit her lip choking her sobs in and swallowed the painful lump in her throat. There was no point in thinking about what the clan wants anymore. Nothing of that really mattered to her now. She owes a debt to Sasuke for saving her life, someone she barely talked to, someone who by chance had sometimes passed the same street, and someone who was in the same class in the Academy with her. Other than that, someone who was listed as the Konoha 12 rookies as same as her. Those were the only things that related her to him. Out of nowhere, he was the man who saved her life when her own kin wanted her to just drop dead. She chuckled sadly, everything about her sucks; it feels pathetic to live like a shit. She felt the bitterness of her own life suffocating her as longer as she kept pondering about it in her mind. Her heart was very sore from being hurt from time to time. She wondered how much longer it will beat faithfully for her to live.
Now the sole purpose of her existence is to bring the last Uchiha back to where he belongs. That is the least that she could do, for her first love-Naruto and also for the debt she had to Sasuke. As the woman cleared up her mind with a new resolve, she wiped the tears off her eyes and headed back to the cottage, the old lady Kaori would dead worried by now. How long has it been since she left the cottage? She didn't have the decency to note the time in the spur of events, she sighed inwardly and looked around noting that she had travelled way too deep into the forest.
As she walked around slowly along the bushy trails of a lone way through the dense forest, she was startled when she heard sounds coming from somewhere nearby. The girl looked around with her byakugan as far as she could. She walked to direction where the sounds were coming from. She saw a small stream off river flowing idly ripping its way through the forest. Happy that she found a source of water the girl leapt off landing near the water, she crouched down to her knees; cupping some cold water in her palms she sipped the mineral water to tend her thirst. She had no idea of how tired she was when she relaxed plopping onto the grass. It felt like forever finding her way back to the cottage, she was positive that she was lost.
"aah… ahh.."
Hinata jolted back up into sitting position when she heard the noise again. The girl stood up walking to the direction of the voice; it sounded like a woman's voice and she thought that maybe someone is hurt and needed help. But this moan was really strange it was continuous as she walked to its direction, for some reason Hinata was feeling nervous. Her palms began to sweat and got clammy as she walked around the boulders of rock that was near the rivers. As she walked further she froze to her feet she didn't move as if she was glued to the ground once she witnessed something that shook the living out of her.
Further away from where she stood was a cave, Hinata clasped her hands close to her lips restraining her gasp once she saw someone there. The man's coal black eyes darted to her, taking in Hinata's whole form in a white traditional kimono as she stood far away from him rigid in shock. A sinister smirk travelled to his face, the end of his thin lips curled up as he stared straight at the appalling Hyuuga, the fear he was seeing in her eyes were amusing him. The man rocked his hips purposefully, penetrating deeper into the woman below him earning another moan from her. Sasuke chuckled darkly as he saw the reaction of the Hyuuga when she heard the lust-filled voice of the woman under him, Sasuke thrusts in her more roughly and watched the Hyuuga flinch to every moan the woman makes.
'Interesting' he thought sadistically not minding what would the Hyuuga think of him.
He kept on racking his hips into the woman he was having the sexual intercourse with but his eyes were purposefully fixated upon the Hyuuga before him, he was pleasured from the fear he could witness in the white marble-like eyes as she flinched like a frightened deer.
Hinata's whole body was sweating terribly, her whole being was trembling in fear, she looked like a deer caught by a hunter when he locked her with his piercing gaze, she was shivering with fear for her dear life. She couldn't believe her own eyes once she witnessed what was happening before her. She didn't know who was the woman with him, she looked a bit older for him and she couldn't escape from his eyes to take a full glance at the woman either. She truly wanted to escape from his glare but her body wasn't moving. Life came back to her when her gaze was torn off from his by Juugo who suddenly appeared out of nowhere yanking her away. She was relieved that orange haired ninja came for her. She didn't say anything neither did he, the journey back to the cottage was silent, awkward and somewhat tiresome for Juugo and foreboding for Hinata.
Once they reached the cottage, Juugo looked back to the Hyuuga and said with a monotonous voice, "Next time, don't wonder off anywhere alone, Hinata-san…"
After a slight pause Juugo said "Good night, sleep. We have to travel early for tomorrow."
He left her alone in her chamber and slid the door close. She could hear the thumping sound of his footsteps on the wooden floor as he walked away from her room. Hinata didn't actually know what she should feel; her mind was totally blank after witnessing something so wrong. She didn't know what to think, all she felt for Sasuke was fear, even before, it was there just slightly mostly she was thankful to him for saving her, but now the fear for him had grown hundred fold. She didn't think he could be this kind of a man, it never occurred to her. She slumped to her futon staring into space as new hot tears found their way down to her cheeks.
She didn't know what to do anymore… Where did she stick herself in? Is there another trouble waiting for her? She could already guess. She should know by now that she cannot trust people to be good all the time.
Disclaimer: Naruto isn't mine... But I wished on a flying comet so that i could buy him one day... ufufufu...
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