Disclaimer: I will never own NARUTO!
A/N: Ahh! I haven't updated in ages. And, to bring in what everyone's been dreading, OCs! –dodges tomatoes-
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There was a reason Kakashi had dumped Obito to look after his students for a while, if not all day. There was a reason indeed…
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Obito had found his way back into the village, and was bounding across rooftops instead of having to meander through the thick swarm of people afternoons in big towns were notorious for.
"Man, when I find Kakashi," He grunted, leaping over another alleyway and balancing himself across the shingles, "I'm gonna kill him."
Don't get my hopes up.
If a tree had been nearby, Obito would have probably run himself into it to let the darned thing know its comments were unwelcome and unappreciated and just plain morbid. Obito was still getting used to walking around town, not dead and as a wolf. He'd spent twenty-three and a half months of two years thinking he was crazy. It was a lot to take in the course of two days.
Up until now, since he'd left Kakashi's students, Obito'd had no idea where he was going, but he was something, but what that "something" was was still unclear. All he knew was that it was leading him to the one person he wanted to knock some sense into.
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"Sheesh, why do all apartment buildings look the same?" Obito groaned as he passed yet another set of red brick apartments with just a small row of flowers that could hardly be called "floral appliqué."
"This is, like, the fifth building I've come to." He continued, trotting past the last part and dashing up some more dirt paths until he found (surprise) another row of buildings.
"Hmm…this looks…sorta familiar."
Obito sniffed around. He found his sense of smell very sensitive and quite a useful tool. He was pretty sure most all animals in the dog family had sharp sniffers, so why should he be any exception?
His snuffling led him to an old oak tree with hardly more than a handful of leaves left on it as the cold settled in.
He was home.
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Now as all you smart peoples know, dogs do not have opposable thumbs, unlike we humans, which is why we are the dominant race. But, since at one point in his crazy life, Obito had been human, he knew how doorknobs worked, and only rarely did they shatter into oblivion and blind people in the eye. That morning he'd figured out a way to turn the doorknob with his paws. He now bounded over to the apartment buildings and glanced around before finding the one he knew was Kakashi's. There were a few strands of long black wolf fur on the doormat.
Standing up on his hind legs, Obito dug the claws of his right forepaw as best as he could into the shiny knob, in the groove where the actual knob attached to the handle, and pushed it around with his other forepaw. As it unlocked, he pushed the door open.
As he could tell, Kakashi was home. He was sitting Indian style on the smaller couch in the living room.
"Hiya!" He said enthusiastically.
Obito shot him a dirty look and looked around. There was another person in the room, sitting on the bigger, three seat ouch, also sitting Indian style. A pretty girl probably in her late teens or early twenties with spiky white hair pulled back into an equally spiky ponytail, with jade green eyes. She wore a simple jacket and jeans.
Obito blinked at the newcomer, and stared back at Kakashi.
"Ah, Obito, this is Zen." Kakashi said, waving a hand over at the girl. "Zen, meet Obito."
"Charmed." Zen said cheerfully.
Obito smiled. "Like wise."
He hopped up onto the couch next to Zen. Eyeing her, he narrowed his eyes.
"You look familiar." He said slowly. A small smile flashed across Zen's face.
"I would think so." She said, petting him behind the ears. "Woah, you have really soft fur."
Zen continued petting Obito, marveling over how he got such soft fur. Obito's tail involuntary thumped.
"Hey, Kakashi," Obito said. "You never told me how you know this kid."
Kakashi coughed. "For starter's, Zen isn't a kid, rather, more like twenty-two years old. And another thing…"
He put a hand behind his head, laughing as he guessed that Obito had assumed Zen was female.
"He's my brother!"