Oh my gosh, I'm soo sorry I have not updated sooner. Just been like, super lazy... SORRYY! BUT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS CHAPTER FOR LIKE 6 DAYS, SO I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT! (I'M SORRY IF IT'S NOT VERY WELL WRITTEN...)
Chapter Five: Questions
"W-What happened?" Obito asked nervously. Even Sasuke was curious.
"Kakashi's father was disgraced. He committed suicide." Minato answered flatly.
"Eh?" They all said. Minato sighed.
"Five years ago, he was on a top secret mission, sneaking into the enemy's lands. Though he had to make a choice. Either his mission be a complete success, or his teammates lives."
They all looked at him intently.
"If he followed the rules of Konoha, he couldn't go back on the mission. But he abandoned the mission, and saved his teammate's lives. Although because of his decision, the Fire Country suffered a misfortune. His companions in the village blamed him,"
"He was even disgraced by the teammates he had saved. After that mission, both mentally and physically he became weak. Eventually, he committed suicide. After that indecent, Kakashi never speaks about his father. He also began his habit of always following the rules and regulations." Minato ended.
He turned to look at the thirteen-year-olds, only to find them looking down. Obito was completely speechless, along with Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke. Of course, that didn't last long.
Sasuke and Naruto weren't ones to give pity for too long.
"So what?" Naruto said while stretching his arms. He started to stand up. Sakura looked up at him irritably. "Naruto no baka! Can you be any more insensitive?"
Sasuke started to stand too. "For once, the dobe is right. People have gone through worst," He said blankly. Sakura and Obito gaped.
"See? Even the Teme here agrees with me!" Naruto said happily while swinging an arm over Sasuke's shoulder.
"Don't touch me." Sasuke muttered shaking him off. Sakura sighed. She knew exactly what he were talking about. With the Uchiha Massacre and Naruto's whole childhood.
Though Obito continued to look down silent.
"Besides," Naruto continued. "I think it's pretty damn cool that Kakashi's old man would save his teammates like that! That's definitely something I would do!" He laughed. He yawned, and made his way to the edge of the rock. "Well, thanks for the story Minato-sama. I'm going to get some rest."
Minato nodded. Minato and Obito sat in silent, both thinking the same thing. 'What could possible be worst?'
After a long period of awkward silence, Minato decided to speak up. "Obito,"
Obito looked up in response.
"About Kakashi. Try to understand him. Try not to bear grudges against him." He decided that was enough talk for the night, and ended it there. He started to stand up, making his way toward the edge of the rock as well.
"Get some sleep."
The Next Day
Everybody was packing up all of their equipment, for today they would continue the mission.
"Today's the day we set off team! Let's get going!" Minato said while standing.
"Okay!" They all responded.
"From here on out, we will go our separate ways. Everyone make sure to do their best. It was only chance that the enemy nin from yesterday was scouting alone. Now, it will be team battles. Take care of yourselves."
"One or one hundred ninjas. I could take them all on myself if I wanted to!" Naruto boasted. Sakura sighed. "Shut up, Naruto."
A moment of silence.
"Let's go, Commander," Obito spoke up surprisingly. Everybody looked at him in surprise, as he continued to stare ahead with determination. Though Minato and Naruto smiled in response. Well, except Sasuke of course.
"Let's go!" Minato said afterwords.
Everybody nodded, and quickly went their own ways.
After an hour or so of traveling through thick forests, walking across water, examining through pits in the earth, they made absolutely no progress. They continued walking across water, while two enemy nins were hiding behind near by rocks.
"Ne..Mahiru still hasn't returned from scouting. But he couldn't have been beaten by that group of brats though, right?" One of the ninja said.
The other ninja glanced at them. "I'll go and ask them." He said while making a hand sign. He slowly started to turn invisible.
Kakashi suddenly felt a presence, and gestured everyone to stop.
Soon ten large bamboo sticks suddenly appeared from above them, aimed to stab all of the young ninjas.
"What the he-" Naruto started. He was cut off by two voices.
"Fire style: Fireball Jutsu!" Obito and Sasuke said at the same time. With the two fireballs combined, the bamboo immediatley caught on fire, and landed in the water with a great splash.
Suddenly, one of the ninjas appeared behind Rin, while the other one appeared in front of Kakashi and Obito.
Luckily, they forgot about the three genin who were currently underwater.
After a few minutes of underwater plan discussion, they all quickly jumped up. Obito and Kakashi looked at them surprised.
"MULTI-SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" Naruto yelled as Sasuke and Sakura jumped up. While all the Naruto's were running at one of the enemy ninja, Sasuke quickly pulled out his Fuuma Shuriken.
He aimed it at the ninja behind Rin, who caught it with ease. Kakashi watched while glaring st Sasuke. 'Damn! I knew these genin couldn't take a real enemy! ...Wait. Is he smirking?'
"Ha! Hey brat! You'll have to do a lot better than that to take me down!" The man said triumphantly.
"LIKE THIS?" Naruto screamed quickly transforming out of the shuriken. The ninja looked at him wide eyed. 'W-what?'
Naruto grinned and quickly gestured the other Naruto's to join him. In a flash, Sasuke jumped in to rescue Rin. He picked her up and ran towards Obito and Kakashi in a matter of seconds.
"Focus on the enemy at hand." He said getting into a defensive position. Kakashi and Obito turned to their enemy again. "Right!"
In the back ground, you could hear Naruto's signature move. Followed by a loud scream.
"NAR-U-TO! UZU-MAKI BARRAGE!"
Sakura cracked a smile as her and Rin were blocking back to back from kunai and shuriken.
The ninja with Naruto collapsed while the ninja with Kakashi and Obito smirked.
"Heh. You guys are slightly stronger than I expected," He said as he disappeared and reappeared behind Rin and Sakura.
"But I think I'll look after these two. Let's go," He said while suddenly vanishing in a white puff of smoke. The ninja that Naruto 'fought' slowly got up and smirked at the young ninjas. "See you later, brats."
"Hey! Wait!" Kakashi yelled. But it was too late. Kakashi glared at where they stood.
"Shit!" Sasuke cursed.
Obito, Naruto and Sasuke quickly began to run toward the fading cloud of smoke when a voice stopped them.
"Obito, Naruto, Sasuke! Don't go after them!" Kakashi yelled. They all stopped in their places.
"What? Why not?" Naruto asked angrily.
"The four of us will resume this mission," Kakashi said calmly.
"What about Rin?" Obito asked.
"And Sakura!" Naruto added in. Sasuke glared at Kakashi.
"Leave them for now. The enemy wants to know our purpose, so they won't kill them yet. Besides, Rin is a medical ninja, and from what I understand, Sakura has a very strong will. They should both be treated well,"
"By the way," Kakashi said turning to Naruto. "That was a very careless plan. Your approach was sloppy, and had a lot of holes. A lot could have gone wrong if there were more enemies,"
He turned back to Obito.
"More importantly, the issue is the enemy finding out our purpose. If they find out, they'll go straight to the bridge to defend from an attack. If this happens, then our mission will become too difficult," Said Kakashi with no trace of emotion.
Naruto and Obito snapped.
"What you're saying doesn't include Rin and Sakura's safety!" They yelled at the same time.
"And that plan was pure genius for something we came up with underwater in a matter of seconds. Well, actually we used that plan against... Zabuza already but IT WAS STILL COOL!"
"Whose Zabuza?" Obito asked.
"..N-No one!" Naruto answered quickly. 'Maybe I should start talking less...'
'Stupid idiot.' Sasuke thought smirking slightly.
"Anyways more important than that totally awesome plan... We have to save Rin and Sakura!" Obito said shaking Naruto off.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes, dismissing Naruto's outburst. "As a shinobi, there are times where you have to sacrifice your teammates for the success of the mission. That's a 'law'. If this mission fails, the war will continue, and many more deaths will happen."
Obito's face grew red. "Just for that 'law'... you'd throw away the life of a teammate whose been with you through all your hard times? When we were both injured, she saved our lives with her medical ninjutsu! If she wasn't there, we'd both be dead!"
"That was Rin's job." Kakashi said calmly.
"A-And Sakura-chan! During the Chuunin Exams, she defended both me and Teme against sound ninja when we were unconsciousness!"
"Sound ninjas? Never heard of them. You're probably making it up,"
"I seriously can't stand you right now!" Obito yelled. A second later, Kakashi was thrown several feet away from Obito's punch.
"I'm still your commander, whether you hate me or not. You must follow my orders. No matter what happens, there is only one leader. Even if the team is scattered, you must follow my instructions. Since you don't have any strength Obito, I am the leader." Kakashi said rubbing his cheek.
"I-If that's the case, then why don't you save Rin and Sakura? You obviously have the strength to do so!"
"If-"
"If you release your emotions during the mission, you'll regret it. It's a rule that a shinobi must kill all emotions. That's what you were going to say... right?" Sasuke finally spoke up after the 'intense' exchange between Kakashi and Obito.
"How did you-"
Sasuke smirked.
"Rin..gave you that medical pack right? Because of worry or something..-" Sasuke said slowly.
"That medical pack was to increase the success rate of the mission." Kakashi interrupted coldly. Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"The most important thing to a shinobi is being a tool so they can complete the mission successfully. Emotions are un-"
"Unnecessary things, huh?" Naruto interrupted. "You're pretty stupid to be thinking things like that, Kakashi," Naruto said slightly smiling.
Kakashi's eyes widened.
"It's actually pretty sad," Naruto laughed. "You know, the Teme and I here used to get along like water and fire. But in the end, we both knew we would save each other no matter what happens. Right Teme?"
"No."
"Bastard," Naruto muttered. He went back to his cheery state. "Besides, I've done some pretty crazy things to save my teammates already, so this isn't much of a surprise for me. LIKE THE TIME WHEN-
"Shut up. Nobody wants to listen to your pointless accomplishments." Sasuke interrupted.
"Fine, fine. Bottom line, we're going to save Sakura-chan and Rin-chan whether you like it or not!" Naruto announced pulling on Sasuke's arm, while talking in the opposite direction.
"Fine. Let those talentless genin waste their lives and become a disgrace. Let's go, Obito."
Sasuke just sighed and looked back at Obito. "So. You coming, or do we have to save both of them ourselves?"
Naruto looked back as well.
After a few minutes of thinking, Obito finally answered.
"I'm going to rescue Rin." He said turning around slightly shoving him in the process. Kakashi's eyes narrowed.
"You don't understand anything! What happens to those who don't follow the rules-"
"I thought the White Fang was a great hero." Obito cut in. Kakashi's eyes widened. "Those in the ninja word that break the rules and regulation are called trash that's true... but those who don't care about their teammates are worst then trash!"
'Huh. So that's where Kakashi-sensei got that from. What a copy-cat..' Naruto thought immaturely as he snickered to himself.
"If I'm that kind of trash," Obito continued. "then I's gladly break the rules. If that's not being a true shinobi, then I'll crush that idea."
Obito walked up to Sasuke and Naruto, and grinned. Naruto grinned back, and they all started to walk away from the wide-eyed Kakashi.
'How does he possibly know? He doesn't understand. No one does.' He thought.
Kakashi shook his head, and walked in the opposite direction as well.
"How dramatic." Naruto muttered after the whole scene.
Obito, Naruto, and Sasuke continued walking through the thick forest in silence. Obito decided to break that.
"Soo Naruto," Obito started. "You were saying how you did such crazy things to save your teammates. What were the kinda things you did?"
Naruto grinned. "Well, I saved Sasuke here from a giant snake-person thing," He bragged. It may not be that accurate, but he had to be vague.
Sasuke looked away irritably. "Che."
Obito frowned.
"That doesn't sound so heroic," Obito said, hands on his head.
"Well you had to be there! It was so awesome, I could piratically hear the dramatic music play as I give my speech to Sasuke-teme about never giving up and what not."
Sasuke rolled his eyes. "If I hadn't come in, both you and Sakura would be dead,"
"Yeah, well that's besides the point!"
Obito laughed. "Sounds like you guys have been through a lot,"
"DAMN RIGHT WE HAVE! But I always manage to save my team from the enemy one way or another!"
"Yeah, after you almost get us all killed in the process," Sasuke said under his breath. Naruto face-planted.
"HEY! WATCH YOUR ATTITUDE! YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE FUTURE HOKAGE!"
"Speaking of the Hokage, you bare a strange resemblance to him, Naruto," Obito said looking at his face.
Naruto smiled. "He is my favourite Hokage. After all he stopped the Nine-tailed Fox from completely destroying Konoha! He sacrificed his life and everything and-"
Sasuke grabbed Naruto's neck to shut him up. Obito looked at them confused.
"Uh... Nine-tailed Fox? Minato-sensei dying? That never happened,"
"The dope just heard a stupid rumor at our...old village." Sasuke said letting Naruto go while glaring at him in attempt to shut him up.
"Teme!" Naruto yelled rubbing his neck. "It did happen remember? It happened the year we were born! Sensei's at the Academy told us about it all the time! Boy, for the 'number one rookie' you sure are stupid,"
Sasuke glared at Naruto even harder. The dope was telling Obito way too much! None of that happened yet! He quickly activated his Sharingan, and stared at Naruto. Naruto got a dazed look in his eye, and fell on the ground unconsciousness.
"Stupid idiot." He mumbled.
Unfortunately, Obito saw the whole exchange. Fortunately, Naruto won't be awake to annoy him while he would lie to Obito about what the hell just happened, and make up for what Naruto foolishly revealed. Hopefully Obito was the gullible type.
Obito stopped walking and stared at Sasuke and Naruto, mouth partly opened..
He was thinking about all those times the three genin would turn vauge all of a suddon. Or the times when Naruto would accidentally call Kakashi 'Kakashi-sen-', as if he was going to call him sensei. Not to mention when both Naruto and Sasuke said there were worst things then your father committing suicide out of shame.
They're kids! What could they possibly been through? Given that they're ninjas...but still!
Come to think of it, they never talked about where they were before Konoha. It's time for answers.
"...Just who are you guys?"
AGAIN I'M SORRY THAT I DIDN'T UPDATE SOONER...I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS!
I'm absolutely awful at fight scenes, so I hope this wasn't too hard to follow...): (& I'm sorry if there are any grammar mistakes or anything like that.)
Maybe next time I'll update sooner? :$