My friend lives in this left eye... at the end of the extreme battle, the two boys become one...
We were back in Konoha after all that commotion, all those battles and ALL those Akatsuki members… especially that Pain guy! Kakashi-sensei, Hinata and I were rushed to the hospital and were given complete care… twenty-four/seven. Granny and Jiraiya-sama are finally back to normal and are drunk with disarray! They have no idea what we just went through! Hinata said she wasn't hurt that much-which she was- and she wanted to apply the sealing medicine on me. I thought it was a cream kind of thing but was I wrong!
"Tsunade-sama, Sakura-chan."
"Naruto give me you're shirt and jacket"
"Okay…" I bet this process is going to involve needles in it.
I looked down at my seal… and fuck it didn't look like a seal! There were only remains of it. It looked like some kid scribbled a few lines on my stomach with a pen!
Granny and Sakura held my arms and legs down.
"Were ready." The two replied.
I wasn't really scared… just… kind'a… Okay fine I'm scared! What the heck is she gonna do to me!? I started breathing quickly.
"Relax" she chuckled. There's nothing funny about getting a needle stuck in your skin! Wait... why am I so freaked out about this? I mean what Pain did to me was way more than just a prick of a needle. It was a million times more. I sat back but kept my eyes open. I guess I still wanted to know what would happen.
Hinata took a syringe and slowly sucked the liquid medicine out of the bottle. The sapphire blue liquid slowly traveled up the tube. The syringe hovered above my stomach in Hinata's hand. She gave the syringe a gentle tap, a drop of liquid plopped down on my stomach and a bright light emitted from the seal. When the bright light faded away a black lined fresh seal was imprinted on my stomach!
"Wow it actually worked!" the fourth Hokage's life could have been saved if this medicine was there earlier…
"Yes it worked!!!" Hinata exclaimed.
"He still needs to recover from battle damage. So who's going to take care of him, other than the nurses?" Tsunade asked.
"Umm I'll stay with Naruto until he gets better." Hinata willingly volunteered.
"Okay then. We'll take turns… you can stay here for tonight and I'll do my part of the job all morning… or whenever Tsunade-sama doesn't order me do things.." Sakura smiled at Granny.
"Well I have to get back to work and someone has to explain what the hell happened while I was apparently under 'shouten jutsu'!!!"
The two hurried back to their normal lives while Hinata watched over me.
"It's been a really long time since I haven't been back to Konoha…"
"Yeah… I'll probably go back to training again. My Taijutsu isn't that good yet"
"Are you kidding me the way you attacked Pain was beyond any battle!"
"Y-you really think so?!"
"Yeah. You've improved the most out of any ninja in this village"
"And you've proved that you are probably the most important to me- I mean everyone!" "I think everyone's' important in their own way…"
"Yeah... Damn it's already two O'clock in the morning!"
"Yes it is and we should get some sleep…"
"Where are you going to sleep?" I asked.
"Uh... I umm uh.. I'll sleep over there on the sofa. It's big enough for me." "I have to get a blanket from somewhere… it's pretty cold" Hinata looked around for a blanket and a while later found a large black blanket in a cupboard. It took her some time to take it out of the cabinet. She seemed to scratch at the blanket with her two paws grabbing it... paw after paw but she managed to carry the massive blanket all the way to the sofa. She let herself plop down on the sofa and turned off the lights. There was still some moon light. The sofa was pretty close to my hospital bed, so I decided to talk to her for a while.
"I'm back where all this started… in the hospital... again."
"Oh yeah! I remember when we all huddled around this same bed. There's one difference though…"
"What's that?"
"You're smiling… we all are."
"Yeah, from crying to smiling"
"Ha-ha…" the moon's light shone through the window beaming on Hinata's amethyst eyes that glistened in the dark. Her long black hair draped down the side of the sofa. I slowly began to doze off to sleep with the beautiful image of Hinata smoothly floating in my thoughts…
(Hinata)
"Well we better get some sleep for tom-" Naruto was already asleep. He looked so cute… his dandelion hair ruffled up, his bright sapphire eyes shut tight. A smile spread across his face. I covered him with his blanket and tucked him in…
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Four O'clock in the morning…
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"Kyuubi no chakra… bad chakra"
My eyes sprung open again! It was only Naruto who had been sleep talking to himself for the past two hours… not to mention that he rolled around in his bed causing it to shake and make a lot of noise...
"Rasen-!" oh my God he actually formed a Rasengan… right now… at four in the morning! I sat up in my... I can't really say bed but sofa should be good enough. What am I supposed to do fight him in his sleep! I searched for a sleeping pill in the near by cabinet and found a mild one. Carefully dodging his attack I slipped the pill into his mouth. Naruto was still in bed but had already thrown a Rasengan at me!
"Yummy"
Is he kidding me! Yummy was all he could say… well he shouldn't even say anything right now, he should be fast asleep! Maybe mild meant useless! I have a very strange feeling that this is going to be a long night…
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Around nine O'clock in the morning...
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(Naruto)
"Boy was that a good nights sleep!" I stretched my arms and yawned while doing so. I wonder where Hinata was… she certainly wasn't on the sofa…
"Hinata?"
She suddenly popped up from under my bed.
"Uh… w-well… my blanket fell!" she stammered.
"O-okay?!"
"Well good morning…"
"You too" she replied.
(Hinata)
I heard a light knock on the door and answered "Come in!" I quickly stood up so no one would suspect anythihng... about my shelter from Naruto under his bed...
"Good Morning guys! Oh Hinata, I just came to tell you that I'll be really busy today with Tsunade-sama... paper work and all... so I hope you don't mind if you could take care of Naruto today" Sakura seemed out of breath.
"Oh not at all"
"That's great. See you whenever I have time to!" she slammed the door. I could hear her feet stomping so loud it must have at least been one hundred decibels!
"I should get the nurse to make our breakfast then…" "You have to eat: an apple and lots of vegetables, it's good for your health"
"Is ramen acceptable"
"Uh…"
"Please!"
"Okay, I guess it is healthy… and It does taste good." "I'll get ramen for both of us and I'll just tell the nurse to bring in some fruits and vegetables… "
I brushed my teeth in the bathroom and stared at myself in the mirror. I looked so tired and proof were the blackish bags under my eyes! Naruto wouldn't let me sleep but it's not really his fault.... I'm just glad he's okay...
"I'll be back in a while!"
"Bye...."
(Hinata)
Walking through the peaceful streets of Konoha I watched life go on; Children playing in the puddles of rain water, screaming and laughing, people running their errands and going about their daily routine. Walking into the store I greeted the old ramen man. "Good morning!"
"I haven't seen you around lately"
"All most all the ninja in Konoha had to go for a very important mission... you know what happened right, well you were right there"
"Yeah. How's Naruto?"
"Oh he's fine but he'll be in the hospital for a few days"
"Hope he gets better. So ramen, am I right? Well if that's it then it's on the house for you hard working ninja!"
"Thankyou so much, that's very kind of you!" I smiled.
"Anytime!"
I ordered three blows of ramen; I knew Naruto couldn't live without two bowls. I left the ramen shop and headed for the hospital.
A sudden thought tore away my ease. What about the piece of paper on which I wrote down what Tsunade and Jiraiya-sama were mumbling the other day? I rushed to my house without greeting anyone, grabbed the paper from my small ninja pack and ran to call the others. In this case 'others' were Shikamaru, Kakashi-sensei, Jiraiya and Tsunade. They had to know. I took time before I could inform everyone. My plan was to get everyone to meet up at the hospital room where Naruto was currently in and discuss this important matter. They would arrive after breakfast.
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"Sorry I took so long, I almost forgot about something and I had to make arrangments for it"
"For what?"
"You know when we were on our way home yesterday and Tsunade and Jiraiya-sama were saying weird stuff while still unconscious?"
"Yeah, you wroe all that down"
"Right and I figured out what they were trying to tell us."
"Cool! so we might find out about a lot of useful things"
"I already have. I told Shikamru, Kakashi-sensie, Tsunade-sama, and Jiraiya sama to come over here to disscus this with me... thats why I took so long"
"Okay, in oder to tell everone"
"Yeah, now we should really eat"
"Ramen! It's been a really long time since I've even seen ramen!"
"Here you go. Can you manage on your own?" I handed him his bowl of steaming hot ramen
"Yeah I think so"
"I met the old man at the ramen shop, he says he hopes you get better and he gave me ramen on the house!"
"Wow that's really nice of him, I should meet him sometime when I'm able to walk around"
We ate our not so usual breakfast and Naruto willingly ate his fruits and vegetables!
It was already time for them to come, so I cleaned up the place a little and waited.
I waited inside the hospital next to Naruto's bed. Shikamaru, Kakashi, Jiraiya and Tsunade had to meet me here. I analyzed what Tsunade-sama and Jiraiya-sama were mumbling on our way back to Konoha. The door swung open and they all came rushing in. Shikamaru had apparently done some research of his own; he was holding a book in his hand. The book was overloaded with papers. It looked like it carried some important information.
"Hey guys come here!" I impatiently said.
"Here's what I wrote with some alterations from what Tsunade and Jiraiya-sama were saying that day…" I started off without letting anyone sit down. We all huddled around Naruto's bed in a circle. "The Uchiha clan and Senju clan founded Konoha. Izuna's eyes were given to me. I now had eternal Mangekyou. I was able to control the Kyuubi. I attacked Hashirama Senju with the Kyuubi but I lost the battle and was exiled."
"So who's 'I'…?" Kakashi-sensei asked.
"I'll tell you in a minute but I think that this person 'I' had to come back in Obito's form to prepare for the control over the Kyuubi again. Oh and who's Obito? Does anyone know?"
"Obito Uchiha is my best friend. I thought he died because I saw him die when I was about thirteen… but it turns out he's still alive and he joined the Akatsuki."
"How could he come back to life?" Hinata asked almost trembling.
"I don't know that."
"Okay back to what I've understood about this… So I had to fake my death as Obito to control the Kyuubi again to destroy Konoha. The Kyuubi attacked again when the fourth Hokage was ruling. I am still Madara." "Madara was exiled and was probably never seen again, people must have thought he had died. I think Madara had to come back to destroy Konoha so he took the form of Obito somehow. He only used Obito to make preparations for the Kyuubi's invasion or to become stronger."
"I have proof…" Shikamaru flipped through the pages of his book and came across a page he had marked while he was researching. "In this picture of Madara his hair is covering his eye… and in this picture of Obito, he doesn't have an eye. Both eyes that are not visible or not even there are on the same side of their faces. Madara covered his right eye and Obito lost his right eye. Obito gave his eye to Kakashi which means… Kakashi-sensei has Madara Uchiha's left eye! Oh and I also found out... that if you said Madara Uchiha lived seventy years ago but lost his eye sight because of Mangekyou... he regained it by taking his brother's eyes which gave him immortal Manygekyou... He lived till this day because of his immortal Mangeyou! It allows him to live as long as he has this sharingan... it's eternal and so is he..."
We all stared at Kakashi-sensei like he was going to kill us all…
"Obito can't be Madara!?" Kakashi-sensei interrupted.
(Kakashi)
I became so impetuous that I slipped away from the crowd and ran. I burst the hospital doors open. Pushing the villagers aside. I ran until my feet started to hurt. I didn't know where I was running to. I just ran… like the rain ran to the soft soil of the earth. It had still been raining… Ever since that day I met Obito Uchiha… I'm not even sure if he was Obito. I began to delve into all those memories... those of when we were were friends and those... of just a few days ago... when I found out everything......... I reminded my self of what Hinata and shikamaru said... I didn't want to remember but the thoughts just came to me...
I can't believe I let him go. I let the cause of the demon fox in Naruto escape! I let the cause of my sensei's death escape… I let the cause of Kushina Uzamaki's death… escape. I let Madara Uchiha escape… My journey of eternal running ended when I stumbled upon Obito Uchiha's grave. I was at that state where I would do anything to prove that Obito wasn't Madara. I started digging the grave. I dug deep into the ground. It seemed like I had been digging for ages. A few minutes later my nail hit the hard shell of the coffin. Scraping the muddy soil away from the coffin with my hands enabled me to see the brown coffin. It was old and the brown color was discolored. I took out a kunai from my pocket and stuck it between the lid of the coffin and the coffin itself. I pushed the kunai downward and the lid popped open. My stomach turned with disgust and fear but my hands held onto the cover. I flipped the coffin cover and widened my eyes. The coffin was empty… there was nothing there… It was true… Obito is Madara Uchiha… and I'm a screw up...
I felt my heart beating slowly. I couldn't breath. My body shaking. Everything suddenly turned black. I could only imagine and see people blaming me... for everything.
"It's his fault!" Sakura cried.
"Let's kill him" Minato shouted.
Everyone I knew was there, standing infront of me. They were holding swords and kunais. Ready to stab them into me. Soon they were stabbing me with their sharp pointy weapons... It hurt as much as it hurt to know the truth...
Blood spilled in puddles everywhere. It was my blood! Obito stood infront of me, a heinous grin formed on his dark face... "You killed me, you let me die..." "I am Madara Uchiha"
His words echoed in my mind. What the heck is going on?
Naruto standing right there, his head facing the ground and finally looking up at me... he screamed... "You let the man who caused my parents death get away!" "I hate you!"
"Naruto!" I yelled.
Was I in a genjutsu?.......
"I wont let you live knowing who I really am Kakashi... hehe"
I looked up at him, with tears in my eyes.
"Obito!?"
"Not quite..."
(Hinata)
"Nagato is actually a weak, frail man who uses a machine to walk around. This machine has chakra tranmitters all over it. He controls the rinnegan bodies through the machine. Whe-..." I stopped explaining and took a good look around the vast room.
"What happened?" Shikamaru asked.
"Where's Kakashi-sensie?!"
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"Naruto stay here were going to go look for Kakashi-sensei!"
"I'm coming!"
"Naruto you can't yo-"
I watched him jump out of bed in no time!
"You were saying..."
"O-okay but that doesn't mean you can still really move around a lot" I warned him.
"Alright, let's go"
I almost forgot about Naruto's quick recovery. Shikamaru opted to go look for him around half the village and at his (Kakashi's) house. Jraiya and Tsunade-sama took the other half of the village. Naruto and I were the only ones who ended up looking for Kakashi-sensie in the graveyard.
(Shikamaru)
Where is he? He wasn't at home nor was he around the shops. Come to think of it... when did he dissapear?
(Jiraiya)
This is not like Kakashi. He's more sensible than that... is he? He wouldn't make such a big deal about seeing through Madara Uchiha's eye. I would think it would be disgusting but I'd look on the bright side and say 'Madara Uchiha was a really strong man and I have his eye so ha !'
(Tsunade)
What was that nincampoop Jiraiya thinking about! Stupid Kakashi where the hell is he!!! Where's Shizune! Actually... where is Shizune!?!
(Naruto)
The graveyard was dark and damp. Wet wind was blowing about and white fog made it more intricate to look for Kakashi-sensei...
"N-naruto do you see something over t-there!?" she whispered.
I averted my eyes away from Hinata. She pointed to a dark, shadowy figure.
"Let's check it out"
"O-okay!" Hinata sounded a little frightened.
Step by step we came closer to the blurry figure. The fog began to ebb away, everthing became clear. There was no figure just a hand sticking out from one of the soil covered graves. We hastly walked closer to the hand. I recognized the glove the hand was wearing... it was Kakashi-sensie's! Worrying does not avail anything but in this case...!
"Hinata do you think..."
"Let's dig it up!"
We both balked at the idea of digging up the marshy ground but a sudden realization came to us that we couldn't just leave Kakashi-senei here!!! We dug the ground with our bare hands. Hinata pulled the hand out and was soon pulling Kakashi-sensie's body out!
"Kakashi-sensei?!" I crouched down to the floor and turned his body over. The first thing Hinata did was see if he was still breathing...
"He's alive! He wasn't burried under the ground for a long time, which means... the person who did this to him... may still be lurking around..."
thank God he was.. but he looked pale and he was bleeding from his wrists a little. His head band wasn't covering his sharingan eye...
"You're right. His head band isn't over his sharingan eye... that can only mean he was fighting someone..."
"We need to get him to the hospital now!" Hinata shrieked.
"You go on ahead with Kakashi-sensei I'll be there in a second..."
"Hai! (okay)" Hinata picked Kakashi-sensie's body up and ran to the hospital.
A strange dark figure stood near by. The fog covered his face but I could still see something... orange?
"What do you want!"
"Nothing... I just want deidara-kun back... hehehe"
"Shutup! I don't want jokes for answers"
"That's what I told Hashirama..."
What the hell is he talking about? I already have a powerful aversion to this guy!
"Who are you!?" I was never to timid to assert my self and I don't have a choice right now...
"I can't tell you that..."
Before I could tear him apart... the fog swallowed him up. He dissapeared in a split second...