Bonds
authors note: Dear readers, in this chapter I hope you realize the true symbolic meaning of rain. If you've already figured it out then that's great!
(Kakashi)
The feeling of cold soil still mused around my body. The horrable, negativley nostalgic genjutsu almost gave me a heart attack, it was so real. He threw me into the mire ground, I sank deep into it. I knew it was him... but I couldn't believe he actually did that to me. He pushed me into the black pit of his own grave... Why did he do that? ... he can't be Madara or can he? I started having doubts about who Obito really was... right after he tried to kill me... I was so stubborn. I guess I just had to get some real KILLING truth...
My eyes began to open. The maximum they could open to were small slits which bright light shone through...
"Kakashi-sensei! Are you okay!"
"Uh... W-where am I?" It took me a while before I could recognize the two people beside me. Worried was written all over their faces which seemed blurred at the moment but I knew who they were.
"You're in the hospital..." Naruto grimly replied.
"... Not again" my my how many times have I been to the hospital again oh let me count... wait I can't because I've been here so many times...
"Kakashi-senei... What happened back there?"
"You know that guy Obito, whom Hinata was talking about earlier?"
"Yeah... Hinata said something about him... he's apparently Madara Uchiha."
"I don't know... I just couldn't seem to accept that he's... Madara but what actually made me think he is Madara... was that he tried to kill me..." I shivered every time I said the word Madara.
(Naruto)
"We found you in the graveyard... actually your hand."
Sadness filled the room as I looked up at him... Bruises covered his body, blood stained it. His skin looked livid. Drops of rain still dotted his black clothes. His eyes looked tired and almost frightened. His face was blanch. The bruises and cuts attested that he was really hurt badly but even though you could only see his eyes, the expression on his face told it all.
"What were you doing there Kakashi-senei?" Hinata politely asked.
"Well uh" Kakashi-sensei hesitated as he scratched the back of his head. "When Hinata said that Obito was Madara Uchiha... I couldn't believe that the person I spent most of my good times with is really Madara... he was such a good friend of mine. I ran as far and as fast as I could; an impulsive move. I ended up at Obito's grave. It was like my body forced itself to go there. I was jumping to conclusions then to prove to myself that he was not who he appeared to be and dug up the grave. Soon enough I started seeing things... a crowd of angry people. They were those people who I once knew or who I really had a great bond with... They held weapons and it didn't take long before those weapons sank into my body. You were there Naruto, saying that you hated me... They all claimed that they hated me..." I didn't want to make Naruto feel like he was the only one who was actually critisizing me and he wasn't... I didn't want to single him out... that's why I added 'they all claimed'...
"Why would I hate you it's not like you've ever done something to hurt me?" his eyes sparkled a little...
(Kakashi)
"I don't know why... almost everyone was there critisizing me, wanting to see the end of me" I lied through my teeth with a mountain of guilt poking my stomach...
I had hurt him once... I fell into the trap of friendship Obito had created for me when we recently met... believing that he was really my friend, I let him go... I let the cause of Naruto's parent's death... run away. The image of the Kyuubi attacking Konoha flashed before my eyes... My sensei standing there defending the entire village and risking his own life...
There are somethings that you are not meant to know... if you do know, then you can or you can't do somthing about it... I can do something about Obito... but it's my fault that Naruto cannot bring back his parents from the dead. It seems like when everything else is gone, revenge is the only answer in this situation. Naruto is only left with revenge... so am I. I may not be able to attone to the many conundrums and disasters Madara had left behind or created but I can wipe out the pioneer of those things...
(Naruto)
"There was blood everywhere and it turned out to be my blood. The genjutsu had stopped and Obito stood before me. 'Obito?' I said.. ... 'not quite' he replied. Which I'm guessing means... he's not... all Obito..." Kakashi-sensei explained. He finally but partially admitted it.
"Kakashi-sensei... When Sasuke left the village and became what he is now... I couldn't believe it either. I didn't run away, I took the responsibility to go after him and try to bring him back to Konoha... because I believed" I spoke as I leaned against the wall diagonal to Kakashi-sensei's bed. Hinata focused all her attension toward me as if watching a movie with a whole lot of suspence.
"We all believe, we all say what we want the world to believe but you have to stick to your words and actually do something about it, like you Naruto. I think you just taught me a very valuable lesson..."
"Haha" Naruto cheerfully chuckled, trying to move us away from the misery and depression I leaked into the room.
(Kakashi)
Naruto just gets better and better... but I just get more and more puzzled. Confusion racing through my mind, not letting me think clearly. I felt like having a paroxysm! So much rage, dissarray, the fear of more impending truth thrusting itself into my life!!! Instead of a violet outburst I surprisingly managed to keep my emotions in control and not let them get the best of me... I've never really been this motivated, angered or confused in my life. I was always listless, not so much alive and aware to my surroundings until Naruto came along and changed everything. Why does it feel like I've just come out of that phase in my life. Maybe all this action and compile of other things happening -including my reactions and feelings- have made me feel more alive than ever. I have awakened... Naruto brought me to life.
(Shikamaru)
They finally found Kakashi sensei. I came over to see him while he was unconsious a few hours ago and he didn't look that great... I returned to the library after visiting Kakashi-senei.
Reading profusley through all the books at the library I could get my hands on was what I had been doing for some time now. A strange jutsu by the name of 'Time travel jutsu' was marked under a chapter called sharingan. I flipped through the book again to look for something related to that jutsu. I stopped flipping and noticed something strange. There seems to be no page here... one page is definately missing. I can see the remaning paper after whoever ripped the page off... someone's hiding something... I just don't know who and why... Could it be him? He has been around for a very long time according to Kakashi-sensei... We need to continue this mission before anything bad happens. We need to stop what Madara might be plotting against Konoha. He may have been plotting this for years, decades, centuries...
Okay let's start from the begining... Konoha was founded by the Uchiha and Senju clan. Madara hated how the Senju clan mistreated the Uchihas. The Kyuubi attacked Konoha because it was being controlled by Madara Uchiha. How? Madara once lost his eye sight because of using his Mangekyou (it's side affect is you lose your eye sight as you use the Mangekyou). SO he took his brothers eyes which gave him eternal Mangekyou. Madara was exiled and no one ever saw or heard of him again. I know that Obito died when he was thirteen and his only pupose to live was probably to prepeair for the Kyuubi's invation, which took place three years later. He is now still alive and proof is the one eye he has lost that is now Kakashi's eye. How is he still alive? There must be something about his long life or even reincarnation related to his sharingan, mostly his Mangekyou... Think damn it think! I can't do this forever! ... Wait! That's it! Forever, eternity, eternal, immortal... Yes! Madara Uchiha's Eternal or Immortal Mangekyou is the key to how he is still alive! The Mangekyou must have some sort of power! If the Mangekyou can never die then neither can it's user! So is there a way to ever destroy him... fight fire with fire?... I have someone in mind and I think we need this someone's help on this but how on earth is he going to agree or even talk to us!!!
Itachi is with Madara and their both not dead. So I guess they can both kill eachother. It's like if another country say America has a bomb and so does Japan. Both have bombs and they are both capable of killing eachother. Only they meaning the Uchihas are strong enough to kill eachother... fight fire with fire... I guess we have the will of fire! Like Asuma-sensei said...
(Naruto)
"Naruto... I just want you to know... that if he is Madara Uchiha... he's probably the strongest Uchiha in the ninja world."
Turning my head to the window my cerulean eyes found something more hidden in the rain that cascaded from the sky. Streaks of pristine water lined the window, beautifully.
"Eternal rain... It's been raining since the day all this trouble started. The rain still cascading from the gray sky. The shadowy clouds floating above us. These events in our lives seem eternal. We can wash away all those sinister obstacles blocking our way... the water washes away things, it cleans. Running through the monsoon. We can wash all our problems away. Running through our problems. We'll reach to where the problems end just as the rain reaches the ground..." "No matter how powerful he is... we still have to try.... if we try hard enough... if we believe in ourselves... maybe trying can lead to success..." "The reason I'm saying 'we'... is because I'm not going to let you do this yourself you know"
"Naruto... what you said... was so meaningful... it actually gave me the strength to think I can defeat Obito... or Madara... I can't do this alone but together" his eyes glimmered in the bright light of the hospital room but I don't think it was the light that made his eyes shine...
"Yeah... together"
"Together" Hinata added.
...
"Nobody can break strong bonds..."
Sasuke...
authors note to the readers: Part of the story has now come to an end. There will be a part two. Thanks to the people who have been reviewing my story and cheering me up the day I wrote the first chapter and thankyou so much to those who have also just reveiwed my story :) Fanfiction and it's members have brought me so much happiness!!!