This is one story I will never forget. It was around two years after I graduated the Ninja Academy that the Third Shinobi World War. This story happened three years into the war. All the squads were loaded with missions. The moment a team finished a mission they already had another one waiting. I didn't get too much time to hangout with Obito's team, because when he came back from a mission I was gone on one.
Obito's team was sent out to destroy the Kannabi Bridge, which would ruin the Iwagakure village's plans. When he left I was on my first week off in a few months, so I did get to say goodbye. He said they would be back within three days, and that then he could hangout with me because he would also have free time. I was very excited, I couldn't wait for three days to be over. In those three days I did nothing but sleep, but when I was awake I was bored, I had no idea what to do due to the fact that in the last three years I got almost no free time.
Five days passed and I didn't see him. I chose to believe that maybe the trip took longer than they thought. On the sixth day I went out into the forest to relax, because I couldn't handle waiting for him in the house. I saw Kakashi there.
"Kakashi!" I shouted out to him as ran over to him, he looked over to me, and I saw that his forehead protector was cover his left eye, but his other eye was open wide in shock. "What are you doing here?" I asked him. "Where is Obito? I haven't seen him. Did you guys just come back?"
"Uhhh…" That was all that came out. I sat in front of him and stared until he started talking again. "Fuck. Uhh… Obito died."
"Don't joke around." I muttered out to him, but I could see in the one-fourth of his face which was still showing that he was serious.
"I suck at being sentimental. So I'll just tell you what happened…" Kakashi said and then he told me the story of what happened. He said that Rin was captured and that they saved her. He said that Obito was squashed by falling rocks, that they wanted to save him, but Obito told them not to. All I did was sit there silently. I had no idea what to do.
We sat there silently for hours. I was out of it. I had no idea what was going on. Except that another one that I loved was dead. I wanted to die this time. I had no idea what to do. I didn't cry, or laugh, or shout, or ask, I just sat there, an Kakashi did the same. I could feel him acknowledging me and my pain through the silence. That night neither of us went home, we did nothing but sit and acknowledge each other and the dead.
" So what's wrong with your left eye?" I said as the sun came up. "I still have a Byakugan, I can see that there is a lot of energy consumed on your left eye."
"I'll show you." Kakashi answered as he raised his forehead protector to be straight again. Underneath it was a bloody cut that was half cleaned, but not stitched. When he opened his left eye, there was the Sharingan. "Obito gained his Sharingan eyes the morning before. My eye was cut on the way to save Rin, and when Obito was dying, he chose to give me his left eye, but it hurts to use it."
"How the fuck did you two switch eyes?" That was the first thing that came to my mind.
"I have no idea." He said. "Truth is it's kind of embarrassing."
"How is that embarrassing? It's amazing."
"Well you know," He said, " I have two different eyes."
I stared at him, with my Byakugan eye. Seriously? He said that to me? Seriously.
"Ah! Sorry." He apologized quickly.
"Whatever." I said, it didn't really matter very much. I could see how he was embarrassed. He had only one Sharingan, which wasn't even from his clan, and not only that, it was the eye of his dead friend. Truth is even I was embarrassed of my Byakugan. I have only one, so my efficiency was cut by half, but I could get my Sharingan anytime, although that would be a weird mix up. "You should learn how to use it, it will be helpful in the future."
"Yea, nobody is going to expect a Hatake to have a Sharingan." After than I left
That was the longest conversation I had with Kakashi.
I still couldn't accept that Obito was gone. Especially that he died because he wanted to save a girl other than me. That was when I fell back into my depression. I couldn't deal with Obito being gone, he was more important to me than my parents. I spent most of my extra time outside in the woods where we had the conversation. Kakashi was there most of the time too. We became friends (although we spoke very little), but not as good as with Obito. Sometimes Rin came too and then I got to talk to her. At the start she also had a very hard time accepting the idea that Obito was dead, but unlike me she got over it very fast due to her happy personality.
One day Kakashi came without Rin. I still remember the look he had on his face that day. He was crying. That was the first time I saw him crying. I came over and sat next to him quietly, choosing to quietly acknowledge him and his pain until he told me what happened. He said that the enemies kidnapped and sealed the Sanbi inside of Rin. He told me how he had to kill Rin with his chidori and that she whispered his name as her last words, emphasizing that her last word was the name of her killer. I really didn't know what to do, I was always comforted, but I didn't know how to comfort another.
Haha sorry about the mixup with chapters 4 and 5! This used to be chapter 4 but it was supposed to be 5, so if you already read this chapter then please go to chapter 4 to re-read it!