What Could Have Been
"Obito . . ." The name left Kakashi's lips before he could stop himself. This man was meant to be dead. Had been his reason for staying alive, continuing his will. And then he had been his enemy, an object of loathing. Because he had been trying to destroy everything , Obito, and later Kakashi Himself had stood for. And Kakashi was pissed. The war was over now, so there was that. But still . . .
Obito, for all the Sharingan's supposed brilliance, never saw the punch coming.
"I guess I deserved that." Obito rubbed his jaw.
"Damn straight." Kakashi growled. "Do you have any idea what you put myself, Rin, Minato-sensei, Naruto, fuck it, the entire world through?" He punctuated each name with another punch, which Obito was a little more adept at blocking this time round. "People died because of you. She died thinking you were dead. Minato-Sensei –" Kakashi choked up. "I should kill you right now."
"It would be fitting."
"But I won't, and not because I'm kind." Kakashi grabbed Obito's face and stared him straight in the eye. "You're going to live. And you're going to live with the guilt. You are going to wake up every day and know about all the lives destroyed by you. And it will eat you up inside. You will hate yourself. You will want to die. And you will think about the way things could have been. You will beg for mercy. Beg to be killed. And I will laugh. Because you are feeling all the pain you put me through. And the worst part of all? It will be your mind which destroys you. Not the prison, and not me."
I drew on Eldest by Christopher Paolini and Orange is the New Black for this one. I know Kakashi is OOC but, I couldn't resist. Thanks for reading and as always, if you have any prompts, leave them in a review! Cheers!