So the Witcher 3 is fucking awesome, I've had to rip myself away from it just to start this chapter. Anyway lets get to this.
1000 years before canon
A lone masked figure stood a top a large hill looking down upon a massive field of corpses and fire, large black creatures with red eyes and white masks scurried around the mass grave. "Always the same." He whispered as he turned from the carnage, walking away while using a solid black shepherds crook as a walking stick. "It always ends the same way." He spoke again as he walked towards the edge of the forest and into the shadows of the trees.
Raising his hand to his face he removed the white mask that covered his face, across the front were several circles with tomeo painted in black. Obito pulled the ceramic mask from his face revealing a tired and broken looking man. He looked at the mask that resembled the one he wore so long ago, so many decades and centuries that he'd long since stopped keeping track. He stopped and stared up at the night sky, the moon and all it's pieces, it made him angry whenever he looked at it.
He grit his teeth as he looked up towards the giant ball hanging in the sky, his eyes flared as he thought of the one who sent him to this place, then his thoughts returned to the field he'd just left. It was the scene of yet another failure to bring about lasting peace and hope. "How much longer are you gonna make me walk this world you bastard!? I've tried and I've tried and it's gotten me NOWHERE!" He screamed towards the moon in a fit of rage, completely ignoring the trees around him the began to creek as his massive chakra started to fill the air around him. "EVERY KINGDOM I HELP BUILD ONLY FALLS, WAR OR GRIMM IT ALWAYS ENDS THE SAME!" The ground beneath his feet began shaking as he continued to scream up at the moon knowing full well nobody was actually listening. "WHY, WHY GIVE ME A TASK THAT CAN'T BE COMPLETED?! ANSWER ME!" He stood silently staring up at the shattered moon as the chakra heavy air around him dispersed and returned to normal.
Obito fell to his knees. "What must I do?"
700 years before canon
Obito sat quietly in his chair within the small hut he'd built within the wilderness, it was a simple place but he called it home for whatever little that meant to him anymore. It was quiet and far from any people which was all he really wanted, to be alone. Solitude was exactly was he obtained, he hadn't seen another person in decades. It had long since stopped meaning anything to be alone, just a way to keep from thinking about his constant failure to atone for his crimes. So many years he spent helping empires rise, people to advance and push back the grimm. One way or another it always failed and the empire fell back to the dust on which it was built.
He had know idea how long he'd been sitting in his chair, time had also begun to lose meaning. He felt his stomach growl in hunger and opened his eyes. "Nearly evening." He mumble before standing and grabbing his mask and crook before slipping on the mask and walking to the door of his small hut. Obito paused for a moment after exiting the hut when he noticed a young woman sitting beneath the large tree in front of his home, he frowned. "Who are you?" He asked clearly not happy someone had disrupted his solitude with their presence.
The woman opened her eyes and turned her head to him slightly surprised to see him. "My name is Winter, I apologize for bothering you but we didn't know anyone lived in these woods." She told him as she stood and gave a light bow of her head.
"We?" Was all he replied with.
"The people of our village, we live at the base of the mountain near the edge of this forest." She explained earning silence as Obito closed his eyes beneath his mask for several moment, the woman had no way of knowing that he was actually reaching out with his chakra and sensing around. Just as the woman said there was a large gathering of people several miles away.
"Why are you here?" He asked in a cold flat voice devoid of any real emotion.
The girl looked slightly nervous under his gaze even if she could see his eyes. "My sisters and I are on a journey and we had to split up, we decided to all meet back up at this tree sense it can be seen from so far away." She gestured to how high the tree went into the air towering above all the others.
Obito was silent for several seconds before he began walking into the forest. "Do what you will, just stay out of my house." He told the girl without looking back and entering the shadows of the forest.
1 hour later
Obito calmly made his way back through the forest towards his home with a pair of rabbits hanging off his shoulder, he never stopped even as he noticed a second girl now sitting next to the first. She looked slightly younger than the first and had a wide smile as she noticed his approach. Jumping to her feet she ran towards him only stopping a few inches from him.
"Are you the wizard?!" She asked excitedly practically bouncing.
Despite himself Obito couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at the question. "No, I'm no wizard. I'm just an old sage." He told the girl expecting her to deflate from his answer, though he was surprised to see her become even more excited.
"Really?! Thats amazing! That means your super wise and smart right?" Obito was again surprised at her enthusiasm.
Shocking himself slightly he chuckled lightly. "No, I'd wager I'm the most foolish person you'll ever meet." His momentary cheerfulness quickly changed into a bitter after taste as he thought back on all his failures. "I've failed more times than anyone can count."
"But anyone who can admit to their own ignorance is wiser than most." Winter spoke from her spot under the tree.
The second girl nodded. "Yeah, besides, mistakes we've made don't make us fools, they make us better than before." The girl chirped happily leaving Obito speechless.
"Spring, I believe we should leave this nice man in peace, we are his guests for the moment." The girl now known as Spring laughed.
"Sorry for bothering you, we'll try not to bother you." She walked back to her sister leave a still silent Obito thinking.
After nearly a minute of standing still he set his rabbits down on the ground and entered his home where he grabbed a large black pot which he brought back outside. After several minutes of preparations Obito had built a sizable fire and filled the pot in a nearby river. As he brought out his chair and set it near the fire he began the task of skinning the rabbits while the water was heating up. The entire time he was setting everything up the two girls words kept bouncing around in his head. It wasn't until he was half way done with skinning the second rabbit that he notice a third girl had arrived, she was tall and looked nearly the same age as Winter.
"Hi." She waved to him when she noticed his gaze. "Do you need any help with your cooking Mr. Sage?" She asked with a smile walking over to him and pulling several small containers from her bag. "I have a few spices, I usually do the cooking for my sisters and would be glad to help."
Obito just stared at the girl for several seconds. "What kind of journey are you girls going on?" He asked surprising the three who looked at each other.
Winter was the one to answer his question. "We're going to find away to end the plague of grimm."
Hearing this brought a frown to Obito's face. "Then you should all go home, it can't be done." He spoke with a sense of finality.
"Of course it can, if we all work together and fight it-"
"It can't be done, I've spent centuries looking for the last head. But regardless it remains hidden." Obito cut Spring of as he drop the rabbit meat into the now boiling water.
"Whats the last head?" The third girl asked looking confused. "Also what do you mean centuries, people don't live that long."
Obito sighed. "My greatest failure is what the last head is." Obito replied as he stirred the pot. With his free hand he touched his masked face. "I'm far from a normal person, that makes everything all that much more disappointing."
"Is that why you live out here?" The girl asked sitting down a few feet away from him. "Do you think you've failed at something and have given up at getting it right?" Obito stiffened as she hit the nail on the head. "There is no need to do it all alone, even if you are different you still need other people. Failure hurts but not having any friends to share the burden is the most painful thing of all."
Obito dropped the spoon he was stirring with as the girls statement hit him like a tone of bricks. "Kakashi." He muttered under his breath as his vision began to blur. Grabbing his mask he slowly removed it from his face revealing it to the three girls surprising them with how young he looked as well as the tears now streaming down. "Your words... whats your name child?"
The girls looked amongst themselves for a moment. "I'm Summer, are you okay? I didn't mean to upset you."
Obito chuckled at this, though quickly began laughing earnestly causing the girls to become much more confused. "It's fine child, you merely reminded me of something an old friend once said to me so long ago." Obito looked at the three girls. "Would you three like to join me for dinner? I'm making rabbit stew." The three girls were confused at Obito's sudden change in attitude but decided to accept.
Spring ran off into the forest before coming back several minutes later with an arm full of vegetable and Winter pulled several bowls from her bag as Summer began seasoning the stew. The four spent nearly an hour getting everything ready for the meal when from the forest walked a forth girl who looked to be slightly older than the other three. Obito didn't say anything to her and instead filled a bowl with the stew and offered it to her after the three girls all greeted her.
Once the four sat down sat down Obito passed out bowls to each and they all ate happily. "Thank you for the meal." Spring chirped.
"Indeed, but if I may ask, who are you sir?" The newest arrival asked Obito hoping to not sound rude. "Why are you out here?"
Obito smiled lightly. "My name is Obito Uchiha and I've live in these woods for centuries. I probably would've remained like this if I hadn't opened my eyes." Obito looked up at the four girls. "A very long time I fought the beast you four are now hunting, while I can't tell you where it is, I can tell you it can't be killed normally. In order to do away with it you must seal it away so it can never escape, otherwise it will only return to life in several years." He informed the four who were surprised by the information but nodded.
Obito finished off his bowl of stew and stood. "Please, feel free to spend the night in my hut, I will return by morning with something for each of you." Before any of the girls could respond Obito disappeared in a swirling vortex that seemed to pull him into his eye.
Obito now stood within his personal dimensional plane, the very one he had once fought Kakashi in. It was only accessible to him through his kamui so it was a very useful place to go if he needed absolute privacy. "Maybe I can't do it all myself, but perhaps they can." He said to himself as he sat down and created several dozen wood clones and sent them back to Remnant to begin gathering nature energy for what he planned on doing.
The next day
The sun had risen and the four sisters had awoken and begun preparing for their journey. They had been waiting for a while for their host to return but after several hours they began to worry, until he reappeared from another vortex and fell to his knees. The sisters quickly ran over to Obito who was using his crook to keep himself from falling any further.
"Are you okay?!" Spring shouted trying to help him to his feet only for him to raise his hand to stop them.
"I'm fine, only tired." After a moment he picked himself up to his feet. "I've a gift for you four, please close your eyes." He asked the girls who didn't really know how to react to the situation. "Please, I promise it won't hurt." He smiled as he was still leaning on his crook.
After a few more seconds of hesitation the four girls nodded to each other and closed their eyes. Obito pulled out four orbs he'd spent creating, each was filled with huge amounts of nature energy and was sealed for safe use by anyone. It was extremely tricky but after over a thousand years of tinkering and improving his seals he figured it out.
Obito used his chakra to levitate the four orbs until the were in front of the four girls and each quickly melded into the girls. The affect was almost instantaneous, the energy that Obito had long since learned was known as aura that had already been radiating from the four girls amplified tenfold and wisps of visible energy came streaming off of them. Upon opening their eyes they were shocked at the energy coming off of them.
"What did you do to us?" Spring asked sounding slightly worried about the change.
"I have given each of you the power to do so much more than you could before. You opened my eyes to how foolish I've been acting for so long now." He answered as he sat back down on the ground, even with his massive chakra reserves and experience using it, the process of creating the four orbs was strenuous.
"I fell amazing, like I can do anything!" Summer spoke excitedly as she conjured up fire in her palm.
"You can, as long as you work together you can accomplish anything. Now go, but promise me one thing before you do." The four waited for him to continue. "When you finally win, come back. I'd like to enjoy another meal with you four again."
With that the four nodded and exchanged their farewells with the shinobi. Obito smiled as he watched the four leave, he sat their for several hours just smiling as he felt like new life had been breathed into him. "Hopefully when I wake up they'll have won." He finally spoke to himself before standing and walking into his home and to the hatch in the floor that lead to his basement.
After walking down a long tunnel he'd dug he entered a large stone walled room, at the center of which was a large stone coffin. Carved into the lid was an extremely intricate and complex seal, he'd originally created the coffin as a method of permanently sealing himself encase he gave up one day and wanted to end it all. The seal was designed to put him into a deep permanent sleep or until the seal was broken. "With them this world doesn't need me." He told himself as he created two shadow clones who moved the lid and let him lie down in the coffin. "Set the seal to break in one thousand years, by then I'll get my answer." The clones nodded and replaced the seal over him. Several moments later Obito fell into a deep sleep.
Hi guys, I've got to say I'm sorry if this chapter came off as clunky but I'll admit I seriously struggled with it. I know I didn't follow the fairy tale exactly but I figured that over the course of seven hundred years and people wanting to make it a better story they may embellish and add a few things. Anyway tell me what you think in the reviews and thanks for reading, we're getting close to canon so look forward to that. See yall in the next chapter.