(Third's Point Of View)
They set up camp outside of the Mushroom forest with a big bolder and tree surounding them. The Chunin's and kid Jounin are sleeping while Minato stays up and keep watch. The blonde sensei is meditating on the bolder, just listening to the sounds around him as he makes sure that no enemy ninja sneak up on him and his team. "Sensei.." Obito says as he climbs on to the bolder to sit next to him. "Hmm, what is it, Obito?"
He looks down with sadness in his eyes, "Sensei, I know that teamwork is the most important thing of all but when...when he keeps belittling me, rubbing my nose in my lack of discipline...I know...what I mean is, I might have been born into the elite Uchiha Clan, but I am still just a failure. I admit Kakashi is an awesome guy but..." Minato closed his eyes in understatement and hummed. "Kakashi's father is Sakumo Hatake, the genius ninja feared as the White Fang of the Leaf. In his time, even the Legendary Sannin paled in comparison. With having his early childhood beside a genius like that, its hardly a surprise that Kakashi's standards for other people and his teammates are unnaturally high."
Obito looked up at his teacher with admiration, "White Fang of the Leaf, you know come to think of it, I have heard of him before. He was that hero who died while protecting the village, but Kakashi never mentioned a single word about that." Minato looks at his student then looks back in front of him, "The White Fang, the great man everyone looked up to, especially Kakashi...at least they did until that incident."
Obito looks up at him, surprised and curious, "Incident?" He hummed again while in thought, "Honestly, I'm not entirely sure its my place to tell you the story," he looks over at the Uchiha, "but since you are Kakashi's teammate, I believe that you should know about it." The goggled boy looked at him with worried eyes, "What happened?" Minato looked at him sternly, "Kakashi's father, Sakumo, took his own life after he was vilified by everyone around him." He widened his eyes, not believing what he had just heard.
"Five years ago, he led a top-secret mission deep behind enemy lines. It went bad and had one of two choices. Either save the mission or his comrades. Of course according to the law of the village, you cannot abandon the mission, but to save the lives of his comrades, Kakashi's father put the mission on hold. However, a great deal of damage resulted in the end. The Land of Fire and his peers blamed him for everthing. On top of all that, even the people he rescued turned against him and slandered him. This took a toll on Sakumo physically and mentally, until finally he took his own life. Since that day, Kakashi refuses to utter a word about his father. He's devoted himself to the laws and regulations of the village."
Obito looks down in shame as Minato looks over his sholder to look at the masked Jounin. "Obito, please try to understand, even just a little because Kakashi really does mean well." On that note, Obito nods and goes back to sleep, though he did not get a wink of sleep at all.
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They all wake up at around seven o'clock but before they depart, Rin checks on Kakashi's wound, but he had to take off his shirt and mask, so he faced away from the team so they do not see his face. "Your wound is healing very nicely, but don't overexert yourself or the wound will open up." He thanked her as he puts his shirt back on. "Alright, lets go." Minato says as the team agrees with him.
They walk until they stop in a bamboo forest the covered up the sky. "This is where we go our separate ways. Do your best, all of you. Listen the enemy we encountered yesterday was merely a lone scout, but now we should expect to fight teams. Be careful." Obito puts his head down in shame, "Lets get going then...Caption." His teammates looked at him with shock while Minato just smiles with adoration. He rose up his hand saying that it was time to go, then they scatter.
Team Kakashi runs through the forest and search around the area for a place to look where they are going and if people are following them. They walk across a river slowly looking around for anyone who would attack them. What they did not know was two stone ninja watching them from afar. "Hey, a hero went on a scouting hunt and he hasn't come back yet. You don't think those four little brats took him down, do you?" He partner gave a griming smile, "lets go ask, come on. Camouflage justu!"
Kakashi sniffed the air and signaled his three teammate to stop. Suddenly bamboo shards started flying right at them, but Obito deflects them with his Fire Style: Fireball Justu. The stone ninja who is camouflaged, sneaks up behind Rin and Ruby. His partner jumped out in front of the boys, and lunges at Kakashi. He gets ready to deflect him until they hear two yelps from the girls behind them for which they turn around to see both of the girls unconscious, and in the mans clutches. "We'll be taking these two with us.
Kakashi holds his hand out saying to wait, but they already use the body flicker to get away. Obito starts to run the direction the kidnappers went but Kakashi told him to not go after them. He looks back at his caption with a stern look, "What! Are you crasy! Do you have any idea what you are saying, Kakashi!" He put his head down a little, "Yes, the two of us have to complete this mission alone."
"Rin and Ruby! What do we do about them, huh?" Obito said with anger hinted in his voice. "We will come back for them later. Look, the enemy will want to find out what we are up to, so they wont kill them right away. Luckily Rin is a medic and Ruby can strengthen peoples attacks, so if they end up prisoners-of-war, they will be treated well. As long as they treat the wounded, they will be safe. But we will be in serious trouble if the enemy has time to learn what our strategy is. If they do obtain that information, they will no doubt increase the security on the bridge right away. That would make our mission much more difficult."
"But your only assuming they will be safe based on these guess of yours! What if those guys who caught them are just nobodies who don't know any better! Look, saving Rin and Ruby takes priority of the mission and thats that!" Kakashi looks up to meet Obito's stern eyes, "We are shinobi, you must carry out the mission even at the expense of our comrades. That's the law. If we fail, the war will drag on, and more lives then just the girls will be lost."
"That's just another one of your guesses! Are you willing to desert them for a mere hypothesis! How can you just abandon someone who's been through life and death with you. When we were wounded, Rin saved our lives with her medical ninjutsu while Ruby fought on to cover us to make sure we were save! Without them, the two of us would have died in the field a long time ago!" Kakashi keeps a plain expression, "They were just doing their jobs like we must."
Obito punched him in the jaw which sent him flying a few feet. "I don't like you, I never will!" Kakashi says that he doesn't care about that, and that he is the caption, so he will obey his decisions. "Whatever the circumstance, one person alone makes the decisions to keep the team together. That's why we have the rule that says all team members must obey the caption without question. Obito, you have no power. That's why I am caption of this team and your not."
The Uchiha grabbed him by his shirt, pulling him to his feet. "Then why not try to save them yourself," he says pushing him back to the ground, "It means you have the power to rescue your teammates isn't that right, Kakashi!" He looked away, almost looking ashamed, but goes back to his broading face. "If you give in to your emotions, even for a moment and fail your mission, you'll regret it sooner then you know. That's why shinobi have rules. That's why we are taught to surpress our emotions, you should already know that."
"But, Rin...Ruby, they were so concerned for your well-being that they gave you a special medical kit with a sown protective amulet inside it and an earpiece that connects to her headphones to help you!" Kakashi's face doesn't change, "The Med kit has medical needs that has great systems that the Hidden Leaf developed to increase the success rate for our missions, and the earpiece was good for the success for the mission as well if we got into a fight. But like I told you yesterday, Obito, better nothing at all then a useless burden.
"Useless..burden..." Kakashi nods, "To carry out a mission, a ninja should only have tools necessary for the task at hand. Useless things like emotions only get in the way." Obito is shaking with anger, "Do you really mean that...Do you honestly believe in that stuff, Kakashi!" Kakashi looked over to the right with a hint of guilt in his eyes as he thinks back to his father's Katana that he always holds on his back, the same way his father put it on his back. He looks back to the Uchiha and says yes to his question.
"Just forget it, we'll never agree, we're like oil and water. I'm going to go rescue Rin and Ruby." He starts to walk away from the masked ninja though Kakashi tells him that he doesn't understand. "You don't know what happens to people who break the rules." Obito stops walking but does not turn to face him. "I believed that the White Fang was a true hero." Kakashi's eyes widen as the wind blows softly. Obito turns his head to look over his shoulder at his rival.
"You're right, in the ninja world those who break the rules and laws are considered scum. But...those who abandoned even one of their friends, are worse than scum. I'm scum anyway so I am going to choose to break the rules. If doing that somehow makes me less than a true shinobi...then I'll just go crush all the so-called real shinobi."
Obito walks away from Kakashi as he turns away from him, and they walk in different paths to their different locations.
(Ruby's Point Of View)
I wake up in a cave, tied up to a rock with Rin also tied up next to me. "Well, looks like the other brat woke up as well. Lets just hope that you cooperate better then your friend did, over there. We wouldn't want to put you in a genjustu as well, right?" I gulped as a stone ninja with swords on his wrists looks down at me with mischievous eyes.
"So, tell me, where were you and the other brats doing going, I don't think it was just a little stroll down memory lane, now was it?" I turn my face away from him to not look into his eyes. He scowls, "Talk! I know you can, you little brat!" He slapped me so hard that it echoed throughout the cave and left a big red, burning mark on my face. "Now don't make me hit you again, where were you going!" I shut my eyes tight as he growled and kicked me in the stomach and knocked the wind right out of me.
"Alright then answer me this, did you take out our boss who was going out on patrol, huh, tell me!" He punched me in the face for which I now probably have a black eye. 'I must not tell him anything...I will not give away any information, even if it kills me.' All the sudden a clap noise echoed throughout the cave. The buffer looking man went outside to check what was going on by putting on a camouflage jutsu, so he wouldn't be seen.
He came back in saying that it was one of the brats that was with us. A boy with orange goggles and a blue coat. 'Obito!' I thought as the one who was torturing me told me to stay quiet or he would hurt my other friend. I stayed quiet, knowing that he would hurt Rin, but right now I was in to much pain to shout, especially my stomach.
"Obito...Kakashi...anyone...please hurry." I whispered to myself in with worry hinted in my voice.
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The episode I used for this was Naruto Shippuden episode 119!
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