Disclaimer: I do not own any of the original characters
I will make my own to include and the story line very loosely resembles the anime and manga.
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"Get to your feet Hatake…We are just getting started".
My head was dizzy. The effects of the oxygen rushing back into my lungs was lingering. He seemed to be waiting patiently enough for me to gain back my composure and stand up.
Why is he after me? What did I do? I know that I haven't met him before, so what could he possibly want from me. I couldn't focus with all these questions circling my mind. The one that worried me the most was where Minato-Sensei was at.
I looked up at Obito and Rin sitting on the ground about 50 feet away from us. They looked fine but afraid of what was happening. This guy was strong, I knew that without even fighting him.
I looked up and realized why the others looked so frightened. The man standing in front of me no longer looked like Minato-Sensei. His almost completely white skin was covered in scars, there were almost more scars on his body than actual skin. I got to my feet and stared him down, I wasn't being controlled even though he was looking directly into my eyes. That meant that he could turn off that ability when he didn't want to use it.
"What do you want with me?" I had more confidence in my voice than before. Probably a result of being able to breathe and control my body again.
"I just need to make a few changes, that's all." He laughed, knowing very well that his statement would make no sense to me. I'm glad that he was finding this funny.
"What does that mean." I asked, unphased by his laughter. He's playing games with me now, he doesn't want to fight, he wants to make me squirm instead. "I don't know who you are or why you're here. Just tell me." I couldn't hold my anger back much longer. I clenched my fists by my sides.
He smirked. "Well that's a long story, but I could always give you the short version. You never were one for listening before striking."
What…? So, I had met him before? How…Unless he was using another transformation and this wasn't his true appearance, because I have never seen this man, or that eye of his.
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"I don't see what it would hurt to tell you who I am, but first…" his devil like smile creeping back up onto his face. "…I have to make my changes."
He suddenly lunged at me and I was able to jump and dodge him just in time before he reached me. As he passed below my body, I saw a thin blade coming from below the palm of his hand, stretched out from his cloak sleeve. I needed to make a mental note of that one.
I turned mid air and threw a shuriken at his back. He flickered out of sight and appeared behind me midair, kicking into my injured shoulder with the heel of his foot sending sharp pain down my entire arm. I fell to the ground on one knee, holding my shoulder in excruciating pain.
"Aw, poor Kakashi, you can't take such injuries just yet, can you?" his mocking tone only pissed me off further. "I can handle anything you throw at me!" I screamed at him.
"Is that so…" He licked his lips where some of Obito's blood had dried. "Well then…We will just have to see wont we Kakashi." He lunged at me again, this time flickering out of sight before I could make a move. I anticipated him appearing behind me, so I spun and threw a backward kick hoping it would make some contact. Instead all I got was empty air and was met with complete silence.
I looked over to Rin who was trying to detect his movements already. "I…I think…he just disappeared…" she was confused. "I can't sense his presence at all anymore…"
That didn't make sense…Why would he just flee like that, when he was getting ready to fight me.
I turned to face my teammates. "What should we…" That's all I was able to say before he flickered back, directly behind me, so close that I felt he air rush between us. I turned to throw a punch and as my head twisted around to look at him, my face was met with the worst imaginable pain and I could instantly feel the blood saturating my face. I grabbed my left eye and screamed falling backwards to the ground. He had cut my face with the blade in his sleeve.
"I told you that I had to make some changes." He licked the blood from the blade once again making a noise that almost sounded like a happy groan. "I have been waiting to taste your blood for a long time."
I could only see him out of one eye, my other was completely useless anymore, I couldn't even open it. The gash was still spilling an almost steady stream of blood into my hand.
A ball of fire shot out towards me, the man fell to the ground on his back, dodging the attack with ease. "HOW COULD YOU!" Obito screamed from where he had been sitting. I looked over at him, he was now standing and breathing heavily as if out of breath. "I WON'T LET YOU HURT HIM ANYMORE!"
I almost didn't notice…his eyes…
His sharingan had awoken…
"Obito…no…don't…" Rin was sobbing from behind him. "You take care of Kakashi, Rin. I've got this." His confidence was radiating from him. This was a totally different person than the one I knew. The hatred on his face was apparent.
The man laughed "Ah so you want to fight Uchiha?"
"It looks like I'll have to." Obito replied. The look on his face never faltering. He was raging.
"Have it your way child. Your precious sharingan won't be able to save you." The blade under his hand extended outward again. "You will die here!" He pushed off the ground with remarkable speed and lifted himself into the air, a large burst of air that looked almost like blades shot out at Obito. He was able to dodge every single one with ease and threw a handful of shuriken into the air. Each one moving in their own pattern. The man easily dodged those as well as deflecting a few with his blade.
Another fireball was shot into the air, at he same time Obito flickered, masked by the fireball jutsu that he just preformed, reappearing next to me. "Are you okay Kakashi?" he sat me up to look at the damage, ripped a piece of cloth from his sleeve and held it over my eye. "Keep pressure on this, I can handle him for now." He sprang up into the air toward a nearby tree. His eyes never leaving the man in front of him.
"You really think that you can defeat me?" he chuckled. "I am immortal! You stand no chance!"
I could believe that last statement, he looked as though many had tried to kill him, but all had failed.
I had to help Obito, I couldn't just sit here and watch this.
With that I leapt into the tree on my left. I lowered my headband over my left eye, keeping the fabric that was stopping the bleeding secure so that I could use my arms. I was trying to let Obito stall and build up chakra to give my Chidori a shot, even if I couldn't hit him with it fully, I may be able to get close enough for the lightening to graze some part of his body, I just had to focus the energy to my hand and outward for a mid-range attack. I had been working on this on each mission to perfect the technique, it was like nothing I had ever done and took a serious amount of chakra control.
Obito had glanced at me while fighting, both throwing kicks and punches at the other, using only taijutsu to try and hit the other. He knew what I was trying to do and stuck with the unspoken plan.
I could feel the sparks on my fingertips. They were still on the ground, if I hit him directly this should go right through his body, so I need to aim for his chest, whatever happens after that I can't be sure of. I just know that I need to hit him with something.
My entire arm had lit up with sparks up to my elbow, turning into full-fledged lightening. This was new, I hadn't done this before, but it is what I was trying to make happen all this time practicing. Well it finally paid off I suppose.
He looked up at me finally as Obito landed a hard punch to the side of the mans face. It sent him flying into a tree, making a significant indent. He was trying to catch his breath after hitting him so hard. Obito put up a good fight, landed a single punch, something that even I couldn't do. His sharingan was amazing.
My arm was the brightest light in the forest now, sparks flying heavily in every direction, I could feel that I was ready to attack, and Obito had given me the perfect opportunity. I lunged from the tree as fast as I could, which felt quite slow with only one eye. CHIDORI. As soon as I was inches away from hitting him directly in the chest. I heard Minito-Sensei's voice. "STOP KAKASHI NO!".
What…
It was too late. My fist met his chest and went straight through, my entire arm up to my elbow was through his body, blood streaming onto my arm. I did it…I did it…
"K-k… "He coughed, blood spraying out of his mouth. "K-k-kashi…"
My eye shot open. Rin was screaming but I couldn't understand what she was saying. Minato-Sensei was on his knees.
I looked back at the man that I just put my fist through, meeting his almost lifeless gaze as he coughed again.
Obito…
My entire arm was soaked in the blood of my comrade.
My lightening fizzled out; I didn't move my arm…
My vision was going dark. I could hear my heart pounding in my ears. How…how was this Obito…it wasn't Obito when I hit him, it couldn't have been. Obito had been over near Rin…almost 50 feet away when he had punched him…
I heard a laugh from far behind me. "Good job Kakashi." The laughter stopped and the man flickered into my vision behind Minato-Sensei whose fists were clenched on the ground, he actually had tears falling from his eyes. "It's not your fault Kakashi, you just fell into my genjutsu."
What…When…How long had I been under a genjutsu…
"You followed your path perfectly." He said. "Until next time then."
He disappeared and all that was left…
Was the fact that my arm was still through Obito's chest.
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"K-k-kakashi" Obito spoke.
"Don't talk Obito please…" I was crying. "It will only kill you faster." I couldn't help the tears streaming down my face from my one eye. Nothing made sense to me right now, I didn't want to remove my arm from his body, I knew that the moment I did, he would be gone.
"Kakashi…I need you…to take…my sharingan…" he spoke almost completely inaudibly. "Your left…eye…is gone." He coughed, more blood spraying from his mouth and dripping down his body. "I need you…to take…care of everyone…this is my gift to you…please…before I die…"
I couldn't control myself. I was sobbing uncontrollably. This wasn't supposed to happen, I wasn't supposed to be here like this. Obito shouldn't be dying. How could I let this happen to him?
Minato-Sensei's hand was on my shoulder.
"Do as he wishes Kakashi. It is his dying wish." His voice was void of emotion. "I can do it for you, but you will get Obito's sharingan."
I was shaking. His eye…
Minato-Sensei removed it with his contact medical ninjutsu, he had little experience with such a skill, but it was enough. Just as immediately he transferred it to the place where my eye had once been.
"Minato...Sensei…could you…bring Rin to me…" He was fading out, I could tell. I didn't move my arm, my eye from Obito was shut, I didn't want to open it.
Rin came over, tears running down her face as she took Obito's hand in hers. "Obito I'm so sorry…I shouldn't have let you go fight him…" She was staring at his one eye as if she was trying to soak in every bit of him.
"I…I…love…you…Rin…" With that, his eye closed and he was gone.
I couldn't speak, I couldn't move. He was gone…My best friend was dead…by my hand.
"Come on Kakashi." Minato-Sensei had wrapped one hand around my torso and one hand on my arm and gently pulled my body away from Obito.
Rin sat there longer, his hand still in hers as she cried.
"I…I'm sorry Sensei…I didn't…" He didn't let me finish before he took me into a tight hug. I broke down and cried against him. "Don't apologize Kakashi…It isn't your fault. You were trapped inside of a genjutsu, you weren't able to stop it."
I couldn't process that. It was my fault. I should have been able to sense the change. The more I thought about it, the more obvious it became.
When he had turned to look at me just before Obito landed the punch that sent him flying. He switched places with Obito, but in my mind I still saw him instead.
Rin was behind me as I left Sensei's grip. I looked at her with my one eye. "I'm sorry Rin…I didn't mean for this to happen." I said. She was looking at the ground, but she had stopped crying. "Open your eye Kakashi…"
I hesitated, but I opened it just as she looked up at me. My vision was something that I had never imagined. I could see so clearly with my sharingan eye that it made my other eye hurt trying to focus on it's level.
"Obito will always be with us, because of that eye." She pulled me to her and hugged me. "Don't ever blame yourself for this."
Minato Sensei held both of our shoulders.
"Let's take him home."
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It is almost 2am and I'm crying over this...and I'm the one who wrote it!
I thought about this chapter for a week and how to build up to it or even go on writing after it.
This is where it get's difficult, I may not be able to update every day, but we will see where this takes things. I have it planned out, but need to figure out some details. Stay tuned!
