Ambrey:
I'm writing this in first person from Tobi's perspective, which seems to be somewhat of a rarity in fanfictions. Even more unusually, I treat Tobi as more than just comic releif, if only in this fic. So... This probably isn't what you're used to. I hope you like it anyways, though. :D

Notes: This fic may contain spoilers, and supports the ObiTobi/Tobito theory. So far, there's not too much rough language, but there might be eventually. Same goes for violence and pairings. I've no intention to turn this into a romantic fic, but pairings may be mentioned. Lastly, the chapters are going to be very, very short, most of them under one page long. I hate waiting for updates in fics and I assume that you do, too. I hope you do, at least, because I'm keeping the chapters short and to-the-point for the sake of faster updates. xD

About the fic: I started this over the summer, due to extreme boredom and an obsessive love for Tobi. I made a rule for myself that I would never write a Naruto fanfic, but, well, rules are made to be broken...

Comments will be much appreciated. Let me know if you'd rather have longer chapters (even with less frequent updates) or if you like it how it is. I don't mind changing.

I hope you enjoy!

EDIT: I realized that I hadn't mentioned the time setting for this. Akatsuki are post-timeskip, Konoha is pre-timeskip. Sorry for any confusion/weirdness. It was going to be post-timeskip, but I wanted Sasuke there, and I wanted the kids to be, well, kids.

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Uchiha Obito.

I know that name from somewhere.

I'm not really sure - It just pops up in my mind sometimes. It's like when you're trying to remember a word while you're talking, and then two hours later, you randomly think of the word and wonder why.

Well, maybe that only happens to me.

That name comes up in a dream, too. This one dream that I've had like fifty times. It's not like those repetitive dreams where you think through the whole thing "okay, this is where I run down the neverending hallway… and here's the door… and, oh yeah, that's where the tentacles start growing out of my eye socket…".

It's an oddly real one, like some kind of phantom memory. When I wake up from it, I have this weird feeling that I'm missing something. I'm used to waking up wondering why my left eye doesn't open with my right, or why only my right side feels the heat of the sun shining through the window on me; this is something more than a phantom limb. I know it's something major, I just can't place what it is.

And whatever it is, I know I've lost it. I can't console myself by thinking I lost it for a good reason, feel vengeful towards whatever asshole took it - I can only know that, somehow, something's gone and I'm incomplete.

Anyways, in the dream, my vision is blurred. Maybe by tears or maybe smoke, or it could be the dust on the goggles I'm wearing. In the dream, I don't even question the goggles. I guess they're normal to the dream-me. I can see out of both my eyes, but it's not a shock; that, too, is normal to me in the dream.

The goggles are cracked on one side. I somehow know that there's rocks or a boulder or something heavy on my left side, pinning me down. I'm not looking down, so I can't see, but I know I'm bleeding. Something in the back of my mind tells me that being crushed like this should hurt, but it doesn't. I guess the nerves on that side are shutting down.

Above me, I can see eyes staring down at me, dark and scared-looking. The person watching me is a friend, I think. In the dream I think of two things when I see his masked face - 'best friend' and 'bastard' at the same time.

I'm not shocked or surprised to see him. I want to say something to him, but I don't. Instead, I just listen. There's silence, and I can hear him breathing but not myself, I guess I'm not breathing anymore…

Then it starts getting dark, and I can hear him say Obito's name, telling either me or Obito or both of us to wake up, stop being a selfish dumbass and think of the mess I'm leaving him and Rin in, and then finally that he's sorry, but it doesn't work and I fade to black anyways.

And then, every time when I wake up, I have that feeling of missing something important.