"Obito…" a voice spoke softly, gently shaking me, "time to wake up."

"I am awake," I yawned tiredly. Wait… why can't I see anything?! Oh Kami I'm blind! My arms began to flail in my panic. It's too dark! Too dark! I suddenly felt as though I couldn't breathe. What's going on? Am I… Am I dying? I sat gasping and clutching at my throat, T-This can't be happening…

A soft, soothing touch of skin against my hand took me out of thoughts. "Open your eyes," the voice spoke softly. Slowly my eyes open to the sight of the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. Her eyes were a soft, chocolate brown and her shoulder-length hair framed her face perfectly. She had these cute, and vaguely familiar, purple rectangles tattooed on each cheek. Just like an angel… A soft dreamy smile slipped onto my face as a small giggle slipped past her lips, "Something like that."

I jumped and blushed a little; did I just say that out loud? Another sweet giggle fell past her glossy pink lips. "Huh? What's so funny?"

"Let's just say I can hear your every thought, alright?" A kind smile brightened her already lit features. My eyes widened ten times their size. Is that even possible? She rolled her eyes, "Obviously."

"U-um… w-who are you anyway…?"

A surprised look over takes her face, "So you really don't remember me?" A sad glint appeared in her brown orbs as a halfhearted smile slid its way on to her face, "I guess that can't be helped."

A sudden pang of sadness washed over me as I gazed into her enticing brown eyes, "I-I'm… really sorry, but… I honestly don't know you…" I forced myself to look away from her. I can't bare seeing her like this…

"Obito… please look at me." Slowly I turned my head towards her,still not letting my eyes meet hers. I wish I knew who this girl was… Was I important to her? I really can't remember… "Look at me Obito… please." I took a deep breath before letting myself gaze into her eyes again. She sighed before gently caressing my face, much to my surprise. "I know this isn't much but… I never gave you much of a chance before so I… I'm going to do something I should have done before…"

What is she talking about…? Never gave me a chance? What's that supposed to mean? As if answering my question, something soft and moist pressed softly against my lips. Once the pressure left, image after image began to appear in my mind. Images of the girl in front of me smiling, some guy with silver hair (Who even has silver hair in the first place?) wearing a black mask against the lower part of his face, and a tall smiling blonde with warm, trusting blue eyes. "Rin…" the name fell from my lips before I even knew what I was saying.

I must have said the right thing because the next thing I knew, her warm, really soft, body was pressed tightly to mine. "See? " she smiled warmly, "I knew you'd remember!"

I smiled and sheepishly rubbed the back of my neck, "Yeah well… I can't believe I forgot you." Rin… Can I… "I love you Rin." My hand quickly flew to my mouth as a dark blush dusted my cheeks, Where the heck did that come from? "I-I am so sorry! I have no clue why I-"

For the fourth time today, she giggled, "It's alright Obito." With a smile, she stood over me, "Say Obito… will you take my hand for a minute?"

"Um…" the blush on my face darkened fifty more shades. Not trusting my voice I nodded silently before gently grasping her soft hand.

She gave me a warm, comforting smile before she suddenly became serious, "Obito, I have an important mission I need you to commence."

"What kind of mission…"

Instantly,without answering me, she began forming a series of hand signs before slamming her hand against the ground and whispering something I didn't quite the ground began to split open! I totally didn't scream and I totally did not wet myself…. much. "Don't worry." she spoke in her calming voice, "Just relax. I'll explain." Once again not trusting my voice, I nodded and tried to hide my weariness. A sigh fell past her lips, "You don't need to hide your nervousness Obito. I'm always watching remember?" I couldn't help, but smile, those words sounded pretty familiar, but I have no clue why… Did she say that to me before? It sounds like she did… "Are you even listening to me?"

"Huh?" I glanced at her with a sheepish smile, "Oh sorry… kinda spaced out…"

She rolled her eyes, sighing in exasperation,"I can tell. This time pay attention please."

I nodded meekly, "O-ok… so what did you say…?" A nervous laugh escaped my lips, Why am I so nervous?

Understanding crossed her face, "It's alright Obito." Gently she grabbed my hand, stroking her thumb over the back softly. It was so soothing and sent a small excited chill down my spine. What is this feeling? I asked myself before her voice knocked me outside of my thoughts again. "Just listen this time, alright?" I nodded quickly, not wanting to upset her anymore than I had already done today. "Look down there," she gestured to the hole she created with her free hand, "Do you see-"

"See what? I don't see anything…" A sudden slap to the back of my head almost made me fall into the crater, "R-Rin!" I cried out in a shocked sort of pain, "What was that for?!" I was struggling not to fall, if it weren't for her grip on my hand, I'd have become a flattened pancake within seconds.

She simply shrugged, "For interrupting me. Now listen to me this time and don't say anything until I'm done." Fearing the beautiful woman beside me, I just nodded. I just need to make sure I stay on her good side or, I gulped, I might die… literally. Again she rolled those honey brown orbs, "I'm not going to kill you so relax will you?" Oh yeah… I laughed a little, I forgot she could read my- wait she can read my mind?! Rin groaned, "You're really something, I'll give you that."

She sighed before turning my head to face her and stared into my eyes. I gulped again, this time in nervousness and… excitement? What's wrong with me? Why is my heart beating so fast? My breathing began to pick up matching my erratic heartbeat. Is she leaning closer? Oh Kami she is! Before I knew it her moist lips were pressed against mine in a soft caress. Mm… Slowly I begin losing control of myself as my eyes start to close. This feels nice… To my dismay, the nice feeling ended too soon, yet at the same time, I've never felt so calm before...

"Now that you're cooperative, I'll tell you what I was going to say." She pointed back into the hole at a silver blob leaning over some kind of weird shaped rock, "Do you see him?"

"That's a person?!" I asked in surprise, "It looks like a blob of old gray ink!"

Her right eye twitched, "Of course that's a person! What else would it be?"

"Uh…"

Her hand, the one not holding mine( Why is she holding it in the first place?), quickly flew in front of my face in record speed, "Nevermind. Don't answer that." Again she sighed then took her hand from mine, "He's special."

"Special?" I cocked my head in confusion, "How…?" I asked only half registering my hand reaching back for hers. Who knew seconds without her hand in mine would leave me so cold?

A far-off look entered her eyes, "His name is Kakashi. Ever since the Kannabi bridge mission," I don't know why but the name 'Kannabi Bridge' a chill up my spine and it was nothing like the thrilling tingle Rin made me feel. This one was haunting and left a bitter feeling in my mouth. Something about that name makes me feel like I'm forgetting something important… "When you died, nothing was the same…"

"I'm dead?! …. wait that makes you dead too!"

Either she was ignoring me or she didn't hear a word I said because she continued as if I never said anything. "Sure Kakashi had a change of heart… you really changed him, but things just weren't meant to be… It wasn't too long before things went horribly wrong again…" Tears began to slowly drip from her eyes. As gently as I can manage, I wipe them away, receiving a sad smile in return. "We had a mission in Kirigakure… It was pretty easy and straightforward. or… so we thought… Turns out, they were expecting us. Before either of us knew it, I was knocked out and taken hostage. Much like what happened at Kannabi…" Once again I shivered at that name, "But much… much worse. They forcibly made me into the jinchūriki of the Sanbi. He raged and raged about being sealed. It didn't take a genius to know something was wrong with seal… Within moments I knew what they had in store… They expected me to be some stupid naive girl and head back home without a clue as to what was going on. They wanted to make me a living time bomb ready to explode and destroy everything I held dear… "

Her hands clenched together as she bit her bottom lip. The tears began falling harder down her pale cheeks. I placed my hand on top of hers and made her look me in the eye, "Rin…" I spoke gently, brushing the tears away again as new, fresher ones took their place. "It's alright." I pulled her closer to my chest and swayed back and forth gently. "It's alright," I repeated, "You don't need to tell me this. Especially if it hurts you like this…" I felt a stab of pain in my heart. Seeing her like this really hurt… Lightly, I pressed her head into my shoulder and began to stroke her short hair, trying my best to calm the girl.

Rin shook her head, "N-no… You need to know…" Her small hands clutched my jacket tightly, "It wasn't long before Kakashi found me. I tried to explain, but he wouldn't listen. He… He kept talking about some promise he made to you about protecting me…" Her tiny frame shook against me as she tried to control her breathing and keep talking, "But I … I wanted him away from me… I didn't want to hurt him… or anybody really, but especially not him… H-he's been hurt too much… I didn't want to add onto that pain. But what could I do? If I went home, I'd just kill hundreds, maybe thousands of innocent people… So I made the decision to… to die…by the hand of the one I loved… " My eyes widened, but I couldn't say anything. I just stood there, and pulled her closer. Rin… Th-that had to be so hard… to choose between your love, it strangely hurt to think about her loving someone that wasn't me, and those innocent people… I don't know if I could ever do the same… A small, stifled laugh pulled me from my thoughts, "you already have Obito… even if you don't know, or in better yet, remember it."

"I have?"

She silently nodded. After a few minutes of holding her close to me in silence, she began speaking again,"I'll tell you about that later okay?" She peeked up at me, only lifting her head enough to catch my eye. We stayed like that for awhile: me staring at her and her staring back.

Finally it dawned on me, she was waiting for my response. How could I be so stupid? I mentally facepalmed. "Uh… yeah sure."

She began her story from where she left off, "It wasn't long before the kiri anbu surrounded us… I told him to just kill me, but he wouldn't have it. Time seemed to slow down as he charged up his raikiri and ran towards one of the enemy shinobi. I… I didn't know what else to do…. Before I could even think, my legs began to move on their own. Suddenly, the next thing I know is a sharp, piercing pain in my chest, then nothing…." She slowed her breathing, laid her head back against my shoulder, and closed her eyes, "b-but I stared straight into his eyes and watched…" Her hands grasped even tighter onto my jacket, "Watched as the pain filled his eyes… It killed me to see him like that… but w-what could I do...?"

"I-I don't know Rin…" I spoke hesitantly.

"A-anyway not too long after…. after my death Minato-sensei and Kushina…" Suddenly Rin began sobbing uncontrollably against my chest. "They… They… h-had to give up their lives… to protect so much…j-just after becoming… p-parents..." I felt tears welling up in my eyes as well. Rin crying is making me cry… "Sorry…" She said as she pulled her face away from my shoulder to stare at me with red puffy eyes. Gently, I caressed her teary face. Even with tears streaming down, she still looks like the perfect angel. She gave me a small, sad smile, before continuing, "Some man adorning a mask took their newborn baby boy and…. and threatened to hurt him if Sensei didn't leave Kushina, the Kyūbi's jinchūriki… I could feel myself becoming angry. How could someone threaten the life of a child? People like that make me sick. Rin nodded, "Yeah I know…" Her own tear-filled eyes matched my own, "That's one reason why I need you."

"Huh? What do you mean?" I tilted my head in confusion.

"I'm getting to that. Just listen." She took a shaky breath before finishing her story, "A-anyway… he had no choice, but to leave… so the masked man took a hold of Kushina and…" She struggled to get the next few words out of her mouth, "He… forcefully pulled the kyūbi out of her.. Thank Kami she was an Uzumaki or she'd h-have died then…" Rin turned her face the other way, "Sensei saved her and Naruto, their baby, and even fought the guy! Too bad he got away…. Anyway that's not the point… The point is it just got worse… The damage was done."

"What damage? What happened?!" I tried to stay calm, but inside I was freaking out. D-does Minato-sensei…. wait Sensei...? I blinked in confusion, but shook it off. I'll think of that later, but I have more worrying matters to think of like what about Kushina and Naruto? Do they really die? I felt fresh tears pool out of my dark eyes. This is messed up… If I was there…. I clenched my fist tightly to the point, my fingernails drew blood. I could have… "Obito!" A worried shriek drew me from my thoughts, "Stop it!"

"Stop what?" I asked.

Without a word,she forcefully pulled my finger away from my palm and shook her head. "Obito please… I know you're furious and blaming yourself, but please…. please don't start hurting yourself over it." She gently held my bleeding palm and place her chakra covered hand over mine. "You really should learn how to take of yourself."

I smiled sheepishly, "Yeah I guess… sorry about worrying ya Rin…But… What happened?"

She smiled a little, but turned serious almost immediately, "As I was saying… the damage was done… That man brought the kyūbi out of and… It began destroying the village… The exact same thing I was afraid was going to happen with my tailed beast…" Her eyes closed as she breathed in and out for a few moments, trying to calm herself before she started again, "Kakashi and all our classmates were forced to watch from a distance… they weren't allowed to help tame the fox…"

"I-I can't imagine… Not being able to..to help… " I bit my lip as my eyes leaked in frustration, "when… when you need to the most…"

"I know…" she placed her hand on my cheek and caressed it lovingly, "I know Obito…. I know… but it couldn't be helped. They wanted to save the younger generation. It may be better this way… Kakashi never seen the worst part…" Once again Rin tore her gaze from mine, "Minato Sensei… he… didn't have too much choice, but to bring his wife and newborn child close to the beast. He was running out of chakra and couldn't go any further, yet he refused to give up. He had… precious things to protect. Kushina, weak from both giving birth and having the kyūbi pulled out of her, refused to let anything happen to her precious people. Even if it meant she had to… die." Rin choked out that last word. "She forced Chakra chains, from her body to hold the beast down. Seeing as she hadn't much chakra left and how frail her body was Sensei had no choice he had to… to seal the beast inside both himself and his son…. the kyūbi saw what he was planning and went to attack and…" Her hand flew to her mouth to quiet the sobs that started racking through her small frame again. "T-they… They selflessly threw themselves in front of him and… and…" She broke down unable to finish. She didn't need to. I understood what happened, even without words.

So that's the love of a parent huh? A bitter smile crossed my lips, Not like I'd know. I can't remember anyone ever treating me like their own child. Heck when has anyone ever cared for me?

"T-that's…. That's not true… Minato-Sensei….he…. he… he loved us. You…. Me… Kakashi…. a-and… Kushina too… she… she...loved us…. all of us…" She wiped away her tears and sniffled, "And… I… I care for you Obito…" Rin's right hand gently brushed against my cheek tenderly with glossy raindrops falling from her honey-colored eyes, " A-always have…. and… I… I always will."

My eyes widened, the a small smile slid onto my lips, "Thank you… Rin…" Another moment of silence overtook us. It wasn't awkward at all. Surprisingly, it was warm and inviting. Comforting even. I've never felt this before...is this…. what it's like to be… loved? A warm feeling covered every ounce of my body from my chakra to my blood. What is this?

"My chakra." I glanced at Rin and noticed her eyes were clear of any traces of her earlier tearfall, save for the slight puffiness of her eyes. When had she stopped crying? "Since you spaced out." I jumped, I keep forgetting she can do that…. She rolled her eyes, "Anyway, I need you to stand right here," she gestured to a spot a little closer to the hole in the ground, "and stand still."

"Wait Rin… "

"What?" she groaned in annoyance, " We don't have much time… we've wasted alot of it already."

"Um…. why did I need to know that stuff anyway?"

"Because…." She paused, "I want you to help Hatake Kakashi."

"That gray blob thing that was down there?" I pointed at the odd shaped rock. "What does it need help with?" I then tapped my chin in thought, "...And what do you expect me to 'help' it with?"

Her left eye twitched in irritation, "For the last time, that 'Gray blob thing' is a person and I was about to tell you that before you interrupted me… again." I gave her a sheepish smile, but let her finish. I decided that I've annoyed her enough, plus… I rubbed the back of my head at a phantom pain, I swear I can still feel that smack from before... "Good. Now… I want you to help him move on and stop blaming himself for everything wrong that happens." She walked towards me and put her hands on my back, "Now stop asking questions."

"But-" Suddenly weight is pressed against me and I'm falling. Rin pushed me! I turned my body to glare up at her, What the heck was that for?! Before I could question her, my eyelids began to feel heavy. The last thing I saw was Rin's hand glowing blue in a rat seal before everything started turning black around me.

Okay so there's the prologue of the story.

Hope you guys enjoyed.

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Ja ne~