Author's Note: I'm sorry that I took so long to post this! I was in a battle with myself on how I wanted to end it (there were two options I was stuck between) and it made me so frustrated that I just ignored this story for a while. But now, it is finally complete. I'd like to thank all of you who read this story, especially those who reviewed, favorited, and followed. It's been a great journey and I've really enjoyed writing it, so I hope you've enjoyed reading it. Thanks again :)

Epilogue

The sweet silence of the training fields early in the morning was music to Kakashi's ears as he rested against the memorial stone and read Make out Paradise for the 125th time. He had almost forgotten how beautiful the sound of nothing really was. It had been a month since Mikazuki's spell had broken, and the effects had drastically changed the entire fate of the village.

Once the spell was broken, the entire history of the village from the point of Mikazuki's death until present was warped in a domino affect.

"Hey," Obito said carefully as he walked over to Kakashi, who was sitting at his mother's grave, trying to make sense of everything.

"What do you want?" Kakashi asked bitterly, rereading the engraved words on the stone, as if they were magic and would bring his mother back.

"I…. I need to tell you something," Obito said as he rung his hands on his shirt. "I met your mom the night she died."

"Are you daydreaming again?" Obito asked playfully, making Kakashi jump from his thoughts.

"Ha, yeah, I guess I was," Kakashi answered as he snapped his book shut.

"Well cut it out! We've been waiting for you for an hour now! Looks like I'm the only one who grew out of always being late, huh?" Obito said with a grin as he adjusted his headband that replaced his goggles long ago.

"I always have a good excuse for being late," Kakashi teased back as he stood up. "Where have you guys been waiting anyways?"

"Did you forget? Gosh! We've been a team for twenty years as of today, remember?"

Kakashi blinked away the fog of sedative and pain killers as his one eye focused on the closest thing he had to a family standing around him.

"You're awake!" Rin said with excitement and relief. "We got you these, hope you like them." From the corner of his eye, he could see a vase of lilies sitting on the nightstand.

"Thanks," he answered, sitting up to get a better look at his friends.

"…They weren't able to save your eye," Obito said, looking at the ground. "I… I'm really really sorry Kakashi."

"We saved Rin. That's all that matters," Kakashi answered. "Besides, you should be celebrating. Your finally awakened the sharingan."

"Heh, yeah…"

"Let me guess, you got lost on the path of life again?" Rin asked with a smile as Obito and Kakashi joined her and Minato for dinner inside the teahouse.

"I think I've always been a little lost on the path of life," he said with a smile as he sat down with his friends. Minato met eyes with him in a way the other two could never understand. They were the only humans who knew the difference between life now, and life how it had been previously. Because Obito had become close friends with Kakashi through the loss of Mikazuki, he had the courage to confide in Minato years ago that he had seen Kakashi's mother at the Uchiha compound, because she had walked him home. He also had told him that he saw Fugaku follow her. This confession led to an investigation of the Uchiha clan that lasted years and led to the coup d'état being discovered much earlier. It wasn't until Minato had become hokage that he was able to do anything with this knowledge, and it became known as one of the most controversial moves a hokage has ever made. He sentenced Fugaku Uchiha to death for the murder of Mikazuki Hatake, and exiled all of the leaders of the coup d'état. Any of them who tried to sneak back into the village, which there were many, were killed without question. At first, this led to some bitterness within the Uchiha clan, but when new leaders of the clan took the old, corrupt leaders' positions, it seemed to bring fresh ideas back into the clan, and prevented a civil war within Konoha. Because the coup was stopped so early, the entire Uchiha clan was spared, and because Obito never was crushed, the Nine Tailed Fox still lived within Kushina.

"Now that we've got Kakashi here, let's eat! I'm starving," Obito said excitedly to the rest of his teammates. His eyes caught two brothers who were walking in together with their mother. "Hey Sasuke, Itachi! Good to see you two. How did the mission go?"

"It went. It was relatively easy," Itachi said with a shrug. It was the first mission his brother had joined him on, and wasn't as easy as he was letting on. They were searching for a remedy to the curse mark, and had been gone for months, speaking to anyone who may know anything about it, only to come up with more questions than answers.

"Good to hear," Obito said as his eyes drifted to Sasuke's neck.

"Make sure to get some rest Sasuke," Kakashi said as he met eyes with his student. Sasuke nodded, no longer having the thirst for the power that the curse mark held. To him, it was more of a nuisance than anything.

"I'll let Naruto know you're back. He's been going crazy worrying about you two," Minato said with a smile. "I told him not to, but you know how he is."

Naruto hadn't changed all that much with the changes. He was still a hyperactive knucklehead who wanted to be hokage, but now it was for entirely different reasons. He grew up with a family and without being hated by the village, but now he had extremely large shoes to fill. The village expected him to become great, and he didn't always meet those expectations, but he was getting there. Even without the Nine Tailed Fox's power, Naruto was going to be one of the strongest shinobi the village had ever known, Kakashi just knew it.

"Even when we drag you away from the memorial, you're still in a haze!" Obito said with irritation. "Did you just hear what I said?"

"Oh, sorry, no," Kakashi said as he shook off his thoughts.

"I have a really important announcement," he said again, an embarrassed smile sprouting on his face. "Rin and I are going to get married."

"I had a feeling that's what this 'reunion' was really about," Kakashi said to a blushing Rin and a sheepish Obito. "Congratulations guys."

Kakashi basked in the excitement of his friends, living the life that they previously would never have had, as they talked about old times and the future and all of the spaces in between. He saw his sensei do it as well, every so often. Just stand back and watch as people whose lives had ended too soon got the chance they always wanted.

"I've been meaning to ask you Kakashi," Minato started as they parted ways with Rin and Obito, walking home from dinner, "how do you feel about all of the changes?"

"I think they're for the better. If anything, I wish they had happened instead of the other reality ever existing. I know my mother did what she thought was right, but she was relying on visions that possessed too many variables," Kakashi said as he tucked his hands in his pockets.

"You don't miss being the great Copy Ninja Kakashi?" Minato asked.

"No, not really," Kakashi said as he pulled his keys out of his pocket and unlocked his door. "Besides, I prefer the name they know me as in the bingo books now anyways," he added as he closed the door behind him.

"White Fang Hatake," Minato said as he walked away. "The name he was destined to bear, just as his father did."