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A New Beginning

I am Uzumaki Naruto, or at least, that's who I was. I am now my alter ego and arch nemesis, Uchiha Obito. Who would have thought that I would find myself in such a predicament?

I was literally the last shinobi from the allied nations alive, fighting for god knows what now that everyone was dead, against Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Obito. It was a losing battle, Obito was the Juubi jinchuuriki and Madara was a ridiculously powerful shinobi, not to mention immortal thanks to the edo tensei.

I was holding my own, but even I could tell that it was only a matter of time, and time alone before I was completely overwhelmed. Madara was calm and collected, he was neither in a rush nor was he concerned at all by my power and will, he knew that I could only delay the inevitable, he knew that I couldn't stop it. Obito on the other hand had been getting more and more restless and impatient since the war started. And while he was, as the juubi jinchuuriki, infinitely more powerful than he ever was before, he was still inexperienced when it came to using the sage's power.

He'd been so reliant on his mangyeko sharingan in the past, it must have really bothered him that he could not use kamui anymore. That's why I focused most of my taunts and physical attacks on him. I wanted to push him into a corner, and I did exactly that. His weakness was sage energy, and, with my ability to access all of Kurama's power and combination with sage mode, I was able to make my attacks infinitely stronger than they'd ever been. Eventually, I was able to find a clear opening to kill him, and I took it without hesitation. Madara didn't seem to be trying very hard to stop me, I found that to be very suspicious, but I had no time to ponder on that too much, this was a make or break opportunity and I knew I might not get another one again.

Obito was desperate, he was about to die after all. I could have even sworn that I saw his life flash in front of his eyes, yeah, that's not how it's supposed to be, but that's how it went down nonetheless. However, I never expected Obito to do what he did next in order to save his life, but in hindsight, I guess it could be something I would have done too.

He had only two choices, take the blow and die, or risk using a very distabilised kamui thanks to the presence of the juubi inside of him. Needless to say, he took the latter option, and all hell broke loose...well not really, but something bad happened to us. I'm not really sure I can explain what happened, but between the juubi's ambient energy, my sage energy, Kurama's energy, and the distorted kamui, we must have broken the space-time continum and ended up in an alernate reality.

I'm not sure how long we were there, wherever it is that we were, but it felt like infinity. We carried on fighting, and fighting, and fighting, and eventually, we realized how pointless it was as no-one was dying, it was almost like time was just repeating itself in this dimension. So eventually, we begrudgingly formed a truce, after all, what was the victor going to do anyway? We were in the middle of nowhere, caught in a stupid space-time continum with no other humans inside, victory would be even worse than the fighting, cause whoever won would be left all alone.

It took time, but eventually, we started talking, opening up to each other bit by bit. Obito confided in me, as I did in him. Eventually, we realised just how similar we were to each other, and also just how different we were to each other, but eventually, we were able to come and meet each other on common ground. He changed me alot during our conversations, as I did him, but we both knew that we would simply go crazy if we stayed like this for even one more day.

Obito came up with an idea, he wanted to use izanagi in cohesion with his kamui in order to change our current reality by transporting me back to our world, basically, the bastard wanted to try out a new and dangerous jutsu on me. Nevertheless, I was desperate, we were desperate. I wanted to get out of there, plus, his reasoning made enough sense for me to give it a try.

Using chakra from the juubi, Obito would use an overpowered izanagi in order to rewrite this reality, creating a space-time tunnel sorts through the fabric of this dimension, or a doorway out of this enclosed space. Than, he would use kamui, a juubi empowered kamui in order to teleport me back to our original plane where I would face Madara again.

I wanted Obito to come with me, I didn't understand why the hell he was choosing to remain behind. But, according to him, even with the juubi, using a jutsu of that magnitude would kill him.

When I found out, I refused to go through with the plan. Obito may have done alot of shit and killed alot of people, some not so innocent, some innocent, and some neutral, many of which were dear to me. But despite all that, we'd become close friends in the time that we spent together in there, I would even say we were like brothers now. I'd rather rot here for eternity than to leave him behind.

However, the bastard expected my reaction, he gave me no choice in the matter and transported me anyway. Only thing is, he miscalculated, the bastard! Or maybe he planned this all along, I dunno, I'm not really certain either, but I didn't go back to my reality, I ended up in an alternate world where I am trapped in that prick's body, bastard probably laughing his ass off at me now, wherever he is.

Sad thing is, I awakened right at the moment where the fool was about to declare his intention to hand over one of his eyes to Kakashi as a jonin promotion/goodbye present. Haaaah! Like hell I was going to do that, I've secretly always wanted myself a pair of those cursed yet wonderful and cool eyes, or any doujutsu for tha matter. They all looked cool, and the benefits were even cooler, now that I had em, I wasn't going to hand them over so easily, besides, I already know that Kakashi will fail to use the eye for it's intended purpose, since Rin ended up dying anyway, even worse, by his own hand.

So I held on to it, said my goodbye speeches, and and waited for the rocks to come crashing down on me. My regrets, my hatred, and my pain at having to die so soon after coming back to life so to speak was the fuel that activated my mangyeko sharingan. I immediately knew what was happening and I knew what I had to do.

Obito had showed me a play by play of his whole life with a sharingan illusion during our time in what I now deem as 'no man's land'. So I knew that if I made myself intangible, I would end up in that prick Madara's lair and he would merge me with Zetsu and turn me into his puppet. So I had to teleport away from there immediately. Luckily, I now knew some Uzumaki clan hideouts from my time as the Rokudaime Hokage and immediately visualized exactly where I wanted to go.

In my preparations for the war, I had researched my family and clan extensively, and in my time with Obito, had learned everything there was to know about the Uchiha clan and all the other clans of the elemental nations. That guy really was a treasure of knowledge. In any case, during my own research about the Uzumaki clan, I had learned and mastered our yin-yang healing ability, an ability even superior to Tsunade's sozo saisei and byakugo no jutsu.

Whereas Tsunade created new cells through rapid mototic regeneration, in other words, rapid cell devision, causing rapid aging and shortening of the life-span as a side effect, our clan's kekkei genkei allowed us to use the creation of all things in order to simply create new cells with our chakra, which meant that we could regenerate with none of the side effects that usually come with rapid regeneration.

Being that I was now in the body of an Uchiha, I wasn't certain that this jutsu would work, it was a major risk to even try. However, to my great surprise, it did! It actually worked. As a result, I decided to stay in my hideout for an extra three months. I needed to run some tests, figure out why this was happening. That's when I was able to confirm that Obito had intentionally tranfered me to this reality, the bastard didn't just transport me to an alternate reality, and he didn't just put my soul into his body, which he probably did with his rinnegan's human or outer path, no, he also somehow merged our bodies, or created a new body that, while it looked exactly like his, housed both our dna.

This body was part Uzumaki and part Uchiha. I can't help but wonder why Obito would go to such great lengths to do something like this, is it just symbolic of our relationship, or was there another reason for doing this? Did he leave me a mission to complete? Is there something specific that he wants me to do, or is he preparing me for what's to come? Well, I didn't really know the answer, nor do I know it now.

Anyway, I didn't just spend three months researching my dna and pondering on what Obito wanted me to do. I've never confined myself to being anyone's puppet, okay, maybe I have unintentionally been a puppet for most of my life, purely because of my ignorance, but I've never willingly accepted such a role. I had accepted that I am now going to have to be Uchiha Obito, but I was going to forge my own path.

I spent the whole of the three months re-learning everything that I had learned in my former life, as usual abusing the shadow clone training method to accelerate my progress. I no longer had Kurama, but I'm still an Uzumaki apparently, my chakra reserve and potency is still ridiculous, and my durability unmatched. With the Uchiha dna and the sharingan, comes the strong chakra and chakra control among many other benifits. My potential is limitless.

In the three months I spent of intense training, I managed to master kamui, the short range version from my right eye, the long range kamui from my left eye, and the third power, the intangibility that comes from my awakening the mangyeko sharingan on both of my eyes. I don't need to transplant my brother, mother's, father's, or cousin's eyes to get the eternal manyeko sharingan, that is because of my Uzumaki dna that negates the blindness and the side effects of using the mangyeko sharingan, after all, senju and uchiha is equal to the sage of the six paths, or at the very least, an imitation of him.

Nevertheless, it turns out that Obito has an affinity for earth and fire, which I have duely mastered, but because Obito fused our dna with his creation of all things, I also have the wind affinity that I had before, which might I add, has also been re-mastered.

I've also literally trained my body to the ground. My sensei is Namikaze Minato after all, I'm gonna need a lot of movement and reflex speed to keep up with him, and body strength, despite my intangibility, is not something I want to neglect. Progress has been smooth, my memories of my old self have certainly helped build a type of false muscle memory, that has caused a speed up of my progress.

I'm ready to return and partake in the war now. I'm ready to become a war legend. I need to earn that respect so that I can influence both clan and village policy. Also, I need this war experience to prepare for Madara. I realize that now, no matter how strong I became, the guy was always a step ahead of me, and that was due largely to his insane war experience, having grown up during the clan wars era.

I was hoping to awaken the rinnegan in the three months before I return to Konoha, but that's a little trickier than I thought. I have the blood of the senju from my Uzumaki heritage, and the blood of the Uchiha, so in theory, this should be simple and straight forward, but I've had a little trouble with that, it seems that this is going to be like that time that I tried baking. It's clear that simply having the ingredients to bake a cake doesn't automatically mean that you have or can even make a cake. You need to set the conditions to get the cake, the right fire or oven temperature, the right measurements for the ingredients, and the neccessary patience and due care. I'm guessing the oven will be the battlefield in the third shinobi war, after all, Uchiha powers are best awakened and honed on the battlefield.

Anyway, I'm arriving at the gates now, my return is going to cause quite a stir now. Still, the scar tissue on my right side of the face, which is due to the fact that I allowed that part to heal naturally as it would on a normal human, for pretence sake, and my sharingan, my in depth knowledge of Obito's life and my appearance should be enough to convince everyone of my identity.

"Good afternoon, Hizashi-dono. Uchiha Obito, reporting back." Naruto, now known as Uchiha Obito reported with his three tamoe sharingan activated, now wearing black shinobi pants with white bandages wrapped around the ankles, black shinobi sandals, and a black, short sleeved shirt with a turtle-necked collar and the Uchiha emblem at the back.

"Really now...?" Hizashi trailed off with a knowing smile, asking himself how stupid this guy thought that they were.

'A Hyuga heir as a gate guard, that is somewhat surprising, although I guess it makes sense given our current war situation. Now is the time to excercise caution and vigilance.' Obito thought appreciatively.

"I understand that this might seem quite unbelievable. You probably suspect me of being an imposter, you'd be an complete dunce otherwise. But the good thing is that you possess the all-seeing eyes of the Hyuga clan, if you activate your byakugan, you will be able to see that I am speaking nothing but the truth, here, also take a look at my ninja registration license for confirmation." Obito replied with an 'uncharacteristic' professional tone, waiting patiently as Hyuga Hizashi activated his byakugan and indeed, with only a small and brief widening of the eyes as a show of emotion, confirmed everything that Naruto said.

"Well, your information checks out, but that doesn't mean that we can trust you just yet. I will call for an A.N.B.U. four man cell to escort you to the Hokage's office. You have alot of explaining to do, so does your sensei and your teammates." Hizashi replied, locking his deadly and intimidating doujutu with the sinister and malicious looking three tamoe sharingan of the 12 year old chunin.

"Sounds reasonable enough to me." Obito replied, moving to the side and waiting patiently for his A.N.B.U entourage, under the watchful eye of the heir of the Hyuga branch house.

30 minutes later...

The silence in the room was deafening. The sandaime hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen sat at his chair with a stare that could probably and literally melt even a seasoned shinobi. Next to him, with similar expressions, stood Morino Ibiki, the yellow flash Namikaze Minato, Jiraiya of the Sannin, and young 12 year old Jonin, Hatake Kakashi. The only person with a different expression was Nohara Rin, who was tightly holding on to Kakashi's left arm with a look that seemed to Obito like a combination of fear, confusion, surprise, shock, and even happiness and excitement, which was an amazing feat in itself he thought, for his sharingan to see so many emotions at the same time on one person.

"So you say you are Uchiha Obito...? Hiruzen asked patronizingly.

"An irrefutable and unbending fact, confirmed with Hyuga Hizashi-dono's byakugan at the main gate, by my appearance, and by my sharingan. So yes, I am indeed Uchiha Obito." Naruto replied unflinchingly.

"You may look like him, but are you really him? For all we know, someone else could be walking through your mind right now." The sandaime suggested, not knowing just how right he was, or at least, how close to the real truth he actually was.

'So this is what the old man looked and sounded like in his younger days. I must say, he looks quite a tad bit more credible than he did when I knew him.' Obito thought casually.

"War can change a person, but even more than that, almost dying and losing everyone and everything precious to you can really change a person. It can make even a foolish and naive child grow up and become a man. The foolish and incompetent Obito that you once knew died at the Kanabi Bridge under those boulders, this is the new Uchiha Obito, Hokage-sama." Obito replied smoothly.

"I see...so, please do tell, if you really are Obito, than tell me who your teammates are, and who your sensei is." Hiruzen ordered.

"No offense, Hokage-sama, but that is a really really really stupid question. Even if I was an imposter, I would make sure I at least know that about the guy I was mascarading as. I would have found out that he was the blacksheep of the Uchiha clan, a student to the yellow flash of Konoha, a teammate to the legendary Hatake Sakumo's son, a Konoha prodigy, Hatake Kakashi. And last but not least, a teammate to a girl for whom his heart was worn on a sleeve for, Nohara Rin. It's common sense for me to know that, asking me that question is not going to confirm or disclaim your suspisions." Obito answered with a neutral tone and expression, as if he hadn't just bluntly insulted the hokage, shocking everyone with his blatant disrespect for the professor.

"You brat! Who do you think it is that you're talking to..."

"That's alright Jiraiya, it's fine."

"But sensei..."

"I said let it go!" Hiruzen said with a small wave of killing intent, causing Rin, Kakashi, and even Ibiki to freeze in place, and Jiraiya to shut up instantly, all the while Obito just standing there unflinchingly.

'Sorry old man, but I have faced far worse than you. Madara, Obito, Pein the God Of Ame, the Juubi. Compared to that, this is absolutely nothing.' Naruto thought with a mental roll of the eyes.

"I have a question for you, if you've been alive all this time, why didn't you come back sooner, what have you been doing for the last three months? Or was this another one of your stunts, to cause chaos and confusion in a feeble attempt to get recognition?" Kakashi asked with blunt honesty and cruelty, not mincing his words or holding anything back.

"I was starting to wonder when you became mute, however, it seems you still retain the ability to excercise your foul mouthed toungue." Obito retorted with a jibe of his own.

"Obito! You don't have to be so cruel, Kakashi-kun is just concerned about you! And how many times must I tell you to stop hiding, if you feel pain or anger at us for abandoning you, even if unintentionally, than just say so god damnit so that we can make it up to you!" Rin shouted with an accusing finger.

"Hn, whatever the case may be, his deduction skills are incredibly overated if he can't even discern just by looking at me what I've been doing for the past three months, after all, didn't I only have a two tamoe sharingan the last time the two of you saw me?" Obito asked retorically.

"Who said I didn't notice that?" Kakashi asked with a narrowed eyes.

'So he had a new eye transplanted into hIs left eye socket huh, I don't know why I'm so surprised really, it's not like doujutsu are the only transplantable eyes, that actually wouldn't make sense.' Naruto thought to himself.

"Than don't ask me the name of the restuarant when there's big sign wriiten in bright red and black on the walls." Obito replied, figuratively refering to the red and black colour of his pupil and tamoe respectively, causing the normally stoic Kakashi to fight the urge to grit his teeth in frustration.

"By the way, are the two of you together now?" Obito asked curiously.

"W-what the fuck, what does that have to do with anything you baka!" Rin exclaimed indignantly, a small hue of red forming on each of her cheeks, although somewhat jaded by the markings on her cheeks.

"I'm asking because I know that you love Kakashi, and I know that he has rejected your advances in the past out of misplaced respect and concern for me and my feelings. I just wanted him to know that if he wants to be with you, than it's fine by me. I've done alot of growing up over the last three months, I'm not a child anymore. I've got alot of important things that I want to focus on now, like my clan, the war, and the village. Love and dating are the last things on my mind right now. Basically, what I'm saying is, I've moved on." Obito said with finality.

'Sorry Obito, but your obsession with this girl ultimately caused alot of death and pain for the rest of world, in fact, one could even say that the whole world was destroyed because of your infatuation with this girl. And that...is just one of the few things that I intend to change around here.'

"O-Obito-kun..." Rin trailed off with a shocked and hurt expression.

She was young yes, she was inexperienced in the matters of love, yes, but she was no fool. Obito may have sugar coated it and made some excuses about the war and his clan, but she could read between the lines. Obito had been in love with her, whereas she was in love with Kakashi, who had rejected her because of Obito, and now, Obito was basically saying that he no longer desired her affection, nor did he have those kind of feelings for her anymore. She'd always known that Obito had the hots for her, but she hadn't even thought three times about ignoring his feelings and focussing on her own for Kakashi. She'd just always thought Obito would outgrow his childish crush on her and move on, she just didn't know how much it would hurt when it actually happened. This was turning out to be the worst reunion in the hystory of the elemental nations.

"Obito, there's no doubt in my mind that you really are Obito, I don't need a doujutsu or an interogation to know that, my eyes are good enough for that. But before anything else, I just want to tell you how happy I am that you're alive. And I want to apologise for being such a horrible sensei and friend to you. I promise to try my best to become better, to be a better friend, and a better mentor to you. That is a promise of a lifetime, if you could please give me a second chance." Minato pleaded as he walked until he was standing right in front of the young Uchiha before falling smack on his knees with his head on the floor, much to everyone's surprise, even Obito, although, said surprise only flashed briefly on his facial features.

'Why are they so easily convinced that I really am Obito? Are he and I really that similar to each other?' Naruto pondered.

"I don't need a mentor, I have decided to learn everything the hard way and on my own, until further notice. But we are teammates and we have to at least be civil with each other, so I will accept your hand in friendship." Obito said with his hand stretched out, pulling the Sandaime's successor up and drawing him into a firm handshake.

"That sounds great! It's more than I deserve actually. Thank you for giving me a second chance, Obito!" Minato said with a goofy smile, scratching the back of his head sheepishly.

"Don't mention it." Obito replied off handedly.

'Dad, I've always wanted to have you in my life, you and mom both, life is so cruel, I get a chance to live in a world where both you and mom are alive, yet I still have to live as an orphan, damn!' Naruto thought with an aching heart.

'He's changed so much, but it's not much of a surprise really given what he must have been through over the last three months.' Minato thought to himself, both worried for and at the same time proud of his student for enduring and surviving such a challange.

"So...are we done here? Cause I'd really like to go and re-introduce myself to the clan, especially now that I have a fully mature sharingan. I'd really like to stick it up to all of the people that called me a failure and a disgrace to the clan." Obito said with a determined expression.

'What I really want to do now is to have a little word with Uchiha Kagami, the current clan head. But Obito was an embarrassment to the clan because of his many screw-ups and labeled a blacksheep because he took so long to activate his sharingan compared to his peers. It was a very sensitive issue with him. Even if he had changed, I think they'd expect him...me...to harbour some kind of resentment for that, so I'll just use that as an excuse for wanting to hurry back to the clan compound.' Naruto thought.

"I stationed one of my operatives right outside your clan compound to wait for my signal. We didn't want to say anything yet about your return in case you were not who you say you are. I hope you understand why I had to do this, Obito-kun." Hiruzen said with a warm grandfatherly tone.

"So than, Kagami-sama will be informed of my return by the time I arrive at the compound...if I travel with a slow enough pace?" Obito asked retorically, already having gleaned the correct answer to his question himself.

"Yes, that is how it is. I'm sure Kagami-dono will be very pleased to hear about your return. He has recently been concerned with the losses your clan has suffered in the war, it will please him considerably to know that one of his own, who was thought to be dead, has returned alive." Hiruzen said with a small smile, only to receive a blank stare in return from the young Uchiha.

'Tobirama-dono said that Uchiha Kagami had been different from the other Uchiha's from what I heard, that he had the will of fire that Hashirama passed on throughout the generations. However, judging from my new memories I have from Obito, I can tell that he is still an Uchiha with pride and a very militant mindset which was probably passed on by Tobirama-dono himself. He won't be happy that the one who has returned is actually the supposed incompetent liability of the clan.' Obito thought to himself.

'Oh well, nothing a little private conversation can't change.' Obito thought with a mental smirk.

"Well, it was nice seeing you all again, I'll report for duty first thing tommorrow morning. By your leave, Hokage-sama." Obito said, not waiting for the Hokage's acknowledgement as he turned around and swiftly exited the office.

"Well, what do you think, Ibiki?" Hiruzen asked curiously.

"He is definitely hiding something, something very big. However, it is probably something personal that he wants to keep to himself, or he has simply become reclusive and keeps to himself in order to deal with the trauma. It is clear that he is still loyal to his clan and retains a strong loyalty to the village by extention as well, he does have alot of secrets that I don't think he will share willingly though." Ibiki, the youngest ever head of intelligence and interogation unit, explained.

"I see..." Hiruzen trailed off thoughtfully.

"That's it? We're just going to let him come back just like that? What about a proper interogation, what about utilising the Yamanaka clan's special abilities to find out exactly what he is hiding? What about assigning an A.N.B.U tail to follow him around inconspiciously to see what he gets up to when no one is watching? What about proper intelligence and information gathering, sensei? Are you getting soft in your old age?" Jiraiya asked angrily.

"Obito-kun loves the village more than anyone else I know of! He would never betray Konoha! His dream is to one day become the best Hokage in the history of Konoha! I don't care who you think you are, I won't let you insult Obito-kun like that when you don't even know him!" Rin shouted angrily.

"This Obito is different from the Obito that you once knew young lady...!"

"Be that as it may, I still have to agree with Rin on this one. Despite our many differences, I know better than anyone out there that Obito would never betray the village...it's impossible!" Kakashi replied with an intense expression, eyes narrowed at the toad sage threateningly, almost daring him to disagree with him.

"Like I said..."

"Jiraiya-sensei...!" Minato cut in hastily.

"I understand your concerns, but I can't allow even you to speak so ill about one of my precious students without evidence or justification. Having said that, I understand that this is a delicate matter and that me and my two students here are too close to the situation to make any real objective conclusions. Still, everything you suggested that be done is in complete violation of clan previledge, if we were to be caught doing such a thing, it would have a negative impact on the relationship between not just the Uchiha clan and the village, but all of Konoha's clans and the village. That is a gamble we absolutely cannot afford to take." Minato said with a serious tone.

"Than what are you suggesting we do, Minato-san?" Ibiki asked curiously.

"Let me and my students handle the Obito situation. That's all you can do."

"But didn't you just say that you were too close to the situation to make an objective analysis?" Ibiki asked incredulously.

"Yes I did, but maybe being too close to the suspect is what is required to get the best results in this case. If, hypothetically speaking, Obito was no longer loyal to Konoha, he would still play act for the sake of public appearances and to keep suspision away from himself. Someone who doesn't know Obito as well as we do, in such a scenario, wouldn't be able to detect any discripencies in Obito's behaviour because they didn't know him that well to begin with. However, someone who knows him as well as we do would not miss such a thing. Also, his bond with us, as his teammates might force him to reconsider his hypothetical decision to desert or betray the leaf village. I think it would be better if we proceeded in this vain, but of course, the final ruling lies on you, Hokage-sama." Minato said, staring at the Hokage expectantly as he waited for the professor's response.

"Hmmmm...well, you are my successor, and I plan to step down at the end of the month. The burden of making such high profile decisions will fall on your shoulders very soon. With that in mind, I will allow you to proceed as you see fit, Minato-kun" Hiruzen replied with serious expression.

"Well than, you all heard it, directly from Hokage-sama's lips. Kakashi, Rin, we will have to keep our eyes and ears open with anything concerning Obito over the next couple of years, however, please do not treat him like a convict, don't even treat him like a suspect. Be the best friends and teammates that you can be to him and love him with all your hearts as a brother, as will I, while keeping an open eye and ear. Do you both understand?" Minato asked with a grave tone.

"Hai, Minato-sensei!" the duo replied.

'Hmmmm...Sensei and Minato are acting very naive for people of the title of Kage, clearly I'm going to have to take this matter into my own hands. I don't think this Uchiha is as trustworthy as everyone believes that he is.' Jiraiya thought skeptically.

Two Hours Later...

"I see, so let me get this straight, you awakened the sharingan, two tamoe on your right eye and one on your left eye, shortly before you and Hatake Sakumo's son rescued Nohara Rin. During your escape, the cave collapsed due to explosion tags planted by the enemy in and around the cave and, in a successful attempt to rescue Hatake Kakashi, half of your body was crushed by boulders from the collapsing structure. Your teammates were forced to leave you behind but you somehow survived the incident and spent the next three months recovering and honing your skills in one of the Uchiha clan secret hideouts from the clan wars. When you were certain that you had awakened and mastered all three tamoe of your mangyeko sharingan, you decided to return to Konoha and the clan. Did I get everything right, Obito?" Uchiha Kagami, the 54 year old head of the Uchiha clan, asked with a calm exterior.

"Hai, Kagami-sama!" Obito replied passively, kneeling down on both of his knees in a submissive position in front of the standing clan head.

If he had to be honest, Obito would say that he was really surprised by the reception that he received when he returned. He never expected to find the whole Uchiha clan standing right outside the compound main gates waiting for him, and he certainly never expected the warm reception that he was granted on his return. Everyone was friendly with him and everyone congratulated him on his achievement, after all, only eight year old Uchiha Shishui, Kagami-sama's last born and only living son, had awakened all three tamoe of his sharingan out of Obito's age group and below, not counting Obito himself of course.

'The sharingan is definitely the pride of this clan, if even I can gain such a profound admiration and popularity from being the black sheep of the clan not too long ago, all because of awakening all three tamoe at such a young age.' Obito thought to himself before being broken out of his thoughts by Kagami's deep and composed voice.

"So than, let me ask you this again, what kind of fool do you take me for, Obito...?" Kagami asked with mock patience and impassiveness, however, Obito, being a former jinchuuriki, one who had to live with hate, humiliation and scorn from his own village at a young age, was more than adequate at detecting negative emotions, hence why he was more than certain that this guy was almost literally about to explode on him.

"Ahem...I understand that there are some holes in my story, and I want you to know that I am more than willing to share this information with you. I will also leave the decision on whether we share it with the rest of the clan or not up to you..."

"That decision would have been mine anyway, don't, for a split second fool yourself into thinking otherwise, Obito..." Kagami trailed off with a threatening tone.

"I understand, Kagami-sama!" Obito replied passively.

"Make sure you don't forget that. Now, tell me, how did you survive an incident that had two geniuses like Hatake Kakashi and Namikaze Minato, along with one of the most promising medics in the village in your teammate Nohara Rin, convinced that you could not have possibly survived?" Kagami asked in a clear and concise manner.

"I used my mangyeko sharingan to survive the incident..." Obito trailed off as the tamoe in his eyes began to spin rapidly as they connected together and formed into their mangyeko sharingan form.

"M-masaka...t-this can't be...!" Kagami exclaimed uncharacteristically, a more than stupified and shocked expression appearing on his facial features.

"Yes it is! These eyes helped me to escape the boulders with minimal harm to my body." Obito replied.

"O-Obito...do you know what this means?" Kagami asked hysterically.

"Yes, it means that I'm on my way to surpassing Izuna-sama and Madara-sama, it means that I am on my way to achieving an unmatched and unprecedented greatness, and I will drag the clan up with me as I and the clan climb up the ladder of greatness. Kagami-sama, please teach me all of the secrets of the Uchiha clan, all of the forbidden jutsu and everything there is to know about our history. I want you to be my mentor, and one day, if you'll allow it, I want to lead the clan to greater heights, please, Kagami-sama!" Obito begged with his forehead planted firmly on the wooden floor.

'Of course, thanks to Obito's memories from my timeline, I already know all the kinjutsu and everything there is to know about our history, but allowing Kagami to re-teach me everything will allow me to form a bond with him as mentor and apprentice, and that bond, along with my power will make me the automatic successor to him. Fugaku will never become the clan head in this reality, and the Uchiha clan's destiny will become totally different. I won't allow Madara, Danzo, the elders, or the Hokage to have their way this time around...Obito, I will rewrite everything...this is what you wanted me to do, isnt it?" Naruto thought nostalgically.

"Obito...you will tell me everything now, I want to know exactly what happened and I want to know what kind of powers you have attained in those eyes! Only then, when you have told me everything, will we decide how to proceed from here on out." Kagami said with a demanding tone.

'Hiruzen has found himself a worthy successor in Namikaze Minato, he is the elite of the elite and he has the character and mind to make a great hokage. Compared to that, my choice, Fugaku, is nothing in comparision, and to think that there has been currently no one else better than him. Shishui has shown promise, he will become one of the greatest to ever come from the clan, but he is still too young, Obito is also young, but if he has become this powerful over such a short space of time, I can only imagine how great he will become under my tutelage. He might be the successor I've been waiting for all along. With this disease, I don't have much time to live, but at least now, if Obito has become the person that I think he has, I can at least leave this world knowing that I leave the clan in hands even more capable than mine. And maybe I can get him to mentor shishui as well. Between the two of them, they should be more than capable of leading and protecting the clan." Kagami thought long and hard, a small smirk morphing slowly but surely on his facial features.

End Chapter

Pairings will be Guren and Fu. There may be others but there also might not be.