Chapter 6: Chapter 6: A Prodigy View Part-2
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"Kakashi! This is a serious situation! There were traces of chakra in the remaining flames, but we couldn't identify who was behind it. It could've been Obito," Kakashi winced. Yes, Minato definitely suspected, and that didn't help Kakashi's own dark suspicions.
"But what if it wasn't? What if he's in danger?" The silver-haired boy held an impassive look. The latter possibility was one that would be easier for him to deal with. Then, he'd have someone he could hunt down to vent his anger on.
He honestly didn't want to think of the possibility of suicide, and he was rather close to grabbing the injured boy and yelling at him to answer, demanding that Obito tell them what happened and why he did it.
But he knew that most of his frustration over the matter was because of his past, and he was a Shinobi. He was mature. He could keep his emotions in check—
The sound of a powerful slap wrenched Kakashi out of his thoughts and he immediately looked up, his body tensed and prepared to attack and subdue.
He was left rather confused, however, when he realized that it had been Obito—and he had slapped Rin's hand away. Rin.
The girl Obito had a rather obvious crush on. Apparently he wasn't the only one surprised, and both Minato and Rin had frozen in place.
A tense silence fell before she ventured to break it. "… Obito, I need to check your injuries since they aren't fully healed yet." Most likely, she just wanted to check on her own to confirm the reports.
It wasn't like she was going against protocol, as she was a certified medic-nin in training and simply checking was allowed. "Not only did you have second and some third degree burn wounds, but the lacerations from the glass of the frame you were holding are als—"
"Where!?" Obito had immediately turned to face them, and Kakashi felt himself stumble. It wasn't killing intent, but the boy exuded such an oppressive air that it may as well have been.
The look in his eyes, it was feral, powerful, but not unlike that of a cornered animal. "Where is it!? What did you do with the picture!?"
Rin's trembling hand reached into her bag to took out the picture. "I-I have it, h-here—"
It was unceremoniously snatched away from her hands and for a few moments, he looked over it as though inspecting it for damage or forgery.
He then hugged it—yes, he hugged the picture—and closed his eyes as though wishing away a bad memory as he clutched onto the charred parchment.
Kakashi stared, bewildered. The way Obito behaved was as though he were someone clinging to a memento, a lasting memory of something that didn't exist any longer. But it was a picture of them.
An idiot, that's what Obito was. There they were, the rest of Team 7, visiting him because he had a near-death experience. And yet, he was acting as if they had been the ones to experience it… and died.
Minato was the one to finally break through the tense atmosphere. "Well… I'm sad to inform you that that picture is the only thing to have survived the fire."
He rubbed at the back of his neck and said again: "Everything else was burnt to a crisp, including the apartment complex. I've talked to your… Family, but Hokage-sama and I have decided that it would be best if you weren't placed somewhere that's near the clan compound."
Kakashi glared at Obito. He wasn't paying attention, and he knew that Minato noticed this as well. He continued anyway. "Sadly, there isn't enough in the orphan fund for you to be given new lodging, so you'll be living with me for the time being."
That had apparently gotten Obito's attention, because he blinked and murmured the word, "what?" under his breath.
Minato looked like he was about to reply, but the raven-haired boy whirled around to face him, a barely-concealed glare in place. "… What… did you say?"
"I said, you'll be living with me—"
"NO!" Obito shouted, and the vehemence in his tone once again shocked everyone present. Kakashi felt pity for his sensei for the briefest of moments before turning a glare to the Uchiha. "I'm not going to be living with anyone! I'm not even supposed to be here! Stop LYING!"
Kakashi blinked. '… What? "I'm not even supposed to be here"? What does that mean?'
"Obito, what do you mean by that?" Minato questioned, looking for clarification.
The addressed boy seemed to consider something before narrowing his eyes.
"Don't act so familiar with me." His voice held such deep-seated resentment, but that wasn't what caused Kakashi's voice to hitch.
That wasn't what caused his sensei and Rin to gasp, either. Suddenly, Obito's eyes bled into a familiar red that was associated with his clan; the dōjutsu that they didn't know the boy had access to yet. "You don't know a thing, and I don't need to explain shit to you imposters. I don't belong here."
'"Imposters"?' Kakashi thought bemusedly. 'Again, saying that he isn't supposed to be here. What is going on?'
Rin's back was tense, and she began to speak. Her voice sounded like she was on the verge of tears. "Obito, wha—"
"Shut up and leave." There was no cheer in his voice, and his tone was one that implied there was no room for argument. Kakashi felt a feeling of discontent bubble forth. "There is nothing for me here. Nothing."
A bitter grin stretched across his face and he glared up at the ceiling, a motion that wasn't missed by any of the bystanders in the room. "You expect me to believe this shit, Kaguya!? You really think that you can trick me, Uchiha Obito," he gestured angrily around the room with his hand, "with this?"
"Well… I hate to disappoint," a bitter laugh escaped his lips and he turned to the others in the room, a sneer in place. "I'm not going to conform to your fucking illusion."
'That's enough,' Kakashi thought, trying to quell the anger that threatened to burst forth at the dejected slouch his female teammate had adopted and the pained expression on his sensei's face.
He needed answers, and he needed them now. Kakashi slowly approached Obito, his hand inching towards his kunai pouch in case the boy proved to be a threat.
Teammate or not, he was a potential threat, and threats needed to be subdued or eliminated. "… Obito," he started slowly, eyes never leaving his face. "Just what the hell is going on—"
"Shut up, just leave me alone already. Let me die. Just let me fucking-die." Kakashi felt his heart lurch at the words, but his eyes were riveted and he watched with sickening fascination as Obito's Sharingan eyes spun into blood-red pinwheels.
He had never seen a Sharingan that looked like that, and his senses all but screamed at him to run away or to stop the Uchiha from doing whatever the hell he was planning. "Is that really so much to ask?"
Before anyone could react, Obito was engulfed in what looked to be black flames—and Kakashi couldn't help but think that they were flames from hell.
Obito let out a strangled cry as he fell backwards against his sheets, and while Minato and Rin panicked, the former uncharacteristically frozen in shock and the latter heaving gasps, Kakashi could only look on in horror.
Just as Kakashi was about to… What? He didn't even know. He might've run away, he might've shoved the kunai he had a death-grip on through Obito's throat, he might've used a Water Release (though something told him it would've been useless), he might've pulled Minato and Rin away.
All he knew was that the black, vicious flames were dangerous, and that they were all in danger. And, just as he was about to act on his first instinct, they vanished—just like that—leaving Obito only slightly charred this time, and the rest of Team 7 bewildered.
For a while, they just stared at the unconscious form of Uchiha Obito, trying to make sense of what had just transpired.
And when Minato quietly said, "… We need to figure out what happened," Kakashi couldn't do anything but nod. Because what else could they do?
Kakashi didn't know. He sure as hell didn't know.
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