The Black Leaf (Part 2)

Chapter 23: The Masked Man

Kakashi's POV

After fighting against the seven swords man, Shikaku communicated with us. Naruto had escape the from island where he was kept and now he was heading towards the battlefield to fight Madara. I sighed and started heading towards the Canyon where Shikaku said Naruto was heading. Guy caught up with me and we both ran fast, we heard explosions and saw bright lights on the distance. When we got there we saw the masked man, over Naruto. We immediately jumped in and attacked him but it was all useless, all our attacked just went through him. 

"Naruto, why are you here?" I asked as I helped him up, "how did you get out?" 

"Your wife helped us brake out,"  Killer Bee said from behind us.

"Izumi? where is she?" I held Naruto's arm tight.

"With Itachi," he said and touched my shoulder, "he was going to take her to the main road and she was going to head home from there."

"He was revived," I looked at him with fear, "Naruto they are dangerous, they are not in control. How could you've leave her with him?"

"Kakashi-sensei, Itachi broke the jutsu," he smiled, "he is fine, he is in control of himself, he will never harm them."

I sighed deeply, she was with him, they are together. I couldn't worry about that right now. I knew she was safe with him, he was going to protect them. Regardless I couldn't help but feel uneasy and slightly jealous.

We focused on the fight ahead of us and after a while I realized that Naruto, Guy and I were clearly not match for the man who called himself Madara. Just a tiny scratched on his mask and a scratch on his shoulder was all we could do. He even stopped my Kamui, who is this man? Suddenly, I remembered what Izumi told me that morning before she left with Naruto and the others to the Hidden Cloud. 

 "The masked man is not Madara," she said staring at the ceiling. 

"What do you mean?" I asked her.

"I seen his face and he is around our age, there is no way he can be Madara, you need to be careful." She hesitated, I knew there was more she wanted to tell me. 

"Why are you telling me this now?" I asked her confused.

She turned to look at me, "I don't know how, but he knows you, and he doesn't like you much." I stared at her puzzled, who can this man be? "Kakashi, he will not hesitate to kill you."

If this man is not Madara then who? I thought about it, I could feel the pounding and sharp pain in my brain just from thinking about it. Naruto and Guy debated how we could bring this man down. I explained to them how his space and time ninjutsu was in the same dimension of my Kamui. 

"Are you saying that your eyes techniques are connected?" Guy asked confused.

"Is space and time ninjutsu always connected no matter who uses it?" Killer Bee asked. 

"No, I think it's just us two," I explained to them how the two hits we landed on him actual made their way to his body. I still I couldn't understand how our dimensions were connected. "Where did you get that eye?" I asked the masked man standing in front us. 

"Where,  you say," he sighed, "at the Kannabi bridge, the fight where you got to be called the hero with the sharingan." I felt shivers travel through my spine, it couldn't be him. It can't be, he is dead.

"I will show you the power of the real Kamui," He said staring at me. Guy, and Naruto launched themselves at him and I followed. After a few failed attacks and more wasted chakra. Naruto was able to break the man's mask in pieces with a Rasengan. The moment I saw his face, I knew who he was, Obito Uchiha.