In another Timeline

Chapter 23- To Know A Person

The two sat in silence for a long time. Kushina questioned Tobias's ability to stay awake for so long. But Tobias just shrugged in response. I mean, he doesn't really know. The raining finally stopped a couple hours after. The wind still raged unfortunately.

Kushina sighed and stood up. "Let's go Tobias, I don't want to get stuck in another rainstorm, you know." Tobias shrugged and stood up to follow the women.

"You probably know the way there better than I do." Kushina raised an eyebrow. "We're you headed there?" Tobias nodded. "it was an easy landmark, I would go somewhere else after I reached that point though." Kushina nodded. "I see."

They walked in silence. It bothered Tobias that they were just walking. He planned to sprint to his destination. Him walking made him nervous. Incredibly nervous.

"May I ask how you got that scar?" Tobias was silent. "I do not remember how I got it." Kushina looked at Tobias with a questionable look. "that doesn't seem like a scar you'd forget." Tobias nodded.

"How do you think the people who kidnapped us makes us listen to them?" Kushina was silent. "Induced amnesia?" Tobias nodded. "Indeed." Kushina's eyebrows furrowed. "That's terrible. I wish we could have done something sooner." Tobias shrugged.

"You know, other villages had been searching for the bases as well." Tobias looked at Kushina. "They have?" She nodded. "Though, only recently. The cloud and sand had even started to look." Tobias nodded. "I see." She smiled.

"How do you guys remain undercover?" Tobias shrugged. "I don't even remember being told we were being invaded." Kushina scowled.

"We never even worried them? Well their opinions of us probably aren't good." Tobias shrugged. "I was told that I was being chased by the leaf." Kushina stopped.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Tobias didn't shrug he knew what it meant, and so did she.

"They said they had saved me from the leaf. Though, I believe they only told me that so I would stay away from it. I don't believe a word they say." Kushina nodded and started walking again. "Could that mean you are from the leaf?" Tobias went silent.

"Possibly." She nodded. "Tell you horrible stories about the place that has a chance to allow you to remember your past." Tobias didn't respond.

"Tobias, your story is sad." She put her hands on her hips. Tobias raised an eyebrow but got what she meant. "I suppose." It was silent for a couple more minutes.

"You can call me Tobi." She looked at Tobias and studied his face. "Tobi is a strange name, not to mention Tobias." Tobias nodded. "It is not my real name." Kushina looked confused. "why not use your real name?" Tobias went silent.

"I do not remember my real name, I onto remember my last name because I'm from a known clan." Kushina was silent. "What clan?"

"Ah, Uchiha." She stopped. "Uchiha?" Tobias raised an eyebrow. "Yes." "Now the clan head of the Uchiha clan and it's elders are involved in this whole mess." She smiled despite sounding disappointed.

"Now that apparently an Uchiha had been kidnapped, now this mysterious orginization has involved themselves with the Uchiha clan." Her smile only became more evil at every word.

It made Tobias nervous. "Ok?" Kushina laughed at Tobias's cluelessness.

They reached a good stopping point. "We should camp here." Tobias shrugged. "Ok." Kushina smiled.

Kushina grabbed a scroll and summoned supplies and a tent. "That little branch tent you made was pretty cool. How long did it take to make it?" She said as she set up her own tent.

"Not that long?" Kushina looked back with a frown. "It was pretty cool, it would take me hours to make something like that and it would still let rain in. The wind would only knock it over." She laughed.

Tobias looked at her with a questioning look. "I see." Kushina finished setting up her tent and looked back at Tobias. "Do you have a tent? I can summon another." Tobias shook his head. "I can make another shelter." Kushina frowned.

"You don't need to scavenge for branches to make a shelter, I don't mind." Tobias shook his head.

He made a couple of hand signs and put his hand on the ground. At the same moment the branches erupted from the ground and made an almost identical shelter.

Kushina dropped the scroll she had in her hand. She stared with wide eyes at the makeshift wooden tent.

"You can use... Wood style?" Tobias was silent. "Yes?" It went silent for a couple of minutes. "It was the first Hokage's right? Its rare isn't it?" Kushina slowly nodded. "Only one other person can use it. And that's because he was experimented on by Orochimaru." Tobias was silent.

"Was wood style really this rare?" Kushina looked over his tent once more. "An Uchiha that can use wood style... Its almost ironic." Tobias didn't know what that meant but he didn't bother asking. She knew he was clueless but he was still embarrassed.

She fell asleep but Tobias remained awake. He wasn't tired. Especially outside. The outside world is a very much new place for him. He understands it pretty well but it still makes him nervous. To nervous to sleep.

He sat silently. He finally let his urges take over and started to pick away at his arm. He was bored. He didn't realize he went to far until it was to late. Blood dripped down his arm and onto the ground.

The sun finally shown over the treeline and it stirred Kushina awake. She sighed as she exited the tent. "I hate it when it's humid." She put her hair into a ponytail and began to undo her tent and put it back into a scroll.

"Did you sleep?" She asked without turning to Tobias. "No." He healed what he could of his arm.

"Why is that?" She asked with a smile. "I wasn't tired." She shrugged. "Well I guess that would make sense. But I wonder how you aren't tired." Tobias shrugged.

"What happened to your arm? It looks scabbed." Kushina asked as she started walking towards their destination once more. "It's a habit I picked up. I pick at my arm every once in a while." She frowned. "Your arm is several different shades of pink. How badly do you pick at it?" Tobias shrugged.

"Probably pretty bad I guess." Kushina sighed. "That is not a habit you would want." Tobias shrugged.

Kushina seemed annoyed, not at Tobias but at herself. Whoever this Tobi guy was, he didnt get the chance to learn what was right and what was wrong and if he did know, he forgot.