The Lost Family (Uchiha, Obito Story)

Chapter XI

Chapter Eleven

I caught Max’s shoulder as she stumbled slightly, partly from the force at which she left Madara’s hands and from the uneven dirt ground we were on. “Grr, that jerk, he threw me!” Max exclaimed, catching her footing and glaring behind her, as if she would still see the elder Uchiha.

I rolled my eyes. “Oh hush it, I’m sure he could have done worse.” Even though that sounded a little mean, I couldn't help it. I would have thought Madara would send me back to my time, but he sent me back here. Weird.

Max pouted, her bottom lips jutting out and she turned away from me in a huff, arms crossed over her chest. She was grumbling things under her breath, looking adorable as she did. She noticed me looking and 'tsk'ed.

I looked around, we were in the forest and I could faintly see her towering house to the left of us through the trees. “Your house is right there.” The air was cold and the forest dead, the ground covered in slight snow.

I felt freezing, but Max looked fine, bundled in her jacket with Madara’s shirt underneath. She had her regular clothes draped on her arm. She seemed to think it was comfortable, but it slightly ticked me off. I don't know why; it just did. Like when Rin was giving flirty eyes at Kakashi while stitching him up after being stupid and showing off.

Max stopped her childishly cute grumbling and looked at me over her shoulder, knocking me out of my thoughts. “Huh?” she asked stupidly. I pointed to her house and started to walk in that direction. “Oh,” she jogged to catch up to me and walk beside me. As we near the house, I felt a nervous sensation run down my spine.

“How mad do you think your dad will be?” I gulped, knowing he might take his anger out on me for not getting Max home, like I should have, and instead somehow going back to my world and meeting my older self as well as other people.

“Very, but don’t worry. I’ll say it’s my fault, and that I somehow summoned him, you know, Devie was saying that she told Madara to do it so....” Max shrugged. “I wonder why our future selves made Madara come get us,” Max said tilting her head to the side a little bit.

“What? He came to get us,” I argued lamely.

Max shook her head, and looked me in the eyes. “Not true. Not possible. We weren’t even there for that long for him to put use to us. So, that must mean he didn’t want us, but more of maybe the future us wanted to prevent us from seeing something, or something like that. I’m smart, I’d do something like that.” Max smirked and clutched me in a brief hug. “WE GET TO GROW UP TOGETHER!” She squealed, changing the subject. Maybe not that much, but still changing it.

I chuckled nervously, the thought of her father seeing us as we walked closer to the house making me worried. “Yeah, I guess we do.” I answered awkwardly, not really paying attention to her, but more of scouting around for her father.

Damn, that man scared the living shit out of me.

“Obito?” Max asked, knocking me from my thoughts.

“Yeah?” I asked lamely, looking at her with one eye, I still hadn't opened that eye yet.

“Are you okay?” She asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Yeah why-” I ran into a tree. "Ow..." I rubbed my head a little.

“Because you just ran into a tree, I thought ninjas had skill, that looked like a plain fail to me.” Max teased, crossing her arms over her chest. Okay, so, I probably should have known she would catch my slight paranoia of dying at her father’s hands.

Instead of answering her I just gave her a crooked smile and rubbed the back of my neck, not sure what to say. “Uh... I was just wondering... uh, those were a lot of leeches, you okay?”