The Commanding Eyes

Seven

I walked into Hidan's room the following morning expecting a lecture but got a hug instead. Hidan looked down at me with his infamous smirk and I looked back up at him confused. I followed him over to his bed and plopped down onto it with a sigh as he sat down next to me.

"Alright Makoto, what's the deal between you and Obito?" Hidan asked as he looked over at me.

"Well, there's two things that are currently going on." I stated, "the first, and most obvious, is that I am in love with him. I know I shouldn't have allowed myself to do that but it happened. The second is that if we agree to be his partners in the upcoming war he will help us slaughter our home village." I finished as I looked up at Hidan.

"Okay, so what you're saying is if we help Obito and fight with him in this war he will fight with us to destroy the ones that hurt us?" Hidan asked calmer than I expected.

"Yes, if we do what we are already good at then we get what we want sooner than we would have otherwise." I replied.

"Alright, then I guess I'm in. Of course I never really had a choice anyways since I wasn't letting you do something dangerous without me." Hidan said with a chuckle.

The door to Hidan's room opened and Nagato walked in with Obito at his side. Obito seemed pissed as Nagato cleared his throat and looked at me.

"Makoto, I've got a mission for you today. You'll be going with Obito to fetch something very important." Nagato said as he watched Hidan cautiously, knowing this would anger him.

"What the fuck?! He isn't his teammate! Kakuzu and I are his fucking teammates! You can't send him on a mission without us!" Hidan yelled angrily. I knew he didn't care about the whole team thing, he was angry that I could be going on a dangerous mission without him

"Hidan " I said sternly. Hidan stopped yelling at me and looked at me, "I will be alright, Obito is a powerful ninja that can protect me if I need him to. I promise you that I will be fine." I said smiling.

Hidan sighed as he knew he had been defeated and I stood up from his bed. Obito and I left the base quietly to head out on our mission. Obito was tense the entire mission and I knew that he didn't want to be doing this mission anymore than Hidan wanted me to.

"Obito, what exactly are we doing?" I asked cautiously.

"We heard some rumors about Orochimaru and we are going to check them out." Obito replied through grit teeth. There was more to this mission than he was telling me, that's why he was refusing to look at me because I would see through his lie. I may be Hidan's brother but I wasn't nearly as dimwitted as he was. I would just have to wait and see what that lie was because I don't like being lied to.

As we approached Otogakure the air around us changed. It became heavy with dread and sadness as the village people walked with their heads down. We concealed our chakra as we walked through the village without our cloaks. I could sense ninja following us and as I looked over towards Obito he nodded. We started walking out towards the wooded area near the village as an attempt to prevent unnecessary bloodshed once engaged in a fight.

The ninja surrounded us as soon as we entered the forest. I noticed they each wore masks that covered their eyes so my main offense would be useless. I looked over at Obito to see he had taken his mask off and looked over at me with concern. I looked back to the ninja to see they had moved in closer.

"Makoto, keep your eyes open and be careful." Obito warned as I pulled out a kunai. I gasped when one of the ninja hit me hard in the chest which flung me back against a tree. Obito tried getting over to me but was shoved back and surrounded by more ninja. One of the ninja trapped me against the tree with the tree roots as another jumped down in front of me and removed his mask. My eyes widened as I was looking into the eyes of Orochimaru. He started pulling his sword out as I stared up at him and shoved the sword through my stomach.

"Makoto!" Obito fought to get to me.

My vision was fading as I looked up to Obito, he had tears in his angry eyes as he killed the ninja holding him back. I met my eyes to his and smiled apologetically because I couldn't let him be killed.

"Run..." I said softly and immediately Obito stopped fighting. He looked at me in horror before being forced to turn and run away from the fight. I couldn't stay awake any longer as I passed out from exhaustion.