The work of fate

Ch 16 - the line of darkness

Minato POV—

"He's my great grandfather sensei.."

I was shocked

Should i feel bad for him about this, After all it truly was a Big burden.
After all for someone who wishes to become hokage to find out that they are related to the biggest threat the fire country and village had ever seen...
But it could very Well just be Another Lie like the last time i questioned him

"Why should i believe you?"

"I don't know..i have a peice of paper on it back at home but that'll hardly prove anything" he Said and shrugged filled his eyes a little

'What happened to him being scared and shaking like he did before?'

Does he not understand what a grave situation he's in? If he does than he's suddenly not showing worry.. the opposite, he shrugs and Rolls his eyes at my questioning

"I really want to cancel this mission you kn-"

"You can't do that! Sensei please...you just have to trust me for a little while longer..."

Obito POV—

I couldn't allow him to do that.. ever since i traveled back to this time everything inside my head tells me that we have to complete the Kanabi bridge battle

And now i had a plan as to what i should do... but i havn't told Kakashi...and i'm not planning to

This is a mess i have to clean up alone After all...at least partly.
I will always exept Kakashi's Help when it comes to stuff like this...

But when it comes to Madara i-

"You sure are making things hard for me Obito-" my thoughts were interupted by Minato. He continued "i've always seen you as a bright boy... you loved your village and your comrades... you were someone who could defeintly become hokage... but now that you've changed...things like that dosn't Seem to matter to you as much...you've grown cold Obito..heritage or not. It's worrying"

"It does matter... i'm doing all of this for a reason sensei. You might not understand, not Rin either... but i'm doing this for my comrades of the future"

I did that on purpose, he couldn't possibly figure out the message behind those few words

"Your comrades of the future? What does that mean?"

"I mean..sure i'm not all alone in the future right? Kakashi, Rin, you and everyone else is probably by my side in the future too...the next generation too...they deserve a good future... and it's this generations job to make sacrifises to make sure of that right?"

The surprise was carved clearly into Minato's face

"Are you sacrifising your happiness? Your morals?"

"I'm sacrifising childhood..a childhood that was already destroyed..."

"A destoyed childhood? You always smiled Obito you were happy!"

"I was smiling...but i tricked everyone into thinking i was happy...and as years passed i ended tricking myself...but now i know better... It'll probably take some time.. byt this Way i might be able to be truly happy, while being myself"

Minato lowered his head making his Golden bangs cover his eyes

"Let's go back to Camp..." he saud silently.

"Wha-?"

"Oh that's right! You were actually supposed to gather fire Wood right?"

He began sounding happy again, but was it a mask...did he actually believe me?

"Y-Yeah..."

And with that he puffes into a cloud of smoke.
A shadow clone? "Of course i should've known" i chuckled quietly to myself running my hand through my Short hair

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"Sorry for the Wait guys!" I saud while placing the firewood so that it pointed upwards..

It probably hadn't been that long i was gone, but the talk with Minato made it feel like hours

"Don't worry about" Minato Said.
How inronic

"Yeah you weren't even gone that long you know" Kakashi Said and get over to the stack of Wood i had places to light it on fire with a simple fire jutsu

I went over to a long log that was places close to the fire, where Rin was already sitting, and Kakashi joined

"So tommorow is your first mission as team Leader Kakashi.. are you exited?" Rin asked trying to break the silence

"Ehh mmm i don't know If exited is the right word"

"Then what is the right word?"

"Ready"

I couldn't Help but smile at Kakashi's response 'ready'
That's the word he needed to describe That feeling in his chest Huh?
That's so like him

"You're not nervous?" It was Minato who asked, he was sitting by the fire Cooking some fish that Rin had caught at a small river not too far away

'There's just rivers everywhere Huh?'

"No i'm not...the three of us has improved our teamwork..everyone is gonna make it unscaved"

"That's right..We're all gonna make sure of that!" I told him with a Big smile that i knew he couldn't see trough.

He couldn't see that i was lying