The work of fate

Ch 18 - awakening

Minato POV—

I knew something had been wrong with him...
He hadn't acted like himself in weeks!
Sure his ninjutsu, taijutsu and kenjutsu had improved, and that's not even counting his sharingan abilities.. and the mangekyou abilities that i never got to know about..

I threatened him, and i was in my right place to do so..,.

But...i never..ever wanted him to get that hurt...and to die such a long and painful death

I was sitting on a Big rock out in the middle of nowhere, that was where we had regrouped...the moment i Saw them i knew something was terribly wrong

The very fact that Obito wasn't with them made it obvious..but i denied it till they told me

Obito had been crushed under a rock, and afterwards burried alive..the only thing left were his orange goggles

I looked Down to see Rin and Kakashi sleeping soundly beside the rock i was sitting on

'I wonder how Big the rock that hit Obito was...maybe this Big?' I though and put my palm on the rock i was sitting on...it was a frightening thought

'I regret what i Said...i wish i could had just one more lighthearted talk with you...like the ones we used to have about becoming hokage..' i thought and looked up towards the dark sky, hoping that somehow my thoughts would reach him...where ever he was now

Obito POV—

My head pounded, it hurt unbearably much!
I felt the pain before i woke up...but the wake came mere seconds later

I tried to lift my dominant arm to hold my pounding head, but at the movement the pain in my right arm tipped the scale completely..se that was painfull!

I was disoriantated.."w-where? Who?" I asked when my eyes adjusted to the light of the tourches put on the Walls. and then i heard dragging footsteps

"In between this life and the other...as for who..i man merely a old man who saved you..."

'That voice...Why does it Sound like-'

Weakly i was able to turn my heard and look the old man in his single uncovered eye

'Madara!'

My confusement disapeared. I understood and i remembered

-Kanabi bridge
-the boulder
-Rin & Kakashi

And now one of my goals

-find madara- check!

-stop/kill madara- in progress!

"Oh you saved Me old man?! Thank you!"

Urgh! I wanted to throw up at that sentence, but right now i had to play along.. my body couldn't withstand the inpact of the boulder even with the use of a 5 minute range kamui..

I was weak and my body was wrecked..but this time the rehabilitation would be easier

I had learned what was less painfull and how to even make the painfull exercises less painfull...also which exercises would work best..i learned that last time!

"It is too soon to Thank me, you will repay me one Day"

'Don't count on it'

"Repay you? Yeah sure, it's my motto to Help the elders! Need Help with bathroom stuff?" I Said this as a child and i Said it now..he didn't get angry with me, he didn't think i knew better, but i knew that madara hated this!
He hated his age and the fact that he was old and weak..

Madara simply couldn't leave the past behind, that was one of his weaknesses...defiently..

"That would be good" he answered with the same indifferent expression on his face. I couldn't read him, i had never been able to.

I bit my tounge trying not to scoff at that

"You..You look a lot like a guy from one of my books.." i Said wanting to get to the point of his identidy as soon as possible.

"Oh..is that so..." he Said and slowly turned around to walk towards that chair of his.

"I also know every elder in Konoha..you're not one of them..." i narrowed my eyes at the back of the old man, wanting him to answer

"I am merely a Uchiha ghost..."

"Yeah i noticed your sharingan...but you're making this more confusion than need be..." i couldn't Help but scoff at him

"My name...is Madara Uchiha.." he groaned while slowly sitting Down into the wodden chair in front of the quite terrifying ghetto statue

"Madara...Uchiha..as in my great grandfather? One of Konohagakure's founders?" I asked, probably too calmly, because he seemed to notice

"Yes...but you do not Seem surprised by this...is it that you don't believe me?"

I must admit that his answer was quite surprising seeing that he wasn't faced at the fact of me being hus great grandchild.. 'i suppose that he probably already knew then'

"Considering what i just went through i have an open mind as to what's possible to survive, and as i Said you look a lot like Madara from the history books..so i do believe you.." i Said trying to use logic to overwrite the fact that i seemed to already know

"You are a smart boy..more so than it States in your report"

"My report? You mean the report stating my skill set, once i turned Genin and chunin"

"Yes"

'Guess he has the Zetsu's to Thank for that one' i thought. After all there was No other Way for him to get his fingers upon that report, After all Zetsu was great at gatherimg information, and Madara couldn't leave the ghetto statue's side due to the needed life support.

"I'm smarter than people take me for"

"And Why is that?"

"Sometimes the most genius thing to do is make people think you're an idiot" i answered him truthfully, Which even brough a small smirk to his lips and i thought i heard him Mutter "indeed"