The Masked Shinobi

A Name Craved In Stone

"I'm sorry, but we must complete our mission," Kakashi spoke in a defeated tone, as blank eyes stared into Obito's onyx eyes.

"What?" The Uchiha voiced in disbelief then yelled harshly, "how you able to abandon Rin after everything we've been through!"

"Because you don't know what happens to those who break the rules," Kakashi replied in an emotionless voice. Only to get punched in the face by the angry Uchiha, who then turned his back on Kakashi.

"I think the White Fang was a true hero," Obito stated strongly not even looking at the Hatake. Until he spoke again, "those that break the rules and regulations are scum. But those who abandon their friends are even worse than scum," Obito strongly stated glaring into Kakashi's distraught eyes then at the ground in front of him. "If I'm going to be called scum, either way, I'd rather break the rules! And if that's not being a proper shinobi, then I'll destroy that idea!"

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"Kakashi your eye," Obito commented in worried with tears still streaming down his face from his newly awakened Sharingan.

"Come on I'm not dead yet," Kakashi countered trying to comfort the emotional Uchiha. After bandaging his ruined eye with the medic kit Rin gave him Kakashi stood up a little shaky from shock as he added in a strong voice, "now let's go save Rin."

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"Run for the exit!" Kakashi yelled as the cave started to collapse top of team Kakashi.

"There's no point running, just accept your deaths!" The stone shinobi yelled laughter maniacally, as he stood at the cave entrance. He watched the three kids running with satisfaction before calling out, "Rock Rain Boulder!" Slamming his hand on cave's wall which sent a large crack along the rock wall making a cave's destruction to accelerate.

"No," Kakashi growled out between pants when large boulders started falling towards them. Then Obito heard his injured teammate whisper: "I will protect them."

Before the others could react, Kakashi focused his chakra into his hands, then pushes Obito and Rin out of the way of the falling boulders. Obito looked back with his Sharingan to see Kakashi's remaining eye slightly curl into a sad-looking upside-down U, just before the little Hatake got completely crushed.

"KAKASHI!!!"

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"Sensei! Earth to Obito-sensei! Are you in there, Sensei?" Naruto yelled jump onto Obito back while knocking on the top of the older Uchiha's head as Sasuke and Sakura stood a few feet away shaking their heads.

"Yes Naruto, what is it?" Obito asked slightly annoyed with the blonde jinchūriki that's still knocking on the top of his head.

"You're an hour late for training, and mom's mad at you for not coming over for lunch or dinner yesterday!" Naruto loudly warned his Sensei, who's also like his big brother of the impending doom, known as Kushina Uzumaki.

Obito gulped and paled slightly, as Naruto jump down and stood next to his teammates. "Sorry, about that!" Obito chuckled nervously rubbed the back of his head and added with a pained smile, "I kind of lost track of time!"

The students groan at the excuse they've heard for what felt like a million times already. However, when the group of twelve years old see their Sensei's forced smiled, they decide to go easy on the older Uchiha. By yelling at their Sensei for being late for three minutes instead of ten minutes. Sometimes Obito wondered who the supposed to be teaching who.

Before team seven left, Obito runs his thumb over the name of his rival and friend that was nothing more than a named carved in stone. 'I'll talk to you later, Kakashi,' Obito said mindfully at the carved section of stone. While following his students, Obito looked back at the memorial stone imagining a ten-year-old Kakashi leaning against the carved stone in his cool guy pose. With a small remorseful smile and a heavy heart, Obito turned away and followed his first official genin team back to their designate training field.

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A/N: Hi everyone! Here is a new chapter for a brand-new story, I hope you like it. Sorry for any grammar problems, if you like it then leave a vote and a comment to let me know what you think. Thank you for taking the time to read this first chapter, and I hope you are looking forward to reading the next update. Thanks again!