The work of fate

Ch 48 - our life now

—10 years later—

(Kind reminder, that means Obito is 26 years old now)

Obito POV—

"Rough day, huh?" I said and pushed the bowl of ramen closer to the 11 year old, pouting Naruto.

"Mmmmm" he merely human and started inhaling the ramen.

"Wanna tell me about?"

"Mo" he said.
The word 'no' muffled due to the ramen noodles in his mouth.

"Not even if I buy you a second bowl?" I said and discreetly checked my bowl.

"They say I'm a failure!" Well that sure got him talking, didn't it? "That I should be better because my dad's the hokage! But I'm not my dad! I'm just naruto! And I'm not a perfect ninja like you, or big sis Rin and big bro Kashi, not mom or dad either..."

Oh I see... he feels like he's a black sheep in a family of geniuses, huh.

"Perfect ninja? Us?"

He gave me a dirty look that meant 'o don't appreciate what you're trying to do'
He thinks I'm trying to lie to make him feel better.

"Where do you think me and Kakadji got our scars? How many times did Rin fail in her attempts to save someone, how many times did your mom loose control of the beast inside her, and how many times do you think your dad collided with a tree trying to figure how to use that teleportation of his?" I finished my speech with a chuckle. The mental
Image of Minato colliding with a tree being too great not to laugh at.

Naruto apparently thought so too.
"You're just making stuff up" he said, but the smile on his face hadn't disappeared after that laugh of his.

"You think this is crayon?!" I said and pointed to my face.

Once again Naruto burst out in laughter.
"You're ...weird big ..brother..." he said in between laughter.

I only cling onto the bare minimum of my memories from my other life...which meant I didn't quite understand why I felt so giddy, and yet a bit guilty every time Naruto called me "big brother".
And something deep inside me told me that I didn't want to know either.

"...so that second bowl of ramen?" Naruto reminded me after a few moments of silence.

Oh...right..

"Hey Teuchi! One more miso ramen, and make it to-go please" I called to the owner, then I turned to Naruto once more "I've got to get you home"

"Oh sure, as long as I get my ramen"

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"Sorry I know I'm a bit late home with him, we got a bit caught up
In talk" I apologized to Kushina.

"I would've never thought you'd be one to care about a set time" she said with a smirk, clearly not caring that we were those 5 minutes late.

"When it comes to you and your baby, yes" I told her, clearly remembering how frightening she could be when it came to something about Naruto.

"Mo's a Bebe?!" Naruto said angrily slurping on his ramen to-go, therefor the sentence 'who's a baby?!' Became morphed.

"The one talking with food in his mouth" Kushina scolded him slightly making him swallow immediately.

"Sorry" Naruto whispered.

"You'd better get home to the girls too" Kushina told me and smiled fondly when she saw his happy it made me to think about.

Sure I loved catching up with Naruto, but there was just something about walking through the door to my home, despite doing it everyday, it was the best...

"Right! See ya Naruto, see ya Kushina, say hi to Minato to me when he gets home"

"We will!"

"See ya big brother!"

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Third person POV-

Obito quietly closed the door behind him, having stepped into the warm comfort of his home.

"Dad! Dad!" Sounded the voice of the 6 year old Reiko.

Obito's and Rin's daughter.

"Hiiii!" Obito cheered and quickly went Down the the child's level to hug her.

Reiko had her Brown, neck-long hair pulled out of her face with a hairband. Her eyes were pitch Black, sporting the possibility that she might awaken a sharingan.

"Oh it's good to see you! Have you been a good girl while i was gone?" He asked pulling the girl away slightly, to look at her face.

And with a Big smile Reiko beamed; "no!"

"No?" Obito questioned with a worried smile, he had a feeling it had something to do with the academy, as Reiko had started her first year a few weeks ago.

"Reiko got into a fight today" Rin came in from the garden door to greet her husband by telling him the latest news.

At first obito gave his wife a warm smile which practically screamed 'I'm home, and I missed you'
Then his face turned to Reiko with a disapproving look, making the girl squirm with an awkward smile under her fathers stare, however this only lasted a few seconds, as obito's expression turned smug and he asked his daughter; "did you win?"

"Obito!" Rin tried to scold, but she enjoyed the exchange between them so it morphed with a laugh, making it loose it's power.

Reiko however lit up, and stared to explain it all.
"I totally beat them up, they were picking on other kids in the academy so I had to teach them a lesson!" She said proudly pumping her fist into her other palm.

Reiko might be a small and cute lookin girl, but she was a feisty little warrior with her fathers temper and her mother's heart.

"That's-" obito was actually gonna praise his daughter for it, but the he caught his wife's eyes, and changed his approach.

I cleared his throat "you're so kind to stand up for others but...no more fighting you're classmates"

"They were last-years"

"Okaaay! No more fighting your peers, your classmates and the younger ones unless the teacher tells you to"

Reiko opened her mouth to ask something, but obito knew his daughter and knew what she was gonna say so he cut her off.
"And absolutely no fighting your teachers, because if you did your mom would kill me!"

"I don't want that!" Reiko giggled at her dad's overdramatized response.

"That warms my heart. Now go play.." obito told his daughter, since he also wanted to catch up with his wife.

Reiko did what she was told in a flash, running out in the garden to catch a butterfly or whatever...

Obito stood up and walked over to his wife who had begun folding clothes at the table.
"Hope you're happy with my tactics" he said with a chuckle and gently wrapped his arms around her from the back, halting her in folding the clothes.

"Hmmm oh yes, but what would you do without me?" She giggled turned her head to look at him, causing him to kiss her cheek.

"Start a war...that I do remember Y'know" Obito teased.

Rin simply laughed and shook her head in disbelief, she knew that he wouldn't do that.
Not anymore at least, even if she was to die in this timeline.
But she understood the secret behind obito's words, so she answered him with:
"I love you too, you big goof.."

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I actually had the entire last part of this chapter Laing slat oh dear ready for use.

So yeah you get 2 chapters in one day!
You're welcome!

<3 you deserve it UWU

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Y'know we're getting close to the end of this fanfic ;)