"Are you two ever not going to be late? Obito, Minato Sensei." Kazuo uttered as his vision started darkening.

Darkness quickly overtook his vision and in mere seconds Kazuo was unconscious and down for the count.

Minato, who was on the other side of the clearing, immediately used a body flicker and arrived next to Kazuo, with Kakashi arriving moments later.

Rin meanwhile took a few seconds longer, her speed clearly much lower than both Minato's and Kakashi's.

Meanwhile, the man covered in a white suit with swirls that converged towards his right eye simply stood still for a brief moment before he immediately used body flicker to come closer to the group.

Minato however had maintained vigilance and immediately turned his full attention towards him.

"Who are you?" Minato asked his voice as cold as ice and his gaze as sharp as a sword.

The man stopped for a moment almost stumbling down before he voiced out.

"It's me Minato Sensei. Obito!" Obito voiced, joy could clearly be heard through the tone of his voice.

"Hey, get off of me," Obito said however at that moment he found that the suit that had protected him and enhanced his strength.

Or rather than a suit, it would better be called zetsu, it had restricted all of his movement.

"Hey, let me go, what are you doing!" Obito loudly asked however he couldn't move at all.

"Obito? You're alive!" Rin screamed as she started running toward her former teammate whom she had thought had already died.

"Hehe, guess we will have to follow plan B." An eerie voice said. It was the zetsu that was covering Obito's entire body.

By this time, Minato had dropped his guard significantly and Rin was already getting close to Obito.

It was at this point that something clicked in Obito's mind.

"No Rin! Don't come!!" He screamed however it was much too late.

His scream immediately alerted Minato and Kakashi and even Rin stopped for a moment but the distance was close enough that none of them could stop what was coming.

Obito's body was forcefully controlled and in a split second he arrived in front of the young brown-haired girl, his fist cocked back quickly before it was launched toward Rin's abdomen.

For a moment there was silence as Obito's Zetsu-covered fist pierced through Rin's abdomen, going straight through and appearing on the other side.

*Cough*

Releasing a cough, Rin's eyes teared up as blood was spewed out of her mouth.

"Obito" She managed to utter before the fist was taken back through her body, causing her to fall down onto the ground.

"No, No, No, what did you do, No!!" Obito screamed, his lungs and throat burning, tears rushing down his cheeks however no matter how much he tried, he couldn't regain control.

It was at this exact moment that his right eye together with Kakashi's left eye which had once been Obito's started to swirl at immense speeds.

The comma of the Sharingan started to come closer and closer until they finally converged and formed a completely new pattern.

The change caused immense pain to course through Kakashi's head as well as a chakra drain so large that he immediately went unconscious.

Obito meanwhile felt a rush of information go through his head.

It was only a split moment later when Obito phased through the Zetsu suit.

Finally revealed himself to now the only onlooker who wasn't either dead or unconscious.

"Obito!" Minato practically screamed as he rushed toward his former student, his immense speed made it so he could appear next to him in less than a second before he launched a chakra-enhanced kick toward the white Zetsu, launching it tens of meters away and crashing into a tree.

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Minato's facial expression seemed conflicted, however, his gaze was fixed on the white Zetsu, not daring to let the enemy do anything else however it seemed that the white Zetsu had no plans to continue staying around as it immediately started phasing into the ground before it completely disappeared from view.

Even though Minato's chakra sensing was extremely advanced, he could no longer sense even a sliver of the white suit.

Turning his attention a moment later toward Obito who was on the ground, Minato opened his mouth to say something.

Anything really however he was interrupted as a loud scream of sorrow erupted out of Obito's mouth.

The amount of pain, sorrow, and hatred that could be felt in the scream was almost overwhelming.

"Obito, come on, we can't stay here, grab Rin. I'll send us back to the leaf." Minato said before his gaze sharpened.

'That chakra, It's a tailed beast. Did the mist seal a tailed beast inside of Rin? For what reason?' Minato thought as he sensed the chakra inside Rin's stomach start to disappear from her body, vanishing into thin air.

After all, with the death of its Jinchuriki, a Tailed beast would similarly enter a state of pseudo-death for a few years before it regained its physical form once more.

Releasing a soft sigh, Minato walked to Kazuo and Kakashi, grabbing each with one arm before turning and walking back to Obito.

The young boy was no longer screaming, instead, his eyes were completely unfocused, bloody stains going from his right eye all the way down to his chin.

"Come on Obito, we have to bring her back to the leaf. At least there she can find a resting place." Minato said as he placed his hand on Obito's shoulder.

For a moment, the young teen said nothing before he turned his head toward his former sensei.

"Why didn't you stop me?" His voice was hollow, no emotions could be felt at all.

"I'm sorry Obito, I... It was my fault." Minato said as his expression scrunched up slightly however he couldn't break down. He was a shinobi and so he had to endure.

He had to endure for his students, he had to endure for the village, he had to endure as he was a shinobi.

'Endure so that the next generation can prosper they said.' Minato thought as he released another soft sigh before saying.

"Come Obito. We can't stay here, new enemies might appear again. I can't fight them whilst also protecting these two and Rin's body."

"Right, let's go," Obtio said as he gave a shallow nod, his voice just as emotionless as before.

He lowered his hand to grab his former love only to find his hand passing right through her body.

His arm shook for a brief moment before he tried once more.

This time he managed to touch the physical world and hoist Rin's body up with both his hands.

Minato stood silent before placing Kakashi on his right shoulder and freeing one of his hands so that he could make a hand seal.

"Place ur hand on me."

Obito didn't show any reaction besides placing his left hand on Minato's arm.

A handseal later, the four of them together with the Rin's dead body which was already losing its heat disappeared from view.

Appearing hundreds of kilometers away, inside a simple house in the hidden leaf village.

The location change didn't seem to disorient Obito at all as he simply turned to walk toward the living room with Rin in his arms.

It was at this moment that a voice was heard.

"Obito?" It was a young woman with red hair that fell down almost to her waist. Her eyes were a clear purple that was quickly clouding up as tears welled up in her eyes.

Obito stopped for a brief moment as he raised his head, his right eye a blazing sharingan in the form of a unique shuriken of sorts focused on the person before him for a brief moment before tears once more clouded his vision.

"She's dead." He said as he lowered his gaze to look at Rin who he was still holding tightly in his arms.

For a moment Kushina said no words before her eyes widened as she quickly rushed toward Obito and forcefully grabbed Rin's body from his arms and placed her on the floor.

Her purple eyes changed color in an instant as she was engulfed by a red bubbly aura.

"Maybe just maybe!" Kushina screamed as she let the red bubbly aura engulf Rin's body.

Minato who had already placed Kakashi and Kazuo on the couches in the living room appeared right next to Kushina before placing his hand on her shoulder.

"Stop Kushina, she's dead."

"No, Minato, if it was recent then maybe!" Kushina said, her voice loud and obviously angry as tears started streaming down her eyes.

"She's dead, she was made into a jinchuriki. If that hadn't been the case then maybe however the tailed beast has already dispersed."

Kushina however seemed to not hear what he was saying, no she did hear what Minato had said however she refused to believe it.

"Then I can just give her a part of my chakra," Kushina said as she started infusing even more of the red bubbly chakra into the young girl's body.

Obtio meanwhile had lowered himself and stood crouched as he saw Kushina continue to inject the nine tails chakra into Rin.

'Please, please work.' Obito thought before his eyes widened.

The gaping wound in Rin's abdomen was starting to mend itself.

At first, the process was slow, extremely so however in less than a minute it had gained such speed that it had become visible to the eye.

"Minato, seal a part of the chakra." Kushina practically screamed as she ordered Minato who had already gotten to work even without her telling him to do so.

"Please!" Obito murmured as he watched the duo.

It took another three minutes before the gaping wound was completely gone, Rin's body now looked perfectly fine.

"Don't pour more chakra, it would only hurt her chances from now," Minato said, causing Kushina to quickly back away.

The red bubbly chakra that was covering her quickly disappeared back inside her body a moment later.

It was also at this moment that they finally saw it.

Rin.

Rin was breathing.

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A chapter about twice the size of the usual ones.

I tried to write an emotional scenario though I probably did quite badly, sorry about that but I couldn't find a way to not write it as an emotional one considering what was happening on the scene.

I definitely need to read more romance / emotional novels, if you have any suggestions please do leave a comment.

As always, Lots of Love, and Stay Safe!

Naruto Author