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[closed] eyes i dare not meet in dreams

This is a strange way to die, Kakashi thinks, when he opens his eyes and sees --

The memory of war, bodies swinging from trees. Broken, half-buried in the cold, inviolable earth, too many children who'd tasted blood before the sweetness of sake or their first kiss. And Obito who stands in judgment with a mouth full of hate, telling Kakashi to shut up and die like the trash that he is.

Trash who couldn't even bother to keep the promise that he made as Obito lay dying under a rock meant for him.

A strange way to die, indeed, with all the stars blotted out by clouds, shadows drinking up every surface, swallowing up the light. And here, a warm rain of blood and Obito's scarred face floating before Kakashi's eyes. One moment there, and the next gone, and Kakashi wonders what strange place this is that Obito's sent him to die, a land flooded with frigid water that runs red when Kakashi collapses forward into the slow, muddy flow.

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[That shut him up, and the earlier sinking feeling became a rather intense need to be sick, because more of the bits and pieces and Kakashi was telling him to end him... No, there was no way to handle that and he took a couple steps back, hitting the wall and sliding to sit.

Shit. The only difference between his timeline and the ones where so much went wrong was he was in his and he wasn't in those others. But he was alive when they dug him out. Did someone else dig him out? what happened?!]

Edited 2013-04-12 10:13 (UTC)

[ Any moment now.

Any moment now, the image will fade, and with it, the glimmer of hope, of a past that could have been. Kakashi closes his right eye and lets the red and black world of Sharingan wash over him. He forces himself to watch this, to watch Obito through the red veil of pain that stabs through his head and drips from his left eye, slowly soaking into the fabric of his mask.

The world is as it should be.

Or as it should have been. ]

How long do you plan to keep me trapped here?

[Sakura finally reached up to yank the Hitai-ate down herself when she realized he'd pressed himself so far that it had started bleeding.]

Sensei, you're not in a genjutsu.

[That didn't stop her from glancing over to where Obito had curled up though before moving around Kakashi to start on the wounds on his back.]

Not that you seem to be listening to a word I'm saying. [She just hoped he didn't regret pressing the point later, the man already had enough on his mind.]

[His words were soft, likely because he hadn't really tried to fight his way free of his thoughts.] She's right you know. It's not.

[He didn't look back up though, instead pulling his knees to his chest because he needed to think. Sometimes he hated having a think because when people thought too much they ultimately ended up thinking about things they really didn't want to. This was one of those times, because he'd successfully ignored... everything. He'd ignored that his baby cousins had no idea who he was. Because hey, he was just himself, and that was great right? But why wouldn't they know? Or rather, why would they know if he died? They wouldn't But why didn't the other things happen? He'd heard about sensei. It was inescapable to not hear about it, and the everything that came after. And... none of it made sense, not if he ignored it and the implication that he had to have been the different factor.

But Kakashi seemed to think otherwise, and the man never had learned how to joke, not really, and this would have been in horrible taste besides.]

[ Of course they would insist that this reality is real.

Perhaps Obito hopes to drive Kakashi insane, make him question his grasp on reality before sweeping the proverbial rug right out from under his feet. And what a fine strategy that would be, if Kakashi were a stranger to psychological warfare. But as it is, he's had a little too much experience. This is exactly the kind of mindfuck he would put an enemy through if he truly wanted them to suffer.

The best way to break a man, after all, is not with his body.

Arguing with genjutsu manifestations doesn't seem to be very productive, and it's quite clear to Kakashi that the real Obito has no intention of showing his face anytime soon. He wants Kakashi to suffer, to fall victim to this reality that is not reality at all, and could never be. And maybe that is just what Kakashi deserves for turning Obito into what he had become. For giving him reason to fall into Uchiha Madara's grasp to be molded into the shape of a monster that would destroy the world.

So Kakashi doesn't bother responding, and instead pushes the false Sakura aside.

After all, she isn't actually healing him, anyway. ]

Edited 2013-04-12 21:11 (UTC)

[And... now he was going to actually try to stop her treating him. Not going to fly sensei. She didn't care how much you wanted to argue about reality, but you were going to get patched up. Thus, she promptly ducked under his hand to resume healing, not giving him so much as a moment of consideration in the direction of stopping.]

Sensei, you're badly wounded. I am going to heal you.

[ Seeing as Sakura's not even really there, Kakashi doesn't acknowledge the apparition and turns to walk out the door. ]

[If he was going to be that way, she really had no choice, and she moved forward in a quick double step and pressed her hand to the base of his skull, jolting him quickly with chakra to knock him out. His ignoring her was his own fault, this time.]

--

[By the time the man came around though, it was a new day, and he was in a hospital bed, mask in place but his clothes otherwise changed, his gear piled on the table next to him as she dozed in a chair next to him, light enough that even the slightest movement would wake her up. She'd used a lot of energy patching him up, after all, though he was doubtlessly still sore.]

Edited 2013-04-12 21:50 (UTC)

[ It's a slow process, waking.

A little like pushing against gravity itself. Against the weight of ten thousand red and black eyes, tomoe spinning into infinity, cast against the shadows of falling rocks. He would open his eyes and see it happening over and over again -- the sky coming down and Obito screaming his name. I'll become your eye and see the future for you, he said but he couldn't possibly have predicted or seen Rin's heart in Kakashi's hand and lightning going all through her chest and into her eyes as the life went right out of it.

And there in the distance was Obito screaming her name.

You're trash that can only talk, he said, and all Kakashi could feel was the crushing weight of killing intent.

(And a rock too heavy for him to move.)

Kakashi wakes with a sudden inhale, the blurry ceiling coming into slow focus beyond the dull throb in his eyes. He appears to be in some kind of clinic, which can only mean he somehow survived.

It takes a moment before he realizes there's a presence beside him, and he slowly turns to look at Sakura, who must've spent the entire night beside him. ]

[The sound of movement jolts her, eyes cracking open for a quick look around before focusing back on Kakashi, and then slowly, she relaxes. Having Obito in the front room had rubbed her nerves absolutely raw, but for now it was ignorable, and she straightened in her chair.]

Hey Sensei.

[ Slowly, Kakashi pushes himself up to sitting, a motion that sends a wave of pain straight through him. Probably not the best idea, but, ah... ]

How long was I out?

[ It's suddenly becoming apparent to him that there's something strange about all of this. After all, he's in a hospital bed, not on a pallet on the floor of a medic tent. ]

[She rubbed a hand over her eyes and made herself be alert.]

Hours. Long enough for me to deal with the worst of the wounds at least. Are you feeling a bit more, ah... here and now, now?

The last thing I remember is that I was trapped in a genjutsu cast by Uchiha Obito, but it seems Naruto must've saved me.

[ And the rest of them, too. ]

Where are we? What happened with the rest of the battle?

Are Naruto and Gai safe?

Actually, the battle isn't over yet. If you were before Naruto rolled into the battle... Basically, a lot of really bad things happened, and Ino and Hinata were the ones that saved you and Naruto from being killed, and... I was taken from not long after that, so I honestly can't explain how everything ends. I wish I knew.

[She shook her head and bit her lower lip, hesitating at the idea of details.] We've sort of... ah, been kidnapped from the battlefield, and not by Obito either. No one here knows exactly how we got here.

[ Well, this is just great.

Either he's still caught in a genjutsu, or what Sakura is saying is actually the truth. Kakashi can't take her word for it though, and despite the pain throbbing in his head, he lets Sharingan swirl into action, activating Kamui in an attempt to counter whatever genjutsu still has him trapped.

But when nothing happens, other than the familiar feeling of space and time bending, Kakashi lets his eye fall shut as he tries to process Sakura's words. ]

So, you're telling me... that we're all taken from different points in time from the battlefield. And it wasn't Obito's doing.

[ Yeah, this makes no sense to him whatsoever. ]

Mmmhmm. That other Obito won't leave my clinic either, by the way. [She wasn't exactly thrilled by this, and it showed, but she just sighed. Her voice turned dry.]

Your teammates are eternally invading my space. I just need Yondaime-sama to drop by and that would make everyone. There are a lot of dead people here... and then there are a lot of people whose timelines were... different. Mine and yours match, it looks like, and there's a few of Naruto around who seem too too, as well as others. I... am from the farthest ahead, so far though.

Edited 2013-04-13 01:45 (UTC)

[ ... yeah, just this face. ]

Can you try explaining that again? Slowly?

[ Because if he thinks he heard her right, did she just say that his teammates are invading her space? And that there were a few Narutos? Not that multiple Narutos are strange, given his propensity for making clones, but... all this talk of timelines and Yondaime and "dead people" has really thrown Kakashi for a bit of a spin. ]

[She paused, then gave him a sheepish smile.] Okay, so I might have come at that a little fast.

Point by point them. This is Michi no Sato, in Jiten no Kuni. So far as anyone here can find out, people have no idea what the Elemental Nations even are, just that we come from them. No one knows what brings shinobi here,and no one knows how to send them back. We've been looking. I've been here nearly six months.

There are people from different points in our timeline. Like you are a bit behind me. One of the Sasuke here, on the other hand, is thirteen and never actually defected. There's also an Orochimaru who is younger than you, who suffice to say doesn't get the best reception when he braves the village proper.

There are dead people here. I've met Sasuke's mother. Rin lives above the clinic with me. [Here she paused and pointed upward.] Though I rarely see her since when she's not working in the clinic, she's usually out in the village. I've seen Jiraya-sama too, though he wasn't here long.

There are people from timelines where things are different. Case in point is the boy me. He lives in Mikoto-san's house. His name isn't Sakura, he'll pout if you call him that. Another is probably the Obito out in the waiting area. He definitely fussed over you enough when I knocked you out that I had a little trouble reconciling him with the person we were all fighting.

Sooo questions?

[ For a very long moment, Kakashi just stares at Sakura. ]

[ And then he attempts to break the genjutsu one last time, pressing his fingers into a seal. ]

Kai!

[ Of course, nothing happens. ]

[ Wonderful.

Kakashi sighs. ]

[She looked horribly amused by the time he was finished, a smile on her lips with her mouth up to hide it. She managed to keep her mirth out of her tone. It was, admittedly likely due to her relief after the worry caused by how he'd reacted when he'd shown up.]

Finished Sensei?

Edited 2013-04-13 03:02 (UTC)

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