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[It is early in the evening when he finally begins to stir. A hand slowly reaches up to rub at tired eyes as they blink into focus, Naruto staring up at the ceiling above him. Immediately he frowns as memories of new and old jumble together. It had felt like a dream, though it couldn't have been. Why didn't he have chakra? Oh yeah- Johto.

Feeling the presence of someone else in the room distracts him as he turns his head to the side, immediately greeted with the sight of long, flowing red hair.]

....So when are we going to Violet? [You hit hard enough to knock him out Mom, he'll concede this time.]

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[A little time later the Pokegear shows Naruto sat on a bed as an excitable Carnivine is wrapped around his shoulders, happily chewing on his head once again. Some things never change!]

So--yeah. I guess that thing happened to me, y'know, when people fall asleep and have the dreams? But they're not real dreams? [Descriptive as always. On that subject though, there are some people he wants to talk to. He should probably send them some private messages.]

Oi Neji. Sasuke. I wanna talk to you guys.

[...Or just do it that way instead. He has a pretty serious look about him for once, so they should probably get in contact with him.]

[With a huff he moves around and attempts to unwrap the Carnivine from around him. Since he has it on, he may as well ask that question he had before the coma stuff happened.]

I'm still gonna go check out that dragon place up here, the one Tenten told me about. What's the best dragon type out there? I have Ryūka-chan already, she's a Charizard now and she's grown really strong.

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[He gave a weird laugh sob at the words and shook his head sharply.]

When I got here, I was so happy to not be dead. So hey, if I could be alive back home it'd be just as happy there but it's not, and I don't know what happened, but I'm sorry.

Okay? I don't- I don't understand why and it's not like I can make it unhappen.

It just makes me wish I really had died like I thought I had.

I can't offer more than that. [Messy crying ahoy, so, sorry bout that.]

[Oh geez, don't cry WHAT IS HE MEANT TO DO NOW?]

[Perhaps that was a little harsh.]

Oi, don't cry at me! Look, I know it ain't you're fault, but it's still you- and I dunno-

ARGH this is all so confusing y'know! [Frustrated, it looks as though he's trying to rip his own hair out. He doesn't have the brains to deal with something complicated like this!]

I'm not- It's not- [He shook his head hard, his arm coming up to press against his eyes as he tried to choke down the sobs, which... was pretty seriously counterproductive, and he pressed his back against the wall.]

I'm sorry. I'm-I'll go now. I'm sorry.

[She leaves you dummies alone for five minutes and on her way past the door again she hears crying. And babbling. She opens up the door and looks between the boys. Obito is crying and Naruto looks like he's going to throw something.]

What the hell is going on? Obito, what's wrong?

...Yeah. It might be best.

[He can't talk about this, not yet. Not until he fully understands how he feels about it.]

But, Oi. Obito.

[A beat.]

I ain't really gonna try to kill you or anything, that's stupid. [Don't go hiding or something ridiculous. Just.. stay out of his room. For now.]

[AND THEN MOM COMES BACK and he doesn't know what to say.]

We're just, uh.

[Naruto falls silent. He has to tell her, at some point. but not like this.]

[Have a not good sobbing laugh before he tries to slide around you out the door there Kushina, him having already been nodding at Naruto to show he was listening. He just. Ha. No. Well. Mostly no.]

Everything. Going now.

[Well that's not bewildering at all. skdfds GDIT OBITO don't just slide by like that! Aaaaaaauuuuuuuugh crying not!bro and frustrated son...]

Ah-- Obito! Come back and talk to me!

[She starts after him but... maybe this is one of those "he needs some space" moments? Eh, fuck it. She shoves a finger in Naruto's direction.]

I'll be back to talk to you later.

[Maybe... maybe not. Depends on how distracting chasing down Obito turns out to be. But at least it's not accompanied by any punching. So off she goes after Obito.]

But-!!

[WHY IS HE IN TROUBLE WITH MOM AGAIN?]

[Obito just... pretty much bolted, looking for a room without people or pokemon because he couldn't do pokecuddles right now and he didn't think Kushina was going to let it go. More people getting the excellent news!]

[Finding Obito wasn't too hard. It just took keeping an ear out and checking every room she could. But she at least offers a knock before letting herself in.]

Obito... did you want to talk?

[Her question at least comes with an out if he'd rather just accept a hug. She'd rather he talk but she can't make him, not when he's like this. As she approaches him, she reaches out a hand to his shoulder. Leaning down had the effect of her hair slipping down toward his face until she pulls it back and behind her shoulder. Some of it still manages to slide around her arm again though, which she ignores.]

[He stared up at her, his knees curled up to his chest. How long until she found out? Naruto would probably tell her. Her and Sensei both.

Then they wouldn't be proud of the kind of person he was anymore, would they?

Forcing back a new sob, he shook his head hard and looked away from her.]

But I think I have to.

[Her forehead scrunched up as she looked at him in concern. She took a seat next to him and put her arm around his shoulders in a one-armed hug. Anything to try and comfort him in the meantime because she couldn't think of the last time she had seen him this upset. What could have...

Oh no...]

Did Naruto tell you about Rin? Is that why you're so upset? If I had known he knew, I would've told him to keep his mouth shut. I'm so sorry, Obito. It's not like I told him about how you felt about her.

[He'd been manning up to say something, bracing himself when. That. She.

What?

What about Rin?

He went completely still, breath freezing in his lungs for a moment, because of the crushing sense of...

No. Nononononono.

His eyes whipped to her, desperately wishing that he was drawing the wrong conclusions but no one from the future had heard of her and she hadn't found it all strange to be somewhere not home and she could have been so much more surprised to see him and and and no.]

....

Did-

[He choked on the words, because he didn't want them to process because that was an answer, a horrible terrible answer]

you mean Rin died?

[Oh no. Oh no. It wasn't that. He hadn't known. Rin hadn't told him at all before she left. A FUCKING PLUS KUSHINA. She looked honestly horrified between his question and her own wildly wrong assumption. And as Kushina struggled on how best to answer. Not quite sure how. But trying to soften the blow as best she could. It was too late to try and back out with a lie, she'd said too much.]

A-ah... Well everyone dies eventually. I-it's what happens to all shinobi, you know that. [...Okay, that was weak. She let out a deep sigh and tightened her hold on Obito.] I didn't mean for you to find out this way. She should've been the one to tell you. I really am sorry...

[He sucked in his breath on a strangely broken keening noise, thinking about what he hadn't done and couldn't do now because he'd thought she was alive while here but no, no of course not. And he started shaking his head as a whisper of logic and speculation and him noticing all the wrong things for the right, terrible, conclusions.

He'd been right, and it was so terrible to be right, about the massacre, about Itachi, because he'd found it out in the right order. He'd heard about, about... ohnononononono.

If Rin died- how had she died?! He'd known, he didn't doubt he'd known, wherever he was if she'd been alive he never would- it would never ever-

He wanted to be sick and laugh and cry all at once and it came out in a wretched broken sob-laugh as he pressed his hands to his face. And then, he spoke.]

I'm so sorry.

[Oh no she broke him. It hit every single maternal instinct in her as she gathered him completely into her arms.

But... why was he apologizing? It wasn't his fault Rin was dead. He had been dead for a year before she died too. So maybe, she assumed(a dangerous habit, at this rate), he was so confused in his grief at learning this news. Maybe he blamed himself for not being there to protect her. But that hadn't been his fault.]

Obito, no... it's not your fault. I shouldn't have guessed why you were so upset. It's not you fault... I'm sorry.

[He shook his head and leaned into her for just a second before he set about untangling herself from her hug, or at least trying, even though he was practically shaking, he was crying so hard. He wanted that hug so much but he couldn't-

Why did it have to be easier and easier to believe? Why couldn't it just be denial all the way and- And he for a moment almost understood why Sasuke had wanted nothing and everything to do with him briefly because wasn't it happier to not know?

But people needed to know. Even if they didn't want to, couldn't want to, they still needed to and he was- everything was no.

Just no and bad and so much of it he had done.]

Even if it's not- I hope it's not- It better be not- [He was babbling and made himself stop, giving another wretched sob before drawing an uneven breath and forcing himself to speak clearly.]

Everything else is.

[She was so used to him just sticking with her hugs for a while longer but... he was struggling to get away. Something wasn't right and it was only making her squeeze tighter... until she remembered that breathing is a thing. So she let him go, albeit very reluctantly. But still determined to keep him in arm's reach, she put her hands on his shoulders.]

Obito. It wasn't... it couldn't have been. It definitely wasn't you. You were already... y'know... gone.

[But now she's dead set that she won't be the one to provide anymore details beyond that. Like the how.]

[He looked into her face, then just... crumpled, curling his hands into fists and pressing his palms against his eyes.

There was... no two ways to do this. There was no easy way so he just... sucked it up and spoke, desperate to just be done with it.]

I- I found out that's not true. And from what else I learned I wish it was.

[Okay now she's really confused and is just gonna... follow the path of conversation that makes the most sense. sob]

What are you talking about? Don't be stupid! You didn't kill Rin or anything like that.

[He was making little keening noises, barely audible with his inhales, and he- did she know what happened? Briefly torn. No no he-

No. Okay, he'll get back to this topic in a minute since it's related.]

You... know what happened to her?

A little... a lot of the details were sealed after... everything happened.

[Which... was technically true. Plus, not sure if Kushina would know Rin had been forced to become the Sanbi's jinchuuriki. Maybe the part about her getting in the way of Kakashi's Raikiri. BUT NOW SHE WON'T SAY ANYMORE. God she hates herself so much right now for opening her mouth. TIME TO PUT THE TRAIN OF CONVERSATION BACK ON THE OTHER SET OF TRACKS...]

But what were you going to say?

No... I... I think it makes a really big difference what I know about that. What happened? [He spoke in a slightly halting way, but no seriously, he needed to understand. Even if he didn't agree, this- this was really important.]

[The thought of telling him is literally painful and it showed in the expression that crossed her face. She was seriously considering not telling him, but... she felt she had already said too much as it was. Conflict... Time to go back to vague truths.]

I still remember the day I came back from my mission. Minato had gotten back a day ahead of me, but it was still a few days after Rin had died. She had been on a mission in the Water Country and... [She paused to swipe her fingers over her eyes, obliterating any trace of tears welling up.] She sacrificed herself to keep her team and the village safe. She was given a proper burial and grave in the village, and that was that.

[The urge to demand if she was sure that's how it happened was intense... but he didn't. She wouldn't tell him anyway, would she?

Instead, he took a wavering breath and forced himself to press forward, back to what he'd been talking about with her before. Sort of.]

I... guess I'll just have to accept that.

Makes sense. Ha.

With- with everything.

[He shook his head a little, taking a quavering breath, a little calmer, for the moment. Sort of. Outwardly.]

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