Title- Him

Author- Spellcasterz

Beta- Anima08

Pairing- Kakashi/Obito

Summary- Memories. Probably one of the most painful things he'll have to face.

(Post- Kakashi Gaiden.) Oneshot.

Disclaimer- I don't own Naruto and probably, unfortunately, never will (because I'm just plain broke). I'm just spreading the love and avoiding the lawsuits.

That night the rain poured.

Its silent tears ran down his face mixing with the moisture already there.

And he stood motionless. Staring blankly only at the newest name on the stone.

"Shinobi who don't follow the rules are trash, but shinobi who don't take care of their comrades are worse than trash!"

Uchiha, Obito.

In a few months, he would be forgotten and the village would have moved on, leaving only those who knew and loved him personally to continue their attempts at keeping his memory alive as time went on.

And so the son of the White Fang remembered.

"I thought the White Fang was a hero."

He had felt the cold terror of dying, as he wasn't fast enough and numbly accepted that he would die for his teammates, his precious people. Just to watch frozen at the last moment, as Obito pushed him out of harms way. In his mind, he heard his last wishes being whispered. While unspoken messages passed between them. He knew that it should have been him dying underneath that boulder instead. Not Obito. It was all wrong; death had claimed the wrong person, taking the real hero.

"Stupid idiot!" came the tortured scream. "Moron!" his voice cracked at the end, and he sank down to his knees as his world spun, his mask finally breaking, leaving hot tears to trickle down his cheeks. "Why'd you do it?" it was the one question that he repeated in his mind and had tried to find an answer to ever since that day. His next words were choked in anguish, "I wasn't worth saving, you bastard. You wasted your life for an empty shell and it'll never be filled now that you're gone…"

"…I love you." he whispered.

Then he repeated it again, slightly louder now. "I love you." His voice steadily rising with his legs until he finished screaming up into the skies. And then all his remaining strength was sapped from his limbs as he finally stopped with "Damn you!" He was now on his knees, his voice cracking on those last few words before losing consciousness and descending into the darkness that awaited him.

-Owari-

(Funny notes from the frustrated author and her beta)

Whoo! This was crazy; I actually made a deadline for myself, December 29, my birthday! My cousin and I were up, hunched by my laptop, on my small bed at 1:30 in the morning on the last night she was staying at my house T-T, desperately wishing for Starbucks coffee to suddenly pop up by my laptop. Unfortunately, we don't have secretaries, servants, genies or anything of that sort…sooo no yummy iced coffee for us, but we were able to stay up late and re-read, edit and do all that "good stuff" (back breaking labor) in order to keep you guys entertained. Enjoy! (Especially since I started this on the 21st and I've been stressing over this ever since.) Some sympathy and back massages for the author and her beta, por favor? -puppy dog eyes-.

- Spellcasterz and Anima08