Other Side of Impossibility 10: DARK RIN?

This chapter contains headcanons that come from reviewer's idea, very short and brief because of Writer's Block. This chapter is also an apology for said Writer's Block, because if you read RIG=VEDA, then you know I will mostlikely update EI on May. I apologize.

Sooo… Here you go.

Warnings: angst, romance?, ANGST, feels, and did I say angst? Because ANGST.

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DARK!RIN AU HEADCANONS:

It probably happens in a world where Kakashi betrays her of some sort. Like, maybe she tells him that she's a reincarnation? And it turns out to be a Bad Choice, because Kakashi notices her personality switches when she switches places with Rinny, so he kinda gets worried that she's a Sleeping Agent and tells the Hokage about it, because Sleeping Agent can be cured and then she can continue working as a Konoha-nin afterwards, right? Or so he thinks as he tells the Hokage.

Rin ends up getting interrogated. In the end her loyalty is believed to be "entirely loyal to Konoha's best interests" but she's too traumatized and very much betrayed by Kakashi.

And then there's Danzo.

C'mon, a reincarnation and knows so much about Konoha to boot? He's going to want that one, he wants that one so much. And he actually gets her, because Plot, and because he's a shitty bastard who is able to convince Hiruzen, but fortunately, Orochimaru is Having None of That.

Orochimaru ends up being Danzo's "underling" who has Rin under his wings because they're both fairly competent in the medic field, and Rin has to help with the experimentation.

It includes lots of tears, panic attacks, and very much guilt, but Danzo is looming over them like a hawk ready to strike, and Orochimaru has to guide her so she doesn't break, because he doesn't want her to break, damn it, don't break.

In the end both Orochimaru and Rin are pillars to each other, and Rin ends up disappearing from Konoha as a whole, only spending time in Orochimaru's labs with Orochimaru and Nagisa.

Kakashi ends up thinking that Rin got killed by the Hokage, because when he asked Hiruzen about it, the Hokage simply smiled sadly. He's Very Guilty, because Rin is his bestfriend, and because of him, she disappeared.

Obito, although he doesn't know the true extent of it, figures out that Kakashi must have a hand in it because of his Guilty Look whenever he asks him about Rin. Team Minato end up having another kunoichi in the team, but the team is as dysfunctional as it can be, and she died as Isobu's Jinchuuriki.

During the Kyuubi Attack, all ROOT personnel are prohibited from helping, which includes Rin, so she's not able to help, no matter how much she begs Orochimaru. The Snake Sannin is quick to shut down her idea and remind her of Danzo.

After the Kyuubi Attack, when Orochimaru defects, it is Kakashi who tries to stop him. However, instead of Orochimaru's Killing Intent, it's Nagisa that gets him. He is left there, watching as the ROOT ANBU removes her mask and reveals the face of his bestfriend whom he thought as dead for years, watching as her eyes meet his mismatched own and very blankfaced that it hurts, because Rin is not supposed to look like that, to look at him like that, she's not—

But then Rin smiles thinly at him, and after slipping an antidote for Nagisa's venom (even after all these years, Orochimaru thinks in exasperation, she is still too kind), she walks away from Konoha along with Orochimaru.

His best friend turns into a traitor, and Kakashi figures out that it started with his own betrayal.

Meanwhile, Rin manages to convince Orochimaru to bring the Boy who looks so much like Yamato, and Orochimaru is pleasantly surprised to see the boy survive Hashirama's cells. The boy is affectionately named Nohara Yamato, and although he is wary at Orochimaru, he sticks like a burr on Rin.

Anko, because of reasons including Rin, knowledge of Danzo and his threats and all, follows Orochimaru. Years later, Kabuto gets pulled in.

The four of them ends up being the Four Big Generals of Sound, with Rin as poison specialist who brings along her Nagisa at all times, Anko who is The Sadist who laughs at her opponents as she skewers them with anything available including fish, Kabuto whose smile is so sharp it can cut your heart and he does cut your heart with his scalpels oops, and also the Mokuton user who is Sound's strongest defense, and the four of them are looked up upon by everyone including but not limited to the Sound Four, who has this dream into becoming the next Generals.

Kimimaro just scoffs at them, because obviously he's the strongest between all of them, it's clear if they want to add one more General, it's going to be him.

Anko just laughs at them all.

Rin is totally against more experimentation, or at least, ones without consent, thank you very much. So Sound doesn't engage that much in human experimentation.

Karin is taken from Taki, but she's not forced to let people bite her, and although she lets Orochimaru to take some blood samples, she's not forced to do much more. Suigetsu escapes the Kiri Kekkei Genkai purging and ends up on Sound's doorstep. Juugo is constantly consulting previously-psychologist-in-training Rin, Kabuto, Rin and Orochimaru mulling over the relationship between Juugo's kekkei genkai and his brain and probably ends up blackmailing Tsunade to help them in solving Juugo's problem as well as Kimimaro's disease.

(Tsunade knows Orochimaru is a traitor. But she looks at his serene expression, how he pats Rin's head in a gentle way Tsunade has never seen before, sees his protectiveness over the children who are protective of him in return, and—

Tsunade backs down, and agrees to help them.

"Just this once!" She tells him, because he is still a traitor and she is still loyal to Konoha, no matter if she's left it behind because of her own pain.

"Good enough," Orochimaru answers simply, and there's that).

Kabuto dares to question his identity, once, but gets punched by Anko and lectured for hours, even Yamato is laughing at him. He doesn't dare to do it anymore.

("You're Kabuto!" She shouts at him before she throws him soaring in the air.

He's not going to mention it because his body hurts all over, but he's very, very happy.)

And then one day, a figure drops himself down on Sound's grounds, and although Sound's forces are ready to pummel him to the ground, he pays them no heed as he strides forward—

And envelopes Rin in a hug.

"Rin-chan," the figure says, warm hands enveloping her figure and caresses the back of her head. And Rin recognizes the person, if not for the mask, then for the endearment and the way he hugs her.

"…Obito?"

The figure removes his mask, and although he's missing an eye and there are scars on his face, it's clearly Obito, and he's smiling, so very relieved, and it's Obito, Obito who should be Madara right now, who used the Kyuubi and collected Jinchuuriki, but he's smiling at her, right here, right now, and—

Rin misses him, so, so much, and the very moment she realizes it, she has burst into tears.

(He has heard of the Sound Generals, and although the mention of Mokuton intrigues him, he doesn't pay it much heed.

But then, he hears her name, and the web of lies Madara has woven promptly breaks.

"You said she died!" Obito lunged at Zetsu, one day inside Akatsuki Base. "You said Kakashi framed her, you said Konoha killed her! You lied to me!"

Zetsu tried to escape, but Obito was having none of that. With all of his fury, he activated his Kamui, and had Zetsu cut off from the rest of the world, trapped in his dimension forever.

"Madara lied to me," he said to the watching eyes of Pein, Konan, and other Akatsuki members. "Madara probably lied to you all either.")

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That's… it? Haha. I might add some more someday.

Once again, I apologize for my writer's block. I will probably mostlikely hopefully return in May!

Thank you! Review please?