For Want of a Will to Live
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Obito stands above the corpses of his teammates, unseeing eyes attempting to comprehend the way the blood pools and coats them.
“Oh,” he says, voice strangled and hoarse from disuse, “I get it. I’m in hell.”
He sinks to his knees beside them, pulls Kakashi—Kakashi’s corpse —towards him. Cradles it, as if that will change anything. Grasps at Rin’s pale hand, still-warm but far too limp, far too sticky with her blood to be anything but that of a corpse.
He looks at her, face lax and losing color already, and his first thought is Kakashi’s fault . But no, he thinks, that isn’t right. Because the devastation on Kakashi’s face, the way he’d sunk to the ground with her, hadn’t even tried to dodge the enemy’s blade— “I’m sorry, Obito. Y’ shouldn’t’ve saved me…”
One of the Kiri nin lets out a groan behind Obito, and a part of Obito relishes in the way he screams as Obito’s mokuton destroys him.
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- Part 1 of For Want of a Will to Live