Control is Everything

AN: Hey, I forgot one thing to add about this story, some chapters would be of Flashback scene. It helps with understanding the story a little better and to add some Flava to the fic. They will, so you the readers and reviewers would know, have the (Flashback) next to the title.

I want to say this now, Kakashi may be OOC in this chapter. I thought I should warn some people of that.

Enjoy

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Chapter 2

Obito, My Broken Promise (Flashback)

3 years ago….

He heard thunderous knocking at his front apartment door. Kakashi sigh, and turned over in his bed, taking his pillow and covered his head with it. He just got home from a long and hard shift; all he wanted was to go to sleep.

“Go away,” his muffled voice called out to the person at the door. “I’m trying to get some sleep.”

“Kakashi, open up, it’s me…Rin,” her soft voice called to him from behind the door.

Kakashi sat up in bed, he hadn’t heard from her since that phone call, two days ago when he went to visited her. They were best friends and next door neighbors. He got up from out of bed in only his gray sweat pants and walked down the hallway to his door. He released the padlock and opened the door. Rin stood there in only her night gown and a trench coat. He could tell she’s been crying, her face was puffy and her eyes were red. She wouldn’t look him in the eyes, her head was down, covered by her brown-colored bangs.

“Rin…it’s late. What are you doing here,” Kakashi asked, opening his door a little wider. “Are you okay?”

She quickly shook her head a sniffle was heard afterwards. “I…I didn’t know where else to go…I …” she finished there.

He stared at her for a moment, before he completely opened up the door, “Come in.”

They sat on his couch for what seem like hours before she finally stopped crying and talked to him. She had explained that the phone call she had gotten two days ago was her mother, saying that her big brother was killed in a car accident. Both he and his wife did not survive, but their son, Obito survived with minor injuries. She then told him of her situation with her parents asking her to take care of him.

“I want to, really, I do, but…I have my own life planned out, I can’t take care of a twelve year old boy…not by myself,” she stopped to swallow the lumped that formed in her throat. “Does that make me a bad person, Kakashi? Does not taking care of my big brother’s son make me an evil person,” she started crying again. Kakashi took the clue that he should hug her now. She cried on his shoulders and would occasionally say a few muffled words he couldn’t catch.

“You’re not evil, Rin. You’re just a woman who knows what she wants and now have to deal with something new. Who knows, maybe you’ll like it. You might even have a lot in common.” He heard her laugh but grown afterwards.

“What if it doesn’t work out? What if we can’t connect? What if …”

“What’s with the ‘what ifs,’ Rin you’re going to do fine and plus, you will have me.”

She lifted her head then and stared at him, for the first time making eye contact.

“You will help me take care of him,” she asked.

“Well, yeah. I never had a big family, so…I don’t know; maybe this will be good for the both of us?”

She smiled, “Yeah, I guess so.” She lean forward and gave him a big kiss on the cheek before throwing her arms around him and hugged him.

“Thank you, Kakashi.”

“Hey, what are friends for?”

1 year later…

“Noooo, you can’t go up against Raiden with Johnny Cage,” Obito debated.

“Why not?”

“Because they are allies, they can’t fight each other. Haven’t you seen the movies?”

Kakashi laughed at that and shook his head. “I’m afraid I missed the movie version.”

“Pick someone else, pick…uhm…Scorpion, he’s a bad guy. He’s perfect to go up against Raiden.”

“Why I have to be the bad guy,” Kakashi asked amusingly.

“Well, I’m not being the bad guy,” Obito stated and started the game, picking Kakashi’s character for him when he wasn’t looking.

“Hey,” Kakashi blurted and started playing the game.

“Alright, you two. I swear if you two don’t act like a bunch of four year olds. And you, Kakashi, shame on you, arguing with a thirteen year old,” Rin said from the kitchen as she fixed breakfast. Kakashi just smirk, he was having fun teasing Obito. He couldn’t believe how attached they have grown since he first met Obito. They sort of just clicked and the boy seemed to think of Kakashi as an older brother figure. Kakashi just saw him as a little brother he never had. They were inseparable.

The game went on pause, when Kakashi found himself losing.

“Hey, you can’t pause the game,” Obito argued.

“Sorry, kid, but I have to get to work,” Kakashi got up from his crouch on the floor and stretched a little. He and Asuma were just promoted to being detectives in the Investigation Precinct of Konoha Police Department, which was a big jump in his career, considering him and Asuma were only twenty six, quite young for the department’s standards but their Chief, Tsunade trusted in their abilities.

“What time do you get off,” Rin asked coming out of the kitchen.

Kakashi seemed to ponder the question for a minute before answering. “Well, Asuma and I are just doing desk work, nothing too exciting. Why?”

“I have that job interview at the hospital, remember, and, well, it starts at two thirty and Obito doesn’t get out of school, until three. I don’t know how long the interview will take but if you can spare some time and pick him up after school that will be great.”

“Sure, I don’t mine. I can pick him up during another break.”

Kakashi was waiting outside the school’s parking lot. He had arrived a little late, only because Asuma and some of the detectives wanted to hear him telling the story of how he, one man team, took down one of Konoha’s biggest drug lords, Zabuza Momochi and his accomplice, Haku. He tried to keep it short, but more people kept asking for the small details, the ones he obviously didn’t want to talk about. So, now, here he was about an hour late and there was no sign of Obito. He was starting to get worried.

He parked the car in one of the reserved spot and exited his vehicle. He went into the school and into the administration office. He asked if they would page an Obito Toreniki. There, Kakashi waited for about seven minutes, before he got really worried. He stepped out the school to walk around the school’s ground. And that when he found Obito outside in the track field with someone. An older man, looked around the age of late thirties with long black hair, hung loose in a ponytail, and had the whitest skin he had ever seen in his entire life. Just by looking at him, Kakashi could tell he did not like the man at all.

He could tell that Obito was laughing at something the man had said and that made Kakashi’s anger flare up. No, he defiantly did not like that man.

“If you behave, I might bring you that video game I saw you eyeing the other day at my store,” the hiss-like voice man said to Obito.

“Really, cool,” Obito pause, looking a little disappointed. “But I don’t have any money. How will I buy it from you?”

The man laughed, “Don’t worry; I’m sure I can think of something.”

Obito smiled at that.

“Obito,” Kakashi called his name as he made it within five feet of them.

“Oh hey, Kakashi. Is it three o’clock already,” Obito said looking down at his watch. “Wow, four thirty. I didn’t know it was that late,” Obito continued looking apologetic.

“Don’t worry about it; I was a little late in the first place. Hey why don’t you go to the car, I think I want to speak with your friend for a moment,” Kakashi informed, not taking his eyes off the pale looking man in front of him.

“Okay, bye Mr. Orochimaru.”

Orochimaru, huh. I wonder if we have a profile of him at the department. I will have to look that up.

“Mr. Orochimaru is it,” Kakashi asked after Obito left around the corner.

“Yes,” he said, a creepy smile still plastered on his face.

“Look, I don’t want to be rude or anything, but how do you know Obito? Do you work at the school?”

“No, I run a little shop across from here. Some of the kids come after school to look over some of the stocks I have on sell. It’s very successful, have you seen it.”

“No, can’t say I have,” Kakashi answered.

“I ran into Obito, today when I saw him eyeing the new collection of a new game system,” Orochimaru continued. “We got to talking and well, you know the rest.”

Kakashi frowned. He defiantly doesn’t like this guy.

“Well, Mr. Orochimaru, I will really appreciate it if you would stay away from Obito, especially without another adult around. I mean after all, you are a stranger.”

“I see your concern, but…”
“And you of all people should know that for the safety of Obito and all kids, you should stay away.”

“Just I,” Orochimaru asked a little taunt in his voice.

Kakashi’s frowned deepened.

“Just stay away from him and there won’t be any problems,” After that Kakashi turned and left the field. He was furious to say the least; he would have to keep an eye out on that man, for Obito’s sake.

Two weeks later Obito went missing. Thursday’s night when Kakashi had to work late and when Rin had her long shift at the hospital. Obito was home alone. When Kakashi got off, he rushed home to check up on Obito, he does that every night, even when it was in the middle of the night. But when he stepped at his neighbor’s door, he felt that something was wrong, no he sensed it. He took out he spare key and opened the door to find the apartment…quiet and normal. Nothing seemed out of place and the usual light over the stove was still on, like usual. He checked every inch of the apartment before he checked Obito’s room. And when he opened the door, he found it…quiet and normal, as it was inside the rest of the apartment. He just couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong. The bundle in the bed assured him that Obito was in bed. He walked over to it and sat on the end of the bed. When he went to place his hand on Obito, his hand touched something soft and fluffy. Pure terror went through his body. His heart quickened and he was sweating in that quick of a second that it took to pull the blankets from the bed to find, not Obito, but three misshapen pillows. In a panic, he checked the apartment again and then he checked his, just to make sure. He ran back to Rin’ apartment and that’s when he found it, the new game system Obito wanted. He had seen it when he stalked outside the little building; Orochimaru had said he worked at. He didn’t see Orochimaru, nor did the people who work there every heard of him. His insight into the criminal system at work pulled up a negative on his profile; he was just an average citizen.

Two days later, he found Orochimaru at the school again talking to a little boy at the same place he found Obito with the guy. He didn’t greet the man when he said hi and was not so gentle when he slammed him into the ground and slapped the handcuffs on him.

He was not kind when he interrogate him, of course his lawyer was there, and every time Kakashi would question Orochimaru about the whereabouts of Obito, his lawyer would interrupt and tell him that Orochimaru didn’t have to answer. It angered Kakashi so that he attacked Orochimaru, gave two quick punches in the face, until his nose started bleeding, before Asuma and the rest of the Investigation Precinct had to pull him off of Orochimaru. Orochimaru was set free and Kakashi was given a two day suspension to cool down, but he never stopped searching for Obito, not even to rest. When he was home, he spent it with Rin who took it the hardest.

“Where could he be, Kakashi? They say it might be a runaway case. I can’t lose him too,” she cried on his shoulder.

“You’re not going to lose him, I promise. I will find him and everything will be back to normal, you’ll see,” was all he could give her. Comforting words that really meant nothing until something was done.

He hated it that he broke that promise to her, because a month and some weeks later, Obito’s body was found. He and Asuma weren’t called though; they heard it on the department radio that a boy was found, dead in the woods. Kakashi left the department, in a quick hurry, and took off in the location that was given.

He saw his body…just lying there in the dirt, covered in it from head to toe. Insects of all kind were everywhere on his body, surrounding his body…probably in him too. He was sick, for the first time in his life…in his career; he threw up right there at the scene. He fell to his hands and knees and broke down. He cried, he screamed, he fought those who just tried to help him and carry him away, they, later, had to sedate him. It was later that day; he was at the morgue to identify the body. Rin couldn’t do it, she couldn’t even walk after hearing that her nephew was found dead. It was there, Kakashi learned how he had died….strangulation.

Orochimaru was free of all charges; it didn’t make it to trial, there wasn’t enough evidences and lack of elements to fit the crime. He went home to tell Rin and she was furious.

“What does that mean,” she yelled at him. “How could he get away?”

Kakashi had nothing to say. He had failed at another promised. Earlier when he caught Orochimaru again, under the initial part of his investigation of Obito’s murder an unknown witness claimed that they saw Orochimaru with Obito the day of his disappearance. That was enough to bring him in for another set of questioning, which Kakashi was not apart of, only to have him release in an hour or two.

“You promised me that you would find him,” she turned her anger on him. “You promised that you would find his killer. You promised me, Kakashi…you promised,” she yelled and screamed and she hit him a couple of times from rage, but he just stood there and took it.

“I’m sorry,” he finally said when she had calm down some. She wouldn’t even look at him and that hurt more than the words and the beatings he endured. “I’m sorry that I let you down…that I couldn’t keep my promise, but …I…”

“Get out, Kakashi,” she whispered. He probably wouldn’t have heard her if the room wasn’t so quiet. “I want you to leave, now.”

He didn’t argue with her, he wouldn’t want to be around himself either. He just left and that was the last time he saw her. The following day he went to go check on her, only to find that she had moved out. Not leaving a note to tell him where she had gone to, but he had his suspicion that she went down south to her family. She needed their support more than anything.

Some months later, he was told to stop the case of Obito’s murder, they were going nowhere with it. He was told if they didn’t find the killer in the next three months of the finding of the body, it was most likely that they weren’t going to find the killer at all.

He never stopped searching though, he still believes it was Orochimaru, and he wouldn’t give up until he brought him to justice. That was his new promise…to Rin…to Obito. And he will uphold that promise, even if it took him years to do it.

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AN: How was it? I really like this chapter because it gives an insight of how Kakashi really feels about Obito and why he is so determined in solving his case. I hope that came across when you read it.

Also I want to say that anonyomous people can review now.