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“Obito, can you go to room 120 and hand this to the head doctor?” 

“Hai” 

Grabbing the small stack of folders, you headed off. Since you either spend your time studying at home or going on errands with your grandmother, it didn’t seem off that you would stay next to your grandmother even at her work. You already notice a few genin that wish to become or learn medical ninjutsu. So, it wasn’t strange for them to reject you for coming with your grandmother though it was obvious that you couldn’t help with anything medical related, so you just became a delivery boy. 

‘I better get my sweets once we leave. Maybe I should try to use my charm and get the genin or nurses to get them’ 

Once you reached your destination, you gave a small knock before entering. You had to keep that good kid streak if you wanted to get your sweets, especially those from the head doctor as she didn’t mind giving you small snacks here and there. 

“Thank you Obito, now run along and make sure your grandmother doesn’t notice. Alright?” The head doctor gave a wink as she dropped a few candies in your hand. Giving a firm nod, she gave a small chuckle as you walked out of her office. 

‘Why can’t phones exist. We have TVs and laptops but no phones. Hell the laptops look like 21st century laptops while the TVs look like a combination of  the 20th and 21st century’ You cried mentally as it was easy to get bored when you had nothing to do. Though you would spend most of your time with your grandmother, there wasn’t much you could do while she worked as nobody was around to distract you. 

Most times you would wander around the hospital delivering documents or just talking with patients. Sadly you were given limited access to the shinobi ward as you wanted to ask a few questions about chakra, though which was reasonable as shinobi need a different type of care. Especially when you put a hyperactive, clueless child with a traumatized shinobi is basically just asking for a mess to happen. 

‘This body sucks at chakra control, even as a Uchiha which is supposed to give them a boost in order to even handle the sharingan. No wonder he needed to meet Madara, that madman literally gave him Hashirama cells which is a whole nother thing. Should I wait 2 years until Madara dies or try to leave before that? Ugh then there’s Black Zetsu and White Zetsu’Grumbling, you realized you had more problems ahead than just the simple list you made a few weeks ago. Might as well write a whole book with what might happen and that’s not counting things that happened offscreen because Obito was controlling a whole village and terrorist groups while hunting for tailed beasts at the same time. 

“Obito, I want you to meet someone”

Lifting your head, you found one of the few genin that are taking more classes with the hospital to become a medic-nin, Nozomi was her name. You heard from the grapevine that she had another 6 months before she left to start missions with her team. Though many genin teams don’t have a medic-nin, they are taught basic treatment with a simple medkit. You started to wonder if that would be the same with your team, Rin spending most of her time learning medical ninjutsu while the rest do simple D-rank missions. 

Looking at the child next to Nozomi, you immediately recognized them by the two purple tattoos on their cheek and brown hair. You never knew when the day would come when you would meet her but you knew it couldn’t be avoided. 

Rin Nohara, part of Team Minato and the medic-nin of the team. The girl Obito loved and when she died so did Obito, losing his humanity and succumbing into the Curse of Hatred.  

“This is Rin Nohara. She seemed to have great control over her chakra and applied for the beginner's class on medical ninjutsu. Just thought it’d be nice for you to spend time with someone closer to your age, yah know” Nozomi chuckles a bit at her last statement as it was true, you were the youngest kid who wasn’t either a patient or shinobi. 

“Name’s Obito Uchiha!” 

“Obito, inside voices”

“Hai”

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“Medic-nin? Does that mean you can do that green glow thing with your hand already?”

“Not yet but my sensei thinks I’ll be able to in about a year, maybe even less”

“That’s amazing!”

While you smiled at how advanced Rin truly was, like the show didn’t give her enough credit on her mastery over medical ninjutsu at such a young age, you were also dred up the reason why the show placed Obito with Rin. 

‘Please do learn, I’m about to get hurt so much you have no fucking idea. No fucking charka control so just image how much injuries I’m going to have, can’t even image how painful learning the Katon will be since grandma is too old to properly teach me’ 

You already felt the burnt lungs and throat you’ll have in the future as you try to learn and master the Katon. It was known as the Uchiha signature ability and it was part of the Uchiha ritual into becoming an adult in the eyes of not just the clan but of their god which you still have no idea on who, but you would believe it’s Indra due to the tablet the currently resides with the clan head and its family. 

“What do you want to be Obito?” Rin asked you as you realized you never had a plan. Much less as you're about to get crushed by a boulder in about 5-6 years, who’s keeping count though. 

“Well since I want to be the strongest shinobi from the Uchiha clan, it’ll be great to be the first Uchiha Hokage. I mean, the Uchiha clan are one of the founding clans of the village! If there was a Senju Hokage then there’s got to be a Uchiha Hokage” You grinned at Rin, your eyes shining as it felt amazing saying it. 

You know that there will never be a chance to become Hokage. Yet you wanted to be a child for once. To have a childhood for as long as you can so dreaming big, even if it wasn’t yours felt almost liberating 

‘Best of all, I can then blame Kakashi for taking my job if I survive the war. Use a bit of that guilt to get the benefits of a Hokage while he does all the paperwork’  Inner you nodded to themselves, proud of their plan as you can already taste all of the sweets, you’ll buy with the money you’ll steal from Kakashi. 

“Really? Then I’ll make sure to study hard as a friend of the future Hokage!” Rin had a new determination in her eyes as she huffed, ready to get back into her lessons. She had barely met you, yet she already supported your goals and wanted to become the best medic-nin as Tsunade. 

“The future Hokage can’t have anything than the best of the best on his team”