The great copy-nin of Konoha, a man begrudgingly elected as next-in-line to become Hokage, now reduced to a powerless toddler. He'd probably laugh at the sheer absurdity of it all. ![]() He wonders what Obito would think, if he could see him now. The odds had been stacked so heavily against them it was a wonder they'd lasted as long as they had. He hopes against hope that his dying actions helped turn the tide of the war, but he knows better than to believe it. More emotionally, he's realizing it's been three years since he died and left his friends and students to fight for their lives against an opponent with almost no weaknesses. Realistically, he knows the slow trickle of knowledge is because his brain had to develop enough to be capable of processing everything. Hitoshi is three years old when the full extent of his memories finally sinks in. Even if there was, he knows there wouldn't be any good answer. So why is he here, in a place filled with chimera-like hybrids of humans, animals and technology so wildly different from everything he'd ever known? He understands that in another lifetime, in another reality, he'd been known as Hatake Kakashi and death had been more welcomed than feared. He knows, in a distant sense, that he'd died. Hitoshi is two and a half years old when he finally starts to understand why nothing in the world makes sense. Their apartment is little more than two tiny rooms and a bathroom, all with paper-thin walls. Floorboards creak with age and a lack of care. Their faucet drips sluggishly, lights flickering from an overtaxed electrical system. ![]() He spends hours in silence with nothing but the faint sounds of the neighbors to keep him company. He's completely dependent on two people who spend most of their time screaming at each other and passing out in drunken stupors. There's an ingrained instinct blaring that everything is wrong wrong wrong. His dreams are a maelstrom of grief and fear, his mind overwhelmed with a lifetime of emotions his brain isn't developed enough to comprehend. He looks at his reflection and knows that the infant looking back at him isn't what he should be seeing. Hitoshi knows there's something wrong with himself before he's even old enough to have a sense of self. Hitoshi's mother looks at her baby, a child who refuses to cry and stares listlessly at the ceiling, and wishes she were anywhere but here. The maternity ward is a place of joyful parents and the celebration of new life. Hitoshi is born with a shock of white hair and a single blood-red eye. Shinsou Hitoshi is born in a tiny hospital room to a mother who hadn't wanted a child and a father who was too high to care that his wife was in labor. He dies of sheer exhaustion as he gives up the last threads of his strength in a last-ditch effort to save the only other person with the critical knowledge to stop Pein from destroying everyone. He dies pinned between two slabs of crumbling concrete, blood and ash soaking his mask and making it hard to breathe. Hatake Kakashi dies alone in the ravaged ruins of a village he'd never quite considered home.
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