Obito's POV
I watched as the darkness swallowed Karin as she ran back to the village. Running back to the arms of Sasuke-kun, the love of her life.
If I were to run to the arms of the love of my life, I would be running inside the burned down house, not to Rin.

I entered the burned house. Leaving the door opened in case the remains of this house collapsed at any second.

The walls were black, and the floor was covered in ashes, despite this once abandoned house never having any furniture inside.

In a cornered of the room she sat watching me. Her eyes revealed a hint of disappointment as soon as she saw that it was me who came to visit her and not Itachi. Her reaction killed me, but not the feelings I had for her.

"I thought you were dead." But was only greeted with silence.
Her hair seemed tangled and she was wearing clothes that obviously didn't belong to her.

"I am glad that you are alive." And  she made a noise as an awful attempt to speak.
Karin was right, they cut off her tongue.

I opened my mouth to say something and I almost bit my own tongue. What exactly could I say to bring her comfort when I also cut off her tongue years ago?

"I'm sorry." And by instinct I reached for my pocket, grabbing the notebook and pen. Something to give her so that she can write on.

"Write." I instructed her as I handed it to her.

But she looked away.

"Please don't do this. Please write something. Write anything." And then I called her by her real name.

This made her get up and run outside.
I caught up to her pinned her to a tree.
"No more games, Valentina. This ends here."

She freed one of her hands from my grip and took one of the kunais I had in my pocket.
I backed away expecting her to attack but soon relaxed as I saw her bend down on her knees and begin to write something on the dirt.

Tell Karin that I am sorry. She'll never see me again, she wrote.

"Where are you going?" I couldn't help to ask but she continued to walk away from me. Walk towards the river where Karin informed me there would be a small boat waiting on the edge.

"Where are you going?! Just tell me."

Far away. And there was a mocking smile.

"How far?" I asked.

Dunno. Never been there.

"I'll become hokage soon. Once that happens you can come back. I'll pardon you. Nobody will hurt you." I desperately tried to inform the anbu so she wouldn't leave.
Not yet.
I had so many questions to ask her. Like why she just didn't tell the truth from the beginning.

She stopped walking, as if to think, and then bent down and wrote on the dirt in big letters,
WHAT ABOUT RIN?

I looked away not knowing what to say. That question had been tormented me since I started my secret relationship with the anbu. Of course I was in love with the lonely anbu, but I already had a perfect life with Rin.

"There should be a small boat at the edge of the river." I said as I noticed a river peeking through the trees.
We continued walking in silence towards the river. Her eyes looking down the whole time preventing me from seeing her expression.

Once on front of the boat, she bend down to write on the dirt again with the kunai.

I'm killing myself.
I had to reread that phrase more than two times.
I just got her back and now she wants to die.

"No. Why would you do that?"
My heart pounded as I waited for her
To write something down but she didn't.

"Don't kill yourself." I begged her as if she really had a choice.

"Don't kill you self. Go hide in another village. Where they don't know who you are. But don't kill yourself."

Thank you, she wrote again on the dirt and I began to scanned my surroundings making sure nobody was near. Making sure nobody would hurt her before she got into the boat and went into hiding in another village. Until I became hokage.

But I failed to realize that her only enemy at the moment was herself.

The moment I looked at her direction again she was on the floor. Bloodied Kunai a few feet away from her and her bloody wrists had stained the shirt she was wearing.

"Why did you do this??" I asked her as I attempted to stop the bleeding but all she did was mouth a sorry and other words that I couldn't understand.

"Why did you do this? Because of Rin?? Because you thought that I didn't remember you?? I thought about you every day since the day you died in the Akatsuki."
But there was no response. Just a blank lifeless stare as I held her in my arms and cried.

My world was crumbling.
It was the end of my world.

I was becoming hokage in a few days.
I was marrying my childhood crush in a few days, yet my world was ending because the enemy of my village, an impostor, a liar was dead.

"Please don't die. Oh it's the end of my world," I hugged her while I cried. "You're my world. My everything."

Just like that. No goodbye. No goodbye kiss. No goodbye hug. Not one last I love you.
She just killed herself the second I turned and looked away.

No more lies coming from her mouth. No more her. It's the end of my world.