Obito quotes from Naruto: Shippūden

I am Obito Uchiha of the powerful Uchiha Clan! I'll be stronger than you'll ever be! Kakashi, you just wait until my Sharingan awakens!

I got some dust in my eyes and started tearing up, that's all.

[last words] Just when Kakashi and I were finally starting to get along. And I never got to tell Rin that I love her. I just wish that I could've spent more time with everyone.

I get it. I see now. I am in hell.

[to Kakashi] Look at me! There's nothing in my heart! I don't feel pain any longer! There's no need to feel guilty, Kakashi. This hole was opened up by this hellish world.

[to Kakashi] You've seen reality, you should be able to understand. No wish can become true in this world. That's why I'm pursuing the dream of infinite Tsukuyomi. I want to build a world where heroes don't have to make pitiful excuses in front of graves.

Rin... Rin was the only light I had. After I lost her, my view of the world changed. It became a pitch-black hell. There was no more hope in this world. I began walking again under the guise of Madara, which only reinforced what I already realized. Even with the Sharingan, I couldn't see anything. Nothing.

Kakashi

Whatever the circumstances, one person alone makes the decisions to keep the team together. That's why we have the rule that says all team members must obey the captain without question. Obito, you have no power. That's why I'm the captain of this team and you aren't.

Then why won't you try to save Rin yourself? It means you have the power to rescue your teammate, isn't that right Kakashi?

Kakashi

If you give in to your emotions for even a moment and fail your mission, you'll regret it sooner than you know. That's why Shinobi have rules. That's why we're taught that we must suppress our emotions. You should already know that.

But Rin, she was so concerned for your well-being that she put together that special med kit for you. She even sewed a protective amulet inside it!

Kakashi

The med kit and medical ninjutsu are great systems that the Hidden Leaf developed to increase the success rate of our missions. But like I told you yesterday Obito, better nothing at all than a useless burden.

Useless burden?

Kakashi

To carry out a mission a ninja must only have tools necessary to the task at hand. Useless things like emotions only get in the way.

Do you really mean that? Do you honestly believe that stuff Kakashi?

Kakashi

[remembers his father] Yes I do.

Just forget it. We'll never agree. We're like oil and water. I'm going to rescue Rin.

Kakashi

You don't understand, Obito. You don't know what happens to people who break the rules.

I believe that the White Fang was a true hero. You're right. In the ninja world, those who break the rules and laws are regarded as scum. But those who would abandon even one of their friends are worse than scum! [Kakashi is shocked] I'm scum anyway, so I'm going to choose to break the rules. And if doing that somehow makes me less than a true Shinobi, then I'll just go and crush all the so-called Shinobi!

I totally forgot that I was the only one who didn't get you a gift for becoming a Jonin and being named captain. I thought about it and didn't know what would be good, but I do now. Don't worry, I remember what you said before. I'm not giving you something useless. I'm giving you my Sharingan. Whatever the Village or anyone else may say, I think that you are a great Jonin. It's true. That's how I really feel. Please accept this. Rin, please use your medical ninjutsu and have my Sharingan, the whole eye, transplanted to Kakashi's left eye.

Kakashi, come quick. We have to do this now.

I'm about to die. I'll be your eye, keeping watch over what the future brings you.

Still alive huh? Man you're stubborn kid. But then you're just a brat. A real Shinobi doesn't cry. Let's settle this you big crybaby. [Kakashi reveals his new Sharingan] There's something different about him now.

Kakashi... Take care of Rin.

Kakashi

I will.

Neji

Long ago those words of yours freed me from the shackles of fate.

Naruto

Why would you go so far for me? Even give up your life? Why?

Neji

[last words] Because you called me a genius... [thinking] Father, I finally understand the freedom you felt, choosing to die to protect your comrades.

Didn't you say you wouldn't let any of your comrades die? Naruto! You said "I'll never let my comrades die". Those were your words. Now look around you and try to say it again! I said try to say those words again! As the bodies of your comrades grow cold in your arms, take in their deaths!

Hizashi, forgive me. Neji is...

This will just keep happening and all your flippant words and ideals will become lies. This is the end result of ideals and hopes. This is reality. Naruto, what is there for you in this reality? Your mother and father are gone. Your master Jiraiya too. And if you keep standing against us, you'll lose all your friends one by one. This shall become a world where no one that acknowledges you will exist.

Kakashi

Obito.

The only thing that awaits you is your worst nightmare, which you know very well. Solitude!

Madara

You have become almost exactly like the old me, Obito. Naruto will fall shortly, which will break the will of the Allied Forces.

So why keep living in this reality huh? Now come join us, Naruto!

Hinata

[slaps Naruto to snap him out of it] Neji just said that in your hands you hold more than one life. Do you understand what he meant? Do you? "I'll never let my comrades die". Those words and the conviction behind them are not lies! For he stored them in his heart and lived them out til the end. Neji really did. It isn't just you, it's all of us. We all hold those words and feelings in our hearts. They're what bind our lives together and make us comrades. If we were all to give up and just discard those words and feelings, Neji's act will have been for nothing. And that is when your comrades truly die, for you are no longer comrades then. That's how I feel. So please stand up together with me Naruto, because never going back on one's word... That is also my ninja way!

You're going to lecture me now? Bit late for that sensei, don't you think? You're always too late when it matters most. [flashes back to his tragic past] I'm glad my teacher was a Hokage. That made it easy to give up on becoming Hokage. [flashes back to attacking the Hidden Leaf]

Minato

If only I had realized that man was Obito, I may have been able to stop him. And then I may have been able to prevent Kushina's death. I may not have had to make Naruto into the Nine Tails jinchūriki. If only I had noticed that he was Obito. Perhaps the Shinobi world wouldn't have ended up like this either.

You were my teacher and yet you didn't realize it was me. That's just who you are fundamentally. How pathetic. You died a hero Hokage, but now exposed as a disgrace in front of your living son. That's right, a Hokage is a pitiable existence compared to what I am now.

Naruto

Wrong, you're Obito Uchiha. When I touched your chakra earlier I saw into your past. Our personal histories and our dream of being Hokage are the same, almost exactly the same. Neither of us knew your parents, and we both lost someone precious to us. Which is why you tried to scare me by saying solitude is my worst nightmare. At the start you wanted to be acknowledged and praised by others too. I bet that's why you wanted to become Hokage. I mean if you're the same as me. But look at you now! You've made all shinobi your enemy and spout nonsense that it's for the world's sake when really you're only doing it for yourself! Not one person, not even those precious to you, would ever acknowledge this current dream of yours. You used to have the same dream as me, but now you're the opposite of a Hokage! It's cuz you're just like me that-

No it's because of that. That's why I wanted to see you despair about this world. Or I suppose I wanted to feel again for myself that the path that I've chosen for myself is indeed not a mistake. When I was battling against you, you made me recall myself from my youth. That's why I wanted to test you, to see when you would fall into despair and reject your feelings and past.

Naruto

It's because we're so alike that you really annoy me! Get it?! You're just abandoning everything and running away!

No, what I'm doing is no different than a Hokage's actions. More in fact, for I can truly bring about peace.

Naruto

Are you serious right now? You really truly believe that?

[flashes back to telling Rin his dream of being Hokage] Yes I do. There's no need to voluntarily walk a rugged path whose destination isn't even clear and step over comrades' corpses. So anyone who's sensible would choose a shortcut with a fixed outcome. That's right, the goal a Hokage should seek is to create world peace.

Naruto

You don't know what you're talking about. What I want to know isn't the shortcut or the easy path, but how to navigate the rugged one!

Would you still say the same thing even if both those paths led to?

Naruto

But in the beginning, how can you tell which one is the rugged path? I mean, you never really know until someone starts walking down it. A Hokage is one who walks ahead of everyone else, enduring their own pain! So that's why a Hokage never walks over his comrades' corpses. There's no shortcut to becoming Hokage and no way out for the one who becomes Hokage, correct?

A lot more suffering likely awaits you Naruto. However, just keep forging ahead like always without changing. You once told me that never going back on your word is your ninja way right?

Naruto

Yeah.

[Last words] Naruto, you better... become Hokage!

Naruto

Hey Kurama! Were you lonely being separated from me like that? I sure did miss you!

Quit yelling so loudly! I wasn't lonely! You have half of me inside you, remember?!

Just look at Kurama, all embarrassed and flustered. Although this too is exactly what I had once envisioned. That there would one day be a Shinobi who could move even the Tailed Beasts to cooperate.

Kakashi

Naruto caused Obito's change of heart. He restored Obito back to himself.

Yes, I see. Then I shall be sure to ask Obito to tell me that tale in the afterworld. Wait, is he still?

I ought to go soon.

Kakashi

Yeah.

Kakashi, I really made a mess of the shinobi world. So much so that I don't even know what to say to you in parting.