Tobi's creation: Obito
Alright, now. I know since the latest chapter their's been a lot of these, I've even been on the opposing side of it from time to time, but someone else's theory gave me an idea.
When we say, "Obito = Tobi" we immediately assume some ones speaking about Obito becoming Tobi after the events seen in Kakashi Gaiden. However, we all know that Tobi has a wide collection of Sharingan and a few were scattered into non-Uchiha (Kakashi and Danzo). What if "Obito" was actually an act that's point was to en-plant a Sharingan in the son of the "White-Fang" of the Leaf Village's son?
We've seen time and again that Tobi has an incredible amount of Intel about Konoha, but his Intel has never been shown to extend into other villages. Convenient? Well, I'm not done.
You must know your enemy. What if Tobi can see through Kakashi's eye? Since Kakashi's mentor was the Fourth Hokage and he was quite the little prodigy, this would explain how Tobi discovered the barrier that surrounded Konoha and was able to sneak in on the day of Naruto's birth.
Using his Zetsu like body and a transformation jutsu, he could easily have turned into Kakashi's childhood friend. He couldn't just shove his eye into Kakashi's he needed to act it out. Make Kakashi accept the eye as if it was his friends dying gift. Also, this was during war time, why wouldn't Tobi find a way to infiltrate and find out Konoha's war tactics? Make sense to me.
I'm saying, maybe Tobi wasn't crafted by throwing around the letters of, "Obito" around. What if the name "Obito" was created by throwing the letters of "Tobi" around.
What this answers:
-Age difference between Obito and Tobi
-Motivation to attack Konoha
-Tobi's Intel
-The similarities between Tobi's Mangekyo abilities and Kakasi's
What do you guys think?