#everyone is alive and kaiya exists too lmao

[wind-becomes-lightning]

21 with Kakyuri please!!! The YamaSora one was so good!!! It made my heart melt.

“This was not how I wanted you to find out, but I also don’t want to take it back.” ok right i had noo plot idea for this, nothing, nada, empty. so i wrote this out and i kinda dont think its any good. sorry dear, idk why it didnt click for me at all. mention of @foolishk's kaiya.

Kakashi watched Obito weigh pebbles between his fingers and then aim, his one open eye half narrowed down, to only let the stone splash on the water once and drown. Skipping stones was just one of the many things Obito wasn’t good at apparently. 

The evening sun was hanging over the hills of Konoha, bathing everything around them in orange light. The two friends had come here after a mission deep in talk about this and that. They pushed thirty now and seemingly all of a sudden there were so many life updates to discuss.

“Sayuri said yesterday that if I don’t ask Kaiya out she will cut out my remaining eye,” Obito said, another stone weighing in his hand. “It’s scary. Maybe I should.”

Kakashi rolled his free eye: “You should, not because Sayuri threatens you to violence, but because I know you want to. And she wants you to.”

Obito, a man who never had issues befriending people, was surprisingly childish when it came to his pursuit of romantic relationships. Kaiya, who had grown up with Sayuri and him, must have had a crush on him for - well, as long as Kakashi knew her at least, and still Obito had his doubts about finally admitting his feelings. It was utterly bizarre.

“Not that you know how that is,” Obito had his teeth gritted. “Because you are never interested in someone romantically.” He looked over to Kakashi and his brows were furrowed. “The revolving roster of people that visit you at night are not comparable to being in love you know.”

Kakashi scoffed a little. Yes, he liked spending time with whoever offered the best of it, but that didn’t mean he did not know how romantic love felt. Actually, he’d known it for a good while.

“I do understand it, Obito. I’m not unfeeling, you know? But for you, confessing will just lead to Kaiya and you dating, which would make both of you happy, while me confessing would just bring up more drama for all involved..” He winked, which always looked weird with one eye.

Obito looked confused.. “You’re in love?”

“Uh, maybe, I think so at least.” Kakashi shrugged.

 “And you can’t confess, because it’s someone that you shouldn’t be in love with…?” 

Once again Kakashi shrugged: “Yes, I guess you could say that.”

Obito pushed himself away from his friend, his eyes raised wide open: “Oh my god, is it.. Is it m-m-?” 

“No, Obito, I’m not in love with you. You wish.” Kakashi laughed a little. His friend let out a long breath and then moved back to his side. He seemed genuinely relieved, which Kakashi tried not to take too personally.

“So who then?” Obito asked. 

It was not like Kakashi had wanted to openly talk about it, admit this to himself or others, because he knew it would just lead to further issues, but Obito was a good reliable friend and so what harm would it do to say out loud.

“I guess,” Kakashi shrugged a third time, “she was right when she said she’d get me to fall in love with her.”

Obito choked on his own spit. “Oh god, Sayuri? You’re in love with Sayuri?”

“HUH?”

Kakashi looked over his shoulder. Behind them were Rin and Sayuri, the latter’s face had already changed colour to its characteristic embarrassed tomato red. He should have been embarrassed by her having overheard the conversation, and he was a little, but seeing her half angry, half shocked face switched the buttons in his head over to his usual teasing self.

“This is not how I wanted you to find out,” he said while getting up from the grass and shaking out his limb muscles, “but I’m also not taking it back.” Rin laughed and winked.

Sayuri’s face changed into a grimace of disgust: “Please take it back.”

“I won’t.” Kakashi stepped up to her. 

She put up a finger under his chin: “I’m going to just act like I haven’t heard it.”

“Ha, I can repeat it if you like.” Sayuri turned her back to him, but Kakashi followed suit. “I might be in love with you.”

“Shut up.” She increased her walking speed, but he caught up with her. “If you say it again I will punch you.”

He decided that being punched was worth seeing her face agitated like this.