A quick Wild West AU but with my favourite old men :) We’ve got outlaw Kakashi and rancher Gai (also a rough as hell lil bonus comic :))
@kindatiredtho gave me cowboy AU brainworms with their amazing cowboy Genma art, and @alternitavely infected me with KakaGai thoughts so blame them 🤷♀️
“…When I’m with you the world makes sense, but when we are apart I see clearly that your world is not one from which one can escape..”
Heard the “Dear Arthur” Red Dead clip and thought of my rancher Gai and outlaw Kakashi from the Cowboy AU so uhhhhh now y’all have this 🤷♀️
Anyways, enjoy the sad gay cowboys, they took years off my life 🙃
^^ full comic
Yeah so basically my concept was that Kakashi and Gai met each-other at a bar, got into some shenanigans (lots of stupid challenges and flirting ), and yadda yadda thy start seeing eachother on the down-low.
At first the whole Kakashi being an outlaw thing doesn’t really matter to Gai. The tales of his dangerous and illegal adventures are exciting and it’s definitely not horrifying when he comes to the Maito ranch with blood oozing out of a barely patched wound. It’s endearing that he trusts Gai enough to help stitch him up on the kitchen table.
And it’s not like Kakashi likes doing illegal activities… he just has people he needs to protect, people who he’s completely loyal to, and sometimes those people need him to back them up while they do illegal activities. 🤷♀️
But, you know how it goes, suddenly it starts to catch up. Suddenly the grey gets murky and someone takes it a step too far and now your boyfriend is being actively hunted by law enforcement 🤷♀️ Suddenly those stories become concerning, and you wonder if the next time he stumbles through your door with an injury he got god knows where will be that final nail. Suddenly you don’t want to ask how he got it.
(^^ by you I mean Gai, buuut you get the idea)
So yeah.. Gai knows full well well that Kakashi’s loyal to his crew to a fault. He knows that no matter how good life is when Kakashi’s around - how good KAKASHI’S life is when they’re together - Kakashi will never abandon his comrades…. And Gai’s whole life is on that ranch…
So now the only time Gai sees Kakashi is on the various wanted posters that circulate (though they could never quite get his eyes just right) and the only time Kakahshi sees Gai is the few times he has a nice dream (instead of a nightmare)
Yeah anyways you guys see the vision right? I don’t even have that strong of a plot idea I just get my heart ripped out every time I hear that RDR2 scene and I figured Cowboy AU KakaGai kinda fits so 🤷♀️
If anyone read that I will serenade you sofly 🫶🎶🎷🐛
vr 1. (italian, this is actually the lyrics of this song, which is just amazing, i recommend to read the whole translation lmao) "open my [peaches], my darling, smash my heart"
vr. 2 (spanish) "break my [peaches] 'cause you've already broken my heart"
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