#kakahyo

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red string of fate 🧵🍂

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when your most sopping wet dog of a man childhood friend (affectionately) picks up some things from his students

i am fully back into naruto folks 🥷💖

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rekilaw will always be my main but i do have a few others very close to my heart <3 @madetobezine

art credits for: yohawk - @ferumeruderu ikkaco - molossiedae kakagenhyou - h3nloart

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modern au kakahyou where they're rival dog walkers during their highschool summer jobs and nothing happens because they only see each other once a year but then meet again as adults and fall in love send tweet

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They've always been in each other's periphery, finding reasons to pick fights or make fun - pushing and pulling one another like the tides. But I like to think of two specific moments where KakaHyou respectively had their, Oh shit I'm in love, realizations.

Hyou's was a little bit after they lost their canine companion.

Wounds were still fresh and they were still devastated, suffice it to say Hyou struggled to keep as usual while he grieved. The Third would have liked to give them time to process it but Konoha was short-staffed and needed every available hand to pitch in - or so he said.

Hyou was being berated by their ad hoc team leader for his missteps; one could say he looked to be on the verge of tears, but with how bloodshot their eyes already were from grieving Haiiro's passing, it didn't make much of a difference. Frankly, Kakashi thought they looked numb.

The man put in charge spared nothing, pointing out that they were all tired and frustrated from being away from home for so long, but that was no excuse to lag behind. The fourth member in their three-man cell hesitantly brought up Hyou's ninken in an attempt to potentially soften the blows, maybe appeal to their captain's empty because it was frankly hard to watch.

It didn't help. If anything, he got more vicious once they got to a neighboring camp with other comrades, almost like he wanted more of an audience as he chewed them out for all to see. Hyou was miserable. They wanted to go home. They wanted Haiiro.

The final straw was when their temporary captain spat that they should hurry up and get over it already, it was just a dumb dog.

Kakashi punched him out cold before Hyou could lunge at the man themself. Everyone watched stun in awe as that captain's cheek started to swell with red blood vessels. Kakashi's only response was a mocking, "sorry, thought there was a bug on you."

Hyou could only laugh at the absurdity, between tears of joy? Relief? They didn't know. What they did know was that they could hear their heart hammering in their ears and a tightness in their chest they hadn't felt in a while.

Kakashi was sent to the slammer once they returned to the village for assaulting his superior and suspended for three days but overall got a pretty light sentence; couldn't have one of Konoha's best shinobi wasting time in a jail cell while vital missions had to be carried.

Kakashi was met with Hyou waiting for him upon his release offering a free lunch, it was the least they could do for their little hero.

Kakashi's oh shit moment happened during a fever.

Bundled up in at least three layers of blankets and so delirious he hardly recognized Pakkun looming over his sweltering face. Gai dropped by periodically throughout the week and so did Genma, the latter mostly to make sure Hyou wasn't overworking themself but there was a little concern for the sick comrade in question. He brought pumpkin broth Kakashi had to choke down with a sore throat.

The bastard almost seemed smug about it, but Genma also helped wash the dishes and clean up while he was there so Kakashi didn't complain. Or at least he thought he didn't, his memory was foggy. God knows what else he said like that.

When Kakashi came out of his illness-induced fugue state, it was late. Everyone who'd visited throughout the week had gone home except for Hyou, asleep at his bedside, who'd been the one to primarily babysit him while he was out of his mind fighting off germs in his blood stream.

Carefully, he shifts out of bed without waking his companion from their slumber. Trained silent footsteps padding out of the room to inspect the rest of his apartment. Not a thing was out of place, kept to the controlled messiness that it always ways, if not a little tidier. No doubt there was a disagreement between Hyou and Gai not to touch anything. He smiled at the thought.

Kakashi returned with a clean, germ-free blanket for Hyou, brushing Hyou's bangs out of their face and disturbing an otherwise peaceful expression when they unconsciously scrunched their nose up at the intrusion. It might be rude, but Kakashi thinks to himself that they looked better with a scowl; felt more natural.

Sitting at the edge of his own bed, watching them get the much deserved rest they needed, Kakashi couldn't help but think about the ways he'd repay their kindness for the rest of their lives. Together.