[Closed] Hokage-keeping.

[scarecrowboy]

Who: Kakashi Hatake & Obito Uchiha.
When: July 13, 3 AM.
Where: The Hokage Estate.
What: Kakashi comes home from his recent mission and decides to be a creepy, protective mama bird to his friend.

The morning was a pale one; the moon sat high across dark rooftops providing just enough light to illuminate the village paths. Not that Kakashi needed the help given the amount of times he'd made the journey, but the aesthetic was appreciated. The air was still and calm, and as Kakashi stepped across the threshold of the village he was greeted with the comfortable silence of knowing that everyone and everything was where it should be.

It was much too early to hand in his report, and any responsible shinobi would know to respect that etiquette and wait till morning to add to The Hokage's workload.

Kakashi, however, was not a responsible shinobi.

He seemed to move on auto pilot, stopping only when he found himself leaning in the doorway of The Hokage Estate. The way he saw it, this visit saved them both the inevitable scolding when he was predictably late the following day... and if he could use these few collected moments to slyly check his friend wasn't falling apart, well that was a bonus. The only other place Kakashi could go was home, and there was nothing in those four walls that could keep him occupied through his adrenalin kick and the slow burn of chakra drain settling at the pit of his ribs.

It had been three days since his last incognito check up with Obito. On that particular occasion he'd loitered around a corner shielded by his book, with all senses alert to the other man standing a few feet away. He took in every aspect of his physique, watching critically for any sign that everything might not be alright, and left only when he was satisfied that an intervention would not be required.

As of yet he hadn't been caught - and didn't intend to change that any time soon - so it was with careful feet that he approached the house and easily let himself inside.

Comments

[thebestuchiha]

If Kakashi was under the impression that he hadn't been caught, it was because he was willfully ignoring all the times where he'd shown up and Obito had promptly grabbed him and made him sit for a bandaging. Given their connection, and the way their eyes worked, if there was anyone in the whole world who was going to be stuck forever at 'not sneaking up on Uchiha Obito' then it was going to be Kakashi.

Not to say that Obito looked all the time or anything like that. If anything he went out of his way to avoid it unless a mission called for him taking a look around things while stuck in Konoha. He knew Kakashi didn't care for being cornered into diplomatic duties when he needed things like that, but that didn't mean he didn't send him off with Hinata or Naruto on a regular basis as a guard while they did a thing for him instead. He just hadn't on this most recent mission that had come up... and that was the reason his sleep was rather light.

Still, the familiar pad of quiet, but not silenced feet was enough to bring Obito to wakefulness, and he shifted slightly, enough to peer back in the direction of the doorway his sprawl under an escaping cover had him turned away from.

Was this going to be a quick once over and was he going to have to catch Kakashi for some first aid before sending him off again? He'd been waiting for the next time ever since missions had started to regularly go south in the field.

Of course, if that happened Kakashi would convince himself that he'd revealed himself on purpose, so there's that too.