Kakashi blinked back at Obito with a wide and kind of disbelieving look, not making any move to dislodge his face from his hold. Apparently in all this time Kakashi had failed to notice that incredibly crucial detail. Perhaps it was down to his purely book-led experience, or maybe his inexperience had caught him at an odds.. But he'd somehow managed to find himself in a three-man relationship without actually realising that both men were capable of loving more than one person.
He... honestly wasn't sure how he felt about that, other than stupid for only just realising, and instead he pushed the matter to one side in his head.
"But Gai didn't-.. He doesn't love me, not in the same way he loves you. When I went to talk to him about this he.. made that clear." Kakashi winced at his own words. He was making it sound like Gai had been cold to him, and that was the last thing he wanted Obito to think. "I'm his rival, his friend, and he loves me like he would a brother.." Or at least that's what he thought.. Gai had never told him otherwise either.
Kakashi didn't like thinking about the possibility that he'd put Gai on a pedestal as some faultless creature of sunshine, and that Obito was able to see his flaws more clearly.. He supposed it came with never being intertwined with them both in the way they had been for over ten years... He'd had feelings he couldn't quite describe for the both of them, each kind different, and each falling and peaking with intensity depending on Kakashi's mood - that was one of the reasons he'd never acted on them - but he'd never said anything and never made a move because he'd felt it wasn't his place, and now he was seeing that if he'd thrown a little caution to the wind, things might have been easier now.
He chewed his lip behind his mask, frowning slightly and utterly confused. "I told him I didn't think I could do this with the both of you and he accepted it.. He didn't react like I'd broken his heart." He didn't react how Obito had, at the very least.
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He... honestly wasn't sure how he felt about that, other than stupid for only just realising, and instead he pushed the matter to one side in his head.
"But Gai didn't-.. He doesn't love me, not in the same way he loves you. When I went to talk to him about this he.. made that clear." Kakashi winced at his own words. He was making it sound like Gai had been cold to him, and that was the last thing he wanted Obito to think. "I'm his rival, his friend, and he loves me like he would a brother.." Or at least that's what he thought.. Gai had never told him otherwise either.
Kakashi didn't like thinking about the possibility that he'd put Gai on a pedestal as some faultless creature of sunshine, and that Obito was able to see his flaws more clearly.. He supposed it came with never being intertwined with them both in the way they had been for over ten years... He'd had feelings he couldn't quite describe for the both of them, each kind different, and each falling and peaking with intensity depending on Kakashi's mood - that was one of the reasons he'd never acted on them - but he'd never said anything and never made a move because he'd felt it wasn't his place, and now he was seeing that if he'd thrown a little caution to the wind, things might have been easier now.
He chewed his lip behind his mask, frowning slightly and utterly confused. "I told him I didn't think I could do this with the both of you and he accepted it.. He didn't react like I'd broken his heart." He didn't react how Obito had, at the very least.