Kakashi exhaled a slow, excruciatingly slow breath of relief.
Kissing Obito and Gai was something he enjoyed; being able to show his affection for them and have it shared was excellent, even more-so now that he didn't feel he was stepping on anyone's toes by having that exchange labelled as a 'relationship'... and now he felt the same way about Yamato. He hadn't had even the slightest inkling that situations like these were possible, that people could kiss and be together without being together - the subject certainly wasn't touched upon in any of his books or the movies he watched, and given that they were his only source of information other than his very much married sensei... it was hardly surprising.
To know that Yamato didn't expect more out of him, and wouldn't ask for it, leaving Kakashi's readiness up to the man himself... It was relieving. It was the same kind of relief he'd felt when Obito had told him that just being a friend they'd kiss sometimes was okay, when Gai treated him exactly the same way after the hiccup of the mission; when none of them saw his special conditions as an annoyance, or something strange..
He was so lucky, and he couldn't be more grateful.
"I can do that." He smiled, honest and wide and entirely on show.
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Kissing Obito and Gai was something he enjoyed; being able to show his affection for them and have it shared was excellent, even more-so now that he didn't feel he was stepping on anyone's toes by having that exchange labelled as a 'relationship'... and now he felt the same way about Yamato. He hadn't had even the slightest inkling that situations like these were possible, that people could kiss and be together without being together - the subject certainly wasn't touched upon in any of his books or the movies he watched, and given that they were his only source of information other than his very much married sensei... it was hardly surprising.
To know that Yamato didn't expect more out of him, and wouldn't ask for it, leaving Kakashi's readiness up to the man himself... It was relieving. It was the same kind of relief he'd felt when Obito had told him that just being a friend they'd kiss sometimes was okay, when Gai treated him exactly the same way after the hiccup of the mission; when none of them saw his special conditions as an annoyance, or something strange..
He was so lucky, and he couldn't be more grateful.
"I can do that." He smiled, honest and wide and entirely on show.