Enduring Love

chapter 22

"You okay?" Obito muttered as he slowly pulled his lips away from mine.

"Yeah," I said.

"You don't look happy," he said.

"I just," I paused and sighed. "I thought things with us would be different," I muttered. "I feel bad about all of this."

"Why?" Obito said. "We don't have to if you don't wanna. I don't want to pressure you."

I sighed and wrapped my arms around him. "Kakashi and I never officially broke up," you finally admitted. "So, in a way, I feel like I'm betraying his trust."

"I see," Obito muttered. "But, you've always loved me, didn't you? So, now that we can be together, you'll chose me, right?"

"Chose you?" You said.

"Yeah," he said. "Be with me when we get home. We can be together forever, just like you wanted."

"I-" I paused and slipped off of his lap. "I don't know what to say."

"You do realize you'd have to chose one of us sooner or later, right?" Obito said. "And I just assumed you'd chose me," he trailed off.

"I love you, Obito. I really do," you started. "But, I don't know."

"You don't know?" he said. "What about everything we've been through? You're just gonna give me hope for us to have a future, for you to pick him just like Rin did!"

"Don't compare me to her!" I exclaimed. "I've loved you for so fucking long! Cried myself to sleep and went on nonstop fucking suicide missions because live wasn't worth living without you! Then, I finally fucking find some sort of happiness, and you just come back and make things complicated!"

"Complicated?!" Obito said. "I didn't ask for you to come here! I didn't ask for any of this, but look at me now! You just wanna fucking use me, don't you?! You'll just end up picking Kakashi anyway, so why even bother?"

"Obito-"

"No!"

"Just fucking listen!" I exclaimed. "I don't wanna have to think about this at all right now! I don't wanna have to chose anyone because I love you both, and having this fucking conversation without Kakashi is pointless!"

"Right," Obito said. "I'll always be second best to him, huh? I just thought that you'd pick me after everything we've been through."

"I didn't really say I wouldn't," I muttered. "Look, let's just worry about that another time, yeah? We have bigger things to worry about."

"Yeah," he said. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have yelled at you."

"Seems like we both have some fucked up things we should deal with." I chuckled.

"You're right," he laughed. "Let's focus on stopping black Zetsu first, right?"

"We save the world, get therapy, THEN, we worry about the romance stuff." We both laughed.

Woah, it's been a while.