The Hidden Leaf Shinobi // KAKASHI X ITACHI

II

!!WARNING!!

I'm Italian, I don't speak English well. I'm just translating my FF to broaden my audience. Thank you for understanding.

ART CR: Skylax3 on DEVIANTART

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I entered the anbu at 11, I felt foreign and totally different from the others, I was so small next to my classmates.
At the time they teamed me up with a very strange and silent guy, I didn't see him talking to anyone other than a certain Might Guy. Everyone called him Kakashi Hatake. He was a good person even though he was always alone and distant but I still managed to get close to him, letting the true personality of him overflow.

"Hatake Kakashi of the sharingan, you mean?" 

My best friend Shisui turns to me after throwing kunai at the tree, this guy is well known in the village.
"Exactly, what sharingan are you talking about?" He mess up my hair as usual, it's already difficult to keep it tied up, the only thing missing is him ruining it for me.

"You are probably the only person of the village who doesn't know about it." I look at him curious, waiting for him to start talking, "why don't you ask him?"

I stick my tongue out at him, "What? Don't you love your friend anymore?" He squeezes my cheeks so hard that I can't open my mouth anymore, "that hurt." He laughs and walks away, leaving me alone or so I thought.

"Itachi? Do you feel ok? Your cheeks are red." I almost jump in fear when I hear his voice, I could have died of a heart attack. "Kakashi-san, you are here." I scratch the back of my neck in embarrassment, expecting anyone but him.
"Why? Can't I stay here?" He giggles as he walks up to me, "sit down, I'll do your hair."

That was the first of many times, from that moment every time my hair elastic fell off he always came forward to fix it. And I didn't understand why but my heart was beating continuously.
He was older than me, by many years, how could I have such a relationship with him? But Shisui wanted to help me make friends, so talking to him about it made no sense.

What could possibly happen? We are just comrades.

"Kakashi-san", I talk to get his attention. I still haven't figured out how he breathes with that mask on his face, I'm really curious to see what he's hiding under the blue material. He tightens the elastic tightly to not let my hair loose, he always makes me a high ponytail, I'm not capable and therefore I prefer to keep it low.

"Isn't it too high?" I don't see his lips but I know he's smiling, "it looks great on you, I'll do it any time you want." I thank him and make him a offer that I didn't think I could make, I should train to get stronger or go home to my family and yet I'm here with him.

"Do you want to eat something?" The only visible organ on his face opens wide in surprise, "you and me?" I nod, grabbing his hand to take him with me. I really want to eat sweets, especially dango.

We go into my favorite cafe, precisely because they prepare really delicious dangos here. "I feel like a babysitter right now," I hold back from spitting a dango in his face just because he's older than me and I respect that. "Can I ask you something?"

"Only if it's an intelligent question", I think about it for a moment, trying to figure out if the question I'm about to ask him makes sense. "Just kidding, of course you can ask me a question, I'm your senpai after all."
Senpai? For some strange reason his words make my cheeks burn, making my heart beat faster. Am I embarrassed? What's this feeling?

"May I ask why you have your face covered and why you have the sharingan?" I expected a surprised expression but his gaze doesn't change at all. "An old friend of mine gave me his sharingan before he died", I think I brought up a delicate memory, how stupid.

"I wear the mask because of my father, why? Are you curious to see what am I hiding?" As he pronounces these words he comes near my face, I swallow moving away from him. He's about to gave me a heart attack otherwise it's unclear why my heart is beating so fast.
"Would you be willing to show me?" I try to play his own game, "only if you give me something in return."

Something in return? Not a very attractive suggestion. "Can I give you this now or when I'll be an adult?" He bursts out laughing as I ask the question, "better talk about it when you're 30."

Thirty years seems too long to me, I want to see his face now.
"Now you are the leader of the Anbu, you have other things to think about, right?" I nod, I'm so busy that finding this time to eat seems like a miracle. Actually I was hoping to spend more time with him, after the mission in the Village of Wood I slightly distanced myself from him, seeing him only a few times.

By the time I realized I was already 15 and I was killing my family, I was destroying everything I loved the most. It's too late to go back now, I can only continue to live carrying the burden created by myself. I'm sorry Sasuke, for being a traitor and not telling you the whole truth. You don't have to forgive me, I'll love you anyway.

"I know everything."
Kakashi, he knows everything, how can he know everything? How does he actually feel about me? I'm just a mate to him, who am I to him? Why did he follow me that night? Why did he kiss me? Why does he keep torturing my thoughts? What am I for you? Because you're confusing me even now that you're no longer next to me.

-Hilary