Alive

To the natural eye he looked fine. But to Kakashi's trained eyes he could tell Tenzo was tired, more tired than a normal Anbu would be. No.. He looked like he was fighting a battle no one but himself could see. "Tenzo-"

"Don't. Don't say it." Yamato spoke up, his eyes looking directly at Kakashi. He didn't want it being said. Because then he would be real. And he wouldn't be able to pretend that it wasn't there. The struggles, the nightmares, the despair of what he had done. Really he remembered when Kakashi struggled with this. When Rin's death had still been fresh on his mind.

In which Yamato suffers PTSD.