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[Apr. 22nd, 2018|08:55 pm]

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It should have been surprising — it might have been, if Kakashi hadn’t been angling for it. Instead, it made warmth curl in his chest like a stolen sunbeam. He likes me, too.

He felt himself smile. “Ten points to me.”

Ryouma huffed out a laugh and jabbed Kakashi between the ribs with two fingers. “Screw you, I’m worth at least 20 points.”

Kakashi caught Ryouma’s wrist to prevent further attack, wrapping his fingers around heavy bone and a quickening pulse, and let himself grin. “I didn’t say how many you got.”

Tendons flexed. Ryouma didn’t pull away. “No, I meant— How many do I get?”

“For your ability to be happy in my radiant presence?” Kakashi teased. “Three. Maybe three and a half for good taste.”

“Seven,” Ryouma countered. “Happiness is hard work.”

Why is your life worth less?

Kakashi’s smile softened. He scratched his nails gently over the back of Ryouma’s scarred knuckles. “Fifty.”

Ryouma’s breath shivered. “Whoa,” he said. “That sounds like an unforgivable corruption of the points system.”

Of course he remembered, verbatim, something Kakashi had said once. Of course he did.

It felt like a warning, albeit a soft one. Kakashi couldn’t translocate to the other side of the kitchen — or pond — this time. Ryouma had already retreated once, easing out of Kakashi’s pull on his shirt. If Kakashi kept pushing, it meant something.

Did he want to push?

Teasing along the edges of their resistance was exhilarating, like sharpening a sword with another, even more lethal blade. A slip the wrong way could break something, or bleed them out. And Kakashi was the first to admit that he a) had no idea what he was doing, and b) didn’t know if what he wanted now would be the same thing he wanted tomorrow, in the reality of dawn.

He’d hurt Rin so badly.

If Ryouma said no here, right now, or tomorrow, Kakashi wouldn’t crumple. A friendship with this strange, complicated man was enough, and more than enough. Anything beyond that was curiosity, and risk.

Two things Kakashi, admittedly, thrived on.
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