The strip of pale skin above Kakashi’s mask flushed red. “Heard from who?” he demanded.

Rin arched a brow. “I have my sources.”

Kakashi eyed her for a moment. “You’re friends with Nanami, aren’t you?”

“We’re getting off-topic,” Rin said sweetly. “Ignoring the fact that you forgot to eat, again, and fainted, again, how did your team react when you blacked out?”

He blinked, then paused to actually think about it. “Shiranui’s a field-medic. He did something medic-y, brought me around, and had that exact judgmental face,” Kakashi said, nodding at Rin’s expression. “Ueno told me about walking into walls when she got her tattoo.” When Rin nodded for him to go on, he added, “Namiashi didn’t say much. Tousaki just kind of snorted.” His eye narrowed slightly, as if Tousaki’s reaction had bothered him the most.

Rin had expected Tousaki to be the teammate most concerned about Kakashi’s well-being, after the whole fiasco at Trials. But it was a pleasant surprise to learn that the rest of Team Six had tried to reach out to Kakashi, even if he didn’t recognize their efforts as such. And Kakashi… did not react to disappointment well, and made no effort to hide it. That probably had something to do with Tousaki’s reaction: even gratitude for a life saved couldn’t last long in the face of unyielding scorn.

“I’m not going to tell you what to do,” she said at last. “And I’m not going to lecture you. But it does sound like you don’t hate Tousaki—or the rest of your team—as much as you want to.”