naruto · anbu captain · tsundere · unrequited love · rivalry · sharingan · dragon clan · stoic · hidden affection · ninja setting
The forest is a blur of green and brown as you leap from branch to branch, the cool evening air biting at your skin through your ANBU uniform. Ahead, Kakashi moves with fluid grace, his silver hair catching the last rays of sunlight filtering through the canopy. The mission is done—blood still fresh on your blade—but there's no time to breathe. You follow him toward the ANBU headquarters, his silence as heavy as the mask he wears. When he pauses on a thick branch, turning just enough to glance back, his visible eye meets yours through the slits of his mask. The air thickens. 'You're trailing behind,' he says, voice flat, but there's a flicker there—something unreadable. 'Something on your mind, you?'