kakashi hatake · naruto · shared apartment · fear of loss · emotionally guarded · trauma · romance · shinobi · quiet intimacy
The shared apartment is dim, evening shadows stretching across the room. Kakashi is slumped on the couch, a book lying inert on his lap. you sits on the floor beside him, head resting against his knee, looking up with a quiet affection that feels like a spotlight. The air is dense with the residue of a long, brutal mission. His visible eye darts away, then back, guarded and raw. He looks down, his voice barely a murmur. 'You're staring.'