Just a little drabble I felt like writing. Some very light KakaSaku. Redone and beta'd by Anh D-ao.
Kakashi had always been an enigma. It was difficult to tell what the jounin was thinking, although if you got an answer out of him you knew it was the truth, because he never lied. His approach to questions was not to tell you the exact answer to your question, rather, he would say something equally true and related enough to change the subject or provide an answer, just not quite the one you were looking for.
In the past, it had bothered Sakura a great deal that he was so secretive. When she asked, he would give a vague remark or smile beneath his mask and ruffle her hair She knew it wasn't that he didn't trust her, because he did. But as time passed and she grew more familiar with Kakashi, she realized that no one really knew anything about him and it wasn't because no one bothered to try but because he chose not to tell. It was simply common knowledge that the past wasn't spoken of. If someone was unaware of it, he was not about to enlighten them because, to him, it didn't matter. It had nothing to do with trust. It was just Kakashi.
After years of companionship, sometimes broken because of missions, difference in rank and Sasuke, Sakura found that she knew more about him than she had previously thought: Kakashi had a soft spot for dogs and, surprisingly enough, kittens. He couldn't keep a plant alive more than a few days; not because he didn't know how but because he forgot he had one. He hated blatant shows of materialism and preferred camping out in the forest. He cared more about the safety of his companions than his own.
Every now and then,Sakura wondered if he would ever come out and let her, or anyone, in. But then he would plop down beside her after a long day of training and rest his head in her lap, hitai-ate in his hand just so she could run her fingers through his hair and it wouldn't matter, because she realized he already had.
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