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Prettier with Bangs
Kakashi watched the clear, uninterrupted water in his canteen settle back into tranquility. His dark, narrowed eyes drifted over to the messy mass of black hair that belonged to one Uchiha Obito. The boy in question caught the look, the subtle cock of a silver brow.
He shook his head, grimacing distastefully. Kakashi returned his eyes to the container in his hand, and shrugged unaffectedly.
There was a tiny sniffle. Just barely.
Obito's face deflated. He glanced at Kakashi resentfully, guiltily, before stuffing his hands in his pockets and shuffling over to the hunched figure of a girl. She continued to dutifully pack their belongings. "Uhh, Rin?" croaked Obito weirdly. She wasn't facing in their direction, and short sienna locks concealed her expression, but he was quite sure it was a look he wouldn't have wanted to look upon, anyway.
She was desperately trying to shove their medical kit into a pocket that refused to accommodate. "What is it, Obito?"
He flinched; he traced melancholy in her tone. He donned on his brave face and squatted down next to her, mentally raving at Kakashi for making him deal with this. "Rin? I don't think that goes there." He grinned sheepishly.
Her ministrations went lax. Her head hung a little lower. Obito swung his gaze urgently over at Kakashi. The prodigy pretended not to notice. "Hey, Rin," he patted her awkwardly on the back, "don't sweat it, ok? You're way too good for that Asuma guy." She went rigid.
Kakashi took a small sip from his canister, contemplating whether or not he should have just done this comforting thing instead of letting a half-baked muscle-head like Obito do it.
"I'm not-" She sounded hurt.
"Hey! C'mon, Rin! Smile!" Obito stammered, looking more the fool every passing second. He couldn't even see past the curtain of hair Rin had over her eyes. He reached out and tucked it behind her ear before his brain could even register what he was doing. "C'mon, Rin, smile," he encouraged weakly.
She didn't look up. "Obito, I'm not very pretty, am I?" she whispered. Obito began to sweat. Did Kakashi hear that? What would he have said?
"I-is that what he told you?" Obito queried, his voice going up an octave as he searched about for the right words. "That's crazy!" He tilted her chin up, then gingerly brushed the hair out of her face. "Because, you know, you're the prettiest with bangs!"
She flushed hopefully. "Really?" She smiled, and Obito exhaled a sigh of relief. She suddenly averted her eyes, a strange and uncharacteristic move. "Would you like it if I got bangs?"
Obito grinned. "Yeah, that'd be great!"
When Kakashi looked over again, Rin was giving Obito the prettiest smile he had ever seen.
I was just thinking about how pretty Rin would be with bangs, and this cropped up. I don't like the ending, though.
fin.
A/N: I'm not quite satisfied with how I wrote Rin. Oh, fickle self. Comments/critique welcomed. Thank you for reading!