Kotetsu had a grin upon his tanned face as he dressed that morning.
He and Izumo were taking Izumo's new to him, car, to school that morning. They were high school juniors and still, did almost everything together.
Dressed in light gray skinny jeans and a white tank top with a black and gray striped vest over it, he grabbed his messenger bag from the floor and dashed down the stairs and out of the house.
Izumo was waiting, flashing a grin at him as he got in.

The drive was uneventful, Izumo was a careful and safe driver, and they both grinned as they got out of the car and began the walk to the building.

Upon entering the building near the theater end of the school, Kotetsu's eyes were captured by none other than Obito Uchiha. He was walking with Kakashi and Rin, his orange goggles down over his eyes as he spoke, he grinned widely, much to what seemed to be Rin's annoyance and Kakashi's indifference.
His heart skipped a beat as the Uchiha happened to meet his eyes for a split second.

"Dude, you coming or what?"

A bright red Kotetsu turned and hurried to his friend, they had studying to do afterall. Physics test, first period. If Izumo had noticed anything strange about his behavior, he didn't comment, comepletely absorbed by the review problems. They worked in near silence, except to check each other's work or ask the other or a fellow classmate how to do something or if they were doing it correctly.

Turns out, Izumo, as usal, had missed nothing.
At lunch as they sat enjoying their pizza, he asked, "So why were you checking out Obito?"

Kotetsu sputtered for an answer, turning bright red once more as he gazed at his best friend.

Izumo continued as if nothing were amiss. "It's cool with me if you like him, I mean, he is pretty cute. Though I must say I prefer that Kabuto kid, he's like a sophmore or something? I hear he's wicked smart."

A still blushing Kotetsu stared at his friend.

"What? You didn't know?"

"K-know? Know what?!"

"That, like, I'm gay, and so are you?" Izumo responded, staring back at his clueless friend.

"Wh-what?!" Kotetsu yelped.

"Dude..., I've known since like grade school. Known about you too, don't act so surprised," Izumo said with a shrug.

Kotetsu rested his forehead upon the table. His best friend was gay. He had known that he, himself, was gay as well. He was beginning to get a headache.

"As for Obito..., I dunno if he's gay. He is a year ahead of us and all. Doesn't he play soccer or something?" Izumo asked, his eyes flicking to the Uchiha who sat across the lunchroom with Rin and Kakashi.

"Uh..., yeah, he's like a starting forward or something...," Kotetsu replied, raising his head to gaze at his friend.

Izumo reached over to pat his friend on the head before swiping his cup of peaches.
"You like soccer, see if he'd like a friendly match?"

"Like it's that easy...," Kotetsu grumbled, casting an annoyed look at his friend as he tilted the cup of peaches into his mouth.

After finishing the peaches and returning the empty cup to Kotetsu's tray, he replied, "Of course it is. If you go do that with Obito, I'll ask Kabuto for some help in Botany, I hear he has that like sixth class, and you know I'm struggling with the plant names."

Kotetsu glared at his friend, although he wasn't really mad at him persay, more at himself for being so obvious.
Izumo merely offered his goofy grin in response, awaiting Kotetsu's decision.

He knew there was no reason for him to not do as Izumo had suggested. It made sense in every possible way. The worst that could happen was Obito refusing. Even knowing that, his stomach was in knots as he gazed at the grinning Uchiha. He could do it as they left the lunch room for their next class. He was nervous as hell about it though, he sighed and gazed back at his styrofoam tray.

"Fine."

Izumo grinned and ruffled his friends hair. "Knew you'd see sense."

"Fuck you," Kotetsu muttered, looking away.

"Awwwww, I love you too," Izumo grinned wider at him.

"I'm going to lick you." Kotetsu said quietly, glaring at his friend.

Izumo's grin froze as his eyes widened as he stared at his best friend.
"You wouldn't."

"I don't think you want to take that bet."

Izumo paled visibly, no doubt remembering the last time Kotetsu had made that same threat.

It was about their sixth grade year, Izumo had been excessively annoying his best friend, Kotetsu on purpose. It was funny as hell to rile him up, largely because he wouldn't do anything, because he was too lazy. One time, though, Izumo had taken it too far and paid dearly for his mistake.

He was teasing him about talking to Anko Mitarashi, a girl in their year with dark purple hair. Almost every guy in their year was drooling over her. She knew it too, but she threatened to beat them up if any of them tried anything. Proclaiming loudly that she didn't like dick, she liked pussy.
She'd gotten written up for that. Not that she cared.

Izumo, of course, that she was a lesbian, but the three were still good friends, and Izumo would always tease Kotetsu about "turning" her straight, although he knew such a thing was impossible.
One day, at lunch, during a particularly good teasing, Kotetsu had had enough.

"Shut up or I will lick you."

Izumo had laughed and looked at his friend with a huge grin.

"You wouldn't."

"Try me," Kotetsu retorted, glaring at his best friend.

As Izumo began another teasing remark, Kotetsu got up, walked around the table, bent over enough to reach his friend's face and promptly, licked his cheek from his jaw up to the middle of his nose before returning to his seat with a self-satisfied grin. Izumo, sat there, staring wide-eyed at his friend, his mouth hanging open.

"Dude, you might wanna close that unless you want someone to stick something in it."

Anko snickered, having seen everything that transpired.
Izumo blushed and his mouth closed with a click of his teeth. He averted his eyes and stayed as far away as possible from his best friend the rest of the day.

"Y-You wouldn't though! We're in high school now!" Izumo protested, his eyes wide with near-panic.

"You really wanna test that theory?" Kotetsu smirked, the tables turned.

Izumo looked away sullenly. "Fuck you."

"Love you too," He replied.