Did you know that reviews make people happy like chocolate and muffins?

God, I feel like such a whore.

Oh well.

8. our own world

"Let's not tell anybody," he says.

"Anyone at all?" she asks.

"Yet," Kakashi says.

"So it's just us two, then."

"Yeah, why not," she dips her head in acknowledgement.

"Okay. It's simpler that way. A nice secret." She looks whimsical, mystical, slight. He touches her arm, then her face, draws a line across her ribcage. She kisses him lightly. She feels like she is air. She is lighter and less burdened than she has been in a very long time.

"It's like our own little piece of everything," she says. "Our space."

Kakashi cannot express how utterly normal this feels.