And that made him think of Obito, and what had happened. Smiling softly he watched Gai as he slept, and listened to his steady breathing, slowly slipping his hand free from Gai's grasp, he moved his arm slightly to rest his hand on top of Gai's head, and began to pet his hair, resting his hand at the nape of Gai's neck he began to play with the slightly curly strands of hair that grew there.
And drifted into thought about his collage days, and about the short amount of time he got to spend with his father, before he took his own life (those were the ones that hurt).
Closing his eyes he just let his mind wander, back to a better time, back to days when his father would kiss his face and lift him to the sky and tell him that he was going to do great things when he was an adult, his father never said 'grow up', he always said 'when you're an adult', as if Kakashi would never grow up, maybe as if he already was grown up.
Sighing Kakashi twirled one of the already curly stands of hair around his finger, wondering why Gai's neck was damp with sweat, and Kakashi couldn't help but smile and wish that he was a little closer, so he could smell him. Kakashi inhaled sharply, wondering why he would even think that.
Blinking , Kakashi frowned slightly, and wondered why exactly he felt like crying, running his hand around to Gai's cheek he stroked it softly, and was slightly startled by the warmth that was radiating off of him, cupping Gai's cheek in his hand he stroked his cheek with his thumb softly, all the while wondering why things were like this.
What had he done to deserve this? To deserve such a sweet, kind hearted man? Who would wait up for him so long that he would pass out. (And yet when he thought about it part of Kakashi knew that Gai wouldn't really fall asleep like that, it wasn't even very late. Only 2:00 A.M.)
Kakashi couldn't fathom it, it just shocked him to think that someone could actually care about him enough to do these things, but then Kakashi didn't seem to be able to understand half of the things that Gai did.
Gai was one of the strangest people Kakashi had ever met, yet he was one of the few people in the world that Kakashi put any trust into.
And he couldn't figure out why.
The way Kakashi's mind was working right now, stuck somewhere between his father and Gai, Obito popped into mind, and Kakashi's eyes opened wide, and he inhaled sharply, letting his breath out slowly, his exhale coming out in more of a whimper then anything else. And he felt his eyes start to burn, as Obito lingered in his mind, and he thought about the way things should have been, and he closed his eyes.
For the first times in years Kakashi felt a hot tear rolling out of the corner of his eye, and he turned his head to the side slightly, as the tear rolled down his cheek.
It was slow, and he regretted letting it start, because now that it had he felt too tired to reach up and wipe it away, he just let his hand drop from Gai's cheek, and rest on his neck limply.
Gai narrowed his eyes slightly, having been awakened by Kakashi's hand, which was now laying against his neck, limply. Watching Kakashi, he was confused by all of the expressions that passed over the smaller mans face, before the tear rolled down his cheek, and finally he decided to ask, "Why are you crying?"
Kakashi flinched slightly, opening his eyes, he peered down at Gai, and remained still, laughing quietly, he shrugged "I don't know, Gai." he said softly.
"It's okay, Kakashi... Don't be upset." Gai said, forcing his body, which seemed to be fighting against him, into a sitting position, his usual enthusiasm seemed to leak out of his voice, no matter how hard he tried to sound cheerful, or upbeat, he just couldn't muster the strength.
"I know, I'm not even sure what's wrong." Kakashi said laughing slightly, as he looked Gai over, the mans hair was stuck to his face, with sweat, which was odd, because to Kakashi it was slightly cold in here, reaching up he put his hand on Gai's cheek, "You're sweating so profusely, is something wrong?" Kakashi asked, very startled at how ward Gai's face had gotten.
Gai shook his head slightly, as he pressed into Kakashi's hand, it was so nice to feel something so cool, when he was burning up like this, he wasn't sure what was even wrong, as far as he knew nothing was, after all, it was just a little sweat, he figured he would be fine in the morning, it was, after all, just a slight fever.
It was about then, that Kakashi noticed that the front of Gai's shirt was soaked through with sweat, which was pretty shocking, because out of all of the people Kakashi knew, Gai was one of them that he rarely got to see sweat, and he was shocked, to say the least. "Gai, you're sweating so much..." Kakashi said as he put his hand to Gai's forehead, "I think you should go talk to a nurse Gai, you're burning up with a fever..." Kakashi said, slightly startled.
Gai laughed slightly, but it was half heartedly, "I'm fine--"
"No, you're really not." Kakashi said, cutting him off before he could change the subject. "You're drenched in sweat, and you're exhausted, you aren't even your usual exuberant self Gai, this is so freaky." Kakashi said sighing as he stroked Gai's cheek, "Seriously, go see a nurse."
Gai just sat there for a moment, leaning into Kakashi's touch, before sighing dejectedly, as he rose, very slowly, and nodded, "Fine, Kakashi, if it will shut you up. I'll go see a nurse." Gai said smiling, a friendly smile, to let Kakashi know he wasn't hostile, though his remark seemed that way.
"Thank you!" Kakashi said lying back and smiling up at him, "I'll wait for someone to get around to telling me what's up." Kakashi said smiling, still, as he rested his hand on his stomach.
Sighing Gai made his way to the door, and walked out, closing it behind him he took six steps before collapsing, the nurses on duty were quite confused, but they put him onto a gurney any way, and brought him in a room for a diagnosis.
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Kakashi hadn't even realized that he he was asleep until a nurse was standing over him asking him something, that he couldn't quite make out. "Wh...what?" he mumbled, as he rubbed his eyes, with the heel of his hand.
"I said, do you know Maito Gai?" the nurse asked softly.
Kakashi nodded softly, as he looked up at the nurse, "Why?" he muttered, as he yawned, covering his mouth only because a lady was present.
"Because he wouldn't stop talking about you, he talked about you as if you'd know each other for years." she said smiling softly, "Here's your breakfast." she said softly as she started to sit the bed up.
"Where is Gai?" Kakashi asked softly, as he picked up his fork, and looked at the plate in front of him.
"What? Oh, he's right there." the nurse said, letting out a high pitched giggle as she pointed at Gai's bed, which was about six to eight feet away from his own bed.
Kakashi exhaled loudly as he looked at Gai, "Can you move his bed closed, I want to talk to him when he wakes up." he asked, in the most polite tone he could muster.
The nurse looked over at Gai's bed and then looked back at Kakashi, "Sure! I'll move him over here, handsome." she said winking at Kakashi as she walked around the end of the bed, and went to move Gai.
Kakashi was always slightly awkward around women, but around ones who flirted with him he was just down right shy, and right now he was beet red, and just staring at his food.
As soon as the nurse was finished moving Gai, she blew Kakashi a kiss, and went on with her duties, and Kakashi was never more glad to see anyone leave. Glancing over he spotted a book on his end table, picking it up, out of sheer curiosity, he began to read it it. And was quite shocked to find that it was actually pornography. Opening the front cover he read the inscription on the inside 'To Kakashi,
I hope you find that murderer, let me know if I can help.
-Jiraiya.'
Kakashi couldn't help but chuckle at that, as he got comfortable, and began to read the book, thinking that it was slightly odd that he and Gai always ended up together these days, even in the hospital.
Looking sideways at Gai he grinned, "I guess it's just going to be you and me from now on, Gai. I hope you can handle that." he said, softly.
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A/N; FIN!
This is the last chapter, BUT, I'm pretty sure there will be a sequel. And I'm sorry this took so long to write, but I just seriously cannot get over this writers block, which sucks. Either way, I hope you guys enjoyed this really, really short chapter, though I do apologize for the shortness, SORRY EVERYBODY, I didn't mean to start sucking *cries*.
Hope you had fun while it lasted, I'll try to write a sequel!
~Ciao.