Title: ANBU

30 Kisses Prompt #16: Invincible

Pairing: Obito/Kakashi

Rating: PG, blood and kissing

Summary: Tenzou confronts Obito in the locker room with an honest concern. But Obito thinks it's spurned out of jealousy and contempt.

Obito pulled on the loose black pants of his uniform, finding it hard to concentrate. The hokage was usually very good at keeping couples out of the same ANBU missions, but there was sometimes overlap. Sometimes the couple in question had abilities that worked so well together and it was unavoidable. To Obito's chagrin, this was one of those missions. He and Kakashi worked well together, their teamwork and bond extending beyond their personal life and into their job. Obito's sharingan aided him in reading movements, and he knew Kakashi's style well enough to compliment him.

Still, Obito was troubled. Normal missions with Kakashi were hard enough. There were always inopportune moments when following Kakashi, when his thoughts strayed from the mission at hand. On an ANBU mission, it would be worse to have stray thoughts. The uniforms, while mostly featureless, did accentuate arms, and Obito knew there would be moments where he would be looking.

"You shouldn't be here."

A locker slammed shut, shaking Obito from his silent reverie. Lifting his head, he saw the masked face of another teammate staring him down. Slightly shorter then Obito, and body still growing into what would likely become a lean but solid frame, Obito was fairly certain who the shinobi in front of him was.

"Tenzou," he said, looking him in the eyes. "Why do you think that?"

He could see that direct eye contact made Tenzou uncomfortable, and restrained a smirk. The young man had every right to be afraid, it was dangerous to look into the eyes of an Uchiha that you were trying to make angry. But the younger man did not falter, and kept staring Obito down. "You're a distraction," he said. "Senpai can't concentrate as well when you're around. And you're next to useless around him."

"Glad to see that you have great confidence in your senpai and the team," Obito said, pulling the sleeveless ANBU shirt on over his head. He turned away from Tenzou, and slipped on his sandals. "I'm sure Kakashi will love to know that."

"I'm just stating the truth!" Tenzou said. "You're a burden to him on this mission!"

"And you're just jealous," Obito said. He slipped the body armor on, and faced Tenzou. "Jealous that he cares about me. Well, I can assure you that it's not all it's cracked up to be. And if he cared about you like he does me, he'd be just as distracted."

Tenzou's eyes lit up with anger, and he scowled. "That's not true!" he said. "He only worries needlessly over you because you can't take care of yourself."

"I've only required serious hospital attention three times in my life. And one of those was for an illness," Obito said. Grabbing his mask, he shut the door of his locker, and stared right back at Tenzou, a smile creeping over his face. "Deal with your jealously over my relationship later. There's a mission to do."

The blood was a bright crimson splash across his teammate's chest. They had been prepared for a fight, even had the mission gone perfectly according to plan. While the mission objectives had gone off without a problem, something in the timing had failed, and they'd been caught on their way out. It had been a messy fight to get out alive and with the information in tact. Leaning against a tree and breathing heavily, Obito was just happy that no one of the team was dead.

"The odds on this were overwhelming, you know," his teammate said. "I wasn't sure they'd hold out as long as they did."

"It did," Obito said. "Somehow, some way. It all held together, and the team's still alive."

"That's something, at least," the man replied. "Did the other team get what we needed?"

Obito nodded. "Yes. I heard that over the two-way when we were about neck deep in enemies. I thought that information could wait."

"Good call. It could," he said.

Obito shrugged. "It was nothing. I didn't want to burden you."

The stood there, waiting for the other team silently, catching their breath. After a moment, the other ANBU beckoned at Obito. "Come here," he said. It wasn't quite an order, and Obito knew he could refuse if he wanted to. Despite the reasoning in his head that they were not yet quite out of danger, he listened, coming up very close.

His teammate took off the mask he was wearing, and Obito followed suit. Kakashi's face was damp and flush from wearing the mask for so long. The night air felt good on Obito's face, and he took a very deep, long breath of fresh air. It felt nice to be free.

Obito felt Kakashi tug on the straps of his body armor, pulling Obito closer. Obito held Kakashi closer with his arm, enjoying for a moment their closeness. During the mission, he'd found a way to shut off his emotions, ignore the feeling of dread and worry he felt at every seen and unseen blow that could have hit Kakashi. In a way, he had Tenzou to thank for that. Proving Tenzou wrong had been his driving force. Now, he let some of that wall down.

Kakashi pulled him into a kiss, brief and surprising. Obito felt the claws from Kakashi's gloves dig into him, and made a soft hiss as the kiss ended. Tracing Kakashi's lips with his fingers, Obito sighed.

"When we get home," Kakashi said softly. He pulled away from Obito, and slid his mask back on. Obito sighed deeply, and did the same. The rest would have to wait.

Waiting quietly, two figures dropped down from the trees. Obito recognized Tenzou immediately, and felt himself bristle.

"You're both alive," he said.

"Of course we are," Kakashi replied, nodding. "Together, he and I are invincible."