Disclaimer time! I do not own Naruto... (Even though I wish extremely hard)
Naruto was a bit sensitive at the moment. He was stressed and physically overworked.
That was why he didn't want to look at Kakashi at the moment.
Because Kakashi reminded him of one of the only things that he had left behind. They were as different night and day though. The Kakashi in the past was a man broken by loss and that had finally cracked in an irreparable way. This kakashi… smiled. He had hope and love and care. He had only lost his father and even that seemed to have been mended somehow.
Naruto stopped walking, a frown adorned his face as he looked at the floor.
Kakashi had raped him.
That had been the truth.
Many people would have thought he would hate him after but he was tired of hating. Kakashi was like alcohol to the broken man he was… and still is. He made him forget his troubles instantly and then left him with shame, regret and remorse. But for the same reason that Kakashi actually drank the intoxicating liquor Naruto came back.
Because once you started; you couldn't stop.
Kakashi wasn't a stranger, he was his teacher, and friend and he couldn't leave him. And sometimes watching the pained look on the older man's face made the revenge sweet. Somehow or the other after that incident Kakashi became the one that wanted to help Naruto and whatever plan Shikamaru had. And Naruto was the one who had died inside.
That's why it wasn't love.
And that's why Naruto couldn't look at Kakashi.
Because Kakashi's eyes on him were too soft, gentle and naive.
Somehow the boy had fallen in love with him.
Oh, the Irony.
And maybe if Kakashi stayed like this and Naruto reverted back to his innocent self they could come to fall in love. Because when Naruto was young he really did admire the man and though he was too young to even think about relationships if there was a guy like the kakashi now who fell in love with him….
The world would have changed.
Naruto sighed as he continued down the hall.
He just had to stop seeing them overlap. There was no time for love then and certainly none for it now that he had higher stakes.
He pushed open the door to see three of the akatsuki members that in the future had attempted to kill him. A man that had died and cursed him with his legacy and a man that fathered one his later greatest friends.
"I finished detailing the tactics to Minato we should be ready whenever you are"
Shikaku said moving into a stand. Naruto nodded firmly remembering the times he stood before his own council; a smile crossed his face.
"Good then we should have no problem starting immediately."
The room stayed in still silence as they waited on baited breath for him to continue,
"We have a week to finish this war with little to no casualties. I will be heading to the war front everyone else knows their jobs;
MOVE OUT!"
