p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"We finished eating and I began to clean the dishes from the small table we had been sitting at while Kakashi began to run the water in the sink. I walked over and set the dishes down, grabbing onto his arm as he washed. His mask was still off of his face and he looked down at me as his arm moved, washing one of the plates I had set down. It was so calming. Here we were, doing normal household chores together like normal people. His smile was so beautiful and I was so happy that it was I who brought it too his face. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I love you, Kakashi." Those three words, ones that he had said to me in letters and in person, the ones that I had never said back. I had finally told him that I loved him. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"A small voice in my head begged for me to stop. That this was too fast. That it wasn't right. That voice that I had been keeping locked down for the last day resurfaced ever so slighlty, making me doubt for only a moment. Was this too fast? Was I being pressured into this, in fear that he wouldn't let me leave? That he would snap?/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I love you too, My Dove." He gave his signature closed eye smile and leaned down again, nuzzling his face into my neck and pulling his fingers through my hair. "God, I love you so much."/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I let out a satisfied sigh as he pulled me closer against him, not letting the voice try and talk me out of my choices. Not when I had come this far./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I gave a small yelp when his large hands reached my thighs, pulling me up. I instinctively wrapped my legs around him and he began to walk towards the living room. It was the first time I had seen it. There was one long couch and a tv, one wall was lined with more bookshelves, and the other had a small table that had two pictures on it. I looked at them as we passed. One was Kakashi and three younger people. I realized they were probably the ones that he was training, based on their descriptions he had given. The other was a picture that had an older, yellow haired man standing over three others, one obviously a young Kakashi. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""You were a cute kid, Kashi." I said with a slight giggle. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I scanned the bookshelves that were along the opposite wall, this one had been filled with movies, knicknacks, and more books. A small tablet caught my eye, a memorial stone. It was along the top shelf and even from our spot on the couch I could read the name inscribed on the front. Sakumo Hatake. I remembered Kakashi telling me of the things that he had gone through and felt slightly bad, as I couldn't remember if his father had come up. I sat staring at it, trying to remember the conversation, or more like the monologue on Kakashi's part. At that point I still had been trying to block him out, hadn't wanted anything to do with him, or so I thought, and hadn't tried to pay too much attention. Now I only felt bad that I hadn't and sat wondering how to bring up the subject again. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I wanted to know about him, to understand him, to know his secrets like he knew me. But that would come in time, I didn't want to push him too far too fast. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"Why? Because I was afraid?/p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I'll only be a moment," He said as he got up out of his seat. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"His soft footsteps were heard all the way to the end of the hallway and then the ringing of the phone stopped. I could hear his voice as he answered, and then his footsteps as he made his way back to the living room. I watched as his eyes looked at me, his face full of an unreadable emotion, and fear settled into my gut. I didn't know what he was thinking, I didn't know what he was about to do. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"Who was the girl he was talking about and why did the mention of her make him act this way? Why did the look in his eyes make me so frightened?/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Yamato, she's not gone, I assure you. She is perfectly safe."/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I couldn't hear the person on the other end of the line, but Kakashi kept at convincing them that this mystery girl was in no way in any sort of danger. He wouldn't say how he knew, only that he did, and he expected that to be the end of the conversation. The way in which he kept answering not only made me find him slightly suspicious, but I assumed made Detective Yamato suspicious of him as well. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Her stalker seems to have left her alone now Yamato-" He began to speak but was apparantly cut off by the detective. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I've got to go now, I'm a little busy at the moment." He spoke again as he pulled the phone away from his face and hit the end call button. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"He had been talking about me. It had been what, three days now? Surely someone had to have noticed that I hadn't been home, that I hadn't gone anywhere, spoken to anybody. That there had been no activity there whatsoever. I thought of my mother and how she had probably filed a missing persons report as soon as she had realized./p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"Hope?/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""And you began to sign your name on the latest ones. If they looked through there, they would know exactly-" /p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Please tell me you didn't do anything stupid, Kakashi. I can't cover for you again," Yamato said as he paced around the living area. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"Again? What did Yamato mean when he said again? Had the other man known about his secret the whole time? Or was this not the first occurance? Was I not as special as I had thought up until only a moment before?/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I didn't think it would be you, I tried to believe it wouldn't be. But then we got a call that she was gone and we had to go through her house. I found the letters." I heard the sound of paper flying, and I assumed that he had brought them with him. "I can't believe you would be so stupid as to sign your name! Is she here? Do you still have her locked up? Please, at least tell me she's still alive this time."/p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I took a few steps back towards the bedroom and then stopped. I didn't want to be farther in the apartment, farther away from the door. From freedom. The floorboards creaked as I did so, and I heard Kakashi as he told Yamato to not go that way, pressumably towards me. He rounded the corner that I had been hiding behind and when he laid his eyes on me, I wanted to burst into tears, and I didn't even know why. Kakashi was right on his heels, rounding the corner just after he did. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"Did I want to go? I loved him, didn't I? I shook my head at the other man, not reaching for his outstretched hand. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I know this isn't what you want. Your mind is just trying to survive, playing along so he doesn't lash out. You don't have to stay here anymore." He pleaded. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"Was this all a lie? Was I so afraid that I was playing along? I knew some of the things that he had done before, and Yamato had told me more. I looked to Yamato and he pushed his hand farther, waiting for me to reach out and take it. I slowly started to reach for him, my hand moving ever so slightly from my side. And Kakashi saw. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""No one is going to keep me from her Yamato. Not even you, old friend." He said as he continued to beat the man. His eyes were filled with hatred and a look was on Kakashi's face that I had never seen before. His eyes seemed to almost glow red and his mask had slipped down, revealing the bottom half of his face. A smile was etched into his features, as if he enjoyed the fact that he was beating this man until his breath stopped. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I ran past him, almost slipping on the blood that had begun to pool under neath Yamato's head. I ran until I go to the front door, my hand extended out, so close to the doorknob. So close to running out and being free. I didn't know where I was going to go, but I knew I had to run. Run until my lungs ached and then run some more. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"My hand reached the knob and turned. A large hand slammed against the door, Kakashi's strong arm keeping me from opening it. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Why are you running Dove? I did this for us, so we wouldn't have to be apart. Please don't be afraid Love," His voice was flat, as if there was no emotion in this man whatsoever. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I felt my head shake and I couldn't even begin to think of words to say. I felt his hand move up my side and sit comfortably around my neck. Hot blood was still smeared on them and I could feel as it dripped down my collarbone. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""You weren't going to run, were you Love? You wouldn't do that to me would you?" He asked, his grip tightening around my throat, constricting my breath. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I shook my head side to side, trying to speak, but it just came out as quiet gasps for air. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I shook my head again and pried at his hands with my nails, hoping that his grip would loosen, but he only squeezed harder. I started to see stars and I could feel my heart racing as my knees began to shake and give out./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Answer me!"/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I-" That was all that I could get out before his hands left my neck and I fell to the floor. Sobs fell out of me as I tried to catch my breath. I still couldn't see and there was no way that I was getting onto my legs to run. My hand reached up to where his had been around my neck as I continued to cry, my body not knowing what else to do. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"As my vision began to clear, I looked up to see Kakashi squating infront of me. I tried to crawl back, but I still couldn't move. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Don't cry, Love. Please. I would never hurt you," He said. He reached out and ran his hands through my hair and then cupped the side of my face. "I love you, my Dove. My Darling Dove. Nothing will ever keep us apart. I've done so much for you, can't you see that?"/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"His mood had completely shifted, and I couldn't take it anymore. The fear would never go away, and I could only pretend for so long. I began to feel my legs again and used them to push me away from him, making little progress before I heard him give a sigh and then stand up. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""No..." I begged. "Please don't, I swear I wasn't going to leave!" I continued to make little progress as he just stood there, watching. He gave me a few more seconds and then walked over, reaching me in only two steps. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I felt one of his hands reach around and cover my mouth, keeping me from screaming out. The other reached under my waist and pulled me up off the ground. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""You're not going to get away from me that easy, bitch. I've risked everything for you, and your not going to just throw it all away." He said. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I felt my body give out as he dragged me towards the bedroom door, and I stopped fighting. I could still feel the tears falling down my cheeks and my hands weakly tried to push his hand off of my waist. I didn't want to feel him near me, not now, not ever. I had given myself to this man out of fear, out of wanting to feel loved. I had forced myself to believe that if I did everything he wanted, that I could make myself like it. I had, when he was kind. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I had allowed myself to look past this part. To look past the fact that this sort of behavior is the kind that you cant change, that you can never get rid of. That I would never be allowed to leave, to be free from. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Now you stay in here and be good while I go clean up your mess out there." He said as he turned away. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"The door closed and I heard the sound of those locks, all of them turning and clicking into place, holding me captive once again. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"_/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"So I think that this will be the end as this was kind of where my original idea stopped. If you guys think that this isn't really a solid conclusion, let me know and I can brainstorm on how to give you a little more closure lol. But for now, this is the end of Kakashi is bad at love! Reader will stay in his hands for forever!/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I rested my head against his arm as he finished up the last dish and turned off the water. I reached up towards his face as he turned to me and wrapped my hand around the back of his neck, pulling him down to my face and initiating a kiss. We pulled away from each other, catching our breath, and I felt the words drip from my mouth without hesitation. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I love you, Kakashi." Those three words, ones that he had said to me in letters and in person, the ones that I had never said back. I had finally told him that I loved him. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"A small voice in my head begged for me to stop. That this was too fast. That it wasn't right. That voice that I had been keeping locked down for the last day resurfaced ever so slighlty, making me doubt for only a moment. Was this too fast? Was I being pressured into this, in fear that he wouldn't let me leave? That he would snap?/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I love you too, My Dove." He gave his signature closed eye smile and leaned down again, nuzzling his face into my neck and pulling his fingers through my hair. "God, I love you so much."/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I let out a satisfied sigh as he pulled me closer against him, not letting the voice try and talk me out of my choices. Not when I had come this far./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I gave a small yelp when his large hands reached my thighs, pulling me up. I instinctively wrapped my legs around him and he began to walk towards the living room. It was the first time I had seen it. There was one long couch and a tv, one wall was lined with more bookshelves, and the other had a small table that had two pictures on it. I looked at them as we passed. One was Kakashi and three younger people. I realized they were probably the ones that he was training, based on their descriptions he had given. The other was a picture that had an older, yellow haired man standing over three others, one obviously a young Kakashi. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""You were a cute kid, Kashi." I said with a slight giggle. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I scanned the bookshelves that were along the opposite wall, this one had been filled with movies, knicknacks, and more books. A small tablet caught my eye, a memorial stone. It was along the top shelf and even from our spot on the couch I could read the name inscribed on the front. Sakumo Hatake. I remembered Kakashi telling me of the things that he had gone through and felt slightly bad, as I couldn't remember if his father had come up. I sat staring at it, trying to remember the conversation, or more like the monologue on Kakashi's part. At that point I still had been trying to block him out, hadn't wanted anything to do with him, or so I thought, and hadn't tried to pay too much attention. Now I only felt bad that I hadn't and sat wondering how to bring up the subject again. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I wanted to know about him, to understand him, to know his secrets like he knew me. But that would come in time, I didn't want to push him too far too fast. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"Why? Because I was afraid?/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I shook my head and waited for him to stop shuffling in his seat before I threw my legs over his lap and leaned to the side against the back of the couch, staring at his face. I took in the features of his face, now even more beautiful in the light that shone through the open window. The dim light of the sunset only lit up his features and shone off of his hair, making it seem almost like starlight. He opened his mouth as if he were about to speak but was cut off by his phone ringing in the other room, where he had left it sitting on his nightstand. I pulled my legs off of him as he threw his head back and gave a deep chuckle, hating the interuption. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I'll only be a moment," He said as he got up out of his seat. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"His soft footsteps were heard all the way to the end of the hallway and then the ringing of the phone stopped. I could hear his voice as he answered, and then his footsteps as he made his way back to the living room. I watched as his eyes looked at me, his face full of an unreadable emotion, and fear settled into my gut. I didn't know what he was thinking, I didn't know what he was about to do. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""She's gone?" He asked the person on the other end of the phone. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"Who was the girl he was talking about and why did the mention of her make him act this way? Why did the look in his eyes make me so frightened?/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Yamato, she's not gone, I assure you. She is perfectly safe."/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I couldn't hear the person on the other end of the line, but Kakashi kept at convincing them that this mystery girl was in no way in any sort of danger. He wouldn't say how he knew, only that he did, and he expected that to be the end of the conversation. The way in which he kept answering not only made me find him slightly suspicious, but I assumed made Detective Yamato suspicious of him as well. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I've got to go now, I'm a little busy at the moment." He spoke again as he pulled the phone away from his face and hit the end call button. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"He had been talking about me. It had been what, three days now? Surely someone had to have noticed that I hadn't been home, that I hadn't gone anywhere, spoken to anybody. That there had been no activity there whatsoever. I thought of my mother and how she had probably filed a missing persons report as soon as she had realized./p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"Hope?/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""And you began to sign your name on the latest ones. If they looked through there, they would know exactly-" /p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"He pulled his mask up and then reached for the door, unlocking it and pulling it open as I slipped into the hallway, hiding myself from whoever was the other side. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Yamato you shouldn't be-" Kakashi started. I could hear the malice in his tone. He couldn't contain the hatred he felt for the brown haired man any longer for interupting his evening./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I heard the sound of two sets of feet walking farther into the living area and I guessed that Yamato had forced his way into the apartment. I heard as Kakashi closed the door behind him and I could picture the way that he was staring at Yamato at that very moment. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Please tell me you didn't do anything stupid, Kakashi. I can't cover for you again," Yamato said as he paced around the living area. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"Again? What did Yamato mean when he said again? Had the other man known about his secret the whole time? Or was this not the first occurance? Was I not as special as I had thought up until only a moment before?/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I didn't think it would be you, I tried to believe it wouldn't be. But then we got a call that she was gone and we had to go through her house. I found the letters." I heard the sound of paper flying, and I assumed that he had brought them with him. "I can't believe you would be so stupid as to sign your name! Is she here? Do you still have her locked up? Please, at least tell me she's still alive this time."/p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I took a few steps back towards the bedroom and then stopped. I didn't want to be farther in the apartment, farther away from the door. From freedom. The floorboards creaked as I did so, and I heard Kakashi as he told Yamato to not go that way, pressumably towards me. He rounded the corner that I had been hiding behind and when he laid his eyes on me, I wanted to burst into tears, and I didn't even know why. Kakashi was right on his heels, rounding the corner just after he did. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I know he's been keeping you here, you can leave now." Yamato stepped forward, reaching his hand out for my own. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"Did I want to go? I loved him, didn't I? I shook my head at the other man, not reaching for his outstretched hand. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I know this isn't what you want. Your mind is just trying to survive, playing along so he doesn't lash out. You don't have to stay here anymore." He pleaded. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"Was this all a lie? Was I so afraid that I was playing along? I knew some of the things that he had done before, and Yamato had told me more. I looked to Yamato and he pushed his hand farther, waiting for me to reach out and take it. I slowly started to reach for him, my hand moving ever so slightly from my side. And Kakashi saw. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""I told you, you shouldn't have come here Yamato." /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"My eyes shot to look at Kakashi behind the brown haired man and in a flash Yamato was on the ground and Kakashi was on top of him, throing punch after punch into the mans face. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""No one is going to keep me from her Yamato. Not even you, old friend." He said as he continued to beat the man. His eyes were filled with hatred and a look was on Kakashi's face that I had never seen before. His eyes seemed to almost glow red and his mask had slipped down, revealing the bottom half of his face. A smile was etched into his features, as if he enjoyed the fact that he was beating this man until his breath stopped. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I ran past him, almost slipping on the blood that had begun to pool under neath Yamato's head. I ran until I go to the front door, my hand extended out, so close to the doorknob. So close to running out and being free. I didn't know where I was going to go, but I knew I had to run. Run until my lungs ached and then run some more. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"My hand reached the knob and turned. A large hand slammed against the door, Kakashi's strong arm keeping me from opening it. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Why are you running Dove? I did this for us, so we wouldn't have to be apart. Please don't be afraid Love," His voice was flat, as if there was no emotion in this man whatsoever. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I felt my head shake and I couldn't even begin to think of words to say. I felt his hand move up my side and sit comfortably around my neck. Hot blood was still smeared on them and I could feel as it dripped down my collarbone. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""You weren't going to run, were you Love? You wouldn't do that to me would you?" He asked, his grip tightening around my throat, constricting my breath. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I shook my head side to side, trying to speak, but it just came out as quiet gasps for air. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I shook my head again and pried at his hands with my nails, hoping that his grip would loosen, but he only squeezed harder. I started to see stars and I could feel my heart racing as my knees began to shake and give out./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Answer me!"/p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"As my vision began to clear, I looked up to see Kakashi squating infront of me. I tried to crawl back, but I still couldn't move. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Don't cry, Love. Please. I would never hurt you," He said. He reached out and ran his hands through my hair and then cupped the side of my face. "I love you, my Dove. My Darling Dove. Nothing will ever keep us apart. I've done so much for you, can't you see that?"/p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I felt one of his hands reach around and cover my mouth, keeping me from screaming out. The other reached under my waist and pulled me up off the ground. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""You're not going to get away from me that easy, bitch. I've risked everything for you, and your not going to just throw it all away." He said. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I felt my body give out as he dragged me towards the bedroom door, and I stopped fighting. I could still feel the tears falling down my cheeks and my hands weakly tried to push his hand off of my waist. I didn't want to feel him near me, not now, not ever. I had given myself to this man out of fear, out of wanting to feel loved. I had forced myself to believe that if I did everything he wanted, that I could make myself like it. I had, when he was kind. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"I had allowed myself to look past this part. To look past the fact that this sort of behavior is the kind that you cant change, that you can never get rid of. That I would never be allowed to leave, to be free from. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;""Now you stay in here and be good while I go clean up your mess out there." He said as he turned away. /p
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p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"_/p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;"So I think that this will be the end as this was kind of where my original idea stopped. If you guys think that this isn't really a solid conclusion, let me know and I can brainstorm on how to give you a little more closure lol. But for now, this is the end of Kakashi is bad at love! Reader will stay in his hands for forever!/p