It's during one of his sporadic home visits - which aren't at all stalkerish, he's just trying to keep an eye on his former teammate, thankyouverymuch - that he finds Kakashi doing his darndest to get down a spoonful of kibble.
Obito watches, fascinated, as his ninken chow down on rice and chicken, and suspects that this doesn't line up with the man's initial intent. He's also fairly certain that, had it not been for Pakkun pointing it out, he wouldn't have even noticed.
The reason for this little error in judgment becomes quickly clear when Obito catches sight of his flushed face and the cloudy look in his eyes. Kakashi is blatantly sick, though he seems to be insistent on rejecting this fact, judging by the way he hobbles out of his apartment like a geriatric turtle who's just gone on a three-day bender.
Yeah, no. I can't, in good conscience, let this continue.
Before Kakashi can so much as catch his breath, Obito catches onto his arm and pulls him through kamui and back into his room. An action he almost immediately comes to regret when Kakashi stumbles before briefly pulling his mask down to vomit on his shoes.
Obito's full body twitches, but he forces himself to remain calm with a long exhale.
"Alright," he says, injecting false cheer into his voice, "Let's get you to bed."
Kakashi looks up, eyes hazy and brows furrowed. "'bito?"
"His twin brother, actually," Obito replies easily.
"Oh," Kakashi lets out, like that's a proper answer. To his fever-addled brain, it probably is. Obito uses the brief pause as an opportunity to lead him to his bed, though the moment he's pushed into a sitting position, he bats Obito's hands away. "'m fine."
"Keep telling yourself that, buddy," Obito says, half-heartedly throwing a blanket over his former teammate. He may not want him to die or anything, but he's not about to baby him, either.
Kakashi mutters something under his breath that Obito doesn't quite catch.
"Hmm?"
"...never do this…," Kakashi mutters. "Hates me…"
Obito doesn't hear the full sentence, but he can extrapolate, and he decides that's far deeper than he wants to go right now, as guilty as he feels.
"Right now he doesn't," Obito eventually says, just as Kakashi's eyes flutter closed. He remains still for all of a moment before he hears the sound of nails clicking on the floorboards.
He disappears into kamui just as Pakkun enters the room, glancing around with his nose held in the air.
Hours later, Kakashi will wake up to a bowl of soup, kept hot through liberal use of plastic wrap and seals, on his bedside table. Beside it is a note apologizing for any I.O.U.s that he may find to be left in his name along with Doug dressed up in a nurse's costume.
Both disturb him greatly, and leave him wondering if he's finally lost it. Had Obito heard these thoughts, he'd be wondering how that was questionable in the first place.
A/N:
ive been sick for three days now, so now i'm forcing fictional characters to suffer too (twice now)
you know, like a normal person
anyway
Thanks for reading!