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Obito was practically shaking with a mixture of both nerves and excitement. He'd been dressed about 2 hours before he had to leave and he was currently sitting at the breakfast table, staring into space and unable to eat much. His gut was tying itself into knots.

"What's wrong now?" Mikoto was finally the one to ask. The family had been watching as he stabbed at tomatoes, sending them flying across the table. Obito jolted at the sudden reminder that yes, people were here and his embarrassment was being witnessed.

"N-Nothing!" He did not want to admit any of it.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes!"

"He's got a date today!" Sasuke looked so proud in his little ratbag face that he wanted to smack the shit out of him.

"A date?!"

"You piece of shit! I will kill you!" Even his descendants would feel the kicking he would receive for his insolence! But before he could dive at his cousin, he was scooped up into a big hug by his aunt.

"Oh Obi! Your first date! We have to get a photo of you in your little outfit!"

"No! You will not!" He flailed as he tried to break free from the grip of this determined woman.

"'Tachi! Get the camera!" True to his name, the little weasel picked up the clunky family camera and began taking pictures.

"You traitor! There's a special place in hell for you!" When he finally managed to wriggle free, he had to flee for his life as Aunt Mikoto launched at the camera.

"You look so cute!" He could hear her cooing as she looked back over the photos.

"I'm going out!" He had so much time to be there but even standing and waiting would be better than dealing with this nonsense!

Or so he'd thought… When he ended up sat by himself in a bus station, he realised that this was somehow more of an awkward position. Even excruciating minute ticked by as he watched the people around him giving him funny looks for sitting there and twitching. It was hard to sit still and it actually hurt.

"Who put a stick up your ass?" So much tension in his body meant he leapt to his feet when he heard Kakashi's voice.

"Bakakashi!" He didn't know what to say to him so he chose to glare instead. Especially as he looked effortlessly good. What kind of an asshole found it that easy?

"I don't remember doing that."

"Sh-Shut up!" Damn him! He knew Kakashi was also nervous but he hid it so well that in some ways it angered him more; how come he couldn't hide it?

"I just can't believe you're here early."

"Aunt Mikoto was making a big deal of it!"

"I thought you weren't going to tell them? Because, and I quote, 'they will be sooooo embarrassing'."

"…OK, first off, I don't sound that dumb!"

"You do but continue."

"Dick. Anyway! Sasuke told her! He must have been spying on us!" He had known that floorboard had creaked! He was not paranoid.

"Just as you said he would. Now do you want to go or did you want a few more minutes of melodrama?"

"Why is everyone so mean to me?!" He seemed to attract them like a magnet.

"Because we love you." Kakashi leant in and kissed him on the forehead. As if he couldn't get any more embarrassed… "Now let's go."

"Fine." He was glowing like a tomato and still shaky but when Kakashi held his hand, he felt a little better. It was still scary but feeling how much Kakashi's palm was sweating made him calmer. "Where are we going?"

"Somewhere I think you'll like a lot."

"Is it a hole I can hide in?"

"No."

Obito still felt a little self-conscious walking in public and holding hands; what could he say, he didn't like getting any kind of attention. And he still felt like Kakashi was too good for him, he just didn't know how to deal with that feeling. It was something that wouldn't just go away overnight. It did suck when he wanted to go and enjoy his day.

"You need to relax Obi." It was apparently a sixth sense with him.

"I'm trying!"

"I know. Can I help?" It was weird how someone could appear to be an asshole and yet be so considerate.

"Why're you so nice? It's scary."

"I can make it better if you want?"

"How?"

"Wanna hug dumbshit?"

"Yeah that's better." It made him smile to see Kakashi attempting to be mean.

"Did you want the hug too?" He considered this.

"Yes." Kakashi pulled him to one side and wrapped him in his arms. Damn was this a comfortable place to be. Ok he did like the hugs on demand…

"Now we can go."

Kakashi had told him the date would be a surprise so he'd never known exactly where they would be going. But when they stopped in front of the building he had spent almost every weekend in before he'd started the job, Obito's eyes lit up. The arcade was one of his favourite places in the world.

"How did you know?!"

"This seemed like a place you'd like."

"I love it!" But more than that, an idea had started to form in his brain.

I can kick his ass at all of these games! If he had been in a kid's TV show, he'd have been doing a maniacal laugh right now. He didn't want to beat the smug out of him anymore but it would be nice to feel like he was good at something again.

"So what do you-?"

"This one!" Obito began dragging him at full force towards the old zombie shooting game. "I used to love this game!" Because littler Sasuke had found it scary and would not come near it.

"Why?"

"I guess I like shooting stuff?"

"I feel like I should be concerned about this. But fuck it, let's shoot some stuff."

"Yesss!" They both grasped their shitty plastic guns, slotted some money in and let rip.

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Twelves games so far and it was 11-1 to Obito. He would make an allowance for the driving game; he'd never been good at those and that screaming kid had distracted him. The dance dance revolution had been not included in the 'competition' since Kakashi had refused to join in on the grounds of 'indignity'.

He was now watching Obito as he focused intently on the crane machine, a determined glint on his eye as he leant into it.

"Are you done yet?"

"Never!"

"Those things are rigged; you are never going to get one."

"I will never surrender!" He had a pocketful of change; he could go all afternoon.

"I don't know why you want a toy penguin."

"Because!" Did he not know anything? Kakashi was just lucky he was in a good mood. Seeing his boyfriend sulking was putting him that way. It was not often that he could best Kakashi and being beaten at almost every game had at least irked him. And an irked Kakashi made for a happy Obito.

It took thirty-eight individual attempts (Kakashi had been vocally counting) but finally, one of the sub-standard penguin toys fell into the prize slot. He held it aloft with a proud grin, looking at Kakashi until he finally acknowledged it.

"OK, you got it. Well done." Obito did a little flourish and pushed it into Kakashi's hand. "And that means…?"

"It's for you. Y'know, the whole, win your date a prize thing?" Yes it was cheesy as shit but he wanted to! It was one of those staples of TV dates and he'd always wanted to try it.

"Oh." Kakashi looked at it. "Err…"

"You're supposed to say 'wow thanks, that's so nice of you Obito!'"

"'Wow thanks. That's so nice of you Obito.'" His voice barely changed in tone at all.

"You could at least change your facial expression." Kakashi shrugged and smiled at him. "…Not that smile."

"I thought you wouldn't like it." He looked at the penguin in his hands and then shoved it into his pocket.

"I thought you would throw it away."

"Not in front of you." Obito shoved him in the arm. "Now have you had enough arcade?"

"I guess I've kicked your ass enough."

"Not in every game."

"You cheated! You took advantage of me being distracted!"

"In the art of war, you must use your environment to your advantage."

"You nerd!"

"I can't believe you called me that. Mr High Score on shitting Pacman."

"Pacman is cool!"

"You keep telling yourself that."

This constant bickering and bantering with each other always made him feel more settled. Because being in their old routine was just so easy to do. Just because they had started dating didn't mean they couldn't be 'frenemies' as Anko would call it.

Obito was feeling less nervous now and he had to hope that one day he would be more in control of his dumb ass more easily. Kakashi holding his hand again just felt pleasant this time and less nauseous, a definite plus.

"Are you still free?"

"You think I have that much of a social life? I'm honoured."

"I did know you would be but I didn't want you to think I'd assumed."

"Did you plan something?"

"No I just didn't want to go home yet."

"Are you gonna get sappy and say it's because you love spending time with me so much?"

"No it's because I have nothing better to do." Obito let out an offended squawk.

"How dare you?!" Kakashi didn't miss a beat; he leant in and pecked him on the cheek. The noise he made this time was more from embarrassment than indignation. "You jerk!"

"Yes I know. I love you too, you dumb idiot."

"Hmph. Shut up…" In Obito speak, that was practically a declaration of love.