INTERRUPTED RUDELY
Kakashi was walking down the street with Aoi, hand in hand, when they came across some of Kakashi's friends. At first the couple ignored them, wanting only to be together without anyone else interrupting them, but alas, it was not to be so…
"Kakashi, my eternal rival!" Was the only warning the couple got before a whopping excited, green spandex wearing Might Guy hugged them from behind, successfully picking both up off the ground several inches before putting them down. "It's been so long, Kakashi!"
"Is he always like this?" Aoi asked her boyfriend quietly out of the corner of her mouth, her eyes glancing over at the green-clad Shinobi warily, ready to dash away should he attempt to pick the two of them up again.
"Unfortunately, yes…." A small tick mark made itself seen on his forehead, the ninja about ready to send his comrade and closest thing to a friend flying; one did not simply interrupt the one time Kakashi had any free time to spend with his recent girlfriend and not expect to get hit… or have a dozen nin-ken set on him with the intent to bite/maim/etc. "So Guy….. What do you want?"
"Is it so unbelievable that I simply wanted to see my rival!? I have heard through the grapevine since your miraculous return that you are allowing the one who saved you to rent out in your apartment- Oh, is this she?! Nice to meet you! My name is Might Guy and-"
"Just shut up already, ok?" Aoi asked, her irritation hidden behind a sweet smile like how her aunt had shown her since her time with Kakashi had been so rudely interrupted. Kurenai and Anko, who had been talking with Guy before he was distracted by the two of them, wisely stayed back, knowing that Aoi didn't get angry very often. "I'll have you know that Kakashi here has been kindly letting me stay at his apartment for free, and the two of us were just on our way to lunch when you oh so RUDELY interrupted us!"
Might Guy could not say anything to this, quietly subdued as the angry starlight-girl glared him down with ice-blue eyes that cut him off from opening his mouth besides gaping like a fish that he oh so loved. Anko whistled at the scene; whoever could shut Guy up with only a glare earned her respect, since many in their early days had tried to do so. But then again, if Aoi and Kakashi were only hanging out as friends, then why was she so mad?...
Oh, wait…
"No way…. Are you two together?!" Anko's cry of disbelief turned the heads of those present, knocking Aoi out of her anger at Guy and caused her face to turn immensely red before hiding behind Kakashi in embarrassment. Kurenai and the others slowly started seeing little bits of differences in their friend like how close he was standing over Aoi and the necklace around his neck that matched Aoi's, and how the dark gloom that had always seemed present in his exposed eye had receded slightly.
"Sure am… got a problem with that?" Kakashi's voice was lax, but at the same time protective of the smaller white-haired girl behind him who had cutely taken shelter behind his larger frame when Anko had blatantly asked if they were together, which they were.
A teenage boy around the same age as Kakashi with a cigarette in his mouth held up his hands in surrender, easing the tense situation. "No we don't; we're all a little surprised is all… You've never shown any kind of interest in anyone like this before…"
"Yeah, well, I never liked any of the girls in our class because they were all clingy little fangirls and stuff like that," A snort came from both Anko and Kurenai, who had been far from being a fangirl in their youth, "Except for you two, you're alright," he amended, nodding to the two. "The point is, I didn't want to be with someone who just saw me as Kakashi, the highly skilled warrior. Aoi doesn't see me like that… she sees me as Kakashi, the person that she saved and who let her in when he was hurting so badly." The girls awwed at this as the guys looked at the silver-haired ninja in a new light.
Afterwards, the two groups went their separate ways, with Asuma, Guy, Kurenai and Anko walking through the markets to a quiet park bench. "I… I never knew he felt that way…" the brown-haired boy said softly, not sure how to process this new information.
"I know right… looks like Aoi has changed Kakashi more than anyone could realize…" Anko said, her voice quiet and lost in thought as she remembered the look in their eyes as they looked at each other… "But… maybe it's for the better…"
They were silent again, walking quietly to their respective homes as the twilight sky turned to night and the stars lit their ways.