TWO
"Looks like you aren't doing so bad," Kakashi says from the passenger seat of Sasuke's newly re-built Delloren. Well, it wasn't re-build more as he had someone tear it down and clean every
thing and throwing it all back in.
"Didn't sound like you were doing to bad yourself until this morning."
Kakashi says nothing, and only nods.
"This is my flat," Sasuke announces, pulling into a parking spot in front of a tall well-kempt building.
"Which one?"
"The one all the way at the top," stepping from the car Sasuke looks up at his windows and can see the small figure of Shy. "With the puppy in the window."
Kakashi looks up and sees a small black dog faintly in the top most window of the building, "I see."
"Come on," he beeps his car locked and sets off with Kakashi following after him. "My uncle bought it for me when he left. I even have the roof garden. It was an act of pity for him leaving."
"He bought you a flat?" Kakashi asks as they step into the elevator.
"Yeah. My mother had a lot of money, and she wrote it out in equal portions to me, my uncle and my brother. I haven't used much of my share yet, but I know my uncle put a bunch of it into
stocks, and he buys cars from online, fixes them and resells them to dealerships. I'm not sure what my bother has done with his, he left some time ago and I haven't heard from him in almost
a year."
"I'm sorry to hear about that."
Sasuke shrugs, stepping from the elevator. "I don't care, my brother and I didn't get along so well," he unlocks the second door in the hallway and opens his door to his flat.
Barks come spewing out the door and a small black and brown dog skids on the wood floor and into Kakashi's legs. "Well, hello there," he picks up the squirmy little dog. Shy barks, then licks
the man's face. Kakashi laughs, "hello, your opposite of your name." As he pats Shy, the pup nips at his finger tips, playfully growling and barking.
Sasuke watched transfixed. Kakashi had fine lips, now curled at the corners into a bright, soft smile, his sharp cheek bones and wide eyes clinched in laughter. He had Shy laying in his arm
like a baby and was letting the small dog play with his fingers. Shy was loving it, barking and growling and swatting at the man's fingers with his paws.
"Are you hungry?" Sasuke manages to ask looking away from his dog and his new roommate.
Kakashi growls at Shy, who growls back, and he tickles the pup's stomach. "Yes. What's for dinner?"
"I was just going to order Chinese, if that's alright with you."
Kakashi give him a smile, "that sounds good."
"Okay," Sasuke pulls out his phone.
"You really wore him out," Shy was passed out in his little dog bed, curled halfway under a blanket , lightly snoring.
"Yeah," Kakashi looks down at his rice. "You know, the school never found out about us. Your mom came in and talked to the principal."
"Did she?" Sasuke didn't want to talk about his stupid teenager decision to shun Kakashi away.
"She said that I was a great teacher and that she couldn't have put you into a better school."
"Kakashi—"
The man looks up and meets dark, sad eyes, "yes?"
"I'm sorry," the younger man turns his eyes down. "It wasn't just the school. My uncle thought my mom was having an affair with you. When he didn't believe that, he thought you where
using me as some kind of sex toy. It made my mom and uncle fight a lot."
The thought of using Sasuke as a sex toy made Kakashi thoughts dirty. He shook it off quickly, and looked at the boy sitting next to him. "I didn't mean for it to be like that."
"Neither did I," Sasuke looks to Shy, then to the TV that was showing a commercial.
"Hey," Kakashi sets his hand on the boys arm. "Don't worry about it alright? We don't have to worry any more."
Sasuke looks up to his former teacher and gives him a little smile.
"So," Kakashi stands, setting his rice onto the table, "what kind of movies do you have?"
Sasuke chuckles a little. "All the movies are in the cabinets to the sides of the TV. There's some below as well."
Kakashi opens one side. The shelves are crammed with DVD's. "Gesh Sasuke. Think you have enough?"
This time the black haired man laughs, and stands, opening the other cabinet below and then the one on the right side of the TV. "There is some on my bookshelf in my guest room as well."
"Is this you hobby?"
"I like movies."
"I can see that."
"You haven't seen my CD's yet."
"I don't know if I want to."
Sasuke laughs, and returns to the couch, "you can pick anyone, I've seen them all."
"You have a lot of time don't you?" Kakashi starts reading through the movies.
"Well, my mom worked at a warehouse that sold them, any of the movies that were messed up or the cases got damaged, the employees got. It's cheaper to make a new movie than it is to
send them back and have them fixed."
Kakashi sits back onto the floor, "I didn't think this would be difficult."
Sasuke laughs.
Maybe the reason that him and Kakashi get along is because Kakashi is childish. Maybe not around everyone, but around him, Kakashi was his true childish shelf.
"I don't know what to watch."
There was a short clinking sound and both men look to the pup Shy peaking out at them from his blanket. He steps out, stretches with a wide yawn, shakes out again, and wiggles his tail at
his two humans.
"Bet you have to go outside huh?" Sasuke asks.
Shy wiggles even more.
"Alright, let's go," He pulls himself off the couch. Shy turns around and looks up at Sasuke. "You want to come?" he asks the older man on the floor.
Kakashi shrugs, "sure."
Sasuke leads him into the kitchen and up a set of stairs and opens a door. A wind ruffles Kakashi's hair and he is curious to see where Sasuke was taking them.
He steps out onto a sand-tone stone deck. He's looking out on a long, semi-wide roof-yard. Hugging the small round deck is lush green grass. To the left was a small table and chair set,
umbrella down; to the right is a fire pit, and several chairs surrounding. Against the building is a small stone oven, and two more comfortable looking laying chairs, between which is a small
table with a big three-wick candle.
In the back right corner is a cluster of trees and brush, the back fence is lined, almost covered in vines. The far, left corner is a waterfall, falling down to three different points on a stone hill,
then finally into a small pond, only a foot deep lines with bright river rocks and three large goldfish.
Small black mini-temple lights line the deck and a narrow path to the fire pit and another to a bench against the far fence.
"Do you like it?" Sasuke asks from next to him.
"It's very soothing," Kakashi complements.
"It's on top of a three foot thick platinum platform."
Kakashi looks at him with his eyebrow practically disappearing into his hair, "really?"
"Yeah, I designed it. The lay out of the garden."
"You did a good job."
"Thank you."
"No, thank you," Sasuke looks up to his ex-teacher. "For letting me stay," Kakashi gives him a bright, sincere smile.
"It's not a problem."
"Where am I sleeping?"
"In the guest bedroom, come on I'll show you. Come on Shy!"