Kakashi woke early, washed the dishes in the sink while waiting for the coffee to make and sat down for a cup after retrieving the newspaper. Shy came clicking onto the tile floor and sets

his head on Kakashi's foot.

"Hey there pup," Kakashi scoots his chair back to look at the black and brown dog. Shy looks up to him and with a happy bark, jumps to his feet and runs over to the food dish next to the

counter. Kakashi laughs, "of course you are, you horse."

After getting the rapidly growing pup a hefty serving of breakfast, he decides to take his coffee outside to the...backyard? Topyard? Hell he didn't know what to call it any more. After

managing a good look at Sasuke's 'yard,' and scalling the wall to see how far off the roof it really was, he was shocked. He stared at the two feet of clearance that was littlered with pipes,

and wires and part of the pool and the thick metal posts that held it all up.

He sat on the bench at the far end, next to the pool. Shy was chasing butterflies again. He sipped his coffee. Like owner like dog. Shy was Sasuke's hidden playful side, and his silly side

and sometimes, it seems his serious side that was almost permantly plastered on the boy's face.

To Kakashi, he was a boy. And Kakashi knew that age was nothing now. He knew that was Sasuke's only problem in school; their age. Their age difference that made him loose his best

friend for years. Their age difference that would always make him feel old around Sasuke, that will always make him seem wiser.

Oh, how he wanted Sasuke. He didn't want him back in school, but seeing his friend all-grown-up, was different. He wasn't a school student, he was a major role in a famous diamond

company, he was sopiticated, had a high-wealth apartment, with a high-wealth roof-yard, and a high-wealth dog. He wore expensive clothes, and used expensive soaps and towels and

bead coverings and pillows.

Kakashi was a nothing now. He was a thirty-three year old ex-professor, who had some two-faced bitch clean him out and burn down his small home. The small home that he managed to

get because it was a fore-closed home. His home that had the leak in the roof when it rained too hard, and the stairs creaked all the way down. His home that was filled with scavanged

things, like his mismatching living room, with a green couch and a blue love seat and a worn-in recliner that he read his books in. His home that didn't have exotic fish, or a sound system, or

a new plasma TV.

He was a teacher, he didn't live to work, he worked to live. He dealt with snot-nosed teenagers for eight years just to make ends met. Some months he couldn't even afford to by his

coffee.

It just so happened that the insurance company was a bunch of idiots and believed that he had all the stuff he clamed. It helped that there was nothing left of his house when he got

home. It was all gone, just a pile of ashes on a plot of half-taken care of grass and a cracked driveway.

Now that he thought about it, Sasuke was too good for him. He was a high-class working man with a good life, and good money and a good job.

He was not. He was a stuggling almost low-class working man, with a shit life, a shit ex-girlfriend, a shit home, and a shit job.

Shy pounced his lap and attacked his face with his big pink tongue.

Kakashi was ripped from his thoughts, laughing as the pup attacked. "Shy, Shy, please," he mamanges though dog tongue and laughter.

There was a cool laugh from somewhere infront of them. "Shy, come."

The dog was gone in a furry of black and Kakashi could see the man standing in the center of the yard. He had bent down to pet his pup. "Your so funny," he tells Shy. "Go get him!"

Attacked again. When would Sasuke and his puppy ever give him peace?

Sasuke, after taking a long shower, and dressing in whatever he wanted (which was just blue jean shorts and just his favorate black shirt) he walks into the kitchen expecting a bark, or the

clicking of Shy's toenails on the wood floor. When he didn't get them, he gets himself a tall class of ice tea with seven sugars, and grabs a trat out of the plastic container on the counter. He

saw that the back door was opened. He figured that Kakashi must be ouside with Shy.

Kakashi just seem to slip right back into his life.

When he was in school, Sasuke wished that he could live with a roommate like Kakashi. In fact, if he rememebered correctly, he and Kakashi talked about it, after he was out of school of

course.

Now here he was, in this almost suite-like apartment with suite-like furnature and a suite-like view. He sighs into a stool at the bar. Small outside noises filled the kitchen softly. Kakashi

was going to move out soon, getting all that money from the insuance company. Kakashi had made it well in life, from the sounds for what he's getting money back for. He was good as a

teacher, he made a living, now he was a co-worker at the diamond company.

So what you had a dream about your roommate. This probably has something to do with his childhood or some phycological shit like that. Sasuke felt like he was trying to prove himself

wrong after say something like that to himself. He nibbled on his pastry, thoughts racing through his mind.

After fifteen minutes of these thoughts, Sasuke shook his head and figured why should he be stopped by his roommate from going onto his deck.

Shy was licking Kakashi's face.

And Sasuke gave him only a moment of peace by calling his pup over then sending him on the tongue attack again.

That dog likes Kakashi so much. Sasuke sighed to himself. Who was he kidding, he liked having Kakashi around just as much. In fact, Sasuke bet himself, i bet Shy thinks of Kakashi as a

second owner, a friend, his master. Which Sasuke could understand because Kakashi feds him too, and gives him water and when he comes home Shy gets a treat. Shy is in love with

Kakashi.

Sasuke shoot his head and took a big gulp of his tea.

"Enough," Kashi tells the pup in a firm but gental tone. Shy leaps from his lap and darts around the small grass yard a few times.

The phone down in the kitchen caught Shy's attention and he was barking after it. Sasuke follows the pup back into the kitchen. he answeres the phone, it's the insurance company, for

Kakashi.

Kakashi takes the phone, and Sasuke takes a spot at the counter.

A sad smile spreads across his face...

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Sorry this one is short, but it's something for you....ill get the next up soon as i can