Fills from the most recent naruto_meme sentence fill round. Character/Pairing, prompt:
Kakashi/Gai, puberty
"Look, Kakashi, it's gotten bigger! Look, it's not acorn-sized anymore!" Gai shouts, pulling his suit open like the crazy exhibitionist that he is, but Kakashi can't look anymore because puberty has been doing some strange things to him, too, lately and he can already feel certain stirrings down there and a blush creeping to his face and he's got to go.
Kakashi/Gai, set after that Naruto SD episode with the bodyswitch (Kakashi gets Tenten's body, Gai Neji's)
The upside to the whole mess was that, for those few days until Ino recovered at least, Kakashi and Gai were finally able to hold hands in public.
Kakashi, Gai; end
Kakashi is ninety-two years old and he really shouldn't be shuffling up the hill to the memorial stone in the snow (or that's what Naruto says at least, but then the brat's an old fart himself by now and probably more senile than Kakashi anyway), but he is, and of course he slips on an icy spot and falls backwards into the cold white, surprisingly soft and not that uncomfortable snow, where he lies, staring into the sky, mentally cursing and wondering how much of a bitch it will be to try to get to his feet again, when, suddenly, out of nowhere, someone offers him a hand, and he catches sight of the green sleeve and thinks "Lee" and braces himself for a long, tedious lecture, except that when he looks up properly it's not Lee because Lee's hair is grey by now and the man in front of him is only thirty years old (he knows that for a fact), and anyway, he isn't lecturing him or looking concerned, no, he's grinning, taking Kakashi's hand and pulling him up, saying, "You made me wait for more than sixty years this time, rival!" and Kakashi looks at Gai and grins back, a little shakily, not that he'd admit it, not that it matters now, and all he can think is "Finally."
Kakashi/Gai, heartache
He says no although he desperately wants to say yes, and jutsus away before Gai can get a word in; it might sting a little now, but Kakashi knows that this way, he is sparing them a lot of future heartache.
Kakashi/Gai, soulmate
Kakashi doesn't have a single word to describe what Gai is to him; decades ago he would have called him a "pest", a few years later it might have been "rival" (though not with a straight face), at some point he made it to "friend" (but never within earshot of Gai), and these days, these days Kakashi has given up on trying to explain Gai's role in his life to other people; all Kakashi knows is that Gai is the one he wants by his side when he goes on a mission, and that Gai is the one person whose absence affects him so much that, when he's not in the village, Kakashi has trouble sleeping through the night.
"It has nothing to do with destiny or fate or anything like that," Gai huffs in reply to Kakashi's half-joking suggestion, "we found each other, and - whatever happens - we'll always find each other again."
Kakashi/Gai, Mamihlapinatapai
A million accidental touches, a million times their eyes meet and they both look away, a million opportunities, cruelly transformed into a million regrets in that last moment, that last shared glance as Gai opens the eighth gate.
Any character; rhwe
As Kurenai draped a blanket over the snoring boy lying naked on the roof of the Hokage Tower, she couldn't help but wonder if this was some kind of karmic retribution for teasing Guy about his student's drunken antics, but then she was still better off than Guy; all she had to do was deliver her charge to his parents' house - surely Shibi would have a few words for his son when he woke up.
Team Ebisu, Genma, Gai
They all just stare at each other for two very awkward seconds before Ebisu clears his throat and tentatively raises his hand, saying, "Excuse me, Sensei, shouldn't there be a girl on our team?"
In the past, Genma was always a little annoyed and embarrassed by the fact that, despite being the oldest, everyone could see he was neither the strongest nor the smartest member of his Genin team, but now that sensei's lying dead on the ground, and Guy is sobbing like a baby and Ebisu's hands are trembling, and they're still in the middle of a damn battlefield, he realizes that none of that ever mattered; what matters is: he's the oldest, he's responsible and he will bring his team home.
Jiraiya, puberty
Tsunade had always found Jiraiya annoying, but then he hit puberty and everything got a whole lot worse.
Lee, puberty
Lee had been looking forward to puberty, to becoming a man, a man like his sensei, but the thing that changes first is the way he feels when Guy-sensei hugs him - he always loved that feeling, the warmth of his sensei's embrace, but now he feels his own body heat up in return, feels his mind go fuzzy, and Guy-sensei seems to feel it too because more and more the hugs are replaced by pats on the back, and he starts saying things like "You should spend more time with your friends", when all Lee wants is to spend even more time with Guy-sensei and he's confused and it hurts.
Kisame, Gai; fun
In his last moment, before his own blood clouds his vision, Kisame thinks that it would have been fun to get to fight insect brain one more time, and then maybe another and another...
Sakumo; touch
He gets to see his son again - all grown up - but not in the flesh, not tangible, so he is denied the thing he wants most, to just hold his boy in his arms one last time.
Gai/Yamato; stamina
After a month of what Gai called "wooing" and Yamato, in his constant complaints, described as "incessant pestering", Kakashi finally couldn't take being stuck in the middle anymore and put his foot down, telling his kohai that trying to outwait Maito Gai, the tireless Green Beast, was pointless, so would he please just go on one damn date already, and if he didn't like it, Kakashi himself would put a permanent stop to Gai's love-induced insanity.
In the end Kakashi congratulated himself on getting rid of both of them for one blissfully quiet night - and all would have been well, if not for the fact that Yamato actually enjoyed the date a lot and wanted to go on many more, while poor Kakashi quickly grew bored of his quiet nights alone and secretly missed his kohai and his rival, who now were too wrapped up in each other to spend time with him.
KakaYamaGai; jealousy
Their whole relationship is practically based on little jealousies, the constant tug of war between Gai and Tenzou, that, one day, gave Kakashi the brilliant idea to let them compete in a more… pleasant and productive way.
Yamato used to think that, if it wasn't for Kakashi, he'd never be with Maito Gai, and, truth be told, he was a little jealous of Gai sometimes – of the past he shared with Kakashi, of the easy rapport between the two "rivals" – but then he comes home after a failed mission one day, and Kakashi – too hung up on his own regrets and failures - can't manage more than an awkward hand on his shoulder, and Yamato himself doesn't even know how to ask for comfort, but Gai emerges from the bedroom, gives him one look and simply wraps his arms around Yamato, giving him exactly what he needs when he needs it most, making all jealousy evaporate, leaving only gratitude.
Having two lovers, sharing, is not always easy, jealousy can be a problem, as little as he wants to admit it, even Kakashi feels it sometimes (the few times he's come home from a mission early just to walk in on Gai and Tenzou), but he thinks of their arrangement as having back-up, and it's not a very nice thought, he knows that, it's not like one of them could ever replace the other, however, they all live dangerous lives, and his motivation is not entirely selfish: he likes to think that, if anything should happen to him, Gai and Tenzou would still have each other, that Tenzou would keep Gai grounded, and that Gai would not let Tenzou drown in sorrow.
Chiyo, Sakumo; grudge
The message was presented to her as good news, hearing about her enemy's fall from grace and subsequent suicide should have eased her pain, but it had the opposite effect because all this time, Chiyo had had her grudge to hold on to, she'd had a goal - to fight and defeat the monster who had robbed her of her family, but now Hatake Sakumo had taken that from her as well, and as if that wasn't enough, he had killed himself - monsters didn't do that, men did, and she didn't want to think about the man who, tormented by shame, had taken his own life, she wanted to keep hating the monster, she wanted to keep dreaming about the moment she would finally slay him; she had learned to live without her son - she'd had no choice - but she knew if she let go of her grudge, there would be nothing left to fill that hole inside of her.
Lee, Intoxication
Lee hates the effect alcohol has on him, but, deep down, he knows he loves the moments afterwards, when he's only half-conscious and Guy-sensei carries him home on his back, and Lee can bury his face in the crook of his sensei's neck and breathe in his smell and sleep in his bed, knowing that Guy-sensei is watching over him, knowing that, no matter how badly he behaved, Guy-sensei still loves him.
It takes him a while to notice that his feelings towards Guy-sensei are changing, that Guy-sensei's presence suddenly makes him light-headed and nervous, that his palms get sweaty and his cheeks grow hot when Guy-sensei touches him, but when he finally does, Lee knows there is something wrong with this, with him, and he is absolutely terrified that this new feeling will poison their relationship.
Tsunade, Team 7, Yuanfen
There is a pattern woven into Konoha's history, threads of fate, always in triplets, two of them chasing each other, the third caught in the middle... and despite how much she believes in Naruto and Sakura, sometimes Tsunade still finds it painful to watch the new generation retrace the steps of the old so faithfully, because she knows how this dance ends, has always ended, and deep down she isn't convinced the cycle can be broken.