Obito and Kakashi visit Minato and Kushina together as a couple for the first time, they meet the kids and spend some quality time, talking about the past.

"Obi-nii! Kashi sensei!" An excited bundle of energy came bouncing in their direction and Obito opened his arms to welcome Naruto jumping into him.

"Hey there brat, how are you doing?"

Other three blurs of color came to surround them asking for hugs and greetings while Minato and Kushina stood in the back waiting for the kids to greet them. They came to the uncle Minato's home for one of their famous Sunday lunches, it was the first time they were here together, since now they were a couple and stuff. It felt like meeting your parents in law or introducing your boyfriend to your parents. It was a bit confusing because both he and Kakashi thought of Minato and Kushina as some sort of maybe parental figures.

"Hey little cousin how are you doing? Sakura-chan! Oh, and who is this new kid?" Obito ruffled everybody's hair, with all the kids smiling except sour ass Sasuke.

"This is Sai, he's new at our school." Naruto helpfully supplied. "He's a bit weird, but we three talked and decided he's our friend now. He can draw a bunch of cool things!" Obito and Kakashi both laughed hard at how the kids became friends, like the deliberation of a small council, they were too cute.

"He even knows how to write with those big brushes!" Sakura nodded excitedly.

"He's ok." Sasuke always so friendly.

"My family likes shodo". The kid said quietly at Sakura's comment sending a creepy smile to both of them. Yeah, he's a bit weird indeed, but looked like a nice kid.

After the kids were satisfied with greeting them, Kushina threw a hand over each of their necks hugging them both tightly. "To think my favorite kids are both here today! And they're dating! Naruto was so confused that you'd both be here at the same time. He knows Obi-nii and Kashi-sensei separately, I guess it's too much for his 8-year-old head." She joked after she tore her arms from them.

Minato chuckled and gave each of them a nice hug too. "Kids have no object permanence and no empathy, so they forget that people have lives besides what they can see with their own eyes."

"Children are a blessing." Obito snorted in a sarcastic way.

Kushina laughed out loud and swatted his shoulder with more force than necessary. "Shut it Obito, you say it as if you don't like kids."

"I really love them brats, what can I say? They're cute." He joked around as they headed for the backyard where there was a little table with beers at hand. Obito grabbed two and opened them for himself and Kakashi.

"They adopted the new introvert kid in the class, that was so cute for me." Kakashi took the beer and thanked Obito, saying that the smell coming from the kitchen was making him hungry.

"You know, I thought you didn't like kids." Obito mentioned as they took their seats. The kids were running around like maniacs and Obito would understand if Kakashi couldn't keep up with them, not everybody had the energy.

"Why? I love kids, I mean, I'm kind of awkward with babies and really young kids, but when they start to talk, they're awesome little humans."

Obito immediately jumped in, finally someone agreed with him about babies. "I know what you mean, I see a baby I want to smash them into juice from too much cuteness, but then after I'm like, now what? Older kids are much more fun to play with, they have insane little brains."

"You'd never get bored babysitting baby Naruto then." Minato chuckled at their discussion. "You couldn't stop watching him for a second that somehow he'd end up in the weirdest places. Once I went to grab his milk bottle and he was on the top of the fridge. I still think I was hallucinating."

"You weren't, he was terrible, I once left him on the crib and came back to find him on the bathroom sink and he was just one year old." Kushina sighed while she remembered her own motherly war flashbacks.

"Children are a blessing." Obito said again to annoy the couple.

"Yes, children of the corn." Kakashi snickered too earning them both slaps to the head.

"Oh, piss off you two." Kushina chastised them.

Kakashi just laughed unbothered by Kushina's hard slap. "C'mon, I still love them. Why did you think I didn't like kids?" He asked addressing Obito's previous question.

"Oh, because you call your dogs 'kids'."

"Yes, but it's because they are! But you know, since I'm gay, I kind of had given up on the whole children thing, never thought it would happen to me."

"Kashi-sensei, when will you bring your dogs?" Naruto instantly perked up at the simple mention of the word "dog", trying to check when he'd be able to play with the doggies again.

Kakashi smiled and patted his hair. "Next time I'll bring at least one, I promise."

"I like Kashi-sensei's dogs." Naruto pouted as if Obito and Kakashi had committed great sin by not bringing the dogs over today.

"Sai, Kakashi-sensei has 8 dogs, it's Pakkun, Bull, Akino, Uhei, Urushi, Shiba, Bisuke and Guruko." Sakura helpfully explained to the new kid enumerating the eight dogs by heart.

"She really knows all of them, great memory, uh?" Kakashi had an impressed look on his face and Obito chuckled at her teachery tone when explaining it to Sai.

"Yeah, even I had problems with remembering them all at first."

"Kakashi-sensei what is a gay?" Sasuke asked suddenly making every adult in the room choke on their own spit.

"Well, fuck me if I know, kid." Obito coughed and laughed at Sasuke, with Kakashi and Minato giving him swat on the head for bad language while Kushina laughed with him.

"Kakashi-sensei?" Sasuke insisted looking directly at Kakashi's soul, prompting another fit of giggles from Obito.

Kakashi looked utterly lost, and he looked back at Minato and Kushina for support, but they busied themselves with drinking beer and looking to the sky ignoring him, and Obito wanted to pinch his cheeks! He looked so betrayed.

"Er, you know Sasuke, the way that your mother and your father love each other?" Off to a good start, not bad, at least in Obito's opinion, even if Kakashi's voice was wavering a bit.

"Yes." Sasuke answered in monotone still staring directly at Kakashi's eyes in all seriousness.

"And how Minato-san and Kushina-san also love each other?"

"Yes." Sasuke repeated in the say flat tone.

"When people love each other so much like this, they want to marry and spend the rest of their lives together, right?"

"Yes." Sasuke repeated sounding like a little robot.

"So, when a woman and a man decide to stay together, they're called a straight person, like your parents. When two men decide to stay together, they're both gay men, and when two women decide to stay together, they're two gay women. Makes sense?"

Nice, it made sense and seemed clear enough for a kid to understand. It's a shame same sex marriage is not allowed in Japan, or it would be easier to explain. Still, Kakashi gets 100 points for effort.

"Yeah, but what if I want to marry a girl and a boy?" Sasuke asked in the same flat tone and Obito almost choked again.

"Damn, the kid knows what he wants." He snickered elbowing Kushina who was also trying to hide her giggles.

"Shut it Obito, you're not helping." She slapped his shoulder while Kakashi looked like he regretted leaving his bed this morning.

"Geez Kushina-nee, look at Kakashi, he looks the definition of bisexual panic." That had Kushina doubling down in laughter and Kakashi shooting dirty looks at them over his shoulder.

"If you want to marry a girl and a boy then you're a bi person." Kakashi explained with a smile that said he'd rather put bullet in the head instead of having to explain sexuality to an eight-year-old.

"Ok, so it only depends on who you're going to marry?" Sasuke concluded on a topic that was definitely much more complicated than who you're going to marry.

"Yes, basically." Kakashi said in defeat hoping to wrap this shit up as quickly as possible, Obito could tell by his desperate face.

"And you're a gay person." Sasuke said again in a flat tone make Obito almost burst into laughter again at the look in Kakashi's face.

"Yes." Kakashi answered and Obito knew that even begin to cover Kakashi's maybe homosexual, maybe bisexual, maybe pansexual panic.

"You married a man." Sasuke concluded categorically, leaving a mess of Kakashi to try to answer that tricky question.

"I-I-I… I intend to." Kakashi settled on that for now and Sasuke seemed satisfied, so he just hummed dryly and got back to playing with the other kids.

Obito draped a hand around Kakashi's waist, and the white-haired man slumped his whole body against him in defeat. "Are you gonna tell auntie Mikoto that Sasuke's bisexual?"

"Jesus fucking Christ, I hate children." Kakashi muttered and Obito knew he didn't mean it, but yeah, it happens. Children have no fucking clue about shit.

"Children are a blessing." He mocked his defeated boyfriend.

"I am 30. I've fucked women, I've fucked men… I look at a hot guy and I'm gay, I look at a hot girl and I'm bi… sometimes I get confused, do I want to fuck him or do I want to be him?" Kakashi was muttering more to himself than to Obito, but that didn't prevent him from laughing at his boyfriend's predicament. Then Kakashi raised his head from the crook of Obito's neck and fixed his gaze at him. "Then we started going out and I completely forgot that I used to like women... just ... god. If even I get confused, imagine poor Sasuke right now."

"I bet he's less confused than you are." Obito teased, earning him an elbow to his ribs a tad stronger than necessary, but that only made him laugh harder.

"Asshole." Kakashi muttered annoyed.

"Besides." He put his hands to each side of Kakashi's face as if he was gonna say something romantic, just to tease his boyfriend even more. "No need to worry, because right now, you're obitosexual and you're not fucking anybody but me ever again."

"Cocky much?" Kakashi's eyes narrowed at Obito's antics, but his voice had mirth in it.

"Please, as if anything else would please you after you got a taste of this." Obito framed his own chin with one of his hands and winked at Kakashi, trying to give him his most seductive smile.

"I so want to wipe that stupid grin of your face." Kakashi said with an annoyed voice, but then he lowered his mouth right on Obito's ear and whispered to him. "But at the same time, I so want to ride your cock."

Obito felt his body tingling, and heat on the pit of his stomach, and he closed his eyes to avoid yanking Kakashi's mask to kiss him senseless right here, right now. "Good boy, I'll give it to you when we get home."

Kakashi visibly shivered at his words and Obito felt proud in a very horny way.

"Alright you two lovebirds, stop gossiping over there, lunch is served!" Kushina announced bringing a huge pot of steaming stew, a delicious smell coming from it. She settled the rest of the side dishes and a little bowl of hot sauce for her and Kakashi to use.

After they finally got all kids to sit at the table too, their lunch was great. Kushina's cooking was always amazing, the kids liked it too and ate everything in their plates, which is always difficult when they were together because they keep wandering off the table to play more with each other. The adults all joked and talked, the main topic being Kakashi and Obito getting together as a couple, but he didn't mind the teasing, it was a good thing.

After they all had stuffed themselves beyond reason, they helped bring things back inside the kitchen and to the sink. Since Kushina had coked today, Minato was in dishwashing duty, and Obito volunteered to help, as Kakashi helped her with organizing the table and stuff. Minato was also a great cook, he could be a stay at home husband or malewife with his skills if he wanted, but they both took turns in cooking Sunday lunches and the rest of the house chores.

"Never got around to thank you uncle Minato." Obito chuckled while they both tended to the sink.

There was a puzzled look on the older man's face. "For what?"

"Sending pretty boy over there to meet me." Obito explained with a nod of his head towards Kakashi, who was just outside, talking to Kushina while helping her out.

Minato opened up a bright smile at that. "Oh yes. Though I never thought you'd end up dating."

"How could I not? Look at him." Obito made a dramatic gesture pointing the dish cloth at his boyfriend. What a fine specimen, Obito should be committed to a mental institution if he didn't at least try to be with Kakashi.

"It's refreshing to see you this smitten Obito. You deserve good things too." Mianto's tone bordered the sentimental, and that made Obito's hands freeze while drying up a bowl.

Always the righteous one, the upstanding citizen, the moral high ground. Sometimes it pissed Obito off. This man needed to be a worse person, if only for his own good. "You were always a quick one to forgive, uncle Minato. Are you sure you're a cop?"

"As cops we need to protect everyone, that includes people who have made mistakes too." Minato just smiled and gave him what might seem like a standard political answer, and were it anybody else, Obito wouldn't have believed it. But it was Minato, he truly believed what he was saying, it was disconcerting how much he meant it.

"I wish more pigs were like you." Unbelievably good people. There should be exams for moral compass before entering the force or something.

"Me too, but Kakashi is fine, isn't he?" Minato elbowed Obito's side teasingly, lifting his eyebrows too.

Obito shook his head, he knew he was being teased for being head over fucking hills with Kakashi, but he couldn't help it, and he answered in all seriousness. "He's great, shouldn't even be a cop. Those friends of him too, Kurenai and Iruka. They're doing good work. Things seem to have improved since all that shit went down."

"I'm glad you think so, me and Tsunade-san are working hard to change things." Minato nodded and smiled brightly.

"I'm glad."

His job hasn't been the easiest and Obito knows it. Going after both real criminals and dirty cops meant Minato was very unpopular sometimes, it made him work longer hours, and sometimes he would feel like nobody had his back, the older man has told Obito as much. It was hard work, really hard work, but it had to be done.

They stood in silence for a moment, watching Kushina and Kakashi talking excitedly. They were each of them nursing a new can of beer and sitting on the table, now that their work was done, just waiting for Minato and Obito to be done washing and drying the dishes to have dessert. Each of them looked fondly at the object of their affection, Obito's gaze drawn to Kakashi's small expressions in his eyes, and his mannerisms, and when Obito checked on Minato, he was doing the same for Kushina. He hoped he and Kakashi could be as in love with each other and for as long as Minato and Kushina were.

"I... I'm thinking about asking Kakashi to live together." Fuck. He doesn't know why he blurted it out like this. Maybe he really was nervous about it.

Minato's eyes grew wider as he turned to look at Obito. "Really now?"

Obito instantly regretted it. "You think it's a bad idea? Fuck, what do I do?"

"I think it's a great idea, he's been cooked up in that big house all alone for long enough." Obito haven't even thought about that, he was only selfishly thinking of himself. He wanted to be close to Kakashi as much as possible, and this was the way. He didn't consider his boyfriend might feel alone at his house, he was more afraid of Kakashi being too territorial about his place, or preferring to be alone, or not being ready for such a big next step, or maybe he didn't love Obito to the point of wanting to be together this closely? They both had issues with intimacy, but Obito would like to think they've come far on that field.

"Oh. Ok. Do you think he'll..."

"I think he would like that too." Minato nodded at the unspoken question after Obito trailed off.

"Oh thank fuck, I'm so nervous about this shit." Obito sighed and braced the kitchen sink when the relief flooded him. Fuck, this was good news, Minato knew Kakashi well, his was an educated guess.

"I was nervous too when I started dating Kushina." Minato chuckled with a nostalgic tone to his voice.

"Really? What did you do then?" Obito asked seeking advice, but Minato only shot him an apologetic look.

"Oh, you know her, she asked if I wanted to live together before I had the chance to worry too much about it."

"That does sounds like Kushina-nee." Obito was happy for the couple, but sad for not having any advice, maybe he should ask Kushina later.

Minato laughed lovingly at his wife's antics. "She was always one to take matters on her own hands."

Kakashi entered the kitchen and hugged Obito from behind, and he leaned into that touch. "Hey, what are you two gossiping about?" He asked jokingly.

"Nothing important babe. C'mon, sit over here, we're almost finished." Obito nodded to the kitchen table an Kakashi moved the chair to sit on it.

"Alright… I was thinking, for everything that Obito's told me about, I never got how you two met."

Minato turned around to shoot Kakashi a meaningful look. "Really?"

"Oh, sorry I didn't tell you, love. It's just not as exciting." Obito shrugged. It really wasn't. At least not compared to a whole fucking conspiracy reaching high levels in the government.

"I want to hear it either way."

Minato pondered at that. "Well, first time I met Obito, Madara brought him to the station, how old were you? Thirteen? Fourteen?"

"Around that age, yeah, the mother fucker was trying to convince me to join the force too." Obito spat at the mention of Madara. Asshole. He couldn't wait for him to die of old age already. He'd have killed him with his own hands by now if it wasn't for the fucking non-disclosure agreement.

"Back then we had no idea what Madara had been up to, not how he was treating Obito, nor what he was doing at the station." Minato said with a tinge of sadness and regret in his voice, and Obito wished he didn't feel this guilty about not protecting him from Madara.

Kakashi interrupted the subject at hand with another question. "Wait, do you think Madara had been doing that stuff even before Zetsu?"

"Zetsu was like, thirty something when he took over our syndicate, before that no one has a fucking clue what the dickhead was doing, but our best guess is that he and Madara go way back." Obito supplied and that seemed to explain things a bit for Kakashi.

"Oh, I see..." Kakashi nodded fixing his gaze in a distant point in the wall, pondering something. After a moment he asked in a morbidly excited whisper. "You don't think Madara's his father?"

Minato almost dropped the dish he was washing. "Jesus Christ Kakashi."

"Holy fucking shit babe, you should be a professional conspiracy theorist. Imagine that uncle Minato!" Obito was fucking howling with laughter. Geez, where did Kakashi pulled these ideas out of? Holy crap.

"Do you have a reason to guess so, Kakashi? Or-" Minato asked looking worried.

Kakashi shook his head and sent them a mocking smile. "No, no, this is purely a thing from the voices inside my head."

"I don't know if I should get worried or not." Minato muttered but looked visibly more relaxed with the fact the Zetsu wasn't Madara's confirmed son. He looked like he'd have trouble adjusting to that reality.

"Geez babe, that was brilliant let me tell you." If that was true, it would add a whole new fucking layer of complexity to their already soap opera worthy scheme.

"Thanks, Obito." Kakashi looked like he was glowing at his capacity to shock Minato, who was still looking a bit pale.

"Completely baseless, but brilliant. Imagine if it was true."

"I'd rather not." Minato looked a second away from getting sick on the kitchen sink and Obito laughed at him.

Kakashi returned to their previous topic to make Minato comfortable again. "So then, you met at the station? That's just like how we and Minato-san met."

"I thought you met during your academy days."

"We got close then, but Sakumo would sometimes bring Kakashi over too when he was a kid, he liked seeing his father work." Minato answered clearly happier with the change of subject.

"Yes, I remember." Kakashi had a soft and nostalgic expression in his face. Obito was always happy when he was able to talk about his father without hurting too much.

"You both met me when I was just a rookie, even before me and Kushina got together."

"True, but when we met again at the academy, you'd just had Naruto, right?"

"Don't even remember me." Minato groaned a bit, and it sounded a bit uncanny in his voice, as he was rarely angry. "Now that you know everything, it's ok to tell you, but we weren't in the academy by choice, me and Kushina. I enjoyed being your teacher and meeting you all, but back then the academy was where cops would go when their careers died."

"Shit, really? You never told me that uncle Minato." Apparently that was new info for both of them.

"Yes, me and Kushina both had very strong opinions about somethings Madara said and did, and this was even before we knew how bad things really were. He'd always had a heavy hand, so when me and Kushina started speaking up at the station about how we should change things, he kind of banished us to the academy." Minato sighed.

"No way!" Obito was shocked. Yet another fucking asshole thing to add to Madara's list of fuckery.

"Yes, this was back then. Now we have people like Gai at the academy doing some good work because he truly believes in education and integrity and that it should start early in the career of a police officer, and I'm really glad we changed this mindset since Tsunade-san took office."

Kakashi cut through Minato's explanation. "You were only back to the detective post because Madara was demoted. I remember thinking the timing was odd, but I never made that connection."

"It wasn't planned, trust me." Minato chuckled humorlessly. "We thought we were going to die teaching at the academy, and the wages were really low, there were zero prospects of growth, it was a tough spot. We only had Naruto then because he was an accident."

"Really? Uncle Minato you dirty dog!" Minato hadn't seemed embarrassed by the fact that Naruto was an accident until Obito started teasing him for not being able to keep it in his pants.

He raised a chastising hand towards Obito, but he just snickered. "Please Obito, don't. It's weird when you put it like that."

"Damn, the straights have a tough life." Obito continued to mock Minato undeterred by his tone.

"Right? Imagine getting pregnant at the worst timing possible?" Kakashi crossed his arms and shook his head disapprovingly. With how much Obito came inside Kakashi he'd be pregnant by now, but that was a line of thought he couldn't entertain now, even if it made him weirdly horny.

"C'mon guys, we made it work and we love Naruto dearly."

"Of course Minato-san, we're just messing with you!" Kakashi let out an easy laugh that didn't appease his teacher that much. "So, you two met when Obito was young that's why he calls you uncle Minato."

"Yeah, Fugaku was also working at the station back then, it was him that introduced us, since him and uncle Minato are besties. And he'd make me call them both by uncle. But I don't call Fugaku uncle just to piss him off. His face is great every time!" Obito explained to Kakashi, and all three men laughed picturing the resting bitch face already Fugaku had becoming even more sour at Obito's teasing.

"Obito really was a cute kid back then." Minato said in a wistful tone.

"But Fugaku-san wasn't your uncle yet, was he?"

"No, but he was dating auntie Miko already, they started dating early. From what she told me, he had a huge childhood crush on her." He explained to Kakashi because he knew his boyfriend was crazy about gossip and loved knowing all the juicy details. Was this because he was used to reading Icha-Icha and needed to hear about other people's love lives too? Maybe, maybe not.

"That's strangely wholesome. When you told me that it was him that took her family name, and not the other way around like you'd expect, I thought their marriage was political of some sorts."

"Not at all. He and his family fight a lot, and when they married the Uchiha family name did boost his career, but it was just a happy coincidence. Fugaku met Mikoto when they were kids and Madara would bring her down to the station and his father would bring him too. He says he fell in love with her then and there, and never dated anyone else."

"That's cute." Obito said in a mocking tone. He wished his aunt had married a nicer guy, but yeah, even he had to admit that Fugaku worshiped the ground Mikoto walked.

"Shit, never knew a police station could be such a matchmaker." Kakashi wondered, but really was it a surprise? Yugao and Hayate met there, and also Kurenai and Asuma, maybe there's something about the workplace.

"It's more of a romantic place than you could imagine." Minato said in an overly sweet tone and Obito had to snort at that.

"Not for me, try seeing a police station from the other side of the bars, uncle Minato."

"Oh, you were never inside the cell for long Obito, relax." Minato answered him annoyed. He was done it the dishes by now, and was drying his hands to go sit with Kakashi.

"What do you mean?" Kakashi looked between the two men, Minato sighed tiredly and Obito snickered while drying off the last dishes.

"Of course, me and Obito met several times before I became a teacher at the academy, while I was in narcotics. Much more than I would have liked." He said in a pointing tone, but it didn't affect Obito, who just kept pushing Minato's buttons.

"Please uncle Minato, don't embarrass me with my teenage years."

Kakashi smiled at them. "I take it uncle Minato arrested you a couple of times."

"More than a couple. The little crook kept getting out, so I had to keep bringing him in."

Obito dried that last dish and put it away in a cupboard and shrugged. "The syndicate had a great lawyer indeed."

"That must have been awkward." Kakashi guessed correctly.

"Don't even get me started." Minato groaned again, and it didn't suit him.

"But it all ended up just fine! After that Madara shit blew off we recruited uncle Minato to help us, because he was a pig, but he never ever not in a million years could be a dirty cop. I trusted him!"

"Thank you Obito, I'm flattered." Minato remarked in a sarcastic tone.

"Anytime. Also, you rescued auntie Miko, how could I not like you after that even if you were a cop?"

"That was teamwork between me, Fugaku and Kushina, it wasn't just me."

"And humble! What a great cop right Kakashi?"

"I'd agree." Kakashi complemented Obito's teasing tone. They were great when they worked together to tease other people.

"You two are impossible. You were both such characters even before you got together, but now!"

"Minato-san this is your fault, you know that?"

"I know, I know, it was weird for me when I thought about it. When I told you Obito was the contact the first thing I thought was: how did they not know each other already? It never occurred to me that you were both gay and you might get together, I kind of just hoped you'd become friends."

"Even better than that!"

"What are my dear boys gossiping around?" Now it was time for Kushina to interrupt their discussions.

"Geez Kakashi, you and Kushina-nee are the exact same."

"Always snooping around looking for some good gossip." Minato agreed nodding his head.

Kushina put her hands on her hips and got in a defensive tone. "It's not gossip if it's true!"

"We were just talking about some old stories Kushina-san, which reminds me. Is it true that you and Mikoto-san dated?" Nosy detective Kakashi attacked again, and a boasting laughter came out of Kushina.

"Who told you that?"

"Obito." Kakashi replied immediately, that fucking snitch.

"And you say I like some gossip." Kushina slapped the back of Obito's head with too much force, and he almost had a stroke.

"What? It's not gossip if it's true!" He rubbed at the tender spot in the back of his head. Damn Kushin-nee and her super strength.

"Oh Obito, you're terrible! But yeah, me and Miko-chan went to high school together, we were high school sweethearts. She was the one who gave me the idea of joining the force. I didn't have much patience for studying and going to college, and when she told me about her family that was almost all cops I thought 'wait, this is something I could do'. But then we broke up because we were better as friends."

"Two bisexual icons." Obito whispered to Kakashi and his boyfriend nodded in agreement.

Minato snickered joining the conversation. "Fugaku was devastated when he found out that Mikoto was dating a girl, he thought she was a lesbian and he'd have to give up on her."

"Ah, c'mon. Those two are cute together, I'd never want to get in the way of their love."

"That and you met me, right? Kushina, my love, my darling?" Minato asked in a hard steel cold tone despite his sweet smile towards his wife.

"Y-yeah of course Minato you know I meant that." Kushina stammered nervously, patting Minato's shoulder, before she changed topics completely. "So, who wants some dessert?"

She got some dango she bought the other day from the fridge, and the four adults headed outside to check on the four children breaking havoc in the backyard.

"Kashi-sensei, Kashi-sensei! Can you teach us something new?" Naruto promptly appeared out of thin air to grab Kakashi's sleeve.

"I think I can." Kakashi turned to look at Obito with a theatrical sigh, but he knew deep down the guy must be loving this.

"Why are you Kakashi-sensei and I'm just Obi-nii?" He put his hands on his hips, doing the best impersonation he could of Kushina's threatening tone and failing when the kids didn't show any hint of fear.

"Kakashi-sensei knows judo and jiu jitsu!" Sakura told him in her know-it-all voice.

"Yeah, he teaches us cool moves!"

"Oh yeah? Big shit, I bet he's just talking big to impress you brats!" Obito reached out and ruffled Sakura's and Naruto's hair.

"Hey! We're not brats!" Naruto tried to fight back Obito's hand.

Sakura just giggled. "Kakashi-sensei is from the police, of course he knows how to fight!"

"Ok, but does he have street smarts?" Obito cocked an eyebrow to Kakashi.

"Street smarts? Is that what kids these days are calling it?" Kakashi asked lazily at Obito's failed attempt to rile him up.

"I'm just saying Kakashi, have you been in any fights that didn't have a referee and your ass was really on the line? I mean live or die on the line?"

"Yes, I have." He answered very matter-of-fact-ly.

"No one here has fought as much as you, you goddamn troublemaker!" Kushina punched Obito's shoulder, and it was harder than a playful punch should be and Obito just knew he would be leaving today with some bruises.

"Oh, but before Kakashi got into the police he was a troublemaker too." Minato said from the table.

"Well, well, well… was he?" Obito sent a playful look to Kakashi, but the other man just avoided it and moved on to the children.

"C'mon kids, I'll teach you a tackle move that I think you'll like." Still always oh so timid Kakashi, shying away from telling Obito about his past. It's ok. Everything in their right time.

"Yay!" The three normal excited kids yelled and sour idiotic Sasuke followed them without saying a word.

"Pussy." Obito mutters loud enough for Kakashi to listen and send him a dirty look over his shoulder, but the only thing he got from that comment was a very pissed swat to the head from Kushina yet again. Geez, how could Minato take years of marriage with such a violent woman?

"Oi! You can curse if you wanna, but no sexist comments in this house. Unless you wanna get your ass served by the owner of a pussy!"

"My love, the kids." Minato sent his wife a pained smile, but she wasn't having it.

"The kids should learn that even if you're insulting someone you shouldn't be a bigot! Nothing wrong with that!" She explained exasperated with her hands on her hips.

Obito smiled at Kushina and Minato's little back and forth. He wasn't one to believe in marriage (or any traditional institutions for that matter) but looking at those two kinda made him believe in everlasting love, or in the goodness of people or whatever. No wonder they were such good cops and wonderful parents for little Naruto. He looked over to Kakashi teaching the kids a new move, crouched down, talking to them as if they were little adults, and their focused expressions in return, and that was the man that made him believe in real love, that he was deserving of love, and capable of love. He loved Kakashi so much he wanted to scream it at the top of his lungs.

"What?"

Kakashi noticed Obito was staring at him. Again.

(Nothing)

He wanted to say. But there was no need to hide his feelings any longer.

"I love you."

His voice sounded dreamy even to him, and despite his high tolerance for sugar even he felt his teeth rotting from the sweet tone. But what could he do? It was the truth. Kakashi's face heat up and was red all over. He froze in place while all four kids looked between Obito and Kakashi, Kushina and Minato just snickering on the back.

"Ah." Little Sai said as it all made sense to him. "Obito-niisan is a gay too. He and Kakashi-sensei are married."

The other three kids all chorused a long "aaaaahhhhh" as if finally, everything clicked into place. Kakashi somehow looked even redder at the children's comments, looking at Obito in desperation.

"Why did you say it out loud?" He hissed through the mask, his pissed off expression doing nothing to ease the redness off his face.

"Why? It's true." Obito shrugged but Kakashi didn't seem satisfied, if anything he looked even more mortified. It was cute. "What."

"I hate you." Kakashi sighed.

"I love you too, my darling." Obito purposefully used Kakashi's favorite pet name just to push his buttons and make him redder with embarrassment, which worked, because Naruto and Sakura did a little "aaaawwwww" at them, making Kakashi even more self-conscious.

"Stop it you two. Let's go train a bit." Kakashi chastised the dynamic duo and waved at them to go away.

"No! Kakashi-sensei, Obito-niisan! Kiss!" Sakura pleaded at them. Then she winked at the other boys, who all nodded vehemently, agreeing with her request. Even Sasuke, which was sus as hell.

Obito got this feeling that they were up to something, some evil kid plotting, but he wanted to kiss Kakashi, so he just got up and approached his boyfriend.

"You know they're just doing this to see my face right?" Kakashi whispered very low for only him to hear, and now it all made sense. Sakura-chan, that little devil.

Obito looked around for something to cover them, and sure enough there was a baseball cap thrown in one of the tables, he grabbed it and shielded Kakashi's face from the kids, who all made annoyed noises instead of cute noises when he leaned to lower Kakashi's mask and kiss him.

"Not fair!" Naruto yelled and pouted.

Well, Obito didn't give a fuck, he continued to kiss the life out of Kakashi, surprising his boyfriend and the kids.

"Ew! Kissing is gross!" Sakura declared at the height of her eight-year-old wisdom, crossing her arms and looking away. It seemed that her plan to see Kakashi's face had failed, and she didn't care for people kissing anymore.

"How do you know that? We can't even see it." Sasuke asked in a superior tone.

"Because boys are gross." She explained categorically as if it made complete sense. But really, who could blame her?

"Then why are you friends with us, ugly?" Sai asked with a polite smile prompting a punch on his shoulder from Sakura that sent him to the ground.

"It's ok to be friends with gross, but I'm not kissing gross boys." She explained further to her friends.

"Sakura-chan kisses girls!" Naruto laughed pointing at her, and of course the dumb idiot was already poking fun at the wrong things. Good parenting could only take you so far.

"Yes, I'm going to kiss Ino, is better than kissing any of you, because she smells good and she's not gross like you!" It seemed the blonde girl had had quite an impact on Sakura during the fund-raising festival.

"Crap, now we have to tell Sakura's parents she's a lesbian." Obito barked a laughter out as Kakashi, looking still very much a tomato red, fixed his mask a little breathless.

"This is all your fault!"

"My fault? You're the one walking around looking beautiful and kissable!"

"God, Obito, please!" Kakashi exclaimed exasperated again as the kids laughed and uncle Minato and Kushina-nee giggled at them.