Sometimes Kakashi hated his job. He really did. Not because of what he did, but because he had to make reports and documentation and power point presentations about what he did, and he wanted to just write "I did it because I wanted to" on every page and be done with it. It worked on college, but it wouldn't work on a serious job, he knows, he's tried before. Because of that, more often than not he'd stall until last minute to make this sort of thing, hoping against hope that people would forget about the paperwork or cancel it, but no, his superiors keep making him waste his time on this stuff instead of letting him what he does best and code in peace. That seemed like very bad resource allocation to him, because his reports were shit and everyone knew it, so why force him to do it?

As a result, he was alone on the company on a Thursday night because his paperwork was due tomorrow. It was 21h already and thank god he ordered dinner, because it took him a while to finish everything. He lifted his arms and cracked his neck left and right relieved that this nightmare was finally over. He'd send everything tomorrow, maybe before that he could trick Kurenai into reviewing it for him, and then he'd enjoy his Friday doing nothing but cool things at work.

He walked over to the break room to get one last glass of water before heading out and came across his worst temptation. Someone had left Street Fighter 6 on the console. Fuck. Now he had to play it. He couldn't see Street Fighter and not play it. He jumped over the couch and grabbed the control, going-back-home-to-sleep be damned. He went straight for Chun-Li and hit play, just a few rounds, that wouldn't hurt his already fucked up sleep schedule, right?

He really liked her new design for the game, they kept everything that was signature of her looks but made it less cartoonish, and the animations for the combos looked so fucking good, how did the animation team even come up with these moves? Look at Dhalsim, there's no fucking reference for that, how do you make a motion capture for-

"Is that the new Street F-?"

"Fuck!" Kakashi jumped on his place on the couch and dropped the control turning to the voice behind him and seeing it was only Obito. "Shit, fuck, Jesus Christ, mother fucker, you scared the living shit out of me!"

"Sorry, I wasn't trying to sneak up on you." Obito was trying to hide his laughter at Kakashi's little outburst, but it didn't matter how handsome he was, Kakashi wasn't gonna forgive him for laughing like that.

"Holy fuck…" He clenched his hand at his shirt's fabric feeling his heartbeat going crazy. Fuck, what a fright. He looked back at the screen and now Chun-Li was getting a beating from Dhalsim, he'd lost this round for sure. Between his unhealthy addiction to jump scare horror movies and his sensitive nose, Kakashi wasn't usually surprised, people never creeped behind him like that, he must've been very entertained by the game for him not to notice Obito's fragrant scent.

"So, is that the new Street Fighter?" Obito asked leisurely as if he hadn't almost given Kakashi a heart attack.

"What? Yeah. It is. What the fuck are you doing here? Is the middle of the fucking night!"

"C'mon, no need to be rude, I said I was sorry!" Obito send him an apologetic smile while he took a seat beside Kakashi.

"It's ok…" Kakashi felt bad for cursing so much, but his heart almost killed him, and now Obito sitting beside him looking so gorgeous and smelling so good was not helping his heartrate to calm down. "Still, why are you here?"

"I guess same as you? Working late." Obito shrugged as he watched the characters fighting on the screen, Kakashi grabbed the control again and exited the fight.

"Yeah, me too, what time is it?" Kakashi wondered as he tapped around the couch and his pants' pockets looking for his phone, but Obito just extended his wrist checking an expensive looking watch for him.

"Nine fifteen."

"Oh, ok, fine, I thought I had lost track of time." Kakashi released a sigh but was still looking for his phone, only to find it on the carpet. It must have fallen when he jumped in surprise before.

"You were pretty focused when I came in. I thought I was the only one here today."

"Ithought I was the only one here today, asshole!" Obito only snickered again at Kakashi's outrage and grabbed another control.

"Wanna play a few rounds?"

"Sure." Playing Street Fighter was always fun, but playing with someone else was much better, especially if the other person was the handsome alpha from Finance who happened to smell like fucking perfume. "Why are you here anyway? Isn't Finance upstairs?"

"They were cleaning the bathrooms."

"Oh ok… Geez you're choosing Ryu?" Kakashi teased Obito with a sideways glance and it was worth to see him scrambling as if he'd done something wrong, whining in a defensive tone.

"What-why? What's wrong with Ryu?"

"You're so basic."

Obito shoved his shoulder on Kakashi's lightly, the warm contact making him half wish Obito would just pin him down on the couch with those broad muscled shoulders of his. "You're basic! You're playing with Chun-Li!"

"Yeah, because she's the most well-balanced character in the game, idiot."

"Only girls and guys that are hot for Chun-Li play with Chun-Li." It wasn't a lie, that was the majority of her character's fanbase, along with the gays, which is the demographic Kakashi fit.

"Joke's on you, I don't like girls." Kakashi bit back automatically.

He loved annoying people, the more he loved his friends, the more he annoyed and bantered with them, so sometimes it was easy for him to forget that he was in a professional setting or that he was bantering with someone he didn't know that well, and this had put him in awkward situations more than once. Luckily, he would be forgiven soon because it's Kakashi, the guy's a weirdo that reads porn in public and nobody would mind him much. But right after he said that, he thought he might have teased Obito a bit too much, but the man at his side just barked a hearty laughter that shook his shoulders, and it was such a beautiful sound that warmed Kakashi from inside and made him want to make Obito laugh more.

"Alright, let's see who wins in a fight between the two most basic characters in Street Fighter."

"Oh, you're gonna cry so bad when I kick your ass."

"I'm not gonna cry!" Obito interjected as if the losing part was ok to him but not the crying part, and Kakashi laughed hitting the play button to randomize the locations. Ten seconds into the fight, Obito was already squirming and complaining about the game being rigged.

"What-why-how do you know so many special moves?!"

"It's not that I know many, it's that you only know Hadoken." Kakashi smiled triumphantly as Chun-Li, alongside with his own abilities of course, was the winner of the first round.

Obito pointed between the screen and Kakashi repeatedly with an opened mouth and an outraged expression for the fight lasting only thirty seconds before yelling. "Rematch!"

"Ma, we're already playing a rematch, it's always three fights. Have you ever played Street Fighter?" Kakashi said in the most condescending voice he could muster and Obito looked even more enraged.

They ended up playing multiple rounds, with Obito always demanding rematch at the end. For one of the rounds Kakashi even let him win just to throw the dog a bone, but it was a mistake, because Obito's ego was inflated after that. They kept bantering and throwing playful insults at each other, and Kakashi loved it, even if Obito wasn't real competition for him on this game, but he was so fun to tease, he was easily pissed off by Kakashi acting superior and nonchalant, his handsome face was always so expressive showing a million annoyed expressions and Kakashi loved each and every one of them.

It's been a long time since he had fun simply playing video games with another person, and it didn't matter that Obito sucked at it, it didn't even matter that they were still in the office at night, he was fun, always responsive, poking fun back at Kakashi and just an enjoyable company. It did help that he was deadly handsome and smelled amazing.

He didn't notice how fast time flew by until the people from the cleaning company entered the room.

"Crap, it's almost ten already." Obito supplied him looking at his wrist again and he decided it was indeed better to get back home.

"Shit, it's not even a Friday yet." He could feel he'd be sleep deprived tomorrow, he just knew it.

"Do you take the subway?"

"Yeah. And you?"

"Me too. Grab your things, we'll walk out together." Kakashi agreed with a nod and Obito followed him to his desk.

"Ma, I didn't take you for the type to play video games." Kakashi said as put on his hoodie and threw his stuff on his tote bag without much care.

"Please, I've always loved video games. I wanted to be in the games industry when I was younger, it was my uncle that made me go into finance."

"He doesn't sound like a fun person to be around." Kakashi scoffed as they headed to the elevators. He barely knew Obito, but they'd been throwing insults at each other for the last half hour or more, so bad mouthing his pig-headed uncle didn't seem that much of a stretch.

Obito laughed and smirked at Kakashi and he felt his heart flutter. That expression looked very good on Obito. "He is a bit of an asshole, but he's fine, it was that or law, and I wasn't ready to sell my soul like that."

Kakashi snorted imagining if Obito's good looks and scent could save him if he ever became a lawyer with a lousy personality. Yeah. Yeah, it would. He checked out Obito's strong shoulders as he exited the elevator in front of him, his pheromone hitting him in waves and Kakashi was pretty sure he'd still drool all over Obito if instead of a finance jerk, he was a law uber-jerk. Except, he wasn't a finance jerk to begin with. He was super chill and fun to be around, and he looked adorable when he was teased and was pouting or gaping. And no, Kakashi wasn't crushing on him, he was merely stating facts.

"What would you be in the industry? If you could do whatever you wanted?" He asked to distract both Obito and his own wandering thoughts.

Obito narrowed his eyes at Kakashi as if checking him before answering. "You're gonna make fun of me."

"I won't! I promise!" Kakashi said half insulted at that ridiculous notion of demeaning someone's dream job, half sounding too earnest in expecting Obito's answer.

"You promise?"

"I promise."

That mock suspicious look in Obito's face was replaced by the cutest shy smile as he rubbed the back of his neck. "I wanted to be a graphic designer."

"That's so cool! You used to draw and stuff?"

"Yeah, and my uncle said that it was ok as a hobby, but I wouldn't make any real money with it, so here I am." He finished up with some sort of self-pitiful laughter that made Kakashi want to hug him and tell him everything would be ok.

"At least you're in the industry now, it's a less…of a bad option, I guess?"

"Definitely." Obito snorted back making Kakashi curious about what could be so bad out there, out of the world of game developing.

"What did you work on before?"

"The Tsukuyomi Bank, do you know it?"

"Do I know- Obito, that's a gigantic bank, of course I know it." Kakashi had to roll his eyes at him, it wasn't because he was a game geek that he lived under a rock, he still knew about banks and… stuff, he needed to have bank accounts and pay taxes and… stuff.

"Yeah, well, I made more money there, but it wasn't worth it. Too much headache, long hours, all clients were a pain in the ass. You know the drill."

"I really don't, but I can imagine."

"Yeah, it was a nightmare, I'm much happier now."

"That's good to hear." Kakashi hummed with a smile after hearing Obito's genuine happiness in his deep voice. Maybe Kakashi never valued having a cool career before, he ended up following a path that made sense to him with no outside pressure, and not everybody could say the same.

"And you?" Obito's cute smile was back in place, it was different from his salesperson easy smile, different from his true laughter smile, and Kakashi just enjoyed looking at him, cataloguing all his different expressions. He had to do a double take when he almost forgot what was Obito's question in the first place.

"What about me?"

"You're a developer but you're in a lot of cost reduction projects, it's almost like you're in finance."

"Oi! Don't put me together with people like you." Kakashi bumped his shoulders with Obito and narrowed his eyes at him, but Obito just kept snickering.

"Asshole. But I mean it, is this what you wanted?"

He sighed because it was a bit of a roundabout path before he ended up where he was, but no need to talk about that to the new hot guy. "I started as a core game developer at Konoha, then the market took a turn for the worse and me and Kurenai decided it was time to bite the bullet and take up some projects we didn't want in order to make ourselves useful. A lot of people got laid off, so I don't regret it one bit."

"But you're going back to game developing."

"Yeah, eventually." Kakashi didn't mind that he was working on less exciting projects, he still had problems to crack and numbers to crunch just like any other job, even if it wasn't as glamourous. He had his hobbies anyway. "I do a lot of my own game developing at home too, I make my own games, sometimes I get offers of companies that wanna buy my ideas."

Obito stopped on his tracks to look at Kakashi in awe and he felt a bit self-conscious. "Seriously? That's so cool!"

It wasn't that big of deal, his stuff was simple, the way he told Obito made him look like the hottest shit in town and he felt awkward at the undeserved praise. "Yeah, but my graphics suck, I could use a graphic designer." He winked at Obito trying to change subjects.

"What a team uh? The graphic designer that hasn't draw anything in ten years and the game creator that don't create games for a living."

"Dream team."

They both laughed as they continued their way down the street. There was still movement all around, Shinjuku was always busy, even at 10pm, with people leaving office buildings, or the nearby bars and food stalls. It wasn't a cold night, it was April after all, but Kakashi was always easily cold, so he put his hands inside the hoodie's kangaroo pocket out of habit.

"Oh man, I can't remember the last time I played this much…" Obito was flexing his fingers as if he got muscle cramps from playing Street Fighter for 30 minutes which was a ridiculous notion for Kakashi. "No! I can, it was God of War, it had just been released."

"Sick, that game is awesome."

"Yeah, I spent my last vacations only playing that."

Kakashi deadpanned with an unbelieving voice. "Obito, that game is like, five years old, that was your last vacation?"

Obito stopped walking and looked up for a bit as if trying to recall the last five years in his mind. "Yeah. It was."

"Holy crap, you're a workaholic."

"Not by choice, let me tell you." Obito sounded very tired when saying it and Kakashi had absolute no desire to know how his life was like when working at that bank.

Besides, look at this man. Look at this fucking man. There was no reason for him to be a regular ass worker like them, he was too handsome for that. Put him as a model on Rolex and perfume campaigns and he could easily make a living out of it. Well, maybe some people could find the scars a turn off. But those people would be stupid and tasteless.

"It was so funny, I decided to visit my cousins, they're younger than me, and I bought them the game, but I'm the one that spent all the holidays playing it, Itachi and Sasuke even complained, my aunt was pissed."

"That's so cool. You have a big family." Kakashi's voice sounded too longing and a bit bitter and he chastised himself for it, but thankfully it went right over Obito's head. Family is always a tricky subject for him.

"Yeah, Uchihas are a plague, they spurt out of every corner like weed."

"It sounds fun." He tried to add basking on Obito's bright wholesome smile. He was so cute.

"It is, I have a lot of cousins, most are younger than me, so when I was younger, I was always in babysit detail."

"Nice, though I'm still mad about your uncle."

"What? Madara?" Obito questioned with a smirk on his face and waved Kakashi's worries off. "Nah he's cool, he's just old, he didn't understand that there are other career options nowadays. He's just a dinosaur. When I came out to him as gay, he didn't even blink, he just told me he was gay too. I almost cried from laughing so hard."

Oh, that was some… interesting information. So Obito was gay? Did that mean that maybe he had a shot? Kakashi felt a flicker of hope in his heart that felt very foolish once he caught a sniff of Obito's pheromones again. Kakashi snorted to himself, he was an idiot. His chances with Obito just jumped from completely impossible to almost completely impossible. Big fucking deal. Alphas didn't want other alphas, they wanted cute soft omegas, water is wet, the sky is blue and Obito wouldn't want Kakashi.

"Well, he's progressive in some stuff at least." He shrugged his depressive thoughts away.

"Yeah, and even though he's got this tough guy act, he's an omega, can you believe it?" Oh well, this conversation was getting depressing fast. Shit, he so wished Obito wouldn't turn out to be a pig-headed bigot alpha that looked down on betas, omegas and people that didn't follow gender roles. Was that too much to ask? He was dangerously close to becoming a red flag.

Though, let's be real, even if Obito had some red flags, Kakashi might just develop some selective color blindness and rely purely on his sense of smell (and his dick).

He tried not to sound too triggered when he answered back. "I can, these stereotypes are just that, stereotypes."

"I know what you mean… you too, I wouldn't have pegged you for an alpha, you're too chill for that." Obito looked shy again and Kakashi's heart was telling him to hug that man, but his mouth was already telling him off again.

"Is that a compliment or an insult?"

"It's a compliment idiot, relax." Now it was Obito that bumped into his shoulders and Kakashi forgave him for now.

"It better be. Like I said, just stereotypes."

"You're right. Though… your scent is very strong, don't you take any pills?" Kakashi was a bit taken aback by the question. It wasn't uncommon for people to discuss mating cycles symptoms between them, but this question was kinda out of the blue since they weren't that close.

"Not really, nobody ever mentioned my scent was strong, most people say it's barely there." Kakashi felt his eyebrows knit together in confusion from Obito's statement and the other looked a bit awkward.

"Oh. Really?"

"I thought your scent was strong." Kakashi added trying to keep making conversation on the topic.

"But I do take pills, my symptoms were through the roof before them."

"Oh, that's weird." So Obito's pheromones were already medicated? They must be insanely strong then, if the smell was still lingering after the meds.

"Yeah, I guess it's a case-by-case thing."

"Yeah." Kakashi cleared his throat to make a not-so-subtle change of topics. "So, what kind of games did you play back when you had a life?"

A tight smirk spread on Obito's lips, and he look pissed off and barely holding back, but there was no need for that, Kakashi would let Obito pounce him any time, any day, let him be as rough as he wanted. "You're a real piece of work, aren't you?"

"Some say my amazing personality is my biggest asset." Kakashi answered in the brattiest tone he could muster and Obito's smirk grew.

"I sure hope not, or are all your other assets dumpsters on fire too?"

"Dickhead." Kakashi elbowed him on the ribs and… were they flirting? Maybe they were flirting, he couldn't tell, there was this… air around them. But at the same time, it was so confusing, is it because they were both alphas and naturally there shouldn't be any sexual tension between them? Well, Kakashi had a lot of sexual tension towards Obito, but what about the other way around?

"Let's see, did you play Resident Evil 4?"

"Did I play- only like a hundred times! That game it's at least half of my personality!"

"Shit that game is insane, I wanted to play the remaster so much, but haven't found the time yet!"

"Just do it like the rest of us and give up sleeping." Kakashi stated the obvious, because, what? Obito wanted to have hobbies and sleep? In this economy?

"How's that working for you?"

"Badly. And I regret nothing."

They proceeded to talk about everything they enjoyed playing when they were younger until they got to the subway station where unfortunately they had to catch different trains. They waved each other goodbye and Kakashi returned home with a giddy feeling in his stomach.