Content warning: explicit description of wet dream
"Hi Kurenai, how's it going?"
It seemed like it was time for her end of the day routine with Obito. "Oh, hi Obito, I'm fine and you?"
"I'm fine too..." He looked around her desk as if looking for something, his eyes checking Kakashi's empty seat for a second too long, before he decided what he wanted to say. "Er, just dropping by to tell you, we're having this presentation to the stakeholders, we need a few slides on what you did-"
"What I did last year, yeah, you sent me an email about that." Kurenai smiled at the man in front of her. He was worried. She was worried too. That's why he kept finding excuses to drop by her desk every day since last Friday.
"Oh great, sorry it must have slipped my mind. I'm gonna need-"
"Kakashi's part too, right?" She didn't mean to be rude while interrupting him but he still got this sheepish look on his face.
"Yeah, sorry, I'm repeating myself." He chuckled humorlessly while rubbing the back of his neck, and she felt bad for the guy.
"No problem."
He smiled back at her but still lingered on his spot, hands in his pockets, looking around for a couple of seconds before asking. "...er by the way, did he come in to work today?"
"Not yet, but yesterday he went back home from the hospital."
"Really? That's good news!"
"Yes, it is. Maybe he'll be ok to come next week."
"I hope so..." Obito still had that dejected look on his face and Kurenai sighed, unhappy to be so useless for Kakashi right now.
"I'm worried about him too." She muttered in a low voice and Obito's eyes grew for a second in shock before looking down at his feet.
"Yeah, well... yeah."
"Maybe he's accepting visitors."
Yes! Oh my god she was a genius!
"What? At home?"
"Yes!" She answered cheerfully dismissing Obito's cautious tone. "He's got a friend that's taking care of him, she's an alpha and a doctor, so he's in good hands. I'd visit him myself, but I can't because of reasons."
"Reasons?" She had told Obito that Kakashi had a stomach bug, not that he'd been in rut for 10 days and counting. Rin was keeping her posted, but she preferred not to tell people in the company. She had informed that only to Kakashi's direct manager who needed to know to process the paperwork for his sick leave and no one else. She wished she could visit him, but an omega being close to an alpha in rut was always a bad idea, even if she was bonded with Asuma.
"And you would be helping me!" She interrupted him again before he could think too hard about any of it. "I bought some oyaki on my way back from lunch and was gonna ask Asuma to deliver it, now you can do it for me."
"What? Me?" She ignored Obito's surprise exclamation to retrieve a plastic bag with the food.
"Here, its eggplant, his favorite." She shoved it on Obito's hands and he accepted it dumbly.
"Wait Kurenai, I don't even know where-"
"I'll email it to you don't worry." She waved him off and got up to turn him around and push his back toward the elevator. Better to get him moving before he got cold feet.
"Are you sure about this? Wouldn't it be strange if I-"
"No, not at all, you're friends, don't worry. Tell him I said hi and get better soon!" She waved him away as he uncertainly walked inside the elevator, the doors closing to a still confused Obito.
She crossed her arms and nodded to herself. She was a goddamn genius. There was nothing better than to take care of someone (or vice versa) to make people fall in love, it was a shoujo manga staple for a reason. Kakashi would get to see Obito, get some eye candy, eat good food, and Obito wouldn't worsen any of his rut symptoms since he was an alpha. She was a genius. Kakashi owed her one for playing cupid so well. Besides the obvious extra weight she was pulling to cover for him of course. He owed her for a lot of things, and she was planning on collecting it all on Monday.
Kurenai had convinced him it would be fine to drop unannounced by Kakashi's place with nothing but a plate of dumplings and his shameless smile. Now, standing outside his door, Obito thought this might not be the case. Then again, he's been doing some strange things since he met a certain silver haired pretty boy. He felt stupid. Standing in the dark with an annoying flickering light on the hallway and a plate of oyaki on his hand. Should he just go back? Fuck but what would he do with the food? Maybe he could ring the bell, leave the plate on the floor and run away? Geez, what was he? A 10-year-old playing pranks on an elderly neighbor? Maybe just ring the bell and tell Kurenai says hi and then leave? Yeah, no need to go inside make small talk and-
The door was shoved open suddenly almost hitting him in the nose. A ragged looking woman looked angrily at him. "Hi." She said simply.
"Oh! How…?" He felt dizzy, he could smell Kakashi, it made sense, this was his apartment after all, but there was still something different from his usual scent, was it because he was sick?
"Are you Obito?" She didn't let him finish, looking him over with urgency.
"Yeah? How do you- who are-"
She grabbed his arm and pushed him inside the apartment. What was it with women manhandling him today? She motioned a hand to her chest, curtly presenting herself. "Rin. C'mon, Kakashi says you're an alpha, so you can come in."
"Well yes but-" He tried to explain that he wasn't even supposed to come in, he was just bringing food, and it was too much to stay in a place that smelled like his crush and his head was already feeling the effects of it when this Rin person took the plate out of his hands just in time to prevent it from falling to the floor, as a robe clad Kakashi crashed against him.
"Obito!" He wished he had more time to process this strange chain of events. But Kakashi's skin felt hot and cold at the same time and his hair was damp and slicked back, with cold droplets running down his neck and Obito's attention was solely focused on him.
"Kakashi! Go back to the tub, you're still running a fever!" Rin commanded and he would have been afraid of her if he was Kakashi, but the man just kept hugging him rubbing his nose up and down Obito's neck.
"No Rin, I'm gonna be fine... Obito's here..."
To Obito, nothing was fine, he'd even say that a lot of things were terrible. First, there was the issue that a very hot, very beautiful, and very naked-under-that-robe Kakashi was hugging him tightly. He was happy but this was not the place and not the time for that and his thirst was not helping him to think straight. Then, there was this scent... he always liked Kakashi's scent, and now it was ten times stronger than he's ever felt it before, and even more delicious than usual and Obito's head was swimming on it.
"I brought oyaki..." He said dumbly, because what can you say when you were losing your mind? He was getting horny and hot and bothered with Kakashi draped around his neck. Horny with another alpha's pheromones. Was this allowed? It didn't make any sense.
"And he brought oyaki! Is it eggplant?"
"Yeah..."
"It's my favorite!" Kakashi kissed Obito's cheek and he felt like a windows 95 computer overheating while trying to open the internet explorer. This shouldn't be hard, not by any logical means. But it was.
Rin managed to tear Kakashi away from Obito and drag him back to the bathroom while they yelled profanities at each other. In the end Obito kind of heard her tell Kakashi to stay on the tub for 10 more minutes and then they would be done for the night, and in return he made her promise to keep Obito waiting. She even locked the door on her way out of the bathroom. She let go of a long sigh before letting go of the handle too and walking over to Obito with a tired smile.
"Hi, I'm sorry, it's been a bit of a mess these days."
"No, not at all…" Yeah, just like Obito's head was a mess right now.
"We never properly introduced ourselves, Nohara Rin." She bowed her head slightly to him and he returned the gesture.
"Uchiha Obito."
"So you're Obito." She put her hands on her hips and looked him from the top of his head to his feet and back, and he had to fight the need to shuffle his feet under her assessing gaze.
"I... am...? Why?"
"From the way Kakashi could smell you from outside his apartment while inside the tub, I thought you would be an omega on no medication at all."
"No, I'm an alpha, I'm on Zonithasol."
"That's a good one, expensive, but good. It makes sense, your smell is very faint, but why is Kakashi- Argh!" She groaned as she fell to the couch.
"You're Kakashi's doctor friend?"
"Yeah, I'm helping this idiot when I'm not on my shifts. Sorry it's been a difficult week."
"Don't worry, but… why is he like that?"
"What else? He's in rut." She deadpanned looking at him like he was a stupid kid.
He felt his jaw go slack. "But I heard it was a stomach bug."
"Oh, you work with him, isn't it? I think Kurenai must have made it up. Maybe she didn't wanna embarrass Kakashi on their company with something unprofessional like mating cycles."
Kakashi was in rut? Is that why he, he hugged Obito like that? Kissed him on the cheek? But why? They were both alphas, they shouldn't affect each other when in rut, this Rin friend of his was an alpha and she was sitting right there completely unaffected. And why was he feeling like this? Like he wanted to rip the bathroom door right of the handles and fuck Kakashi on the bathtub? It wasn't just lust, there was something primal, something animalistic inside him, telling him to do it, to fuck him, to breed him, to mate him. He only felt this added layer of desire a few times in his life, but it was such a distinctive feeling he could tell right away it was his alpha instincts acting up. He felt it sometimes before, when an unmedicated omega went into heat and he got a whiff of the smell, once when an ex-boyfriend was changing medications and his pheromones got a bit out of control and Obito's own body answered to them. He felt it again now, but it was way stronger, the desire in the pit of his stomach, the brain fog on the edges of his rational mind, the dulling of his senses to not feel anything that wasn't the omega, the prey, the mate.
Kakashi.
He was suddenly aware of his surroundings, this was Kakashi's apartment, everything had his amazing scent, the air was heavy with something that Obito could only guess were the pheromones from his rut, he must have spent the whole last week inside, jerking off and hoping for some kind of relief, with dirty sheets and dirty clothes laying around. And Obito was suddenly aware of his own body, his dick was half hard, all his muscles were flexed, ready to pounce, there was a tingling in his mouth and his neck demanding to bite and be bitten.
What the fuck?
"Do you wanna sit?" The woman asked with concern on her face, gesturing to the couch she was on.
He answered his own question instead of hers when he opened his mouth. "But Kakashi is an alpha."
"Yeah, he is. Why?" She looked up to him in confusion.
"No, nothing." He lied before he could get even more lost in his own theories. "When I heard he was at the hospital I thought it was something more serious, not because of a rut."
"Oh his rut was pretty serious alright. His fever was too high, it wasn't receding, we had to plug in an IV because he was vomiting so much and in serious dehydration, and a million other things too. He had the worst symptoms I've ever seen as a doctor."
It reminded him of his own first ruts when he was fourteen before he got started on medication. He never got committed, but he ended up in the hospital a couple of times too.
"Mating cycles can be hard."
"Not Kakashi's. He never had this before, he was completely unprepared. Me too as his friend and doctor." She let out a long sigh, her head on her hands, her elbows on her knees. "His rut it's like, once in a blue moon and very fast, so he's never been on any continuous medication. But after this I called his doctor and asked her to fucking do something about this, because I couldn't help him at all." Obito let Rin overshare Kakashi's private life and her own guilt, taking each word she said with interest.
"Then why did it change?" He risked asking but Rin seemed open enough (or tired enough) to just answer him frankly. Nevertheless, she looked up to him with suspicion on her eyes, holding the silence for a few moments longer.
"We don't know." She said finally, but Obito still got this distinct feeling she was measuring her words. "All tests are normal, his hormones were a bit on the lower bound, but they were always like that, his scent is still faint, he didn't have any other symptoms… I don't fucking know." She concluded defeated.
As if just to prove her wrong, a new wave of Kakashi's pheromones hit Obito. It was delicious, intoxicating, it made him forget the whole world and think of just Kakashi, it was- fuck, it was the smell of arousal. Fuck, Kakashi must be getting hard by himself on the tub, maybe jerking off right now, even with people at his apartment. Rut made you do some very shameful things, Obito knew. He was close to snapping, his control was leaving him, what the fuck was happening?
He looked down to Rin to see if she was feeling it too, but she looked unbothered. "Are you smelling it?"
"What?" She was clueless. But why? This scent, fuck, it wasn't an omega scent, because it was an alpha scent, but it was so fucking better than all the other scents he's ever-
Crap.
"I gotta go." He turned on his heels looking for the door. He needed to get away from here.
"What?" Rin got to her feet and followed him, but it was too late, he'd made up his mind.
"Tell Kakashi I'm sorry, hope he gets better, and I'll see him Monday." He said hastily as he opened the door to the hallway to the same annoying flickering light. "Good to meet you Rin." He added as he closed the door to a dumbfounded woman saying something that Obito had no idea what could be.
With the additional barrier of the door, Kakashi's scent wasn't as strong, and Obito's brain felt less muddled. Yeah, that was the right thing to do. He should head home and calm his nerves a bit. He hoped Kakashi would get better, but he couldn't stay here any longer. He stumbled down the stairs and to the station trying to forget that wonderful scent, trying to get the sensation of soft lips out of his system, trying to stop wondering how pretty Kakashi's silver hair looked all damp and slicked back, trying to stop imagining how he would look like inside the tub, hand on his dick moving desperately, eyelids heavy, fluttering at each stroke, parted lips opening for panting breath, heaving chest moving up and down, soft pink tongue to-
Obito let his back hit the train doors after he got in. His imagination has already taken it too far. He needed to get himself under control or he might start to release too much pheromones despite his medication. He needed to get to his apartment and not think about Kakashi for a long time, and just the thought of it already pained his chest, as if his instincts and his body were mad at him for walking out on such a perfect man, such a perfect partner, such a perfect mate.
Except Kakashi was far from being a perfect mate, it's almost like Obito's body wanted him to ignore the fact that Kakashi was an alpha. What is wrong with him? He shouldn't be reacting to Kakashi's rut as if his smell was the one of an omega in heat. What the hell is wrong with his body?
Kurenai match maker to the rescue! And Obito and Rin met! Two cuties, both worried for Kakashi. If anybody is wondering, there won't be any ObiKakaRin love triangle situation in this story, I don't think it works in this context. But be sure that Obito and Rin will bond over collectively worrying about Kakashi and his unhealthy habits.
