I'd like to say that we don't have a typical winter where I live, it's only hot and raining or hot and not raining, so I have no idea how seasons work. Please ignore any weather related descriptions that don't make sense and enjoy Obito and Kakashi being idiots for each other. Also, this chapter is not sponsored by Nintendo, but if you're interested Nintendo, you can reach out to me and make me an offer.

"Oh, by the way, you can't stay over on Saturday."

"Why? Do you have a date or something?" Obito teased him as they both played Super Smash Bros and Kakashi was offended by it.

"Obito, please, have you looked at me? Do I look like someone that goes out on Saturday nights?" And second, has Obito looked at himself? If Kakashi wasn't going out on a date with Obito, he wasn't interested in any other date, thank you very much.

"C'mon, even geeks can fuck nowadays, the world has evolved." Obito said in a bitter tone as if he didn't condone geeks fucking, but Kakashi wasn't gonna unpack that right now.

"Sure, if you say so."

After a few seconds in silence Obito asked again, a little more friendly. "If it's not a date, what is it?"

"On Sunday the people at the shelter need me to go early."

"Shelter? What shelter?"

"The dog shelter." Surely, he must have told Obito about it. If he wasn't at work or at home, he was always at the shelter helping as he could. Well, it was true that he's been going there a little less, now that he was hanging out so much with Obito. "They're setting up an adoption fair and they need help in the morning for that. Shit. I hate waking up early."

"What the hell? I didn't know you volunteered at a dog shelter."

He just shrugged at Obito. "Now you do."

"Tell the whole story, dipshit." Kakashi rolled his eyes so hard at Obito that his character was kicked out of the screen.

"There's no story, I like dogs, but I can't have one because the apartment is tiny and I'm out most of the time. So I take care of other dogs, no big deal." He shrugged as he proceeded to kick Obito's ass again in the game. He couldn't let him get used to winning or he'd become too full of himself. On the other hand, it was pretty fun crushing his soul after one of his ego trips.

"That's so cool! How come you never told me before?" Obito turned away from the game to look at him and that was his mistake, Kakashi moved to make a special attack and the game was over. He won, obviously.

He turned and wiggled his eyebrows at Obito in the silliest way possible and he got a laugh out of him. "I'm a secretive person."

"Oh yeah? What other secrets do you have?" Obito sent him a warm smile and bumped their shoulders together.

"I never told you about being a North Korean spy either."

"Oh really?" He couldn't see Obito's face because they were both focused on the new round of the game, but he could hear his eyes rolling on his tone.

"Yes, it's a partnership program with the KGB." How deep into his nonsense would Obito let him go before cutting him off for good?

"The KGB? The Russian thing that doesn't exist anymore?"

"Geez, get on with the program Obito." Kakashi's patronizing tone seemed to irritate Obito a bit.

"Oh yeah? What else? You're a terrorist too? There's a bomb in the apartment?"

"No stupid, I'm just making stuff up… but I am a vegetarian."

"What?! But! You never told me tha-" Obito interrupted his outrage and turned to Kakashi, again, getting distracted enough for Kakashi to kick his character offscreen again. "Wait a minute."

"You're so slow." Kakashi snickered. God he loved how Obito was intelligent for a lot of things and so stupid for others. It was equal parts endearing and entertaining.

"You're not a vegetarian!" Obito shouted and pointed at him as Kakashi calmly proceeded to kick his ass in the game.

"Of course not, I've eaten meat in front of you, moron." Kakashi didn't even dignify that with an eye roll.

"Oi! Don't be a dickhead about it!"

"I don't need to be a dickhead, you act like an idiot all on your own, no help needed."

"Asshole." Obito finally turned back to the screen and groaned when he saw the message saying Kakashi won again. He cutely muttered something about Kakashi being some slur he couldn't quite catch and swearing revenge. "What is this adoption fair on the weekend anyways?"

"There's gonna be an event from some god forsaken prefecture that I didn't bother to check the address yet, and they want to take some puppies and some banners about the shelter, to promote adoption, you know."

"That's… that's so cool. You're gonna help?"

"Yeah, these things are hard work." Kakashi kicked Obito's character off screen again, really he should try to get someone heavier to play with.

"What else do you do?"

Kakashi shrugged, people didn't usually ask him about his work on the shelter, he just guessed it wasn't an interesting topic for conversation at all. But it warmed his heart that Obito was taking an interest. "Oh, the usual, take the dogs for a walk, give them baths, help trim their fur, some administrative work too, the basics."

"Kakashi, that'ssonot the basics, few people contribute to charity with money already, imagine with their time like you." He kicked one of the NPCs off the platforms with ease as he let Obito deal with the other one on his own before attacking. Kakashi was getting flustered with Obito's strange compliments. Really, it wasn't that big of a deal.

"Well, I don't know, just makes sense, I just go one or two times a week, not much."

"Not much, yeah…" Obito scoffed, repeating his words, shaking his head at the TV. "God, I'm really falling in love with you."

Kakashi's control fell out of his hand and hit the floor with an unpleasant crack startling them both. He turned to Obito, feeling his mouth hanging open and his eyes wide, his own expression mirrored in Obito's face, like a deer caught in the headlights.

"What."

"What?"

"Obito?"

"What?"

"What did you just say?"

"What? No, I didn't say anything, nothing."

"What the fuck? Obito-"

"I gotta go."

"What? Wait! Obito!"

Obito got up and stumbled his way out of the apartment, and Kakashi tried to follow him, but he closed the door on his nose so strongly it almost broke out of its hinges. Kakashi stood there for a second, looking at the white door ten centimeters away from his nose while he heard shuffled, fast footsteps getting away from the door on the hallway.

What just happened? He... heard... he heard that right? Obito had said... that? He wasn't gonna repeat it, he would jinx it for sure. This happened. He wasn't dreaming, was he? They didn't drink anything... and he was pretty sure his apartment was both lead and asbestos free, so nobody was hallucinating.

He remained an undetermined time standing in front of a closed boring white door doing nothing and saying nothing through his opened mouth. Eventually he found it in himself the will to stop replaying the scene in his head and walk back to the living room, but his jaw remained slack, he wasn't gonna be able to close it tonight it seemed. He looked down at the snacks spread on the low table and floor, the game still on the screen.

His eyes moved to the couch and... and Obito's jacket was still there. He... left without a jacket in the middle of fucking October. He hastily grabbed Obito's jacket, turned around and ran away through his door and the hallway and when he reached the stairs he stopped on his tracks. He was wearing only a hoodie and shorts and he was barefoot and Obito wasn't there, or anywhere he could see for that matter, and he didn't know his address and he didn't know where he went or how long it had been since he left and his fucking jaw was still slack and... Kakashi felt tears sting his eyes.

He hugged Obito's jacket tight, burying his nose in it and he felt himself double around it. He was crouched barefoot in the middle of the cold hallway on a Thursday night in the middle of October. Obito's scent was the best thing in the whole world, the most calming thing he ever felt, it made Kakashi feel right and embraced and like everything would turn out to be ok, but not even Obito's blessed smell coming from this jacket was helping him quiet the tears falling freely from his eyes.

Why? Why did Obito run away? Kakashi needed him so badly he felt like he was dying without him. Why would Obito say he was in love with him and then leave like that? Was he lying? Did he think he made a mistake or something? Did he regret saying it? How could he just leave Kakashi who loved him so much it hurt? It was so hard to breathe as his fingers locked to the jacket's fabric and the tears wouldn't stop coming, and the sobs kept surfacing. He wanted Obito. He needed Obito. He loved Obito. Where was he? There was only the leftover smell on his jacket and the strangest memory of Obito saying he was in love with Kakashi and that wasn't nearly enough.

Fuck.

Oh shit. Oh fuck. Goddamned fucking shit fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck.

Obito wished he knew more curse words, his vocabulary seemed too limited to express how badly he fucked the whole fucking thing up.

Fuck.

Was he insane? He must be, at least a bit. It didn't matter how beautiful Kakashi was, how amazing intelligent, interesting, caring, fun, loving- he tripped over the last steps of Kakashi's building and he dashed to the subway station like he had two left feet and no way of bending his knees at all, which must have made for a very funny scene to passersby. Nothing was funny for Obito though. He shouldn't have just blurted out what was going on in his mind like that. What the hell was wrong with him? He thought he had agreed with his brain that he wouldn't say anything about his feelings to Kakashi, and now look at him, staggering like a psychotic drunk down the stairs to the subway.

Fuck.

He was either very stupid or very crazy. Or so much in love that it didn't fit his heart and he had to pour it out in words. Or all of them. He didn't realize he was so in love with Kakashi until he blurted it out, and as soon as he heard himself say it, he knew it was the truth. But now it was all royally fucked up. He was new in the company, it's only been five or six months maybe? And now he's gone and sexually harassed a colleague. Fuck. What should he do? Should he ask Kakashi not to report him? Should he tell Kakashi he was drunk or high or whatever? It was just a joke?

Fuck.

Should he... ignore Kakashi? Only thinking about that already hurt so much Obito thought he was having appendicitis all over again. What would he do tomorrow? They would end up seeing each other no doubt. He felt shivers running up his arms when he left the subway station and only then he noticed he had already made the trip from Kakashi's station to his and was standing outside with nothing but a dress shirt and his mumbled thoughts about how much he loved Kakashi on a cold October night. And let's be honest shall we? He was head over the fucking heels for Kakashi and having blurted out those feelings unprompted didn't warm him at all, not even one little bit, as he stumbled his way back home hugging himself.

Where the fuck was his jacket? Did he leave it in Kakashi's apartment? That's great, just awesome, amazing, very intelligent Obito, yeah, now they have a very obvious reason to meet tomorrow and Obito won't be able to avoid Kakashi anymore.

Yeah, he was all of the above: stupid, insane and in love.

On his way to work Obito had: banged his head hard on his building's elevator door twice, surprising the neighbors with him on the elevator, screamed gibberish in the middle of packed morning commute, stopped in the middle of the sidewalk and crouched with his head on his hands making some people trip on him, sighed maybe forty times, slapped his face maybe ten times, and passed by the company's building completely clueless, and it had taken him two blocks to notice his mistake, half because he was too lost in thoughts, half because he didn't wanna come in to work at all. His morning had already been very long, and he only just now got to his work. Thank god that Kakashi worked on a different floor, or they would need to have some sort of showdown about yesterday first thing in the morning and Obito wasn't ready for that, he hasn't slept, not even a wink yesterday.

He opened the company chat and had been staring at it for the last thirty minutes. If anyone saw him like that and didn't notice what was on his screen, they'd think he's the most focused person in this company this Friday. However, that was very far from the truth. He had thought of maybe writing Kakashi something, saying something about work, some stupid task, maybe about his jacket that he forgot at his place. But it felt like a low blow, like those people that end relationships through text messages, too impersonal, too easy, even if he still couldn't phantom for the life of him what words he'd write on said message. He did the same last night, as he laid down on his bed, he glared at his phone screen, as the offending message app glared back, showing Kakashi's profile. He ended up not sleeping, and now, staring at his computer screen, he ended up not working, and he just prayed that nobody would fire him, not for slacking off, neither for sexual harassment in case Kakashi had already reported him.

At one point, Kakashi seemed to have opened the chat too, because there was a "typing..." written on it, and Obito's focused glare changed from quiet desperation to jumpy dread as he imagined what in the absolute fuck Kakashi could possibly write. He wanted to go to Kakashi so badly, but then he felt shame, making him want to go into hiding instead, maybe move to Cambodia, change his name and become a farmer? Yeah, that seemed like a good way out. He focused whatever willpower he had left into not bolting through the company hallways in any direction, neither Kakashi, nor Cambodia, just staying put waiting for Kakashi's text. It took a while, a very long while, but a text popped innocently on his screen making Obito almost rupture an aneurysm.

you forgot your jacket

It stated simply, in a very Kakashi manner, and it communicated what was necessary. It didn't show what Obito was interested in most, which was Kakashi's emotions. Was he mad? Was he sad? Was he disgusted? Did he want to talk? Did he want to hand over Obito's jacket and then forget about this all? What should he do?

He suddenly and loudly got up to his feet, his chair moving backwards, and his colleagues looked at him in confusion, as he just stood there, eyes trained on the screen, doing nothing. After some more moments of trying to think but finding his mind completely vacant of anything, Obito turned around to grab some coffee. And some water. And maybe an energy drink like Kakashi liked to do. And maybe even a coffee flavored coke. Yeah. Surely that would jumpstart his brain into movement. Hopefully.

He tried to convince himself to do the right thing. Which would be to fold the jacket neatly in a bag, bring it with him to work, leave it at Obito's desk before he arrived with a friendly note letting him know that he forgot it at his place yesterday. Then they could both laugh and move on and everything would be just fine. However, Kakashi's very irrational brain instead cried over the jacket because of Obito's behavior, proceeded to lay in bed with it to sleep surrounded by the greatest smell in the world, then he lost his mind some more and took off his pajamas and wore Obito's jacket to sleep, and when he woke up today, he had no courage at all to take it away from his bed. What if Obito didn't wanna hear from him anymore? Then he would be left without Obito and without any memory of him and his smell, so really it made perfect sense for him not to bring that jacket to work today.

Fuck, he fucking hated himself.

"You're more depressed than usual today." Kurenai stated insightfully.

"Ma, then how about some mental health day for me today?"

"Nope. We're swamped today, you better stay right where you are." He knew Kurenai didn't mean to be brash, but Kakashi took offense either way. He was feeling miserable today and he would accept any excuse he got to feel even more miserable.

He hit rock bottom when he decided to write a text to Obito through the company chat and he felt like a fucking loser. Obito said the weirdest shit and immediately fled, buthewas over here writing a message, still begging for crumbs of Obito's attention, when Kakashi should be turning up his nose at that son of a bitch.

Kakashi did it anyway.

Because he hated himself.

And loved Obito.

After he sent a simple text, it took Obito twenty minutes to answer him with an "ok". Two letters. "o" followed by "k". It wasn't even capitalized or punctuated, not that "Ok." would be better than "ok", it would probably be it was the principle of the thing!

Kakashi felt so bad he didn't even answer back, it felt too humiliating and demeaning and now he decided to keep Obito's jacket for good and fuck him, he's got money, he can buy another jacket. Kakashi's not gonna return his little piece of heaven that was proof of what he enjoyed so much during the time he had it.

He went straight home tired and empty. He spent the whole day being more of a bastard than usual, but people didn't know he'd been barely holding himself together, and after a whole day of bottling everything up, he didn't know how he felt anymore. Maybe he could get home to cry some more on Obito's jacket. Crap, that thing's gonna get disgusting. He refused to wash it and lose that wonderful scent that made him feel so comfortable and safe. What was he gonna do during his next ruts when there was no longer any Obito, anything from Obito for him to hold on to? Only memories that would get old and blurry and hurtful and untrue?

"Hey."

Kakashi's eyes snapped up from the ground to look up when he heard that velvety deep voice that he loved. Obito was standing against his apartment's door in another jacket and seemingly waiting for Kakashi. He might have let out a pained laughter, he's not sure. What the fuck?

"Sorry…" Obito said with a shy voice, because apparently Kakashi voiced that question out loud.

He looked to the side, the street below them, the building in front of his, with people getting home and lights coming up. He didn't wanna see Obito's face, not when he looked so devastated like that. What that expression could possibly mean? Why was he here? What did he want? So many questions, none of them the one Kakashi really wanted to ask.

Do you love me?

Tears stinged his eyes and he cursed his traitorous body, always sabotaging him at the worst possible moments. He inhaled deeply and held it inside as he willed the tears not to fall. Obito didn't make a sound, didn't move not even a centimeter, he let Kakashi take his time, which he wasn't sure if it was a second or 30 minutes. He turned back and Obito was there, still as a rock, as if at the slightest movement Kakashi would bolt away in fright. It wasn't a bad assumption. Kakashi had no idea how he should react to this, his thoughts were a jumbled mess, he didn't know what he was doing, what face he was making, what his voice sounded like. Obito's face seemed pained, deeply sad and sorrowful. What's up with that?

"Why you here?" Kakashi managed to cough out of his hurting lungs.

"I wanted to talk to you."

Kakashi looked to the side again. He couldn't look straight at Obito the same way people can't look straight at the sun. It was too much, with his soft voice and his soft black eyes. People were still arriving from work at the street below them, still lighting up their apartments in the next building. The indifference of the world to Kakashi's suffering made him envious of people who knew love and bonding and being normal alphas, omegas and betas. He trained his stare on the ground, what Kakashi's been looking at for most part of his day and moved forward.

"C'mon in then."

He unlocked his door, moved for Obito to go in, locked it back again, took off his shoes on the genkan, don't look at him, put his tote bag on the hanger, took off his own jacket, put it on the hanger too, don't look at him, looked for his slippers, put them on, why wasn't he saying anything, he got inside, grabbed his guest slippers, didn't he want to talk, the guest slippers might as well be Obito's by now, with how much he was over, why isn't he saying anything, he trained his eyes on the floor, he counted the floor boards as he walked, he dragged himself back to the entrance where probably Obito was waiting, he let the slippers fall and suddenly he felt dizzy.

Obito held Kakashi by his shoulders, and their lips were touching. Obito was kissing Kakashi. Obito was kissing Kakashi. They were kissing. Fuck, he couldn't even close his eyes because he couldn't fucking believe it. Was this real? He couldn't even taste or feel Obito's lips, he was just too shocked, the only thing in this world was Obito and his head was dizzy, his vision was blurry, his stomach was swimming, his legs were numb.

Then it was over as suddenly as it began and Kakashi felt his head lolling to the side almost as if he lost any strength before he caught himself.

"I'm so sorry for leaving like that yesterday! I-I didn't mean to! Fuck I planned a whole fucking speech for this but you looked so pretty, but so sad, I couldn't- Kakashi look, I meant it, I'm in love with you, I wanna be with you, I- I wasn't gonna say anything because I was afraid you didn't like me that way because I'm an alpha and alphas don't date alphas and- and because you're so amazing you could have anyone you want but -but I want you to want me, I've been crushing hard on you for so long, that-that I, I, please, I just didn't mean to blurt it out, I was afraid, I got scared, I had to run but- but today the whole day I was fucking hating myself and-"

Kakashi leaned in to kiss Obito again. This time he closed his eyes. And this time he felt Obito's lips. They were so soft, his scent was too close to Kakashi's nose. The dizziness got even worse, he tried to stretch and lock his legs in place, or he'd fall to the floor like a tree being cut down.

"You talk too much." He heard himself whisper and it was true. He couldn't take anymore of Obito's annoying blabbering even if he loved each and every word that he said.

Obito threw his arms around Kakashi's neck, hugging him tightly. "Thank god."

Obito was shaking around him, and Kakashi pulled back to see his face again. Kakashi kissed Obito. Then he kissed him again. And again. And again. And again. He needed to be sure that he wasn't losing his mind and starting to imagine things. But this was real, there was no way he could imagine this, he wouldn't be able to imagine the small crease in Obito's lower lip on the right side of his mouth because of the scarring, or the light stubble that he could feel against his lips making him think that Obito forgot to shave earlier today, and he wouldn't have imagined that the taste of his mouth was so different from his scent, though just as delicious.

Kakashi just needed more. Just a bit more of Obito.

He felt himself exhale hard when his back hit against a wall and he wondered how this happened. Obito was kissing him fiercely and Kakashi was responding to him, he found his hands clawing on thick black hair, his tongue invading Obito's mouth with more desire than he ever felt in his whole life, his body pressed between the man in front of him and the wall and he just wanted more and more and he didn't fucking care about anything else in this whole damned world. He didn't wanna let go, he loved this, he loved Obito.

"Kakashi… wait…" He loved Obito, loved his voice, but his mouth could be put to better use than talking.

They kissed more and more and Kakashi had to think about when was the last time that just making out felt this amazing, the last time he ever wanted anything so badly in his life. And suddenly they were falling over on the couch and he was now on top of Obito's chest, which shook him out of his daze.

"Kakashi… are you ok?" Obito cradled his face with an affectionate hand, and Kakashi just wanted to melt against him, become one with the man under him.

"I want you." His voice sounded breathless as he whispered against Obito's lips.

"What?" Was Obito's question under him and by god, he loved a very slow idiot.

"You said you want me to want you… I want you. I've wanted you for a long time now." Kakashi dived into another kiss because any answer Obito might have for that would be as moronic as he was and even though Kakashi loved him for that, he had no patience whatsoever right now.

He felt a hand creeping under his shirt, following the curve of his lower back, from his pants to his ribs and he let go of Obito's mouth long enough to release a moan.

"Fuck… I love your voice… Kakashi…" Obito latched onto his neck, planting kisses and mouthing sweet nothings against his ear.

"Is this- oh… is this really happening?" He asked because he couldn't believe his luck. It all seemed too perfect, it had to be a dream.

Obito stopped kissing his neck and rested his head against the armrest with a sunny smile. "I can't believe it yet…"

"You like me." Kakashi half asked half stated, tasting the words in his mouth, so foreign that they felt almost like another language altogether.

"I do. A lot. I'm in love with you." Obito eagerly answered while they stared each other down, both with disbelieving looks on their faces.

"Me too." Kakashi answered simply, feeling more heat on his neck and face, and that was enough for Obito's grin to become even wider, and he gave Kakashi a cartoonish loud peck on the lips.

"My god! You're so pretty, what do I do?!" Arms around Kakashi tightened up and he finally felt his head clear enough to recognize that they had been very close to fucking on his couch and his nerves hit him. He'd been on automatic pilot since that first kiss Obito stole, but now he tried to really assess his situation.

Was Obito really ok with him? He was an alpha, they both were, they would become the joke of the office for sure, and they wouldn't be able to help each other during ruts because only sex with omegas helped alphas through it, and they would have very different sex from usual, period. Had Obito really considered all variables? Kakashi was ok with this because he's always been a sexual deviant, his kinky side couldn't wait to be fucked by Obito, but did this alpha in question accept him like he was?

"Are you sure about this?" He asked again now that his rational side had woken up, but it didn't help when Obito's thumb caressed Kakashi's cheek softly. His half-closed eyes were affectionate, his smile was sweet, it all showed such tenderness when Obito answered that Kakashi could die.

"Absolutely sure."

"Are you not worried that I'm not an omega?" The words spilled out of his mouth before he could hold them inside, and he was ashamed of his insecurities.

Obito scrunched his eyebrows at the question, looking taken aback. "No. Why would I worry about that?"

"I-I don't know, you never see two alphas together, and-and there's no way for us to complement each other, like if you were with an omega and-"

"Geez Kakashi, what nonsense, alpha and omegas date betas all the time and it's the same situation, c'mon, that's a non-problem."

"Really?" Kakashi was confused. Obito sounded so sure, his voice even had a bit of mirth in it, as if he was amused that Kakashi could even consider that as a problem. But it was a real problem. It's been a problem for a long time for Kakashi, how could everything become so perfect and simple for him with just a few words from the man he loved?

"Wait, were you nervous about that?" There was no teasing, just genuine concern, but Kakashi couldn't help but to be defensive about it.

"What? No, of course not, not nervous at all."

"Hum, ok, I'll buy it." Obito leaned in and captured Kakashi's lips again. He sighed into the kiss before laying his head back on the couch's armrest. "Besides, I've dated omegas before, but I've never felt like this before."

"Like this?"

"Like I could die if you rejected me."

Kakashi wanted to roll his eyes at Obito, what a hopeless romantic. But he just felt more heat creeping on his face and neck because of how badly he loved hearing that, so he just buried his face on Obito's chest in embarrassment. "Obito, please, stop-"

"I'm serious!" Obito grabbed his cheeks and forced Kakashi's face up to meet his gaze, big black eyes filled with affection and he couldn't hold his gaze like that. "I don't give two shits about you being an alpha, better yet, I like it, because that's soyou, and I wouldn't want you any other way."

"Oh god…" He couldn't cower away in embarrassment as Obito held his face like that between his hands, so Kakashi just closed his eyes hard, ordering his face to return to its normal shade and failing.

"I want you so bad, I've never felt like this for anybody else in my life, pheromones or not. Though you smell amazing." Obito nuzzled his nose against Kakashi's ear and neck, and he felt shivers running down his spine. Obito was such an idiot, he was the one that smelled amazing, and Kakashi was the one that never felt anything like this before, he had been experiencing a meltdown from having been rejected yesterday before he understood what really happened for fuck's sake. "I should be the one asking if you're ok with me not being an omega."

"Why? Are you an idiot? Stop saying idiotic things like that."

"Alright, alright…" Obito chuckled and kissed him again.

The irony of how Kakashi was worried about that, while he called Obito an idiot for getting worried just the same wasn't lost on Kakashi. However, his head was busier with other things, like how soft Obito's tongue was, like his big hands going up and down Kakashi's spine under his shirt, making him tingle all over, like the warmth of his body cradling Kakashi on his arms. He was close to losing any mental capacity if they kept this up. But even if he wasn't an omega, Kakashi wasn't a clear-cut alpha either, and that still held him back when kissing back Obito. He didn't want to lie to this man, the man he loved, Kakashi should tell him that he's dualsex, or he would feel like he was misleading Obito.

"You feel stiff, are you still nervous?" Obito whispered sweetly but the question was enough to almost make Kakashi jump. What the fuck? Was this guy a mind reader or something?

"I'm not nervous. I was never nervous. Are you nervous?"

"I'm very nervous." Obito opened his beautiful warm smile that made Kakashi weak on the knees, good thing they were lying on the couch. How could he so openly admit to that? And what on earth would he be nervous about? Kakashi fucking loved him, he shouldn't worry about anything.

"What- why?"

"Well… because it's you, I wanna make everything perfect." Obito shrugged but his shy smile faltered and Kakashi wrapped his arms tighter around those broad shoulders.

"Obito, c'mon, you don't have to put pressure on yourself for that."

"You're so sweet, thanks, but you know it's not that easy." Kakashi's heart fluttered at the compliment, especially because he knew that he wasn't a sweet person at all, Kurenai could confirm that, but it didn't prevent him from believing Obito.

He knew it wasn't a simple thing, to tell someone not to worry and then they were magically cured. Why would Obito think he needed to be perfect when Kakashi was so imperfect himself? He got up from Obito's chest intending to come clean about his secondary gender. Not only did he deserved complete information before deciding about his feelings for Kakashi, Obito also deserved some sort of demonstration of how much he was loved.

"Hey, are you ok? We don't need to do anything you don't wanna."

"I know- I want it, I just- argh." He ran a hand through his hair annoyed. He wanted to fuck Obito so bad it hurt but they really needed to get some stuff out of the way. "Sorry, we can't yet."

"Ok, no problem, let's leave it for some other time." Great, now that Obito was so respectful of his boundaries, it just made Kakashi even hornier.

He tried to focus on the task at hand. "I'm… I kinda need to tell you something. Ok?"

"What is it?"

"I'm… argh, ok, look, I only found out about this a couple of months ago, and it's kinda weird, because I still don't know how to feel about it."

Obito's black eyes became comically large in surprise as he landed his hands on Kakashi's shoulders with the lightest of touches. "Oh my god, it's not a bad thing, is it?"

"Bad thing?"

"Like you're not sick, are you?"

"No, no, nothing like that." Kakashi waved Obito off. He looked so cute all worried.

Obito visibly sighed while holding his chest in relief. "Oh my god… ok, better… Geez, I thought you were gonna say you had cancer or something, I would not be ready for that at all."

"Yeah, I bet you would feel betrayed to start dating someone sick."

"What? No, what the fuck? That's horrible, I could never think something like that! I just wouldn't be ready to lose you when I just got you."

Oh. That was… surprisingly sweet. From the outraged tone to the romantic words that were just oh so Obito-like, and Kakashi felt like his stomach was dropping, and his heart was clawing out of his chest.

"Oh, oh, ok, I- erm, well, I feel kinda silly now."

Obito was looking guilty, Kakashi could almost see his puppy ears flattening on his head in worry and he grabbed his hand gingerly. "Don't be, beautiful, do you still want to tell me?"

Kakashi had a momentary panic attack at the pet name. They… could call each other like that already? Because if they could, Kakashi would need to start taking some medication for his heart. Obito called him beautiful so naturally that Kakashi lost direction for a moment, and he didn't know up from down.

He looked down on their joined hands on his lap and was hit by how real all this was. Obito really liked him, he was going to tell someone else that he was dualsex, and he wanted this to work so fucking much and he was so desperate, god, please!

Another hand came to rest on Kakashi's cheek, it was warm, welcoming and Kakashi closed his eyes and leaned in that luxurious comfort. He opened his eyes to a slightly worried Obito, and he closed his eyes and tried to inhale deeply to just get it out of his chest.

"I'm… I'm dualsex."

"Duel with what?"

Kakashi's shy eyes snapped open in even more exasperated confusion that Obito's face was expressing.

"What the fuck." Kakashi asked himself.

"What?" Obito just asked back.

The ridiculousness of the situation hit him with such force that he fell on his back on the couch, cracking with laughter, while Obito poked his legs mumbling sorrys and asking what he said wrong. Honestly it was too much, he'd been so nervous to tell that to Obito and he blurted out the most sensical thing he's ever heard? Dualsex, duel sex, duel with sex? Geez, where did this guy come from? Where did Kakashi find him?

"Kakashi…" Obito was now whining in despair, looking like a lost puppy that had fallen out of the moving truck and the family forgot about it. It's just that Kakashi was still laughing his goddamn ass off and couldn't explain yet to Obito just what the joke was.

"God… Obito…" Kakashi kept on laughing before he inhaled deeply and got back to a sitting position. "Dualsex. It means I'm both alpha and omega."

"Alpha and omega?"

Kakashi let another laughter escape him at Obito's blatant confusion. God, he was just so cute! He proceeded to explain the concept to Obito, and how he found out, how Rin's been keeping tabs on him since then, how his pheromones are wacky, everything and anything he was asked. It was so strangely cathartic, he was so afraid before, and now he could breathe again, and felt so light with Obito's engaging reaction.

"The first time I smelled you I was sure you were an alpha."

"I present as alpha mostly, my doctor says most of my omega traits never manifested. Dualsex it's a very case by case thing."

"I see… but you're… you're healthy right?"

"Yeah, super healthy!" Kakashi raised his arms as if he was a bodybuilder showing off his biceps to Obito, showing how healthy he was. According to Rin he just needed some more sleep.

"Ok, that's good. Shit, I know I'll have like, a ton of more questions sorry."

"Don't worry, I had too. I still do." Kakashi tried to smile warmly at Obito.

"No wonder you got nervous about us… you know…" Obito couldn't say they almost had sex just now. Such a prude, so cute.

"Yeah like, I've always had a pretty normal sex life, but since I found out about this, I… well… anyways." Kakashi tried to shrug it off coolly, but Obito's arms were around him in a second.

"C'mon." Obito pulled Kakashi over him like he was a blanket, caressing his hair and his back. "Wanna just stay like this for today?"

Kakashi sighed in happiness, hearing himself purring. "Yeah, I'd like that."