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In spite of the insecurities, the jealousies, the fears and the uncertainty, let's say that at the beginning of their twenties, Gai and Kakashi get together and stay together. It doesn't change that much, except for the things that it does.
They're still a pretty odd pair. Especially through the eyes of their respective students.
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- Part 4 of A Man Like You
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“I don’t take it personally,” said Gai.
Might Gai has never begged for anyone's love, because he knows he can live without it.
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- Part 1 of A Man Like You
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Gai spoke at the reception that followed Kakashi's inauguration.
“My eternal rival—it has been one of the premiere joys of my life to watch you transform from the curious, brooding youth whom I admired into the intelligent, powerful and truly kind man who sits before me today, whom I am proud to respect and adore.” He raised his sake cup and it looked comically small in his big hands. “To our Rokudaime.”
Adore. Kakashi turned the word over and over again in his head and tried to remember if Gai had said it before in all his flowery language about friendship. He couldn't.
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The best Kakagai fic of all time imo
Spoilers belowHomophobia mentioned. Izumo and Kotetsu own a farm.
Sasuke wears Naruto's clothesGai looked him in the eyes and said, “I would never lie to you. I find them extremely arousing,” his voice grave and serious, and Kakashi snorted.
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Gai didn't move his hands. Kakashi hardly breathed. The window was open in front of them and a few people walked down the dusk-dark alley below. He realized that Gai, not shy but a gentleman, was waiting for his permission. Kakashi squeezed his eyes shut, covered Gai’s hand with his and pushed it lower.
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“I can’t say the exact moment I knew. I couldn’t tell whether I admired you as a shinobi, or valued the strength of our friendship, or wanted you as a man.”“And?”
“It was all three,” Gai said, decidedly. “As it should be. My passion for you knows no bounds. In runs in every direction, like wild horses on the plains.”
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Kakashi scowled and shook him off his feet and Guruko yelped, “Kakashi’s not scared of anything!”“He’s scared of himself!”
“He’s scared of boys!”
The three of them howled and yipped laughing until Kakashi dissipated them and sat with his ears ringing in the crickety forest silence.
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“I … don't know if I could do that,” Kakashi said finally, halting and slow. It was admitting more than he ever planned to. He didn’t know what to make of Kotetsu’s expression: appraising, and maybe a little sad. He sighed.“Well, with all due respect, I've got a husband, a bunch of chickens and five cattle, Hokage-sama. I’m not saying it's a competition, but if it were …”
“Enough. Point taken.”
“But I'm not saying it's the same situation, either.”
“Of course not.”
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He thought about that all the way home, and he took the long way around. He thought about what a bad idea it was as he climbed the steps to his apartment: kissing Gai, sleeping with him, spilling his guts and staying the night, all of it, because caring about something was a dangerous liability and he couldn’t let anything happen to Gai or Konoha or anyone. He thought about it right up until the moment he stepped inside and saw Gai sitting at his kitchen table, looking extremely guilty.“I … should have called ahead.”
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“Gai …”“Please, listen. I would be alright with this remaining a secret. I know you’re intense about your privacy and I can be another part of that, it’s nobody’s business but ours. If we don’t get to build a house and a family someday, then that’s—that’s the way it was meant to be. I accept that. I would rather give up those things than be in the winter of our lives before our time together can truly start.”
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“You’ve thought about what kind of father I’d be?”Gai’s blush deepened. “Yes.”
Kakashi felt something in him change. Sasuke running errands in a bright orange t-shirt, Kotetsu with his golden hens and ring of ink, Gai sitting alone at his kitchen table waiting to tell him that he’d spend the rest of his life with him if he was allowed.
“I was at your apartment,” Kakashi said all at once.
“What?”
“That’s why I wasn’t at home, we left at the same time.”
Gai sat back. “Oh.”
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“I don’t know how I should say this.”“Give it your best shot.”
He took a deep breath and turned Gai’s hand over in his own, tracing lines in his palm to busy himself.
“The only thing I know for sure,” he said quietly, “is that you’re my person. Whatever that means, I’ve known it for a long time. Everything else, we can figure out as we go."
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“And just think,” Gai said afterwards, lying with his head on Kakashi’s stomach, “how many more times we get to do that. What a beautiful world we live in, despite everything.
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“Are you going to give two kind, sentimental statements in one night? Stop, my love, you’ll make yourself sick.”