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kakashi's tumultuous relationship with the hokage position and gai's rocky recovery give them both a hard time settling into the relative peace of post-fourth war society, forcing them both to make some concessions in order to adjust to a life as partners. it takes a little fighting and a hospital trip but they're figuring it out
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two years after the 8th gate, gai and kakashi suffer through the hottest summer of their adult lives, and everything the weather dredges up.
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kakashi has made an important decision regarding his career as hokage, and who better to tell first than his eternal rival?
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"The specter at his door is startling, even so—shining with something dark he already knows is blood from the stench, clutching bare shoulders beneath the hollow-eyed animal mask Gai had always found unsettling. It’s been weeks of silence, but Gai’s relief to see him alive is undercut by the sight before him.
“Gai,” is all Kakashi says, his voice a thin tremble,"
or, gai wakes up to find a certain someone at his door, and tries to untangle his rival from the mess he's found himself in.
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"This is what hides beneath it—the bravado, the loud voice and ridiculous games, the kindness—and it’s been given to Kakashi to hold until Gai is ready. This is what he tells himself. This is his mission. It’s what he owes his friend."
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a mission goes awry and gai gets gravely injured; kakashi is forced to face some truths about gai, himself, and who he's been the past few years, in the process of saving them both.