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    "That's not everything, not quite. What I vowed was this... I'll be the shadow at your heels, always. As near as you'll allow. Yours until there is no heartbeat in my chest, nor air in my lungs. But even then... it'll still be true. I simply won't be here to prove it to you."

    I furrowed my brows, confusion flitting through my mind as well as my features. 

    Isn't that what I'd said?

    A small chuckle graced his throat and slipped out into the air as his fingers left my chin to trail down my cheekbone. 

    "As near as you'll allow."

    Oh... but...

    "But you... you don't mind?"

    ~

    Or: The one where Kakashi can't, and won't, leave Iruka alone. So he vows to stay. Iruka just can't seem to figure out what that actually means.

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