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Kakashi's face is fine .
Obito is scowling, even though he knows Rin is blushing so hard she's starting to stammer. They've spent weeks since Obito's release from the hospital needling Kakashi into showing them his face.
Obito isn't too proud to admit he might've guilted Kakashi, using "my eye is in your face, asshole!" as an argument frequently.
But it took one offhand comment while at his apartment - Kakashi had been cooking and Obito was carefully avoiding the window since it always showed his reflection, and Obito had muttered, "even I show my face, looking like this."
To say his scars were not pretty would be an understatement, they warped the whole side of his face. He's thankful he didn't lose his other eye, but that's about all he could be thankful for beyond the fact that he still lives.
When he'd said it, Rin of course was outraged, but Kakashi had frozen stock still.
"Do you really want to see?" he asked, voice uncharacteristically soft.
And maybe Obito considered dropping it, but he knew how to be selfish, and answered with an enthusiastic yes. So, Kakashi turned to them, said, "I'm not actually hiding anything."
"Then why do you wear it?" Rin has stopped fretting over Obito's opinion of himself to focus on Kakashi.
Kakashi shrugged, but it was clearly practiced, "I've worn it for a long time."
But before they could argue with that reasoning, he pulled the mask down in a swift movement.
His features were extremely gentle, despite what Obito was expecting. His nose was sharp and his jaw still held the roundness of childhood. There was a small, inconsequential mole under his lip.
Obito scowled (but even he could admit, Kakashi was beautiful ), Rin turned as red as Kushina's hair, and Kakashi stared at them boredly.
"Good?" and oh.
Oh. That's why.
There was only a flash as he spoke, but.
Canines.
Even Rin froze up, "Kakashi?"
Kakashi raised an eyebrow (deliberate, so they'd be able to tell), and tilted his head. "What?"
"You have fangs?!" Obito and Rin had yelled together, rushing to the little kitchen island Kakashi was standing behind to lean on it and get a better look.
"Ah," Kakashi's face tinted the barest pink, "yeah. A Hatake thing, I think?"
Obito couldn't look away from his mouth - his teeth.
Rin, however, was tactless, "open your mouth!"
"So demanding," Kakashi mumbled, but obliged and did so.
Rows of thick, sharp teeth. Elongated and almost serrated like a wolfs. His lips held the slightest lines of silver, like small scars long healed.
"Wow," Obito mumbled without any input from his brain.
"Wow," Rin agreed.
And Kakashi's face turned redder, he spun on his heel away from them and yanked his mask back up, "see? Nothing special." He sounded as bland as ever but they both knew he was embarrassed.
And Obito's heart was maybe racing a bit.
"Are the Hatake part wolf?" He asked incredulously, to which Kakashi snorted.
"I'm not sure..." he trailed off, visibly steeled himself, and said with deliberate confidence, "Dad never talked about it, and I didn't ask."
"It's so cool," Rin breezed past that for Kakashi, and Obito saw his shoulders relax, "I wanna ask a bunch of dumb questions!"
"Let Obito ask first, it's in character."
"Hey! Rude! But, um," Obito's never been one to bite his tongue when it came to stupid questions, ''could you like... only eat meat?"
Rumbling laughter, soft and quiet, "of course that's what you'd ask. Actually, I do mostly eat meat. I eat everything else too, though."
"They're so-" he cuts himself off from saying big, face heating up at the thought.
"Yeah," Rin nods emphatically, knowing what he was gonna say.
Kakashi just sighs, "it's been awhile since i've looked at my own face, I can't really remember what they look like. I always thought they looked weird as a kid."
"Is that why you wear the mask?" Obito asks.
"No," Kakashi snorted again, "I told you, I'm not hiding anything. I just like it."
A simple thing for anyone else to say, but for Kakashi to admit to doing something just for the pleasure of it?
"Plus, my sense of smell is heightened. As a kid, dad gave me the mask to help and when it helped with other things too, I just never stopped."
With no input from his brain, Obito opens his mouth and blurts, "You really are part dog!" like the idiot he is.
Kakashi turns to him, single visible eye narrowed, "I'm going to punch you, Ahobito ."
"Ha, Bakashi ! It's because I'm right!"
But kakashi doesn't punch him, he serves him and Rin food and sits down himself, across from them for once.
And there's only a little hesitation before he pulls down his mask. "You've already seen, what does it matter?"
The teeth thing doesn't get less interesting having seen it already - more than once, Obito and Rin both catch themselves staring while Kakashi eats.
The way he bites into his food is captivating, he favors the sides instead of his front teeth that are mostly blunt and his teeth just rip anything he bites jagged and Obito and Rin are left wondering how they never noticed. Plenty of times Kakashi has eaten foods like celery around them, foods he bites and sets back down on his place to fix his mask before they peek at him, but they never noticed.
"Stop staring, it's weird," Kakashi says without looking up at them.
"Sorry!" Rins face turns red as she goes back to picking at her own food, "sorry, we're just. Yeah. Sorry."
Obito can't stop putting his foot in his mouth it seems, because right after that he says, "yeah, you look so much like a dog now!"
Kakashi scowls, but keeps eating.
"Who else has seen your face?" Rin asks curiously, trying to be careful not to stare.
"Hm," Kakashi appears to think, "aside from you two? no one." It's a wonder how actually expressive he is, is he always like this under the mask?
"No- Bakashi!" Obito doesn't know why this offends him, "no one!?"
Kakashi nods, "no one since my dad."
Oh. That's why. Obito distinctly feels like smacking himself.
"Your face looks fine." he mumbles, burying his attention back to his own food. It's good, Kakashi's food is always good.
Rin snorts at him, "just fine? Kakashi, you're beautiful!"
"Ah, thank you," Kakashi's face is pink yet again - he blushes so lightly, and it just barely dusts his ears. He's so delicate looking. Obito stuffs food in his mouth before he blurts anything else embarrassing.
He's not gonna develop a crush just because Kakashi trusts them enough to show them his face! He's not!