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"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling."
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I've labeled this drabble Kakashi/Rin, but it could be Kakashi + Rin just as easily. No smut, not even any half-implied smut, because as much as I like the pairing, they're still in the 13/14-year-old range in this fic, and that is just...no. :[
I sometimes feel that I overuse italics in my writing (because really, shouldn't a good writer be able to arrange their words so the reader automatically places the emphasis where it should be?) so I was very pleased when I realised that I'd written this entire piece without using any italics.
[Kakashi/Rin. Remnants.]
Things are different between them after that fateful mission to destroy the Kanabi Bridge.
It isn’t an instantaneous change, nor is it particularly significant, not at first; just small adjustments in the behaviour of each, a slight shift, the resulting ripples from the stone that shattered the comparatively calm surface of their lives. Both grieve in their own way, both have their own means of expressing their sorrow over their third teammate’s unanticipated absence, both have been altered, for the better or the worse.
He’s less uptight; she’s less happy-go-lucky. He’s more likely to remain silent when challenged, more accepting of criticism; she’s more likely to take on tough assignments at the hospital, more successful in performing them. When he visits the monument, he can’t stop the tears from leaking out of his left eye; when she finds him there, her eyes are always dry, even in the rain. He sees more; she feels less.
After what he’d told her, he’d expected her to avoid him; after her confession, she’d expected him to ignore her, and while both are partially right, neither can deny that their bond has been strengthened as well.
But she does work longer hours in the hospital, and she’s stopped giving him those private healing and first aid lessons she’d once been so excited about, murmuring some excuse about how she’d taught him all she could, even though he knows (and she knows he knows) she could teach him for years and never share all the medical knowledge she possesses.
And he does leave the team--he requests a transfer into ANBU within hours of returning home from destroying that stupid bridge--and there are weeks at a time when she doesn’t see him, and then she’ll suddenly find him standing outside the hospital gates, still in his ANBU uniform (almost always in his ANBU uniform these days) and usually covered in blood (most of it isn’t his), waiting to see her, to let her see him, let her take him home and heal him and allow him to avoid the otherwise necessary trip to the hospital.
Neither holds any sort of grudge against the other, regardless of the undeniable indications of the small spider-line cracks lacing the foundation of their relationship, because they can sense that the breaking is what binds them, and what first brought them closer.
That first night after Obito’s death, they’d ended up sharing a bedroll; they had started out spaced the usual distance from each other, but both had been unable to sleep, wracked with shivers that had nothing to do with the cool night air. It hadn’t been a deliberate movement on the part of either, but before long, they’d shifted until they were nearly side by side, less than half a foot of space separating them, and when Rin had impulsively rolled over and buried her face against his shoulder, Kakashi had merely turned towards her, put his arm around her, welcoming the warmth.
They’d spent the rest of the night curled up like kittens, so tightly intertwined that it was impossible to tell where one began and the other ended, and when the morning sun rose, tickling their eyes open with its golden touch, neither had offered an explanation or word of apology; they hadn’t needed to. A simple shared look, eyes that linked and lingered for just a moment longer than before, spoke volumes.
Not that everything was perfect again, because it wasn’t, and isn’t, and probably won’t ever be--both still have an emptiness inside that wasn’t there before, both have new scars, mental and physical, both see things differently, literally and figuratively.
But knowing that there is someone else who understands that emptiness, the fresh wounds, the unexpected shift in sight--just knowing that is a comfort, and although they oftentimes feel more hollow than whole, they resonate together because of it, the achingly empty cavities in their chests vibrating on the same frequency of pain.
Sometimes the echoes of that pain become too much to bear, and then they turn to each other once more, and again not a word is spoken, but consolation and reassurance are freely given nonetheless, in a knowing look, in an awkward brush of hands, in an impulsive embrace.
They will always be remnants, two leftover pieces from a long-forgotten puzzle, but together, when they’re holding each other too tightly for either to move, too tightly to think, almost too tightly to breathe, they are almost enough.
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Kakashi/Rin – The breaking is what binds them.
I've labeled this drabble Kakashi/Rin, but it could be Kakashi + Rin just as easily. No smut, not even any half-implied smut, because as much as I like the pairing, they're still in the 13/14-year-old range in this fic, and that is just...no. :[
I sometimes feel that I overuse italics in my writing (because really, shouldn't a good writer be able to arrange their words so the reader automatically places the emphasis where it should be?) so I was very pleased when I realised that I'd written this entire piece without using any italics.
[Kakashi/Rin. Remnants.]
Things are different between them after that fateful mission to destroy the Kanabi Bridge.
It isn’t an instantaneous change, nor is it particularly significant, not at first; just small adjustments in the behaviour of each, a slight shift, the resulting ripples from the stone that shattered the comparatively calm surface of their lives. Both grieve in their own way, both have their own means of expressing their sorrow over their third teammate’s unanticipated absence, both have been altered, for the better or the worse.
He’s less uptight; she’s less happy-go-lucky. He’s more likely to remain silent when challenged, more accepting of criticism; she’s more likely to take on tough assignments at the hospital, more successful in performing them. When he visits the monument, he can’t stop the tears from leaking out of his left eye; when she finds him there, her eyes are always dry, even in the rain. He sees more; she feels less.
After what he’d told her, he’d expected her to avoid him; after her confession, she’d expected him to ignore her, and while both are partially right, neither can deny that their bond has been strengthened as well.
But she does work longer hours in the hospital, and she’s stopped giving him those private healing and first aid lessons she’d once been so excited about, murmuring some excuse about how she’d taught him all she could, even though he knows (and she knows he knows) she could teach him for years and never share all the medical knowledge she possesses.
And he does leave the team--he requests a transfer into ANBU within hours of returning home from destroying that stupid bridge--and there are weeks at a time when she doesn’t see him, and then she’ll suddenly find him standing outside the hospital gates, still in his ANBU uniform (almost always in his ANBU uniform these days) and usually covered in blood (most of it isn’t his), waiting to see her, to let her see him, let her take him home and heal him and allow him to avoid the otherwise necessary trip to the hospital.
Neither holds any sort of grudge against the other, regardless of the undeniable indications of the small spider-line cracks lacing the foundation of their relationship, because they can sense that the breaking is what binds them, and what first brought them closer.
That first night after Obito’s death, they’d ended up sharing a bedroll; they had started out spaced the usual distance from each other, but both had been unable to sleep, wracked with shivers that had nothing to do with the cool night air. It hadn’t been a deliberate movement on the part of either, but before long, they’d shifted until they were nearly side by side, less than half a foot of space separating them, and when Rin had impulsively rolled over and buried her face against his shoulder, Kakashi had merely turned towards her, put his arm around her, welcoming the warmth.
They’d spent the rest of the night curled up like kittens, so tightly intertwined that it was impossible to tell where one began and the other ended, and when the morning sun rose, tickling their eyes open with its golden touch, neither had offered an explanation or word of apology; they hadn’t needed to. A simple shared look, eyes that linked and lingered for just a moment longer than before, spoke volumes.
Not that everything was perfect again, because it wasn’t, and isn’t, and probably won’t ever be--both still have an emptiness inside that wasn’t there before, both have new scars, mental and physical, both see things differently, literally and figuratively.
But knowing that there is someone else who understands that emptiness, the fresh wounds, the unexpected shift in sight--just knowing that is a comfort, and although they oftentimes feel more hollow than whole, they resonate together because of it, the achingly empty cavities in their chests vibrating on the same frequency of pain.
Sometimes the echoes of that pain become too much to bear, and then they turn to each other once more, and again not a word is spoken, but consolation and reassurance are freely given nonetheless, in a knowing look, in an awkward brush of hands, in an impulsive embrace.
They will always be remnants, two leftover pieces from a long-forgotten puzzle, but together, when they’re holding each other too tightly for either to move, too tightly to think, almost too tightly to breathe, they are almost enough.
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Kakashi/Rin – The breaking is what binds them.
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Me first!Doubt it. He doesn't really seem like the cuddly type to me. :P Except on certain occasions, maybe.no subject
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...And now, unlike senior year of college, if you asked/threatened to look through all my files, you might find some more interesting Word documents hiding on there. :3
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But if you must, then please continue doing so with pretty, pretty writing. I mean, we knew that Kakashi softened a bit emotionally after Obito, but we never saw it in progress, really, and I love the idea of seeing Rin afterwards too.
He sees more; she feels less.
THIS. And the rest of it also.
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And I wanted my next completed drabble/fic to be a (hopefully) humorous KakaSaku one-shot thing, but looks like it's gonna be another angst one. But this one's creepy, not just sad, so maybe I'll get bonus points for that. 8D?
<3333333333333 Side note, I cannot thank you enough for your comments, especially on this entry. I was feeling kinda down last night because this has gotten SO few reviews, despite the fact that I'd posted it on
...And if I ever start taking drabble requests (...which will mean I've finished most of the drabble ideas I already have...so it might be a while yet), you automatically get the first slot on my list. \o/
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Creepy is good! Especially since it's Halloween. And I do like Kakashi-Sakura interactions. So yes! Eleventy-fourtwelve bonus points for you.
Probably because there's no smut in it or something. People are such boors. I'm sorry you were feeling down, and I'm very glad that I was able to cheer you up a little! And then sorry it took so long to respond. Hope things are looking up a bit!
Hell yeah! *air punch* Imma start thinking now. This of course also goes for you- if I ever finish this monstrosity, you get to pick the next one. ♥
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...Hmm, I'm gonna have to start thinking, too...which fandoms would be fair game? XD
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Any I'm familiar with, any pairing or none, any plot prompt, --whatever you want dude. (Though I can't promise any kind of quality. X3 )
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...Hmmmmmm...
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This is an interesting basically, unexplored dynamic.
I have to admit, reading these tonight has me dying to read something OC from you. You can even base characters off of some of these characters that you've grown to know and love and write so well. :) But I love these, and will always read anything you write! Heck, you write these characters better than Kishi!
<3
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Thank you for this, L. So, so much.