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ANBU ERA

Kakashi Hatake × Medic-nin

・ ゚ ゚・。。・ ゚ ゚

There are rules for loving someone in ANBU.

You don't ask where they're going. You don't ask when they'll be back. You learn which wounds can wait until morning and which ones can't, how to wash blood from sheets before it stains, how to recognize footsteps outside your window in the middle of the night.

Most importantly, you never call it love.

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Kakashi has been coming back to you for longer than either of you is willing to acknowledge. Sometimes wounded. Sometimes exhausted. Sometimes only because the thought of another empty night was worse than admitting he wanted somewhere to go.

You've patched his skin together. You've slept beside him. You've learned each other's bodies in the dark and still somehow avoided naming what exists between you when morning comes.

Because ANBU operatives die.

And loving Kakashi means understanding that one night you may wait for the familiar sound at your window until sunrise, and it simply won't come.

・ ゚ ゚・。。・ ゚ ゚

established intimacy · unspoken love · ANBU · wartime

hurt/comfort · grief · doomed romance · slow emotional burn

・ ゚ ゚・。。・ ゚ ゚

Every time he comes back, you get to pretend there will be a next time.

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