[IC/OOC] Kannagara Voicemail

[ura_no_ura]

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Marriage Event

[smiling_umino]

Ka~ka~shi~? What~ are~ you~ doing~?

[Sing-song. He's that bored; he's also done everything in the book at this point from cleaning to training.]

[ura_no_ura]

Just caught some fish for tonight's dinner.

[ Running water splishsplashes behind Kakashi's words. ]

[smiling_umino]

Oh? Do tell~ Are they big or small?

[Have a bored lover, Kakashi.]

[ura_no_ura]

Mm, medium-sized trout. I should make a trip out to the coast sometime, for saury...

[ Kakashi is missing his favorite food, it seems! ]

Marriage Event

[smiling_umino]

Kakashi, do you need bribery for a massage? &hearts

[ura_no_ura]

Hmm? You want a massage?

[smiling_umino]

[Sounds sheepish]

Yes, please? You're quite good with your hands.

[smiling_umino]

[Sounds very quiet and very concerned here]

Kakashi-sensei, wherever you are, I really hope you're not too far. Naruto ... he's not here. It's been a week and you're not here and ... [Pause] no one's here. In Konoha. If you see Naruto? Please make sure he's okay?

[Hesitating moment here.]

... I hope you're doing okay too.

[windsawakening]

So.

I heard you left.

[Quiet, even, and largely emotionless. He is worried about Iruka. He is worried about you. And everyone else. Leaving was unnecessary.

But he can understand. To an extent.]

Check in with someone, sometime.

If you don’t, when I find you, I’ll kick your ass.

[Yes, he just threatened you, Kakashi. Sensei or not. Yes, he meant it. Regardless, his voice still retains all the emotion of a dial-tone.

The message ends.]

[ura_no_ura]

I checked in with Yondaime-sama before I left, Naruto.

[ His voice sounds as it always does. Indifferent. Much too calm. ]

I'll return when I'm done training.

[ Training.

That's all it is.

Or so he'd like you to believe. ]

Iruka told me you left, too.

[windsawakening]

[Naruto did not ask on whether Kakashi had checked in before he left and that’s not what he meant. He thinks Kakashi knows that. He thinks that Kakashi is being silent because- He left.

Like Naruto left. Yes. Of course.

Running away-

It's easier.

He cannot fathom what Kakashi would have to train for, does not buy it anyway.]

What’re you training at?

[Go on, make something up. Or don’t answer at all.]

Where are you?

[ura_no_ura]

[ It's green and leafy and foresty behind him. Kakashi glances up for a moment, as though looking around to approximate his location. ]

Hmm... I see trees. I guess that means I'm in a forest.

[ Ah, and look whose sense of humor appears to have returned.

He doesn't feel like answering your other question, Naruto. ]

Where are you?

[ground_breaker]

[It's with extreme reluctance that she calls him at all. Of all the people Sakura has been withdrawing from, Kakashi is the one she least wants to speak to. The one she hurt the most.

God, what must he think of her?

But she calls him anyway because this is more important than her fear of seeing how little respect he must have for her now.]

Kakashi-sensei...

[She can't believe she's asking him this, because she doesn't believe it's possible.]

Did you wipe Iruka-sensei's memories? He doesn't remember being... What happened?

[She doesn't ask, how are you? She doesn't ask, are you coming back? She wants to know, but...

He'd ignore those questions anyway.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ He would've ignored this too, like just about everything else, and a part of him thinks maybe it's better if he does. But the thought of Sakura trying to break down a dam Kakashi built is not something he can simply ignore.

But it takes hours for him to respond.

His voice is flat when he does. ]

Leave it alone, Sakura. He doesn't want to remember it.

[ground_breaker]

[That's confirmation enough.

She still doesn't quit believe it. That he would do something that was... just...

Wrong.

He may not have meant it the way Madara did--of course he didn't--but Sakura knows what that kind of violation feels like and he does too, doesn't he?]

You...

You shouldn't have done that. It wasn't your place to decide.

[She doesn't sound angry. It's a statement of fact rather than a lecture.]

[ura_no_ura]

[ He never made the choice in the first place. ]

He's happy this way. I don't see why I shouldn't have.