Pretty Please?, Obito/Kakashi, Naruto, 88. Shopping
Title: Pretty Please?
Author: Cheysuli Night
Pairing: Obito/Kakashi
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: PG (it has a curse word or two so while I think it's G, I raised the rating to PG to be safe).
Theme: 88. Shopping
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters.
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"What about these?"
Obito looked up from the jelly bean bins he had been going through and glanced over at Kakashi, who smiled and held up a box of... "I'm not buying chocolate," he said, glaring at the truffles Kakashi was trying to hand him.
Kakashi pouted and hugged the box to his chest. "Why not?" he whined, giving Obito his best hurt puppy look. Under any other circumstance, Obito would have caved right then and there.
But it wasn't any other circumstance. This was chocolate. "Because," Obito began, reaching out to pry the box out of his boyfriend's arms and place it back on the shelf. "If I buy it, you'll eat it and you're allergic to chocolate." He crossed his arms and glared at Kakashi. "Do you want to end up in the hospital again?"
Kakashi glowered but silently admitted he had a point. Anaphylactic shock was not fun and he knew Obito still blamed himself for that incident even though Obito hadn't known about his allergy at the time. Kakashi had... forgotten to tell him and as he stood here, in Konoha's largest candy store, he remembered why.
Obito sighed as he saw Kakashi stare longingly at all the chocolate on the shelf. It really wasn't fair that the one type of candy Kakashi actually liked was the one he couldn't have. "I think they have carob," he offered, gesturing towards the aisle that held what Obito called the 'non-candy' candy, all the sugar free junk... and the fake chocolate. "I know dogs are allergic to chocolate and they can have carob... so I guess you can too."
Kakashi sighed and nodded as he watched Obito quickly finish bagging up his jellybeans - two bags of toasted marshmellow ones and a bag of lemon - before heading down the non-candy candy aisle, not looking back as he expected Kakashi to follow him.
Kakashi, however, was thinking about what Obito had just said, about dogs. He didn't really mind that Obito had compared him to an animal; he liked dogs. But now that he had dogs on his mind, he remembered there was a new pet store across the street. He could see the shop from here where he stood near the doors of the candy store... and he could see puppies tumbling around their play area by the window and surely Obito wouldn't mind if he just went to look?
Glancing over to where he had last seen the older boy, Kakashi nodded and made his way out of the store. Obito was surrounded by candy; Kakashi doubted he'd notice his absence.
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Obito did eventually notice Kakashi absence, though ten minutes later as he was walking to the checkout counter. Blinking curiously, he glanced around in confusion as he sat his bags of candy - his jellybeans and Kakashi's carob covered pretzels - on the counter and fished around in his pocket for his wad of money.
"Looking for your friend?" the elderly clerk asked as he rang up Obito's items. "He left a few minutes ago."
Obito sighed, shaking his head. It wouldn't be the first time Kakashi had gotten bored and wandered off while shopping. He'd just buy what he wanted and leave and Obito would find him a few stores over. //Wait... buy what he wanted...// Obito paled and looked worriedly up at the man. "He didn't buy any chocolate, did he?" he asked, frantically.
The man smiled reassuringly and took the money the teenager had absentmindedly handed him. "Don't worry," he said while handing Obito his change and pointing at a thick book. "Yondaime-sama came in one day with your friend and I overheard them arguing about the boy's allergy. Gave me the idea to start keeping a record of my customers: who's allergic to this; who's not allowed to have that. Prevents a lot of problems."
Obito practically deflated with relief. "Thank god; I was afraid he'd try to sneak some by me."
The man nodded and placed Obito's candy in a paper bag for easy carrying. "He knows I won't let him buy any," he said as he handed Obito the bag. "I saw him go across the street, by the way, to that new pet shop."
Hearing this, Obito paled again as he remembered the few times they had come across pet shops while on missions with Rin and their Sensei. And all the arguments that resulted in them avoiding any pet related stores. Grabbing the bag, he quickly thanked the man and raced out of the store. //We are not going home with a puppy!//
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Kakashi smiled as the puppy squirmed and play-growled in front of him, trying to tug the rope toy out of his hands. Of all the puppies that were in the pen, this little guy, one of the youngest at only six weeks, was the one who drew his attention the most.
He wasn't as adorable as the ones who were attracting everyone else, more ugly than cute. Or, as Kakashi had put it when approached by one of the workers, so ugly he was cute. The woman had smiled at that and had allowed Kakashi to take the puppy to one of the visiting areas where he could get to know the ugly-cute pup better.
This was where Obito found him, sitting on the cold floor and playing tug-of-war with the ugliest puppy Obito had ever seen. Obito stared incredulously at the dog as it dropped the rope and tried to crawl inside Kakashi's clothes. Obviously, it also thought the floor was cold. That or it was a little pervert. Obito sighed, already knowing where this was leading. "No."
Kakashi pouted up at him, digging the puppy out from under his shirt and holding him in his arms. "Why not?" he asked, scratching behind the pup's ears, causing it's tail - or rather, it's whole rump - to shake. "You've complained how quiet the house is sometimes. A puppy would liven it up a bit."
Obito stood his ground. "Who would watch it when we're on missions together? And don't say Sensei or Rin; they don't count."
Kakashi frowned, glaring up at him as he mentally went through his list of friends. It was depressingly small as he rarely talked to anyone that wasn't Obito, Minato, or Rin. Except for his... Kakashi beamed. "Gai!"
Obito flinched at the name. "Oh, no! There is no way I'm letting that spandex-clad freak anywhere near our house," he squeaked, clutching his bag of candy close to his chest as he looked around nervously as if he expected Kakashi's stalker to jump out from somewhere and start sprouting off about youth and manliness and challenges. "It would only encourage him."
Kakashi sighed. Sure, Gai could be annoying when he got going on one of his youth rants but he really wasn't all that bad. "What about Genma?" he offered. He didn't expect Obito to agree to this one either but he only had so many friends.
Obito glared. "The pervert who's always trying to get into your pants? Hell no!"
Kakashi stared sadly at the puppy in his arms; the only other friend he had was Asuma but he smoked too much and Kakashi didn't think breathing in smoke would be good for the pup.
The puppy whined at Kakashi, sensing his new friend's sudden depression and wondering what caused it. He turned his attention to the human his new friend had been making noises at, hoping he could fix it somehow so they could play again.
Obito winced as the puppy stared up at his with those big, soulful eyes. He had never seen something so wretchedly adorable. But Obito was determined to leave to store with Kakashi and without the puppy and he would succeed... as long as Kakashi didn't...
Kakashi gazed up at him, pouting and looking so sad and miserable that Obito felt like the worst filth in the world for putting that expression on the younger boy's face. Obito groaned and buried his face in his hands.
Why did he ever think he could win?
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"Does the candy store sell puppies now?" Minato asked, staring in confusion at the ugly brown puppy Kakashi was cuddling with on the couch. "That hardly seems sanitary."
Obito glared at his former Sensei. While he was happy the man had found time to visit them, he didn't need his smart-ass comments. "Some idiot thought it was a good idea to build a pet shop right across the street from the candy store."
"And Kakashi noticed," Minato said, smiling in amusement as he remembered all the times Kakashi had dragged him into a pet shop and begged him for a puppy. Obviously he should have taught Obito how to handle such a situation. "And you just couldn't say no to him could you?" He laughed, shaking his head. He had expected this to happen eventually; Obito loved making Kakashi happy. And judging by the bright smile on Kakashi's unmasked face, he was very happy indeed. "So what's it's name? And what kind of dog is it?"
Obito shrugged and picked up the packet of papers the woman at the pet shop had given them. "It says it's a pug," Obito read aloud, glancing over at Kakashi and the puppy. "Kakashi named it Pakkun."
Minato was still smiling. "Good name. I bet that dog will do Kakashi some good. He needs something to take care of."
Obito shrugged and pouted, bitter over having lost such an expensive argument. Reaching into his bag of toasted marshmellow jellybeans, he grabbed a handful and popped a few in his mouth, still glaring at Kakashi and the puppy.
Minato ignored his former students attitude, figuring he'd come around soon enough, and stared worriedly at the bag of candy. "You didn't let him get chocolate, did you?"