freedom begins when you get out of the cage you've built.
Characters: Hatake Kakashi and Uchiha Itachi
Status: Closed
Summary: The two week mark has come, and Kakashi's not just worried about his own sanity. Itachi hasn't been around in awhile either.
Location: The Ruins, where els-- Mirage pool.
Warnings: NC-17 eventually.
Kakashi hadn't liked the idea of avoiding Itachi after their previous encounter, but any meeting between the two would be weighted in what had transpired that time in the ruins. The words and the actions still burned in Kakashi's memory, none of which could be unwoven from the heavy chains now wrapped around each man, pulled suffocatingly tight each time Kakashi thought over them. Guilt, of course, the self-blame that always lingered in the back of Kakashi's mind burned a touch brighter for his experience with insanity. But there was more to it than he cared to admit, a level of pleasure that he had so much less experience approaching. Kakashi almost felt childish for the awkwardness it inspired, but that was reality, just as undeniable as the ticking time.
And this time, Kakashi had kept track. After what had happened before and since, he didn't dare lose count of the days, though he still waited to act on Loki's mandate. And it had finally come, the first night where sleep was illusive at best, and plagued by visions at worse. Or it would have been, if Kakashi had spent that night in his bed. Instead, however, he'd gone to the edge of the ruins, and summoned his nin-dog pack to search for a specific person. Embarrassment aside, Kakashi knew he couldn't quite bring himself to broach this issue with anyone else. And beyond that, Itachi had said it himself: their times now meshed, and unless he had already resolved his own problem, the Uchiha would be suffering just the same.
Yet when the howls sounded, they didn't come from the deserted area Kakashi had come to know so well, but closer to the room he'd made into something resembling a home. More than a little curious, Kakashi ultimately found himself at the pool of the hotel, looking at a familiar solitary figure who in turned stared into the water. The dogs already sent away, Kakashi approached Itachi quietly, but never silently. He had no wish to startle the man into an attack, something that might be fatal, or widen the rift they'd only started to close.
"Care to share what you're seeing?" Or maybe what he was looking for; Itachi remained unreadable as always, but to Kakashi, this silence ran much deeper than what was typical. He wouldn't be surprised to hear that Itachi still struggled with the demons unleashed in Kakashi's suicidal agony, but better not to assume. Details wouldn't be pried into the open so easily, and carelessly formed conclusions would only give them a better place to hide.
Status: Closed
Summary: The two week mark has come, and Kakashi's not just worried about his own sanity. Itachi hasn't been around in awhile either.
Location: The Ruins, where els-- Mirage pool.
Warnings: NC-17 eventually.
Kakashi hadn't liked the idea of avoiding Itachi after their previous encounter, but any meeting between the two would be weighted in what had transpired that time in the ruins. The words and the actions still burned in Kakashi's memory, none of which could be unwoven from the heavy chains now wrapped around each man, pulled suffocatingly tight each time Kakashi thought over them. Guilt, of course, the self-blame that always lingered in the back of Kakashi's mind burned a touch brighter for his experience with insanity. But there was more to it than he cared to admit, a level of pleasure that he had so much less experience approaching. Kakashi almost felt childish for the awkwardness it inspired, but that was reality, just as undeniable as the ticking time.
And this time, Kakashi had kept track. After what had happened before and since, he didn't dare lose count of the days, though he still waited to act on Loki's mandate. And it had finally come, the first night where sleep was illusive at best, and plagued by visions at worse. Or it would have been, if Kakashi had spent that night in his bed. Instead, however, he'd gone to the edge of the ruins, and summoned his nin-dog pack to search for a specific person. Embarrassment aside, Kakashi knew he couldn't quite bring himself to broach this issue with anyone else. And beyond that, Itachi had said it himself: their times now meshed, and unless he had already resolved his own problem, the Uchiha would be suffering just the same.
Yet when the howls sounded, they didn't come from the deserted area Kakashi had come to know so well, but closer to the room he'd made into something resembling a home. More than a little curious, Kakashi ultimately found himself at the pool of the hotel, looking at a familiar solitary figure who in turned stared into the water. The dogs already sent away, Kakashi approached Itachi quietly, but never silently. He had no wish to startle the man into an attack, something that might be fatal, or widen the rift they'd only started to close.
"Care to share what you're seeing?" Or maybe what he was looking for; Itachi remained unreadable as always, but to Kakashi, this silence ran much deeper than what was typical. He wouldn't be surprised to hear that Itachi still struggled with the demons unleashed in Kakashi's suicidal agony, but better not to assume. Details wouldn't be pried into the open so easily, and carelessly formed conclusions would only give them a better place to hide.