Fandom: Naruto
Request: Obito/Rin, Kakashi/Rin friendship
Requested by: Viktor Mayrin
Prompt: At night, Rin cries for Obito, and Kakashi keeps the darkness at bay.
Words: 397
Summary: He cannot hear her cry because the grief she has for Obito is not meant for him to hear.
Title: Seeking solace.

Rin holds up surprisingly well after the death of her team mate, everyone notices. She goes through the market, a faint smile on her face though nowhere near as bright and beautiful as before, but at least she’s smiling. She still accepts missions, even when most shinobi who’ve lost a team mate would’ve been deemed emotionally unstable. She seems to be getting stronger as well: the smile gets a little brighter, her step a little springier, her laughter a little more genuine, her eyes a little more alive.

Kakashi knows. Only he knows the truth. Because it is with the help of Obito’s eye that he can see underneath.

When Rin’s apartment door clicks behind her, she steps out of her shoes, hangs her coat, deposits her medic kit on the kitchen table, and strips away her layer of deceit and pretend. Kakashi always makes sure that he is there to greet her and hold her because if he doesn’t, she will break.

She collapses into his arms, weariness and utter sadness lining every inch of her body. A tear leaks out, then two, and soon she is soaking his shirt with her tears. Yet she never makes a sound and he knows that the grief and regret she holds for Obito is not meant for him to hear.

She looks at his face and gently lifts the hitae-ate off his left eye. Kakashi lets her do this, though as soon as he can see through his left eye, he could feel his chakra depleting as it overworked itself to run the eye that does not belong to him. He knows that this is what is keeping her living still instead of just existing.

She gazes up at him, at the eye, tears still slipping their way down her thinned, striped cheeks. She shakily lifts a hand to cup Kakashi’s face and whispers Obito’s name.

Then she blocks the eye from her view by pushing the hitae-ate back down because it hurts to look for too long. She holds herself and grieves for her dead team mate, for the future they could’ve had together.

And through it all, Kakashi holds her, a poor compensation for the one she wants.

But he keeps holding her, protecting and comforting her from her nightmares because he is her friend and the closest thing to Obito she can’t let go of.

AN: Next prompt is Break Away! I’ll try to get these done a little faster this time!