Obito smirked back at him. "Yeah, well, maybe if I didn't have Hoshigaki Kisame to worry about. As it is, I promise you that this foot rub will leave your virtue mostly intact."
Obito was sort of a wild animal. Not shy, or prude. In fact, very much the opposite. He laughed, a raspy, joyful sound. "Of course if you wanted a backrub, well." He turned to Itachi slyly, raising his eyebrows up and down.
Obito watched him with a new kind of attention, interested in how he reacted. That little smile. But he was grinning himself. Very relaxed, really just enjoying the teasing and the game of this. He reached out to brush Itachi's hair with his fingertips, very lightly. "You're cute like this," he said, repeating his words from before.
He peeked sideways at him at the touch, finding himself unable to come up with anything to say in reaction to the compliment. Still, neither the smile nor flush left him and he didn't shake off the contact.
That was nice. He really was lovely, Obito thought. Slender and pale, soot-black hair, every inch of him Uchiha.
He stepped back though, breathing in deep. The air was cold and clean and felt good in his lungs. "So what about that safehouse? Or do you want to take the road back to the village? You'll have to lead, either way. I don't remember where anything is around here."
He shook his ponytail back from where it had been resting over his shoulder and hummed. "House. I want to extend my time away from my ANBU. They've been smothering me since Kisame left." He shook his head, starting on a path to the nearest one.
"I'll send a hawk with a message or something to Tsunade so they don't freak out too badly." He was good at summoning birds. Madara had liked raptors, and taught him how to call them, to make pacts with them, to stand with his arm steady and their sharp talons biting into his wrist as he fed them or spoke to them.
Obito fell into step behind Itachi, meandering easily along as they entered the denser woods.
"Well, usually when I leave on my monthly trips I leave a note saying I've left and wasn't kidnapped. I understand it's become a hazing ritual for my ANBU to make sure the newest recruits are on duty when I do that..."
"Hmph. You know, I would have been terrible at the job. I wanted to be hokage when I was a kid. Probably lots of kids do. But you think it's going to be all about the heroic deeds and massive, earth-shaking jutsu, right? Wrong. Paperwork."
"Yes. Paperwork." He huffed a breath. "I've been painstakingly picking apart the power bases so that the elders can't simply bypass me when they feel like it anymore as well. Still. At least my assistants go out of their way to feed me."
"You want to be careful with old people. You can never know what they're up to, really," he says, with real conviction. But he smiles, at the bit about the assistants. "They're kind to you. Good."
"I know. I've had to be very careful that they don't have any reason to retaliate while I do so." It was a sigh before he shook his head. "Well... they do spend hours upon hours with me, it wouldn't benefit them if they were mean, now would it."
"Politics. Real politics, and office politics," Obito mumbled, in a tone that indicated that he wanted no part of any of it. "As long as you're happy, my dear."
He quieted then. "In that case, the clan would never have been backed into a corner. Too many bad things emerged because of that alone." It was a murmur. "And I would be a teacher."
Obito was silent for a long time after that. Truly silent, because he moved through the forest anyway without even the sound of footsteps. But now he sunk into his own thoughts. And if Itachi glanced back, he would see the seal in his eye spinning, though Obito wasn't really thinking about it. "That would be good," he remarked, at length. "What would you teach? What about Sasuke, what would he do?"
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He stepped back though, breathing in deep. The air was cold and clean and felt good in his lungs. "So what about that safehouse? Or do you want to take the road back to the village? You'll have to lead, either way. I don't remember where anything is around here."
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Obito fell into step behind Itachi, meandering easily along as they entered the denser woods.
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We have lost Tenten for the evening. She sleeps.
Daww, oh well... I shall sleep soon as well...
I as well now that the account I've worked on all day has posted.
ohh, girl sasuke? <3
Indeed! I spent all day finding art for icons :D
She's awesome *_*
Yeah? I'm happy you like her!
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And now I'm off--goodnight!
Good night!
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Must head off early--night!
Sleep well!
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thought I replied to this o.o
no prob!
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going to bed before I tip out of my chair now g'night
Good idea--good night!
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what timezone are you? ::suddenly curious::
Mountain time zone! It's about 6:30 here. You?
8:30 here~ You share a timezone with Itachi-san and Sasuke
Ah, cool that some of us are close together!
Close is relative...
Lol, very relative... A couple of my other RP partners are European.
Haha, Sas is a Canadian
So awesome, people from everywhere <3
Even Serbia!
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