AU RP--

[mooneye]

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[mooneye]

Obito's eyes narrowed and his lips curved up a bit at that first part. Not an Uchiha? Very not an Uchiha? That Itachi of all people would find someone outside the clan...

"They?" he asked, distracted.

[youngesthokage]

He paused and his eyes widened. "OH! No. Nonono. Just... There has yet to be a gender determined so... they. I don't like using it."

[mooneye]

"It would have been like you, you know. Not just doing this but doing it double." He paused, looking thoughtful. "What did aunt Mikoto say?"

[youngesthokage]

He winced a little and looked away. "She's happy for me but... I don't really talk to mother very much. I just... It's stressful for me. I know she's there but... I can't."

[mooneye]

He nodded, thinking of... well, Kakashi. Who he ought to talk to now that he's here. But he won't, he doesn't think, if he can help it. "I know what that can be like."

[youngesthokage]

"Yes. She tends to send Sasuke as an intermediary most times." He paused a beat and looked over. "Ah... the father spends far more time with her than I do. He's really gotten into the entire 'learning about children' thing recently. His being out of the village is likely why Tsunade sent for you."

[mooneye]

"...I guess it's good she did. Do you have any idea how kidnappable you were right before I got here? Extremely. And you're sitting right on the edge of this thing! That's like a bazillion foot drop down on a bunch of pointy rocks. Get up. Scoot back." Obito peered at him curiously. "And who is the father?"

[youngesthokage]

"He's from Kiri." His tone was a bit cautious as he looked sideways at him. "He was a missing-nin that I ah... acquired on one of my trips out of the village since becoming Hokage."

He didn't move one bit from where he was either.

[mooneye]

The shift in him was immediate. A hard, sudden tension, a total lockdown of expression. A kiri-nin. Ah. Tsunade might have mentioned that part as well. Though it probably wasn't her sense of humor that made her leave it out of the message.

[youngesthokage]

The reaction made him wilt and he looked away and down to the village. "He's kind to me."

[mooneye]

Obito didn't reply for some time. "Well. If he's kind to you," he replied, at length. And this was... a man who had left Kirigakure, at any rate.

[youngesthokage]

He fidgeted a little. "He's very honest as well." He leaned forward on his hands, staring straight down over the drop. "He left Kiri because of the dishonesty."

[mooneye]

That made him relax just a touch. Honest was good. And--he hurriedly plucked Itachi back from where he was leaning. "Hey, don't! Ugh, just like when you were a kid... Come on, let's go."

[youngesthokage]

He made a startled noise at suddenly being grabbed, gaze jerking back to the taller man. "Don't -do- that! I could have fallen!" He huffed softly. "I wasn't finished."

[mooneye]

"You're going to fall leaning over like that! I probably just saved your life." He thought for a minute. "We don't have to go back to the village. We could find... didn't there used to be a couple little safehouses in the woods?"

[youngesthokage]

"I meant in my attempt to gear up to telling you the father's name." He grumbled softly. "You'd recognize it."

He nodded all the same. "They're still there."

[mooneye]

"Are you sure you wouldn't rather not tell me and let the whole thing blow up fantastically in some kind of high level battle when I get to meet him face to face and realize oh it's that guy?" He was curious, though. He started ticking off famous living Mist shinobi in his mind.

"Let's go find one."

[youngesthokage]

"I would like my village to remain standing and both of you alive, and I know him too well to think he wouldn't jump at the challenge if you offered." The reply was immediate, and he got to his feet, starting to pad off along the edge of the monument.

[mooneye]

"Would he?" Obito sounded a bit eager, there. He followed Itachi a bit behind and to the side, watching his back. And also looking out at the village, experiencing an odd mix of joy at being home and--maybe apprehension, though he wasn't sure about what exactly.

[youngesthokage]

"Yes, he truly loves having someone strong to fight." He scoffed softly. "I'm always a bit beat up after we've sparred."

[mooneye]

"Ahem-hem. Are you?" And it's perfectly clear what he interpreted sparring as.

[youngesthokage]

There was a beat of pause before he turned brilliantly pink. "Fine, then too."

[mooneye]

Obito smiled and half-winced at the same time. "But you're... it's what you want, right? You trust this guy? I mean, not just with this stuff but... he's got to be pretty close to the village's internal affairs."

[youngesthokage]

"I could defeat him if I truly needed to as long as I didn't let him get close enough to use his sword." He nodded once. "I've not felt threatened by him since I took him home though."

[mooneye]

That made him a uneasy. He refrained from pointing out that Itachi might not be able to defeat him if he needed to now, in his current condition. "It's one of Kiri's swordsmen?" he asks, sounding grim. Of the original seven, most had gone missing-nin.