AU RP--

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[youngesthokage]

"Purge at fourteen, Hokage at fifteen, then two years of grappling with the other Kages to convince them that my age doesn't mean they should take it as a weakness in Konoha."

[mooneye]

"You're going to burn out," he said quietly, a little urgently. Like he was sad and genuinely worried about it.

[youngesthokage]

"I don't have that option." His voice was very gentle, and he ran his fingers over his belly lightly. "At the very least I have a good handful of years before the person best for taking the position off my hands is available."

[mooneye]

"Well. You ought to let me take you on a vacation, or something." He brightened, thinking about it. "You could leave Tsunade in charge for just a little while, or something. Her grandaddy was hokage. She could probably handle it." He glanced down at his own right hand, a genetic replica of old Hashirama's.

[youngesthokage]

"I don't stay in the village all the time. Before the pregnancy I took regular unannounced trips."

[mooneye]

"Good." His expression shifted a bit at the word pregnancy. Startled, amused. He still found the whole concept completely bizarre. "Next time, I'll go with you. Take you somewhere nice."

[youngesthokage]

He flushed a little. "I tended to go out of my way to make sure nobody could follow me, usually."

[mooneye]

He smiled. Certainly, he understood liking to be alone. "Well, think about it, anyway." He glanced up at the trees around them.

[youngesthokage]

"In the future." He nodded slightly. "For now... you're finally home."

[mooneye]

"Home." Obito slid an arm over the younger man's shoulder, drawing him close as they walked. "I was gone too long. It's good to be back."

[youngesthokage]

He promptly leaned against him, nodding to himself. "I'm still a little upset with you for not coming back sooner you know."

[mooneye]

"I wish I'd come back in time to..." But there were to many ways to end that. To be with him during the Purge, to see him become hokage, to support him in the first years of it. To talk him out of taking in Hoshigaki Kisame--maybe. "Well. I'll try and make it up to you."

[youngesthokage]

"To do anything at all?" His voice was almost gentle and he sighed. "Just... don't leave like that again okay?"

[mooneye]

"Yeah." He shrugged. "I won't. I'll try not to, anyway. I got a job around here to do now, don't I? At least for a while. And I want to see... well, not everyone. But some people."

[youngesthokage]

He gave him a sideways look. "Not Kakashi?"

[mooneye]

"...No. Not Kakashi." A pause. "Maybe Kakashi. I don't know."

[youngesthokage]

"Because he did something that you can't unsee?" He gave him a sad smile. "That's why I have issues with mother at least."

[mooneye]

"I forgive him. You know, we've talked about it, and everything." He paused, looking down at his own hand for a moment. "But... yeah. It's difficult."

[youngesthokage]

"Mother and I... haven't. She knows, and she's waiting for me to decide to bring it up I think." He sighed softly.

[mooneye]

"Poor Mikoto," he said quietly, just thinking aloud. She had been so kind to him when he was a boy, with no parents of his own to go to. "What happened between you two, exactly?"

[youngesthokage]

He was quiet for a beat, looking to the side. "I watched her kill father during the day of the purge."

[mooneye]

Obito was silent, at that. "Do you want to forgive her for it?" he asked.

[youngesthokage]

He was quiet for a moment. "I don't blame her for it. She just... scared me, and I can't understand how."

[mooneye]

Obito thought back on seeing Rin die. That moment of absolute pain. "Of course she scared you," he said, like it was simple. Then, more thoughtfully. "Do you think about it a lot?"

[youngesthokage]

"No. I tend to not think about it at all, actually. Not unless she's gotten Sasuke to pester me into seeing her for dinner."