AU RP--

[mooneye]

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[mooneye]

"You don't have to," he murmured. "Some things do well as secrets."

[youngesthokage]

"No. It's not a have to, it's a need to. I just... Not yet." It was a murmur, and he paused, closing his eyes. "Things won't... can't resolve until he knows."

[mooneye]

"Well." Obito nodded his understanding. Though if it was up to him, he thought, he wouldn't bother revealing the whole truth to the kid. Sometimes people were better off left unaware of such things. "I'm here now, too. I'll help if I can."

[youngesthokage]

He was quiet for a moment. "It's not one of those things I think you can help with." He looked back to him. "But you can give me a foot rub, that would be immensely good."

[mooneye]

That made him laugh. "I happen to be excellent at rubbing things."

[youngesthokage]

He snorted softly. "Your phrasing almost makes me worry for my virtue Obito-nii." It was a murmur, and he flashed a tiny smirk.

[mooneye]

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."

[youngesthokage]

He blinked a couple times, honestly surprised by the reaction, which got a wide eyed look from him before he hummed lowly. "Only mostly? I see."

[mooneye]

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.

[youngesthokage]

He flushed brilliantly at that, genuinely having no idea how to react as he looked away from him, though a small smile was on his lips.

[mooneye]

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.

[youngesthokage]

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.

[mooneye]

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."

[youngesthokage]

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.

[mooneye]

"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.

[youngesthokage]

"No no, I'll send one of my crows around to leave a note." He pondered a moment. "My ANBU will find it eventually."

[mooneye]

Obito snorted, amused at that. "Fine. Let them know you're safe as can be."

[youngesthokage]

"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..."

[mooneye]

He was startled into a rough laugh. "Good to know you have some fun with them."

[youngesthokage]

"Well, I'm such a paragon of caught up paperwork all the -rest- of the time..."

[mooneye]

"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."

[youngesthokage]

"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."

[mooneye]

"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."

[youngesthokage]

"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."

[mooneye]

"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."