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They aren't afraid to demonstrate exactly why you should take their advice, either. You often find your feet swiped from underneath you or your arms pinned against your back when you don't implement their suggestions quick enough. It can be frustrating sometimes, but you understand: you do the same to them every chance you get.

Whilst other people may not understand this dimension of your dynamic, there are two important things to understand:

One, calling out each other's weaknesses in your fights means that you are the one to pick up on them, not someone that seeks to do real harm. These fights are a way of keeping each other safe—to ensure that when you are apart, the memory of each other is burned into your bodies, your reactions, every instinct that will keep you alive and bring you home unharmed. You will keep each other safe, no matter the distance or circumstance.

Two, pushing each other to you limit is thrilling. There is no-one else in the world who knows you better, who you trust more. You know how to push them to the brink without causing harm, and they've learned every trick up your sleeve and how to handle them (to your utter joy and deep, deep annoyance). It's not unusual for your sessions to end with both of you bursting into laughter before you collapse to the ground in exhaustion.

Nor is it a suprise when they make their way over to you, holding out a hand to help you up. When you finish catching your breath, lungs aching from equal exertion and laughter, you instantly take it. There's nowhere else in the whole world you would rather be.

FEATURING gaara, kakashi, neji

genre: light angst, but happy endings!

— gaara

falling in love with gaara is:

reaching out to him, but never far enough. watching him from a distance, but being too scared to close the gap. it’s the waning, sapping sun that disappears behind the sandstorm, and it’s the smooth marble skin of his hands and the bitter stars that make his hair less red.

it’s his surgeon eyes and the barren air and how his voice is always so soft. it’s his healing heart and his calm smile and how you’ll never truly be able to understand him. falling in love with gaara leaves your heart bursting on the sand.

but when you watch the setting sky you’ll find solace in his hands (he’ll muster up the bravery to interlock it with yours—because with you, gaara has finally found a home!)

— kakashi

falling in love with hatake kakashi is:

being teased, relentlessly. constant confusion, dancing around the truth, pushing boundaries and then disappearing. it's blushing furiously and scrambling for a retort; his lazy blinks, his smutty novels, the squareness of his jaw through his mask.

it's being devoured in a single glance, being left breathless and confused. his paradoxically lazy arrogance which makes your heart race. its the wide expanse of his shoulders, the dexterity of his hands.

sometimes you'll hate him, you'll want to punch that stupid sharingan right out of his face. but then you find a bunch of your favourite flowers left on your windowsill, with a note bearing handwriting that is all too familiar.

— neji

falling in love with hyuga neji is:

lingering feelings of inadequacy compared to him, sparks of competitiveness, however futile. it's his elegance, his grace, and your consequential awe. falling in love with neji is like walking through a grove of cherry blossom trees.

those wide, endlessly searching, lilac eyes, that solemn mouth, that beautiful voice of his: he is stern, classically handsome.

although his contemplative temperament gets you disheartened sometimes, he is truly a gentleman. before you even have time to feel sorry for yourself, he is kissing your hand, touching your cheek, forever looking out for your well-being.

Giving you food gifts with the excuse of "I don't want to eat this, so here." Staring a bit too long then immediately trying to hide it. Rambling about you whenever you're not there, but immediately shutting up once they notice you. Outright just letting you hold them while everyone else can't.

It's almost comical how obvious it is.

f/o putting their cold hands on your cheeks… and squiiiiish……

proship dni