In the grand scheme of things, Dex wasĀ notĀ the best when it came to gift giving. He always did try to think so deeply about what other's wanted, what they desired, but it was hard. Shinobi always had so many secrets after all, and Tobirama really wasn't an exception to that. The two of them had trained and worked together for so long it should be obvious what to get him for his birthday - but it took Dex a long time to think of something he genuinely thought the other would appreciate.Ā
In the end, he'd decided on two things: one more handmade and from the heart, while the other was a little bit more practical - but still held just as deep of a meaning. The first had been an easy decision, though not the easiest to really put together and make in the end. He knew Tobirama had that fur hood he wore with his outfit, had felt it (and seen it before losing his eyesight) and knew it was cherished. He'd decided ... not to replace it but handmake his own with a different animal.Ā
After a good amount of time he'd decided on rabbit, and had spent a painstakingly long amount of time hunting them down, skinning and curing and sewing everything together into a hood he thought that the other would like. It wasn't perfect - he'd had to do everything by touch after all - but even with the limited vision he had with his chakra he knew it was good. Liked? That was a different story.Ā
The last ... had been special. Dexio had been working on his own jutsu, his own signature style, for so long. His carbon shield had been his longest project and had taken nearly his entire life to perfect. It was everything to him, and wouldn't have been able to do so without the guidance of Tobirama. After some thought, and a little help from a good friend, he'd written out the details of the jutsu onto a scroll, packing it into a box alongside the hood before wrapping it up, tying it with a bow that the dragon motifs he was so fond of.Ā
Giving gifts was awkward to him and, while he had hoped to at least manage to avoid Tobirama (leaving it on their desk and bolting) it didn't seem like that would be an option as they had been in their officeĀ all damn day. With a soft sigh he entered in after knocking, the box held carefully in his arms. He didn't say a word until he had approached the desk, placing it down gently on the surface. A small bow followed, an ever so slight blush to his naturally pale cheeks.
"Happy birthday, Lord Nidaime..."
tobirama birthday week.
it's been a strangely quiet day. a few of his closer subordinates had wished him a happy birthday as soon as tobirama crossed paths with them, early in the morningāand later during the day, saru had suggested he had dinner with him and the others. a prospect the lord hokage had naturally declined, not because he disliked the company so much as he didn't feel particularly festive. not in the middle of a war, with the amount of concerns weighing his mind down. only a couple of years prior there was no war, and the people were bubbly-drunk with the illusion that there would never been any other war. and hashirama was still alive. no one else could have convinced him to sit still through an awkward birthday party as hashirama always, somehow, managed. never had things changed as swiftly, as brutally, as in the last couple of years.
tobirama does not even notice the day edging toward nightfall. he's busy with diplomatic correspondence, sealed scrolls and papers marked with the highest level of secrecy he decided to examine himself, one by one. it has gotten progressively darker inside his office, but even that he does not notice through the cold focus of his activity. he sits by the suffused halo of a desk lamp, slightly hunched over the scroll unrolled across the table, when a light knocking sound rips through the veil of his attention. only then, running a handa through the mess of his moon-white hair, tobirama raises his head. " come in. " he says, and with that releases a breath he didn't know he had been holding.
he's only half-surprised to see dex step in, his face warm with the last amber-speckled flickers of dusk and the rest of him sinking in the shade of the unlit doorway. his chakra had faintly announced his arrival far before the knocking could forewarn itātobirama focuses on the dark shape of a poorly wrapped package in his hands, instead. his blood-red eyes narrow as he stands up and, without a word, lights a second lamp on a shelf nearby. it doesn't matter. he knows it doesn't. he's not even sure whether he's doing it for dex or himselfāfor whom is even he lighting the way?
" good evening, dex. whatā "
happy birthday, lord nidaime.
for a second, tobirama is speechless. the other hands him the package with steady hands, but something in his body language and the flush across his cheeks betrays nervousness. perhaps that's why he eventually chooses to set the gift on the desk before tobirama may reach for it. " i, uh... " the hokage is not so comfortable either. hesitantly, he opens the box and reaches for the scroll first. a faint sound of paper rustling to smoothness follows the undoing of the leather strings, and then silence. the reading sort. " so you finished it. " tobirama's voice is measured, flatābut there's something, a crease in the way he says it that tells he's smiling. " we shall see soon enough if it's any good. tomorrow morning, at the training grounds. don't be late. "
he sets the scroll aside with care, before reaching into the box again. before he may ask dex about it, his five fingers sink into what feels like a soft animal pelt. smooth as silk, freshly skinned. a hood lined with fur, similar to the fur-lined collar of his battle armor, though grey as lead and shorter. " keeping yourself busy, i see. " a sharp intake of breath from dex cuts through the evening silence. whether it's for a scolding or a praise, he braces himself for it. neither arrives.
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