#but sometimes he passes out during obito’s regular ‘hit me with the hot gossip about elementary school’ sessions and sleeps like the dead

[panharmonium]

au spinoff of my sister @padmerrie’s modern-day bookends au (au-ception!) where kakashi takes responsibility for sasuke after his family dies except in the early days kakashi is still rooming with obito because they’re 21 and broke and still in school (and haven’t had their semi-falling-out yet).  obito feeds sasuke nothing but pizza and soda and couldn’t get him to school on time if you paid him but he does always have the biggest, happiest smile for the smallest, saddest kid.

#naruto #art #bookends #he's like me #we'll see what the future holds #to be clear this is not the actual au; it’s an au on top of an au that i drew just to make myself happy #because sometimes you just wanna see a scenario where sasuke has kakashi and kakashi has obito #and obito has issues that are easier to deal with than ‘i committed mass murder in order to run away from my problems’ XD #also i wanted to draw sasuke with a dinosaur bed like the one my sister and i saw at ikea last month #so here they are! #two distant cousins plus the guy who ought to be inducted into their clan just by virtue of a lifetime of proximity to their many issues #kakashi withdraws from college almost immediately to work and is perpetually exhausted #he tries to hide it #but sometimes he passes out during obito’s regular ‘hit me with the hot gossip about elementary school’ sessions and sleeps like the dead #(obito is more invested in the second grade social group dynamics of sasuke’s class than most of the second graders tbh) #'naruto brought Cup Noodles for lunch AGAIN? he's never gonna get ahead if he doesn't start bringing dunkaroos to trade like everyone else' #anyway it's not your traditional family dynamic but it's what they have and they're doing their best #though it doesn't last very long for reasons that are too complicated to get into here #involving uchiha pride/insularity and externally imposed pressures from certain distant family members #and the mistakes obito makes while trying to live up to expectations that he isn’t ready to meet #obito splits and kakashi and sasuke are on their own after that #but there are some ways in which obito always feels like the absent third member of a three person family unit even though he's never around #he IS a member of sasuke's family technically #and he and kakashi care about each other too much and have too much history to ever really extricate themselves from that relationship #even if an older sasuke sometimes gets fed up on kakashi’s behalf and wishes kakashi would do just that #they all do care about each other really; it’s just messier now #but they do sometimes think back to that tiny cramped apartment and wonder what it could have been like if obito had just kept it together #and stuck around