PARADISE is a porn novel

[[ This post actually is meant to take place the night the event is ending, so consider it dated as tomorrow, Sat. the 14th. But I'm impatient. Sorry? ]]

[Kakashi's bedroom, formerly the one he shared with Obito. The PCD sits in a hamper of clothing at the end of the bed. Kakashi himself is reclined on the bed, dark circles around his visible eye as he looks to his left at a chair. No one sits in the chair, but he looks at it semi-interestedly, as if listening to someone¹ speak.]

[Kakashi is relatively calm, but his usual tone is marked by something a bit frazzled and impatient, probably due to lack of sleep.]

Mm hm. I understand that sleep might do me some good...

[A pause. Then, dismissive, as his gaze flickers to the foot of the bed, to someone² who supposedly is sitting there. No one is there.]

--No, I really don't care how un-youthful this is.

[A sigh. An eyeroll.] I'm not susceptible to challenges like you are. But... [He smiles beneath the mask and leans forward.] ...if you want me to sleep so badly, maybe you should find me something to sleep with...?

[He hears someone³ respond and raises a brow, turning his head quickly and following with his gaze as something only he can see moves beside him on the right.] I didn't mean...yeah, the bear is fine, Obi.

[He fondly picks up the bear he gifted Obito at Valentine's. Then, frowning slightly at the space on his right about shoulder-high--the height of a short thirteen year old boy...]

Don't give me that look.

...There's just no point trying to sleep if I can't...

[He shakes his head a few times as if disagreeing with someone, briefly putting up a hand as if to stop an impending Obito hug.]

No. No, I'm fine. And you can't make that promise. You won't be here when I wake up.

None of you will be. [He looks out past the hamper at someone⁴ and his hold on the bear tightens a little as he yawns.]

Right, Dad?



[[The first three you've seen before... 1: [Bad username or site: flash-of-yellow title= @ livejournal.com], aka Kakashi's sensei. 2: [Bad username or site: hotbloodedly title= @ livejournal.com], Kakashi's Rival. 3: [Bad username or site: live-memory title= @ livejournal.com], Kakashi's teammate. The fourth has never been here, and likely never will be (he's too minor a character to justify playing), but he's Hatake Sakumo, Kakashi's father.]]

OOC: It looks like I'm doing a lot of "gift" posts this month...

For Valentines
All gifts to arrive on Valentine's Day morning.


Yachiru gets a whole slew of sweets, as is typical for any holiday, including a box of conversation hearts. She also gets a valentine like the kind kids give each other in elementary school.

Kakashi's students (all three of them), his sensei, as well as Neji, Lee, and Kenpachi, get conversation hearts of the not-so-tame variety. Just for giggles. They also get a silly, kiddie valentine (because if you get a box, you usually get about 25...might as well put them to use!)

Kakashi wasn't going to get him anything, but since Obito got Kakashi something, he's got to return the favor. Obito gets a teddy....a Vermont Teddy Bear, perverts. Kakashi just, uh, happened to have it lying around in a drawer somewhere. Alright, maybe he saw it in a store display and it said 'take me home with you!' He couldn't resist. Again, silly kiddie valentine accompanies the gift. No conversation hearts, though. The bear is enough.

Itachi gets nothing. He's just special like that and oh-so-loved. Actually considered a rose with many thorns, or some such for some sort of irony's sake, but it really wasn't that clever, and was a tad too...silly, so Kakashi and I passed on it.

[[ooc: I may be overplaying my hand here with this scene.*shrugs.* Kakashi only gets one voice from the past scene from me, and he hasn’t had a journal entry in a while, so I had to make it a whopper. Regardless, for those unfamiliar with the story of Naruto and/or Kakashi-Gaiden (back-story), this may be a mess. For those familiar, I hope this achieves its desired effect and is not nearly as clumsy as it sometimes felt when writing it.]]

[The view through the video feed of the PCD is as if down a darkened corridor with a bright light at the end, Kakashi’s form obscuring part of this, and it backlights his hair in an odd silhouette. Judging by the skewed perspective on Kakashi’s hand—seen reaching toward the camera—and on his face (which is looking faintly miffed down the “corridor” at the PCD), the device has fallen behind something and Kakashi has been thus far unsuccessful in his lackluster attempts to fish it out. Considering he hasn’t been trying hard to retrieve the device, one might guess the audio memories haven’t been playing long. Kakashi sighs and rests his forehead on the wall.]

[Against the backdrop of Kakashi’s frustration is the haunting echo of a baby crying. It sounds pained and lonely, crying out for a mother or father who is not there to hold it. Such a pitiful sound, relentless, as most babies’ cries, but this one sounds especially tortured…as if the soul is facing demons within.]

( …Don’t know how much time has passed. All I know is that it feels like forever… )