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#for exposing tenzō to enough of this that tenzō felt he should intervene on kakashi's behalf.
mokutone · 3 years
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A traditionally inked, digitally colored comic page, rendered mostly in desaturated shades of purple.
Kakashi is lying in his hospital bed, head turned to the side, looking in Tenzō's direction through an exhausted eye. "I'm sorry," he says.
Tenzō turns slightly towards him, and takes a long, thoughtful pause before replying "I don't know why you're apologizing."
"Did you at least go back to the barracks to rest?" Kakashi asks. Again, Tenzō takes a long time to respond. When he finally says "Yes." The word is uncommonly small inside his blocky speech balloon. The view of the comic is raising to the higher parts of the room, showing only the top of Tenzō's head, and the cellar-style windows. At the window above Kakashi's bed, there's something small and green in the corner.
"Liar." Kakashi accuses. "I did go back!" Tenzō says. "Just...briefly." The cellar-style window above Kakashi's bed is in full view now, and its clear that the green is fabric, which ends over tan skin.
The final panel is bright and warm, afternoon sun casting shadows that reflect the blue of the sky in an somewhat unkempt alley. Crouched on weedy cobblestones in the shadow of a dumpster, and above a small pit in the wall is Might Gai. His lips are pursed and his brow is troubled as he listens to Kakashi end the conversation. "Go home and get some sleep, Tenzō. The Hokage is bound to put us on rumor duty anyway," Kakashi says in more confident, if still wavering speech balloons that drift out of that small pit in the wall, where the cellar window must lead.
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#my art#naruto#yamato#tenzō#yamato tenzo#kakashi#might gai#and that's the end! i feel like this is maybe the most proffessional LOOKING comic ive ever made#and i'm very happy with it! but old habits die hard and I think the actual content of the comic might be somewhat hard to pin down.#so as per usual i'll give my takes in the tags: if u wanna read it some other way thats fine! i'm not the comics police or anything#i think that kakashi is apologizing for what he sees as dragging tenzō into his complicated situation with gai. he knows hes being#irrational and not a great friend to gai who is clearly worried about him! but he's also not in a place where he can respond to gai#in the way that he would want to and that he thinks gai would want—none of this is tenzō's problem and he feels like a coward and a failure#for exposing tenzō to enough of this that tenzō felt he should intervene on kakashi's behalf.#tenzō's response ''idk why ur apologizing'' at first seems like. general Root Kid Shit but what he means is actually more ''i dont mind''#he gets that kakashi and gai are complicated even if he doesnt know the details. and he is happy to help if he can#he doesn't see hi involvement as something kakashi should apologize for—which does nothing to set kakashis mind at ease LMAO#so then kakashi gives up on that discussion and instead just checks in with tenzō to make sure hes doing fine#tenzō likes to hang around a little when kakashis in the anbu wing of the hospital. they both hate the hospital a whole lot#and so especially when he's younger (he's like 15 here) he likes to check in frequently#especially after a Rough Mission—when u spend days/weeks hyperaware of ur teammates—trying to protect them#it can feel very Wrong and Weird and Upsetting to suddenly be completely alone and not to have them in ur sights#i think this comic is mostly about. wanting to help. and not knowing how to do so#gai wants to help kakashi but kakashi avoids him-he also wouldn't mind helping tenzō but tenzō is currently an obstacle to him#in his goal to help kakashi-so he can't really bother. tenzō wants to help kakashi as well which is Why he is an obstacle to gai at first-#but he doesn't really know what hes doing and so when pushed he gives ground to gai and helps him as much as hes comfortable with#and kakashi miserable in bed just feels like hes hurting and dissapponting everyone and doesn't know how to stop-which is why he avoids gai#and is also why he doesn't tell tenzō whats going on. he's trying to keep them both distant from himself
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