Kakashi was relieved that his question had been received well, though that relief was masked with curiosity at her laughter, her answer didn’t do much to alleviate him of his confusion however. It seemed that both Airi and Ana were willing to disregard their parents rules when it came to dating, but it was due to following those rules that they now found themselves in a lose-lose situation. It seemed rather cyclical to the silver haired man, but he was planning on just chalking it up to a civilian thing, after all it wasn’t making any more sense to him.

“Three years, eight months and six days” Kakashi muttered off handedly, supplying just how long ago it had been since Airi had opened her shop, as he resisted the urge to face palm “Must be irritating for her, as I’m sure she had her reasons, especially because her and Guy don’t click in that way” he expanded though it was somewhat apparent that Kakashi was speaking to himself as much as he was speaking to Ana.

He was glad that he came to talk with Ana; it helped clear some of the ambiguity of the situation around Airi. He could also tell that he might have to do more than snoop in this instance as it was plain as day to Kakashi that Airi was effectively trapped by her own good nature, and while he knew Guy wouldn’t have intentionally done that to Airi, it didn’t stop the spike of cold anger that came from the realization.

“I ask” Kakashi started as he pulled himself out of his thought “Because I ran in to the two of them today, and could not help but notice that Airi looked very uncomfortable. It was also the first time that I had heard the news” He replied with a casual shrug “I try to stay up to date with my friends, so this one caught my somewhat flat footed, and it would be rather rude to have asked her when Guy was not three feet from me at the time.” 

“Another question if I may, why didn’t you ask Guy out?”

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[color=yellow]Naruto was too busy tracking down the right place to put away the groceries to notice Airi’s surprised silence, and was honestly tempted to just make a few clones to sort through everything quicker, as her kitchen was the size of his apartment. He didn’t, but it was a near thing.

“That would be awesome” Naruto replied with a huge grin upon hearing the proposed deal. He was looking forward to working in the garden even more now, he had wanted to when he first saw it as he had something of a green thumb but was limited to the few plants he had at his apartment. Now he had been given permission to work on the garden and would even get some groceries out of the deal. “I can do that, no problem”

His enthusiasm was tempered slightly at Airi’s next question however because it was really hard for him to explain the feelings he got. He had tried a few times with Iruka but, while the Chunin believed him, it wasn’t something that got brought up because of the difficulty Naruto had in describing things pertaining to it. Still, he was asked.

 “It’s hard to say exactly, like he doesn’t act much different. More lazy really, he has his book out a lot more often, stuff like that.” He crossed his arms as he started explaining and was tilting his head side to side as he tried to find the right way to put it “The biggest thing is that… it just.. He kinda feels like he is wearing drenched clothing… Sorta… or like he is underwater? Everything he does just seems to need more effort than it should. Then when you are there, he doesn’t lose that weight so much as it just doesn’t seem to bother him anymore, like whatever is weighing him down is forgotten about or is no longer as heavy?” The frustration of trying to put in to words the feelings he was getting was easily apparent as he stumbled through his explanation. “Does that make sense?”
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