Rating: PG-13

Warnings: References to canon deaths, Obito-angst, Kakashi-angst, way too much introspection, dæmon!AU, eventual canon divergence, etc.

Pairings: Canon levels of Obito-Rin, pre-Kakashi/Obito-ish, if you squint and look at it sideways.

Summary: Drabble collection. According to the Bingo Book, Hatake Kakashi has two dæmons.

Disclaimer: Hah. I want some of whatever Kishimoto's been smoking, but Naruto's not mine.

Notes: This isn't going to be a long fic, just a drabble collection that's probably sporadically updated. But I can't get this 'verse out of my head, and I figure everyone else should have to suffer with me. Cheers!

Twin Souls

According to the Bingo Book, Hatake Kakashi has two dæmons.

Everyone has their own theory to explain it. Kakashi has heard some people say that the two are actually one, that it's a single dæmon in separate bodies. Or that they're the result of two souls trapped in one body. Or that some strange sorcery allowed him to bind the dæmon of a fallen foe to his own soul, thereby increasing his power.

Some people remember, but they don't speak of it. His old classmates at the Academy, those who knew him when he was a genin and a chuunin, they know the reason, or at least have guessed at it with more accuracy than anyone else. They remember Kannabi Bridge, Obito, a thirteen-year-old jounin with a new eye and a team one member short. They remember a boy leaving the village with a dragon dæmon coiled around his throat and coming back with a dragon gliding beside him and a fenghuang on his shoulder.

Before he killed her, Rin suggested that it was because of Kakashi having Obito's eye that Fūraimatsu was able to survive. It's as good an idea as any, so it's generally what Kakashi lets himself believe. Obito had wanted to see the future with him, and so he'd left Kakashi his Sharingan and his dæmon, though Kakashi can't say which gift is the heavier burden. Because the eye is one thing, but—

But Fūraimatsu is a piece of Obito's soul, the only piece remaining in this world, and the care of her falls to Kakashi now.

Kakashi can't think of a single thing that could be more terrifying.