Smile
By: Song
Summary: Smiles can mean many different things, but each and every one is unique to its user...
A/U: Wrote this in about forty five minuets, between leaving the computer to can peaches. I wanted to do another fic for Kakashi's birthday... Unlike A Scarecrow's Cinders I wanted this to be more.. to the point.
Oh, and once again a big thanks goes to HatakeKakashifan4000, for betaing for me.
There are hundreds of meanings a smile can have, from the gleeful 'The most amazing thing in the history of forever has just happened to me!' to the pained 'No, I'm not alright, but I'm coping...' They can range from the idiotic grin a husband gets when he first finds out he's going to be a father, to the reassuring almost grimace that a wife gives the panicking father to be. Or even to the simplest 'Life is grand.' A smile comunicates alot.
Hatake Kakashi knew many smiles. He had seen hundreds, maby thousands of smiles, and they were all different. Each unique on its own, and each identical to so many others before it. Once he had even tried to copy a smile, he was the Copy-nin after all.
It didn't work.
Sensei told him after that that a smile is like a snowflake, like the others, but different all the same. Sensei then explained that a smile had to be earned and developed; they couldn't be taken.
Kakashi felt like an idiot.
Sensei had looked at him and smiled, telling him he'd find his smile some day.
Kakashi found his smile eventualy, and so he smiled, Kakashi smiled alot, but it never went to his eyes. It was his smile. That's why he closed his eye when he smiled. An eye smile, like so many others before it, but unique all the same. Because inside his smile, everything was not alright.
But he was coping.
Fin