[ Walking in darkness and being the cause of so much death, the reason for so much suffering and loss, are two completely separate things. Kakashi wants to tell Gaara that he's wrong. That the magnitude, the sheer gravity of what Obito has done is so much worse than anything Gaara might've done himself when he was a child lost to something far darker than any rage. Gaara may have done things that were grievous, things that he regrets. But he's never started a war, or laid waste to his own village.


Kakashi knows better than to argue with a kage, especially one that is not his own. Even if Gaara is much younger than him, when it comes to diplomacy of this nature, regardless of how much Kakashi disagrees, he doesn't want to cross a line or misstep.

But he also won't raise his head just yet, leather crinkling as cold fingers curl into fists.

The frigid wind cuts his hair across his eye, cloak billowing.

He says nothing. ]