Disclaimer: Don't own! Words in bold are from If Everyone Cared by Nickelback.

Author's Note: Just spent half a sleepless night watching Smallville, falling sleep at like one (unheard of for me) and woke up to Break Your Little Heart by All Time Low and somehow (Hell if I know) I got the inspiration for this.

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The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert

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If everyone cared

"It is time to rise and greet the day, Kakashi!"

Kakashi, still in sleep's rapture, ignored the voice and tugged the blankets, though they were becoming a bit threadbare, higher. He started when they were jerked out of his hands and something horribly bright, something his mind vaguely reminded him was named the sun, was suddenly streaming into the room. Why had he put his bed by the window?

"'Urn off the sun."

"Sorry, my eternal rival. I cannot let you sleep anymore beside the fact that that is physically impossible."

Kakashi finally gave in, cracking an eye open to see Gai's stomach. It could only be Gai. Who else wore that bright green who knew where he lived? "Why's that?"

"We have a challenge today. It is your turn to decide what we shall do."

"Whoever can stay in bed the longest. Ready, go!"

Gai caught Kakashi's shoulder as he rolled over to sleep once again. "We did that two weeks ago, remember?" Gai sighed mentally when he got no response. Kakashi had made his students practically his whole life. Gai knew he wouldn't rejoin ANBU; Kakashi surely had more sense than that. But since they left, he had nothing with which to occupy his days anymore.

But Gai was determinded to change that. "If you do the challenge, I shall treat you to sushi. The best sushi in the village."

Kakashi's eyes snapped open before he hastily closed Obito's eye. He looked at the taller man warily. "I get to decide the challenge?"

Gai smiled brilliantly and nodded.

"Give me a minute to shower."