As the saying went, it was hard to say no with your mouth full.
And Obito's mouth was full right now.
"All right, all right. I'll tell you."
Obito leaned close to Rin's ear and whispered.
"Blah blah blah blah~"
By the time he finished, Rin's face had turned even redder.
"Oh, Obito-kun! What on earth do you think about all day?"
Then something occurred to her, and she demanded, a little angrily,
"Did Kakashi tell you all that?!"
"Uh..."
Obito looked thoughtful.
After a moment, he nodded with absolute certainty.
"Yep, yep! He told me."
He'd thrown Kakashi under the bus once already. After doing it enough times, he no longer felt guilty.
Don't worry, buddy. That blame wasn't going anywhere.
He'd welded it firmly onto Kakashi!
Rin poked Obito's forehead with a small finger.
She planted her hands on her hips, looking thoroughly exasperated.
"You! I told you not to let him influence you!"
"And you still... Hmph!"
Obito grinned.
"Aw, Lin-chan, don't be mad!"
Rin rolled her eyes and turned her head away.
"Hmph, I'm going to be... Mmph... You..."
Obito pulled Rin into his arms and gave her a taste of her own medicine.
A few minutes later,
Obito let go of Rin, whose face looked ready to burst into flames, and grinned.
"You're not mad anymore, are you, Lin-chan?"
"Mmm."
Rin nodded dazedly. The adorably vacant look on her face made Obito chuckle to himself.
Before long,
Rin came back to her senses and asked hesitantly,
"Obito-kun, those things you mentioned earlier... did you really mean them?"
"Uh..."
Obito wasn't sure what she meant by that.
But in the spirit of honesty—and true to his perverted nature—he followed his heart and nodded.
"Yes."
"Then..."
Rin rose onto her tiptoes, leaned close to Obito's ear, and