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The weeks past by quickly since the school incident had occurred and Uzu had settled into living with Kakashi rather well, all things considered. He had been keeping track of every incident that occurred, every night terror. Everything. He had not only kept track of them but had carefully written everything down in detail and handed it to Inoichi the day that he had talked to him about acting as Uzu's therapist.

Inoichi had read the small journal of nightmares and incidents and told him that he wanted to see Uzu in his office in the Hokage's tower with in a week. He had also told Kakashi very plainly that if the girl missed her appointment he would see to it that the Hokage was clued in on her night terrors and what they could mean, and the copy nin would never see her again. Not for a really, really long time.

That had been five days ago and Kakashi still hadn't told Uzu that he was taking her to see the man. Instead he had lied to her and promised her ice cream, which he fully intended to deliver on as soon as she came out of Inoichi's office. See. He wasn't such a terrible person. Right? Right?

Still he had lied to her and that didn't sit well with him. Not even a little bit.

Uzu looked up at him and wondered why he was suddenly gripping her hand so hard that it was starting to hurt as they walked towards the tower in the far back of the village under the mountain where Uzu still liked to go (but not without Kakashi's super vision, of course) and sit. "Is something wrong?" Uzu asked curiously as she stared up at him and hissed and had to avert her eyes back to the ground when the sun got in her eyes and temporarily blinded her.

Kakashi looked down at her anxiously. "No. Nothing is wrong. I just need to see the Hokage about something." His fingers tightened around her hand even more, finally managing to cut off the circulation in her fingers. She made a low warning sound, she was about ready to scratch him again and if she did it this time she was not holding back. And he would cry. She would make damn sure of it before she stole his wallet and ran off to get ice cream on her own.

He must have heard the funny little sound she had made because he turned his head to look down at her. "Is anything wrong with you?" He was asking because he was hoping that she would tell him why she had changed so much. Why she always seemed to wake up screaming and crying and refused to let him touch her until she was a bit calmer.

"Your not getting anything but my name, rank and serial number...Your crushing my hand by the way. Could you loosen your grip?" His lips curved up in a small smile as he forced his fingers to loosen around her hand, not even realising that he had been subconsciously squeezing her hand until she had said something.

"Your awful cheeky today. Did something good happen?"

"Not really. I'm just a little amused by my own thoughts."

"Oh? What's so amusing about your thoughts?"

She looked up at him again and was just a bit thankful that the sun had slipped behind some clouds. "You don't really want to know." She replied sagely and he shook his head in bemusement. Silly girl. Why did she feel such a strong need to hide things from him? He led her up the steps to the side door and opened it for her and waited for her to slip inside of the building before following her in.

Inoichi was waiting for them outside of his office, his pale blue eyes skimming the pages of the make shift journal that Kakashi had given him and glanced up when the copy nin suddenly appeared in the hall way holding the hand of a small girl with wide violet eyes and soft pale blond hair. So this was the Kyubbi container. She was a cute kid, and would one day be a really stunningly beautiful woman.

Uzu looked up at Kakashi as they got closer to Inoichi, her mind kicking into over drive, and her fight or flight instincts flared to life. She didn't know what the hell was going on, but she wasn't going to spend any time alone with someone who could easily invade her mind. Inoichi snapped the small note book closed and smiled at her and her stomach sank with dread. Inoichi dropped down so that they were eye to eye, his smile warm and friendly.

She had to restist the urge to slap him.

Kakashi shifted his hold on her and placed his hands on her small shoulders. "Uzu...this is Inoichi. He's going to sit in his office and talk to you a little bit about your night terrors and some of the things that have happened at school."

Inoichi reached out to take her hand and Uzu took an involuntary step back, pressing her back against Kakashi's legs as far as it would go as she glared at the blond man, a dark expression on her face. Inoichi blinked at her and dropped his hand back to his side. Okay, so she didn't like him much if that look was any, any indication at all.

If looks could kill. He thought as he got up off of the floor and opened his office door and waited for her to step inside. She didn't move. It would be a cold day in hell before she walked into that room on her own. "Uzu, honey I know that you don't like this-" Kakashi started to say as he spun her around to look at him and dropped to one knee in front of her. She made another little warning sound and glared at him.

"I'm not talking to you, traitor." Kakashi flinched as if she had struck him. The word 'Traitor' cutting him deeply. He stared at her for several seconds and gave her a small smile from behind his mask as he picked her up and carried her over to the door and winched when she reached out and dug her sharp little finger nails into the skin of his wrists as he carried her into the room and gave Inoichi a pleading look.

The blond man nodded his head, yes the pitiful looking copy nin could stay and listen so that if Uzu got scared he would be right there. Kakashi set Uzu down in the chair in front of Inoichi's desk and quickly retreated to the other side of the room and sat down.

Ah if the Anbu guys could see the Hatake now...

They would never stop laughing. Inoichi mused as he sat down across from Uzu and set the book little note book down and noticed how the girl's eyes went from him to the book. She was planning to steal it and destroy it the second his back was turned. He could tell by the calculating light in her eyes that she obviously had secrets and she didn't feel like sharing them.

"Tell me something about yourself Uzu. What's your favorite color?"

Uzu looked at him and thinned her lips as she turned her head to look at Kakashi and hissed. "Red. Deep red. Like blood." Kakashi bit back a whimper and sank down in his seat and tried not to squirm. Inoichi snorted in amusement and grinned as he wrote down something then looked at the girl again.