Hey all! You made it to the next chapter and thank you for reading thus far. Here is the next installment of Protect Me. I hope you enjoy it and thank you RandomNinja239 for your reviews and thank you so much for your continued support. You will probably hate me for this chapter, again. I really want this to be a short story, although it keeps getting longer. *sigh* oh well.
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-Otakucraze
Chapter 9
Ukime stood for Obito's funeral in complete silence, and could feel herself falling apart at the seams.
"She hasn't talked since it happened" Rin said to Kakashi, obviously worried about the lavender haired girl. Ukime just stared at the picture of the only one who ever did anything positive in her life. She would give anything to rewind the time and just tell the boy how she felt about him but now it was just too late. She regretted it, and as she went up to the picture to place her white flower against the frame she began to cry once again.
"I love you" Ukime whispered to the frame as she wiped away her tears. She forgot about everyone else that was there and headed to the training grounds to train, and to release the anger from her regret.
Rin forced Ukime away from training to eat something, which the lavender haired girl did reluctantly. She found that if she caused herself a ton of pain it blocked her regret, and that made her feel just a tad better. Ukime took one of the skewers off the grill and placed into her mouth and pulled off a piece when she noticed Kakashi come into the restaurant. She glared at him before putting down the skewer and leaving the restaurant, even pulling a dragging Rin along with her to get away from the masked boy.
About a month after Obito died Ukime couldn't take the pain anymore, and did the unthinkable, she was going to rile up her parents so they could beat the crap out of her for the sheer idea of dying. Ukime kicked in her front door and was instantly bludgeoned with a vase from her mother as her parents began screaming at her. Ukime turned a deaf ear to the yelling to land a punch to her father's jaw. The fight was bloody
This is it, I am going to die and my pain will be over Ukime couldn't help but think as she neared the end of the fight, with a broken rib and arm as her father hurled her out of the girl's already broken window. The sky opened up their bowels and poured rain on the scene, washing away the blood as Ukime refused to move, it hurt too much and found herself smiling lightly at the fact that she would soon be dead. She fell unconscious with thoughts of how much Obito changed her life for the better and how the pain was coming to an end.
But the latter part of her thought was not going to happen. Kakashi was rushing to his home via rooftop when he saw the girl in a broken heap in front of the house he had suspected for years to be her home. He rushed to her and checked her pulse, relieved that it was steady, if not a little weak. He was silently grateful that she was unconscious and picked her up as gently as possible, mindful of her injuries that he could see and rushed her to the hospital.
The emergency staff took one look at the girl and allowed themselves a look of shock at her condition as she was whisked away on a gurney to get treated and Kakashi was praised for bringing the girl in and that he could leave and change of he wanted to.
"No, I-I want to stay" Kakashi said weakly, he was intensely worried over the girl since he knew that for the last couple of years she lived in the forest, not daring to go to the home that she came from and to the abuse. He fact that she went there only proved that she was getting worse, and he felt horribly responsible since she still blamed him for Obito's death. He sat sullen and as patiently as he could in the waiting room as droplets from his soaked clothing and hair dropped from his body. He still refused to move, all his mind could focus on was the girl in which he once was intrigued in, and how, and where, those feelings turned into a crush, and how that girl was now having emergency surgery.
After an hour of waiting a nurse brought the boy a towel to dry himself off and to keep him from getting sick. Kakashi waited for three more hours until the doctor walked out and said he could come and see the girl if he still wished to do so.
Kakashi looked at her bruised face and the dried blood from her scalp and the riddled scars and cuts that were stitched up, up and down her arms. He felt sickened by the look of her mangled broken body, and even more so by her bruised and broken spirit. It was slowly killing him inside to see her so down and he was silently screaming at how broken and weak she looked as she lay on the hospital bed. He pulled the chair from the wall closer to her bed and took her small bruised hand into his gloved one and wished that she would willingly put it there, instead of using it to slap him upside the face with it. He took his other hand and placed it on top of hers before looking at his lap and sighed in despair.
The next morning Minato came into the hospital room with a change of clothes for the boy after getting a call from a nurse about the situation.
"Kakashi" Minato said gently as he gently shook the boy's shoulder.
"Hn" Kakashi said as his eye fluttered open and his vision focused on his sensei. He sat up and let go of the girl's hand
"I brought you a change of clothes Kakashi" Minato said as his eyes looked over the girl on the hospital bed. "The nurses said you brought her in just in time" Minato said as Kakashi began changing his shirt "Because of how heavily it was raining last night her temperature would have dropped quickly and she would've died" He said and Kakashi nodded "You know who did this to her, don't you" Kakashi nodded
"Her parents" Kakashi said in monotone before going to the bathroom and changing the bottom portion of his clothes. Minato walked over to the girl and began inspecting more of the damage. Just from above the sheets he could see the black eye, the gash just below the cheek bone, the bruises and gashes up and down her arms, and past scars and Minato wondered how long she had been abused and wondered why no one noticed. Once Kakashi entered the room Minato left the two alone once more and grabbed a copy of the damage report from a nurse on the lavender haired girl and headed to the Hokage's office, in a foul mood that this abuse had gone on for this long and no one said anything. If there was one thing that Minato could not stand, it was parents abusing their children.
"What do you mean you didn't notice it?" Minato screamed at Sobu
"She wore baggy clothes, and after she met that Uchiha kid she wore long-sleeved shirts and pants, how would I be able to tell she was getting abused?" Sobu defended against Konoha's legend
"You are her sensei; you should be someone she could talk to"
"She was a brat, she still is" Sobu defended
"Uchiha Fugaku, I need you to arrest the Gekido's" Minato said to the Head of the police force of Konoha.
"What? She instigated me" Ukime's father yelled as he was dragged off by the Uchiha police force.
"Stupid brat" Her mother spat.
Minato went up to the girl's room and was appalled at the living conditions the girl had to live in. He went to the window and noticed the blood on the sharp spikes of glass that remained intact in the room, the small bed with a sheet, and a small closet that held one change of clothes. There was mold growing on the walls and there were puddles from the rain last night. He could almost imagine the pain and horror of Ukime's childhood and left the house; glad he was able to make the poor abused girl's life a little bit better.
Ukime awoke and one of the first things he saw was Kakashi asleep beside her and the first thing she felt was anger that she was not dead and that she was in the hospital.
"Glad to see you're awake" Kakashi said gently as he lifted his head up
"Get out of here" Ukime said bitterly
"What?"
"Get out" Ukime said, glaring darkly at the boy.
"Ukime, Kakashi-kun saved your life" Rin said
"Oh" Ukime said surprised before giving a death glare to the masked boy "Why didn't you just let me die?" Ukime asked honestly causing Kakashi to widen his one visible eye and Rin gasped before covering her mouth. "Now GET OUT" she screamed at the boy
Once out of the hospital she went back to her reclusive ways and went back to living in the forest basically. The only time she left the forest was to get food, though she was getting better to hunting small animals so she didn't even have to do that. She just trained until one day her rage got the better of her and she sought after Kakashi.
Diving at him when he was about to start shopping she sent her Kyuushuu Kainashi at him, Kakashi noticing the flare of chakra and dodging the ball of chakra land where he was once standing. Ukime punched and kicked at him before going through her list of jutsu and was about to attempt her Genjutsu when ANBU took control of the situation and took her into custody, having the Yamanaka clan examine why she was attacking one of their Jounin
"Crap" Yamanaka Inoichi said as he pulled out of the pissed off girl's mind
"How is she?" The recently appointed Yondaime Hokage asked, worried about the young girl
"She needs help," The Yamanaka said as he sat down and looked at the girl with pity "What she is doing makes sense in her mind, and she will not stop until Hatake Kakashi is dead"
"Why?" Minato asked
"Obito was the only one in her eyes that did anything positive in her life, starting with the first day he met her, his death hit her hard and she blames Hatake-san for the loss of the one she loved" Yamanaka said after pulling the new Hokage to the side out of earshot of the lavender haired broken kunoichi.
"What do you recommend should be done?" Minato asked the soon to be head of the Yamanaka clan
"Her mind needs to be healed, and I know we need every Jounin we can get our hands on, but she is in no condition to be out on the field, she wants to die as much as she wants Hatake-san to die. I know it will be hard for Konoha as a whole, but what is best for her is to be admitted into the mental hospital"
(A/N: The song that kind of helped my thoughts on this chapter is Hurt by Thousand Foot Krutch for it really put me into Kakashi's shoes as he is watching his crush not only blame him for everything but as she is falling apart. Here is the chorus, which really fits Kakashi in this chapter so well:
Help me help you they won't be there
Help me help you they won't see
It hurts when you need me
And I can't break your fall
It hurts when you can't see
And it hurts
And it hurts when you're lonely
And I'm standing right beside you there
And it hurt when you told me
That you told me that you tried this on your own
Hope you never hurt
Hope you never cry
Hope you never lose your way tonight
Hope you never crumble
Hope you never fall
Hope you never throw away it all)
