Kakashi had just walked in the door of Tazuna's home when Uzu finally opened her eyes and moaned. Oh god her body hurt every where. She thought as Kakashi glanced down at her before muttering softly, "Go back to sleep baby, I'll take care of you from here." She looked up at him for a fraction of a second as he knelt down next to the bath tub and switched on the water then let her eyes close again.

He wanted all traces of blood, sweat, and the scent of her tomentors gone from her forever. This would also give him a chance to look her over in broad day light and see what all had been done to her. He supposed in some small way he should be thankful to them for what they had done, their actions had given him time to reflect on his conversation with her the other day and had helped him find the answer he had wanted so badly.

He was in it for the long haul or he wouldn't have felt so fucking terrified when he had read the note left behind. He also would'nt have spent the past day looking for her without rest if he was'nt in it for the long haul. He shifted her in his grip so that her cheek lay on his shoulder and ran his fingers through her tangled, dirty hair. He had been so worried that it would be too late when he found her. He had tormented himself with visions of finding her mutilated body some where in the forest, or finding her wandering around in shock with blood running down the inside of her legs and all kinds of sickening things.

He was still worried, he didn't know what had been done to her, how badly she was hurt. And because of the super fast healing ability he may never know exactly what was done to her or the full extent of her wounds. All he had were guesses, and that was'nt much.

He waited until the tub was half way full before he carefully eased her into the water and settled the back of her head against the rim of the tub and grabbed a rag and wet it. He gently cleaned the blood from her skin, and checked for broken bones and internal injuries.

He found several half healed bone fractures along her rib cage. There were no internal injuries that he could tell of, but he did find the lump on her head and knew that she probably suffered from a concussion, though he could sense that the lump had healed a bit already. He took his time to make sure that she was completely clean again and washed her hair three times before he lifted her out of the dirty water and grabbed a towel and gently rubbed her down with it to dry her off before he carried her to the room she had been using and lay her down on the bed and pulled the covers up over her shoulders and lay her head down in his lap so that he could dry her hair and finger comb it.

He sighed as he felt the tension finally start to ease from his shoulders as he ran his fingers through her hair. She looked much better not that she had been cleaned, but the bruises still bothered him. It had been painfully obvious that she had been tortured. Now all he needed to know was if she had cracked under pressure. If so she wouldn't be on active duty again for a while. She might even have to start seeing a therapist back at the village.

A little while after he striped his vest, shirt and mask off and rested his shoulder blades against the wall and felt content to watch her sleep and counted the number of bruises that vanished from her body in the hours that followed. Twenty seven and counting. Fantastic. Just a few more and he wouldn't have to start calling her Spot. He could just call her Calico the kitten and pet her.

Whoa, bad Kakashi. Bad. She's defenceless here. Yes and that was part of her charm. She was the innocent princess that had fallen into the clutches of the big bad perverted wolf. He pinched the bridge of his nose and tried to clear his head but it was hard to do when he was so close to her that he was getting distracted by his impure thoughts.

When Uzu woke up Kakashi was leaning back against the wall without his shirt, mask, and vest, with his elbow propped up on one of his knees and a cigarette in hand. The smoke wafting through the room as he lifted the stick to his mouth and took a puff. "I didn't know that you smoked." She said as she slowly sat up on the bed. He glanced over at her and smirked.

"You know that if you tell anyone I'll have to kill you, right?" She made a humming sound and looked down at herself then back at him through narrowed eyes.

"What did you do to me?" She asked suspiciously as she noticed that she was naked under the covers.

"Nothing much. You were dirty, so I bathed you, dried you off and put you in bed. Then I started deevolving again due to your helplessness. I left the room and whacked off a few times and now here I am again.....and I have another woody. Thus the smoke. My nerves are shot and I need something to occupy my hands and mouth." Kakashi said as he put the stick in his mouth and held his hands out for her to see the slight trembling before he let them drop back into place.

"Deevolving? Sounds weird."

He made a soft humming sound and looked her over again. "It is weird. It's what happenes when I spend too much time with the object of my desire." She turned pink and looked away as her heart sped up a bit and her skin started to tingle. She shivered and pulled the sheets closer around herself then asked.

"What does it taste like?" She asked curiously as she moved in a little bit closer to him. He looked at her again and blew a puff of smoke in the air and gave her a mischivious look.

"Would you like to find out?" He asked as he reached out and grasped one of her arms and yanked her off ballance and wrapped his arms around her and settled her in his lap so that she was straddling him. He took the stick out of his mouth and pressed his mouth against hers, his tongue licking along her bottom lip as she parted her lips and allowed him to slip inside.

He broke the kiss several seconds later when she started to cough, and looked up at him through teary eyes. "T-That was bad. It tastes like ashes." He shook his head as he let her scramble away from him and looked down at the cancer stick in his hand and sighed.

It looked like he would be trying to stop smoking over the next few weeks. God this is going to suck. He would be stark raving mad by this time tomorrow. He had an addictive personality after all and he needed his fix. Or maybe a new thing to become addicted too. He looked over at Uzu's back as she walked into the bathroom and closed the door behind her. He was already dying inside and he had'nt even put the damn thing down yet.