Four years after leaving the leaf village-

Uzu walked out of the cave and stretched as she stiffled a yawn. "Where are you off too little cousin?" Itachi asked as he dropped down out of the trees above her and lightly landed on the balls of his feet. Uzu looked at him and smiled that I-know-something-you-don't-know smile of hers, the one that always got them into trouble and back out of it again.

It had been two years since his little cousin had made him while he was on a mission and had talked to him about '?Madara?' Two years since hearing that the great Uchiha clan had a few stragglers and after he had investigated the one that his cousin had told him about. Two years since he had stared the mad man in the face and realised that his cousin had come to him to save him from a future even more damning than the life he'd had already.

After learning the truth, and seeing it with his own eyes, he had grabbed his cousin and her little friend and run like hell. Though he had been worried that he wouldn't be able to save the two children when the others came looking for him.

Turns out that he need'nt have bothered himself to worry, the two kids were very handy in a fight. So much so that Itachi had'nt even had to lift a finger to help out.

In the two years that Itachi had become a rogue for the second time, they had spent a little bit of time in demon country, wave, bird country and several others, just hanging around, training, and helping anyone that had needed it. Itachi found it fascinating just how many lives that they had saved in that time. And the girl and her friend had both done everything to make sure that he wouldn't have to kill any more.

When Itachi had asked Uzu why she was going to such pains to make sure that he didn't ever kill again she had given him the saddest smile and told him that she knew that he hated killing. It simply wasn't in his nature to hurt others.

And it was true.

He had been an jounin since he was a child, and Anbu since he was thirteen. He knew pain. He knew suffering. And he knew death in all of it's forms. Yet he had been strangely touched by what she was trying to do for him and had decided to let her try to clear his name too.

They had returned to the leaf village little over a week ago and had been staying well under the radar in the cave outside of the village in the back woods. It was apparently a spot that Uzu had found when she was being chased around by the villagers.

"I'm going into town. Today is a friend's birthday and I want to wish him well." Uzu finally said after a lengthy pause. Gaara jumped down out of the tree that he had been meditating in and walked over to her.

"You'll be back?" It was a question that the red head asked often because of his insecurities. Itachi sometimes found himself doing the same, but usually ended up saying nothing no matter how worried he was.

Uzu smiled at Gaara and reached out and pulled him down to her just a fraction of an inch and kissed him on the cheek. "I'll be back in a few days. Try not to go nuts on anyone until I get back." She said gently. Gaara blinked at her and nodded his head in understanding. Uzu was under a lot of stress right now because she still had to go see the Hokage about Itachi-nii.

Itachi walked up to her and got a quick hug-it was a habit that he had developed shortly after joining up with his cousin. "Don't be gone too long or we'll come looking for you." He said softly so that only she could hear him. He felt her kiss his cheek like she did Gaara's as he let her go and watched her shunshin away.

He looked at Gaara and smiled a bit. Picking on the boy was one of the few pleasures he had left in life. "So Gaara-"

"I'm not your damn wife, Itachi. Take care of whatever it is, yourself." Gaara snarled at him before he ran into the cave. Itachi grinned happily. He'd probably be torn to pieces by Gaara's sand if he picked on him too much, yet somehow he just couldn't bring himself to care all that much.

"Oh Gaara, I know of this little place on the outskirts of the village-" Itachi said in a sing song voice as he followed the boy around. He wasn't going to bother to tell him that it was a strip club and that he was going to take him there to educate him on the opposite sex.

A little mischief was good for the soul. And a little tail was good for the body. Embarrassing Gaara however-was good for his heart.

Ah, good times...

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Sarutobi was walking through the hall to his private rooms, eager to lay down and get some rest for a little while.

It felt like it had been ages since he had been free of his paper work. He reached the room he planned to use today (he liked to move from one room to another at random so that if something happened, he wouldn't have to deal with it right away) and opened the door and nearly had a heart attack when he saw a tall girl with long soft blond hair wearing dark clothes standing in the middle of his room.

The girl turned her head and looked at him and his jaw dropped as he quickly entered the room and slammed the door shut behind him and locked it. Okay, no need to panic here. It was just Uzu. She had finally come home to see him and he was happy yet at the same time he was also planning to snap a leash around the damn girl's neck to prevent her from running away again.

Yes, that was it a leash would work if it was infused with some of his chakra. His heart thudded in his chest as he looked her over while secretly plotting on somehow sealing her in this room and keeping her locked up so that she couldn't scare him to death any more. "Uzu?"

"Hi jiji. How have you been?" She asked as if she really wanted to know. As if she hadn't run away from him and everything else. He wanted to be furious with her for leaving without any notification, without a single damn hug or goodbye, he wanted too. He really, really did but strangely enough he understood why she had done it. He had secretly spoken to Inoichi several weeks after she had left and the man had told him about what he had found when he had spoken with her, and about the way Kakashi's withdrawn from her had hurt her even more.

Her young mind and heart had'nt been able to cope with the strain and as a result she had decided to either die or leave.

She had left so that she would know peace.

And to be perfectly honest he had understood her reasons and hadn't expected to ever hear or see her again. So he was sort of having mixed feelings about seeing her now. On one hand he was very happy and on the other some deeper part of him wanted to push her out the door and run like hell. The council had been out for her blood since they had found out that she was missing. No doubt that they would say that she was a traitor and such and try to have her killed once they knew that she was back.

And it might work if not for the fact that she had 1) Been terribly abused. and 2) She hadn't even been a ninja when she left, so really they couldn't charge her for anything criminal.

"I've been..." Swamped with paper work, worrying myself to death, watching Kakashi kill himself slowly, waiting for you to come back! "Good?" He winched as he said the last part and she gave him a tight lipped smile and sat down on the bed and patted the spot next to her. He looked around nervously, anyoneknowing of Kakashi's obsession with the girl would do the same if they didn't want their hearts ripped out of their chests.

And after a second or so of paranoia he managed to stop freaking himself out enough to sit down next to her and sighed in relief when Kakashi didn't come through the window, or out of the closet. "We need to talk about some things." Uzu said after several seconds and the elder looked at her curiously.

Was she finally going to say something against the people who had hurt her? Did she finally feel safe enough and trust him enough to talk to him like she used too?

She reached out and took the elders hand and gave him a tight lipped smile and told him everything from the beginning. The destruction of the village, her death, what she knew of the Kyubbi's involvement.

Why she had run away, and why she had come back. She told him everything. Making sure to leave out none of the key details, and even mentioning that she knew what had happened with the Uchiha clan, and the Coup de ta that they had been planning to grab more power for themselves and how the council had ordered Itachi to kill them all.

He had'nt believed her at first, possibally thinking her insane until she had told him everything about Itachi and had even showed him her sharigan eyes.

Reality hit him hard as the elder finally saw her for who she really was. An innocent bystander who had taken up the mantle of responsibility when she could have simply walked away and left them to their fates.

"What do you need me to do?" He asked after a lengthy pause. She smiled at him and squeezed his hand and told him that she just needed him to be ready when she gave him the signal.

Then she told him not to worry too much, she wasn't leaving again and then she left him to his thoughts.

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Kakashi's birthday-

Kakashi was laying in the bed in Uzu's old room, like he often did when he came home from work after a long day. He had stopped sleeping in his bed simply because it felt too big and lonely to him and had sort of moved into Uzu's room. He loved it in here. Her scent clung to everything. The bed, the sheets, the toys, the curtains. Even the walls smelled like her. Almost as if she had rubbed herself up against them until her scent and some of the oils in her skin had soaked into the wall paper.

She would be fourteen now. A shinobi like him. A genin in need of training.

He closed his eyes and buried his face in the pillow and breathed deep. He would have loved to be the one to train her. He could have taught her anything that she could have ever wanted to know. But it was merely wishful thinking on his part, he knew that he hadn't exactly endeared himself to her towards the end.

He still wanted to take those words back. He'd even tell her that he loved her if she would listen.

He inhaled again, breathing deeply almost as if he were worried that something would happen to her things and erase her scent from the room, he hugged her pillow and frowned when he felt his body start to harden and drew back away form the bed a bit. Rising up on his elbows and wondering why that was happening.

He found it very odd that in recent months he had started to get aroused whenever he smelled her scent. It could be a simple reaction to the smell of a female or it could be something that had to do with his blood line limit. Whatever it was that was causing it, it disturbed him. He became irritated with himself because he would have to leave the room and relieve himself before he settled in for the night.

Today was the copy nin's birthday, and he had had a rough time ducking his fellow man and getting home because he didn't particularly feel like celebrating. He just wanted to be left in peace to nurture his growing obsession for the one that he had chased away. And he no longer kidded himself-he was obsessed. Had known that he was obsessed with Uzu for little over a year now.

He simply couldn't leave her things alone. And he was pretty sure that if she were here he would'nt be able to leave her alone either.

He sighed and lay back down on the bed on his stomach and tried to ignore the ache in his loins. He didn't want to move from this spot. He just wanted to lay here, sniff her things and go to sleep and dream of her.

He must have dozed off after an hour or so because he woke up a short time later on his back with his hand wrapped around his dick, a soft moan escaping his throat as he thought about her. He imagined her face hovering above his own, her soft lips touching the skin of his cheek, his jaw. He could almost feel the mattress dip as she climbed into the bed and pushed his hand away from his dick and wrapped her fingers around it and start pumping, slowly.

It was agonising how slowly she was going as she pressed her lips to his and he moaned again as her tongue licked along his lower lip. It reminded him of the kiss that she had given him back at the cave, only this one was more aggressive and appealed to the wildness building under his skin. She broke the kiss and shifted so that she was resting between his legs and licked him.

He cried out and fisted his fingers in the bed sheets. It felt so good that he hardly noticed the slow burn spreading through his body any more. She licked him again, her little pink tongue flicked across the slit in the head of his cock. "Your in heat." The simple words cut partially through his pleasure hazed mind and he lifted his head up off of the pillow and stared at her for a second.

"Wha?" Wow, he sounded so intelligent. Didn't he?

She sucked lightly on the tip and he gritted his teeth and tried to resist the urge to tangle his fingers in her hair and force her to take more of him. She lifted her head as her hair slipped over her shoulders and brushed up against him. It was longer than he remembered it being. But that didn't really matter to him, no what he wanted to know was what she had meant when she had said that he was in heat.

He didn't recall ever going into heat before when he had used his blood line limit. So why would he start now? She kissed the head of his cock and then his abdomen over one of the scars that he had gotten on a mission six months ago. He made a soft growling sound as she kissed her way up his body until they were face to face. Her breath was warm against his own and he could smell himself on her.

It was the most heady scent he had ever smelled. "Your blood line limit causes you to go into heat when ever you imprint on another person."

"Imprint?" He asked stupidly and she smiled at him and ran her little finger nails along his scalp, gently. He made a soft sound and lifted his head, needing to lean into her touch.

"Obsess, Kakashi. When you imprint, you become obsessed with that person. You want that person, you need that person. You long to touch them. And when their gone you feel as if you are dying..."

He lifted his hands from the bed and tangled them in her hair pulling her head back a little bit so that he could nip at her. Intending the 'nip' to be a form of punishment because she had left him alone, but it was much softer than he had intended. "When your gone, I feel like I'm dying." Kakashi said as he kissed her, she wrapped her arms around his neck and held him as he ravished her mouth.

He could taste himself on her tongue, slightly salty and spicy. But her taste was so much better. She tasted so sweet, almost like his favorite candy. Honey drops. He broke the kiss and nuzzled her jaw, scraping his fangs along her throat. "I need you."

He licked her red marks that his fangs had left behind and slipped his hands under her shirt and pulled it up, leaning back a little bit so that he could pull it over her head before attacking the curve of her shoulder with his mouth and sucking hard. She gasped and gripped his shoulders as he filled his hands with her breasts before pulling back and growling. "Where did these come from?" They were much bigger than he had expected them to be. He tested the soft weight, molded them with his hands and shivered when he felt her pebbled nipples rubbing against his palms.

"I drank a lot of milk while I was gone."

He raised a brow at her. "Milk?" Seriously, that had to be the lamest excuse that he had ever heard.

She frowned at him in the darkness and hissed at him. "It's been four years. Did you think I'd still be flat?"

Kakashi shrugged his shoulders and leaned her back over his arm and nuzzled her breasts. To be honest, he probably wouldn't have cared if she had come back flat as a board. He could have helped by massaging her chest as much as she wanted him too. She twitched when she felt his tongue glide along the swell of her left breast before he latched on to her nipple and bit it gently before sucking.

She cried out and gripped his shirt in her hands, digging her sharp nails into his skin. He made a strange sound and lifted his head as he shifted his position on the bed and lay her on the matress and covered her body with his own. His lips leaving a little wet trail down to her stomach where he ran his tongue along the outside of her belly button before he dipped it inside.

She made a strangled sound and tangled her hands in his hair and pulled until he was looming over her, their faces mere inches apart. She had a strange look on her face as she reached up and caressed his scarred cheek with her finger tips. He hissed and closed his eyes, loving the way it felt to have her hands on him like this. "Do you really need me Kakashi?" She asked after several seconds and he blinked and came back to his senses enough to know what she was talking about.

His heart ached in his chest and he almost started crying like he had the day the searches had been called off. He kissed her. Letting her feel him need, his desire, and his feelings for her. He kissed her breathless and pulled back panting. "I do need you. I want you. No one else will do." He said honestly, because now he understood his own feelings for her. It had taken him years to really figure them out, and no that he knew he wouldn't let her leave him again.

Not ever.

She looked doubtful and he chose this time to tell her what he had wanted to say to her since the beginning. He framed her face in his hands, brushing his thumbs across her kiss swollen lower lip. "I'm sorry that I said those things. I didn't mean them, I was just so frustrated-" He kissed her slowly, deeply, tenderly. "You were wasting away right in front of me and I couldn't even stop it. I felt so helpless and frustrated, but I should never have said those things. I do love you-" He kissed her again, unable to take the pained expression on her face any longer.

"I do want you." He murmured in a husky voice as he nuzzled her neck, nipping playfully at the skin. He could feel her heart pulsing under his lips, the frantic fluttering telling him that she didn't really beleive him but didn't want to say anything.

"I do need you. So fucking much..." He breathed as he gripped her hips and pulled her back a bit so that he could grind himself against her. She cried out, her voice sending a shiver down his spine as he panted against her skin. His body temputer suddenly spiking to the point where he was starting to sweat. The slow burn under his skin got more intense driving reason out the door as she pushed him back a bit and quickly slipped her pants off.

He needed her right now, and to be perfectly honest with herself, she wanted him too. She knew that he was trying to hold himself back, but he was only hurting himself by doing so. She didn't need him to treat her like some delicate piece of glass anymore. He watched her, his mis matched eyes appearing to glow in the darkness, staring, unblinking as they watched her every movement as she let her pants fall to the floor and held her hand out to him.

He grasped her hand and pulled her back onto the bed somehow knowing that she was nervous and might not be able to do it on her own. He kissed her and slipped a hand between her legs to see if she was prepared for him, he was just a little bit shocked by how wet she was, his fingers came away covered in her juices. He gave her a dirty look because now he was'nt able to play with her a little longer and sighed and shook his head.

"You need to work on this." He said as he held his hand up in front of her face and nearly came when she grasped his hand and brought it down to her lips and licked his fingers clean. He groaned and pulled his hand free of her grasp and positioned himself against her slick heat and looked at her. "You never said if you would forgive me or not."

"That's because I'm still mad at you." Uzu said with a cheeky grin and he smiled and slowly pushed his cock inside of her.

"You'll tell me what I have to do to be forgiven right?"

"Nope. I'm going to let you twist in the wind just a little longer." She said as she gripped the sheets as he entered her, she had to grit her teeth to keep from crying out, he felt so much bigger than she recalled, her body stretched to it's limit as she tried to breath through the stinging sensation before trying an experimental move. Lifting her hips and pushing against him. She gasped as he growled and gripped her hips to hold her still.

"Don't do that-" He growled from between clenched teeth. His control was just barely holding on by a thread and he didn't want to fuck things up and hurt her.

She made a throaty whimpering sound and looked up at him. "But it feels good." She said as he pushed himself a little deeper and she wrapped her legs around his hips and helped him along. He stiffened and she gasped as she felt his cock brush up against the wall of her womb.

"Oh god..."

"Uzu-" Kakashi said her name warningly as he braced himself on his elbows above her. She didn't listen.

"Shut up and just fuck me Kakashi." She snapped as she raised her hips up off of the bed and pulled him deeper. His control frayed a little more and he started thrusting, slowly at first, then faster and harder. He leaned into her, needing to feel his skin against her own as he fucked her into the mattress, silently vowing to himself that if this wasn't a dream that he would go slower and lover her the way that she deserved to be loved later.