Kakashi had disappeared to some part of the house after dinner and though Uzu had looked for him for the past three hours straight she couldn't seem to locate him so that she could tell him that she was sorry for upsetting him so much.

It had be cruel of her to think that he would understand that she didn't really mean what she had said about throwing him out of the house and leaving him to die. She figured that she should at least find him and let him know that she wouldn't leave him to his own vices in such a way. It simply wasn't her nature no matter how upset she became.

But at the same time she had felt it important for him to know of the restrictions that would make things difficult for him. The world today was vastly different from his own after all and the laws enforced differently in many cases. But some things, no matter how modern, were dealt with in similar fashions to the world that he once knew.

She rounded the corner of the upstairs hall way for what must have been the hundredth time in the past hour and paused by one of the windows and leaned her shoulder against the window sill and sighed.

Dammit, wherever the man was; he was too damn good at hiding his presence. She couldn't find him anywhere!

And she'd looked everwhere that she could think of. In the lower floor of the house, in the living room, the study, the other rooms. She'd worked her way upstairs and checked every room, every bathroom, every closet. Even under all of the beds.

It was like Kakashi had disapeared into thin air.

Uzu sighed again, the sound less irritated sounding and more tired. She was starting to get a headache from all this shit. She looked out the window at the large trees in her yard. Noting that some of the waning sun light was filtering through the limbs and leaves, painting her yard a speckled perrywinkle blue with pinkish orange highlights.

The day was nearly gone. Just how long had she been looking for Kakashi anyways?

It had been full sun up when she had started so judging by the way her yard looked, the sun was starting to set. Which meant that she'd been at it for hours. She sighed again and lifted a hand to massage her right temple when she felt a particulaly vicious throbbing pain. She wasn't sure how long she stood there but by the time she felt like moving on she had a full blown migrane and was starting to feel sick to her stomach.

She needed to find Kakashi quickly so that she could apologise to him before she could call it an early night.

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Kakashi watched Uzu from his vantage point above her, on the ceiling. He'd run off after dinner intending to hide and sulk for a little bit while he sorted through the information that she had given him.

He knew that she hadn't exactly meant to threaten him. Just like he knew that she was looking for him so that she could apologise. But he wasn't ready to come out yet and face her.

He needed a little more time to think.

And even though he still needed time to think, it hadn't stopped him from trailing her through the house as he was now. But then he hadn't exactly expected his chakra net work to be in total functioning order either. It had merely been a whim of desperation that had led him to his current position on the ceiling above her.

He heard her sigh and glanced down at her and frowned. She sounded tired. He saw her lift her hand and start massaging her temple and thought, Ah, she is starting to feel ill.

He supposed that he shouldn't feel surprised that she was starting to feel ill. It had been hours since he'd run off and she'd started searching for him, after all. Yet for some strange reason, he was a little surprised.

He was surprised that she was even bothering to look for him when it was simply easier to give up. He was surprised that she was making herself ill with worry, and guilt. He watched her push away from the window and start walking again, this time she staggered a little bit from time to time.

And when she nearly fell, he'd had enough. He dropped down from the ceiling behind her and reached out and grasped her arm and pulled her back against him and held her in place with his other arm around her slender waist. Uzu tipped her head back and looked at him through glazed eyes. "Kashi?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm sorry about earlier." Kakashi nodded his head in understanding and then bent down a little bit and picked her up.

"Don't worry about sparing my feelings Uzu. I prefer your honesty to lies." Kakashi said gently as he started walking. He reached her room a few minutes later and put her to bed figuring that she needed the rest since she hadn't been resting properly in the past few days.

He'd talk to her tomorrow when she was feeling better about what had happened earlier. But for now, he'd leave her to her rest.