Kakashi didn't bother going back to sleep after the nurses left. He doubted that he would sleep very well after hearing Shay beg for someone to keep 'him' away from her. And call him crazy but he wasn't so sure that she was talking about Kakashi himself.

He tugged off his head band and walked over to the bed and studied her again now that she was once again in a drug induced sleep. He opened his Sharigan eye and reached out and very gently ran his finger tips along her cheek where he had accidentally left bruises before one of the nurses had used their chakra to heal the faint blooms of color that his finger tips had left behind. He couldn't see the markings any more, but he could see the faint pulse of the nurses chakra under Shayera's skin.

He placed his head band over her eyes and reached up above her head and flicked on one of the fluorescent lights and blinked as the sudden brightness blinded him. After a second or so of letting his eyes adjust he turned his attention back to Shayera and focused his Sharigan eye on her. He knew that he shouldn't be doing this, that it wasn't any of his business. That the girl herself wasn't any of his business.

But his need to know what Naruto may have gotten himself into was simply too great to ignore.

He couldn't risk peeking into her mind in her present state, though he was sorely tempted too. It would cause more harm to her mind than good anyways. What he could do however was look her body over for any scars that might be considered questionable. The only problem that he had with this was the fact that he may have to strip her to get a good look. He figured if he found anything questionable he would be able to gauge just how involved with her Naruto should get and maybe warn the boy to be very careful with her.

Not that Naruto hadn't been careful with her already. He had, but there was always room for improvement.

He reached over and deftly unfastened the snap buttons on her hospital gown and carefully pulled the fabric down as far as he dared, making sure that his head band never slipped form it's place over her eyes and also making sure that her breasts were still decently covered.

He didn't want anyone walking in and freaking out and accusing him of molesting the girl.

Once that was done and looked her over making sure to focus his Sharigan since the deep red of his Sharigan eye was more likely to pick up scars more easily than his normal one. He noticed several scars right away. The thin white scar across her throat, right over her jugular vein and several scars on her chest that ran along the valley of her breasts in a bizarre 'C' pattern that ran along the soft curves.

He frowned and lightly ran his fingers along the markings and knew without a doubt that these markings weren't normal. He'd seen such markings before on konoichi who had been captured and tortured by enemy nins.

"Dear god..." He whispered as realisation slowly started to seep into his mind. But he wasn't finished yet and as much as he hated to go further, he needed to know what kind of sick person had taken a blade to such soft flesh. He pulled her top back up over her shoulders and snapped the buttons then closed his eyes for a second and steeled himself against what he might find then grasped the bottom half of the blanket and pulled it up until it was bunched up over her stomach leaving her open and vulnerable.

His eyes flickered to her face and he leaned over and whispered a soft, genuine apology in her ear and jerked the hem of her gown up around her hips and straitened his spine and moved towards the bottom of the bed and put one hand on the inside of her knee and gently separated her legs so that he could see better. He could make out very thin, fine puckered lines along the inside of her thighs leading to her-

He suddenly had the nearly over whelming urge to spend some time in the bathroom puking as he abruptly jerked the hem of her gown down and then pulled the blanket down so that her legs were covered again and was tucking the bed sheets around her legs and feet when the door opened and Naruto walked in and stopped, cocked his head and studied the copy nin for a second before turning his attention to Shay.

"Feeling better now?" Kakashi asked once he finally managed to beat back the urge to wretch. Naruto quietly closed the door and walked over to Shay and frowned when he saw Kakashi's head band covering her eyes.

Kakashi visibly cringed and quickly reached out and snatched the head band and put it back around his head and tied it off before Naruto could ask him why it had been there. "Yeah...better..." Naruto said in a slightly distracted tone as he reached out and put one of his hands against her forehead and gently brushed her silken hair back from her face and frowned when he noticed how red her eyes looked. "How's Shay doing?" He finally asked after a second or so of silent deliberation.

"She's in pain and scared nearly out of her mind-"

"What?" Naruto asked as he turned his head to look at his former sensei, his azure blue eyes wide. Kakashi shrugged his shoulders, trying to act as if he hadn't really said anything important.

"I said, she had a reaction to her medicine earlier." Kakashi lied as he sat back down in the chair next to the bed and scooted down until he was nice and comfortable again and folded his arms over his chest.

Naruto frowned and looked her over and paused when he noted the restraints tying her down. "Is that why she's-"

"Yes-" Kakashi said curtly as he made a mental list of who he could talk too about Shayera's scars. He knew that Tsunade must have noticed the wounds, it was simply unavoidable for someone in her profession. Even when a wound was completely healed, one could sometimes still pick up the residual traces of the damage left behind.

So she might have some inkling as to what sort of weapon was used and how badly the wounds had been before they had healed though he got the impression that the wounds had been deep enough to be considered life threatening at some point in time.

He might need to speak with Sakura and the others too to make sure that no one accidentally reopened one of Shay's wounds through a catty remark or talk of work. The last thing an emotionally fragile person needed was to be constantly reminded of how they had been hurt.

He sighed and got up out of the seat and looked at the girl before giving Naruto an awkward half hearted smile from behind his mask and said. "Well, I guess that since your here now that there isn't any reason for me to stay. I'm going home now." Kakashi wasn't sure why he had said that since they both knew that he wouldn't be heading home any time soon. If at all.

"Yeah, thanks."

"No problem Naruto. Call me if you need me." Kakashi said as he brushed past the teen and slipped out of the room before teleporting himself to Tsunade's office.

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Tsunade was in the middle of research.

Her curiosity about the scars she had found on the girl that Naruto had taken an interest in, driving her to learn what she could, any way that she could and right now a huge part of the girl's mystery was the scars.

They were torture marks, Tsunade was sure of it yet for the life of her she couldn't figure out why the girl had been tortured. She stared at the series of scalpel blades and jagged knives that matched the wounds that she had found and wondered which one to start her experiment with.

She was just starting to reach for one of the silvery blades when she sensed someone standing behind her and turned her head and blinked in surprise when she saw Kakashi standing there. "Kakashi what-"

"I need to talk to you about that girl." Ah, so Kakashi had noticed too. Tsunade mused as she sighed and stepped away from the blades laid out on her desk and turned to face him.

"So you noticed too."

Kakashi nodded his head. "I wish that I hadn't." He said soberly and Tsunade made a humming sound.

"Yes I would imagine so." Tsunade said as she lifted an arm and ran her fingers through her pale blond hair.

"I'm not sure if Naruto should get too attached to that girl." Kakashi said seriously. Tsunade gave him a blank stare before asking.

"Why not?" She shouldn't have asked since she had gone over the reasons herself over a hundred times since she had discovered the scars on the girl's body.

"She's too fragile. Being in any sort of relationship with Naruto would inevitably kill her." Kakashi said. It wasn't like he had anything against Naruto. He was a good kid. Really he was. It was just that he wasn't sure that Naruto could be what Shayera needed any more than he wasn't sure that Shayera could be what Naruto needed.

He simply didn't think that they would do well together in a relationship. Especially when Shayera was still trying to heal her old wounds.