"You knew!" Kakashi accused her for the uptenth time in the past thirty minutes. It was like he was stuck in an endless loop or something. Tsuande glared at him and thinned her lips in displeasure. Of course she knew about Uzu being a girl, she had not only delivered her as a baby, but had joined the brotherhood to protect the Twilight Empress. But the trouble now was keeping everything a secret with Yamoto, Sakura, and Sai in the room.

She made an angry tsking sound and wondered if Uzu would let her hit Kakashi upside the head with her desk. Uzu obviously knew what she was thinking because she moved away from the window and promptly sat down in her lap, with her arms around her neck, and rubbed up against her like a big cat knowing that it would distract her from her bad thoughts. Damn brat. Tsuande thought as she kissed the girl's cheek and whispered to her to go see Iruka.

Uzu looked between her and Kakashi and the others and gave her a smile. "I want you to put it in writing that you wont hurt any of them after I leave, or you'll be subject to another one of my sessions for the next three months." Uzu said sweetly. Tsuande's jaw dropped. Was she serious? She had barely survived the first and only session that she had been subjected too!

"Wha-but you cant-oh fine." She snarled as Uzu got out of her lap and waited patiently as she wrote everything down then stamped it and signed it and handed it to the teen. Uzu giggled as she read over the paper and then put it in her pocket.

"Later!" She said as she teliported out of the room and wound up reappearing in Iruka's bathtub while he was bathing.

"Gyyyyaaaa!" Iruka screamed as something landed in his lap as he slipped under the water in his tub. It had finally happened, Tsuande had finally sent someone to destroy him! It had taken a lot longer than he had thought it would but here he was, drowning in his own tub and filth. The bitch could expect him to haunt her sorry ass from the time he died until dooms day.

Tsuande sighed, and chucked an ashtray at Kakashi's head. He ducked of course but it had served it's purpose and shut him up, so that made her happy. "What I'm about to tell you all does'nt leave this office. If even one of you breaths a word about this, you die. Understand?" Tsuande said as she glared at them.

They all nodded as a collecive whole. They understood, good. "Let me start from the begining, I knew about Uzu being a girl not because I'm a medical nin, but because I delivered her the day she was born. Her mother died in child birth, and her father...he didn't want her. So he used her to stop the nine tailed fox, used her power to seal it away. By all rights she should have died that night..."

"Iruka are you okay?" Uzu asked as he handed her a towel and a dry shirt. He sighed and ruffled her hair affectionatly. After he had gotten over his spaz attack in the tub, and had resurfaced Uzu had greeted him in her traditional manner. She had thrown her arms around his neck and kissed him over and over again on the cheeks. She must have missed him. Or had another nightmare. Perhaps even both.

"She was given to an alchemist to be used as a sacrifice. When we got there the cerimony had already begun. I still remember seeing her little body almost hanging from the blades pierceing her, they were bleeding her without thought, care or shame. She was only a toddler. Barely even three years old, and already her life meant nothing to anyone but us. They saw her as the perfect prize, something to be used then disguarded. In many ways the people of the village reminded her of them, so we did the only thing that we could to save her. We erased her memories of that horrific night and hid her away from the village. We could'nt stand the thought of anyone else hurting her-"

"Iruka, can I stay here for a while?" Uzu asked as she snuggled up to him as they watched his TV. He looked down at her, she was falling asleep on him again.

"Sure, princess. You can stay as long as you want." He siad gently as he threaded his fingers through her hair and pulled her a bit closer as her eyes drifted closed. The nightmares must be back again. She had been more quiet and subdued than the last time she had had them.

She sighed and leaned into him more, her head resting on his upper leg. Uzu, will you be alright? He wondered as he carefully extracted himself from being her human pillow and picked her up, then carried her to his bed room. He didn't mind taking the couch for another night.

After Tsuande had told them everything she then shooed them out of her office and locked the door just in case they decided to ask her questions. She needed a damn drink. And lots of them.