To say that Kakashi was a wreck once he finished speaking would be an understatement. To say that Gai was black and blue after suffering from several emotional outbursts from his friend, would also be an understatement. The training ground looking like a huge bomb had gone off- understatement.

To say that Kakashi had every right to currently be pissed and out for blood would be the goddamn understatement of the century. After all, Uzu was pack to the man. And a person should never mess with a Hatake's pack or said person had a nasty tendency to skin them alive with their fangs.

So when everything was said and done and a peculiar eerie calm had finally settled over the Copy nin, Gai just about pissed himself in absolute abject terror.

Seriously the last time he'd seen Kakashi like this had been during the last war. And the body count had been staggering. So to say that the man was probably thinking about bleeding everyone on the council like stuck pigs as he stripped them of their flesh one bit at a time- was more than a safe bet.

It was a serious bet. One that he could win money on. And yet-

"How long?" Ah there it was. The multi million question. Gai should have expected Kakashi would have asked eventually, but part of him had sort of been hoping that he wouldn't ask while he was present.

He kind of liked his skin where it was.

However he knew that the question was important to his friend so even though that nagging little voice of self preservation was screaming in the back of his head to 'shut up' and 'dammit don't answer him!'. He knew that he had too before Kakashi would let him leave. And if he decided to drag him along on his killing spree Gai would become an accessory and if he became an accessory- he would lose his ranking and his genin team and he couldn't lose those.

His ranking was important to him. And his genin were so cute! Nothing at all like Kakashi, his supposed best friend. Whom was currently glaring at him like he'd like to break off one of his limbs and beat him to death with it. Come to think of it, he probably was getting that look from the Hatake because he hadn't answered the question yet.

Kakashi reached up and tugged his mask down from it's usual place upon his face so that Gai could see his lips peeled back from his teeth, his usually small fangs had lengthened until they were protruding from his mouth as he snarled at Gai. His mis matched eyes promising pain the likes of which the man had never felt before if he didn't answer soon.

Causing Gai to squeak in a weird manner as he scurried back away from the man yelling, "Almost five months!" Upon hearing, caused Kakashi to stop snarling for a moment as dread took root around his heart.

Almost five months of imprisonment... In the Anbu headquarters? Where people were help for interrogation. Torture. And sometimes even executed.

His little Uzu had been trapped in there all this time?

He suddenly felt faint, his legs giving from beneath him as dizziness and nauseousness warred with each other within him. There was no telling what had happened to Uzu within the time that had elapsed. Hell there wasn't even any way of knowing that she was still alive or not-

"She's alive Kakashi," Gai said, hoping to assure his friend that the only family he had left was still breathing if nothing else. "The last thing I heard about her was that Uchiha Itachi had taken up with her. And if he's really taken up with her, then it means that he's been trying to protect her." Gai said as he reached out and carefully took hold of Kakashi's elbow and gently maneuvered the man over to a tree so that he could lean against it with his head between his legs.

Just until he calmed down.

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Itachi's eyes were impossibly wide as he took in the blood and chaos around him from his place behind the Hokage. With his back pressed hard against the wall as the elder dealt with yet another of 'those' people. Making the body count four- no wait, hadn't the elder ganked two more of them that had been stupid enough to have moved to greet the man on the first floor?

He thought for a moment before nodding to himself. Yes, yes, he had. Itachi thought as the latest body hit the floor at the elder's feet in a tangle of twisted and broken limbs and bloody, pulverized flesh.

Stepping over the body as if it were nothing, Sarutobi absently shook some of the blood from his hand as he made his way past the frozen and horrified nurses hiding behind the nurses station and said, "Come along Itachi." Causing the boy to awkwardly inch his way along the wall until he had caught up with the elder and quietly followed him down the hall a little ways before someone behind them- possibly a nurse just starting their shift, started screaming bloody murder.

Not that Itachi could blame the woman any. After everything he'd seen since stepping foot into the hospital, he was more than a little bit surprised that he hadn't been reduced to a nervous wreck.

Thank god for his Anbu training otherwise he might have been reduced to a mass of crying nerves being dragged by the scruff of his neck behind the elder as he maneuvered his way down the hall.

Not bothering to avoid any of the doctors or nurses that happened to be present. Sarutobi moved until he reached his destination and then quietly grasped the door knob in one of his bloody hands and twisted until he could easily push the door open and then stepped inside of the room. And then reached behind him and grasped Itachi's shirt and yanked him inside so fast that the mere action almost made his head spin seconds before he slammed the door closed.

Inside the office meant for physicals, everything was quiet and still. What few patients sat in the waiting room waiting for the doctor to come and get them while flipping through magazines and books while the two nurses at the nurses station, typed and chatted among themselves quietly so as not to disturb anyone.

Moving over to the nurses station, the women didn't even look up as a pen and piece of paper was offered to him. "Please sign patient's name. Give his or her social, medical background, if taking any medicines- name them and how many doses per day as well as how many milligrams. Give his or her age, social security number and name of doctor if you know it."

Sarutobi did as he was told to the best of his ability. But since he didn't know Uzu's medical background (because that was more or less what he was here to learn) he had to leave it and the part about medicines blank since he doubted she took anything for any reason.

He did however put down that it was likely her first visit and name the specialist he wanted looking at her.

Lilith Julian.