The moment medical nin Lilith Julian heard that the Hokage was in her office asking for her, she handed off her current appointment in lieu of going to see what her old friend wanted. If she were a betting woman, she would have bet it had something to do with Uzu since strange rumors had been circulating within the village for months now about the child.

Stepping out into the waiting room, she took a moment to look around before noting the elder standing with the young Uchiha clan prodigy, Itachi. Whom was fully decked out in his blood spattered Anbu uniform and cradled carefully in the young boy's arms was none other than Uzu herself.

"Sarutobi-sama," She said as she stepped out into the waiting room and walked over to the Hokage and shook hands with him. "What are you doing here? It isn't time for you're next physical is it?" It wasn't, she was sure. But she asked just in case since ninja sometimes came to her for random check ups, physicals and so on.

Especially after incredibly stressful missions.

Sarutobi gave Lilith a grim looking smile and looked down at the kids, as he replied. "No. No not me. I need you to check someone else." Getting the picture without having to be told aloud what her next appointment was to be- she glanced down at the two kids again.

At first glance Itachi seemed to be fine. But once she took a moment to look closer she saw dark circles under his eyes, they were faint, probably hidden by a jutsu so no one would be terribly alarmed by their appearance since some Anbu missions lasted days, weeks, even months where time for indulging in sleep was often scarce.

And then there was Uzu.

The child hadn't stirred even once in all the time she'd been in Lilith's office. Which was incredibly odd considering how wary and watchful the child usually was around strangers. And after hearing some of the dreadful things she'd heard... She began to apply some of those rumors and one could plainly tell just by looking that while still a tad bit on the small side, the girl was far taller than she should have been for a five year old.

And from what she had on record of both Uzu's late parent's- the kid would likely be fife nine or something before she stopped growing. On top of that there was the girl's weight to consider, she noted as she took in the more than slender frame of the child.

She was thin.

Almost frighteningly so though Lilith doubted that she would be able to see any bones just under her skin. No, if someone had been deliberately starving the child there were more subtle ways to go about it. Forcing her to skip meals was one way. And giving her soldier pills might keep her from totally starving to death for a while- but would play havoc with her chakra and force her to burn more calories than her body likely had right now.

And then lastly, there was the scarred skin along her neck.

Lilith was one of the few people in the village who knew just how bad an injury had to be for it to scar Uzu. So seeing the scar on her neck and knowing what it represented, sickened her.

"I wish you to give Uzu a thorough physical exam." Sarutobi finally said as he released her hand from his own. Lilith nodded her head in understanding and motioned for them to come back into an exam room. Once there, she quietly closed the door and then motioned for Itachi to lay Uzu on the exam table and then turned to Sarutobi.

"Just how thorough of an exam do you want me to preform?" She asked curiously. The elder moved forward and glanced at the sleeping girl for a moment before asking Itachi,

"Just how deeply is she under?" Earning a look from Lilith that would have sent a lesser man running for cover. Obviously the woman felt a bit protective of the girl- otherwise he'd be on the floor bleeding right about now for Uzu being placed under a genjutsu.

"Deeply enough. She won't remember anything that happens here." Itachi said somewhat hesitantly.

"Good." Sarutobi said as he then shifted his eyes back to Lilith and then said, "I want everything checked." Lilith blinked at him. He couldn't mean what she thought he meant by 'everything' could he? But then he went on to tack on, "Inside and out." And she felt a peculiar unsettling feeling in the pit of her stomach.

Oh. She thought as she washed her hands and then pulled out a pair of gloves. Best to get the worst of it out of the way, She thought as she moved to find the things she would need to preform the 'inside' part of the exam as Itachi promptly presented everyone in the room with his back while Sarutobi took several minutes to undress Uzu and put a thin gown that Lilith held out to him, on her and then stood back so that she could get started.

"Keep your eyes averted Itachi. This is a very private exam." Sarutobi said in a gentle tone meant to sooth the tense boy as Lilith pulled some stirrups up along the bottom length of the exam table and took a moment to place Uzu's slender legs in them and then lubed up her gloved fingers and then slowly and carefully pushed them inside of the girl and paled when she noted no resistance.

Sarutobi's dark eyes noticed the sudden paleness of his long time friends face as she took a second to feel around inside of Uzu before withdrawing her fingers and then grabbing a metal tool and smearing it with enough lube to slip it inside of the girl. And after several seconds of hearing some strange sound coming from the tool the woman grabbed a bright light and peered inside of Uzu's opening and let her breath leave her in a slow and angry hiss before withdrawing the tool and tossing it in the sink several feet away.

Sarutobi felt a painful sensation around his heart at Lilith's actions and slowly, and despite dreading what he may hear, asked what was wrong.

Lilith's blue eyes flashed maliciously as she turned her attention to him, "What's wrong is that Uzu has been violated. And from the amount of scar tissue she has inside of her it's been going on for a while. There's signs of brutality that I've never witnessed before even during the last war."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that whoever has been violating her didn't just use their bodies to do it- they used tools. Sharp ones meant to inflict agony that no child should feel."

Narrowing his eyes, Sarutobi turned to young Itachi and noticed how still and tense he was. He knows something about this. "Itachi. Do you know something of this?" He asked, knowing how fiercely protective he was- the only answer could be yes.

Itachi was quiet for several heartbeats and then began speaking. Every word out of his mouth twisting himself, the village elder and the doctor all up in knots. Leaving each of them feeling visibly weak and shaken.

He told about the tools being used after the council had ordered Uzu to be prepped to service the Anbu sexually. He told of how she had fought, and injured three of the men who had been trying to force her to preform fellatio on them.

He told the elder and doctor of how he and everyone else had been summoned to watch her humiliation and degradation and eventually of how he had been summoned to 'help' prep her for her new job.

Sarutobi's mouth opened to ask what he meant, his mind in denial even though he knew. He knew what Itachi was trying to say without saying it.

The boy was crying at this point. He hated himself for what had happened those weeks he had spent trying to carry out his orders while fighting tooth and nail against them. He tried to assure the elder that he never touched Uzu unless she gave him permission- which was true- however he still hated his role in things those weeks.

He tried to tell the elder how he had wanted to free Uzu, and at several points had even attempted to do so only to be summoned and have not only his life but the lives of his family- his very clan- threatened. And so, having tried to think of another way to protect Uzu from the others while he was with her.

He told the elder that when he had taken her...that first time and every time after, some of the council members had been present to watch and make sure he didn't pull anything funny. He'd had to be rougher with her than intended then. But he had made it up to her by keeping others away from her while she rested and healed.

The other times he'd taken her body, he'd been very careful not to rough her up. Making sure that she felt something more than pain for once.

He'd done his best even with his hands tied, to take care of her and make sure that no one messed with her. He'd even helped her learn a few things about using sex against the enemy, and made sure that she knew- those who came to her when he wasn't around were and always would be the enemy.

He told them about a conversation he'd had with her once, about why she didn't hate him. She'd simply replied that there was no point in hating someone who was at least trying to make things easier for her.