After a bit more questioning and prodding from the elder, Itachi told him everything of how Uzu was 'punished' sexually when she had misbehaved with objects like metal pipes, razors and kunai often pushed inside of her and moved around for maximum effect. And how he had been forced to watch it happen while she had screamed and cried and then inevitably lost consciousness before the tools had ever been yanked out of her.
By this point, Sarutobi was so speechless that he didn't really care what part Itachi had played in things. His brain had only just processed so much of the information it had before he realized that Itachi himself hadn't been either the problem or issue.
After all, for as young as Uzu was- she was someone highly intelligent and likely wouldn't cling to someone whom had caused any serious harm to her person. Permission, and compassion or not. She simply wouldn't allow him close to her if he had been half as bad as he believed himself to be.
Besides, the child had probably known of the threats against himself and his family and had given her permission to alleviate a little bit of the guilt she had known he would feel upon laying his hands on her. On top of that, she had gone the extra mile to endear herself to him to the point where he panicked if he was far from her side and sight.
And then there was the fact that Uzu reacted much the same way, plainly meaning that both had suffered equally and as a result both had a type of post traumatic stress disorder that didn't allow either to function without the other.
Which meant in the long run that separating them for long periods of time would and could be catastrophic for the two. Which also meant that he needed to begin thinking about what Itachi would do as a shinobi from this point on.
He could appoint him as a special bodyguard- but there would be too many questions about who he guarded that it might prove difficult for him to do his job.
He could- no would, as in there would be no question that he would remove him from Anbu black Ops and let him retain his rank and uniform for security reasons. Thus allowing him to assign him to Uzu while giving him the authority to use lethal force while watching over and protecting Uzu.
And until the girl was trained as a shinobi, that meant giving Itachi an job within the village as her protector and overseer. Which meant that once a suitable place of residence was found for Uzu, Itachi likely would be moving in. Permanently.
And that was fine, the elder supposed as his brain slowly- very, very slowly- began to start working again. It would definitely help him to sleep better at night knowing that she had someone capable of murdering everyone in the village aside from himself and Kakashi- oh. Oh. He'd forgotten almost completely about the Hatake heir, he inwardly cringed as he asked Itachi where Kakashi was.
Hoping that the stupid fools of the former village council hadn't done anything so foolish as to kill or exile the man.
Itachi blinked dark watery eyes at the elder as he thought about his question for a moment before replying, "Before the incident- Hatake-san was sent from the village on an extended mission. I have no idea where or when he will return." If he ever does. Itachi thought as the elder sighed in exasperation and nodded his head tiredly.
Jesus. Fucking. Christ- Sarutobi thought as he pictured Hatake coming home to the village expecting everything to be as it was when he left only to find that things had happened that were so far fucking out there that it was beyond disgusting.
The man would summon his giant white wolf and unleash it upon the suspecting village sometime during the night. Causing a disaster much like the one of the nine tails. Only while the wolf was crushing buildings and devouring people- Kakashi would go on his own little murder spree.
And there would be no way to stop him or real safe place to hide from him. There would just be Sarutobi, a few of his remaining loyal citizen's/shinobi, Uzu, Itachi and much head shaking and headache medicine.
Turning away from the boy, Sarutobi looked at Lilian and mouthed, "Can you watch them? I need to go track down Hatake."
Lilian looked at him wide eyed for a second, understanding all too well that Kakashi couldn't be left running willy nilly though the village if there was any chance of him being back from his mission. Especially after everything that had happened over the past few months with Uzu.
Nodding her head in understanding, she told him to go and get Hatake before wild fires broke out all over the village and the streets ran red. In the meantime, she'd finish her examination of Uzu and keep her and Itachi out of trouble.