Sorry I haven't updated this in a little bit. I'm sorry but this chapter might not be very long.
I've been busy fighting off the need to send someone to the hospital due to stress and a damn near endless supply of Hulk- like rage.
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The moment Sarutobi vanished from her office Lilian turned to the still crying boy, and laid a gentle hand on his shoulder causing him to twist his head around to look up at her and waited a moment before she spoke.
"I doubt that there is really anything anyone can do or say to make things better for you Itachi... Just know- if nothing else- that what happened to Uzu-chan, especially while she was being held in the Anbu's prison- was not your fault. You, for all you're skill are still a child, and as such- it is the responsibility of your peers to handle things like what have occurred. However, your peers have failed you. They were foolish and weak. You are neither of those things. You fought, and tried in your own way. Attempting to help where you can. You can only be commended for such efforts." Her voice was low, soothing, and held no censure.
She was merely...trying to comfort him despite the fact that he felt he didn't disserve it for what he had done. Still, her compassion quieted his crying down to the point where he felt so mentally and physically exhausted that he allowed her to wrap her arms around him and comb her fingers through his long dark hair until he felt drowsy.
Yet through all that, he somehow managed to keep his eyes from moving away from Uzu's sleeping form.
After all, he was her watcher. Though he was now broken- he would not fail her again.
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Sarutobi, the moment he finally finished scouring the village- finally found Kakashi. And wasn't sure if he wanted to laugh or cry at the very spectacle the young man made, thanks entirely to Gai, he would imagine.
Kakashi, was tied firmly- very, very firmly if Sarutobi's eyes didn't deceive him any- to a very large and firm tree. Looking for all the world like an angry trussed up turkey just awaiting slaughter. But then he supposed that he could have found the man in a similar fashion to last time he'd flipped out concerning Uzu.
Though he wasn't sure if anyone in the village was now stupid enough to put him in a choke hold and let him gnaw on their arms, hands, wrists and so on while he dragged them down the street growling like a mad animal.
Like he had done to poor Gai.
The man probably still had the scars to show where Kakashi's overly sharp teeth had pierced his skin and ripped though the tissue and tendons leaving behind a large area of nothing but hamburger meat looking bloody flesh. Which may or may not have had something to do with the fact that Gai was currently hiding a good three hundred feet or so away. Behind a nice sturdy thicket of tree's.
Downwind, and clearly out of sight from his angry friend.
"Untie me now." Kakashi growled at him through tightly clenched teeth and barely moving lips.
Sarutobi raised a brow at the younger nin in a bemused expression that would have quickly become amusement if not for the fact that they had things to speak of. Like Uzu's current where about's and what had happened to her.
Shaking his head at the jounin he said in a soft almost coaxing tone, "Sorry. Can't." He may be old, but he wasn't such a fool that he didn't know what was going through Kakashi's mind right then. And frankly, he wanted nothing to do with attempting to clean up everyone else's mess.
He had enough damage control to deal with concerning Uzu and the assholes in the former council.
Kakashi growled at him, doing an rather fantastic impression of a rabid animal. Which was just another reason why the elder wasn't going to untie him just yet. Another was that he needed to go over the detail's of the events that had happened while he was away and let the Hatake throw his tantrums before he settled down enough to be told where Uzu was at that exact moment so that he could leave with him to go secure the girl before anything else happened.