They stood out on the porch like Minato had asked them too, the only problem was that he was three hours late due to the fact that he had taken Uzu to the hospital to be checked out to be sure that she hadn't been sexually assaulted by those damned kids in the orphanage and had forgotten to call the boys.

So he expected them to be even more pissed with him than before, but frankly they could be as pissed as they wanted. He didn't care. He had been worried about his little girl and had a perfectly valid reason for losing track of time and being late.

He pulled the van into the drive way and looked at his boys, all standing on the porch and cringed.

He'd have to make this up to them later on but for now he needed to take Uzu inside and put her to bed since she was still suffering form the sedative that she had been given by the doctors at the hospital when she had nearly taken a nurses head off when he had tried to strip her so that she could be checked out.

He unbuckled his seat belt and got out of the drivers seat and quietly closed his door as Iruka came running down the steps and grabbed him. "Where the hell were you? You said we had two hours. Two! Not five. Did you forget how to count?"

"Be quiet Iruka. I'm sorry that I'm so late but I'll tell all of you what happened as soon as I get your sister settled in." Minato said softly as he pulled his arm free of Iruka's grip and gently ruffled his hair, completely defusing the boy's anger before turning around and opening the passenger door and moving in close so that Uzu was leaning against him as he reached across her lap and unbuckled her and then scooped her up in his arms and moved back a little bit and kicked the car door shut behind him.

And then took a moment to fit her against him more comfortably and then glanced at Iruka who was trying to sneak around behind him and see the girl in his arms a little better.

"Knock it off Ruka." Minato said as he started walking across the yard to the house and noted with some amusement that Gaara was holding the door open for him as he walked up the steps. He was almost home free when Kakashi stepped into his path and looked at Uzu.

"Kashi-"Minato said warningly as the teen looked her over for a second and then scowled.

"What's wrong with her?" Kakashi demanded to know. He just couldn't believe that the frail and small looking creature with the silvery blond mane was a kid their own age. She was too small and sickly looking.

"She's had a very rough few days Kashi and needs to sleep for a bit." Minato said as he tried to step around the boy, but Kakashi stepped back in his way.

"What took you so long?" Kakashi asked, not caring if he was upsetting Minato with his questions at the moment.

"Kakashi I don't want to talk about this now-"

"What. Took. You. So. Long?" Kakashi bit the words off from between clenched teeth, his irritation finally beginning to show through. Minato growled and finally snapped at him.

"I had to take her to the hospital to have a rape kit done. There are you happy? I thought I would be bringing home a perfectly normal, and happy girl to join our family and instead I find out that she had been attacked and beaten because of a bunch of jackasses, now if you don't mind I'd like to get her inside. Move damn it!" Minato snapped at the suddenly wide eyed and pale young man. Kakashi looked like he was about to be sick as he staggered back into the house and Minato took a deep calming breath and said in a softer tone.

"Fuck Kashi I'm sorry. I didn't mean to snap, but I'm worried and being questioned by everyone about what took me so long is a pain in the ass." Kakashi nodded his head in understanding and quickly pulled himself together and moved over to the couch and sat down on the arm of the chair as his father stepped into the house and made his way over to the stairs leading to the second floor and took them two at a time until he reached the top and then made his way down the short hall to the room that he had been secretly fixing up for Uzu these past two days.

He kicked the door open and walked across the new aqua colored rug covering the floor and laid her down on the twin sized bed with aqua and lavender sheets and covers and carefully took her shoes off and pulled the top corner of the blanket over to cover her as he recalled what the doctor had said.

There had been a little bit of vaginal tearing, but it wasn't hurting her and her hymen had been other wise intact.

So aside from that and the bruises on her wrists, ankles, ribs and breasts she was fine. A little under fed, and small for her age, but other wise healthy.

He smoothed her hair back away from her face and smiled a little bit when she muttered something in her sleep and rolled over. He stood up and turned to walk out of the room and found Gaara, Iruka, Kakashi, Genma, and Kankuro standing in the door way looking a little upset and anxious.

Minato put his index finger to his lips, indicating that they should be quiet and shooed them back a little bit and slipped out of the room and gently closed the door behind him.

The first thing he did once he was out of the bedroom was hug Kakashi to let him know that he hadn't meant to snap at him like he had.

Kakashi patted his back and muttered that it was okay, he understood all too well how stressed one could get when someone they cared for might have been hurt that way. "Come on down stairs and we'll have a family meeting, okay."