Uzu looked at her new older brothers with a stricken expression on her face and Kakashi quickly punched Kankuro in the face since she was too distressed to hit him herself and tugged her along behind him as he walked away, leaving Kankuro sitting on the couch swearing while he bled.

Uzu was quiet as he took her up the stairs and into his room and quietly shut the door behind him and turned to look at her. Her spine was bowed a little bit and her arms were wrapped around her middle in a way that brought too many bad things to his mind and he sighed and moved to stand in front of her and used his finger tips to tilt her head back a little bit so that he could see her face.

The second he did, he wished he hadn't. She had such a beautiful face, even with the pained expression she wore, and the dark spot on her cheek, there was simply no hiding the fact that she was one of the most beautiful girls that he had ever seen. His heart hammered in his chest, and his palms started sweating a little bit and he spoke in a weak almost breathy voice that he didn't recognize as his own. "Are you okay? Did he touch you or anything?"

She stared at him through dull violet eyes and his heart clenched in his chest as she shook her head a little bit and jerked her face a little bit so that she wasn't looking at him. He looked down at his hand then at her and quickly dropped his arm back to his side and stepped away from her. "Sorry, I didn't mean to get grabby. It's a force of habit when you have so many younger siblings." Kakashi said as he wiped his sweaty hands on his pants, nervously.

"S'okay." Uzu said softly as he walked over to the desk a few feet away and pulled the chair out and looked at her.

"You want to sit down? You look a little shaken up."

"Wouldn't you be?"

"Nah. I'm used to people like Kankuro getting close to me."

"Is that why you seemed so mad?" Uzu asked absent mindedly as she looked around his room. The walls were a nice sky blue with royal blue trim. Like the curtains and the bed sheets and the carpet on the floor. His room was neat, everything was piled into the shelves or neatly folded and set on the dresser. It was completely different from what one would expect from a seventeen year old boy.

Kakashi shrugged his shoulders as he watched her study his room and wondered if the almost absent minded behavior was a type of defense mechanism. "No. I was mad because Kankuro knows better than to touch anyone that dad brings home, yet he was trying to pull something any ways."

"Makes sense I guess." She said as she looked back at him and slowly, very slowly let her arms drop back to her sides and straitened her spine. He made a humming sound and drummed his fingers on the back of the chair that he was standing next too and asked again.

"Do you want to sit down?" She looked at the chair, then him. The look on her face wary. He cocked his head and gave her a slow devious looking smile.

"Afraid of me baby girl?" It wasn't so much a question. Merely him sensing her weakness and pointing it out to her. She shook her head no and he smirked at her and was tempted to call her a liar, but held his tongue as she looked at his bed then back at him. She wanted to stay well out of reaching distance just in case this was some sort of game he and his brothers were playing with her.

You know, like having one play the part of a bad guy and having the other play the part of a good guy when in all actuality they were both evil or something. He stared at her then shrugged and dropped himself into the chair and then looked at her expectantly.

She walked over to his bed and hesitated for a second as he said. "You know, if I was a cruel person, then having you sit way over there wouldn't stop me from reaching you if I really wanted too-" She turned her head and looked at him, her entire body tense and he grinned at her and continued speaking. "I'm fast on my feet baby girl, so no amount of distance you put between us would keep me from reaching you if I really, really wanted too. I'd be on you before you could so much as scream-" He shrugged and sighed then said.

"But I'm not a cruel person and reserve my speed for something better than scaring little girls."

She glared at him for a second as she mulled over his words, then asked. "Is that your round about way of putting me at ease?"

He gave her a mock surprised look and leaned back in his chair. "No. That wasn't what I was doing at all. I was just telling you a simple fact about me that might prove helpful in the future. Ya know, just in case you annoy me and have to make a run for it."

Truth be told he was trying to put her at ease around him. He just wasn't the sort to pick on defenseless girls. She had surprised him a little bit though when she had asked him if he was trying to put her at ease, he hadn't expected her to pick up on what he was doing so soon. She sat down on his bed and he smiled then, a real, genuine smile and decided to try and get to know her a little better and started asking her questions.