"Awareness flickers on-" Kakashi said absent mindedly as he sat on the edge of the bed with his hand over Uzu's eyes. She stirred slightly a soft moan escaping her throat. "Awareness flickers back off." Uzu stilled.
Kankuro, and Genma walked into the room and frowned. "We put the groceries away."
"Now tell us why our little sister is unconscious." Kankuro said in a warning tone as he looked at Kakashi. Kakashi glanced back at them and shrugged his shoulders.
"I honestly can't tell you anything guys. I have no idea what happened to her. All I know was that she was completely and utterly terrified of something." Kakashi said as he rubbed the bridge of Uzu's nose with his thumb. Tracing the strait line and committing it to memory along with other small details like the softness of her skin and the pale pink color of her lips.
Kankuro frowned a little more and studied Uzu. Her face was pale, even under Kakashi's hand, her breathing soft and shallow indicating deep sleep. "Was she alone for any length of time?" Genma asked curiously.
Kakashi stiffened slightly and turned his head to look at them again. "For a minute or so. She started acting strange when she came back."
"Strange?"
Kakashi nodded his head sagely, his expression sober. "When she came back, she didn't talk even when I asked her something, she had her hood up over her head, pulled down over the top half of her face-"
"Like she was hiding?" Genma asked. Kakashi frowned and nodded his head again.
Now that he thought about it, that's exactly what she seemed to be doing. Hiding. And to make things even more puzzling, he had found a box cutter in her jacket pocket earlier when he had stripped off her jacket. He had wondered where she had gotten the damn thing, then had said a silent prayer of thanks because she hadn't pulled it on him with the intention to use it when she had been freaked.
"I found a box cutter in her jacket pocket earlier-"
"Where the hell could she have gotten something like that? We don't use box cutters here." Kankuro said out loud as he tried to think.
"She probably got it at the store."
"You mean she jacked it?" Kankuro asked with a look of shock on his face. Kakashi hesitated for a second then nodded his head.
"Yeah. Probably."
"But Uzu wouldn't do that! She's a good girl."
"She's a fucking saint compared to the lot of us. But like I said before, she was utterly terrified..."
"And fear does strange things to people-" Genma said softly.
"Yeah." Kankuro agreed as Kakashi turned his head to look at their sister again and brushed her long silvery blond hair back away from her face and said.
"Now we just have to figure out what it is baby girl is so afraid of..." Kakashi said as he ran his fingers along the little frown lines on her forehead. Kankuro shifted behind him and moved a little closer and asked.
"Do you want to cancel the party until she's feeling better?"
"No-" Kakashi said firmly. He didn't know about them but he knew that Uzu would need a good distraction once she woke up or she would just lock herself away in her room and worry needlessly. "The party is still on. We just need to keep our eyes on her just in case whatever or who ever scared her makes an appearance."
"Is there anything in particular that we should look out for?"
Kakashi thought for a second or so then perked up a little bit as an idea came to him. He hadn't told Genma and Kankuro about Uzu's before mentioned crush on some mystery boy. And since she hadn't given him the guys name yet, then everyone was suspect. "Actually Uzu did say something a tad suspicious earlier today..."
The two brothers perked up, the wheels in their minds turning like mad and Kakashi grinned evilly. "About what?" Both brothers asked in unison before turning their heads and glaring at each other for a second or so.
"She said that she met a guy that she really liked..."
"Say no more Kakashi. We'll find out who the son of a bitch is." Kankuro growled.
Genma cracked his knuckles ominously and smiled. "And we'll find out if he's the one who scared our dear baby sister while we're breaking off a few things.