Blackmail Chapter 19, a naruto fanfic

Mindless rant-

Oh my god! It's been two weeks since I was bale to post anything for my precious, precious Naruto! I felt like I was going mad. MAD! But I have been writing. Just not a lot of it has to do with Naruto. My kittens I have rediscovered some of my childhood loves-

Mighty Max

She-ra

Biker Mice from Mars (oh...I love em tall dark and furry with those boy next door personalities.)

Sonic the Hedgehog

I've even been passing my time writing a Sonic and Biker Mice fic or two. So if anyone likes warm and fuzzy hero's, please check them out. I need the criticism like I need my seizure meds. And I'm sure that I've been driving Caylpso Tchaka, and Cha's Aegis insane with my evil plot bunnies.

Seriously I've done nothing but whine to them the entire two weeks the site wasn't operating.

Anyways, here is the latest instalment of blackmail.

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Naru did as he asked and told him everything that Sauske had ever done to her and could barely keep his body from shaking with rage as he reached out and gently touched her cheek for a second before sliding his hand into her hair, combing the silken strands back from her face.

His expression savage, fierce. It was little wonder Naru told him and everyone else so little.

She didn't really trust them. And he couldn't fault her for that.

They had never really given her a reason to trust them. She had managed to single handedly dodge, defend and protect herself from the forced attentions of that-that viper, since her second year in the academy. Without help. Without guidance.

Without anyone knowing just what Sauske and everyone else had put her through.

It was sickening. It was crippling. It was completely and utterly terrifying to him just how close Naru had come to being destroyed time and time and time again.

He swallowed convulsively, trying to think of what he could say or do to let her know that he hadn't meant to ignore her so much when she had been his student. He hadn't meant to be one of the many, many people who had left her backed into a corner with no way out.

But he couldn't quite get the words out. He doubted that she would believe him anyways. So instead of speaking, he simply dropped his hand from her hair and grasped one of her wrists and pulled her off of the couch and into the floor in front of him and wrapped his arms around her and tried to still the slight tremor in his limbs as he thought, Sauske's punishment isn't nearly as bad as it should be. Sauske's punishment was a cake walk compared to what he had put Naru through and the copy nin planned to remedy that the next time he saw the little piece of shit.

"I-I'm so sorry Naru-" Kakashi breathed after several seconds of total silence as his arms tightened around her a fraction of an inch.

Naru was quiet. Peaceful. Tranquil. Calm.

Far too calm for someone who had just recounted close to seven years of nothing but torture at the hands of a comrade.

It scared him how calm she was. Her breathing was shallow, her pulse was normal. There was no emotion to speak of in her body language of anything else.

Naru closed her eyes for a second. She wanted to tell him not to be, wanted to tell him that if it wasn't for Sauske's harsh treatment of her, she never would have turned out the way she had. She never would have become something more than Sauske's toy-

But even she didn't really believe that. Deep down she knew that one of the reasons she had trained, fought, and pushed herself was because she had always wanted something more than out of her life. Something more than being knocked around by people and treated like she was an-an abomination when she had done nothing to deserve it.

She had held tightly to her pride, refused to back down, and though it had been agonizing for her. She had done what everyone had thought that she would never do.

She had made something of herself. She had become great. She was a hero, someone that everyone looked up too.

At least she had been until Sauske had dragged her name through the mud. But maybe that in itself was a small blessing in disguise. Kakashi certainly seemed to think so. And while marrying him and being with him for the next three years wasn't such a big thing, she couldn't help but wonder just how much of the arrangement was for her protection and well being. And just how much of it was to sooth Kakashi's conscience.

Okay kittens here is this chapter.