Kakashi looked at himself in the piece of silver metal that Naru held up over his face so that he could see, and blinked in shock. The once scarlet eye of his fallen Uchiha friend, Obito was now an vivid emerald green. Holy shit- His Sharingan was missing!

Well, maybe not missing. But it certainly looked like it was missing; what with the lack of scarlet coloing and those little comma like marks that circled the pupil.

What the hell? Kakashi wondered as his breath started to come out in short erratic bursts. What the fuck had the Kyubbi done to his eye? He thought hysterically as he continued to hyperventilate as Naru laid aside the sliver of metal and leaned over him and framed his face in her hands, gently and demanded, "What is going on?"

Kakashi tried to- and somehow managed to shake his head no, his face going chalk white as pain rippled down his spine. There was absolutely no way in hell he was telling her anything. She hadn't deserved what had happened to her and he wasn't going to risk bringing such horror, pain, and suffering to the surface of her memories.

Not now. Not ever.

He'd sooner bite off his own tongue and die first. "Kakashi-" Naru called his name in an insistant tone, still he continued to shake his head no. Finally Naru got frustrated with trying to get him to tell her what was wrong and in a tipical, yet not entirely unwarrented move, slapped him hard across the face.

His head snapped to the side, sending a jolt of pain through him and before he even realized what he was doing he heard himself shout, "OW!"

Hn how about that, it looked like his voice was functioning again. He mused as he took his time in turning his head back in it's original position and noted that Naru had her back plastered against the bed and was looking at him with wide apologetic/horrified eyes as she sputtered. "Oh m-my g-g-god K-K-Kak-shi I d-d-didn't m-mean-"

He sighed tiredly. "It's alright Naru. Don't worry about it." The slap may have hurt me, but that is nothing compaired to what I've done to you. Kakashi thought as he did a mental check of his body. Checking to see what he could move without hurting himself. So far he could move his toes and fingers.

Not a huge improvement but it was something.

He just wondered how much longer he'd be unable to move. He was worried that something might happen to Naru while he was flat on his back. For instance one of the reasosn's he'd been acting so paranoid since coming to the town they were in was partially because he feared that the men that had forced him to hurt Naru, may have sent someone to retrieve them for more torture.

He hoped not. But demon contracts were tricky things and he wasn't sure just how totally binding the contract he'd signed was. What if those sick fuckers somehow found a loophole and decided to exploite it?

He blinked at the thought of a loophole and wondered if maybe he could have found one to exploite himself so that he wouldn't have had to rape Naru.

The thought had never occurred to him before but now that it did...he felt so much worse for not paying closer attention. There is little that you can do about it now Hatake. You made your choice, for better or worse, and now you have to live with what you've done. He chidded himself as he tried a little harder to move his body.

It hurt like a son of a bitch but after about five minutes or so he was able to push himself upright and might have fallen if Naru hadn't moved away from the bed and placed herself behind him and slipped her arms around his torso.

He jumped a little, just a bit startled by her closeness and lifted one gloved hand and laid it over hers and curled his fingers around it, feeling the delicate bones under his finger tips as she sort of clumisly pulled him over to the bed and wound up trapped between him and the bed. "Maa, as much as I apprieciate the help Naru...I think you're stuck." He said in a half teasing tone.

Naru grunted and dropped her head onto his left shoulder and waited for a second or so before saying, "I think you may be right." She squirmed a little bit and tried pushing against his back in an effort to move him just enough to escape, but it was no good. He was too heavy for her to budge in her current position.

"Crap your heavy sensei." Kakashi chuckled softly at her comment, feeling some of the weight and horror of the past few days lighten just a tad.

"Sorry. I'll move...as soon as I can get my legs to work again." Kakashi said wryly. Naru lifted her head from his shoulder and shook it then dropped it back down into place on his shoulder and left it there for a while.

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