She doesn't know who she is nor where she comes from. She doesn't understand when someone is addressing her, and she can't say anything herself. Two men rescue her when she runs into a group of abusers. However, what are their own intentions?
Hatake...
The next moment Kakashi drew back abruptly. His eyes were wide open.
"Kakashi?" Arina called out, confused, raising herself on the elbows. "What... what is it?"
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"Never. Do you hear me? Never. Say that. Again. Ever," Kakashi snapped. With a sharp gesture he readjusted the slightly displaced mask. His gaze was very much the way he looked at her back when he shot up after that nightmare: an inconceivable combination of rage, pain and horror. There was also some incomprehensible detachment in his appearance, as if he did not recognize her.
"I'm sorry, I..." Arina swallowed hard, reflexively pulling the dress over her chest.
After a little hesitation, she reached out to him timidly and tried touching his hand, but Kakashi jerked again. Then, for some reason, he looked at his right palm and clenched it into a fist. Arina felt a chill: he wasn't going to hit her, was he?
And then Kakashi turned away hastily, got up on his feet and a moment later Arina was left alone. She sat up and began looking around her, still trying anxiously to readjust her dress.
"Kakashi?" she called out almost in a whisper. Then she called once more, a little lounder: "Kakashi?.."
The bushes behind her began to rustle lightly. The girl turned around quickly at the sound. The rustle stopped almost immediately. Fully aware that it could hardly have been Kakashi, Arina shivered, wrapped her arms around her and began looking around with increasing panic.
"I don't understand... what happened..." she sobbed quietly. "Kakashi? Where did you go? Come back!"
For obvious reasons, Arina had been alone in the woods before, including during the night time – and strangely enough, it never scared her. But realising that Kakashi had abandoned her, she got truly scared for the first time ever, despite the fire nearby. She had nowhere to run and it would have been silly anyway – she wouldn't have been able to find their main camp in the dark – so she just lay on her side, curling up into a ball and grabbing her head so that she wouldn't hear anything, and on top of that squeezed her eyes shut.
"Kakashi, please... come back..." she almost whined.
She lay there like that for a while, quietly repeating his name and begging him to come back.
Finally, her prayers were heard and she felt his arms wrap around her from behind, and the next moment he was already pressing against her, hugging her in such a way, as if he was trying to absorb every bit of her essence. Arina let go of her head and immediately heard his agonized whisper:
"... forgive me, please forgive me... I'm an idiot, a worthless, crippled, unworthy of you idiot... please forgive me..."
"Kakashi!" Arina let out a sob, twisted and turned to face him, wrapped her arms around his neck. Kakashi strained her in his arms desperately again. Arina was doing her best to not burst out crying again – this time from relief. "I don't understand, honestly... I didn't mean to... I..."
