This is another story about Yume and her hateful relationship with Kabuto. This time, Yume was somehow kidnapped by Kabuto in an unknown place where no one else was here except for herself and Kabuto. Consider this... a game of two medical-nins.

Prologue: A Nightmare Game

Somewhere in an unknown place, Yume Yukisaki, the Hyūga's ally from Konohagakure, became unconscious while lying down on a bed and then woke up as she found herself in the room by herself. She became confused how did she end up here unknowingly in a strange place and doesn't remember about what happened to herself back then.

"Where... am I?" asked Yume.

Suddenly, she felt a sudden faint and light pain from her left arm.

"My arm. What's going on?" asked Yume as she realized and became confused when she saw her left arm, wrapped with new bandages, after she woke up and found herself in a unknown location. She also wore a white yukata much to her confusion.

"I see you're awake."

She heard a voice she recognized and knew that it was the one who took her. She turned around and knew it was him all along as he opens the door to see her. A man with a gray hair kept in a ponytail and black eyes, and wears circular glasses, a dark purple shirt with a white undershirt and a white obi around his waist worn at an angle, dark purple pants and a shuriken holster on his right leg.

"Kabuto..." she realized.

He moved closer to her to unbandage her left arm knowing that her arm is already healed while she is unconscious. Yume moved away from him as Kabuto came towards her, but her left arm hurt her faintly after mysteriously kidnapped by him.

"Let me take the bandages off from your arm, my dearest Yume. You shouldn't move quickly with that faint injury of yours." explained Kabuto as he sat on the bed next to her and gently grabbed her left hand to unwrap the bandages.

She felt uncomfortable as he grabs her left wrist when he was about to unbandage her arm, which it was slightly injured at some point. She knew that she still couldn't trust him as always even he killed her sensei who was important to her three years, but gave up her hatred and revenge. Her former revenge gave her pitiful hatred towards Kabuto that she can't trust him when she first met him and realized that he killed her sensei because of her katana, which it was formerly belonged to her sensei before his death. She looked away from Kabuto as he unwrapped the bandages around her left arm, and he recognized how she felt.

"I see you still can't trust me, as always." Kabuto remarked.

Yume became reluctantly silent when he realized that she couldn't trust him.

"Where am I and why you're here?" she asked, knowing that she doesn't remember how she was captured by Kabuto. "You kidnapped me, did you?"

He grinned as he finishes unwrapping the bandages from her arm.

"So you knew. I'm very grateful that you knew about what happen to yourself while you were unconscious as I tended your wound from your left arm." explained Kabuto as he caresses her face much to her shock. She felt uncomfortable when her face was touched by someone she would never trust at all. Yume pushed him away from her, knowing that he tries to entice her to become his test subject and puppet at most.

"I... still... can't trust you at all." flustered Yume.

"I know," replied Kabuto. "But... you won't find a way out to escape from this place."

She became confused as Kabuto explained to her that she won't find a way to escape from this mysterious place after being kidnapped by him while she was somehow unconscious.

"Why can't I escape from this place? What was that mean? I don't understand," she asked. "I want to know why..."

"This place that we are here now... is like a maze as the former locations that Orochimaru-sama used for test subjects. However, he became less interested in this and gave up already three years ago. So I received permission from him to use this former place," explained Kabuto.

"When did you receive permission from him?" she inquired as she wondered about Kabuto receiving permission from Orochimaru, the Sannin and the founder of Otogakure.

"I received a permission from Orochimaru-sama... while you're unconscious." he answered.

She felt afraid when Kabuto answered to her that he received permission from Orochimaru after he kidnapped her for strange reasons while she was unconscious. She sensed something strange about this mysterious place after being kidnapped by him for unknown reasons.

"Where is this place? This strange place... It feels like... a nightmare, but I wonder... I wonder it's not a dream at all just now." she thought.

Kabuto grinned as he saw Yume's face became emotionless like a doll, being wanted by someone she hate so much and she always never trust him for what he did before she received her hatred and revenge. He came towards to her ear and began to entice her as he whipsers to her.

"According to Orochimaru-sama before he gave up as he became less interested, this hideout was known as the Seven Stages of Nightmares," he whispered to entice her.

"Seven Stages... of Nightmares?" she replied as she heard about this strange hideout.

All the sudden, she felt strange emotionless feelings inside of her from her faint feelings of her true self when Kabuto whispered something to her about the seven nightmares. She tried to resist it, but somehow realized that she already became manipulated so easily and early as she began to pass out after she felt strange feelings on the seven stages beyond the nightmares. Her eyes became hazy and unwillingly began to close itself and Yume became unconscious after she felt strange nightmares towards her.

He caught her quickly, but gently and lays her to sleep in order to recover her hazy condition. He began strode towards to the door after Yume fell asleep and shuts the door. Grinning, he knew that the game for his dearest Yume has just begun after she fell asleep unconsciously when hearing a game of nightmares and began to walk towards the mysterious door where it may lead to nightmares, which also leads to the seven nightmares. He touches the door to the seven nightmares and felt the feeling that the seven nightmares are waiting to see Yume's strength, solitude, and her survival for the seven trials.

"The game of the Seven Nightmares... for my dearest Yume..." Kabuto remarked, ready to be see his precious dearest Yume and her techniques even her Kekkei Genkai that they are very special to him. He knew that the seven nightmare are waiting impatiently for the beginning of the game for his special dearest when he enticed her to pass out in order to start the game and recover her hazy condition into her own reality of her dreams to begin her journey. "...has begun."