Yuki POV

It's been a few weeks since I last saw Hidan and since then the hotel that I was staying at was attacked by two other Akutsuki memembers and my room was demolished the fight. Since then the current hokage made me move into her place and I have been taking a vacation of sorts until the hotel is repaired.

I was currently walkign around trying to get a picture of the main village. I have been at this for a while and I can't get it. I'm lucky to possess the ability to do this, but I still get lost by the end of the day and Shizune has to come find me. I feel like a child, so useless and blind. Not only sight, but to what I can normally do. I can't cook very well, I have to have someone help me, I can't even navigate the mansion that the hokage lives in. I normally have to have an escort in there. Everything feels the same and I can't differentiate the hall ways.

Caught in thought I mustn't have been paying attention to the blurred images of shadows that my chakra perseption creates because I felt myself falling. Before I felt the impact of the ground I felt hands clasp my elbows.

"Hey, you alright?" A semi-deep voice penetrated my thoughts. The person who caught me helped me straighten myself. I bowed a little to the person before me and hid my closed eyes with the bangs of my haircut. It's rather simple, bangs that touch just below my eyebrows that I have never had done and the rest flutters to just below my shoulder blades.

"I am, thank you, I should have been paying more attention to what was in front of me than to what was around me. May I ask your name?" Detaching myself from his soft grip on my elbows and straitening my kimono I started to feed chakra in a circle around us. I focused on trying to get an idea of his height and build.

"Hey, what do you think your doing?" He became angry and then I felt something pierce into my arm. With a cry of surprise I fell down. I heard footsteps running towards us and a gentle hand rest on my arm close to the forging object protruding from my arm.

"Hey, Yuki, sorry about this, it's going to hurt a little." The familiar voice of Ino fluttered into my ears as I was still panicking. I felt a sense of relief as the object left my arm and then my sleeve was lifted. I was then presented with gauze around my arm.

"Shika, what possessed you to attack a villager?" Ino helped me up and I kept my left hand over the spot that was bandaged. "She just came to the main village while her hotel room is being repaired from that Akatsuki attack. This is Yuki, the girl I told you about that rivaled me with knowledge on plants." Ino pushed me forward a little with a strong pat on the back. Stumbling I felt two familiar hands steady me.

"Sorry about that, I freaked out when I felt her chakra right under me. With all these Akastuki attacks I've been on edge lately. It's so troublesome." Shika seemed to ignore my presence and talk right past me to Ino. "Well, I have to report to Lady Tsunade, see you later."

"Wait right their! She is living there and as a punishment you will escort he back to the hokage, since she has been under her watch recently." Ino pulled Shika back to me and placed my hand on his arm.

"Now march." With that she turned to leave.

"What a drag. Well come on, I'm sure she'll follow us to make sure that I follow her order." He started to walk at a leisurely pace and made sure that I stayed with him. For a few minutes it was quiet and I stopped my chakra flow, cutting off every aspect of blurred vision that I had. I didn't want to anger him any further. Though I felt like I was going to trip over something I didn't want to entirely rely on Shika and so I took to shuffling my feet forward as much as that started to damage them on rocks that got caught under my feet.

Wanting to break the awkward silence I began a conversation, "Your name is Shika I presume? That is what I heard from Ino earlier, or did I hear wrong?"

"It's Shikamaru, she just calls me Shika for short. Yours is Yuki right? Sorry about earlier, I was just startled to feel your chakra presence in the ground."

"It is entirely my fault, for I did not mean to startle you." It seemed as if all was forgiven between us.

"So, why was your chakra in the ground, and why are you dragging your feet. They seem to be bleeding a little. Unless that small trail of blood behind you is one you oh so cleverly seem to be walking on?" He stopped and scooped me up walking a few feet to the left and i felt myself being set on something. Then I felt a hand on my foot and kicked forward a little at the surprise.

"Hey be still. I'm just checking to see the damage done to your foot." Calming down I let Shikamaru check my foot. "Huh, I'd say if you walk anymore it's going to get worse. As much as I don't want to do this, hop on."

"Hop on to what?" I tilted my head in confusion.

"My back, just come here." He had a slightly irritated tone in his voice.

"Where are you then?" Reaching out I tried to find Shikamaru without releasing my chakra into the ground. I felt a hand clasp mine and pull me forward. I fell onto a solid object than I felt his hands reach below my knees and pull me up.

"You couldn't see me a foot in front of you? Why is that?" I clasped my hands around his neck as Shikamaru started to walk. Burying my head in his chest so he couldn't see my face I felt like I wanted to cry.

"I'm blind. I have been since I was very, very little. The reason you felt my chakra under you was because I see with chakra. Not very well, but I can make out general shapes. The walls, chairs, anything on the ground, and people. If I try and concentrate that chakra to a specific area I can get a clearer picture, such as how tall a person is and their general form, an outline to say." I admitted. I really felt like crying as it felt like minutes before I felt a rumble in his chest. I heard the chuckle next.

"Well now, I really feel like an idiot and the bad guy. I threw a kuni at a defenseless blind girl, how old are you anyways? Twelve? Thirteen? You really talk well for a kid." Twelve or thirteen? He believe's I'm that young? Given I'm not much older than that I was always told I looked older than I was by a few years.

"I've just turned seventeen. I also have been able to fend for myself quite well." I retorted.

"Oh, then your not much younger than me. I'm almost eighteen. Will be in a few months time." I heard a door open and then I foot steps rushign over.

"Oh my, Yuki are you alright? What happened Shikamaru?" I knew that voice as Shizune's and the oinking as her pet pig.

"I freaked out threw a kuni at her and she became afraid and repressed her chakra from my detection. That led to her dragging her feet on the ground and she cut up her feet a little. Teh least I could do was bring her back here. Ino said she was staying here and I had to come get my next mission from Tsunada anyways, so I just carried her here. Will you take care of this issue while I get my mission?" Setting me gently on the ground he helped prop me onto Shizune and walked off. Releasing my chakra I got a blurred grasp of the room and walked on my toes. Continuing to a nearby seat Shizune told me to stay as she ran off to get a first aid kit.

~Time Skip~

Just as Shizune was finishing checking over my arm Shikamaru came into the lobby. As he started to walk over I began to stop the flow of my chakra in the ground. Getting I walked blindly over to where I last gathered that Shikamaru was. I outstretched my hand so that I wouldn't run into anything. As I walked forward I felt a hand gently grasp mine.

"You don't have to compress your chakra, I won't do anything to you, it was just reflex earlier and know that I know you don't have to worry." Shikamaru whispered gently. Nodding I slowly released my chakra back to the floor and was glad to have a general idea of the room.

"Hey do you want to get some lunch, my treat after what happened?" He offered and began to walk us to the door. "Does a cafe sound fine? I'm not big on fancy restaurants?" Exiting the building Shikamaru walked at a leisurely pace.

"Don't you have a mission to go on?" I questioned as we walked on.

"I was suspended from missions for my reckless behavior." He stated as he guided me to the left.

"For how long?"

"Until you get back into your own place."