Hey everybody! Thanks for reviewing I tried replying to all of them sorry if I missed any of you. A special thanks to math music reading for encouraging me to start up again on fanfiction and finishing my stories, she also helped me out and gave me great advice! Not much Hinata in this chapter…sorry, but don't worry! She's ganna be everywhere in the next chapter, please tell me if you think the story is going too slow or too fast. I tend to have a problem with the speed of some chapters/stories. Well enjoy! :]

P.S. If I make any big mistakes in here imma ask math music reading if she could beta.

Chapter 2: Therapy

The room was wide and there were many objects that filled it like chairs and shelves overflowing with books and knick knacks. Sasuke, having almost been late on his 3:30 appointment didn't seem too apologetic to his psychiatrist whom the room belonged to.

"Okay, let begin this session with an update on your life. Go ahead and tell me everything that's been happening this past week." The psychiatrist sat down on his chair and crossed his legs, eager to listen. He had long blonde hair that had no sign of white; it was tied in a low thin ponytail.

Sasuke played with the various objects on his desk while contemplating about his week. He picked up a particular silver ball with his fingers and let it go; the string that bound it sent it hitting another ball resulting in a collision with another. The sound of the clacks went on as Sasuke pondered a bit more.

"You know you don't have to tell me if you don't want to, Sasuke. We can just sit here and wait as time flies by." Dr. Yamanaka, or rather Inoichi would like his patients to call him by his first name.

"Nothing much, same old same old, that sort of thing, you know." Sasuke picked up a ball from Inoichi's desk and fiddled with it, sitting down and dribbling the ball against the ground. "Doctor, you have a lot of toys around here…I thought you were an adult psychiatrist?"

"Well yes, I do have patients that tend to be in their later years. So, Sasuke, how has your brother been this past week?" Inoichi tried to stick with the session being about his patient, but didn't mind the questions Sasuke asked.

"That doesn't answer why you have so many toys. It's like a toy store in here." Sasuke tossed the ball at a small teddy bear that was across the room, knocking it off the shelf and onto the floor. He was ignoring the psychiatrist's question.

"Some patients like to reminisce about their childhood I like to bring toys so that they can relax a bit more. So how has your brother been?" He insisted on the question being asked, Sasuke sighed, a stoic look on his face.

"He's acting the same as always, helping dad with his work and occasionally coming back home for sleep and food, just the usual." Sasuke's voice was plain as he repeated familiar words.

He lied down on the long leather couch and put his arms behind his head, he didn't understand why the Inoichi kept on asking him about his family. They weren't the reason he had his OCD like behavior of odd and even numbers.

"Did he interact with you in any way?" Inoichi questioned, his patience being kept. Sasuke thought for another moment and nodded his head. "Well he did come into my room one night and pestered me about my appearance, but that's like I said—the usual." Sasuke pushed up his glasses.

"Sasuke, tell me again why you dress that way? You've told me once before that you were very popular; your appearance now is…" Inoichi hesitated, trying not to make a fool of the young boy if he was truly sincere on his looks.

"You can say it, it's very unattractive right? Well that's the point, but big brother just thinks it's a dumb idea. I just can't stand girls most of them are so annoying." Inoichi nodded and penned down Sasuke's response onto a piece of paper.

"Have you had any interaction with any girls in your class this week? What was her name again? That girl you fancy…ah Sakura, any good news about her?" Sasuke blushed intensely, making an adorable little nod of his head. He fiddled with his school uniform shirt which was abnormally too large for his body.

"We got to arrange seats today and I got to sit very near her, I haven't been this happy getting an odd number before." His blush lightened as he scratched the back of his head.

"That's great! Isn't that just proof that odd numbers aren't always, what you say 'evil'?" Inoichi enthused that Sasuke found one good point about odd numbers was disheartened when Sasuke replied with a maybe. Inoichi coughed and started off awkwardly.

"Well isn't that good for you. Now tell me, have you had any reactions to any of the girls in class?" Sasuke started to shake his head when the image of a girl flashed into his mind.

"Actually I did touch a girl's hand, it made me freeze for a moment but other than that I was fine…" Sasuke curled his fingers on his right hand and flexed them, a confused look on his face. Inoichi's eyebrow arched the slightest bit.

"That is certainly odd…" Sasuke's ears perked at the word, "I mean unusual for your reaction not to happen. Maybe we should test out the level of how close you have to be to a female to get a rash." Sasuke gave him the weirdest look.

"You're going to…test me? How?" A scared look grew on his face; he knew how twisted Inoichi could be when it came to testing. They knew each other ever since Sasuke developed his condition, sometimes his little sessions with him would have a month interval maybe even a year. Nowadays the sessions would be every Friday afternoon.

"Well…we're going to have to have a girl in here so-". He was interrupted with a loud cry from Sasuke.

"You…" his face contorted in disgust, "can't be talking about her are you?!" Sasuke pointed at him, his finger shaking as he gripped onto the tall side of the leather couch. Inoichi put his hands up to calm Sasuke down.

"Now, now, calm down Sasuke. I didn't say-", He stopped short again, as a strong female voice shot out into the room.

"Hey dad, can I come in now?" A very light blue eye peeked into the room, hoping she hadn't interrupted them in a bad time. Sasuke's suspicions increased with the appearance of the teenage girl that entered the room slowly.

She glanced at Sasuke for a moment, giving no note to his presence there seeing as to how she had already interrupted. "Dad, I've been waiting ever since class ended and I…" she slowed down her sentence as realization hit her and turned her head back towards Sasuke, taking a long hard look. Sasuke took this chance to analyze her as well.

"You've…got to be kidding me." They both said Sasuke in disgust and Ino in astonishment. Then just like that Ino burst into a huge bit of laughter, she held onto her sides and tried to muffle it which only caused her to involuntarily snort a little. Her face grew red, but not as red as Sasuke's, since, of course, it was him that she was laughing at.

"Inoichi you were planning this all along!" Sasuke jumped from his seat and hastily tried to get to the door, but to no avail as Ino stepped in front of it just as fast. Sasuke withdrew from her, a frown etched onto his face.

Seeing no options left he sat rebelliously onto the couch. Nobody spoke for awhile Ino took her chance. She started off with an apologetic tone and a weak smile.

"Listen Sasuke-kun, it's not my dad's fault I'm here. Well, he did tell me that he was seeing you every Friday, but that's beside the point. I asked him if I could meet up with you again, after all we are childhood friends right?" Sasuke's glasses glared a reflective light as more silence ensued.

Ino sighed and trotted to a seat next to her dad, her long legs crossing elegantly. She was surprised to see Sasuke's annoyed face get softer. "Friends huh…I haven't been considered one of those to anybody in a long time."

"So you forgive me for a surprise visit/meeting up with you?" Ino's eyes sparkled.

"No," he stated flatly. Her eyes fell flat in disappointment. He smiled a little, "but I might forgive you for this little surprise if you try not to touch me as much." Her expression was torn between a smile and a frown.

"You still get those reactions whenever a girl touches you?" He nodded. "Is that why you look like such a…pfft… nerd right now?" she stifled a laugh, covering her mouth with her hand. He glared at her for a moment and nodded his head again.

"Well fine, I don't have to touch you at ALL. I'm not a little kid anymore Sasuke." She lifted her chin and her nose was high in the air. Sasuke coughed a "yeah right" at her and she gave her own glare back at him.

"How long have you been dressing like that? I don't remember you being that way when you left, like when you were twelve." Seems like she took over the questioning in place of her father, he let the two youngsters talk as he wrote down all of Sasuke's responses.

"I did it before we entered our new town, made it much easier." he exhaled. "Ah, now that I think about it, I've got some pictures that I wanted to show you..." He rustled around in his bag for 2 seconds. "Where did I put those things…Oh I remember now, they're at home! I'll just run there and get them then…" He gripped his bag tightly about to pounce off the couch once again. He would have run if it wasn't for Ino's hand right in front of his face.

He froze. "Sasuke, dad did tell me he needed my services for something and I think I know what." She smirked. "I'm sorry Sasuke, but I think I'm going to have to side with dad on this." She moved her fingers in a playful manner, one almost touching his nose. "INO! Didn't you just promise not to touch me?!" Ino stuck out her tongue.

"Tough luck, I changed my mind hehe." Sasuke fell back into the couch feeling of defeat waved into him. If there was one girl he could never defeat it would be her, she always tricked him into giving his sweets to her and other random toys. A 7 year old genius boy getting conned out of his stuff by an average 7 year old girl, I must have been less smart than I thought. He gave another sigh, he could only have so many in a day.

"Okay, Sasuke just cooperate with us and we'll try to inflict as little damage as we can." Sasuke nodded very slowly and gulped, a sweat drop forming on his head. A blind fold went over his eyes and just to increase his comfort Sasuke adjusted it himself. "So what's with the blind fold?"

"It's there to make sure that it's just your mind not your body that's making you have a physical reaction to females." Sasuke sat stiffly, "You sure you know what you're doing Doc?"

"Trust me Sasuke. I have no idea on how you're going to react, but I'm sure you'll forgive me afterwards." Inoichi smiled. That's not what I wanted to hear, but I'll take it. Sasuke knew that he would indeed forgive the man later on. It still didn't occur to him if the test would leave him without harm or not so Sasuke just let Inoichi do whatever.

"You ready Sasuke? So we're just going to touch you on your hands and arms and see if you form a reaction. If you form a reaction to Ino's hand then it's your body that has the reaction but if it doesn't form a reaction then it's your mind that's creating the reaction." This made sense to Sasuke since he already had done similar tests to this one when he was little.

"Just so we don't mix up the result we'll both get one arm each." Sasuke wasn't worried…until he heard some sort of evil laugh that came from them both.

A little touching, prodding, and pinching later…

"…" Sasuke's blindfold was off. Both of the other two faces were in a worried smile, like they were caught doing something wrong. He checked his left arm first to see that it was covered in a purplish color, almost like a huge bruise covered him. He looked at his right arm and almost couldn't see anything, but upon closer inspection found very irregular, tiny, pink dots on it.

"…"

"This…" he raised his purple arm, "can't be because you were pinching me."

"A reaction on BOTH arms wasn't what I was expecting Sasuke, honest." Inoichi, after putting his gloves on, grabbed the purple arm gently, Sasuke winced and hissed to bear the pain. "Sorry, did that hurt?"

"It just stings a bit." Inoichi inspected Sasuke's hand very carefully. "I only touched your hand lightly too…I believe that your reaction is clearly based on your mind. A reaction to a male has never happened to you before, but when you were unsure to who was touching you your mind put up a strong defense to the point where your immune system would temporarily weaken."

"Oh I see…" Sasuke understood, while Ino gave a shake of her head dismissing all the talk since she couldn't understand the technical terms. "I've never had a reaction like this either, these tiny itchy dots. I'm going to have a hell of a time counting all of these dots, thanks a lot Ino."

He grabbed some ointment that they had at hand before they started the test and dabbed it onto his arms making sure he didn't miss a spot.

"What are you talking about Sasuke? Don't ALL girls give you that reaction? Or is it just me." She pointed to herself.

"Well different girl equals different reaction. I think whatever happens to my skin depends on my mind and my body."

"Give me a second to write all this down. Ino, could you take pictures?" He tossed her the camera with the pen in his other hand. Flashes started taking place. Sasuke started to get uncomfortable.

"I thought this was supposed to be a relaxing environment, ." A huge emphasis was placed on the word doctor. He laughed out loud.

"Well Sasuke maybe you're just special…" His face turned from jolly to a thoughtful look. "Wait, wasn't there a girl you touched before that only made you 'freeze'?" A light bulb idea popped up in his head, if his assumptions were correct than Sasuke had the slightest chance to fix his problem.

"Yea…but I think it was because I was surprised by the touch. Nothing else really happened." Wait, doesn't that mean she has no affect on me?

"Hold on, you guys are telling me there's this girl that doesn't even give Sasuke ANY reaction?! You notice this just now?!" Ino smacked their heads. "We have someone that can help him out! You guys sure sound like geniuses most of the time, but when it comes to the most obvious stuff you don't have a clue!"

Sasuke still wasn't following or rather he didn't want to follow where this was going. Suddenly the back of his head felt like it was on fire. "Ino..." He scratched the small bump he had on his head. Ino panicked, "S-Sorry Sasuke, accidents happen hehe… Anyway! We've got to get that girl to help you out, but how? No girl would go near you if you look like that Sasuke," she paused to laugh a little, "you look really ridiculous."

Ignoring the itch on his scalp he continued the conversation. "Well it's not my fault my arms are purple and polka dotted."

"I didn't mean that! Your hair, your glasses, and look at what you've done to your precious skin!" She reached out to touch his face, he responded with a weird animalistic growl. "What's up with your uniform, you do know most uniforms are supposed to fit. I think we're going to have to give someone a little make over." Before she finalized her plans Sasuke interrupted.

"Ino, if I let you give me a make-over I'm going to be…" Sasuke led her to answer the question knowing that she would come with a contradiction to the whole make-over idea.

"HOT! I could totally make you over into a total hottie and it won't even be that hard. With the right products and clothes I could practically make you into a model. Girls will be all over…you. Oh… That's bad, Sasuke what can we do then?" Her face grew very worried.

"How should I know? I'm opposed of the whole idea of getting close to a total female stranger." He said passively.

"A female stranger that could very well cure your body and mind of this weird sickness you have." Inoichi added in. Brainstorming for a way to get through his problem without talking to that girl and still getting a cure was proving difficult.

He cracked.

"Fine. What am I supposed to say to her? 'Hi I'm Uchiha Sasuke, and I need you to touch me?" Sarcasm was thick in his voice.

"No, ew gross, I wouldn't even want to touch you." Ino spat.

"Well too bad, because you just touched me to your hearts content earlier, Ino." Sasuke retorted. She merely ignored his comment.

"Point is, Sasuke, you can't say it like that. We have to make sure she doesn't give you a reaction before we tell her the whole deal. Plus you'd sound like a pervert if you asked her that. I'm thinking more of an accidental touch or a flirty touch, bleh." Sasuke was pretty sure she added in that 'bleh' by accident. She had a point though; he didn't want to sound like a pervert.

"Is there no other way?" They shook their heads. "Give me a moment." He took out a something he always has in his pockets or in his backpack somewhere. He closed his eyes, they looked at him skeptically but didn't ask anything; they already knew that Sasuke was abnormal so they were ready for any surprise he was going to throw at them. He shook whatever he had quickly in his cupped hands and threw it against the far wall.

"Sasuke just what are you doing?" Ino's eyes were big. Sasuke stood up passing both of them on the way to the far wall. His silence prompted them to follow him. "I threw a pair of dice, if they're even then I'll go for it, but if its odds then absolutely not."

They stood next to the pair of tiny dice and leaned over to get a better look. A gasp filled the room. Doubles staring them in the face, and not just any doubles…A pair of six, making it twelve on a pair of dice…

"Evens, phew, you going to stick to your bet Sasuke?" Inoichi wrote down on a notepad all of Sasuke's movements that happened in the past 5 minutes.

Sasuke stared at the dice longer and picked them up, rattling them in his hands. "Well, let's hope she's the type to like nerds."