Naruto woke up to see the masked ninja take off her mask, to reveal a pretty, black haired girl looking down at him, and one bright red sharigan eye. He immediately jumped up to his feet, backing away.
"Sasuke? Since when were you a girl? And why is your hair so long?" He yelled out, surprised at Sasuke's sudden feminine looks.
"Sasuke? Uchiha? Do I look like him?" The girl muttered back, her face and voice clearly expressing annoyance.
Naruto peered closer at her face and jumped back again, having seen that face before. One eye had sharigan while the other was a greyish-blue colour. A pale face, and black, long hair, with lengthy side bangs loosely covering the non-sharigan eye.
"You're that girl from the drawing! Sai's drawing!"He exclaimed, pointing his finger at her, "And...you... kissed...Sasuke..." he faded off, a blush creeping across his face.
"Huh? Since when did I kiss him? The closest contact ever was when we tried to defeat each other using genjustu and our foreheads nearly collided," A frown was evident on her face.
"Ah...haha...hahahaha..." Naruto laughed awkwardly.
"You should thank me... if I wasn't there, those black fire balls would've killed you..."
"Black fire?"
"Amateratsu... only the user is able to stop it..." She replied, sighing as she looked down at her hands.
"Why did you save me?" Naruto asked, suddenly feeling bad, noticing the girl's sad face.
"I need help...from you... Jinchuriki of the Nine tailed fox."
A wide grin spread across Naruto's face, insanely happy that someone was asking HIM for help. "Just tell me, Naruto-sama, anything! I'll help ya!" He exclaimed, jabbing his thumb at his chest.
"Please! Help me go back to Konoha!" The girl kneeled down to him and bowed as she pleaded.
"Huh?" Naruto blinked rapidly, "Why?"
"I..." The girl blushed deeply, "I want to go back to Sai's side!"
"Uh..." Naruto looked down at the girl on her knees, not knowing what else to say, "What's your relationship with him?"
"You've.. heard about Shin, right? Sai's brother..."
Naruto nodded quickly.
"We... Sai, Shin and I...we were best friends.. but then... Shin died and Sai forgot about his emotions... and I... left them... and...do you know the feeling when you love someone so much, but it feels likes that person is growing farther and farther away from you and you have nothing else to grab on to?"
Naruto blinked slowly, thinking about Sakura and her feelings for Sasuke, then nodded again.
"Exactly, so...could you please help me?" The girl looked up at Naruto, her greyish blue and red eyes gazing in to his blue ones.
"Uh..." Naruto scratched the back of his head nervously.
"Please?"The girl's eyes almost sparkled and tears welled up in her eyes. The cutest face ever.
"Fine," Naruto muttered, then asked, "By the way, what's your name?"
The tears stopped, and she smirked, "I'm-"
Suddenly, the large rock that the girl used to block the entrance of the cave that Naruto and she was in broke down. A roaring tigeress emerged from the ruins, shaking her fist.
"NARUTO!" Sakura screamed, steam almost running out of her ears.
"Sakura!" Naruto exclaimed, jumping towards her, but felt a strong grip on his pant leg. He turned around to see the black haired girl sliding her mask back on, but someone's foot knocked it out of her hands, crushing it. Sai looked down at the girl, his gaze cold.
"What did you do to Naruto?" He asked, his voice sharp and dangerous.
"S-Sai..." she stammered, her eyes wide.
"Sai, watch out!" Yamato yelled, and sharp crackles of lighting pierced the air as Sasuke's chidori pierce the space that Sai had just been.
Sasuke Uchiha smirked at Sai, who had narrowly escaped the attack. His sharigan eyes glowed, the chidori still crackling in his right hand.
"You're lucky I missed on purpose," Sasuke uttered. He then turned to the girl still kneeling on the ground, giving her a quick glare as a signal.
The girl got up, her hair blowing lightly in the breeze. "Aw, Sasuke... don't be like that..." She smirked, pointing at Naruto, and murmured, "Goodbye."
A small snowflake of ice that had been attached to Naruto's back enlarged rapidly, the ice enveloping Naruto's body, freezing him to the ground.
"Oh no, you don't!" Sakura yelled, dashing forward, straight-on to the black haired girl who had set the ice trap.
In a flash, the girl with one sharigan eye was behind Sakura, planting another snowflake on her back. The snowflake enlarged rapidly, the edges growing out to Sakura's arms, then freezing them. Ice gathered at the black haired girl's arm, sharpening in to a long sword. Stepping on the back of Sakura to hold her down, she grinned, looking at Naruto from the corner of her eye, pointing her arm-blade to Sakura's neck.
"My name is Yuki, the Snow Woman," Yuki smirked, but was interrupted by long arms of wood erupting from the ground and reaching out to grab her.
"Yamato, wait!" Sakura stopped him, rising from the ground, her arms still frozen and quite useless, being so heavy and numb, "It's my fight."
Yuki smirked, then wagged her finger at the pink haired girl, ready to take her on. Suddenly, the ice around Naruto cracked, then brok apart as Yuki let her focus drop from him. She licked her lips, ready to strike again at Sakura with her arm-ice blade. As soon as Naruto was freed, he hurried to help Sakura, but Sasuke's chidori approached him with lightning speed, his sharigan eyes focused on Naruto.
"Sasuke...!" Naruto yelled, countering with a rasengan.
Yuki clashed with Sakura and her frozen arms, driving the pink haired brat back as her ice blade grew closer to striking her in the heart. Sakura punched Yuki's shoulder with all of her strength. This punch usually drove opponents flying in to the air, but Yuki simply blocked it with her free, bare hand.
"Is that everything you got?" She asked, then muttered, "You have no right to be fighting along side Sai with such feeble skills!"
"Huh?" Sakura blurted out, startled.
Yuki used that chance to thrust her ice blade straight at Sakura's chest, foreseeing the blood dripping down the clear, smooth ice. Sai grabbed Yuki's wrist from behind her, bringing it close to him as he pointed his short sword at her back. Kicking Naruto away, Sasuke dashed over to Yuki and Sai, pulling the girl away by her waist, then carrying her outside of the cave.
Outside, Sasuke set her down and they both disappeared with a flash, leaving behind only faint traces of tears from Yuki's eyes. All of the ice shattered in to dust, freeing Sakura's arms.
"What was that about?" Naruto wondered, rubbing the place where Sasuke kicked him. Yamato didn't say anything, and Sai only stared at his hands, clenching, then relaxing them again.
"Who was that girl? How come she's so strong?" Sakura growled, enraged.
A soft chuckle was heard, which grew into laughter. Yamato, Sakura, and Naruto watched Sai as he laughed, covering his eyes with one hand. He continued to chuckle, then one lonely tear ran down his face.
Sai let the tears run down his face as he laughed, "She's alive..." he whispered, his heavy heart becoming a bit more light, in relief.
