It's been a while since I last updated. Hopefully you, my readers, are still interested. Also, My story Boo is now Out Stretched Hands. PLease read it and review it. There is yaoi but not much.

Previously

"What the fuck do you mean, we have to train that bitch?!" Hidan exclaimed crossing his arms over his muscled chest. Deidara simply nodded his agreement with Leader and left.

"Tobi will help! Tobi is a good boy!" He stood and left as well. Although on the outside he seemed to be excited, on the inside he was fuming and behind his mask he scowled. He forced himself to skip off in case someone was watching him. He had just passed the living room when a soft sound caught his attention, turning into the room. He watched as Yukiko's body shuddered and shook just as her back arched up off the couch, her hands looking like claws as they dug into the cushion beneath her.

It made him curious as to what plauged her sleep to make her body react as though fighting to survive. He activated his sharingan and knelt beside, leaning over to come eye to eye with her. He reached out and placed his hands against the sides of her face, intending to open her eyes. He had just eached to open an eye when they snapped open.

Feral gold met blood red and Tobi found himself inside Yukiko's dreamscape. At first there was nothing but a shifting feeling beneath his feet. He searched for Yukiko before looking down. It was there that he spotted her, a dim pale shape beneath a sea of blood. It was almost as though she were drowning in it, her hands stretching upwards towards the surface, her feet kicking uselessly in the thick liquid.

Tobi allowed himself to sink into the blood, grasping her out stretched hand and pulling her upwards with him until he stood on the bloody sea once more, this time with Yukiko held tightly to him.

"How? Why?" Yukiko tried to ask, shivering and coughing against the normally loud and irritating man, trying to clear her lungs of liquid. He still had his arms around her, warming her and preventing her from sinking back below the surface.

"I was curious. You kept thrashing about in your sleep." Tobi answered. He pulled them out of the dream and leaned back as Yukiko sat up, drawing deep lung fulls of air, coughing as though there was still blood in her lungs from her dreams. Yukiko hunched over her knees and coughed into her hands.

When she pulled them away there was a trace amount of bloody liqiud staining her palms. The sight made Tobi raise his eyebrows behind his mask. If her dreams were that real then it would be dangerous for her to sleep alone anymore.

Three weeks later...

Yukiko panted as her palm struck Itachi's chest dead center and sending him flying away from her. Her chakra flared blindingly bright as she blocked a kick from Kisame. She dodged Hidan's scythe , jumping to avoid Kakuzu's threads. She flash stepped to dodge Deidara's detonating clay birds.

She kept expecting Sasori to join in yet he hung back, his face void of any expression as he watched the progression of her training match. Pein stood next to him, his arms folded across his chest as he assesed her progress. She had made major improvements since they had first started training.

Tobi was bouncing beside the two, also observing. His exscuse was that the others would try to kill him for real instead of train her. When he had announced that he had scratched the back of his head and laughed nervously. It had reminded her of Naruto, almost seeing the same nervous grin imposed over Tobi's mask. She wondered if he truly was wearing that grin behind his mask.

A whirring noise whooshed past her left ear, recalling her attention to the match. She pulled her kunai and deflected the other shuriken that had been sent flying at her from Itachi. He smirked at her just as his ankle was grasped by sand. He lost his smirk and looked down just as the sand sent him flying into Kisame who had been charging at Yukiko with his sword.

'She shouldn't be able to use sand like that, then again she also used the flash step. I wonder what else she can inherently use...' Itachi mused as he straightened and hung back, studying the girl.

Deidara made a few detonating spiders and dropped them onto the girl below his flying form. Yukiko's eyes widened just as Deidara shouted, "Katsu!" The explosion made a small crater and the blond smirked at his art. Yukiko grinned as she grabbed the bomber from behind and blew against his ear.

Deidara tensed, his smile fading as he felt a cold blade touch his neck. He had thought that his atack had been successful.
"How did you escape my spiders?"

"Kage bushin no jutsu." Yukiko laughed as she tied the blond bomber up, forcing him to land before she tied his hands together, the mouths in his hands pressed tightly against each other to prevent his escape. She dragged the blond over to his partner who stood there and laughed quietly at Deidara's failure and embaressment.

Yukiko rejoined the remaining three. Itachi smirked at her victory as Kisame fought against her, his sword pressing down against her kunai. She was slowly being pressed down by the shark-nin's strength. Yukiko lashed out with foot, focusing chakra in her toes as they connected with the man's lower abdomen.

Kisame grunted and fell to one knee as the chakra flow in his right leg stopped, making it alomost impossible for him to stand. He bowed his head to acknowledge the red-head's victory just as Itachi pressed his kunai against her pale skin. She disappeared in a puff of smoke, a log dropping to the ground.

Itachi blinked at this, his only reaction to her clever move. Hidan charged at Yukiko, his scythe swiping towards her side. She dodged and moved forward into his personal space, her leg sweeping his out from under him. She crouched over his chest, her knees pressing on his shoulders, pinning the silver haired nin to the ground as she held her kunai to his throat.

Hidan released his scythe and put his arms flat to the ground above his head. His posture made her position above him suggestive and Yukiko blushed just as a steel blade pressed against her throat from behind, Itachi leaning his his mouth towards her ear, his breath brushing against her sensitive ear and making her shiver.

"You did very well, Yukiko. I'm impressed at your progress." Itachi murmured, making her shiver again. Hidan smirked underneath her and wrapped his arms around her waist, standing up with her pressed against him as Itachi withdrew his weapon. Her new position left her pressed between the Jashinist and the Uchiha much to Pein's amusement.

"Release her, Hidan." Pein commanded, walking over to the trio. Kakuzu and Konan follwed with Sasori not too far behind. Hidan reluctantly released Yukiko, placing a kiss against the girl's ckeek as he let go. Yukiko blushed and stepped out from him and Itachi.

"You did well, Yukiko. I beleive we can begin using you on missions now." Pein spoke, his voice deep as the others nodded around her.

"Thank you Pein-Sama." Yukiko bowed respectfully to him, her hair falling in a fiery curtain around her face, hiding it from him. She closed her fatigued eyes for a moment. She was very tired. The match had taken any extra energy she had. She almost jumped in surprise when a strong hand gripped her chin, lifting her face back up.

She looked up and met the violet of Hidan's eyes as it was his hand before she looked back at Pein. Her teal eyes locked with his, the gray of his Rinnenegan compelling her to keep her eyes that way. He frowned slightly at the black that circled her eyes. He could tell she hadn't been sleeping. Yukiko's eyes were very reminiscent of the young kazekage they had recently had at their old hideout.

"Go rest. You'll leave tomorrow with Itachi and Kisame. It's about time for us to finish collecting the Biju."

"Hai, Pein-Sama." Yukiko agreed to his request as Hidan let go of her face his curiousity satisfied as to why she had been attepmting to hide her face from the others. Yukiko had no intention of doing as Pein wished. She knew sleeping was a bad idea, having almost drowned last time.

She straightened as Pein dissmissed her. She walked back towards the hideout and waited until she could no longer see them before masking her chakra and leaping into the trees, climbing to the top of one and sitting on the strongest one up there, making sure it would support her slight weight.

'I can't let them get their hands on Naruto. I have to protect him at all costs, even if that means finding Sasuke and dragging him to help me protect him. The stubborn Teme. I'll have to tell him the truth about his brother before he actually did manage to kill his older brother.' Yukiko sighed soflty and closed her eyes breathing deeply, bracing herself for the confrontation that was surely to come.