"Yuki... Yuki..!" A voice whispered to her, calling her out of her sleep. Sensing chakra different from hers or Sakura's, Yuki raised her arm to the body of chakra, ice starting to shape on her hand like a blade.

"It's me, Yuki. It's Sai," the voice muttered again and Yuki blinked open her eyes to see Sai's face only inches away from her.

"Ah... It...It's only you, Sai," she let out a sigh, relieved, as the ice disappeared and she sat up quietly, rubbing her right eye, "Why are you here? It's still nighttime, isn't it?"

"It's... two in the morning."

"Two in the morning? I'm going back to sleep!" Yuki grumbled, lying back down and pulling the covers over her head.

"I.. need to talk to you..."

"...Huh?"

"Can you come out with me for a second?" Sai pleaded.

Yuki raised her head and glanced at Sakura, who was sound asleep, and nodded, "Fine."

Yuki stretched out a bit, and shuddered. It was cold in the nighttime, even though she was an ice elemental. She tugged at bit at her scrubs, then looked up at Sai, "So? What did you need to talk about?"

Sai didn't answer and just gave her a blank look. Annoyance started to creep up her skin and Yuki growled, "What is it? You brought me here in the forest, outside of the village! Now, what is it?" she motioned to the dark woods around them.

Sai opened, and closed his mouth, as if he was about to say something, and then finally asked, "I... want... to know... your feelings..."

"Feelings?" Yuki blinked rapidly and her heart skipped a beat as a faint blush rose in her cheeks. She closed her eyes for a moment, and then reopened them, regaining her confidence, "Yeah, I'm annoyed... and cold right now!"

"About Sasuke."

Yuki stared at Sai for a really long while, his black eyes returning the blank gaze. The girl's fists clenched and she smirked.

"You... want to... know.. my... feelings... for …. Sasuke?" she growled.

"Yeah... I-," Sai started to say.

"Idiot! Bastard! Forget it! Don't talk to me again! Ever!" Yuki exclaimed, turning her back to him and starting to walk away.

"Yuki, wait!" Sai called out to her, starting to run after her, but Yuki didn't turn back. He grabbed her arm and pulled her back, "Answer my question!"

Yuki wrenched her arm away from him and punched him squarely on the side of the face, causing him to be pushed back. She let her arm fall to her side again and she muttered, "Why do I need to answer a stupid question to a clueless guy like you? You... You are such an idiot! You can't even tell that I was only playing with him! That I only like you-"

Yuki's mouth stopped in its tracks and she quickly covered it with her hands, and turned her back to him again, her body slouched, and her shoulders lifted, as if on guard.

"Forget it... Forget what I said... I'm going back... this place gives me bad memories..." she muttered.

Sai blinked rapidly at Yuki's back, a sharp pain attacking his chest when those words escaped her lips. A warm feeling grew right after the pain, bringing a blush to his cheeks and making him, extremely happy. He thought, So... what she showed me in her genjutsu... was true... then... she didn't love Shin that way after all? And she doesn't like anyone... but me...

Yuki glanced back at him and froze, startled, when she saw his whole face a deep red, and her face started to have the same colour. She hit him sharply on the head and said, "Don't think too deeply about it!"

She quickly turned away again and continued her walk to the Hidden Leaf Village when warm, strong arms wrapped themselves around her and held her tightly against their owner. Yuki's heart started to beat fiercely, as if it was going to pump out of her chest. She clutched her hand to her chest, begging for the rapid beating to stop and be silent so that Sai wouldn't hear.

"What..." she whispered.

"I'm... glad... you... don't like Sasuke..." Sai whispered in her ear, hugging her tightly.

Yuki blinked rapidly and squealed inwardly to herself, thinking, Wow... I feel so nervous... it's the first time I've felt like this since I left Konoha many years ago... wait... this doesn't feel right.

"Do you feel happy, too?" Sai asked her.

"Uh... did you get this from a book, Sai? Maybe even a shoujo manga...?"

"Oh. Yeah," he smiled, released her, and pulled out a shoujo manga from his bag, "I read that the guy hugged the girl from behind when she was about to leave when they were alone and the guy had feelings for her and didn't want her to leave."

"I had a feeling... you... got that from... a shoujo... manga..." Yuki said, thinking, Advantages and disadvantages of being an otaku... Besides, there's no way Sai would be that smooth... and sexy... wait, maybe sexy, but...

She tilted her head, realizing something and she started, "Hey... does that mean... you..." she froze, stopping her speech, and she pulled Sai close to her, her arms spread out to protect him. Yuki glanced around them, feeling a chakra that she recognized, but was cold, and evil. She didn't move another muscle until she couldn't sense the chakra anymore.

"Is there someone here?" Sai qustioned her.

"No, he's gone...Ah!" Yuki cried out, her hand quickly going to her right eye; her sharigan eye. Tears of blood had started to run out again and her vision blurried for both eyes.

"Yuki!" he reached out his hands to her face, trying to help her, but she pulled away, her hands covering her face now.

"Yuki, what's wrong? What happened to your eye? Show me your face!" Sai demanded.

"No... I... won't... I... can't... see..."Yuki's voice was muffled through her hands.

Sai grabbed her wrists and forcibly tore her hands away from her face, and saw her pale, beautiful face bloodied with tears from her sharigan. Her normal eye was clouded and no light appeared again, as if it was lifeless.

"I look hideous, don't I?"she whispered, "All because of my sharigan..."

"No, you don't-"

"It's going to end soon. This happens often. This happened a lot for Sasuke, too. Let's go back to the village."

"But-"

"Let's go back, Sai!" she said, her voice exasperated and the two of them slowly headed back to Konoha village.

Nearby, a dark figure was leaning against the trunk of a tall tree, watching the couple as they left. His arm's were crossed, and his red sharigan eyes shone brightly from the shadows. Another sharigan eye accompanied it, belonging to a masked man.

"So, Sasuke? Is it agreed we kill her?" Madara asked.

Sasuke nodded, his gaze securely placed on the black haired girl from afar. He muttered, "Soon you'll become blind, Yuki, and then... I... I will destroy you in front of your loved one."

Yuki: 0.e

Me: *erases her memory from reading the very last part*

Yuki: *blinks then walks off*

Me: *turns to readers* Please review and don't keep Yuki waiting for the development between her and Sai!