"Take that!" Sakura yelled out as she punched at the black haired girl.

Yuki smirked, blocking the blows with one hand, "You're still too weak," she said, grabbing the pink haired girl's wrist and throwing her off to the side. Sakura skidded to a stop, putting lots of chakra on the soles of her feet to stop herself. A grin curved up on Yuki face and she clenched one hand into a fist.

"I'll show you real power," she promised, and then punched the ground in front of her with her right hand, causing massive earthquakes, right before the ground started to spilt up. Towers of earth shot out of the ground, the force from her fist causing the ground to have large fissures, as the splitting ground headed straight for Sakura. Sakura bent her knees, already losing her balance, and right before she was about to jump out of the way, Naruto's rasengan burst through and stopped the force from splitting the ground any longer. Naruto then turned to Yuki and darted towards her, another massive rasengan beginning to form on his right palm.

Yuki straightened up and quickly formed multiples of seals, and muttered, "Twin Ice Dragon Jutsu!"

Two dragons of ice grew out from the ground and identically, they both headed straight for Naruto. Just when Naruto was about to throw the rasengan at Yuki, one of the two dragons blocked it with its long, icy neck, then shattered. The other dragon wrapped its long body around Naruto, keeping him still.

"Hey! Let go!" he yelled out.

Right after the words left Naruto's mouth, twin ink lions burst out from nowhere and crushed the ice dragon, disappearing along with it. Sai dashed out of his hiding place behind Yuki, wielding four kunai's in his hands. Yuki, who had already sensed his chakra approaching her from behind, performed multiple of seals again and whispered, "Ice Tiger Claw Jutsu."

Claws of ice grew on her knuckles like blades, four for each hand. They resembled cat claws, but on a human hand and two times longer than the kunai Sai was holding. Yuki spun around, just in time for her hand blades to clash with Sai's kunai. She smirked as the two blades struck each other, edge to edge, holding on until the other shattered. Sai pulled his kunai away from her for a quick second, then struck again and again, Yuki's ice blocking him each time. Her hand blades grew closer to slicing him each time, but her movements were stopped by strong branched of wood erupting from the ground and holding her arms still. The wood snaked up her body, wrapping itself around her until she was securely tied and the ice on her knuckles shattered.

Naruto, Sakura, Sai, and Yamato ran over to where Yuki was standing, the wood now slipping away. Naruto grinned, and put his hands behind his head.

"So? How was it? Was our Team Yamato combo great, or what?" he asked.

"That..." Yuki muttered softly, pausing.

Sakura, Sai, Naruto, and Yamato leaned in, excited for her opinion.

Yuki glared at them, a fire lighting up in her eyes and she yelled, "THAT WAS HORRIBLE!"

Naruto, Yamato, and Sakura blinked rapidly in surprise while Sai slowly put earplugs in his ears, which he retrieved from his bag.

"You're lucky that it was me, not Sasuke, Madara, or one of the Akatsuki! Well, I used to be, but... anyways, that's not the point! If I were Sasuke, instead of trapping you, or aiming straight at you, I wouldn't hold back and just kill you all with amateratsu! There was too much hesitation in your movements! There was so much time for me to attack, but I didn't!" she scolded them loudly.

"You, Naruto!"

Naruto flinched when Yuki turned to him and started to shy away, very frightened by her glare.

"You, aren't you a wind type? And aren't wind types supposed to be fast? You are slow! Too slow! Fix your speed! And you, Sakura!" she then turned to the pink haired girl.

"If you are going to only focus on taijutsu, then learn about speed and swiftness! Even your power is too weak! Just because you can bash up a few boulders, big deal! Start to bash up mountains!" Yuki then turned to Yamato and opened her mouth to say something, and turned to Sai, doing the same thing, but finding no fault in either of them, she exclaimed, "And that's all."

Naruto and Sakura gaped at her, "Hey!" they yelled in unison.

"How come we get yelled at, but not Sai or Yamato-sensei?" Naruto blurted out, frustrated.

"Hah?" Yuki turned and glared directly at Sakura and Naruto, tilting her head back a bit, her red and greyish blue eyes dark yet dangerous, "Did you say something?"

Sakura and Naruto straightened up, taking a step back in fright and they both shook their heads. Yuki smiled at their similar reactions and smirked, "Good."

"Anyways, I'm going to Tsunade's place and getting my wound checked up again. Apparently, I need weekly checkups," the black haired girl stretched her arms and yawned, walking towards the village, "Bye!"

The other three of team 7 watched Sai as he trailed after Yuki, both of them disappearing out of sight. As soon as Yuki was gone, Sakura sat down on the grass, sighing loudly and rolling her shoulders.

"My arm hurts! Argh, how come her training sessions are much more difficult than the ones with Kakashi-sensei?" she whined.

"Yeah... and she is so powerful, too..." Naruto muttered, staring down at his clenched fists, "I wonder if she is as powerful as Sasuke..."

"I can't see what's so special about her that Sai likes!" Sakura huffed, crossing her arms.

Yamato scratched the back of his head, watching the two of them as they complained. He looked to the sides, then behind him, and back to the genin and said, "You know, you two shouldn't be so hard on her like that..."

Naruto and Sakura spun towards their sensei, "Eh? Does that mean you've fallen for her too?"

Surprised, Yamato shook his head quickly, "No! I mean that... she is just like me. One of Orochimaru's experiments."

The other two just blinked rapidly in confusion, and Yamato sighed, "I mean that it was Orochimaru who implanted the sharigan in her right eye, placed kekkei genkai in her bloodstream, and made her able to use the ice element, something that is supposed to be nonexistent now."

"So...?" Naruto questioned.

"Yuki-san must be in great pain... her body isn't made to have the sharigan, kekkei genkai, or the ice element, therefore, there should be some inner damage and emotional damage as well, Naruto, I don't mean that you don't have a hard life already, but even though she had a family to go to, the Uchiha clan, they refused to accept her," Yamato explained.

"No way... wait, she's related to Sasuke?" Sakura asked.

"In a way, but barely. One tenth of her blood is of the Uchiha line, so..." Yamato froze, then turned away, realizing his mistake, "I shouldn't have told you guys... Yuki-san is going to kill me..."

"But that's no excuse to be cruel to us...!" Naruto exclaimed, but regretted his words instantly. He knew how Yuki felt now, abandoned, lonely, sad, hateful, and... angry. He opened his mouth to say something else, but an ANBU jumped out of nowhere.

"Yamato! An invasion from the left side of the village! It is the Akatsuki! I am on my way to report to Hokage-sama, so be on guard and return to the village!" the ANBU called out, racing off, disappearing as fast as he appeared.

"Akatsuki?" Sakura cried out, surprised.

"Sasuke?" Naruto blurted out.

"Naruto, Sakura! Hurry! We have to return to the village!" Yamato called out to them, already heading off.

The remaining two looked at each other and they nodded, and followed their sensei.


"Didn't I tell you not to fight so much?" Tsunade growled as she felt Yuki's wound and inspected her eyes.

"Well, I can't help it. I live my life fighting," Yuki muttered back. An ANBU appeared out of nowhere and knelt down to the hokage.

"Hokage-sama!"

"What is it?" Tsunade asked the ANBU without looking at him, stepping away from Yuki, finished with the checkup.

"There's an invasion from the east side of the village! It is the Akatsuki!" The ANBU reported hurriedly.

"What? Akatsuki?" Tsunade cried out, now facing the ANBU, "Hmm... this is bad... Call all of the teams to the village and build up on defense! Hurry!" she ordered.

The shinobi nodded and disappeared. Yuki, who had been watching everything that was happening, said, "You know, you don't need to do all that..."

"Eh? What do you mean?" the female hokage turned to Yuki, and realization struck when their eyes met, "Don't tell me...!"

"You don't need to waste the strength of the Konoha shinobi when your defense is right here, in front of you. Send me out to meet them, and the Akatsuki will stop. All they want is my head," she muttered.

"Fool! What are you talking about?" Tsunade spat out sharply and turned away from the black haired kunoichi, "Don't ever think of giving yourself to them!"

"Then... tell me when to start. My plan will activate then," Yuki whispered, starting to head out the door, opening it.

"What are you going to do?"

"I will release... the pure white cave that will seal Konoha away from her enemies," Yuki smiled and walked out of the hokage's room. As soon as she shut the door behind her, Yuki dashed straight for the rooftop of the building, performing multiple seals as she ran.

"Sai!" Tsunade called for him. He was right outside the window of the hokage's office and he slipped inside the room.

"Yes, Hokage-sama?"

Tsunade stared down at the village, already sensing swarms of teams entering the village. "Give her the signal," she ordered.

Sai nodded and he too, jumped to the roof of the building.


As soon as she was on the roof, Yuki sliced a cut on her thumb with her kunai and made a wide circle in the middle of the large space. She sat down in the circle, pressing her hands together. Sai soon arrived at the rooftop, too, and he gave her a quick nod and a thumbs up. Yuki glanced at him and smiled, then started to mutter to herself, performing quick seals as she spoke.

"Tiger, monkey, rabbit, sheep, dragon, dog, pig, rat, cow, snake, rooster, horse... blooming white flower jutsu!" she cried out, the five elements chakra gathering on the fingers of her right hand and she pressed her hand on the floor of the rooftop, her chakra spreading out in all directions of Konoha.

On the edges of the village, a sheet of thin, yet strong and unbreakable ice started to curve upward to the village, creating a wall between the village and the outside world. A large dome of ice covered the hidden leaf village, protecting it from enemies outside. The ice layered over and over again, until it was as tough as crystal, and it stopped growing when the dome was secure over the village, allowing no enemies to enter. As soon as the jutsu was sealed, Yuki rose from her seat, swaying slightly from the sudden use of a mass amount of chakra. Sai rushed over and caught her, letting her relax in her arms.

"Are you okay, Yuki?" he asked her worriedly.

"I'm fine... better than ever, actually," she smiled, up-righting herself, "Don't relax so soon, Sai, because... the battle has just begun, and this is the beginning."


... Woah... very... very long... :0

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