"Ashi." Sai said, still chasing me.

I was panting, but I had enough energy to keep going.

"Wait!" Sai said, "Please!"

"I c-can't!" I stuttered, "I have to go! I want too!"

"No." Sai said, not even breaking a sweat.

"I despise Anbu!" I yelled, "Go away!"

I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings, and was slamming into each obstacle in a desperate attempt to get away.

Sai eventually caught up with me. I struggled to push him away, but I failed.

"If I don't get to Sasuke, I'll kill myself!" I cried, giving up.

"Ashi… You can't give up." Sai said.

"He needs me! I can't pretend that I don't know anything!" I ignored him, "Not again…"

"Kitty" Sai said.

"I'm not a cat!" I snapped.

"Mew!" Yuu was probably dizzy from Sai chasing after me.

"I hate you!" He looked devastated by my words.

Sai smiled even though I had hurt him so badly, "You need permission."

My eyes widened. That Hokage lady probably would forbid my exit.

"I can't stay here… I feel danger."

"What?" Sai probably felt perfectly safe in that dammed village.

"Just kill me!" I grabbed the corner of Sai's shirt.

"I can't."

I was crying, I hadn't noticed… I was too frustrated.

"We have to see the Hokage!" I snapped, calming down.

I looked around me, there was a group of people staring, a few ninja included.

'She was talking about that Uchiha traitor!' 'Who is she' 'I've seen her here before… When the 3rd had died!'

'Who let that kid in here!' The people muttered, gossiping about me.

"Sai…" I mumbled, when he lifted me up. Yuu climbing up to comfort me.

~Sasuke~

He sat on a chair in Orochimaru's empty thrown room, too frustrated to get up and train with Orochimaru.

"It's getting interesting." Kabuto said, from behind the chair.

"What is?" Sasuke hissed.

"She ran away from the Anbu… It seems that she is trying to be loyal," Kabuto said.

"She's loyal, huh?" Sasuke said.

"Seems so… She wants to be the one to bear your children"

"I told you. I won't let that happen!" Sasuke hissed.

Kabuto gave him a grin that made his skin crawl, "Liar… She predicted it several times, always hiding it."

"Why?" Sasuke snapped, "Why not tell me my future?"

"There are some things that even the devil doesn't want to know about, that only SHE knows." Kabuto's grin spread wider.

Sasuke held back a shiver, "How would you know?"

"Do you know how much trauma she has gone through? Seeing her clan killed one by one for the powers that they don't even use, just so the leaf isn't put in harm? Being abandoned and dragged around. Being forced to baby-sit Orochimaru-Sama's vessels… She couldn't even make friends. The friends that she did make are almost all dead or rotting away in some prison cell!" The humor Kabuto got from Ashi's life's problems was sickening.

"Bastard…" He tried to control his temper, suppressing the hatred in his voice. His hands were shaking violently.

"Some bonds that people create can't be broken easily, can they?" Kabuto asked, "Just imagine what she is going through, she refers to you as her best friend… In fact! I bet that she's out killing people due to anxiety issues!" Kabuto was laughing.

"Get out." Sasuke growled.

"What was that?" Kabuto asked.

"GET OUT!" Sasuke was in a terrible mood, due to lack of sleep.

He felt vulnerable when he slept, and without his bodyguard all the assassination attempts against him could have resulted in his death. He couldn't sleep with the fear of Kabuto looming in his mind.

"Why did I strike a cord?" Kabuto asked.

"I never abandoned Ashi.." Sasuke said.

"Then what?" Kabuto's grin became evil looking, twisting Sasuke's stomach (Another thing that wouldn't happen if Ashi was around).

"I returned the favor by trying to protect her from a horrible fate. I may need Ashi in the future and I don't want to lose the 'What she calls' friendship that we have built… And I sure as HELL don't want her to be associated with an ANBU!" Sasuke silently made a promise to himself that would tie him closer to Ashi.

~Ashi~

"Please?" I snapped as anger surged through my voice.

She had requested a meeting with Tsunade two days after her public melt-down. It wasn't going well since the topic was about her leaving the leaf village.

"Because! I don't need you causing trouble in rescuing Sasuke!" Tsunade's voice made my skin crawl, but I managed to pull myself together.

"You want him to get killed?" I spat, "I'm the only protection he's got!"

"But you tried to protect him from US!"

"He's all I got left!" Tears streamed down my cheeks, "Each day my father grows weaker, and Naruto made it worse by attacking him… Sasuke doesn't have the power yet to kill my father! Any day now my father will steal his body!"

"And we might've had him if you didn't act!"

"You bastards invaded my home! I thought you were a threat! Will you honestly let one of you own die just like it's nothing?"

"I will not allow this!"

"Neither will I!" I shouted, "You know I'm stronger than you are! I can easily run away!"

I was losing the 'debate', when six Anbu came up through the floor.

"YOU'RE A MONSTER!" I screamed when they tried to secure me, "My blood is no reason to judge me! I AM NOT MY FATHER!" Tsunade gave me a bone crunching glare.

"Why should I believe you?" She said with rage in her voice.

"Because I-I love him! More than anyone could! Just please… Please."

"Only if one of the ANBU go with you."

"No, he'll run! I don't expect to return here until he does."

"If you let him die there will be hell to pay."

"If I let him die, I wouldn't be able to live with myself.. I would do everything in my power to join him."

"Wait till I give you the order to leave." Tsunade won the argument. The Anbu slowly released me, and sunk back through the floor.

"Forgive me for using such a menacing tone with you." I apologized.

"Just get out of my sight and start packing!" Tsunade snapped.

"Yes!" I ran out of the room overjoyed.

Sai was waiting and followed me home, Yuu rode on my shoulder. I actually ate a good portion of food that night, and slept like a log. Yuu slept by my feet. I slept on the pink bed that had never really been slept in (Besides Yuu's cat -naps).