You looked at the small blonde boy in front of you, his blue eyes shining fiercely. The bandages covered his fore-head and neck, leaving three strands of white across his nose.

Yuki?

Your eyes wandered to the Hiate in his hands, a horizontal strike sketched deeply on the symbol. No blood.

Tears ran across your face, leaving irritated red streaks in their wake. Kakashi held you tightly, a tired look on his face as you continued to silently cry. Your still figure merely looked at the blonde boy in front of you, no sobs escaping your mouth. Your body felt numb, but through your blurry vision, you could see something familiar.

"Hey, hey! What's wrong? What happened?!" Naruto practically shouted, clutching the sheets in front of him as he glared at dead-pan Kakashi.

Tsunade put a hand on Naruto's head, pulling him away from you. At the sudden movement, your hands shot out, gripping his shoulders and hugging his back to your chest.

"Don't...go..." You whispered, new tears tracing your red streaks.

Tsunade's brow frowned in sympathy, glancing at the broken Kakashi.

"Naruto," She shouted, stopping his struggling, "Satsu is currently in a deep depression, her body's in a state of shock, and she probably can't think a full sentence, let alone explain anything."

State...of...s-s-shock...

Words formed at the tip of your tongue, you knew what to say, you knew what you wanted to say. But it was as if your body didn't want to do it, like it was scared...

Reacting to Tsunade's voice, your body shifted, hopping off the bed with your arms around Naruto.

"W-where's...Y-Y-Y –" you stopped, finding yourself unable to say his name. The sudden fear blooming in your chest made you sob dryly as you fell to the floor.

"Who's Yuki?" Naruto questioned cluelessy, watching helplessly as his friend broke down.

Kakashi looked at you kneeling down next to you and engulfing you in a hug.

"Yuki's here, he's alive...Please," Kakashi sobbed, although no tears shed from his eyes.

Tsunade looked surprised, the almost-corpse was named Yuki? Throughout his stay Kakashi never said a word, only to answer Naruto's question regaurding Sasuke.

Your feet found their way up, Kakashi dragging you to the hallway, Tsunade yelling as she ran behind him the whole way.

"See he's alive! SO SNAP OUT OF IT ALREADY!" He shouted, giving you a rough shove towards a bed, wires connected to the persons body, immobilized, unmoving ...undead...

Your fingers pried the oxygen mask, the wires, the cloth covering his eyes, everything but the sheets covering the lower half of his body. The person in front of you was male, his white-blonde hair covering his eyes, the short lashes on his face were dancing with tears.

"Yuki, Yuki, YUKI!" you screamed, shaking his body lightly, spilling droplets of blood on the floor, and the bed.

He started, opening his eyes as he reached his hand out, holding your face in his palms. Your eyes shed no tears as you watched him cry. He was alive! He's alive! And yet, your body slowly lost its numb feeling, surging through your body as his wounds soaked into your clothes.

Pressing your hand against his fore-head, you did the same seal as your hospital incident, only one-handed. Yuki's wounded retreated in a steamy fashion. Your body collapsing in fatigue along side Yuki's; with him in Konoha, things would be a hell of a lot different...

Broth hit your nose as you drank it down quickly, hunger eating your stomach for the past day. You never liked hospitals, you had an extreme phobia of needles, and being at the doctors was like getting Kakashi to take of his mask...could only be done when you were unconscious.

Even so, Kakashi refused to let you out on your own; fear that someone might kidnap you in your weakened state devoured his mind.

Stupid, overprotective, stupid, perverse, stupid, crazy, stupid, little,

Your mental rants raged on, laughing to yourself as you imagined his panicked face when he saw you were gone.

Naruto ordered another bowl, his bottomless pit for a stomach caused his hood to fall off as he tried to drink his ramen broth.

Watching with hidden laughter as Shizune caught Naruto and roped him (quite literally I might add) up, you stiffened as Shizune paid for his ramen and looked over at you.

"ACK!" You shriecked as she pulled off your hood, your hair falling in curls around you. "Hey! You're supposed to be at the hospital too!" At the word "hospital" your face paled unnoticeably.

You got off lucky, considering that Naruto was tied to his bed by his legs, arms, and chest. Once again you laughed from the other side of the room, pausing to see Sakura come through the door.

"Eh, sorry Sakura-Chan! If I could I would go back to get Sasuke right now, but –"

"He has some amazing recovery skills, but he can't push himself."

"Hey, I'm fine!"
"Endure it a little longer!"

You couldn't control your laughter any longer as you watched Naruto struggle to get free of his binds.

Sakura looked from you to Naruto, internally debating with herself. Shizune grabbed you by the back of your collar, pulling you out of the room.

"We need a blood sample, the blood we got from your sheets aren't fresh enough." She elaborated, dragging you to Kakashi.

"WHAT?!" You screamed...Literally, ripping yourself from Shizune's hold and racing past the hospital in three seconds flat. Yeah, you're that scared of needles. Your feet rushed you to a secret cave in Konoha forest that only you, Naruto, and Kakashi know about...Speaking of which, the latter could possibly kill you.