Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Kishimoto Masashi, contents of the following text only serve entertainment purposes.

AN: This chapter has been re-edited.

This chapter: Secret's out.

Chapter: Confrontation

Naruto was oddly quiet on the return journey. Sure, he practiced the kaze no jutsu and talked to her once in a while. But he was quiet. Yuki suspected that he... that he actually might've seen her when her sharingan had turned on. The night she first read the scroll... the scroll had shown so much information that her sharingan had immediately turned on and 'copied' the information. She basically knew how the jutsu worked, and could probably carry it out -but it was too much of a bother- but instead of destroying the scroll as was told, she held on to it while Naruto was still digesting the information. She didn't know just how he could do it, reading up one jutsu, practicing another, but he seemed alright with it so... that was that.

"Yesss!" Yuki heard Naruto yell as the leaves of the next tree rustled. She felt a gust of wind and smiled.

"That's great Naruto-kun!" she praised him. Silently she was glad that this level of the jutsu went easier with him. He'd ripped up a couple of tree a few days earlier when he was still getting used to the first level. Naruto was jumping up and down at the 'victory'. It was alright to get all hyperactive then as they were already on safe territory. "Now, the next stage!" Naruto jumped over to her and listened with rapt attention. Yuki smiled to herself, feeling pleased at his eager attention, and a little embarrassed by it too, he had such a cute innocent look on his face. Naruto no longer looked tired from the journey, but then again, Yuki had slowed down their pace significantly as they reached the Konoha borders. It was now taking longer to return to Konoha from the Hidden Snow village than it had taken to get there. "Now that you've mastered the two stages, this is the third. You'll have to create pockets of air." Naruto looked dumbfounded.

Yuki grinned at him through her mask as she proceeded to demonstrate. "If you see properly, Naruto-kun, you'll know I made little pillows of air." She was jumping around in mid-air. At first glance it was as though she was flying, but Naruto took her advice and looked carefully. It was true. He saw compressed bits of particles gathering around her feet mixed with her chakra and the 'pillows' were 'bouncing' her up. The pillows stood still for only a second or so, which was why she had to keep jumping around. It 'popped' after a little bit. "You've learned how to concentrate blowing air during the first two stages, now you'll have to learn how to create compressions in the air of your surroundings to your advantage. In my case, I've made them through my feet, which is why I am jumping around like this." She jumped back down next to Naruto and put a hand near his cheek. Naruto felt a swelling of pressure and as Yuki pressed her hand closer, there was a sort of feeling as though she was pressing something feathery against him. It felt quite pleasant really.

"You've learnt the rasengan technique," she stated. "I guess you could imagine it a bit like that, only instead of using your chakra as a separate element, you mix it with the air. Like what you did with the 'air bullet'." It was getting a whole lot confusing but Naruto eventually got it.

"So this air pocket will let me jump like you did?"

"Only for a second or so, but Naruto-kun, you've got higher levels of chakra than I do, so yours might last longer." Naruto yelped happily at this and immediately put his hands out in front of him, eagerly. But then he stopped and a flash of confusion made its way through to his eyes. Yuki twitched. What was wrong? The two stood still as the trees and waited for a reaction from each other.

"Yuki-chan?" Naruto finally looked at her. Yuki felt her throat tighten. Why was Naruto looking so lost?

"Yes?"

"Before we go..." Naruto shifted on his feet. His eyes twitched and he wouldn't look at her. Yuki was curious as to what could've made the reaction but she kept quiet. Waiting for him to say something. But he wouldn't say anything. Yuki took a step forward and guessed at what was making him look distressed.

"You saw it, didn't you?" Yuki thought out loud, giving Naruto a weary look. Naruto nodded slowly. "Yes, I have the sharingan eyes." There. It was out. But Naruto didn't look all that surprised, so of course he really must've seen it. Of course, right? The confusion was gone from his eyes as he looked curiously at her. There was that blank look again.

"Are you related to Sasuke?" Yuki nearly choked. She'd thought that he was going to wait for an explanation from her, but he made that step forward by himself. "Yuki-...?"

"I don't know if I'm related to anyone..." Yuki said in a somber tone. "Kakashi is only my adopted brother. He, too, has a sharingan eye, and you know that, but I don't know exactly how he got it. Naruto-kun..."

"Oh noooo!" Naruto suddenly bellowed, nearly knocking Yuki off her feet. "Didn't you get assigned to be instructor for the new gennins?" Yuki nodded and wondered what had caused the sudden turn in discussion. It hit her. Konoha was three days away. "Assignments begin in two days!"

Lucky for them, they reached Konoha sometime in the afternoon two days later, Yuki was late but she had to stop for a second to burn the scroll after Naruto had finished going through it. Naruto had volunteered to report to the Hokage for them both so she was ran at a hurried pace towards the Academy's class. Iruka was waiting for her.

"Aah... nice to see you decided to stop by today," he teased as she dragged herself towards him. "Hatake Fuyu Yuki?" Yuki nodded and stopped to catch her breath. She was just not cut out for normal running. Especially after that dash they had made to get to Konoha 'on time'. "I thought so. You Hatakes must have inherited some tardy gene of some sort."

"I'm sorry, Iruka-sensei," she said, still gasping, missing the teasing note in his voice.

"It's alright," Iruka said, chuckling as he patted her on her back. "The Hokage informed us that you might be a little late in coming. Where's Naruto-kun?"

"Reporting at Tsunade-sama's office right now." Iruka smiled at her as she quickly composed herself. Yuki smiled weakly back as she entered the classroom. Three midgets looked up at her, scowling. She sighed. How was she going to handle these children? She hadn't been around any in... well, she'd never been around much of any of the villagers of any age much. The three were scowling something bad. Yuki sighed heavily.

She ended her first day with the new ninja graduates early in the evening and decided to head over at Ichiraku. She knew that Naruto would also be there. She walked at a steady pace as she thoughtfully contemplated the statuses of her ninja graduates. If they passed the survival drill, they'd be gennins. More than that, they'd be her gennins. Sure, she'd observed her brother for so long she should, theoretically be able to handle the little ninjas. But, she just wasn't sure if the gennins would cooperate with her. They sure didn't take it too well after she arrived late, and that she was only as old as most of the chuunins in the village. Yuki sighed heavily and kept on walking in the direction of the ramen stand. True enough, Naruto was at Ichiraku, and Iruka-sensei was with him. Yuki smiled as they recognized her figure. She ducked into the ramen stand and sat on Naruto's other side.

"Yuki-chan!" Naruto garbled through the mass of half-masticated noodles in his mouth. Both Iruka and Yuki laughed at the sight. "Tsunade-baba said that you're still to teach me that skill. Tsunade-baba said that you might already know how to do it and wants you to teach me," he said happily. Yuki chuckled at that. Offering to teach Naruto new skills almost seemed like offering him the child's equivalent of a mountain-full of candy. "Seems like you'll be my instructor for a little while." Yuki gave a little chuckle again and patted him on the back.

"Anytime, Naruto-kun." Naruto grinned at her and then returned his attention towards his ramen. Yuki kept quiet as the blonde talked about the mission to Iruka. Exaggerated was more like it, but Yuki hadn't had the heart to interrupt him. She was looking at the pair in awe. The scene was so touching. They were like father and son. Or brothers. It didn't matter, only that they were so close with one another. She felt like an intruder sitting with them. But she couldn't move from her seat. Naruto had a hand on her arm. "But why?" she thought, looking down at his hand. He had quite a strong grip. She didn't want to interrupt the scene in front of her so she waited until Naruto would relax his grip so she could slip away. His hand loosened after a bit. "Ja. I'll be going back now," she mumbled, rising form her seat.

"Why don't you stay and eat?" Iruka offered, but Yuki only smiled and shook her head in apology.

"Kakashi-niichan's probably home already," she said. Naruto nodded in understanding. He didn't look disturbed at all that she'd only moved when he took his hand off her arm. Maybe he didn't realize that he was holding on to her. "We'll talk later... Naruto-kun?" Their eyes met with mutual understanding. There was still the issue of the sharingan that needed to be talked out. Naruto nodded in consent. Iruka watched the interaction with interest. Yuki said her goodbyes to both of them and left the stall. They watched her walk away.

"Naruto-kun. Is she your girl-friend?"

"What!"

Yuki heard the scream from far away and wondered at what caused it. Shrugging she continued walking back home. She didn't see Naruto coming out of Ichiraku, holding Iruka by the collar, looking like a tomato that was about to burst.

Later that night she found her way to Naruto's home, thinking that she would be seeing only him. She had asked Kakashi to go and find the rest of the team members so she could show them her sharingan. She didn't think that they'd stand it if she'd asked to keep it only between her and Naruto. They might alienate Naruto for that, and she didn't want that to happen. Also, she wasn't sure if she should show her byakugan to them just yet. Gingerly pacing outside his doorstep, she held fast to her resolve of telling them and knocked. The door was opened and she walked in. But instead of finding Naruto alone, she found the rest of them too, both Sakura and Sasuke, waiting for something, apparently, as they were pacing the sides of the living room.

"Sorry, Yuki-chan. I- I didn't think it would be fair if only I knew and they didn't-" Naruto was stuttering nervously as he closed the door and followed her into his living room.

"It's alright, Naruto-kun. I just asked Kakashi-niichan to look for these two. Nevermind. He'll come here in a bit." Yuki didn't move from her spot near the door as she looked at the other two. They looked surprise to see her. She locked eyes with the dark-haired Uchiha and froze. He hated her. Yuki felt herself take a step back at sensing his aura. He was disgusted with her.

"Is this what you told us to wait for?" Sasuke spitted out angrily. He looked very pissed at seeing her there. Hell, he felt like murdering someone. Why would Naruto let that... betrayer in his presence? Naruto knew full well that he didn't trust people like her. Lying to him once was enough to shatter any bond of trust they'd had between them. "You should know better than to waste my time, dobe." He felt like punching the wall till it broke and crashed the ceiling down to the apartment. Sasuke growled as he left off his pacing and angrily made his way to the only exit before he could do damage to anyone.

"Sasuke-teme!" Naruto snarled as he blocked Sasuke's way to the door. "I knew you still had something against her, but I wouldn't've called you here if I didn't think you'd be interested."

"Well, I'm not interested." Sasuke's expression, instead of showing his normal mask of indifference, was filled with loath and disgust. Yuki felt like running away right then and there. Why was he still angry with her? Normal people, at least, would have resigned to the fact that she had to lie to them. At least, she thought that normal people would. Then again, Sasuke wasn't normal, was he? Right now he was glaring at Naruto warily, and looking at her... with that look. Those eyes... it was the same. Naruto shuddered at that. The way he was looking at Yuki... it was similar to how... to how those people used to look at him. The same loathing. The same disgust. Naruto retaliated to it furiously. How dare he look at her like that!

"Please stop it..." Sakura pleaded from the back-ground. Strangely enough, the tiny cry had cooled them down a bit. Naruto was still seething but was grudgingly stepping out of his way. Sasuke had another obstacle to go through, though. Yuki was still blocking the doorway.

"Move." But she wouldn't.

"No." She repeated the word inside her head to strengthen her resolve. She'd tell him now. She'd tell them all now. Even if she had to pin Sasuke to the ground to get him to listen, she'd tell them now.

"I said, move!" Sasuke punctuated the last word by activating his sharingan. Even jounin ninjas would flinch at the sight of the sharingan, but Yuki never even missed a beat. Sasuke wondered briefly why... then settled on the fact that... well, she was an anbu. That was why she kept her arm covered in cloth, wasn't it? He narrowed his eyes at that. She was an anbu. An anbu. They were nearly the same age but she had been an anbu. Jealous anger seeped into his mind, confusing his thoughts for a few precious moments. He noticed the girl in front of him twitch. He smirked arrogantly. Maybe that was why they demoted her to jounin. If she couldn't even stand the sight of his sharingan... But she didn't even flinch when he used it in the forest...

Yuki stepped forward and repeated her answer just as menacingly, an unpredicted twist, but Sasuke wasn't about to be put down. Sasuke stepped forward, too, furious that she hadn't heeded him. How dare she! But he received the shock of his life when he witnessed her eyes brighten in color. It brightened slowly, it took place in less than a second but to Sasuke it felt like minutes. From maroon to a bright, clear, blood-shade of red. Three black spots appeared in one eye. Two in the other.

Sasuke felt his world start spinning when it dawned to him that it was the sharingan. It was the sharingan. It was an almost developed pair of sharingan. And it was Yuki's. Yuki's. How...? The sharingan with four commas was met with five. Sasuke nearly tripped backwards. Surprise was an understatement. He was shocked. Hatake Yuki. This was Hatake Yuki with two sharingan eyes. Sasuke didn't move, fearing the dream in front of him would disappear.

Yuki, on the other hand, was extremely pissed off. A nerve had popped up in her head when she turned on the bloody eye-skill. Her head was throbbing now. Never had she ever met with a more overbearing lout! Did he really think he could scare her from just a glance of the sharingan! Just who did he think he is? He was a chuunin trying to provoke a jounin. Well, she'd show him! She'd show him that she wasn't scared of him. She'd show him that she wasn't afraid of what they thought about her. Just as long as they all knew. Even if she was hesitant to reveal her other bloodline. At least they'd know about this part of her. Sasuke worked so hard to keep her safe from that missing-nin, Kuma, when she could've dealt with him herself. At least, he deserved to know.

Sasuke knew he was beat. She'd captured his curiosity. Damn her. But he wanted to know. Who she was? He'd only met two other persons with at least one fully developed sharingan eye - his brother, Itachi and his instructor, Kakashi. He had fought Itachi once and had sunk into a coma. He was stronger now... but the sight of the sharingan was too unanticipated. So surprising that it didn't seem real. Sasuke turned his eyes away and made his way back into the room, looking calm. But his heart was beating erratically. His thoughts were muddled up in a big confused tangle. Who was Yuki? Why did she have the bloodlimit? He surprised himself that he didn't feel angry at that. Once again, she had not revealed the truth to them. To him. Not Kakashi, not her. They both hadn't revealed it to him. Why didn't they? He was an Uchiha damn it. Only Uchihas had that bloodlimit. Not that he knew where Kakashi had got his sharingan but... All this while he'd lived not knowing there was another... survivor... He deserved to know.

Sasuke felt the beginnings of a head ache and placed two fingers to his temple and applied pressure. No, he wasn't angry. He wanted to feel angry. But curiosity had won him over. Why did they never reveal to him? Yuki was around all this while. All this while. He'd thought that he hadn't any other relations. And there she was. Two sharingan eyes, as you please. He would've appreciated it if they'd known each other earlier. He had a relative. Someone from his family, other that damned brother of his, had escaped the holocaust. Yuki. Damn it. Who was she? Where had she been all that time? He stopped asking himself those questions when the apartment began spinning in his eyes. He willed himself to stop thinking about it as he walked away from Yuki, back to the opposite side of the room. Once he reached the opposite side of the apartment, he looked back at her. She hadn't moved.

"So which side are you from? I thought Itachi killed everyone." Sasuke tried to force the anger back in his voice but found that he couldn't. He winced when he realized that his tone sounded only curious. But this calm curiosity unnerved Yuki.

"Well you're still alive, aren't you?" she snapped back. Glaring at the wall instead, she closed the door. The two took their sharingans away. Both Naruto and Sakura were shocked. Naruto hadn't ever seen it up close before, but now that he had seen it, and though he knew about it... it was still shocking. Sakura was like a statue still trying to digest the information. "In any case, I don't know who my parents are, only that I was found by a bush. Happy?" Sasuke mentally winced at her sharp words. He was immediately sorry for his actions.

"Yuki-chan..." It was Naruto that had called her. Her gaze softened. "Yuki-chan, do you want to go out for ramen with me tomorrow?" Yuki felt like an anvil had just dropped on her head. Why was Naruto talking about ramen now? What in the world was he thinking? Bringing up that completely irrelevant subject-

"I'm sorry, Naruto-kun. I have those kids to test tomorrow, but I'll see you at the training grounds tomorrow evening. I still have to teach you-" What in the world was Naruto thinking? Then again... this blonde did have his quirks...

"Oh yeah! There was another thing!" Whatever possessed Naruto to ask about eating out was gone. Yuki cocked her head to the side. "I wanted to ask you if you could teach Sakura-chan and Sasuke the kaze no jutsu too."

"If they want to. I'll be at the training grounds every night." She shrugged at that. Trying very hard to show that it didn't matter to her either way. What did it matter if Sasuke was going to hang around a lot more? If wanted to stay angry with her, fine. Just as long as he didn't get in her way.

"I see. So they're all here," Kakashi said as he appeared at the window, reading that dratted Come Come Paradise book. At least, he looked as if he was reading it. "Have you all done?" he asked when the silence became too loud. The four young adults were mutely staring at each other. "Oh, that reminds me, Naruto-kun, Sakura-chan. I've got something to discuss with you." That sounded peculiar, but the other two didn't object. They left the room, leaving Sasuke and Yuki alone, no longer glaring at each other. Only looking.

At first, Yuki was taken aback. She was suddenly looking at the person she had met in the forest. There was that... she didn't know exactly how to describe it, but there was life in his eyes. Not anger. Not hostility. Not that peculiar curiosity that she had been looking at. It was like... when they were back in the forest. Sasuke that was fighting to come out.

"You know..." Yuki started. Her expression also softening, getting herself trapped in his gaze as unwanted feelings flooded through her. Even through his previous anger, his heart was pumping something bad. His breathing quickened when the moonlight chose to light up part of her face. The light complimented her. Her pale features. If possible, she had even paler skin than himself. The moonlight made it seem almost... surreal.

"Damn it, Yuki!" he was thinking to himself. "How dare you put these feelings inside me!" There he went again with his irrational anger. The moonlight continued to play on her features, creating havoc in his mind. No. He couldn't feel this way. He didn't want to. He wanted to. He shouldn't want to. His mind was an emotional mess. How could she confuse him that way! Before she came... Sasuke almost felt like growling but... her features were so... delicate. The moon complimented her eyes and that skin. That soft skin. He looked at her hungrily, almost not daring to breath. It must've been a dream. Just a dream. Sasuke bit his inner cheek and nearly yelped, swallowing the taste of blood. But the dream wouldn't go away.

Yuki jerked herself back to reality. They'd been staring at each other... for how long? How in the world did she let her guard down just like that? Damn that Uchiha. She understood the appeal of the Uchihas so long ago. It was their line of sight. Their eyes that gave them their beauty. Beauty? Yuki mentally spat at herself for thinking so. But... it was... just so. Those Uchiha eyes commanded respect. They commanded attention. She'd known, she'd learnt that so long ago, and yet... her mind refused to turn away from the potential danger. The Hyuuga's seemingly pupil-less eyes would've drawn curiosity, and when enemies would be so busy trying to stare the secrets out of them, the Hyuugas would finish them off. The Uchihas on the other had... their eyes had a sensual character that... demanded attention. Captured attention. It created hallucinations within people's minds just when they looked at those eyes. Enemies wouldn't even know that they'd had no chance of escape until... until it was too late. Such were the terrifying consequences of being the victim of an Uchiha.

She shuddered and stepped back to him, breathing evenly to try and calm her rapidly-beating heart. She thought that she'd better go before she forgot that she had those Uchiha eyes too. Like that last time... it cost her dearly. She turned her back to him. "I've got a class tomorrow morning."

She left Sasuke thinking about her. Yuki with her graceful, sylphlike form leaving the room. Yuki with her soft expressions. Yuki with her angry sharingan eyes looking at him. Yuki who could be related to him. Yuki. Could she be related to him? Well, she should be. She must be.

Sasuke left the apartment, in a rush to head back to his house. There were some old family records left... maybe... Just maybe.

But Sasuke was still preoccupied with thoughts of her. She'd invaded his mind after he first saw her. He nearly lost his control over his own thoughts those few days they were together. That was why... when she left them... he'd been so relieved. He'd been so hurt. And when she decided to make an appearance again... he was... happy. He was relieved. And frustrated. And angry that she'd decided to appear and invade his mind yet again. And yet he seemed calmer when she was around. No one would deny that. Yuki had a very calming presence around her. He was so occupied with conflicting thoughts that he had hardly noticed the three figures on the roof beside the apartment building.

"Kakashi-sensei," Sakura said, tugging a little on his sleeve. "Do you think that maybe... that maybe Sasuke-kun likes Yuki-chan?" The blonde looked stunned, horrified even. They'd only just been briefed about Kakashi's and Sasuke's coming mission and... Was Sakura paying attention to him? She had her eyes looking down at the apartment the whole while... while she was nodding and 'yeah, ok'-ing at Kakashi. Then again... the sequence at the apartment was quite the interesting turn of events. Naruto felt a little jealous when she made her comment. How could Sasuke like Yuki? Didn't he practically announce his dislike for her? Why was Sakura looking at him funny? "You too, Naruto-kun?"

"What!" he reacted initially, a blush making its way up his cheek. Sakura was looking at him with such an accusing look that Naruto knew that he'd been found out. "I uh.. I.. err.. maybe..." he said, blushing a bright red. Kakashi turned a bored eye to the two and then looked back to where Sasuke had gone. That was quite an interesting thought... he had been toying with it lately but... if Sakura could see it too...

"Sorry, Naruto-kun," he thought. "She's already decided on one person."

Yuki walked towards the direction of the training grounds devastated the next evening. She failed her first students that day. They just couldn't understand the concept of teamwork. They were too obedient. Too naive. Yuki was depressed. It was her 'first' actual assignment, to become instructor. It felt thoroughly depressing to have failed her first batch of students. She stopped walking when she saw a suspicious shadow blocking her path. When she looked up she saw Sasuke looking intently at her. Those eyes again.

"What do you want?" she asked, trying desperately to sound tough when all she wanted to do was curl up in a blanket and feel sorry for the children she had to reject that day. She didn't really want to engage in an argument or whatever it is the Uchiha might want from her. She really wasn't paying attention to much of anything, especially to what the Uchiha was saying to her. Or even the fact that he was actually talking to her. He was muttering something about 'family records'. "Oh, sorry, I didn't catch what you said?"

The Uchiha looked a little annoyed. Really. He'd actually bothered to talk to her and now here she was, not paying attention to him?

"I said that I have some family records you might want to know about. You said you didn't know anything about your past?" The tone of his voice was calm, though it didn't hide that initial burst of irritation. But Yuki wasn't in her mind to notice anyway.

"Not that much," she answered, shrugging. Might as well entertain him. Whatever. Yuki turned around and started walking, following him to... wherever it was that he said they were going. His home? Naruto caught sight of them from a distance and stopped when he saw Sasuke in front of her. He was actually on his way to meet up with Yuki.

"Hey! Sasuke! You better not be bugging Yuki-chan!" he yelled as he ran towards them.

"Accosting females on the street is just not my style, idiot." Sasuke tried to put as much acid as he could in his voice to ward him off. He wanted some time alone with that purple haired-jounin. No blonde idiot was going to stop him.

"You jerk!" Yuki stepped in front of Naruto to prevent him from attacking Sasuke. That would normally eventually end up with Naruto face-down on the ground. She didn't want that to happen. Not another depressing note to her day.

"It's alright, Naruto-kun," she said putting her hand forward to catch his kick, but was surprised when she found that it wasn't needed. Naruto stopped just before it connected. There was something strange that erupted between her hands and his foot. It was... soft. Yuki's eyes widened in astonishment. "Naruto-kun, have you been practicing?" Naruto jumped up and down in glee, apparently having forgotten his irritation with Sasuke.

"I just found out how to do it this morning. Look!" Naruto performed the jutsu and was now jumping from position to position in mid air, supported by only his chakra. Sasuke watched it with a hidden curiosity. "See? Yuki-chan!"

"That's great!" Yuki praised him for having accomplished the third stage. He was advancing much faster than she thought. "Keep on practicing till you get all your chakra control down to perfect."

"Yuki-chan! Was that it? No more stages? Have I mastered it completely?" Yuki was almost sorry to burst his bubble.

"You see, Naruto-kun... This next stage is a little more difficult. Chakra control in the earlier stages are important. You've got to learn how to throw that 'air pillow'." Yuki stepped back. He looked interested, so maybe it was better to demonstrate it to him. It'd take her mind off the depression anyway. If even for a short while. "It's like throwing shurikens." Yuki demonstrated, making sure that Naruto could properly see her chakra as she took position and threw the 'pillow' from her hand towards a tree. It sliced through a leaf. Something happened, the air picked up a little around the cut part of the leaf to make it float back on to the ground. "The 'pillow' that you throw is actually pretty sharp around the edges and it explodes just as it slices into something. It made a little whirlwind that made that part of the leaf float."

"Okay," Naruto was sitting on the ground, thinking hard. He was recapping what he had gone through so far. The first stage was the 'air bullet'. At the second stage he learn to make a gust of wind - a gale even if he tried hard enough. Well, he had tried pretty hard once, but Yuki had interrupted him before he could blow it all out, saying that he'd whip out a typhoon if he did. At the third stage he learnt to jump on 'air pillows'. Now in this fourth stage, he'd have to learn to use the 'pillow' as a shuriken. "Hey, Yuki-chan... what is this all leading to? How many stages really are there?" Yuki smiled. Naruto was really thinking now.

"Wait a minute, Sasuke-kun," Yuki said. She called him Sasuke-kun. Sasuke-kun. "Follow me, Naruto-kun, And I'll show you the last stage." Both the boys perked up with interest as they followed her to the training grounds. Before she started, she made sure that no one else was around. Good thing that she'd have a chance to demonstrate. Maybe she'd take it all out on that tree... Maybe it'd help her get rid of that slump. Maybe. Just take it all out on that tree. "Stay close to the ground," she instructed. "But keep your eyes on everything, alright?" They were at the edge of the grounds, facing the forest that was the other side of the huge clearing. Yuki took a stance, her feet slightly apart and her right hand on a seal. "Kaze no jutsu!"

They could barely see what she was doing but they could see what was happening on the edge of the field. A tree was dented with what Naruto thought was caused by an 'air bullet' then it was immediately sliced off. The entire tree was sliced off, leaving a stump of about a foot high. While it was floating back to the ground, the whirlwind picked up, carrying the tree higher and higher, its velocity increasing, until the whirlwind just stopped. And the tree started faling, heading towards them. They could see the whirlwind that was carrying it now. It glowed an eerie blue color. Yuki released her chakra from the tree and let the tree fall to the ground. Using the 'air pillows' she jumped up until she was slightly above the tree and then used an 'air pillow' on her hand to hit the middle of the tree. It didn't look like it was effective from the top but she knew that the other side of the tree had just exploded. Like that rasengan technique. Only not as powerful. The tree was in two pieces now, and it landed on either side of the two boys. They looked up at her in stunned terror. If the tree was a person instead...

"Yes, it's a dangerous jutsu when used improperly," she said as she squatted down to their level. That was relieving. "It's a kinjutsu really, but I know you can handle it Naruto-kun. What I just did was a severe attack of a combination of stages. You can control your chakra levels to modify the effects of the jutsu. That's it for now. Practice throwing the 'pillow' like a shuriken, okay?"

"Okay," said Naruto. He looked both terrified and eager. If such a look were possible. Yuki was immediately sorry for letting her anger burst out.

"Naruto-kun, don't worry about it. You'll be able to perform even better than I can. This would be the second last stage. At the last stage I'll teach you how to make a whirlwind." Naruto jumped about happily. Yuki smiled to herself at the immediate change. After satisfying herself that Naruto would be alright on his own, she turned to Sasuke who in turn started leading her away from the grounds.

"Where are you taking me?" she asked, breaking the silence. It had been eerily quiet since they'd left the grounds.

"To my house. The family records are kept there. Please follow me." Now that she'd noticed it, he sounded awfully patient and polite to her. What had happened?