Natsu was walking home from the academy, holding a photo. His teacher had given it to him. Well, actually, his substitute teacher had given it to him. Iruka-sensei had been out sick and a female teacher had tutored them today. She had told them to call her Lani-sensei (guess who). Natsu stared at the photo, puzzled. There was a man in it who looked just like his otou-san, and a woman in it that looked like Lani-sensei. He slowly climbed the stairs to the Uchiha compound, still staring at the photograph.

"Hmm...this guys looks like 8 years younger than my dad...this woman looks 8 years younger...why hasn't the color faded yet?"

Sasuke heard his son's mumbling, and went to check on it.

"What is it, Natsu?"

"Who are these people, otou-san?"

Natsu held the picture up to his father, and his father took it from him. He stared at the picture a few moments, then his obsidian eyes widened.

"What's wrong, otou-san?"

"Where did you get this?"

"Our teacher."

"Iruka?"

"No...Iruka-sensei was out sick, and this woman named Lani-sensei came to watch us."

Sasuke gasped. If it was the same Lani in the picture, the whole Uchiha clan was in deep trouble. DEEP trouble.

Later that day, when Natsu was safely tucked into bed, the dishes were done, and there was nothing else to worry about, Sasuke got into bed with Sakura, still clutching the picture.

"What you got there, Sasuke-kun?"

He silently passed the picture over to Sakura, and she stared at it for a few seconds before she gasped.

"Isn't...isn't this that girl?"

He moved his head a fraction of an inch, and Sakura knew it was.

"But how? This picture was taken over 5 years ago, it should have lost its color by now."

"I don't know, maybe its some kind of Genjutsu."

Sasuke made the appropriate hand seals and whispered, "Kai". Nothing happened.

"It's real," Sakura whispered, scared.

"It is."

"Maybe in the morning the picture will be faded out. Maybe the Genjutsu just takes a long time to unravel."

"Yeah...probably. We should just get some rest."

Sakura turned onto her side, facing the window. Her emerald eyes instantly closed, but Sasuke couldn't get any sleep. He lay on his back, staring up at the ceiling, puzzling over the picture. Why had Natsu's teacher given it to HIM of all people? Why not that Uzumaki girl, or Neji and Tenten's boy? Why the Uchiha?

He turned on his side, to stare at Sakura's back. The moonlight shone on her form, making it pristine, making it look as white as death itself. He shuddered. He looked out the window and just stared at the Hokage monument for a few minutes. He jumped as a pale hand hit the window. Then an arm showed. Then a head. (sounds sorta like the Grudge neh?) It was smiling maniacally at him and blood dripped from the corner of its mouth. The worst part of this was that it looked exactly like his ex-girlfriend Lani.

He woke up, shaking, to the light of day. He took a few deep breaths to calm himself. He saw Sakura was still asleep next to him, her head pillowed on his chest. He stared at the window, hard. A scream rose in his throat, but he reminded himself that an ANBU never screams. But the scary thing was, there WAS a hand print on the window. A woman's hand print. Then an eerie voice rang throughout the house and the stairs creaked, as though somebody were coming up the stairs.

"En mune ryuu maro. En mune ryuu maro." (I will kill you. I will kill you in Japanese) Then Sasuke couldn't hold back his screams any longer. So he screamed an earshattering scream and literally jumped 15 feet into the air, nearly knocking his head through the ceiling. Sakura shot out ofthe bedas well, still in her pjs, screaming "Holy crap! The bakas are coming!" Their screams woke up Natsu in the next room and he ran out to look at his parents, who were jumping around the room like mad bunnies.

"Okaa-san? Otou-san? Are you okay?"

A/N: Lol...wait for the next chapter. Sakura is afraid of bakas idiots, because she has more than enough experience with Naruto and Kiba and the other idiots...lols