Chapter 4!: Yuki Versus Sasuke!

Yuki

I stared back at Naruto in silence. I was an Akatsuki. Not a Hidden Leaf member.

I wondered where Sasuke was, and my Sharingan glowed maliciously.

Unlike most Uchiha's, I had a sense of emotions. Which is one reason Itachi never really like me. But hey. Itachi never really likes anyone.

And arm sped around my waist, and a kunai to my throat.

'Yuki-Chan…' A deep and seductive voice murmured. 'Long time… No see…'

'S- Sasuke-kun…' I stammered, growling.

'Heh. So you do remember me, huh?' I felt Sasuke's dark grin.

'Of course… How could I… Forget?' I said, and Elbowed him in the stomach hard when I said "Forget". I leapt up high and crouched in the tree that was closest to me. Nothing seemed to happen for a while. And I began to slink down the tree, when Sasuke appeared behind me again.

'Ahah!' He laughed. 'Gotcha!' He made some fast hand signs. And I knew what they were. 'Fire Style!: Fire Ball Jutsu!' He chanted, and blew into his hand like a Bubble blower.

A massive amount of chakra went into that Jutsu, because I went flying backwards, right into that cliff.

Deidara

'Danna!' I yelled in fright. I started to run towards her, but a loud growled ripped through the whole of the Akatsuki, Gaara and the Hidden Leaf people. 'D- Danna….?' I asked, taking a step forward and cocking my head suspiciously.

Then shock took me over completely. From under the Rocks, emerged the Juichuri.

That explained it all. It was Yuki.

The missing-nin from Hidden Leaf.

The Red Snow.

The Devil.

Yuki was the Juichuri. Which meant…. We're screwed.

No one but one person had crossed her path and made it out alive.

My heart ached.

How would she love me if I knew her true form? She looked at us maliciously. Teeth bares and snarling.

She was only as high as a horse, but se could change her size easily. One of the gifts the Juichuri was given, or one of the curses.

'Danna…' I murmured sadly, and looked at the floor.

The slow padding of her giant paws came nearer and nearer and stopped in front of me. I looked up at her sadly, knowing about her past.

I had been alive when the sand village was threatened by the 11-tailed wolf.

I looked back down again, and stuck my hands in the small pockets I had under my cloak.

The Juichuri's large, blue nose was thrust into my chest. I blinked away the tears that were pricking the corners of my eyes, and pulled my left hand out of my pocket, and into the fur on her cheek.

Her eyes looked up at me. Big and sad. They reminded me of Orochimaru. But there was a kindness in her eyes that Orochimaru's didn't.

But what did this mean? Was she telling me she loved me? Or that she was sorry?

I heard Itachi move behind me.

'Deidara…' He murmured. 'Step back…' I did what he said automatically. 'Good…' The corners of his mouth turned up in a mischievous smile.

'Fire Style!:' He chanted. 'Fire Ball Jutsu!' A large fire ball appeared in front of him and shot into Danna's face, making her skid backwards.

She looked up at Itachi steadily, growling ferociously. She crouched down in a pouncing position, and Itachi did the same. I jumped in-between them both and stuck my arms out.

'Stop.' I said sternly, knowing without looking Danna had straightened up and was looking at me with a confused face. 'Just… stop…'

Yuki

I stared down at Deidara. His words had frozen everyone. Sasuke was stood by my shoulder, one hand immersed in the fur there.

Itachi suddenly, sharply, threw 3 Kunai blades at us. One slicing in Dei's arm, another hitting Sasuke, Blade-first into the stomach.

The third headed directly for me.

There was no time to think, and I couldn't move. I was paralysed.

I squinted my eyes shut, and felt a breeze waft in front of my face.

I opened my eyes slowly to see Gaara, and a thick wall of sand in front of me.

'I promised to you before…' Gaara's rough voice said, without turning to me. 'I will protect you with my life.' It was then I remembered.

The time he vowed that to me…

The time he stopped me from turning into the Juichuri and killing Temari…

The time he… kissed me…

I shook my head roughly back and forth.

Now was not the time to be having flashbacks. I looked down at Sasuke who had fallen to the ground, and was clutching his stomach and groaning quietly. His hands has been stained a foul crimson.

Seeing him in such a pain, I reverted back to my human form, and knelt down to him, placing one hand around the Kunai, and the other around the wound. I felt a hand slide onto my shoulder, and sand swirled magically down my arm.

Sasuke's pained face calmed down, and his dark eyes, the same as my own, stared helplessly into mine.

I smiled at him, and pulled the Kunai out smoothly. He winced, but didn't complain.

'Thank you… Yuki…' He murmured weakly. Unexpectedly, his Sharingan became visible and so did mine. He smiled and said;

'You finally have your Sharingan… Impressive…' I grinned and giggled.

'You're on the verge of death and all you care about is my Sharingan?' Sasuke chuckled once, obviously painfully, Then shook his head.

'No… I care about…. You…' His eyes flickered from me, across to my old team.

Naruto… Sakura… Kakashi-Sensei… Then he looked back at me. 'All of you.'

Gaara's hand slid from my left right shoulder to my left, and he knelt beside me.

I felt it rip then.

For the first time in my whole life… My heart was torn two ways…