"I'M HUNGRY! CAN WE GET SOME RAMEN?"

I sighed at Naruto's loudness as we entered Konoha for the first time in three years. The place hasn't changed at all, and obviously neither has Naruto. I thought he had gotten over his obsession with ramen since every place we've been to didn't sell any. I guess he's finally fed up with his deprivation.

I gained control of my body a few minutes ago since I felt that I could handle Sasuke. I wanted her to control me the first time just to get through the trip back here. I'm glad I did, considering Sasuke was staring at me with the saddest look in his eyes. I saw him through Akuna, so I felt nothing as we gazed at each other. He would try to speak to me but Akuna isn't exactly the easiest person to talk to, especially in this particular situation.

"We can go get ramen now, Naruto," Hinata said shaking her head.

I whispered to her, "You only said that to shut him up." She shrugged, "I love him but his complaining does get to me sometimes."

I chuckled a little and shook my head as we headed towards the ramen shop, but stopped as I realized I first had to go to Tsunade. I growled profanities under my breath as I turned to Sasuke and grabbed his sleeve.

"What are you doing?"

"Shut up ass," I said glaring at him. "I gotta take you to Tsunade."

"Um, can we just eat first?" he said with a hint of fear in his voice. I rolled my eyes, "Wow you're pathetic. I have to tell her you're here first, unless you want every ninja in the village to attack you. Trust me, I won't hold them back."

I felt him shudder under my grasp as I dragged him to the Hokage Mansion. I can't believe he's actually scared of what might happen, but then again I don't blame him. Tsunade can be a crazy ass bitch sometimes and in this situation it might not turn out well.

You've been cursing a lot lately.

I've been angry a lot lately.

Nevertheless, and what Tsunade has in store for him can't me that bad.

I mentally rolled my eyes. Treason leads to death Akuna.

Our mental conversation ended as I walked right into Tsunade's office with Uchiha practically hiding behind me. I scoffed and pushed him forward so she had a view of him. I see she hasn't changed either as her hard gaze landed on the boy in front of me and she folded her hands in front of her face.

"So you indeed brought him back Kurayami," she finally said not taking her eyes off of him. I nodded, "I did. We had a deal."

Sasuke decided to speak up, "She said I could fight her if I killed Orochimaru. She easily beat me so I decided to come back."

I glanced at him as he technically lied to the Hokage. I didn't beat him in the fight; it was a tie and he gave up. "I'll accept you back Sasuke Uchiha, but you have a few conditions you must live under."

I could practically taste the tension in the air as the Uchiha braced himself for the punishments. I was hoping he would have to clean the village everyday or be her slave like Shizune is. That would pretty much make my life.

I slightly chuckled at this thought which caused the two to give me weird looks. I scratched my head nervously while glaring at Uchiha for that. "As I was saying, here are your punishments. First, you have to start over again as a genin. I'm going to give you simple annoying D-rank missions for grunt work. You will also do missions with Team 7, but only with my permission. Second, I'm putting a chakra seal on you until I know I can trust you. I will have control over it and so will Kurayami. She will deem it fit when you can use your chakra and when you can't. Third, I need your actions to be monitored, so I'm assigning you a body guard who you will even move in with. Since my best anbu is already technically assigned to you that will be her job just with a little extension."

Oh hell no.

I agreed with everything Tsunade said until that part came up. Uchiha deserved all she dished out to him, but she could easily assign another anbu to him. Roya hasn't appeared in any of the time I was with Sasuke, so I highly doubt he's in danger anymore.

"You can't really expect him to move in with me."

She shifted her gaze to me, "I do expect him to, and that's why I said it."

"You can easily assign someone else to him. He's not in danger," I said with my anger rising. Her eyes narrowed, "You're the best I have and will keep him in line. He won't escape with you around."

"How do you fucking know? He didn't give a shit before so he can easily leave again!"

She sat back in her chair and stared at me incredulously. Sasuke turned to face me and I saw the pleading in his eyes to trust him. I shook my head at them both and let Akuna take it from here. I really didn't want to deal with this stupid crap anymore.

"Kurayami agrees…unwillingly. She asks if she has permission to 'beat the living shit out of Uchiha' if he makes one wrong move," Akuna said for me. Tsunade's eyes widened then narrowed at this deal breaker.

"She can do anything within reason, Akuna."

Nodding, we left the office to drop Uchiha off at the ramen shop where Naruto and Hinata still were. On the way he kept staring at me in question and tried to make an effort to speak, but as soon as Akuna gazed at him he'd look away. I don't think he could handle the emotionless aura she gave off, which is surprising considering that's how he is.

Seeing Naruto turn around to greet us, his eyes saddened noticing it was Akuna and not actually me. Sasuke looked at him weirdly as he sat down, but Hinata was the only one who noticed.

"So what's the verdict?"

"He has to do genin work; he has to get a chakra seal, and has to move in with Kurayami so she can watch him more thoroughly."

Hinata shook her head, "I'm guessing Ya-ya isn't handling that too well."

"She wants to leave as we speak," Akuna said truthfully. "She'll see you guys later. Make sure to bring Sasuke over with his things."

With that, we disappeared and reappeared back at my house.

SASUKE'S POV

I watched as Yami disappeared and sighed to myself. I knew being back at the Leaf Village wouldn't be the same, but Tsunade saying I had to stay with Yami was practically a death sentence. I wouldn't be surprised if I was killed off in my sleep.

Turning to Naruto, I noticed he was glaring at the food in front of him like he wanted it to catch fire. It was a bit weird, considering he was yelling about how much he wanted ramen on the way here. Hinata started rubbing his back in comfort and he turned to grin at her in reassurance. I could see with the way he looked at her that he truly loved the Hyuga.

Will Yami ever feel the same for me?

A question then came to me, "Who's Akuna?"

Naruto turned to me and glared daggers. I don't think I've ever seen him this mad before. "Like you care you bastard."

"I do care," I said with my eyes narrowing. "That's why I asked, idiot."

Hinata looked between me and Naruto then stood up, "Let's walk and talk. You should get your things and we have to take you to Ya-ya's anyway." I nodded in agreement and we left. As we went back to my home I noticed pretty much every person in the village glared at me. I shrugged it off since I expected this, and I hoped I wouldn't run into any old friends yet.

When we arrived at my house, I started grabbing all my clothes and shoving them in a bag. I ignored the dust that flew into the air and looked at Naruto expectedly, "Okay now explain."

He crossed his arms, "You did this to her." I growled under my breath, "I'm asking specifically what I did. I was trying to protect her."

"Did you ever think that she didn't need protecting? You broke her heart and now she's not the same!" Hinata said angrily at me. I stopped what I was doing in shock for a second, considering Hinata is never mad.

Naruto nodded in agreement, "She would cry every night because of you and rarely smiles. I don't know if I'll ever see her truly happy and it's all because of you."

What they said really hurt. It was like pouring acid on my heart. I was hoping she would at least somewhat understand why I did what I did. She doesn't have to worry about that anymore, though, because the next time I'm leaving is only to kill Itachi; even then I know I'm coming back.

Wait a minute… "Why do you guys sometimes call her Akuna? She also talks in third person too."

They both glanced at each other until Hinata spoke up first. "Ya-ya, after awhile, couldn't handle her emotions very well. She would get so angry or sad and it tore her apart."

"Because she couldn't handle her emotions, Kura developed a split personality called Akuna. Akuna is calm, emotionless, and fearless. She's part of Kura that comes out when Kura knows she can't handle her emotions," Naruto said. Hinata continued in sync with him, "We can tell when it's Akuna because her eyes are dull and lifeless. We're hoping we'll be able to help Ya-ya so that she doesn't have the split personality but we don't know how. Just be warned, you might be around Akuna a lot."

Way to break my heart and shatter it into a million pieces.

"Let's go to Kura's."

I nodded and grabbed my bags as we left to go to her place. When we arrived, I took her spare key from the plant at the window and let us in. as we entered, we could hear music coming from one of the rooms upstairs. I couldn't believe we were doing this, but we used our ninja skills to quietly sneak upstairs to check out what was going on. One of the rooms sound like it was where the music was coming from, so we went there. Noticing the door was slightly open, we quietly stood against the doors, watched, and listened as Yami sang while playing her piano.

I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
You used to captivate me
By your resonating life
Now I'm bound by the life you've left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me

My eyes were widened as she sang the saddest song ever. I definitely have to fix things with her before it's too late.

But I have to make sure I talk to Yami, not Akuna.