~Intro~

"Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto," Kakashi sensei says one day," we have a person to protect for a while..."

"Ooohhh~! Who? Who?" Naruto asks curiously jumping up and down on his stool.

"Shut up Naruto and sit down!" Sakura demands.
The trio and Kakashi sensei is at the Ichiraku ramen ya eating ramen together.


"So..." Kakashi sensei starts again," we are going to stay at her house for quiet awhile... and I mean we have to practically live with her for awhile."

"Is she a princess?" Narut asks excited as he slurps down his ramen.

"Naruto... You haven't changed much since being a genin starter, have you?" Kakashi sensei comments.

"Heh,heh,heh!" Naruto laughs as he scratches the back of his head.

"Well! Princess is a close enough description...since she has a huge house like a princess' and has many rooms for us to stay in but we will have to take turns in staying in her room for the night to guard her," Kakashi sensei explains.

Sasuke is clearly not listening to their conversation.
He isn't actually even eating his ramen. He just looks blankly at nothing and does nothing.

"Her name is..." Kakashi sensei says," Karakuri Yozora."

Sasuke, who just only barely heard the name being mentioned, freezes and falls off his chair.

"Kyah!! Sasuke-kun! Are you alright?" Sakura asks in panic.
Sasuke clutches the side of his head since he bumps his head hard against his stool, and mumbles that he's fine.
The other three is really suprised since Sasuke hasn't spoken much and hasn't reacted like that before.

"Uh...well, that was unexpected..." Kakashi sensei comments.

"It's nothing..."Sasuke mutters and sits back down on the stool.

"So uh... how long are we going to protect her?"
Sasuke asks unemotionally and a bit dazely.

"Maybe a few weeks or months depending-" Kakashi sensei replies.

"What!?" Sasuke shouts and stared at Kakashi sensei.

"Sasuke kun...are you alright?" Sakura asks.

"Yeah, Sasuke... You're acting weird today," Naruto adds.


After that, Sasuke looks really annoyed but doesn't say a word.
While they all walk to this Karakuri Yozora's house, Sasuke looks sideways and crosses his arms across his chest as he walks.
Sakura and Naruto looks suprised by the way Sasuke is acting.

When they reach the house, they are welcomed in and stood in the huge living while waiting for Karakuri Yozora and her father, Karakuri Ginga.

Karakuri Ginga comes in and bows to Kakashi sensei.

"Kakashi"

"Ginga." Kakashi sensei replies, and bows back.

"Thank you young ones for coming," Karakuri Ginga says to the trio.
Sasuke had still looks the other way, not bothering to look up at Karakuri Ginga.
Ginga notices Sasuke, but before he is able to say anything else, a girl in a wheel chair comes to greet them.
She smiles and looks at Kakashi sensei, Naruto and Sakura.
When her eyes come to Sasuke, her smile drops and her eyes open wide.

Sasuke doesn't dare look at her and keeps looking at the side as the girl in the wheelchair points a finger at him and shouts.

"SASUKE!!?"




1-Noticing Differences


SASUKE!?

"Why are you here!?" you shout at Sasuke.

"Yozora. Quiet. He is one of our guards. You have to respect him equally since he is going to be protecting you," your father Ginga.

"But...but...Chichi-ue~! Why me? Why him? Why that baka?" you say in desperate panic.
Sasuke twitches and narrows his eyes a little in anger but still doesn't look your way.

"Because these people are one of the finest ningas in the Konoha Village. Especially our Sasuke," Sasuke's sensei replies for you.
You glare towards Sasuke's direction who looks really annoyed, then smile at Sasuke's sensei.

"Oh, I see... My apologies for being so rude to the Konoha's finest ninjas..." you smile sweetly, " and I am to address you as...?"

"Hatake Kakashi, the teacher of these three. Feel free to call me Kakashi sensei too, Miss Yozora," Kakashi sensei answers, while gesturing the trio.
You pull your hand out and shake hands with Kakashi sensei.

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto! The next Hokage!" the blond haired, bright-blue eyed boy says enthusiastically.
Isn't he... the Kyuubi boy...?
You shake his hand and smile warmly at him.

"Hi. I'm Haruno Sakura," the pink haired, similar looking green eyed (similar to you, that is...) girl says, as she steps foward and smiles and she shakes your hand as well.
When it was Sasuke's turn, he just glances at you for a fraction of a second, then say," you know me."

Yeah! The baka!
You fold your arms and glare at him.

"Yozora, even if you know him, welcome him with respect please," your father says as he sees that you aren't going to.

"You too, Sasuke," Kakashi sensei points out to Sasuke.
Sasuke sighs, then comes foward to you and raises a hand towards you.

"Sasuke," Sasuke introduces himself.

"Uchiha Sasuke," Kakashi corrects.

"..." Sasuke hesitates, but then says out his name fully.
This is the first time you sense something is wrong with him.

"...Uchiha Sasuke..." he replies.
You act a smile and took his hand.
Since you despise him, you squeeze his hand as hard as you can as you shook it. (Like you used to in childhood)

To your suprise, Sasuke doesn't react to it.
Nor does he return the death squeeze.

Now that you are close to him and he's looking straight at you, you look into his eyes and see that his eyes held emotions.
His eyes had gone way deeper into the darkness than before...
He has kodoku na me...
You slowly let go as your false smile fades into a sad-curious face.
Sasuke just ignores you and just steps back to his original position.

"Well," Kakashi sensei announces, " I will be joining Ginga so I'll leave you three with Yozora so you guys can get to know each other better."
And the two leaves.

"...." The room goes silent.

"Let us go to my room," you smile to the trio.
You start pushing your wheels when Sasuke comes up and pushes your wheelchair for you.

"...huh?"
You look up at him but he just looks foward with an unemotional expression.

"Which way?" Sasuke asks coldly.

"Uh...this way..." you say as you indicate a direction and the four of you go to your room.

....Why is Sasuke like this!?