When Naruto was feeling down and out, she could fix it just by taking him out to Ichiraku's for some ramen or giving him a friendly smile. With Sasuke, she just didn't understand why it was so hard to reach him. No person could want to be so closed off. There'd been a time when he'd been a friend to them, though the once friendly rivalry had turned dangerous. If rivalry and competition were the only ways he might open up, that could prove troublesome.

"I talked to him today," she explained, "and I asked him what he would do after he killed his brother and finished his revenge. He gave me an answer, but it was so vague. I don't think he really knows himself."