Kanoi: This is yet another late contest entry.

Naruto: You're really getting bad about deadlines, aren't you?

Kanoi: I can't help it! I'm so busy lately.

Sasuke: You should make time.

Kanoi: Well, we're not all you!

Sasuke: Exactly. smirks

Naruto: Before Kanoi kicks Sasuke's ass, Kanoi doesn't own Naruto.

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Sakura took a violent bite out of her dumpling filled with red bean paste as she saw Karin approach her. When Karin sat down beside her, Sakura held out a cup of herbal tea for the other woman. Karin took the cup with a grunt, tea sloshing voer the sides.

"It will help with any cramping you might have," Sakura said and then returned to crushing herbs with some sort of blunt object that Karin didn't know the name of.

"I feel I should let you know that you don't have a chance with Sasuke-kun," Sakura told Karin blandly.

"Excuse me?" Karin shouted, standing up violently. "Do you think he wants you?"

"Not at all," Sakura replied calmly, "I don't think Sasuke-kun is interested in any female."

"So do you think he's asexual?"

"I didn't say that either."

"Then what?" Karin asked skeptically.

From the direction of their camp the women heard a low growl of "Dobe."

Karin's eyes widened in shock, while a wide smirk broke out of Sakura's face.