Hello, this story is my first crossover, and honestly I'm completely loving it right now. I have a lot of fun ideas for Naruto's and Inuyasha's members. Read and review please. I need to know how you like it and what I should improve on. As soon as I get them, I'll post more chapters. So, make sure you review!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Inuyasha and do not intend to steal the owner's credit in any way.

Warning Ship Notes: Also, sorry, but if I do any kind of ships it will be by the characters opinions. I won't force my characters.

Chapter 1

Emptiness.

That was what Sasuke Uchiha felt inside when he allowed himself to think about personal things.

Especially when those personal things were pointless and stupid.

"But Sasuke-kun! I know you could be happy if you'd just give me-us-a chance!" Karin squealed, her dark eyes wide and daring on him. Sasuke resisted the urge to roll his eyes. She seemed to totally ignore the fact that he was hardly paying attention to her.

The two ninjas were standing in a small clearing of the Sound forest, facing each other, or, rather Karin facing the back of Sasuke's shirt.

Even when she'd been yapping nonstop in his ear about the "something important" she wanted to say a few moments before, honestly when she said she wanted to talk alone and the other teammates left them he'd begun to tune her out.

Now, he supposed he was paying for that brief moment of quiet distance.

"You don't have to be alone with us," the girl was still talking. "You can be with me." she ended that with a bright twinkle in her eye.

It took her exactly forty five seconds to explain her pitch.

A small chord hit Sasuke's gut at her words, like a mocking sting from how much they rang familiarity. However, they felt even more bitter coming from the obsessed kunoichi.

He turned sharply on her in the forest she'd led them to, his glare like hot coals.

Karin was too startled to jump.

"Who gives a damn about that?" He spoke harshly. "I am not someone you can claim with your disgusting advances. And I have nothing to give you."

If only she were like Sakura. The red-haired girl did not react to his dangerous tone and there was not a tear in her eye. She just smiled sheepishly at him and bowed her head. "I knew you'd say something like that, least I tried," she chuckled sorrowfully.

Sasuke made to turn around. What a waste of time. He hadn't seen much of Karin lately, due to the fact that he ignored his comrade in favor for his goals, but he knew that each time he acknowledged her she would always try to "target" him. He felt so dumb thinking what she wanted to say was anything different.

"And Karin," the Uchiha stopped, eyes never moving from ahead. "Trick me again about Itachi's whereabouts and you'll receive no mercy from me." Then he turned back to look at her, glaring. "Annoyance comes with a price."

Karin looked struck, even knowing how cruel he could be. Behind her dark glasses she finally looked ready to cry.

Sasuke did not smile with triumph, but he walked away with a relative peace of mind as he began to search for the rest of the members of his team.

"I'm not done yet, Sasuke." The girl spoke up again. He didn't even get five feet away.

Sasuke could feel his right eyebrow twitch and stopped to turn his head.

Karin had an unreadable look on her face.

"I saw you earlier today. You were really upset with everyone. I thought if I got you alone I could cheer you up, but..."

Sasuke narrowed his eyes at her. His head had been hurting all day since he first woke up and he was pissed the team lost the lead on Itachi last week, but he made sure to keep those feelings to himself. It seemed, however, that when one was around someone like Karin, keeping to yourself was pointless.

Yet, he felt his anger at her dissipate a little as he turned toward her.

"Saying such things to me is useless, Karin. I have said that once already."

Karin jolted, her eyes alight with determination. "Yes, but, Sasuke! I really can make you happy. Sasuke...," The red-haired girl's face suddenly changed, and her red-pink eyes went heavy with longing. When she spoke, her boyish-sounding voice went even deeper. Though, Sasuke was sure her intention was not meant to sound like one.

"You work too hard. Haven't you ever thought of taking it easy once in a while?" Her thighs began to rub together. "Give yourself a little pleasure?"

Sasuke's eyes lowered at her blushing face. "What are you implying?"

Those words seemed to give her the courage to move. She smiled easily and began to take slow steps to him, closing the short distance.

Her voice went even deeper as her lips puckered out in a pout.

Sasuke never moved, but he was silently starting to get the willies when her hand reached out to touch him.

"I want to-" Karin halted in a choked gasp, and sharply lifted her arms in a comical way. Her head snapped back to follow as she let out a strangled shout.

Sasuke felt his mind prickle with surprise at the abrupt change in the girl's attitude, thinking she was frustrated with him, until he heard a harsh cawing sound above his head.

Hm? He thought, and calmly looked up to see a crow flying away from them. At least, he thought it was a crow.

It looked more like a demon with three red eyes and a too long tail.

Wait, three eyes?!

As it swooped over their heads and away, Sasuke gradually remembered Karin, and gave her his attention.

There was something monstrously white on her head, a weak stench that made him put a hand to his nose coming off it.

Karin was still shrieking with disgust.

"Ewwww! What the hell happened! Did I just get pooped on!?"

Her face was all screwed up, more pleasant to Sasuke than her face before the incident, despite the situation.

"Calm down," Sasuke said nonchalantly as he watched the girl twitch her fingers over her head. She didn't know what it was, but she wasn't about to touch it.

"There was a bird."

"A bird!" cried Karin. She gave Sasuke an incredulous look. "Who cares what it was! How do I get it out of my hair!?"

Sasuke wasn't paying attention to her anymore, however. He was more focused on the strange crow that had circled back around and was now perched on the tree near him. It stared at him with its terrible three-eyed existence as Sasuke watched it in return.

What the hell is it?

For as far as he could tell there had never been birds that had three eyes in the Sound forest. In fact, there were never crows with three eyes in all of the Shinobi world. Which meant it really was a demon.

"That thing has an unusually high amount of chakra." Karin's rough voice spoke up, sounding calm.

Sasuke looked back at her. Karin's ability to sense chakra far exceeded Neji's and Hinata's. Along with her healing powers, those were the main reasons he tolerated her as much as he did. When she wasn't torturing him with her love issues, she was pretty cool. Right then, her eyes were on the bird, a hand on her hip and a serious face on. It looked weird with her new hairdo.

"You smell." Sasuke took the moment to say, and Karin's straight face blanched.

"I know that!" She yelled at him, her fist in his face. "I don't need your input!" He smirked inwardly. Annoying.

"Caa" the crow cried, pulling both of their attentions back to it as it began to spread its dark wings.

Its chakra was unusual, Karin told him. That piqued his interest even more with the creature.

Sasuke reached across his hip to pull out his sword, unsheathing it with his eyes trained on the bird.

"Sasuke," Karin spoke up quickly. "What are you going to do? This 'bird' is obviously not normal. You could do something you'll regret later."

Sasuke flitted his eyes to her, not raising from his stance. The girl was too annoying for words.

"I am going to catch the creature. Whatever happens to me is my business, not yours."

Then he jumped, quickly disappearing from Karin's side to hang in the air right in front of the unsuspecting crow.

It squawked when it realized Sasuke, and started to move, but it never got the chance.

Or, wouldn't have if Juugo hadn't barreled into Sasuke from out of nowhere.

"Oof!" Both men fell hard to the ground, Juugo's heavy weight on top of Sasuke.

"Off." He commanded as Juugo stammered his apologies and tried to scramble up.

When the big man stood, he held out an embarrassed hand to his teammate.

"Sorry, Sasuke! I wasn't paying attention to where I was going!"

Suigetsu's laugh sounded near Sasuke's head.

"What a loser! And you were so close to beating me, too!" He kept laughing.

Karin came running toward them.

"Sasuke, are you alright!? I saw what happened and I know Juugo can feel like a rock when he lands on you!"

"Hmm?" Suigetsu said thoughtfully. "And how well do you know his body, Karin?"

Karin gave him a straight-faced death stare.

"Do you want to die early, Suigetsu?"

Juugo looked away, embarrassed about them talking about him and for Suigetsu's sake.

To the white-haired boy's credit, he only laughed again.

Sasuke wasn't listening to his teammates. He was currently staring up at the empty spot the demon bird flew from.

"W-were you about to kill something, Sasuke?" Juugo asked, watching him.

Sasuke turned to look at him, and then his other teammates.

Juugo, the origin of the curse mark he himself carried, was the most successful in combat. What, with his murder tendencies. However, if Sasuke wanted him to do something as simple as catching a bird, he had to dismiss him. The brute would scare it off. On the other hand, Suigetsu might be better in helping him capture it. His water techniques were undeniably accurate. Karin was not bad, either. She could find its chakra signature before its physical form.

However, the team couldn't get along, and taking one of them was just asking for trouble.

He stood and dusted himself off, sheathing his Katana with a wail of metal sliding against metal, and started to walk toward the direction he glimpsed the thing fly off in.

"I'm going to look for the bird. You all stay here."

Karin and Suigetsu stopped glaring at each other to gape at Sasuke's back.

"Sasuke, wait!" wailed Karin. Suigetsu followed her running footsteps. "Yeah, I'm sticking with you!" He exclaimed toward Sasuke.

He stopped, waiting for their footfalls to halt behind him, and turned his head to the side to glare.

"I said stay," Sasuke said evenly. "You will only scare the creature away with your bickering."

"But, Sasuke-" Karin started to say. Sasuke interrupted, though, eyes facing forward again. "I don't have need for you at the moment. I will soon, however."

He knew this got to Karin because her blushing was palpable on his back. And that wasn't even possible.

"Aww, Sasuke," she gushed. "I guess waiting for you isn't that bad. I have to do some things for myself anyway, so it would be really inconvenient for me to come along right now."

Sasuke knew he would regret his words later. He sighed and began to walk again.

"Hey, wait, Sasuke!" cried Suigetsu. Sasuke grunted with frustration, but turned without comment.

Suigetsu was giving him a hard stare.

"You can't bribe me with your good looks," he said. "So how are you going to keep me busy?" Karin was back in the clearing with Juugo so Suigetsu was lucky she didn't hear that from him.

Sasuke thought for a minute, pissing the white-haired boy off.

"You're really thinking about it!? What happened to working as a team?" he said, shark teeth frowning.

Sasuke gave him a leveled stare. He was impatient to go find the crow, as he felt he needed to because of its unusualness alone, but also because he felt something similar to it.

And it connected firmly with his goal of vengeance.

"This is something I must do alone, Suigetsu. I will not risk a lead on Itachi, however brief, to slip away from me. You will only get in my way."

Suigetsu laughed to fill the hurt in his voice. "Ha, you really don't like nice words, do you? Alright," the man said, putting his arms behind his head with a smile. "If you want to go find some crazy animal in the woods, fine, but don't come calling for help if a dude walks up on you and knocks you out."

Sasuke smirked his acknowledgment, and turned toward the trees.

His eyes flashed red with Sharingan before he disappeared, leaving only a puff of leaves in his wake.