So, one fine day when she was wandering around the house in hr training clothes, Karin was not at all to surprised to hear her mother talking with a lady named Noriko. It was, however, as she passed the entrance to the study that her mother, seeing her silloueghtte moving past the the paper screens that she called Karin in. "Karin, I would like you to meet someone." called Kiki. Karin stopped at a corner and turned around to identify the speaker. Kiki grimaced; her dauther was sweaty, dirty, and covered in dust. The small girl's clothes had rips in them and weren't much better off than the rest of her. Kiki, who had never Karin this dirty, stuck her head back in the room. "Maybe later, Noriko-chan." she said, talking to the other woman. Karin frowned and pushed her glasses further up her sweaty nose. The other woman was saying something but the screen muffled her voice.
Sighing, Kiki stuck her head out again, she looked uncomfortable. "Get in here." she stated firmly, motioning for Karin to enter. Karin shrugged and marched into the room. Looking around, she spotted the other woman, who had stood up, smiling, at the other end of the room. She was pretty and well dressed; a long purple yukata, patterened with flowers, and a pale lavender obi covered her slight figure. Her hair was pulled up out of her pale, slender face. Karin became suddenly, and embarrassingly, aware of her own scruffy appearance, she wished she had changed. "Noriko-chan this is Karin. Karin, Noriko." said Kiki stiffly from behind Karin. Noriko smiled and said happily, "Perfect! Exactly the right match!" "Match?" questened Karin looking up at her mother, who gave a grim smile. "Noriko wants you to marry her child." Noriko smiled again and said brightly, "Yes, he's perfect for my little Yumi. "He?" asked Karin. Oh no she didn't, said her inner, raising a fist. Karin gaped, then shouted suddenly, "I AIN'T A BOY!!!!!" "Excuse me?!" asked Noriko, shocked and appalled. "AND I AIN'T GAY NEITHER, SO FORGET IT!!!!"
"But", came a voice from the doorway."I don't see what that old hag saw in a brat like you in the first place, even if she did think you were a guy." Karin spun around, white-hot fury in her eys, while Noriko shrieked, "I, I, how dare you!" Leaning on the side of the door-frame was a handsome young boy. He looked about Karin's age, clad in a black shirt and kaki pants that were fastened with a rope. He was smirking, chin-length white-blonde hair falling in his face. He was cute, Karin noticed with a blush. "Who asked you, jerk?!" she shouted pointing. "No one," said the boy smiling. He seemed to have noticed that he made Karin angrier and was having a great time irking her further. "I was just stating my opinion." He shrugged his shoulders and smirked again. Karin sucked in a breath through her nostrils and, forcing herself to remain calm, asked in tone injected with obvious comtempt and dislike, "What's yer name anyways?" The boy smiled, showing strangely pointed teeth. "That's for me to know." Karin had to fight back a storrm of angry shouts as he smirked and turned to leave. "By the way," he said without turning around." You do look a guy when you're dressed like that." And he was gone.
Karin shook with controlled rage but for some reason couldn't her mind of the image of the boy. She barely heard her mother yelling at her, didn't notice Noriko leaving with a huff, all she saw was the boy. "I'll find you," she stated suddenly. "What?!" asked Kiki, confused. "I'll find you and make you take it back!!" shouted Karin striking a deterned pose, flames in her eyes.
six years later:
"We shouldn't be doing this." whispered a voice. A figure, croutching in the dark, straightened as it spoke. Another figure shoved it back down. "Too late, we're already this far." it stated, it's voice smiling. "But-", started the first figure in a strangled whisper before a third cut it off. "S-Sakura-chan, I d-don't like this either. B-but K-Karin-chan is r-right: we've c-come too f-far to st-stop n-now." "Thank you, Hinata-chan." said Karin. Sakura opened her mouth to protest but Karin cut her off. "Look, they deserve it. Remember what they called you?" she whispered heatedly. Sakura sighed and shook her head, but didn't protest any more. Raising her head slightly over the edge of the bed, Karin checked to make sure the inhabitant was still sleeping; it grunted and turned over, deep in slumber. Smirking through the darkness. she put out her hand and nodded. Hinata passed a bowl of cold ramen and Sakura ran silently over to the light switch, passing more beds where other people lay sleeping. Karin stood, holding the bowl of ramen noodles high over the bed's occupant. She turned and nodded at Hinata who ran over to the light switch at the other end of the long room. Karin smiled; her heart was beating in her throat, she raised her left hand so that the other two girls could that she was holding up three fingers. Holding her breath, she put them down; three, two, one. . . All at once, Hinata and Sakura flipped the lights, Karin dumped the entire bowl on the sleeping figure and all three girls shouted, "AAAAAH, THE TAPEWORMS ARE ESCAPING!!!!!!!!!!!" before bolting for the door, slamming it on the boy's dormitory behind them. Sakura was laughing hystericly, Hinata was crying, and Karin could barely run, she was laughing so hard.
(well, i should have the next chap up by tomorrow. please review! i don't mind flames but i'm just warning you: flame me and i'll flame you right back.)