A/N: I've explored this concept minimally in my one-shot collection, "The Coexistence of Lilac and Magenta", but I wanted to keep going with this idea, so here we are. I hope you enjoy it. Dedicated to my good friend on here, NeilHighwind! To breathing new life into old characters, right?
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or its characters and I make no profit from this.
Karin looked so hurt, standing there, watching Juugo go one way and Sasuke another. After nearly two years, their little team was officially disbanding.
Juugo was almost able to control himself, but he had found a nice place to live alone where he was on the safe side and wouldn't hurt anyone.
Sasuke was going back to Konoha, either for redemption or to be put away for good. No one really knew what he was doing anymore, and oddly, it seemed no one cared.
Suigetsu wanted desperately to go back to the mist village, but strangely, he stood there with Karin, who was just watching the others depart with her eyebrows drawn in and her hands hooked together in front of her. Now that it was over, she had nowhere to go. And for some reason, Suigetsu couldn't just leave her there.
"Karin?" Suigetsu sighed, watching for any response. It seemed that the snappy girl he had known for so long was broken, because she just turned to him, her expression sobered, and didn't say anything.
Karin looked away, waiting for an insult, waiting for all the tough talk Suigetsu shot at her, even though she hadn't started it. But since she hadn't started it, there was none.
"Karin." Suigetsu huffed a sigh and picked her up. "Come on, we're getting out of here."
Karin didn't kick or shove at him, though she did manage a dirty look to shoot at him. Even if it was a watered down version of her everyday-for-nearly-two-years-glare-of-death, it was something.
"Come on, call me snaggletooth." Suigetsu pressed as he walked. "Say I'm a good for nothing lazy ass. Call me an idiot."
At this point, Karin looked annoyed, and Suigetsu was hoping to get the real Karin back. The one who slammed doors into him and kicked him in the face when she got mad. The one who he could argue with for hours on end.
"Say that if I don't put you down, you're going to beat me into oblivion." Suigetsu kept going for a good ten minutes before he was interrupted.
Surprisingly, Karin didn't say anything. Instead, she pinched his nose shut with one hand and held his lips together with the other.
Suigetsu got the hint. Traveling was to be done in silence for the moment.
A/N: Short first chapter, I know. What did you think though? And I don't know when this will be updated, I'm going to try my best to do it once a week, but we'll see.