So, I decided to revisit some of my abandoned stories and stumbled across this one. Apologies for it being so late. But hey, late is better than never, right? I seem to have a problem of starting stories, abandoning them, and then never remembering where the hell I was going with it. But anywho. Chapter two, enjoy!
"Somebody. Shoot me." Suigetsu muttered quietly through his teeth as he pushed Karin's arm off of him for what seemed like the hundredth time that night. It was bad enough that she flailed around in her sleep, but on top of that she continuously murmured Sasuke's name and how much she loved him, and in her sleeping state seemed to be under the impression that Suigetsu was, in fact, Sasuke. He frowned as she moved closer to him, and he scooted further away and turned his back to her, facing a sleeping Sasuke several feet away from him. He narrowed his eyes at the dark haired boy – it had been his insistence to use Suigetsu as a barrier between he and Karin.
"Sas….uke…" Karin murmured from beside him, causing him to roll his eyes. It was no wonder Sasuke needed a barrier, Suigetsu just couldn't see why it had to be him and not Juugo. Or even just several meters of space may have been fine. But, no. As always, Suigetsu got the short end of the stick and ended up with an annoying redhead practically drooling over who she thought he was. He felt her hand whack against his back and sighed, accepting the fact that she probably wasn't going to stop and he needed his sleep; especially considering this would probably be the only time they stopped at a real inn for quite awhile. He closed his eyes and tried to tune out Karin's ramblings, finding it easier to tune her out than to get annoyed.
"Oh my God, Suigetsu, get away from me, perv!" Suigetsu awoke with a start to something jabbing his back, and cocked one eye open to see Karin elbowing him and peering down angrily.
"Calm down, crazy. If I recall correctly, you were the one who was all over me last night." Suigetsu rolled over and smirked in her direction.
"Like I'd ever!" Karin snorted, placing her hands on her hips.
"Sure, sure, you wouldn't do it to me. But you seemed to be under the impression that I was Sasuke." He noticed a blush creep onto Karin's cheeks, and decided to continue with his story knowing that Sasuke was within earshot. "All night you just kept touching me and whispering, 'oh, Sasuke, yes, mmmm, Sasuke.'" He mocked her, pretending to kiss the air.
"Suigetsu, stop it!" She whispered furiously, delivering a slap to his face which he was too tired to dodge.
"Ah, what the hell? That actually hurt." He frowned and rubbed his cheek, not really used to physical pain. It was pretty easy to dodge attacks when he could instantaneously turn to water, though it required constant hydration and he hadn't drank since the night before.
"You deserve it!"
"That's enough, you two," A cold voice came from the other side of the room, and the two turned to see Sasuke frowning at them. "We need to get going."
"Aww come on, can't we rest just a little longer?" Suigetsu knew his attempt was probably futile, but it was worth a shot anyway.
"No." The expected answer came almost immediately. "We've rested long enough. If you two didn't bicker so much throughout the night, maybe you'd have gotten better sleep."
"I…it is not my fault!" Suigetsu pointed at Karin. "She's the one who was groping me and thinking it was you!"
"I never did that!" Another punch came, this time to Suigetsu's shoulder. He turned and glared at her, somewhat startled by the expression he was met with. He couldn't quite put his finger on what it was, but it looked more like embarrassment than anger. He noticed that her lip quivered slightly as she pushed her glasses up her nose, still blushing furiously. He momentarily debated with himself on whether to continue making fun of her or to let it go, choosing the latter as it'd save him effort. Besides, he was tired of Sasuke yelling at him. He let out a heavy sigh and turned away, beginning to pack up his belongings. He rolled his eyes as he heard Karin berating him on his slow packing, but it was becoming easier and easier to tune her out. The thing that pissed him off the most was how he, initially, had been relatively nice to Karin, and she'd only ever treated him with rudeness. After long, Suigetsu had completely given up being nice to her – clearly she was too blinded by her love for Sasuke to notice anyone else's attempts at kindness. Sasuke, on the other hand, had barely shown her anything other than disdain, and yet he managed to gain all of Karin's attention.
"…if you don't hurry up, Sasuke's going to be mad, you know," Karin's sharp, scolding voice pulled Suigetsu from his thoughts, and he jerked his head up and glared at her, feeling a sudden surge of anger towards her.
"Oh, Sasuke's going to be mad? We wouldn't want to upset the almighty Sasuke now, would we?" He sneered, not bothering to pack any faster.
"You'll hear about it from him on the way there!"
"No, I'll hear about it from him once. I'll hear it from you the entire goddamn time, because you can't just give something a rest, and all you care about is keeping Sasuke happy."
Karin blinked, looking bewildered and taken aback by his outburst. Suigetsu would often tease and annoy her, but he rarely expressed actual anger towards her. "I…he's our leader," she offered, not sure what to say.
"You seem to forget that we're a team, Karin. Teammates help each other, not just whoever's in charge. It's called being a decent human being, Karin, but you wouldn't know anything about that, because all you care about it getting Sasuke to like you." The redhead stared at Suigetsu as he continued to pack his belongings, a bit more haphazardly now. He paused throwing his things in his bag for a moment to frown at her. "And if you're so concerned about leaving quickly, how about you stop yelling at me and fucking help me?" He watched as she looked at the floor and bit her lip, almost looking somewhat remorseful for a moment, and he started to feel bad. His guilt quickly left as she shot her head up and sent him a death glare.
"If you weren't so slow, I wouldn't have to help! God, Suigetsu, you're so irritating. I'll be outside. Hurry up." She flipped her hair over her shoulder and left the room, probably to find Sasuke, and slammed the door behind her. Watching her leave, Suigetsu briefly felt bad for snapping at her, but the sound of her cooing at Sasuke in the hall quickly erased it. As he threw the last of his belongings in his bag, he shook his head and sighed heavily. Karin was probably never going to see anybody other than Sasuke, and he didn't know why a small part of him still hoped otherwise.