title: tipping point
summary: "We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. That's just how sinners go, Sakura, you can't change that." But she'll try. She'll try. — Sasuke/Sakura
dedication: to tumblr girls, you pretty pretty things.
notes1: yep, still don't know where I'm going with this, hurhur. ||D
notes2: I apologise for my extended absence. exams, omg. = =;;
disclaimer: disclaimed.
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Karin waited in the dark for Sasuke to return.
Her thoughts whirred, like machinery parts, her eyes trained on her toes, fingers absently twirling her pen in a circle. It wasn't like her, not knowing, not even having the vaguest idea of what was going on, and she didn't like it. It didn't feel right, at all.
In the opposite bed, Suigetsu had begun to stir. She pushed her papers and pen to the side and crawled across to where the pale-haired man slept. Expression thin, weary, almost, she pushed his hair out of his face with such care and sensitivity, before she landed a slap on his cheek, jolting him awake. He stammered something incoherent, flailing his arms, before coming to glare at his team-mate.
"What the fuck," he spat. "was that for?"
Karin deadpanned, and rose from her squatted position. Placing both hands on her hips to assume some sort of dominant stance, she looked down at him. "Sasuke's up to something."
Suigetsu blinked blearily back. "…do you really think I have shit for brains or some'in?"
"Yeah, basically."
"Well — well I don't!" Suigetsu snapped back indignantly. "I've noticed he's been a lil' more broody than normal, I figured there's gotta be some'in goin' on in 'is head."
Karin shook her head slowly, thoughtfully, and turned to start pacing as she spoke, moving her arms animatedly. "It's more than that, he's plotting, something pretty in depth, too. It has something to do with Konoha, I know that much, because that's always been his ulterior motive — but then there's something more to that, I think…it's going to be more than an attack."
Suigetsu tipped his head. "…and?"
"Suigetsu," Karin looked back at him, determination flashing in her eyes. "I think he's going to raise an army."
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Elsewhere, in Konoha, dawn broke.
Ignorance settled like a blanket.
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outro: christ, these get shorter. xDD