"Suigetsu.. Could you show us to that hot spring you found earlier so we can all just clean up and get ready to leave?" Sasuke changed the subject of the conversation just as Jugo appeared with a huge pile of dismembered tree parts and set them down onto the ground. He knelt down in the dirt and tossed some of the wood into another pile which would become the fire; Sasuke formed a quick handsign and spit a small stream of flames onto the pile until it lit up and began to burn. Karin stood there drooling over how quick and cool Sasuke could do handsigns and jutsu while Jugo prodded and poked at the fire to get it to really brighten up..

"Right this way." Suigetsu waited for them to finish tending to the fire before nodding and beginning to walk in the direction of a natural hot spring he had found the day before. Sasuke and Jugo stood up to follow, Suki had no choice seeing as how he was her only way of walking and Karin quickly tagged along with perverted thoughts of Sasuke bathing clouding her mind..

After a brief moment of walking Suigetsu suddenly stopped and looked around as if he was lost. Jugo and Sasuke were paying attention and also stopped, but Karin was drifting into dream-land and kept walking straight past them as they turned down a small path. Nobody bothered to stop her because they knew she'd find her way back eventually and start a fight with Suigetsu over it. The small group continued walking for just about another minute before they could hear the sound of rushing water; a few more steps and having to move past some thick branches and they spotted the site.

"Here it is." Suigetsu looked up at the beautiful water cascading down a rocky-slope into a large pool of water; which then lead to a few smaller pools that were heated by natural underground springs. The area was just a mesh of cool river water rushing down into a waterfall and hitting the surface where there just happened to be warmer underground water coming up to meet it. The place would be perfect for swimming aside from the rocks that divided and crossed the area, it looked like a really huge tide-pool with dividers and rocks you had to climb over to get to the cold or warm areas..

"Whoa.." Jugo smiled as he took in the amazing sight, Sasuke was unmoved by the beauty of the area and just wanted to relax for a moment and clean up. "I've seen better.." Suki mumbled sarcastically just to give Suigetsu a hard time, "You better be nice to the guy taking time to carry you around, or I'll drop your ass right here and refuse to help you." He snapped back, half jokingly to go along with her statement. "Psh.. I don't NEED your help... Its just nice to have." She partially whispered the last part under her breath and looked behind her to see none other than a very pissed off Karin stomping her way.

"Welcome back Princess, did you get lost?" Suki grinned at the fuschia haired female; Karin was about to screech her anger at Suigetsu before it was completely broken apart by a wonderful sight.. Sasuke and Jugo had picked one of the medium sized pools that was warmed by the underground; Jugo had already slipped into the water but Sasuke hadn't yet..

Karin stared blankly as if she was completely hypnotized at the sight of Sasuke about to undress, sadly her dreams were shattered when Sasuke noticed her creepy staring and moved away behind a rock. "Well aren't you just a bit of a creeper." Suki's words were like a bullet to Karin's ego, she quickly tried to come up with a response but couldn't. She simply stormed off angrily to find a warm pool of water to relax in, preferably one on the other side of the area Sasuke was in..

"Um.. You can set me down now." Suki poked at Suigetsu while the two of them watched Karin find a pool for the two girls to bathe in along the other side of a huge rock wall from the spot the guys had claimed. Suigetsu wondered over to where Karin was now taking off her shoes and gently let Suki climb off him and stand on her own. Karin glared while Suigetsu quickly walked around the other side of the rocks to avoid Karin screaming at him for something.

Suki cringed and stumbled forward a bit until she was at the edge of the pool; Karin had just slipped her shirt off and stood there in her bra glaring at the other female. "Can't you just heal yourself or something?" She snarled as she folded her shirt up neatly. "You think just because I'm a female I'm automatically also a medic? Haha, no.. Plus I need both arms to do Jutsu.. Just have to reattach this damn thing." Suki leaned against the wall of rock for a moment before carefully bending over and picking up her wooden limb from the ground.

"By the way, I hope you know I'm not after your damn uchiha.. He's not even remotely cute, I have no interest in that." Suki didn't look at Karin while she spoke to her, she was busy getting her arm to snap back into place on the hinges without hurting herself; she managed to get it into place and smiled at having another limb again. Karin's face was in shock at her statement, Suki looked up to see Karin staring at her as if she were a ghost.

"What?" Suki's eyebrow raised in question to the random staring, she stretched her arm outwards and twisted it back and forth for a moment to get used to having the limb connected again. "Just what made you say something like that!" Karin knew her very-obvious-secret was exposed, but continued to play dumb. "What? You think nobody notices the way you drool over Sasuke like some school-girl? Please, its pathetic.. I'm just letting you know I'm not your competition." Her little wooden and mechanical fingers moved and flinched a few times before clasping her other flesh-made fingers into a handsign..

Suki groaned quietly with pain as the skin from her upper arm slowly stretched and melted over her wooden arm to cover it completely. After a few moments of freaky-disgusting skin jutsu, her fake-arm was completely unnoticeable again aside from the metal-band at the top of her arm. Karin looked downwards, her glasses glaring with the light again hiding her eyes like it usually did. "Well then.." She mumbled and slipped slowly into the warm water; Suki shrugged and checked her arm for any imperfect spots on her arm's new skin..

After she had found none she hesitated for a moment but then slid her shirt off quickly along with her other clothing and dropped into the water. She clenched her fists at the stinging of all her cuts hitting the warm water, but after only a few seconds it felt so much better.. She relaxed and lay her head back onto the rock-edge she was just standing on; her bright eyes slowly shut and she focused on her breathing while she zoned out to relax for a bit.

Karin was glaring with jealousy, despite Suki just telling her she had no interest in Sasuke, this could be some evil plan to get him away from her anyway! "She's injured.. So she'll slow the group down and Sasuke will demand information and then leave her on the side of the road! Bwahaaha! ...But, if she does manage to keep up.. Uhg! Her boobs are bigger than mine! I've got to find a way to make myself more attractive to him than this bitch! I wonder how sexy Sasuke looks right now over there~.." Karin's thoughts went on and on plotting how to make herself look better than Suki, who really didn't give a flying fuck..

She slowly opened one bright emerald eye to see Karin scavenging the wall of rock to find a hole to peek through to get a look at Sasuke. "Your never going to get a guy when you do creepy shit like that." Suki mumbled and remained motionless with only one eye staring at the desperate Karin. "Shut up, how would you know anything about that?" Karin growled back at her and finally gave up the search..

"Ha.. Sweetie you don't know the half of it." Suki refereed to the creepy guy earlier that stalked her at the diner; this wasn't the first time odd things like that had happened to her.. Karin crossed her arms over her chest and looked off to the side, "Hmph! Whatever!" She ignored Suki's advice, even though secretly she wanted to hear what she had to say, she acted as if she didn't. Suki rolled her eyes at the ignorant female and began to slowly massage her hurt leg under the water..

After a while both the girls had finished bathing and were ready to get out of the water and begin the journey for the day, Karin made her way out of the water and unfolded her clothes to get dressed. Suki was still uneasy about moving so much with the shattered bone and crawled her way out of the pool. Karin turned around to notice Suki standing up, she had an odd tattoo on her lower back that caught her attention. She didn't say anything though and just kept to herself as she got dressed..

The two girls heard footsteps coming from around the corner just as Suki finished pulling her shirt on and straightening it out; It was Jugo weary to walk in on something and the damned Uchiha about to tell them to hurry up. Seeing that they were already completely dressed and ready to go, he decided not to say anything and just turned around to walk towards the campsite. "Wheres Suigetsu?" Suki noticed he wasn't with the guys, "He always takes the longest.." Jugo responded and turned to follow after Sasuke while Karin chased quickly behind.

Suki blinked and waddled around the side of the rocks to poke her head out and see just why Suigetsu took so long. Luckily for the both of them he was still in the water and not exposed, but he was just as shocked as she was to be staring at eachother so awkwardly. "Hurry the hell up, your my transportation." Suki slid the crimson sleeves over her arms that she forgot to put on earlier. "Um.. Well, let me get dressed at least.." Suigetsu was actually blushing, he could feel his cheeks get red and tried to force them to stop. Suki giggled at this and waddled back around the side of the rocks to give him some privacy..

After he quickly got dressed and got over the slight embarrassment of Suki walking in like that he shook it off and walked out to the part of the rocks she was standing at before. She was leaning against the wall staring off into space completely zoned out, he moved infront of her and put his hands on either side of the rock walls behind her. She blinked and snapped back to reality to see violet eyes pinning her against the wall, inches away from her face with his hair dripping wet and a sharp-toothed smile..

"May I help you, Sir?" Suki remained emotionless, much to his surprise.. However, he wasn't going to give up until she suffered the same burning-cheek fate that he did. His face moved ever so closer to hers until his forehead was literally pressed against hers; his eyes still locked into hers in a staring contest seeing which of them would crack first..

Suki could feel herself so slightly shiver at how uncomfortably close he was to her, but she knew exactly what he was doing and refused to give in.. He was trying to make her blush because she made him earlier, but she knew how to hide emotions pretty well. Emerald orbs pierced into violent ones, both people noticing how pretty the others eyes were, caught in a slight moment of distraction before Suigetsu moved back a bit.

Suki was about to speak up at him moving back and claim her victory before he moved even closer than before, his lips nearly an inch away from hers. Her entire body froze while she tried to back up but hit the rock wall behind her before she could even move, her face slowly turning red and her eyes widening. But instead of him moving away quickly and enjoying his victory, he stayed in this position for a few moments, a proud smirk plastered across his face.

"Nn.." Suki turned her head to the side and looked away with defeat, he finally took a step back and grinned proudly at her. She shook her head for a few moments for the burning red sensation of her cheeks to stop before glaring at him angrily and pouting. "Heheheh.." He chucked as he turned around for her to jump onto his back again so he could carry her back to the campsite..

She hesitated and placed her hand on his shoulder, she was basically standing on one leg and it wasn't so easy for her to jump; but she did manage to hop up and cling to his back like she did before. This time she didn't hesitate at all and wrapped her arms around his neck before resting her head over his shoulder. He turned his head towards her and smiled, his cheeks now painted a light pink once again while he started walking back to the campsite..

"I win." She whispered almost silently.. He shook his head in defeat but couldn't help but smile at that clever last move.. "I'll get my revenge again." He mumbled and wondered back to the area where everyone else was now sitting on the ground around the fire. Karin was giggling evilly and staring at them, Sasuke had closed eyes and was simply enjoying the warm fire and Jugo was giving them 'the look'..

"What?" Suigetsu stopped and stared at them questioningly, Suki raised her head and looked at them from over his shoulder; Karin was about to say something before Sasuke stood up and began to walk off. "We're leaving." He simply stated and expected them to follow, without saying anything else everyone followed in line. Jugo put the fire out, Karin walked uncomfortably close to Sasuke and the group simply followed along with the routine of travel..

Suigetsu stopped and picked up his sword for a minute and stood there staring at it. "Here, I'll carry it." Suki stretched her hand out to grab the blade, he slowly handed it over, not wanting anything to happen to it. Suki swung it around her back and held it over her shoulder; She knew this would get tiring after awhile, she would need something to hold it in place on her back.. She figured they would figure that out later, Suigetsu made sure she was alright to hold it before he started following after the group again.

Karin looked back and saw the two again, she strayed behind her being-up-sasuke's-ass-all-the-time and walked alongside them, "I saw what you two did back there.." She smiled evilly, little did they know she didn't follow Jugo and Sasuke back to the campsite, but was hiding behind a nearby tree stalking the two. She had crouched behind a tree trunk and watched them move closer to eachother, from the angle she was staring from it looked as if the two were making out; and she was not going to let them live it down..

"Huh?" Suigetsu pretended he didn't know what she was talking about and didn't think she saw the earlier making-eachother-blush-fight.. Suki rolled her eyes and ignored Karin, Karin simply gave them the 'you-know-what-i'm-talking-about' look and walked back over to her usual spot right next to Sasuke. Suigetsu looked at Suki while she rest her head back down on his shoulder while the group continued walking along a small dirt path towards wherever Sasuke lead them..