The Unattainable Wish
Chapter 6
Your—!
Me: HELLOOOO!!! I LOVE YOU ALL FOR REVIEWING SO MUCH THAT… I'M DEDICATING THIS WHOLE CHAPTER TO YOU GUYS!!!! (too lazy to right out the names…) ANYWHO! DISCLAIMER PLEASE!!!
Sasuke: Hn… note to self; never give SasuSaku Kiss chocolate.
Me: DISCLAIMER NOW!!!
Sasuke: Hn. She doesn't own Naruto except for Nami-chan. My caretaker. Happy now?
Me: NOT YET! SHOW THEM THE FUZZY TATOO YOU JUST GOT!!
Sasuke: Hn…
Hinata: U-umm Sasu-SasuSaku Kiss… Sa-Sasuke-sama doesn't h-have a fuzzy t-ta-tatoo.
Me: WHEN DID YOU GET SO SHY HINATA?
Sasuke: Story. Now. Hn.
"Your—"
"I'm who? What to speechless to talk?" The evil snicker continued.
"Your… your… your KARIN!! I can't believe this! I thought that you might actually be someone to feel threatened by! But I guess that I'm wrong." She let out a sigh.
Where are you going with this? What about the plan?
Screw the plan! Just trust me on this one okay?
Okay… whatever you say…"I am someone to be threatened by! What the hell is your problem? You should be afraid."
"Ooohhh… I'm trembling! You just can't see it so don't worry." Sakura said a little too cheerful. Karin started getting suspicious. "What? Stop looking at me like that!"
"Like what?" Karin demanded.
"Like," Sakura started as Karin inched her face closer to Sakura's. Soon there was only an inch between them. "this!" Then Sakura took her foot and smashed it against Karin's head. She stumbled back a few feet before she fainted. A trickle of blood ran down her scalp. Sakura got up, (plus the chair still tied to her back) and she walked over to a wall. There she ran back wards toward the wall and smashed the chair. "Thank you super human strength!" She said as wood chips littered the ground. Then she went over to Karin to see a small pool of blood collecting underneath her head. Sakura being all kind and such took her hand and put it next to her injury. Small green light worked its way to healing Karin's cut. She breathed in relief as she finished.
Suddenly a hand shot out and grabbed Sakura's wrist. It pulled her and eventually threw Sakura over to the wall where she hit it headfirst. She fell to the ground with a heavy plop. She rubbed her head as Sakura noticed that Karin was no longer lying on the ground. Instead, she was nowhere to be found!
"Come out come out wherever you are… Karin." Sakura said in a sweet voice. She looked around to notice that a fleck of dust was kicked up on her right. Sakura being a ninja and all ducked as wind flew right past her head. Then she took her hands and grabbed what felt like an arm, and tossed it over to the far wall. A big crack was heard and Karin suddenly became visible again.
"How did you… know?" Karin asked as she stumbled to get a grip on her footing as she stood up again. "How did you know I was there?"
"Because your not careful enough. A basic ninja would have known that. You kicked up dust when you shouldn't have. Especially when you were right beside your victim." Sakura surprisingly stayed calm even though she had no idea where the heck she was and all but then she said the last word in pure venom.
"I knew that! I was just… testing you! But it was just a speck of dust! How could you of all people have seen that?" Scoffed Karin in dismay.
"Because I am a ninja. A twenty-year-old ninja. That means that I have been practicing the way of the ninja for… eight years. Eight years! How long have you and team Hebi?"
"I'm the one asking the questions here not you!" Suddenly Karin was on the floor again with a foot on her throat.
"I don't think that you're in any position to be asking the question's here now are you?" Sakura smiled inwardly as she saw Karin struggle under the extra weight. Then she suddenly got off of her and… walked away?
"Hey! Where are you going? I'm not—" Karin got cut off as Sakura suddenly disappeared in a flurry of cherry-blossoms.
Hehe… Could be heard from Sakura as the voice boomed from all directions possible in the room.
"Where…" Karin trembled a little. "are you? I can't find you anywhere!" The voice appeared again from all over. It turned velvety smooth, and soft. Like a mother who had just recently begun to love.
"You seem to be forgetting," Sakura began. "that I am the master genjutsu artist in all of Rookie 9." Then Karin began swinging her arms carelessly around the cave. All feeling lost in them. She seemed scared for a moment, as her arms appeared to hit nothing. Nothing but air.
"Than teach me! I really want to learn to be better than everybody else! I hate them all!" Karin screamed in agony as she fell to her knees; crying. Her fist pounding on the earthly substance beneath her.
"Why? Why should I teach you? Why should you be any different from everybody else?" The velvety voice bounded from all directions.
"Well… why not? I just… don't want to be… useless." Sakura gasped as Karin said this. "I want to be… involved. To be needed for once!"
"You want to be able to be counted on instead of like a third wheel. Everybody thinks that your weak, but you fight to prove them all wrong. You're an outcast that nobody will ever truly understand no matter how much they claim they do. It's all a bunch of lies. You don't know whether to trust anybody anymore. You don't know whether to trust yourself. Especially yourself. You look to the strongest person to get pointers from them, but they don't listen. All they do is call you annoying, and then leave you in the dust so that they won't have to clean you up when everything is falling apart. You want something more in your life but you don't know what yet." Sorrow could be heard in Sakura's voice as she said this all.
"Exactly! How did you know?" Karin gasped in astonishment.
"Because," Sakura re-appeared beside Karin, a hand on her shoulder. "your just like me when I was younger. I always depended upon everybody else for support when really I should have counted on myself. It took me my whole life to figure that out. Now I'm never going back! I've already gotten a taste of what it's like to be needed and I love it." Karin shrugged the hand off of her shoulder and stood up.
"All this time… I felt like a tool. Only depended upon when it's the last resort. Well I want to be the first! So now I'm training to be better than everybody else there is!"
"Yeah, by tagging along with Sasuke." Scoffed Sakura.
"Exactly but only he understands me. No wonder nobody ever liked you. You were always down and depended upon all of them. I only depend on Sasuke." Karin finished and then got stars in her eyes as she thought of… him.
"Mistake number one: Never and I repeat never depend upon an Uchiha." Sakura snarled his last name as if she couldn't stand saying it at all. "I learned that after studying on my own. I hate that mans guts ever since he left Konoha behind. Me behind. He took me heart with him when he left, but he never cared about me or anybody else for that matter! He was always the stoic, lonely, and power-hungry child that I once grew up with. He will never change and no matter how much you want him to acknowledge you, it will never happen so stop wasting your breath like I did."
"Well… he just doesn't like you! He loves me and always will! Sure he's cold now, but when I'm through with him, he'll be so hot that it'll burn that you can't touch him!"
"Are you that stupid that you actually think that Sasuke will return your love? If it is even love for that matter."
"It is love!"
"Do you want to see all that Uchiha Sasuke put me through!? How much pain I have endured? All the nightmares that I had to live with while he had the time of his life? While I sat at home and… cried myself to sleep? I bet if he could've seen me like that, all vulnerable and such. I bet that he would have been laughing! I'm so sick of him!" Screeched an outraged Sakura.
"I don't care what happened to you, as long as Sasuke loves me." Sakura shot a look at Karin that made her flinch before everything turned black. The cave walls disappeared, Sakura disappeared. The only thing that was left behind was total and utter blackness before Sasuke appeared on a projection screen. He was yelling at Sakura who was crying to herself in a far away corner.
"W-why Sa-Sasuke-kun? Why are yo-you doing t-th-this to me!""Don't you get it? Your nothing. You mean nothing to me, to anybody! Why did you even decide to become a ninja? Your parents are just normal civilians. Why couldn't you be like that too?"
"Because I wanted to be a ninja!" All of Sakura's sadness was abolished into rage at the young raven-haired boy standing before her. "I wanted to show no to prove to everybody that just because your not in a clan, doesn't mean that you can't still be a ninja! That you can be powerful and leaned on if somebody was in need. I plan to become a medical ninja. If you have any problem with that Uchiha, than I suggest that you get the hell out of here, because I am not changing!" Then Sakura stalked off as Sasuke watched her retreating form.
Then the screen switched to where Sakura was by the Konoha gate, about to leave on a mission alone.
"Sakura! Are you sure that you have to go? It's a deadly mission! You don't have to kill yourself!" Naruto pleaded for Sakura to get some common sense. If Sasuke was still there, than she wouldn't be doing the mission.
Sakura seemed to debate whether to respond, or just run away crying. Apparently she chose the first. "Naruto…" Naruto looked up; eyes getting bright with hope. "I'm not going to die." Eyes lost all hope. "I'm going to come back. Don't worry; I'll be in time for your birthday. Wouldn't miss it for the world."
"But… Sakura. Come on! Use your common sense! If you were still the same twelve-year-old girl that I liked, then you wouldn't do it! Get anybody else! Just… not you… please… I'll even do it!"
"Naruto, you'd risk killing yourself for… me?" Naruto simply nodded as Sakura shook her head. "I can't do it. I already accepted the mission. Don't make this any harder than it already is. I couldn't let you kill yourself. What about Hinata-chan?"
"She'll… find someone better. I'm not the best for her." He looked down as she looked around at her surroundings. Wishing she could be anywhere besides here.
"Naruto, you seem to be forgetting that Hinata will never find anyone better than you. How could you possibly think that?"
"Don't change the subject! Come on Sakura! You don't have to do it! Get somebody else. I won't let you go away and try to kill yourself just because Sasuke left!" As soon as Naruto said those words, he seemed to regret them almost immediately. Sakura on the other hand, she looked horror-stricken! "Sakura—" Naruto got cut off.
"You think this is about… him? Are you blind? I hate him! I wish that he would have never existed! I hope that he never comes back! He deserves that beast called Orochimaru! They deserve each other!"
"I didn't mean it that way. I just want Team 7 to come back together. Instead we're all falling apart. Please don't do this Sakura. I'll be all alone! Let the Village hidden in the snow take care of themselves! You don't have to try and get rid of the enemies that are targeting them."
"Your right. I don't have to; but I choose to. Bye Naruto. Tell everybody else that I said bye to." Then Sakura ran toward the trees and suddenly disappeared in a flurry of Cherry-blossoms.
Naruto just stood there gawking at where Sakura just vanished. He started clenching his fists. "Sasuke," He said in a furious voice that nobody ever heard before. "If Sakura dies on this blasted mission… I will personally kill you!" Then he ran all the way back to his beloved house where Hinata would be waiting for him.
The screen showed Sakura covered in sticky blood as she ran to the Konoha gates. Snickers could be heard as Sakura ran for her life!
"Only two yards Sakura! Hurry up!" She ran even harder in the trees. Her body was totally exhausted from the fight she had just recently fought. Then she suddenly started falling towards the ground as a shuriken sliced her already bloodied leg. The breath was knocked out of her as she plummeted to the ground. She hit the rock hard earth and was unable to move. The snickers were closer now as Sakura could just barely see the top of Konoha gates. "Maybe if I yell. They might hear me." She took a chance and gave it all she got. Sakura screamed the word 'HELP'. It was an ear-piercing scream that could be heard from miles away. She waited one, two, three minutes before she knew that they didn't hear her. "Deaf bastards!"
"Hello my dear." A sinister but vaguely familiar voice sounded. She dared look up into the one face that she had waited for so long to see. SASUKE!
"Sa-Sasuke-kun? Help me!" She yelled frantically to him as he just smirked at her struggling. She somehow managed to get to her feet before Sasuke grabbed her elbows and pushed her back down on the ground. "What are you doing? I need to get to the fudging hospital! Help me there are people after me!"
"Yeah, and your looking at one of them." Sakura gasped as Sasuke said this. A malicious smirk playing across his lips.
"But… but… why? Why you Sasuke? Of all people. I trusted you damnit! How could you turn your back on Naruto, on me?" She screamed as best as she could. When she looked into his eyes, she only saw one thing; death! It was written across his eyes. Practically saying 'Your next Sakura!'
"I trusted me too, until I got all of this power."
"But I'm in a vulnerable state! How could you kill me?"
"What you want my pity?"
"No! I don't want anything of you! I only want the old Sasuke back! Not you… beast! I'm your friend! How could you kill me? Little Sakura?" She pleaded.
"I can't do that. You're going to die Sakura. I'm your Grim Reaper. And you're going to hell."
"Fine. Then I guess I'll see you there." This pissed off the Uchiha very much. He took his hand, and hit Sakura's pressure points. She took one last look into his eyes but this time she didn't see death, she only saw regret. Then her head found the ground. Right before she fell unconscious, she saw Naruto, Ino, Shikamaru, Temari, Tenten, and Hinata run through the gate, and run over to her. Naruto gawked at the picture that he was seeing; Sasuke was killing Sakura! Then everything went black for her as her blood fell all around her. Her agony stopped. Her pain stopped. Now she only saw her six-year-old self-dancing around a meadow with her dead mother while laughing as her mother just cried.
Then the screen went blank and everything turned to light again. Karin was astounded by how cruel the young Uchiha had acted towards the fragile cherry-blossom.
"Do you want that to happen to you? Like it did to me? Do you want your heart broken? Like mine was? Do you want to scream in agony in the middle of the night just because of a… memory? Why would you? Do you want to be so close to death that his breath is on your fudging neck? I don't think so!" Sakura seethed in anger as she started trembling. So many memories flashed across her mind, but Karin couldn't see.
"That was… Sasuke-kun? But… how?" Karin seemed to be calculating in her head all of the possibilities for his strange behavior. "I don't understand. When he was working with me, he was just… cold."
"Yes. That's how he acts at first. Always. I can't actually believe that I had liked him! Now I just want him dead! And if don't want that happening to you, than I suggest you do the same." She went into the center of the room and faced Karin. Sakura then started to meditate. Karin just gave her a puzzled look.
"What are you doing?"
"You do want to learn genjutsu right?" Sakura asked slowly as she opened one eye to see Karin nodding her head vigorously. "Then come over here, and get into my position." Karin did as she was told. Instead of walking over, she stumbled instead. Sakura just sighed and murmured to herself.
They were meditating for about five minutes before Karin got up the nerve to talk. "Why are we doing this? I want to learn genjutsu!"
"Not if you keep your head full like that! You need to meditate to clear your mind. Clear your head of everything. No more thinking. Just space. Open up your mind." She continued with soothing words until both of them slowly cleared their heads of everything. Then she stood up abruptly. Sakura walked briskly a few feet away. Karin got up and stayed there. "Get me a dummy. Do you have one?"
"Of course I do! Hold on." She scampered away only to come back a few minutes later carrying a wooden dummy. She placed it in front of Sakura and then got back to her original spot.
Sakura did a few complicated hand signs and then shouted out some words. "Hidden forest missile!" Then she tossed Karin something. "Look through the lens to the dummy and then you will see the genjutsu that I have created". She did just that.
What Karin saw was something that was so magnificent, and horrible at the same time! She was in a forest with dense trees surrounding her so she couldn't escape. A medium sized pond was centered in the middle about twenty feet away. Birds sang high above in the treetops. It was so peaceful… that is… until the crystal clear pool water turned into a deadly shade of red! She walked over and noticed that it wasn't just water, it was… blood! Then she saw a picture in the pool. It showed her running through the forest. Running from something. But then something caught her leg and made her trip. She looked at her leg, and saw that it was a tree vine. The vine started pulling her back towards the tree until more vines grabbed her. It seemed as if every tree wanted her for something. The vines started pulling until it was too much to handle. Her legs, arms, head all came off of her body. Karin felt a sharp pain all over her body. She winced until she was horror-struck at what she saw in the pool. She saw body parts floating in the blood. She noticed that they were her body parts! She quickly looked down only to notice that she was only a head! The rest of her body was in the pool! Karin screamed as she started to roll down the small hill and into the pool. There, she started sinking into the pools depths. She saw no bottom. Only endless blood. The metallic tang filled her mouth as she screamed once more before she was ripped from the jutsu.
"Karin!" Someone screamed as Karin finally wedged her eyes open to reveal Sakura standing over her with a shocked expression on her face.
"It was… horrible! It was so beautiful that it was horrible! Can you show me how to do that?" She asked eagerly.
Sakura laughed. "Not yet. I'm afraid that it's much to advance for you. I have to give you a smaller jutsu to perform. I'm afraid that you'll have to work to get to that level." Sakura shot out her hand as Karin suddenly noticed that she was sitting on the ground.
Karin merely flicked her hand away as she got up by herself.
Apparently she needs more reassurance to start trying to trust me at all… interesting… very interesting…
Whatever… and stop with the interesting crap! You're getting on my nerves.
Sure
Karin got up and walked over to the lens that was on the ground. Sakura walked over to but stood at least ten feet away before she started talking. "That lens was actually part of the genjutsu." Karin scoffed at Sakura.
"Then why did you let me use it if it was part of your genjutsu?"
"Well, that was for kidnapping me."
"Fair enough."
"So do you want me to show you some more genjutsus now?" She asked as Karin nodded he head.
Sakura walked over and showed some less complicated hand signs. She performed them flawlessly while Karin did them clumsily.
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Ino walked down the street in pure confusion. Where was her for headed friend now? It's almost night and no one has seen her.
"I'm going to send out a search party if you don't return billboard brow! I hope your happy terrifying me to death!"
"Okay I am happy now." A voice called from behind Ino. She turned around only to come face to face with an exhausted looking Sakura. Ino ran over to her and hugged her to death!
"Ino-chan… (gasp)… can't… (gasp)… breath!" Sakura squirmed under her grasp as Ino finally pulled back. She then took her hand and smacked Sakura upside the head.
She looked pissed. "What's with the smacking? What is it smack Sakura day today? And I just don't know about it yet?" Ino just chuckled and started walking Sakura to the Ramen shop where everybody would soon meet from looking for Sakura.
"I couldn't find her."
"Too troublesome."
"Neither me nor TenTen."
"Hey look Temari's back! You find anything? Please say yes."
"I'm sorry but I checked all over her house. But I did find Blossom."
"Bark Bark!"
"Well we all know that Sakura-chan would never go anywhere without Blossom. That's like suicide to her! And plus Blossom would miss her terribly."
"Unless…"
Then Ino and Sakura walked through the door of the Ramen shop. (A/N: I forgot what the shop is called… but it's the shop that Naruto ALWAYS goes too!) Everybody looked up to see them. Hinata had big puffy eyes and her face was wet from crying apparently. Naruto had on a really sad face just like Temari, Shikamaru, and TenTen but suddenly their expressions changed. Something flickered across Hinata's eyes as Naruto got up and enveloped Sakura in a big bear hug. She thought it was jealousy… but it was too quick to make sure.
"SAKURA-CHAN!!! YOUR ALIVE!!" Naruto screeched in pure delight. Again, Sakura could not breathe.
"Naruto-kun…(gasp)… can't… (gasp)… breathe!" Naruto eventually let go to see a panting Sakura as she fell down onto the ground clutching for air. Everybody looked worried for a second, but then burst into laughter. Except for Hinata and Shikamaru. Shikamaru because everything it too and I quote 'Troublesome.' End quote. Hinata on the other hand was a little bit of trouble to figure out. Sakura looked confused until she saw Hinata silently glare (or the best Hinata could do) before quickly turning away to look at Naruto as he came over and gave her a quick peck on the lips. Sakura put off the weirdness from Hinata to join in on the celebration as Naruto began to speak/yell again.
"So Sakura-chan. We were all worried about you. Where were you?" Everybody's attention suddenly shifted towards Sakura. She trembled a little under all of the intense gazes. The most intense was from Hinata.
"I was out somewhere." She stated matter-o-factly.
"Oh. Okay. At first I thought you were kidnapped, or womannapped when you didn't come back." Naruto grinned a foxy grin at Sakura as she just started to boil angry.
"Well why do you care anyway? Why don't you care about me instead than her? What do you like her instead of me Naruto-kun? I thought you loved me!" Apparently Hinata beat Sakura to yelling at him. Everybody turned his or her gazes towards Hinata as she cried a little and then ran out followed by Naruto.
"Hinata-chan?" Sakura breathed emptily. Ino came over to her and patted her back in acknowledgment. "Why would she… think that?" Sakura felt hollow inside.
"I don't know but she's been acting very weird lately. Ever since Naruto-kun started talking about you. This morning when we were all having breakfast, I saw Hinata give Naruto-kun the cold shoulder because he said that you could take care of yourself because of your super human strength. She just was acting really strange. Like she thought that Naruto loves you instead of her."
"Well… but that was ages ago! That was when we were twelve-years-old! Why would she still think that now?" Sakura asked. Very much confused.
"I don't know… maybe by how much praise he was giving you today. Maybe she finally cracked." TenTen contributed.
"Maybe… any conclusion Shikamaru?" Temari asked.
Snore…
"He fell… asleep…? How original." Ino and Temari said at once.
"Should I go after Hinata-chan?" Sakura asked no one in particular.
Ino shook her head. "Let Naruto-kun handle this. Give her a few days to cool off and hopefully things will be better in the morning. Well I'm beat! I'm going home. Bye guys! See you tomorrow." Ino waved as she walked away into the moonlight. Her long blond hair swayed at her sudden movement.
"Okay bye guys." Temari said as she and TenTen walked away followed by Sakura. When Sakura, Temari, and TenTen were almost to their houses, Sakura stopped. "What Sakura-chan?"
"I just… I just feel like we're forgetting something… must be nothing I guess." Then they all went home. Meanwhile…
Snore… "Huh? Hey, where is everybody? Che troublesome…" Then Shikamaru lay his head back down on the counter and fell asleep.
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Smack clap smack clap smack "Hinata-chan!" Smack clap smack clap smack "Hinata-chan!" It continued like this for about a good five minutes as Naruto tried to catch up to Hinata. Wonder what the girl does in her spare time for being so fast!
"Hinata-chan! I need to talk to you about before!" Naruto yelled ahead of himself to Hinata.
"No! You love her! Admit it!" She cried as she ran on. Not sure where she was going except straight.
"I admit I do like her. But as a friend! Nothing more! Why can't you just believe me at that?"
"Because I know it's not true! You love her so why not go back and kiss her? Why do you need me?" Hinata suddenly stopped and slumped down on a bench. Naruto came around the corner and stood right in front of her so that she couldn't move. Both breathing hard. Small white puffs of moisture emitting from their mouths.
"Now… why would you ever think that?" He asked while panting extremely hard.
"Because! She's so pretty, I'm so… not. She's so out there, I'm so… not. She's so outgoing, I'm so… not. She's so happy all of the time while I'm so… not. Don't you get it Naruto-kun? I don't deserve you! Go out with Sakura-chan! I'm sure that you two would make a beautiful couple." Hinata just sat there and cried her eyes out as Naruto took this time to plead his case. (Hehe… lawyer)
"Huh. Sakura-chan said something really similar to me about two years ago. We were talking by the gate when she was going on that really dangerous mission to snow. I was trying to talk some sense into her but she just kept countering them. She's really smart you know. Anyway. We were talking and then I said 'But… Sakura. Come on! Use your common sense! If you were still the same twelve-year-old girl that I liked, then you wouldn't do it! Get anybody else! Just… not you… please… I'll even do it!' Then she said 'Naruto, you'd risk killing yourself for… me?" Naruto simply nodded as Sakura shook her head. "I can't do it. I already accepted the mission. Don't make this any harder than it already is. I couldn't let you kill yourself. What about Hinata-chan?' and then I said 'She'll… find someone better. I'm not the best for her." He looked down as she looked around at her surroundings. Wishing she could be anywhere besides here. Then Sakura said 'Naruto, you seem to be forgetting that Hinata will never find anyone better than you. How could you possibly think that?' And there you have it! Hinata-chan, I love you." Naruto searched her eyes as she looked up at him and smiled. She hugged him and then murmured something into his ears.
"I love you too Naruto-kun." She sang happily. Then they started to… umm… make out. Those naughty kids!
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Sakura entered her house cautiously with Blossom in hand. She turned on the lights to see Karin scowling at her from the kitchen table.
"Well. I'm here. What do you want?" Karin scowled… again.
"Good. Now we can start off where we left off. How much fun does that sound?" Sakura said in pure sarcasm.
"Really?" Karin's eyes lit up at the sentence.
"Yeah. I just need to eat because I'm starving! I hope you don't mind."
"Whatever. You know I only came over because—" She got cut off.
"Want some Miso soup?" Sakura asked, as Karin looked confuzled. (A/N: confused. Just my word for it!)
"Umm… sure?" She stated like it was a question. Sakura took some ingredients out of the fridge and started cutting them up with a big black butchers knife. "So… you live here?"
"Yes I do. I admit, I'm not the cleanest person but I do clean my house on Saturdays. Every Saturday." She said as she took the cut up ingredients and placed them in a bowl and added some broth that she apparently made. Then she heated them up quickly in the microwave.
"Well neither am I." Karin challenged but Sakura didn't hear it. Then a sweet aroma wafted through the air to Karin's nose. She sniffed, and then licked her lips but Sakura did see that as she brought over the Miso soup. She placed it in front of Karin and went to sit down at the other end of the long table. Karin looked as though she were debating whether or not to eat it. She continued to lick her lips as Sakura took a bite.
"Mmm… the best I've made so far. Well? Aren't you going to eat? What are you allergic or something?" Sakura asked when she saw that the Miso soup has yet to be devoured.
"No… it's just… I'm not used to this kind of hospitality. Whenever I went into a house and the owners made food, they would sit down in front of me and talk about how delicious it is. While I just sat and didn't get anything. Mind you, I probably haven't eaten anything in a few days so I was starving. It was like they were rubbing it in my face or something. Your the first person to give me something."
"Well," Sakura started. "when you go home, don't you have anything to eat? At all?"
"… I don't have a home…"
A clatter could be heard as Karin looked up to see Sakura's spoon on the floor. She looked up more to meet a stunned face. Eyes unblinking. "What? You don't have a home? At all?" Karin just shook her head slightly. "Where do you sleep at night!? Do you even sleep?"
"I'm not a vampire! I do sleep! I just don't have anywhere to sleep."
"Well… where are you going tonight then? You have to have a place nice and warm tonight! Now eat up. I'll find you a place." She got up and walked over to the living room and plopped down on the couch while flipping through a phone book. Karin just sat there and picked up her spoon. She dipped it into the soup and then out. Cream colored water fell off of it slightly as she timidly put it into her mouth. Karin drank the broth as it slid down her throat. Her throat burned for more as her stomach growled at her for more too. Karin vigorously ate her soup.
"There's more soup on the counter if you want more. I have plenty and it's easy to make." Sakura called down the semi-short hallway from the living room. Karin immediately stopped and looked up at Sakura's retreating form and then devoured the soup once more. Only taking breathers when necessary. Then she got up and fished out more soup. There was a HUGE pot full of Miso soup. Karin looked at the soup; smiling. She grabbed another bowl and stood in the doorway of the living room while watching Sakura.
"I hope you don't expect me to sleep here."
"No I don't. I'm calling some hotels in Konoha to see if they're available right now at… three in the morning. If not your sleeping here tonight whether you like it or not." The phone was picked up and Sakura dialed some numbers. She waited a few seconds until a young woman picked up.
"Hello. FuguResort Hotel. How may I help you?" She sounded very tired.
"Hi I'm Haruno Sakura and I—" Sakura was caught off.
"Haruno Sakura? Oh it's a pleasure to be of service!" All tiredness was washed away only to be replaced by and ecstatic (happy) mood.
"Right. Anyway, I was wondering if you had any rooms available for my friend here Karin. Do you have any?"
"Oh yes! We have the Grande sweet available for her today."
"Okay hold on please," Sakura put the phone to her chest so that the woman wouldn't hear her.
"Do you want the Grande sweet? Or something simple?"
"Simple."
"Okay." Sakura put the phone back onto her ear.
"Something simple would be fine please for her."
"Okay… we have room 212 available for her."
"That would be lovely. Thank you very much." Sakura said.
"Okay that will be fifty-three yen for one night." The woman said kindly.
"Okay thank you. Karin will be by later to pick it up along with the money. Bye." She hung up.
"Well you're popular." Karin scowled again as she savored the bite of soup.
"Hehe…. Yes I am. You see, when I was eighteen, I ended up helping the FuguResort Hotel. They had some enemy ninja's after them when someone famous went and stayed there. I ended up being called down to help when no one else would. Mind you, these ninja were VERY dangerous! I went down and got rid of their little problem. Now whenever I need to get away, I always call them. They show me great hospitality. Everybody loves me I guess." She shrugged it off. "Well, I'll get you some clothes."
"What!? I don't want your clothes!" Karin spat out.
"Well it's just for tonight. Look at your clothes! They're all ripped! I'll throw them away for you."
"NO! These are my clothes! If you throw them out I will kill you!" Karin shrieked.
"Fine I won't throw them out. At least change into these." Sakura handed Karin a brown long sleeve and pants. When Karin came back out she looked sophisticated. Very sophisticated.
"I look like a freak!"
"You already were. Now come on. I'll take you down to the Resort. And I promise that I wont throw out your clothes." Sakura and Karin then left and went towards the resort.
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Me: I hope you enjoyed that Looooooooooooooong chapter! Don't expect every chapter to look like that one did! Well… I'll try my hardest to make A LOT like this one! Whew… that took a while. I'm beat! Well thanks guys for the reviews. I really appreciate them! Expect the next one in another week or three. I know I know. HURRY UP!! I am!
"Shikamaru: Troublesome…
"Me: Figures. Anywho! REVIEW OR ELSE!!! I LOVE making these things. Oh and I'm going to start another story soon. BUT this story will NOT be discontinued. Oh and if you read this, then go up to my Homepage and vote on which story you want me to start. If you don't then I will make this story end horribly!! REMEMBER: You can vote up to 2 vote… things… yeah…. Whatever! Now a word from our sponsors;
Sasuke: Hn
Me: Well your very excited.
Sasuke: Hn
Sakura: I see that you've reverted back to your primal state. One word suffixes.
TenTen: Fascinating. Do you think if we sold him to science, do you think we would get a lot of money?
Me & Sakura: Probably not.
Sasuke: Aa
Shikamaru: Troublesome.
Sakura: Stop saying troublesome!
Shikamaru: (yawn) Troublesome.
Sakura: STOP IT!
Me: Yeah it's annoying!
Shikamaru: Troublesome.
Temari: JUST CLOSE THIS CHAPTER ALREADY SASUSAKU KISS!!
Me: Fine! NO need to yell. Okay Bye guys! See you next time!
Karin: I'm confuzled.
Me: That's MY word!
Karin: I don't see your name on it.
Me: It's right there!
Karin: Oh… confuzled. (Karin ran away followed by me.)
Temari: Oh my god! Okay bye guys! Seriously. Bye.