A/N: I'm thinking about ending this collection. Anyone object? I would leave the ones in it that are up for anyone who wants to read them over, but I wouldn't be adding to it anymore. This one is in an alternate universe, because I can't get it to work any other way. Anyway tell me what you think at the end of the chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and I make no profit from this.

Honestly, Suigetsu had always had his eye on that nerdy little redhead, Karin.

She was the one who he tripped in hallways, the one he called four eyes and threw spitballs at. But he secretly loved it when she got pissed off at him. There was nothing better than a sexy, angry Karin.

But when he heard sobs coming from behind the library stacks, he couldn't believe what he found. There was Karin, fiery little Karin, curled in a ball sobbing.

"What's wrong?" Suigetsu knelt by her, feeling his heart dripping into his toes. This was not the Karin he knew, the hot-tempered little bitch that Karin usually was.

"I hate you." She whispered, rubbing her eyes. Her glasses were all steamed up and she sounded like she was choking on tears. Suigetsu felt his melting heart drop somewhere beneath the floorboards.

"I'm..." Gods, how he hated that word he was going to have to say, "Sorry." Suigetsu mumbled, hugging Karin against him.

She squirmed at first, and then realized that he was sorry. "Don't treat me like that, don't treat anyone like that. It's not right. You don't bully people for kicks, Suigetsu. It's not right in any way."

"I'm sorry." He repeated again, and it was getting easier to say. "Karin, I..."

"I don't want to hear it." Karin started gathering her books up; she was shaking and kept dropping them again, and stood. "I don't deserve to be abused because I love someone. No one deserves to be abused."

"Karin, I love you!" Suigetsu shouted and the librarian gave him a dirty look. "I just... my love didn't work out the way I wanted it to you. You're sexy when you're angry, that's the only reason I did it."

"I don't deserve to be treated like this." Karin said again, but she was hesitating. She wasn't sure if she wanted to go or if she wanted to work it out. "I don't deserve to be abused and misused so you can get off on how I look when I'm angry!"

It was Karin's turn to receive the dirty look from the librarian, though hers was lighter because Karin was well loved in that library.

"Karin-" Suigetsu was cut off when a cascade of textbooks fell from Karin's arms. "I love you. Please, I'm sorry."

Karin fell, her legs too shaky to hold her up. Her knee was cut from the edge of her hardcover copy of a book called "Finding Yourself", which Suigetsu recognized as a self-help book, and she dug a fully wrapped band-aid out of her purse to put over it.

"Let me." Suigetsu took the band-aid from her trembling hands and gently put it over the cut. "I'm sorry, Karin. I was an ass." With that he pressed a kiss on the band-aid, and then looked up at her. "Forgive me?"

"Never treat me like that, again." Karin bit her lip, which Suigetsu thought was incredibly cute, and added. "If you're nice, then you can earn forgiveness."

Suigetsu leaned over and kissed her gently, sweetly, lovingly. When he stopped, he whispered, "I can be nice."

As the two walked out of the library, the librarian smiled, seeing that Karin had won the war.

A/N: So please, tell me, would you rather this collection be complete, or would you rather wait God knows how long for another update?