"What the hell always takes you two so fucking long!" Her glasses glared from the light overhead, making her eyes unable to be seen by the two. Suki stretched a bit and smiled, "I see your feeling better, princess." She smirked at the irritated woman, who simply returned a snarl to her in response. Suigetsu sighed and picked up his sword that was previously propped up against the wall.

He glanced over at Suki standing up perfectly fine and shrugged as he walked past Karin out of the room. Suki frowned, "Is he still mad..?" she got lost in thought and followed him out of the room- completely ignoring Karin's bitching about them taking so long..

"Don't fucking ignore me!" Karin screeched and walked alongside Suki, the group met up with Jugo at the door and left the hospital building together to find the meeting point with Sasuke. They were about fifteen minutes later than planned, but when they got there Sasuke didn't seem to be in a major rush like always. Actually, he was casually sitting on a pile of stacked boxes resting.

"Well you don't seem too pissed, what the hell was Karin's problem?" Suki mumbled and glanced at the female from over her shoulder. Karin glared back at her and began to pick up her speed, walking past Suki with a shoulder bump and approaching Sasuke. "Well what-" She began to speak, but was stopped mid sentence when Sasuke stood up and turned to face the others. "You took too long, I've already gone ahead into the first base up past these woods, its not very far. You are to wait outside for me." Without even giving them a chance to reply the clone poofed away in a cloud of smoke.

"Jeez, this guy always rushing around.." Suigetsu's arms went above his head as he stretched, the group walked along together outside of the village and began to follow the path through the forest. "He has a reason for rushing Suigetsu, this whole thing with Itachi means a lot to him. Show some damn respect you blockhead." Karin snapped at the male, he simply rolled his eyes in responce, "I had a brother too you know, family isn't a really big deal.. I bet everyone here has siblings, right?" He turned to the others and began to walk backwards as he spoke to them..

Jugo shook his head and just kept walking with the group, admiring a nearby bird or two, Suigetsu turned to Suki, "Well, Jugo doesn't have siblings but you do, right?" She blinked at his comment and smiled, "Yeah, I've got a bitch for a sister and a cute little brother." She held up two fingers and smiled, Karin gave her a suspicious look, Suki noticed and frowned. "The hell is wrong with you, Princess?" She smiled at Karin's glare everytime she was called 'princess'..

Karin huffed and crossed her arms over her chest, "I'm just saying you guys should be more considerate of what Sasuke's gone through.." She defended her wannabe-boyfriend, this time Suki was the one to roll her eyes at the female before stopping and looking off to the right. "Hey, we'll stop here, thats the pathway to the base, he said to wait outside.." As she spoke the others listened and stopped..

Suigetsu sat next to a nearby rock and sipped at his waterbottle, Suki climbed onto the rock and sat ontop of it while the others simply stood there infront. Everyone stood there in silence for a moment to take on the surroundings before Suigetsu spoke, "I wonder if Sasuke's gonna be okay.." he mumbled, everyones attention turned to the male to listen. "What are you getting at?" Karin responded while looking down at the male, "What if he gets a hit on the first akatsuki hideout?" While Suki listened to the conversation she stared up at the sky and counted the clouds..

"You think Itachi is hiding there?" Jugo joined in, Suigetsu sipped at his water before pausing, "I said 'what if' didn't I?" He smiled a bit sadistically, "Anyway, Itachi's supposed to be a really tough guy, right?" The group looked concerned for a moment, "Sasuke would never lose to someone like.." Karin stuttered with a loss of confidence. The males violet eyes shut for a moment, "Maybe we should start thinking about a worst-case scenario.." After hearing this Suki sat up and looked down at the group to listen in more closely..

Karin looked sad for a moment before getting tense and speaking in her stern voice, "I'll check what's going on inside from here!" She began to focus her chakra detecting skills, "If anything happens, we're going inside!" She commanded, Suigetsu's head perked up at this, "Huh! What's with you all the sudden? When it comes to Sasuke, you really get your panties in a bunch!" Karin wasn't happy with his response, she jolted forward and fixed her glasses, the sun causing a glare across them as always while her face began to glow bright red with embarrassment.

"Y-Your wrong! I-I don't get my panties in a... Y-You wanna fight, y-ya son of a bitch! She stuttered with anger, Jugo ignored this as always while Suki tried not to giggle, "In that case, I'll ask the birds to scout the area in order to find any approaching enemies." His statement was straight to the point when he finally did speak up again, Suigetsu was shocked for a moment before looking off to the side with a sarcastic smile. "Geez.. I can't believe you guys.. Always so serious." He spoke before getting kicked in the side of the head softly by the girl above him.

"They're concerned about a comrade, chill, at least we're all resting now and we'll see what happens next." Suki smiled and brought her feet up onto the rock with her until she was now sitting indian-style as if about to meditate. "Tch.. Whatever." He frowned at being kicked and being told what to do, Suki looked down at him with a slight glare. "Are you still mad at me?" She asked bluntly, to which he simply nodded and refused to look at her. Jugo and Karin decided not to interrupt the talk for once and simply sat on the ground to listen..

"Fine, you know what, we have time, who here wants to finally do formal introductions?" Suki stood up ontop of the rock and threw her hands into the air, "Hello world! Thy name is Suki Inuzuka, I am 19 years old and a kunoichi of no village, a student under one of the greatest puppetmasters- and artists of all time! My favorite food is fish and I hate curry!" She shouted into the sky, Jugo and Karin just stared at her blankly as she sat back down in the same position as before.

"Well then.. I can see by your lack of response, Suigetsu, that that wasn't what you meant, fine." The emerald-eyed female smiled, "Story time! Well, years ago in the hidden leaf village, Tsume Inuzuka found out she was pregnant with a beautiful baby girl. Sadly something went wrong, she would constantly have nightmares about the child being cursed, something was wrong, she couldn't sleep at all and became cranky.. This drove her husband insane with her just being a bitch! Well, eventually the child was born with no problems.. Then a bit after, another beautiful baby girl by the name of Hana, and even more after, a young boy who would be known as Kiba. These are my younger siblings I mentioned before, well, on with the story.. Before I was old enough to attend school, my mother's nightmares returned and drove her mad.. She was convinced I was a demon." Suki paused to think before she shook her head and continued with a false-smile..

"My mother hated me, she wanted to get rid of me, she saw me as a useless, lazy child.. My sister was younger and yet she had already began to show strength, when I was weak.. My mother decided she would throw me away, but my father wouldn't have this.. Sadly, Tsume is a scary woman, and will not take no for an answer.. My mother sold me to an underground slave-trader and pray she never saw my face again.. I believe thats the reason my father later left, he felt as if he should've saved his first born.. But on a lighter note, I found myself in a strange non-ninja village somewhere between the sand and the leaf, there I was put up for adoption, well really it was for sale, but adoption was what eventually happened." Suki looked back down for a minute to see if anyone was still listening to her ramble, and apparently they were, quite intently, they seemed interested.. And so she continued..

"I was adopted into the Hara family, which unknown to me was the village leader and her husband, plus they had another daughter who was my age. She didn't like me much, her name was Lea.. She actually hated me, for no real reason, I think she was jealous.. Anyway, I grew up in that village, peaceful and happy until I found out a horrible secret.. Apparently this village was what some would say cursed, it really wasn't a curse but a disease.. It was called Dekibuu, it affected anyone who came into the village, but for some reason didn't bother people who were born there, I guess they were immune from it.." Suki could feel her veins pulsing as she talked about a touchy subject, yet she continued further..

"Seeing that I wasn't born in the village, my step-mother feared I would become infected and die, instead something worse happened.. I'm not sure if it was my presence or something else, but something had triggered the disease to stop laying dormant inside the natural-born villagers.. Everyone began dying. Villages in the surrounding area heard of this and blocked our village off, they built huge walls around us and left us to die.. Thats when one of the researchers in our village found the original host, a terribly mean old woman who they say created the disease for biological warfare.." Karin shifted her position but continued to listen to Suki speak, at the same time watching chakra levels around them..

"They tried to kill the woman but she wouldn't die, she was actually controlling the disease and could speed up the process tenfold and make you die within minutes, everyone began to kiss ass to the old woman and beg for their life, the village leader, my step-mom even tried to make a deal with the woman. The woman said she was dying and angry, she had spent her whole life creating the perfect weapon and now anyone she tried to 'bless' with this weapon would simply catch the disease and die.. Then she heard about me, a young child, much life left to live, and a perfect host to continue and let her weapon live on.. She wanted to make me the new host."

"In exchange for making me the new host, she would stop everyone else from dying, so long as I agreed to take on the nasty job she had. I agreed, I was feeling brave and wanted to be accepted by the village as the hero, ya know? Get the glory and shit.. Well, something went horribly fucking wrong.. Some dumbass didn't agree with this deal and tried to kill the old hag, she had already begun to infect me with the nasty disease when the process was interrupted, out of rage she broke the deal and killed everyone anyway- and still left me with the infection in my right eye."

"I was angry, she had killed my step family and all my friends, the whole village was now dying and I didn't know how to control this new power.. She tried to explain but I wouldn't listen, I tried to kill her myself, she was already weak and old so it wasn't too hard, she smiled in death and her last words were something about the perfect eye.. I didn't listen at the time, I was blind with rage and just confused as all hell.. Thats when something else happened, when I killed the old woman and took on the job of being the new host, my appearance changed.. It became like hers, emerald eyes, silver hair, well, only the front part.. My entire self changed.."

"So thats why you don't have the Inuzuka markings on your cheeks, right?" Karin spoke up, Suki nodded and touched her cheek with her hand before going on, "I decided to leave the village, but on my way out I ran into some survivors, my best friend, Mako, another kid named Riku and my step-sister, Lea.. They had hidden in a old run down store and kept away from the whole thing. We decided to travel together and find a new village to live in or something- we were all just scared and I was in a lot of pain, it felt like my eye was going to fall out.." Suki blinked a few times to stop herself from going into flashbacks of her younger days..

"Well, the next part is a lot to explain, so I'll just say we we're captured by a research team from another village and examined to see if we were infected, we were held there for two years before we escaped on a lucky chance. Riku and Lea went separate ways, I haven't seen them since that day, but Mako and me traveled together to the sand village. We stayed outside the sand for quite a while living in a cave, stealing food and anything we needed from passing by travelers..

"Eventually we started stealing ninja scrolls and school books, we taught eachother ninjutsu and practiced for days.. One day I even stole a puppet-scroll, thats when my life's ambition kicked in and I wanted to be a great puppet-master ninja, Mako was more into the whole healing thing because she liked to help people, so she wanted to be a medic.. Sadly it was my fault she would never reach that dream.." Suki sighed, she could feel her eyes slowly begin to get more and more watery..

"Mako spent too much time around me, being the host of the Dekibuu, and she contracted the disease.. She later died from it.." Suki blinked and looked down, Karin scooted back a bit, "S-She spent too much time with you? Are you saying we could get infected with this shit too!" Suki shook her head with a smile, "No, that was a long time ago when I was young and had no idea how to control it, now that I've gotten older and stronger I know how to contain it.." Karin relaxed again, "Well.. Good.. So, your a puppet master, with some other kinda weird genjutsu, and your an inuzuka? Fuck woman, what can't you do?" The other female snarled, feeling a bit jealous.

"Haha, sadly no, I have no idea what kind of jutsu the Inuzuka clan uses and I don't have a dog.. Its really just a name, the only thing my mother gave me was sharp claws, teeth and higher senses.. I've never trained with any of it though so I'm pretty much the most useless inuzuka ever. I shouldn't even be considered one seeing as how I have nothing to do with them.. Plus the Dekibuu isn't really something to be used for combat, its too difficult to control.." Suki scratched at the rock she was sitting on..

"But isn't it like in your blood to know things from your family or something?" Suigetsu blinked, Suki shook her head, "Being born to a family means nothing if you aren't raised with them to learn from them, its as if an Uchiha was born around no other Uchihas.. They would probably never even activate their Sharingan, because theres nobody to teach them how." She responded, the others nodded to signify they understood..

"Well, is that enough background story for you, Suigetsu?" Suki glared down at him, he shook his head, "Explain that tattoo now." He smiled up at her, she blushed lightly and knew she couldn't avoid this one. She sighed and figured it would be best to be blunt, "Much like my arm.. It was from Sasori-sama, that is the marking placed on all his puppets, and his subordinates for that matter. Its like a branding, I was his student and part of me is created by him, therefor I bear the mark of the scorpion." She smiled, almost proud-like, Suigetsu stared off to the side with a slight bit of jealousy.

"Basically its a tattoo from your ex boyfriend?" Karin smiled with a smart remark, Suki clenched her fists and jumped up on top of the rock again, "ITS NOT LIKE THAT YOU STUPID BITCH!" She was ready to knock her lights out before Karin's eyes widened, "S-Sasuke.." She mumbled, which caught everyones attention quickly..

"There's suddenly a really big chakra source near Sasuke, lets go NOW!" Karin jumped up as did the others, they all took off running after Karin's lead. Suigetsu ran along side Suki and bumped shoulders with her softly, she turned to look at him with a slightly irritated glare, he smiled to signify he was no longer mad, she returned the smile with a light shade of pink glowing on her cheeks. "Would you two stop flirting and hurry up?" Karin growled back at the two as she sped up, they both rolled their eyes and chased after her until they had reached the outside of the cave Sasuke was in.

"Come on, this way," Jugo lead the way inside as they all entered the cave with a loud pounding as they ran.. Karin ran ahead of Jugo eagerly, he made space for the hurried woman to go ahead as Suigetsu began to call Sasuke's name, hoping for a response, "Sasuke!" He shouted into the cave as they approached a figure standing in an empty room.. "Thank god.." Karin thought to herself with a smile as they walked up to the male..

"I told you not to make a move until you received my orders." The uchiha turned to glare at his approaching team, everyone stepped forward a bit and stopped. "We were worried because Karin said she could feel someone else's chakra." He smiled as he spoke, Sasuke didn't move while the others looked around.. "Feathers?" Karin questioned as she watched the black objects float around slowly..

"Itachi.. Will this be your final battle?" Suki thought to herself with a sad look in her eyes as she watched one of the feathers float near her, she held out her hand and caught it softly, she stared at it for a moment before sliding it into her pocket. Sasuke began to walk towards the entrance to the cave they just came in, "Come with me. We're leaving." He said sternly and left the cave, everyone followed in sync as always, Suki looked back at the feathered cave floor and sighed before following the others..

Suigetsu looked back over his shoulder at her, he noticed she looked sad and stopped walking for a moment so she would bump into him and snap back into reality, she looked up at him and faked a smile, he returned the plastic smile and began to walk off after the others again.. This time she ran up to him and grabbed his arm, she held onto him as they walked behind the others, his face turned a light pink as she rest her head on his shoulder as they prepared for whatever happened next..