Remember when I said Itachi's is longest? Kairn beats him.

Karin

You know what they say: Curiosity killed the cat. Today, it almost killed Karin.

The redhead had wondered what Juugo would keep in his room. Just out of plain curiosity. She already knew that Sasuke hid a stuffed dinosaur in his backpack, that Suigetsu had an album filled with photos of swords, but she didn't know what somebody like the maniac could possibly hide. She had been determined to reveal the fellow redhead's secret. If he had any.

So Karin had snuck into his room, two days after they had returned and recovered from the fight with Killer Bee. Sensing that nobody was near the room, she silently slipped through the door frame and started her little search.

After a while, she was almost sure that there was nothing to find, when something caught her eye.

It was furry, fluffy and had beady eyes.

A teddy bear.

Karin took off her glasses, whipped over them with her sleeve, before she put them on again. Most definitely a teddy bear.

She was scared.

Somehow, it was cute that Juugo had something like that.

She had to run. Run.

Especially now, since he looked like a child again.

Faster. Faster. Run.

She picked it up.

She stumbled. No!

The fur was really smooth...

NO!

A memory flashed before her eyes.

She had fallen to the ground. She had no chakra left and her glasses had fallen off, meaning that a kunai was useless. Her breath was ragged, her lungs burned and her feet were numb.

Karin backed away, until her back hit a tree trunk.

This was the end.

She was about to die.

The bear stood right in front of her. Its teeth bared and the paws raised, the claws long and razor-sharp.

It was about to kill her.

To rip her into shreds.

With a gasp, Karin snapped out of her daze and returned back to reality.

It was one of her worst memories (though the other half was pretty good; the half where Sasuke appeared...). Nothing she had seen in her past life came close to that horrible experience.

The gaze of her ruby-red eyes fell onto the stuffed animal in her hands and a rush of adrenaline pumped through her veins. Pearls of sweat formed on her forehead, her eyes widened fearful and her hands started to tremble.

A bear.

It needed to be destroyed.

She had to destroy it at all costs.

A grin crept onto her face, her fingernails dug into the poor thing and the massacre began.

When the kunoichi was done with mutilating her comrade's friend, the floor was covered with the toy's guts and bunches of fur. In her hands was the torn body.

One arm was ripped off, the head and body were only held together by a few threads, there was a lot of the stuffing missing (it was scattered all over the floor, remember?) and the legs were torn at random places, just like the rest of the body.

The blood thirst had controlled all of her senses, Karin didn't even sense/notice Juugo and Suigetsu arriving.

"Karin... "

She flinched at the sound of her name. Slowly, ever so slowly, she turned her head to the door frame were a shocked Juugo stood. Behind him stood Suigetsu who looked like he had trouble with holding back his laughter.

The case was clear. She was guilty as charged. She had killed the teddy bear. She was a killer.

The former owner of the recently deceased stuffed animal stepped further into the room while muttering some incoherent words.

This was when it happened. His curse mark activated. "KIMIMARO! NOOO!"

He came running towards Karin, his body already mutating. The girl jumped out of his way, sprinted through the door (running over Suigetsu in the process) and ran for her life. Flashbacks of the bear-attack in The Forest of Death, anybody? While looking back, she saw that the raging madmen was already on her trail and currently stomped onto the fish-boy's face.

Juugo looked like he could kill somebody.

It was kind of absurd since he was in the body of a child.

But she didn't want to be murdered by a child either.

(Suigetsu would later ask her if this had been necessary. Okay, being killed by a psycho child was not on her To-Do list, but while running and thinking of the picture of the mutilated teddy bear, she grinned. She ran for her dear life because of it, but it had really been worth it.)