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Hope these updates satisfy you. School starts the day I update these, so my writing will be slower than ever. Also, keys on my keyboard like the F and M keys are really jammed, so my writing is, once again, screwed up. Bear with me, and I will try to update as much as possible. I'll try for 3 chapters a week, how's that? DONT LEAVE ME1

Chapter 51 Of Blood and Water

Sasuke

"Sheesh, those guys were sure touchy," The dry reedy voice, dripping with grim sarcasm, sounded behind me.

A loud, metallic clink followed, a crashing sound as Suigetsu's new sword slammed at least a foot deep into the ground. I turned, my face impassive. The sword was just like it had been four years ago, and I almost cringed, almost being the operative word there. Suigetsu held it upside down with triumph, a sly grin on his face.

"I see you managed to procure it," I replied, and he pulled the massive sword from the ground.

"Pfft," He snorted, brandishing the weapon like a toy.

"Who we going after next, boss?" He asked, unconsciously decapitating a nearby tree.

His sarcastic tone was annoying, but I shrugged it off, after all, he did owe me. I turned away from him, slowly walking down the dirt road.

"Karin, you remember her, don't you?"

This earned a ridiculous display of annoyance, imploring and multiple facial expressions.

"Honestly? Why'dwe have to go and get her​? She HATES me!" The white haired boy complained, shaking his head in exasperation.

"Last time I checked, I heard the feeling was mutual," I said coolly, and he gawped.

"So? She's your horny little fangirl!" He exclaimed, shaking my shoulders violently.

The boy lost his head in a flash of steel and a splattering of water. Dispassionately, I sheathed my sword, and walked on.

"Ow, damnit Sasuke," The boy yelped, his head dissolving into water.

His body followed suit, and a puddle appeared on the road, in the middle of a heat wave. The liquid solidified, reforming his unblemished body. He glared at me from underneath dripping hair.

"You know that hurts," He complained dryly, slinging his sword over his shoulder.

I rolled my eyes, and continued. Suigetsu, however grudgingly, followed, although not without several empty threats to cut my head off. Every fifteen minutes or so, we had halt so that he could down about a gallon of water. The heat, which affected me as well, was dehydrating, and in turn, evaporating my traveling companion.

"God, this heat, hate it," He panted after about two hours of walking, and I stopped.

I turned to face him as he collapsed on a rock, draining the last from his water bottle. He drew ragged breaths for several minutes, then stopped, sniffing. He sniffed harder, then tried to look past me, down the ravine which we were following. I barred his vision, and he stood up, trying to get around me. I cut him off twice, but he slipped by on his third attempt. He cheered with delight, and ran down to the waters of the ocean.

"Ahaha! Yes!" He shouted, diving headfirst into the water.

"Sasuke, you are a lifesaver," He said, once his mouth was back above the surface.

"Suigetsu, contain yourself," I snapped, as one of his arms splashed water onto my feet.

"And a spoilsport, aren'tchya?" He said gloomily, pulling himself out.

I shook my head, and stepped from the sand, onto the rippling waves. A much refreshed Suigetsu followed suit, hands behind head in a gesture of content. He walked with his eyes closed for about fifteen minutes, then cracked one eyelid.

"Why are we going to see Karin?" He yawned, blinking his purple eyes (they are purple, right?).

"Her abilities will come in handy," Was all I gave him in response, which obviously didn't sit well with him.

"She's gonna try and poke more needles in me," He said, rubbing his face with his hands like a cat.

"I'll make sure she doesn't," I countered, walking impassively onwards, towards the dot on the horizon I had spied several minutes previous.

Said dot drew slowly closer, Suigetsu yawning and sighing with contentment all the way. The only time he actually stopped breathing in the sea air was to calmly cut a shark (which had attacked us, dumb shark), cleanly in two with his giant sword. I shook my head as he dragged the blade through the water to clean it off. Occasionally, he would swing it in wide, arcing circles, cleaving off the tops of waves, spraying salty water over my head, coming dangerously close to hitting me. I rolled my shoulders, cracked my neck, and looked ahead to the slowly approaching island. That island was one of the last remnants of Orochimaru's power, his jail.

The island had been used to hold 'potentially dangerous' people, on whom tests would be preformed. One of said 'potentially dangerous' people, was Suigetsu. Although the boy had been transferred several times over, he had started out there, and had a somewhat biased opinion of the 'caretaker', Karin. As the water became somewhat clearer, and we could almost see the bottom of the ocean on which we walked, Suigetsu sighed.

"This, is going to be a big, fat, pain in the ass," He said, slashing two feet into the water with his sword.

"Be that as it may," I answered, silently moving my hand slowly towards the handle of my own weapon.

No guards approached as we stepped onto the rocky shore, proceeding quickly to the secret entrance. I slowly raised a finger to the flat, rock wall. I raised it to about chest height, and heard a series of violent clicks.

"Seems they don't like visitors," Suigetsu said, wiping the hair from his eyes with his left hand.

"Well, go ahead," I said as he shoved me back, not letting the spark of anger show through.

He pressed the point of his long blade against the bottom left corner, and raised it in a diagonal slant, holding it out at arms length, chest height. The very tip of the blade touched the center of the pane of rock, and the boy grinned. He spun, slashing the sword so fast it blurred. A circular slash appeared, and a large, round portion fell into the building. Before it his ground, cracks spread from the center, and it crumbled into a million pieces. Stabbing the sword back into it's holster, he grinned at me, single fang glinting in the light.

"How's that?" He asked, and I stepped through.

"Over done, in my opinion," I replied, striding down the cold gray corridor, ignoring the men in cages that lined it.

Murmuring and muttering sounded from each cell as we passed, and Suigetsu cocked his head, while I remained steadfast, black eyes emotionless. I waited as the white haired youth demolished another locked door, and passed into another hallway, facing to our left. As we entered, a flash of movement behind us alerted me to her presence. I didn't have to hear the whisper of the needles to block the senbon she threw. Well, I caught them, snapping each in two with a sparking finger. A muffled gasp of panic and surprise issued from the girl as I turned, looking her in the eye.

"S-Sasuke-kun! You, I... uh," Karin stammered, going red.

I waved a hand, silencing her. She subsided into blustering attempts at apology, as I continued down the hall.

"What, you going to ignore me?!" She shouted after us, and I motioned for Suigetsu to make no reply.

He obeyed, and we simply walked away from her, towards the room at the end of the corridor. I heard sharp footsteps behind me, and almost smiled. I hadn't spent half a year training with this girl to learn nothing about her, and so, I opened the door to the conference room, knowing full well she'd follow.

"Sasuke! Wait!" She said as I pushed the door almost all the way closed.

She tore it open, practically slamming it behind her, as she blushed an even deeper crimson. Karin had a unique blush, she reddened not on her cheeks, but right below her the bottom rim of her glasses, half an inch below her eyes. She was sputtering like a broken kettle, practically glowing.

Ignoring her protests, I sat on the wall lining bench across from the door, motioning for Suigetsu to sit beside me. Karin slid onto the table, glaring at Suigetsu, while simultaneously beaming at me.

"Karin, I have a proposal to make," I said, choosing my words carefully.

It seemed, though, that I had no reason to. At those words, the girl nearly fainted, nearly careening from the table.

"Would you, like to help me..." I continued, to the continuing blushing of the caretaker.

"Kill Itachi,"

The trance ended, the girl's eyes un-misted, and she righted herself. She looked much less adoring, and more professional. She coughed twice, looking around.

"Suigetsu, I think I left my key ring in my office, you know where that is, can you go get it?" Karin asked, and grudgingly, the boy nodded.

He left, and Karin's blushing became uncontrolled. She quickly locked and barred the door, and moved over to my bench. She slid beside me, practically sitting in my lap, and her hand found her way into mine. My cool, black eyes never faltered, and I looked ahead with dispassionate unconcern.

"Y-You want me, to come with you to kill your brother?" She asked, her face uncomfortably close to my own.

"That would be correct,"

An hour later, our company stood at the shore, preparing to leave. I had explained the situation fifteen times over before Karin agreed to come, although, I'm pretty sure she would have come anyways.

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Alrighty, the first Sasuke-teme chapter done, review and keep reading!