Suigetsu never thought he could miss Karin, her absence was often something he longed for, yet today proved that silence could be worse than her presence. The tension was palpable, Juugo was a naturally quiet person, but even he was clearly uncomfortable with the silence, neither wanted to break the silence, too afraid of the glare that would be sent their way. They were walking on eggshells, and Suigetsu hated every second of it.
After their reunion failed to find evidence of Itachi's presence, Sasuke had sent them once more, this time deciding to reunite at the inn Suigetsu found. Their second search proved as fruitless as the first one (though it was technically Suigetsu's first), and once that was evident Sasuke's anger was palpable. Bless Juugo's heart, thought Suigetsu for not only breaking the silence, but convincing Sasuke that they should rest for the night, that is one brave soul.
Their room really didn't have much, but Suigetsu didn't care, all he wanted, all he hoped for, was that Sasuke's bad mood was due to lack of sleep. When he settled himself to his self-assigned corner he was not at all surprised to see Sasuke still looking out the window, still expecting to discover something. It was when he felt sleep closing in on him that he heard an infant crying from the room above theirs, fucking hell. When minutes passed and the crying continued, he knew sleep would evade him. This day gets better and better and by the second.
Giving up Suigetsu stood up, ready to complain to Sasuke about the infant, but Sasuke seemed frozen, but he was no longer looking out the window, he was looking up, towards the noise. He was about call Juugo, but Juugo was already approaching him, confusion evident on his face.
Sasuke didn't know what was wrong, but when the baby began to cry he felt like he needed to be there. He felt a pull towards the baby, a baby he had yet to see, as the minutes passed by and the crying continued it felt worse. It felt wrong to stay where he was, it was wrong, he needed to be there with the baby. I can make her stop. Sasuke didn't know when he began to walk towards the door, he just felt the tug Suigetsu gave him to make him stop.
"You can't hurt a baby, no matter how annoying the crying is." Even as Suigetsu said it, he knew Sasuke wasn't annoyed by the nonstop crying, he was in a daze, almost like he had been in a genjutsu, but Sasuke should have seen through it. Sasuke for his part ignored Suigetsu's words but did go back to his original position by the window.
I should be with her, kept repeating in Sasuke's mind even as he forced himself to stay by the window. I should be with her slowly transformed to I need to be with her. He was too concerned by his need to be there, that he never questioned why he had no doubt the baby was a girl. The longer the baby cried, the dirtier he felt, it was overwhelming all these sudden emotions, it felt like a failure from his part that he could hear the baby cry and not do anything about it.
The crying went on for a few hours when Suigetsu suddenly said, "I've had enough," and walked out. He returned about a half hour later, looking a little ashamed of himself, but the baby's crying never ceased.
Juugo waited for Suigetsu to explain himself, but when he didn't asked, "what did you do?"
He looked more ashamed then when he first entered the room, he hesitated to say, but when Suigetsu noticed that Sasuke's attention was on him finally answered, "I went to tell the lady to shut her baby up. That lady was really hot, you wouldn't think she had a baby so small though. Cute kid, once you get past the crying. Looks nothing like her mother, her mother had these really big-"
Juugo interrupted him before he could continue a look of disgust covering his features, "stop, say no more."
"I was going to compliment her eyes! Who's the pervert now?!"
"Well that doesn't explain why you didn't want to say anything."
"She was just really nice about the whole thing, she apologized like a dozen times, offered to have breakfast together as an apology."
"Did you accept?"
"Yeah, meeting her in her room tomorrow, free food is free food."
In Sasuke's mind Suigetsu's words rang in his head, her mother.
A/N: I always had this idea that Suigetsu would demand silence, Juugo is annoyed by the crying but can deal with it, Sasuke is confused, and Suigetsu is having none of the crying. Small update but the next update will be longer, it will have Suigetsu and Sakura's breakfast, and another possible reunion. Also I wanted to share that any edits will be done when the story ends, I hope that way I will catch inconsistencies better since I would have the whole story to work with, so take this story as the draft (to an extent)... anyway I also want to thank every single one of you have reviewed, and followed and favorited this story, especially one person who has honestly been pretty helpful in writing this even if they don't know it yet. Updates should not take as long as they were taking anymore I however make no promises on the matter.