When both Karin and Suigetsu woke up the next morning, nothing seemed out of place. Their hair was fine which was good enough. However, when they each tried to open their tent, the zip wouldn't budge. Suigetsu got cranky within a matter of seconds and used a kunai to slash the material.

Karin got the shock of her life when he came falling into her lap. He looked up at her and his mouth opened.

"What the hell!"

She threw him off her, stealing his kunai and slashing at the wall of her tent. It didn't work, and she crawled to the far corner.

"What the hell have you done this time?"

A voice came from outside.

"Jugo. It seems that our two teammates have joined tents. A bit strange, considering how they're always at each other's throats. But then again, the more you like somebody the nastier you are to them."

Karin looked at Suigetsu with her mouth open.

"What the hell?"

Suigetsu glared at the wall of the tent where he could hear Sasuke's voice and yelled.

"What the hell did you do!"

Outside, Sasuke smirked, somehow regaining his old humour.

"I did nothing. We're leaving, you two can catch up later."

They heard him leave and Karin felt something sharp poke into her back. Then came a quiet voice.

"Follow us in about thirty minutes. Stop being stupid and so will he."

Suigetsu watched as Jugo's shadow passed over the tent and disappeared. Karin moved away from the hole Jugo had created and squirmed through it. Suigetsu followed, and they looked at the setup of tents Sasuke had created during the night. Suigetsu looked at Karin.

"Looks like he's as childish as Naruto as well. It's not as good as ours was to each other but I guess that doesn't matter."

She shook her head.

"What do we do now?"

He smirked.

"Easy. Come up with a plan for him."

Sasuke awoke the next morning with the skin of his face feeling crackly. When he walked out to the stream he saw that, somehow, they had managed to paint what resembled a clown onto his face. If the stuff they used was the same as what was still in Karin's hair, it wasn't going to come out easily. He cursed and resolved to not try and prank two people obviously going for the kill. He would hear their laughter for the rest of the day and decided to find a cave to wait for the crap to come off his face.

Suigetsu watched as Sasuke stomped around the clearing, packing his gear up and giving the signal to move out. He leaned over to Karin who was doing the same thing.

"Imagine that, the Last Uchiha reduced to a clown."

Karin smothered her laughter as Sasuke turned around and glared. The glare didn't have the same scariness it usually would have had because of the paint and Karin and Suigetsu fell over laughing. He sighed and continued on. The two glanced at each other and grinned.

"Jugo next."