In a flash, Sakura found herself face-to-face with a certain blue-haired man with flashing yellow eyes, giving her a particularly disturbing toothy grin.
"Hey. Nice hair."
Sakura stumbled back in surprise at the sudden encounter.
'He's fast.'
"So what'cha doing spying on us, huh?" Suigetsu asked the startled girl.
"I-I-"
"Hey look! She's a Leaf Nin!" Karin exclaimed, pointing out Sakura's head band.
"Ha! I wonder if she knows Sasuke," Suigetsu said jokingly as he turned to Karin.
"S-Sasuke…Tell me what you know about Sasuke!" Sakura demanded, getting their attention.
"So she does know the Uchiha," Suigetsu smirked.
"Where is he?!"
"Hmph. Like we'd tell you," Karin answered. "Besides, Sasuke probably doesn't want some ugly girl like you around him anyway.
"What...what'd you say?!"
Sakura's emotions quickly turned to those of rage. As she threw a violent punch, Karin quickly jumped back, causing Sakura to miss and smash the rock Suigetsu was leaning against earlier. Suigetsu was surprised at the girl's strength as he witnessed the rock shatter to pieces. Karin, on the other hand, was not amused.
Sakura straightened. "What ever you know about Sasuke…You'd never know him like I do."
"Yeah whatever," Karin stated as she started to walk away. " Suigetsu, finish her off, I'm tired of looking at her ugly face."
"Heh…" Suigetsu huffed as he watched Karin walk out of sight. "What a bitch, huh?"
When Sakura didn't answer, Suigetsu turned to see the pink-haired kunoichi with a few tears rolling down her face.
'Typical Leaf Nin…'
"Look, Karin just doesn't own a mirror and wouldn't know pretty if it hit her in the face," Suigetsu said, thinking this was the reason for her crying.
"Sasuke, he's really changed…" Sakura said, mainly to herself.
"Him? Hey, if you're an old friend of his or something, it probably wouldn't be wise of me to kill you. I definitely don't wanna get on that bastard's bad side."
"Just tell me where he is!" Sakura demanded, looking up to give him a heated glare.
Suigetsu's cocky grin turned to an annoyed frown. "You could be a little more appreciative, y'know. The fact that I decided not to kill you makes you a very lucky girl."
"Just…just tell me! Please, just tell me where he is, or what he's doing."
"Hmm NO!" Suigetsu grinned and started to snicker.
"What?" Sakura sounded hurt, and cringed at the sound of this cruel man laughing at her obvious torment.
"Stop."
He continued to laugh.
"I said stop!" Sakura screamed as her resentment grew, but he continued to mock her.
"Stop laughing!" Sakura attempted to punch him, but all that was there was water. She continued to throw punches, but nothing she did worked. After all, how could she fight water? It was useless. How could she find out anything about Sasuke now…
"Well this is getting boring. How 'bout something fun?" Suigetsu suggested, but Sakura insisted on fighting. She couldn't give up! Perhaps she would be able to lead him to the others, and they could capture and question him! That could work. And just what did he mean by 'fun'?
'This is getting annoying,' Suigetsu thought to himself, and decided to do something other than dodge the frustrated girl's attacks. He appeared in front of the startled girl in a flash and delivered a powerful blow to the stomach, causing Sakura to clutch her body and bend over in pain.
'I just can't beat him...'
"Finally giving up? Ha! You're so weak!" she heard him yell.
Why couldn't she be stronger? Why couldn't she be more like Naruto and train more? She thought she had done well these past couple of years, but she still wasn't good enough…
Then she began to cry again. Why did she have to show such weakness in front of this man? But she couldn't help it. The tears came out involuntarily.
'She's crying again. But…I kind of like it when she cries,' Suigetsu smirked, as he did indeed quite fancy her tears. He then walked up to the panting girl and gave her a harsh kick, earning him a choked gasp.
"Weakling."
"No. I'm not weak!" Sakura managed to yell hoarsely as she fell closer to the ground.
"Then get up," Suigetsu commanded as he kicked her shins as she attempted to stand.
"I said, get up!"
Her eyes fell to the ground and dirt beneath her. "I-I just want Sasuke-kun…to come back."
"Well he's not coming back," Suigetsu stated matter-of-factly.
Sakura caught him mumbling, " He's the only reason I don't kill this girl here and now."
"Just tell me about him," Sakura panted.
"Persistent, aren't we? Fine, I'll tell you a little about that bastard, Sasuke…for a price.
"A price?" Sakura questioned.
"Yup. You give me what I want, I give you the information you want. Everybody wins," Suigetsu declared deviously.
"Well…" Sakura hesitated, not liking the look he was currently giving her. "What do you want?"
Suigetsu gave her a sinister grin.
"You."