A/N: Theme supplied by TheLostThoughts (And I'm sorry, it won't let me post your name correctly), so thank you so much, TheLostThoughts! I'll do my best with this theme. EDIT: This was supposed to be up Saturday, but due to weather-related issues, it had to be postponed. Sorry.

Theme: "Lip Balm". Theme Supplier: TheLostThoughts

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or make profit from this.

Suigetsu always wondered why Karin constantly smelled of strawberries.

She had told him once that body sprays and perfumes were too inconvenient to carry, bulky or breakable and tending to spill. So this was Suigetsu's mystery of Karin. Why did she always smell like strawberries?

He had watched her for hours at a time, but it yielded no clues. She was a complete mystery, or at least this was.

Suigetsu waited until she was asleep, and then he dug through her bag in hopes of finding an answer.

"What are you doing?" Karin's hair was mussed, her glasses were off, and her eyes were half lidded, but she was pissed. Suigetsu wasn't surprised.

"Nothing." He said quickly, but it didn't seem to help that he had a pair of her panties in his hands.

"Put my underwear down, Suigetsu." Karin said, in a tone so even it was terrifying. "Put it down and back away slowly."

Suigetsu was quickly regretting zipping the camping tent's door; he had nowhere to go. "Karin I just-" Try as he might, he had no good excuse for what he had been doing. "Karin!"

Karin had him pinned against the pole of the tent, both hands immobile from her clutching his wrists. But she still seemed eerily calm.

"Karin..." Suigetsu was still trying to figure out a way to talk her down, and her name was all that was coming out of his mouth. "Karin, Karin, Karin!" Wasn't going to save him.

"Alright, Suigetsu, what were you looking for?" Karin was appraising him with the eyes of someone about to skin an animal. "And don't tell me your water bottle, because it is right there." She nodded towards the object.

"The answer to a question." Suigetsu tried not to panic too much, he would've bet anything that she could feel his pulse in his wrists and was keeping track of it.

"Oh yeah?" Karin raised her eyebrows. "What's your question?"

"Why do you always smell like strawberries?" Suigetsu asked, hoping like hell she wasn't going to kill him. Sure, he could turn into water, but Karin had been plotting his death for years. She would find a way.

Karin tipped her head to the side and gave him a cute little smile. She looked so innocent like that, and Suigetsu almost smiled back.

Karin leaned in and kissed him. And, how odd, Suigetsu tasted strawberries.

That was when it came to him – it was lip balm.

Suigetsu had never really liked strawberries, but now, due to her lip balm, he really did.

A/N: I couldn't get it to end the way I wanted it exactly, but I think it turned out ok. What do you guys think? Tell me please, and you can drop a theme if you want to.