She stood stark still trapped within the hollow world inside Sasuke's eyes. His ocular powers were greater than she'd imagined and she had a feeling she was about to go through Hell before she could break the genjutsu. It would take so much time for her chakra to filter through her body to interrupt the flow within her inner chakra that he possessed now. He stood in front of her like a sentinel inspecting his prey before he killed it. He walked around her while she was stuck immobile tilting his head ever so to the side making his bangs fall over his eyes shielding them from her. He drew closer unsheathing his kantana in the process scraping it gently along the ground as he trailed a circle around her, too bad for him interrogation was one of her aces.
"How do you know Suigetsu?" he asked tapping the blade beneath her chin pushing the tip against her throat enough to draw a small dribble of blood.
"It's not your business." She said stubbornly wishing she could move to pull the damn blade from her throat. He pressed it tighter to her skin drawing a thin red line across her throat. His eyes met hers and she saw the pain and deaths of thousands at his hands. He was showing her a world she was afraid of, a world that she wasn't able to control or contribute to. A world in which everyone would fall to the evils of greed and sin. The world Madara Uchiha had shown her years before when she'd been intercepted by the original Akatsuki.
"Now. How do you know Suigetsu?" he asked her again. His plain obsidian eyes bore into hers now without the death tinged glint of blood. She sighed and wavered fighting the immediate urge to fall to her knees as he released her from the Sharingun. She shivered feeling a cold prickle run down her spine but her sense stayed tuned to the man in front of her.
"He was my old partner." She said in a firm voice trying to stay upright. He'd exhausted her chakra with that little stunt but she knew better than to show it.
"Che! Partner! Yeah right!" Suigetsu shouted. He'd gotten up since she'd been frozen in place and he looked pissed off as hell. Not as much as she was by his comment.
"Don't you give me that shit! You left the village on your own! I tried to make you come back idiot!" she snapped.
"No you didn't." he said glaring at her tsking his lips together a hand on his hip. Her ears turned red and her hands were in fists. Sasuke could see a resemblance to the way Naruto looked now when he'd found him a few months back. That same determination and anger…and pain was in her eyes.
"Yes! I did! You stubborn asshole! I went to Orochimaru and offered myself in your place!" she said then, her eyes narrowed. "He agreed to it too, until you decided to agree to cell modification which I couldn't agree too!" She yelled. Suigetsu tilted his head watching her green eyes grow dark and shaded.
"Why couldn't you?" Sasuke couldn't help but ask. Curiosity was one of his many trades.
"Because I'm the last of a clan…and I can't let anyone splice my DNA. It's heavily guarded." She said glaring at Suigetsu still. "You didn't want to come home and you know it. You wanted to make us all suffer because Zabuza didn't pick you as a student. " she growled.
"HEY!" Suigetsu yelled going to take a step towards her, Sasuke put his arm out barring his path.
"Enough. You're worse than small children." He snapped growing wary of their feuding. "Here's the choice. Either you come with us girl, or you can attempt to kill us. Make a decision." She laughed. Actually laughed at him, leaving little curls to spring from her braid gently and frame her slender face.
"Follow you? Seriously?" she asked eyeing them all. "Leave a village that I'm a successful member of to run with the Akatsuki who are traveling after the tailed beasts and the elders of Konoha?" she rose an eyebrow.
"What else are you going to do, stuffy bitch." Suigetsu growled under his breath. Sasuke caught the dangerous dark glint cross her eyes again and he held Suigetsu back.
"I'll piss off the Mizukage a good bit if I leave won't I?" she smirked then and her old friend met her eyes grinning back.
"Yes. Yes you would." He chuckled catching her drift.
"Then yes. I'll go with you. Get's me the hell out of this shit hole." She smirked. And for some strange reason…that beautiful smile set Sasuke's world on fire. Sasuke felt his lower stomach catch a heavy warm feeling and it tightened. How on earth could one smile do that…and since when did Sasuke Uchiha let a woman's smile affect him?
"Then get you asses moving, I want to be out of here by nightfall." He growled and started walking, shoving past Taizu brushing her shoulder. "and since you knocked her out, you can carry Karin." He snapped. She rolled her eye tossing her braid over her shoulder and trudged through the calf high waters to the bank picking up Karin's dead weight.
"Yeah yeah yeah. I'm not gonna take orders from you Uchiha." She said sternly. He glanced back at her narrowing his eyes at her.
"You'll do what I say or you'll die at my hands." He said. She laughed again.
"We'll see little brat." She grinned this time making the freckles on her face dance. "I'll give you a run for your money kid."