Part;2

"Sui…getsu?" Karin whispered, mostly to herself. But the male took that as an invitation to speak once more.

"Yes. Suigetsu. Did I stutter, woman?" he scoffed, sharp shark-like teeth exposed with each hissed word, dipped in arrogance. Karin blinked, then scowled. After getting over the fact that a guy just formed out of a pool of water, she found that voice immediately annoying. And he was still holding her Hebi-kun!

"Could you…please give back that snake?" She asked politely. Suigetsu looked down at the snake wound around his hands, running a finger against it.

"Hmm.. This yours?" he seemed…smug. Karin felt her eye twitch.

"Y…Yeah, he is."

"This is Hebi-kun?"

"Yes."

"And he's yours?"

"Ye..Yes."

"You sure..?"

Karin stared at him. Why was he asking so many questions? And why did each one make her so…angry? Gritting her teeth, she tried to be as polite to this stranger, with the erratic pulse of chakra, as possible. But he didn't seem bothered. In fact, he kept grinning that shark-toothed grin as he pet the content black snake.

"Well… He likes me more… I think I'll keep 'im."

Karin's eyes widened, back straightening a little.

"You..can't! He's mine!" she huffed, scrambling up to her feet. But Suigetsu didn't budge. As a matter of fact, he grinned even more and continued to stroke the snake, which seemed content in where it was. Karin gripped her hands into fists.

"Nah~. I don't think so. Lonely guy like me needs some company. Wanna keep me company, Snakeface?" he gave a mock coo toward the serpent. The look on his face filled Karin with rage. Screw being polite, this guy was getting on her last nerves.

"This name is Hebi-kun!" Karin growled, making Suigetsu look over at her as if he hadn't noticed her standing there. That pissed her off more. Snorting, he didn't seem to be bothered by her at all.

"Hebi-kun sucks. Snakeface is a much better name…" he nodded, raising the snake up to his face, to ask if the name was indeed better. But Karin stepped up before he could.

"He's not yours, I found him! I get to name him!" She starred to sound like a child, scowling at him with slight embarrassment.

"Hmph, Fingers keepers, woman. Why don't you get on out of here and leave me and my new friend in peace, 'ey four eyes?" Suigetsu grinned viciously, irking Karin even more.

"My name is not woman, OR four-eyes! My name is Karin and I'm in charge of Orochimaru-sama's prisoner cells." She pushed her glasses upward, crossing her arms over her chest. The nerve of this guy. He was just a lowly unstable experiment, but she was Orochimaru's loyal servant! He needed to learn some respect.

"Orochimaru…'sama'?!" His voice was filled with disbelief and hilarity. Taking time to burst out laughing. However when he stopped, Karin could see as well as sense that he was hiding anger, resentment and pain behind his shark grin. Karin understood that most if not all of Orochimaru-sama's experiments grew to hate him. Especially if they were kept away from everyone else like he was. But seeing as how this guy was just as stubborn as she, he wouldn't show that pain outright. Covering it up with a bark of laughter. "Don't tell you a faithful lappet to that man!" Suigetsu scoffed.

"He is your superior and you will show him some respect, Suigetsu!" Karin growled as she stepped forward to the angry male. He seemed to only grow more smug and angry as she neared.

"I don't have to show respect to a monster like him..!" he laughed.

"…?!" Karin was taken aback with a disgusted scoff, hands shaking. "How…How dare you!" She stepped closer toward the edge of his pool-like encasement. "Orochimaru-sama is not a monster! You're the monster, sharkboy! Orochimaru-sama is a powerful brilliant man, and if you continue to spout such blasphemous lies about him, I'll have to teach you some manners!" She practically screeched, cheeks reddened with anger. To her disgust and fury, this made Suigetsu howl with laughter.

"'Powerful' and 'Brilliant'. You are priceless, four-eyes!" he bellowed with laughter, splashing the water about in his joy. His laughter enraged her, but he only continued without noticing. "You couldn't hurt me, little girl, but by all means, come on in and try…" his eyes narrowed in a sneer, making Karin tremble with rage, holding back her desire to slam her foot into his face. But it only got worse, as Suigetsu's eyes narrowed even more.

"Don't tell me… you're some kind of fangirl?!" the word made Karin twitch and gasp, confirming his accusation. "Hah! I'm right, aren't I?!" he roared with laughter, "Oh that is hilarious, four eyes! 'Oh, Orochimaru-chama~, I love your long tongue~! Ooh! Lick me~!'" he moaned, in a high-falsetto. Face flushing darkly, the urge to break him in half was even more violent within Karin. So much that on a burst of energy, her chakra was focused into w wave that pulsed off of her shaking body enough to startle him into silence. Well…at least for a second.

"Oh-Ho! Four=eyes has some fire! I'm sure Orochimaru-chama would love to—"

"Shut up!!" Karin screeched, face red with anger and embarrassment. "I'm tired of hearing your damn voice! No wonder why you're out here alone! You're the worst person I've ever met! You could never be as great as Orochimaru-sama!" Her fury began to boil over fists shaking with restraint. Karin had never been that much of a violent person, but in the presence of this freak, she could barely contain herself. And yet despite her obvious anger, this only seemed to make Suigetsu all the more amused. Even now the look on his face told of an idea creeping into his head, his shark-like mouth curling into a smile so menacing, Karin silenced completely. When he was sure she was finished, he spoke.

"Is that why you think I'm alone here? Because I have poor social skills? Don't make me laugh.." But he was far from laughing. His expression that of someone who was about to expose a secret that she really didn't want to know. And the water began to buddle again, but this time his body rose from it some more. Karin looked away immediately, backing up from his direction, knowing his drippy body would be unclothed. Her cheeks pinkened, and she demanded to know what he was up to. Suigetsu snorted, as the water kept bubbling. From the corner of her eyes she could tell that he was out of the water to his knees, but didn't bother to look his way.

"I'm going to show you why I'm alone here…" his voice seemed louder now, as more of his dripping form seeped from the pool and solidified. When the bottoms of his feet formed out of that water, he stepped out of the pool with a wet slap.

The moment she heard the footstep, Karin's hand darted up to cover her eyes over the glasses, and stumbled backwards some more. The air felt tighter, but she assumed that was just her embarrassment and anger intertwining around her throat.

"Doh…Don't come any closer!" She knew where he was, having already pinpointed his erratic mass of chakra that slowly took another step towards her. Not at all intimidated by her shout. It was then she began to notice that the tightness in her throat wasn't her fault, but the growing pulse of chakra that thickened the air so much she couldn't breathe deeply without choking on it.

"I'm sure you've noticed by now… why I live in a pool, in a constant liquid state. And why the door and walls are specially designed to block all and any forms of chakra from its confines." Suigetsu's voice seemed softer, as if in a serious mood for once. But she would not and could not risk taking her hand away to see if he was still holding that menacing grin. She -knew- he was.

"I'm unstable…" Suigetsu took another step towards her, "I can form into my body, but my chakra is still not stable enough to hold for very long. This pool is to help me, but in the process, I am kept here…alone." Unbeknownst to Karin, Suigetsu gripped his freehand into a shaking fist, face a mixture of pain and anger. "And it's his entire fault… Why I can't control my own chakra anymore…" he grumbled so soft that Karin almost didn't catch it, backing up another step. "But I'm getting better… I'm stronger now than I ever was.. Soon I won't even need this pool anymore, and I'll be able to get out and do what I have to…" His voice seemed so close now that a shiver of awareness slipped up her spine. But she kept backing up slowly, each step drawn out to long seconds. Why was he even advancing? What was he going to do? And why was he still naked?!

So many questions left unanswered, Karin took another step back and attempted to speak, only to go completely still as he back hit the cool stone wall. An instant image of a trapped rabbit at the mercy of a fox, drifted into her mind. Or in this face, an insane walking talking sociopath shark. She could feel him still getting closer, the press of his unstable chakra making her pant in small rushed breaths, using her own chakra in attempts to keep his from entering her and choking her some more. And she tried her shrink against the cold wall, but it hadn't helped her at all. Another step of Suigetsu's wet foot crept closer, his movements coming in increments.

"Well? Now that you know, how does that make you feel?" he murmured, not needing to speak loud anymore. His voice surprisingly deep, rumbling over her flesh and causing an arrange of goose-bumps on her arms. He had to have been four feet away, and slowly getting closer. "Does it make you pity me?" He sounded vaguely angry, his words damning her. "I don't need your pity, Karin." Suigetsu growled his words out, knowing that would pity him. Women were like that, he mused with disgust. All typical and easily read. However he would be pleasantly surprised to find that Karin wasn't like most girls.

"Don't get any closer!" she suddenly shouted, reaching out to swipe a hand in his direction, clutching a specially made kunai in her hand that she'd laced with snake venom; though knew that was not close enough to hit. It was worth a try, she figured, to maybe scare him back and away from her. A thought that was quickly destroyed with a hand slapped into the wall beside her head, making her jump. Heart spiking into her throat, a startled squeak left her lips before she could stifle it. The air around her was suddenly clouded with Suigetsu's surprisingly male scent, as it was painfully aware he stood within inches of her, a scent completely unlike the fish smell that she thought he would possess. In the back of her mind, she could visualize as Suigetsu's uncontrolled chakra pushed even closer on her, clouding her break and raping her sense, attempting to claw its way into her mind and steal out her soul. It forced its way into her, choking off the air that got to her lungs, making her lightheaded and panicked. Almost as if the chakra had a will of its own, she could feel it wounding around her throat and pressing in, making even her panting breaths difficult to accomplish. Panic and fear welled up inside of her, threatening to explode in a scream she knew would never come. Before she could decide whether this would be the end of her, her brain began to shut off, everything going black. Karin felt herself drop into unconsciousness as she fell to the ground, the last think she heard being a faint hissing of something slithering near and brushing against her cheek. . . .