Hi! This chapter is made out of two chapters and is very much focused on SasuKarin than the others one. 3 Maybe it's good, maybe it's bad. It could be anything; I'm not sure if I like it or if I hate it. ~ YOU TELL ME.
I love you bitches. ~
One Hundred Years From Now
Chapter three
Sasuke silently made his way to his bedroom, careful not to wake Rinji (it was the twentieth nights in a row he kept on sleeping after Sasuke left him alone in his little bed). He opened the door and closed it so slowly that Karin had read two full pages by the time he was sitting under the covers next to her. He eyed her book (the one Suigetsu had bought her in a not-so-vain attempt to make her angry) as she kept on reading like he wasn't there.
"Haven't you read that, like, ten times already?" he whispered to her (maybe a bit jealous), he'd be damned if his talking woke up Rinji.
"Yeah." She moved a bit, resting her head against his shoulder, kept on reading. "I didn't felt in love with a romantic man, so I compensate with this cheap romance novel." (The words Suigetsu had told her when he gave her the book.)
"Hn." He let his head fall on hers and sighed. "You miss them, don't you?"
"Less then you do, but yes."
Not long after Suigetsu's death, Sasuke had decided to move back into Konoha (so Naruto would finally stop chasing him around and he could, somehow, move on), Karin decided to tag along, of course. When offered, Juugo didn't seemed to like the idea. Sakura promised that they would all do their best to help him with his condition. He still didn't liked the idea (he never told them why, if it was because he just wanted to be free, or the idea of being in a village full of helpless children he could kill, or if he was just scared it might end up like it had with Orochimaru).
So Juugo didn't stayed with them (it surprised Sasuke, as for Juugo was the only one he thought would never leave him). Nearly four years had passed and no news from him came to them. That could only mean good news; he had found a calm place and was living happily around his beloved birds. That's what they wished for him, that's the least Juugo deserved (Juugo wasn't asking for more).
It felt a bit lonely at first, and the room they had kept in the small apartment to be Juugo's was now Rinji's one. Karin and Sasuke had never been really alone together since they met (minus a few rare time), at first, Orochimaru was never far away (his yellow eyes never living Sasuke, sometimes he would woke at night, feeling those eerie yellow eyes watching him and he would have to wake her, just to be sure he really wasn't there) and after Suigetsu and Juugo were there. They knew each other well but being just the two of them was somewhat different. Sasuke was used to taking Karin's side in her little fight with Suigetsu (that was foolish but he couldn't help himself and always came to her defence, even when he knew her wrong) but there was no fight anymore and would never have again.
They were never really talking (Sasuke wasn't a talkative person, Karin liked that, she was used to be alone in the south hideout) and the house was silent at first. Every times Naruto came over; he was looking at them and couldn't help feeling a bit jealous of was they had. He and Sakura were always talking, like if they couldn't stand silence (silence always felt awkward, reminding them of the times without Sasuke). With them it was different. Sasuke asked for something, Karin was telling him to get it himself, but was doing it for him anyway, and they were going back to silence. Naruto didn't understood that all they had ever face together was hurt, fight, training, death. He didn't understood that they had forgot how to be just happy (they had forgot happy long ago, when their family die in the meaningless, endless, shinobi war). Karin's pregnancy had made it easier (she was talking about the child and he was listening, they were even telling each other part of their childhood they had always kept secret, hoping they could give those little happy moment to their child, that he would also get more and better).
And now they were a family and it almost felt normal. Rinji had a lot of "uncle" and "untie" but the two they were considering as real family weren't with them (Naruto and Sakura were close, but it wasn't the same as it was with Suigetsu and Juugo, Sasuke had choose them. Naruto and Sakura had been forced in his life long ago, not that it was bothering him).
Sasuke sighed again. "I need to buy you a new one." (Really, he was jealous.)
She half smiled. "Naruto already gave me the whole Icha Icha Paradise collection, just in case."
(Really.)
One Hundred Years From Now
Chapter Three and A Half
Sasuke was out of training, on his way toward his so called bedroom (it didn't feel like his, it was small, cold and no window). He was so exhausted that each steps felt like walking on a knife. He was doing his best to not let it show, if he was to come across Kabuto or anybody else he would be even more damned (he had just been training for fifteen hours nonstop, no big deal).
Orochimaru was giving him some time to train alone but it wasn't a reason to slake off (in fact, he was doing the opposite). The reason Orochimaru had decided to let him by himself was some girl they had came across. Sasuke didn't remember her name (he wasn't even sure he had already knew it), all that he remembered was her so red hair and her so red eyes. It was enough for him to remember. It was the same shade of red as his sharingan (the color of blood, the color of curse), making him nearly obsessed with her (the color).
Not looking at her while they were walking had been hard (really hard). The girl wasn't that pretty, far from that when they first saw her. Her hair were so messy (really, he had never saw hair that tangled) and her skin had incrusted with dirt. After she toke a bath (probably the first one in a good while, her skin was still dirty), she just decided to cut short the hair she wasn't able to save (living half of her hair long, because she liked it that way). Steeling the hairs had been tempting but that wasn't something Sasuke could possibly do, unless he was out of his mind.
The only thing he liked in the girl was definitely the red that was all over her (he didn't have time to think about her personality, he didn't cared). And the same sadness as his that was hiding in her eerie pupil-less red eyes.
The rest of her wasn't interesting. She was just the youngest daughter of some rice cultivator from what she had told to Orochimaru. The sannin even forced Sasuke to carry her on his back, she wasn't able to use her charka, and the hideout has circle by water, there was no boat and no bridge (it was a sort of training he had said, the girl didn't agree but still crossed the water on Sasuke's back, her face buried in his neck, her hands firmly clutched to his shirt, her legs around his hips almost crushing him).
Orochimaru had abandon Sasuke to train this girl. It was pointless in Sasuke's point of view. She was his age, it was too late to make something worth out of her (but Sasuke knew Orochimaru had a thing for children he would find out of blue and train, she wasn't the first nor the last).
He groaned as he reached the last turn, his bed would soon be there and tomorrow he would train less (just a bit less and just tomorrow). He found out that walking around eyes closed while being deadly exhausted wasn't a good idea when he ran into something (someone) and felt to the ground.
He opened his eyes and it was her. She was now all clean (her skin just white as his), she was wearing brand new purple cloth (the uniform of the prison guardian that she had personalised) and she had black-framed glass on her face but it was her (no one else could have those hairs).
"Were you looking?! Are you all right?!" She was still standing on her foot, the impact had seemed brutal to Sasuke, but she it didn't bothered her.
He tried to stand up but his arms refused to move (that's what you get when you train a dozen of hours for one or two of sleep and barely eat for one week). He took a few deeps breaths before trying again and managed to sit.
"Do you need help?" She dared to ask him that.
"No."
She frowned at him, not believing him for a second. She offered him a hand but he didn't took it (he didn't find the strength to and didn't wanted to). She stared straight at him, her red eyes daring him to repeat that lie. He lost himself in her red gaze (he could still win at that game) and without him noticing he had one arm around her shoulder and she was helping him to walk.
She opened his room's door (how she knew it was his was a mystery to him) and helped him to the bed. "Seriously, you need to be more careful you'll die on the floor or something if you keep going like that. Oh, and with that, we're fair."
She turned over and left, closing the door behind her.
Two minutes later, Orochimaru was by his side, all smiling (liking his lips). "My, my, Sasuke-kun. I can't leave you by yourself, can I?"
He tired to ignore him. And he still didn't knew the girl's name.
AN: The idea of Sasuke being there when Orochimaru found Karin don't come from me. Wonderful Goddness Kanae had it (or so it's her who made me think it :OOO), but it's so better than the idea that I had. Huhuhuh. ~
