Chapter 7.
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4 months later.
Day time.
Academy.
Classroom.
Everyone was sitting in their desks, some were talking to one another or quietly doing nothing. Karin, in her usual outfit, was quietly reading a book while Sasuke had his elbows on the desk and fingers tangled together and was looking forward. Naruto, in his usual outfit, was sleeping on the desk.
"I wonder why Iruka-sensei stepped out of the classroom for a moment?" Karin thought curiously as she turned around page with her right hand. "Was it something important that he had to do?"
Karin suddenly sensed Iruka coming back to the classroom, she closed her book and placed it on the left side of her desk before looking down at one of the classroom doors.
"You sensed Iruka coming back to the classroom didn't you?" Sasuke asked, looking at her.
"H-hai." Karin said looking at Sasuke before turning back to the bottom classroom doors.
The door slid open to reveal Iruka, in his usual outfit, and he stepped in and slid the door closed with his right hand before walking over to the podium. All of the students almost immediately stopped talking as they saw Iruka at the podium. Karin suddenly saw that Iruka was holding stacks of cream colored papers in his left hand.
"So... we're all receiving them again ..." Karin thought.
"Alright class, it's report card day." Iruka said, holding up his left hand.
Half of the class groaned and some of them smiled.
"Now as I call your names, you will come up and get it." Iruka said.
"I hope I improved on most of my skills like I did last time." Karin thought. "Sasuke easily did great on his last time."
Afternoon.
Sasuke and Karin were walking away from the Academy and were holding their report cards. Naruto went to the Hokage's office to see his father about his work.
"What kind of grades did you make this time?" Sasuke asked smiling, looking at her. "I know you probably did better than I did."
"I-I don't think I did. My grades have increased a little... but there not on your level..." Karin said shyly.
"Let me see." Sasuke said.
"U-um o-okay." Karin said, handing him her report card with her left hand.
Sasuke took it with his right hand and and looked at both his and hers. He saw that she was higher than him when it came to history, mathematics, intelligence, stamina, hand seals, and chakra control but other activities he was better than her.
"These are really great." Sasuke said, looking at her.
"Yours is better than mine." Karin said.
"You're the smartest person in the class, you always make 100s on every test we've have." Sasuke said smiling. "And you know more jutsus than I do."
Karin blushed furiously as she looked away to the left. "Th-thank y-you, S-sasuke." she said shyly.
Sasuke gave Karin's report card back to her. "I'll see you later, Karin." he said.
"You too, S-sasuke." Karin said shyly.
Sasuke ran off to the Uchiha clan compound while Karin continued her way to the Uzumaki clan compound. Within minutes, Karin entered the Uzumaki clan compound. She walked to her house and slid one of the main shoji doors with her left hand. She took off her sandals at the door before stepping in more. Minato and Kushina allowed Karin to stay in Ryo and Uzume's house as long as they eat dinner and breakfast some together and spend time together one in awhile.
Karin walked over to a small table and put her report card on the right side before she sat in the seiza position as she was at a table that had a picture of her mother and father on it with 1 lighted candle and white rose in a blue vase and purple vase on each side of them, closing her eyes and bowed her head as she prayed for her mother and father.
"Mommy... Daddy." Karin thought sadly.
Karin opened her eyes as she was done praying to the picture of her decreased parents. She stared at the pictures sadly.
"Daddy.. Mommy.. I've did better than last in the Academy. Aunt Kushina was always telling that you 2 always did great there..." Karin said. "She's also has been teaching me new jutsus lately. I'll get better soon." then stood up and grabbed her report card when she suddenly sensed Kushina and Naruto were coming to the house. "I'm going again Mommy and Daddy.."
Karin walked to the main shoji doors and she opened it up see Kushina and Naruto, in their usual outfits, were standing outside smiling.
"Hello Aunt Kushina.. Oniisan.." Karin greeted, looking at both of them.
"Well hello to you too, Karin-dear." Kushina greeted back smiling, looking down at her.
"Hi, Karin." Naruto greeted smiling.
"We can by to check up on you." Kushina said. "And to see how you did in school. Can I see your report card?"
"H-hai." Karin said then handed her report card to Kushina with her left hand.
Kushina took it from Karin and examined it for a minute before smiling brightly at her. "You're doing great. These are better than your cousin's." she said.
"Huh?" Naruto asked before taking the report card from his mother and looked closely at the report card. "You're right Mom." then handed back to Karin, who took it back.
Kushina started reaching into her right pocket. "Since both of you made passing grades, here is some money." she said, handing a few dollar bills to Karin. "You 2 can spend it on food, toys, or anything you want as long as it's in your age, okay."
"Okay." Naruto and Karin said together.
Karin grabbed the money from Kushina's left hand with her right hand and put it in her right pocket before she put her report card on the table before putting on her sandals and closed one of the main shoji doors with her left hand. Naruto and Karin walked together to go to the stores in the Village. Kushina waved to them with her right hand for a moment before she stopped and started to walk to her house.
...
When Naruto and Karin were now walking into the crowd of people.
"What should we do with the money that Aunt Kushina gave to us, Oniisan?" Karin asked, looking at Naruto.
"How about we go to Ichiraku Ramen first then we can head to the Dango Shop." Naruto said, looking at Karin.
"Hai." Karin said.
As they were walking to Ichiraku Ramen, Karin turned around for a second to see that mostly everyone was glaring or frowning at them as they passed by.
Karin looked forward. "Are they glaring at us? Did me and Oniisan do something wrong?" she thought.
They finally made it to Ichiraku Ramen, it was a small restaurant that had white cloth that covered the top half with the restaurant's name written in red on it, six brown stools were inside of it. They entered to see a light brown skinned man that looked to be in his late 30's and had squinted eyes, dark grey hair, wearing a white round hat, a cream colored kimono shirt, brown pants, and grey sandals, and a fair skinned woman that looked to be in her mid teens and had long, dark brown hair that reached her back, large black eyes, wearing a white robe with the sleeves folded, a sort of dark blue apron with ribbon ties at the top, a bright white bandanna, brown sandals.
"Hello Naruto." the man greeted, smiling.
"It's good to see you 2 again." the woman said smiling.
"You 2 as well, Teuchi, Ayame." Karin said.
Naruto sat at the first stool and Karin sat at the second stool.
"What would you 2 like to order?" Teuchi asked.
"I would like a large serving of miso ramen with roasted pork fillet." Naruto said smiling.
"And I would like a shoyu ramen, please." Karin said.
"Coming right up." Teuchi said.
Teuchi and Ayame started making the 2 orders of ramen, within 15 minutes they served Naruto and Karin with the ramen they ordered.
"Here you 2 go, eat up." Ayame said.
Naruto and Karin reached for the paper wrapped chopsticks and pulled them apart and both said 'Itadakimasu' before they started eating.
"Why were those people staring at me and Oniisan like that?" Karin thought. "I know that Oniisan pulled pranks on people dozens of times... but they never glared at him like that before..."
20 minutes later.
Naruto and Karin were done eating. Karin had 2 bowls of shoyu ramen and Naruto had 5 bowls of miso ramen with roasted pork fillet.
"Should I put this on your tab?" Teuchi asked.
"No, we'll pay this time." Naruto said.
"But Teuchi, Ayame and people from our clan and clan allies don't give us those looks." Karin thought. "Why are they doing that all of a sudden?"
When Naruto and Karin were done they said 'thank you' before Karin paid for the meal and started heading to the Dango Shop. It took them awhile but they made it. It was a small rectangular orange building with dark green roofs on it, the shop's sign is in a form of a stick with white-coloured dango run through it. The hiragana for dango (だんご) is painted red on them. Naruto and Karin walked inside and looked around. The inside of the shop is simple with wooden tables, rectangular-shaped lights, and menus that hang all over the walls for customers to look at. There were a few people sitting at some of the seats.
Naruto and Karin walked over to an empty table with Naruto sitting on the left side and Karin sitting on the right side. They looked up the menus and started looked at them.
"What are you going to order, Oniisan?" Karin asked, looking up from the menu at Naruto.
"I think I'll get the tri colored dangos this time." Naruto said.
Suddenly a skinny lady with fair skin, who looked to be in her early 20's, had orange hair that reached a shoulder length, green eyes with pupils, wearing a short sleeved white shirt, long red pants, brown sandals, and a black apron, was holding a cream colored note pad and a pencil.
"Okay, are you 2 ready to order?" the woman asked.
Naruto looked up at her. "Yes, I would like the tri colored dangos and green tea." he said.
"Okay." the woman said, writing Naruto's order down and turned to Karin. "And what would you like?"
"I would like Mitarashi Dango, Tri Colored Dango, Chichi Dango, and green tea." Karin said, looking up at her.
The woman wrote down Karin's order and looked at them.
"Your orders will be ready in a little while." the woman said then walked off.
Naruto turned to Karin. "You order many dangos." he said.
"Well I really love to eat dangos and it's like when you love to eat many bowls of ramen at Ichiraku Ramen, Oniisan." Karin said smiling.
"I guess you're right about that." Naruto said smiling.
Within 10 minutes, the woman came back with a brown circular tray that had their orders on it
"Here's your Tri-colored dangos and tea." the woman said carefully placing the items in front of Naruto.
"Thanks." Naruto said smiling.
"And here's your Tri-colored, Mitarashi, Chichi Dangos, and green tea." the woman said, placing the items in front of Karin.
"Thank you, Miss." Karin said smiling.
"Enjoy." the woman said then left with the tray in her left hand.
Naruto and Karin started eating their dangos and sipped some of their tea.
"Hey, Karin." Naruto said.
"Huh?" Karin questioned.
"After we finish eating, you want to go to the mask shop in town?" Naruto said smiling. "They have really cool masks, dattebayo."
"Okay, Oniisan." Karin said smiling.
Naruto started eating again and Karin was about to start to eating until she looked forward and saw 2 men were glaring at them. Karin suddenly remembered the people that were glaring at them on the streets.
"They're doing it again.. but why?!" Karin thought.
"Karin?" Naruto asked.
Karin snapped out of her thoughts and looked to see Naruto was staring at her.
"Are you alright?" Naruto asked concerned.
"H-hai, Oniisan." Karin said. "It's nothing."
Karin started to drink some of her tea again and some of her Chichi dangos.
...
25 minutes later.
Naruto and Karin were done eating and placed some money on the table before they walked out of the Dango Shop and into the crowd of people.
"So what kinds of masks do you like at the Shop?" Karin asked, looking at Naruto.
"Well all of them are fine but there's one mask I want to have." Naruto said smiling, looking at her.
"What kind of mask would that be?" Karin asked curiously.
"It's a fox mask, I first saw it the other day and it looks really cool." Naruto said then looked forward. "I just hope no one bought it already."
"I can't wait to see it." Karin said.
After a minute they finally made it to the Mask Shop. They stepped in and looked around, the inside of it had mask all over the walls and the walls were dark purple, and a brown desk, brown chair, and a grey cash register was on the right side. A man that looked to be in his mid 30's had brown skin color, black eyes, short black hair, black mustache and beard, wearing a light brown hat, a beige long sleeved shirt, long brown pants, and brown sandals was sitting on the chair.
"There's the mask." Naruto said smiling, to the left side of the wall with his right hand.
Naruto walked over to it with Karin following him. They stopped and stared at it while smiling. The man noticed Naruto and Karin staring at the masks on the wall, he glared at them angrily before he made a fake smile, he stood from his chair and walked over to them.
"So have you 2 decided what you want to buy?" the man asked.
Naruto and Karin turned around and looked at the owner. Karin could sense immediately that something wasn't right.
"Um, we would like to purchase this fox mask on the wall please." Karin said shyly. "But.. why just arrived here?" she thought.
"How about I give it to you for free?" the man questioned.
"No, we'll just pay for it." Naruto said.
"Are you sure?" the man asked.
"Yes, we're sure." Naruto said.
"Okay then." the man said before grabbing the fox mask from the wall with his right hand.
The man walked over to the register with Naruto and Karin following behind him. He told them the price of it before Karin paid for it.
"Here you go." the man said, handing the mask to them with his right hand.
"Thanks." Naruto said smiling, grabbing the mask with his left hand.
Naruto and Karin walked out of the Mask Shop, but Karin stopped as she was curious of everyone's behavior of her and Naruto. She hid outside of the shop and the man started talking about something.
"Finally, I thought those filthy Uzumakis would never leave especially that Nine-Tails brat." the man said annoyed. "They should just go back to Uzushiogakure."
Karin stood up and backed away in sadness and shock. "But... what did we do? And Nine-Tails?" she thought.
Karin turned around and slowly slowly walked away with her head looking down sadly. As she was walking she looked up to see Naruto staring at her concerned.
"What's wrong Karin?" Naruto asked. "Are you alright?"
Karin stopped in front of Naruto, then made a small smile. "It's nothing Oniisan. I'm just a little tired, that's all." she lied.
"Are you sure?" Naruto questioned. "You disappeared for a moment."
"I'm fine, I promise." Karin said.
"Really." Naruto said.
"H-hai." Karin lied again.
"Well anyway, we should head back home." Naruto said then turned around and walked forward with Karin following behind him.
After a few minutes, Naruto and Karin made it back to the Uzumaki clan compound. They walked over to Minato and Kushina's house.
"Do you want to play outside?" Naruto asked smiling, looking at Karin.
"Hai, but can I talk to Aunt Kushina first?" Karin asked, looking at Naruto.
"Sure, I'll be waiting outside, dattebayo." Naruto said.
"Okay." Karin said.
When they made it Karin walked to the main shoji doors while Naruto decided to play outside with his new mask. Karin slid one of them open with her left hand and stepped in before sliding it closed. She took her sandals off at the door before she walked inside the house more. She sensed Kushina was in the kitchen, she walked towards it. She entered to see Kushina wearing a white apron over her usual outfit and was holding a silver laced over a boiling grey pot.
"Auntie Kushina." Karin said walking into the kitchen.
Kushina turned to the left to see Karin walking towards her.
"Oh hello, Karin." Kushina said smiling.
"Um Auntie Kushina, can I ask you a question?" Karin asked, stopping next to her.
Kushina put down the paddle near the stove. Sure Karin-dear, what is it?" she asked, looking down at her.
Karin looked down for a second before she looked back up at Kushina sadly. "Why were many people on the streets were glaring at me and Oniisan?" she asked.
"Huh?" Kushina asked, shocked and confused.
"When me and Oniisan left the Mask shop, I secretly heard the owner call us 'filthy Uzumakis and we should go back to Uzushiogakure'. And a!so something about the Nine-Tails." Karin said sadly.
Kushina look in shock and sad at what Karin just said, then she sighed sadly as she crouched down in front of her.
"Karin-dear, don't listen to them about that. There are some people in the Hidden Leaf Village who dislike the Uzumaki clan." Kushina said.
"Then why did they mentioned something called the Nine-Tails?" Karin asked.
"Well.. I can't tell you anything about it until you're older." Kushina said sadly.
"B-but A-aunt Kushina..." Karin said sadly but was cut off.
"Until you're older, okay." Kushina said.
Karin looked down sadly. "O-okay." she said.
Kushina suddenly hugged Karin comforting. "Don't worry, I'll tell your Uncle Minato about this." she said.
A few days later.
Day time.
Karin, in her usual outfit, was walking to the Uchiha clan compound. After her mother's sudden death she wanted to found out something about it. She knew she couldn't ask her Aunt Kushina about because she knew she wouldn't answer her questions.
"Mikoto has to know something about Mommy, after all they're friends." Karin thought.
Karin sensed that Sasuke and Itachi weren't in the Uchiha clan compound right now. When she made it to the entrance, she stopped and looked as she was now in front of Tekka, in his usual outfit, and Yashiro, in his usual outfit, who were glaring at down at her.
Karin made a sad face as she looked up and gasped frightened.
Tekka and Yashiro suddenly turned from anger to happy.
"Oh Karin, it's you." Yashiro said smiling.
Karin now made a curious face. "Huh?" she asked.
"Sorry we did that to you." Tekka said.
"I-it's okay." Karin said shyly.
"You can pass." Yashiro said.
Tekka and Yashiro moved out of the way for Karin to pass. Karin slowly walked passed and glanced back once before walking forward to Fugaku and Mikoto's house.
"That's weird why did they glare at me like that?" Karin thought curiously.
It took her a few minutes before she made it to the house, Karin walked up to the shoji doors and softly knocked on one of them a few times with her right hand before she stepped back a little and put her hands together as she waited patiently. She sensed a very familiar chakra coming to the shoji doors, within a moments one of the shoji doors slid open to reveal Mikoto, in her usual outfit and had a yellow apron over it, looking down at her.
"Hello there, Karin." Mikoto greeted smiling.
"Um, hello to you too, Mikoto." Karin greeted back shyly. "Can I please talk to you?"
"Of course you can, please come inside." Mikoto said, moving out of the way to let her in.
Karin stepped inside and took off her sandals at the doors before walking in any further.
Mikoto slid one of the shoji doors closed with her right hand. "I'll go bring us some tea. You can sit on the couch." she said before she walked to the kitchen.
Karin walked over to one of the two couches and sat down on the left side of it. She put her hands together on her lap and curiously looked around the house, seeing the furniture, pictures, and outside of the windows.
After a few minutes, Mikoto came into the living room with 2 beige cups with hot green tea in them.
Mikoto sat on the right side of the couch next to Karin. "Here you go, Karin." she said smiling, handing the a cup with her left hand.
Karin carefully grabbed the cup from Mikoto's left hand with both of her hands and took one sip before holding above her lap, looking down at it.
"So what did you want to talk about Karin?" Mikoto asked.
Karin sighed softly before she turned her head up to the right to look at Mikoto. "W-why d-did s-she d-die?" she whispered, stuttering.
"Huh, what?" Mikoto asked, making a confused face.
"W-why did my Mommy die?" she asked again, a bit louder.
Mikoto suddenly made a sad and shocked face at the question Karin asked her just now.
"Please tell me... I really have to know what happened." Karin said sadly.
Mikoto looked down sadly. "I-I can't tell you that until you're older.." she said.
Karin's eyes widened. "P-please I have to know." she said.
"Sorry, but I can't tell you right now." Mikoto said then looked down at her. "Karin your Mother and Father wouldn't want me, Fugaku, your Uncle Minato, your Aunt Kushina telling you about this kind of stuff at such a young age...T-they would want you to wait until you are older to find out, okay."
Karin looked down sadly. "H-hai." she said then turned forward, tears were forming in her eyes.
Mikoto saw the tears in Karin's and she put her cup down she hugged her comfortingly, making Karin surprised.
"Please don't be sad Karin. No one wants to see you cry anymore." Mikoto said, rubbing her head softly with her right hand.
Karin put her cup down on the table before she hugged Mikoto back, closing her eyes tightly as tears ran down her cheeks.
They stayed like that until Karin opened her eyes as she sensed a very familiar chakra coming to the house. Karin pulled out of the hug and slowly wiped her tears away from under her glasses with right hand.
"Huh, what's wrong Karin?" Mikoto asked concerned.
When Karin was done wiping her eyes she nodded no. "Nothing is wrong." she said.
Suddenly one of the shoji doors slid open to reveal Fugaku, in his flak jacket uniform, a wearing a Konoha flak jacket along with a black with the Konoha Military Police Force symbol (aka the Uchiha crest) on the shoulders, shin-guards, and a black, opened front apron with white diamond on the bottom, stepped in and took off his black sandals at the entrance before stepping in more to see his wife and Karin were staring at him.
"Oh hello Karin." Fugaku greeted closing the door. "What are you doing here?"
"W-well, um-" Karin stuttered, looking down but was cut off.
"She came here to talk to me about something, that's all." Mikoto said.
Karin up at Mikoto then at Fugaku.
"Oh." Fugaku said, stepping into the house more. "Karin."
"Huh?" Karin asked softly.
Fugaku walked over to an entry to exit the living room. "Come with me, I need to speak to you about something." he said and glanced at her before he exited the living room.
Karin thought about it for a moment before she slowly got off of the couch. "Um please excuse me Mikoto." she said softly, bowing before she exited the living room to follow Fugaku.
Mikoto watched as Karin left the living room before she looked down sadly. "Uzume..." she thought.
...
Karin saw Fugaku turn on a light before entering a room down the hallway, she walked through the hallway entered the room where Fugaku entered to see him standing near a dark brown bookshelf, holding a beige rectangular picture frame with both hands. The room was a light green color and had dark brown coffee table on the left side of it and a dark bookshelf. Karin slid the door closed before she walked over to where Fugaku was and stopped on the left side of him.
Karin looked up at Fugaku.
"Me and your father were best friends." Fugaku said. "He always was a great member of the team." then gave the picture frame to Karin. "Look this was taken 3 weeks before our mission."
Karin carefully took the picture frame from Fugaku with both hands and looked down at it closely, it was picture of her father, in his usual outfit, Minato, in past usual outfit, and Fugaku, in his flak jacket uniform, were all smiling. Minato was standing on the right side, Fugaku was standing on the left side, and her father was standing in the middle. Karin made a small smile for a second before it was turned back into a frown.
"Daddy..." Karin thought sadly.
Karin looked at the picture one last time before she slowly gave it back to Fugaku. Fugaku took the picture from Karin with his left hand and placed it on the top shelf of the bookshelf.
"He gave me a power before he died." Fugaku said, looking down at Karin.
"A power?" Karin questioned confused.
"Hai. A power that only an Uchiha can have when they witness the death of someone close to them, it's called the Mangekyou Sharingan." Fugaku explained.
Karin put her hands together near her chest, she was a little scared of the unknown power already but she was happy because her helped Fugaku create the unknown power.
"Do you want to see it?" Fugaku asked Karin.
"H-hai." Karin said softly, nodding.
Fugaku kneeled in front of Karin and closed his eyes and a few seconds later he opened them, revealing that his eyes were now red and black the design was three dots followed by three curves spiralling counter-clockwise around the pupil.
"This is the power your father gave me when he passed away." Fugaku said.
Karin's eyes widened and stepped forward a little as she stared curiously at Fugaku 's eyes, they were really cool.
"They're... amazing..." Karin said astounded.
"There are many designs of the Mangekyou Sharingan." Fugaku said, inactivating his Mangekyou Sharingan.
"Woah..." Karin whispered.
"You must not tell anyone about this." Fugaku said said, standing back up.
"Okay." Karin said, looking up at him.
Fugaku folded his arms together. "So has anything happened to you over the past few weeks?" he asked.
Karin gasped before she looked down at the ground shyly. "W-well a few days ago me and Oniisan were in the Village to go eat at Ichiraku Ramen and the Dango Shop a-and I noticed many people were glaring at us on the streets and the buildings..." she said sadly. "I overheard the store owner said we were 'Filthy Uzumaki and we should go back to Uzushiogakure and something about the Nine-Tails.
Fugaku was angry at what Karin explained at what happened to her in the Village but hid it.
"But... I don't know what we've done to them for people to glare at us like that." Karin said, looking up at Fugaku again.
"I'm sorry that has to you and your cousin were." Fugaku said.
"It's okay... my Aunt Kushina said that I shouldn't listen to them." Karin said smiling sadly.
Fugaku put his right hand on Karin's left shoulder. "You won't have to worry about that problem anymore it will be over soon." he said.
"Huh, what do you mean?" Karin asked confused.
"You'll see." Fugaku said as took his right hand off of Karin's left shoulder.
Karin gasped as she suddenly sensed Itachi and Sasuke were coming to the house, which was a bad thing right now because she didn't she want Sasuke to see her here.
"What's wrong?" Fugaku asked her.
"N-nothing, I have go home to do something right now. Goodbye." Karin said then bowed to Fugaku before walking to the exit and slid the door open with her right hand and stepped out before sliding the door closed.
Karin walked down the hallway and back into the living room to see that Mikoto was no longer inside. She heard water running in the kitchen and sensed Mikoto's chakra in there as well. She quietly walked over to the shoji doors and put her sandals back on before she one of the doors open with her right hand and stepped outside before slowly sliding one of them closed. Karin ran as she hid quickly behind a nearby house as she sensed Itachi's and Sasuke's chakras were rapidly approaching.
Karin waited for awhile before she sensed Itachi's and Sasuke's chakras were now walking towards their house. She poked her head out to see Itachi, wearing a Konoha Anbu flak jacket uniform, a high collared short sleeved grey shirt, black pants with a dark blue shuriken holster strapped to the left side of his legs and a beige pouch on the back, a grey flak jacket with a grey sword strapped on his back, white tape tied to the bottom part of his legs, grey metal arm guards and gloves, his Konohagakure forehead protector, and grey sandals, and Sasuke, wearing an almost identical Konoha Anbu uniform to Itachi, a high collared short sleeved grey shirt, a grey flak jacket with a red arrow quiver on the that was filled with arrows, black pants with a light brown pouch on the back of it, white tape tied to the bottom part of his legs, black arm warmers, and dark blue sandals. She also noticed that Sasuke was holding a red bow in his left hand.
Karin's eyes widened as she stared at Sasuke in admiration. "H-he looks... really... amazing..." she thought lightly blushing.
After a moment, Karin blushed furiously and closed her eyes before she shook her head. She opened her eyes as she stopped and put her right hand near her chest, looking down.
"Huh? Why would I think that way of Sasuke?! We're just friends." Karin thought then she stopped blushing and looked where Sasuke was at.
Sasuke was smiling as he was talking to Itachi about something.
"But... still.. h-he does look... incredible..." Karin thought smiling shyly and blushing lightly. She shook her head again to snap herself out of it. "I-I should go home..." she took one more glance at Sasuke, who was almost to their house with Itachi, before she quietly ran.
...
"Let me put something away before we start training." Itachi said.
"Hai, Niisan." Sasuke said nodding.
Itachi and Sasuke made it to their house. As Itachi slid the shoji doors open with his left hand, Sasuke turned to a building as he thought he felt someone was hiding there.
"Sasuke?" Itachi asked.
Sasuke snapped out of his thoughts and looked up at Itachi.
"Is something wrong?" Itachi asked.
"No, I thought someone was hiding behind that house." Sasuke said. "Just my imagination."
Itachi stepped inside then Sasuke.
"We're home!" Itachi said.
Mikoto came from the kitchen and smiled at her 2 sons. "Welcome back Itachi, Sasuke." she said.
After a few seconds, Fugaku came in with his arms folded.
"Dear?" Mikoto asked, making a curious face.
"Hmm?" Fugaku asked, looking at her.
"Where's Karin? I don't see her with you." Mikoto questioned.
Sasuke's eyes widened at what their mother just asked. "Karin... was here?" he thought.
"Oh she left recently. She said she has to go back home to do something." Fugaku said.
"So.. I wasn't imagining it.. she must have been the one at the building..." Sasuke thought then put his bow down on the right side of the entrance. "Niisan."
Itachi turned to the right to look down at Sasuke. "Yes." he said.
Sasuke took off his arrow quiver and placed it next to his bow. "Can you meet me at the training grounds in a minute? I have to talk to Karin first." he said.
"Sure." Itachi said.
"I'll be right back." Sasuke said before he ran out of the door to find Karin.
...
Karin was almost 50 feet away from the Uchiha clan compound and was now walking back to the Uzumaki clan compound.
"M-maybe I shouldn't have left early like that.. we've known each other since we were infants..." Karin thought.
Karin suddenly stopped as she sensed Sasuke's chakra was quickly coming to her direction.
"Karin!" a boy's voice yelled.
Karin turned around to see Sasuke running towards her.
"Karin wait!" Sasuke yelled.
"S-sasuke." Karin whispered.
Karin waited for Sasuke to catch up to her. Within 15 seconds, Sasuke was now close to Karin.
"Why did you come without telling me, Karin?" Sasuke asked.
Karin put her hands together near her chest and looked down. "U-um, I-I'm so sorry Sasuke but I was there to talk to your Mom about my Mommy and you were busy with Itachi today I didn't want to bother you." she said shyly.
Sasuke rarely spent anytime with Itachi because of his work in the Anbu Black Ops. So he and Karin would spend time together.
"You don't have to apologize Karin, it was important to you to find more out about your Mother. I can help you next time, okay." Sasuke said smiling. "It would've been great for you to help me and Oniisan."
"H-hai." Karin said blushing softly as her was a little open. "Sasuke... you are very nice..." she thought.
...
6 days later.
Daytime.
Academy.
Iruka and his class were standing outside on a clear dirt area that had a large white circle on it and there was a fence that was between it and one of the Academic sections of the Academy that was a white building. Iruka was holding a brown clipboard with his left hand.
Karin was standing beside Sasuke, in his usual outfit, on the left side while Naruto decided to look for strong opponents on the far left of them. Most of the students were wondering what Iruka was going to teach them next.
"Okay kids, you all are going to learn how to spar with one another." Iruka said, turned to face them. "It's a tradition and it matters, listen carefully." he held up 2 fingers from his right hand. "First you always face and make this one handed sign toward your opponent before starting, it represents half of the 2 hands use to activate a jutsu and indicates your intention to fight. Now we call this the 'Spar Sign'. When you finish sparing and the battle is concluded you each extend forth the 'Unison Sign' and lock your fingers around each other's, this indicates that you recognize as comrades. That's the etiquette of Shinobi hand-to-hand combat." then put his right hand down. "I call 2 students name's and you spar with each, everyone will get to fight more 4 times."
Karin heard every word that Iruka explained to them and looked to the left to see Naruto had a bored expression on his face then turned forward.
"B-but... I-I don't want to fight anyone... especially not Oniisan and Sasuke..." Karin thought sadly.
Iruka raised up his clipboard and looked at it. "The first ones are Ino Yamanaka and Hinata Hyuga." he said then looked up. "You 2 step forward."
Ino, in her usual outfit, and Hinata, in her usual outfit, stepped forward from where they were standing. Ino was on the left side and Hinata was on the right side. Ino glanced at Sasuke before her and Hinata raise their right hands and make the 'Spar Sign' before pulling away.
"Begin!" Iruka yelled.
Ino ran over to Hinata and raised left hand as she was preparing to hit her. But Hinata dodged it and did a move on Ino, who fell down to the ground, that most of them didn't recognize.
Sasuke turned his head towards Karin. "Karin." he said.
"Y-yes." Karin said shyly.
"Do you know what kind of move is Hinata doing?" Sasuke asked.
"It's called Gentle Fist. It is a form of hand-to-hand combat used by members of the Hyūga clan." Karin explained.
"Oh." Sasuke said then he turned forward.
Karin turned forward and began watching the sparing match again.
Ino got up and dusted herself off before she looked at Hinata.
"You may have skills but you're no match for me." Ino said then ran to Hinata again.
Most of the students which included Sakura cheered for Ino to win while only Naruto and Kiba cheered for Hinata.
"You can do this Hinata." Karin thought.
Hinata used gentle fist again only for Ino to dodge all of the attacks. Ino dodged again before she used her right foot to trip both of Hinata's legs, making her fall to the ground with a thud. Ino was about to attack her on the ground when Hinata gasped and shielded herself with her arms, causing Ino to stop midway.
"Stop!" Iruka yelled.
Ino crouched down and gave Hinata her right hand. "Come on, let me help you up." she said.
Hinata unshielded herself and looked at Ino's right hand before she slowly raised her left hand and carefully grabbed it. Ino lifted Hinata up from the ground and let go of her hand.
"Now you 2 make the 'Unison Sign'." Iruka said.
Ino and Hinata both held their index and middle finger from their right hand before they linked them together to make the 'Unison Sign' before pulling them away. Ino and Hinata left and returned to where they were standing.
"Unison Sign complete." Iruka said then looked at his clipboard again. "Next up is Sasuke Uchiha and.. Karin Uzumaki, step forward you 2." he said.
"W-w-what?" Karin thought shocked. "B-but I-I don't want to fight him or anyone else."
"Step forward you 2." Iruka said, looking up from his clipboard.
Sasuke and Karin walked up and with Sasuke standing on the right and Karin was standing on the left. Most of the girls cheered for Sasuke to win and defeat Karin. While Naruto was the only one cheering for Karin defeat Sasuke.
"Now make the 'Spar Sign'." Iruka said.
Sasuke and Karin raise their left hands and make the 'Spar Sign'.
"Begin!" Iruka yelled.
"U-um Iruka-sensei." Karin said turning her head towards him, shyly.
"Yes Karin." Iruka said.
"W-well I-I-" Karin said shyly but was cut off when Sasuke suddenly spoke.
"I forfeit." Sasuke said.
Everyone looked at Sasuke in shocked. The girls that were cheering for him were really shocked at this.
"I don't want to fight Karin and she doesn't want to me either." Sasuke said.
"S-sasuke." Karin thought.
Iruka sighed. "Make the 'Unison Sign'." he said.
Sasuke and Karin slowly stepped forward, he extended his left index and middle fingers while Karin shyly extended hers. Karin was blushed lightly when her and Sasuke's left hands touched. When they were finished they both walked back to where they were standing. Most of the girls were now glaring at Karin, making her cower away from Sasuke a little.
Iruka continued to call 2 students each to spar with each other. First it was 4 random students, next it was Naruto vs Choji which resulted in Choji winning, Kiba vs Ino which resulted in Ino winning, Sasuke vs Shikamaru which resulted in Sasuke winning, and Kiba vs Shino which resulted in Shino winning.
Iruka looked at his clipboard again. "Alright, next up is Naruto Uzumaki." he said.
"Yes, dattebayo!" Naruto yelled.
".. And Karin Uzumaki." Iruka finished.
"What?" Naruto asked confused.
"Huh?" Karin gasped softly, surprised at what Iruka just said.
Karin suddenly heard whispers from some of the students now, saying that 'brother and sister have to fight each other', this is interesting to see them fight', and others.
"Step forward you 2." Iruka said, looking up from his clipboard.
Naruto and Karin slowly stepped forward, he stood on the right side while she stood on the left side. Karin put her hands together near her chest, looking sadly at Naruto, while Naruto looked at Karin with worried eyes. Everyone was silent as they watched.
"Now make the 'Spar Sign'." Iruka said.
Naruto extended his right index and middle fingers while Karin shyly extended her index and middle fingers.
"Begin!" Iruka yelled.
"O-oniisan... I don't want to fight you..." Karin thought.
Naruto looked down and closed his eyes. "Iruka-sensei." he said.
"What is it?" Iruka asked, looking at him.
"I'm not fighting my sister." Naruto said then opened his eyes.
Most of the students were surprised because Naruto wouldn't back down from a fight even if he lost previously in one.
"So this means you forfeit." Iruka said.
"Hai." Naruto said.
Iruka looked and sighed. "Make the 'Unison Sign'." he said.
Naruto and Karin slowly stepped forward, he extended his left index and middle fingers while Karin shyly extended hers as well. When they were done they walked back to the spot they were standing previously.
Iruka started to call more students to spar with one another. Next up was Sakura vs Hinata which resulted in Sakura winning, 1 random male student vs 1 random female student which resulted in the random female student winning, Choji vs Shikamaru which resulted with Shikamaru forfeiting and Choji not wanting to fight Shikamaru, Shino vs Ino which resulted in Shino winning, Sasuke vs Naruto which resulted in Sasuke winning easily, Ino vs Sakura which resulted in Ino winning easily.
"Next up is Sakura Haruno..." Iruka said, looking at his clipboard again.
"Again already." Sakura said.
"And Karin Uzumaki." Iruka said then looked up from his clipboard.
"Oh no... not again..." Karin thought.
"Step forward you 2 and make the 'Spar Sign'." Iruka said.
Karin and Sakura stepped forward, Sakura stood on the left side while Karin stood on the right side. Sakura extended her right index and middle fingers while Karin shyly extended her index and middle fingers.
"Begin!" Iruka yelled.
Sakura ran over to Karin and prepared to punch her with her right fist. Karin gasped and quickly dodged Sakura's attacked and landed on the far left side. Sakura turned her head towards Karin and ran after her as she prepared to kick her with her left leg. Karin kept dodging as Sakura was now trying to punch her.
Some of the girls (especially Ino) was cheering for Sakura to win. While only Naruto cheering for Karin.
Karin stopped and stood still as Sakura was standing a few feet from her. Sakura ran at Karin again to hit her with her right hand. Karin watched Sakura came at her, she instantly became frightened before she crouched down to the ground and covered her face. Sakura stopped in front of Karin and looked down at her as she lowered her hands to her sides.
"Stop!" Iruka yelled.
Sakura backed away from Karin and looked at Iruka.
"That's enough." Iruka said. "Make the 'Unison Sign'."
Karin slowly stood up and extended her left index and middle fingers as Sakura did the same. When they were done they headed back to where they were standing previously.
30 minutes later.
"Okay that's enough sparing, we'll continue some other time." Iruka said. "Let's head back to the classroom."
"Yes, Sensei." Most of the students said as they started walking to a light grey building.
"Karin." Iruka said.
Karin stopped walking and looked at Iruka. "Y-yes." she said shyly.
"I need to speak with you for a moment." Iruka said.
"O-okay." Karin said shyly.
"I'll wait for you at the desk." Sasuke said.
"H-hai." Karin said shyly, blushing furiously.
Sasuke then walked away with the other students. Karin walked over to where Iruka was standing at and was now in front of him, looking up at him.
"Karin." Iruka said, looking down at her. "Why do you refuse to attack anyone when sparing?"
Karin looked down. "Well... I don't want to hurt anyone.." she said.
Iruka sighed before he crouched down to Karin's height. "You're going to have to fight soon, because in a few years you'll become a ninja and you'll have to fight to protect yourself and your team mates." he said.
Karin looked at Iruka again.
"Your family and other people you care about won't be there to protect you from danger forever." Iruka said.
Karin's eyes widened as she was now sad at what Iruka just said to her.
Iruka stood up. "Let's head back to the classroom with the other students. I have another lesson to teach." he said before he turned around and walking to the building.
Karin stared at Iruka as he was walking away before she looked down at the ground sadly before tears formed in her eyes, running down her face.
1 week later.
Night time.
Karin was walking down the upper hallway of her house, looking down sadly. She was thinking about what Iruka said to her a few days ago.
Flashback.
"Your family and other people you care about won't be there to protect you from danger forever." Iruka said.
Flashback ends.
"Mommy and Daddy were great and powerful ninjas when they were still alive... I'll never become a ninja like they were..." Karin thought as she stopped.
Karin suddenly looked up and turned to the left as she noticed that she was in front of her parents room. She stared at the closed door in shock as she hasn't been in the room since her mother passed away.
As Karin continued to walk through the room she stepped the wooden floor with her left foot and she suddenly heard a loud squeak. She looked down and noticed the wooden floor was lighter, she pressed her left foot on the wooden floor again and it squeak loudly than before.
"That's strange.. the floor wasn't like this before.." she thought.
Karin crouched down on the floor and carefully lifted the wooden board out of place and set it down next to her on the right and looked to see 2 scrolls inside, one was brown and dark brown and one was beige. She picked the brown one with her left hand and the beige one with her right hand, the brown was in her father's signature and the beige was in her mother's signature.
Karin noticed that the brown read 'To Fugaku, from Ryou' and the beige one read 'To Mikoto, from Uzume'.
"Why would Mommy and Daddy hide these scrolls.. if they wanted to give it to Fugaku and Mikoto...?" Karin thought confused. "I should deliver these to them."
Karin put both the bscrolls down next to her before she placed the wooden board back on the floor and picked the scrolls up with both hands and stood up before she walked out of parents room. She walked down the hallway, the stairs, and into the living room. She walked over to the pictures of her mother and father on the table and bowed to them.
"I'm off, Mommy.. Daddy.." Karin said then stopped bowing.
Karin walked over to the main shoji doors and put on her sandals before she slid opened one of the doors with her right hand and stepped out and closed it behind her. She started walking to the Uchiha clan compound, it took her almost 15 minutes but she made it. She noticed something strange was going on, she didn't sense Tekka and Yashiro at the front gate. She stopped and looked around.
"I wonder why no one is here?" Karin said to herself curiously.
Karin suddenly sensed all of the Uchihas except (Sasuke and other young Uchiha children) were gathered in a place nearby. She decided to walk there to see what's going on. When she made there she saw most of the Uchihas were walking from the Naka shrine, a large brown and red building with a large red gate that had the Uchiha crest on it, near it, and were walking down the grey concrete stairs.
Karin stopped a few feet from the stairs and almost immediately spotted Fugaku and Mikoto walking down the stairs.
"Why did they gather in the Naka Shrine?" Karin thought curiously.
The Uchihas stopped and looked at Karin, who was staring back at them. Fugaku and Mikoto ran over to Karin and stopped right in front of her.
"Karin what you doing here?" Fugaku asked.
"I-I'm sorry, I just wanted to give you 2 these scrolls that Mommy and Daddy forgot to give to you." Karin said sadly then showed them the scrolls.
"Huh?" Fugaku questioned.
"What?" Mikoto questioned.
Fugaku and Mikoto looked down at the scrolls in shock and curiosity. They slowly took the scrolls from Karin's hands that was addressed to them and unfolded them and looked before they started reading them. Their eyes looked at all the words as they read through them and looked at one another's. When Fugaku and Mikoto were done reading they folded the scrolls and looked down at Karin sadly.
"So... what did the scrolls say?" Karin asked curiously.
Mikoto crouched down in front of Karin. "I'm sorry sweetie... but we'll have to tell you when you're older..." she said putting both her hands on Karin's shoulders.
"B-but-" Karin said sadly but she was cut off.
"We will tell you that it is about the peace and friendship with them and the village." Mikoto said smiling sadly.
Suddenly 2 members of the Uchiha clan, the man looked to be in his late 40's and had tan skin, short cropped grey hair, his eyes were closed but had charcoal black eyes, wearing a beige-coloured long-sleeved kimono shirt, a beige-coloured pair of pants and brown sandals, and a woman who looked to be in her late 40's and had fair skin, black hair tied in a knot on top of her head with bangs framing her face, charcoal black eyes, wearing a brown full body dress with a white long sleeved shirt underneath, and beige sandals walked over to them. Their names were Teyaki and Uruchi Uchiha.
"Um, Fugaku-sama." Teyaki said, when both he and his wife made it to them.
Fugaku, Mikoto, and Karin turned to Teyaki and Uruchi.
"What is it?" Fugaku asked, folding his arms.
"We need to talk to you and Mikoto-sama." Teyaki said.
Fugaku and Mikoto turned and looked back at Karin.
"I'm so sorry about this Karin, but you have to go back home now." Mikoto said sadly.
Karin looked at Fugaku and Mikoto. "H-hai." she said, looking down.
"You can come back some other time." Mikoto said, taking her hands off of Karin's shoulders.
Karin turned around and started walking, she suddenly thought the Uchiha clan coming out of the Naka Shrine was suspicious. The Uzumaki clan of course had meetings discussing information but not like that.
"Why were they surprised to see me?" Karin thought. "Everything is strange right now."
Karin noticed that many people in the Konohagakure were shunning the Uchiha clan and the Uzumaki clan. The Uzumaki clan were doing peaceful solutions about it, but the Uchiha clan not so much, both clans were helping each other with this problem so nothing would result in anything worse. But she didn't get any answers from her Aunt, Uncle, or any adult in the 2 clans and she wasn't going to ask Itachi about it.
"I wonder why they won't tell me the truth?" Karin thought, looking back at Mikoto and Fugaku.
1 month later.
Night time.
Karin was walking back to the Uzumaki clan compound after watching Sasuke and Naruto train with their shurikens and went to the Dango Shop by herself while Sasuke went home and Naruto went with Kushina to the Hokage Mansion to talk about something. She was thinking about all of the events that has happened over the past few weeks. After she gave the scrolls to Fugaku and Mikoto, the Uchiha clan had calmed down and Konohagakure's treatment on the Uchiha clan and the Uzumaki clan has lessened over time. She also sensed that some of the Uchihas clan's chakras disappearing as well.
"Many strange things are happening all of a sudden." Karin thought. "I wonder why they are?"
Karin stopped in her tracks as her eyes were widening as she suddenly sensed chakras were disappearing by the second. She looked into the location the many chakras disappeared, which was in the Uzumaki clan compound.
"W-w-what? W-what's happening?" Karin thought shocked and scared.
Karin noticed the chakras that was making other chakras disappear was very familiar.
"N-no... I-it can't be... h-him." Karin whispered, shocked.
Karin quickly ran to the Uzumaki clan compound to see what's happening for herself. It took her a few minutes, when she made it a foot inside of the Uzumaki clan, she stopped in her tracks and looked in horror at the dead bodies on the ground, shurikens and kunais were either on the buildings or in the people. She put her hands over her mouth and started to cry before she sensed more chakras disappear further ahead of her.
Karin slowly stepped forward while she sadly looked down her clan's lifeless bodies. As she made it to the location where the chakras were disappearing now, she looked up to see Itachi, in his Anbu uniform, was killing a Uzumaki man in near the house with his sword in his right hand. The man fell lifeless on the ground when Itachi pulled his sword back, blood puddled around the dead man.
Karin watched the whole thing, it scared her and gasped. Itachi heard the gasp and looked to see Karin standing almost 6 feet away from him, looking at him shock, scared, and sad and having both her hands over her mouth. Karin looked into Itachi's eyes and saw that they were black and red designed in, three black spiralling curves around the pupil, they were cold. Itachi faced his body towards Karin.
"T-that must be his mangekyou sharingan Fugaku explained to me weeks ago..." Karin thought.
Karin slowly took her hands from over her mouth and put them together near her chest, she sadly looked down at all of the dead bodies before she looked at him again.
"I-itachi... w-why did you kill them...?" Karin whispered sadly to him then she closed her eyes. "J-just why? The Uchiha clan and the Uzumaki clan have been close allies.. for generations..."
Itachi reached into his pouch with his left hand and pulled out a shuriken.
Karin slowly opened her eyes again. "... I-I just don't know why would you do something like thi-" she stopped and her eyes widened when she saw Itachi threw a shuriken at her.
The shuriken flew past her on the right side and landed on a house behind her. She suddenly felt a sting and something wet slide down the right side of her face. She put slowly put her right hand on her right cheek and looked down at it to see blood on it. She looked at Itachi in shock.
"You really are foolish like my little brother and our 2 clans." Itachi said cold and harshly.
"Huh? S-sasuke.. did he do something to him...?" Karin thought worriedly.
"W-what did you do to Sasuke?" Karin said sadly and worriedly.
"He's unconscious right now..." Itachi said.
Karin was relieved to hear that but she didn't show it.
"He'll be dead soon just like you will be." Itachi said.
Karin backed away a little in fright.
"But let me show you something before I kill you." Itachi said before his eyes widened at Karin. "You'll be joining some of the others soon."
"Wait?! Others...? So that means some of the clan are still... alive..." Karin thought.
Karin suddenly felt this wave of energy and the scene change to the people that Itachi killed was alive again and the background was red and everyone was doing what they usually do. She wanted to warn them.
"Everyone please hide! Itachi going to kill you!" Karin yelled.
The people still continued what they did.
"Please listen!" Karin yelled.
But the people still continued what they did.
"They couldn't.. hear me.. They can't even see me either..." Karin thought. "... And why can't I move my legs...?" she moved but nothing.
Karin saw Itachi was standing behind one of the men before he raised his sword with his right hand and struck him down. She gasped loudly as she was horrified at this as she saw blood splatter on one of the houses and ground then she saw Itachi kill more people, she tried to cover her eyes but her hands couldn't move. Tears welled up in her eyes as she watched sadly.
"Please stop it Itachi, I don't want to see anymore!" Karin thought.
Sasuke appeared in front of her, making Karin even more sad.
"No, please no!" Karin yelled.
Sasuke fell lifeless near her, Karin's eyes widened at this as sadness built up inside of her. Karin yelled loudly as she closed her eyes, tears running down her cheeks as she covered her face with her hands, she fell to her knees. She felt the wave of energy leave and heard footsteps, she removed her hands a little from her face as she saw Itachi walking towards with the sword still in his right hand. She got up and ran to get away from Itachi, she turned a corner to get to the Uzumaki clan compound entrance. She quickly suppressed her chakra just in case Itachi can sense her.
"I don't want to die! I have to find Uncle Minato quickly!" Karin thought.
As Karin was almost to the entrance she stopped in her tracks when she saw Itachi step out from the shadows was now in front of the entrance.
"He's... really fast..." Karin thought.
Karin looked to the left and to the right and she that the right leads to the forest, she ran in that direction and within seconds she was running through the trees.
"I have to get away from him... but he's too fast..." Karin thought.
Once again, Karin stopped in her tracks as Itachi was standing a few feet away from her. Itachi began to walk towards her again and Karin fell to her knees again and looked sadly at him as he approached her.
"Is this... the end for me..?" Karin thought then looked down. "Mommy.. Daddy, I'll see you soon..."
Itachi was now in front of Karin and raised his sword with his right hand. Karin closed her eyes as she waited for the sword to strike her. She suddenly heard footsteps and felt herself being picked up bridal style before she felt the person jump high. She slowly opened her eyes to see Sasuke was holding her bridal style and was hoping from tree to tree.
"S-sasuke." Karin whispered.
Sasuke looked at her worried. "Sorry I almost didn't come in time, but I'm glad that Itachi didn't kill you." he said then turned forward.
Karin stared at Sasuke in curiosity for a moment before she noticed that the top of Sasuke's left sleeve was ripped and so was some of his skin and his clothes were a little dirty. She was about to tell Sasuke about when she suddenly looked up and Itachi was above them.
"S-sasuke, Itachi is above us..." Karin whispered then wrapped her around his waist.
Sasuke looked up and glared at Itachi and looked back down at Karin, who now has her head buried in his chest and was whimpering in fear. He hated to see Karin sad and scared at what Itachi has done to both of their clans, he moved out of the way when Itachi threw a shuriken at them and landed on the ground near a tree. Sasuke thought about something before he looked down at Karin.
"Karin." Sasuke said.
Karin looked up from Sasuke's shirt. "Y-yes, Sasuke?" she asked.
"I'll be right back. You have to stay here." Sasuke said.
"B-but, Sasuke. Please don't go, I'm scared." Karin said tears welling up in her eyes as she clutched Sasuke's shirt more.
"I promise I'll be back. Itachi will still try to kill us." Sasuke said.
"P-please don't go." Karin whispered sadly.
Sasuke looked forward and saw Itachi was walking away from them and back at Karin again.
"I'm sorry, Karin... but I have to do this..." Sasuke said, closing his eyes.
Sasuke carefully placed Karin next to a tree and looked at her one last time. "I'll be right back." he said then ran towards Itachi.
"S-sasuke." Karin whispered crying as she put her right hand. "P-please... please come back..."
Karin watched Sasuke made it over to where Itachi was and both Itachi and Sasuke disappeared. Karin unsuppressed her chakra as she wanted to make sure that Sasuke was still alive, she sensed that they were almost far away. She rolled up into a ball as she cried even.
"I've lost... my Daddy.. my Mommy.. and now s-some of the Uchiha and Uzumaki clan members... I don't want to lose anyone else..." Karin thought sadly, closing her eyes.
10 minutes have passed and Sasuke wasn't back yet from going after Itachi. Karin was even more worried than before.
"S-sasuke.. please be okay..." Karin thought.
In a matter of seconds, Karin suddenly opened her eyes as she sensed Sasuke was coming back to her location and Itachi was leaving the village. She looked to the location where Sasuke was coming from to see that he was slowly walking back with his eyes closed. She noticed immediately that something was wrong with Sasuke, his clothes were slightly more dirtier, he was panting while holding his left arm, and his chakra had decreased.
"W-what did.. what did Itachi do to him..?" Karin thought.
When Sasuke made it over to Karin, he crouched down in front of her.
"S-sasuke.. are you alright?" Karin asked worried.
Sasuke smiled softly. "I'm fine.. I'm just glad you're alright." he said opening his eyes.
Karin's eyes widened as she gasped in shock as she looked into Sasuke's eyes, they were black and red. "S-sasuke... your eyes." she whispered.
The design of Sasuke's eyes were mostly red with a small black dot and one tomoe in each one of his eyes.
"Huh, my eyes?" Sasuke asked, confused.
"I think.. you've activated your Sharingan..." Karin said.
Sasuke raised his left hand and was about to touch the upper part of his face until he closed his eyes as he grunted in pain.
"Sasuke!" Karin said worriedly.
Sasuke continued to grunt in pain then seconds later he fainted and his landed on Karin. Karin grabbed him and softly hugged Sasuke's unconscious body.
"Sasuke... Sasuke, please wake up..." Karin said, shaking him a little.
Sasuke was still conscious. Karin closed her eyes and started to cry again.
"Why... why are these things happening...?" Karin thought.
"Karin!" a woman's voice called.
Karin opened her eyes as she sensed many familiar chakras nearby which 3 of them included Fugaku, Mikoto, and her Uncle Minato, Aunt Kushina, and Naruto.
"They're finally... here.." Karin whispered to herself.
Karin tried to get up while still holding Sasuke only to find herself back on the ground again.
"W-w-what?" Karin thought shocked.
Karin suddenly felt her chakra decreasing rapidly.
"It... must have been... from that technique... Itachi placed on me... before..." Karin thought weakly.
Karin felt her eyes were getting heavier as she was going unconscious, she still heard her name being called. Before she knew it she was unconscious with Sasuke.
Karin softly groaned as she opened her eyes and saw darkness, she looked around and only saw more darkness.
"Where.. where am I?" Karin thought.
"You're nowhere." a male voice said.
Karin's eyes widened and she felt her heart stop as she immediately recognized the voice. She turned around to see Itachi, in his Anbu uniform, with his Mangekyou Sharingan on.
"H-hai... you left the village..." Karin said scared.
"I came back to kill you and the rest of our 2 clans." Itachi said.
Karin gasped as she took a step backwards. Itachi pulled out out his sword with his right hand before he walked over to Karin. As Karin stepped back more in fear she suddenly couldn't move.
"I-I can't move..." Karin thought.
"I've already placed you under my genjutsu." Itachi said. "This way you can't run."
Karin continued to struggle to move but nothing, she watched as Itachi walked closer to her. She felt her eyes welled up with tears as she looked sad and scared at Itachi.
Itachi was now in front of Karin. "This is the end for you." he said before he raised his sword.
Karin closed her eyes tightly as tears continued to run down her face, waiting for Itachi to swing his sword at her.
"Karin!" a male voice yelled.
"Karin!" another male voice yelled.
"H-huh?" Karin asked, squinting her eyes open. "O-oniisan... S-sasuke..." she whispered.
Before Itachi could strike Karin with his sword at Karin, a bright white light appeared.
Karin slowly opened her eyes as she now noticed she was lying on a hospital bed. She moved her eyes around to see Naruto and Sasuke were on the left side of her and Fugaku, Mikoto, Minato, and Kushina were on the right side of her. It was Daytime again.
"Karin, thank goodness you're awake." Kushina said smiling.
"We're so worried about you, dattebayo." Naruto said.
"It was... all a dream..." Karin thought.
Karin slowly moved her head to the right to see Kushina were slightly red eyed to her crying. Karin could feel a bandage on the right side of her cheek then she suddenly remembered what happened last night with Itachi. Karin almost immediately raised the her top self up and looked around.
"Please stay in bed, you have to rest." Kushina said holding her down.
"B-but, h-he's.." Karin said sadly but was cut off.
"Itachi is.. longer in the Konoha." Kushina said.
Karin stopped struggling and sat on the bed and looked at Fugaku and Mikoto sadly when Kushina released her.
"Why did... why did Itachi do this...?" Karin said sadly.
Fugaku and Mikoto looked down sadly at ground before they looked at Karin again.
"We're so sorry that Itachi did this to you." Mikoto said sadly. "We didn't know that he was going to do something terrible like this to both of our clans."
When Mikoto told her that, Karin looked down as she felt tears were forming in her eyes. She slowly got of the bed despite the protest from Minato, Kushina, and Mikoto. She put on her sandals and walked over to the door and looked up at Fugaku, Mikoto, Minato, and Kushina again.
Karin was about to say something but stopped herself, instead she looked at the door and raised her left hand slide one of the hospital shoji doors open then stepped out before she let go of it then walked down the hallway on the right. She stepped a few feet away before running off.
"Hey Karin wait up!" Naruto yelled.
Naruto and Sasuke ran out of the door and followed after Karin. Fugaku, Mikoto, Minato, and Kushina decided to stay behind.
"We're sorry that Itachi did all of this." Fugaku said. "If only we knew something like this was going to happen, we would have stopped it before it could happen."
"Half of the Uzumaki clan and also the Uchiha clan have been been killed last night. It's really tragic." Minato said sadly, closing his eyes.
"What should we do?" Kushina asked.
...
Karin ran up to the roof and stopped at the entrance to pant a little before she walked over to the green metal chain link fence and looked down at the buildings sadly.
"They said... everything is going to be alright... but that was a lie..." Karin thought. "I don't even know what's going to happen next..."
Karin suddenly sensed Naruto and Sasuke were now standing a few feet away from her, she continued to stand still and look down at the buildings sadly.
"Karin, why did you came up to the roof?" Naruto asked.
Karin didn't say anything.
"Dad said that they're tracking Itachi down right now." Naruto said.
Karin raised her head up and slowly turned around to face Naruto and Sasuke.
"We're always here with you, Karin." Sasuke said.
Karin walked over to Naruto and Sasuke and hugged them both in her arms with Sasuke on the left side and Naruto on the right side, she started crying again. Naruto and Sasuke comforted Karin as she cried into one of their shoulders.
...
2 days later.
Morning.
Academy.
Karin was sitting quietly and staring down at her desk with Sasuke sitting beside her in his seat. Sasuke had his hands in his usual way, elbows on the desk and fingers tangled together. Other than the 2 of them barely anyone was in the classroom since it doesn't start until an hour. Shikamaru and Choji were sitting ahead of them talking while 2 boys sat at the back of them. Karin decided to head early than her usual time to the Academy because she didn't want to run into Naruto right now, she wanted to think more, and Uzumaki clan compound keeps reminding her of happened days ago. She suddenly sensed Naruto and started listening to Shikamaru and Choji conversation.
"Hey, Shikamaru. Do you want to go to the Candy Store with me after class?" Choji asked.
"Na. No way." Shikamaru said, shaking his head. "I mean if you get caught you'll be okay because your Mom is nice. But if Mom found out that I had a snack before dinner and ruin my appetit, boy would I ever get it."
Karin closed her eyes as she became more sad, wishing her mother was still aalive along with her father. She heard the class shoji doors slid open, knowing it's Naruto. She suddenly heard the 2 boys at the back of her whispering.
"Hey. Did you hear that half of the Uchiha and Uzumaki clan were killed?" one boy asked.
Karin opened eyes she listened more on the whispering.
"Yeah I heard my father talking about it awhile ago." the second boy said. "The village is now on high alert."
Karin became sadder and sadder as they whispered more about Uchiha clan and Uzumaki clan. Not wanting to hear more of what the boys were saying, Karin quickly rose from her seat and walked up the stairs, passing Naruto and walked over to the classroom shoji doors and slid one of them open with her left hand and stepped out before sliding one of them closed.
Naruto could go after Karin, Sasuke rosed from his seat and walked up the other stairs and walked over to the classroom shoji doors and slid one of them with his left hand and stepped before sliding it closed. Naruto would go after Karin, but he didn't see what the dead bodies and whatever Itachi showed or did to them, he wishes that she would be okay in the future.
...
Karin was walking through one of the hallways with her head looking down at the ground until she made it to a nearby closet and twisted it opened with her right hand and entered the small dark room, the only light was shown was at the bottom of the door, and she closed the door behind her. She sat down in the middle of the floor and starting crying silently as she put her hands over her face and glasses.
"I don't... want to hear more about it... it makes me sad..." Karin thought sadly. "I... shouldn't have come back..." more tears streamed down face.
As Karin continued to cry she suddenly heard footsteps coming towards the closet, immediately knowing who it was. Within seconds, the door twisted open to reveal Sasuke looking down at her worriedly. She uncovered her hands from her face and looked up at him sadly.
"S-sasuke.." Karin whispered.
Sasuke closed the door behind him with his left hand and sat down on the floor next to Karin and hugged her comfortingly.
"I'm here, Karin. You don't have to cry anymore." Sasuke said. "I know what you're going through, because I faced Itachi before he faced you and don't listen to what they said, just ignore them."
Karin closed her eyes as she felt more tears streamed down her face as she hugged Sasuke back, her face in his left shoulder. Sasuke softly rubbed Karin's back with his right hand.
"M-my Daddy... m-my Mommy... and now half of our clans..." Karin said whimpering. "I... don't want to lose anyone else..."
"You're not going to lose anyone else." Sasuke said.
Karin opened her eyes and pulled back a little from the hug to look at Sasuke's face.
"What do mean?" Karin asked confused.
"They will be fine because they're strong and Itachi won't be coming back anytime soon." Sasuke said. "And when he returns I'll get revenge on him for what he did so he won't hurt anymore innocent people and most of all you."
"Y-you really.. mean it..?" Karin asked.
"Of course I do. I'm not lying to you." Sasuke said then wiped Karin's tears away with his left hand.
Karin sensed that Sasuke wasn't lying about what he just said, she hugged him again and he hugged her back, still rubbing her back with his right hand. They stood like that for 2 minutes until Karin pulled away from the hug.
"W-we probably should get back to the classroom because class is going to start all." Karin said.
"Oh, you're right." Sasuke said.
Karin suddenly realized that she was hugging Sasuke, she blushed furiously before she quickly pulled away from him, making Sasuke confused. Sasuke and Karin both stood up before Sasuke twisted the door open with his right hand and they both walked out and Sasuke closed the door behind them. As they were walking back to the classroom, Sasuke looked at Karin as he suddenly noticed something a little different about her.
"Hey Karin." Sasuke said smiling.
Karin turned her head to the left and put her hands together near her chest. "U-um y-yes." she asked shyly.
"Your hair has gotten longer." Sasuke said.
Karin's hair went from a chin length to a slightly passed shoulder length. She admired her Aunt Kushina's hair length and she always wanted to grow it out long.
"W-well I-I wanted to grow it long." Karin said shyly.
"I think your hair would great with it being long." Sasuke said.
Karin blushed and turned her head away from him. She noticed a girl with short black hair and fair skin around their age near them and ran away to the classroom. Karin looked at her confused.
"Did she listened to me and Sasuke's conversation?" Karin thought as she watched the girl entered the classroom.
"What's wrong, Karin?" Sasuke asked.
Karin looked at Sasuke again. "I-It's nothing important." she said shyly.
"Okay." Sasuke said.
1 week later.
Daytime.
Academy.
Outside.
Most of the students were playing with white lacrosse balls except for Sasuke and Karin, who were sitting down next to the green metal chain link fence together. Sasuke, in his new usual outfit, a black high collared short sleeved shirt with the Uchiha crest on the back, black short pants, and blue sandals, was thinking about something and glaring while Karin looked down at the ground sadly. Naruto stood a few feet away and was staring at Sasuke and Karin for a moment and was about to go over there and talk to Karin until a ball hit him in the back of the head, he turned around and saw some of the kids were laughing at him and he ran towards them.
...
1 hour later.
Karin was in the Academy library returning a book back in she had borrowed 2 weeks ago. She came here when Iruka gave her permission to return it said she had to hurry back outside for Sparing time.
"Here's the book back, Miss." Karin said putting the book on the table.
The skinny woman looked to be in her late 30's, had fair skin, waist length brown hair, black eyes with no pupils, wearing an orange dress with a sky blue sash tied around the waist, and blue sandals.
"Well thank you, dear." the woman said smiling, taking the book Karin said on the table.
"Um goodbye Miss." Karin said shyly, bowing before she walked over to the Library exit.
"Come back again." the woman said.
Karin opened the door with her right hand and stepped out before closing the door behind her. She walked through many hallways to find the exit to the outside. When she made found the door she opened it with her left hand and stepped outside before closing it behind her. She ran over to the Sparing grounds and stopped to see Naruto on the ground, Iruka standing with a clipboard in his right hand, and Sasuke facing mostly away from Naruto but had his head facing a little towards Naruto. Karin could see that Naruto and Sasuke were glaring at each other.
"Got somethin' to say to me you hardin runny crap turd!" Naruto yelled at Sasuke.
Naruto was almost immediately punched by Iruka with his left hand. Naruto groaned in pain as a bump formed on the top of his head.
Iruka glared as he pulled back his left fist. "I told you hand-to-hand combat is a sacred tradition, now make the Unison sign!" he yelled then turned to Sasuke. "And you too, do it Sasuke!"
Sasuke turned around with his eyes closed annoyed and walked back over while Naruto stood up as he took his hands off of his head.
"Come on you 2." Iruka said.
When they made it to each other, Naruto and Sasuke extended their left index and middle finger only in a split second to find they were gripping the other ones shirt. Karin saw that they were glaring at each other even more.
"Hmph." Naruto said.
"You wanna go another round, Usuratonkachi." Sasuke said annoyed.
Iruka ran over to them. "Hey, enough! Quit it both of you!" he said splitting them up.
Karin heard the some of the students were glaring and insulting Naruto, she looked sadly at the scene of Naruto and Sasuke. Naruto pulled away from Iruka and before he sticker his tongue out and looked forward and continued to run. He made it to the tall fence and jumped over it to the other side before turning to look back. He looked at Sasuke then at Karin before running off into the woods.
"Oniisan." Karin thought sadly then looked up into the air. "I hope... nothing bad happens in the future... please..."
End of Chapter 7.
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