Akai Kami

by Missy the Cat

Since the first time they met, Sasuke has cared for Karin and now enemies and mysterious things started appearing. Will he be enough to protect her?

15. Chapter 15

Chapter 15.

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3 weeks later.

Day Time.

Ichiraku Ramen.

Karin, in her usual outfit, was sitting in one of the seats and was waiting for Naruto since he called her here to talk about something. Not only did she suddenly sensed Naruto coming but also sensed an other familiar chakra that she didn't want to see right now.

"Why is Oniisan coming with her?" Karin thought annoyed.

...

1 minute later.

"Hey, Karin!" Naruto said.

Karin turned around to see Naruto, in his usual outfit, and Sakura, in her usual outfit, was standing at the entrance. She saw Sakura giving her an annoyed look.

Karin, Ino, and Sakura used to be friends as they trained together for a few years with Tsunade and Shizune until Ino and Sakura found out that Sasuke and Karin were now dating each other and they started treating her like she was the enemy. Naruto was annoyed that his sister was with Sasuke but he accepted after he warned Sasuke not to hurt Karin in any way.

There was a long silence until Naruto walked in.

"One bowl of your Miso Pork Ramen, dattebayo." Naruto said smiling, sitting next to Karin on the left side.

"I would like Miso Ramen." Sakura said, sitting next to Naruto on the right side.

"And I'll have Miso Pork Ramen." Karin said.

"Coming right up." Ichiraku and Ayame said together, in their usual outfits.

...

10 minutes later.

Naruto, Karin, and Sakura ate in silence before Karin started to say something.

"So.. why did you call me here, Oniisan?" Karin asked, looking at Naruto.

"Well, we wanted you to talk to Sasuke about rejoining Team 7, dattebayo." Naruto said.

Karin closed her eyes as she turned her head forward. "I can't do that." she said.

"Huh?! Why not?" Naruto asked.

Sakura was shocked. "They're trying to find us a replacement. We need Sasuke-kun!" she said.

"Sasuke's now the lieutenant of the Police Force, he wanted to be apart of it since he was a kid." Karin said.

Naruto and Sakura continued to look at Karin.

"And besides, Teams don't stay together forever. For example, the 1st and 2nd Hokage trained the 3rd Hokage, Homaru, Koharu but the team grew apart. The 3rd Hokage trained Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru but they grew apart too. Jiraiya trained Uncle Minato, you, and others, Tsunade trained Shizune, my mother, Aunt Kushina, me, Ino, and Sakura, and Orochimaru trained Anko before he became a rogue. Uncle Minato trained Kakashi, Obito, and Rin but unfortunately, Obito and Rin died. Kakashi trained you 2 and Sasuke. It's a matter of time before it happened." Karin said.

Naruto and Sakura made sad faces and stayed silent for a moment before Naruto started to say something.

Naruto looked down, staring into his bowl of ramen. "Yeah but so soon, dattebayo." he said.

"I've disbanded from my team when I went to train with Tsunade." Karin said.

Naruto looked at Karin. "Why didn't you return?" he asked.

Karin looked down as she started to remember all of the horrible things Zosui said to her over the years.

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Flashback.

8 years ago.

Karin, in her old usual outfit, was walking through the hallways she sensed another chakra coming towards her. She looked up to see a man, who had fair skin, black hair that was at a shoulder length and was combed back, grey pupiless eyes, wide but built up body, a huge forehead, wearing a grey Konohagakure forehead protector on his forehead, dark brown-grey kimono like shirt with cream outlines, long black pants, a large white rope tied around his waist, black socks, and black sandals, was walking towards her. She could see that he had an angry look on his face, which frightened her. The man was now in front of her, Karin looked up to see that he was looking down at her more angry than before now.

"S-sorry." Karin said shyly.

"All of you Uzumakis are weak." the man said.

"Huh?" Karin asked confused.

"You all are nothing but a disgrace to The Hidden Village." the man said before he continued moving forward. "Should stayed in Uzushiogakure."

The man left, leaving Karin alone in the hallway by herself and tears began forming in her eyes.

...

3 years ago.

Outside.

You 3 will meet back here tomorrow in the afternoon for a test to see if you can work as a team.." Zosui said. "If you pass you all will be assigned missions.. but... you all fail you're going back to the Academy..."

Shigeri, Hiroki, and Karin, in their old usual outfits, looked at Zosui, in his usual outfit, surprised at what he just said.

"So I suggest you prepare for it tonight..." Zosui said.

"So.. this test is the real Graduation.. not the Graduation test we took a few days ago..."Karin thought.

"You 3 are dismissed.." Zosui said then turned to Karin. "Except for you."

Karin became confused as Shigeri and Hiroki started to walk away. When Shigeri and Hiroki were far away from them, Zosui glared at Karin, making her scared.

"You especially should be prepared.. you're not going slow your team mates down.." Zosui said glaring.

Karin put her hands together near her chest.

"I never wanted a filthy and pathetic Uzumaki as my students but they assigned you me..." Zosui said harshly. "You should've have just died with half of them years ago."

Karin gasped at what Zosui just said to her.

Zosui just walked away, leaving Karin by herself. Karin looked down as she put her hands down and started to cry, remembering something from the past.

...

3 years ago.

"All of you Uzumakis are weak." the Zosui said.

"You all are nothing but a disgrace to The Hidden Village." the man said before he continued moving forward. "Should stayed in Uzushiogakure."

...

3 years ago.

"W-w-why? W-why does he have Uzumakis?" Karin asked, tears streaming down her face. "I-I don't... understand..."

...

3 years ago.

Daytime.

Afternoon.

Karin was standing in front of Zosui, looking sadly up at him.

"Your fighting skills on this test was weak, your team mates were trying to defeat me but you merely stood far away and watched." Zosui said. "You should have been sent back to the Academy right now."

Karin looked down sadly.

"However.." Zosui said.

Karin looked up at Zosui again.

"The only reason I've passed you 3 is because you know how to heal your team mates, which would be good for The Hidden Leaf." Zosui said.

Don't expect me to teach you anything, train under someone else. As far as I'm concerned your only duty on the team is to heal your 2 team mates." Zosui said. "If you don't heal them properly your status as a Ninja will be terminated permanently, I don't care if you're the Fourth Hokage's niece."

Karin looked down at the ground sadly again. "Hai." she said.

Less than 2 months later.

...

Forest.

Zosui, in his usual outfit, was standing in front of Karin, looking down at her.

"The Fourth Hokage wants you work on another team for awhile." Zosui said.

"Me? H-he said that?" Karin asked shyly, looking up at him sadly.

"I've agreed to what he said since Team 9 we'll be working with a temporary replacement for you." Zosui said.

Karin continued to look up at Zosui sadly.

"Do whatever they say and don't embarrass this team, doesn't mean that you're a joke doesn't mean the rest of us are." Zosui said. "Keep that in mind."

Karin sadly bowed her head. "Hai." she said then looked up at Zosui again. "Which team will I be temporarily assigned to?"

"Team 7." Zosui said.

Karin gasped in shock.

...

Almost 2 months later.

Konohagakure Hospital.

One of the hallways.

Karin was standing close to the wall and Zosui, in his usual outfit, was standing a few feet away from her. A white line drawn in the middle of the hallway.

"I've signed you and your team members to take part in the next Chunin Exams." Zosui said.

"Me?" Karin asked, making sad face.

Karin has heard of the Chunin Exams, they were tests and an opportunity for Genin to be promoted to Chunin. The exams structure and evaluation process differ from one exams to the next so that Behind cannot come prepared.

This exams displays the strength of Ninja Village through their Genin's abilities. It's considered a war by proxy. We cannot afford to lose. Since you're too weak to right, your only duty is to help and keep the other 2 completely replenished. I only allowed you to join the Team 9... Keep that in mind and make sure you get us good results." Zosui said.

Karin closed her eyes as she bowed her head down sadly. "Hai..." she said.

...

Day time.

One of the Training Grounds.

Karin was staring sadly at the ground as she standing a few feet away from Zosui, in his usual outfit, and was looking at angrily at her.

"You've been such a disappointment. I hope for better results than this!" Zosui said. "I guess you're just a filthy Uzumaki from Uzushiogakure... so you don't feel any loyalty for Konoha."

"That's not true! I-" Karin said then looked up at Zosui but was cut off from speaking.

"Then prove it. Hurry up and go on a mission with your team members." Zosui said.

"A mission?" Karin questioned sadly.

"It's a C-rank." Zosui said.

Flashback ends.

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As she was done remembering, Karin silently gritted her teeth together.

"Karin." a male voice said.

Karin was pushed out of her thoughts as she looked to the left to see Naruto and Sakura staring at her.

"Is something wrong?" Naruto asked.

"No it's just that I couldn't get along with the Jonin and after that I've decided to work by myself sometimes on missions." Karin said.

"Oh. Who were the people who've worked with since you returned, dattebayo?" Naruto asked.

"Aunt Kushina and Sasuke." Karin said.

Sakura secretly became annoyed when Karin said Sasuke's name.

"How about you join Team 7?" Naruto said smiling.

"No, Shannaro!" Sakura thought.

"Thanks but no thanks." Karin said. "I'll stay where I am right now." Karin said.

Karin wanted to be on a team with her older brother ever since they've been assigned to teams but she couldn't deal with Sakura and her fan obsession about Sasuke.

"Okay but the offer is still on the table, dattebayo." Naruto said.

"Yeah." Karin said.

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Tomorrow.

Day Time.

Uzumaki clan compound.

Karin's House.

Sasuke, in his Police Force outfit, and Karin were sitting on one of the couches together. They were looking over documents that Karin had. Sasuke was on the left side and Karin was on the right side.

Sasuke was holding a few papers in his right hand. "So when do you have to return these?" he asked.

"A week but I'm almost done with these, so I'll return them in tomorrow morning." Karin said, holding a few papers in both of her hands. "... And also yesterday, Oniisan wanted me to talk to you."

Sasuke looked at his girlfriend. "About what?" he questioned.

"We wanted me to convince you to rejoin Team 7." Karin said, still examining the papers.

"I'm not joining them anymore." Sasuke said.

"I know, that's what I told Oniisan and Sakura." Karin said.

"Huh?" Sasuke asked confused.

"Sasuke, teams disband as time passes on. I'm not on Team 9 anymore." Karin said, placing the papers on the table with both of her hands before she placed her hands on her lap. "And besides your the lieutenant of the Police Force, it's always been your dream to join them with your father."

Sasuke stayed silent.

Karin looked at Sasuke, smiling. "After all, you always used to tell me when we were kids." she said. "Remember."

Sasuke put the papers on the table with his right hand before he stared up into the sky. "I know." he said, starting to remember the past.

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7 years ago.

Day Time.

Uchiha clan compound.

Pond.

Sasuke, 8 years old and in his old usual outfit, and Karin, 7 years old and in her old usual outfit, were sitting at the dock together. Sasuke was on the left side and Karin was on the right side.

"What do you want to be in the future?" Sasuke asked, looking at Karin.

Karin looked at Sasuke. "Huh?" she asked confused then looked down at the lake. "I want to help people... but I'm not sure if I'm strong enough..."

"Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be strong in the future." Sasuke said smiling.

Karin looked at Sasuke.

"You'll be great." Sasuke said.

Karin blushed furiously before she looked away to the right side. "W-w-well... u-um... Wh-what do you want to be when you grow up...?" she asked shyly.

"I want to join the Police Force." Sasuke said.

"What...?" Karin asked shyly.

"It's always been my dream to be apart of them. And I will be joining some day." Sasuke said.

Karin stared at Sasuke for a moment before she smiled at him softly. "Okay..." she said.

Flashback ends.

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Sasuke stopped remembering before he looked at Karin. "But I also have another dream.. and that's to kill Itachi." he thought. "You're right about that." he said then started to smirk. "And also."

Karin suddenly became confused as she turned to Sasuke.

Sasuke placed his right hand on Karin's right shoulder, pulling her closer to him. "I've had a dream of being with you that came true." he said.

Karin's eyes widened a little bit.

Sasuke slowly closer his eyes as he leaned in towards Karin before he kissed her on the lips. Karin placed her hands on Sasuke's face to push him away so they could get back to work but after a second, she decided to close her eyes as she gave into the kiss. Sasuke placed his left hand on the couch next to the left side of Karin, who was leaning down until her back on the couch. Sasuke let go of Karin's right shoulder with his right hand as broke away from the kiss and opened his eyes as he moved back to see that he was hovering over Karin, who released her hands from his face. Sasuke saw that Karin was looking up at him with her eyes half opened and her cheeks were slightly red.

Sasuke leaned in and kissed Karin again, who almost immediately wrapped her arms around his neck. Their eyes were closed again as they started to moan.

As a few minutes have past, Karin suddenly sensed 2 very familiar chakras coming towards her house and knew she had to stop.

Karin unwrapped her arms around Sasuke and put her arms on his chest and pushed him away as she opened her eyes again. Sasuke opened his eyes and looked down at Karin as he was hovering over her again. They started to pant.

"What's wrong, Karin?" Sasuke asked.

"I sensed my Aunt and Oniisan coming over here." Karin said, getting her top half off of the couch as Sasuke started to sit back on the couch.

Karin straightened herself up before she grabbed the papers from the table with both hands and started reading over them.

When Karin sensed Kushina and Naruto were at the main shoji doors, she and Sasuke heard a few knocks at it.

"It's open." Karin said.

One of the main shoji doors slid open to reveal Kushina, in her usual outfit, and Naruto, who were smiling at them.

"Hello Karin." Kushina said.

"Hi." Naruto said.

"Nice to see you 2." Karin said, looking at them.

Naruto stopped smiling when he saw that Sasuke was here. "What's he doing here, dattebayo?" he asked.

Karin stopped smiling as she looked down at the papers again. "I invited him so that he can help me look over these documents." she said. "Please, come on in."

Kushina slid one of the shoji doors closed with her right hand before she and Naruto started to take their sandals off.

Karin sighed. "This is going to be a long day." she thought.

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4 days later.

Day Time.

Forest.

Karin was training alone as she was learning one of the very powerful fūinjutsus in the Uzumaki clan, Adamantine Chains. She was standing near a tree that had a red and white target on it.

"Okay, if I just focus and think of someone trying to attack me, maybe they can activate." Karin said to herself.

Karin closed her eyes and started to think of someone. It took her a few seconds as she thought of Itachi. Karin opened her eyes as a bright yellow chain appeared out of her stomach and hit the target, causing half of the tree to collapse.

"I did it. I really did it!" Karin said smiling.

Karin's eyes were halfway open as she suddenly felt weak and backed away a little before she fell backwards, now sitting on the grass as her back was against a tree.

"Aunt Kushina said... that this chain can even bind a mass of chakra... But I had never used it before... she also said that it can nullify someone's chakra... I wonder how Mom, Aunt Kushina, Mito, and the other Uzumakis felt... " Karin thought then gasped exhaustedly. "I better put this away before I become weaker." she slowly started pulling her chain back to her body.

When Karin was done, she closed her eyes as her hear rested on her left shoulder.

---

5 days later.

Day Time.

Uzumaki clan compound.

As Karin was walking towards her Uncle Minato and Aunt Kushina's House, she stopped as she suddenly sensed 6 familiar chakras coming towards her. She turned to the left side to see Taiko, Haruto, Reo, Kaito, Riku, and Asahi, in their usual outfits, were running towards her.

"What do they want?" Karin thought annoyed. She suddenly sensed a very familiar chakra heading towards her.

When they made made it to her, they stopped in front of her.

"Move out of our way!" Taiko said serious, placing his right hand on his sword.

"Where exactly are you all going?" Karin asked serious.

"We're going to arrest her!" Kaito said.

Karin suddenly realized that they wanted to arrest Kushina. "Forget it! I'm not letting go guys arrest my Aunt Kushina!" she said.

"We said step out of the way!" Taiko yelled.

"What did she do anyway?!" Karin asked angrily.

"She messed with an investigation." Reo said.

"And did Sasuke tell you guys to do this?" Karin asked.

"He said that 'he entrusted us to handle things on our own'." Taiko said.

"I don't think he meant it like that." Karin said she folding her arms.

"Shut it!" Taiko said.

"And will Fugaku agree with what you guys are doing?" Karin asked.

"Of course." Asahi said.

"Really?" Karin questioned. "Because he's coming this way."

The 6 male Police Force became confused.

Karin pointed her head to her right before the 6 Police Force looked to see that Fugaku, now 47 years old and in his Police Force uniform, was walking towards them. The 6 of them became shocked.

"How about I tell him why all of you guys are here?" Karin asked.

The 6 of them looked at Karin.

"Maybe you guys can get arrested and be kicked off of the Police Force." Karin said.

"Please don't!" Taiko said.

"Maybe I will." Karin said.

When Fugaku made it he stopped on the right side of Karin.

"Hey." Fugaku said.

Karin looked at Fugaku as she unfolded her arms, smiling. "Hello, Fugaku." she said. "What are you doing here?"

"I came here to tell you something." Fugaku said then looked at the 6 male Police Force. "But what are they doing here?"

Karin looked at the 6 male Police Force. "Well, they're here because.." she said.

Taiko, Haruto, Reo, Kaito, Riku, and Asahi felt as if their hearts had stopped.

"To tell me something about the new Chunin Exams that's coming up soon." Karin said.

The 6 male Police Force silently sighed in relief.

"Huh, really?" Fugaku questioned, looking down at Karin.

Karin looked up at Fugaku. "Yeah, me, Sasuke, and Oniisan are the only genins and most of our friends are Chunins while Neji just became a Jonin. They wanted us to move up in the ranks." she said.

"Oh, I see." Fugaku said.

"They were just about to leave when you came." Karin said.

"Oh, hai!" Taiko said.

The 6 male Police Force started to walk away.

"I should really talk to Sasuke about them before Fugaku be forced to take him off as Lieutenant because of them..." Karin thought. "So, what did you want to talk to me about?" she asked.

"Right." Fugaku said.

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6 days later.

Day Time.

Uchiha clan compound.

Fugaku and Mikoto's House.

Sasuke's Room.

Sasuke was sitting on a brown wooden chair as Karin was sitting at the end of Sasuke's bed on the left side. Karin came to visit Sasuke as he was about to go on patrol in less than an hour. A few days ago, Karin told Sasuke what his team tried to do he ordered them to never to something like that without his permission again or else they'll never be apart of the Police Force.

"We should consider doing that." Karin said.

"No." Sasuke said.

"But do you want to be a Genin for the rest of your life or do you want to be a Chunin?" Karin asked.

"At least, let's not team up with him." Sasuke said.

"Oniisan is only person available for us to form a team." Karin said.

"Then we'll probably wait and if we can't find another one then we'll add him." Sasuke said then closed his eyes.

"Okay." Karin said smiling a little bit, knowing there isn't going to be another one.

As Karin continued to stare at Sasuke, she noticed how handsome he was before she stood up and walked over to him.

"You know." Karin said smiling.

Sasuke opened his eyes to see Karin walking towards him. "What exactly?" he asked.

Karin stood in front of Sasuke and started to climb on to him until she placed her arms on his shoulders. "Even though you look good in this headband." she said, putting her right hand on the back of Sasuke's head. "I kinda miss your bangs covering your forehead."

Sasuke continued to look at Karin. "Is that so?" he asked.

"Hai." Karin said then placed her left hand on the back of Sasuke's head before she used both of her hands to untie his Forehead Protector then tossed it on the bed with her right hand and put both of her hands into his hair. "But for some reason you stopped doing that."

"I didn't want it to get in the way." Sasuke said, placing both of his hands on Karin's hips. "And besides you stopped wearing your headband."

"Because I don't want to wear it anymore and looked great without yours." Karin said then leaned in and kissed Sasuke's forehead.

Sasuke closed his eyes when Karin kissed his forehead, feeling her soft and warm lips on it.

Karin pulled away to see that Sasuke was opening his eyes. "It makes you look even more handsome." she said, closing her eyes as she leaned in.

Sasuke closed his eyes before he and Karin kissed each other. Karin suddenly sensed Mikoto coming but she thought that she was passing by until they heard a few knocks at the door.

Sasuke and Karin opened their eyes and stopped kissing each other as they pulled away, looking at the door.

"Sasuke, your father summoned you. He wants you to meet in his office at the Police Force building." Mikoto said.

Karin removed her hands from Sasuke's hair. "Well I better get going." she said, getting off of Sasuke before she stood on the floor then straightened herself up. "I'll see you later." walking away.

"Yeah." Sasuke said, looking at Karin.

When Karin was in front of the door, she twisted it open with her left hand and stepped out before she closed it. She saw Mikoto, now 42 years old and in her usual outfit, standing on the right side of her.

"Oh hello, Karin." Mikoto said smiling. "It's so nice to see you again.

"Hello to you too, Mikoto." Karin said smiling. "I'm just about to leave."

"Huh, already?" Mikoto said frowning.

"Hai, I have to go see Uncle Minato." Karin said.

"When will you return?" Mikoto asked.

Karin stared at Mikoto, seeing that she was sad.

Ever since her mother Uzume died, Karin has thought of her Aunt Kushina and Mikoto as mothers to her. And even before Uzume died, Kushina and Mikoto have always thought of Karin as the daughter they always wanted.

"Don't worry, I'll be back soon." Karin said. "I promise."

Mikoto smiled again, closing her eyes. "Hurry back, okay." she said.

"Okay." Karin said smiling.

---

5 days later.

Day Time.

Forest.

Karin was walking through the forest, looking for Sasuke as she sensed him. Ever since Karin had returned to the Hidden Leaf Village, she sensed that Sasuke's chakra has gotten thicker and stronger as time passes. She noticed that Sasuke comes here often.

As Karin continued to walk, she suddenly stopped a few feet away from a very large grey Boulder, sensing that Sasuke was inside.

Karin looked up. "So.. this is where he goes.." she thought then started looking around. "There has to be an entrance somewhere..."

Karin looked up to the right side to see an entrance then she suddenly heard a loud this coming from the inside. "He must be training." she thought, sensing that Sasuke's chakra has gotten stronger.

Karin started walking on rock and continued until she made it to the entrance, when she did she hid on the left side of it and slowly peeked inside to see that it was dark.

"What's he doing?" Karin thought, placing her right on the entrance.

Then suddenly a small rock broke away from it and landed inside.

"Oh no! Did he heard that?!" Karin thought.

Within half a second, Karin sensed that Sasuke was close to her and she felt something on her right hand before she was quickly pulled in. She started to struggle as she suddenly felt a hand on her waist.

"Let me go!" Karin yelled.

"Karin?" the male voice questioned.

A few seconds later, Karin was on the ground and she got out of his grip before she moved a few feet away from him.

With the help of the light from outside, Karin looked at the person before she gasped to see that it was Sasuke, who looked different as his hair was light blue and was at a hip length, his skin was grey, 2 fangs were poking out of his mouth, dark blue lips, his eyes were dark grey and had the Sharingan, webbed-claw-shaped wings from his back which he could use to fly and glide, a black star-shaped mark appeared across the bridge of his nose, and he was only wearing light grey pants, and black sandals.

"Sasuke?" Karin asked shocked.

Sasuke didn't say anything.

Karin made a serious face. "What happened to you?" she asked.

Sasuke's skin started to turn pale again, his hair turned back to black and to it's original length, the star on his nose started to disappear, his eyes went back to white and charcoal black, and the wings, fangs, claws, and blue lips disappeared.

Karin immediately noticed that when Sasuke was back to the way he looked she saw those black marks appeared again on the left side of his neck. "Those marks...! They were on Sasuke ever since the Chunin Exams happened...!" she thought.

"Karin, I-" Sasuke said but was cut off.

"Explain to me right now why did you look like that?!" Karin asked serious. "And I want the truth."

Sasuke sighed, closing his eyes then he opened them again. "... It was the first day of the second part of the Chunin Exams.. when we were inside after we encountered another team but we defeated them, we made a password to tell us apart but quickly after that we were separated from each other for awhile until I met with Sakura but still haven't found Naruto.." he said.

Karin continued to listen.

"Sakura thought that was Naruto, I suspected something is wrong when "Naruto" repeats the password word for word. I explained that the real Naruto would not have recited such a difficult password, hence why I chose a lengthy one, and the impostor revealed to be the Kusagakure ninja. One of the strangest things he did was swallow his scroll then he paralyzied me and Sakura with visions of our own deaths. Sakura was out of it because she had it worse than I did. I barely succeeded in regaining my composure and stabbed my leg with a kunai before getting myself and Sakura away from him, who was going to kill us. We went into hiding but we were found out then Naruto showed up." Sasuke said. "But despite Naruto showing up, I've decided to relinquish our scroll to him to ensure our team's survival. However, Naruto stops meand punches me in the face. Refusing to accept my mindset, Naruto took the scroll from me. Naruto began fighting him and his snakes, although he was easily beaten and injured. As he is about to be devoured by the snake, Naruto suddenly activated a powerful chakra and hits the snake down with one punch. He manages to use the snake to toss Naruto into a tree, and then uses the snake to attack me, only for Naruto to rush in and save me, asking him if he was okay and calling mea baby, saying the the same words I've told him on one of our past missions."

"It has to be the Nine-Tails chakra.." Karin thought.

"He used a seal on Naruto's stomach, rendering him unconscious. He threw Naruto towards the ground but Sakura saved him by throwing a kunai at him. She then yells at me about how I shouldn't be a coward. Her words reminded me of what Itachi said to me that day and it rejuvenated me with determination as I prepared to battle him. Me and him engage in combat. It was long and difficult battle, but I seemingly ended the battle with my Dragon Fire Jutsu to incinerate him. However, that guy survived with his face partially melted off, revealing another face underneath. The man revealed himself to be Orochimaru."

Karin's eyes widened. "You and Oniisan really battled Orochimaru?!" she asked shocked.

"Yeah. He quickly extended his neck then bit my neck and leaves behind a cursed seal; wishing me luck in surviving, he left. I told Sakura to not tell Naruto but I think she already told him." Sasuke said.

Karin looked at the curse mark on Sasuke's neck and the black summoning tattoo on his left arm, concerned. "So, that's why you have that mark on your neck and arm." she said.

Sasuke nodded. "Before the preliminary matches of the exam, Sakura watched me as I suffered from the pain caused by the cursed mark. Sakura tried to confess the situation to the hosters of the exam in concern for me. I stopped her by grabbing her hand and scolded her. I began to protest against her while stating her concern. I continued by confirming to Sakura once again that I'm an avenger, and not even she will be able to change that. I told her that I can't forgive even her if she tells anyone of the cursed seal. I knew that she was worried and sad but I didn't care." he said. "During the time that everything has happened since then I've decided to gain more power to kill Itachi for what he did to half of the Uchiha and Uzumaki clan. When I was done training with the Uchihas in the Feudal Lord's area for a year. I secretly went to Orochimaru for more power."

Karin stayed silent for a moment. One of the reasons she decided to train with Tsunade is to become stronger and defeat Itachi. "So do you know about what Kabuto do you to you...?" she asked.

"Kabuto's apart of Orochimaru's followers but what did he try to do to me?" Sasuke asked.

Karin looked down at the ground. "It was more than 3 years ago during the Preliminaries." she said.

---

Flashback.

3 years ago.

Day Time.

Karin, in her old usual outfit, continued to do the Mystical Palm Technique on Sasuke, who still was unconscious, and she sensed that he was gaining a little bit of chakra.

"At least his chakra is increasing..." Karin thought.

Karin suddenly sensed a familiar chakra coming to the room, she looked up and turned her head to the left a little to look at the door. "Could it be...?" she thought.

When the familiar chakra made it to the door, she heard 3 bodies drop a few seconds later but she still sensed their chakras.

Karin's eyes widened. "H-he knocked 3 of the Anbu out...!" she thought.

The door opened up to reveal Kabuto and 3 unconscious Anbu behind him. Karin stopped using her Mystical Palm Technique and she turned around to face Kabuto, putting her hands down.

"Oh, so you're here with him." Kabuto said smirking.

"K-kabuto.. why did you do that to all of the Anbu...?" Karin asked shocked and scared.

"Because they wouldn't let me pass so I can take Sasuke." Kabuto said then pulled a scale from his pouch with his right hand. "Now, are you going to step away or I have to kill?"

Karin gasped in fright at what Kabuto just said, she stepped backwards until her back was against the left side of the bed. "P-please... p-please don't take Sasuke away..." she said tears forming in her eyes, then she sensed Kakashi coming back to the room.

"So I guess you do want to die." Kabuto said then ran over to Karin while raising the scalpel in his right hand.

Karin closed her eyes tightly as she waited for the attack but it never came. She slowly opened her eyes to see Kabuto standing a foot from her without his scalpel and Kakashi standing by the door with the scalpel in his right hand.

"Well, well Kakashi. Foiling my attack on her by striking from my blind spot, huh." Kabuto said smiling. "But now, are you ready to take me on? Next time you should station at least 10 guards and especially don't bring this red haired weakling."

Karin looked down sadly.

Kakashi lowered the scalpel. "You, you're not an ordinary genin are you?" he questioned. "You caught a whiff of me and immediately readied your weapon and even tried to kill Karin." then stepped forward a little. "Quite impressive."

"You over estimate me." Kabuto said.

Kakashi stopped walking. "So what do you want with Sasuke? Finding you like this I oughta hall you in for questioning." he asked.

"What just you?" Kabuto asked then turned around to face Kakashi then walked forward a little before he stopped. "I wonder if you could."

"Are you looking to take me on?" Kakashi asked. "... I know who you are, you're the Konoha Medical Core Chief's son, your name what was it, 'Kabuto Yakushi'. What are you one of Orochimaru's puppets?"

Karin opened her eyes as she looked up at Kabuto. "Orochimaru...?" she thought confused.

Kabuto smirked. "Even if you did take me into custody, you'd never be able to prove I had any connection to him." he said.

"Just answer my question." Kakashi said.

"And if I say 'no'?" Kabuto asked.

"I'm the one asking the questions. Now give me some answers?" Kakashi asked.

"Look you'll have your answers soon enough even if I'm not here." Kabuto said then raised his right hand. "So why don't we skip the middle man and let me go?"

Kakashi put the scalpel in his pouch and pulled out a kunai with his right hand. "You smart alecky little brat. I'll teach you to mess around with grown ups." he said.

Kabuto reached into his pouch and pulled a curved kunai with his left hand. "Come on give me a break, don't be so arrogant. The cards are clearly in my favor here." he said then put the weird kunai in his right hand and pointed it near the left side of Karin's neck.

Karin started to shake in fear as tears were forming in her eyes.

Everyone stayed silent for a moment before Kabuto his kunai more towards Karin's neck, Kakashi quickly ran over to Kabuto, who moved to strike Karin but Kakashi knocked the curved kunai of Kabuto's right hand with his kunai in his right hand. Karin quickly ducked to the floor while Kakashi restrained Kabuto on the floor.

Kakashi and Kabuto saw the sandy brown haired anbu suddenly got up and ran to the door.

"So that was a clone...?!" Karin thought.

Karin sensed Kakashi's clone standing out in the hallway before she looked down at the light brown haired anbu.

"This one is the real Kabuto...?!" Karin thought.

Karin turned to Kakashi and before she could say anything to him the light brown haired anbu got up the upper half of himself and threw 4 kunais at one of the glass windows with his left hand before stood up and crashed through the window. Karin closed her eyes with both of her hands while Kakashi ran towards the broken window and watched as the fall, the light brown haired anbu put his left hand on his mask before he revealed himself to be Kabuto and disappeared into the trees below.

Karin slowly uncovered her eyes as the sandy brown haired anbu fell to the ground. She suddenly didn't sense any chakra in the fake Kabuto and the sandy brown haired anbu. Kakashi's clone disappeared.

"Th-those... th-those 2 were really... d-dead..." Karin thought sadly, tears forming in her eyes again.

Kakashi walked over to the fake Kabuto and crouched down beside it. "Impressive." he said checking the pulse from the fake Kabuto's neck with his left hand. "Just as I suspected the Dead Soul Jutsu: where a ninja temporarily animates and controls a dead body even transforming it's face. Kabuto even stopped his own heart and eliminated all traces of his scent in order to escape by impersonating a murdered Anbu Black Ops ninja, being raised as the adopted son of the chief medical core is a powerful asset of his. If it turns out that someone is good as him is working for Orochimaru I've got to work harder."

Kakashi pulled out of his thoughts as he turned to Karin, who was silently crying on the floor and in shock at what happened. He stood up and walked over to where she was before he crouched down beside her.

"Karin." Kakashi said.

Karin slowly looked up at Kakashi.

"You don't have to cry anymore he's gone for now." Kakashi said, trying to comfort her.

"W-w-why... W-w-why did he wanted to take Sasuke...? A-and w-who's Orochimaru...?" Karin asked.

Kakashi went silent for a moment as he looked down at Karin's sad and scared face knowing that she heard and witness the scenes between him and Kabuto, he couldn't hide it from her because she can easily sense it.

Kakashi sighed. "Orochimaru is an S-rank criminal from Konoha who fled the village because of his experiments on people." he said.

Karin's eyes widened as she gasped in shock.

"And for Sasuke." Kakashi said then turned around to look at the still unconscious Sasuke before turned back to look at Karin again. "He gave him that mark while you all were in the Forest of Death."

Karin looked down at the ground. "So... that's why.. he was really exhausted during his battle.. a-and markings almost spread all over his body... now he's unconscious because of it..." she thought sadly. "I can't believe Sasuke is suffering badly and is in much pain..."

Karin suddenly felt a hand on her left shoulder, she looked up to see Kakashi looking down at her while his right hand was on her left shoulder.

"Don't worry, Sasuke is going to be alright, he just needs some rest, that's all." Kakashi said. "I promise I'll make sure that nothing happens to him while I train him."

Karin continued to stare at Kakashi.

"Until then, don't say anything to anyone about this." Kakashi said.

"B-but Uncle Minato-" Karin said sadly but was cut off.

"He already knows about this, okay." Kakashi said.

Karin looked down sadly again. "H-hai..." she said.

Flashback Ends.

---

"I see so that's what happened when I was unconscious." Sasuke said.

"Hai." Karin said then looked up at Sasuke. "But why didn't you tell anything? You just hid it from me."

"I'm sorry but I wanted to protect you." Sasuke said.

Karin sighed before she walked over to Sasuke. "Sasuke, over the past 3 years, I've trained with Tsunade and started to gain more knowledge along the way." she said then stopped in front of him before she placed her left hand on the right side of Sasuke's face. "I can protect myself, okay."

Sasuke didn't say anything as he closed his eyes.

---

5 days later.

Night Time.

Uzumaki clan compound.

Karin's House.

Karin, in her night clothes, was laying down on her back in her bed, looking up at the cieling as she was thinking about Sasuke. After she found out, Karin told Sasuke that she wouldn't tell anybody about what he told her.

"Does Sasuke even believes that I'm strong? Have I changed even a little over the years?" Karin thought, closing her eyes.

Karin quickly opened her eyes and rose the top half of her from her bed as she started to sense a very familiar chakra heading rapidly to her house.

"Huh?! Why is he coming over here?!" Karin thought, reaching for her glasses on her nightstand with her right hand before she put them on and stood up on the floor.

Karin started to walk over to her window and opened it up with both of her hands and looked out to see Sasuke, in his Curse Mark second stage form, and wearing black pants, was flying over here.

"Why is he coming here?" Karin asked herself.

When Sasuke now stood on the window, Karin stepped backwards to let him in, who carefully entered in.

"Are you crazy?! What are you doing here?!" Karin asked, looking up at Sasuke.

"I need to stay here for the night." Sasuke said, looking down at Karin.

"What?! Why?!" Karin asked, moving passed Sasuke, who moved out of her way, and looked out of the window to see that no one was outside.

"I can't go home without someone seeing me like this." Sasuke said, looking at Karin.

Karin turned to Sasuke again. "Then why couldn't you transfer back and sneek into your room?" she questioned.

"Because I was training and someone almost spotted." Sasuke said.

Karin sighed then looked at Sasuke for a while as the moonlight shined on him. She stared at his stomach, seeing that he had well developed abs. "Even though Sasuke's in this form.. he looks really hot..." she thought, blushing a little.

"Karin." Sasuke said.

Karin was pushed out of thoughts as she looked up at Sasuke's face.

"Is everything alright?" Sasuke asked.

"Hai and you know what?" Karin questioned, placing both of her hands on the window doors. "You can stay after all..." closing the window and walked over to Sasuke then placed both of her hands on his chest, looking up at him. "You don't want anyone to find you."

"Karin." Sasuke said.

"Maybe we can have some alone time." Karin said then closed her eyes as she kissed Sasuke on the lips.

Sasuke's eyes widened before he slowly closed his eyes, wrapping his arms around Karin's waist as he gave into the kiss. Karin wrapped her arms around Sasuke's neck.

They kissed for a minute before they pulled pulled away panting, looking at each other in the eyes. After awhile, they kissed again after they closed their eyes, Sasuke moved his hands from Karin's waist to her behind, gripping both cheeks as it made Karin gasped a little bit in the kiss. Sasuke picked Karin and pulled her body flush against his, who wrapped her legs around his waist, and carried her off to Karin's bed where he laid her down. Karin used unwrapped her arms from around Sasuke's neck before she used her right hand to carefully turn on the purple lamp, which she bought a few weeks ago, so they could see each other before she laid her hands on her bed.

Sasuke and Karin opened their eyes as they broke away from their kiss. Karin removed her glasses with her right hand and placed it on her nightstand. She circled her left hand around his neck and caressed his chin with right hand. Karin pulled Sasuke's face towards hers for another one another and kissed again. His tongue licked her lips asking for entrance which she immediately gave him. Their tongues were battling for dominance, they started moaning into our make out session. Sasuke broke the kiss and they opened their eyes, staring at each other. Karin removed her hands from Sasuke. Sasuke sat up as he was on top of Karin, he removed his hands from Karin as he started to unbutton her shirt with both hands before he tossed it aside on the left side of the floor, he then began removing her pants and underwear.

Sasuke looked down at, Karin, admiring her naked body, seeing that she was beautiful.

Karin blushed furiously as she turned her head to the right side to avoid eye contact with Sasuke, being a little embarrassed that her boyfriend was seeing her naked for the first time. She suddenly felt a hand on the right side of her face before it her head forward, seeing the Sasuke was looking down at her with his left hand on her face.

"Don't be shy, your body is perfect." Sasuke said softly.

Karin stared at Sasuke.

"I'll be gentle." Sasuke said, pulling his left hand away her.

Karin nodded to her boyfriend before she closed her eyes.

Sasuke leaned in and started nipping at Karin's neck, causing her to gasp softly, before he started moving down, leaving a trail of kisses down her neck, Karin tossed her head moaning. When Sasuke made it to Karin's chest, he started suckling on her left breast while he was fondling the right one with his left hand, she moaned loudly, starting to grab his shoulders with both hands, then he switched to the right breast and began fondling the left one with his right hand.

Sasuke moved down and opened up Karin's legs with both of his hands, admiring her womanhood before leaning in and started devouring it, Karin covered her mouth with both of her hands. Karin opened her eyes, her crimson eyes gazed at his devilishly handsome face before she nibbled her lower lip, suppressing her sensual groan.

"Oh, S-sasuke..." Karin said moaning, removing her hands from her mouth.

Sasuke started licking faster and faster, making her juices seep out a little, making her feel hot.

"Ahh, Sasuke! Ahh!" Karin moaned, gripping the sheets.

Karin exploded.

"Sasuke!" Karin yelled, as she cummed and it spilled on Sasuke's face, who now licking it up.

Karin panted softly, her face now red. As she was still recovering, Karin suddenly heard a noise she slowly opened her eyes to see Sasuke was taking off his pants and boxers then he tossed them behind him with his left arm. She looked down at Sasuke's cock to see that it was big and long.

"N-no way! He's like 12 inches long...!" Karin thought astonished.

Sasuke crawled back on top of Karin. "Are you sure you want to do this?" he asked concerned.

"H-hai." Karin said, nodding.

Sasuke positioned his cock at Karin's womanhood with left hand before he slid his cock deep inside her.

Karin's eyes widened and she gasped as she felt the pain of Sasuke taking her virginity. She quickly closed her eyes and gritted her teeth. "I had no idea it was going to hurt so much." she thought, tears running from her eyes.

Sasuke placed his right hand on the left side of Karin's face before he leaned in and he gently kissed both sides of her face to calm her down. Even though, Sasuke was calming Karin down, he loved the way her warm, wet inner muscles saturated and pulled his length.

When the pain went away, Karin stopped crying as she opened her eyes and her hands slid up his upper half feeling his toned abs.

Sasuke stopped kissing Karin's face and looked at her to see that she nodded as it was her way of telling him that she's ready. He removed his right hand from the left side of Karin's face before he pulled out and thrusted back inside of her. Karin wrapped her arms around Sasuke's neck and her legs around his waist. Sasuke placed his hands on the bed on both sides of Karin and leaned down to kiss her as he now thrusted roughly into her tight, wet heat. Karin closed her eyes tightly as she moaned into the kiss and wrapped her legs tightly around Sasuke's waist to push him deeper into her as Sasuke thrust his tongue inside her mouth mimicking the roughness of his hips.

"Oh yeah! This feels so good!" Karin thought.

Sasuke moaned into the kiss, relishing just how tight Karin he was inside of her, it felt amazing. Ever since he found out about sex, he's been imagining doing it with her.

"Uh, she's amazing! I've never imagined our first time would be this great! We should do this more often!" Sasuke thought.

Sasuke stopped kissing Karin, who immediately started moaning loudly, and bit Karin's neck. Karin felt Sasuke's teeth especially his fangs biting her neck, which only made her moan louder.

"Ahh, Sasuke! Ahh!" Karin moaned, gripping Sasuke even more.

"Hmmm?" Sasuke asked, opening his eyes and looked down at Karin as he continued thrusting deeply into her.

"Uh, Sasuke! Harder! Faster!" Karin said, moaning out loud.

Sasuke thrusted deeper into Karin, loving the way her warm, wet inner muscles saturated and pulled his length. Sasuke stopped biting Karin as he moved his lips to her chest, dragging his tongue along her skin. Sasuke and Karin knew they were close.

"Sasuke, I'm about to cum!" Karin yelled.

"Uh, me too!" Sasuke said, removing his lips from Karin's chest.

"Sasuke!" Karin yelled.

"Karin!" Sasuke yelled.

Sasuke released his stream of seeds into her and Karin's juices came out again. Karin's body shook with the force of her orgasm as Sasuke felt Karin's insides clenched down on his cock. Sasuke collapsed on top of Karin. They were covered in sweat and panting heavily from their love making. Sasuke lifted himself up a little bit and slowly pulled out of Karin as he still had some energy left. Sasuke grabbed Karin with his left hand before he pulled the sheets over them and wrapped his arms around her.

When they were breathing normal again, Karin slowly looked up at Sasuke.

"Um, Sasuke." Karin said.

Sasuke looked down at Karin. "What is it?" he asked.

"I love you." Karin said, wrapping her arms around Sasuke's neck.

"I love you too, Karin." Sasuke said then he leaned in and kissed Karin on the forehead.

As Sasuke and Karin cuddled lovingly into one another, Sasuke wrapped his wings around them before they slowly fell asleep.

---

A few hours later.

Morning.

Karin suddenly started wake up to the sound of birds chirping outside. She slowly opened her eyes to see that Sasuke was back to normal and they had their arms wrapped around each other. Karin's eyes widened before she slowly got out of Sasuke's arms and picked up some of the sheets with both hands to cover herself up as she rose her top half up.

Karin started to remember what happened last night. "I guess it wasn't a dream... me and Sasuke really did it...!" she thought.

Karin heard Sasuke groan, knowing he was about to wake up. She reached for her glasses with her right hand and placed them on her head.

Sasuke opened his eyes to see that Karin was awake as her top half was up. "Good morning." he said, rising his top half up.

"Oh, good morning to you too." Karin said.

Sasuke looked at Karin's arms to see that she had a few bites marks on them. "Where they did you get those markings?" he asked.

Karin looked down. "A few months after I left, I found out that I inherited the ability my mother once."

"What ability would that be?" Sasuke asked.

"Heal Bite." Karin said.

"What can it do?" Sasuke asked.

"When a person bites me, I can restore theirs or my own chakra back to full. But it depletes my own chakra when I use it on others and I'm left with these marks." Karin said.

"Oh." Sasuke said.

Karin started to think about something.

Sasuke looked at Karin, concerned. "What's the matter?" he asked.

"Nothing's wrong. It's just that I was wondering." Karin said, looked at Sasuke. "Your parents must be looking for you and you have to go on patrols today. So how are you going to get back home?"

Sasuke leaned towards Karin. "Don't worry." he said, closing his eyes as he kissed Karin on the left side of her cheek. "I know how to get back without anyone seeing me." then started kissing down to her neck.

Karin slowly closed her eyes as she started to moan a little. She was going to allow Sasuke to continue until she remembered that she had to tell him something.

"Uh, S-sasuke.. wait stop...!" Karin said, slowly pushing Sasuke with her right hand.

Sasuke leaned back. "What is it, Karin?" he asked.

Karin looked at Sasuke. "I can't join the Chunin Exams right now." she said.

"Why not?" Sasuke asked.

"Because I have to travel somewhere for awhile." Karin said.

"Travel?" Sasuke questioned.

"Hai, I want to travel to learn more of that knowledge." Karin said.

"So.. you're going to leave me here? What am I going to do without you?" Sasuke asked, placing his right hand on Karin's right shoulder, pulling her closer.

"It's only temporary and I'll be back as soon as can." Karin said.

"You promise?" Sasuke questioned.

Karin placed her right hand on the right side of Sasuke's face. "I promise." she said then pulled him towards her as she kissed him.

Sasuke and Karin closed their eyes as they started making out again.

Sasuke stopped kissing Karin as he pulled away to look at her. "When do you leave?" he asked.

"In 2 days." Karin said.

---

2 days later.

Day Time.

Konohagakure Gate.

Karin, in her usual outfit and her grey pouch wrapped around her waist, was facing Sasuke, in his Police Force outfit, as they saying goodbye to each other. From right to left: Minato, in his usual outfit, Kushina, and Naruto were standing a meters from them as they were seeing Karin off.

"Do you really have to go?" Sasuke asked.

"Hai and I'll be back before you know it." Karin said then looked at Kushina, Minato, and Naruto. "I'll be back soon and I'm sorry Oniisan."

"It's alright." Minato said smiling.

"Learn lots of information, dattebane." Kushina said.

"We'll enter it when you get back, dattebayo." Naruto said, smiling.

Karin turned back to Sasuke then leaned in and kissed him on the left side of his cheek before she pulled away. "I'm off." she said, walking away.

Minato, Kushina, Sasuke, and Naruto watched as Karin was leaving the Village again.

---

1 week later.

Day Time.

An Unknown Village.

Orange Building.

Karin was putting her belongings in a room and unpacking on her bed as she was staying for awhile to learn more knowledge here.

"I wonder how all of them are doing right now?" Karin thought.

Karin suddenly sensed a chakra coming to her room. When she turned to the door, it opened up to reveal woman, who looked to be 17, had fair skin, long brown hair that was tied up in a ponytail, green eyes, wearing her usual outfit, a short sleeved beige shirt, blue dress, and red sandals.

"Hello." the girl said smiling, entering before closing the door with her right hand. "My name is Rima."

"Nice to meet you. My name is Karin Uzumaki." Karin said smiling.

"Woah, you're really from the Uzumaki clan." Rima said.

"Hai." Karin said, placing her right hand on her right shoulder.

"We're going to be room mates for awhile." Rima said.

"That's great!" Karin said. "It's the first day and I'm already making friends. I think I'm gonna like it here." she thought.

---

6 months later.

Day Time.

Library.

Karin was sitting in a chair and reading brown book with both of her hands. She read about extinct clans like the Kaguya Clan and other stuff as well. She was almost done with finding all of the knowledge here in the Library.

Over the past months, Karin heard that a group called 'Akatsuki' were collecting The Tailed Beasts as they now have the 1 Tail, 2 Tails, and 3 Tails. She also heard from Naruto through a messenger bird that Gaara's died and was brought back to life by an old woman named Chiyo in exchange for her own life, him learning new Jutsus, Team 7 has a new team member a boy named Sai and temporary Jonin named Yamato, Asuma, Team 10's Jonin died, Kurenai's pregnant with Asuma, and a few Akatsuki's have died. But what made her hurt and sad is that Sasuke abandoned the Village 5 months ago without telling anyone. She tried contacting him by bird but he wouldn't respond. And also this rumor that Sasuke killed Orochimaru.

"I can't believe Sasuke would do that to the Hidden Leaf Village. I wonder how Fugaku and Mikoto are holding up." Karin thought. "First Itachi and now Sasuke."

As Karin continued to read from her book, she suddenly sensed familiar chakras heading towards her. She looked up at the cieling. "What are they coming here?! Why now?" she thought then she looked forward before she closed her book with both of her hands and stood up from the chair and started walking towards one of the exits. "His chakra is nice and powerful but also the other one is weak and bad."

Karin was walking through one of the empty paths to get back to the dorm as the book was in her left hand. She suddenly stopped near trees that was shading her and turned around. "Alright, come on out! I know you 2 are here." she said.

A few seconds later, Sasuke, in his new usual outfit, a long sleeved white shirt that was open at the torso, long dark blue pants, blue cloth that covers from his stomach to his knees, a purple rope belt securing the cloth, long black arm guards that reached his forearms, a small beige pouch behind him on his cloth, black sword behind him on the rope belt, and long grey sandals that reached his lower legs, and Suigetsu Hiroki, a lean-built boy that was 16 years old and a few months older than Sasuke and Karin, had fair skin, straight white hair with a light blue tint that reached his neck, almond shaped eyes, purple eye color, spiky teeth with one of the left side sticking out, wearing his usual outfit, a sleeveless purple shirt, long light grey pants, long brown sandals that reached his lower legs, brown belt wrapped around his waist that carried 2 blue and black water bottles, and a brown belt wrapped around his chest that carried a large grey sword that had 2 cut outs, a circle close to the top and a semi-circular one nearer to the handle, and detached handle, were standing a few feet away from her. Sasuke was on her left side and Suigetsu was on her right side.

They stood there in silence for awhile as Karin made a serious look at Sasuke, who made no expression on his face, while ignoring Suigetsu.

Karin placed her right hand on her right hip. "I knew it was you, Sasuke." she said.

Sasuke and Suigetsu continued to stare at Karin.

"Sasuke, you're here by yourself and you betrayed our Village." Karin said. "And I've been hearing rumors about Orochimaru's death and that you have something to do with it."

Suigetsu placed his right hand on his right hip. "Uh hello. I'm standing right next to him y'know." he said.

"So, what do you want, Sasuke?" Karin asked, ignoring Suigetsu.

Suigetsu looked at Sasuke before he closed his eyes and pointed his head to the ground. "Sasuke came here because he wants to talk to you." he said, opening his eyes and looked at Karin, taking his hand off of his hip before he walked over to Sasuke. "But we don't want to stand and talk so take us to your room where we can sit, okay." standing in front of Sasuke then raised his right hand as he closed his eyes. "I'm tired, I haven't walked this far in a long time."

Karin leaned to the right side a little bit to see Sasuke. "And what makes you think I wanna talk to you after what you did, Sasuke?" she questioned.

Karin stopped leaning as she looked up at Suigetsu.

Suigetsu opened his eyes and lowered his right hand, angry and annoyed before he walked over to Karin, raising his left hand. "I said we don't want to do this outside so just take us to your room to your room right now. Don't think I don't know that you're just trying to ignore me here, Karin." then put his left hand down.

"Hm." Karin said closing her eyes as she turned her head to the right side.

Sasuke started to walk over to Suigetsu and Karin.

Karin opened her eyes as she turned her head forward and sniffed Suigetsu, who was a little nervous, before she leaned back. "You're unpleasant." she said.

Suigetsu became angry and leaned forward a little. "You're not so pleasant yourself." he said.

Sasuke stopped on the left side of Suigetsu and Karin. "Listen just knock it off, Karin. Take us to a room now." he said.

Karin turned her head to the left side and stared at Sasuke for a moment before she closed her eyes. "Alright come on, but stay out of sight. I don't want anyone to know that you 2 are here." she said then turned around and walked away.

Sasuke and Suigetsu stood there for a moment before they disappeared.

"Why does he need to talk to me? He abandoned the Village months ago." Karin thought then opened her eyes. "As soon as Sasuke's done talking, I'll tell him to leave."

...

6 minutes later.

Karin was closing her door with her right hand and walked towards desk and placed her book on it with her left hand. "Now what do you want?" she asked, turning to the left side to see Sasuke sitting on the beginning of the left side of her bed with his sword was sitting beside him on his left side and Suigetsu was sitting in a chair beside her bed on the right side of Sasuke and his sword was laying against the wall beside him on the right side.

"First how do you 2 know each other?" Sasuke asked.

Karin stepped forward a little bit as she stood a few feet away from Sasuke and Suigetsu. "2 months after I finished training with Tsunade. I was walking on a path when this idiot came out of nowhere and started picking fights with the other idiots." she said.

"Why you-" Suigetsu said but was cut off.

"That's enough, Suigetsu." Sasuke said then turned to Karin. "Karin, come with me. I need you on my team. I need you on my team." he said.

"You have to be kidding me. You went rogue from Konoha and now you want me to join a team you're creating with this idiot." Karin said.

"Hey!" Suigetsu said annoyed.

Karin turned to Suigetsu. "Shut up!" she said. "And did Sasuke really killed Orochimaru?"

"Ask him yourself." Suigetsu said.

"Well." Karin said, turning back to Sasuke again.

Sasuke closed his eyes. "I killed him." he said.

Karin stared at Sasuke. "And he said it so casually. That's so like Sasuke to do that." she thought then she suddenly sensed Rima coming back, quickly turning around to face the door. "Oh no! I can't let Rima see them."

Sasuke opened his eyes as he and Suigetsu stared at Karin.

"What's wrong?" Sasuke asked.

Karin turned around again before she walked towards Suigetsu. "My room mate's coming." she said then grabbed Suigetsu's left arm with her left arm and started to drag him out of the chair. "So you need to go outside."

"Hold on!" Suigetsu said.

When Karin reached the window, she opened it up with her right hand. "You need to go outside now." she said then tossed Suigetsu out of the window.

Suigetsu yelled a little bit as he crashed to the ground with a thud.

Karin looked out the window. "Make sure no one's sees you." she said then closed her window with both of her hands before she turned to the right side to see Sasuke was staring at her. "You need to hide or turn into something quickly or you'll have to go outside as well."

As Rima made it to the door, she opened it up with her left hand and stepped inside to see Karin sitting in a chair and reading a book with her right hand.

"Oh hi, Karin." Rima said smiling, closing the door with her left hand.

Karin looked up at Rima, smiling. "Hello to you too, Rima." she said then closed her book before she placed it on the desk beside her. "What are you doing back so early?"

"I came to get a few supplies." Rima said, walking over to her back. "What are you doing today?"

"Oh I'm going to leave for the Library in a little while." Karin said, standing up from the chair.

Rima crouched down on the left side of her bed and put her hands under it. "By the way, why is there a sword and a wooden doll on your bed?" she asked.

Karin looked down at her bed to see Sasuke had transformed into a brown wooden statue of a hawk and his sword was still on the bed. "Oh I just bought it today." she said.

Rima pulled out a 3 beige books, a green scroll, and a black binder with both hands before she carried them in her arms and stood up from the floor. "So, you decided to learn Kenjutsu?" she asked then looked at Karin.

"Yeah, I've been studying it for awhile so I thought I should practice." Karin said.

"Okay, well I better get going." Rima said, walking over to the door and stopped in front of it, thinking of how to open it up.

Karin walked over to the door and opened the door with her right hand. "I'll get that for you." she said.

"Thanks, Karin. I'll see you later." Rima said then walked out.

Karin closed the door before she turned around and walked over to her bed and sat down at the end. She waited until she sensed Rima was meters away from her. "Okay, you can stop transforming now." she said.

Sasuke turned from the wooden doll back to his original form.

"Listen Sasuke, I know you're forming a team to go after Itachi." Karin said, looking down at the floor.

Sasuke looked to the right at Karin.

"Look, what's wrong with the team being just you and me, Sasuke? I mean don't really need that Suigetsu, right?" Karin questioned. "He has nothing to do with us."

"I see, Karin's more cunning and cautious, one of the things I love about her." Sasuke thought. "He's necessary for our team." he said.

Karin looked at Sasuke. "Sasuke, Itachi killed half of the Uchiha clan and Uzumaki clan and even tried to kill me. He didn't kill any members of the Hozuki clan." she said, placing both of her hands on her lap. "If we work together, I'm sure we can defeat Itachi."

Sasuke placed his right hand on Karin's left hand. "Trust me on this Karin." he said. "And I'll ask once more with me, join me, Karin."

Karin stared at Sasuke for a moment. "Fine. But I hope you're right about this. Alright, if you need me and if you want me to then I'll go ahead and follow you." she said. "However." then suddenly grabbed Sasuke's face with both hands. "Even after what you did I still miss you."

Sasuke and Karin stared at each other before they closed their eyes and leaned forward. As they were about to kiss one another, the windows suddenly opened up to reveal Suigetsu.

"Hey!" Suigetsu said.

Sasuke and Karin opened their eyes as Karin quickly released Sasuke and turned away.

Suigetsu smirked. "Come on, Sasuke let's go. I assume Karin turned you down." he said.

"Not quite. It seem she's coming with us after all." Sasuke said.

Karin started fixing her glasses with her right hand. "But doesn't mean that I'm joining doesn't mean I'll respect and think of you as a team mate." she said.

"Fine by me." Suigetsu said.

Karin stood up from her bed. "But before I leave, I need to get some things." she said, walking over to her desk.

...

45 minutes later.

Forest.

From left to right, Karin, who now had her grey pouch wrapped around her waist, Sasuke, and Suigetsu, were walking through the forest. When they made it to the end, they saw the Ocean and stopped and looked at it.

Karin looked at Sasuke, smiling to herself. "The one I love, Sasuke Uchiha. His handsome and cool face is great too, but... He maybe not be near Uncle Minato's chakra levels yet but he's strong none the less.." she thought then stopped smiling as she looked at Suigetsu, who had his hands behind his head. "And then there's his weak chakra."

Suigetsu looked at Karin. "Huh? What's up?" he questioned.

"I hate your chakra. It's just gross." Karin said, placing her hands on her hips.

"What?!" Suigetsu asked annoyed, leaning towards Karin and taking his hands off of his head.

Karin closed her eyes and turned her head to the left side, taking her hands off of her hips.

Suigetsu stopped leaning and closed his eyes, putting his hands on the back of his head again. "Well the same goes for you." he said.

Sasuke continued looking at the Ocean as a seagull flew past him on the left side.

...

5 minutes later.

"Who's this next member you're looking for?" Karin asked, putting her left hand on her left hip.

"Jugo and he's at Orochimaru's Northern Hide Out." Sasuke said.

"So, let's go to this Northern Hide Out." Karin said.

"Aw more walking I'm at the end of my rope here." Suigetsu said, crouching down on the ground.

"If you walked all the way over here then I'm sure you can walk over there." Karin said.

"Well the Northern Hide Out is no ordinary hideout." Suigetsu said.

Sasuke and Karin looked at Suigetsu.

"Not at all. It's for human experimentation and it houses all the uncontrollable monsters the experiments produce." Suigetsu said.

...

75 minutes later.

Somewhere in Otogakure.

Sasuke, Suigetsu, and Karin were now walking through a Rocky Place where the Northern Hideout was. As they continued walking, Suigetsu suddenly stopped walking and sat down on a large brown rock nearby. Sasuke and Karin stopped walking as they looked at Suigetsu.

Suigetsu took out one of his water bottles with his right hand and closed his eyes as he started drinking from it and stopped, sighing. "Say, aren't you guys tired?" he asked. "How about a little break."

Karin placed her left hand on her left hip. "What? But you already took a break." she questioned, facing Suigetsu. "Damn it, you're so lazy Suigetsu. Come on. We still have a long way to go."

"You don't even know where it is. So you have to follow me." Suigetsu said, opening his eyes.

"For your information, I'm following Sasuke who also knows the way there, not you and you're not even leading!" Karin said annoyed.

Suigetsu closed his eyes. "Tch." he said.

...

23 minutes later.

Sasuke, Suigetsu, and Karin were taking another break from walking because of Suigetsu. From left to right, Sasuke and Suigetsu were sitting on a medium sized flat Rock as Suigetsu had one of his water bottles in his right hand and his Executioner's Blade was leaning beside him on the right side. Karin was standing a few feet away from Suigetsu with her hands crossed.

Karin looked down at Suigetsu, serious. "Suigetsu, why the hell are you following Sasuke around?" she asked.

Suigetsu looked up at Karin, smiling. "Sasuke's not the only one with a goal. I have reasons to believe he can help me reach mine." he said. "But really, maybe you're following him because you 2 are a couple?"

"I may not know much about Orochimaru like you 2 but if you knew what I heard what Jugo's really like you wouldn't want to recruit him." Karin said.

"Well actually I know him a little, I was forced to fight him once." Suigetsu said.

Sasuke looked at Suigetsu.

"He used some interesting powers and was pretty strong." Suigetsu said.

Sasuke moved a little bit.

"I couldn't figure out what was going on in his head. I could never come around to liking him. I heard he actually asked Orochimaru to lock him up in that place. Tells you how crazy he really is." Suigetsu said.

Sasuke became interested in what Suigetsu just said.

"And so how do you know him?" Suigetsu asked.

"I've researched his clan and he's the last one before they're extinct. His clan possess the ability to absorb nature energy from their surroundings dued to then being unique. However, the effects of the energy results in them suddenly and uncontrollable surges of madness, making them go berserk." Karin said. "Their attitudes changes along with their looks."

"In other words, their angry people who loves to kill other people. Does that some it up pretty well?" Suigetsu questioned.

"Even so, I think to Orochimaru, Jugo's power was something very fascinating. I've been studying this and I know Orochimaru developed an enzyme from Jugo's bodily fluids, which allowed other shinobi to achieve the same state." Karin said. "You guys know what I mean don't you."

Suigetsu stopped smiling as Sasuke looked at the left side at his curse mark.

"I'm talking about the curse mark, it originated with Jugo." Karin said.

...

20 minutes later.

Sasuke, Suigetsu, and Karin were walking again. Sasuke was leading as Karin was behind him while Suigetsu was walking behind them, exhausted.

Karin started sensing lots of chakras in the area. "So, this is Orochimaru's Northern Hideout." she thought.

Suigetsu stopped walking. "Hey." he said then sat down on the ground. "Can we rest a second?"

Sasuke and Karin stopped walking.

Karin turned around, moving her fists around. "Suigetsu! You keep taking breaks like every 2 minutes! We're almost at the hideout now come on!" she yelled.

Sasuke looked up at one of the Hideout's posts to see that no one's there.

Karin placed her left hand on her left hip and pointed her right index at Suigetsu. "I bet it's that sword. It's too heavy for you isn't it?" she questioned. "Just leave it behind! Damn it!" then placed her right hand on her right hip.

Sasuke continued to look up at the Post.

Karin turned her head to the right side to look at Sasuke. "Talk some sense into him, Sasuke!" she said then noticed something wrong with Sasuke. "Huh?" turning around and walked over to him until she was on his left side. "What's wrong?" looking at him.

"There's was supposed to be a guard here on watch." Sasuke said.

"What? A guard?" Karin questioned then looked up at the Post Sasuke was staring at to see that no one was there. "No one's there. That is strange."

"Guys." Suigetsu said, standing up.

Sasuke and Karin looked at Suigetsu.

Suddenly a man who looked to be 19 years old, had short black hair, black hair, wearing his usual outfit, a shirt very similar to Karin, long black pants, and long black sandals, was injured and slowly walking towards them.

Sasuke and Karin turned around to see the man was walking towards them before he collapsed on his stomach.

Sasuke, Suigetsu, and Karin walked over to him and Sasuke crouched down on his right side, Karin crouched down on his left side, and Suigetsu stood above him as he placed his left hand on his left hip.

Karin grabbed the guy, who had his eyes closed, with both hands before she turned him over on his stomach. Her right hand was on the back of his head while she placed her left hand on his neck, looking for a pulse. "He's from the Northern Hideout." said then took her left hand off of his neck. "He's still alive."

Sasuke looked down at man. "What happened there?" he asked.

The man slowly opened his eyes, looking up at Sasuke. "Uh, you.. you must be him.. Sasuke Uchiha, right?" he asked. "Please, you must help us."

Sasuke didn't say anything.

"What's going on?" Suigetsu asked.

"The rumors.. It started with the rumors of Orochimaru, that he had been killed.. The prisoners all went wild and rioted and the way it's going." the man said then suddenly closed his eyes and grunted in pain before he stopped and died.

Suigetsu leaned down a little. "Look at that. He just died." he said.

Karin looked to the left side as she sensed someone coming to their location.

A person came and landed on the ground, causing a small crater around him, the 3 of them looked to see that the man looked to be 25 years old, had long shaggy orange hair that reached his waist, dark brown skin as he was in the curse mark second state, fangs, yellow eyes with dark grey on the outside, wing-like protrusions on his forearms, 2 horns sprouting from each side of his forehead, and 2 more horns coming from each side of his cheeks, his broad flat tail, and wearing his usual outfit, a white short sleeved T-shirt and white shorts, and had his hands and arms on the ground.

Sasuke, Suigetsu, and Karin looked at the man. Sasuke and Suigetsu stood up as Suigetsu stepped forward and stood in front of Karin, who released her right hand from the now deceased man and placed it on the ground beside her.

The man looked at Sasuke. "I know you. I'm sure I do." he said.

Sasuke didn't say anything as he continued to stare at the man.

Suigetsu took his left hand off of his left hip. "What the hell is that?" he asked.

"That's curse mark second state. He has already transformed." Karin said.

Sasuke stood there for a moment before he quickly ran towards the man and took out his sword with his right hand struck the man on his stomach, making the man fall forward as he untransformed out of his second state.

Sasuke placed his sword back in it's holster with his right. "The Northern Hideout is just up ahead. Let's go get Jugo." he said then started walking forward.

Karin stood up from the ground. "Hey. Hey! Wait up. Sasuke!" she said, running after him.

Suigetsu walked over to the man and looked down at him as he immediately recognized him. "Huh? Guren." he asked.

...

5 minutes later.

From left to right, Suigetsu, Sasuke, and Karin standing were standing a few meters away from the large grey hideout as the prisoners, who were in the curse mark second state, were looking at them as they stood a few feet away from them.

"All of the wardens have been killed. And all of the inmates have broken out." Karin said.

"At this rate, we can't tell which one is Jugo, right?" Suigetsu questioned then looked at Sasuke. "Sasuke?"

"None of these are him." Sasuke said.

"Are you sure?" Suigetsu asked, taking his Executioner's Blade off of his back with his left hand.

"Jugo is locked up in a cell by himself." Sasuke said.

"Then we don't have to worry which one of them we take down." Suigetsu said, reaching into his right pocket with his right hand and pulled out a handle.

"Just don't kill any of them." Sasuke said, putting his right hand on his sword.

"Alright." Karin said.

Suigetsu placed the handle on the sword, looking at Sasuke. "Boy you 2 are from the Hidden Leaf Village. You 2 shouldn't hold back and you should've killed that last guy too." he said then held his sword up with both hands. "You're so soft."

"Karin, can you look for some keys inside?" he asked.

"Fine." Karin said.

"Let's go." Sasuke said, pulling out his sword with his right hand.

...

10 minutes later.

Sasuke and Suigetsu were hitting the prisoners multiple times with their swords while Karin was using her Enhanced Strength Technique on the prisoners with her left hand.

"All of you, stay back!" Suigetsu yelled before swinging his sword at them with both hands.

Sasuke quickly jumped up as he sliced the prisoners, who fell down, with his sword with his right hand.

Karin looked at the prisoners around her before she raised her left fist and used Cherry Blossom Impact on the ground, making the prisoners fall down.

...

15 minutes later.

It took them awhile as they were now inside the Northern Hideout.

Karin used Chakra Enhanced Strength on a male prisoner with her left hand, sending him crashing into the wall with a crater behind him. She looked around to see that all of the prisoners were unconscious. "Well that takes care of them on my end." she said.

Karin suddenly spotted a black key ring with many keys on it hanging from the wall before she walked over to it and picked it up with her right hand. "This must be what Sasuke was talking about." she thought, looking at them. She turned around and walked towards the exit and went over to where she sensed Sasuke and Suigetsu's chakra.

When Karin made it, she stood outside the doorway to see Sasuke putting his sword back in it's holster with his right hand and Suigetsu sighing and holding his sword with both of his hands, unconscious prisoners laid around them.

"The keys!" Karin said.

Sasuke and Suigetsu looked at Karin.

Karin placed her left hand on the doorway. "I found the key ring." she said then held up the keys with her right hand.

...

3 minutes later.

Sasuke, Suigetsu, whose sword was strapped to his back again, and Karin walked through the hallways of the hideout. They stopped walking when they were at a 4 way hall.

Sasuke looked to the left side. "Karin, which way?" he asked, turned his head forward. "Tell us."

Karin looked at Sasuke. "Hey, Sasuke. Quit bossing us around." she said.

"Uh, just calm down and figure it out, would ya?" Suigetsu questioned.

Karin looked to the right side at Suigetsu.

"If you're so proud of your ability then use it." Suigetsu said.

Karin pointed her right index finger at the right hallway. "It's that way." she said lying.

Sasuke and Suigetsu looked at the hallway Karin was pointing to.

Suigetsu sighed as he started to walk down to the hallway. Karin lowered her right hand as she and Sasuke started walking down the hallway. Karin walked on the left side of Sasuke.

Sasuke was about to walk further until he stopped walking when Karin's right hand block his way. He looked at her and followed after her when he saw walked to the forward hallway. They stopped walking as Suigetsu continued to walk without knowing they're somewhere else.

"What's wrong?" Sasuke asked.

Karin turned around, blushing a little and pointed her right index finger to the forward hallway. "It's actually this way. Now come on let's go." she said.

"Why did you lie, Karin?" Sasuke asked then looked to the right side. "Suigetsu went the wrong way."

Karin lowered her right hand. "Suigetsu has a big mouth. I don't like him." she said then grabbed Sasuke's right hand with her left hand. "Come on." walking forward as Sasuke walked with her.

"Let go. I can walk on my own." Sasuke said.

"Even though Sasuke's stubborn sometimes. I still love him anyway." Karin thought, smiling a little.

...

4 minutes later.

Sasuke and Karin were standing in front of a large grey cell that had a few locks on the right side that was going horizontal and chains in front of that made an 'X'. Sasuke on the left side and Karin was on the right side.

"This it?" Sasuke asked.

Karin looked at Sasuke. "Yeah, Jugo's in this cell." she said then turned forward as she pulled the key ring out of her right pocket with her right hand and started unlocking the locks. When she was done, she dropped the keys to the floor. "Kay, I'm gonna open it." then reached for the door knob with her left hand but pulled it back when Sasuke's right hand quickly grabbed it.

Karin looked at Sasuke. "No, I'm going in first. Now just stay behind me." he said.

Karin looked down, blushing a little bit. "Uh, right." she said, backing away a little and lowering her left hand.

Sasuke gripped the door knob with his right hand before he opened it up to see an 18 year old man who was tall and muscular, had short spiky orange hair, pale skin, orange-red eyes, wearing a short sleeved pale blue shirt, pale green shorts, and a black ball and chain was on his right foot, was sitting down inside and suddenly black markings appeared from under his clothes and on his face.

"Bingo, you're dead!" Jugo yelled, running towards Sasuke and Karin.

Karin screamed.

Sasuke placed his right hand on his sword.

Jugo continued to scream as he continued to run towards them.

Karin moved to the left side and her lower half fell to the ground as Jugo pushed Sasuke into the wall, creating a crater. She noticed that Jugo's left hand transformed into a grey spiky large hand and the left side of his face turned grey, and his left eye turned black and yellow.

"Sasuke!" Karin yelled.

Jugo laughed wickedly.

Karin started to get up until Jugo started to do something.

"No, not just yet!" Jugo said then activated his left hand to hit Sasuke even more, causing a wave of air and dust to appear.

Karin closed her eyes and grunted as she covered her face with her hands. A few seconds later, Karin stood up as she uncovered her face and the dust started to disappear, sensing that Sasuke's chakra has changed.

"Sasuke's chakra has..." Karin thought then saw Sasuke had a grey wing on the right side of him, which was protecting him from Jugo's attack, and the right side of his face was grey, and his right eye was yellow and black.

Jugo stopped smiling at Sasuke.

"He just transformed." Karin said.

Sasuke started pushing Jugo away.

Jugo smiled again as he started laughing. "So, you're just another copy of my are you?" he questioned.

"Sasuke...!" Karin thought worried.

"Still it's pretty impressive you can pull off a partial transformation like that!" Jugo yelled then backed from Sasuke. "Y'know you're pretty good at using the curse mark! I haven't seen a copy-cat this good since Kimimaro!" becoming serious.

Sasuke slowly stood on the floor again then he lifted his head up, looking at Jugo. "I'm not here to fight you." he said.

Jugo and Karin continued to look at Sasuke.

"The only reason I'm here is to talk to you, Jugo." Sasuke said.

"To talk?" Jugo questioned.

Sasuke started untransforming. "That's right, Jugo. I came to take you out of here." he said.

"You're gonna get me outta here?" Jugo questioned then started laughing before he stopped. "Are you out of your mind?! He's gone! Without him with me, I can never leave this place."

When Sasuke turned back to normal, he pulled his shirt back over his right side with his left hand as he stared at Jugo.

"Now do you understand me?" Jugo asked.

"Kimimaro..." Jugo thought.

The 3 of them stood in silence for a moment.

Karin sensed Suigetsu coming towards their location.

"I'll say it again. I don't wanna fight you. I came to get you out of here and that's all. I want you to come with me." Sasuke said.

"Don't you see I can't leave here. Never again!" Jugo yelled, charging at Sasuke with his right fist.

Sasuke dodged Jugo's attack by jumping on his back and jumped a few feet away from him, facing him.

Jugo yelled as he charged at Sasuke.

"Sasuke no!" Karin yelled.

Jugo tried to attack Sasuke with his left hand but Sasuke deflected the attack with his right hand, making Jugo crash into the wall on the left side of Sasuke, making a crater. Jugo turned around and charged at Sasuke again with his left hand but Sasuke jumped into the air and landed behind him, facing him.

"You take him down. Kill him, Sasuke." Karin said smiling.

Jugo tried to attack Sasuke again with his left hand but Sasuke jumped out of the way and Jugo hit the wall, causing parts of the cieling to collapse and dust covered the air. Sasuke jumped onto the roof.

"I won't let you escape!" Jugo yelled, jumping onto the roof, following Sasuke.

Karin stopped smiling and closed her eyes and covered her mouth with her right hand, coughing a little.

Suigetsu walked over with his hands on the back of his head. "Woah, what is going on here?" he asked.

Karin opened her eyes and lowered her right hand from her face.

"Oh." Karin said annoyed.

Suigetsu took his hands off of his head. "You really are a piece of work, you know that?" he questioned, stopping a few feet from Karin. "You tricked me back there."

Karin placed her right hand on her right hip. "Oh give me a break, Suigetsu. You got lost all on your own." she said.

"I got lost because I followed your directions." Suigetsu said.

Karin took her right hand off of her right hip, becoming more annoyed. "Listen I really resent that accusation!" she said. "What would be the point anyway? What would I get out of tricking you like that?"

Suigetsu turned around a little. "Why you get to be alone with your boyfriend, isn't that right?" he asked.

"What?!" Karin questioned, putting her right hand on her glasses. "Um, no way! And it's none of your business what me and Sasuke do together! So shut it!" then turned around and taking her right hand off of her glasses.

Suigetsu stopped smiling. "Yeah, whatever. Anyway, what happened while I was wandering around?" he asked, turning fully around.

"Jugo just went wild and attacked." Karin said.

"I see." Suigetsu said. "So you 2 went looking for Jugo after all." then turned around and looked at Karin. "And Sasuke?"

"He and Jugo went outside." Karin said.

Suigetsu turned around again. "Well, Sasuke's tough. He can handle anyone, even somebody this powerful." he said.

"Yeah, let's hope." Karin said.

"Jugo's even stronger then?" Suigetsu asked

"Well yeah." Karin said.

"By the way, you said that you probably know why Jugo actually came to Orochimaru of his own free will?" Suigetsu asked.

"Yeah." Karin said.

"But why?" Suigetsu asked.

"To get fixed probably." Karin said.

Suigetsu turned around again and looked at Karin. "Get fixed?" he said.

"Possible to Jugo, Orochimaru's Hideout is probably like some kind of rehabilitation facility where he can get better." Karin said.

"But what if Jugo wanna fix about himself?" Suigetsu asked.

"Jugo's impulses are like an addiction, he can't do anything about it on his own." Karin said.

"Huh?" Suigetsu questioned.

"He simply wants to control his urges to slaughter." Karin said.

...

A few minutes later.

Karin sensed Sasuke and Jugo were coming to their location from in front of her. "They're coming." she said, backing away a few feet.

Suigetsu took out his sword with his left hand and reached into his right pocket with his right hand and pulled out his sword handle before putting it on the sword. "Then it's time." he said moving forward a little bit, holding the sword up with both hands.

Suigetsu and Karin watched as Sasuke and Jugo came running towards them.

Sasuke turned to the left side a little bit to see that Jugo was about to attack him with his left arm so he looked forward and jumped out of the way. Suigetsu sword with Jugo's left arm, causing Jugo to stop running. Sasuke stopped running as he turned around and saw that Jugo and Suigetsu were standing a few feet away from each other.

"Who are you?" Jugo asked Suigetsu.

Suigetsu took his right hand off of his sword, smiling. "You're using a different technique than you did before Jugo." he said, putting his right hand back on his sword. "Not too bad. I like it."

"Stop, Suigetsu." Sasuke said.

Jugo smirked. "Yes, of course. We fought before Suigetsu. I remember now." he said, turning part of his left hand into an axe.

"You know this guy really is dangerous, Sasuke." Suigetsu said.

"Sasuke?" Jugo questioned, looking to the right side at Sasuke.

"We didn't come here to fight, Suigetsu. Just let me talk to him." Sasuke said.

"I seriously doubt anything you say is gonna get through to him. The only thing he understands is force!" Suigetsu said then started swinging his sword at Jugo.

Jugo yelled as he swung his left arm at Suigetsu, both of them clashed. Suigetsu yelled as he swung his sword at Jugo, who ducked and stood up.

"Stop it, both of you." Sasuke said.

"No, don't stop. Kill each other off." Karin thought smiling, raising her right fist.

Jugo and Suigetsu were about to clash again until Sasuke stood in between them, wrapping them and their swords around the snakes coming from his sleeves, causing them to freeze.

Karin stopped smiling as she lowered her right hand.

"Do you both want me to kill you is that it?" Sasuke questioned.

The hallway went silent for a momentt before Sasuke started unwrapping the snakes from Jugo and Suigetsu before they went back under his sleeves.

Suigetsu lowered his sword. "He really was about to kill us just now." he thought.

Karin smiled again, blushing as she placed her right hand on her chin. "Ah, Sasuke. You're incredible." she thought before she stopped smiling and blushing as she lowered her right hand from her chin.

Jugo unactivated his curse mark second state and started freaking out. Sasuke, Suigetsu, and Karin looked at Jugo before he ran back into his cell, closing the door with his left hand. They heard quietness for a few seconds before they heard screaming. Suigetsu put his handle back in his right pocket with his right hand and his sword on his back with his left hand.

"Please just hurry and lock the door!" Jugo yelled, sitting down as his hands were in his hair.

"Jugo. I mean you no harm. I only came to free you." Sasuke said. "Please, come out and join me."

"I guess he's too frightened." Suigetsu said.

"You're wrong. That's not it at all." Karin said.

Sasuke and Suigetsu looked at Karin.

"I don't wanna kill anymore people! If I go outside this place I will! I'm begging you, just leave me alone! Please!" Jugo yelled.

"What? How weird." Suigetsu questioned. "That's some split personality right there."

"I told you. Jugo and his clan succumbs to irrepressible murderous urges and it's like their someone else." Karin said. "He'll lose his control of himself, but the truth is he actually rather not kill." walking up a little bit to the cell.

"I don't know when I'll lose control and kill someone again. So just put the lock on the door and leave me be!" Jugo yelled.

"I don't think Jugo's gonna work out, Sasuke." Suigetsu said then looked at Sasuke. "We're constantly gonna have to watch our backs around him encase he starts to lose control."

"Who the hell are you people anyway?!" Jugo asked then took his hands out of his hair as he turned to the door. "I just wanna be left alone!"

Everything went silent for a moment.

Sasuke closed his eyes and opened them again, walking up to the door. "Orochimaru is dead. This hideout is completely destroyed. If you stay here you'll die, too." he said.

Jugo turned his head forward as he closed his eyes. "I don't care. At least then I can never kill anybody else." he said.

Sasuke stopped at the door. "Listen to me, don't worry. I'll be your cage, Jugo. I can keep you under control." he said.

Jugo opened his eyes. "There's nothing you can do. Only one person can subdue my impulses, Kimimaro. Without, Kimimaro I won't leave." he said.

"Wait Kimimaro? You mean the guy from the Kaguya Clan?" Suigetsu asked.

"Yeah." Karin said then looked to the right side at Suigetsu. "I think of all of the people here Jugo and Kimimaro were Orochimaru's favorites. Possibly they were kept here together right here in this hideout for live experimentation. And Kimimaro was very strong, I guess he was the only one who could stop Jugo's violent rampages without harming him. Orochimaru's precious research subject."

"Even though, you haven't been around Orochimaru and others, you sure know a lot." Suigetsu said, looking at Karin.

"I've researched many things over the years." Karin said.

"But I thought Kimimaro was.. isn't he dead?" Suigetsu questioned.

"Yeah." Karin said.

"Jugo, you should know Kimimaro died for me." Sasuke said.

Suigetsu and Karin looked forward.

"He's gone." Sasuke said.

Jugo's eyes widened in surprise. "Wait a second." he said. "If he did that for you then that mean that you're Uchiha? Sasuke Uchiha?"

"That's right." Sasuke said.

Jugo started to get and turn around as he remembered him and Kimimaro talking for the last before Sasuke the door with his left hand. Jugo started to step out of the cell.

"So that's what happened, Kimimaro." Jugo thought, his right hand on the door.

Everyone stood in silence for a moment again.

---

Outside of the Northern Hideout.

The 4 of were now standing outside. From left to right, Karin, Suigetsu, and Jugo were standing as they were facing Sasuke, who was looking at them.

"Good. Now I've gathered my perfect team. Here it is, this is my plan. My ultimate goal is to kill Itachi Uchiha of the Akatsuki." Sasuke said.

"I thought you were gonna say that." Suigetsu said.

Jugo continued to stare at Sasuke.

"Even if you do kill Itachi, how will your be with your family, Konoha, Oniisan.. or even me...?" Karin thought. "If we do find him, you won't let me help fight with you, even after what he did to my clan and tried to kill me..."

"But to succeed I'll need help from all of you. Of course, it's your choice." Sasuke said then looked at Karin. "Karin, are you sure about traveling with us? You have Konohagakure and the Academy to go back to."

Karin snapped out of her thoughts. "Oh uh, there's no rush me to go back so I'll travel with you guys. I can go back anytime I want." she said, putting her right hand on her chin as her glasses fogged up.

Suigetsu looked to the left side at Karin. "Karin, just be honest and tell the truth would ya." he said then smiled. "The only thing you're really interested in being around Sasuke who is also your boyfriend, isn't that right?"

Karin became annoyed as she looked at Suigetsu, putting her right hand on her glasses. "What?! No, that just ridiculous! It's ridiculous how ridiculous that is!" she yelled then pointed her right index finger at Suigetsu. "No you're ridiculous!"

"What I am is right. I mean why else would you get all flustered like that. Hah rich." Suigetsu said, folding his arms. "Even though you 2 are dating, I know something else that you and Sasuke already di-"

Karin's eyes widened and she punched Suigetsu with her right fist, making Suigetsu's head turn into water. Karin growled angrily, unfisting her right hand before she stood up straight.

"Suigetsu, don't get Karin worked up." Sasuke said, looking at Suigetsu. "I thought I told you to cooperate."

"Alright, I will. I'm sorry, Karin truly." Suigetsu said, unfolding his arms, his head turning back to normal. "Look, you may hate it but I'm not going anywhere. I'm sticking like glue to Sasuke. At least I am until I find and locate one of the 7 Hidden Mist Blades. I'm on the hunt for Kisame Hoshigaki's giant sword, Samehada. And is also Itachi Uchiha's partner."

"You just want to get another sword?" Karin questioned then closed her eyes. "How pathetic."

Suigetsu looked at Karin, annoyed.

"Suigetsu." Sasuke said.

Suigetsu folded his arms again, closing his eyes. "Yeah, I know." he said then opened his eyes as he looked at Jugo on the right side. "Jugo, what are you gonna do?"

Karin opened her eyes.

Jugo looked at Suigetsu. "Kimimaro said that he considered you his reincarnation, Sasuke. And sacrificed his life to protect you." he said then looked at Sasuke. "So that's why I wanna see what kind of shinobi you really are with my own eyes."

Jugo, Suigetsu, and Karin looked at Sasuke.

"Then it's all set. Now that we're a team we all move together as one and from this point on we will be known as 'The Hebi'. 'The Hebi' has only one goal is to kill Itachi Uchiha."

---

1 hour later.

Sasuke, Jugo, and Karin were standing while Suigetsu was sitting on a large brown rock, sipping on one of his water bottles with his right hand smiling.

Karin placed her right hand on her right hip, looking up at Suigetsu, annoyed. "What are you?! Are you a fish out of water or something?!" she questioned. "Quit sitting down every few minutes to hydrate yourself!" then looked down. "We've just started the team and I already want to kill him." she thought, sighing.

...

40 minutes later.

Somewhere near Konohagakure.

The 4 of them continued to walk through the Rocky Place as it was very sunny outside. Sasuke was in front, Jugo was behind Sasuke, and Karin was behind them, while Suigetsu was a few feet behind them.

"We're really going here? What if anyone of the Uchiha clan saw us?" Karin thought, looking at the

Suigetsu was sipping on one of his water bottles with his right hand, his eyes closed. "I can't take it. Let's take a break already." he said.

Karin stopped and turned around and pointed her left index finger at Suigetsu. "Keep complaining and dragging your feet like this and we're never gonna make it there!" she yelled, her glasses fogging up.

Jugo stopped and turned around, looking at Suigetsu and Karin.

"Well excuse me, but unlike you I have a very delicate constitution." Suigetsu said.

Karin placed her left hand on the left side of her face, blushing a little from the heat. "What?! Look, why don't you just go evaporate already you water monster!" she asked.

Suigetsu was blushing a little bit from the heat as well. "Hey, here's a better. Why don't you get lost? Didn't you say you had other places to go?" he questioned, walking past Karin.

Karin took her left hand of the left side of her face and twitched her fingers in angry at what Suigetsu told her.

Jugo placed his right hand in his hair, smiling a little.

Sasuke stopped walking. "Enough, we're here." he said.

Jugo, who turned around and put his right hand down from his head, Suigetsu, who opened his eyes and stopped walking, and Karin looked forward at a large grey building city.

"Hmm?" Jugo and Suigetsu questioned.

Karin put her hands down. "So, we really are going here, Sora-ku city. I'm not sensing another in the Uchiha clan here. But I shouldn't let my guard down." she thought.

...

10 minutes later.

The 4 of them were walking through the a medium sized yellow and red gate that had the kanji for Sora-ku on it in black letters. They walked through the seemingly abandoned city as Karin sensed a few chakras around the area until they turned to the right side at an open door way. Sasuke was standing in front while from left to right, Suigetsu, Jugo, and Karin were standing behind him.

"This is it." Sasuke said.

"I gotta say, this is one sketchy looking place." Suigetsu said.

"Let's go." Sasuke said then walked inside.

Jugo, Suigetsu, and Karin followed after him.

As the 4 of them continued walking, they stepped through a dark hallway that had many pipes on the cieling and a few against the walls. Suigetsu was on the left side of Sasuke, Karin was on the right side of Sasuke, and Jugo was behind them.

"Uh huh, a hideout in a wasteland like this one. I never heard of it." Suigetsu said.

Sasuke turned to the left side to look at Suigetsu. "This isn't Orochimaru's. It's a mmunition store the Uchiha clan uses. We'll outfit ourselves with supplies for battle." he said then turned forward.

"This is like a maze. All the passages look the same it must be easy to get lost in here." Suigetsu said.

"I haven't seen this place in 3 years and it's harder to breath in here." Karin said looking around the hallway a little, sensing 2 familiar chakras behind them.

"I'm sorry to hear you feel that way way, Karin." a male voice said.

The 4 of them stopped and turned around.

"Ha, it's been a long time, Denka and Hina." Sasuke said.

On the right side was Denka, a small male cat that had light brown fur with dark brown fur on his ears, cheeks, paws, and tail, his eyes were squinted but were dark brown, had a kanji for shinobi written in black on his forehead, wearing his usual outfit, a long sleeved blue kimono with a white sash wrapped around it, and a grey mesh shirt, and on the left side was Hina, a small female cat that had light brown fur, 3 black markings on each side of her cheeks and some on her face, her eyes were squinted but her eye color was brown, wearing her usual outfit, a long sleeved red kimono with a white sash wrapped around it, and a grey mesh shirt, were standing on the floor.

"Well if it isn't our Sasuke-boy." Denka said.

"So tell us what can we do for you?" Hina said then meowed.

"We need weapons and medicine. As well as some other supplies. We need to prepare for battle." Sasuke said.

"Are those really?" Jugo asked.

Suigetsu closed his eyes as he talked towards the cats. "Hah, yeah they're talking tanuki." he said then crouched down, opening his eyes as he held out his left to them. "Come here, little guy."

Denka hissed as he almost tried to bite Suigetsu.

Suigetsu gasas he pulled his left hand back.

"They're ninja cats, so be careful and respectful or they'll tear you apart." Sasuke said.

Suigetsu looked at Sasuke. "You wanna warn us about stuff like that before hand." he said.

"So, did you bring us a present?" Hina asked then meowed.

Sasuke reached into his pouch with his right hand and held it up. "Here, a bottle of catnip for you." he said.

Hina ran up and jumped, taking the bottle of catnip from Sasuke by putting it in her mouth then landed on the ground. "It's my favorite." she said then meowed, looking at Sasuke.

Denka walked and stopped on the left side of Hina. "Follow me and I'll take you to Granny Cat." he said.

...

8 minutes later.

The 4 of them were in a shop that had books, cat related things everywhere, cats, and boxes of clothes. Granny Cat, an old woman that looks to be in her late 70's had fair skin, long grey hair that made a large circle, her eyes were squinted but she had black eyes, black paint on her nose, wearing her usual outfit, an orange kimono like dress that had green trimmings and green on the sleeves, light purple scarf wrapped around her neck, black cat ears on her head that is keeping her hair in place, long grey pants with a yellow and green pattern at the ends of them, and grey sandals, was smoking a pipe with her right hand, was surrounded by cats, and a carpet was under her. She had a bed behind her with orange blankets and a pillow.

"I am grateful, Granny Cat." Sasuke said, crouching down a few feet away from her.

"It's been too long since I've seen you. I'm sorry you're in such a hurry." Granny Cat said.

Sasuke looked down at some of the items, picking up a small purple bottle with his right hand. "Yeah, I have an important task." he said.

Karin was standing on the right side and holding her right hand with her left hand as a light brown cat was standing on her right side, looking up at her. She was watching Sasuke and Granny Cat from afar.

Suigetsu was crouching down in front of 3 cats, one was black and 2 were cream colored, as he held out his left hand to them. "Now, you're not a ninja cat are you?" he asked smiling. "No you're not."

Jugo, who now had on long black pants, long black sandals, was standing in front of Tamaki, a 16 year old girl that had fair skin, long brown hair that reached her waist and bangs that covered her forehead, hazel eyes, wearing her usual outfit, a sleeveless orange blouse, long cream colored pants, short fishnet stockings, wrapped bandages wrapped around her left elbow, and black sandals, was holding up a long sleeved black long sleeved shirt with both hands at him.

"No good, even the XXL doesn't fit." Tamaki said.

"Sorry." Jugo said.

Sasuke placed the bottle next to the others on a lavender clothed that had bottles, small books, and other items before he picked it up with both hands as he rolled it up.

"So it's true, you're still going to go after Itachi?" Granny Cat questioned.

Sasuke scrapped the cloth closed with his left hand as he held it with her right hand.

"To think that I've known the both of you since you were just wee little things, never did imagine it would come to this. Now half of Uchiha clan clan as well as the Uzumaki clan were killed by him." Granny Cat said. "And you 2 brothers must kill each other."

Sasuke continued to scrap the cloth and placed it in his pouch with his right hand before he handed out a small stack of money to Granny Cat. "We'll be going now but thank you for all that you've done." he said.

Granny Cat sighed softly. "And it was nice seeing you too, Karin." she said.

Karin turned to the left side a little. "Yeah, you too." she said.

Tamaki looked over at her grandmother. "Nothing fits him, Granny." she said, holding the shirt down. "Don't we have any larger clothes for him to try on around here?"

Granny Cat groaned a little. "Did you check in that box?" she asked, looking at her granddaughter.

"I did. They're all too small." Tamaki said.

"Then just wrap him in that curtain over there. We're not running a clothing store here, you know." Granny Cat said.

Tamaki put her left hand down. "But Granny Cat, that's so rude. They are paying us, you know." she said.

Jugo grabbed a purple curtain on the left side with his left hand before he covered himself with it.

Tamaki looked up at Jugo.

"There." Jugo said.

"At least, that'll do for now." Karin thought.

...

2 hours later.

It was raining in the Rocky Area now. The 4 of them were standing on one of the large rocks as they were wearing black hooded cloaks. From left to right, Sasuke, Karin, Suigetsu, and Jugo,in his new usual outfit, a long purple shirt that was made from the curtain, long black pants, and long black sandals, were looking over the area. They stood in silence before Sasuke said something.

"Time to go." Sasuke said.

The 4 of them disappeared.

---

Tomorrow.

Unknown Forest.

Day Time.

Taka was walking out of the forest as from left to right, Jugo and Suigetsu and behind them, Karin and Sasuke. They suddenly stopped walking.

Suigetsu looked at Jugo, smiling. "Well then, it's time to go." he said.

"Itachi Uchiha, huh. I hope we can find him." Jugo said.

Suigetsu turned forward as he and Jugo jumped into the air and disappeared.

Karin turned and walked over to Sasuke, who was standing and looking up into the sky, before she grabbed the left side of him with her right hand.

Sasuke looked down at Karin.

"I guess I better head out too. I'll see you later." Karin said then turned away from Sasuke as she released her right hand from him.

Karin suddenly stopped when she felt her right hand was grabbed, she looked to the right side to Sasuke staring at her as his left hand was on her right hand.

"Be careful out there." Sasuke said.

Karin smiled. "Yeah, same thing to you." she said.

Sasuke's left hand released Karin's right hand before Karin walked away and disappeared. Sasuke turned forward before he looked back into the sky.

...

10 minutes later.

Unknown Village.

Karin was walking through the crowd of people as she was looking down at the ground, thinking about recent events.

"Even if we kill Itachi, things still won't be the same." Karin thought, sighing. "Just like when Mother and Father died." she stopped walking and she snapped out of her thoughts as she sensed a very familiar chakra a meters away from her. "What is she doing here?!"

Karin looked to the right side and saw a nice space between 2 buildings before she walked over to it through the crowd of people and hid before she held up her hands and made hand signs.

"Transform." Karin said.

A puff of smoke appeared around her and disappeared to reveal that Karin had transformed into a 17 year old girl that had fair skin, shoulder length orange hair, black eyes, wearing a short sleeved brown shirt, long beige pants, black cloak, and black sandals.

"Now she won't recognize me." Karin said.

Karin walked out of the space and walked where she sensed the familiar chakra. A few meters away, she saw Sakura, in her usual outfit with a white cloak with red stripes at the bottom of it. Karin saw 2 dogs beside Sakura, the one on the left side was Shiba, a medium sized dog that has light grey fur with white undersides and black crest on his head reminiscent of a mohawk, black eyes with round and have black markings above them, black nose, wearing his usual outfit, a ninken outfit, a blue vest with the heno-heno-moheji symbol on the back, dark blue Konohagakure Forehead Protector wrapped around his neck, and white bandages wrapped around his front legs, and on the right side was Biscuit, a medium sized dog that had tan fur with brown highlights on his long ears and legs, written black in kanji for 'shinobi' in the middle of his forehead, black circular markings around his eyes, black eyes, black nose, wearing his usual outfit, the ninken outfit, a blue vest with the heno-heno-moheji symbol on the back of it, and a blue Forehead Protector wrapped around his neck.

"If Sakura's here, Oniisan and the others must be in the area, probably searching for Sasuke." Karin thought. "She's tracking Sasuke down. I must've touched when we departed." remembering it recently.

Karin continued walking through the crowd of people as she saw Sakura look around then forward. Less than a minute later, she, Sakura, and the dogs passed each other and walked away from one another.

Karin sighed before she walked to the left side to a space in between 2 buildings and untransformed, returning back to her usual self. She walked out of the space and looked into the direction Sakura headed into.

"I have to warn the others that we must be cautious of the area now. And I've given it a thorough once over but I don't sense any worrisome chakra." Karin thought then took her glasses off with her right hand, smiling. "Maybe I'll go back to Sasuke. The others probably aren't back yet, so I'll have him all to myself." then placed her glasses back on as she turned around and walked through the crowd of people.

...

1 hour later.

Karin continued to walk through the village, still looking for leads on Itachi.

Still nothing, these people don't know anything about Itachi. Suigetsu and Jugo probably don't have anything either." Karin thought. "I better head back to Sasuke."

Karin stopped walking and looked up into the sky to see a white bright explosion. She and the other villagers were surprised to see it so far away.

"Sasuke, no. It can't be." Karin thought then closed her eyes as she held up her right index and middle fingers, trying to sense Sasuke's chakra but couldn't. She opened her eyes and gasped, her right hand near her face. "I can't sense Sasuke's chakra anymore."

Karin put her right hand down as she started to run towards the explosion.

...

24 minutes later.

Near a River.

From right to left, Jugo and Karin ran together as Karin sensed Sasuke and Suigetsu nearby. They met up a few minutes after the explosion. The 2 of them were now a few feet away from them.

Karin saw Manda, who was now dead and dirty.

"There you are!" Karin yelled.

Sasuke, who had his Sharingan on, was crouching down on the ground as his left hand was on his left knee and right hand on the ground, and Suigetsu, who was also crouching down on the ground, looked at Jugo and Karin. Sasuke was missing his left arm guard and left sandals, had his shirt off, his bangs covered his forehead, and he was bruised.

"I thought you'd be here. Your chakra suddenly disappeared so I wondered what happened." Karin said. "Did you transport yourself or something?"

Suigetsu looked at Sasuke. "You hide yourself inside Manda and you used the transportation technique to escape to another dimension, that right?" he asked. Then why are you so beat up?"

Sasuke looked at Suigetsu as he placed his left hand on the ground.

Jugo and Karin stopped walking as Karin stopped next to Sasuke and Jugo stopped next to Suigetsu.

"Just before we jumped, Manda and I were hit by the blast wave. My opponent was from Akatsuki, he was stronger than I expected." Sasuke said.

Karin placed her left hand below her chin, blushing a little bit as she looked down at Sasuke. "Sasuke's so cool looking when he's all beaten up like that." she thought.

"Well in any case, you'll need some time rest up." Suigetsu said then looked up at Karin. "Isn't that right, Karin?"

Karin snapped out of her thoughts as she stopped blushing and looked at Suigetsu, closing her eyes and she made her a left fist and cleared her throat. She opened her eyes and looked at Sasuke, pointing her left index finger at him. "How pathetic! I can't believe you're the man who killed Orochimaru!" she said.

"Orochimaru was already weakened to begin with. That's all I'll say about that." Sasuke said then looked down.

"This was a strong opponent as Sasuke looks like this. And I don't sense Oniisan and the others nearby." Karin thought.

...

34 minutes later.

Nikko Inn-Town.

Okoshi Inn.

Sasuke was sitting on a futon with brown and beige covers on him. He had white bandages wrapped around his forehead as his bangs weren't covering it and a white band-aid on his left cheek, and blue pants.

Jugo, who didn't have his shirt on, was crouching down on the right side of Sasuke as he was wrapping white bandages around his chest. Suigetsu was on right side of the wall with one of the shoji doors on the left side of him while his sword was laying on the right side of him as he was laying his right arm on his right leg. Karin, who doesn't have her pouch on, was standing a few feet away from the futon with her arms crossed. Their sandals were outside.

"Ha, you said we'll take down Itachi. But in this condition, your barely even able to move." Karin said.

Suigetsu looked up at Karin "Look Karin, we'd been going non-stop lately. We need the rest." he said.

Karin turned to Suigetsu, pointing her right index finger at him. "Give me a break! That's all you've done is rest you punk!" she yelled.

Jugo finished bandaging Sasuke up as he placed his left hand on his right shoulder. "There, it's all done." he said then took his left hand off of Sasuke's right shoulder and stood up and walked over to the window.

Sasuke started putting on a blue kimono that had light grey trimmings with both hands.

"Tch, you didn't do a thing at that academy you were going to, so don't start saying that I'm lazy." Suigetsu said.

Karin made her hands into fists, annoyed. "What did you just say?! Do you want a piece of me?!" she asked yelling. "Well come on then, bring it on!"

Jugo sat down on the window as birds started coming to him, sitting on his shoulder.

Sasuke finished putting on his kimono. "That's enough you 2." he said.

Suigetsu and Karin stopped arguing as they looked at Sasuke.

"Suigetsu. Karin. Have you gathered data on Itachi like I asked you 2?" Sasuke asked.

Karin became annoyed. "You're not in any shape to boss the rest of us around y'know!" she said.

"Well, I've picked up some intel about the Akatsuki here and there, but nothing specific about Itachi I'm afraid." Suigetsu said.

Karin unfisted her hands as she raised them to her head. "I've got nothing." she said then lowered her hands.

"It appears that they're targeting specific people." Suigetsu said.

Sasuke looked at Suigetsu.

"Or at least they're after people who have very special chakra." Suigetsu said.

Sasuke turned forward. "Special chakra. I see." he said, thinking about Naruto.

"Soon, they'll be after Oniisan. They're going to extract the Nine-Tails from him." Karin thought, worried.

"I've been conversing with the animals and I've pinpointed a few Akatsuki hideouts." Jugo said.

Sasuke and Suigetsu stared at Jugo.

"It seems they sense powerful unpleasant chakra coming from those places." Jugo said then looked at his right shoulder to see a small brown bird on it. "That's what the animals told me."

Suigetsu smiled. "Wow. So what you're saying is even lowly animals have the ability to sense chakra." he said then closed his eyes. "Or maybe it's because they're so lowly. Just like you, Karin."

Karin snapped out of her thoughts as she angrily turned to Suigetsu, raising her left foot.

Suigetsu opened his eyes and gasped as Karin slammed her left foot into his head, making his head turn into water again.

"What did you just say?!" Karin asked yelling.

A few drops of water landed on the right side of Sasuke's face.

Karin crouched down on the floor as she started punching Suigetsu repeatedly in the face with both of her fists.

Jugo stayed silent as the bird on his right shoulder flew away and started shaking.

Sasuke looked at Karin beating up Suigetsu.

"Suigetsu, I'm not gonna let you get away with it this time!" Karin yelled.

"Hey! Hey, wait! Stop! Just relax, Karin!" Suigetsu said.

Sasuke turned forward to see Jugo was transforming.

"I wanna kill. I must kill." Jugo said.

Karin stopped punching Suigetsu, who's head was turning back to normal, and stood up. Suigetsu stood up as well.

Jugo got off of the window and stood up on the floor and started roaring. Suigetsu and Karin ran over to Jugo and restrained him, Suigetsu held him behind and Karin held from the front. Suigetsu and Karin looked at Sasuke.

"Oh no! Jugo's impulses have started!" Karin said.

"Sasuke, hurry!" Suigetsu said.

Sasuke activated his Sharingan. "Calm down now, Jugo." he said.

Jugo stopped roaring and struggling as he stopped transforming and started turning back to normal. When Jugo was done he crouched down to the floor along with Suigetsu and Karin, who released him. Jugo, Suigetsu, and Karin started panting.

"Sorry. Sorry about that." Jugo said.

The 3 of them stopped panting looked to see Sasuke was sleeping while his top half was still up. Jugo stood up and walked over to Sasuke and crouched down on the right side of him, laying Sasuke's top half on the futon and covered him up with the sheets before moving backwards a little. The small brown bird came back and flew in before it landed on the right side of Jugo's shoulder. Jugo looked at the bird.

Suigetsu looked to the left side at Karin, annoyed. "Screaming, making a fuss." he said. "This is your fault."

Karin looked right side at Suigetsu. "What?" she questioned. "It's your fault, too."

"Karin. You're always trying to provoke me. Just what are you up to trying to do that?" Suigetsu asked, standing up on the floor. "I thought I already made it clear to you, I don't intend to leave Sasuke's team for any reason."

Karin became annoyed. "Look, I'm not up to anything, you always make it sound like I'm planning something huge scheme to get you or something. I just trying to test your-" she said but stopped and turned to Jugo when he started to say something.

Suigetsu looked at Jugo as well.

"I.. I need Sasuke beside me. He can replace Kimimaro.. and he's the only one now. Sasuke, he said that he would become my cage.. and right now only he can stop my impulses. Like he did for me just now." Jugo said, looking down at Sasuke.

"Yeah well." Suigetsu said then looked down at Karin. "Other than to be with her boyfriend here, I don't know why she won't leave."

Karin closed her eyes. "Hmph." she said.

Suigetsu looked at Jugo again. "But my own cage is unlocked and the door is completely wide open. We can leave, anytime that we might want to."

Karin opened her eyes as she and Suigetsu looked down at Sasuke.

"But then again." Suigetsu said.

Jugo, Suigetsu, and Karin quietly watched Sasuke sleep.

...

45 minutes later.

Karin, who now has her pouch and sandals on, was walking through one of the streets of Nikko Inn-Town as she was carrying a medium sized brown paper bag in her hands. She was done getting supplies for Hebi and was heading back to the Inn.

"Ah, I wish it would get dark already." Karin said, smiling and blushing. "When Jugo and Suigetsu sleep, me and Sasuke could finally have some alone time after so long." closing her eyes and started laughing. "Hm, I'm so excited." then opened her eyes as she stopped laughing and grabbed a small pink bottle of perfume out of her right pocket with her right hand, closing her eyes as she started spraying herself a little bit then stopped.

Karin opened her eyes and stopped blushing as she wasn't smiling anymore, sensing very familiar chakras coming towards her as they were far away. She stopped walking as she turned her head around to the left side. "This feeling." she said, putting her perfume back in her right pocket before she turned forward and closed her eyes. "Yep, they're coming and fast. I'm detecting Oniisan as well as the others." she thought, sensing Naruto, Kakashi, 2 unknown chakras, Kiba, Shino, Akamaru, Hinata, and Sakura. "And I know they're using dogs to track us. I have to warn Sasuke." opening her eyes.

...

3 minutes later.

One of the Rooms.

Jugo sitting at the window as birds were on his shoulders. Sasuke, who had his charcoal black eyes, was laying down on the futon wake, looking up at the ceiling. Suigetsu was sitting on the floor on the right side of Sasuke.

Suigetsu looked up at Jugo. "Jugo, I guess I better go check on Karin." he said then stood up from the floor.

"Hm." Jugo said.

Suigetsu turned around and walked towards the shoji doors. He was about to grab one of the shoji doors with his right hand until Karin smashed one of the shoji doors down with her left foot and her hands were made into fists. Suigetsu fell down and gasped in pain as one of the doors were now on him. Karin walked in a little as one of the shoji doors were below her feet.

Jugo looked in surprise as the bird's flew away from his shoulders.

"Hey, get off me." Suigetsu said.

"Wake up, Sasuke! We've been followed by Konoha!" Karin said, looking down at Sasuke. "What should we do?"

Sasuke stopped looking at the ceiling as he turned his head to the right side to see at Karin.

Karin blushed softly as she smiled, putting her right hand on her chin. "Even after waking up, he's still so... hot." she thought.

"Everyone get ready. We're leaving." Sasuke said. "Jugo, mark the map with the location of every Akatsuki hideout you've learned about."

...

15 minutes later.

At the Gates of Nikko Inn-Town.

From left to right, Karin, who now had on her cloak, Sasuke, who removed the bandage from his left cheek but the bandages were wrapped around his forehead, and his usual outfit except he no longer had the white shirt and black arm guards and instead had on a sleeveless grey shirt that opened at the torso, white bandages wrapped around his stomach, white bandages wrapped around his wrists, Suigetsu, who had on his sandals, sword, and cloak, and Jugo, who now had his shirt and sandals, were walking away.

"Sure, you're okay, Sasuke?" Suigetsu asked.

Sasuke had his eyes closed, putting on his cloak with both of his hands. "Yeah, ever since I've absorbed Orochimaru's power, I heal faster." he said, opening his eyes as he was done putting on his cloak.

Hebi stopped outside the gate before Jugo and Suigetsu turned around towards Sasuke and Karin.

"So this is the power of the white snake." Sasuke thought.

"Whether it's the Akatsuki coming or the Hidden Leaf, they might have Intel on Itachi. Why don't we just ambush them, Sasuke?" Jugo asked, looking at Sasuke.

Sasuke looked at Jugo. "From what Karin told me about the number of people tracking us. She sensed that 2 four man teams were coming, that means it's Konoha. The Akatsuki only operate in 2 man teams." he said.

"And if that's the case, then an ambush we be a waste of our time, right?" Suigetsu questioned.

Sasuke looked at Suigetsu. "That's exactly right. Just forget about the Hidden Leaf." he said.

"So, what's the plan then?" Karin asked, looking at Sasuke.

Sasuke looked at Jugo, Suigetsu, and Karin. "Itachi is our only priority." he said then pulled a red scroll with his left hand, showing a marked map. "And if worse comes to worse, you 3 will stop Konoha. For now, this is team Hebi's mission, we're going to use the Intel that Jugo gathered and we'll hit the Akatsuki Hideout's one by one." then put the scroll away with his left hand.

"Alright, sounds good." Karin said.

"Let's go." Sasuke said then walked away with Suigetsu following him.

Jugo was about to walk after them until he felt a hand on his left shoulder, he looked behind him to see that Karin had her right hand on his left shoulder.

"Hold on, Jugo. Help me out." Karin said.

"With what?" Jugo asked.

Karin removed her right hand from Jugo's left shoulder. "I need you to gather as many birds as you can." she said.

"Why? What's your plan?" Jugo asked.

Karin pulled out a shirt with her right hand, smirking. "Well, this is one of Sasuke's old outfits. It's soaked with his sweat and scent." she said.

"Wait. Why do you hold onto a sweaty old outfit that Sasuke threw away?" Jugo asked.

Karin stopped smirking. "Because we're gonna use to distract Konoha." she said, placing the shirt in her left hand. "So, anyway here." reaching into her pouch with her right hand and pulled out a kunai.

"I hate to this." Karin thought, ripping the shirt up with her kunai.

"Sensory type specialties are different for each village." Karin said then smirked again. "The Hidden Leaf tends to use Ninja Hounds for tracking we can use that to our advantage."

The birds started coming to Jugo.

...

15 minutes later.

Forest.

From left, Jugo, Karin, Suigetsu, and Sasuke, who was sitting on a medium sized grey rock, were standing in front of a grey statue as they were a kilometers towards one of the Akatsuki hideouts.

"It's just up ahead, huh." Sasuke said. "You 3 will wait here until I give the order. I'll go check it out." then jumped off the rock as he disappeared.

...

14 minutes later.

Suigetsu was sitting next to a medium sized rock, holding one of his water bottles with his right hand as his sword was laying against the rock on the right side of him. From left to right, Jugo and Karin were standing a few feet away from Suigetsu.

"I wonder if Sasuke's okay?" Suigetsu questioned.

"What's that mean?" Karin asked, looking down at Suigetsu.

"What do you think?" Suigetsu asked, closing his eyes. "What if the first Akatsuki hideout we try is bull's-eye?"

"Wait a minute. Are you saying that Itachi is in this hideout?" Jugo asked, looking down at Suigetsu.

Suigetsu opened his eyes. "I don't know. I only said 'what if'." he said smiling, looking up at Jugo and Karin. "This Itachi supposed to be pretty strong, isn't he?"

"No, there's no way that Sasuke could lose to him. He's been training for years. No way." Karin said then looked down sadly.

Suigetsu closed his eyes. "Well I hope not, but maybe we should be planning for the worst scenario here." he said.

"Sasuke. If Itachi really is here, we'll defeat him together." Karin thought. She became serious. "Alright, I'm going to check inside. If anything happens we're going in." she said.

Suigetsu opened his eyes, looking up at Karin. "You're what? And why are you taking over all of a sudden?" he asked. "Boy, when it comes to Sasuke you always go overboard."

Karin placed her right hand on the right side of her glasses. "No, I don't! That just isn't true at all!" she said, blushing. "I'm only worried about him! Fine, I won't go! You idiot!"

"And I'll ask the birds. I'll have them scour the entire area and keep an eye for the approach of any enemies." Jugo said.

Suigetsu gasped before he smirked, looking to the left side. "Damn. Just listen to you, too." he said. "They're so diligent" he thought.

...

8 minutes later.

Cave.

From left to right, Karin, Suigetsu, who now had his sword on him, and Jugo were running through the cave as they were looking for Sasuke. Before they entered the cave, Karin not only sensed Sasuke's chakra but Itachi's as well. However, Karin no longer sensed Itachi's chakra.

"I should've known. It was a shadow clone." Karin thought.

The 3 of them suddenly saw Sasuke, who had his Sharingan activated, standing a few meters away as he was looking up into the ceiling. Black feathers were falling from the ceiling.

"Sasuke!" Suigetsu yelled.

Sasuke looked behind himself on the left side to see Jugo, Suigetsu, and Karin were running towards him.

"I thought I told you not to move until I gave the order." Sasuke said.

Jugo, Suigetsu, and Karin stopped a few feet away from Sasuke.

"Karin sensed Itachi's chakra, we got worried so we thought we better come in." Suigetsu said.

Karin looked to see feathers falling. "Feathers." she said.

Sasuke turned around and walked away, stepping pass them. "Just follow me. Let's go." he said.

Karin walked after him as Jugo and Suigetsu followed behind them. When they made it out of the cave and into the forest again, they climbed into the trees as they started jumping from tree to tree. Sasuke began explaining that they were heading to the Uchiha clan's former hideout.

...

3 minutes later.

Karin started sensing Naruto's chakra in different areas. "I sense Oniisan's Multi-Shadow clones all over the place." she said. "We need to hurry."

"Shouldn't we change our coarse, Sasuke?" Suigetsu asked.

"Ignore it, we'll just forge ahead." Sasuke said.

"Good, the long away around would've been tiring." Suigetsu said.

"Against Oniisan I don't know." Karin thought then sensed Naruto's chakra up ahead. "Oniisan's nearby." she said.

A few seconds later, Hebi saw Naruto on a branch a few meters away from them before they saw him coming towards them.

Sasuke used Chidori with his left hand.

"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled.

Sasuke hit Naruto, making Naruto disappear in a puff of smoke. Hebi continued from jumping to tree to tree.

"Great. Now Oniisan and the others know where we are, Sasuke." Karin said.

"Of course he does." Suigetsu said smiling.

"Naruto." Sasuke said. "How annoying." he thought.

"We better hurry before they catch up to us." Karin said.

...

5 minutes later.

Hebi running on a grey building as there were some in the area. From left to right, Karin and Sasuke and behind them were Jugo and Suigetsu.

"I'm sensing a very familiar chakra up ahead and it's coming quickly." Karin said.

A man suddenly appeared, that had a large sword covered in bandages in his right hand, and landed on a grey cylinder object in front of them and started to spin. Hebi stopped running as they stood there. The man stopped spinning as he looked at Hebi. Karin recognized that it was that man, in his usual outfit, who was with Itachi that fought Kakashi, Asuma, and Kurenai 3 years ago.

"That guy. I remember him." Karin thought.

Suigetsu placed his right hand on his right hip. "I know you." he said.

"Only Sasuke alone may go beyond this point. Itachi's orders so that's how it's going to be. The rest of you are welcome to come wait right here with me." The man said.

"No way. I want revenge on Itachi as well." Karin thought.

Sasuke unactivated his Sharingan. "Alright fine. Besides, the only reason I've been traveling with a team is so nothing would get in the way of my reaching this destination. It's fine." he said.

Karin looked to the right side at Sasuke, serious. "I'm not standing here with these creep. I'm going inside as well." she said then stared back at the man.

"I have no intention or interest in fighting all of you, but if you insist on going with him, I'll show no mercy." The man said.

"Neither will I on you!" Karin said.

"Karin, you need to stay put. This-" Sasuke said but was cut off.

Karin turned to Sasuke. "Shut up! Like it or not, i'm going in there." she said.

Sasuke looked at Karin.

"And I see tension between them." The man said.

Sasuke sighed before he walked over to Karin, stopping next to her so none of them could hear their conversation. "I need to do this, Karin." he said.

"Sasuke, I also want to fight Itachi as well. He not only killed half of the Uchiha clan, he killed half of the Uzumaki clan and tried to kill me. I want to kill him for what he did and there's no way I'm standing here while you're going to fight him." Karin said.

"Don't worry, I'll avenge our 2 clans." Sasuke said.

"But I have chakra too, I can fight." Karin said.

"Please Karin, trust on this that I can defeat Itachi." Sasuke said.

Karin stared at Sasuke for a moment before she looked down. "Fine, but don't be reckless like Oniisan told me." she said.

"Thanks. I promise, I'll be back." Sasuke said.

Sasuke walked a little before he jumped past the man on his right side, disappearing moments later.

Suigetsu started to smile at the man. "Kisame Hoshigaki and his sword, Samehada. Sharks skin." he said.

Kisame looked confused at Suigetsu.

"Why do forget me?" Suigetsu asked. "I'm Suigetsu Hōzuki, the younger brother of Mangetsu."

Kisame smiled. "Oh, I didn't even recognize you. My you certainly have grown, Suigetsu." he said.

"It would be boring just to wait around for Sasuke don't you think?" Suigetsu questioned. "So what do you say we play around and have ourselves a little fun huh? Kisame-sama." grabbing his sword with his right hand.

"Unlike your brother, you're quite impetuous aren't you Suigetsu?" Kisame questioned, holding his sword in front of him. "So maybe I should cut you down to size?"

Jugo looked at Suigetsu. "Listen, shouldn't we just obey Sasuke's orders?" he asked.

Karin looked at Jugo. "Don't be stupid you blockhead. You're such a dunce." she thought, turning forward.

...

10 minutes later.

Kisame and Suigetsu were battling each other as Jugo and Karin were watching them a few meters away.

Suigetsu swung his sword at Kisame with both hands, who blocked it with his sword. They yelled before they smirked at each other as their swords were together.

"Seems you're more proficient with the blade than that kid was." Kisame said.

"Kid?" Suigetsu questioned.

Kisame and Suigetsu pulled away.

"You mean Master Zabuza." Suigetsu said, holding his sword with his left hand before he swung around with both hands as it was now in his right hand.

"My broadsword, Samehada was never intended for this kind of thing, you know." Kisame said, holding up his sword with both hands. "It's not for dueling." smashing it into the roof, creating some dust and craters.

"Same here. This one's for killing!" Suigetsu said, swinging his sword at Kisame, who dodged it, with both hands before he took his left hand off of it, causing rocks and more dust to go into the air.

"Tch, and this is what he calls fun?" Karin questioned. "As if, they're both dead serious." she turned to Jugo, who was interacting with birds. "Hey, Jugo! Would you just tell them that-" but was cut off when Jugo looked at her.

"It'll be alright. All the birds are telling me that there's no one nearby who will come to interfere with their fighting." Jugo said.

"I should've just went with Sasuke instead of staying out here." Karin thought, looking up at the sky. "Damn it. What if something happens to Sasuke while these idiots are playing their little game?" turning around. "And Oniisan and the others are still coming after us. Wait! Oniisan and the others movements have stopped?! And by an unknown?! This chakra is familiar for some reason."

...

6 minutes later.

Kisame smashed his sword on to the roof again with both hands, causing more dust and craters to appear, before he swung it at Suigetsu with his right hand.

Suigetsu dodged Kisame's attack before he held his sword up with both hands. "This guy packs way more power into his blade than I do. Alright then." he thought before he ran towards Kisame.

"Your sword plays 1 note, I'll take back what I said about you being better than Zabuza." Kisame said, raising his sword with both hands, ready to attack Suigetsu.

Suigetsu smirked before Kisame hit him, causing him to turn water, making Kisame confused.

Suigetsu turned back to his original form. "Eat this!" he said, swinging his sword at Kisame with both hands.

Kisame dodged the attack before he deflected the second attack with his sword in his right hand.

Suigetsu held his sword down with both hands, smiling. "Ah too bad I almost got you there, didn't I." he said.

Kisame smirked, putting his sword on his right shoulder with his right hand. "Why are you so excited?" he asked. "Haven't you realized yet that it's snack time for me?"

Suigetsu stopped smiling. "Snack time?" he asked before he became surprised. "My chakra. But how? I haven't used up that much yet." he thought.

"My Samehada here grinds up and absorbs chakra. I thought for sure you would've noticed it before now." Kisame said. "Tell me, would you care for another taste?"

Suigetsu became serious. "Why you." he said.

"Please don't die, Sasuke. You promised me that you wouldn't." Karin thought, still looking up into the sky.

...

1 hour and 30 minutes later.

The clouds have formed as they sky was now grey as it was about to rain.

Kisame and Suigetsu were about to attack again until someone unknown said something.

"Enough, quit waisting time." a male voice said.

Someone appeared from the roof beside Kisame on the left side. It had a green Venus fly trap like extension, it opened up to reveal to be an artificial human male, the right side of it was white and the left side was black, had light green hair, yellow pupils less eyes, wearing no shirt, blue pants, white bandages around his lower legs, and blue sandals.

"Who the hell is this?" Suigetsu asked, looking at the unknown man.

"Zetsu." Kisame said turning towards him, looking at the unknown man, putting his sword back on his harness with his right hand.

"We're not just waisting time." Suigetsu said, putting his sword behind him on his scraps with his right hand.

"So. It's all over then is it?" Kisame asked.

"Yes, it's finally settled." The White Zetsu said.

Jugo, Suigetsu, and Karin gasped before Jugo and Karin jumped and ran over to them. When Jugo and Karin made it to them, they stopped on the right side of Suigetsu.

"How's Sasuke?" Karin asked, worried about her boyfriend.

Zetsu looked at Karin. "He's fine. Sasuke won the battle." the white Zetsu said.

Jugo, Suigetsu, Karin closed their eyes as they sighed for a moment before they opened them again.

"So, where's Sasuke now?" Karin asked.

"He's already been evacuated to a safe place." the Black Zetsu said.

"What kind of safe place?" Karin asked.

"He's been takened to the Akatsuki's Hideout in the East. All of you should head there, too. The Hidden Leaf will arrive here very shortly I'm sure." the Black Zetsu said.

Jugo looked at Suigetsu and Karin. "Let's go, we need to get to Sasuke." he said.

Suigetsu and Karin looked at Jugo.

Jugo, Suigetsu, and Karin ran away.

"Finally, he's dead and half of the Uchiha clan and Uzumaki clan have been avenged." Karin thought, feeling a little happy inside and slightly sad. "But what will happen to us now?"

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End of Chapter 15.

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