I do not own Naruto Shippuden or any of the characters. Filler chapter.

Promise

Deep inside one of Orochimaru's many bases, there were only two people not in stasis tanks. One, was a redhead with uncanny sensory abilities. The other, was simply a Kiri Nin who had been too weak to keep from being captured. Both were experiments, to a certain extent. But only one had the right to complain about it.

The Kiri Nin walked into a room where the redhead was watching a staged fight between two experiments. The Kiri Nin walked over to watch just as one of them snapped the other's neck.

"Brutal," he commented.

"You're not kidding," the read head nodded. "I saw the schedule."

"Don't tell me," he sighed. "I know I have to fight immediately after the next experiment. Are they always as horrible as they have been recently?"

"They're trying to break you," she sighed. "They've broken everyone else. All except you. When they do, I don't think I want to see it. Because you'll die. I don't know if I can handle that."

"Aw, you do care," he teased. "I knew you cared about me."

"Do not!" She shouted slapping him making his head turn into water then back again.

"So," he sighed. "When's your next experiment?"

"I don't know," she sighed. "But...they're not as...standard, as your own. And they're losing patience with me."

"What do you mean?" he questioned just before she burst into tears.

"T-they're g-going to k-kill me!" she sobbed as he pulled her into a hug. "I-I'm s-so s-scared that I-I'm g-going to be k-killed or that you w-will, I c-can't even s-sleep at n-night! I j-just w-want to l-leave!"

"Karin," he whispered stroking her hair comfortingly, finding it as one of the rare ties that she didn't freak out and hit him. "I promise. After my next fight, we'll bust out of here. I've had enough of this place to last me a life time. And I'd rather break out before the boss gets back."

"Can't we go now?" Karin questioned. "We could go right now before you have to have your next experiment! Please Suigetsu!"

"Sorry," Suigetsu apologized stepping back. "That won't be happening."

Just then the door burst open and several guards walked through it, taking Suigetsu's arms.

"Wish me luck in my fight," Suigetsu smiled as they dragged him out the door.

Suigetsu sighed looking down at the kunai they had given him. His own sword had been destroyed upon his capture leaving him to have to fight freaks with a tiny knife. Right now he was fighting some freak that looked to have been crossbred with a fish. He had skin on his face and down the middle of his chest and stomach but the rest of his body was covered in grey and green scales, he had fins where his ears were, a fin running from the top of his head to the back of his waist, fins on the outside of his arms, and the outsides of his lower legs. He held a katana and Suigetsu knew from experience that he, like the thousands of others Orochimaru had made, had powerful Water Style jutsus. Thankfully jutsus were not allowed in this fight.

Suigetsu glanced up at the observation window and saw Karin watching intently and nervously. He looked back to the Fishman and blocked a slash. He kicked him back and charged forward but the Fishman ducked under his kunai and slashed him across the stomach. Suigetsu's stomach turned to water, negating the otherwise deadly injury. Suigetsu slashed the fish's throat but it leapt to the ceiling, cutting a wire then jumping down to the floor and pressing the wire to it, ten thousand volts shooting through the floor and into Suigetsu and the fish, lighting both up like Christmas trees. Suddenly, Karin's words drifted into his head.

"They're trying to break you. They've broken everyone else. All except you. When they do, I don't think I want to see it. Because you'll die."

Then his vision went black.

Suigetsu groaned opening his eyes and saw Karin's worried face beside him.

"Did I win?" Suigetsu questioned.

"The point of the fight was to kill you," Karin stated. "You only won because you survived."

"But I won," Suigetsu grinned. "How long 'til I'll be able to walk?"

"A week," Karin stated. "But it doesn't matter."

"Why?" Suigetsu questioned.

"Because you were out for three days," Karin stated. "I've been transferred to the Southern Hideout. Apparently I'm supposed to be in charge there. And you've been upgraded to a must-save specimen."

"Thank you," Suigetsu smiled. "I promise, I'll come and bust you out as soon as I get the chance."

"No you won't," Karin stated. "You'll be confined to a cell. You'll never be let out."

"I'll come get you," Suigetsu promised. "Do one is going to keep me locked up. Even the Boss."

Karin nodded, smiling then slapped him.

"What the hell was that for?" Suigetsu demanded.

"For scaring me," Karin stated.

Suigetsu rolled his eyes and Karin smiled then left. Suigetsu, on the other hand, was taken to his cell, which was filled with water, where he would be staying indefinitely.

Read and review. Sorry for the seemingly random filler chapter but I promise it will make sense later.