Next should be one in Sasuke's POV following this same formula though with a different theme, hopefully that one will come out better.
Five times Karin cried in front of Sasuke (and one time she didn’t)
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1.
There’s something missing in her chest—a certain beating that didn’t seem to be there anymore, and though she absentmindedly registers its absence she cannot really bXC She had felt their presence even before the snake-like man addressed her with his raspy voice, but in the state of numbness that she was in, she had barely registered the fact that one of the chakras that had arrived was anything but unfamiliar.
Yet when she hears his voice, something clicks in her head. And it’s with slight disbelief that she turns around only to find him there. He out of all people. The boy that had touched her in such an incomprehensible way, the boy whose smile she had spent weeks trying to leave behind, the boy who her mind insisted she would never see again but something— something stubbornly persisted such wouldn’t be the case.
That he wasn’t out of her life. Not yet. Obsidian meets red, and though something inside of her attempts to light up—like a
match
, weakly attempting to light itself only for a rush of wind to deem all its efforts useless, the sensation is gone before she can even attempt to bring herself to care. It leaves a trace however, like an echo of something that couldn’t come to be.
The emotion doesn’t leave him as fast as it leaves her though, and his eyes light up with recognition and surprise—but she watches it all as if it were alien to her. As if she were watching everything from behind a thick, damp glass.
She isn’t exactly sure of how it happens, and it’s only later that the words that were said would reach her—but all of a sudden she finds herself walking behind the boy and the man, Bowed her head and her unseeing eyes open But, barely Noticing the blood staining the ground just like it tainted Had her heart and her life missing. When
give up her knees under the weight of heartache and of disuse due to all the hours she Had Spent crouched and hiding, the solid wave of assaults her Thighs That pain travels Though her body like a shot of awareness and it sets Something Inside of her in motion. She's
Struggling to cope with her senses awakening Suddenly When I Reach Out to her. "Hold on tight"
A gasp of surprise leaves her lips as she's no Longer Helplessly laying on the ground But Rather Being Carried and historical Against Securely held back. All she can see is black and pale skin, and her brain seems to register it with alarming clarity, her eyes no longer blinded to her surroundings.
Then the warmth of his back caresses her own cold skin through the fabric of his clothes, and she finds herself relaxing, her arms coming to loosely circle his neck and her head lowering to rest against his shoulder.
He is… warm
She doesn’t know what she
means
—his chakra, his back, his eyes. She doesn’t know it, and she doesn’t really mind, either. It was the first sensation she was truly feeling after everything that had happened, and the pieces of her shattered heart were starting to click together again and all the horror and the pain and the despair come to her in unstoppable waves.
The tears start falling then, her sobs being muffled by his shoulder, her hands clutching the neck of his shirt with all the strength she thought had left her. Her body shaking with all the life she thought had abandoned her.
Karin holds onto him as her emotions pour out of her like a storm that had been waiting to rain down. Sasuke remains silent, wordlessly carrying her. But the hold of his hands is firm against the skin of Karin’s exposed thighs, and the warmth that spreads through them to every fiber of her being, fighting off the heartbreak, means more to her than any words ever could.
2.
Some of the numbness remains hours later when she sits on a foreign bed, her back against the wall, her hands limply tied together on her lap, her eyes once again starting to lose trail of the world surrounding her. Her ears replaying angst screams she would rather forget, so that she almost misses the sound of the door opening just as she misses the movements of his chakra approaching her.
“You need to eat”
He tells her, and it takes her an uncannily long moment to notice the plate of soup he was holding on one hand. Its smell reaches her then, causing her stomach to churn instantly, so she feebly shakes her head before averting her eyes back to her entwined fingers.
“I’m not hungry”
“You still have to eat. You won’t achieve anything by starving yourself to death”
He doesn’t sound impatient, or annoyed, He Does not sound worried, either. Rather, it's like He Was Already expecting her disposition. The tone I Used Karin Reminds of the one her mother on her Used to Employ Sometimes painfully and her eyes sting Before drying up again, the arid feeling somehow even more stinging. The sheets crease
as I Sits down by her side, And When He extends a spoonful of hot soup Towards her she not can really Avoid looking at him, Even Though she Desires to.
"Eat"
He prods her on, voicing out What Had Been His eyes silently edging her on to do. Her brows Are Slightly furrowed, her lips curved downwards in a display of stubbornness That She Was barely Noticing, pero she Knew That Already Had she lost the battle, so sheKarin k That if she drank it all, Would she feel so much Better the Following Day, and her Dad and her Dad would- Would -
-Her Dad Had Been lying marred above-the body of her mother when to Karin exited her hideout underneath the stairs, His face unrecognizable under all the blood, cutting a deep gash Almost His body in half so Karin That Almost Could See His INTEST -
Sasuke barely have enough time to move away as Karin Suddenly Desperately sprints up and runs past him and Into the small bathroom of the room she Had Been Assigned To, only just managing to hold back the contents of her stomach for long enough to Reach the sink, and eleven she REACH IT Had the soup she drank all the flows backwards Which way up her throatr Better Judgement, picking up her glasses from the night-table as she swung her legs around the bed, her naked feet meeting the ground and Causing a cold shiver to run down her spine.
However, she still Does not bother to put her sandals on. She Does not Want to Waste Any Time, Does not Want to Risk Amount of losing whatever courage she Had Gatherer.
Located
His room was three doors away from hers, down the corridor, and Only When she's Facing Them Separating the wooden door does she start second guessing herself. Why
Had she come here? Just Because She Could not sleep Did not Give her the right to interrupt Sasuke's rest. I've Had Enough Already her helper Even When No One Had Asked to him, Had Been patient eventsWhen She Did not know how to welcome His aid. She Did not Have the right to ask for anything else out of him, I've Had Enough Already Done. And still
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knocks Are Her soft, barely brushing her knuckles Against the wood-but to Karin, they're loud
, Not As yet deafening as the Beatings of her heart Which WAS Trying to quiet her down and Thoughts Insecurities her, telling her Beatings STI
That She Needed
to do this-if She Did not Reach out to him now
, Then When
Would she learn how to do it? So she knocks
. She knocks on His door opens and I have the Karin Before it enough time to blink. It Was Almost Like I Had Been Expecting her,
waiting for her, because he doesn’t look surprised as his eyes meet hers. He simply wordlessly steps aside and walks back to his bed, graciously laying down with his body almost pressed against the wall, leaving an empty side wide enough for someone else to fit in.
On the days they have spent together and since her technique sharpened, Karin has unexpectedly become able to understand silences even better than she can understand words, and Sasuke’s silences were always particularly strident to her ears. So it’s quietly that she steps in the room and closes the door behind her, her feet soundlessly moving across the cold floor and towards the bed, which creaks slightly as another weight is added onto it.
She spends the night listening to his placid breathing as if itd, he wouldn’t be where he was today—he wouldn’t be alone with that man and there wouldn’t be so many shadows dancing behind his eyes whenever he wasn’t looking at her.
Her sight blurs.
How had he been capable of smiling at her with so much warmth and with such clear eyes just mere months ago? How had he been capable of reaching out to her in such a way when she could barely handle herself and the pain of mourning?
How? “…Does it get easier?” She inquires in a whisper, her voice barely audible even to her, so when her question is met with silence she simply thinks that Sasuke didn’t quite catch it—but still she cannot bring herself to voice it again. He takes her aback when he suddenly speaks over the murmur of the wind against their hair, his eyes still set on the horizon, looking at things she couldn’t see.
“You have to find the answer to that yourself” The ghosts of his past don’t stain his voice, but Karin can feel them with the most clarity in that moment, disguising themselves in his silence and in what remained unsaid.
The tears that leak from her eyes that afternoon aren’t due to her own pain.
And they’re both aware of that.
5.
She falls loudly on the ground, her limbs a clumsy mess of pained muscles assaulted by cramps. Her hair is sticky due to the sweat, and it glues to herthough he had been the one to work the hardest. The exhaustion is so great that it possesses every cell of her body until there’s no room for anything else, not even for a single remain of heartache, and despite that there’s something else building up inside of her as she watches him—something else that takes the place that heartbreak used to occupy and makes her attempt to prod herself up despite her trembling arms and legs.
At the end, when her knees shake so much that she can barely stand on her feet, Sasuke reaches out one more time and offers her his hand, helping her to rise up again.
0.
She chuckles loudly, the sound resounding in her lungs and reverberating throule, STI edges sharper Than They Needed to be, A Certain historical Possessing eyes glint and Adding Dark Corners That Were not There a moment ago.
"Hn, Is That so?"
Karin Does not Hesitate to nod, and As They Both look away and focus on Once Again The Sky Above Them, the silence befalls upon Them That is as bittersweet as Sasuke's smile Had Been . Karin But Pretends Not to notice it, Because she Understands . Had
She found her reply, But It Was The Opposite of his. Had not gotten
It Easier for him, not for a single moment, and She Could See That Clearly now. Could she see the rancor and the pain I have Carried with him Wherever I went, and she Also Knew That Would Such feelings bring him in the Hardshipsfuture. She Knew That with as much as she Knew Certainty That no matter how much she would like to, She Could Reach out to him in the way I Had Reached out to her, Because He Had Himself closed off a long time ago banging on walls and historical Would weitere only push him away. So she Would Have to wait. Wait Until He Was ready to let her in. And meanwhile, meanwhile she would stay by him-Would help him fight loneliness historical Without A single cry of war That Would announce her intentions. Because her answer -Had she found the answer, it wasn't only for her. It Was for him, as well.
It does get Easier One day
Would she make him see That, too.
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End
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