Overcoming the Odds.

Chapter 7

Chapter 7: A Friend?

Karin sat on her bed while tapping her foot on the cold concrete floor. She woke up at 8 am... It was around noon now, and she had yet to find something productive or meaningful to do in her cell. There was absolutely nothing she could do, and the outrageously quiet atmosphere only enhanced the suffering she felt from extreme boredom.

The only thing she could do in hopes to pass the time was sleep, but she's had plenty of that, and so she aimlessly thought of anything and everything to get her mind off her unbearable reality.

The silence that surrounded her fueled a desperate and needy fix for anything eventful or mundane to happen, and she found herself thinking on more than one occasion that maybe some loud and screaming men wouldn't be so bad right now.

The sudden and loud noise of the room's metal door being unlocked made her jump in surprise. She looked at the door and instant relief filled her being. "Oh thank god!" She screamed in her head at this opportunity to not be so bored. The door slowly crept open and out of the doorway stepped out a person she certainly did not expect.

It was the blonde boy from yesterday.

"You?!" She unleashed in utter confusion and surprise. Of all the people it could have been... What was he doing here?

Naruto accepted her shocked look and didn't expect anything less. "Hey." He greeted simply. The metal door closed behind him and shortly afterward the sound of it being locked into place met both their ears.

Karin was absolutely dumbfounded. She stared at him with a shocked expression, but soon anger and contempt made its way to the surface. She glared at him. "What do you think you're doing here?" She asked as if he was some uninvited and hated guest, which he was.

Naruto simply smiled at her scorn. "I just came to visit you."

A memory flashed through Karin's head. Back in the forest where she was captured, she remembered this same boy's triumphant smile and his victorious declaration of 'gotcha'.

She grew angry, and it was evident in her facial features. 'Gotcha? Gotcha?! This asshole put me here, and then he has the nerve to see me like this!'

Karin wore a vicious look.

"Well isn't that sweet." She said full of sarcasm. "The bastard who put me in this cell came to visit me." She stood up from her position on the bed. "You have some nerve to taunt me like this, do me a favor and just leave."

Naruto wasn't phased one bit by her malicious looks or words. "Aren't you bored in here?" He asked while walking a bit closer to the cell.

Karin was set back by his question, however, he was absolutely right. "What do you think?" She asked with sarcasm while adjusting her glasses. "Wouldn't you be bored if you had to stay in some boring ass place?"

"Well yeah," he replied, "that's why I thought I'd be nice, and..." He rubbed the back of his head in thought. "I dunno, talk through our differences?" He said in a way that asked mostly himself. He honestly didn't know why he was here, other than that he felt like he needed to be.

Karin scoffed. "You've done enough nice things for me already. You're obviously here for a different reason."

"Really, I'm not." He told her. "What would I get from you anyway?"

Karin's eyebrows furrowed. He didn't give off any vibes that indicated mischievous intentions, nor did he seem like the type of person to want to taunt her. Still, she couldn't afford to let him get what he wanted.