Uchiha's plaything

Chapter 6

It would be a few days after Naruto and Sasuke visited the village that you could find the blonde in the library, reading a book Orochimaru had brought him.

Sasuke was busy training and Naruto made sure to stay alert in case Kabuto showed up and tried something.

He really did not like the guy.

What he had not counted on was Karin storming up to him.

"Just because Sasuke is fucking you doesn't make you special. That is Orochimaru-sama's favorite chair. No one else is allowed to sit in it!" She bellowed and Naruto watched her.

He was going to retort, give her a remark that would leave her in tears, but he didn't.

Her sleeves, they always stayed buttoned and never showed anything but her hands, they were ridding up and Naruto could see marks.

He sat his book down and grabbed her arm, she exclaimed and tried to pull away as he unbuttoned her sleeve and pulled it up, his eyes widening in horror.

"Who did this to you?" He asked, his voice soft and Karen almost collapsed at the sound.

So soft, so kind, so soothing.

"I-I-"

"Are they still alive? Are they still walking around out there after they did this to you?" Naruto asked.

Her shoulders sank a little at the realization that he was angry on her behalf.

"Some of them," she replied in a smaller voice.

"Did you kill the ones who aren't walking around?" He asked and when she nodded her head he smiled, "Good."

She was taken aback. Because was this really the sweat Omega Sasuke salivated over? The one he said had so much kindness he could smother people in it. The one he said had the biggest heart with a lot of love to give.

"What?"

"Good. They deserved it. Too bad the other men out there are still walking around and not six feet under." he said as he slowly drew comforting circles on her wrist with his thumb.

"They had family's. Wives and sons and little girls," she reasoned because ultimately Karen had been taken from her mother and she refused to let it happen to other children, no matter how hard it is for her to sleep knowing they are still out there.

"Just because they love their wives, play catch with their sons and pick up their little girls does not and will not negate the fact that they are bad men. One good deed does not make up for the hurt they caused others. I'd have killed them and live happily with the knowledge that his wife would find someone better, his daughter would set her sights higher, and his son would never turn into him," Naruto said and Karen felt herself agreeing.

She had been hurt, so much so that she doesn't like it when someone touches her arms, doesn't like it when people yell at her. 

She looked away, trying to stop her tears and hide her embarrassment at the whole situation before her.

She had come up to him, yelled at him and grabbed him and all he did was show concern for her and her pain.

She was pulled down to sit next to him on the chair, cuddling up to each other Naruto read to her and she felt herself calming down.

He felt like home.

He felt like what her mother felt like before shit hit the fan and suddenly Karen was meant to bring in money to keep herself, her mother and her mother's addiction going.

He smelled safe and secure and like sunflowers.

She loves sunflowers.

~POV Change~