Cherry Blossoms

❤️Karin?❤️

So people have asked me in the past.

What do you think of Karin?

lolaDawn I wanna devote this oneshot to you.

In the past, I hated her for how clingy she was with Sasuke and how I thought she was more obsessed with him than even Sakura was. And especially in a more sexual sense. But that's if you asked me a year ago. But if you asked me what I thought of Karin now, this is my response.

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Sasuke-kun...

Karin Uzumaki casually walked through the halls of Orochimaru's hideout. Thoughts ran endlessly through her mind.

"Karin."

"S-Sasuke-kun?! Is that you?! Wow, you've really--" She froze. "y-you..."

"Karin, right?"

That pink-haired girl... Karin swallowed hard, "you're Sakura... Sakura Haruno."

"Yeah." She grinned.

"What..." She stared at the couple, "you two are... Married?"

"Yeah." Sasuke replied with his usual blunt response.

She pursed her lips to keep from doing what? Crying? Screaming? Laughing? She didn't exactly know. Instead, she crossed her arms, "Sasuke-kun, what makes you think you could bring her here? This is Orochimaru's hideout, may I remind you. Not a hospital."

"Yes, I know that." Sasuke nodded, "but I knew you'd be here."

What?! Karin stared at them, "... m-me?"

"We don't have time to go back to the village." Sakura explained, "but he said he knew someone that could help."

"You're such an idiot, Sasuke-kun..." Karin muttered to herself, "she's pregnant, for goodness sake..." She peeked into the small room.

"Karin?"

"Ah, Sakura." Karin looked around the empty room, "did Sasuke-kun go out?"

"Yes." Sakura sighed then chuckled, "he needed to send something to Naruto back at the village. I'm certain it's about me."

"Ah." Karin chuckled, "are you okay? Do you need any meds?"

"Not yet." Sakura replied, "it's not painful yet. I can handle it so far. Heh." She shut her eyes and leaned her head back.

"You're lucky Suigetsu isn't here." Karin scoffed, "he'd make this whole thing a living hell if he were here."

"Oh really?" Sakura laughed, "I'd love to meet him, though. Sasuke-kun did tell me a lot about you three."

"Did he?" Karin laughed, "then I'm surprised you'd want to meet him!"

"Oh yeah." The two women had their share of laughs before Sakura continued, "can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"You loved Sasuke-kun too, didn't you?"

Karin paused. She pursed her lips, "how could you tell?"

"When we got here. Also when I saw you for the first time." Sakura smiled, "the way you looked at Sasuke-kun seemed too familiar to me."

"Heh. I thought the same thing about you, honestly." Karin chuckled, "but, I did. He's married now, so I can't do anything about it. I mean, our years of traveling together from hideout to hideout and all, I could tell, he loved someone else. I guess that someone else happened to be you." Karin smiled softly to herself, "but how can you trust me if I loved him too?"