SasuSaku FanFiction (One Shots) 🌸

Karin (Part 5)

"To knock or not to knock?"

For the first time since the past few weeks, Karin stood in front of Sakura's office with the fear of having her entire being turning into shattered pieces. She swore she didn't want to be a part of the pink-haired woman's casualties after witnessing her capability of producing broken fragments of various sizes through just one of her fists during the war. Cringing at the possibility, she backed away from the door and paced back and forth once again in the hallway.

It wasn't that Sakura had reasons to attack her; she just really didn't want to hit a nerve for she knew how utterly preoccupied the head medic was with a project recently. All that she wanted while they were temporarily residing in Konoha was to be a great help, not a nuisance, but something about her current assignment made her decide to appeal to her senpai (she would never let anyone know that that's how she saw Sakura now) for a relocation of some sort.

Working under Sakura's care in the hospital was at first, nerve-wracking for Karin as she observed every detail of the head medic's responsibilities, but eventually, it turned out to be stimulating. It was as if she finally found her purpose for this season which helped in veering her away from the tendencies of postpartum depression.

It took her a month before fully recuperating from her high-risk labor with Suika. But after getting the clearance from Sakura that she was already fit to work, she was offered the job to assist in the hospital since she is also adept in medical ninjutsu. Much to Sakura's surprise, the redhead suddenly threw her arms around her while tearing up after receiving the part-time position (though Karin insisted that it was only due to the post-pregnancy hormones).

That's when their dynamics started to change. Suigetsu accompanied Sasuke on daily missions and Karin assisted Sakura in the hospital in any way possible while their daughter stayed in the hospital's nursery.

A part of her was happy that she could help her husband in earning for their small family while they were still in Konoha, but a major part of her was undeniably ecstatic about the fact that she'd finally be useful to people other than Orochimaru. Taking care of hideouts and some experiments (which were gladly not humans anymore) wasn't something that you could find fulfilment from so she couldn't help but feel grateful to Sakura for seeing potential in her despite being a former criminal and a foreigner to the village.

That day, she firmly announced that Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha were officially Suika's godparents. And nope, they couldn't say no. Sakura giggled and felt honored, while Sasuke only "Hn"-ed (but she knew that was better than nothing).

So now, it was a little troubling for her to enter the den of her daughter's godmother. She felt like it could break their flourishing friendship if she ended up getting under the head medic's skin.

Karin stopped once again right in front of the same door with a hand on her hip and then voiced out her thoughts, "To knock or not to kn—?"

"You could just come in, Karin."

"E-eh?!"

She heard a long sigh. Biting her lip as she slowly came in, her assumptions were proven correct when she saw Sakura immersed in mixing various chemicals on a makeshift lab in her office with a procedure mask that covered half of her serious face.

There were a few beats of silence as she stared at her senpai in awe. She has never seen someone as dedicated as her in the medical field and it made her desire to strive even harder to be like even just half of who Sakura was.

"What's up?" Sakura asked without removing her gaze on the purple liquid she was transporting to another vial.

Karin gulped. "Well, Sakura, uh..."