Author Note: I swore I would never write Naruto again after the disastrous odd couples... but then I saw a conversation on youtube and I figured I could do this for a warm-up writing exercise to my fiction project. Karin's point of view, and I've never done a story from her side before, so sorry if it sucks.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. I make no profit from this.

Outside, the rain fell down in sheets and buckets.

I always wondered why Suigetsu never fought back when I hit him...

People said he was a psycho killer, that he enjoyed violence, especially decapitating his victims. He could've killed me; Sasuke could've easily found someone to take my place without a second thought.

I was in my hotel room, changing out of my rain-soaked clothes when the door adjoining to Suigetsu's room creaked open.

"Idiot! Shut that door, I'm not decent!" I flung a pillow at the door in an attempt to make him shut it.

"Like you've got anything I haven't seen before." Suigetsu pranced into the room. His beloved sword wasn't on him, his shirt was M.I.A. and even I had to admit that he looked kind of cute soaking wet, like a kitten that actually liked the bath.

I didn't bother commenting that he had never seen a half-naked woman before. let alone a naked woman; I had used that comment too many times. "Suigetsu, you better get into your room right now," I paused for effect, but couldn't help shivering. "Or I swear to God and anyone else that's listening, I will kill you."

"Oh, Karin, you're so mean." Suigetsu shook his head, spraying me with more ice-cold rainwater. He smirked at me, showing off those pearly daggers that held his tongue hostage.

"Suigetsu, out!" I stalked towards him, but he didn't move. "Bad dog, out of my room!"

"I'm not afraid of you." Suigetsu smirked at me again, and I realized the oddity of this situation. Usually he backed down by now; even he didn't enjoy being hit.

"What are you plotting, you slick bastard?" I glared up at him. "What are you going to do?"

"Now, if I told you, where's the fun in that?" Suigetsu grabbed me and hugged me against him. "You're cold, Karin... let me warm you up."

I tried to squirm, to get away, but soon relaxed against him. He was warm, and I was freezing. "I hate you. Suigetsu-bastard." I muttered.

"I know you do. So shut up." It was Suigetsu's voice, but his mouth wasn't moving. The world wavered in front of my eyes, and suddenly I was awake. I had been dreaming.

I recognized someone warm next to me. "Who-" I turned to look at them. "Suigetsu, what the hell are you doing in my bed?"

"The heating is out in here." Suigetsu shrugged and I quickly became aware that despite the cold, he was without a shirt. "I could hear your teeth chattering all the way from my room, and why were you calling me Suigetsu-bastard in your sleep?"

I wanted to knock him out of the bed, and under any other circumstances I would've. But it was glacial in there; I could practically see my breath. I pressed up against him instead, mostly in fear of turning into a Karin-sicle.

"Karin?" Suigetsu hugged me tighter, and his warmth began to seep into my skin. "Karin, are you sick? Normally you would've killed me for being this close by now."

"I hate you so much," I mumbled. "But I don't want to freeze to death..."

"I won't let you freeze." His arm was wrapped around me, just under my breasts. "So what were you dreaming about? Were you having a sex dream about me?" He grinned at me.

I suddenly realized that I wouldn't have to worry about my face freezing, because heat flooded it. I didn't say anything; there was nothing I could say. After all, I had been in my bra and he had been shirtless in the dream, it was as close to a sex dream as I had ever gotten with him.

"It was wasn't it?" He didn't sound pleased, more like shocked.

"Shut up!" I punched him in the stomach, not hard enough to push him out of the bed, but hard enough to hurt, I'm sure.

"Will you relax?" He was back to his usual gruffness. "Just get some sleep, we have a lot of traveling to do tomorrow."

"You're an ass." I muttered, but cuddled back close to him, tucking the blankets around us.

"And you're a bitch." Suigetsu rolled his eyes, but I tucked my face against his neck anyway. I pretended to be asleep, and then I heard him say, "You're a bitch, but I love you."

I fell asleep with the oddest notion that maybe I didn't hate him as much as I thought... and the strangest idea that his "love" was why he had never fought back...

Author Note: I may continue this if I get requests, but other than that, was everyone in character? Besides the I love you, which, you know, he's not usually like that. Anyway, tell me what you think, I love your opinions.