Malignant

Chapter 1.

By: RobinSparkelz

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

She waltzes in, all pale pink hair, wide green eyes and tangled lashes. "She's staying with us for the year Sasuke." His wife tells him, and he nods and stares and wonders why his heart beats faster. A Sasuke&Sakura story.

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Somewhere along the line he fell out of love with Karin, he does not know why, she is still as beautiful as the day he met her, still as strong willed and vibrant, but her blood red locks splayed across their crisp pillows do not entice him as they once did, her smooth skin does not beckon him to caress it, her hazelnut eyes do not pull him in as they once used to, and it frustrates him because Sasuke wants to love his wife, wants to desire her and he simply...can't. And he hates himself for it.

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"My cousin" Karin tells him over breakfast, " ...is going to be studying at The University of Konoha."

He nods, he vaguely remembers her squealing over the phone to her cousin. The cousin she always seems to talk about. Her name he he hazily remembers is a type of flower. Karin, does not keep close to her family, except for Naruto but he is more like his family than hers. Sasuke has only seen her mother a handful of times, and her father once at their wedding seven years ago. She never mentions them, but he knows she sends her mother a cheque monthly and pays her brothers tuition, these are the things that made him fall in love with her, her subtle gentleness, her inability to be dependent, the way she never complains, yet still, he finds himself further from her every day.

"...Sakura can't afford the residence fees, apparently her scholarship doesn't cover it, so I suggested she stay with us, she has a car so she can dr-"

"What?" If Sasuke was one for loud exclamations, his question would have come out loud and obnoxious, but he is not, so his question comes out one notch louder than his usual monotone, with a edge of steel, because Sasuke doesn't like surprises and Karin has just surprised him.

Karin looks down at her plate, her blueberry pancake barely eaten because of all her talking, then slowly, she looks back up at him " I didn't think you'd mind." Karin says.

...and to be honest Sasuke doesn't know if he minds, he doesn't like change, he likes order and routine, he likes coming home to a cooked meal and a clean house, but having someone else live here, with them, brings about unknown variables and he hates the unknown more than surprises, he does not have huge outbursts of emotion over things that occur beacuse he usually knows what to expect, but at this moment right know he just doesn't know how to fucking feel about a stranger waltzing through his home, sitting at his table, using his things, maybe at another time he wouldn't have minded, but with his and Karin's relationship being what it was right now, he didn't think it really wise to have someone else living with them, unconsciously his grip on his fork tightened at the thought of this girl, Sakura, who had gone and disrupted his whole day, without even being present. He won't admit to himself that he is scared, scared she'll see right through him and see he doesn't love Karin anymore, scared she'll tell her, scared he'd lose her, because he may not love Karin anymore, but he needs her.

He does not tell her how he feels, he does not tell her no directly, instead he asks, "Have you already told her yes?"

Her silence is all the answer he needs, and Sasuke may not want her there, but he is not cruel and it is too late anyway. So he nods, wipes his mouth with his napkin, and gently reaches over to grip his wife's hand, her startled expression is proof of how long he has being cold and un-intimate with her, guilt washes over him, and his jaw clenches in an effort to keep his expression blank. "When will she be arriving?" His tone is at complete odds with the irrational annoyance he feels towards this girl for ruining his boring albeit content existence. "Tomorrow" Karin answers and her tone is hushed but still he catches the tell tale hints of happiness in it and somehow he doesn't feel as if her happiness is directed to him and his act of affection. This cousin of Karin's, and her impending arrival has livened her, her eyes glow with warmth he hasn't seen in a very long time, and slowly annoyance toward the girl gives way, ever so slightly, to curiosity and he wonders what's so special about her.

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