Inside a somewhat dim room.
"Ah~"
A woman's sigh drifted over.
"Ah~"
Another sigh followed.
Karin lay sprawled on the bed, utterly drained. One hand rested on her forehead, while the other shielded her face.
Karin was hesitating. Should she run? Or should she run? If she failed to escape, she seemed likely to die.
Karin had been in a terrible mood lately. Or rather, ever since she had joined the Akatsuki with Sasuke, she had been having one piece of bad luck after another. When they captured the Eight-Tails, she had nearly been killed by it. Then Sasuke had abandoned her. After barely surviving, she had become Su Xiao's mobile "healing item."
The bite Su Xiao had taken out of Karin after being severely wounded had scared the soul out of her. When her vitality was being drained, she had the illusion that she might die at any moment.
That wasn't all. Karin felt that the atmosphere within the Akatsuki was becoming increasingly strange. Ever since a certain snake had joined the Akatsuki, the atmosphere inside had grown more and more terrifying.
Karin had once considered herself a rogue ninja—a bad person among ninjas. But after joining the Akatsuki, she suddenly realized that compared with what these people did, she was practically an innocent fool. These people wanted to wage war against the Five Great Ninja Villages. Were they insane?
Somewhere deep down, Karin felt that even Sasuke, who had already thrown himself into darkness, was merely being used by those people. He had been used all along.
"It seems I can't escape."
Karin sighed somewhat resignedly. She struggled to her feet and walked out of the room.
A ninja wrapped in bandages from head to toe approached her. Karin initially thought it was Sasuke, but after taking a