[FANFIC - HBD, SASUKE!] THE TAMING OF A TSUNDERE; (SK)
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Q6GhXSH5i
Rating: K+450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAHrCoM2DM
Genre: Humor / Romance450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2A9JYqXcV
Word Count: 566450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSrsHCSMGWk
Author's Notes: A light-hearted, crack-ish one-shot featuring a more traditional take on Karin’s tsundere qualities, plus a more self-aware Sasuke who has already settled his issues. So yup, post-series haha450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4FdF6wue2
Summary: [Post-series] It’s his birthday, and Sasuke has decided that he has had enough.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgDRQCrGQg3
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the taming of a tsundere;450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUO3VI1Q23f
by Kanae450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoP31yqS1RF
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It happens once everyone has left.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NKLwQilX1
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“I—I brought you something,” Karin states, looking the other way, “for your birthday.”450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3X9GiZHtz
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His eyes clung to the small bottle for a moment, mind whirling with questions.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQOO5sSXAC
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“You brought me perfume?” he inquires, stunned, gaze flickering to her face.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJdaVaUnSV
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Karin pulls at the neck of her shirt, her voice startlingly hoarse.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWBHOabJsS
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“More like made it, actually, but—” she goes a little red at the ears and before he can even blink Karin is back to being the brash and forward girl he knows so well. “Pft, not that it matters! Will you take it or not? Just tell me already so I can leave! I have things to do, you know?!”450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUbsKxlUna
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But Sasuke barely listens to a word she says, too busy replaying Suigetsu’s words.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DEpQP92UL
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Karin’s crazy about you, man. Why do you think she put up with all the shit you put her through? She would have blasted my balls off to next Sunday if it had been me in your shoes!450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ92LksGTicU
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Such had been Suigetsu being the crude but eloquent way of letting Sasuke know that Karin loved him—or had loved him, once. Sasuke had refused to believe it, at first; but since then, he has had more than enough time to put two and two together, and he has to acknowledge that everything did add up.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKc5VEHFhYq
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Karin, however, has always adamantly denied it; or at least never confirmed it.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTtlPbLq7k
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Until today, that is, the Uchiha decides, hardening his expression.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9OKVmCaRDA
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Sasuke is not willing to let the matter go this time.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIrQ6rVMJ8u
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“When girls give handmade gifts to a guy, it usually means something.”450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYBU5p7zl3
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Obviously not expecting his words, all Karin can do is part her lips and splutter a “W-what—?”450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpoFHNZlZZE
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But Sasuke is bracing himself and cutting her off before she can even attempt to gather her composure. “Does it mean something, now?”450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9yYHxuMEH
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“W—wh… who cares about that, Sasuke?! Will, you just take the damn thing already—!”450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1PHEH9WW8f
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“Does it, Karin?”450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uqFwM1lcH
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The answer is whispered so softly that he almost misses it.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXgTwLNfEr
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“…Yes.”450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvKg5SObcR
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Sasuke’s eyes widen. After a breath, Karin’s do, too, and she hurries to push her glasses further up her nose and clear her throat. “I—I mean, maybe. How am I supposed t—?!”450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjFdNg5z3A
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Natural as breathing, Sasuke shuts her up with a kiss.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy9pKePh7pP
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It’s his first, and this seems to be something he won’t be a natural at—it’s sloppy, tense, and tentative; but despite the shortcomings, it feels right. Like this is what he was supposed to be doing, and Sasuke relishes that feeling the most.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXbkdVTAkdV
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When they part, Sasuke is greeted with the sight of Karin’s half-lidded eyes and dazed gaze, her cheeks colored two shades lighter than her hair—and as he feels the skin of her neck turn to gooseflesh under his fingertips, he finds himself falling for her all over again.450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡau0Ffc0Uzi
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“So,” and though he tries to sound casual—as if his heart wasn’t beating just as hard as hers was—it’s too easy to hear the smile that slips into his face. He figures he must look ridiculous, but he finds that he doesn’t quite care. “Is it a yes or a maybe, Karin?”450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKC1jfEFJC
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“Oh, just shut up, Sasuke,” the redhead demands airily, and in one swift movement she has taken her glasses off and has thrown her arms around his neck, a roguish grin curving her lips, “and kiss me again.”450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1oiYZ5l0H0
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The idea for this was born while reading a fantastic LinZin piece by Oh Dee, which inspired the dialogues about hand-made gifts “usually meaning something” (which Sasuke knows better than anyone thanks to the myriad of fangirls he used to have, ofc)~ and of course, I couldn’t resist playing up Karin’s tsundere-ness haha450Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHckEImp7tR
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So yes, happy birthday Sasuke~! ♥
tags: fanfic, karin, naruto, sasukarin, sasuke
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