[FANFIC - HBD, SASUKE!] THE TAMING OF A TSUNDERE; (SK)
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSg2qa56gNH
Rating: K+507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi4LMuSqtIs
Genre: Humor / Romance507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoQSnSIzhYE
Word Count: 566507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgk7YgMF0N
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 haha507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxuSDmFNYLZ
Summary: [Post-series] It’s his birthday, and Sasuke has decided that he has had enough.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1mjpi0UpRm
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the taming of a tsundere;507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzU0Bp2GUea
by Kanae507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNUkPHhnPx
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It happens once everyone has left.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPkUmrDM5a
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“I—I brought you something,” Karin states, looking the other way, “for your birthday.”507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYiQCnnrUi8
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His eyes clung to the small bottle for a moment, mind whirling with questions.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡipEnxXyuQv
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“You brought me perfume?” he inquires, stunned, gaze flickering to her face.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4OWWcNrzKu
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Karin pulls at the neck of her shirt, her voice startlingly hoarse.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpknzoXKMvn
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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?!”507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrNdfx8CC9
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But Sasuke barely listens to a word she says, too busy replaying Suigetsu’s words.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbh0gAvSaPr
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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!507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Y4jYgaC3i
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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.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiaqQs9fXSj
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Karin, however, has always adamantly denied it; or at least never confirmed it.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TYm4WjaYi
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Until today, that is, the Uchiha decides, hardening his expression.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWCtgdTwxT
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Sasuke is not willing to let the matter go this time.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LiA8W3rhc
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“When girls give handmade gifts to a guy, it usually means something.”507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFB5o7ZlwyK
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Obviously not expecting his words, all Karin can do is part her lips and splutter a “W-what—?”507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb41m5mMA6B
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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?”507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkpeB1oJpUX
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“W—wh… who cares about that, Sasuke?! Will, you just take the damn thing already—!”507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1SltWABAY
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“Does it, Karin?”507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4wlXFVSaF
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The answer is whispered so softly that he almost misses it.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUxY6S3dwk
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“…Yes.”507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEheKQFri8K
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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—?!”507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSDOdgZaORc
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Natural as breathing, Sasuke shuts her up with a kiss.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8XyGBysCj
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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.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDFvwniYNgz
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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.507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuax0aAd61Y
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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?”507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFL3L7BBAt
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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.”507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeguT84yj8Z
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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 haha507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMkqOmQBRw
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So yes, happy birthday Sasuke~! ♥
tags: fanfic, karin, naruto, sasukarin, sasuke
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