[FANFIC - HBD, SASUKE!] THE TAMING OF A TSUNDERE; (SK)
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHo514uyuek
Rating: K+449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Brtkg5fk5
Genre: Humor / Romance449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfGQTyeJFo
Word Count: 566449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZHTvI2eIM
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 haha449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEnZ9Q5jlV
Summary: [Post-series] It’s his birthday, and Sasuke has decided that he has had enough.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtfYxsUaGGg
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the taming of a tsundere;449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmz3kwGgnn
by Kanae449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1e7P70jT5P
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It happens once everyone has left.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRu4As8qQA
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“I—I brought you something,” Karin states, looking the other way, “for your birthday.”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXXIeXeV0p
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His eyes clung to the small bottle for a moment, mind whirling with questions.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52CTZEVwFb
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“You brought me perfume?” he inquires, stunned, gaze flickering to her face.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxz78O3j3TB
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Karin pulls at the neck of her shirt, her voice startlingly hoarse.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCvoL4JRsE
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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?!”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTq7a5Z5G0t
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But Sasuke barely listens to a word she says, too busy replaying Suigetsu’s words.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNh2ulpTHt6
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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!449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0XxrIRIi8
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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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IXLmtSXFc
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Karin, however, has always adamantly denied it; or at least never confirmed it.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJS4twzs9H
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Until today, that is, the Uchiha decides, hardening his expression.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8DPu0wobI
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Sasuke is not willing to let the matter go this time.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHye4BymQix
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“When girls give handmade gifts to a guy, it usually means something.”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjnYP9mjsr
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Obviously not expecting his words, all Karin can do is part her lips and splutter a “W-what—?”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0ZnaQgCJR
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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?”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH56BCA2xZn
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“W—wh… who cares about that, Sasuke?! Will, you just take the damn thing already—!”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypklyMyMOv
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“Does it, Karin?”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCwAXEwstx
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The answer is whispered so softly that he almost misses it.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFmoAMtewOL
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“…Yes.”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo7jPboHkke
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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—?!”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBr5Yf4C964
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Natural as breathing, Sasuke shuts her up with a kiss.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3OcfX76NuK
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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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhb5iLkz9Y
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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.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9nUNJgasEc
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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?”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLaEhWPjvfE
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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.”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9mHjbS2O6z
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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 haha449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmyJRfi40Qs
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So yes, happy birthday Sasuke~! ♥
tags: fanfic, karin, naruto, sasukarin, sasuke
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