[FANFIC - HBD, SASUKE!] THE TAMING OF A TSUNDERE; (SK)
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7F8ZjYVBJ
Rating: K+613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMcVIm5AWC
Genre: Humor / Romance613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPvdHSvy7N
Word Count: 566613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZMIBqeplB
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 haha613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHYiuolhF9t
Summary: [Post-series] It’s his birthday, and Sasuke has decided that he has had enough.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMDEiZ6Xcj
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the taming of a tsundere;613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFh4OoJhZiH
by Kanae613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsNekSEQgYi
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It happens once everyone has left.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZtAEdKNUg
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“I—I brought you something,” Karin states, looking the other way, “for your birthday.”613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx1F4p274Vx
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His eyes clung to the small bottle for a moment, mind whirling with questions.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEWof2Xqqp
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“You brought me perfume?” he inquires, stunned, gaze flickering to her face.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5km25DBIzL
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Karin pulls at the neck of her shirt, her voice startlingly hoarse.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ448RytSZ7u
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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?!”613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVtMxAV9yx
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But Sasuke barely listens to a word she says, too busy replaying Suigetsu’s words.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqljdUS6xr0
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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!613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd4S124YonJ
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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.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6w9SZOw7V7
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Karin, however, has always adamantly denied it; or at least never confirmed it.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzhmNG5fjsH
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Until today, that is, the Uchiha decides, hardening his expression.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIqQSo8Pwww
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Sasuke is not willing to let the matter go this time.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpnpNWKfvQZ
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“When girls give handmade gifts to a guy, it usually means something.”613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjNz0QxgN3n
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Obviously not expecting his words, all Karin can do is part her lips and splutter a “W-what—?”613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIxbWSFAPlg
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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?”613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrsEBKlVdq1
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“W—wh… who cares about that, Sasuke?! Will, you just take the damn thing already—!”613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1dmQ5aeCZg
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“Does it, Karin?”613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUCyNVdP04
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The answer is whispered so softly that he almost misses it.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfubC40zR7
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“…Yes.”613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJvPQF8I2u
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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—?!”613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFk9xXKft4A
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Natural as breathing, Sasuke shuts her up with a kiss.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsW9sgp1LS
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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.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKrMikrjbL4
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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.613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡorc5x66bPN
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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?”613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiPpdEM3zs
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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.”613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt308QplSfz
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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 haha613Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJ3BryXhvm
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So yes, happy birthday Sasuke~! ♥
tags: fanfic, karin, naruto, sasukarin, sasuke
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