[FANFIC - HBD, SASUKE!] THE TAMING OF A TSUNDERE; (SK)
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU3H9clQlDR
Rating: K+521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFn1dNd34Mw
Genre: Humor / Romance521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHumCp9AbA
Word Count: 566521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9cOxF7TeS
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 haha521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuivRivA1a
Summary: [Post-series] It’s his birthday, and Sasuke has decided that he has had enough.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy73MisspPm
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the taming of a tsundere;521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqr3FVxlYux
by Kanae521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDJgJwHuTn
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It happens once everyone has left.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡytWTWJc3l0
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“I—I brought you something,” Karin states, looking the other way, “for your birthday.”521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63eVroaeqH
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His eyes clung to the small bottle for a moment, mind whirling with questions.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJCx26d6gZ
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“You brought me perfume?” he inquires, stunned, gaze flickering to her face.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWOKLwVFIX
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Karin pulls at the neck of her shirt, her voice startlingly hoarse.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3Arqckn1y
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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?!”521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TuNGmXhKK
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But Sasuke barely listens to a word she says, too busy replaying Suigetsu’s words.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1iqI4MVJlr
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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!521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5j9YYKBnDK
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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.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHL4CDFlBsu
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Karin, however, has always adamantly denied it; or at least never confirmed it.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMXHEjLztev
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Until today, that is, the Uchiha decides, hardening his expression.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhxSdVPhug
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Sasuke is not willing to let the matter go this time.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrOmo59uSTC
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“When girls give handmade gifts to a guy, it usually means something.”521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡchwXkeJMZ4
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Obviously not expecting his words, all Karin can do is part her lips and splutter a “W-what—?”521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzktAkYk5Rq
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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?”521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYe9V5oYsj0
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“W—wh… who cares about that, Sasuke?! Will, you just take the damn thing already—!”521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK58UK838vK
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“Does it, Karin?”521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI3T0WRI8d3
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The answer is whispered so softly that he almost misses it.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZveznFLll
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“…Yes.”521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0N71yFWiWB
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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—?!”521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkng6hJsjKq
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Natural as breathing, Sasuke shuts her up with a kiss.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrZWLDbLbN
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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.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5SIAa0Zzn
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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.521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAsdLIufo27
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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?”521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWaMAz4JsgN
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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.”521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrifmy5sbd6
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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 haha521Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMAwwR3LYV
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So yes, happy birthday Sasuke~! ♥
tags: fanfic, karin, naruto, sasukarin, sasuke
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