[FANFIC - HBD, SASUKE!] THE TAMING OF A TSUNDERE; (SK)
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOXOP1VbzZW
Rating: K+528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlyFujfpdi
Genre: Humor / Romance528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVAkZ0x1Hr
Word Count: 566528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRF2CBFRqBB
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 haha528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJhJlsa5ir
Summary: [Post-series] It’s his birthday, and Sasuke has decided that he has had enough.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFeGKhs6t0
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the taming of a tsundere;528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd0BqZmByEi
by Kanae528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeamq561c3O
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It happens once everyone has left.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4LvT1loR0
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“I—I brought you something,” Karin states, looking the other way, “for your birthday.”528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IVElkRXZL
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His eyes clung to the small bottle for a moment, mind whirling with questions.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAJ7QZm6hd
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“You brought me perfume?” he inquires, stunned, gaze flickering to her face.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6Qf42bTFa
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Karin pulls at the neck of her shirt, her voice startlingly hoarse.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbOgBCbCE4
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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?!”528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjpzOmZ3Js
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But Sasuke barely listens to a word she says, too busy replaying Suigetsu’s words.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58HmVzf56n
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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!528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1YYgzGxhK5
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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.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVt5zwsm9Ty
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Karin, however, has always adamantly denied it; or at least never confirmed it.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSvjgboDp1W
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Until today, that is, the Uchiha decides, hardening his expression.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmtmPxuD2c
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Sasuke is not willing to let the matter go this time.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOyBMJs3Vw6
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“When girls give handmade gifts to a guy, it usually means something.”528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLEDNTSwUA
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Obviously not expecting his words, all Karin can do is part her lips and splutter a “W-what—?”528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNcVpOKn5L
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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?”528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09XrrmC3tx
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“W—wh… who cares about that, Sasuke?! Will, you just take the damn thing already—!”528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJbttshueP
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“Does it, Karin?”528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhhJYB9XxRG
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The answer is whispered so softly that he almost misses it.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRgSGvUdynL
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“…Yes.”528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡik52eq39SJ
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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—?!”528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGN9BfSMQz
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Natural as breathing, Sasuke shuts her up with a kiss.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPCCuUX3TEO
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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.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpENjNPcGeI
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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.528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHjXxtNhyb
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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?”528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIi9zh2tkyt
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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.”528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuvqIVUCF9
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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 haha528Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ28SQkmo8Iv
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So yes, happy birthday Sasuke~! ♥
tags: fanfic, karin, naruto, sasukarin, sasuke
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