[FANFIC - HBD, SASUKE!] THE TAMING OF A TSUNDERE; (SK)
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCUsugiQuR
Rating: K+455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGmNwRuw9P
Genre: Humor / Romance455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTarCbNnEOg
Word Count: 566455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoXlW3XYqpL
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 haha455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxFrkcVkRL
Summary: [Post-series] It’s his birthday, and Sasuke has decided that he has had enough.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxNx5q8QfE2
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the taming of a tsundere;455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEoxSsXN1pg
by Kanae455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv5ZG1ZvMwt
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It happens once everyone has left.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWvQ8xlTiK
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“I—I brought you something,” Karin states, looking the other way, “for your birthday.”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKirMJBuF3
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His eyes clung to the small bottle for a moment, mind whirling with questions.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvd7sKyM0VW
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“You brought me perfume?” he inquires, stunned, gaze flickering to her face.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0usv66f3yK
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Karin pulls at the neck of her shirt, her voice startlingly hoarse.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiuJgyyhyGa
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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?!”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuMkLdNliE
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But Sasuke barely listens to a word she says, too busy replaying Suigetsu’s words.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeS0A3eDkDR
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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!455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrhOTX7029j
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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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA88YVOpFmx
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Karin, however, has always adamantly denied it; or at least never confirmed it.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa4zlVIcjNh
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Until today, that is, the Uchiha decides, hardening his expression.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAR9HjmYYic
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Sasuke is not willing to let the matter go this time.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLM3ZlgPUz
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“When girls give handmade gifts to a guy, it usually means something.”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4O4gXnkIUq
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Obviously not expecting his words, all Karin can do is part her lips and splutter a “W-what—?”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1ftjGFzMt
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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?”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkw7V1MBgbY
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“W—wh… who cares about that, Sasuke?! Will, you just take the damn thing already—!”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjaFgE2s4Th
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“Does it, Karin?”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvksqsaw0cA
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The answer is whispered so softly that he almost misses it.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGnne39rpg
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“…Yes.”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡADwcanC0iu
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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—?!”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ucWxbdwIO
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Natural as breathing, Sasuke shuts her up with a kiss.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTMpY0mGJR
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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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI87o76Ijp0
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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.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkqEqCXxXw
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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?”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWVfVx2EHD
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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.”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4t9S1PHjt
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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 haha455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZADzF5rc6x
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So yes, happy birthday Sasuke~! ♥
tags: fanfic, karin, naruto, sasukarin, sasuke
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