ONESHOT - SASUKARIN; MIDNIGHT TALK
Fellow SK shippers and I have been discussing how do we envision Sasuke and Karin as parents; and while I was thinking about that I was hit by a sudden mental picture. And so, this little drabble-turned-one-shot was born.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4HDdiRyaRx
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Title: midnight talk530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBTrruT27nA
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVZ4yBo82R
Rating: T530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuW5uKruQEe
Word Count: 1.462530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wQVgeLYG9
Author's Notes: Takes place post-series.
midnight talk;
A spark of alert flashes through her consciousness, briskly pulling her back from slumber. For a moment, she is disoriented—but then she feels it. That ghost of a caress, his finger absentmindedly tracing that particular spot above her left breast. The spot that was buried underneath bite marks but that he somehow never failed to find.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbbXjbQ6Ks
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“Sasuke…?”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjKXer0guU
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He does not reply straight away; rather, his body speaks for him—the hold of the arm circling her waist strengthening, his fingertips pressing against the tender skin of her hip and his toes coming to rest against her ankle. But when his voice joins his body language, it is nothing more than a mere murmur.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtOwAWxjMIs
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“…What if I’m not a good father, Karin?” he inquires, his breath tickling her bare breast. “What if… they hate me?”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡspAGoScWuR
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His free hand travels from her collarbones to her swollen belly, and Karin has to resist the urge to swat it away out of annoyance at his insecurities. Letting such a thing get to him, this was so unlike him.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JkPByNBGw
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“Why would they hate you, Sasuke?”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYJYgOEQSb
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His fingers move up, up and come to lightly trace the tear-shaped scar that both of them knew only too well, and she feels it again, then—that fluctuation in his chakra. That drop of mud that had sent ripples to what used to be a peaceful current and that had pulled Karin back from her own rest.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTh9TiPh5G
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“… I almost killed their mother, didn’t I?”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTh8x5EgrM
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So this is what this was about, huh?530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdV7ctgFi8
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Karin sighs, raising her hand and letting her fingers entwine with locks of Sasuke’s jet-black hair. “We’ve been over this before, Sasuke.”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1j6CuWYPpt
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“I know,” he acknowledges, but his chakra is still stirring and his voice is still a strained whisper. “I know, Karin. But…”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLjVNf5Ev26
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“Sasuke—”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYFugVMPzAF
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“—What I did was… still is unforgivable,” he says, his voice gaining strength in order to overpower her complaints. “What right do I have to be the father of your children, Karin?”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw3cgCh69Bb
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Their eyes meet, then. Karin’s glasses lie discarded on the nightstand, but she does not need them—not when he was this close, with his head lying on the crook of her neck. Not even the darkness of the room could prevent Karin from reading the look in his eyes as clearly as she could read the turmoil swimming inside his chakra.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZdVHk8Gh0u
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It makes her frown, her hand slipping down his hair and to his neck.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxyv3aSeE5
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“Don’t be stupid, Sasuke. This isn’t about rights—you are the father of my children, whether you like it or not. It’s too late to turn back, now.”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMiq8PMDfB4
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I wouldn’t turn back even if I could, is what remains unsaid, but Karin hopes Sasuke will be able to pick it up from her gaze, from her touch. It is an undeniable truth that Sasuke should know well by now, and Karin is not going to indulge him by voicing it aloud.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡekggh8Dsxi
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So focused is she on her thoughts that she misses his movements. When his warm fingers come to lay against her cheek, delicately, as if afraid that she would disappear with the lightest of touches, Karin finds her breath leaving her in the form of a stifled gasp.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzBfHq30O7
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“Why…?” he asks, his eyes boring into hers, and Karin finds her edges rounding and becoming cotton-soft under his touch and the urgency behind his gaze. “Why did you give me a second chance, Karin? Why… why do you allow me to stay by your side, despite everything I’ve done?”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34TpWYd0TP
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“I’m… no saint myself, Sasuke,” Karin finds herself muttering, but anything she may have added slips through her mind and remains forgotten, as Sasuke pushes back the bangs from her forehead and begins to trace the contours of her face.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8lKGmNxz0r
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“No,” he agrees thoughtfully, voice soft. “You are not, Karin… But you are no devil, and I—”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTbqf3iNKn
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“A man,” Karin cuts in, firmly, and Sasuke’s fingers halt their ministrations. “You are nothing but a man, Sasuke. And men make mistakes.”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HtTDl67iZ
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“…Mistakes that could’ve cost your life, Karin,” Sasuke reminds her, his eyes narrowing. Karin’s mirror his look, faded annoyance beginning to come back to life yet again.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ46Jp3J99bb
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How many times would they have to go through this before Sasuke let it go? When would he learn that clinging onto the past never did any good? All his mistakes—all the pain he caused himself and those surrounding them steamed from that stubbornness of his, from that apparent incapability of living the present for what it was. And Karin—Karin refused to let him continue to chastise himself in her name’s sake.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWyL3KVv4y
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Not when she had already forgiven him a long time ago.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQlT4FycGP
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She would not play his game.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDzgiPNh71X
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“If you feel that way, then why are you with me, Sasuke?”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYX3UbiXhj
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“… Because I’m selfish,” he replies after a breath, and his fingertips are tracing her lips, now, “I’ve always been selfish, Karin. You know that well.”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6b0uplAZWY
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A ghost of a smile curves the corner of Karin’s lips, but she forces herself to hide it before he could have the chance to notice it through his touch. It was no time to humor him; not yet, at least.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3cASo5gGIj
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“Is that all this is to you, then? You not wanting anyone else to have me?”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qHgu9vOTW
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“No,” Sasuke states, and he is frowning, as if indignant by the suggestion alone. “You know that’s not how it is, Karin.”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczwi0lsMo6
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Oh, she knew. Of course, she knew, she would not be with him otherwise. But Sasuke needed to learn how to say it; because while she did not need to hear it, his children would.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDB04vBNVD
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“Then let me hear it, Sasuke.”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoQNp364MQk
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There is hesitance showcased in his eyes and expressed through the way his fingertips linger, unmoving, ghosting over her cheeks; but Karin did not allow herself to feel like she was being unfair to him, asking him to say words that she had yet to say aloud herself. But the difference was that Karin knew how to do so; she had not forgotten.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGleGOSBW5A
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But Sasuke? Sasuke had. And Karin knew that was one of the thorns that kept jabbing at him whenever his eyes flickered across her swollen belly. A thorn embodied by the scar that remained as a memento right above her heart.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡspW7QaneJJ
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“Karin…”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIpoQDfCGD
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And so, she does not back down.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHwVmzFDA2c
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“Say it.”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAz2cPogX9
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Sasuke heaves in a sigh and closes his eyes for a long moment, defeated. Karin reaches out, then—reaches out and traces his face with the same adoration with which he had been tracing hers, using her warm touch as encouragement.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH6qlLHThcv
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When his obsidian eyes open again, what she sees in them steals the breath right off her lungs.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBjM7YULxE9
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“Karin, I…”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9HMdq910k
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His voice fades into silence as the words stumble over each other inside his throat, inexperienced, alien to his lips but overpowering in their truth—and so Sasuke leans in and lets his lips speak wordlessly directly to Karin’s own, which answer their call with a hunger that would never cease to set his very veins aflame.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ2v7avqHrW
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When they part, Karin’s arms, which were circling his neck, hold him in place; and so he lets his forehead lay against hers, his lips lightly brushing her own with every word he spoke.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZT3FdWnwk
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“I want you, Karin,” are the words he says aloud, but Karin hears beyond them and into the feelings he expressed through his kiss—through his gaze, through his touch. And it is to them that she replies:530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY2tLcPFMYD
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“It’s the same for me,” her voice an intimate whisper meant for him and him only. “Always.”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTC9HJbJbg
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Her name leaves his lips in the form of a shaky breath, and Karin holds him close, gives him solace in the modest curve of her breasts. “They won’t hate you, Sasuke,”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0vqPoh9vWG
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“… How can you know that?”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq89U0f3vVO
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“Don’t you trust me?”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrBkLWVSpbA
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Sasuke says nothing; he does not need to. Karin smiles. “Then trust me on this, Sasuke.”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOfpc7bZKp
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There is no way they will hate you, is what Karin tells him without words as she plays with his hair. Not if you look at them the way you looked at me just now.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUPjWuXmUd
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“…Alright.”530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjIf8kQowD4
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Karin’s gaze darts to his face, and she is pleased to see a peaceful expression taking over his features and reflecting on his chakra. The sight softens her smile, and she feels a surge of warmth expanding through her body as Sasuke unconsciously places his palm over her belly, the chakra of the two beings resting inside stirring to answer his call.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRF9Ee8LyjB
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You idiot, Karin thinks, fondly. They love you, already.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGTEu3D3FZH
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As did she. And that was all she needed to know to quiet down her own fears; her own insecurities.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9V7AhalS9
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We will be fine, she knew.530Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf5TUxmXPT8
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They would be.
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