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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrJ4vcCdKq
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Title: midnight talk435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDi82H67MD
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJC8LT5CrLL
Rating: T435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHynR45dwGR
Word Count: 1.462435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGzULUi1M8
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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFTnls4XJt
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“Sasuke…?”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDgazSlaEI
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLI2XcVtJm
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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?”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQU6MTBXqa
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJaLwmYAxyI
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“Why would they hate you, Sasuke?”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zjkUntc3Z
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVVdMvPeBQ
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“… I almost killed their mother, didn’t I?”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwQ5w9oEqC
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So this is what this was about, huh?435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGqqQ47fm54
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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.”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAD0yxVDvx2
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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…”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlM4cqfpZuL
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“Sasuke—”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8Gq1J32xM
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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?”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8kzSctXaQv
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkVcG71D6on
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It makes her frown, her hand slipping down his hair and to his neck.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXbH562WF6
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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.”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNrh26Gwc7
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkontJbNx8z
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVCweqWK4m
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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?”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HOenyQfq7
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofu5DHhSvd
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“No,” he agrees thoughtfully, voice soft. “You are not, Karin… But you are no devil, and I—”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcrHMI1vSO8
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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.”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQztfqRSgz
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqDojZ1ay4
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwC55xl1iJk
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Not when she had already forgiven him a long time ago.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLiWwBdkiX
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She would not play his game.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4jyz2FNUL
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“If you feel that way, then why are you with me, Sasuke?”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZO6DJ8y6S
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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.”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnk1D8RLQY7
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKX4Wf5shc
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“Is that all this is to you, then? You not wanting anyone else to have me?”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzr8h6fzY8H
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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.”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBjDyfRRujO
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8ZUZtU9O3
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“Then let me hear it, Sasuke.”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ0qPmMU81o
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz1xWmpQuj3
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjOHzLG9Gd5
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“Karin…”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjllxnq08bE
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And so, she does not back down.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHsU6nmPXd
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“Say it.”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgbwCpsN87
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrt8foyhXPm
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When his obsidian eyes open again, what she sees in them steals the breath right off her lungs.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNZXSFQFz8
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“Karin, I…”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgTcqxMmTc
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3ZCU0xIg3
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡianWkUXAkp
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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:435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzQRQ9RuFS
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“It’s the same for me,” her voice an intimate whisper meant for him and him only. “Always.”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqoZXddh85
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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,”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Kc5JXB5S5
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“… How can you know that?”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHFGO5sL0I
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“Don’t you trust me?”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHFS4mudxmr
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Sasuke says nothing; he does not need to. Karin smiles. “Then trust me on this, Sasuke.”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHzD01XXmZz
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkVg9qfvAkq
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“…Alright.”435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuZFUHXXtX
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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.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVdGKhDnEfa
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You idiot, Karin thinks, fondly. They love you, already.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKTFBWT0Y1
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As did she. And that was all she needed to know to quiet down her own fears; her own insecurities.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkvHDFPF7r
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We will be fine, she knew.435Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHGxUEEIRBR
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They would be.
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