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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡskywW62dnV
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Title: midnight talk565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnknLqms9N
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmhvHurfDe
Rating: T565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvGXTdR6C4
Word Count: 1.462565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8IXKLnnSRB
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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaJXwNPyGeW
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“Sasuke…?”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTuXuzCybe0
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3StEubueJq
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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?”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhLuXfNGFm
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8r8u0lL3Bo
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“Why would they hate you, Sasuke?”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMQtE78OEX
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEN5SecqhY
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“… I almost killed their mother, didn’t I?”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4niX4453ZI
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So this is what this was about, huh?565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGUeYDvQGvz
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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.”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UWLtGXWeQ
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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…”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZbP7EZKZm
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“Sasuke—”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMNfrrcogQ
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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?”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgvC8GLPCr9
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnRbNb1ZYF
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It makes her frown, her hand slipping down his hair and to his neck.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1xBwbdLaj
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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.”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HEUQ2vnbN
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZalVIA1YTn
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡphPlPqLJMr
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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?”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9AyhKRHLz
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5AGT2tJSCi
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“No,” he agrees thoughtfully, voice soft. “You are not, Karin… But you are no devil, and I—”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpl05GcAy0I
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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.”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTvkYextHL
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCzX4JgP24
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4I5lNls2oK
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Not when she had already forgiven him a long time ago.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGCgsPvDMp
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She would not play his game.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQ4OPZpmD9
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“If you feel that way, then why are you with me, Sasuke?”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2RKeP02e9
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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.”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh0nJ91quH8
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUprIsl1sE
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“Is that all this is to you, then? You not wanting anyone else to have me?”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XUcM3ZWQt
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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.”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7TS61Wk75
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6HrU7ZMHTR
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“Then let me hear it, Sasuke.”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHxqQNO1y4
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMGXFoCBnG
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYqLqKvRqc
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“Karin…”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJxMwi3HkVf
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And so, she does not back down.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5gqqWIsdZ
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“Say it.”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtBFOnvzB6
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQUyoQH4u3
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When his obsidian eyes open again, what she sees in them steals the breath right off her lungs.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXuHz9xxrZj
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“Karin, I…”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLL5bKkWDC
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IRf0u6HNK
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7uC1VILgjf
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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:565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGn0femL57
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“It’s the same for me,” her voice an intimate whisper meant for him and him only. “Always.”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMD7jihGg2
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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,”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlijsxRkaL
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“… How can you know that?”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WePLl62Mr
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“Don’t you trust me?”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPNIbI8zn59
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Sasuke says nothing; he does not need to. Karin smiles. “Then trust me on this, Sasuke.”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuDjPAYt5dt
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdxhzxEgru
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“…Alright.”565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWujghr6v8
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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.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80Mw0r2Aym
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You idiot, Karin thinks, fondly. They love you, already.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRs3hJpfwBV
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As did she. And that was all she needed to know to quiet down her own fears; her own insecurities.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3Eh3DFYqE
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We will be fine, she knew.565Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb9U4ofYssC
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They would be.
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