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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2MmLm1utgF
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Title: midnight talk536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TLo0A3nWQ
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdqkXZ3YxAt
Rating: T536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsEltNWGHrx
Word Count: 1.462536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHWLPkPNQMH
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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSd8jxtO4eq
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“Sasuke…?”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtl2Y4c1zMU
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ3sEDUWmqo
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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?”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQScwkqjqGK
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9OFeLEv72J
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“Why would they hate you, Sasuke?”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfynqDdP8Fh
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS5pbwt9eSM
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“… I almost killed their mother, didn’t I?”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkh3YsrDee
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So this is what this was about, huh?536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkJx3so2rua
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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.”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8sfuBSQYkp
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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…”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkTEDkLGs6
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“Sasuke—”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTnf3Opfyw
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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?”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzCEJfjRdp
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXci35omTOd
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It makes her frown, her hand slipping down his hair and to his neck.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4mRZvZqW9x
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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.”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡInLXA72OUF
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDA2CjdrKTr
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLnObDzjloV
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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?”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1BaG9ejrGG
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23ZBipVVhX
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“No,” he agrees thoughtfully, voice soft. “You are not, Karin… But you are no devil, and I—”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzIoQqKyXV
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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.”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptBF9o0ojH
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJs1Ub3pPEW
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgZfsgyFku
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Not when she had already forgiven him a long time ago.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjb3KTW9to
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She would not play his game.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4wIcdYvhR
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“If you feel that way, then why are you with me, Sasuke?”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85I4zLXuKX
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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.”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2H1JnjnBds
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxFyatpWfz
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“Is that all this is to you, then? You not wanting anyone else to have me?”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoT5MN9fwVM
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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.”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRS7RTMY5pu
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx6qpTC0pqd
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“Then let me hear it, Sasuke.”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8bjhvFUB9X
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofxPpLgZcy
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhiTYj1lDq0
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“Karin…”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmK0gxUVxA
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And so, she does not back down.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Zgv9waTYB
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“Say it.”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EaSjQnNFd
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfeBFM215by
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When his obsidian eyes open again, what she sees in them steals the breath right off her lungs.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoCHDVF7mhD
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“Karin, I…”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMtiKvZAqT
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8qlJzBzH2
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pY4S0j2kl
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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:536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡafMJfOZlFS
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“It’s the same for me,” her voice an intimate whisper meant for him and him only. “Always.”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2JIDUPM3a
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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,”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNNtI4N0P3N
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“… How can you know that?”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmOflaxNEb
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“Don’t you trust me?”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBLRTlHmjF
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Sasuke says nothing; he does not need to. Karin smiles. “Then trust me on this, Sasuke.”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡne6f0Slvzs
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFMfHF7IVMS
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“…Alright.”536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1NrU5unkT
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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.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxzuWTGBgH
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You idiot, Karin thinks, fondly. They love you, already.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNX5Zt1A6h
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As did she. And that was all she needed to know to quiet down her own fears; her own insecurities.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiB2y9QZMYB
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We will be fine, she knew.536Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNi9FbQTH6A
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They would be.
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