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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzS7bZQL76E
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Title: midnight talk458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFFsuZalGY
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡopJiJoVXgA
Rating: T458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡonlHvGxjxP
Word Count: 1.462458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ftcTDbIY0
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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZkzVM0txt
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“Sasuke…?”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgadiH1t52
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUtYma9lOH
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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?”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLCPxmIYrW9
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2vmteGX3d
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“Why would they hate you, Sasuke?”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdiX4reQIIn
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gb49QZhSA
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“… I almost killed their mother, didn’t I?”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qyizTpx6Q
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So this is what this was about, huh?458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlH4dH7loFG
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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.”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLXIKxe0zv
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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…”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmWuclMHzvj
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“Sasuke—”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZHgIkvVDh
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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?”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYq1LKEh8eR
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwW0j6wFj7
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It makes her frown, her hand slipping down his hair and to his neck.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhc4xBOLNWL
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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.”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAhS1rlRJy2
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHr6dBn1H9h
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtd2kJX9U5h
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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?”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoiLY6EPc75
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt5QzeFk35W
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“No,” he agrees thoughtfully, voice soft. “You are not, Karin… But you are no devil, and I—”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX148BjrOf0
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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.”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡno2MKkDuRw
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1Ljt4XRfq
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JewBuf0jn
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Not when she had already forgiven him a long time ago.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwk402XMher
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She would not play his game.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eHmC6Rtz6
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“If you feel that way, then why are you with me, Sasuke?”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwHQYrKLxjU
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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.”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOuwxgmPrp
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3T12pkmekS
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“Is that all this is to you, then? You not wanting anyone else to have me?”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7B9rvIWG3
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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.”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0EmKqQ81Z
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxM7A8iUYNE
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“Then let me hear it, Sasuke.”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMcWJNY65wN
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2zeO6WRss
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNv5R1pSXnN
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“Karin…”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOhSEVyuDf6
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And so, she does not back down.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gmQs1plZ1
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“Say it.”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwq9FVPqsiz
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMW7WaioOw
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When his obsidian eyes open again, what she sees in them steals the breath right off her lungs.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5lkD4vVY5Q
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“Karin, I…”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHiH1wCzTBw
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEdwuVOtSPV
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJBACpSi4j
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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:458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9v5YIjsXKd
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“It’s the same for me,” her voice an intimate whisper meant for him and him only. “Always.”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWpsDIro5Bq
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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,”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrO6Onoevut
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“… How can you know that?”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTfteGodD6J
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“Don’t you trust me?”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBDJdn3KKR
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Sasuke says nothing; he does not need to. Karin smiles. “Then trust me on this, Sasuke.”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCM2f1z9AH
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZcoLhfG99
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“…Alright.”458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKHhVgPHxD
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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.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXfL1rNz2I5
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You idiot, Karin thinks, fondly. They love you, already.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnBzWcYfZ92
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As did she. And that was all she needed to know to quiet down her own fears; her own insecurities.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBxF9z6lqW
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We will be fine, she knew.458Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIiVOg3dC6K
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They would be.
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