[FANFIC - HBD, SASUKE!] THE TAMING OF A TSUNDERE; (SK)
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0KxPijjKf
Rating: K+576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOawjp0SIre
Genre: Humor / Romance576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbT6KRxhBEj
Word Count: 566576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7cMwyF1Lc
Author's Notes: A light-hearted, crack-ish one-shot featuring a more traditional take on Karin’s tsundere qualities, plus a more self-aware Sasuke who has already settled his issues. So yup, post-series haha576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXbzxe58kV
Summary: [Post-series] It’s his birthday, and Sasuke has decided that he has had enough.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsT4cZQb0Ve
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the taming of a tsundere;576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqjdAbfZ4GT
by Kanae576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEFveJbUQoz
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It happens once everyone has left.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1if4jLT3b
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“I—I brought you something,” Karin states, looking the other way, “for your birthday.”576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIftNCZDKL
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His eyes clung to the small bottle for a moment, mind whirling with questions.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpDGimCZjx
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“You brought me perfume?” he inquires, stunned, gaze flickering to her face.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWIuQdZYuz
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Karin pulls at the neck of her shirt, her voice startlingly hoarse.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4cqnk3IwQ
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“More like made it, actually, but—” she goes a little red at the ears and before he can even blink Karin is back to being the brash and forward girl he knows so well. “Pft, not that it matters! Will you take it or not? Just tell me already so I can leave! I have things to do, you know?!”576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu09OkV7KlZ
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But Sasuke barely listens to a word she says, too busy replaying Suigetsu’s words.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1nKk6faifY
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Karin’s crazy about you, man. Why do you think she put up with all the shit you put her through? She would have blasted my balls off to next Sunday if it had been me in your shoes!576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCKDgp24dN
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Such had been Suigetsu being the crude but eloquent way of letting Sasuke know that Karin loved him—or had loved him, once. Sasuke had refused to believe it, at first; but since then, he has had more than enough time to put two and two together, and he has to acknowledge that everything did add up.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHyQYidjZsl
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Karin, however, has always adamantly denied it; or at least never confirmed it.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrE3d9lBnH
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Until today, that is, the Uchiha decides, hardening his expression.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNtRRWvM4j
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Sasuke is not willing to let the matter go this time.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxyRYibP3bS
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“When girls give handmade gifts to a guy, it usually means something.”576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡayrsg7Hm2n
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Obviously not expecting his words, all Karin can do is part her lips and splutter a “W-what—?”576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFDLq2tljqM
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But Sasuke is bracing himself and cutting her off before she can even attempt to gather her composure. “Does it mean something, now?”576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2wvCXyQIL
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“W—wh… who cares about that, Sasuke?! Will, you just take the damn thing already—!”576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fQ1cXA2p6
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“Does it, Karin?”576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTvIKApY3HI
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The answer is whispered so softly that he almost misses it.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3V6KXFooh1
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“…Yes.”576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ubsjO1HmX
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Sasuke’s eyes widen. After a breath, Karin’s do, too, and she hurries to push her glasses further up her nose and clear her throat. “I—I mean, maybe. How am I supposed t—?!”576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDt5jQdTIe
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Natural as breathing, Sasuke shuts her up with a kiss.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIWkMD1ECgp
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It’s his first, and this seems to be something he won’t be a natural at—it’s sloppy, tense, and tentative; but despite the shortcomings, it feels right. Like this is what he was supposed to be doing, and Sasuke relishes that feeling the most.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQ7OvF1ukg
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When they part, Sasuke is greeted with the sight of Karin’s half-lidded eyes and dazed gaze, her cheeks colored two shades lighter than her hair—and as he feels the skin of her neck turn to gooseflesh under his fingertips, he finds himself falling for her all over again.576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡipMntAWZ6M
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“So,” and though he tries to sound casual—as if his heart wasn’t beating just as hard as hers was—it’s too easy to hear the smile that slips into his face. He figures he must look ridiculous, but he finds that he doesn’t quite care. “Is it a yes or a maybe, Karin?”576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMDwwEsCK0
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“Oh, just shut up, Sasuke,” the redhead demands airily, and in one swift movement she has taken her glasses off and has thrown her arms around his neck, a roguish grin curving her lips, “and kiss me again.”576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkO6hxuDNT
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The idea for this was born while reading a fantastic LinZin piece by Oh Dee, which inspired the dialogues about hand-made gifts “usually meaning something” (which Sasuke knows better than anyone thanks to the myriad of fangirls he used to have, ofc)~ and of course, I couldn’t resist playing up Karin’s tsundere-ness haha576Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKgSOQqLKp
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So yes, happy birthday Sasuke~! ♥
tags: fanfic, karin, naruto, sasukarin, sasuke
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