[FANFIC - HBD, SASUKE!] THE TAMING OF A TSUNDERE; (SK)
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5zAUcyDNz
Rating: K+471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxYySTs5cl
Genre: Humor / Romance471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6DUiSaINR
Word Count: 566471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwaMqH6BGAo
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 haha471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdmaQD24ZX
Summary: [Post-series] It’s his birthday, and Sasuke has decided that he has had enough.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJmNdeo0nP
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the taming of a tsundere;471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoDREb0WhG
by Kanae471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡesZvC9i58S
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It happens once everyone has left.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlD59QAlAFU
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“I—I brought you something,” Karin states, looking the other way, “for your birthday.”471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YeIlHN3R9
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His eyes clung to the small bottle for a moment, mind whirling with questions.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTw4WxMOfkl
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“You brought me perfume?” he inquires, stunned, gaze flickering to her face.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyVZ0EyGunh
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Karin pulls at the neck of her shirt, her voice startlingly hoarse.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxMSn8eGsCE
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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?!”471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3moHqm6ip4
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But Sasuke barely listens to a word she says, too busy replaying Suigetsu’s words.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmnYLYiRqLG
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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!471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpv8N40iBe0
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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.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxx6KYdX1DB
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Karin, however, has always adamantly denied it; or at least never confirmed it.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LLZ6YIauA
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Until today, that is, the Uchiha decides, hardening his expression.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJYwi1KXkyD
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Sasuke is not willing to let the matter go this time.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE7lMufyIvN
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“When girls give handmade gifts to a guy, it usually means something.”471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHfEnMN1tEi
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Obviously not expecting his words, all Karin can do is part her lips and splutter a “W-what—?”471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8hjIuVbsga
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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?”471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmLQLsTzD6
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“W—wh… who cares about that, Sasuke?! Will, you just take the damn thing already—!”471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMR8tB8lO1F
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“Does it, Karin?”471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXlGrHUgDp7
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The answer is whispered so softly that he almost misses it.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwBYFeIlhU
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“…Yes.”471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrD9j1w3rgN
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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—?!”471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡltn6UFsVq6
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Natural as breathing, Sasuke shuts her up with a kiss.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPF3fIAWNZ
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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.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHpUPxUHXxX
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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.471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6XMPaLufF
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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?”471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNk1vazHYN
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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.”471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAN9qSrOBkH
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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 haha471Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGf9QjI8YSP
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So yes, happy birthday Sasuke~! ♥
tags: fanfic, karin, naruto, sasukarin, sasuke
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