[FANFIC - HBD, SASUKE!] THE TAMING OF A TSUNDERE; (SK)
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfoPjYQ6BM
Rating: K+464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk34SgJVjyk
Genre: Humor / Romance464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6YeV8CgAQ
Word Count: 566464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2d1qHc3MyS
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 haha464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP0xKOUuWAz
Summary: [Post-series] It’s his birthday, and Sasuke has decided that he has had enough.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPMImB1iF4W
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the taming of a tsundere;464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡklCnbnl4xn
by Kanae464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7x4nWZjsK
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It happens once everyone has left.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUkDRgSK3KI
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“I—I brought you something,” Karin states, looking the other way, “for your birthday.”464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnOlfV5a13
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His eyes clung to the small bottle for a moment, mind whirling with questions.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQaxd3PkDe
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“You brought me perfume?” he inquires, stunned, gaze flickering to her face.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKdT7OuX65
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Karin pulls at the neck of her shirt, her voice startlingly hoarse.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvncCN8To84
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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?!”464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtmgCipsBD
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But Sasuke barely listens to a word she says, too busy replaying Suigetsu’s words.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7P0dYTcwX
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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!464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡssOIPg15Oe
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4ie32aE3c
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Karin, however, has always adamantly denied it; or at least never confirmed it.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaYPcqmWmc6
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Until today, that is, the Uchiha decides, hardening his expression.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2utCJOy2XX
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Sasuke is not willing to let the matter go this time.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ31J57I3YfR
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“When girls give handmade gifts to a guy, it usually means something.”464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnyVQf98waV
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Obviously not expecting his words, all Karin can do is part her lips and splutter a “W-what—?”464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfxDn8kIaq
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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?”464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1QjjJLHyr
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“W—wh… who cares about that, Sasuke?! Will, you just take the damn thing already—!”464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7I5g58mKCE
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“Does it, Karin?”464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqw7tYRo4df
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The answer is whispered so softly that he almost misses it.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXidIIrxgu
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“…Yes.”464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiemruBxHo
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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—?!”464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbImHrPFVF9
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Natural as breathing, Sasuke shuts her up with a kiss.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYyuiEwwnt
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJX3xFp0br2
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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.464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT32gpN8hLh
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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?”464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvVfRTWJlR
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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.”464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmw3sxhrvTi
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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 haha464Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNN62CtPdJE
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So yes, happy birthday Sasuke~! ♥
tags: fanfic, karin, naruto, sasukarin, sasuke
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