[FANFIC - HBD, SASUKE!] THE TAMING OF A TSUNDERE; (SK)
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5qdsRwW4a
Rating: K+537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DbsgXkeyR
Genre: Humor / Romance537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXmnCy0OWT
Word Count: 566537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Uz5AkXA7n
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 haha537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRUygwDoWU
Summary: [Post-series] It’s his birthday, and Sasuke has decided that he has had enough.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe4TwrTcqXT
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the taming of a tsundere;537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vg5BCBfT8
by Kanae537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiqvXkKyqgt
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It happens once everyone has left.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Nk3yGzvDP
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“I—I brought you something,” Karin states, looking the other way, “for your birthday.”537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNn8ZFGFWH
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His eyes clung to the small bottle for a moment, mind whirling with questions.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZReDUXa6cO
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“You brought me perfume?” he inquires, stunned, gaze flickering to her face.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqloUr9DB3B
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Karin pulls at the neck of her shirt, her voice startlingly hoarse.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDhHK5MAmv3
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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?!”537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1O6bnQ0bjS
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But Sasuke barely listens to a word she says, too busy replaying Suigetsu’s words.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Ivq8ruRg9
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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!537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF01uNBof9o
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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.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4jna3lH8A
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Karin, however, has always adamantly denied it; or at least never confirmed it.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jdIbE40cI
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Until today, that is, the Uchiha decides, hardening his expression.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCaGDkJ0PRk
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Sasuke is not willing to let the matter go this time.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0JxtgSv4s
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“When girls give handmade gifts to a guy, it usually means something.”537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLreJaA7Dy
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Obviously not expecting his words, all Karin can do is part her lips and splutter a “W-what—?”537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmymfcuSyH
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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?”537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8IbiQ0LBg
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“W—wh… who cares about that, Sasuke?! Will, you just take the damn thing already—!”537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCQsCW4EI4
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“Does it, Karin?”537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMigEQdfkGY
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The answer is whispered so softly that he almost misses it.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMnLuXBjV72
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“…Yes.”537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxRynEvgj9r
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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—?!”537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu2SoVO19Xf
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Natural as breathing, Sasuke shuts her up with a kiss.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlJ0Fv8uEN
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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.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRInbqXBxa
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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.537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7S59fPYXCT
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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?”537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfyAJ2aUTia
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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.”537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡubsWA6yqv4
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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 haha537Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRqzhRSsSb
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So yes, happy birthday Sasuke~! ♥
tags: fanfic, karin, naruto, sasukarin, sasuke
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