[FANFIC - HBD, KARIN! PII] READING BETWEEN THE LINES ; (SK)  8964 copyright protection546ＰＥＮＡＮＡVeVLdjY8Qu 維尼

By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Wh6Nk6FCg
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Author's Notes: A lighthearted, crack-ish piece, in contrast to the overly fluffy one. I didn't have a clue of what to call it though, so the title is pretty random lol550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7pQP9WOQpu
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reading between the lines ;550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMCSqzHP17
by Kanae550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3D6yS1gTX
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Stupid Orochimaru.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NXNAZ3WN0
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Figures he would push her transfer to the Southern base to tomorrow, out of all days. At the tender age of fourteen, there are many things that Karin has shed and discarded—girly emotions and interests that she has cut loose, as a meaning to let go of unnecessary weights that would do nothing but hold her down.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6VhnZoxt3
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This particular weight, though, was proving to be quite hard to seize and dispose of. It only came once a year, after all.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgO2Y3vToBP
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And now it would be ruined.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstXs8gZpCR
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The thought makes her lower lipstick out in a pout, which promptly gives way to a scowl as she concludes—not for the first time—that the man had probably done it on purpose.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXz3Q8CkrHv
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No, he had definitely done it on purpose. Forget that such a childish action should be leagues beneath a power-hungry maniac like himself; when it came down to it, Orochimaru’s hobby was making people miserable. He got a kick out of it, so in retrospect, Karin guessed she should have seen it coming.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡah2aypPUQD
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Still, stubborn and proud as she was, she had not given him the pleasure; she had taken the news with a straight face and easily slipped into the act that had taken her months to perfect, but that had started to bear its fruits—even if it had yet to stop making her sick.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1HqWLg3Tk
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Understood. You won’t be disappointed, Orochimaru-sama.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2r6U3E5JjV
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The man had simply smirked, mirth in those gashes he had for eyes. I know.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVC7vY4Y3br
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Karin knew, too, even though she rather wished she didn’t.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf85ncXHYl2
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It was embarrassing—more like humiliating, actually—to acknowledge that, while she had gotten playing the part of the loyal subordinate down to an art, she had yet to master the act of not having feelings for Sasuke.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7E2Zq2tieA
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She would do well most of the time; great, actually—no one would dare to second-guess that she held no interest in the boy, aside from a begrudging partnership.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58U1Afo8XA
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But then Sasuke would unexpectedly do something—a brief touch, a compliment, a look—and her façade would bend at the seams and the truth would sneak out in the form of traitorous blushes and awkward stuttering.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkB1EbdVL2b
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Stupid Sasuke, Karin curses inwardly, her frown deepening as she airily snuck another shirt inside her bag. Making her expose her only weakness while simultaneously remaining completely oblivious about it.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6635S3W7g
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It was no wonder that Orochimaru would want to separate them; Karin had seen that much coming a mile away, so while disappointing, it had not been a surprise. But this—the freaking timing was definitely beyond her expectations.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWPw5Sk2Eob
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So focused was she on her thoughts, that she does not realize the chakra approaching her until he speaks.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeG1Hn1jBZp
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“Still packing, Karin?”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfyNyTFFgvs
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Startled, Karin turns only to find Sasuke casually regarding her from the threshold of the door, against which he was leaning. It takes her all of two seconds to get over her surprise and a couple of extra ones to stop chiding herself for letting her guard down.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEKAJOWcYf
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“I’m almost done,” she states, shifting her gaze back to her open bag. Not like she had much to pack, anyway; she had not taken anything with her when leaving her burning village to join Orochimaru—Sasuke—almost whole year ago, and since then the items of clothing she has acquired have been scarce. Such commodities were unnecessary given the new type of life she lead, and moreover—“Tch, Sasuke, when will you learn how to knock? I could be changing, for all you know.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlSi7mKB5G
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Karin does not look at him, there is no need to; she can easily picture the way he tilts his head to the side, bangs falling on his eyes and giving him an impossibly sexy aura as he smirks. “You would’ve stopped me from coming in, if you were.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdshpogsHx
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Damn him. All plain logic even in the face of the prospect of seeing her in her underwear; why did she have to fall for such a clueless, hormone-less idiot, again?550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS1Dr3NP7vT
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Oh. Right.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWSw9qQtVd
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It takes her a considerable amount of will to repress the sigh that wanted to leave her lips, “Whatever.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡduoxXslCWP
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Suddenly she hears him shifting, straightening; and her hands halt in expectation, her thoughts and irritation quieting down to a soundless tune as she patiently waited for the words that would follow.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEc3ACK8Fn1
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“…You shouldn’t leave your door open like this, there.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzJSuvOYMk
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He finally says, and Karin is thankful that her back is to him, or else he may have noticed the way her gaze softens, “I know.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtia8zAqby
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It’s Sasuke’s turn to wait, now; he seems to know it as instinctively as Karin herself did, and he does not utter a single word until she has gathered enough courage to ask what she has been wanting to—but refusing to—ask all along, not wanting to be perceived as weak—as scared. “How is it…? The Southern base, I mean.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFaISeDBnV
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“I’ve never been there.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkD0DyIe3Sn
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“… I see.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdbJPkHCV63
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Silence. For Orochimaru to have never taken Sasuke there, it could only mean one thing—550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JCee54qU5
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“…Orochimaru told me it’s the less dangerous of them all,” the boy says, and as if to confirm her thoughts, his voice carries a different savor within it—one reserved to accompany his gaze whenever he regarded Orochimaru, or Kabuto, or those that bit—“You won’t have much on your case, aside of…”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgeRC348E97
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He does not need to finish; the unsaid rings loud and clear between them and both direct a look to her exposed, tarnished arms. There weren’t that many scars in them, yet—but she got the feeling there would be, soon. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why Orochimaru wanted her as the sole jailer of the base—the thought makes her stomach clench, and so Karin pushes it away and focuses on something else before the feeling could threaten to take over her.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1uiTk0gnpt
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She focuses on the one thing—the one person that had singlehandedly managed to help her endure everything she has gone through ever since she lost her family and village.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPewOBqM6xh
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Sasuke.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgA0YGsT5mO
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“Heh, so you asked him?”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdDKv71fzU7
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He must have heard the mocking note in her tone, because he crosses his arms across his chest and furrows his brow, “Hn, so what?”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAUYEhiVfKJ
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She pretends to not have heard him, throwing him a roguish look over her shoulder and enjoying a little too much the way his frown deepens in response. He could be so amusing, sometimes. “You should know better, Sasuke; you don’t need to worry about me, I can defend myself just fine.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ125UWKNkQF
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“I’m not worried, Karin.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bnpYoHAq4
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Karin snorts, “Sure you aren’t.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfB0sznXRtX
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Sasuke wisely keeps his retort to himself, as expected—it’s been a while since he had realized that arguing with her took him nowhere. Both of them were too stubborn, and unlike him, Karin wasn’t planning to put leashes on her temper anytime soon.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWQW5v1Jtn
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Anytime soon. Her eyes widen.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlMvgDZoNyw
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“Say, Sasuke, did you ask Orochimaru for how long will I be there?”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlM0Jn8Lkyg
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He does not reply immediately; and in his silence, Karin hears the reply loudest of all. “… It’s undetermined.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpKYSB5oS5I
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“Oh,” is all she can muster, suddenly all too conscious of a single fact—just how long would it be before she saw Sasuke again? He was busy training, and Orochimaru rarely let him out of his sight as it was, and she—she would have her hands full handling the base by herself.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQAF55X93NP
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Chances are she would not get to talk, feel or bicker with Sasuke for months.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnrJkf3pgR
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Perhaps even years. The thought alone is able to make her blood run cold, and she almost lets out a gasp when Sasuke’s voice breaks through the heavy silence, as if reading her very core.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡigIGRoWPRe
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“… It won’t be that long, Karin.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ351urrTdGa
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When she looks at him, she finds a dangerous glint sharpening his eyes and at once knows what he means.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡerF2qOxJqS
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Orochimaru would not be around for much longer.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcl2xEW6h1r
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Karin swallows, a shot of adrenaline reigniting her veins.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3x4EnSoFw
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It is the unavoidable future; one that had been decided even before their paths crossed again, and one that Sasuke had set in stone ever since. Nothing Karin could do or say would change his mind, and so all she had left to do was trust him.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPb66YLANn7
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“…Right,” she smirks, and makes a point of passing her concern as taunting mockery. “Just make sure to keep your head attached to your neck until then. You won’t have me around to heal you anymore, so you will have to get used to Kabuto.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5lClPPvteO
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“Hn.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡICO4W80S6m
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She sees his scowl, his derisive eye-roll—and somehow is suddenly acutely aware, to the point where she can almost feel it as a physical affliction, of how much she was going to miss him.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkhedEb0LH
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Everything about him. From his ways to his silence to the way his chakra felt and the way he made her feel, in turn.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxjxfxz9AX
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And for the briefest of moments, Karin cannot help but to indulge herself and wonder if he would miss her, too—though she knows better. Sasuke was too single-minded, too focused on his revenge mission to give a thought to anything else, but still—550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dT8JnMssK
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Of course he would. He was only human, even if he would rather pretend—believe—otherwise, and she was the only person he spoke to out of his own volition. The only person he trusted; enough to rely on, enough to keep her around. If he is not lonely yet, then he is going to be lonely, now.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDsDkGgclQ1
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As will she.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtHnDHzUij
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It is that thought that prompts Karin to entertain being forward for a change and asking Sasuke to spend the night—if only as a birthday present.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnKqAME5vV
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She is merely wetting her lips and preparing to take the chance and let out a say, sasuke when he beats her to it and calls her name.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaF0rNy6KUd
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Flabbergasted, Karin can only catch the pouch that is suddenly thrown at her, “Huh?”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPs7BiYnMl
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“Poisoned kunai,” Sasuke states with a slight, nonchalant shrug before sticking his hands into his pockets. “I thought they may come in handy.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡauQh0BycbC
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She feels warm all over, and prays that Sasuke won’t notice the way her face seemed to be burning like a bonfire, “R-right.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5wOQpx2j7
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“See ya, Karin.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrmACkNRHe
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“Later, Sasuke.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjarxhNrZK
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It is almost as embarrassing as her treacherous blush, but for a moment, Karin had actually thought—550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zUA3fvJ9r
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She should have known better—Karin thinks, as she opens the pouch and takes out one of the kunai—Sasuke was not the kind to care about birthdays; and neither was she, for that matter. Not the Karin she was growing up to be, at least; she has no doubt that by next year, June 20 would be just another date.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nVkopqyde
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Still… while it had not been a birthday present, it had been a nice gesture nonetheless. And then he went around denying that he cared, the nerve of him.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwbmYKH8RtD
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Seriously, Sasuke, you can be so basic sometimes. The thought makes her smile fondly, and she is just about to put the pouch away when she notices the inconspicuous little fan carved on its backside, just a small dot of reds and whites in what was otherwise an immaculate sea of beiges.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdU1FUdZXCR
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She blinks—once, twice—and then her smile morphs into a full blown smirk, her fingertips longingly tracing the pattern.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLc6Zt00UEC
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Sasuke probably had not even noticed it—old habits die hard, after all, and he seemed to be as obsessed with that crest as he was with his revenge—but that hardly mattered, for at the end—550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36Y8U65vUI
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At the end, it all amounted to the same.550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavKRiEM7ZC
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“Happy birthday,” Karin mutters, an enthusiastic glint in her eye. “Uchiha Karin.”550Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApIuryuNz3
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