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ONESHOT - SASUKARIN; MIDNIGHT TALK

Fellow SK shippers and I have been discussing how do we envision Sasuke and Karin as parents; and while I was thinking about that I was hit by a sudden mental picture. And so, this little drabble-turned-one-shot was born.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLhbxG11dv
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Title: midnight talk569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdBKNrUbRix
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMasTmfmVyt
Rating: T569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiGPQZpAdV
Word Count: 1.462569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcbXw2BiWq
Author's Notes: Takes place post-series.

midnight talk;

A spark of alert flashes through her consciousness, briskly pulling her back from slumber. For a moment, she is disoriented—but then she feels it. That ghost of a caress, his finger absentmindedly tracing that particular spot above her left breast. The spot that was buried underneath bite marks but that he somehow never failed to find.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6546fwbd1N
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“Sasuke…?”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkFZELVCu4
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He does not reply straight away; rather, his body speaks for him—the hold of the arm circling her waist strengthening, his fingertips pressing against the tender skin of her hip and his toes coming to rest against her ankle. But when his voice joins his body language, it is nothing more than a mere murmur.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgepNVxurPg
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“…What if I’m not a good father, Karin?” he inquires, his breath tickling her bare breast. “What if… they hate me?”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqAFrAV8Iq
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His free hand travels from her collarbones to her swollen belly, and Karin has to resist the urge to swat it away out of annoyance at his insecurities. Letting such a thing get to him, this was so unlike him.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFwY6ieCV1
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“Why would they hate you, Sasuke?”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iaJiCRKLK
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His fingers move up, up and come to lightly trace the tear-shaped scar that both of them knew only too well, and she feels it again, then—that fluctuation in his chakra. That drop of mud that had sent ripples to what used to be a peaceful current and that had pulled Karin back from her own rest.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQxC9L4YH1
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“… I almost killed their mother, didn’t I?”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TvKwBDeEs
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So this is what this was about, huh?569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhwJRi3fGNW
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Karin sighs, raising her hand and letting her fingers entwine with locks of Sasuke’s jet-black hair. “We’ve been over this before, Sasuke.”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVIagloQb00
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“I know,” he acknowledges, but his chakra is still stirring and his voice is still a strained whisper. “I know, Karin. But…”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSBdpoAG4y
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“Sasuke—”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsddhmrNB0
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“—What I did was… still is unforgivable,” he says, his voice gaining strength in order to overpower her complaints. “What right do I have to be the father of your children, Karin?”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCnSxuyLdl
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Their eyes meet, then. Karin’s glasses lie discarded on the nightstand, but she does not need them—not when he was this close, with his head lying on the crook of her neck. Not even the darkness of the room could prevent Karin from reading the look in his eyes as clearly as she could read the turmoil swimming inside his chakra.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKYsaWUNJNQ
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It makes her frown, her hand slipping down his hair and to his neck.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58c8tMaydk
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“Don’t be stupid, Sasuke. This isn’t about rights—you are the father of my children, whether you like it or not. It’s too late to turn back, now.”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQhduB7XRG
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I wouldn’t turn back even if I could, is what remains unsaid, but Karin hopes Sasuke will be able to pick it up from her gaze, from her touch. It is an undeniable truth that Sasuke should know well by now, and Karin is not going to indulge him by voicing it aloud.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmnxhRvC4CZ
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So focused is she on her thoughts that she misses his movements. When his warm fingers come to lay against her cheek, delicately, as if afraid that she would disappear with the lightest of touches, Karin finds her breath leaving her in the form of a stifled gasp.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVZJCFz36z
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“Why…?” he asks, his eyes boring into hers, and Karin finds her edges rounding and becoming cotton-soft under his touch and the urgency behind his gaze. “Why did you give me a second chance, Karin? Why… why do you allow me to stay by your side, despite everything I’ve done?”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6VoEeV0us
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“I’m… no saint myself, Sasuke,” Karin finds herself muttering, but anything she may have added slips through her mind and remains forgotten, as Sasuke pushes back the bangs from her forehead and begins to trace the contours of her face.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3vbINmo5F
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“No,” he agrees thoughtfully, voice soft. “You are not, Karin… But you are no devil, and I—”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLLxNK6jHYY
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“A man,” Karin cuts in, firmly, and Sasuke’s fingers halt their ministrations. “You are nothing but a man, Sasuke. And men make mistakes.”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5lnrYycNd
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“…Mistakes that could’ve cost your life, Karin,” Sasuke reminds her, his eyes narrowing. Karin’s mirror his look, faded annoyance beginning to come back to life yet again.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpN7BwycfD
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How many times would they have to go through this before Sasuke let it go? When would he learn that clinging onto the past never did any good? All his mistakes—all the pain he caused himself and those surrounding them steamed from that stubbornness of his, from that apparent incapability of living the present for what it was. And Karin—Karin refused to let him continue to chastise himself in her name’s sake.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDsxHYVFZW
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Not when she had already forgiven him a long time ago.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhqgJV3n2Cc
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She would not play his game.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXchxDxl2v
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“If you feel that way, then why are you with me, Sasuke?”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZkHTK6ptvM
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“… Because I’m selfish,” he replies after a breath, and his fingertips are tracing her lips, now, “I’ve always been selfish, Karin. You know that well.”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaACTKixOyC
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A ghost of a smile curves the corner of Karin’s lips, but she forces herself to hide it before he could have the chance to notice it through his touch. It was no time to humor him; not yet, at least.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9fgPnccdL
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“Is that all this is to you, then? You not wanting anyone else to have me?”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONPPwOMsvL
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“No,” Sasuke states, and he is frowning, as if indignant by the suggestion alone. “You know that’s not how it is, Karin.”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwzZu8jUn2a
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Oh, she knew. Of course, she knew, she would not be with him otherwise. But Sasuke needed to learn how to say it; because while she did not need to hear it, his children would.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPY8rtG0n5
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“Then let me hear it, Sasuke.”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjBz6eUqXA
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There is hesitance showcased in his eyes and expressed through the way his fingertips linger, unmoving, ghosting over her cheeks; but Karin did not allow herself to feel like she was being unfair to him, asking him to say words that she had yet to say aloud herself. But the difference was that Karin knew how to do so; she had not forgotten.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdqAqW1VJD
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But Sasuke? Sasuke had. And Karin knew that was one of the thorns that kept jabbing at him whenever his eyes flickered across her swollen belly. A thorn embodied by the scar that remained as a memento right above her heart.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQVT4yKkez
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“Karin…”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdbt7VSLCqc
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And so, she does not back down.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUXkvRTGW3X
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“Say it.”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqqc4KiW90
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Sasuke heaves in a sigh and closes his eyes for a long moment, defeated. Karin reaches out, then—reaches out and traces his face with the same adoration with which he had been tracing hers, using her warm touch as encouragement.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfLiPnymq2H
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When his obsidian eyes open again, what she sees in them steals the breath right off her lungs.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyerm3nmFi
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“Karin, I…”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYCNn5R6ai
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His voice fades into silence as the words stumble over each other inside his throat, inexperienced, alien to his lips but overpowering in their truth—and so Sasuke leans in and lets his lips speak wordlessly directly to Karin’s own, which answer their call with a hunger that would never cease to set his very veins aflame.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdw5qbsZcGJ
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When they part, Karin’s arms, which were circling his neck, hold him in place; and so he lets his forehead lay against hers, his lips lightly brushing her own with every word he spoke.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGUlu8UQHBZ
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“I want you, Karin,” are the words he says aloud, but Karin hears beyond them and into the feelings he expressed through his kiss—through his gaze, through his touch. And it is to them that she replies:569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLucuselF6y
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“It’s the same for me,” her voice an intimate whisper meant for him and him only. “Always.”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78WqSptbXC
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Her name leaves his lips in the form of a shaky breath, and Karin holds him close, gives him solace in the modest curve of her breasts. “They won’t hate you, Sasuke,”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKzEEmBEwT
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“… How can you know that?”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQllzV5IBz
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“Don’t you trust me?”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6NzFR3EQS
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Sasuke says nothing; he does not need to. Karin smiles. “Then trust me on this, Sasuke.”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbCdV8xLuoI
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There is no way they will hate you, is what Karin tells him without words as she plays with his hair. Not if you look at them the way you looked at me just now.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFxlVyCtK3C
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“…Alright.”569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNW37739fL
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Karin’s gaze darts to his face, and she is pleased to see a peaceful expression taking over his features and reflecting on his chakra. The sight softens her smile, and she feels a surge of warmth expanding through her body as Sasuke unconsciously places his palm over her belly, the chakra of the two beings resting inside stirring to answer his call.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDfLPH3Hzl
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You idiot, Karin thinks, fondly. They love you, already.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dTSdI86wS
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As did she. And that was all she needed to know to quiet down her own fears; her own insecurities.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MT8oyAgyZ
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We will be fine, she knew.569Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTO8nhWbwrR
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They would be.

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