[FANFIC - HBD, SASUKE!] THE TAMING OF A TSUNDERE; (SK)
By: Kanae (Goth-Punk88 @ ff.net)592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrYHHYyQ1IX
Rating: K+592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5bscrEWLZ
Genre: Humor / Romance592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEVfNe19Vem
Word Count: 566592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTe3MOsjvI
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 haha592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKAqa4VlUF
Summary: [Post-series] It’s his birthday, and Sasuke has decided that he has had enough.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGNyIgXCA4
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the taming of a tsundere;592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALf3aFBIBf
by Kanae592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi60vYw4ztV
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It happens once everyone has left.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfcPB0CQWD
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“I—I brought you something,” Karin states, looking the other way, “for your birthday.”592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSC2epsYxV
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His eyes clung to the small bottle for a moment, mind whirling with questions.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUbLVDdF8Al
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“You brought me perfume?” he inquires, stunned, gaze flickering to her face.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm55FZICQGu
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Karin pulls at the neck of her shirt, her voice startlingly hoarse.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ01itNghaDs
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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?!”592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLgGzOeCRs
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But Sasuke barely listens to a word she says, too busy replaying Suigetsu’s words.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHf6YGK0t0
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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!592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPP8VkQl4C
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTwaQsmgGN
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Karin, however, has always adamantly denied it; or at least never confirmed it.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcGY0QiTEQ
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Until today, that is, the Uchiha decides, hardening his expression.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmssaEBqrmB
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Sasuke is not willing to let the matter go this time.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pdfDzQrAN
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“When girls give handmade gifts to a guy, it usually means something.”592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpB1nBgcrW
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Obviously not expecting his words, all Karin can do is part her lips and splutter a “W-what—?”592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLMP2Ejj5h
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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?”592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡruI8RexNrG
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“W—wh… who cares about that, Sasuke?! Will, you just take the damn thing already—!”592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDeyKtiTAlj
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“Does it, Karin?”592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5b60iU69tG
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The answer is whispered so softly that he almost misses it.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnBsTb3WdnV
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“…Yes.”592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡocecquQW4p
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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—?!”592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TMfpPCf8t
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Natural as breathing, Sasuke shuts her up with a kiss.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34YhNGO5zB
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4u9xFn73yV
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr24w8Snofw
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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?”592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7VffmZknFJ
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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.”592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeS9anPfgzv
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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 haha592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYnC51L3hHO
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So yes, happy birthday Sasuke~! ♥
tags: fanfic, karin, naruto, sasukarin, sasuke
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