SasuSaku FanFiction (One Shots) 🌸

Karin (Part 4)

Surprise, surprise. What was initially planned as a one-shot has become a lot longer than expected! This part supposedly has another half added to it (which is still in the works) but I just decided to upload this one since it's already long anyway.

Also, I'm thinking of reuploading "Karin" in a separate book here on Wattpad since it already turned into a short fic. What do you guys think?🤔

Meanwhile, I hope this chapter breaks all the tension caused by the past chapters! Don't forget to share your thoughts & feelings on the comment box! ;)

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Dinners and walks together on the way home became a usual day to day thing for them since then. Eventually, Sakura came to realize that Sasuke was intentionally spending time with her amidst daily tasks to aid the Hokage, for it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the Uchiha wasn't merely visiting the Hozuki family in the hospital after all.

She couldn't help but feel so flattered with how he would still pick her up from the hospital even right after coming back from a mission, wounded or not. And it was then that she knew that Sasuke was, in his own subtle ways, trying to work things out between them. If he started feeling the same way towards her, she couldn't be sure yet; nonetheless, she was absolutely grateful for the tiny steps that their relationship was taking towards rebuilding their bond that Sasuke almost oh-so-completely severed.

Undoubtedly, that fact gave her reasons for her insides to do somersaults and her heart to pound against her ribcage, yet her favorite part was getting to witness Sasuke's kind and gentle side every time they were together – the side she has always believed to be present even back when they were still genins, no matter how much of an ice block he may look like on the outside. And whenever it resurfaces, her heart couldn't help but feel in awe.

"I'll ask Kakashi to allow you to take missions alongside me, then," Sasuke suggested to Suigetsu during that last day of Karin and Suika in the hospital. Three pairs of eyes – purple, red, and green – looked at him afterwards.

"You're really doing that?"

"You have a family now. You need to have a source of income all the more. Can you think of other ways to earn while you're in Konoha?"

The head of the Hozuki Family stared at him in understanding and shook his head. "But won't they think that I'm an outsider or something?"

"If they can trust me now, then they should trust you too."

Sakura grinned at that, unable to stop herself from humming happily as she assisted Karin in finally getting off the bed after such a strenuous week.