disclaimer: you've been disclaimed.
dedicated: to les. aren't you surprised? ;)
prompts: "Start a love train, a love train!" / binoculars / "There's sexual tension here, and we need to solve it." / gogo boots / colored eyeliners
notes: i've... never done this pairing before. ;_;
quote of the day: "i learned that life is- well, it's messy... & complicated. &... &- & you think that killing people will make them like you, but it- it doesn't. it just- it just- it just makes them dead." - voldemort (AVPM & AVPS FTW)
"thank you"s are due to saraa & emily for beta-ing this. ^_^
happy happy holi-daze, les.
"There's sexual tension here, and we need to solve it."
Sakura blinked at the red hair that whipped back and forth across her vision.
"Karin, all I want-."
A pale arm carelessly interrupted what the girl had to say. "We all want a lot of things, Sak, but sometimes, you have to decide what's worth the most."
"Wha-?"
Another dismissive arm wave and she couldn't help but close her mouth. Thin fingers wrapped pink hair strands around themselves as her eyes carefully followed her friend pacing back and forth in front of her.
"Sakura- sweetie. We've known each other for- is it five, no, eight, or was it eleven years?- a long time. And you've honestly been following him around. Mostly with your eyes."
Karin paused.
"But binoculars? Honey, you've gone too far when you're at their windows with your little peepers up to the glass. Both of them."
Her cheeks flushed. "It was an accident. God!"
"That you were watching my brothers through their windows at three in the morning, watching them sleep? Who do you think you are, Edward?"
Sakura pushed the chair she had been forced into away from her friend, wondering if the insanity that was being pushed into her face was catchy and if she would have to miss her chemistry final because of it.
"Fine. I was at your brothers' windows with Sai's bird binoculars. I admit it. It won't happen again. Can I go already? When I came over for advice about Sasuke, I wasn't planning on getting verbally-abused. More like..." Sakura tried to find what she was trying to say while peering at Karin's extensive eyeliner collection. "What color eyeliner I should wear when I confess so he can't look away from my eyes- you know, the usual."
Putting her hands on her hips, Karin gave a world-weary sigh before sending a dazzling smirk Sakura's way. "Sakura. Sweetie. Sasuke would have to be a fool not to want you. Because you're a doll. You're gorgeous. You're sweet and smart and, like, you're friends with me.
"If he doesn't accept you for some reason, then we'll get married. Because you're a perfect doll and we- we complete each other. You're the Lady and I'm the freakin' Tramp. In an adorable, sexy way. Because you're like gogo boots and I'm the 1960s- we're, like, meant to be.
"So forgive my bluntness, but I hope Sasuke-love does something stupid so you run into my arms instead." The look on the redhead's face was so similar to Sakura's crush- and Karin's own brother- that her skin fairly crawled.
Sakura almost wondered if she should've gone to Ino instead, but the hug that Karin gave her- lacking the sarcasm that she normally uses as a shield- was so… comforting that she couldn't help but give it back.
After a few minutes, Karin pulled away with her old smirk and pressed the play button on her iPod speakers. "So go out there and…"
And as the O'Jays started singing, there was this feeling of foreboding in Sakura's gut that echoed with each, "Start a love train, a love train!" that Karin chanted while tribal dancing around her room like she was a Native American.
Why did she wake up this morning again?
-o-
Happy holidays, all! HAVE A GOOD END OF THE YEAR! :D