Disclaimed.

First Kiss

by: you are my math

Don't look too far, sometimes people you need are just closer than you think.

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In which Karin's one and only wish is to be Uchiha Sasuke's date for prom. But Suigetsu's sudden interference ruins everything. Senior promenade is supposed to be the most awaited day of all. Suika, SasuSaku. AU.

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She knows since middle school that the popular Uchiha Sasuke has harboured some indefinite feelings for that pink haired sweetheart of the school. Kind of cliché, sounds like a Cinderella fairytale—except, she has pink, not blonde hair. Well, as much as she despises that small fact, she still hopes that someday tables might turn.

But well, darn it! Tables don't turn!

This year's prom, too, take for example, is nowhere remotely distinctive from those nightmares that always haunt her every freaking night in bed. Why? That perfect living matter—'too-much-for-an-ideal-boyfriend'—guy's date is none other than that science genius in her class—Haruno freaking Sakura!

She beats back an uproar. She has more class than dwelling for this simple matter. It's just a date, right? Like hell, they're already a thing now, they're not, are they? Karin does a bottoms up on her glass of champagne, red fiery eyes not tearing from those two partners dancing in the beat of this overrated sweet song of King and Queen of Hearts.

What could possibly go wrong, right? She wonders deep more to herself.

She resists to roll her eyes, when Sasuke pulls—what's her name again? She racks beneath. Oh yeah—Sakura close to him, seizing every second he has just to initiate a stupid physical contact with her. She doesn't understand why he still needs to find someone to initiate a contact with, when she is always free, and fast to come to his aid, and—

No! She stops herself from even furthering her mind to it. There's no point of daydreaming of things, because it only goes to show how pathetic she is, that's just borderline raising a white flag—admitting defeat just like that. Just no the hell way.

You see, the girl, that pink haired one—Karin actually likes her, she's bright, a bit friendly, and talks to her occasionally in class, but of course a tinge faint of jealousy can't be shrugged off that easily. Because why not, Sasuke likes her and well, even if he's not verbally honest about it, Karin can absolutely reads through him.

"Darn right jealous? You, obnoxious redhead chic?"

Karin shoots a glare to the man sniggering beside her. "Shut up, ass." She hisses, folding her arms across her chest.

Suigetsu didn't hide his amusement about this, glancing over across the crowd of dancing teenagers to see the Uchiha-Haruno tandem being subtly sweet in their own dance. Like hell, they don't give a flying crap who sees how PDA that dance is! He traces back his gaze to Karin, mockingly smiling.

"You're just mad no one wants to dance with you."

She gives him a finger. "Screw you! Who says no one? I'm just too good for them." She defends before she huffs away.

She will not let this day ruin just because the Haruno gets to dance with her precious Sasuke instead of her who, for heaven's sake, even dresses herself beautifully for this event. Or because Suigetsu tries to get to her nerves again.

"Just kidding. Wanna dance then?"

She's taken aback, cheeks immediately turning red. "No!"

"Why not? Geez, you're one hella choosy."

"I'm above pathetic for that."

Suigetsu rolls his eyes. "If you want to get close to them," pointing to the two at the back, "then let's dance."

Karin swallows down the thought. Just because they're dancing, and him already offering her a hand to dance doesn't mean that she has to seize down this chance. "Desperate times don't call for desperate measures. Go away, Suigetsu!" She pushes him away on the stomach by her right hand, by which Suigetsu grabs hold to with his free hand.

"Shit woman," bending down to her, and smirking, "just because you look attractive tonight doesn't mean you have to play hard to get." He brings her hand across his lips before she even finds words to throw at him.

Blushing furiously at the teasing action, she snatches down her hand that is still holding by his. "Stop saying stupid things! You're clearly not the person I'm playing hard to get with!"

"Whatever. I'm bringing you to the dance floor." And with that, he drags her across despite her furious blush, and savage curses underneath.

Once they're in the middle of the floor, Suigetsu makes no, no effort to stay close with the pink haired chic and raven haired Uchiha couple, contrary to what he says to her earlier—much to Karin's dismay, actually.

"Move closer to them, you ass." She hisses.

"Let them be." He moves her arms around his neck, as he settles his hands around the small of her back, intertwining his fingers so she won't go anywhere else but stays here with him. "We have our own." He continues.

Unbeknownst to her, they start to sway in the rhythm of the song, too. Realising this, she spits out to say, "what are you doing?"

"Dancing, heck, you're too noisy just go along, will you?"

"I don't want to dance with you." She hisses back almost instantly, pushing him away. But he knows better than to let her slip past him, so he pulls her closer to him, smirking triumphantly on his win at this one. "I swear you jerk, I'll—"

Before she even gets to register what happens next, he drops down his head to hers—because even in heels she's still much, much shorter than him—enclosing the minuscule spaces that parts them between, and his lips—her heart lounges—meets hers in one gentle chaste kiss. When he let goes, he almost wants to throw himself into a fit of hysterical laughter.

But he beats it back, because of the mood. "You'll what?" He teases; smirk tingling across his lips.

And as soon as she gets back from the moon, unable to say coherent words on the process, she still manages to say: "my first kiss," she mutters, fingers trailing across her lips before she bursts out. "That's my first kiss! You asshole! I was saving that one for Sasuke, and you freaking stole it!" She screams, throwing fit of punches on his chest.

And as though in trance of cluelessness, he unconsciously places a hand on Karin's redhead, bringing her closer to the hollow of his neck, and hushing her to peace, because even if she's not a hell of a crybaby, her tantrum is much, much worse than a woman's tears, "for pete's sake, just shut up, will you?"

Surprisingly, she obeys. "But that was my first kiss!" She jeers, before kneeing him in the groin hard.

Once he let goes of her to wince in extreme pain she's caused in him, she walks out of the scene, dragging her frenzied heart that seems to get attached at the second he snatches a chaste kiss from her.

With crimson red face, she immediately looks away when she takes a peek over the small pool of her batch mates circling around on that jerk's wincing figure on the ground. Biting back her lip, she orders herself to remain absolutely intact. She couldn't just understand him so much, he teases, makes fun of her for almost every day of her life, he even makes it a living hell for her for crying out loud, and now...

And now...he even crosses the line to do that to her? Screw him! He will not, not do that to her again.

But for some unknown insidiously stupid reason, none of those loathes she says to herself could ever explain why her lips were still tingling.

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Meanwhile...

"Don't you think that's a tad bit harsh, Sasuke-kun?" A pink haired girl questions, looking concern at one of her classmates lying helplessly on the floor.

Sasuke only shrugs at the innocent question. "Well, would you also knee me if I kiss you now?"

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fin.

A/N: my favorite work so far, lol. The SasuSaku tag is just for this chapter, on the next one, however, if there's no SasuSaku pairing on it, I will remove it again. I'm just tagging it here because, well, besides suika, there's at least a slight sasusaku too. Sorry for the confusion—or well, the bait...