#tenkarin

[tentenpropaganda]

Favorite Naruto femslash rarepair out of these options?

Rin/Konan

Tenten/Karin

Hinata/Temari

Hinata/Tenten

Ino/Karin

Kushina/Konan

Voting ended onMar 10, 2025

[tentenpropaganda]

Karin going to Tenten, noted wielder of Things On Strings, for advice on how to utilize her newly-realized chakra chain ability in combat, and Tenten geeking out over the possibilities of her chains in a way which makes Karin feel, for the first time, that someone sees her abilities as something worthy of awe and respect rather than exploitation and greed; as a weapon in her arsenal, something which belongs to her and makes her strong, rather than as something that simply makes her a useful object to be dragged around like a chakra battery. And also Tenten whipping out a scroll and demonstrating how you can use weapons on chains to just beat the absolute shit out of someone awakens something in Karin which can never be put back to sleep. Send post

[spellcasterlight]

hey!! ❤ would you be able to write tenten x karin on a road trip? maybe to somewhere fun, like the beach! any rating is fine! :)

Hi there @something-like-air 😁

Ya'll know me by now, a rare pair request and I am on it like a car bonnet! 🚙

This is my first time writing Karin so that was cool! Also @something-like-air I wrote 'Karen' instead of 'Karin' so many times I swear 😂

I hope you like! ✨

Also counts as my Naruto FemSlash Week - Day 7 Prompt: Free Day entry; scoreeeee 👍

In The Stars - [Tenten x Karin]

Warnings: Alternative Universe. Mild Swearing.

Story Links: [Ao3]

[ftcoye]

[snippets of stories - Ao3 Link.]

“So,” Tenten says, and she passes her water flask to Karin. The other girl was clearly unprepared for the kind of workout Tenten was going to throw at her today - so it’s a good thing that Tenten kind of figured that, and came overprepared. “How are you adjusting?”

Uzumaki Karin is an interesting girl, an interesting situation if Tenten does say so herself. She’s pretty used to weird family situations - there’s her and Genma, of course, who are siblings despite not an ounce of blood between them, and people sometimes take that kind of weird. There’s Neji and everything with his whole family. There’s Lee and the fact that Gai-sensei has basically adopted him at this point. She never met Naruto before the exams, but she did ask Genma about him later.

“Kid’s been dealt a hard hand in life,” he had said. “No family here in Konoha. Didn’t really expect him to have family outside of it...”

As far as Tenten knows - though she’s never really been a history buff - clans and family tend to very much stick together, so she’s not sure why Karin’s in a whole ‘nother village. Or. Was.

“It’s... a lot,” Karin says, and she stares down at the water clasped between her hands. “But everyone’s really nice here.”

“Why wouldn’t we be?” Tenten asks. Sure, there’s some assholes in Konoha - no place is perfect - but...

“Not everyone’s nice,” Karin says simply, simple enough that Tenten knows better than the press.

Instead, she tips her head back, blinking up at the sky. “Well, glad we are here, then,” she says. “So what are you going to do?” She looks back down, meets Karin’s eyes. “Lee says you’re not sure if you want to stay a ninja or not.”

Karin... hesitates. Presses her lips together in a thin line and looks away. “No,” she says. “I’m really not sure.”

“Okay,” says Tenten, because even if it’s a bizarre life choice it’s still her life choice to make. “Why are you training, then?”

“I’m already behind,” Karin says, and her voice is firm. She meets Tenten’s eyes, determination etched in her gaze. “If I do choose to stay a ninja, I need to catch up.”

Tenten grins, and takes her water back. “Sounds like a plan,” she says, and downs some. “C’mon - enough of a break, let’s spar.”

As Karin looks pained and pushes herself to her feet, Tenten bounces eagerly from foot to foot, ready. Uzumaki Karin is interesting, she thinks.

And she’s a member of Team Gai. Best way for her to get to know someone? Is beat them up.

[chadsuke]

could you do drabble with karin and tenten? i feel like theyre just a good couple of gals who were both screwed over big time by canon

[Ao3 Link.]

For @narutofemslashevent‘s Free Day.

“Oy,” says Karin, stalking up to Tenten on the traininggrounds. “You’re that weapons chick, right?”

Tenten tosses one more kunai, hitting her sixth bullseye ina row, and turns to look at the redhead, brow raised and hands on her hips. “Yes,Karin, I am. I know you know my name.” Even from Naruto’s cousin, she won’t putup with that.

Karin rolls her eyes. “Tenten,” she says. “Will you teach mehow to fight?”

Okay, that stumps her. “You don’t know how?”

The girl’s cheeks darken, and she glances away. “No. They…wanted me for other reasons, in Kusa and Oto. Fighting wasn’t ever really onthe table for me.”

That’s just sad.

Everyone shouldget a chance to learn how to fight. How to use weapons! Weapons!!!

Oh, my god, she gets to help Karin find the weapons best for her.

Tenten’s eyes light up, and she surveys Karin like she’s anew puzzle, a new interesting mystery to solve. “You don’t have your ownweapon, right? Nothing specific you use?”

“Uh… no?” says Karin, taken aback and kind of wary.

“Great!” She turns, heading over to start pulling her kunaiout of the target. “I’ve got my tarot cards on me – if you treat me to a dateof dumplings, we can get cracking and start figuring out what works best foryou.”

“Tarot cards? Dumplings?” Karin looks a little overwhelmed. “Wait,a date?”

Tenten glances back, a kunai in her teeth, and spits it out.“Yeah, you’re cute. What, you don’t want to? It doesn’t have to be a date, dumplings are just my thinkingfood.”

“No, no, um-“ Karin smiles a little, adjusting her glasses. “Adate’s fine. I’m cool with a date.”

“Awesome,” says Tenten, and she turns back to yanking outher kunai and putting them away.

It’s a few minutes of silence before Karin speaks up. “So…why tarot cards? Those will help you figure out what weapon I should use?”

Tenten laughs. “I’m glad you asked! You see, by looking atthe cards you draw, I can…”

[artlessictoan]

Day 6 – Rarepair, TenKarin

a day late and pretty all over the place tbh, but here we go anyways. shortarse girlfriends are best girlfriends.

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Day 6 – Rarepair, TenKarin

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“Ok, so we need bread, yogurts, cereal-”

Tenten blinked and immediately cut her girlfriend off. “I already picked some cereal up.”

“You got the crap cereal, so I threw it on a shelf back in the chilled section, we need good cereal.” Karin didn’t even bother to look up from her list, tapping at each item as she called them out, “also rice, soy sauce, cheese and-”

She snapped the strip of paper out of Karin’s hands, glaring at her when she finally looked up. Not even trying to hide the fact she was just whining like a child, Tenten said, “What was wrong with my cereal?”

Karin’s brows dropped so low, they practically disappeared behind her glasses. “If I wanted to eat dry, flavourless sticks first thing in the morning I’d just pick some from a bush on my way to work, go get something with a bare minimum sixty percent sugar content STAT.”

“It’s good for you though, why don’t you just try a little honey with it or something?”

“A teaspoon of honey doesn’t miraculously make shredded wheat appetising – and no, the sugared version isn’t any better! I don’t want anything that doesn’t have chocolate in it, now chop chop.” She waved her off, already too busy looking through loaves of bread to respond to Tenten’s glare – not that she would have, even if she had seen it.

Rolling her eyes and groaning, she stomped away to hunt down something that would appeal to her sweet-toothed girlfriend.

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By the time Karin had caught up to her with the trolley, she had picked out the perfect cereal. “Here ya go babe,” she said with a wide grin, tossing the box at her.

She fumbled trying to catch it, but did manage to get a good enough look at it to burst out laughing.

“I figured a woman of such refined tastes like yourself deserves only the classiest of cartoon mascots-” she tapped the image of the t-rex with mismatched eyes and a wonky grin claiming that they were ‘ext-roooar-dinary!’ and wielding a giant spoon in its tiny arms “-you even get a free dinosaur keychain!”

Snorting, Karin dropped the box on top of all their other shopping and started towards the next aisle, saying, “Jokes on you, I’ve been meaning to add to my collection anyway,” as she passed.

“Boooo, you make everything terrible, y’know that?”

“Of course.” She filched the shopping list out of Tenten’s jean pocket and pointed one direction while turning the trolley in the other. “You go grab the cheese while I get the rice and shit, meet me in the drinks section.”

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Tenten shoved the two large soda bottles into the trolley, ignoring the fact that she had just crushed their squishier groceries. “Anything else in this aisle?”

“Hmm, no I don’t think- oh, wait, coffee.”

In perfect unison, they both turned to the shelfing devoted to hot drinks and tilted their heads back to the point on the highest shelf where the strongest, most toxic brand of coffee was displayed. Hidden away like the embarrassment to the bean family it was. Some fucker had gone and pushed the box back from the edge to boot.

“…Maybe we should just skip it,” Tenten said, turning to her girlfriend. Her equally short girlfriend – and Tenten barely pushed five two on a good day. “I mean, do we really need coffee that much?”

Karin’s head snapped to face her, the cracking of her neck ignored in favour of glaring corrosive holes straight through Tenten’s skull. “If we don’t get it then I will break up with you right here.” She didn’t need to prove how deadly serious she was; she was thinking along similar lines herself. It wasn’t a healthy habit to share, but there was absolutely no way she would survive a week working with both Lee and Gai without what basically amounted to an injection of pure caffeine into her bloodstream.

She eyed the top shelf thoughtfully. “You wanna do the honours then?”

“You’re the one who’s always bragging about having one whole centimeter on me, why don’t you grab it.”

Glaring at her, Tenten took slow, careful steps towards the rows of coffees and teas, pressed onto her tiptoes and stretched out her arm until her fingers just brushed a shelf. The one three shelves down from the top. She dropped down again and spun to see her girlfriend’s unimpressed stare, gesturing vaguely to the pack that was so hopelessly out of reach.

“Ugh, you’re useless,” Karin said, striding over herself; all her apparent confidence disappeared the second she actually got to the point where she had to look directly up at the towering structures.

Smirking, Tenten stepped back, crossing her arms as she enjoyed the show.

Repeating Tenten’s tactic did nothing, jumping only got her a couple of inches higher – though it did make her boobs bounce in a very entertaining manner – and trying to use the trolley as a stepladder would’ve broken her neck if she hadn’t been there to break her fall. “Quit laughing idiot,” she snapped once she was back on her feet, “I’m still doing better than you.”

She didn’t stop laughing, but Karin really should’ve expected that by this point in their relationship.

Huffing as she examined the shelving again, the sudden spark in her eyes immediately snapped Tenten back to attention. Hands against the highest shelf she could reach, she lifted one foot, then the other, pulling herself up one step at a time, shoving back various boxes and tins to make room.

“Ha!” She turned just enough to show her gloating sneer to Tenten, still climbing onto the final shelf, where their prize was waiting.

With a great, echoing crash, the metal ledge her feet had been resting against collapsed, scattering tea across the floor and leaving Karin scrambling to find her footing again. There was an ominous creak from the top shelf and confused cries from the aisles around them.

Already hearing the calls of staff incoming, Tenten quickly took action, ducking beneath her girlfriend’s kicking legs and raising until she was sitting securely on top of her shoulders. “Quick,” she hissed, “grab it and let’s get out of here!”

She didn’t have to say it twice, as Karin had already picked up the entire stock of Caffinal Countdown coffee and thrown it in the vague direction of their trolley. Barely giving her time to jump back to the ground, Tenten grabbed the handle and Karin’s arm and charged away, both of them cackling all the way to the check-out.

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[asacchi]

the juukarin art was so blessed 😌 and the tenkarin ones made me ship them jsjfjdjf

im so happy you enjoy this crackship T////T thank you very much!!!

[sooniaarten]

@smoresiesfanfic I love that kid , he is perfect <3