My Girl
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The story and chapter title are inspired by the song "My Girl" by The Temptations.
This story has gender-bending. xD But I don't want to deal with Mpreg right now, so there.
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Chapter 1: Sunshine on a Cloudy Day
"I'm pregnant."
"Wh...what?"
Of all the things that could have spilled out of Sasuke's pretty mouth, Suigetsu never in his wildest dreams would have imagined his ears filtering out those words.
The seventeen-year-old listened with growing dread as Sasuke repeated her statement. Suigetsu was mesmerized with the way Sasuke's pouty, painted lips formed the two taboo words once more, and he was almost too caught up to actually listen.
Sasuke's lips made the words look pretty as they formed and rolled off her tongue; but as the soft hum of her voice reached Suigetsu's ears, the words finally registered properly in his brain. They hit him hard, as if they were written on bricks, and those bricks were both thrown at his face simultaneously.
With the growing numbness that the mental stoning had left him with, all Suigetsu could manage to sputter in response was a soft question, soaked in dread and dripping with disbelief.
"Like...with a baby?"
Sasuke's onyx coloured eyes, which were swollen and bloodshot from previously shed tears (tears she had not let Suigetsu see, even though the after-effects they left her with let him know they had been there), slowly narrowed into slits of black and red. "Yes."
Suigetsu swallowed heavily. He needed a drink of water desperately, to try and help his saliva navigate around the lump formed in his throat. "Uhm..." And then the lump choked him, preventing any other sound to leave him.
Sasuke fidgeted across the kitchen table from Suigetsu, her hands folding over one another again and again. Suigetsu watched mutely as her small, pearly, teeth showed as she bit down onto her lower lip in a small show of anxiety. Was she expecting him to say something?
"I..." That lump was proving to be intrusive. "We..." Suigetsu cleared his throat, trying to lift his voice above the dull whisper he was using at the moment. "Is it...mine?"
Sasuke's anxiety-ridden expression slowly cleared, and was immediately replaced with a shocked look of indignation. Her spine straightened as she stared hard at Suigetsu, her black eyes burning a hole between his eyes. "Of course it's yours!" Sasuke exclaimed, trading in her soft, even tone for a brief moment. "You're the only guy I've ever..." She lost her voice halfway through her sentence and left it unfinished as she averted her eyes from the white haired boy.
Suigetsu nodded quickly, his cheeks stinging with colour as he regretted asking the girl such a question. "I'm sorry." He said softly.
Silence passed between the two teens for a few tense seconds, and as they sat across the breakfast table from each other, the only sound filling Sasuke's kitchen was the soft ticking of the clock on the wall. Finally, Suigetsu took a deep breath and decided to try and get things straightened out.
"How, uhm...far along...?"
Sasuke didn't look back at him as she answered. "About five weeks."
Five weeks. "Wow." Suigetsu breathed, slowly nodding as if he wasn't completely scared out of his pants. "Are you...do you want to, uhm..." The white haired boy scratched at the back of one of his hands awkwardly. "Are you going to keep...it?"
"I..." Sasuke began softly. Her eyebrows met together slowly, and her eyes stayed fixated on the opal tile of the kitchen. "I..."
Suigetsu couldn't say he was surprised when Sasuke's eyes began to shine, or when they started to pool up with tears. It was a tense, adult, situation that they were discussing, and they weren't even considered old enough to vote yet. Suigetsu knew that Sasuke must have been under a tremendous amount of stress, and so he said nothing in ridicule as swift, fat, teardrops snaked their way down Sasuke's face.
"I...I am. I'm keeping it." Sasuke eventually finished, coughing out a sob as she lay her face into the palm of her hands, smearing the tears across her face as she attempted to swipe them away.
"Oh." Suigetsu said, his eyes considerably wider than they had been moments ago. He nodded once more, numbly accepting the news. "Oh..."
"Suigetsu, I tried and...I...I just couldn't go through with...with..." Sasuke hiccuped and attempted to brush away more tears as they feel. Suigetsu saw them, but didn't comment. "I couldn't kill it."
This sounded so surreal, and Suigetsu couldn't wrap his mind around it completely. Sasuke was pregnant. She was going to keep it. Sasuke was going to have a baby.
Sasuke continued to cry into her hands, her shoulders shaking with the force of her tiny sobs and Suigetsu remained where he was, not sure what to feel as he blankly watched his girlfriend cry her heart out into her palms. Should he be doing the same?
His heart gave a suddenly painful beat as Sasuke lowered her forehead to the table top and she muffled out the words 'I'm sorry' to him. That was what snapped him out of his daze and brought him into focus.
"What? No!" Suigetsu said, so quickly that he startled himself a little. "Sasuke, no." He said, in a much more gentler tone. He locked eyes with Sasuke as she picked her head off of the table; she blinked at him from behind her black bangs, her eyes swollen and bloodshot.
"Don't be sorry. Okay?" Suigetsu leaned across the breakfast table, sliding his hand across the distance between himself and his girlfriend and grasping at her fingers delicately. "It's not your fault. It just...we..." He scratched the back of his head with his free hand. He was never good with words.
Sasuke was watching him with what looked like hopefulness in her expression. Suigetsu had to find words fast, so he wouldn't be sputtering and looking like a fool.
Suigetsu had been raised in Mist, and the men from his home town were all brought up to be polite and courteous towards women. While he knew he wasn't the perfect gentleman, he had scruples and morals. He was loyal, and he wouldn't have slept with Sasuke had he not seen the potential in her to be more than just a spring fling. With this new development, it really was no question of what he would do.
He knew what his role was in this situation now, and he willingly accepted it like a good man should.
"It's our, uh, problem..." Suigetsu stopped scratching at his head and brough his hand back down to the table, where he extended it to grasp Sasuke's other hand. "This is my responsibility, too. I'll take care of you, Sasuke. Promise."
And when Suigetsu made a promise, it was always kept. Sasuke knew this after being around him for more than two months now, and the relief this gave her showed in her expression. And then more tears fell from her eyes, and Suigetsu worried for a moment before Sasuke gave a choked-up kind of laugh, and he realized that the tears were born of happiness.
"Th-thank--" Sasuke sniffled, leaving her sentence unfinished.
"No problem." Suigetsu said, his tone close to a whisper. He released Sasuke's hands to let her clean her face again, and gave her a reassuring smile.
Suigetsu's tooth poked out over the left side of his mouth, and Sasuke laughed again; the sound rang like windchimes inside of the kitchen, and Suigetsu was glad that instead of anyone else, it was Sasuke who was carrying his child.
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Okay, so I just wanted to get this done. I have no idea why I started writing it. I've been wanting to write some SuiSasu ever since Suigetsu came out in the anime, and this was the cutest idea I'd gotten so far. xD
Anyway, I think I'll continue this. Let me know what you thought so far.