Naruto can't say that he is surprise to wake up alone in bed the following morning. Not surprise, no, but the wave of disappointment still hits him hard. He wants to get up and hurry to Sasuke's old place to see if the raven is still in town, maybe packing. However, he knows looking at the sun that it is almost noon and that Sasuke probably left when the first ray of sunshine hit the window of his small bedroom.

He feels like he is going to be sick as he bathes in the smell of his friend. He can't open his eyes because the only things he sees are proof of what happened the night before. But somehow, closing his eyes seems worst since it transports him back to the memory.

Naruto starts breathing heavily. He needs to get out of here.

He quickly gets out of bed, puts on his orange pants and a black shirt. He packs some more clothes in a small bag, along with his usual orange vest and runs out of the apartment.

He makes his way to the Hokage tower where he hopes to catch Kakashi in between meetings. On his way over there he looks around the village. He's been gone on a mission with Sasuke for the last 6 months, but not much has changed since. Some new houses have been built, but they all look the same now. Brown wooden house with no personality. It's been like that since Pain completely destroyed the village. Most of the batiments were erected with Yamato's mokuton jutsu and it seems that people were not yet ready to decorate the wood.

Naruto sighs, the village seems so dull compare to how it was before, but at least they have peace now. They have all the time in the world to make the village more colourful.

When Naruto gets to the Hokage's office, the door is already open. Kakashi is sitting at his desk looking straight at him like he is expecting him.

"No, you're not going after Sasuke." The Rokudaime says firmly.

Naruto blinks, surprised. "That's actually not why I'm here."

Kakashi's one visible brow raises a little in surprise. "What for then?"

"I want to request a vacation to go see a friend in Suna."

Kakashi is surprise, but his request is immediately granted when he sees the lost look on his student's face.


Naruto spends the next month in Suna. He spends all his evening with Gaara and his siblings and when the three are busy with their duties during the day, he helps some of the villagers or trains in the desert.

He's been trying to achieve his father teleportation technique for awhile now, but back in Konoha it was pretty hard. He can't count the number of times he ended up face first in a tree after trying to teleports to a kunai planted in it. However, here, there's only land upon land on sand, nothing to split his face onto and that's a relief. Using his shadow clone jutsu to create 100 exact copies of him, it takes him only 2 weeks to perfect it. After that he just lets himself bath in the sun, trying not to think too much of Sasuke.

It took sometimes, but he feels a little better now. The ache of Sasuke's departure is still there, but he feels like he can live through it now. His envy to run from his home is gone and he longs for his village and for all the familiar faces waiting for him there. That's why on the morning of his 31st day in Suna, he says goodbye to Gaara with a hug, promising to come visit as soon as he can. Gaara only smiles and wishes his friend good travel.

Naruto will miss him.

It usually takes him 3 days to complete the distance between both villages, but Naruto is not in any hurry. He walks slowly, taking the time to look around. It's the first time he does not have to rush back home for some emergency and he intents on enjoying it. He makes a couple stop to cities on his way, taking slight detour to cross them.

A week after leaving Suna, he wakes up in the bed he's been renting in a inn for two days completely sweaty. He feels light headed and nauseous. He gets out of bed as quickly as his dizziness lets him and run to the bathroom where he pukes his guts.

"Shit," he mutters. "I haven't felt this bad since that sour milk."

He kneels in front of the toilet for several hours, forehead resting on the cold porcelain, before finally getting up, thinking that this must be a sign that he needs to stop pushing away the moment to get back home.

He arrives at the gates of Konoha half a day later, still feeling like his stomach is resting in his throat and about to spill everywhere. He says hi to the two chunins guarding the gate and hurriedly go back to his apartment, not even taking the time to go inform the Hokage of his return. Kakashi probably already knows anyway.

He has a week of miserable existence and painful nausea before someone comes disturb him in his apartment. He is surprised that it took so long, but Sakura knows that Sasuke is gone again and she probably wanted to leave him some space. Until now. It seems she got tired of waiting after him because she's certainly the one barging on his door right now.

"Just a sec'." He screams as he tries to disentangle himself from the blanket that he brought with him in the bathroom last night. He does not have time to completely stand up that Sakura appears in the doorframe of the open bathroom door.

She looks at his set up in front of the toilet and frowns. "What the hell, Naruto? I haven't heard of you in almost 2 months."

Naruto finally succeed in getting up without falling and puts his hand behind his head, a nervous smile on his face. "Sorry, Sakura. I've been traveling, and well… I've been sick since I got back here."

He can see the look of concern on her face as she comes closer to him. She puts the back of her hand on his forehead, probably to take his temperature. "But you never get sick."

"I've been puking all morning for almost two weeks, and I'm always dizzy Sakura. I don't know what's wrong with me."

Her hand suddenly starts glowing a light green and she places it against his stomach. She immediately freezes surprise at what she can feel inside of him.

"Naruto… You're pregnant." She says softly.

She looks so serious that Naruto erupts in a uncontrollable laugh and almost fall over. He stops abruptly when he sees that Sakura is definitely not cracking a smile at her own joke. "What the fuck ?" He screams at her.

"I… I don't know Naruto. I'll need to do more tests."

He is pretty sure he passes out right after that because next thing he knows, he is waking up in an hospital bed. Sakura is standing right in front of him with a chart in her hands.

"What's the verdict, doc?"

Sakura jumps when she hears his voice. She looks at her pad, her eyes wide and curious.

"You're definitely pregnant and it seems like you grew an uterus, Naruto."

"What the fuck?!" Naruto exclaims, incredulously.

"You're a bit more than a month in your pregnancy." Sakura says without stopping a beat at his vulgarity.

"What the actual fucking fuck, Sakura?! I am a man. A man!"

"I have a theorie. I think it may be due to the fact that you spend your last mission as a woman. It seems like it impacted the internal constitution of your body and it adapted to being female."

"The mission…?"

Naruto feels his eyes roll to the back of his head as he passes out for the second time today.

The mentioned mission had started more than seven months ago and had been 6 months long. After his final battle with Sasuke, they had both spends several weeks in the hospital with Sakura trying to save their arms. Tsunade had finally been the one to save them in implanting Hashirama's cell inside of them to create a perfect prosthetic arm.

Sasuke had been reticent at first, thinking that he deserved the loss but had finally agreed after main complaints from Naruto. Nobody could keep saying no to him when he got this annoying.

The day of their release, they had found Kakashi waiting for them outside of the hospital, his back pressed against the wall and his arms crossed in front of him.

"I have a mission for you boys."

Naruto had almost bounced in excitement. He was surprised that the village was ready to give him and Sasuke missions already.

"Walk with me." Kakashi said as he started walking toward the Hokage tower, expecting them to immediately follow.

"The council has decided to let you go free, Sasuke. They are according you full liberty, but only after a short probation."

Sasuke had frowned not understanding how this was possible. How could he be pardonned so easily?

"I had to put my foot down for you, believe me. Your caretaker is going to be Naruto, since I'm pretty sure he is the only one you'll tolerate." Kakashi smirked at his own words as they finally entered his office.

He sat at his chair, throwing a scroll to each of them. "This is an infiltration mission, Kiri send word suspecting a sex slave trader on their territory, but they can't get to him. The man seems to show a great interest in good looking blonde girl."

"Why us?" Naruto wondered. "None of us is a girl."

"Well this is a C-ranked mission, there's no way I'm sending 2 jounins on this, and all my chunins are busy with the reconstruction of the village, you two are the only genins in age of doing this. I also decided to give you this mission to get rid of you both for awhile."

"So you want the idiot to maintain his stupid jutsu for the duration of the mission?" Sasuke asked, incredulous. Naruto frowned because he had not thought of his sexy jutsu right away, he had stupidly thought that Kakashi wanted to crossdress him.

"Exactly, he should have enough chakra to last the months I think this mission will take to complete."

"I'll play the cute little blonde alright, but what is the bastard's role?" Naruto asked.

"He'll be your pimp, obviously."

What the fuck?

That's how Naruto ended up living in a girl's body for 6 whole months. It had been pretty awkward at first, and a little traumatizing when he had gotten his period for the first time. Sasuke had been the only witness of his panicked scream at least.

Naruto wakes up to the sound of voices around him. He is still in the hospital bed so his hopes that this was all a dream sinks fast. He opens his eyes to see Kakashi, Sakura, and Tsunade looking at him expectantly.

"So it's true then?"

"Yes, Naruto. It's true, you are pregnant." Sakura answers softly, as if she is scare that he will pass out again.

"What the hell have you been up to in Suna, brat?" Tsunade asks.

"Shit! This need… This need to stay secret, alright?" Naruto says.

"Obviously." The three other answers in unison.


Naruto spends the next 3 months of his pregnancy studying with Shikamaru to become a jounin. He spends all his day in Konoha's library, acting as if nothing was wrong with him and eating more than twice his weight in food everyday, which is not that out of the ordinary. He has not been training a lot physically since Sakura told him that it could be bad for the baby but fortunately, Kakashi told him that he knew he had the physical ability to be a jounin, he only needed to put some knowledge inside his head.

When he is halfway through his pregnancy, Naruto finally gets the green vest he's been dreaming off for awhile. He puts it on right away to parade through the village, but does not zip it. He does not really show yet, but he still wears t-shirts a size over his normal one so they don't cling to his skin and make what is not really there yet apparent. He's been freaking out about this and Sakura is annoyed with him. No way is he going to let anyone in the village find out.

They came up with a plan. The moment he would start showing, Kakashi would 'send' him on an important mission in another land. He would be hiding in a house where the Uchiha clan's land used to be - nobody goes there anymore and since Sasuke is out of town he could not really complain. Sakura would join him along with two person she trusted a week before his due date to help with the birth. He would have a caesarean section since Sakura and Tsunade were pretty sure that his ass would not be able to stretch like the birthing canal. Thank you, lord. Then he would go back to the village with a made up story of an orphaned adopted child.

Him, adopting a baby at barely 18 years old, what a joke. He thought. Anyway it was more believable than saying that he had gotten miraculously pregnant from some random dude. Not that Sasuke is a random dude, but he has not told anyone that Sasuke is the dad. Sakura even has that ridiculous idea that Gaara is the father since it fits the timeline. Hilarious.

Naruto has been going to weekly check up since then, and today is the day where he is finally going to ear the baby's heart. He has warm up a little at the idea of having a little kid running around, he's still scared shitless don't get him wrong, but also really excited.

"You have to put this where?!" He asks incredulously.

"In your anus. If we want to hear the heartbeat that is."

"I can't believe I'm showing you my ass."

"I'm right there with you on that." Sakura answers with a small grimace.

She gets to business and Naruto tries to start a conversation to make things less awkward. "When will you be able to tell me if its a boy or a girl?"

Sakura hums. "We usually can at this stage, but your little one is placed in a weird position, I even have difficulty differentiating his limbs. Mhhh, right there." She turns up the volume of the monitor and the room is filled with the quick sound of a small heart beating. Naruto thinks he might cry right there.

It's two months after that that Naruto starts feeling weak, really weak. He barely has the strength to get out of bed, his eating habit are completely horrible, only eating rice and instant noodle since he does not have the strength to do anything else. It's weird. He is not suppose to feel this weak, not when he is only 6 and a half months pregnant. Worst of all, he can barely feel Kurama inside of him.

He wants to send a toad to fetch Sakura, like he usually does when he needs her since he moved in his isolated house 3 weeks ago, but he does not even have the strength for that.

He lays on his bed, hands on his small belly and tries to relax. He needs to talk to Kurama.

He is utterly surprised at the state he finds Kurama in when he looks inside his soul. The demon fox is laying on his side, eyes half closed, and breathing harshly. Naruto slowly walks to him and put his hand on his furry cheek.

"What's wrong, Kurama?"

"I need… need to protect." The fox whimpers as he tries to focus his bright red eyes on Naruto. "The womb is starting to disappear, brat. The effect of your jutsu are going away, maintaining the womb is completely draining me."

Naruto feels like he might cry at seeing the fox so weak, giving all his strength to maintain the life inside of him. He knows that Kurama is his friend now, but he's still surprise to see that he is ready to lay out all his chakra for that.

"Don't use your chakra Naruto. We need to protect the babies."

Babies? As in more than one?! Naruto thinks as he is ejected from his inner self due to his sudden surprise. He really needs to contact Sakura.

Turns out, Sakura tells him when she finally comes back to check him up, that he's having twins. Hooray!


Sakura now comes by the house twice a week, she spends some times with him, give him his check up, and brings him food that last him the entire week - even if he eats at least 7 times a day. He is grateful to have her.

He has tried to get in contact with Sasuke since he found out that he was pregnant. He is not going to tell him over letter. He feels stupid for this but he does not want Sasuke to feel force to come back to him, to them . He wants to talk to him just to know what's up with him and how he's doing with that 'finding himself thing'. He asked Kakashi to mention to him that he wants to talk, but to no avail. Sasuke does not write to him, even if he writes to Kakashi every two months.

Naruto is angry and he feels so lonely, which makes him feel even worse since Sakura is spending so much of her precious time with him. He's a mess, that's it. Let's blame it on the hormones. That's what he is been doing lately, blaming it all on his pregnancy. It's not his fault that he often cries himself to sleep. It's the hormones fault. No matter that they are part of him and just helps a little in exaggerating his feelings.

Because let's be honest, Naruto is used to being alone by now. He spent the entirety of his childhood all by himself, and he never felt the need to cry himself to sleep by then. Sure it happened a couple times when he had had an especially bad day, but he never made a habit out of it.

"It's only me, now…" Naruto whispers through his mouthful of stew. The one that Sakura happily brought him yesterday.

That's how he feels right now, but deep down he knows it's not true anymore. He looks down at his belly, slowly caressing it with his free hand. It's probably not ever going to be true again. He hopes.