Naruto let his eyes pass over the clock on the wall. It read 02.30 pm. Sasuke had been gone for almost 9 hours. To say that he wasn't worried was a lie, he had just sent his pregnant lover on a mission. A B-ranked! Why, why had he been so stupid? Maybe he was the dobe Sasuke would always tell him he is. No one in their right mind would've done what he had just done. However now was too late to take it back. Sasuke had already left. He thwacked his forehead and scolded himself. He could only hope nothing bad would happen.
The clock seemed to rush as it hit 04.00 pm. Naruto collected all papers on the table and stacked them in a nice heap of papers, then he put them down into a briefcase and stood from the chair to shortly there after leave his office to not come back until Sasuke himself was back. He was going to work from home so that he could take care of his children seeing as there was no one else who could do it.
He stopped by his secretary's desk and gave the brown haired girl a toothy grin. "You'll send every Hokage business to the house then Sukki?"
Said girl nodded as she offered a gentle smile back. "Of course Hokage-sama. Everything. Have fun being a 'housedad'. We will miss your cheeriness at work!"
Naruto chuckled and slowly walked away. "Yeah, I'll try anyway. I'll see you within a week and a half, I strongly believe Konohamaru can fill up my absence quite well. Ja!"
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"Great you're home! Took you long enough. If you don't remember Lee-kun and I were going to go have dinner tonight so I am kind of in a hurry. Kei and Shunsuke's in the living room watching TV, I don't know. But I really need to go now. Gotta get ready you know and we finally got mom to take care of the kids. Um, I will call you sometime tomorrow and we can talk then. M'kay? Bye" She waved her hand and left Naruto standing in the hallway.
He entered the living room and saw his two sons sitting cuddled up against each other watching TV. He went to the two children and sat down. Immediately he was covered by two yelling boy's. "Tou-san!"
He couldn't help but feel relief at being home with his two children. If Sasuke was gone, at least he had two boys at home which could fill up the emptiness inside him.
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Three days had passed with Sasuke's absence and there were already things that bugged Naruto. Evidently Naruto had come to realize he had underestimated Sasuke far too much for his efforts at home. All Naruto had done the three days he had been home were to clean after his two sons, doing laundry, seeing after the two boys (who obviously had inherited Naruto's prankster gene) so that they didn't do anything stupid, doing his job as Hokage and cooking. He had thought that the weeks alone with his children would be easy, fun even, but had he been wrong or what?!
He had already vowed to himself that from then on he would not use as many clothes as he had before, he was going to take Sasuke's job at home more seriously and he was definitely going to start helping out more.
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Six days had passed since he had left Konoha and he had felt homesick ever since the second he sat his foot outside the ports of the village. He had had trouble sleeping, eating and keeping concentrated. The nauseating feeling in the pit of his stomach had never wanted to leave him alone. Thoughts of his sons or Naruto being hurt never leaving his mind. Always spinning around in the lots of thoughts.
He was also starting to suspect that Naruto had ordered Neji something because every time he wasn't eating Neji was there telling him how important it was to eat or if he ran in high speed, Neji would say he was tired and they would slow down the tempo. Something was up for sure, only what?
-
Eight days and Naruto was almost cheering inside. Within two days he would have Sasuke back in his arms and everything would go back to normal. The other day he had spent the day alone with Shunsuke (as promised in last chapter) while Sakura had helped taking care of Kei. They'd trained ninjutsu and Naruto was really proud over his son. He was sure that the mini version of Sasuke would become strong as an adult. Probably a chick magnet too as his mom.
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He was soon there, soon he'd be back in Konoha and soon he'd be back with his family. He couldn't help to stop himself from grinning like an idiot at the utter happiness.
They, Neji and him, had left the scroll to its rightful owner without any unusual events. Or that is if you didn't count that morning. Sasuke had woken up with an unusually worried stomach and within seconds had found himself throwing up outside the tent.
Just thinking back on it made his stomach jump, and not in a good way that is. But other than that it had been a normal mission as far as he thought about it. Just exactly as he remembered it except for that it didn't really give him that rush anymore. That satisfying rush of adrenalin. He shrugged, maybe that had died with Itachi?
If you asked Neji of what he thought about the mission, you would only receive a simple glare. Let us say Neji had not experienced it the same way as the Uchiha. Sure the mission had went by smoothly however Sasuke was another matter. Maybe the raven haired male had not noticed it himself but Neji had for sure. He didn't know if Sasuke always was so bitchy but if he was, Neji felt sorry for Naruto.
The Uchiha had done nothing but complain if Neji did something he himself didn't approve on, the Uchiha would go from normal stone-faced to frowning bitching to almost looking like he was about to cry. The mood swings of Sasuke was not normal. Or was it? Neji himself had only experienced Hinata's pregnancy but the Hyuuga girl was known for her shy and calm performance. But now when he thought about it, hadn't he seen Ino almost beating Shikamaru to death once during her pregnancy?
Neji shrugged. Female or male, pregnancies were annoying.
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'Where the hell did he go now?!' A slightly pissed Naruto thought as he looked for his youngest son. He had been right beside him in the kitchen when Naruto had turned his back to the child to put away the dishes to find him gone a second later. "Kei?" he called out but received no answer.
As he left the kitchen for the living room he saw a mop of hair stick up from behind the couch. He smiled in triumph though it quickly fell as he realized it wasn't Kei but Shunsuke. The blond damned himself for even thinking it was Kei. "Oi Shunsuke, do you know where your brother is?" he asked as he made his way to sit down beside his son.
The younger kid gave him a bored expression and sighed. "He ran up the stairs I think."
Naruto frowned at his kid's expression. "What's with you Shu? Something bothering you?" he asked feeling a tad of worry wash over him. Was he beginning to miss Sasuke maybe?
Shunsuke sighed again and started to scratch his wrist. "No, it's nothing dad. Guess I'm just bored. May I go over to the Hyuugas to play with Daisuke?"
"But kaa-san's coming home soon. Don't you want to be here when he comes?"
"Why? It's not like he'll disappear if I'm not here. It doesn't matter if I'm here or not."
"Of course it matters if you're here or not! Shu why do you think it doesn't matter?" Naruto was truly worried.
Shunsuke rolled his eyes and smiled. "Dad I don't mean it that way. I mean I can see him when I come home later. Now I want to do something." He looked at his dad with pleading eyes.
Naruto let relief wash over him and smiled at his son as he nodded. "Sure, if you put it that way. Just be sure you're home before 7. That's when dinner's ready. I guess I have to go look for your brother now. Where ever he is."
He stood up and formed some hand seals. A puff of chakra radiated from his body and in matter of seconds he knew where his devil to son was. He turned to Shunsuke who stared at him in amazement. "Like it huh? But remember, 7 o'clock and not a minute later." Then he took off up the stairs.
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After they passed Konoha's big gates an exhausted Sasuke said good bye to Neji and they both went separate ways. Sasuke had managed to convince Neji that he could go home and Sasuke would take care of informing Naruto about the mission. Neji had been a little unsure about the matter but quickly agreed to it as Sasuke's eyes had started to darken. (Neji had under the one and a half week learnt that when that happened, a mood swing was on its way. And those were not fun) Sasuke had only smirked in satisfaction.
He stood by the gate leading up to his house. It was a nice house. Two floors and one basement. It was one of Konoha's nicest estates. It had cost quite a lot too, but never been a problem seeing as Sasuke had his family inheritance and Naruto was the Hokage which paid quite a lot. It had a nice front yard with green grass and few of Kei's toys scattered around the lawn (Which Naruto clearly had been too lazy to pick up.) The house didn't look that big on the outside but once you were inside it seemed much bigger. In fact some of the rooms in the house were used as storing rooms instead of bedrooms as they were supposed to be.
Sasuke took a well needed breath, realizing he had walked too fast again. However soon frowned as he realized he had been walking in normal pace. 'Is my exercise that bad?'
He shrugged to himself and straightened as he opened the front door. "Tadaaiima" he called, but no one answered. He furrowed his eyebrows and put down his bag as he took off his shoes. He got slightly upset at seeing no one greeting him by the door, he had been gone for almost two weeks. Hadn't they missed him?
Just as he was about to go search for his lost family a child came running and threw itself at Sasuke. Ninja reflexes immediately leaped into action and the boy was caught in mid air. "Kaaaaa-san" A high pitch voice screamed into his ear.
"Keeei!! Come back here now. I don't have the energy to chase after you all da-." The rest died in mid sentence as Naruto came forth behind the living room wall and froze. "S-Sasuke, you're back…" Naruto stared dumbly at his spouse feeling too shocked to move.
Sasuke hugged his son as his eyes were concentrated on Naruto's. Upon seeing the blond he realized how much he had missed him during his absence. His feet seemed to walk on its own accord as Naruto came closer and closer. "Tada-" He started but got cut off by Naruto throwing his arms around him and buried his nose in the crock of Sasuke's neck. "God I missed you!" The blond claimed as he tightened his grip around the shorter male, too afraid that if he let go the brunet would be gone.
Small sputtering and chipping sounds came from the child in Sasuke's arms as he was currently being mashed by his parents. The adults instantly separated and Sasuke carefully rocked his son while asking if he was okay. A quiet whimper came from Kei as he let his head rest on his mommy's shoulder.
"You want a snack Kei-chan?" Sasuke lowered his voice in a calm and gentle tone. He felt a nod against his shoulder and took off towards the kitchen, motioning Naruto to follow.
Sasuke opened one of the cabinets in search for some crackers to find them standing on the top shelf. He sighed as looked around for something he could stand on but was held up as Naruto bent over him and took down the crackers. He handed them over to Sasuke who in turn thanked and went to sit down by the table with Kei in his lap. Naruto sat down across the brunet.
"How was your mission?" he asked feeling curious. Now that Sasuke was finally back he could breath out and take it easy, not feeling the need to worry anymore seeing as he was home safely.
Sasuke let a sigh escape him as he looked down at the boy in his lap chewing on a cracker. A smile made its way to his lips as he looked back up at Naruto once again. "Well it went well I guess. Everything went smoothly and Neji and I agreed almost every time. There's just one thing I wondered about all of the time, did you ask Neji to do something during our mission? Anything?"
Naruto tried to look innocent and unknowing as he shook his head and asked why.
"Well.. He seemed kind of protective. But maybe it's just my imagination."
"Mm" Naruto nodded in agreement, "But you seem tired. Was it hard?"
Sasuke smiled reassuringly. "No, or a little maybe. I think my exercise have become worse over the years and I got easily exhausted. Or maybe I might come down with a flu or something. This morning I threw up and all."
Naruto gave him a worried look until he remembered that before Sasuke had left Neji had confirmed Naruto's suspicions of Sasuke being pregnant. All in all that apparently meant that the morning sicknesses were on their way. Naruto gave his spouse another sad look. He felt sorry for Sasuke having to endure everything that came along with pregnancies. "Mm."
"Why are you giving me such a look?" Sasuke asked confused.
Naruto only shook his head and stood from his seat. He took Kei from Sasuke's lap as he stretched for the crackers and put them back in the cabinet. Kei immediately started to cry. "Kei want c'acke'!!" Naruto sighed at his son's antic and tried to calm him down.
Sasuke stared at Naruto as he stood up and took back Kei from Naruto. "Look what you did now. Why did you take the crackers from him?" he asked calmly as he tried to soothe Kei.
"Well, dinner's up soon so he shouldn't be eating now."
"Yeah but some crackers wont do anything. It's almost like air." Sasuke bit his lip. "Kei, calm down I promise you'll get your crackers back after dinner. Okay?" The child nodded as the cries died to mere sobs.
"You know you're spoiling our child Sasuke?" Naruto said with a raised eyebrow.
Sasuke tss'd as he put down his son. "I will go shower now and then go to bed. I need some sleep."
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Naruto slid up the door and peeked into his, or his and Sasuke's, bedroom. He had finally finished up work and was totally exhausted. As far as he knew Sasuke hadn't left the room since he had arrived back from his mission.
Ease washed over him as he saw his spouse lying in their bed. Finally he was home and Naruto would probably be able to sleep better. As quiet as he could he undressed and put on a pair of sweatpants. It was late February however Naruto never really froze no matter how cold it was. He guessed it was because of the Kyuubi.
He carefully crawled in under the cover and scoffed closer to the brunet. His hands almost automatically moved to hug the man's hips closer.
"Missed me while gone?" A tired murmur was heard effectively muffled by a pillow.
"Yeah" Naruto whispered back, not feeling like breaking the silence.
"Knew it." The raven haired of the two said as he turned around to lay more comfortable, automatically lying his head on the blond's chest.
"Sleep now?"
"Mm" Sasuke mumbled but Naruto could hear he was already sleeping.
"Night koi."
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It was a week since he had come home and it was for the eight morning he found himself throwing up in the morning. He was dry heaving as he felt a hand on his back. "Sasuke, are you sure you don't want to go see a doctor? I mean it's been a week now. Something might be wrong."
Sasuke shook his head and stood up as he felt he was done fore the time being. He never heard the fake tone of concern in the other's voice. "I'm perfectly fine, dobe. Just the flu or something."
Naruto sighed as he left Sasuke to his own problem. Maybe he didn't want to go to a doctor because he knew what was wrong… Maybe he didn't want another child that he simply ignored it? After all the brunet already felt two kids were too much.
Upon following Naruto into their bedroom Sasuke stopped by his wardrobe. What was he to wear?
"Sasuke, don't you want it?" Naruto asked in a tone he couldn't decide whether it sounded angry or sad.
"What do you mean Naruto? Don't want what?"
Naruto suddenly felt the need to know the answer that he didn't care if it was he who told Sasuke. He had to know whether Sasuke wanted their child or not. "I- I mean our child. Do you want it or not?"
Sasuke stared at him confused. 'What does he mean want it? What child? Kei and Shunsuke?' He voiced his question.
"No. I mean… Sasuke ever since you left for that mission I gave you I've known that you're…" The words died from his mouth.
"Known what Naruto?" Sasuke asked feeling a bit at unease. He had a feeling it would be nothing but bad news.
"That…That you're p-pregnant." He had dropped the bomb. What would Sasuke's reaction be?
Sasuke pov;
I felt like the world froze to a stop. Nothing was important, nothing but what Naruto just had said. I was.. I was pregnant? Was he joking? How could he know? It's impossible for him to know when I think about it. I haven't been taking any ultrasound for over three years. How the heck could he know?
"How do you know that?"
"Well.. You remember three weeks ago before you left for your mission… Neji was in the office… I kinda asked him to look if he noticed any chakra addition in your stomach area o-of which he did." He was looking down on the floor. I knew he was ashamed. He always did that when he knew he had done something wrong. However I wasn't going to go easy on him. He had known about my pregnancy for almost three weeks. Why hadn't he told me yet?! He had asked Neji to look inside me without my knowing. He had for god's sake sent me on a mission where if something went wrong our supposed child could've been damaged! What the hell had he been thinking?! I only see red as I throw a vase on him of which he dodged unfortunately. (Where did I get it from?)
"What the fuck is your problem?! How the hell can you ask Neji to look inside me without my knowing and then keep the fact that I'm pregnant a secret?! What the fuck are you playing at, moron?!"
He took easy step towards me but I only tried to grip everything I could so that I could throw it at him. "You even endangered our child while you sent me on that mission! You could've killed it!" I noticed that my eyes had become blurry from unshed tears but I didn't care. I was too messed up emotionally.
"Sasuke, calm down. I-I did it because I though it was what was best for the both of us." He tried but I didn't care.
"I- I want you to get out. Get out now Naruto!" I can't meet his eyes. There is too much on my mind.
I'm breaking. I can't control my own feelings anymore. How… How could he?
I scrunch up my eyes as I try to will away my tears but they won't stop welling. I suddenly jerk as I feel arms wrap around me. My hands tries to push Naruto off of me but he won't let go. His arms are locked around me in a tight hold. As a last retort I let my hand hit him in the face but he doesn't even budge an inch, he just looks at me with worried eyes and a sad smile gracing his lips.
"Why Naruto?" I ask in a voice that is even unfamiliar by me. It sounds so… weak.
Normal pov.
Naruto had heard the question but knew it wasn't directed to him. "Sasuke, do you want breakfast? You want me to cook something?"
Puffy black eyes with tear stains looked up at him and a small nod was given. "Onigiri will do fine…"
Naruto smiled as he let go of his spouse and went for the door to go make the onigiri ready. "Just dress and I will have them done once you're down."
Sasuke nodded once again and went for the closet. Emitting a last sob, he wiped his eyes dry.
((-Time skip-))
He sat at the back lawn with his latest book in hand. Shunsuke was at school while Kei ran around playing with Mihai and Seiji. Sakura and Ino had come over with their children. Sasuke had pretty much given them sour looks and tried to get them to leave but had unfortunately not been very keen on the idea themselves. They had ended up on two sun loungers of which Sasuke believed it was the only reason to why they had even come in first place.
It may have been because they loved to fuss about his new pregnancy and everything but he didn't think so as they'd pretty much forced themselves into the back lawn and then down on two sun loungers. Naruto fussed over him too though. Like he would help Sasuke carry things so that he didn't over do anything or he would order him to go to bed and rest for a while. But that was just because Naruto felt so strongly about the pregnancy. Sasuke did too. He felt like this pregnancy was going to be something special. He could just feel it.
'Heh, every time I think like that it feels so wrong.' Sasuke thought to himself funnily.
He had already started to show a tiny bit and Naruto loved to tease him about it, always laying his hands on his stomach while they were about to sleep or poke him in it and say he had gotten fat. Of course the blond would get a fist full in the head as a reply but then everything would go back to normal.
"Something wrong Sasuke?" A concerned Sakura asked.
Sasuke was brought back from his thoughts and looked at Sakura. "No it's nothing. Just thinking I guess."
"Oh okay." She laid back down on the chair.
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Sasuke sat by the bedroom mirror, Naruto was in the bathroom making ready for bed. "Naruto…"
A blond head peered around the door frame and a "Hmm?" was heard.
"Do…Do you think I'm fat? I mean disgustingly fat?"
Naruto frowned as he left the bathroom and walked towards Sasuke. "Whaa?"
"You heard me. Am I fat, or not?"
Naruto carefully pondered his answer and settled with a no. "Not really."
"Naruto, be honest. Will you still want me when I'm even fatter than this?" Sasuke said in a whiny needy voice. 'Really where did all this out of character crap come from?! It was beginning to feel a little bit ridicules.'
Naruto sighed as he wrapped his arms around the older brunet. "Sasuke, if I stayed when we had Shunsuke and Kei, do you really think I'd leave you now? I love you and I will never leave you because of such a trivial thing. I vowed to you that I'd love you forever. You did the same. I mean, if it would've been me in this situation, would you have left me?"
Sasuke slowly shook his head. "I'd never leave you."
"Then there's my answer, I will never leave you. Have faith in me, in us." He squeezed his arms around the brunet's chest and then let his hands rest on the stomach. "I can't wait to have this baby, Suke. I really can't."
Sasuke hmm'd and looked at Naruto in the mirror reflection.
"I wonder if it's a boy or a girl this time.. I hope it's a girl but a boy would be nice too."
"Yeah"
