Thanks for the reviews.

RickaZcurser - Lol. Thanks. Some things really just are, ne? And yep - things get so much worse for our poor blond in this chapter, too. I really am sadistic…wow…Well I do usually end up with Gaara as my character in tests…occasionally Itachi, too…meh. shrugs I should really start expressing these emotions in life…Apparently I'm not big on the 'love', 'like' or 'caring' with my personality. Glad I can write them for you, though.

the ice wolf alchemist - I'm glad you like the story…but do you really want me to tell you how? Don't you want to find out when Naru-chan does? I will tell you that it's not in sexy no jutsu though…Hope I don't fail you with the rest. I even add some humour eventually. How fun will that be, ne?

cheerhater999 - Um…review…? tilts head What was wrong with it? I know I ramble, but I think that was Clarisse reviewing. You know, the whole 'good side'. She's weird. Now she's upset. Ummm, ANYWAY, I think all she did was say something about being paranoid about hidden motives, get excited and congratulate you. She's like that. Also, sorry I wasn't there, ne?

Akuma Memento Mori - Ha ha. Funny. Right now - I don't know who you're routing for Naruto to choose. I think if Itachi randomly went up to Sasuke to tell him he's a dipshit and a fool he'd be faced with a charging Chidori. Not like he couldn't fight it, just that the stupid Bastard wouldn't listen. Itachi is so contradicting don't you think? Comforting and threatening? He's like - I'm gonna be nice, but don't forget I'm gonna kill you. As for Sasuke, will Naru-chan tell him…?

IMPORTANT: After the next chapter is uploaded, I think I will move this to the main characters of Naruto and Itachi instead of Sasuke. I'm not gonna spoil it and tell you who gets Naru-chan - just that there will be more scenes with Itachi than Sasuke. After all - we all know the foundations of Naru and Sasu, but Itachi and Naru are still relatively strangers. PLUS: I hope I'm not lenient enough to show who gets him early.

WARNING: Bastardised Sasuke ahead.

NARUTO

As he walked to meet his team, Naruto thought hard. Broken sentences raced continuously around his brain, in an endless ramble that could only make perfect sense to him; or perhaps occasionally others that for some reason knew the events his life had taken. Realisations and observations forced him to make a decision he would never be sure of. The constant buzz of insecurity did not help his mind to work.

Sasuke…he, said my name…when he said he loved…but even Itachi…and what Itachi said about…the feelings…he never shows…or says…but…he only says my name when he's serious…the clan…the coldness…they all say differently…Sakura…children…if he knew, about…if I am…pregnant…will it make him love me?…will it be real?…I know Iruka-sensei would love the baby…Kakashi and Sharingan…but Sasuke…could he love?…even a baby?…but he deserves a chance…it's his too…do I have that right?…to give it away?…he could be a great father…he had one…once…

"Naruto!" Sakura's excited voice broke through his internal rambling as he made it to the bridge that morning. "Naruto! We've got great news! Look! Look!" She shoved her left hand as him proudly, displaying the rose gold ring on her second finger in. "He asked me! Oh, Naruto, isn't it great?!" Her excitement would have been contagious had it not been for her next sentence; the one he knew would come. "Me and Sasuke-kun! ENGAGED!"

Naruto shut down. So much so, that he didn't feel Sakura hugging him in her excitement. One he longed for in their younger days, became so insignificant. His eyes travelled of their own accord to the raven-haired man standing of in the distance. He was scowling, for his own part, at the girl. Naruto smiled offhandedly, forcing it into a grin and not off resignation. Itachi was right. The villagers were right. He chuckled a little. Demons? Love? Ha!

"That's great Sakura-chan!" His voice was jovial, yet he could feel the moisture in his eyes.

"Don't worry, Naruto, you'll find a nice girl, too; and then we could double-date! And our kids could grow up together-"

"Sakura. Enough." Came Sasuke's voice indifferently. "You're a Jounin now. You should compose yourself more."

"Hai, Sasuke-kun." She smiled, moving away from the blond without hesitation.

"Besides, I'm sure Naruto has more important things to worry about than our love life, right, Naruto?" And he was given the glare. The cold, murder filled glare that Naruto was sure only Uchihas could achieve.

"The Teme's right." Naruto growled in return. "Just this morning Itachi gave me an ultimatum-"

"Itachi was here?" Sasuke near snarled. "And you didn't inform me?"

"Don't worry Teme; he's coming back for me in eight months, so have your revenge then."

"That's too far! You're selfish, Naruto. You're too weak to defeat him, but wanted to rip that chance from me."

"…You're right, Sasuke." Naruto's voice was hardly above a whisper. "I am weak. I can't access my chakra without fearing the consequences. Because if I do, it's not only me that would hate me, but you, especially."

"Hn. Like I care what happens to you."

"Naruto, what's so wrong with your Chakra?" Sakura asked warily.

"…It's been compromised." He answered after a while, still debating on whether to tell them the reason or not. He desperately wanted to scream it in their face. To yell of the injustice. To shout that Sasuke couldn't marry Sakura because he was fucking pregnant with her fiancés kid.

"I don't understand." Of course you don't.

"I need to speak with Tsunade-baa-chan for confirmation." Which was true. He couldn't bring himself to destroy that happiness on his friend's face when there was no proof - no way to be believed. He wasn't naive enough to believe anything at face value. He glanced to Sasuke. Not anymore.

"Never mind your stupid condition. Where did Itachi go?!"

"Like he would tell me, idiot." Ask why I'm still here. Care. He shouted mentally.

"Why didn't he take you? You know, if your chakra is unusable?" Sakura asked after a moment's thought. Naruto sighed.

"Obviously he didn't know." Sasuke scowled, turning his back. Damn it, Teme. Fucking care!

"No Bastard, he knew. In fact, he knew everything - saw everything. He's the one that told me what this 'condition' was. He's the one that told me my boyfriend lied when he said he loved me. Since the second one turns out to be true, because it turns out he's already marrying someone else, I have no reason to doubt the first." Deny it! Deny it!

"Are you telling me he's been here for weeks and you never told me?!" Sasuke accused in pure anger. It really is all he cares about…

"Like hell I knew! You really think I'd be having sex if I knew someone was watching me? Ew." Admit it. Say it was you with me.

"He was…watching…?" Sasuke's eye twitched as his usual pale skin lightened further.

"How else would he know I read, that I was almost never alone and what my condition is?" Make the connections. Ask me how they're related. Show me you care and I'll tell you everything.

"Naruto, you should move or something. Stay with someone. If Itachi is loose around the village, we need to protect you."

"It's okay Sakura-chan, he says I have eight months, then I'm going with him." Make the God damn connection, Teme!

"Going with him?! Naruto!"

"What are you talking about Dobe? Are you going to betray everyone?" Like you are to me?

"No, that's you right, Sasuke?"

"Dobe!"

With that, Sasuke charged Naruto, pinning him to a tree via his neck, glaring hatefully into saddened blue with red Sharingan. Why don't you see me Sasuke? Sakura was shouting at the two to stop, but Sasuke just rose the boy higher up the tree. Others from the Gennin squads they had grown with had said such things of Sasuke's defection, but not Naruto. Never Naruto. Now Naruto wondered if any of the others were treated so loathingly.

"W-What's wrong? C-Can't han-ndle the tr-ruth?" Naruto tried to smirk through the suffocating feeling. "Y-You neve-r could." Face what you're doing.

Sasuke tightened his grip before slinging him on the floor.

"Hn. Just like you then. You're never going to be Hokage, Naruto."

"Sasuke-kun! How can you be so harsh?" Sakura ran to the sitting up Naruto to check on him. Oh, yes, Sakura; Sasuke's absence did wonders on their friendship. That was one thing to be thankful for, he supposed.

"Baka. I know that; I'm going to be dead in eight months remember?"

"Hn. I didn't know you gave up so easily, Dobe."

"I did it to protect my most important person."

"I can handle myself!" He snapped. He still thought himself as the closest to him? After everything to push him away? So he does care?

"Heh, not you this time, Teme. Another precious person." Ask who, Teme and I'll tell you. There's no one else in this little game. Take the fucking hint.

"Well that's good because I don't have time for you anymore. With Sakura and the baby, I can't look after an idiot like you from now on."

"Bay…be…?" Naruto paled. Sakura…and a baby…Sasuke…Sakura…and a baby…?

"Sasuke-kun! You said not to tell anyone yet!"

"Hn." He smirked, right into Naruto's eyes…Naruto's dulled and darkened eyes. He wanted so desperately to cry…but at that minute, it was as if he was a visitor in his own body. His shoulders slumped visibly as he looked dejectedly at the ground; the epitome of submission. Such a state he hadn't allowed himself to be in for years. Before he'd learned how to hide and run effectively. Since times when he couldn't fight back.

"Congratulations, Sakura-san." A weak voice of a lost child.

"Don't be silly, Naruto. Just because I'm getting married doesn't mean you have to be so formal!"

"How…How far along are you?" He winced. The voice was too soft and resigned for his ears. It reminded him too much of times past. More strength.

"Two weeks. When I missed a period, we had Neji take a look." Even before my mission - about a week after the party. I never suspected a thing. He clutched the ground beneath his hands tightly into fists, before relaxing and opening his clenched eyes. Yes I did. The perfect family. He couldn't destroy a child's family.

"Heh." His voice cracked before he forced it to strengthen with his will alone. "I guess you will get your wish Sakura-san."

"Huh? Nani?"

"My child, too, shall be born around that time. Though, before yours."

"But…I uh…Well earlier you said…I was under the impression that you were…well, gay."

"I am." He forced a smile that took up his face and creased his eyes closed in happy arcs, as he lifted his head up. "Did used to like you though."

"Then how-"

"Well you're a regular little slut, aren't you Naruto? Married men, pregnant women and now that little number on your neck."

Naruto's hand raised to the mark Itachi had left earlier that morning. Maybe this pregnancy was affecting his ability to heal, too.

"Naruto! Did Itachi do that? It seems fresh!"

"Y-Yeah." Naruto mumbled, blushing. "H-He did, but-"

"Heh. So that's how it works. All someone needs to do is pump you full of cock and you're willing to betray the village."

"Shut it asshole. It was either die today or wait eight months until my chakra stabilizes and I can see my kid. What the hell would you have done?"

"Kill him." The ice in the words dropped Naruto's own temperature.

"Heh. And kill yours and my unborn child you mean?" Great, just when he decided not to say anything. Damn Bastard, there was no way he would sacrifice anyone for himself.

"Hn. You're very full of yourself, Naruto. I wouldn't let you anywhere near my unborn child."

"Too late for that, Bastard. When Kakashi gets here, tell him I've gone to see Tsunade." He said, rising.

"Naruto, you can't just leave."

"Sorry, Sakura-chan, but I'm requesting a team change until I go with Itachi." I can't face this.

"So you're really giving up? You're just going to go?"

"I gave my word as a ninja that I would. And I never go back on my word!" His face was contorted in a scary sort of sincerity, daring her to argue or protest. After all, they should know who he was by now.

"Hn Dobe. Selfish as always. Scardycat, running away with his tail between his legs."

"Heh. Some things are just better this way. Besides, Bastard, I never said you couldn't try to stop him. I just said I wont. Unlike you, I wana save this hell hole."

"Naruto! Itachi's a murderer. He's going to kill you . He could rape you if this has anything to do with it." She poked the redness of his neck.

"Hn, unless that's what the Usuratonkachi wants. You gagging for Uchiha cock, Dobe?"

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura scolded, flushed with embarrassment.

"He wouldn't be my first." Naruto glared.

"Dobe!" Sasuke growled, thumping him hard.

"S-Sasuke-kun…y-you and Naruto?"

"No." Sasuke scowled.

"Heh." Naruto rose smirking, ignoring the hurt from the harsh denial. "Sasuke couldn't of even got it up, my first time. Neither with the Uchiha."

"Naruto…you-" He saw the moisture in her eyes; showing her reluctance to believe because of him having been hurt or her sadness due to that fact.

"Don't worry, Sakura-chan." He grinned too wide. Too much. So familiar. His eyes opened and darted quickly to Sasuke's before joining with Sakura's again. He saw anger and some kind of shock or sickness, similar to the mention of Itachi watching their sexual union. Of why was only speculation. Was he disgusted with him now? "I'm used to it."

"Naruto, this is serious!"

"I have eight months." Naruto growled. "I'm not gonna waste it on revenge."

"It's justice." Sasuke growled back.

"Naruto, they could do it to someone else. What wo-"

"They have no reason to do it to anyone else! An eye for an eye? Pathetic! It doesn't end there. I go after them; their family for me; Tsunade gets involved; then the village hate her for enforcing the law to kill the Demon killer…Besides, most are dead anyway."

"Yo!" Kakashi appeared, eye curving at his disturbed and angry students.

"Naruto…" Sakura cried as Sasuke shouted. "You're an idiot."

Unlike his two team mates that either ignored or didn't hear/notice the man, Naruto turned to him. "You're early."

"Eh, well you see…wait."

"You're an hour earlier than usual. What's wrong?"

"Kakashi changed to all seriousness. "Tsunade-sama wants to see you; she says it's urgent."

"Heh. So she's finally gonna tell me."

"Tell you what? Is it something to do with Kyuubi?"

"Initially, yes. Kakashi-sensei, I'm going to request to leave team seven."

"Nani? Nande?"

"Kakashi-sensei tell him to stop being stupid!"

"The Dobe intends to leave with Itachi."

"Naruto, is this true?"

"I have my reasons."

"I can't allow that."

"And I need to speak with the Hokage. I could be gone now, Kakashi. You should be wondering why it is that I'm not."

"Then tell me."

"Okay, I'll tell you, but you can't tell anyone else. Most likely, as with the rest of my life, it will be made a secret of some class. Especially if I have something to do with it."

"We have a right to know, Dobe." Sasuke glowered.

"Naruto, why wont you tell us?"

"If it would be beneficial for anyone not to know, Sakura-chan, it would be you. And Teme, beside the fact that I don't trust you," He glared hard. "You gave away your right."

"You're making no sense, Naruto!" Sakura screamed, still crying.

"Kakashi." There was a seriousness in his voice that was rare and demanding.

"Aa. I promise."

"In that case…" Naruto walked directly to Kakashi's ear and whispered in such a light way, that no ninja could hear except the one so close, straining, himself, at the quietness of it. Something he often had to do with Jiraiya. "I'm pregnant." Kakashi froze. The two ninja but five metres away could only gape at the complete shock shown in their sensei's eye. It must have been the most expression they'd ever seen there. "Now you see why, I have to go."

As Naruto began his run to Hakage tower, Kakashi was left stock still in the same position.

"A ninja is not supposed to show any emotion, Kakashi." Sasuke berated, yet in a slight urgency of the behavioural deviation of Kakashi's norm.

"Aa." The silver haired man smiled mischievously, seemingly recovering completely, as if his blond student had never said a thing.

"Kakashi-sensei, what could be so shocking? How-"

"Sa-ku-ra." He drawled merrily. "I can't tell you."

"You can't be serious with that Dobe's decision."

"Regarding Itachi and Akatsuki, no person would think of handing Naruto-kun over…well…I'm agreeable to his secrecy. His condition is his own…although…"

"Kakashi-sensei! You're being just as illusive as Naruto!"

"Really?" His eye curved.

"Hn. Who cares about that moron anyway?"

"Sasuke-kun!"

"We have no mission today. So you two train while I visit the Hokage and our cute little blond." He grinned and 'poofed' away, leaving two question-riddles Shinobi. One clearly frustrated and the other plotting in the darkness of his mind.

NARUTO

Okay…so…that's it. I hate Sasuke. Doesn't mean Baka-naru does. Idiot. Pff. If anyone says anything about rape always being a touchy subject then fucking believe me when I say it's not. Some people just ignore it like they would a fly. Or kill it - like they would a fly. ¦¬J If you let stuff like that consume you you'll fucking die. When there's so much bad shit piling up each day, what the fuck do you need past wanking memories for, seriously? There's so fucking much left of this story to write, so I gotta piss off.

But…I do think it's funky how Itachi was watching them. Wonder how it affects his and Naru's interaction. Heh. Oh and I used big words again didn't I? This one's quite long - next shorter. Next chapter has a little surprise for Naru and a shout with the Hokage, Nice…