Hello everyone,

I know I haven't been writing all my stories for a while but I am trying to get to all of them and give you a variety so it's not always the same story that gets posted.

I have a question for everyone who reads this story... Do you want it to be MPreg? I have been considering this for a while but I would love opinions because it will help me decide if I would do it for sure.

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"Please give me a break." Sasuke panted completely out of breath laying his body out.

"You know we can't let you slow up Sasuke." Minato said.

"BE AN UCHIHA, BOY NOW STOP COMPLAINING!" Fugaku screamed at his young son.

The year was almost over and Sasuke was exhausted and he couldn't believe that in less than a week he will be going back home and he was extremely excited about it. He wanted to see Naruto. They both have turned sixteen now.

With that thought in mind he got up and started running again. The pain will pass and soon he will see his mate again.

(With Naruto)

"You got to be kidding me!" Kurama complained as he watched his mate pace around him to try and get him to bottom for him.

It's not like he wouldn't be able to top eventually it's just Itachi's mating instincts were telling him to get his mate with a child and Kurama was resisting that one for as long as possible.

"No, you promised Kurama." Itachi said as he started to chase his mate around the den.

"I told you when we get away from everyone and we're not away from everyone NOW STOP IT!" Kurama yelled the first part as he ran.

Once Itachi was closer he was going to end up changing sizes on him so Itachi would leave him be. At that very moment Kurama changed sizes and Itachi was irritated.

"NOT FAIR!" Itachi growled nipping at his mate's back legs.

"Well I see you two are perfectly fine in here." Naruto said walking into their den area with Kiba by him.

Shikamaru was trailing behind them but not to close. Shikamaru didn't want to walk in on something, when Naruto didn't care.

"Naruto," Itachi said nodding his head to the other fox.

Naruto nodded back but didn't say anything right away just sat down.

"What is it little brother?" Kurama asked.

"Father will be back soon, so mother wants us to go hunting." Naruto said yawning.

He was tired too; Shikamaru and Kiba were basically in charge of his training with him. He was already a brutal hunter and now it was even worse, he just wanted to have fun... and possibly see Sasuke again. Naruto grew curious to what they did on the other side of the mountain.

"Okay, I will get a group together and meet you by the river. Shikamaru, you coming?" Kurama asked.

"Yeah," Shikamaru said in a lazy tone as he followed Naruto out the cave.

"You know you just want to show off your skills for Temari. Gaara is going to bite your paw off." Naruto said giggling.

A lot was different since last year. They got a bigger pack and his friends were trying to show off for their wanted mates and Naruto had suitors that he wasn't the least bit interested in. This new guy named Utakata was one of them; he thought Naruto was rare and beautiful so he just follows Naruto around.

"And? What about you? You haven't gone hunting since last year when you first met Sasuke." Shikamaru grunted out.

If Naruto had skin you would be able to see blush on him.

"I can smell that you're blushing. Nervous much?" Shikamaru teased.

"Shut up," Naruto complained putting his ears down.

"So... do you think he passed in your father's eyes?" Shikamaru asked.

"I don't know, I know mom accepted Itachi right away. It seemed like Itachi could do just about everything and that was perfect in my mother's eyes." Naruto said.

"What does that have to do with your father?" Shikamaru asked.

"He's harsher," Naruto said lying down next to the river getting comfortable until the hunting team came.

Shikamaru lay down also but he turned onto his back to look at the clouds.

"Do you think she will let me mate her? You know she's the oldest of the three." Shikamaru wondered out loud to Naruto.

Shikamaru and Naruto were very close friends. Shikamaru would only mention his inner turmoil to Naruto or his other friend Choji. But Choji at the moment was in a mating ritual so that only left Naruto to talk to.

"I think she wants to mate with you too. I can smell her arousal when you're around. I think that's why Gaara and Kankuro growl at you every time they see you. You know you might have to fight one of them to get her?" Naruto said glancing at his friend.

"Yeah, but I don't want too." Shikamaru groaned.

Naruto chuckled shortly and looked at his friend smacking him with his tail. "You'll be fine," Naruto said with a grin.

Shikamaru was glad to have Naruto he was always an optimist. Shikamaru nodded at his friend then stood up when he started hearing the group coming. Naruto didn't make any movement just watched where the group would be coming from. When the group was in view Naruto didn't like who he was seeing. The group consisted of Temari a sand wolf, Kurama, Itachi, Kiba, and the wolf that has been trying to court him. He was annoying, his name was Utakata. Naruto would be fine with him around if he stopped trying to hit on him.

"What up bastards, why didn't you come and get me?" Kiba asked as he ran past the group to run to his friends.

Temari walked up to Shikamaru rubbing her body on him. He didn't do anything; they weren't sure if it was because he was lazy or because he liked the attention.

"Hi Shika," Temari said with a low voice.

Naruto went up to Kiba biting his back paw.

"Damn it, stop biting me." Kiba whined.

Naruto had this terrible biting habit. Whenever he got anxious or irritated he would bite whoever was near and it has been happening a lot as of lately. Maybe it's because Utakata hasn't left him the hell alone.

"Sorry," Naruto said and bounced to his brother biting at his leg and tail.

"What's wrong?" Kurama asked concerned for his little brother.

"Just irritated." Naruto said looking directly at the wolf that caused this irritation.

"Let's get the hunt started. Everyone gather around, Naruto don't go off on your own." Kurama said then started explaining the plan.

Naruto was in his own mind, as Utakata was trying to get his attention.

"Okay, everyone ready?" Kurama yelled.

Everyone nodded, that made Naruto immediately go by Kiba and Shikamaru so Utakata couldn't come next to him in the run. As they all started running Naruto smelled a familiar scent making him smile. Sasuke was on a hunt for him at that very moment. That stirred Naruto on making him run away from the group.

"NARUTO!" Kurama screamed but it was too late no one could catch up to him now.

"Damn it, Shikamaru, Kiba, go after him." Kurama growled.

They both nodded and ran after him with Utakata wanting to follow them.

"No, they are the only ones that know where he likes to go." Kurama said before Utakata could move any further. "And if we don't bring food back home our moms will kill us." Kurama finished getting ready to continue his hunt.

Naruto continued to run and he could feel his friends pursuing him but he could also sense Sasuke following him too. He started doing a bunch of different turns making it hard for them to follow him. Shikamaru and Kiba were losing his scent and they knew Kurama would be mad but they had to go back. Sasuke on the other hand kept chasing and finally jumped onto the blonde.

"Hello," Sasuke whispered laying his body on top of Naruto.

"Hi," Naruto said with a slight smirk.

Sasuke bit at Naruto's mouth then they started to play fight.

"How was your training?" Naruto asked as they walked to get water.

"Excruciating," Sasuke said.

"My dad is a bit of a hard ass. Did he beat your ass a lot?" Naruto asked tilting his head to the side.

"Yeah, for a fox he was definitely a lot stronger than me. But you on the other hand couldn't win me." Sasuke said with a smirk.

He wanted to rile the other one up. He liked the scent that oozed off Naruto when he was irritated. That's how he found him because he was irritated when they started the hunt.

Naruto growled at him and jumped at him. Sasuke wasn't going to deny it but he liked when the fox dominated over him but he was going to stay top wolf. They continued to fight, Naruto biting his ear then licking it. Naruto didn't know whether he wanted to hurt his mate or heal the wounds he was giving him. Sasuke did try to catch the golden fox a few times but it was a fast little thing. But he growled every time he got bit to just sigh because he liked Naruto cleaning him. While Naruto was busy licking his ear he saw his chance to catch him biting his tail and bringing him down. Naruto growled at him for that but he ignored it. Naruto was highly sensitive in the woods and he could sense an enemy near that his ears began to twitch and he bared his teeth. That's when he realized they were in someone else's territory.

"What?" Sasuke asked because he didn't know the rules of the forest yet.

One rule is to not invade someone else's territory unless you're trying to take over.

"We have to move away from here. We're in someone else's territory." Naruto said moving out from under Sasuke and in a guarding way in front of Sasuke.

"Shit," Sasuke said pulling his mate by his tail to come on but Naruto didn't budge.

Sasuke didn't know it but Naruto stood there because he couldn't move. Rule two don't turn your back on an enemy that's how you die.

"Wait," Naruto growled at him.

Sasuke wasn't sure what was going on but he knew to stay out of enemy territory.

"What brings you over here, Golden fox of Kushina and Minato?" The voice said.

"We didn't mean to enter." Was all Naruto said.

"That's too bad; I was really looking forward to fighting the demon fox of the fox family. But I can always still attack you." The voice said.

Sasuke growled at that, not liking someone threatening his mate. Naruto just smacked him with a tail.

"You can try and attack me. But rest assured you won't like the end results." Naruto said making a shrugging notion with his paws.

The voice growled instead of responding. Sasuke wasn't sure where they were or who's territory they entered but he knew they needed to get out of here. But as he was thinking of ways to exit Naruto was getting in a fighting stance preparing to fight. As Naruto readied himself the coyote came out and attacked shocking Sasuke on his ass. He didn't even realize what happened. He just stood there until he spotted another coyote trying to sneak in the fight. He didn't hesitate to attack it and put it away from his mate. When Sasuke was done he looked at Naruto to see the fox grew a little bit and had the coyote on the ground. He was growling but it was basically submitting to Naruto. Naruto growled one last time and glanced at Sasuke. What Sasuke didn't know was that there was another coyote coming from behind him making Naruto charge at him attacking it. When Naruto was done he bit Sasuke's tail telling him to run and ran off out that territory.

"Whose territory was that?" Sasuke asked looking slightly freaked out.

"That was the coyote territory. We're not supposed to enter there... ever. We ran too far off the path by our land." Naruto said but saying the last part more to himself.

"Oh," Sasuke said.

"Let's hurry and get back home." Naruto said biting at Sasuke.

"Why do you keep biting me? What's wrong?" Sasuke asked.

"Just irritated that happened. Whenever I get irritated or anxious I bite at anyone who is around me." Naruto said.

"I don't mind you biting me. I just wanted to know why you kept doing it." Sasuke said rubbing his body on Naruto.

The fox made a purring noise and rubbed on Sasuke back. As they were walking back Naruto realized he should tell Sasuke about the fact that Utakata has been trying to mate him and that he may have a rival. Not that he likes him or anything but he still was trying.

"I think I should tell you something." Naruto said stopping.

"And what is that?" Sasuke asked, with the way Naruto was looking he could tell he wasn't going to like what he was about to hear.

He was hoping Naruto still wanted to be his mate. But like he said last year to his father the possibility of someone else taking him is possible. He just hoped it wasn't in this case.

"You know in fox culture we have to let anyone try to woo us and try to court. Of course we can decline but the animal can still try just not going out of line." Naruto said and Sasuke nodded not liking this at all.

"Well a wolf, Utakata, has been trying to woo me. I declined him already but he is persistent." Naruto said watching anger show on Sasuke's face with his red eyes spinning.

"Where is he?" Sasuke asked completely angry.

"Back at home." Naruto said liking what he was seeing from Sasuke.

"Let's go," Sasuke growled and started running to where he knew everyone was at.

Sasuke felt a wave of arousal from his mate but he was still irritated that someone was trying to take what is his. Naruto was HISmate and someone trying to take him was completely unacceptable. Naruto was smiling by how Sasuke was acting, completely enjoying this.

When they came into the clearing, Naruto immediately spotted Utakata talking to his father. He could tell it was about mating and that didn't bode well with him. Sasuke growled not sure who the guy was that tried to take Naruto.

"Naruto, where have you been? Kurama said you ran off again." Kushina yelled at her son but stopped when she smelled the anger rolling off Sasuke. "What's wrong with him?" Kushina asked as Sasuke tried to find who was trying to take Naruto from him.

"He's angry that someone is trying to take me away from him. Did you know that the Uchiha wolf can only smell their mate?" Naruto asked with Kushina nodding.

"But who is trying to mate you without my permission or your father's permission?" Kushina asked.

"Utakata," Naruto said with a shrug.

"WHO IS UTAKATA?" Sasuke screamed.

"That would be me and from the smell of you, you were with Naruto when he went missing." Utakata said not looking at Naruto or even noticing for that matter.

"I didn't go missing; I ran off because I smelled him and chased him. Well he chased me that is." Naruto stated clearly amused.

That bristled Utakata's fur making him growl.

"So your trying to claim what is mine?" Sasuke asked in a low growl.

Kurama and Itachi stared off on the side not believing how aggressive Sasuke was getting but Itachi being the big brother that he is was cheering his brother on.

"He's not claimed so I am free to try." Utakata said.

"No... He is mine. I went through training with his father and got accepted and Naruto accepted me, so that makes him MINE." Sasuke growled bristling at the other wolf.

"My son is getting fought over." Kushina said with a smile, if she had hands she would have been clapping with excitement.

"I don't know what you did." Shikamaru said lazily lying next to his friend with Kiba.

Temari came by Shikamaru and laid her body on top of him. Naruto raised an eyebrow but knew he would have to question his friend about it later.

"What's going on?" Fugaku asked staring at his son but still walked up to Minato.

"Sasuke is going to fight for Naruto on his first day back." Minato said with a smirk.

That's when the fight began. It was hard to watch but everyone couldn't move their eyes away and some just didn't want to. Sasuke was angry and Naruto could sense that above all else. In the ten minutes of fighting everyone could smell blood. By the end of the fight Utakata was under Sasuke, Sasuke biting his neck to make him submit. Utakata whined and submitted crawling away from Sasuke when he let him go.

"That's my boy," Fugaku said with a smirk as he walked over to him.

Everyone started circling him accept Naruto and that's who he wanted to see. He didn't care about anyone's praise, well yeah he did want Minato's and his fathers but that's it. Sasuke saw Naruto at the same spot since the fight started and got out the crowd to see Naruto by Shikamaru and a sandy colored wolf on top of him. He could tell she was an alpha type female for the lazy wolf. Kiba wandered off somewhere else when he saw Sasuke coming to Naruto. Sasuke wasn't going to deny Utakata put up a good fight but he wasn't going to win against Sasuke.

"I won," Sasuke whispered coming to his mate.

"I saw that," Naruto said. "Where are your injuries? I know he got you at least four times." Naruto said checking Sasuke.

This made Shikamaru and Temari get up to move to a different area leaving them two alone. Sasuke stiffened not wanting Naruto to know he got injured at all.

"It's fine, just a few scratches." Sasuke lied.

Naruto face fell deadpanning by the stupidity of his wolf.

"Sasuke, don't lie to me. Show me where you got bit before I make my size bigger than you and check you by force." Naruto threatened.

Sasuke bit at his muzzle and nodded turning to show Naruto his tail got bit, his back leg, his front right leg, and his back. Naruto started licking his back as Sasuke started cleaning his other wounds.

"Naruto..." Sasuke called out to him.

Naruto growled as Sasuke tried to move to look at him.

"Hang on; I want to tell you something." Sasuke said.

"What?" Naruto growled his eyes turning red for a minute there.

"Umm... your eyes just turned red." Sasuke said not able to tell him what he wanted to say.

"Because you're irritating me," Naruto growled out continuing to try and lick Sasuke's wounds.

Sasuke just went quiet and let him be cleaned before he got his mate angry. He remembered when he was a little pup he used to watch his mom try to clean his dad after a hunt. Whenever his dad used to try and get away his mom would growl and her eyes went red from irritation, then he would stop and let it happen. Itachi never fought his mom when she tried to clean him, he on the other paw was always fighting to get away leaving it to her biting him in the neck to submit, which he always did.

When Naruto was done he walked in front of Sasuke tilting his head. "What did you want?" Naruto asked to Sasuke who was lying on the ground.

"Do you want to mate with me?" Sasuke asked.

"Yes obviously," Naruto said to his slightly dumb mate.

"I was just making sure that you wanted to." Sasuke said standing up.

Sasuke walked to his mate playfully biting his ear and rubbing his body on Naruto. Naruto liked all the attention he was getting from Sasuke but he needed food he was starving.

"MY BOY IS BACK!" Mikoto screamed as she came into the clearing.

She immediately jumped at him; he jumped away not wanting her to land on his back.

"What's wrong? I smell your blood. Don't tell me Naruto is beating on you." Mikoto said looking at the fox that just kept walking knowing his mate would need some time with his mother.

"No... I just got into a fight because someone was trying to take him from me." Sasuke answered. "Why do you think he would beat me?" Sasuke asked shocked.

"Because I seen him hunting. I went with one time and he is definitely brutal." Mikoto said sweetly as she nodded her head.

Sasuke put his head down not wanting to hear everyone say how Naruto can fight better than him. Sasuke wasn't sure but he knew he was going to have to learn more if that was the case. But then again no one has seen him for a year accept his dad and Naruto's. The only one that could judge that would be the father's.

"Let's go eat mom," Sasuke said just ignoring for now.

Good thing was that Sasuke knew Naruto hated hunting so he would always bring food home for them. It will be great. Sasuke went to where everyone was waiting to eat to see another wolf sitting next to HISNaruto. He walked up to them and growled the other wolf just glanced back but didn't say or do anything. He just ignored Sasuke like he wasn't even there.

"Sasuke, sit right here. Gaara won't move unless you kill him." Naruto said gesturing for him to be on the other side next to Kiba who was flirting with a shy black and grey fox.

Sasuke growled one more time but did what his mate told him to do.

"What's his problem?" Sasuke asked.

"He wants to keep an eye on his sister, who happens to be next to him hovering over Shika." Naruto said.

"We will like to welcome back Sasuke, my mate Minato, and Mikoto's mate Fugaku to the clearing." Kushina said before everyone dug into their food.

After everyone ate Sasuke found himself by his brother and his brother's mate.

"How was it little brother?" Itachi asked.

"Terrible, but worthwhile." Sasuke said staring at Naruto who was by Shikamaru pulling at his ears.

Shikamaru just growled and pawed at Naruto to get away from him.

"Has he been like that for a while?" Sasuke asked talking about Naruto's biting habit.

"Yeah he has been biting since a month or two after you left. I think he is always anxious." Kurama responded.

"That could mean he's ready to mate or ready to get mounted." Itachi said getting pawed in the face by Kurama. "What?" Itachi asked looking at his mate.

"Don't talk about my brother like that." Kurama growled in Itachi's ear.

"Okay," Itachi whispered as he felt his mate's claws in his back paw.

"You two are something else." Sasuke said looking at them then turning to look for his mate again to not see him.

"Naruto, I think Gaara is accepting me as her mate." Shikamaru said looking at the stars since it was night now. "Clouds are so much better." Shikamaru grumbled.

"I don't agree with you about the clouds being better. But maybe he has, one way to find out is to ask him." Naruto said looking up at the sky too.

Shikamaru grunted and stood up. "I'm about to go and ask. See you tomorrow." Shikamaru said walking away.

"Let me know what happens." Naruto yelled to him as he looked off the cliff and then up at the sky.

He liked this spot; it was so calm and soothing. It was his territory and no one else's unless he let them in. Shikamaru was an exception along with Kiba. Oh and his parents of course but they tended to leave him alone seeing as they knew their son loved that area.

"Why are you by yourself?" Sasuke asked coming toward Naruto.

"I like it here, this is my area." Naruto said not looking back.

Sasuke was worried when he didn't see Naruto and noticed he was gone. Then he saw Shikamaru ran up to him and found out where to go and came to find him.

"Come lay by me." Naruto said.

Sasuke didn't hesitate and curled around the fox, loving how warm he was.

"I was thinking about what you asked me earlier and I think we should get to know each other before we do our mating marks on each other. We're just going off the pull we have for one another but I want it to be more." Naruto said not really surprising Sasuke for some reason maybe because he felt the same way.

"Yeah we missed a whole year together." Sasuke said nuzzling into Naruto more. "Can I at least put my scent on you so no one can try and take you from me?" Sasuke asked in Naruto's ear making him shiver with excitement.

"Yes," Naruto said.

That night they slept by the cliffside together. They took comfort in being with each other and loved feeling the warmth from the other person.

'It's perfect,' both of them thought at the same time.

Reviews...

I was itching to write this story today because I have plans for this story in a little notebook I have. I only have plans for some stories but at least it helps me sort them out.

ONCE again I want to know if this story should be MPREG or not?