Pairing: SasuNaru

Author: thecrazydragon

Disclaimer: do I really have to repeat myself?

A/N: Sasuke finally told Naruto that the kits second element wouldn't last. How exactly would the dobe take it? "I'll deal with you later. Pull up a cab. We're going home." Enjoy!

---Chapter 10---

"Mom... dad..." said Nagaharu weakly. He and Saraki were both on the ground rubbing their heads. Naruto rushed over, followed by Sasuke.

"What happened?" asked Naruto while checking for any injuries.

"My head huuurrrtss!" the twins replied together. They buried their aching heads in their hands and started to sob.

Then both of them collapsed.

What happened?

The sun was high up in the sky. It would have been a particularly nice day in the training grounds with all the birds singing and the clear blue water of the nearby river simply sparkling. But, there was one image that didn't seem to fit the picture.

The unconscious bodies of the twins lay sprawled out in the grass. Naruto was frantically fanning Nagaharu as Sasuke carried Saraki to the shade of the oak tree, where they had been peacefully eating lunch just minutes ago.

Oh god, what happened to the twins? Is this a sort of symptom or something that means that they're about to lose their second element? What? Is it something else? Naruto doesn't know either... what the fuck should I do!

Sasuke was getting more and more frazzled by the second (although he would never admit it). After making sure that Saraki was propped up comfortably on the side of the tree, he rushed over to where Nagaharu and Naruto were. Naruto was already dabbing his soaked hanky on Nagaharu's head to keep him cool. He wasn't really sure what to do so he just did what Sakura usually did whenever Miku had a fever. Sasuke was just as clueless but... he just stood there...

"I'll deal with you later." began Naruto coldly, though, uneasiness was clearly evident in his voice, "Pull up a cab. We're going home."

The twins were now in their parent's bed. Each had a cool towel adorning their foreheads like wet, white crowns. The comforter was wrapped cozily around their lithe, young bodies. They were in a better condition now than they were in the training grounds. They weren't feverish but, that was what Naruto could do for now. At least he and Sasuke had calmed down a bit.

They were sitting across each other on the dining table. Both held steaming cups of tea with slightly trembling hands. They had called up Tsunade but unfortunately, she was out on a diplomatic conference with the Sand. So, they asked for Sakura instead, but it would take a bit longer for her to arrive as she lives on the other side of the village. They couldn't do anything but wait. They couldn't bring them to the hospital either because the only medical-nins who knew a bit about Nagaharu and Saraki were Sakura and Tsunade.

Damn, I've never felt so useless in my life! I can't believe I just stood there while they fainted! But... I didn't really know what to do so it isn't counted right? No, I'm their father! I should know what to do! Yeah, but...

Sasuke came to the decision that it would be totally useless to argue with himself about his self-worth so he tried to talk to Naruto about the whole the-twins-will-lose-their-second-element-and-I-never-told-you thing. Unfortunately for him, Naruto was still in no mood to even speak to him.

"Look Naruto, I said I'm sorry okay? I-I just... I don't know... I didn't want to tell you for some reason..."

And that's when Naruto couldn't hold back anymore—for some reason...

"What are you trying to say, teme! You don't trust me enough to at least tell me what's going on!"

"No, that's not—!"

"THEN WHAT, HUH! THESE ARE OUR KIDS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, SASUKE! And let me make everything clear," said Naruto, his eyes were already that deadly Kyuubi-red color. He took hold of Sasuke's collar pinned him to the wall. The raven could feel the disgusting chakra leaking out...

"When it's our kids we're talking about," said Naruto in a feral, almost deadly hiss, "I don't give a fuck about your pride or your feelings. Just make sure you tell me everything..."

Naruto gave Sasuke a final shove before letting go, "...because the moment they get hurt in any way because of your reluctance to tell me what's going on... you'll be answering to me."

"WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP AND LISTEN FOR A SEC!"

"WELL, GO ON! TALK! TELL ME WHY THE HELL YOU THOUGHT THAT IT WAS BETTER TO KEEP IT A SECRET!"

I didn't tell you because I didn't want to make you sad again! Do you have any idea how hard it was to keep it from y—!"

"You never had to keep it from me in the first place!" Naruto was already brimming with angry tears.

"Hey, why are you making this such a big issue, huh! I mean it's not like they got seriously hurt or something!"

"Why did you keep it from me? You never had to... You would never make me sad and you know that... I just love you and the kids so much... Sasuke, you know you have nothing to be scared of..." said Naruto, who was choking in his own tears.

He wasn't crying because his kids were gonna lose the thing that made them more special than the others. He was crying because Sasuke chose to keep it a secret from him. Of course, Naruto was used to people keeping things from him. After all, he was mistakenly regarded as the Kyuubi... as the demon who killed half the village... but Sasuke, the only person who truly seemed to love him and trust him, kept something like that a secret. It was a little too much to handle.

Naruto was very hurt.

"Oh, Naruto..." said Sasuke softly. He approached the sobbing blonde and kissed away the tears that kept falling from the brilliant cerulean eyes...

"S-Sasuke..."

They wrapped each other in a tight embrace, not one of them willing to let go of the other. They just sat there... on the floor... hugging. Sasuke patted Naruto's back and rocked back and forth, trying to calm him down. Naruto's body shook and trembled as he cried. He buried his head into Sasuke's shoulder and tried to stop. But he couldn't.

"Naruto... I'm so sorry... I should have told you... now I've hurt you... so badly..."

"No, no, no, no... Sasuke, I... you didn't hurt me, please don't say that."

Sasuke cupped Naruto's face and stared into his eyes. The unfathomable blueness... was puffy and red, with tears still falling from them. Now, Sasuke badly regretted what he had done. To hurt Naruto. To hurt the angel who, after enduring nothing but pain, deserved nothing more than to be happy. I'm so sorry.

"MAMAAAAAAAAAA!" a scream erupted from the master's bedroom.

It was Nagaharu.

Naruto and Sasuke rushed to their room only to find Nagaharu on the floor shaking uncontrollably, eyes wide. On the bed, Saraki was still unconscious. She was also shaking.

Wait.

It wasn't Nagaharu who was shaking. Saraki wasn't shaking either. The whole room is the one that's shaking!

Then, a smoky something (which Sasuke later confirmed was Earth chakra) came out of Nagaharu's entire body and started spinning around him. It looked a tornado spinning above his body. The 'tornado' compressed itself to form a basketball-sized sphere of pure earth chakra. As it completed its formation, the house stopped shaking so suddenly that Naruto and Sasuke fell forward. The sphere lay suspended in thin air for a few seconds. Then, it started to fall to the ground.

"NARUTO, SASUKE! MOVE!"

A blur of pink rushed past the stunned pair and caught the falling ball of chakra.

"Get Nagaharu out of the way, now!" it was Sakura.

Sasuke immediately stood up and grabbed Nagaharu.

Sakura dealt with the chakra ball with immense concentration. She created a hole at the very center of it and injected some of her own chakra. It caused the ball to wither and dissipate into the air.

"What ha—"

Sakura held up her hand, signaling silence from Naruto. She approached Saraki, who now had the same 'tornado thing' enveloping her.

The pink-haired medical-nin took from her pack a small piece of scroll-paper with a spiral that was brushed onto its center. She attached it firmly on Saraki's chest and the 'tornado' didn't spin around the young one anymore. It actually seemed to be sucked into the scroll. On the spiral's sides were inscriptions that read 'earth', 'fire', and 'land' and there was a space in the middle of the spiral which Naruto assumed was for 'water', or 'wind'.

The 'tornado' continued to be sucked in for no more than 3 minutes, but it seemed like an eternity for the Uchihas. After the last trace of chakra was sucked into the sealing scroll, Sakura swiftly detached it from Saraki's chest. The center of the spiral now read 'wind'. She then took a vial of some sort of dark liquid and ran a line through the word 'wind'. The line glowed red and everything on the scroll disappeared. It was the element removed from Saraki.

--

"Thanks." said Sakura as Sasuke handed her a cup of coffee.

"So... the kids are alright now?"

"Yeah, although they're a bit shaken up. I suggest you let them stay at home this week."

Silence stretched on.

"What was that black sphere-thing that came out of Nagaharu?" Naruto finally managed to say.

"That," she replied as she put down her coffee, "was a ball of pure chakra."

Sakura found herself looking at Sasuke and Naruto's blank faces. She sighed and explained further.

"Obviously, it's made by compressing chakra. A ball that size, when dropped, could tear down your entire house."

Jaws dropped.

"But... a ball the size of a pea... could annihilate the whole village. Luckily, I made it before the ball compressed even more and before Saraki could form another ball."

--

It was eleven pm. Sakura had left ages ago. Now, Naruto and Sasuke were just sitting on the couch, absentmindedly flipping through the different channels of their TV. The twins were already asleep.

"Does this mean we're okay now, dobe?"

"Don't call me dobe."

"Sorry. Does this mean we're okay now, 'Naruto'?"

"Make me some ramen and I'll think about it."

"Oh, I can give you something better than ra—"

"...Ma...? Dad...?"

Sasuke cleared his throat and sat back politely on his side of the couch. Naruto rushed to the twins and gave them a big hug.

"Are my kits okay? Are you feeling alright? Are you hurt? Just tell mommy okay?" he said to them, not letting go just yet.

"What are talking about mom? We're perfectly fine!" said Nagaharu in his usual happy voice.

"You mean... you don't remember... anything?"

"About what, mom? And you can let go now." replied Saraki.

"Oh... hehehehe, sorry."

The twins laughed as well but stopped as they saw Naruto's shocked expression.

"Wh-what is it, mom?" they asked

"...Sasuke," Naruto turned to the raven, "what is that...?"

Sasuke stood up from the couch and walked closer to the twins. He was a bit pissed that Naruto called him over for no reason.

The blonde shook his head excitedly and indicated what part he wanted Sasuke to see.

Their eyes.

"Sh-sh-sh-sharing-sharingan!"

Indeed. Each of the twins had a set of ruby red, one-tomoed sharingan eyes.

TCD: Yep, the kits finally have the sharingan... wow, even I'm speechless! Hehehe XD. Anyways, please review. Forgive me if this fic is a little umm... not satisfactory. It's currently 2:33 am here and I've finished my 8th glass of coffee just so I could finish this chappy for you guys! Kyaaaaaaaah! Later!

Thanks and love lots:D