Here's another chapter, feel free to leave concrit and thanks for all the reviews and faves so far, you guys are the best! :-)

Ok, so I'm going on a 3 week hiatus (this time for real!) for personal reasons. Something's happening over the course of the next 3 weeks and I won't be able to do much computer wise! So wait for me til then, and like the Terminator so eloquently put it: "I'll be back!"

Naruto smiled while sitting on Sasuke's couch, waiting on him to return from the kitchen with something to drink. They had picked up the formula at the supermarket before Sasuke had convinced him to come home with him. He felt uncomfortable at first, thinking that the first thing Sasuke would want is sex, but his opinion changed when Ayame informed them she was pregnant and his mood lifted. He was genuinely happy for her and Sasuke seemed to be too.

Kiichi was completely occupied with the array of toys Sasuke had laid out for him on the floor and he watched his baby happily smash, chew and throw a slew of the plastic, wooden or clothed items. Sasuke returned a moment later with the drinks and Naruto thanked him after taking it.

Sasuke sat down beside his boyfriend and watched the baby also.

Kiichi looked over and spotted Sasuke and mouthed the words Dada. Sasuke smiled before turning his attention to Naruto. "How have you been holding up?"

Naruto sighed, "Everything's just so…."

"Overwhelming?" Sasuke finished and Naruto nodded.

"Sai coming back just throws my entire life out of balance," Naruto added, feeling the confusion and the hurt coming back all at once, or randomly depending on his mood.

Sasuke's eyes narrowed, it's the same for him. Thanks to Sai he almost lost his blonde, but he needed to know where Naruto stood concerning his little brother. "Do you want to see him again?"

"God, no," Naruto answered, leaning forward with both elbows resting on his knees and his hands clasped. "I mean, I can't take away his status as Kiichi's father, unfortunately, but I don't want to have anything to do with him."

Sasuke liked that answer. He firmly believed that what Sai did to Naruto was unforgivable, he wouldn't even dream of doing it.

"When you brought him back, it was like my entire world crashed right there and then. It was as if fate decided I was in need of enough pressure to last me a lifetime and I wasn't thinking clearly. I mean, why couldn't he have stayed away? He's complicating things with his presence…besides, he's your brother and I don't want to…"

"Shhh," Sasuke silenced with a finger on Naruto's lips. Those blue eyes were so deep they were pulling him in and not letting go. "No matter what happens, just remember you're the one I love."

Naruto blushed and turned his head away. He could see the sincerity in Sasuke's eyes and it made him feel warm inside, he felt like his heart was in Sasuke's hands because of the effect he was having on him. "I…I love you too."

Sasuke smiled warmly before pulling Naruto into a passionate kiss. It wasn't a sexual kiss, but one of hopes and promises.

When they pulled apart, Naruto leaned into Sasuke's embrace and allowed him to wrap an arm around him, loving the return of the feelings the other incited inside him. Sasuke always made him feel happy and loved.

The problem? So did Sai….

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Kyuubi grunted as he wiped the purple bruise on his cheek with a piece of wet cotton while looking in the bathroom's mirror. He hissed at the sting as the antiseptic touched the broken skin. He looked pretty banged up; Itachi had done a number on him but it exilarhated him to dish out as much damaged as he'd received. It put him on a high he hadn't tasted in a long while. Because of Naruto and Kiichi he didn't want to cause any more problems than necessary, so he forfeited his extra caustic ways.

Crap, he was looking forward to another fight.

He was surprised Naruto wasn't home when he arrived, though he was glad for it. Naruto would have kicked his ass while worrying over his injuries and who had done it. He wanted to tell Naruto what had happened, but he didn't know where he was or how to get in contact with him. He was wondering if something had happened when the house phone rang. He went out to answer it and held the receiver a few inches from his bruised jaw.

"Hello, Naruto?"

Naruto told him where he was and Kyuubi was surprised. "You're with Sasuke? That's good! So you'll be sleeping over? Fine, I'll see you tomorrow."

The red head exhaled happily after hanging up the phone. He didn't have to worry about trying to hook his brother and Sasuke back up and he was glad for that, it was one less thing for him to worry about.

Deciding a hot bath would be in his best interest, he went to the bathroom before going to bed.

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Sasuke awoke the next morning and smiled when he saw Naruto asleep in his bed, just like he should be. Kiichi laid between them with one foot sprawled across Naruto's abdomen and a hand on his leg with the thumb from the other hand in his mouth. He wanted to leave the toddler in the baby room so he could have his Naruto all to himself to cuddle...and more than likely fondle, but Naruto had insisted he wanted to keep his son in sight and he didn't object, not in the least. He understood.

It was 6am and he had classes in another two hours, but he woke up an hour earlier to make breakfast for all of them. He ran a hand softly through the baby's hair before getting up and walking around to Naruto's side of the bed. After a chaste kiss was placed on the soft skin of Naruto's jaw, he watched his lover stir slightly before a hand subconsciously reached out and felt for the baby. After holding the baby's feet, Naruto curled both hands under his head and fell in a deep sleep once again.

After entering the kitchen, he extracted all the items and ingredients he would need to make a special breakfast for Naruto. He thought of it as a welcome back early morning gift. Good mood made for good food...

Naruto woke up some time later to a very delicious smell attacking his nostrils. He looked around blearily, noticing the sleeping form of Kiichi, who was positioned awkwardly on the bed while asleep. There was no Sasuke though and he figured he was responsible for the wonderful smell attacking his senses. He walked to the bathroom and washed up before heading to the kitchen, folding his arms in the kitchen doorway while he watched Sasuke move around gracefully to multitask.

With his lips curved lightly in appreciation and adoration, he opted to stay silent so he wouldn't distract Sasuke from the task at hand. A moment later Sasuke opened the oven and with an oven mitt on his hand, extracted what looked like muffins on a baking tray.

Turning around to put the tray on the counter, that's when Sasuke noticed Naruto's presence. He walked over and kissed the blonde in greeting, "Morning."

Naruto returned the kiss, "Morning."

"Are you hungry?" Sasuke asked and Naruto nodded.

"What are you making? It looks good..."

Sasuke then revealed two plates with gorgeously laid out broiled eggs, biscuits and bacon with a side garnish of spinach leaves and broccoli.

Naruto's mouth started to water, "That looks good..."

Sasuke smiled before leading Naruto out to sit around the dining table, he returned with a tray housing the breakfast plate, one muffin and small cup of green tea. He put the tray down before Naruto's smiling face and brought his head down to whisper seductively in his ear, "Not as good as you."

Naruto shuddered at the seductive tone and he watched as Sasuke walked back to the kitchen, only to re-emerge with his own plate.

They sat in a companionable silence while they ate and Naruto couldn't have been more happy...that was, until Sasuke asked him a relatively simple and innocent question that left him a bit shaken.

"What are your plans today?"

Meet Sai... "I have an appointment at 12."

Sasuke nodded. "Fine, I'll be at class, how about I pick you up at 2?"

That was an hour after he would leave Sai so he didn't see a problem with it, "Ok."

Just then, Kiichi could be heard crying and Naruto quickly left the table to tend to his baby.

Sasuke shared a small bowl of cornmeal porridge he had made and brought it to Naruto for the baby, who was getting his diaper changed. "I'm going to get ready for class."

Naruto nodded, "Fine, I'll head home when you're ready."

At 7:30 both Naruto and Sasuke were ready to leave. Sasuke planted a kiss to Naruto's lips when they were at the door and Kiichi clapped and giggled before slapping Sasuke in the face because he was so close.

Sasuke held his cheek and feigned a hurt expression, "What was that for?" he directed at the baby.

Naruto laughed, "He definitely approves."

Sasuke chuckled, "Fine." And they both walked out the door and separated on the streets.

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Sasuke didn't think anything when he reached class and Kyuubi wasn't present, the red head have been known to be late on a few occasions. Over the past few weeks they've gotten a lot closer than they were in the beginning; it wasn't as hard to think of him as a friend anymore, though brother in law seemed like a stretch.

At exactly 8am, most of the other students have taken a seat and the teacher was present. Fifteen minutes later Kyuubi arrived, interrupting the class with his face looking bruised and a band-aid over his right eye. He presented the teacher with a pass before taking a seat and Sasuke was curious as to what had happened.

Lunch time rolled around and the first thing Sasuke did was approached the red head once most of the students were out.

"What happened to your face? You look like shit," Sasuke said.

Kyuubi smirked, "Itachi Uchiha happened to my face, what about it?"

Sasuke's eyes widened a fraction, "What happened between you and my brother?"

Kyuubi sighed, "He was looking for a good time and so was I, until he conveniently mentioned he was putting up what's-his-face-deadbeat-dad and I told him off. He decided I was in need of a beating for my opinion and I returned the favor."

Sasuke wanted to feel appalled, he really did but a small laugh escaped his lips instead. "You, you beat up the mighty Itachi Uchiha? How are you still alive?"

Kyuubi chuckled while they walked towards the door, "I'd love to go another round with him, maybe you can take me to his place and I'd beat the crap out of both of them?"

"No," Sasuke deadpanned, he honestly believed Kyuubi would do it.

The red head grinned mischievously, "Suit yourself, but I have a baseball bat with Sai and Itachi written on it, I'd love to give it to them."

"Uzumaki!"

Both boys turned around at the call and Kyuubi realized it was his friends heading towards him, Shikamaru and Kiba.

"What the hell happened to you?" Kiba asked after walking up to the two. He bared Sasuke a questioning glance before turning to his friend.

"I was in a fight," Kyuubi explained.

"Troublesome," Shikamaru answered in a bored tone.

"I'll see you later, Kyuubi," Sasuke said before walking off. Kyuubi nodded his head at him in acknowledgement and he turned around.

"I noticed you've been chatting it up with Ice Queen a lot lately..." Kiba started, watching Sasuke's retreating back.

"He's trying to be a good brother in law," Kyuubi answered.

Kiba rose one eyebrow in question, "But you have only one sibling..."

"Exactly," Kyuubi acknowledged.

"Lunch," Shikamaru drawled lazily.

Both Kyuubi and Kiba shrugged before they all left to the cafeteria, it was 12am and they were hungry.

Sasuke went around one of the empty hallways and turned on his cell phone, he had to turn it off during class and he wanted to talk to Itachi about the fight. He dialled his brother's number and listened as he answered on the second ring.

"Sasuke..." came Itachi's baritone voice.

"What did you do to Kyuubi?" Sasuke asked with a frown marring his features. It came across clearly in his tone of voice that he was not pleased.

Itachi became amused on the other end. "He didn't tell you what he did to me?"

"Why are you defending Sai?" Sasuke spat, he didn't hate his brother, not in the literal sense of the word but he couldn't forgive him for what he did to Naruto. Nobody his age should ever have to go through that and being raised in the Uchiha household meant Sai was taught better, he would assumed, but apparently he was wrong.

"Why are you being such a hypocrite?" Itachi asked.

"What?" Sasuke asked in a confused voice. "What am I being hypocritical about?"

"You say you hate Sai, but you allow him leeway to get what he wants?"

"What are you...?"

"Naruto, dear little brother. You allow him to meet up with Naruto to see his child and you have the gall to call me cursing on Sai? Where the hell do you think he is now?"

Sasuke could feel the muscles in his body tensing so hard they felt like they were about to snap, "Don't lie to me Itachi, Naruto promised he wouldn't have anything to do with Sai."

Itachi smirked, "You think so? Go to the Konoha Park right now and see for yourself. If Naruto wants to fuck around on you that's your problem, don't get Sai involved, he's weak to Naruto's charms anyway."

With those words Itachi hung up the phone and Sasuke squeezed the device in his hand so hard his knuckles turned white. He didn't want to believe, he couldn't believe because Naruto specifically said he would stay away from Sai: that he wouldn't go near him and he believed him. He promised.

He would go to the park though, go to the park and prove Itachi wrong.

Dead wrong.

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Naruto looked at the clock in his brother's apartment with something akin to dread. It read 11am and he knew he didn't have a lot of time to get ready to go to the park.

When he came in earlier Kyuubi had already left for class and the place was empty. He did little odd jobs around the house, cleaning up and stuff until he found himself in his current situation, not wanting to meet Sai and staring at the clock as if time would magically stop for him. Kiichi was sitting in the couch, fumbling with the cushions as he tried to stand and he quickly went for him and put him on the floor; it wouldn't do to have his baby fall out the chair like last time.

After a few minutes he started to get ready, it wouldn't do to have Itachi carrying out his threat after all. He felt bad when he thought about it, because Sasuke had asked him from the night before his thoughts and even though he was honest, what he was doing now made him feel like a liar.

It took only a half hour for Naruto to get both him and the baby ready, and he left with a baby bag strapped across his back like last time. By the time he got to the park Sai was sitting at the same stone table he was the last time.

His mood immediately darkened even further.

"Hi," Sai greeted when Naruto sat around the table.

With a disninterested look on his face, Naruto returned the greeting.

Sai nervously played with his fingers while looking at them, contemplating trying to start a conversation with the blonde. He really wanted to be on at least speaking terms with Naruto, he wouldn't be able to handle his son without his help anyways.

"Um, how was your morning, Naruto?"

Naruto gave Sai a condescending look, "Why the hell do you care? I've had to go through many mornings without you present."

Kiichi started hitting his hands against the table and Naruto held his baby closer.

Sai's eyes saddened, "Look, I just want you to understand that I'm not here to try to harm you or our baby, why won't you allow me to repent for my sins?"

"Because I'm not your God, and neither am I your friend. Whatever hole you crawled from under I wish you'd return to it and leave us the hell alone!"

Naruto was breathing hard, he just wanted to get this over with and go home, go back to Sasuke and be happy. He cursed the day he'd met Uchiha Itachi, if it wasn't for him he wouldn't have to be putting up with this right now.

Sai took a deep breath and kept repeating to himself that Naruto had every right to shun and disregard him. It hurt, hurt him so badly to be treated like this but he held on to the vague hope that the future would turn out better, be brighter. If only Naruto could get past the hate then he wouldn't ask for anything more, just a chance to be a father. He looked at the baby, his blue eyes questioningly looking at him, as if wondering who he was.

"Can I hold him again?" Sai nodded towards the baby.

Naruto tsked, "Whatever, just stay in my sight."

Sai left from his seat, walked around to where Naruto was and took the baby up. When the baby looked at him he immediately started to cry and reached his hands out for Naruto, just like last time.

"Mama, mama!" the baby wailed and all Naruto did was sigh. He hated to see his baby crying but he had to make Sai take him for now. Shit.

Sai cooed at the toddler as the tears ran out of his eyes. He did what he did last time, putting the baby down on the grass and sitting with him.

Naruto didn't know what Sai was reaching for when he put his hand on the bench, the table was blocking his view but when the other's hand came back down he saw him hand Kiichi a juice box. The baby of course quieted down once he realized it was food and started sucking at the straw, completely forgetting his surroundings.

The asshole had the nerve to bring his own baby bag… now whatever he had in his was worthless because Sai had his own stuff. He even had the nerves to extract a rag and wipe Kiichi's nose.

This made him extremely pissed off.

Sitting there idly for the next couple of minutes, he kept track of the time because at exactly 1pm, he would take his baby and bolt like his skin was on fire. He watched as Sai slowly wormed his way into Kiichi's personal space, giving him stuff in an effort to get him to warm up to him. He couldn't help comparing Sai to Sasuke, pointing out in his own head that Sasuke would never have to bribe his baby for attention or affection, he worked hard for it and he got it. Sai had to go the extra mile just get a glimpse from Kiichi, when Sasuke's mere presence earned him the title of Dada.

He smiled at that, not realizing that he was spacing out while in his own thoughts.

He smiled, not realizing that Sasuke had spotted him with such a look on his face while with Sai.

He smiled, not realizing that Sasuke was walking towards them with a murderous expression on his face.

He smiled, until his periphal vision caught movement out of the corner of his eyes and he looked at what was moving.

Sasuke.

There was no one word to express the horror and dread that washed over him when he saw Sasuke walking towards them. He was stunned speechless, opening his mouth to explain but not finding his voice. Sasuke was a few metres away, walking angrily towards them with his fist clenched and his eyes blazing and an aura dark enough to scare the scariest of demons back into hell surrounding him. Sai was too pre-occupied with the baby to realize what was happening, and Naruto watched in what felt like slow motion as Sasuke's fisted hand connected painfully with the side of Sai's head, it wouldn't surprise him if the guy died of blunt force trauma to the head.

He gasped, so did a lot of people he realized and he was about to call out to Sasuke, but when those red, blood shot eyes turned on him the fear almost caused his knees to collapse. It was obvious from the looks in his eyes….

….somebody's going to die tonight.

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The ending sentence came about thanks to the Notorious BIG 'Somebody's got to die' That song is one of my faves! xDD