A/N: Happy New Year Everyone! I hope 2013 will be a better year for you all :D Here's the next chapter as promised, hope you like it :P

Naru woke the next morning from a lovely dream. In the dream she had been invited to a Christmas party hosted by the Hokage. Naru wore a beautiful white, knee length, thin strapped dress. Snow was falling outside and the atmosphere around her from the music and people made her feel heavenly. A particular tune started up and all around her people started to dance in pairs, in a somewhat ballroom style. Naru stood there watching some people she knew pair off and dance with their partner. There was; Neji and Tenten, Sakura and Lee, Hinata and Kiba, even Ino and Shikamaru. She smiled as she watched them dance without a care in the world, each of them looking beautiful and handsome in their own right. She only knew these people from meeting them over the past few days… Or so she thought.

As she watched from her corner, she felt a light tap on her shoulder. She turned to see a man with dark, spiky hair that looked like a ducks butt from the back, only, he had no face. Where his face should be, there was only blur. Her dream self frowned but accepted the hand he held out to her before she followed him into the middle of the dance floor and started to dance. He danced well and she easily kept up with him. As the song continued on, she and the man had gotten closer, she stared up at him into what should have been his eyes; she could only assume he was doing the same thing for moments later their faces were inching closer to each other. Naru could feel his warm breath on her lips and she was sure he could feel the same thing. Their lips were millimetres apart, the man then whispered to her quietly… 'Naruto' before the dream scene went black and her eyes opened to stare at milky coloured skin…

Her heart was beating heavily inside her chest. It took her a few moments to realise where she was. She knew she was in her bed, but what she didn't know was what she was looking at. The bed covers were blue, not alabaster. She dared to move away, but soon found she couldn't. She looked down under the blanket to see two arms encircling her back and waist. She blinked thinking that they weren't there before she went to sleep. Naru raised her head back up and turned it to the side. There her eyes fell on the sleeping face of Uchiha Sasuke. She gasped in shock. How did he get there? She thought as her eyes took in the calm, peaceful look on his face. He looked a lot better than what he had looked like when she last saw him. He even looked handsome without all those tubes connected to him, blocking his facial features.

He started to stir and Naru was worried that he was going to freak. She decided to pretend to go back to sleep to see what his reaction would be. She quickly placed her head back where it was, in the crook of his neck, and closed her eyes as if she had been asleep the whole time.

Just as she had thought, the Uchiha woke a few moments later. He stretched and yawned before turning to get closer to the warmer part of the bed. He opened his eyes and glared at the body next to him. He growled somewhat as he came out of his sleeping state. The body was still sleeping, tucked up next to him. His eyes widened in shock, he was in bed with a woman, a blonde woman… "Morgan…" He whispered before he uncharacteristically yelped and subconsciously pushed at the body next to him causing the sleeping girl to fall on to the floor and crack her head on the floor.

"Yah!" Naru cried out as she was rudely 'awakened'. The sharp cry of pain penetrated the Uchiha's ears as he looked down at the girl sprawled out on the floor, hand to her head, blood trickling from between her fingers.

"Shit." He groaned before getting up and out of the bed, he rushed around to the injured girl. "What the hell were you doing in my bed dobe?" He grumbled before he lifted the girl, bridal style, into his arms and rushed her to the bathroom. "I just get out of the hospital and this is what I come home to." He continued to grouse as he sat the girl down on the closed lidded toilet seat. "Wait here." He turned and rummaged through the medicine cabinet and brought out a small first aid kit. "Hold still." He murmured as he proceeded to clean and dress the wound with a plaster. "There." He stepped back before looking over the quiet girl. She was dressed in a long white t-shirt. It wasn't one of his, he noticed. He was happy for that, although a small wave of displeasure washed over him. He shook his head and sighed. "What are you doing here, and in my bed no less?" He asked again with slight scorn.

Naru looked up to him with tired, pained eyes. The Uchiha had come home and ended up getting into bed with her. That much she remembered. She also remembered him calling her a dobe… Her eyes widened dramatically.

"Hey, I'm not a dobe, teme!" She snapped back, a glare now replaced the previous look in her eyes.

Sasuke jerked back at the mention of the nickname Naruto used to use for him. His eyes hardened as he returned her glare, Uchiha style. "Where did you hear that name?" He asked his voice low and threatening.

"It isn't a name." She growled out and kept her eyes on his. "I can call you what I see fit. You kicked me out of the bed and caused this!" She yelled and pointed to her forehead where the plaster was. "A simple, 'I'm sorry' would suffice, ass." She grumbled as a headache started up behind her wound.

"An explanation as to why you are in my house and bed would be a much better thing to talk about." He folded his arms against his chest and looked at her. She was strangely captivating, even in her white thigh-length t-shirt.

"Tsunade-Sama and Shizune-San said I could stay here until I get a place of my own. You weren't here, and you had spare rooms… I could only get in to two of them and my baby is in the other room. I didn't know the room I was in was yours…" She sighed, hoping the taller man would accept her answer. It was the truth. She had no reason to lie. "They said something about you blowing up part of the hospital and some other buildings the last time you were here and decided it would be safer for me to stay here until they found me my own home."

At the mention of the destruction he had caused on a frustrated whim, Sasuke had the decency to wince. He remembered the day well… He still hadn't found Naruto and it eventually got to him that he was missing his friend a lot more than he should.

"If that is true, then why didn't you just sleep in the same room as your child?" He asked.

"There was nothing but a chair to sleep on." She stood on shaky legs. "Look, if I'm that much of a burden I'm sure I can find somewhere else… Not that I know anyone else…" She bit her lip in thought as she tried to work out what to do next. It was early in the morning, around seven, or so, so not many places would be open or people around to ask.

Sasuke's onyx eyes were drawn to her lip as she bit it. The action seemed to have a weird effect on him. He, for some other worldly reason, wanted to remove the teeth and use his own lips to turn hers a rosy hue. He blinked as his mind continued to wonder. Her hips were masked by the bagginess of her t-shirt, but he had an idea that it was a perfect size. He also knew her stomach would be flat and her bottom would be rounded and supple, even after giving birth.

"Say something?" Sasuke was broken from his stupor at the sound of her voice.

"What do you want me to say?" He replied. "Do you want to stay here? Is that it?" He raised a brow. "Why should I let you? I don't even know you." He added.

Naru pouted at the Uchiha. She had come to like the place, and if the Uchiha let her stay, she would keep the house tidy for him and use what little money she had to buy a small bed and put it in the baby's room.

"Oh come on Sasuke. You can't just throw me out." The pout remained on her lips. "I have a three month old child to care for and with no money. I can't provide shelter for him or myself." She pushed. "I promise. If you let me stay I'll keep the house clean and you won't even know that we're here. Please Sasuke." She whined a little, not just for pleading's sake, but for the now fully formed headache. Her hand went up to cradle her abused frontal lobe.

Sasuke sighed as he took in the sight of the injured girl. She was actually begging him not to throw her out. It amused him somewhat that she was so desperate to do such a thing. She must really want to stay.

"Fine." He muttered. "We'll get you a bed and you can sleep in the room with the child." He added. "Can you cook?" He asked with a raised brow.

"I can, not so well, but it's sustainable. I could learn, if you want me to." She replied, her heart feeling a little lighter now that the Uchiha had agreed to let them stay.

"Fair enough, also while you're here, is there anything I should know about?"

Naru thought for a few moments before telling him about the visit with Tsunade and that she might be waiting on results from a blood test. The Uchiha seemed to take it all in before eventually heading to the bathroom door.

"Remember, stay out of my way. I have things to do and no time to be fooling around with you and the child." He said with firmness in his voice before heading back to his room to get some more sleep.

Two days had passed and Naru had managed to buy and set out a futon in the baby's room. She had waited nervously for news on the DNA results, taking every moment as it came. By the end of the second day she sat quietly in the living room feeding Mio. Sasuke had taken up residence in his bedroom and only came out to eat and the occasional bathroom break so she had no idea he stood a little ways to the side of her in the door jamb, watching them silently interact.

"I wonder who and where your daddy is Mio-Love" She sighed. "If I'm honest, I'm not sure I want to know even if I need too." She gently stroked the baby's head. "I hope your daddy is a good man. I hope he will love the both of us and treat us well." Sasuke noticed her eyes turning misty. "I hope he is someone who we can look up to, to keep us safe and happy" The Uchiha's own eyes wandered to the feeding child and his mother's breasts. He couldn't help thinking how lovely they were and how lucky the child was to be suckling at them.

'What the hell am I thinking!?' Sasuke inwardly thought. 'I need to get laid.' He silently added before he nearly fell over from noticing her eyes on his. When had she started to look at him!?

"What?" He asked nonchalantly, trying to keep a rising blush down. He inwardly frowned in confusion when the girl just smiled at him. "You're weird." He rolled his eyes and hid a small smile.

"I'm not the one staring at a girl's chest and yet I am the one being called names." She chuckled lightly as she looked down to her son then back to the Uchiha. "You're all kinds of weird."

Sasuke snorted, who did this girl think she was?

"I beg to differ." He let himself smile slightly. "You are the weird one dobe." Sasuke failed to notice how easy it was for the word 'dobe' to slide off his tongue.

"Hey! I'm not a dobe. Meany." She poked her tongue out, the expression on her face looked just like it did when she was a boy. This made Sasuke's eyes widen in surprise. He had noticed the girl had more similarities to his missing friend than he first realised. He walked into the room and sat on the arm of the sofa, the other end from where Naru sat.

"What do you remember?" He asked bluntly. "From your time in that snake's lair, and anything before..."

Naru stopped her antics and eyed the raven curiously.
"Why would you want to know?" She asked.

"You are a stranger living in my house. I have a right to know." He folded his arms to show he wasn't going to give up anytime soon.

Naru sighed and glanced down to her bare dainty feet, she then proceeded to tell him about all she could remember from being in Orochimaru's clutches. She then went silent as a thought crosses her mind.

"I've been having these, dreams..." She mumbled as she pulled Mio away from herself. "Although they don't feel like proper dreams..." She tidied herself up before resting the child over her shoulder and winding him. "I think they are memories from before I lost them..." She noticed that that had caught the Uchiha's attention. "It's all so vivid. But I mainly remember a small, dark haired boy." The recollection made her smile. "He was grinning up to his older brother and asking him to carry him on his back... I think I was hiding or something." She shook her head as she looked up to Sasuke. "Silly right?"

All Sasuke could do was sit there and look at her. He didn't think it was silly at all. He was surprisingly happy that she had remembered something from her bleak past.

"No, I don't think it's silly." He told her just as he saw her lips form a pout. He was about to say more but was interrupted by a sudden loud knock on the door.

Sapphire and Onyx eyes darted over to the direction of the front door. Who would be knocking at this time of night? Sasuke got up to answer the door as Naru rested Mio in her arms and rocked the child to sleep. She looked up moments later to see Sasuke entering the room with the Hokage behind him. Her blood ran cold as she saw the pensive look on the older woman's face.

"Morgan..." She started as she took a seat across the way from Naru. "I promised to only tell you the results of the test if it was of the utmost importance... And I'm afraid you need to know." She emphasised on the word need. "The father of your child is..." She hesitated before looking between the girl and the Uchiha. "Mio's biological father is... You, Sasuke..."

A/N: How was that? Hope it suffices, and for those readers who are too eager for the story to progress, things will start coming into place soon. I just have to work out how I'm going to do it as there are two ideas I'm thinking over, lol. Anyway, RnR and I'll post again asap :D