SasuNaru, yaoi, m-preg, OOC, OC and unbeta-read
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fan: I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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Chapter 25: Beautiful tree
For the umpteenth time, Sasuke growled like a caged and angry animal. In a way he was angry. No, he wasn't exactly angry he was just annoyed because an 8-month pregnant Naruto wouldn't listen to him. The blonde insisted that he should personally, instead of sending his representative, attend the leader summit held in the Sand Village. In the end, Sasuke had no choice but to let him. The only consolation he got was that the council members decided to let his and Naruto's former ANBU team accompany him to the event.
An irritated Naruto looked at Sasuke's general direction when he heard the growl once more. That sound was not definitely helping the hokage who was close to losing his temper because of the scorching heat of the sun and the slow pace they were taking due to his pregnancy. But instead of snapping at his husband, he remained quiet knowing that Sasuke was just worried about him.
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Sasuke cracked an eye open to look at the Naruto who was occupying the sleeping bag next to his in the tent that the two shared only to find the blonde gone causing Sasuke to panic immediately.
He told himself to calm down because Naruto could take care of himself then frowned when he remembered that he was pregnant. He told himself not to panic because the place was guarded so there was no way anyone could attack Naruto, unless the blonde sneak to some place to pee. He assured himself that his wife just went to pee and was not lying in the pool of his own blood and… damn it.
With adrenaline pumping in his body, Sasuke hurriedly left the tent to start searching for Naruto and found his errant wife few meters away from their camp and he was sitting on a high and sturdy tree branch together with Mie and Yanagi.
"Naruto, get down from there!" Sasuke ordered in a voice full of concern.
"We tried telling him that, captain but he won't," Mie said thereby explaining her and Yanagi's presence on the same tree branch.
As if seeing the horrible scene that was going on his husband's head, Naruto assured, "I won't fall, Sasuke-teme because I took a precaution. I am using my chakra."
"Didn't Tsunade-sama tell you not to use chakra?"
"No. She only told me not to use excessive amounts of it."
Sighing in surrender, Sasuke made his way to Naruto and seeing this, the two female ANBU ninjas left the branch. When Sasuke was settled and with his back leaning against the trunk, he held the blonde.
"Let go of your chakra. I got you," he said gently and when Naruto did, he pulled him to sit between his legs. As if that wasn't enough, he used his chakra to double his hold on his blonde.
"Why are you here?" he asked as he laid his chin on Naruto's shoulder.
"I wanted to watch when dawn shifts to morning," was the blonde's reply as he pressed closer to Sasuke, seeking warmth just as he offered his.
The two remained quiet and content as they watched the sun began to outline the mountains' edges with its soft golden rays.
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Naruto swallowed back a groan of pain as he felt another wave of painful contraction during one of their meeting sessions. He could feel his body breaking out in a cold sweat and from the corner of his eyes he could see Gaara looking at him instead at Mizukage who was giving a speech. He could have wave dismissively at the redhead as he used to during the previous attacks but he could not do it because his hands were gripping on the edge of the circular table.
Damn fucking pain, he thought as it grew worse and he knew without knowing why he knew that the baby was coming out. Gritting his teeth, he quickly made few hand seals as he changed himself to his female form.
All occupants in the room jump in surprise when a popping sound was heard followed by the appearance of smoke and before they could shout out a warning to the guards waiting outside or attack who they though to be an intruder, they saw Naruto in his female form. The hokage smiled apologetically before he roughly pushed the chair causing it to topple.
"Naruto!"Yukie, the ruler of the Snow country, cried.
"Quick! Call a medic," while another one ordered.
All guards stationed outside the conference room tensed when they heard the commotion inside and quickly moved to the door when it burst open.
"Call a medic," Shibuki, the leader of the hidden Waterfall village shouted. "Hokage-sama is giving birth."
When Sasuke heard that, he stood rooted to the ground with Shibuki's words echoing loudly inside his head. Why is Naruto giving birth earlier than 9 months? What the hell is happening?
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The other Konoha ninjas pitied at their captain who, together with Gaara, was waiting outside the delivery room where Naruto was currently in. They could feel the fear and worry emanating from the captain although he was sitting so calmly like a marble statue.
Just then, a medic-nin stepped out from the room and approached the group.
"Naruto-sama is giving a premature birth," she explained immediately. And as her eyes landed on Sasuke, her heart skipped a beat and she decided to impress this very attractive ninja "Although there are several known factors for prematurity, half of premature birth have no known cause. The shorter the pregnancy term is the greater the risks of complications such as cerebral palsy, mental retardation, vision and hearing loss. In addition, premature babies have an increased risk of death in their first year…" she trailed off as she noticed that the tension in the air had increased and worse, her crush had turned paler. "But there's nothing to worry about," she hastily said but found herself at the receiving end of sharp glares.
An annoyed Gaara looked at the name tag she was wearing and took note of her name because he would need it when he would talk with her superior later on.
"Anyway, we already have a neonatologist on standby and in cases like this, we usually surround the premature baby with his mother's chakra but considering that mothers are weak after child birth, his father's chakra would be the best alternative until mothers could do it themselves," she then paused to look at everyone.
"I'll do it, " Sasuke almost snapped, already disliking the medic-nin in front of him.
The woman smiled at him, "It's very kind of you to volunteer but-"
"I'm his husband, dammit!" the Uchiha couldn't help but growl.
"Oh!" was all she could manage as she blush beet red. "Then I'll lead you to the neonatologist so he could brief you with your task."
After the neonatologist briskly introduced himself, he immediately started explaining things to the dark-haired ANBU captain.
"When the baby comes out, I'll be running my chakra throughout his whole body for through check-up. This would just take less than five seconds. After that we are going to enclose your child with your chakra to keep him warm and limit the exposure to germs. No hand seals are required as this is just plainly producing a chakra big enough for your child to fit and to maintain the size and heat until he no longer needs it." Sasuke mentally took a deep breath and steeled himself for the seemingly easy but daunting task before he nodded his head to the other man.
Inside the delivery room, Naruto gave a triumphant smile as he saw his child's blond hair.
Take that, Sasuke-teme!
"Congratulations, Naruto-sama. You have a baby girl."
That was the last thing he heard before he was totally engulfed by darkness.
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Sasuke, as Naruto's representative, attended the rest of the summit conference sessions and at the end, what ought to be just a party for relaxation became a party for the arrival of the Uchiha couple's third child – Miki.
TBC
Miki means beautiful tree. Let's just say they named her after the moment the two spent on the tree watching the sunrise.
Yukie is from Naruto movie while Shibuki is from one of Naruto's OVAs.
Considering that there are appliances in Naruto world, it would be very impossible if incubator is not present but for the sake of my sanity, I ignored that possibility. Why? I just thought it would be endearing if Sasuke's chakra would cocoon the baby for awhile. It's like bringing his role as a father into new heights. If it bothers you, just ignore the part and pretend I used the incubator.
Premature birth stuffs... Thanks for wikipedia for that. Do forgive the annoying medic-nin but not to worry, the last time I talk with Gaara, he said her superior, upon his order, put her back in training.