Okay a quick note to anyone who hasn't been paying attention.

1) Sakumo isn't a bad guy. He's a grey area.

And 2) Uzu is eighteen.

Now back to the story.

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Sakumo stared at his watch and looked up as the stall opened. T-minus three minutes. Only one more left until he would know if he was going to be an expectant grand father, or a potential second mate to the delicate little hell cat glaring at him from across the room. "How you doing sweetness?" He asked as she walked over to him, her face was nearly as red as the roses planted around his wife's grave.

"How good is you're hearing?" She asked in a dark tone. He cocked his head and considered the question and decided that a small white lie might make her more at ease with him.

"Not that good." He lied as she set the stick down and started to wash her hands.

"What are you going to do to me if it's positive?" She asked as she turned the facet off, he looked down at her and leaned to the side a little bit and rested his shoulder against the wall. Hadn't they already had this conversation?

"Your worried I'm going to pounce on you or something-" Sakumo pointed out and noticed the way she flinched and sighed and reached out and took her wet hand in his and brought it to his lips and licked her finger tips. Liking the way her skin tasted on his tongue, and the way she flushed as his tongue slid across the pads of her fingers. "I won't force myself on you." He said softly as he lifted her hand just a little bit more and ran his tongue along the palm of her hand causing her to jerk and curl her fingers against his face.

Her small finger nails scratching his cheek and chin slightly. "But I'd definitely try to woo you. As much fun as it is to tease you, I don't want to drive you away. You're family after all." He said against her palm before kissing her hand and letting her go and picking up the pregnancy stick and looked at it and let out a low whistle.

Positive. "Damn." He muttered as he dropped the stick into the waste basket and looked at her. She looked nervous. And rightly so after the day that she had had.

"What? What did it say? Is it bad? Am I-"

"Yup. Expecting with a capital E." He said calmly.

"Crap." Uzu said faintly before her eyes rolled back in her head and she fainted before Sakumo could grab her.

Sakumo looked down at Uzu in comical horror and swore a blue streak as he moved to see if she was okay since she had hit the tile floor rather hard and might have just given herself a concussion. He carefully lifted her up a little bit and ran one of his hands along the back of her head and growled in annoyance when he found a little knot forming on the back of her head. "Dammit." He muttered again as he lifted her up off of the floor and cradled her against his chest and stood up and moved over to the sink and turned on the facet and stuck his fingers under the water.

"This is just like my late wife all over again." He muttered as he ran his wet finger tips along her cheeks and waited for her to stir. Uzu moaned and twitched, turning her head and hiding her face against his shirt.

"Come on sweetness. Wake up. We still have a lot of stuff to do before you can conk out for the day." Sakumo said gently as he stuck his fingers back under the facet and ran them across her skin again and smiled a little bit when she finally opened her eyes and glared at him.

"You suck." She growled at him and he snickered at her and set her on the counter and moved to settle his body between her legs so that she could lean against him while he fixed a wet towel for her since she wasn't looking too good right now. She leaned against his body, her head resting on the crook of his shoulder, her small hands gripping his shirt.

"How you feeling sweentess? Dizzy? Nauseous?"

"My head hurts."

He snorted. "My head would hurt too if I cracked my skull on some tiles."

"I don't think I'm ready to be a mom yet..."

"Well, you have nine months to get ready. And you have me and Kashi to help. Doesn't that sound like fun?" Sakumo asked cheerfully as he pressed the wet towel to her forehead and turned off the tap and just stood there letting her collect her thoughts and trying his best not to touch her any more than necessary since he was starting his 'wooing' phase.

"Woo-hoo." Uzu said sacrastically and Sakumo laughed and wrapped his arms around her and hugged her.

"Oh you poor thing. You have no idea-" He chuckled as he let her go and took the towel from her. "Let me see your eyes..." He said as he tipped her head back so that he could look for any sign of a concussion. Once he was sure that she had suffered no lasting effects form her fainting spell he picked her up off of the sink and set her on her feet.

"Come on, we still have to get you some things and get to the ranch." Because Kakashi would be there before they were if they kept dragging their feet and Sakumo did not want to get home to his house burning down because his son lost his temper.

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Kakashi pulled up to the black iron gate and studied the high walls that his father had built around his home and shut off the car and got out so that he could hack into the security system and open the gate. It was well past six thirty in the evening and he was tired, hungry and anxious to see his mate again. And for good reason, he knew the way his dad acted around women. He also knew that once his father found out about his 'possible' grand child his baser instincts would really come in to play and his whole personality would do a one eighty.

Not really a good thing and not really a bad thing either.

He knew that his dad would be more protective of her once he learned about the baby, but at the same time he'd want to woo her and claim her as his mate too. And while that wasn't really his father's fault, it was just plain weird and all it would do is upset and confuse Uzu and that could put unnecessary stress on her and the baby.

He hacked the system and punched in a new key code and pushed the gate open. He was about to get back into the car when he heard the soft rumbling of a car engine and closed his car door and climbed on top of the roof and stood on it watching the drive way for any signs of his dad's sleek silver car and smirked a little bit when he saw his father's car coming up the drive way.

Excellent. He could punch his dad for taking his mate and grab Uzu and kiss her breathless at the same time.

Sakumo slowed his car and stopped it as he caught sign of his son stepping down off of the roof of his car and growled in irritation when Kakahsi decided to take things just a bit too far and jumped onto his car front and dropped down into a squat on the silver hood and reached out and tapped the glass windshield right in front of Sakumo's face and crooked his index finger at his father. "Come. Here." Kakashi said in a dangerously low tone before letting his eyes flicker towards the back seat, his eyes settling on Uzu's slumped form and he jumped down off fo his dad's car and walked around to where Uzu was as his dad got out of the car.

"She's sleeping Kashi." Sakumo said as he unfolded himself form the driver seat and gently closed his door. Kakashi glanced at him for a second then looked back at his mate.

She looked okay. Tired-no exhausted. She looked utterly exhausted by todays turn of events. He quietly opened the door and leaned down and slipped one hand through her hair and smiled a bit when she turned her head and moaned a little before he leaned his head down and brushed his lips against hers and frowned when she jerked and lifted her hand to slap him. He grabbed her wrist before her hand could connect and noted how pale her face looked when she realised what she had been about to do.

"Kashi? Oh god, I'm sorry." She said in a sleepy tone as she rubbed her eyes with her free hand. He smiled at her and let go of her wrist so that he could frame her face in his hands and kissed her again. Deeper this time. Needing to taste her sweetness on his tongue before he lifted his lips and looked her over again.

"Don't worry about me, baby. Just tell me that you're okay."

"I'm fine."

He smiled and gently stroked her soft hair back from her face. "Good..." He said softly as he let his hands fall away from her and turned to face his dad. "Because I'm going to have to hurt you for taking her." He said as he lashed out in a lightening quick move, catching his dad across the face with his fist. Sakumo's head snapped to the side with enough force to break a normal person's neck and his cheek throbbed and ached like mad.

Wow, Kashi must really be pissed at him if he was'nt going to bother holding back any.