Disclaimer: Anything and everything Naruto belongs to Kishimoto-sensei; which means characters, places, and all the flippin' awesome Justus are not mine. What do I own? My kickass plot tweaks that make the story better.
Summary: Naru is caught by the Akatsuki while on her Training trip with Jiraiya and is held prisoner for about two months before she escapes. While a captive Itachi is charged with watching her but he's not quite what she suspected and finds herself captivated by the mystery that is Uchiha Itachi. Upon her return to the village she decides to go through everything related to him and the Uchiha's and she finds herself falling in love with Itachi. Will she be able to bring Sasuke home before he confronts Itachi or will she lose the love of her life?
Rating: Rated "T" for language and possible violent and/or bloody scenes (I mean come on they are ninjas).
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Flashback
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Bijuu speech
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Chapter 25
"What?" Itachi asked confused, "I don't think I heard you right."
"I said that I'm pregnant." Naru said, "If you're wondering, you're the father."
"I'm going to be a father." Itachi asked awestruck.
"Yes." Naru said, Itachi sat there for a moment before his eye rolled into the back of his head and he fainted. "'Tachi!" Naru shouted in alarm, any other time the response would have been hilarious, but seeing as Itachi had just woke from his comatose state Naru was worried. Naru ran to the door and called for Shima so that Itachi could be checked on.
"He should be fine." Shima said after giving Itachi a check-up. "Want to tell me what caused him to faint; was he doing something strenuous?"
"No, we were just talking." Naru said, "I guess what I told him was a shock."
"And what was that?" Shima asked.
"I'm pregnant." Naru whispered, "I just found out when Kyuu told me earlier today."
"I see." Shima said, "We will have to postpone your training as the spiritual energy could have negative effects on your unborn child."
"But Kyuu said I would still be able to train without harming the child." Naru said slightly worried, "I guess I'll have to have a conversation with Kyuu to talk things over."
"That's fine, child" Shima said, "However let me do a quick check to see how your child is doing." Naruto nodded and Shima started to do a scan of Naru's body with some med-ninjutsu. "Everything seems to be fine, you have one child and are about 7 ½ weeks along." Shima said as she finished her scan.
"Okay." Naruto said, "I'm gonna talk to Kyuu now and I tell you and Geezer toad when I have everything sorted out."
"That's fine, I'll inform Pa." Shima said and left the room; and once she was gone Naruto entered her mindscape.
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"Kyuu?" Naruto asked, "I thought you said I could continue training in Senjutsu? Shima-obaasan said it could be dangerous for the baby."
"It would be if I wasn't here." Kyuubi replied, "But I can use my chakra to reinforce your womb so that the nature energy can't enter."
"But what could happen to the baby?" Naru said, "I already know that some people will have issues with any child I have. I don't want my baby to be hated because they think it's possessed."
"They will develop characteristics like you did." Kyuubi warned, "And maybe more."
"What do you mean?" Naru asked concerned.
"Any child you had would have the same whisker markings as you have," Kyuubi said, "Those are a sign of having been exposed to me before birth, however this child would also have heightened sense of smell and hearing."
"You mean the whiskers marks aren't from you being sealed in my as a newborn?" Naru asked.
"No they are because your mother was my previous host, but that is a discussion for a later date." Kyuubi said, "Now you have to decide if you want to continue training or if you are going to pause it for the remainder of your pregnancy." Naruto thought about it for a moment.
"Would there be any other physical changes, like fox ears or a tail or something like that, if I went with your plan?" Naruto asked.
"No. however the pupils of the kits eyes may be like mine but I am not certain." Kyuubi said.
"I want to continue training," Naruto said, "I'm sure my baby will grow-up happily with me and Itachi to shield it from the villagers' negativity. So I'll go with your plan so that I can continue training."
"Alright." Kyuubi said, "You may want to go now, your mate has woken back up."
"Okay, bye." Naruto said as she left her mindscape.
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"Hey 'Tachi how are you feeling?" Naru asked concerned, "You really scared me when you fainted like that."
"Fainted?" Itachi asked "So it wasn't a dream, we're really going to have a baby?"
"Yup." Naru said smiling happily, "I can't wait until we tell everyone when we get back to Konoha."
"When are we going back?" Itachi asked, "We'll have to have the Hokage give you and the baby a check-up as soon as possible."
"Well Shima-obaasan has already given me a check-up." Naruto said, "I have two days off from my training, then we have about 2 ½ weeks before we're supposed to be back in Konoha."
"You can't train in your condition." Itachi said as he sat up, "What if something happens to the baby?"
"I already talked it over with Kyuu." Naru said, "He's going to reinforce my womb with his chakra so that the baby will be safe."
"What about side-effects?" Itachi asked concerned.
"I already asked," Naru said, "the baby will have heightened sense of smell and sight; and there is a possibility that the baby could have slitted pupils but Kyuu isn't certain."
"But nothing dangerous to the baby's health?" Itachi asked.
"Nope," Naru said with a smile, "and there's more good news."
"It's not twins is it?" Itachi asked with wide eyes, "I don't think I could handle that at the moment."
"No," Naru said laughing, "it's something else. All our babies are going to have cute little whisker marks, seeing as they are a sign that the mother was a jinchuriki. Apparently every female jinchuriki passes on some sort of weird trait like that."
"That's an interesting fact." Itachi said, "wait did you say babies?"
"Of course," Naru said with a smile, "I want more than one kid, we're going to have a huge family."
"You've thought this over." Itachi said smirking.
"Not really," Naru said, "I mean I've always wanted a large family because I was an orphan, but I really just made the decision."
"Well I'm glad I got some forewarning." Itachi said, "So what are we going to do now?"
Naru and Itachi spend the next two days planning out their immediate future; like how they were planning on raising their baby and living arrangements once they got back to the village seeing as they were going to need something bigger than Naru's one bedroom apartment and Itachi didn't really wish to live in the Uchiha Compound.
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After her two days of rest Naru resumed her training with Fukasuka, it had only taken her a week to master Frog-Fu. Fukasuka was very amazed by her progress and said that at the rate they were going she may just master senjutsu by the time her month was up. It took about three days for Itachi to be able to get up and move around, he would usually go and watch Naru as she did her training and make should she didn't try to overdo it in her condition.
What no one knew was that while everyone was sleeping at night she would go out and practice her different forms of the Rasengan, she had just snuck out again and was on her way to the field she had been using to practice and never noticed she was being followed. Her shadow watched her practice for half-an-hour before he made himself known.
"Naru, what are you doing?" Itachi asked as he came out of the shadows.
"'Tachi?!" Naru squeaked in surprise, "I thought you were sleeping?"
"I'm original a light sleeper," Itachi said, "and now that I've mostly recovered, I woke up as soon as you left the room. I followed you here."
"Oh." Was Naru response, "Can you not tell anyone what I was doing? I want it to be a surprise once I have to use it in a fight."
"Only if you promise to go back to the house and go to sleep," Itachi said, "You may be mostly over you morning sickness, but I don't want you really getting sick it would be bad for our child."
"You're such a worry-wart," Naru said as she walked over and gave Itachi a quick kiss, "I already told you I can't get sick because of Kyuu."
"I'd rather be safe than sorry." Itachi said as he led Naru back to the Elder Toads' house, "Besides everyone know pregnant women need lots of sleep."
"I think you pulled that fact out of your ass," Naru snorted, "I've been doing just fine with only a few hours of sleep."
"Something that's going to chance," Itachi said, "From where I stood you're Rasengans were perfected, which means more sleeping and less midnight training."
"Fine," Naru said, "but maybe we could have a few midnight strolls, this is kinda relaxing. Besides, I just like spending time with you."
"Once in a while," Itachi agreed, "but for now get inside and go to sleep."
"You're coming too, right?" Naru asked.
"Hn."
"God I hate when you do that." Naru growled and only got a chuckle from Itachi as a response.
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Naru was given a four day break to rest up after learning Frog-Fu Today was the day Naru started on her merger training with Fukasuka while Shima left Mt. Myöboku for a couple days to get the shopping for everyone done, seeing as several toads wanted things from the 'human' world.
"Okay so explain this to me again?" Naru said, "I get that I can't gather nature chakra when I'm moving, which is stupid by the way, but what does that have to do with you?"
"Stupid or not it can't be done," Fukasuka said, "It takes a great deal of concentration to deal with Nature chakra. Mine and Ma job is to sync with you so that we can help you by gathering the Nature chakra for you."
"You do know how to sync with us toads' right?" Fukasuka asked, "Jiraiya-boy said he taught you?"
"Yes but it's only ever working with Gamakichi and Gamatatsu." Naru said, "And it took almost two weeks for us to be able to sync up, and another we before we could do anything of use."
"Well, hopefully seeing as you know what to do this will go easier," Fukasuka said, "but I have to warn you this will be more difficult as I will have to sync not just with the flow of your body like Gamakichi and Gamatatsu, but also with your chakra network. It will take a lot of focus until we get this correct then it will be second nature."
"Okay I think I got this now." Naru said, "So what do I have to do?"
After an explanation Naru and Fukasuka started to train. Naru ran around trying to access senjutsu and sync with Fukasuka. After six hours they were finally able to sense each other's chakra flow, but Fukasuka called it a night saying that it was great progress, but Naru needed to rest her body for the baby's sake. It was two more days before Naru and Fukasuka were able to completely sync together, but it only lasted about 2 seconds before the Kyuubi throw a fit and sent Fukasuka flying away.
"What happened, I thought we had this." Naru asked.
"We did until the Kyuubi 'kicked me out' for lack of a better way to describe it." Fukasuka replied.
"Alright let me talk to him for a minute and we'll figure this out." Naru said as she closed her eyes and entered her mindscape.
"Kyuu, why are you interfering in my training?" Naru asked.
"I'm not one to share," Kyuubi replied, "I do not mind sharing your body with the kit but I will be damned if I'm to share with a frog."
"He's a toad, and I need to merge with him to be able to use Senjutsu in a battle." Naru resounded.
"I do not care, I'm a Bijuu and I refuse to share with amphibians of any kind." Kyuubi said firmly.
"It's my body, and like it or not your only a guest," Naru said exasperated, "Yes we are on better terms then when I was younger, but you won't even tell me you name."
"Kurama."
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Sorry updating took so long, I got a mild cases of writers' block for this story but its all better now and hopefully my computer with also co-operate so I can keep writing with issue. Also I hope you all happy with Itachi's reaction, I know it's really OC for him but it somehow felt right.