I Do Not Own Naruto

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Seeping Darkness

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The news of Uchiha Sakura's pregnancy had been the reason that he left the safety of the refuge village and sent a meeting to Ao and Mei to come to him. There was an opportunity here again and he would not have Ao fucking it up. With that in mind he had left the village, under the illusion of being a boy smitten with the Suna diplomat whom he had seen at Uchiha Sakura's compound more than once. It was a good excuse, people thought Haruki to be a lovesick fool so he'd play the part of being a love sick fool.

And that was why it was so easy for him to slip out of the Leaf and head towards the Mist now. He was going to meet Ao and Mei not in the Mist though, he was going to the Land of Waves to meet them and to resolve this issue. There was going to be a time to strike and a time to decimate their enemies of the Leaf.

They might have failed with this plan fifteen and six years ago but it would succeed now. Now that Uchiha Sakura was pregnant, they would simply have to strike when she went into labor. Besides, it wasn't like the pinkette actually posed some sort of threat to them if they went after her. from what Ao had said she was nothing but a squirt.

However, that was six years ago and they could not afford failure for a third time as he walked towards the Land of Waves. Uchiha Sakura was right to fear him, he was going to rip those Uchiha babies from her and he was going to destroy her after he made her watch Isobu rampage through her precious village. That was his intention as he walked through the night.

He had always known that troublesome brat would fall into his plans again, however he found it infuriating that she had his Three Tails, and she didn't seem inclined to return it to it's rightful master. No matter, he would rip it from her as he stole her babies and the Mist would have the power of the Uchiha. Thinking this thrilled him. He also thought about keeping her, he wondered what was so enticing about Uchiha Sakura to have her wrap the Leaf around her little finger. That and he had a feeling she'd be a fun pet to have for a while, after he destroyed her husband and precious village.

He smiled.

Soon he could lose the farce of being Haruno Haruki, and soon he'd take back his mantle as the Three-Tail's jinchūriki.

Just as he always intended.

After all he was Yagura, the next Mizukage of the Mist if he pulled this off. He would claim it all for himself and then he would co about unleashing Isobu upon the other Hidden Villages and destroying them all. Everyone would fear his village again, and they would win the Third Shinobi War which had been going on for seventy years now.

But first they needed a plan and some bait.

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Sasuke and Sakura both had Kakashi practically living at their house as they tried to assemble a nursery. He was about to say to hell with the assembling of cribs when there was a worried shout from Sakura which had him dropping everything and running towards her.

She was six months along in her pregnancy, and he had been vigilantly at her side the entire time. However, in their house there was only two places for her to be, three if you counted where she slept at night.

The kitchen for food.

And the bathroom for her bladder which apparently their children used for taijutsu practice.

So, to hear her cry out was something which had him dropping everything as he leapt down the stairs and found her in the kitchen with a broken bowl, bare feet and an ANBU messenger.

"I'm sorry, Sakura," the voice behind the blank mask said.

"It's alright Sai," she breathed. Sasuke said nothing as he picked his way over to his large wife and hefted her up in his arms again as he maneuvered her, her belly, and bare feet out of the kitchen then. It wouldn't do if she stepped on a bit of the broken bowl and sliced a foot he knew she couldn't see.

"What is it Sai?" he asked.

"A mission, direct orders of the Fourth Hokage, Uzumaki Minato," Sai said. Sasuke sighed as he set Sakura on a stool and did a quick examination of her feet. His brother was becoming Hokage on the summer solstice which was a ways away at the moment, but there was still work to be done.

"I'm on leave," he said as he stood up.

"We know, and we'd send Itachi but he's the next Hokage and it'd look suspicious if he left, and we'd send Kakashi but he's on another mission and not due back for a few more weeks. I'd go but I do not possess the Sharingan," Sai explained and he rubbed his brow.

"Sai," he grounded out.

"It's the Cloud, Sasuke," Sai said. The moment that was said he looked at his wife who was nibbling on a cracker innocently and he sighed. Of course it was. The Cloud was always trying to take what didn't belong to it, the Sharingan, the Byakugan, the jinchūriki, and everything else. They were greedy assholes.

"What did they take now?" he sighed as he took the scroll.

"Uzumaki Naruto," Sai said and he stiffed.

"What? He's on leave, like me, he's supposed to be with Hinata," he snapped. If that stupid idiot got himself killed and left behind a pregnant wife then Sasuke was going to kill him.

"Where is he!?" Sakura demanded in a near roar which had him holding her steady in the chair she was sitting. His pinkette looked furious at this moment as her green eyes turned murderous with intent.

"We don't know. He took a last minute mission for a little extra money for Hinata and himself. And since the start of this mission he has vanished. We believe the Cloud abducted him with the use of Killer B," Sai said.

"Sakura, stop it," he ordered sharply which had her looking at him with large green eyes.

"I'm going to go get him back!" she said.

"No, you will stay with Hinata, I will go get the dobe back," Sasuke amended and he just prayed that Kakashi was home soon. He didn't want Sakura here with only his brother, sister-in-law, and nephew for protection from the Haruno family. Haruki had been exceptionally pushy towards Sakura since they had announced the pregnancy two months ago.

"But!"

"You are pregnant," he said firmly. It wasn't about her abilities, it was about her pregnancy. Specifically, her pregnancy with his children. There was also the slight matter of her being his most important person, and he didn't want her to get hurt if all this went to hell. He could take the hits, but at this moment she couldn't.

"But!" she started again and he silenced her with a kiss, despite Sai being there and he glared at her.

"Kakashi will kill me if you leave here to hunt Naruto, for now you are going to go keep Uzumaki Hinata and Kushina company and you will stay there. I'll be back with the dobe," he assured her and kissed her brow. "Sai, take her to the Uzumaki," he ordered.

"Of course, come on Sakura," Sai said.

Sasuke grabbed her bag and helped her with her shoes then watched as she left. Grabbing up the scroll he read over the details he knew were being withheld from Sakura at this moment and he walked up to his room. Grabbing his gear, he pulled on his ANBU mask then and darted out of the village. He started running and didn't slow down because he didn't want his wife to try to follow him.

She would too, and he really needed her to stay safe and sound. Especially since she had gotten pregnant. Just because she could decimate mountains and create valleys didn't mean she was indestructible. And though she had that Seal on her brow he had a feeling that it wouldn't save their children if something were to happen to them.

Leaping up he looked back at the village, his onyx eyes going red as he watched her chakra until it was with the chakra's of Hinata and Kushina and then he darted off again. He'd have to rescue that idiot from being an idiot one of these days. But until then, Sasuke was just going to go about keeping his best friends alive.

Sasuke needed the dobe and Sakura, but mostly he needed them alive and well and in his life. Jumping from branch to branch with ease he tried to think about a plan to get the dobe back. One that involved maximum body count to get the message to the Cloud again.

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Naruto would admit to doing a lot of stupid things in his life, however getting captured by this witch and the blue haired freak was enough to have him admitting that this was by far the stupidest thing to ever happen to him.

"What do you want!?" he spat out as he sat there in chakra restraints.

"Nothing," the woman with long, endless brown hair answered as she came near him. he recognized the logos of the Mist on their forehead protectors and he scowled. Great, another run in with the Mist, as if the first one hadn't been bad enough.

"Well, that's not true, we want the Uchiha," the blue haired man said and Naruto snorted. No one was going to be getting the Uchiha, and if an Uchiha did by chance come chasing after him then shit was going to be on fire and he didn't want to be around when that happened. It was going to hurt them a lot more than it was going to hurt him though as he sat there in the chakra restraints glaring at them.

"You do know he's not coming for me," Naruto mused.

"No, see that's where our source is correct, and when you two are out of our way we will be unleashing the Three Tails on your precious village to anhilate it. And we're going to force that cherry blossom friend of yours' to watch her destruction."

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Neither she, nor Isobu were happy about having their fat ass carted to the Uzumaki residence. She wasn't happy because here she was as big as a blimp, and she couldn't see her feet. Sakura sighed as her head fell back and she rubbed her bloated belly as she sat at the Uzumaki dining room table.

Hinata, who was having one baby, was twice as big as she though and Sakura pitied her. it sucked not seeing your feet, and it was annoying to always be carted around because everything hurt and the center of gravity was off.

"Why did he take the mission?" Sakura asked as she sat at Kushina's table.

"Because… he wats a nest egg," Hinata mumbled bitterly and Sakura blinked. There was no response she had to that because she knew that if Sasuke didn't happen to excel at saving money then he too would be doing what Naruto had been doing.

Instead though he was running after Naruto to save his ass. Isobu grumbled a bit, and she sighed as she and isobu tried to sooth the rambunctious twins in her belly who had decided now was a good time to practice taijutsu.

"Everything will be alright girls," Kushina sliced through the hormonally darkened mood.

"How do you know?" Hinata whimpered as fat tears now slid down her cheeks.

"Because neither of those young men are pushovers, everything will be fine!" Kushina said it with such a conviction Sakura found herself relaxing and looking at her belly. It didn't stop the sickening feeling in her gut from roiling around but it was enough to sooth her for the moment.

Her fingers traced the same nonsensical patterns Sasuke would rub on her stomach when they were resting or sitting together.

It wasn't his fingers, but it still felt relatively good as she tried to relax and not stress.

Alright, there's to be more chapters of this posted through out today so just keep up! ;)

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