Apologies. Was traveling. Forgive me for I had no internet.

Chapter 43

The color pink magically seemed to take over their house in a matter of days. It got to the point Naruto didn't think anymore baby showers were necessary. He whacked Sasuke really hard upside the head upon finding out he was buying most of the stuff since people were mailing gifts, he thought he could be slick and hide his own purchases in the presents.

"I will hide you credit cards asshole. Stop buying shit." Naruto said over a cup of tea while shooting a glare at his husband.

"Go ahead. I have the number memorized." Sasuke shot back with a smile before calling the dogs to throw them outside.

"What if she doesn't like the color pink? Did you ever consider that?" Naruto shot back with a slight challenge in his eye.

"It's not like shes out and ready to give her opinion. She will learn to like it." Sasuke waved him off casually before strolling all the way over to kiss Naruto on the lips. "Besides, like Hiruzen she can have whatever she wants. If she hates pink I will go through the entire color spectrum and find which colors she does like."

Naruto pouted his lips before opening the boxes. Lot's of clothes to get washed and he realized he could tell which outfits Sasuke had picked rather than which ones Mikoto's friends had sent. Sasuke chose the cute, yet practical baby outfits. They had all the furniture already bought and set up before hand since they went with a natural wood color for everything in her room. Just needed to add the clothes, sheets and toys. That fun little job was going to be Sasuke's since he was a psycho about clothes being organized.

"She won't wear half of this." Naruto called tossing the little outfits into a pile.

"You'd be amazed at how many time you will have to change her outfit all day. Kids puke on everything.

"Psh. She can chill in her diaper then." Naruto said shaking his head.

"I think not." Sasuke said grabbing the pile and taking it over to the laundry room.

"You've totally let Hiuzen do it!" Naruto shouted at his husbands back.

"Thats because Hiruzen is a boy."

"Sexist!"

"I don't want people seeing my daughter topless. Ever. If she could be born wearing clothes that would be preferable. Call me sexist all you want, but the way we raise our son will be different then how we raise our daughter." Sasuke said finally reaching his destination.

He didn't see how badly Naruto blushed. "Our kids..." Naruto whispered with a huge smile.

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A few weeks passed and Tsunade hadn't been joking about the frequency. Naruto felt like he was there damn near everyday, since the days he didn't have to be there in person she would call and go over everything. Naruto made sure to stretch and as a result have his husband perv on him. There were dawning the third trimester and Naruto began swearing to anything that he thought would care, that he would never do this again.

Sasuke was getting busy with work, and Naruto felt terrible that he wasn't there to do his half but Sasuke reassured him he had it under control. Naruto did some 'nesting' but for the most part kept Hiruzen busy. His mom, dad or some of his friends would visit and call just to keep his mind off nearing events. It wouldn't be AS bad as natural child birth since he wouldn't have a water bag broken, nor severe pain or coming out of a small opening since his body wasn't designed to do that. But it was keeping everyone on edge because they wanted to make sure when the baby was ready, she could be born.

Sasuke came home after a particularly bad day- how he could tell you might wonder? Sasuke damn near threw his laptop bag.

"Whose head do you demand on a pike my lord?" Naruto asked while sauntering over.

"The most annoying client ever. He keeps changing his mind. He demands things to be done a very specific way. Down to the color of ink. He demanded everything be santized including my hands everytime I touched a new surface. It was tempting to not launch him out of a window." Sasuke said tight lipped and very enraged.

"I am so sorry you had to endure that. Hiruzen and I painted a pretty little picture for his sister's room. Did you want to see?" Naruto asked with a small smile.

Sasuke got up and walked over to his daughters room and saw on the wall above her crib and changing table was a very vibrant and color mess. Very Jackson Pollock with primary colors.
It was perfect. Sasuke looked around the room feeling himself calm down. He put up with assholes like that specifically to provide things like this and it was worth it.

He spared a glance at the man who he once randomly decided to spend an amazing day in Paris with on a whim and couldn't be happier that he struck gold. Naruto would never know how much all this meant to him. He wasn't stuck in a condo in London being harassed by a red headed woman anymore. He had someone to come home too. He had a wonderful example of a person for his children to look up too. He really did hit the lottery with his dobe.

"Come on teme, I'll give your shoulders a rub and we can go to bed." Naruto said smiling. They both checked in on Hiruzen who was already asleep and headed off to their room. Theyhad a little bassinet set up already so their daughter would be in their room the first few weeks. Alot of people found co-sleeping adorable and despite all the benefits- they still had Hiruzen sneaking in their room and decided no more kids in the bed if they could help it. No one would be happy if Hiruzen accidentally woke his sister up during his sneaking and then they'd all be up. So, bassinet for the baby and enforcing the ban on Hiruzen. Naruto did indeed give Sasuke a back massage and despite Sasuke's attempts to turn it into sex he was the one to fall asleep first.

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Once they were in the third trimester Sasuke was emotionally and physically drained. Between and immense work load and staying on top of all of Naruto's medical appointments that wasn't going to be a surprise. Sasuke strolled into office holding coffee in his hand and his laptop bag in the other. He made it to his office and saw it was rather lively. Not exactly his favorite way to come into work because once they noticed him he would be bombarded with questions. He shuffled his way to his office and shut the door and sat down infront of it and curled into a ball. The knocking began only 3 minutes later.

"Mr. Uchiha I have an urgent message for you-"

"Mr. Uchiha can you please look over my-"

"Mr. Uchiha there's a call for you on line 3, it's-"

"Mr. Uchiha ou have a meeting set up for-"

"Sasuke, is Naruto any closer to popping?" That was Kiba. He asked this at least every other week now.

He secretly began to pray his daughter would come early just so he could take paternity leave. He would much rather hang out with his kids and husband. He couldn't wait for Naruto to come back to work and deal with the people who want to talk. Not about work. Just socialize. They ask him all things Naruto is capable and willing to answer, but his beloved social dobe was at home. With Hiruzen.

Sasuke silently willed everyone to shut up and go away for the remainder of the day. He eventually got up and did work for the day only leaving after everyone else just to avoid them. He took his calls and set his meetings in the planner on his phone all day. He didn't understand the need to physically bother him which is why he liked to work from home. He didn't have these problems working under Itachi. Itachi was smart and had his own floor. Sasuke looked around the entire office floor sincerely debating moving everyone onto their own floor and just putting his secretary near the elevator. It'd never work. But a man could dream. Sasuke grabbed and went through mail on Naruto's desk just in case important things got sent to him and found nothing he deemed important before heading home only to get up and essentially do the same thing over the next day... and the next day... and the next day. Really it was a never ending cycle of misery. Once he got home and ate whatever the hell Naruto had made even though it tasted really good he fell asleep in his work clothes on top of the bed sheets.

When he woke up it was almost 12 noon, which was odd considering he had an alarm for the specific reasoning of waking him up.

"FUCK!" Sasuke yelled and hopped out of bed heading straight to the closet to get dressed. he rushed to get out the door only to see Hinata there with Hiruzen and her baby.

"Where's my Dobe?" Sasuke asked with a dead serious expression. The horror on his face must have been evident.

"He went into work today to go to the meetings and asked me to come watch Hiruzen at least until you woke up on your own." She said with a small blush bouncing her son on her lap.

Well... there was no way he was making his 10 am appointment now. He walked back down the hallway and changed into lounge wear and watched Hinata pack up and head out. It had been a long time since it was just the pair of them. Hiruzen had gotten so much bigger and was more talkative. It was weird. He watched tv with his son for awhile before eventually playing in the backyard. Unlike himself, Naruto got home at a decent hour and in time to go to his appointment.

"Teme, next time you are running on near exhaustion take a day off. You were snoring so freaking loud last night." Naruto shouted waddling over to them.

"Thanks for covering me Naruto." Sasuke said with a small smile tossing a ball back to Hiruzen.

"Time to go get poked and prodded." Naruto groaned walking back towards to front door. Sasuke snickered realizing Naruto went into a serious business meeting wearing basketball shorts, a huge tank top and very much pregnant with a pony tail. Whatever fits.

They recieved a their good news on their daughter and Tsunade started asking what her great grand daughter would be named. Turns out... neither Sasuke or Naruto had actually put much thought into it which led them to looking at baby names once they got home.

"Can't we just name her Princess Uchiha since that's exactly how she's going to get treated?" Naruto complained tossing his laptop off to the side.

"As funny as that would be and accurate, no. We can't." Sasuke said very in a very tired tone.

"Bed time. Worst comes to worst we name her on the spot." Naruto said standing up and grabbing Sasuke by the hand and walking to their bedroom.

Sasuke turned Naruto to face him and kissed him very lightly at first and slowly began to add more pressure. Naruto began to tilt backwards before pushing back a bit. Sasuke stripped Naruto very slowly an Naruto took Sasukes clothes off tossing them off to the side.

"So many benefits are possible once shes out..." Sasuke whispered while placing kisses down NAruto's neck.

"Like what?" Naruto breathed out feeling Sasukes back muscles.

"We can go back to having a lot of sex in all sorts of positions." Sasuke breathed out caressing Naruto's sides.

Naruto groaned a bit becuase he really did miss being able to fuck anyway they wanted.

Sasuke laid Naruto down on his back and started stroking him while watching his daughter obviously move around.

"Do you think she knows..."

"No. don't bring that up right now or ever again dobe." Sasuke said increasing his speed. Naruto reached over and tossed Sasuke some lube.

They didn't have sex as often as they used too and when they did, it was in Sasukes personal opinion, vanilla. Very few positions and Naruto got easily distracted. Sasuke got himself coated up and carefully slid in about halfway and started thrusting in never really going on further but he was going pretty fast. He kept jerking Naruto off until his dobe mostly on the underside of his pregnant belly and thats when Sasuke slid the rest of the way in and thrusted until he came. Sasuke pulled out and went to get a rag and he heard Naruto say, "Just hurry up come out. Your dad's miss kinky sex and we are both finishing way too damn fast."

"Stop talking about our sex lives with our daughter."

"Theres not much of one with her here." Naruto said cleaning off what he could and Sasuke helped the rest of the way.

"I love you dobe." Sasuke said kissing him on the lips.

"Love you too teme." Naruto mumbled rolling onto his side placing a pillow between his knees.