DADDY LEFT US part 8

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Italic - thoughts

'Normal speech'

"Quoted speech, words etc."

'Naruto. Please don't cry again. It seems that all I do is make you cry. Isn't it? Please tell me you are crying because you are happy. I don't want to ever see you cry of sadness because of me. I love you Naruto, so much to the point that it hurts so badly when you are not with me. Naruto, give yourself to me. I want all of you. I want to have you, feel you for the rest of my life. Let me love you. Marry me Naruto.' Proposed Itachi leaning over a crying Naruto on the bed as if to symbolise that he was there to protect him. He held Naruto's left hand firmly in his left for dear life and his right hand made its way into his pocket; gripping a red, small but precious box.

Naruto stared up at Itachi as if spell bonded; his body seemed to have its own mind. His eyes couldn't break away from Itachi's entrancing gaze into his. The last time Itachi had said he loved him, Naruto had been shocked and tongue-tied. This time his whole body felt numb and hot; not sexually, but the way a person feels when someone embraces them protectively. His lips couldn't emit any sound; temporarily mute would be a close and simple description of Naruto's speechless state.

Finally his body decided to yield to his mental demands to fall under his control again. There were so many things he wanted to say to Itachi; but they seemed to vanish the moment he got his control back.

'You're kidding.' Naruto finally said; he hadn't meant to say that. But at that moment with no coherent thoughts in his mind, Naruto had instinctively gone for the easy way out of the situation. That was, just dismiss Itachi's proposal.

Unfortunately for him, Itachi stood his ground; his gaze never left Naruto's wavering gaze.

'You are not kidding.' Naruto corrected himself.

'Not kidding.' Itachi confirmed.

'you cant… your are kidd- I mean you cant be serious, well that's the same thing as kidding, you see serious and kidding are like you know… I mean if you are kidding, someone says you are kidding or are you serious? or you can say are you joking? Or are you for real? Or… or… or…' after his rambling about kidding which was supposed to serve as a diversion from the matter at hand, Naruto reached a dead end and he just stammered. That was complimented by a stream of tears which he couldn't differentiate if they were tears of joy or tears of despair.

Itachi let go of the box in his pocket and he reached to Naruto's eyes to wipe the tears. Then he lay beside him and pulled him into his arms. Naruto's silent crying persevered.

Naruto was still baffled as to why he was crying; the tears couldn't stop. He felt Itachi hold him tighter, But gently as if anymore pressure Naruto would break.

Why would Itachi go to such extents for him? Was it out of guilt for the past? Or was it something bigger than that; something that is larger than anything in the world, something that would make you do the craziest things despite your pride, something that compresses all that a person goes through when they find that someone into a simple word; love.

Itachi loves me. Itachi loves me. Itachi loves me. Itachi loves me, Uzumaki Naruto. Come on, Itachi has everything in this world; he has money, he has the looks, he has the people who care about him. He can get anyone he wants. People practically worship him. What is it that he wants from me? I have nothing to give back to him. All I have is my love. Is that enough for him? What if he gets tired of me? He knows I am a freak. But he still wants me? The questions in Naruto's mind were never-ending.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. All Naruto had to do was take that single step to begin his journey, a journey into a new life; through the door that had just been opened for him when the other door closed on him. Is it true that when one door closes the other opens? Was Naruto supposed to go through that door despite the lack of knowledge of what that door entailed? What would happen if he were to go through that door?

Life is about taking risks. That's how you move forwards with a lesson learned. Does that apply to heart break? Then again, if you don't take the risk, you will live the rest of your life wondering what would have become of you if you had taken that risk.

'Yes.' Naruto sobbed into Itachi's chest.

'Yes what?' Itachi asked dumbly for reasons like, he got the idea that Naruto had rejected his proposal when he avoided it and began crying. If Itachi had known that the proposal was going to make Naruto cry, he would have never brought it up. He tilted Naruto's head up to look at him.

'What do you mean "yes what" you know yes what…urgh look now you are confusing me too.' Pouted Naruto.

Itachi didn't hesitate in capturing those soft lips which were begging for his in that pout. The kiss was passionate; Naruto could feel Itachi's feelings for him. The kiss was very different from the ones they had shared before. That kiss was full of undying promises for each other. It lasted a few seconds, but they both still felt its effects even minutes later.

'Yes I will marry you. Itachi.' Naruto said honestly while keeping his gaze locked with Itachi's.

'Thank you Naruto. I'm glad. I will protect you and the kids at the cost of my life.' Itachi promised.

Just when Naruto was still basking in Itachi's words, something donned on him. Kids. He thought.

'Kids!' he yelled out.

'What's wrong? The kids are at home.'

'What wrong? What's wrong you say! You…you… do you even know what we have just done? Do I need to spell it out for you? Itachi I am not a normal guy. D you understand that.'

'I do understand that. And I don't see anything wrong with that. I will take-' he was cut short by Naruto's panicked scream.

'I am pregnant!!'

'Naruto. You don't know that yet.'

'What's there to not know, you had sex with me without protection! That means I am pregnant. And granny Tsunade is the only one trained for me. What am I gonna do?' Naruto said defeated.

'Naruto. As I was saying, I will take responsibility if you are pregnant. Don't worry, you'll be okay. I'll be here with you. Don't worry yourself about who will be your doctor. Let's worry about that later. Besides we haven't confirmed yet. Right?' Itachi reassured him. Naruto smiled brightly. This is what he had wanted that day, six years ago. Itachi was here with him.

'Besides I am responsible for you. Pregnant or not. You are my w-'

'Don't say it, or help me kami I will kis-kill you' warned Naruto.

'But I wasn't going to say what you are thinking. I was going to say that you will be my wife.' He said it anyway in spite of Naruto's warning. Naruto was too cute when he pouted or frowned or just looked disapproving.

'Though the consequences sound so…' Itachi seduced. Before Naruto had a chance to say anything about being called a wife, Itachi kissed him.

'You beast!' Naruto yelled when they parted.

'I'm still sore from before. And you are thinking of doing it again? No way! I wanna get off this ship before you do anything else.'

'You can't get off. Well not until morning. Its night time now and we are a bit far from Japan now.' Explained Itachi.

'What? Where are we going?'

'Nowhere. Though, the ship is headed for Italy. But, we are going to take a helicopter off the ship in the morning. So just a kiss. And we can sleep.'

Before Naruto responded, Itachi kissed him again. Naruto pushed against Itachi's chest to get away. But Itachi held him tighter. Itachi run his hot tongue around Naruto's lips, Naruto gasped giving Itachi an opportunity to insert his tongue in his mouth.

Naruto felt himself crumble with the pleasure he was feeling at that moment.

.

Damn this guy can kiss. What am I thinking? I'm trying to fight him off here. But my body feels like it's on fire. I can't keep up.

Naruto gave up his futile protests and he let himself be swept into the land of pleasure; the land where he could lose himself without consequences and only Itachi could take him there. He moaned into the kiss. Slowly Itachi's hand glided against Naruto's back to his firm butt; leaving electricity on its trail. Naruto jumped a little at the feeling of being groped on his cheeks.

Itachi turned Naruto around, so Naruto's back was against his chest. He licked Naruto's nape hungrily. Licking and sucking on the bite marks from their previous love making. There wasn't a need to mark Naruto since he was already his, but Itachi still felt like sharing it with the world that Naruto belonged to him. Naruto's moans were music to his ears. Itachi was filled with the need to make Naruto cry out his name again and again.

His hand slid along Naruto's waist to his manhood. Naruto was already hard and some of his juices were oozing out. Itachi moved his fingers on the under side of Naruto's hard on and applied a little pressure while doing so. Naruto moaned erotically, but that was not enough for Itachi. He quickly flipped Naruto onto his back and he aligned his body on top of a naked Naruto.

He started with trailing hot, wet kisses along Naruto's neck to the lips. Then he parted from Naruto's lips back to his neck; that made Naruto groan. He had wanted to feel more of Itachi through the lips, but alas, Itachi had other plans. Speaking of feeling, Naruto felt something hard rub against his thighs. He blushed knowing exactly what it was.

The need to make Itachi feel good, had Naruto reaching his had into Itachi's undone pants for his member. He was a little scared and surprised that Itachi's big shaft had been inside him. How his opening could swallow all that, Naruto didn't know. And at the thought of swallowing Itachi, whole, he blushed and he felt heat rush to his ready to burst hard on.

Itachi's body shuddered when Naruto's hand made contact with his manhood. He pulled Naruto's hand away; he didn't want to come yet, not before Naruto, and definitely not before entering him. He slid downwards on Naruto's body. He levelled himself with Naruto's weeping member. Like a kid given candy, Itachi run his tongue on Naruto's slit eagerly then he licked the under side while his hand lifted Naruto's bottom to him. The fingers of the other hand found their way into Naruto's mouth asking to be licked. Naruto did as requested. He ran his wet tongue in between the fingers occasionally; making sure to coat them with his saliva thoroughly.

When the fingers were wet enough, Itachi brought them to Naruto's hole. It wasn't a problem for two fingers to be inserted this time because Naruto was still wet from before; Naruto had hardly felt the pain. The third finger was added and Naruto flinched and Itachi swallowed him to the base to distract him from the pain.

Naruto pulled on Itachi's hair as a warning that he was going to come. But Itachi ignored him; he wanted to taste Naruto again after six years.

'Itachi!!' cried out Naruto. Even though he had just released, Naruto still felt constrained with pleasure. It made him feel like the only way he would be free was for Itachi to be inside him; to feel Itachi's heat from inside him. He felt desperate; but he didn't care.

'Itachi… more… please!!' begged Naruto.

Itachi groaned at that and he moved up to face Naruto.

'Naruto. Please don't say such erotic things or I might lose control.' Panted Itachi.

Nonetheless, he positioned himself against Naruto's opening.

'Naruto… I'm coming in. relax okay.' Itachi warned.

He quickly pushed in and halted his movements when he was all the way in. Naruto cried out in displeasure. Itachi leaned down to kiss him and he licked the tears away.

'Are you okay, Naruto?'

'Ye…yeah... I...m… fine. So just move already!'

Itachi didn't have to be told twice. His movements began slow and gentle, and then they quickened and became vigorous. Naruto cried out with each thrust; the cries which had been of pain had gradually developed into cries of pleasure.

It became difficult for them to distinguish each other's moans of pleasure. Their movements became harmonized as if they had united like this a millions times over; their bodies knew each other to a great degree.

Itachi reached in between their bodies to pump Naruto's member. They were so close to the peak; the peak that was their meeting spot to share their love for each other without the need of words to be spoken.

Naruto felt like the world blacked out for a minute during his climax and Itachi followed suit.

'I love you Naruto' Itachi said.

'I love you too. Itachi' Naruto had said before he fell asleep.

Itachi cleaned himself up and he came back from the bathroom with a wet hot towel to clean Naruto up.

When he finished, he joined Naruto under the covers and he slipped a diamond ring on Naruto's finger then he pulled Naruto into his embrace.

Itachi wondered how everybody was doing; he very much knew that Deidara was going crazy promising death for him for leaving all the work to him and of course for leaving his business phone at the mansion. Only Deidara, Sasuke and everyone Itachi trusted had access to his emergency phone number.

Itachi wasn;t sure as to why Deidara or anyone else hadn't tried the emergency phone by now. And Sai hadn't reported back to him yet on his mission… and hopefully the hyuugas were goign to honor his request...

Oh well, maybe everything was okay at the mansion otherwise he would have been making an appointment to the doctors by now for his deaf ears from Deidara's screaming at him through the phone.

Truthfully Itachi wasn't far off from his assumption that Deidara was going crazy. However that was during the day; at that moment however, Deidara was fast asleep with the kids in his arms. It had been a long and draining day to put it simply.

Deidara had gone after Naruto when he Naruto had run after Itachi during the press conference. Without any idea of where he was looking for Naruto, Deidara had gone from room to room with no success. he had decided to go look at the back of the mansion when he had met with one of Itachi's drivers who had informed him that Itachi was out of the premises with his car and of course Naruto.

Deidara had dismissed Itachi and Naruto's disappearance; he made himself believe that they were coming back soon since Itachi still had some papers to sign before his business trip in a few days. However, the hours went on with no sign of Itachi or Naruto.

Deidara sat in desk chair of his home office. He had managed a few business phone calls and he had done some paper work that didn't require Itachi's signature. The kids were playing somewhere in the house with Neji and Sasuke who were still at the mansion for the weekend; well more like Neji was challenging Sasuke to join them in car racing games. With pride on the top list of his worries in being involved with Neji, Sasuke joined the games.

Ino had received a call from her boyfriend and had left the mansion. Sasuke had dismissed Sakura when she had asked if there was anything else that he would be needing while at the mansion. Kisame had complained about sleep deprivation and had gone to his room.

Kakashi and Iruka had gone back to their apartments to collect their belongings to move into the mansion. As for Sai, Deidara hadn't seen him since about an hour after Itachi and Naruto had disappeared. He hadn't even come back for lunch either.

With everyone occupied, everything was going smoothly until phone calls from money hungry business men became unbearable. The phones were endless. Deidara had called Itachi's phone only for a maid to come to his office with Itachi's phone and Deidara realised that he had to manage his calls and Itachi's calls; more importantly Itachi's calls with various reason. One of them being that it could be one of the significant business men working with Itachi.

Deidara promised himself to not call Itachi's emergency phone; he didn't want Itachi thinking that he couldn't handle a little day's work without him.

A few minutes later, there was a nock on his office door. He responded and in came Sasuke with a sobbing Natsu.

'Sasuke-kun, what's wrong?' he had asked referring to the sobbing Natsu.

'Well, you see, he was all happy a few minutes ago, then he suddenly started crying saying he wants his Papa. Neji couldn't calm him down and I couldn't either. He came down only when I told him that I will take him to you because you know where his papa is.'

'Well I don't know. So please leave the office I'm trying to work here-' a ring on the phone cut him short.

After the phone call, Deidara rubbed his forehead; chasing away the oncoming migraine.

'Need some help?' Sasuke asked noticing Deidara's fatigue.

'Sure.' He quickly answered; what a good idea; why didn't he think of that earlier? Sasuke could have helped him from the start.

'Alright then. But you need to step out for a moment, walk in the garden or something for some fresh air.' Instructed Sasuke. Deidara didn't even complain like he always did when ever Sasuke tried to give him instructions; he would respond with a "you are not my boss" which would fire up an argument.

Work hadn't been that much for him to reach exhaustion; he had already been depressed since yesterday when the most important person to him never showed up like he had promised.

'Come with me Natsu-chan.' Deidara took Natsu's hand and they walked into the garden.

'Do you like taking a walk Natsu-chan?' Deidara asked trying to start a conversation with the boy and distract him from thinking about his papa. Natsu just nodded; a frown still in place. Deidara frowned as well. He knelt in front of Natsu and grabbed his baby cheeks.

'Come on Natsu-chan, smile for me. Come on you can do it!' he coaxed him.

Natsu smiled a smile that resembled Naruto's.

'There you go.' Deidara smiled back. And he got off his knees and began walking again with Natsu.

'Me and papa and Fuyu-chan like to go to the park to play.' Natsu said happily.

'Wow! You do?' replied Deidara with the equalling happiness.

'Yes! We go on swings and, and we play catch and we play it. Papa is always it. He says me and Fuyu-chan are too fast for him.' He giggled and he had a bounce in his steps now.

'That's great! I want to play in the park with you too.'

'Yea!! Then Daddy can come too and uncle Sasu, uncle Neji, Uncle-'

'Yes that would be great' Responded Deidara cutting his list of who can come to the park with him short.

'Natsu-chan lets go get some ice cream from the shop.' Suggested Deidara.

'Yea!! Ice cream I want straw… straw…'

'Strawberry?' Deidara finished for him.

'Yes. Strawberry. Fuyu-chan likes vanilla. Let's go let's go!!' he pulled on Deidara's shirt excitedly.

'Okay, okay. But first we need to put on disguises. This will be fun. Okay and we can't bring Fuyu-chan with us okay.'

Deidara knew they had a whole freezer of different types of ice creams. They could just walk into the house if they wanted ice cream. But what was the fun in that? And they were not taking Fuyu, because having both the twins with him would make it obvious for the people that they were Itachi's twins despite the disguises.

So Deidara and Natsu had sneaked to and from the convenience store without being noticed by any reporters even though their disguises were, well, sunglasses.

It was evening and Neji and Sasuke had to go back to their houses. Natsu and Fuyu refused to play with one of the maids. So it had to be Deidara bouncing back and forth between annoying phone calls and the twins.

Then the time for bed came; Deidara had taken them to their bedroom and they had asked him to tell a bedtime story. He had sat in bed just like he remembered Naruto doing so with Natsu on his right and Fuyu on his left. The twins had fallen asleep during the story and Deidara himself dozed off right after.

The next morning, Itachi and Naruto took a helicopter back to the mansion.

'Where are the kids?' Naruto asked as the maids greeted them at the door.

'They are in the living room. And Uchiha-san, your guests are here' responded one of the maids.

'thank you.' He responded.

Naruto greeted all the maid who had greeted them and he followed after Itachi to the living room.

'I should have known it was all your doing Uchiha.' a familiar female voice said accusingly when Itachi opened the door to the living room.

That voice! It can't be! Was all that came into Naruto's mind.

TBC