Baby o' Mine
Chapter 2
Run, Run, as Fast as You Can
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Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, I don't own Sasuke, I don't own anything, actually, since I'm a minor and I have no legal rights. I do, however, like writing, so...that's how it all goes, y'know?
Notes: I got 14 reviews.... Wow, what's a guy to do? Erm...I think I'll add little scenes from their...spark, maybe it'd be fun.
*Music while reading: Butterfly-Japanese Digimon opening*
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In Limner, the village I live in, life is good. I have a small but nice home, enough room for Iruka and I to train, and play around and have fun. It's a village based on working together, during the fall I work in the fields to help the harvest and bring in a little extra money for the winter months ahead. I love this way of living, and I think I've grown a little...all right /lazy/ in my chakra sensing abilities.
In fact, I think that's an understatement, because right now I'm stuck under the one person in the entire universe that I really, /really/ don't want to be stuck under.
He's grown, like I knew he would, strong jaw and smooth features. His dark eyes are narrowed at me, he's not even breathing hard...I suddenly feel a kind of cold fist gathering around my heart, 'Iruka...oh god, I've got to go hide Iruka...' was my first thought, when you're a parent it doesn't matter what happens to you as long as your child is safe. I thrust my hips upward, trying to flip him, but it didn't even phase him.
I suddenly feel much like a trapped animal, "Let me go!" I yell. I can hear Tura and Mac coming, 'don't come out...' I think, both fearing for their safety and for my well being. I held no doubts as to Sasuke's abilities as a Ninja, he'd be the absolute best no matter what in whatever field he chose to go into, and I knew for a fact that hunter-nins were perhaps one of the more ruthless sections to join.
"You've run away from the hidden Leaf Village, without known cause or warning; I have been sent to capture you." Came a deeper voice, his words colder, his entire being holding a hidden steel backbone that I know hides either a hurt heart, or a furious heart. From the frozen way that he's doing things I'd guess that it was the former, since Sasuke has never been one to let those sensitive emotions take hold and show themselves, especially in situations like this one.
I breathed in a calm breath before the back door is filled with employees of the restaurant, Tura and Mac in front, Mac with a gun. I frantically looked over at them; he'd kill them if they did anything other than stand there and look pretty...
"Don't! Mac, Tura! /Don't do anything/! I..." I felt a small movement as Sasuke looked over at them, felt the small swell of chakra, I start struggling again. "Get out of here!" They look at me with astounded shock, since they didn't know what danger they were really in...
Get out of here or...I...Tura! Go hide Iruka!" I yelled suddenly, how was I going to hide him if I'd lead Sasuke right to him? It would be easier this way. "Take him to Oba---" I was stilled be Sasuke looking back down at me with an unreadable look in his eyes.
Dark red, with small seed structures in them, the Sharingen that always scared me. I gulped, suddenly feeling just how...helpless I really was. 'C'mon Naruto...do something, you can do something, you had all those scrolls on Ninjutsu and you know nothing? Weakling...' My inner voice said to me, and I growled inhumanly.
Rage, pure and untainted flared through me. Sasuke's eyes widened, then narrowed as he brought a Kunai* out of his hip pouch and pressed it to my throat, "Naruto...don't make me hurt you."
With a shove upwards, I felt the blade slightly pierce my skin before the fox's chakra shielded me. Amazing how it does that...I guess it's like protecting the vessel it now lives in, like a hermit crab or something...tangents aren't good when you're fighting for your life...focus! Damnit! You're an /adult/ now, and you've got a little boy who needs you...
~*~*~End Naruto Narrative ~*~*~
Sasuke flew off through the air, landing gracefully on his feet and pulling out a dozen or so of Senbon from hidden recesses in his clothing, all poised to attack given a moments notice. But with the feral look in the early adults face, the elongated whisker marks, the savage red eyes...no, the needles would not have an effect on the man, something infinitely more precious to him than his own life seemed at stake in this.
A glimmer in the pale mans mind seemed to pull, and he frowned, "Why is Iruka here?" He called. Iruka had Genins to teach at school, why would he be here? And why send a waitress to hide him?
Naruto's eyes widened in something akin to fear. He charged forward, and Sasuke had to smile at the move which had time after time proved to be a foolish one; without a weapon and against a Jonin ranked man...Naruto had not spent this time away from home very wisely indeed.
It should have gone like that, Naruto attacks head first, Sasuke goes to the side and nails him on the back of the head, Naruto goes down and is out like a light.
However, just a second before either of them got within striking distance of each other, Naruto kicked off and propelled himself through a bush to Sasuke's left. Sasuke looked after him for a second, glanced back at the startled faces of the employee's of the diner, and dashed off after the blonde haired run away ninja.
The trail was sadly easy to follow, Naruto left a path of destruction and chakra in his wake; Sasuke smirked slightly at the predictability of Naruto, before a shadow clone fell on top of him. It took him only a second to dispatch the clone, a sharp jab to the neck and it went up in a poof of smoke, before a second one fell upon him. He growled, every second he wasted on these things the longer he had to wait before Naruto was again at his side.
"I will not be delayed!" He yelled, performing the hand seal and feeling the chakra flowing into two more of him.
Dashing off, he had to stop a second to look around him and try to get his bearings. Naruto's trail had become subtler, making Sasuke pause and actually work a little to figure out where his trail led; large foot prints, leading off towards the base of a rocky hill.
When he arrived he heard crying, that of a little boy. He frowned slightly at the small house there, more like a cabin, where a door lay open and the noise from inside.
Sasuke pulled his long bangs back, having a feeling that this was one of those times that you sit and watch rather than rush in. His gut feelings were rarely wrong, so he focused his Sharingan in on the house before he saw a wisp of blond hair through one of the windows, the young man whom he'd spent the last third of his life looking for right there not twelve yards in front of him.
In Naruto's arms held a small boy, slightly older than a toddler by the way his body looked. Black hair, cut short, and pail skinned. Sasuke frowned in startlement, what on earth was Naruto doing with a child? He saw Naruto grab the boy's shoulders and push him away enough to look into the boy's face. He frowned again trying to read Naruto's lips.
"...Go to Oba-chan's, all right? Daddy has..." He blinked at the title. Naruto wasn't a father!
...But suddenly everything seemed to click into place. The boy was about six, which fell well into the timeline of his disappearance. Naruto must have had an affair with a girl while they were together, she'd gotten pregnant, and so he'd had to leave to take care of the boy.
A flash in the corner of his eye saw that Naruto was leaving the house, the boys small hand clasped in his while he looked out and around their yard, his eyes returned to their normal sea blue.
Rage and hurt choked up inside of Sasuke, feeling stupid for thinking that maybe Naruto had ever really cared for him. Sighing, locking those emotions inside of the corner of his mind, he leapt from behind the tree to where Naruto and the boy were. This time Naruto pulled out a shuriken from his pocket, spinning it a few times warningly, pushing the boy off towards a small trail.
"Go, hurry." Naruto said to the supposed Iruka.
Blue eyes, much like that of Naruto's looked at Sasuke in fear, his legs trembling a little before he started to carefully edge away. Sasuke watched the boy back away before focusing on Naruto, who's face held a kind of resignation.
Once the six-year-old was out of site, Naruto dropped his shuriken and his shoulders fell, his face now pointed towards the ground. "Oi, Sasuke, I knew you'd find me eventually." The sad voice said.
He gazed up at Sasuke and a weary smile fell on his face, a shine to his eyes, "I've missed you."
Sasuke ached to say the same, but with a quick movement was behind Naruto and using the butt of the knife in his hand hit the base of Naruto's head, rendering him unconscious. As he fell into Sasuke's arms, a small smile played on his lips, for the first time in years falling into a lovers embrace.
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...Dunno if this will live up to your guys' expectations, but I think it leads to a very good next one. Yes, that little boy is Iruka, their son, and he's a doll (figurative, not literal), and soon I'll have a picture of him up somewhere.
Any one have any idea what the hells going on with the review thing? I keep getting different numbers as to how many reviews there are for this story, and I have a feeling I'm not seeing all of them...so it's really beginning to irk me that I can't see all of my great reviews!
Also, I want to put in a good little fluff memory scene, and I want some feed back on what it should be about. I'll take any idea's and see which one I liked the best.
Ja
-Kori
Chapter 2
Run, Run, as Fast as You Can
* * * * *
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, I don't own Sasuke, I don't own anything, actually, since I'm a minor and I have no legal rights. I do, however, like writing, so...that's how it all goes, y'know?
Notes: I got 14 reviews.... Wow, what's a guy to do? Erm...I think I'll add little scenes from their...spark, maybe it'd be fun.
*Music while reading: Butterfly-Japanese Digimon opening*
* * * * *
In Limner, the village I live in, life is good. I have a small but nice home, enough room for Iruka and I to train, and play around and have fun. It's a village based on working together, during the fall I work in the fields to help the harvest and bring in a little extra money for the winter months ahead. I love this way of living, and I think I've grown a little...all right /lazy/ in my chakra sensing abilities.
In fact, I think that's an understatement, because right now I'm stuck under the one person in the entire universe that I really, /really/ don't want to be stuck under.
He's grown, like I knew he would, strong jaw and smooth features. His dark eyes are narrowed at me, he's not even breathing hard...I suddenly feel a kind of cold fist gathering around my heart, 'Iruka...oh god, I've got to go hide Iruka...' was my first thought, when you're a parent it doesn't matter what happens to you as long as your child is safe. I thrust my hips upward, trying to flip him, but it didn't even phase him.
I suddenly feel much like a trapped animal, "Let me go!" I yell. I can hear Tura and Mac coming, 'don't come out...' I think, both fearing for their safety and for my well being. I held no doubts as to Sasuke's abilities as a Ninja, he'd be the absolute best no matter what in whatever field he chose to go into, and I knew for a fact that hunter-nins were perhaps one of the more ruthless sections to join.
"You've run away from the hidden Leaf Village, without known cause or warning; I have been sent to capture you." Came a deeper voice, his words colder, his entire being holding a hidden steel backbone that I know hides either a hurt heart, or a furious heart. From the frozen way that he's doing things I'd guess that it was the former, since Sasuke has never been one to let those sensitive emotions take hold and show themselves, especially in situations like this one.
I breathed in a calm breath before the back door is filled with employees of the restaurant, Tura and Mac in front, Mac with a gun. I frantically looked over at them; he'd kill them if they did anything other than stand there and look pretty...
"Don't! Mac, Tura! /Don't do anything/! I..." I felt a small movement as Sasuke looked over at them, felt the small swell of chakra, I start struggling again. "Get out of here!" They look at me with astounded shock, since they didn't know what danger they were really in...
Get out of here or...I...Tura! Go hide Iruka!" I yelled suddenly, how was I going to hide him if I'd lead Sasuke right to him? It would be easier this way. "Take him to Oba---" I was stilled be Sasuke looking back down at me with an unreadable look in his eyes.
Dark red, with small seed structures in them, the Sharingen that always scared me. I gulped, suddenly feeling just how...helpless I really was. 'C'mon Naruto...do something, you can do something, you had all those scrolls on Ninjutsu and you know nothing? Weakling...' My inner voice said to me, and I growled inhumanly.
Rage, pure and untainted flared through me. Sasuke's eyes widened, then narrowed as he brought a Kunai* out of his hip pouch and pressed it to my throat, "Naruto...don't make me hurt you."
With a shove upwards, I felt the blade slightly pierce my skin before the fox's chakra shielded me. Amazing how it does that...I guess it's like protecting the vessel it now lives in, like a hermit crab or something...tangents aren't good when you're fighting for your life...focus! Damnit! You're an /adult/ now, and you've got a little boy who needs you...
~*~*~End Naruto Narrative ~*~*~
Sasuke flew off through the air, landing gracefully on his feet and pulling out a dozen or so of Senbon from hidden recesses in his clothing, all poised to attack given a moments notice. But with the feral look in the early adults face, the elongated whisker marks, the savage red eyes...no, the needles would not have an effect on the man, something infinitely more precious to him than his own life seemed at stake in this.
A glimmer in the pale mans mind seemed to pull, and he frowned, "Why is Iruka here?" He called. Iruka had Genins to teach at school, why would he be here? And why send a waitress to hide him?
Naruto's eyes widened in something akin to fear. He charged forward, and Sasuke had to smile at the move which had time after time proved to be a foolish one; without a weapon and against a Jonin ranked man...Naruto had not spent this time away from home very wisely indeed.
It should have gone like that, Naruto attacks head first, Sasuke goes to the side and nails him on the back of the head, Naruto goes down and is out like a light.
However, just a second before either of them got within striking distance of each other, Naruto kicked off and propelled himself through a bush to Sasuke's left. Sasuke looked after him for a second, glanced back at the startled faces of the employee's of the diner, and dashed off after the blonde haired run away ninja.
The trail was sadly easy to follow, Naruto left a path of destruction and chakra in his wake; Sasuke smirked slightly at the predictability of Naruto, before a shadow clone fell on top of him. It took him only a second to dispatch the clone, a sharp jab to the neck and it went up in a poof of smoke, before a second one fell upon him. He growled, every second he wasted on these things the longer he had to wait before Naruto was again at his side.
"I will not be delayed!" He yelled, performing the hand seal and feeling the chakra flowing into two more of him.
Dashing off, he had to stop a second to look around him and try to get his bearings. Naruto's trail had become subtler, making Sasuke pause and actually work a little to figure out where his trail led; large foot prints, leading off towards the base of a rocky hill.
When he arrived he heard crying, that of a little boy. He frowned slightly at the small house there, more like a cabin, where a door lay open and the noise from inside.
Sasuke pulled his long bangs back, having a feeling that this was one of those times that you sit and watch rather than rush in. His gut feelings were rarely wrong, so he focused his Sharingan in on the house before he saw a wisp of blond hair through one of the windows, the young man whom he'd spent the last third of his life looking for right there not twelve yards in front of him.
In Naruto's arms held a small boy, slightly older than a toddler by the way his body looked. Black hair, cut short, and pail skinned. Sasuke frowned in startlement, what on earth was Naruto doing with a child? He saw Naruto grab the boy's shoulders and push him away enough to look into the boy's face. He frowned again trying to read Naruto's lips.
"...Go to Oba-chan's, all right? Daddy has..." He blinked at the title. Naruto wasn't a father!
...But suddenly everything seemed to click into place. The boy was about six, which fell well into the timeline of his disappearance. Naruto must have had an affair with a girl while they were together, she'd gotten pregnant, and so he'd had to leave to take care of the boy.
A flash in the corner of his eye saw that Naruto was leaving the house, the boys small hand clasped in his while he looked out and around their yard, his eyes returned to their normal sea blue.
Rage and hurt choked up inside of Sasuke, feeling stupid for thinking that maybe Naruto had ever really cared for him. Sighing, locking those emotions inside of the corner of his mind, he leapt from behind the tree to where Naruto and the boy were. This time Naruto pulled out a shuriken from his pocket, spinning it a few times warningly, pushing the boy off towards a small trail.
"Go, hurry." Naruto said to the supposed Iruka.
Blue eyes, much like that of Naruto's looked at Sasuke in fear, his legs trembling a little before he started to carefully edge away. Sasuke watched the boy back away before focusing on Naruto, who's face held a kind of resignation.
Once the six-year-old was out of site, Naruto dropped his shuriken and his shoulders fell, his face now pointed towards the ground. "Oi, Sasuke, I knew you'd find me eventually." The sad voice said.
He gazed up at Sasuke and a weary smile fell on his face, a shine to his eyes, "I've missed you."
Sasuke ached to say the same, but with a quick movement was behind Naruto and using the butt of the knife in his hand hit the base of Naruto's head, rendering him unconscious. As he fell into Sasuke's arms, a small smile played on his lips, for the first time in years falling into a lovers embrace.
* * * * * *
...Dunno if this will live up to your guys' expectations, but I think it leads to a very good next one. Yes, that little boy is Iruka, their son, and he's a doll (figurative, not literal), and soon I'll have a picture of him up somewhere.
Any one have any idea what the hells going on with the review thing? I keep getting different numbers as to how many reviews there are for this story, and I have a feeling I'm not seeing all of them...so it's really beginning to irk me that I can't see all of my great reviews!
Also, I want to put in a good little fluff memory scene, and I want some feed back on what it should be about. I'll take any idea's and see which one I liked the best.
Ja
-Kori
