Baby o' Mine

Chapter Six

Woe Oh Oh I Want To Change

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Disclaimer: I don' 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: SEND ME IRUKA ART OR I WILL NOT WRITE MORE! AT LEAST ONE MORE PICTURE, DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU THINK IT LOOKS BAD!

Does anybody even read these things? I could put a lemon up here and no one would ever notice, nope. /soft tears excaped the tightly shut eyes lids of the sun haired young man, god how it... / See what I mean?

*Music while reading: Yoma Counting Song: Blood Reign *

Also: Warning for swearing, it's at the end of the chapter but it's still there.

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Iruka-sensei arrived some time later, just as the sky became hazy and dark with the onset of rain clouds.

Naruto looked up from where he was drinking tea and reading a magazine, smiling at his teacher and motioning with one finger over his lips to be quiet.

Iruka-sensei raised an eyebrow, walking further in and noticing a mop of black hair peaking out from one of the bedroom blankets, eyes closed and napping.

Naruto shook his head while he laughed at the motherly expression on his former teachers face, before standing and sending the cat which had been snoozing on his lap (the triumphant return of Henry the cat!) to the ground, proving that not all cats, especially ash grey ones, landed on their feet.

"I got him into Hinata's class, she's pretty darn happy about it. I think she may still like you."

He was met with a blank look, Naruto tilting his head to one side. "Hinata likes me?"

Iruka sweat dropped, "You didn't notice the way she was /always/ watching you and blushing?"

Naruto frowned, "I thought she was just weird."

Resting his forehead in his hand, the older man was reminded what it was like when he really was the blonde's teacher. "Yes, Naruto, she really /really/ liked you."

The blonde blinked when he thought he heard hysterical laughter for a second, but dismissed it as someone's TV. "So...when can Iruka start?"

The older, and much wiser Iruka smiled, "Tomorrow is the earliest, but I'd think it's be better if you two settled in for a couple days." Taking a pitcher of tea from the counter he poured himself a glass and leaned back against the counter. "So, what'd you two do today?"

Naruto considered tell Iruka about the park...but decided that he didn't need to worry his teacher all that much, especially since he was being so nice to them, "I took Iruka-chan on a tour of the town, I think I may have been a little over enthusiastic for him." He mimicked a sleeping pose with his hands and the tilt of his head.

Iruka-sensei smiled good naturally, "Let it never be said that you don't have any energy." He took a sip then turned around and started rummaging around the cupboards.

Naruto walked up next to his teacher, his brow creased, "Ne, Iruka-sensei, what are you looking for?"

Iruka-sensei frowned, "Looking for something to make for dinner. But I don't think I have all the ingredients that I'll need; I'll have to go out to the store to get them." A loud thunderclap strategically rang out before torrents of rain began to fall against the window.

Again, on queue, a sleep ruffled little boy stepped into the kitchen, his hair askew and rubbing his eyes with the backs of his hands. "Daddy? Iruka needs to use the bathroom..."

"It's the door to the right of the door we use coming in." Naruto said, and the little boy hurried to it. Naruto shook his head, "After he gets out, we'll go get the stuff for dinner...if you write it on a list, that is." He rubbed the back of his head a little, without a list he'd end up getting much more than he needed; he'd discovered this when he'd been a cook.

Iruka-sensei frowned, "Are you sure? I could just go out and get it."

Naruto shook his head; "It'd be good for Iruka-chan to see that life here's going to be...relatively like it would have been back ho...er, back in the other village." Naruto's inner self bashed his head against the walls of his mind at the little slip. /Here/ is home, /here! / Not back where Iruka-chan was born...where he'd spent the last seven years without the glares and heated whispers that he now remember hurt so very badly.

The older man sighed, catching the slip but letting it go. If you cornered Naruto on a mistake, he'd get all defensive and poof up like a blowfish. "Fine, here." He took out a pad and pen and quickly wrote down what he needed, just as the little boy and Henry came back into the kitchen.

Naruto swooped down and picked Iruka-chan up, brushing the unruly locks back into some semblance of what they were supposed to look like and smiling at the little boy's bleary face. "Iruka-chan, do you want to go with daddy to the store?" The little boy looked out the window at the steady rain and lack of wind before nodding.

"Can Shadow go with Iruka and daddy?"

Iruka and Naruto looked at each other before looking at the blue eyed child, "...Shadow...?"

Iruka-chan pointed down at the cat that was rubbing against Naruto's leg languidly, "That's Shadow."

Naruto sighed as Iruka-chan once again showed that he loved to name things, "Ano...I don't think it's name is 'Shadow', aka-chan..." Iruka mouthed 'Henry' over his shoulder, "I think his name is 'Henry'." At this Iruka-chan looked over at his 'grandfather' and frowned.

"He said his name was 'Kage', not Henry." The youngest Uzumaki said.

The two older men frowned, "He said...?"

"Hai! Shadow said that his name was 'Kage' and that Iruka-sensei always gets him good Tuna on Thursdays." The boy explained, which now had both of them frowning.

Naruto sighed, "C'mon, Aka-chan, lets get going before the cat tells you anything else." Putting the boy down and going to the closet for an umbrella and toeing on his worn shoes, he pocketed the list and waved by to his confused teacher who was eyeing the cat wearily. "Ja ne Iruka-sensei, we shouldn't be too long!" And with that, the two were out the door and off to the local market.

Between the two of them there was one bag, which Naruto carried back the short distance to the house from the market, the umbrella held in his hand above them. During the whole thing he'd felt the almost undetectable feel of someone following them, and in front of the house he stopped.

"Iruka-chan, I forgot something at the store, take these in to Iruka-sensei and have him start dinner, okay?" He handed the light back to the six year old, putting the umbrella in a position that it would protect the food and his son.

"Iruka wants to go with daddy." Said the boy, looking up at his now getting wet father.

Naruto smiled, but sighed, "I'll be back soon, okay? So be good for daddy and go in, all right?" The boy nodded uncertainly before going inside, the memory of last time he was told to leave still scar fresh in his mind. But he continued, watching over his shoulder as Naruto walked back towards the store before toeing off his shoes and entering the two-story home.

A block away, Naruto walked into an alley in between two closed stores, waiting only a moment before a black shadow was instantly before him, mere feet away.

Pail skinned, his dark eyes and hair contrasted against his milk complexion, so very different from Naruto's own tan, it was probably good that Iruka-chan had his complexion, and the hair, Naruto couldn't imagine his son with his own yellow hair...

"We have to talk." Simple, neat and to the point.

"...I...I'd guessed that." Naruto positioned himself against the wall and under an over hang, his hair plastered to his face as he looked at the ground.

It was good that he didn't look up, or he would have seen the quick and unsteady play of emotions over his former lover's face. Anguish, anger, curiosity, protectiveness...and love. But Naruto wasn't looking, so couldn't respond to the brief glimpse of the inside of the great shinobi's heart.

"Who was she?"

Naruto looked up at the chiseled out of ice features, "What?"

Sasuke was in front of him in a second, "Who was the whore that had your child?"

Naruto was pressed back against the wall, a shock of pain running through him as he looked into the eyes of his furious lover. He bit his tongue to keep from crying out, knowing that he had to be strong for once in his life, had to finally stand up.

He looked Sasuke straight in the eyes, "You don't /understand/, Sasuke."

Anger flashed in those ebony eyes before Sasuke slammed him against the wall hard enough to knock the wind out of him. "Oh, I understand moron. I loved you, but you found some girl and you fucked her and she got pregnant! Then, you leave without even a /word/! I understand that you're a fuckin' ass-hole!"

Each word cut like a knife, and tears fell in his eyes, //Oh Sasuke...oh kami-sama....// using his demons strength, he knocked Sasuke off balance, grabbed his arm and put the pail hand against his stomach.

The jacket was unzipped, and his pants were pretty low cut...Sasuke stilled un-naturally as he felt the obvious scar, just below the spirit seal and looked up at Naruto with shocked eyes.

"Sasuke! ...All those times you felt someone before I left and would turn only to see me? That was /Iruka-chan/! Remember when I was sick in the mornings? I was having morning sickness because I was /pregnant/! I am the whore! I am Iruka's mother! And you're his father!" The loudest Shinobi half yelled into the stunned face of the father of his son.

The wet hand felt the intense heat of his lover, of whom he'd held on many nights. This scar could only come from something very dangerous, even fatal....like a C-section...

'No no no no no....Naruto's a boy....god but this would escplain /everything/...shit! Listen to yourself! Just get out of here and go think this out logically!"

Eyes wide with horror, Sasuke stumbled backwards, "It's...that's impossible!" He yelled before disappearing, leaving a sobbing man with sunshine hair to fall to his knees and cover his face with his palms, quiet tears streaming down his face.

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Gosh I'm not nice in this, am I? I just keep bashing and bashing and bashing... ah well, like my dear grey haired grandmama used to say, 'Difficulty only developes character'...or something like that.

Anyway, on the contest...I guess threats don't work with you guys, so, Since the contest ends on September 2nd, if you want to draw me something with Chibi-Iruka in it, I'll love you forever...or write you a scene, what ever your heart may desire.

Ja