Okay now...Finally an update, yeah? But I'm sorry to say, I'll be cutting this off soon, maybe after one more chapter or so. I'm sorry to all those who wanted to see him grow up and stuff, but I couldn't BEAR to make this 30+ chapters...It's already an epic. So sorry, but I'll still let you all see the baby and stuff. No worries

Thank you reviewers! You keep me going!

To wake up in a strange place, it was unlike how Sasuke felt when he woke up to the Kyuubi. To wake up in a strange place, and alone at that, was something I had gotten used to in my earlier years, where the weather, or even people, wouldn't allow me to get home, and I would spend the night in an alley, and wake up, hoping to find the one thing I could curl up in and forget my life, and have it be the cold wet ground. If I was lucky enough, I found a cardboard box. And if it was raining, I'd find a porch to sleep on until the home owner kicked me off it. But on those occasions, I had always woken up in a panic, crying for my soft yet rickety bed, the only thing I could love, since living things would immediately refuse the emotion.

That feeling, where you're away from something you loved, I felt.

The first thing I noticed was the bleach ceiling and the rough and scratchy blanket draped over me carelessly. I sat up, and secondly noticed the cold metal bars securing the mattress to the wheel-along bed frame, before turning my eyes to the sterilized tools on a tray by my head. They looked usual, no drills, no clamps, nothing scary you see in movies. I couldn't identify any of them other than the stethoscope, but in the majority, looked absolutely harmless. The entire interior was a blinding white, and I rubbed my light-deprived eyes to adjust.

This was the feeling and appearance of a hospital.

I looked down at my stomach. Nothing was different, there was no blood, and there was no death. My baby was alive.

I embraced my stomach as tightly as I could in such a position that could bend my spine so uncomfortably, cooing at it and running my tanned fingers over stretched flesh. With that relief in my brain, I became drowsy. It was a sick feeling, either from some drug they gave me, the baby, or altogether, just me. I know I wasn't as healthy as I should have been, I hadn't eaten enough, and I had slept outside for who knows how long. Fear resettled in my head, and I lay down, curling as far into myself as I could with my baby nestled even closer to me, if possible. And just as I tried to leave this world once again to revisit that empty white space in the back of my head that was exclusively for my stress relief, the door burst open to reveal a white clad doctor with long brown hair tied back into a neat ponytail flung haphazardly over her left shoulder. Her eyes were a bright blue like how my own used to be and her curves were perky, as she added a slight skip to her step. I looked her over and truly wondered how old she was. She didn't look a day over 16...Was she really a doctor? Oh well. Atleast it wasn't a male doctor. I'd never live with myself if I really had to explain my predicament. But she smiled at me, and I realized that her eyes were not only blue, but purple around the cat-like iris. I raised both my eyebrows in silent questioning, and her smile grew wider.

"...Do you want to know why I'm your doctor, and not a man?" how blunt of her. I nodded. "...Because I... Am just like you" she emphasized it with a poke to my chest. My mouth was hung agape, but not jaw-dropped. She huffed over to a stool beside me and banged her elbows on the table, resting her head on her arms as she watched me with those purple blue eyes. I stuttered for a moment before timidly asking everything I could think of.

"...What are you...?"

"What am I...? Oh, I'm almost nothing like the demon you have, Uzumaki Naruto. You hold a demon LORD. I am but a demon. But I know everything there is to know about demons and demonic anatomy along with chakra structures...My name is Kuri...I'm 16"

I smiled at her. "14, now."

"A little bit young for this, aren't you?" she poked my stomach with a manicured nail, and I jerked away on instinct. She put her hands up in defense, not wanting to get a pregnant person on the edge, because apparently, she had seen how pregnant women act.

"Calm down, Noodles," I mouthed 'noodles...?' out to her, and she let out a quiet feminine laugh, "...You know your name! Mine means chestnut. So, little fish cake, who's the daddy, huh?"

I frowned at the new name, too closely related to my captors...By the way, where were they? But I answered anyway. "...Uchiha Sasuke..."

She blinked up at me and put her hands on her hips, a very Tsunade-like thing to do. It actually made me smile.

"...THE Uchiha Sasuke? Last of the Uchihas? My goodness, how'd you catch HIM?"

I chuckled lightly to myself, "We were put on the same Genin teams...Love at first sight?"

Not only were her eyes cat-like, but her grin was too. "So...Find myself a ninja AND a demon. Lucky me! You know, you're the first pregnant male I've ever gotten."

"And I should be surprised by that?" I called out, embarrassment etched on my whiskered cheeks. She shook her head.

"My colleagues in the other countries have seen it before. One was in the Sand, actu-"

"Gaara!" I called out. She blinked at me and nodded slowly.

"I think it was the Kazekage...Him with Shukaku. Yes, that was it. But so far, I've heard of atleast 5 or 6."

"...Really?" and here I thought me and Gaara were all alone on this one...

All of a sudden, my back arched on impulse and I turned onto my back as the pain crackled through my spine. She stood from her stool to reach over and keep me from hitting my stomach on the bed guards. I looked up at her hopefully, and she just put a thin finger to her smile.

"...It'll be here in a few hours...Don't worry, be excited."

I glowed up at her as my jaw went lack, and I fell back to the pillow, my palms pushing against my eye sockets as I groaned.

If only she knew...

I slowly let the pressure on my eyes fade, leaving green specks behind my eyelids, before slowly turning to her.

"...How did I get here?" she frowned, and I knew I was still in the palms of their hands.

"...Akatsuki members are holding the entire hospital hostage. They aren't letting anyone come in, and anyone leave. They're to capture you, Naruto."

"...I know..." I whispered as I let my fingers dance over my bellybutton. At this point, I expected to be dead by morning.

"...But your baby will be hidden away."

I looked up at her with questioning and confused eyes. She smiled again, but weakly.

"...I'd never allow them to take your baby from you, Naruto, even if you were captured. I'd hide that baby away with every ounce of strength I have, and get it to Sasuke-kun when I find him. And don't think like that: Sasuke-kun will rescue you!"

Rescue me?

Rescue me?

Perhaps afterwards, he'd like a few a brief stroll around the park before dicing me into pieces. O maybe, he'd like something to eat before peeling off my skin inch by inch.

Either sounded fine to me. I just don't care anymore.

All I want is to have this baby, and if it's decided I'm dead, then so be it. Atleast there will be another Uchiha bastard in the world.

I stopped all thought process all of a sudden, immediately grasping at my bulging stomach as pain once again overtook me.

If Sasuke doesn't want or love you, just know that I do

Kuri watched me intently as I tried to hide my convulsions, tears sprouting from my eyes after a long while. But not from the pain, no, everything BUT the pain...

She ran a reassuring hand down my back, and I attempted to calm down but the pain just kept getting worst and worst. I realized her hands were unsteady as she put a lone finger to my stomach, chakra emanating from the digit. It quickly withdrew and she held her hands clasped in fists to her full bosom, her voice shaky.

"...It's here early..."

No

No, no, no, no.

This can't be happening now.

She said a few hours!

It hasn't even been half an hour!

Come on, baby, just calm down! Calm down!

No matter my pleas, the baby was threatening to tear itself out of me right then and there. I hunched over and let out a silent scream as the pain became close to unbearable. Kuri, with trembling hands, helped me to my feet so we could get to the emergency room. But just then, an explosion was sounded down the hall, making the whole room shake violently, sending both of us to the floor. I could hear rubble fall to the floor with pattering thuds, and the doctors that called out "We're saved! We're saved!"

Kuri sat up and helped me, but I stayed frozen on the floor. She called out to me, asking if anything were wrong, but I didn't answer. Instead, I listened in on the voices on the other side, each one sounding unbelievably familiar.

"G-Give Naruto-kun back r-right now!"

"Naruto-kun is important to the inhabitants of Konoha. Return him."

"Give back Naruto! I can smell him, I know he's here!"

"He owes me some ramen!"

"How troublesome..."

"Shikamaru, we're here for Naruto! Sasuke-kun will be angry with us if we don't bring him back, and I hate when Sasuke-kun is angry!"

"This is no time for your fangirlism! We're here for Naruto, so if you don't give him to us, I'll send my weapons through every inch of your bodies!"

"...That's quite violent of you Tenten-san. But they have stolen Naruto-kun, and youth shall always win against evil!"

"...My Byakugan shows he's right over there...Sakura-san?"

Upon hearing her name, I struggled to forget the aching and my faulty legs as I stood. Another explosion sounded, and then the clashing of weapons. Kisame and Itachi were no match for the Konoha Rookie 9. Shouts and the clanging of metal rang in my ears, and I stared blankly at the ceiling, tears still flowing. Kuri sighed happily as she slid to her knees.

"We're saved, Naruto...You're friends are here..."

The door opened with a creak, and I jerked my attention over to it.

Just as expected, Sakura slowly stepped through it, her tiny leather boots making a click on the tile as she stood at full attention in front of me. Her smile was as bright as it had always been, and her emerald eyes shone with tears the same way mine did. I gathered myself to a slouch, as far as I could go without crying out in pain, as she stood before me. A powerfully emotional embrace was issued, and we cried in each others arms. She kissed me, and I kissed her back. But the moment was quickly lost at the deadpanned numbness of my legs, leaning against Sakura. Her super strength showed no struggle in picking my painful body and bolting out the door with Kuri by my side. We passed the fight easily, Kisame and Itachi too caught up in the battle of 9 against 2 to notice the abduction of their hostage.

I looked up at Sakura, whose face now showed nothing but determination as she raced to the emergency room, Kuri calling upon a few select nurses to assist. I touched her arm lightly and she looked down at me, her attention entirely focused on me.

"It'll be alright, Naruto..."

If only I could believe that was true...