All right, you'll have to excuse me. I've finally found a beta so I might be reposting these but I just thought that I would post this chapter for your reading pleasure. LOL, and drag out the SasuNaru s-xing scene. Hehehehehe, okay, let me know what ya'll think. Drop me reviews or I might just fade away from the lack of response. I also apologize for the late LATE update. Already working on the next chapter but... midterms are a pain.

Warnings: Mpreg, Yaoi, male/male loving.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that you recognize. Naruto, etc.

Konoha - Kiba & Shino

Under the gigantic elm, with its leaves a bright spray of golds and reds, a flash of silver was the only warning before the solid thunk of a kunai hitting its mark echoed through the air. Akamaru yipped and tensed before springing high up to snag the next kunai from the air. With a quick one eighty-turn and the jerk of a neck muscle the kunai went sailing back towards its owner. Kiba's hands flashed out and around, the flare of silver the only warning before the solid thunk of the kunai hitting its mark echoed through the air. The wind abruptly shifted whipping around their feet. A heavy enthralling scent drew both their attention over to another teen standing at the edge of the clearing. "Shino!" Kiba exclaimed. The bug boy shuffled forward. Kiba, who had cheerful started towards his friend, suddenly froze in his tracks. His head tilted to the side, brownish black hair tumbling over his eyes as he took a deep breath. There was a… scent emanating from the other teen. It was… intoxicating more so then ever. Slit eyes glazed and the red marks on Kiba's cheeks deepened into a husky rose. The confused bark from Akamaru went unheard by his owner. In a flash, Shino had his collar pushed down with the other boy's nose buried in his neck. The momentary flash of panic he experienced had bugs swarmed over in an agitated frenzy around his covered wrist. Kiba took another deep breath lost in a euphoria of smells.

"You… you smell so good." Kiba practically moaned. He rubbed his nose up and down the smooth column of flesh both hands clamped just above Shino's elbows. Unbeknownst to him, he was making small mewling sounds of pleasure as he tried to burrow deeper and deeper into Shino. Akamaru yipped dancing around their feet slightly confused by his master's behavior. Shino's lips turned up slightly into what would only be classified as a smug smirk. It wasn't well known but the Aburame's did have a mating season and mating rituals to follow.

The Aburame's usually hit mating season around summer fading into fall. A mating ritually can take from a week to a month to accomplish thus any Aburame's currently pursuing their intended is given off duty until the dance of love and life was complete. A mate is chosen by its reaction to a scent released by the seeker. After the mate is chosen, the seeker must then go through a five step process: the court, the kiss, the declaration, the marking, and then consummation.

As abruptly as the smell hit Kiba, it left and he found himself blinking in confusion standing a few feet away from Shino. Akamaru stared up at him as if he'd lost his kibbles and grown an extra head at the same time. The last thing he remembered was heading towards the other teen before… he gave absently scratched at one of the red marks running up his cheeks and mentally shrugged, it'll come back to him eventually. "Hey, Shino! Did you find out what happened to Naruto?" He demanded mentally shaking off the momentary confusion. The other boy shrugged his collar looking kind of… squashed. "Huh, what happened to your collar?" Akamaru yipped but Kiba didn't catch what ever the white dog was trying to say because at the same time, Shino coughed loudly.

"Actually I was just about to head over to the Hokage's office…" He paused, "Let's stop by Ichiraku to see if Naruto has gone by recently." He offered.

Kiba gave a quick nod. "Akamaru? Can you grab my coat?" The white dog yipped and ran off. Kiba shot Shino a weird look. "You okay?" He inquired slightly confused by the feeling of wanting to get as far away from the smugly smirking Shino as possible. It only got stranger because Shino's smirk grew and he swung away.

"Fine." Came the clipped answer. Again that feeling of wanting to run and hide from the bug boy hit him. He mentally shrugged it off and picked up his coat from Akamaru's jaws. He quickly pulled it on and grinned.

"All right. If you're sure. Come on, let's go!" Akamaru gave two quick barks of agreement and they both took off. Shino followed at a more sedate pace though he easily kept up with the other boy. Unseen by the cheerfully laughing individual a few steps ahead, a full blown smile graced Shino's lips as he mentally made check marks. Phase one-complete. Commence phase two.

The Sound - Sasuke & Naruto

In the passing of the five- six years the surrounding forest of Sound had not changed much. The general layout of the farms were the same. The same lilting hills perched with a lazy air on the landscape. The same dirt paths, slightly widened by the steadily increasing flow of traffic over the years, winding up and around the hills like a muddy brown ribbon. It would be so easy to slip back into his genin days, back when Jiraiya and Sakura had been with him here. And for an instant he could feel strong arms surrounding him while a hard shoulder prodded his aching stomach with every sway of the nin's steps. But like the fleeting wind, it slipped away and left behind the chills of apprehension. He could hear his heart pounding wildly as if to compliment the feral mocking laughter of the Kyuubi. Naruto suppressed a shudder thanking whatever gods up there that he still retained some memory of Sound's layout. His breath came out in harsh pants and his stomach had started to ache again. The steady pulse of Sasuke's chakra was the only sign he'd had since the chase began that the other man still shadowed him.

Naruto spared half a second to absently shove back damp blond hair and quickly braced himself as he landed jarringly on a thick brown branch. Red-orange chakra swirled around his feet; what was the point of hiding his chakra and wasting that energy when Sasuke was going to catch him anyway? And if Naruto was going to go down quite literally as a bottom, he'd take that right bastard with him! A soft sinister chuckle to his left raised chills up his spin. O-kay, Sasuke is seriously creepy. Naruto picked up his pace becoming almost invincible to the naked eye.

The trees provided a nest of sorts. A canopy of green, greener then Konoha's rapidly turning leaves. In the distance came a flicker of cool green chakra. A touch of comfort that could only be Iruka. Naruto froze his muscles tense in mid-leap. If he could feel Iruka's chakra then that meant the chuunin was close. Maybe sixty to seventy miles off, he was never quite sure of his chakra radius.

Give it up brat. You're not even trying.The Kyuubi taunted. Shut up. Naruto snapped. Now was not the time to get into an argument with the kitsune. His stomach was acting up and he could practically feel Sasuke closing in on him. Damn, doesn't this guy ever give up? At the thought Naruto snorted. Yeah right, we're talking about the guy who joined Orochimaru just to hunt down and kill his brother. "All right, time for some bunshin fun!" Naruto muttered. His hands flashed through the familiar seals for his favorite jutsu. Like a silent smoke bomb had been set off, sandy yellow smoke filled the area. When it cleared, after drifting away in lazy swirls, ten identical copies of the blond appeared sporting identical smirks.

Sasuke could feel every pull and pulse of Naruto's orange-red chakra as he stealthily shadowed the blond teen. A smirk curled the edges of his lips while a black circle spun in the red of his eyes. He tracked the bumbling trail of the other teen. Desire and anticipation curled within him; anticipation to catch the him and desire to claim him. A sudden flare of red alerted him to chaka activity from Naruto. He paused in an indecisive moment before proceeding with caution. He leapt from tree to tree landing softly with no disturbance in the air. A black eyebrow quirked up in amusement when he spotted the eleven Naruto's. His smirk grew a wicked curve and he had to stifle the chuckle just bubbling inside. Naïve little Naruto, thinking he would not know the difference between the real thing and a carbon copy. He watched with a malevolent kind of glee as all the Naruto's leapt away in different directions purposefully leaving traces of chakra. He slid after the real Naruto with a low and almost nonexistent chuckle. Oh this was too sweet.

The Group

Iruka swiped at his forehead pausing to dig his finger under the steel plate of the protector and scratch at an itch. Kakashi slouched oozing over a branch above, face buried in an Icha Icha Paradise book. Gaara stood off to the side face expressionless and eyes closed. "He's close." The red-head murmured. "Probably a few miles off." A line appeared in the middle of his forehead between his eyes. There was something slightly off with the kitsune's chakra. His stoic face suddenly twisted into a feral snarl green eyes popping open. "Uchiha!" That caught every one's attention and drew the group back together again. Kakashi calmly closed his book and absently tugged at the end of the Konoha forehead protector covering his left eye. Shikamaru rolled his eyes but reluctantly closed them with a drawn out sigh.

"Well?" Lee prompted after a few moments of silence.

"Uchiha is close behind Naruto." Neji replied opening his eyes. "Very close. We might have to fight him." He added eyeing Shikamaru warily. Said shin obi twitched and absently touching his right shoulder. Neji's eyes narrowed -

Hssssss. "Fuck, Neji!" Quick flash of dark metal. Dark humorless laughter, spinning black and red. Blood…. Blood everywhere. His hands, his face, his jacket. Fuck, fuck, FUCK!

"Shikamaru!" Shit! A guttural scream, new blood spurting everywhere. Shikamaru stumbling back, shadows flickering wildly left hand gripping right shoulder tightly. A flicker of malicious glee in sharingan eyes. Pale hands covered in red blood gripping a now gasping Shikamaru. Shikamaru scrambling to tear the hands away from his throat blood spurting in rivulets turning the green chuunin jacket an ugly muddy dirt brown. Neji spitting blood smearing red streaks across his cheeks and lowering his hand. Chouji just a lump on the ground knocked out ages ago. Triumph blazing in blood red eyes black mangekyou fading away as thin lips kicked up in a smirk. Shikamaru falling in a lifeless heap his body carelessly kicked aside another kunai sprouting from his left shoulder, more blood.

"This is a warning, Hyuuga, Nara. Interfere again and you just might not walk away." Humorless laughter. "Take him, patch him up," Disbelief danced across pale features framed by long blood matted black hair. Black bled back into red eyes narrowed in a spark of anger as the Avenger stood almost protectively over the prone blond. "But don't think for one second that this is over." A soft breeze and he was gone but his parting words echoed sending chills down Neji's practically numb spine. "I'll be seeing you soon-"

"Neji!" Said teen gave a start and realized that everyone was staring at him. He relaxed the tight fists had hands had unconsciously formed and exhaled silently.

"Excuse me." He offered politely. "Lost in thought for a moment." Shikamaru shot him a quick concerned look before masking it under a feigned expression of boredom. He would have passed off as casual if not for the way his left hand clutched his right shoulder. Gaara stiffened a split second before Kakashi shoved his forehead protector up. Red eyes blazed to life, brightening as the three commas started a lazy spin. Iruka tensed changing his open stance to a close defensive position. Gaara, picking up on the tension, blinked round black eyes and quickly assumed a offensive stance flexing his hands in preparation. Neji activated Byakugan straining his chakra to try and see what the others were sensing.

Quite a ways away he could just about wispy hints of red chakra… which meant Naruto was either homing in on them and heading their way or he was just randomly running but getting closer. Behind that was a malevolent swirl of black chakra shot with bolts of purple. There was a brief flare of the red chakra almost drowned out by the responding black chakra.

They all had a moment of quiet contemplation when all of a sudden the black chakra surged and completely covered the red chakra. Beside him his former sensei gasped and shuddered uttering a warbled, "Naruto!" Without waiting for anyone, his hands came up and flashed through a teleportation jutsu. Kakashi's sharingan zeroed in on the signs his hands already halfway through when Iruka vanished in a swirl of smoke. The copy-nin gave them quick hard look, "Pair up, cover your backs. As of this moment, Sasuke is to be taken out." And he vanished with a soft poof. Gaara grabbed Lee not giving the other a chance to protest before they both vanished in a swirl of sand.

Neji and Shikamaru grimaced at the same time not all too eager to face off with Sasuke. With Gaara, Kakashi, and Iruka they had a chance of beating Sasuke but… for some reason Neji doubted that. He let the Byakugan fade and turned to eye the other Jounin warily. Shikamaru had his eyes rolled up and glued to the sky as he softly muttered to himself. Neji patiently tucked a loose strand of hair behind his ears. A second later Shikamaru sighed and reached out a long slender hand. "Come on." Without hesitation Neji intercepted that hand and grasped it securely. A moment later the small clearing in the middle of a booby-trapped forest emptied the only sign of the group having passed through being the glittering sand particles clinging to spidery clear strands of razor sharp wire.

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