So, I almost dropped this story (a friend had to convince me to keep writing and uploading).
After uploading the last chapter I received a lot of private messaged hate mail on here and on my second upload account (AO3). Seriously people, not once did I say Trans people 'are a joke', on the contrary I grew up with a strong mother who supported me and told me to never be ashamed for liking both genders or for preferring to date the same gender (even after being expelled from 2 schools for it), rather she taught me to embrace and even laugh at myself, this way others can never hurt me.
I get everyone is entitled to their opinion, but seriously, I never said that Trans people are a joke.
If you can't see the funny side in all situations - good and bad -, then I honestly feel sorry for you.
In light of this, I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Even though Mikoto was an Alpha, not once did she try to dominate Kushina during their time together, in fact the pair were getting along so well they were on a fast track to becoming really close friends. So much so that not only had they already swapted details, but were organizing a couple's retreat with themselves and their mates.
"This will be great!" Kushina giggled as they walked down the corridor to Naruto and Sasuke's shared room.
"Agreed, I can't wait to just relax on a beach for once. No work, no commitments, just good friends and relaxation." Mikoto agreed.
As they approached the room, laughing madly in their own happy little bubble, they found it quickly being popped, the reality of their current situation hitting them. The closer they got to the room, the louder the yelling coming from their boys became.
"NO! I won't let you see him! You'll just try to take him away from me!"
"I'm his father and after the stunt you already pulled, I have every right to!"
The women looked at each other before hurrying their steps and bursting into the room, finding both their boys awake and in what looked and sounded like a heated argument.
"Naruto,", "Sasuke," both mothers called out, gaining both boys attention, "What's going on?" they asked together.
"He's trying to take my son away." Naruto accused, pointing at the raven haired Alpha male.
"He's my son too and I have every right to meet him." Sasuke growled back, crossing his arms in defence.
With that being said, Naruto faced Sasuke and seemed to start up again. "Bullshit, the moment you have him in your arms, you'll run!"
"And if I did, I would have every right to! You already stole his birth from me, so don't make this all about you!"
Naruto growled and was about to lunge at Sasuke when his mother stepped in front and blocked the Alpha from view, Mikoto seeming to do the same to Sasuke.
"Now now," Mikoto said calmly, "I'm sure we can work this out like reasonable adults."
"Who the hell are you?" Naruto growled.
"Don't speak to my mother like that!" Sasuke growled back as he tried to step around the raven woman.
"Sasuke, enough." Mikoto warned before turning slightly towards Naruto, "Forgive me, my name is Mikoto, I'm Sasuke's mother. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"At least someone in your family is polite, asshole." Naruto huffed as he looked away from the pair of ravens.
"Naruto, hunny, why don't you sit down and tell me what's going on." Kushina said softly as she coaxed the blond Omega into sitting on a chair that was close by.
Once sitting, Naruto took several calming breaths before turning to his mother, but before he could get a word in, Sasuke beat him to it. "The moron won't let me meet my son!" he yelled.
"Now that you know about him, all you're going to want to do is take him away from me and maybe go start a perfect little family with a perfect little obedient Omega!" Naruto yelled back, trying to stand again, but his mother kept him in place. "He's all I have! You can't have him!"
"Get it through your thick brain! I-just-want-to-meet-my-son!" Sasuke growled out each word through gritted teeth.
"Naruto sweetheart," Kushina whispered, trying desperately to keep the emotionally unstable Omega calm. "Sasuke just wants to meet his son, wouldn't you feel the same if it was the other way around?"
Naruto glared at the floor, but after a moment nodded.
"Naruto, please." Mikoto begged, "We just want to meet him, no one's going to take him from you, that I can promise."
"If I did take him, I would have every right." Sasuke mumbled, but it was purposely loud enough for Naruto to hear.
"What did you say, asshole?" Naruto growled as he stood, fists clenched tight enough to turn his knuckles white.
"Sasuke!" Mikoto growled, turning towards her son.
"Naruto please, think about what you're doing." Kushina begged as she tried to stand in front of her son again.
"No, I've had enough of this asshole ruining my life!" the blond growled.
"Is that what you think I did?" Sasuke hissed, "What about me?"
"What about you? You're an Alpha, you can have anything you want handed to you on a silver platter!" Just as Naruto took a step towards Sasuke, the door to their room opened and Itachi and Minato walked in, bags of food in hand.
"What's going on?" Itachi asked as he placed his bags down on a nearby chair.
"This idiot wont let me see my son!" Sasuke growled.
Itachi sighed as he began to walk towards Naruto, but stopped a few meters away from him as Sasuke began to growl. "Naruto, please. Think about it, Sasuke just wants to meet his son and be there to watch him grow up. At the moment you have all the control." he placed his hands out in front of himself, showing he meant no harm. "You can be the one to dictate how everything goes, but please, just let him meet his son."
"Naruto, son." Minato whispered from the door. "Do you really want Menma growing up without a father?"
"What if he tries to run?" Naruto asked, his head dropping, hair covering his eyes.
"We'll all be here." Minato answered as he walked towards the blond Omega.
Itachi was quick to grab the other Alpha by the elbow when he heard Sasuke begin to growl again and pull them back a few steps, till the newly mated Alpha began to settle.
It took all the parents quite some time, some slow coaxing and a lot of promises before Naruto finally agreed to let Sasuke meet their son. It was settled that Kushina - being the only other Omega in the room - would give Menma to Naruto and Naruto would be the one to walk over to Sasuke when he was ready.
With everything ready Minato took the sleeping child out of the carrier on his chest and passed him to Kushina, who then walked over and gave him to Naruto. Naruto hugged his son close as he took several calming breaths. Once he was ready he slowly began his trek across the room to the waiting raven Alpha on the other side.
With all the parents on one side of the room and the newly bonded couple on the other, the room itself seemed to hold its breath as Naruto slowly passed the sleeping child to Sasuke.
At first Sasuke just stared down at the child awkwardly, his arms feeling uncomfortable as he held him, but after Naruto readjusted his hold and the seconds ticked by at an eternal pace, the child's eyes slowly opened and looked up at him. Clear blue eyes only a shade or two darker than Naruto's stared up at black and for a split second everything in Sasuke's world stood still, then he felt something deep inside of him click.
Eye turned red and tears slowly made their way down his cheeks as he drew the child in closer, taking in his scent as he went. It was a fresh spring smell, like Naruto's but with an underlining scent of something akin to a storm brewing - which he imagined was what he smelled like.
Sasuke had never considered kids growing up, he always thought that that was something his brother would do, but not him. He wouldn't say he hated kids, but he had always thought that he resembled his father too much and didn't want his own kids to suffer through that. But looking down at the child in his arms, a small smile crept onto his face and he knew in that moment, he would never be like his father.
With a deep content sigh Naruto gazed at the pair, his eye's flashing violet, "Sasuke, this is Menma. Menma, this is your daddy." he cooed to the baby now snuggling into Sasuke's chest.
Slowly Naruto crept closer to the pair, drawing in the mixing of their scent, and against everything that he wanted to think, this new blend of scent smelt safe and like 'home'.
Unbeknown to the pair, all the parents quietly slipped out of the room to give them some privacy.
"I think it's time I called my mate and tell him what's been going on with our sons." Mikoto bowed as she excused herself.
With a deep sigh Itachi nodded, "I should probably update Dei. He's probably got grip marks all over his desk by now from worry." the raven chuckled as he pulled out his phone and too walked off.
With the two Uchiha's gone, Kushina took a seat out the front of the boys room. "May as well wait till they need us."
"Hmmmm…." Minato sighed as he too took a seat. "Just wish I grabbed one of the bags on our way out…" at that moment, his stomach gave a loud grumble.
Kushina laughed as she rose, grabbing her mate's hand on the way. "Let's go to the cafeteria."
Some time had passed and the pair had made themselves comfortable on the bed, with Menma cradled between them. Although still guarded against each other they had fallen into a peaceful slumber, till the sound of the door opening had the pair looking over on high alert at the sudden intruder.
Doctor Haruno made her way into the room - keeping her distance from them to avoid a territorial display - stopping several meters from their bed while still being visible by the pair.
"Sorry for the intrusion, but there are several things we need to discuss before the pair of you are discharged." receiving a glare from the pair she ignored it and continued. "As your bond is still new and a soulbond at that, you will need to maintain some sort of closeness for at least the next few months, till your bond settles."
Both boys looked at each other and growled, their hands slowly creeping towards the sleeping form between them, but before they could do anything drastic, Dr. Haruno cut them off.
"I advise you to be in contact on Wednesdays - maybe stay the night - and on weekends. The more time you spend with each other the faster your bond will become cemented."
"You mean I have to actually spend time with this asshole?" Naruto hissed, pointing at the raven Alpha.
Nodding Dr. Haruno continued. "I also advise that during your time together, you either engage in intimate acts or at least have some sort of physical contact with each other."
The pair choked, both starting up and objecting to the requirement for some sort of intimacy between them.
"Unless you both want to end up back here, then I suggest you follow my suggestion." with that she turned on her heel and left, leaving them to their spinning thoughts.
It was Sasuke that finally broke the silence. "How do you want to do this?"
"What do you mean?" Naruto glared.
"Do you want to come to mine or should I come to yours?"
Naruto thought it over for a bit before sighing. "Flying with Menma will be a pain and everything I need for him is at mine, could you come to us?"
"Sounds reasonable." Sasuke nodded, not wanting to start anything that would jeopardize him continuing to see his son.
"Fine." Naruto nodded with a deep sigh as he stood up and received a cloth and wrap from Menma's baby bag - located on a chair close by. Returning to the bed he scooped Menma up and covered both himself and Menma before feeding his son. Feeling Sasuke's stare he looked up and glared at the raven, "What?" he growled.
Sasuke pointed at him before asking, "What are you doing?"
"My chest hurts and the fastest way to relieve it is to feed Menma."
"C…. Can I see?" Sasuke asked hesitantly.
"Why?" Naruto snapped. "So you can make fun of me for being a male that can breastfeed?"
"No." Sasuke shook his head. "I'm just curious."
"Well be curious somewhere else." Naruto growled, turning his head away. After a moment of silence and a quick glance at Sasuke's depressed face, he started to feel guilty. He knew that male Omega's were rare as it was - only 10% of the population rare - and one's that could breastfeed even rarer - less than 2% of that -, so it was only natural for the Alpha to be curious.
Sighing, Naruto hesitantly removed the cloth. Unlike women who had large breasts to feed their babies, male Omega pecs as a whole would slightly elevate from their chest, allowing for room for the milk to develop.
Sasuke gazed at him as their son suckled and to the blond's surprise, he didn't feel the embarrassment he normally did from those that watched him or see the disapproving gaze from those that criticize him for being a male Omega. If anything, Sasuke just seemed just what he said, 'curious'.
Once Menma was done with one side he instinctively let go to seek out the other side. Without missing a beat Naruto quickly swapped him over and in an instant Menma was suckling again.
"Does it hurt?" Sasuke asked, his gaze on the child in Naruto's arms as he fed.
"Breastfeeding?" Naruto clarified curiously. After receiving a nod he answered. "It did at the beginning, till I saw a Lactation Consultant and learnt how to get him to properly latch. It still hurts when he tries to come off while still suckling and worse when he decides to bite down hard, I think a tooth or two are descending."
"Can I touch you?" Sasuke asked as he stared at the blond.
Naruto was about to glare and say no, but part of him wanted to be touched. Worrying his lip between his teeth he looked away while nodding.
Sasuke's hand was gentle as it caressed his chest, one side, then the other, feeling the difference between the full side and the empty side. "Amazing." he whispered as he continued to gently grope the blond, earning tiny muffled moans.
Teeth biting hard into his lip and breath becoming laboured Naruto had to turn away from the Alpha's touch. "Please stop." he whimpered, realizing he had started to release pheromones into the air.
"Sorry." Sasuke whispered, quickly retracting his hand. With a cough he awkwardly stood, hand pulled the hospital gown out slightly to hide his shame. "Ah, I might go have a shower."
"Right." Naruto nodded as his face flushed and he quickly covered himself and Menma up.
As quick as a flash Sasuke was gone, leaving Naruto and Menma alone. With a soft sigh Naruto curled around the baby boy into his arms, biting his lip again as he whispered, "What are we going to do Menma?"
From under the cloth, a small hand pushed up and rubbed Naruto's face, instantly calming the blond.
"You're right, we should give him a chance." Naruto whispered.
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In light of the previous chapters situation I want to thank those who gave me feed back and ideas about what they wanted to see Naruto and Sasuke in for their Commitment Ceremony. I have taken everyone's suggestions on board and come to a decision. ^_^
Until next time.