I just wanted all of you to know that the SasuxNaru and KakaxIru short stories are going to be a bit longer because there is something very important that needs to be explained. Just so you know. Enjoy the story!
"What happened Sakura-chan?" Shikamaru asked Sakura seriously, sitting down across from her; a shogi board between them.
"Well I guess there was an intruder so Iruka got a slice on his arm, it wasn't poisoned or anything thank goodness, but I worry about those two sometimes" Sakura said, staring at the board.
"You know…" Shikamaru said taking a sip of his tea, "you seem a bit different Sakura-chan" Shikamaru said taking a good look at her.
Sakura chuckled awkwardly knowing this was a bad idea. She had never played shogi against Shikamaru and it wasn't because he would beat her in probably five minutes. It was because they could actually sit down and talk. She loved talking to Shikamaru, don't get her wrong, but he always saw right through her.
"I think you're just seeing things Shikamaru-kun" Sakura said chuckling. Shikamaru rolled his eyes at her.
"How about if you can get five moves in, without me beating you, then I'll tell you what I'm thinking about telling you" Shikamaru said quietly. Sakura looked at him curiously considering it seemed he had been trying to tell her something for the last week.
"And if I don't" Sakura said as if sounding like she'd already lose.
"Then at least give me a good hint as to what you are hiding from me" Shikamaru said smirking.
"You know, the last bet I made with you got me into this situation playing shogi" Sakura said lifting her eyebrow.
"Which you have failed to start as of yet" Shikamaru said, sipping his tea again.
"But Shika" Sakura said quietly, leaning over the board at him seductively.
"Oh no you don't!" Shikamaru said quickly, a light tint to his cheeks. Sakura pouted as Shikamaru breathed out a sigh knowing he wouldn't have been able to resist if she kissed him.
Of course Sakura would never tell him that she had been practicing with a shogi master in secret that lived in the village (who was actually Shikamaru's grandfather she realized later). Apparently Shikamaru's father had a fight with his own father so Shikamaru had never met the man (but she was pretty sure Shikamaru knew who he was).
Either way she couldn't let the old man down who specifically requested that she kick Shikamaru's ass in the game. She was pretty sure his grandfather liked Shikamaru anyway.
So it started. She moved her piece next moving very slowly. Both were like molasses if someone were to walk by them. They were both so into the game, both lost track of the time. Sakura was actually past twelve moves in and Shikamaru was still doing well with his pieces.
"Shikamaru-kun" Sakura said yawning.
"Hm?" Shikamaru said quietly still calculating his moves.
"I know that we are still in this game but could we take a break?" Sakura said smiling at him apologetically.
"Yeah that's fine" Shikamaru said yawning, covering the board with the box lid it came in so no one touched the pieces. Sakura hugged him happily kissing him which Shikamaru returned happily.
"You hungry? We were playing for four hours" Sakura said, sweat dropping.
"Sure" Shikamaru said walking hand in hand with Sakura down the street. Shikamaru was stunned. Not even his father played him for four hours. Two tops per game, but not even close to four. Every time he had made a move that would make him victorious, Sakura seemed to have another move up her sleeve.
"Shikamaru!" Shikamaru turned along with Sakura to see Shikaku waving him down.
"Hey dad" Shikamaru said, sliding in a booth with Sakura across from his father, Kakashi, and Genma.
"What are you doing here Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked curiously.
"He was just asking me something actually" Shikaku said smirking at the man. Kakashi just rolled his one visible eye at him.
"Aren't you going to ask why I'm here?" Genma said winking at her.
"It has a bar here?" Sakura said wondering if that was the right answer while the other men just laughed as Genma sighed.
"Anyway what were you two love birds doing? Choji said he hadn't seen either of you all day" Genma said lecherously.
"LALALALA" Shikaku and Kakashi started saying loudly covering their ears. After all it was his son and Kakashi's ex-student and teammate.
"We were playing shogi" Shikamaru said drolly at the men across from him.
"I thought you said you don't like playing Sakura-san" Shikaku said curiously.
"Well I don't but I lost a bet to Shikamaru-kun so I had to play him a game" Sakura said rubbing the back of her head.
"So how many moves did you get to before he wiped the floor with you" Kakashi said snickering.
"Uh…" Sakura said blushing and looking down at the table.
"We're still playing. We were at it for four hours but it isn't finished yet" Shikamaru said seriously at them. At that point their mouths were dropped in shock.
"Wait, wait, wait" Genma said holding up his hands "you haven't beaten her yet!?"
"She's a really good opponent" Shikamaru said smirking looking curiously at Sakura.
"Wow" Kakashi and Shikaku said stunned.
"Well I guess we should have ended the game though" Sakura said laughing softly.
"Why? It's a good game" Shikamaru asked curiously.
"Yeah but I've been cheating so it shouldn't really count" Sakura said laughing.
"How have you cheated? You were playing fair and square as far as I could see" Shikamaru said seriously, "how did you learn to play like that anyway?"
"Well… I guess that's how I cheated" Sakura whispered out, pushing her forefingers together nervously.
"Can I watch whenever you guys continue" Shikaku asked curiously.
"No!" Sakura said suddenly making the men sweat drop, "I-I mean… you would know right away how I'm cheating" Sakura said laughing awkwardly.
Shikaku and Shikamaru just looked at each other before deciding to discuss this by themselves later. They continued having dinner together enjoying the evening. Sakura left to their apartment, Shikamaru saying he needed to talk to his dad about something important.
"So…" Shikaku said, smirking at the boy, "Sakura-san, huh? You ask her yet?"
"No. I told her I'd tell her what I've been thinking lately if she got five pieces into the game. Obviously I have to tell her now" Shikamaru said bored.
"So what's the deal. It doesn't look like you've told her yet" Shikaku said smirking at the boy.
"Well, I know that she'd say yes, but there is still a chance she'd say no" Shikamaru said, stuffing his hands into his pocket.
"Which is the higher chance?" Shikaku asked curiously. He liked Sakura a lot. She definitely seemed to be a good match for his son and gave him a challenge which was good.
"That she'll say yes" Shikamaru said sighing.
"Then ask her" Shikaku said shrugging.
"So go hurry up. Your mom wants grandkids" Shikaku said winking at the man. Shikamaru smiled, sluggishly walking towards their apartment.
"Good luck, kiddo" Shikaku said smiling.
Sakura just sighed in the bathroom looking at the plastic stick in her hands.
"He'll either be happy, or it's over between us" Sakura said sadly, hugging her knees to her chest.
Maybe Shikaku and Yoshino were going to get grandkids sooner than they realized.
"Are you okay Sasuke-kun?" Naruto asked curiously. Sasuke gave an exasperated sigh yet again.
"I told you I was fine ten minutes ago Dobe" Sasuke said seriously.
Sasuke, of course, felt like pulling a prank on Naruto.
"Go buy the things I told you to and I'll meet you back here okay?" Sasuke said quietly kissing him on the cheek. Naruto pecked him on the lips, nodding at him, heading off to the grocery store, Sasuke going to the Hokage tower.
So everyone knew that Sasuke was pregnant at this point, since he was at least two and a half months along now. Of course he wasn't showing at all though.
He told Naruto that he was going to see Tsunade who requested to see him immediately.
"What are you doing here brat?" Tsunade said looking up from her papers.
"I want to play a prank on Naruto" Sasuke said smirking. Now Tsunade was interested; in fact she walked quickly up to him whispering. Mostly because if Sasuke had a plan to do something to prank Naruto, it had to be good.
"What's the plan?" Tsunade asked excitedly like a little kid.
"I want you to say that you sent me on an S-class solo mission. Say it was about the two men who haven't been found yet that were from the Wolf gang" Sasuke said quietly.
"But they were captured yesterday" Tsunade said sweat dropping. Sasuke looked taken aback for a moment.
"How many people know that?" Sasuke asked curiously.
"Just me. I didn't inform any of the Anbu captains yet. I was going to today since I got the information late last night" Tsunade said nodding.
"Okay. Don't inform anyone yet" Sasuke said seriously.
"But he'll ask why I would send you in your condition" Tsunade said quietly.
"Tell him you weren't informed of my condition and pretend like you don't know what the condition is. Tell him Shizune was pretending to be you for the last month since there was a grand opening of a Casino somewhere" Sasuke said.
"There was a Casino that just opened up in the land of Snow" Tsunade said recalling.
"Why do you know that…?" Sasuke sweat dropped.
"Anyway! I sent you on a solo S-class mission, unaware of your condition, because they all know that you had a score to settle with the Wolf gang anyway right?" Tsunade said nodding.
"Right" Sasuke said quietly.
"I'll play my part well to teach that brat a lesson for hiding my liquor don't worry. Also, where will you be hiding in the meantime?"
"I think I'll be hiding out at Ichiraku's. Like in their store room" Sasuke said nodding.
"But Naruto is sure to go there!" Tsunade said seriously.
"If we know Naruto, like we do, he'll run straight off to intercept me. Plus I'm sure everyone else will know that I would run off to take care of unfinished business right?" Sasuke said seriously.
"Yeah. Plus that works out well since everyone heard them threaten Naruto in front of you" Tsunade said excitedly jumping up and down.
"But how are you going to get to Ichiraku's without being seen by Naruto? Does Teuchi-san now your plan?" Tsunade asked curiously.
"Yeah he does. He felt kind of bad for Naruto but as long as nothing happened to either of us than it was fine. Plus I want to pay Naruto back for pulling a prank on me a couple of weeks ago anyway. Also… could you transport me to Ichiraku's since I'm forbidden from using my chakra?" Sasuke asked nervously.
"Yes I will" Tsunade said smiling evilly. She transported Sasuke to the ramen stand where Teuchi made a comfortable little area for him to sit at in the storeroom.
"Let the plan begin" Tsunade said deviously. Naruto would probably come into her office annoyed wondering where Sasuke was. Naruto did just that in about two hours who actually walked into her office with four members of Anbu with him and Kakashi and Shikamaru.
"Baa-chan, Hawk says that Sasuke-kun's uniform was missing from our room" Naruto said crossing his arms.
"Yeah…?" Tsuande said confused wondering what the problem was.
"Did you kick him off of Anbu because of his condition or something!?" Naruto said angrily.
"Why would I kick him off of Anbu? What condition are you talking about?" Tsunade said, still portraying confusion.
"What do you mean 'what's his condition'?" Naruto said flailing his arms in the air.
"You've been here for a month you should know what I'm talking about!" Naruto said angrily. Sasuke was still really uncomfortable with people saying the 'p' word about him (pregnant) so everyone just said 'condition' instead.
Tsunade awkwardly coughed shuffling her papers.
"Shizune was here replacing you wasn't she?" Shikamaru said drolly.
"Replacing is such a harsh word. Let's go with filling in" Tsunade said coughing.
"She was doing your job for a month!" All of the men roared at her.
"A new Casino opened in the land of Snow! I couldn't pass it up!" Tsunade yelled back at them.
"Now what are you talking about me kicking Uchiha-san off of Anbu for?" Tsuande said huffing.
"I haven't seen him in two hours and he said he'd meet me back at the grocery store. I went looking for him and ran into these guys who said that his uniform was missing" Naruto said recapping what happened earlier.
"First off you still haven't told me what 'condition' you're talking about brat. But I sent Sasuke on an S-class solo mission against the last two members against the Wolf gang that were spotted in rogue nin territory. I think their power was increased the last time you all were against them and I think they're torturing skills were amped up as well. Since there were only two of them left I thought he could get back at them for threatening you since he seemed eager to do that when you returned last time" Tsunade said shrugging.
Naruto was on the floor in ten seconds; he fainted. Everyone else looked like they were about to pass out too since their mouths were dropped down in shock.
"Well he was yelling something at me but I wasn't really listening cause I wasn't in the mood to hear someone complain about a mission so I used a transportation jutsu on him to the coordinates anyway even though he actually tried to hit me. I knocked him out though but he's probably already to the destination by now fighting I guess" Tsunade said shaking her head disapprovingly.
The rest of Anbu were passed out on the floor. The only ones standing were Kakashi and Shikamaru who were still in too much shock to pass out at this point (and no, Shikamaru hasn't asked Sakura anything and Sakura hasn't told Shikamaru anything).
"Why are they on the floor?" Tsunade said annoyed, "get up you lazy asses!"
"What condition was the brat talking about anyway?" Tsunade asked curiously.
"You sent my pregnant lover on an S-class solo mission into rogue nin territory you bat shit crazy old lady!" Naruto yelled jumping up and grabbing Tsunade by the collar. Tsunade's mouth was dropped down in shock, her little ghost leaving her.
Naruto shoved all the papers on her desk off searching for the mission order on her desk (Tsunade made one just in case Naruto didn't believe her).
Naruto found it before disappearing in a puff of smoke all of Anbu right after him. All of them were yelling at each other at this point hurriedly getting their things before running off fast to the coordinates.
"Wait…" Tsunade said quietly, "How will they know it was just a joke?"
"Kotetsu…" Izumo said sweat dropping, walking down the aisle with the man next to him. Well not next to him. Practically on top of him.
"Ye~s?" Kotetsu said happily.
"I'm not even pregnant why are you keeping anyone and anything away from me?" Izumo said annoyed.
"I need to make sure your body is in perfect condition" Kotetsu said as a matter a fact sort of way.
"You're an idiot" Izumo said angrily pushing the man away from him walking to the next aisle. Izumo was getting really annoyed at the man. Izumo didn't even remember the last time they had sex or even when the last time Kotetsu actually didn't yell at him for going somewhere.
Izumo accidently bumped shoulders with someone giving a quiet 'sorry' continuing his walk.
"Hey!" Izumo turned seeing an angered man.
"You just bumped my girl!" The man said angrily.
"I apologized" Izumo said, slightly frustrated before walking past the man.
"Do I look like I'm done talking to you!?" The man yelled at him.
"Do I look like I care?" Izumo muttered out still walking away from him.
"Don't!" The woman said grabbing the man's arm.
"He can't just hit you while you're pregnant!" The man said angrily.
"He didn't hit me! He bumped my shoulder slightly. He apologized and I am fine. What is your problem?" The lady yelled angrily at him.
"I'm sorry about him don't worry" The woman said kindly to Izumo patting his arm.
"Uh… yeah. Sure. Again sorry about that" Izumo said quietly moving to the produce section.
"I can't help but worry about you, you know" The man said quietly to the woman.
"I know dear. I understand" The woman said kindly.
Izumo sighed. It sounded a lot like his situation at the moment. Izumo sighed looking at the variety of apples. Izumo glanced to his side seeing Kotetsu standing next to him.
"These apples are on sale. They don't look too bad" Kotetsu said quietly.
"Yeah… do you want some?" Izumo said quietly.
"Sure" Kotetsu said nodding. Both quietly picked out the apples they wanted getting the rest of their groceries leaving. They were quietly eating at the dinner table, Izumo nervously looking back and forth from Kotetsu wondering if the man was going to yell at him or something.
"Kotetsu-kun?" Izumo whispered quietly.
"Hm?" Kotetsu replied eating his food.
"Are you okay?" Izumo asked nervously.
"Yep"
"You sure?"
"Yep"
"You seem quiet today"
"Yep"
"Is there a reason?"
"Yep"
"What is it?"
"Yep"
"Kotetsu are you listening?"
"Yep"
Izumo's mouth was shut tightly before breathing out slowly.
"Kotetsu!" Izumo said angrily removing the plate from the man's fork.
"You could at least tell me what's wrong before you get mad at me" Izumo said angrily.
"Izumo all I was doing was protecting you and you just get angry at me. I don't do anything and you still get mad at me. What do you want from me!?" Kotetsu stood up angrily.
"There is a difference between protecting someone and annoying someone!" Izumo said just as angrily, "what have you been protecting me from? The wind? A bug?"
"Don't you understand!? I don't want anything to happen to you! I just want you safe and happy! I-" Kotetsu started before being kissed by Izumo.
"I was already safe and happy when you were just you. Be this way when the baby gets here, neh?" Izumo asked kindly.
"But…" Kotetsu said sadly.
"I'll tell you if I'm not happy or if something is wrong. You'd probably be able to tell anyway right?" Izumo said smiling.
"Okay" Kotetsu sighed out kissing Izumo gently.
"You get an A for effort" Izumo said happily making Kotetsu snort.
"There is another thing I could get an A in" Kotetsu smirked lifting Izumo onto his shoulder.
"You hentai!" Izumo squeaked out being forcefully carried down the hallway.
"You know Genma-kun, that plant won't grow faster by staring at it" Raidou said from the kitchen. Genma stiffen slightly at being caught. He was on the couch 'reading' a book and definitely 'not' staring at the plant.
"But there are only like three flowers on it in total. How are we supposed to make a baby with three flowers?" Genma said pouting. Raidou just started choking somewhere wishing he hadn't said anything.
"Why are you so impatient for?" Raidou asked curiously sitting next to the man on the floor. Raidou rested his head on top of Genma's shoulder sighing, now staring at the plant as well.
"I want to prove to you that I want a family with you" Genma said sighing.
"You will Genma-kun, don't be so worried okay?" Raidou said smiling kissing him softly.
"But I want to make babies!" Genma yelled out tackling the man to the floor kissing the day lights out of him.
"Why do I know you!?" Raidou said loudly squirming out from under the man before freezing.
"What?" Genma said quietly kissing Raidou all over his face and neck.
"Didn't you say three flowers" Raidou said quietly. Genma looked confused before his mouth dropped down in shock.
"Now there are five!" Genma said loudly before kissing Raidou, looking back at the plant quickly. He kept doing that for the last five minutes getting Raidou more and more annoyed before getting pushed onto the floor.
"How dumb can you get" Raidou said mumbling down the hall.
"Let's practice making babies to test how many flowers we'll get from that!" Genma yelled after Raidou down the hall before something was thrown at him.
Akeno was just not eating today; at least by what Kakashi could tell.
"Akeno, it's really yummy" Kakashi said pretending the mushed carrots were delicious.
Akeno shook his head 'no' at the food not wanting to eat it. Kakashi gave up after a moment just having a staring contest with his son. His son suddenly perked up excitedly.
"Tou-san?" Akeno asked cutely.
"Yes?" Kakashi said yawning.
"I saw man today with child and was strange" Akeno said kicking his legs back and forth in his high chair.
"Why was it strange?" Kakashi asked curiously.
"Man started counting, then child ran away" Akeno said thinking, "then man covered his eyes."
Akeno put his hands over his eyes to indicate what he saw.
"They were playing a game. It's called 'hide and seek'" Kakashi said nodding.
"Why?" Akeno asked curiously.
"Because it's fun" Kakashi said tapping the little boy on the noise making it wrinkle cutely.
"Will you play with me?" Akeno asked happily. Kakashi lifted his eyebrow before smiling.
"If you finish your carrots. All of your carrots" Kakashi said seriously crossing his arms. Akeno pouted cutely before nodding; he knew it was difficult to convince Kakashi with just his cuteness like his Okaa-san. He loved them both so dearly.
Kakashi happily gave him the glass jar and spoon helping Akeno hold the spoon who was still having some difficulty with silverware.
Akeno ate the carrots ridiculously fast getting carrots all over his face smiling happily at Kakashi; Kakashi suddenly burst out laughing grabbing a wet washcloth washing the child's face off.
"Now?" Akeno asked excitedly.
"Okay, okay" Kakashi said lifting the kid out of his high chair who was excitedly following Kakashi out of the house.
"Alright. So I'll start. I'll count to thirty and you go hide. Then I'll find you and we switch, okay?" Kakashi said looking down at his son.
"What if you don't find me?" Akeno asked curiously.
"Hm… how about if I say Akachan you say Tou-san" Kakashi said smiling. Akeno looked confused for a second before smiling, nodding.
"Yes Tou-san!" Akeno said happily.
"Okay. One, two, three" Kakashi began, his son looking up at him. Akeno gently touched his father's hand looking up at him smiling cutely. Kakashi suddenly had Iruka's smile enter his head before smiling down at the child shuffling his hair.
Kakashi covered his eyes counting again, of course his senses were up very high. He finished counting pretending he couldn't find Akeno for a good five minutes. Of course Kakashi found him immediately making sure he knew where he was at all times; just because it made him nervous. Not that he would ever say that.
Kakashi was hiding under a bush watching Akeno's little feet pass by before Akeno pounced on top of him happily. They continued playing for a few hours; Iruka was in a meeting so he wasn't able to join in their fun all day.
"Akeno-kun it's time to go back to the house" Kakashi yelled out in the forest, of course Akeno didn't pop out from where he was hiding.
Smart kid Kakashi thought smiling.
"Akachan!" Kakashi yelled this time.
"Tou-san!" Akeno yelled out running towards his father.
"Time to go in son" Kakashi said smiling, his heart suddenly jolting at the word son.
"Yes, Tou-san" Akeno said walking next to his father hand in hand.
Akeno already knew that his father was a great man, and didn't stand up to any weaknesses of any kind. Therefore, Akeno tried his best from not behaving weakly in front of his father wanting to make him proud.
"Tou-san, Kaa-chan should play with us next time" Akeno said happily.
"I think you're right" Kakashi said smiling. Of course it would probably get dangerous if Iruka and Kakashi tried playing a game together; competition wise and sexually wise. Kakashi glanced down seeing his son yawn sleepily before smiling softly.
"Ah!" Akeno said loudly when being picked up by his father. His legs dangled off of Kakashi's shoulders while his head rested on top of his father's hair.
"I like up here" Akeno said happily hearing his father chuckle. Both walked into the house like that before a semi angry Iruka stood in front of them.
"Where have you two been?" Iruka said annoyed, tapping his foot on the ground, arms crossed over his chest.
"We were playing, ano… Tou-san?" Akeno said, unable to remember the name.
"Hide and seek" Kakashi clarified.
"Yeah!" Akeno said happily.
"Kakashi, you and Akeno go wash up before dinner" Iruka said, pointing down the hall.
"But Okaa-san!" Akeno and Kakashi whined at the same time. Iruka had to look away from the double trouble before him. It was like two Kakashi's begging him cutely to stay where they were.
"N-Not another word" Iruka stuttered out pointing down the hall again. Kakashi lifted Akeno from his shoulders as the child ran down the hall, Kakashi following him.
"You're so cute" Kakashi mumbled against Iruka's lips before kissing him. Iruka kissed him happily back.
"And you're dirty, go clean up" Iruka said, rolling his eyes.
"I'm dirty in a lot of ways" Kakashi said winking at him.
"Hentai!" Iruka squeaked punching Kakashi in the arm.
"Wait… you can't cook… at all…" Kakashi said looking into the kitchen seeing it barren as ever.
"I know that, Baka, but Sakura-san came over giving us all this food that was left over from a party at the hospital" Iruka said happily, "I put it in the fridge to be heated up later."
"I see" Kakashi said smiling, "it's too dangerous for you in kitchens as it is" Kakashi said laughing.
"And you're supposed to helping Akeno clean up!" Iruka said pushing Kakashi down the hall.
"And I mean squeaky clean Kakashi!" Iruka said huffing. Kakashi gently put his hand onto Iruka's, which was on his shoulder at the moment.
"I love you" Kakashi whispered against the man's lips.
"I love you too" Iruka whispered back, sharing a gentle kiss with Kakashi.
"Now hurry up so we can finish this later" Iruka said, winking at him. That hurried the man up. Kakashi smiled at the Iruka, feeling very warm; Iruka felt exactly the same way.
Shikamaru and Sakura were back where they started a few days ago, the board never being touched since then. Shikaku was watching from afar (like on a rooftop away) wanting to see how Sakura was 'cheating.'
Both haven't said anything to the other in the last few days and both knew that the other was being weird. By now though they made a new bet with each other. Whoever had the most pieces left in half an hour, would keep their secret, while the person who lost had to tell their secret. It was looking dangerous for Sakura who had ten pieces while Shikamaru had twelve. It was getting down to two minutes and Sakura wasn't making any progress with that number.
At least until the last ten seconds Sakura actually got his pieces down to ten even though that risked some of her pieces; she didn't care she was too scared to say something to him still. Shikamaru scratched his head sighing.
"We're just going to continue in circles, Sakura-chan" Shikamaru said dully.
"H-Hai" Sakura agreed.
"Listen my secret is kind of in a box" Shikamaru said making Sakura tilt her head in confusion.
"Mine could be represented through an object as well" Sakura said quietly.
"Then it would be less troublesome if we exchanged objects" Shikamaru said nodding a slight tint to his cheeks.
"I-I suppose" Sakura said stuttering, embarrassed.
"Well, ano…" Shikamaru said quietly, nervous.
"How about we place the object across from the person, at the same time, without looking. Then we'll turn around at the same time and see what happens" Sakura said quietly. She knew it sounded childish but come on! She was scared!
"Okay" Shikamaru said quietly, not even complaining about how troublesome that is. Both turned away from each other.
"Got your object?" Sakura whispered out clutching the white stick in her hand which was in her pocket.
"Hai. You? Shikamaru said back.
"Hai" Sakura whispered.
Both reached across the table blindly, putting it across from them. Their hands touched briefly, both holding onto their hands for a moment, just wanting this gentle moment to stay between them before secrets were out in the open. Both slowly let go of the other's hand, before looking at their side of the table.
Both became immediately confused picking up the object on their side of the table. Sakura picked up the black velvet box curiously, while Shikamaru was figuring out the white stick for a moment.
Sakura opened the box carefully, before her hand flew to her mouth, to quiet her gasp. It was a ring; a beautiful ring. A gold ring with a perfect sized diamond gleaming out from it.
He wanted to… marry me? Me? Sakura thought astonished before her adrenaline skyrocketed glancing at Shikamaru.
Did I ruin my chances of being with you? Sakura thought worriedly seeing Shikamaru next to her unmoving.
Now Shikamaru never once thought in his life that something in his hand would take a while to register, at all. In fact he wasn't sure how long he was looking at the white object with the pink plus sign on it for.
… … … … … was on Shikamaru's mind at the moment.
Sakura let out a very sad smile looking away from the man. She sat there for a moment, enjoying the breeze, watching the light shine off of the ring. Her fingers played with the ring, her heart aching for it to come true, but Shikamaru wasn't exactly having a positive reaction.
Sakura moved one more piece, checking Shikamaru's gold general. She placed the ring back into the black box placing it in the middle of the board gently. She stood up debating if she should say something to Shikamaru or not, and in the end thought against it. She walked slowly away, tears falling already.
I really wanted to marry you Sakura thought bitterly. She definitely knew how Iruka felt know, that was for sure. Sakura let out a bitter gasp trying to hold her cries needing to fall asleep somewhere; this was seriously stressing her out. Sakura had walked for a little longer before falling asleep under a cozy looking tree.
"Kiddo, you're almost as bad as I was when I found out about you" Shikaku said dully, poking his son in the head for a few minutes.
"W-What" Shikamaru said confused.
"Well at least you've said something now" Shikaku said sighing. Shikamaru was, at this point, combining words together and was pretty sure he was doing something close to babbling.
"Sakura!" Shikamaru said suddenly before his head snapped down to the velvet box on the shogi board.
"Where!" Shikamaru almost yelled at his father.
"She left about half an hour ago" Shikaku said actually nervous at how angry his son was for a moment.
Shikamaru got up with the box in one hand and white stick in the other, running down the street after Sakura; yes running. He needed to find her, more than anything. He couldn't lose her; he couldn't lose them. Shikamaru even used his thinking pose to figure out the ten steps he needed to find her, even though he was probably ten steps behind. He was going to solve this and nothing was going to stop him.
Tsunade thought that a good three hours was long enough for the group of Anbu, searching for Sasuke, to be out. She sent them a hawk saying:
Suckers! Jokes on you! I'm not stupid enough to send Sasuke on a mission. In fact you could say Sasuke was the one who sent you on your 'mission.' You better be back here in an hour or I WILL come get you.
-Tsunade
Now in one hour the villagers felt an evil miasma coming towards the village. In fact the villagers ran away fast when seeing a group of Anbu walking grudgingly down the road. Sasuke was now eating a bowl of ramen, out in the open considering Naruto was supposed to be out of the village. Sasuke felt an evil presence coming towards him and peeked out of Ichiraku's only to freeze in shock. Headed towards him was a whole lot of Anbu.
Now Sasuke thought Naruto would have an evil smirk on his face planning on getting a nice revenge on him. What shocked Sasuke the most were all the negative emotions on Naruto's face. There was anger, sadness, disappointment, worry, fear; so many emotions Sasuke felt his heart jolt painfully.
"Sasuke-san, I never thought I'd say this to you, but you better run kid" Teuchi said nervously. Sasuke gulped before doing just that. He wasn't that far along in his pregnancy (almost three months) but he ran like hell hearing Naruto screaming at him behind him.
"Get back here you giant ASSHOLE!" Naruto yelled at him. Sasuke looked behind him momentarily seeing Naruto catching up to him fast. Sasuke pushed a bit more chakra into his feet trying to search for a place to hide from the enraged blonde.
"I hope you die you bastard!" Naruto yelled at him shaking angrily. Unfortunately for Sasuke, he tripped falling fast. The only thing passing through his head was to protect the baby so he wrapped his arms around his torso thinking the blonde was probably going to run over him and stomp him into the ground.
A blur of blonde was under Sasuke before he hit the ground. Sasuke 'oofed' into a bright orange shirt feeling his side become bruised.
"Ugh" Sasuke grumbled out, crouching up to see an angered looking Naruto below him. If it was anyone but Sasuke they probably wouldn't see the flickers of worry in Naruto's eyes past the anger.
"You are a serious ass" Naruto said angrily.
"I didn't think Tsunade would send you away" Sasuke mumbled out, still crouching on top of Naruto.
"She didn't! Don't you think I would come with you! You of all people should know I wouldn't hesitate!" Naruto said sitting up slightly so Sasuke was sitting on his knees.
"Do you think I would actually risk our child's life because of some stupid threat!? My life fine! Sure! But a life that shouldn't be put at risk because of what I want! Especially our future child!" Sasuke said huffing. He didn't intend to get angry too but he hated thinking Naruto would think that way about him still.
"I understand why you would think that way about me but," Sasuke said breathing in slowly, dropping his head upset, "I tried to change a little."
"I…ano…I'm sorry for worrying you like that" Sasuke said, holding his bruised side tightly.
Sasuke froze immediately as Naruto cupped his cheek with his hand gently. Sasuke was even more surprised when Naruto kissed him lovingly, Sasuke slowly replying to the kiss before both full on started attacking each other's mouths.
"How about we don't do any more practical jokes on each other" Naruto said kindly, his blue eyes sparkling again. That's what Sasuke loved about Naruto the most; how forgiving he was (of course after he was sure you learned your lesson). Naruto softly punched Sasuke in the arm before getting up, not helping Sasuke up.
"You're still an ass, Teme!" Naruto said walking away from the man, stomping playfully away from Sasuke who was still kneeling on the ground. Sasuke just rolled his eyes at Naruto slowly standing up to follow the semi-fuming blonde.
"Ugh!" Sasuke gasped out landing on his knees again. Sasuke was actually shocked because he never thought he'd just fall like that with a bruised side. Sakura did say not to run since it was dangerous, but he had a hell of a lot of chakra so he didn't think it'd be that bad. Although he was almost three months pregnant.
Akachan? Sasuke thought worriedly on the verge of tears. Was their baby warning him? Was something wrong?
"Sasuke!?" Naruto yelled running back to the man. He ducked his head under Sasuke's trying to search his eyes for the answer.
"I…I want…" Sasuke started, it was suddenly painful to breathe.
"Honey? What is it? What do you want?" Naruto whispered, his voice hitching up in terror.
"Sakura" Sasuke gasped out. Naruto froze, picking Sasuke up bridal style very careful not to move him too much form his position. Naruto transported the man quickly yelling Sakura's name. Sakura already heard from a laughing Tsunade what their plan was; she was kind of glad Sasuke was becoming a little more fun.
"What's wrong!?" Sakura asked worriedly to her two best friends.
"Please look at him!" Naruto yelled out. Sakura led them to a room asking Naruto to set Sasuke down. Naruto watched closely, crossing his arms and tapping his foot worriedly. Sakura gently ran her glowing green hands down his body before stopping at his side. She lifted his shirt showing a rather large bruise on his side. They heard Naruto gasp loudly but Sakura slowly got the bruise to go away.
"It seems… your baby is okay" Sakura said smiling at them. Sasuke and Naruto breathed out in relief, Naruto walking quickly over to Sasuke, hugging him tightly around the shoulders and kissing him all over the head.
"No…worries?" Sakura said confused snapping her head back down to Sasuke's stomach.
"Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked confused.
Sakura's breathing started to hitch and her hands were gripping Sasuke's stomach a bit too tightly.
"Sakura?" Sasuke asked worriedly grabbing her hands, kind of worried about her losing her temper over something. Naruto was worriedly leaning over Sasuke slightly not liking the shocked look growing on Sakura's face.
"Uh…" Sakura squeaked out before fainting.
"Sakura!?" Naruto and Sasuke yelled at her loudly. Naruto ran to her side, Sasuke getting off the bed carefully but quickly.
"Sakura?" Shikamaru said walking in because of hearing Sakura's name being yelled. Shikamaru became shocked immediately yelling at Naruto to get Sakura on the bed.
"Get Tsunade!" Shikamaru angrily said to Naruto. Naruto immediately 'poofed' away both Sasuke and Shikamaru looking worriedly at Sakura.
"She was healing a bruise I got. Then suddenly I think she saw something interesting and then fainted" Sasuke said, recalling what happened. Shikamaru looked slightly annoyed, crossing his arms. Tsunade immediately came into the room looking slightly startled at Sakura. She went to her immediately examining her. That is until Tsunade fainted.
"What the hell is going on!" Naruto yelled running in circles in the room. At this point Shikamaru and Sasuke were shocked and standing there unsure of what to do.
"Wake up you old bag!" Naruto said, shaking her collar. Tsunade snapped out of her daze pushing the blonde off of her.
"Is it baby season or something!" Tsunade yelled at Shikamaru. Oh yeah, no one knows about Sakura either.
"Funny story about that" Shikamaru said smirking at the woman. It was now Naruto and Sasuke's turn to look shocked.
"Sakura-chan is…" Both said slowly.
"Congratulations!" Naruto said shaking Shikamaru's hand.
"You too" Shikamaru said smiling.
"This isn't time for that you idiots" Tsunade snapped at them. Sasuke agreed, sweat dropping at both men.
"Ugh" Sakura mumbled opening her eyes; they were definitely loud.
"What happened?" Tsunade said, hands on her hips. Sakura blushed about to say something before glancing at Sasuke and groaning again, hands over her face. Sasuke immediately stiffened looking at Tsunade.
"Would you care to explain?" Tsunade said slightly nervous.
"I suck" Sakura groaned out.
"Why?" Naruto asked curiously. Sakura sighed looking apologetically at Sasuke and Naruto about to cry.
"It's all my fault!" Sakura yelled loudly at them making them jump.
"I-I didn't mean to! It wasn't on purpose! How was I supposed to know that would happen?" Sakura stood up suddenly walking around the room frustrated, pacing.
"I would never do something like that but here it is" Sakura said waving at Sasuke.
"Sakura" Shikamaru said sternly, grabbing Sakura's forearms.
"What's wrong with Sasuke?" Naruto whispered out. Sakura looked at them before freezing. She should have really considered their reactions before having her own reactions to the news. Both of them looked heart broken and very… scared, actually. Sakura looked down sighing, rubbing her forehead.
"It seems expected that the uterus in males will be retroverted" Sakura said sighing. Everyone slightly stiffened in the room.
"So his chances of dying are doubled correct?" Tsunade said seriously.
"Yes" Sakura said quietly.
"Well Iruka-sensei had the same issue but he was fine" Naruto said, confused.
"I know that" Sakura said sighing.
"It's very nice of you to worry like that but I'll be alright" Sasuke said quietly.
"It's not just that you're uterus is retroverted, Sasuke" Sakura said seriously.
"Is it something worse?" Naruto asked worried.
"Yes, and no" Sakura said trying not to beat herself up about this.
"What is it?" Tsunade said impatiently.
"Sasuke is carrying twins" Sakura said audibly.
THUMP
Naruto was passed out on the ground this time while Tsunade and Sasuke's jaws were dropped down in shock. Shikamaru was just worried as to what that meant and why Sakura was so angry at herself for it.
"It means that Sasuke-kun's chances of dying went up exponentially. Instead of Iruka-sensei's at an average 30-40% chance of dying, Sasuke's is now at about 50% or more" Sakura said angrily. Shikamaru hugged Sakura gently telling her it'd be okay.
Sasuke was in too far a state of shock, looking at his stomach in amazement.
You just wanted to let me know there were two of you? Sasuke asked himself, amazed.
"Daiisshi* and Dainishi*... my babies" Sasuke said quietly making everyone smile, except Naruto who was still on the floor.
"I'll check on you once a week until your due date" Sakura said happily at Sasuke. Somehow Sasuke felt really close to Sakura now since she understood, somewhat, of what he was going through.
"Anyway you are healed so you can kick your boyfriend and go" Sakura said rolling her eyes. Everyone just shook their head at Naruto who was still on the floor.
"I feel bad for the guy" Shikamaru said quietly while Tsunade left and Sasuke was lightly kicking Naruto to get up.
"I'm sure you would" Sakura said, rolling her eyes at him. Shikamaru looked away from her embarrassed while at the same time grabbing her hand leading her out of the room; the hand that had a diamond ring on it by the way.
Naruto was on the floor pouting up at Sasuke who was just shaking his head at the blonde.
"Dobe…" Sasuke said quietly, "you aren't upset?" Sasuke asked curiously. Naruto stood up slowly, kissing Sasuke passionately, holding both sides of his face to make sure he attacked the man's mouth exuberantly.
"N-Naruto" Sasuke said embarrassed.
"The more the merrier!" Naruto said happily making Sasuke have a tint of pink on his cheeks.
"I suppose" Sasuke said rolling his eyes at the boy who dragged him out of the hospital excitedly.
"Kashi, where's Akeno?" Iruka asked curiously to the man, handing him a cup of tea. Both were cuddled on the couch together reading their favorite books after their dinner.
"I think Akeno, Pakkun, Ohei, and Guruko went on a search for a bug Akeno saw the other day" Kakashi said rolling his eyes. Iruka just sweat dropped but smiled a little.
"How long has he been out for?" Iruka asked curiously.
"No more than a few hours" Kakashi said again.
"Don't you like your alone time with me" Kakashi said pouting. Iruka laughed softly at him kissing his pout away.
"You're cute Kakashi" Iruka smiled getting kissed again by the silver haired man.
"I thought we agreed on manly in a cute way" Kakashi said cutely only to make Iruka laugh more.
"Well I" Iruka began getting kissed by Kakashi, "have laundry to finish" another kiss by Kakashi, "so you go get him" a crawling hand up Iruka's shirt, "and if you two go play somewhere" they were in a tongue wrestling match at this point "I will find you" Iruka whispered against his lips. Iruka poked Kakashi's chest playfully kissing Kakashi's chest, right over his heart.
"Now go hurry up!" Iruka said smirking sensually at him down the hall. Kakashi was pouting for a moment before smiling.
POOF
Pakkun appeared in front of Kakashi immediately looking worried.
"Hurry!" Was the one word out of Pakkun's mouth making Kakashi heart practically stop. He immediately followed Pakkun fast through the forest, seeing a silver head enter his view in the tall grass.
"Akeno!" Kakashi said loudly, stooping down to his son who was looking in the forest, tears quietly leaving him.
"Akeno" Kakashi said softly, kneeling down. Akeno snapped out of his stupor before hugging Kakashi around the neck. Kakashi lifted him off of the ground wondering where Ohei and Guruko were.
"Pakkun, where are Ohei and Guruko?" Kakashi said quietly to the pug who was walking alongside him. Pakkun looked away from him seriously thinking hard about something.
"Akeno saw someone with a red cloak on in the woods" Pakkun said quietly. Kakashi visibly tightened his grip around Akeno. Ohei and Guruko went in the direction Akeno saw the person, and probably found a scent which is why they aren't back yet" Pakkun said seriously. Kakashi immediately started running to the house, worried desperately about Iruka.
"Iruka!" Kakashi yelled in the house not getting a response, his heart going sporadic. He headed towards the laundry room fast.
"Iruka!" Kakashi yelled again only to almost run into the man who was running down the hall towards him.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Iruka asked worriedly seeing Akeno in Kakashi's arms.
"Akeno?" Iruka asked worriedly. The boy was asleep in Kakashi's arms making both men sigh out.
Kakashi placed the boy into his bed rubbing his cheek gently. Akeno's room was a bit modified now that he was four. He had a rather large bed and the changing table was gone now. The boy was potty trained now and he was starting to get accurate when throwing his toy weapons.
Ohei and Guruko came back to the house in fifteen minutes saying they picked up a scent, but they didn't find anyone.
"Kashi" Iruka whispered out. Both Kakashi and Iruka were lying in bed together, facing each other. Iruka was doodling shapes on Kakashi's pecks kissing his neck every now and then.
"Hm?" Kakashi said softly, enjoying the comfort.
"Akeno…" Iruka led on making Kakashi sigh.
"Let's deal with the situation when it comes up. We aren't able to capture this guy so this is all we'll be able to do" Kakashi said quietly hugging Iruka tightly to him almost crushing the man.
"Okay" Iruka muffled out. It would have sounded normal if his mouth wasn't crushed against the man's chest. Both fell asleep wondering what the future held for their family.
Little did they know, the worst day of their lives was about to happen to their new family. One year had passed by and Akeno was now five years old. Iruka and Kakashi had been together for almost eight years. Sasuke was pregnant with twins, Sakura was pregnant and a fiancé with Shikamaru. Raidou, Genma, Kotetsu, and Izumo were all getting ready to have their own family one day too.
It all seemed to pass by so fast for them and yet things still seemed so new to them. Everything was so wonderful they never wanted it to end. But people don't get what they want all the time so it may just end for them. Another year was about to come upon them; the worst year of their lives.
Daiisshi*- means first child
Dainishi*- means second child
Correct me if I am wrong with those translations!
Alright-y! Some short stories about the other couples as promised! Some chaos and lots of love so let's see what happens! DRAMA! It's always interesting when someone else has the drama but not when you have the drama. REVIEW and on to the next chapter!