Sasuke leaned up against the tree watching Sakura and Naruto as they talked amongst themselves. Ever since his first return from Orochimaru's, Sakura's attention for him had decreased ten fold. She seemed to have a stronger connection with Naruto than before.

Kakashi walked up and waved. Sakura narrowed her eyes, "It's about time." She had quit stating the obvious a long time ago.

Naruto stood up, "What are we doing today?"

"I'll get to that in a minute. Sasuke, the hokage has some missions for you to do, so you'll stay behind."

Sasuke narrowed his eyes and Kakashi just grinned.

"Hey, why does Sasuke get to do special missions for the old hag?"

Kakashi put a hand on Sasuke's shoulder in a strange sort of apology, "Let's get going. We're late."

(BREAK)

Naruto grinned at his bowl of ramen and then looked over at Sakura, "Hey, why'd you want to buy me lunch anyway?"

Sakura sighed, "I'm worried about Sasuke. He was so sick the other day, and Tsunade wouldn't say anything about him. So I did some…searching."

Naruto chuckled, "So what'd you find?"

"Well…Tsunade had a lot of books over male anatomy and books about pregnancy."

"So…Sasuke got someone pregnant?" Naruto doubted that. If he had been sleeping with a girl, he wouldn't of come over begging for him.

"No. I'm not sure how it's possible, but I think Sasuke IS pregnant."

"What?" Naruto said, paling.

"Well, he was dizzy and throwing up and…and Tsunade won't let him come on missions with us."

Naruto pushed his bowl away, suddenly not hungry. He was pretty sure men couldn't get pregnant, but if Sasuke was, then it probably involved him too.

"Thanks for the food, Sakura. I have some errands to run."

(BREAK)

Sasuke sat down on his couch and winced. His body ached from all of Tsunade's poking and probing. And after all the exams she still wouldn't consent to get rid of the thing inside of him yet. He put his hand on his stomach, wondering if it would grow like a woman's would.

There was a loud knocking on his door. Sasuke scowled at the sound, and contemplated on ignoring it. But it just kept getting louder and more persistent. Sasuke growled and pushed himself up and walked over to the door. He looked through the peephole and saw it was Naruto. Naruto never came to his house. He sighed and opened the door, "What?" He snapped.

Naruto pulled back his fist and punched Sasuke in the face. Sasuke fell back a few steps and grabbed his quickly numbing cheek, "What the hell?"

"Were you planning on telling me?" Naruto yelled.

Sasuke made an annoyed grunt, "That damn woman."

"So it's true? You're pregnant?"

Sasuke's eye twitched. "At the moment." He threw the door shut, deciding this conversation was over. But seconds later it was knocked down by Naruto. Naruto stormed in and slammed Sasuke against the wall. Sasuke gave a frustrated sigh, "What do you want?"

"Is it from that night?"

"Probably."

"What do we do?"

Sasuke grabbed Naruto's hand and squeezed it until Naruto let him go, "We do nothing. I'll take care of it."

"You stuck up son of a bitch. If it's from that night then it's mine too. You can't just…"

"I can do whatever I want. I mean, are you even listening to yourself? You want this baby? Are you even curious as to how this is possible?"

"It's a little weird, but the baby is more important. Especially if its part my baby."

"Tch. So what? You want to be a family?" Sasuke asked disgustedly.

Naruto shook his head, "Do what you want." He walked out of Sasuke's house.

Sasuke watched him leave and sighed. "I can't keep it." He leaned up against the wall and jumped when he leaned up against something softer than a wall. Two arms wrapped around him and a hand pressed against his stomach.

"You have to keep it."

Sasuke's blood ran cold. He recognized the voice.

"Itachi."

"I went through a lot of work to save you from Orochimaru. I don't think I could have forced a better sperm donor on you. You'll have this baby, and then you'll give it to me."

A thousand questions flashed through Sasuke's head, but only one response came out, "Why?"

"If you kill this baby I'll kill your team. And then I'll give you back to Orochimaru, and you can stay locked up for your next pregnancy."

"…Okay. Just stay away from Konoha until it's born."

"Smart choice, Sasuke." And with that Itachi was gone.

Sasuke took a deep breath, "Why the hell is he happy I chose Naruto?"

(BREAK)

Naruto tried to stay in the chair, at the threat of being kicked out of the hokage's office if he moved from the chair one more time.

"He's such a bastard. Why didn't you tell me?"

Tsunade rubbed her temples, "I didn't know it was you, Naruto. And even if I had, it's Sasuke's choice."

"You won't give him an abortion will you?"

Tsunade scowled, "Even if I wanted to, I'm not sure how yet. But if this baby is born with your genes…it could be very dangerous if it got in the wrong hands."

"You're talking about Kyuubi?"

"Was it active when you…helped Sasuke?"

Ever since Naruto was able to use the fourth tail his body had gone through a strange change. Once a month the seal on his stomach would appear. Tsunade had told Naruto some scientific reason why his body reacted to Kyuubi's animalistic instincts, but he could never remember it. He only knew Tsunade had threatened him with instant death if he had sex when the seal was visible.

"I said no. I wasn't going to help him, honest. I remembered what you said. But he wouldn't listen to me. He kept begging and…and he's my friend. I couldn't leave him hanging. And he's a guy. I said no a lot. But he was wet and naked…"

"So I take that as a yes?"

Naruto hung his head.

Tsunade smirked, "So it'll have yours, Kyuubi's, Sasuke's, and…and that'll be interesting." She cleared her throat.

Naruto lifted his head and raised an eyebrow, "And? And who?"

"And get the hell out of here before I kill you for disobeying me."

Naruto yelped and ran out of the office.