Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by Masashi Kishimoto. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Pairing: SasuNaru

Warnings: Slash: Male homosexual relationships, adult language, and sexual situations.

Beta: Kamerreon

The Cheshire Cat

Chapter Seven

Sasuke glared down at the ground as Hana returned to her office. She sat across from the odd couple with a sigh, looking through the papers in her hands. She looked up at Naruto, glancing between him and Sasuke. Sasuke was obviously still angry for some reason while Naruto was oddly pale.

"Well, Sasuke was right," Hana said with a smile. "You're going to be parents."

Naruto twisted awkwardly in his seat. Sure he knew Sasuke was pregnant, but Hana had just made him see it in a different light… he was going to be a parent, a dad.

"Now, the usual gestation period of a cat is sixty-three to sixty-five days," Hana began, stifling a smile as Sasuke glared at her. "I'm fairly sure Sasuke will be the same, judging on how fast he realized he was pregnant."

"Two months?" Naruto asked, leaning forward. "He'll give birth in two months?"

"He won't actually give birth," Hana corrected while Sasuke groaned, sliding down in his chair. "We'll have to perform a caesarean. I won't be doing that myself, seeing as Sasuke is mainly human we'll have a doctor do that."

"Oh God," Naruto groaned, trying to shut out Hana's words. He hated anything to do with surgery and cutting open the human body.

"Shut up!" Sasuke hissed, misinterpreting Naruto's groan. "You got me pregnant!"

"Erm, yes," Hana interrupted. "Cats usually have litters of three to five, I'm not sure if it'll be the same for Sasuke."

"I didn't mean to get you pregnant!" Naruto wailed, completely ignoring Hana.

"Getting you knocked up was the last thing on my mind!"

Sasuke didn't even bother to glare at his lover anymore. Naruto didn't want kids. He didn't want their kids. Just like he didn't originally want Sasuke. Of course Naruto didn't want a family; he didn't even want a lover. He had wanted a cat. Now he was going to be dumped with Sasuke and possibly three to five kids!

Without saying a word Sasuke rose and stalked out. Naruto watched him go with a yelp before leaping to his feet.

"Thanks Hana!" he shouted over his shoulder. "See ya!"

Naruto hurried from the room and out of the Inuzuka Animal Hospital. He spotted familiar hair bobbing down the street and hurried after it.

Sasuke unconsciously brought a hand up to touch his stomach as he hurried down the street. He moved fast, ignoring the shouts of his name behind him from a familiar loud voice. He continued to stomp away from him and in his anger he didn't see the car until it was too late.

Naruto had seen it, however. He had leapt forward, his arms wrapping around Sasuke's shoulders as he tugged him back. Sasuke blinked in shock as the car shot past, leaning back into Naruto's hold. Naruto released him, shaking with an emotion Sasuke had never seen on Naruto's face before: anger, pure, untarnished anger.

Sasuke pushed away the slight guilt he felt at causing such an emotion in his beautiful lover and tried to glare down at him, although he knew he wasn't doing a very good job. "What?" he growled.

Naruto's angry eyes were locked onto his, the fury increasing in them as he grabbed Sasuke's hand, tugging him close. "Be careful!" he hissed. "You're pregnant!"

"And what's it to you?" Sasuke snarled. "Worried you might get blamed for me being splattered on the road?"

"What is with you?" Naruto shouted, not caring if he caused a scene or not. "I thought you would be happy! You said you had to unconsciously or consciously want kids for this to happen, so you must want them! What's wrong?"

"It doesn't matter that I want them," Sasuke snarled, pulling his hand free. "It won't make up for the fact that you don't want them!"

Naruto's eyes widened and he quickly threw his arms around Sasuke's neck, all of his anger draining out of him in an instant. He pushed his body against Sasuke's, hugging him tightly. He pulled Sasuke's head down into the crook of his neck, stroking the dark hair while Sasuke stood still. His arms shakily came up around Naruto, pulling him close. Naruto placed a couple of gentle kisses along Sasuke's neck before pulling back and smiling at him.

"Sasuke, just because I didn't plan for kids doesn't mean I don't want them!" he exclaimed. "I'm so happy you're pregnant! I love kids! And I'm going to love our kids so much!"

Sasuke searched Naruto's eyes, looking for a hint of a lie. When he found none he reached a hand up to hesitantly rub Naruto's cheek and Naruto grinned in response and leant into the touch.

"Hn, dobe…"

Naruto backed away from Sasuke and took his hand with a gentle smile. Naruto squeezed his hand, eyes shining with happiness. "I can't wait to have kids!" he chirped as they began walking down the street. "It's gonna be great!"

"Come on, dobe," Sasuke chuckled. "I'm hungry."

"Okay, sure thing," Naruto replied distractedly. "Do you think the kids will be like me?"

"Not if God is merciful."

"TEME!"

Naruto groaned as he looked down at the almost empty beer before him. Next to him Gaara was silent as usual, sipping his own drink. In the last month since Sasuke had fallen pregnant Naruto had been spending more time with the redhead at his favourite bar in order to escape the moody Sasuke. He didn't have mood swings of extreme happiness to extreme anger; he was just moody all the time. Occasionally he would get sappy and sit rubbing his rapidly expanding stomach, but if he were caught he would deny it. It was Naruto's new favourite thing to sit and rub Sasuke's stomach, leaning his cheek against it occasionally to see if the babies were kicking yet.

Nodding his goodbye to Gaara, Naruto left the bar and headed home. He wasn't exactly avoiding Sasuke, but he wasn't spending as much time as possible around him either. He was pregnant and prone to being bitchy if Naruto did something wrong, and the only way to placate him was with sex. However, Naruto had become too scared of hurting the children lately to want to have sex, no matter how horny he was.

Naruto opened the door to his apartment and blinked at the weird sight that greeted his eyes. Sasuke was sitting on the couch holding Kyuubi in a death grip, stroking the cat's head and whispering to him. Naruto hurried to save the cat, prying Sasuke's fingers away gently and letting the animal go. Kyuubi ran from the room with an irritated flick of his tail while Sasuke glared up at Naruto.

Naruto hurriedly dropped down beside his cat, curling under his arm. He leaned against Sasuke's stomach, feeling like a small child leaning against his mother's pregnant stomach.

"Naruto?" Sasuke whispered, drawing Naruto's eye up. "Do you think… do you think we're ready for kids? Ready to be parents?"

"Of course!" Naruto reassured his lover. "I love you, and we'll be fine!"

"That has nothing to do with it," Sasuke grunted. "I don't want to be a shit dad."

"You'll be great!" Naruto promised as he rubbed Sasuke's stomach, "and you're forgetting – you won't be the dad, you're the mum!"

"Me?" Sasuke snorted. "I may carry them, but you're still the woman, dobe."

Sasuke smiled at Naruto before he could speak, leaning in to capture his lips. Naruto let out a low moan as Sasuke nibbled on the lower one before sliding his tongue inside. Naruto leant in closer to Sasuke until the cat's stomach bumped him, breaking their kiss.

Naruto blinked down at the huge stomach between them before patting it gently. He looked back up at Sasuke who was glaring at his stomach.

"Dobe," he mumbled, suddenly slightly shy. "Do you… with this stomach… I mean…"

"Sasuke!" Naruto cried as he instantly recognized why Sasuke was upset and wrapped his arms around Sasuke's shoulders. "You're beautiful!"

"I'm a guy," Sasuke growled, trying to push Naruto off. Naruto snickered before leaning back to look Sasuke in the eye.

"Right," he laughed. "Your pregnant stomach is so manly!"

"Dobe!" Sasuke snapped. Naruto chuckled lightly at the angry cat before reaching up to rub one of his furry ears. Sasuke instantly erupted into purrs, his eyes sliding closed as he leaned back against the couch. His tail came up to wind around Naruto's waist possessively and Naruto chuckled again, rubbing more. He had found that Sasuke's ears were one of his weak spots; he loved being stroked there.

Sasuke was so easily manipulated.

Naruto jumped up and down excitedly as Hana pointed out their children on the ultrasound. Sasuke was less enthusiastic as he had already pointed out that he didn't like having 'some random goop' smeared over his stomach. Hana smiled at Naruto before nodding towards the screen.

"There are three," she informed him. Naruto squeezed Sasuke's hand with a grin while the cat simply stared up at the screen in wonder. "It's too early to determine the sex, but-"

"No!" Naruto shrieked, startling both Hana and Sasuke. "We can't know the sex! That would ruin the surprise! We need a surprise on the day!"

"Dobe," Sasuke growled. "I'm going to have three life forms created by us taken from my body and you think there won't be any surprises?"

"Shut up, bastard!" Naruto snapped. "You're so unimaginative!"

"I'm practical," Sasuke countered. "For example: where are the kids going to sleep in your small, one bedroom apartment?"

The question seemed to make Naruto freeze. He blinked down at Sasuke before frowning and rubbing the back of his head.

"You're right," he mumbled. "We need to move…"

"To a house?" Sasuke asked, a tiny sliver of hope in his voice. He had to admit, he did want to live in a house.

Naruto flashed him a grin, leaning in to kiss him softly. "Anywhere you want," he promised. Money was no problem to him. And he knew just who to call…

He would get Sasuke his dream house.

The house was perfect.

It had five bedrooms and three bathrooms sprawled over two levels, accompanied by a large kitchen, living room, dining room, and family room. It was a beautiful layout, designed like a classic house you see in those cheap commercials. There was even a swing dangling from the large tree out back. The grass was green, surrounded by a white picket fence and the flowers were bright, dots of colour that lit up the dark dirt.

All in all, it was perfect.

Naruto grinned as he looked around the room he was currently in. It was a large downstairs bedroom, one of the three downstairs. Upstairs held the master bedroom, a spare room and the family room. He had everything planned out, he and Sasuke would take the upstairs bedroom, and the kids would be downstairs in one room to start off with before they grew up enough to want their own rooms. Then they would have their own rooms with a spare.

"Well Naruto, what do you think?"

Naruto turned back to face Gaara's older sister with a smile, his entire face lighting up. Temari smirked at his smile, realizing she most definitely had a sale. She was a ruthless real estate agent, getting the best price possible for the house she was focused on. However, she had a soft spot for the other blond standing before her, and was prepared to sell him the house for what it was actually worth.

"I love it!" Naruto proclaimed. "I absolutely love it! I have to tell Sasuke about it!"

"I can keep it from going onto the market a while longer," Temari chuckled, "but I need a decision by tomorrow."

"Of course!" Naruto said with a grin. "By tomorrow."

Naruto had never appreciated his friendship with Gaara more.

When Naruto showed Sasuke the plans to the house he didn't miss the way the cat's eyes lit up with glee. Naruto had grinned as he settled against his stomach, watching as Sasuke leafed through the pictures.

"Naruto," Sasuke murmured, "this house is perfect, but…"

"But what?" Naruto mumbled sleepily against Sasuke's stomach. Sasuke ran a hand through his golden hair affectionately.

"It's expensive," he whispered. "Are you sure you want to spend this much on a house?"

Sasuke's unspoken question hung in the air: are you sure you want to spend this much on me?

Naruto sat up, his blue eyes serious as he looked at Sasuke. Sasuke held his gaze, allowing all his emotions to swirl visibly in his eyes.

"Sasuke, I love you," Naruto whispered. "You keep talking as though I don't want you, but I do. I really, really do. From now on my life is committed to you, to us. You and me, Sasuke, and our kids."

Sasuke didn't respond verbally, he simply wrapped his arms around Naruto's shoulders, drawing the man against him. He didn't need to say anything, as in that moment every doubt he'd ever had about his place in Naruto's heart and life faded from him. He was Naruto's and Naruto was his. Entirely.

Naruto nodded as he pulled out of Sasuke's embrace. He pecked the cat lightly on the nose, grinning as it scrunched up.

"Do you like the house?" he asked. Sasuke smiled and nodded, his arms sliding back around Naruto as he attempted to pull him back to his body. "Great! I'll call Temari right now!"

Naruto tried to pull free but Sasuke had other plans. He pulled Naruto closer to him, capturing his lips in a deep kiss. Naruto let out a small moan as he allowed Sasuke's tongue entrance, submitting immediately.

Sasuke stroked Naruto's back as he pulled him closer. His love was burning in his veins as he drank in the soft sounds Naruto was making. Over his years in training as a Love Cat, from the age of fourteen, he had envisioned many of the possible owners he could receive, but none compared to Naruto. Words could not describe how happy he was to have his Naruto. He had feared he would have hideous, old lovers, and dreamed about strong, perfect men to sweep him off his feet. But the moment he met Naruto…

Sasuke couldn't put the depths of his love into words; it was too great.

As my Moving On readers know, I'm now off hiatus!! Woo! Moving On is almost finished, but The Cheshire Cat is just getting started. I believe this story has the potential to be my best. It's already at 500 reviews and only 6 chapters.