SasuNaru, yaoi, m-preg, OOC, OC and unbeta-read

We all know who Naruto belongs to, ne? -winks-

To naruke: That's okay. Anyway, I am now ignoring the angsty SasuNaru plot bunny but it won't be long before I'll lavish it with all my attention again.

Chapter 24: The path of the evening moon

A warm and welcoming smile and a firm handshake was the usual greeting practiced by Naruto every time he met with representatives, kages and diplomats. But there was a man who received none of these – Gaara. Every time he walked into the hokage's office, he found himself glomped by his blonde friend. As if that wasn't enough Naruto would give Gaara his dazzling smile making the redhead felt like he was so close to the sun.

Gaara quirked an eyebrow in slight irritation as Naruto looked at him expectantly. When no announcement came from his friend, Naruto frowned then sighed, "Here I am thinking that you came here to personally tell me that you're getting married and you want me to be your best man."

With careless indifference, the kazekage shrugged his shoulders and took his seat. "I'm married."

"To the village, I know" he replied almost in exasperation, "but it's different. The village won't be there every time you feel bad; they don't complete you in every aspect; they won't be there waiting at your home to welcome you; they won't eat your cooking; they won't-"

"Warm my bed?" Naruto immediately blushed beet red making his friend smirked. "Just because you found someone who does these things and more doesn't mean I should also start looking for one. I'm completely content with having nieces and nephews and with what I'm receiving from my village."

Naruto knew when to stop talking about these matters so he didn't pressed further. Knowing this, Gaara smirked victoriously although his victories with this matter were always short-lived.

Gaara – 14 Naruto – 0

"There is some skirmishes happening between one of our alliances and they expect us to interfere."

"Interfere?" Gaara nodded as a dark frown graced his face. Interfering was one of the things he hated the most because most often than not it brought more problems than he wanted to deal.

Naruto nodded but before he could continue, his door burst open and he was about to bite the rude intruder's head off with curses when he realized that it was his son followed by a very serene and smiling Sai. Yuu-chan, didn't I tell you something about knocking the door before coming in?"

The boy smiled sheepishly, "But I wanted to see Uncle Gaara so much." With an admiring gaze, he looked at the redhead, "Are you going to stay at our house tonight, this time?"

Gaara gently pat a mop of black hair and said, "I'm staying at Temari's tonight."

"Then, can I stay there as well?" This time the question was directed at his chichiue.

"You should ask Shikamaru or Temari first before-"

"Yes, you can," Gaara answered immediately.

Yuuzuke gave a whoop, "then Yukio, Akio and I can play with your sand, right?"

Although he still couldn't understand why Yuuzuki and his two nephews like his sand so much when it had taken a lot of lives and even reeked with death and blood, he nodded.

"Then I'll see you tonight, uncle," the younger blonde said and was about to leave when he remembered something. He looked at his chichiue over his shoulder, "Ne, chichiue, while I was reviewing for my exam, uncle Sai mentioned that you don't have a penis. What is that?"

Different emotions danced across Naruto's face before anger swoop to settle down like an avenging hawk. Deadly aura started emanating from his shaking frame.

"Sai, you asshole!" he said. His calm voice was belied the raging anger inside him. He leaped over his table, upsetting some papers as he lunged towards the still smiling Sai who immediately move away from Naruto's flying kick.

Innocent as ever, Yuuzuki looked at his red-haired uncle and asked, "What's an asshole?"

An eyebrow twitched as Gaara heard the question and in his poker face answered so calmly, "Uncle Sai's nickname." And the boy immediately nodded, filing the word in his mind for later use.

Unfazed by the murderous aura he was feeling from the hokage, Sai said soothingly, "Calm down, Naruto. You don't want Yuuzuki to learn such crude word now, do we?"

That statement seemed to provoke the blonde more and immediately started chasing Sai around the office. "Sai, stop moving around!" Naruto ordered as he missed the current leader of the Root once more.

"If I do that, it will pose a problem for me later on." Not in the mood to fight back, Sai decided to stand behind Yuuzuki and used the latter as a shield against any of attacks.

"Yuuzuki-kun, if you won't ask this question to anybody for two years, I'll tell you what penis is."

"Really?" The boy was somehow oblivious to the glares his father was throwing to the man behind him.

"Yes. We won't mention any of this because this is a secret."

The boy nodded and Sai was still using him as a shield as they left the office.

"Yuuzuki will definitely turn into a pervert," a slightly amused Gaara stated as the door closed behind the two. The scowl on Naruto's face would have sent any lesser ninjas running but the Kazekage wasn't under that category so he remained unaffected.

"I'm stating the facts, Naruto. His favorite persons include Kakashi and Jiraiya-sama; he spends too much time with Sai and to top it off, his otousan is also a pervert."

"Sasuke is not a pervert!"

"Really? Your blushing face tells me otherwise."

The blonde pouted darkly. There was no way in hell or heaven he would let his son join their ranks. Never!

- SasuNaru is love -

Yuuzuki sent a happy wave to Izumo and Kotetsu as he entered the building, never stopping to start his usual conversation with the two. Then he smiled at the ANBU guards who were stationed in the office.

"Give me a sec," he told one of them as they were about to open the doors. He caught his breath and righted his hair which was tousled after running so fast from the academy to there. He then gave a thumbs-up sign to the guards and walked into the office where his parents were in the middle of discussing something important, at least that was what he thought judging by their faces.

The two looked up to gaze at their son who grinned before he placed a scroll bearing the academy seal on Naruto's table. They knew what it was judging by the seal, yes just as Sasuke expected, Yuuzuki was now going to graduate.

"Ceremony is tomorrow afternoon, can you two make it?"

"Of course! How could we miss it especially when you are graduating at the top of your class," his chichiue answered.

"Well done, Yuuzuki," his otousan said in a voice tinted with pride.

"That is expected because," he looked at Naruto, "I am not a dead last."

"Why you…" he was about to do bodily harm to his son for such insult but an amused Sasuke held him back. But Yuuzuki wasn't done as he trained his eyes to his otousan, "And I'm not some boy who could only think of getting stronger for revenge causing his improvement not to reach its maximum."

This time, it was Naruto who was holding an irked Sasuke back. Yuuzuki gave them an arrogant smirk before he left, chuckling.

"Now, you finally know what it felt like to be given a holier-than-thou smirk," Naruto said as Sasuke calmed down. "I don't understand why both he and Akemi had all Uchiha characteristics except their eyes."

"It just shows that I am superior, dobe."

That arrogant smirk again!

"Let's see about that," Naruto said as he pounced on Sasuke.

Somehow, Sasuke found himself mentally patting himself in victory while Naruto was doing wonders with his tongue.

TBC

What can I say? I was trying to have fun with this chapter. In my opinion, Sai can be just as playful as he can be cunning.

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