SasuNaru, yaoi, OOC, OCs, m-preg and unbeta-read
Naruto belongs to him.
Sorry for the late(?) update. To my anonymous reviewers:
SoraKitty: Nice to hear from you again.
pedestrian: I'm glad
you are. Yeah, Sasu might be an asshole but he have a lot of good
points especially when it comes to Naruto.
mike: Ah yes the time
skips. If I'll account their growing up year by year, it would take
me forever. -smiles-
mou: -grins- You had a nice opinion about
Naru's 'selfishness'.
Chapter 32: Into the world
Knowing the risk he was taking and who he was putting in danger, Naruto religiously followed all the precautions necessary and obeyed Tsunade's advice. If he was told to resign from his office, he would do so unhesitatingly. Luckily it didn't come to that because all of his subordinates were more than willing to go all their way in helping him. They had voluntarily become his hands and feet and did any chores even as trivial as carrying papers for the hokage.In return for their gestures, Naruto would happily thanked and smiled at them making them, especially his secret admirers, feel rewarded too much.
On the other hand, the villagers seemed to understand Naruto's delicate condition and less public exposure and there were others who often spare few moments to check on the hokage at his house or at his office.
Naruto had never felt so special; so loved and at the same time useless until now. He appreaciated everybody's efforts and knew it was out of concern and affection but he couldn't just sit in the hokage's chair doing nothing but giving orders and entertaining guests.
He let out a growl as he felt another wave of abdominal pain that made him see white spots at the corner of his eyes.
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A playful Miki entered into her parents' bedroom and the scene that greeted her was not the one she was expecting to see. She stood frozen on the ground as her fearful eyes stared at her chichiue who was lying on the floor clutching his abdomen.
Naruto wanted to assure Miki that he was going to be alright but no words came out from his mouth and any movements seemed to intensiy the pain. He took big gulps of air, hoping to fight back the pain gripping him.
Miki's blood-curling scream caused Akemi to run into the room. To see his pale and sweating chichiue made his knees shake but logic told him that it wasn't the right moment to entertain fear. With his otousan and aniki out, it was up to him to look after his chichiue.
"I'll get Tsunade-baasan for you," he said calmly. "Don't go anywhere."
Somehow despite the situation he was in, Naruto understand the meaning behind his son's last statement.
Don't die.
For the first time in his life, Akemi ran like he never had before. He ran as if his life depended on it and in a way it did.
Hurry, feet. Hurry!
-SasuNaru is love-
Since Tsunade informed him that severe abdominal pain meant no good, Naruto patiently lay on a bed as he let the 5th hokage examined him thoroughly.
Tsunade felt relief rose as her examination yielded negative to an illness. However, she was still worried that she couldn't exactly pinpoint the cause of it. She wanted to bet that the pain was cause by the Kyuubi event but what if she was wrong?
"Naruto," she started almost weakly, "I want you to be extra careful. Although results are negative, that doesn't mean we should put our guard down."
The blond man nodded, "Kyuubi and I will be careful."
"I know your will is strong but what about your body?"
Naruto smiled positively, making Tsunade sigh mentally. "I believe in miracles."
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"Naruto?" Sasuke, who had been massaging his spouse's back, said in concern. He never liked it when his blonde would suffer abdominal pain especially when it was severe. He knew severe cramping meant bad especially when it was accompanied by fever or chills – something that Naruto experienced thrice in the past six months. In those situations, Sasuke ended up panicking like never before as he watched Tsunade thoroughly studying Naruto's body again for any signs of stomach virus, food poisoning, appendicitis, urinary tract infection, kidney infection, kidney stones, gallbladder disease, or complications of pregnancy. In the end, the medic-nin would assure him that both Naruto and the baby were okay and reminded him that Naruto's body was still adjusting to Kyuubi's increase of power.
"I'll be okay," Naruto assured between clenched jaws. His grip on the edge of the hokage table tightened as he willed for the pain to go away. Few minutes later it did and he arched his neck to give his spouse a cheeky grin.
Sasuke was about to say something when he found his hand yanked sharply towards Naruto's abdomen. Worry was temporarily replaced by amazement as he felt subtle movements from the inside of his wife's stomach.
"Our baby's moving," he whispered, almost choking at the poignancy of it. Naruto just nodded. And for awhile the couple remained like that – Sasuke standing behind Naruto's chair with his hands on the blonde's stomach.
The ANBU captain straightened and was about to continue the massage when Naruto shook his head.
"It's almost time for few ninjas to report here," he explained. "It would be embarrassing for a ninja of your status to be seen giving massages."
Sasuke rolled his eyes. He was certain that there were others who would give anything just to be in his position or just to give a massage to the blonde. Naruto held his hands firmly, "Why don't you grab me and our baby some lunch? I'm hungry now."
With an eyebrow arching elegantly, the dark-haired ninja asked, feigning incredulity, "You won't let me give you a massage but you would let me get your lunch? What happned to my reputation?" Before the rokudaime could retort, Sasuke leaned down to give him a quick kiss before he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
-SasuNaru is love-
Sasuke looked up from the hand holding a can of coffee towards him and came face to face with a smirking Neji.
"You need this," the Hyuuga genius commented as he sat beside Sasuke outside the delivery room. All of them knew that, two weeks ago, Tsunade had the best medic-nin on standby and even had reserved a delivery room for Naruto equipped with all the materials needed for any crisis that would arise during his child delivery. There was nothing to be worried about unless an unforeseen problem appeared.
"How long have Naruto been in there?" he asked, a bit alarmed.
"Longer than usual."
There was no doubt about it. Naruto was having a delivery complication.
"He'd been experiencing labor contractions for quite some time now and all attending staffs are sure that it's not a false labor. The baby won't come out," Sasuke finished with a sigh while a growing part of him was now regretting of letting Naruto take the risk. He wanted to bang his head against the wall. Why was he so stupid?
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Naruto knew the baby was not out yet and panic was now gripping his whole body. He had been pushing with all his might and he felt so tired now. His muscles seemed to give up anytime soon. Tsunade was right. No matter how strong his will was, his body was another thing. Faintly, he could hear Tsunade discussing cesarean delivery with Sakura who seemed to agree with the idea. Hearing their conversation made Naruto's skin crawl in fear of the pain that accompanied the method.
"One more chance," he murmured. His voice was almost unaudible but in the silence that had hung in the room, it was almost like a booming thunder.
"Don't waste your efforts, Naruto," Sakura replied. If only she could, she would have wrung her hands in distress especially when Naruto give another push and then another. Finally, as if pitying Naruto, the fourth Uchiha child slowly came out making all medic-nins scrambling to their designated roles.
Tsunade held the child by his ankles upside-down. When the baby didn't cry after few none-too-gentle spanking, she became worried. Taking a deep breath, she applied a very small amount of her chakra and split of second she felt a wave of amazingly strong chakra bursting and pulsating through his chakra system. Right there and then, Tsunade knew the danger of this boy and she couldn't help but shiver inwardly.
Drifting off to sleep, Naruto smiled tiredly as he heard the cries of his boy and he thought of how perfectly melodious it sounded to his ears.
Welcome to the world, my son.
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At last, after all his panicking and being out of character, Sasuke could now say he could relax. He stood outside the room where all newborn babies were individually placed in a see-through crib, waiting for their parents to claim them. Through the window glass and in the sea of all new unfamiliar faces, Sasuke's black eyes focused on a baby with wisps of hair as golden as Naruto's. Slowly, a small smile graced his lips.
"Sasuke-kun," a gentle feminine voice said from his left. Reluctantly, he took his gaze from his son's and focused them on Hinata. "Would you like to hold him?"
The man shook his head, "I'm fine looking at him from here." He'd give the honor of holding their son for the first time to Naruto who went to hell and back just to give birth to him.
-SasuNaru is love-
When Naruto stirred, he found himself staring into dark obsidian eyes. In his hazy mind, he couldn't figure out whose pair of eyes he was staring. Was it Akemi's? Yuuzuki's? Or Sasuke's?
"Dobe," he heard the owner of the eyes said and that was enough.
"Bastard, what time is it?"
"Past noon,"he replied and planted a soft and chaste kiss on his lips, "You slept for two days."
Naruto was about to demand explanation when he remembered something or to be exact someone. "Where's our son?"
Before the other man could answer, Akemi burst into the room, almost dragging his younger sister with him. Akemi immediately settled beside his chichiue's while Sasuke picked Miki to settle on his lap.
"Where's Kisho?" Miki said.
"Kisho?" the couple echoed owlishly.
"Younger brother."
"Your younger brother's name is Kisho?" Sasuke asked, a bit surprised that their children managed to come up a name while he and Naruto- judging from the blonde's expression at that moment, hadn't come up yet.
"Is it bad?" Akemi asked.
"Why that name, hm?" Naruto inquired as he combed Akemi's dark locks with his fingers.
"We love that name," he replied. Actually, from thirty-two names they came up, the name 'Kisho' was the only one that wouldn't cause any argument among them which always ended up with Miki bawling, Akemi grumbling and Yuuzuki angrily stuffing himself with sweets.
"It's a good name," Naruto said after a few second of thinking and Sasuke nodded his head in agreement.
"Let's go and bring Kisho here," Sasuke told Miki as he hoisted her in his arms. The girl nodded happily.
Akemi snuggled closer to his chichiue's as if silently seeking comfort. While Miki was ecstatic to have a brother and Yuuzuki having mixed feelings of having another responsibility in his hands, the feeling Akemi felt wasn't under the category of happiness. He felt himself threatened and he didn't like it, the least. To him, before Kisho's arrival, he had enough competition for his blond father's attention and now…
He swallowed the lump of tears that suddenly appeared in his throat as he wrapped his arms around Naruto.
TBC
... That wraps the Kisho saga. From here on, it would be smooth sailing... well as smooth as raising four children.
Kisho means one who knows his own mind.