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

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Author's notes: To those people who thought I am about to cross incest, -laughs-, you need to read this to understand that I am not doing it. To all anonymous reviewers, a heartfelt thank you for your time.

Chapter 34: One-sided rivalry

Naruto clapped his hands trying to encourage the almost one-year old Kisho, to continue walking towards him. When the boy reached him without stumbling, a smiling Naruto nuzzled his neck. He then turned around when he heard a soft and melodious laughter coming from the other area of the garden. He shook his head in amusement as he saw Miki, now four years old, sitting on the grass with vines worming around her arms.

The girl possessed more than just an ordinary green thumb. Unlike her two brothers, she had a perfect control on her chakra. Due to this, Tsunade wanted Miki to be her legacy just as Naruto was Sandaime's and she asked her parents to let her train the girl starting at the age of four. Miki's training schedule was the whole day of weekdays. And with her help, the girl's power which was controling plants had awakened so during weekends, the she spend her time in the garden practicing. If it weren't for Sasuke and Naruto insisting that she could only practice outside, the mansion would have been a jungle by now.

So engrossed was Naruto watching Miki at the same time playing with Kisho that he didn't realize he was being watched.

-SasuNaru is love-

The 6-year-old Akemi looked at the gardens from one of the baclconies in the house and smiled as descriptive words came into his mind. If Yuuzuki was childishess, mischief and responsibleness and his otousan was calmness, arrogance and aristocracy, his dear chichiue was strength and kindness; wildness and gentleness. He was definitely a walking contradiction, a beauty in and out itself. No matter how many books and scrolls he read and no matter how vast his vocabulary was, he could never find the perfect word to describe his chichiue.

He had always adored his blond father as far as he could remember and it bothered him a lot that he had a lot of competitors for his attention. His competitors were the villagers, his chichiue's friends, his subodinates and his siblings. But his greatest rival was none other than his otousan who he assumed know a lot of things –things about his chichiue that nobody but his father knew and somewhere deep within him he hated him. But he had to maintain the peaceful ties between them if only so he could gather some secret information about his chichiue.

He turned to his left when he felt a presence joining him. He nodded stiffly, realizing that it was his otousan – his ultimate rival.

"I don't understand why chichiue could give birth," Akemi commented. The matter had been confusing the moment he learned about the reproductive system of the human body at the academy. He had tried to research his chichiue's condition but ended up empty-handed. He even asked his happy-go-lucky brother who just dismissed the topic as trifling before continuing on feeding himself with sweets. Stupid older brother. Couldn't he see that the matter was very important to him?

Sasuke looked surprised, "Does it bother you?"

The boy shook his head, "I think it is amazing but I still don't know why."

"Because he is special," the older man answered simply. He expected Akemi to ask him to expound such statement but all the latter did was look at the blonde who was giggling together with Miki before he nodded his head in agreement.

"I know. That's why, I'm gonna marry someone like him."

"He's one of a kind, Akemi," Sasuke stated with a smirk.

A smirking Akemi looked at his otousan, his eyes glinting in a silent challenge, "Then I'm gonna marry him."

Such announcement surprised Sasuke who didn't know how to deal with it because he never heard Yuuzuki saying such words before.

"Hn."

Akemi stood up and arrogantly pointed at his father, "From now on, this is a battle." He then left, leaving Sasuke half-wondering whether he should take things seriously.

-SasuNaru is love-

The next morning, Naruto looked stunned to see Akemi with his spiky hairstyle instead of the one he had taken from Sasuke. Worse, the boy ignored Sasuke's presence and started eating his dinner in his usual quiet self. Naruto silently asked his husband who answered quietly 'growing up'. Such reply confused him and when he asked Sasuke to explain, the latter just shook his head. It was his way of silently asking Naruto to let him take care of it because he now knew what Akemi was feeling. He knew because he was suffering from it also at the tender age of four. He was stupid to have not realized that Akemi's behavior was quite similar to his except that Akemi's was worse than his. But it was understandable because Akemi's Oedipus complex had been made extreme by his insecurities and jealousy towards his siblings. But Sasuke knew such complex would fade as one gets older but still he needed to talk with Akemi before the young boy would come into some weird conclusions.

-SasuNaru is love-

When his classes was over, Akemi immediately made his way to Yamanaka's flower shop and asked Ino to make him a lovely bouquet.

"Who's the lucky girl?" Ino inquired as she gave Akemi his change. The boy gave him an are-you-stupid?-look before he replied, "It's for chichiue." And the woman could only stare at Akemi who was quickly leaving from her place.

-SasuNaru is love-

Naruto looked over his shoulder and called his spouse who was heading towards the refrigerator.

"I can't decide if the taste is balance," he said, coating his pointer finger with the sauce he was making and suck on it. After tasting the sauce over and over again for the past few minutes, he could no longer differentiate the current taste from earlier.

"What taste?" Sasuke asked as he stood slightly behind the blonde who immediately offered his sauce-coated pointer finger to him. Without further ado, Sasuke took the offered limb but instead of just tasting the sauce, he was doing some more. He was sucking on Naruto's finger, letting his tongue moved against in a circular motion causing Naruto to immediately tug his finger away.

"P- pervert!" he stammered trying to fight down the blush on his cheeks.

"What? I was doing what you wanted me to do before you distracted me."

"So how is it? Do I need to add a bit more sugar?"

"I can't decide," was Sasuke's reply.

Sighing in exasperation, Naruto dipped his finger again and was about to insert it into his mouth when Sasuke's beat him to it. The dark-haired ninja once more sucked the limb while his black eyes held blue ones captive.

Naruto could feel heat rushing not only to his face but everywhere in his body. Those sexy eyes just made him feel hotter. He snatched his finger and replaced it with his seeking lips. He moaned as Sasuke pressed him against the sink, with its edge slightly digging against his butt. He deepened the kiss giving as much as he was taking.

When they heard the front door slam, the two immediately pulled away.

"The sauce's taste is perfect," Sasuke whispered before he moved towards the refrigerator and in reply Naruto just chuckle and that was how Akemi found them in the kitchen.

Beautiful, Akemi thought as he saw his chichiue smiling. He had never seen that smile before and the way those eyes twinkle was different, almost hypnotizing. He felt like he had just intruded a forbidden place.

"Welcome home, Akemi," Naruto greeted.

"I'm home," he said and offered the bouquet to him. Naruto smiled but not the one Akemi wanted. He wanted his chichiue to smile just like few seconds ago. He wanted-

"Ne, who do you love more? Otousan or me?"

Such question stunned Naruto who could only let out a silent 'eh?'.

"Chichiue?"

"I love you and your otousan all the same," he replied seriously. But it only made Akemi mad. "How could you? He's my enemy!"he said before he stormed off from the kitchen and out from the house. Naruto was about to go after his difficult child when Sasuke stopped him.

"Let me," he said.

"You better bring him home before dinner, okay?" Naruto called out as Sasuke made his way towards the door. He then sighed. Akemi was more difficult to handle than Yuuzuki and he wondered if along the way he and Sasuke had made a mistake in bringing him up. He didn't like the fact that his child was giving tantrums and he decided he'd talk with Akemi later in the night. He didn't want any of his children to be spoiled.

-SasuNaru is love-

Hot angry tears were still falling from Akemi's eyes when Sasuke found him along the lake inside the Uchiha compound.

"Go away," Akemi hissed.

"Chichiue and I disapproved your tantrums, Akemi," he said then realized that the boy was too angry to listen to such matter. He had to settle the matter that was too important to the boy first before reprimanding him about his actions. He turned Akemi around and held his shoulder to prevent him from going back to his earlier position.

"Look at me, Akemi," Sasuke said in a voice that brooked no disobedience. Akemi obeyed because he felt threatened every time he heard that voice. "You are the proof of our love and that's why chichiue will always love you more than me." Blue eyes widened at this statement. "But if you marry him, then I'll be heartbroken. And if he sees me like that, he'll be sad and lonely too. Do you want him to be like that?"

Akemi shook his head furiously. Getting his chichiue sad and lonely was a big no-no to him. He'd feel bad if that happens.

"Then let him stay with me, okay?"

Akemi pouted as if making the greatest decision in his life and in a way he was. But he knew there were some things that belonged to his otousan only, like his chichiue's smile back in the kitchen. He could see that his chichiue was happy… too happy.

After a few moments, he nodded his head slowly as if he was not so sure of his decision. He wiped his eyes dry before he was almost glared at Sasuke when he said, "Hurt him and I'll take him away from you. Promise?"

Mentally, Sasuke sighed in exasperation. "Yes, I promise." And just to prove he was serious, he stuck his hand out, more than willing to shake on their promise. But his boy decided to imitate one of the scenes of the books he read. "Blood compact."

"What?"

"Let us seal our promise with blood."

"Akemi," this time he couldn't keep the exasperation on his voice.

"Please, otousan."

Sasuke started weighing things. If he refused, god knows how long they would stay outside and if he dragged Akemi back it would only caused more trouble. Sighing, he took his kunai, made a small cut on their hands then shook their blood-smeared hands together.

A satisfied Akemi walked side by side with Sasuke. "You stll have to apologize for your tantrum awhile ago. Chichiue wasn't please with it" When he saw that the boy was pouting and giving him a puppy look, he shook his head. "No, Akemi. You must always face the consequences of your actions."

TBC

Uh... I can't think of what to say after I wrote those in html format. My mind seemed to shut down automatically just like my PC. Yes, Akemi is just suffering from a severe Oedipus complex. For more info about the complex, just search the net. But in Akemi's case, he wasn't scared of being castrated by his father because he was too busy maintaining peace between Sasuke for the sake of information gathering. LOL. This was stupid but hey, I can't help it.

Next chapter summary: The family name Uchiha evoke fear within the enemies and reverence from the villagers but unfortunately...

PS: In the next chapter there is a one year skip so by then a 12-year-old Yuuzuki is now an ANBU member.