Author's notes: You'll probably have a hard time reading this one because of the format I'm using. I inserted flashbacks (with no warning whatsoever) everywhere so it is up to you to identify them. Flashbacks are in italics and so are the character's thoughts. Good luck. I know it's troublesome on you guys but I wanted to try this kind of formatting.
Chapter 75: Storm
Miki loosely tied her wet hair in a bun and checked the knot of her yukata before leaving the dressing room of an onsen in a village near Konoha. Her friends' laughter together with Shouhei's was what greeted her when she reached outside.
Shouhei raised a hand as a matter of greeting.
"What are you doing here?" Miki asked, surprised.
"My team is taking a break here too. I didn't know you're here until I met Kazuo and Shuu."
"Lovely coincidence, right?" an ecstatic Shuu commented. "Are you going to watch the festival too?"
Shouhei nodded.
"Then you should join us," Kazuo suggested and Miki seconded the motion.
Miki groaned and steadied herself as her world spun slightly and bile rising in her throat.
"Miki, are you okay?" Sasuke asked worriedly as he stood from his seat. Noticing the worry on her family's faces, she grinned reassuringly. "I'm fine."
"That's what you've been saying since a week ago," Naruto said. "We have to get you examined."
"I told you that I'm fine," she snapped causing her parents to raise an eyebrow. Now, why was it familiar? Sasuke and Naruto wondered. "I'm just tired." She yelped when she was swept off her feet.
"I'm carrying you to your bed then" her otousan said and without waiting for an answer, did just that.
"Perhaps she's coming down with flu?" Akemi said.
"Wouldn't she know considering that she's a medic-nin?" Kisho asked.
"In any case, we have to convince her to have an examination before it's too late," the older one said.
-SasuNaru is love-
Together with everyone else, the Konoha ninjas cheered the performers from the sideline at the same time sprinkled the participants with water as was the tradition of the festival.
Two hours later, as a commemoration of the dance parade, a firework display was held. The group sat somewhere on the upper part of grass-covered slope. A thunderous applause erupted from the crowd as the first firework exploded in the inky sky, its dots of light forming a blooming rose before they fell like glitters.
After few more breathtakingly fireworks, Shouhei's teammates had excused themselves while Miki's friends had long been gone. The Hyuuga member dropped a light kiss on her shoulder the moment his girl leaned against his chest.
Miki knew how to read the purpose behind the gentle gesture. It could be as a greeting; a farewell or a permission to kiss her. She tilted her head and said, "You don't have to ask, y'know." As much as she appreciated the gesture, she sometimes found herself irritated because it was just uncommon and bordered near brotherly affection.
"I don't want to surprise you," the man replied, his breath fanning her face.
"You won't." But truthfully, the intensity of his kisses surprised her. There was just something about it that made every fiber of her being strain against him. She moaned as Shouhei proceeded to plunder her mouth, claiming it as his territory. A hand automatically settled on the Hyuuga member's nape, pulling him closer to deepen the kiss.
A second or so later, Miki was kneeling between his legs and cupping his face, giving as much as she got.
Miki stared at the ceiling of her bedroom, apprehension becoming her. She could no longer pretend nor could lie to herself. The symptoms... her condition was obvious but she still needed proof.
She stood up and locked her door so no one would walk in or interrupt her. She then took her shirt off and lowered her jeans and underwear to expose her lower abdomen. She pressed her faintly glowing hands against that certain area.
Then they broke apart, flushed and breathing heavily. When Shouhei looked up, he found answers to his silent questions written in her blue eyes. Their mouths met again as hr who was close to losing logic, teleported them to the hotel room he was staying.
Miki just made an approving sound as she found herself sandwiched between the soft mattress and her boyfriend's body. She giggled breathlessly as she felt his teeth tugging her right earlobe then gasped as a hot mouth made a sensual trail on one side of her nape.
"Shouhei," she breathed.
A soft cry came forth from her lips as she felt a presence inside her. She sunk to the floor the truth too heavy for her to bear. What would her family and Shouhei would say when they'd find out about her pregnancy? She curled into a tight ball, crying while thinking of worst case scenarios.
Please don't hate me nor disown me. Please.
-SasuNaru is love-
Confused and scared, Miki couldn't help but distanced herself from her family. She was not ready yet for them to know. However, she knew she would have to tell them personally before they'd hear it from the others. But if possible, she wanted to wait for Shouhei who was on mission before she'd inform them.
Out of worry which had increased when she vehemently refused to go see Sakura, Naruto quietly observed her when she was within his range of vision. And although he was not very observant, he was still her mother and was gifted with maternal sharpness. Days later, Naruto went to her room.
Naruto paused midway on knocking her door. How would he go about it without accusing his daughter? God! This was so awkward especially if he was wrong and was just being paranoid. Miki didn't look the type to do it at such an early age. He shook his head dispelling those thoughts. Miki was absolutely not pregnant. Her condition was anything but that.
Ne, Miki?
-SasuNaru is love-
The Hyuuga male shivered at that voice and then shivered some more as a hand came in contact with her obi. Whatever that was hidden beneath her clothes, he knew it would be heart-stopping and penis-engorging. "Miki," he murmured as their eyes met. His girl just nodded and slowly, he untied her obi and parted her yukata. His eyes dilated at the sight of her body. She was more beautiful than it was on his wet dreams. "You're breathtaking," he said totally in awe. "And you're mine."
Hearing that possessive voice made her skin tingled and she reached out to him, wanting to cover her nakedness with his body. Perhaps her boyfriend understood because he lowered himself to her.
Laughter in the kitchen faded as Miki covered her mouth and fled to the bathroom. She ran past Sasuke who had just arrived from mission.
"Dobe, what's wrong?" Sasuke asked the moment he saw Naruto who was following their daughter.
"I don't know. She was fine until..." he trailed off as they heard retching sounds. When they reached the toilet, their daughter was already washing her mouth.
"Miki, let's get you examined," Naruto strongly advised as he took a step forward.
"I'm fine," she replied while wiping her mouth dry.
"No, you aren't! Whether you like it or not, we're going to see Sakura," Sasuke stated with finality and dragged her along the hallway, Naruto following them.
Shouhei... what should I do?
"Let go!" Miki shouted, slapping her otousan's hand away- an act that had surprised the two males.
I can't... not anymore.
Wringing her hands, she said, "I need to talk with you. It's very important."
Please... please otousan, chichiue, don't hate me.
They had never seen their girl so nervous before until now and dread filled their entire being. They went to the family den and sat there. Miki was in front of Sasuke and Naruto. The girl wiped her suddenly clammy hands and took deep but soft breaths.
God, are you there? Won't you help me make them understand?
"I'm pregnant," she choked the words out.
Miki felt the heat radiating from his lean body and wanted that. Shyly, she parted his yukata. She blushed when her boyfriend arched an eyebrow.
"I want to feel you," she explained making the other smile.
"You will," he replied before dipping head to trail his tongue on her cleavage.
"What did you say?" Sasuke said.
"I'm pregnant." And this time, tears were running down on her cheeks. Apprehension was swirling inside her.
The confession echoed within Sasuke's head before silence settled down. His mind and heart shut down and froze leaving him suspended and like a statue.
"Miki, that's a nasty joke or excuse so that-" an in-denial Naruto was cut off when the girl shook her head furiously.
"No, I'm serious. I'm one month..."
The blonde gasped as one nipple was enclosed by his mouth and she dug her hands into his mop of dark hair when his tongue swipe around the tip. She could feel something coiling within her stomach and its heat spreading through her nether region. She felt she was in the danger of sublimating and her grip on his hair tightened demanding for more at the same time begging to stop afraid that she would vanish if the intensity continued.
"Shouhei," she breathed while raising the other side of her body wanting him to give her other nipple his undivided attention.
Pain and anger.
"Who did this to you?" Naruto managed to choke out through the anger that was rising within him. The idiot who had rape her girl would die by his own hands.
"Who? To?"
"Who raped you?" he snapped in a shaking voice his desire to kill almost filling him up. Nobody would get away from such crime.
"It wasn't rape. I..." she trailed off, hesitant at the same time letting her blond father realized that she wasn't a victim but an ardent participant.
"Say it! And clearly." Miki didn't, did she? She was just protecting the criminal because she was being threatened, right? RIGHT?
Shouhei's logic and reason had fled him a long time ago the moment his girl told him she wanted to feel him. The way she said it shyly and breathlessly, made him want to take her right there and then with no foreplay but he held back. Control was the only thing that he had and the sounds the blonde was producing were making it evaporate. After giving equal attention to her now very erect nipples, he continued moving downwards, nipping here and there careful to leave discreet marks.
A hand trailed downward brushing her skin the hem of her panties before he moved it farther feeling the silkiness of her underwear. His hand dipped downward and glide against the wet area of her lingerie. He couldn't help but rub against what was hidden beneath the cloth, teasing it
and making it produce more liquid and hotter.
"On my latest vacation, I met him-"
"His name, Miki. I. want. his. name." He reached across the table and cupped her hands between his. "He won't get you. We'll protect you from him."
Miki shook her head and withdrew her hands away from her chichiue's. Why was he treating Shouhei as a criminal?
"I did it with Shouhei." She swallowed the apology that almost came out from her lips as Naruto paled. She couldn't be sorry because guilt or regret was the last thing she would feel for the wonderful thing that happened between them.
Shouhei... the Hyuuga gentleman... Miki's close friend...
When did things escalate between them? Were they dating or just went straight to bed?
He had seen the two spending a lot of time together but it wasn't an uncommon sight thus he had been on the impression that they were friends and were not dating. Wait.
He felt another jab of pain of betrayal plunging into him.
Instinctively, she parted her legs wider while sobbing at the pleasure that was close to rocking her lithe body. She arched her hips as Shouhei quickly rid the only remaining obstacle to her stark nakedness.
"Miki," the man breathed taking in the sensual scent produced by her womanly folds. "Miki... feel me."
Even if she didn't want to, she would because every nerve of her body was sensitive to his ministrations and to his voice. She gasped, shivered and closed her eyes when a finger traced her slit from one edge to another before it dipped into her very hot and wet cavern.
Afraid of the conclusion her chichiue came to, she said, "He was gentle."
And that statement triggered his imagination to send images of two figures moving as one on the bed of a poorly lit room, sharing heat, swapping body fluids and exchanging incoherent sweet words. At the back of his mind, he hoped it was on a bed and not against a wall, on a table or a grass-covered soil because-That thought was replaced by something else.
"People would think you slept with all guys you dated. To them, you're a whore," Naruto said while cringing at his own words.
That was a slap to her. Was he also thinking that she was a whore too? "I don't care because it's a lie. I'd bear everything because I love him."
Loss.
Naruto slammed a hand on the table. The sound was loud but it didn't reach Sasuke who was within his little world light years away from the real one.
"What does a fifteen-year-old know about love?" he demanded hotly.
You're too young to be a mother. You're too young for all of this… Miki…
Why do you judge, chichiue?
"You're wrong. I'm not like both of you who waited for many years before you know love in each other!" She shouted back then stormed outside leaving a pained Naruto behind.
Shouhei couldn't hold back the groan that spilled from his lips as he felt how slippery and welcoming it was. Damn. Would he last long or would he come the moment he would slide himself inside her? He took his boxers, finally freeing his straining and weeping cock. He massaged her inner thighs before moving in between them. He took a moment to lick his inner thighs before dropping a kiss on her nether region.
Naruto reached his hand out to where Miki used to stand then dropped it. He clutched his chest.
What kind of pain is this? You're too young to leave.
He looked at the still dazed Sasuke but no comfort came and he couldn't give one as well. In his anger, he swung an arm and sent a vase flying towards the wall before burying his face into his shaking hands.
It's not supposed to be like this.
-SasuNaru is love-
Yukina had been breastfeeding her third son- Akihito when she heard angry shouts coming from the main house but due to the distance, she couldn't make out the words being exchanged. She stood up and looked through the window just in time she saw her sister-in-law bursting out from the manor. She then knew it was another fight between fathers and daughter. She sighed.
"Okaasan, can I go see grandfather and grandpa?" Yuuhi asked.
"Not now, dear. They're quite busy. Why don't you help me look after Aki-chan?"
Yuuhi pouted.
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"Miki," he said and kissed her forehead. Even if it was a torture on his part, he slowly pushed in. "If it's too painful just hold onto my back. I'll share your pain." He kissed her deeply as he pushed through her barrier. Her heat and tightness was driving him mad. The pain caused by her nails digging into his back was nothing compared to hers so he bore it all. He looked at her closed eyes and caught a tear with his tongue.
Miki felt like she had been torn apart and Shouhei's long and thick organ made the pain more uncomfortable and unbearable. She continued clinging to him, drawing strength from the source of her pain. Could she continue despite this pain? She silently screamed for her muscles to relax quickly and the more she demanded the more worried she become that she would never accommodate her lover and the more she panicked.
Looking at how distorted her face was with pain, Shouhei realized that he was too much for her. "I'm sorry, Miki. I'm going to pull out now." He was about to when she tightened her grip.
"No!" she protested almost in a shout. She looked at him pleadingly. "Let me adjust. Please."
Miki ran as far as her legs could carry her then stopped as her belly ached or was it her heart?
What does a fifteen-year old know about love?
She let out a scream towards the sky who responded by pouring rain all over Konoha whether it was out of sympathy or anger, she didn't know. She sunk to her knees, hugging her own body.
"Chichiue, you idiot!" she muttered. Just because she and Shouhei didn't hate each other's guts, fought all the time, tried to kill each other in the Valley of End and she didn't chased after him to the ends of earth and to hell and back, didn't mean she didn't know what love was.
Was it a crime to bear the child of the person you love? If so, then why are there children? If so, why did you have me and my brothers?
-SasuNaru is love-
On Yukina's request, Yuuzuki hurriedly went to the main house after he arrived home. With the all lights off the main residence, he wasn't sure if anybody was home. He stepped inside through the back door and fumbled for the light switch. Following the sobbing sounds he heard, he walked into the family den, turned the lights on. And the sight of Naruto crying was what greeted him. He immediately walked towards his chichiue, never realizing his otousan was there until he almost tripped over a leg. He frowned while wondering what had happened to make them like this.
"Otousan? Chichiue?"
Naruto looked up and immediately reached out to his son.
"Yuuzuki... Miki..."
Did something happen to his sister? Was she captured? But she wasn't on mission.
"What's wrong?"
"She's carrying Shouhei's child."
Yuuzuki went cold while Sasuke crashed down from his comfort zone.
"Shouhei?" Yuuzuki choked out. What the-? When did-? How did the guy manage to get past their guard especially his? Oh yeah, he was Miki's close friend and they had let their guard down. Damn.
"A Hyuuga?" Sasuke asked coldly. Both ANBU captains stood up.
"No, wait!" Naruto called out. "Shouhei is on mission and so are his parents. I don't want anyone else to know about this."
"Where is Miki?" the Uchiha heir asked.
"She left after we quarreled. Yuuzuki, please find her. I knew she won't listen to us. Please?"
He nodded. "I want both of you to calm down so you can settle things."
Sasuke glared at him. "There's nothing to settle."
You're dead, Shouhei.
-SasuNaru is love-
It was a bit ironic to the Hyuuga member that it was her who was begging and not him. Ironic but it made him happy beyond words. He pushed the blonde back to the bed and did nothing but showering her with kisses.
After a long moment when the pain had subsided into a dull discomfort, awe crept within her. The fullness she felt... it was amazing how one organ could make her feel complete and loved. When she gazed up at her lover her eyes were full of wonder. She smiled at him as if she was seeing him for the first time. "You're wonderful," she whispered before she pressed her lips against his.
Shouhei took the gesture and compliment as a go-signal and he started moving, letting her adjust at the same time stoking the fire of their passion which had turn into a flame the moment he entered her.
Miki started moving to his rhythm making it theirs. She could feel something within her… something Shouhei touched every time he plunged deep within tingle and sensations that were beyond words spread through her entire being. She wanted more of that and whispered her desire against his lips.
Mao tapped her foot as she patiently waited for her former student to speak but it seemed all she wanted to do was drink the hot tea she had served. But that was understandable because when she had chance upon Miki she was already drenched, pale and shivering. Without question, she
had dragged her to her apartment, tossed a towel and a set of clothes before pushing her into a room.
"So..." Mao drawled while rocking her chair back and forth. "What troubles you?"
Miki was scared of all those people who loved her to hate her, to be disappointed of and be disgusted but her teacher wasn't everyone. She didn't love her nor had high expectations of her. Unlike her family and friends, Mao existed in her life to bring her down. And with the situation and her condition, it was safe to seek out her enemy rather than anyone else. With a confidence and pride that were never there, she informed her former teacher.
Mao would have fallen backward if her balance wasn't perfect. "And?" she asked even though she had an idea how furious, no, livid her parents were. And things would turn worse when her brothers especially Kisho would know. No Hyuuga would stand against Uchiha males. The consequence of their action would be the annihilation of the whole Hyuuga clan. Not all if Miki would give birth to that child but could she? The girl may be strong but her reproductive system hadn't fully developed yep.
"I don't know. I no longer know what to do," Miki confessed. She had been confused and her parents' anger didn't help.
"Miki, only you can decide what to do but I'll give an idea where this situation is probably headed to."
The blonde nodded although she was hesitant to listen because Mao always had a pessimistic picture of things.
"Your family would talk to Shouhei before killing him."
Miki paled but she found herself agreeing. She had to do something to save her love.
"They'd probably disown you or force you to abort the child."
Shouhei closed his eyes, no, his eyes automatically closed when Miki wrapped tanned long legs around him, drawing him close, pulling and pushing him to his sweet goal. He could feel the tight coil in his lower abdomen close to snapping. He was almost there and so was Miki judging by her heat. Unfortunately, he couldn't come inside her. He knew he couldn't... not yet.
"Shouhei, come inside me. Let everything out within me," she said between the straining sound she made. "I'll be okay. It's not yet my time to ovulate."
"Miki..." He trailed off as his girl bit a shoulder leaving a telltale mark.
"Do it. Fill me up." If it was any other situation, she would have blushed or to be more exact such sentence wouldn't come out from her lips. But she was intoxicated with desire and wanton became her just as madness became Shouhei.
Miki cried out as orgasm engulfed her. Few more quick thrusts and Shouhei joined her in bliss. Not wanting to crush her with his weight, the male gathered her in his arms before he lied down on the bed. He looked at her and smiled realizing she had fallen asleep.
A hand immediately lay on her belly. She also had to protect the proof of their love. Their? It didn't occur to her until now that perhaps her love was unrequited unlike her like or that Shouhei didn't want a child after all hadn't he tried to practice withdrawal? It was her idea for him to come inside only to realize belatedly that she miscalculated. Shouhei would definitely think she had tricked him.
"What's wrong?" the older kunoichi asked as she panic on her face.
"He won't have the child."
"What? Why?"
"Because... Just because."
"You don't make sense."
"Will you please meet Shouhei tomorrow and get him here?" Miki asked. She had to make him understand. She held her teacher's hands, "You need to get to him before they would."
-SasuNaru is love-
Mao grumbled as she went to answer the door just to stop the doorbell from ringing more. Whoever was at the door at this godforsaken hour would definitely hear from her. She flung the door open and her colorful words died swiftly at the sight of a scary Yuuzuki.
"Miki," he said coolly and without preamble. Although it was just his sister's name, the way he said it had more than one meaning. It was 'I know she's here.', 'I'll see her.', and 'Lie and face my anger.'
What could Mao do but stepped aside and invite the Uchiha who was showing his true self in.
A bathrobe clad Miki chose that moment to step out from the bathroom. She froze mid-step and their eyes met.
"Miki," Yuuzuki said with no hint of patience. He had to admit it was clever of his sister to hide in the lair of her so-called enemy. Again, that one word meant 'I heard about your situation and I'm not pleased.', 'What the hell are you doing?', 'You made parents worry.' and 'I'm here to bring you home.'
"Oniisan," Miki murmured. It was 'How did you find me?' 'Why are you here?' 'Don't come near me.' and 'Whatever you do, I won't go back.'
Yuuzuki just arched an eyebrow and appeared right in front of the blonde who at the same time was taking a step backward to flee.
She let out a short cry and as an automatic self-defense response, vines snaked out from the sleeve of her robe. Yuuzuki had anticipated the reflex and burned the vines with his flaming right hand. And before Miki could react more, her brother had swiftly hit her nape rendering her unconscious. As she was slipping into unconsciousness and falling forward, she looked at Mao with pleading eyes.
Please get to Shouhei.
Yuuzuki caught his sister and swung her into his arms making sure no unnecessary skin was exposed. He then looked at the other kunoichi whose face remained blank. He bowed silently apologizing for the trouble and the ashes she had to clean and then he disappeared as quietly and swiftly as the wind.
-SasuNaru is love-
Sasuke, Naruto, Akemi and Yuuzuki stood in Miki's room as Sakura carefully examined the female Uchiha who was still sleeping. The four males attentively watched Sakura's facial expression which remained neutral, giving nothing away.
"She's fine," Sakura said professionally. "She and the fetus are not in danger as of now." She looked at them one by one wanting them to understand the situation. "Considering that she's still fifteen years old-"
"We know," Sasuke interrupted. He crossed his arms in front his chest to be intimidating not that he wasn't.
"Her reproductive system isn't fit enough to carry a child yet. Later, her life as well as her baby's would be put at risk. I-" she stopped almost sharing her biased opinion. "I want to speak with her when she wakes up."
"So you're suggesting abortion?" Akemi stated more than asked. The inquiry added to the heaviness and tension of the atmosphere.
"I want to speak with Miki," she reiterated.
"But we have the right to know," Sasuke snapped.
"Only when the subject had been informed."
In anger, Sasuke stormed out of the room. It wasn't supposed to be this way. Miki, his princess was pregnant at the age of fifteen?! If he had foreseen the future, he'd keep an eye on his little girl twenty-four-seven until she was old enough.
Miki, it isn't supposed to be this way.
At the back of his mind, he looked forward to see his daughter's children but not this early and definitely not like this. It wasn't betrayal that settled heavily within him as much as loss and anger. He couldn't wait for Shouhei's return.
-SasuNaru is love-
"How is Sasuke taking all of this?" Sakura asked Naruto. Both of them were drinking tea in the kitchen. Naruto had invited Sakura longer as it was almost time for him to start cooking.
"I don't know. I couldn't reach him. He also didn't want to speak with me about the matter. He's keeping everything inside while refusing anything to enter," he confessed. Weren't they bearing the same cross? But with Sasuke being so distant, he felt the cross ten times heavier.
"Yuuzuki and Akemi are being like him also. Does Kisho know already?"
The blonde shook his head. "Not yet but he'll spend his two-day break here while waiting for his qualification to proceed to the last part of Hunter-nin training. He'll be coming home this afternoon."
The two fell silent for few minutes, both of them thinking. They were certain that Kisho would go wild because he was the most protective one of his sister. Naruto had to inform gently and explain... explain what? How Miki conceived the child and why she was going to be at risk later on to the point that the possibility of her dying was high.
Miki...
With blue eyes that were almost uncanny due to fear, he asked, "Miki isn't going to die right?"
"I'm going to do everything I can to keep her safe and alive."
He shook his head and repeated the question.
Seeing the tears Naruto was trying to hold back, Sakura held and squeezed his hands. "Naruto, giving you an assurance isn't something I can do especially with this case."
"Sakura-"
"I can only give you all my efforts as a medic-nin and as a friend." And she hoped this time it was enough because the last time she handled early pregnancy, her patient died due to hematoma. She mentally shook her head to get rid of that haunting experience especially when the girl's face started morphing into Miki's. She stood up, pressed a sisterly kiss on his forehead before she left.
Naruto sat there blankly staring at the wall, his steaming tea completely forgotten as he tried to grapple with the truth. On impulse, he laid a hand on his belly. After all the trouble, pain and efforts he had in bearing and giving birth to Miki, he couldn't lose her girl just like that. No, he wasn't ready. He would never be ready.
Sasuke walking into the kitchen brought Naruto's attention on him.
Why are you far?
The silence was broken by the sound of chair scraping against the floor. The Uchiha leader slightly stumbled at the body that suddenly and roughly pressed against him before arms loosely wrapped his slim waist.
Naruto perched his head on a stiff shoulder. "Sasuke," he breathed. "I need you."
Silence.
"We can't go on like this. Tell me what you feel. Share it to me." Make me feel that I'm not walking alone on this cavalry.
"I feel the same way as you do," he replied coolly.
"I know but I want you to say it." Then he whispered, "please, Sasuke."
At that voice, the dark-haired man slightly leaned backward, placed a hand on tanned ones, closed his eyes and silently took a deep breath. How would he say it? What to say when everything he felt complimented and contrasted each other. It was maddening and afraid to be washed away, he was forced to create a wall as strong as he could. Now, how to put these
feelings into words without jumping into the middle?
"What do you feel, Naruto?" he inquired just as quietly.
The blonde opened his mouth to speak but realized he had no idea how to say it much less where to begin. One emotion after another crashed against him like waves that never ceased and merged with the others to create a whirlpool.
Sasuke took his wife's silence as his incapability to express too. "You see, no words are appropriate for them. They could never become words." He felt Naruto moving his head in agreement and he thought it was over until the blonde asked again.
"What was the first thing that came to your mind?"
There was no confusion or hesitation when Sasuke answered. "Abortion."
And his answer was carried to the hallway where Miki was. She froze mid-step, her thirst immediately forgotten as the ominous word echoed in her head.
Tears fell on the wooden floor as fled the house. She maybe fifteen years old but she was a parent now and she would protect her child.
Sasuke felt Naruto tensed and said, "Don't get me wrong, Naruto. I don't want anyone to die but..." He would choose his daughter over his unborn grandchild.
"Why can't we have both?"
"Stop being naïve. You know you can't. Haven't you had enough experience to teach you that?"
"But-"
Sasuke whirled around to grip his shoulders. "Miki is our top priority," he stated with finality.
"Always have been and nothing would change that," Naruto replied.
A cough from the doorway interrupted them.
"I can't find Miki in her room or anywhere in this house. I even checked at aniki's house," Akemi said tartly.
Sasuke and Naruto paled.
When Miki woke up, the first thing that registered to her was soreness. She turned to the other side of the bed empty but it was still warm.
"Are you okay?" a voice asked.
She turned around to find a boxer-clad Shouhei standing few steps away from the bathroom.
Shouhei.
She blushed at the sight recalling how that body was intimately and perfectly pressed against hers. He was no longer her boyfriend but her lover. What a very intimate and sweet term.
"Just sore but it's not something a medic-nin can't cure within six minutes."
Shouhei sauntered and sat on the edge of the bed. Miki stretched her body unmindful of the eyes that drank the sight. She gazed at him with a touch of smile on her face while a pinkie finger lay against one edge of her tempting lips.
Desire flooded through the man. His girl was a seductress albeit unconsciously. He combed her hair with a hand. "Should I take that as an invitation?"
Blushing, she tugged him down and with her breath fanning against his face and her lips moving against his, she replied, "take it anyway you want."
"I'll take it as an invitation then." And he closed their distance.
And the rest of the night was swallowed by the flames of passion...
TBC
Next update will be on Tuesday if I can manage to get up early, post the story before leaving for work. If I can't, then expect an update on Saturday. Thanks.