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Disclaimer: Naruto characters belongs to Kishimoto-sama.

Warning: SasuNaru, Yaoi, M-preg, OOC , OCs and beta-read

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Chapter 80: Suspicion

"Once more the power of youthful spirit emerged victorious," Lee announced as he stepped into the hokage office. With a flourish associated with the green beasts of Konoha, handed his report. "Is your flame dying, Naruto-kun?" Lee asked, noticing how pale the blonde was.

Naruto saw the question as an opportunity to spend some quality time with his friend.

Lee, do you know? Or are you as clueless as me?

"I've been staying too long in this room. Let's take a walk, shall we?"

The special jounin nodded. "Let my passion for life breathe strength to your dying flame," he announced with determination glinting in his eyes. When he looked at where his friend had been standing ago, he found it empty. He whirled around just in time to see the blonde stepping outside. "Naruto-kun, wait!"

-SasuNaru is love-

The two strolled along the tree-lined path that led to one of the training grounds. While one of the green beasts had a light bounce in his steps, the Rokudaime dragged his. The former walked quietly waiting for the latter to speak.

"How are you and your family, Fuzzy eyebrows?"

For a second, Lee looked confused before he answered, "Fine. Everybody is living their life to the fullest just as I wanted them to."

Naruto wondered if cheating on spouses was one of the ways in living life to the fullest.

"What about you?" Lee asked. He had no idea where their conversation was headed to but decided to go along the flow. "Must be happy to have four adorable grandkids. It seems my children have no plans to marry at all." He proceeded in wiping non-existent tears.

"I've been busy running the village, I barely have time for my family." And perhaps that was the reason why Sasuke went to Sakura. If he resigns from his seat of power, what are the chances of his spouse coming back to him?

"Sakura is busy too."

I know. She's busy with my husband.

"Naruto-kun?"

"Huh?"

"Shall we spar? I'm sure it will get rid of your sickly appearance."

The blonde nodded.

-SasuNaru is love-

Obsidian eyes slowly moved as Sasuke followed every move Naruto made. For the past few days, the blonde gave him little to no attention. He seemed to be distant and way too moody but he- Sasuke didn't question. He assumed that it was due to pregnancy but he wondered when Naruto would tell that he was carrying their fifth child.

"Dobe, I'm going to train," he announced, standing from his chair.

"Take care," his wife said almost indifferently. "Have fun."

Sasuke had no doubt that there was sarcasm in his voice. He looked over his shoulder ready to demand what the blonde's problem was but his wife had already disappeared. He sighed while he wondered if a silently bitching Naruto was a punishment of a crime he wasn't aware of committing.

-SasuNaru is love-

Naruto knew Sasuke was better than him in stealth and stalking and he also knew that he- Naruto was better than Sakura in those departments. And so, it was Sakura whom he trailed after.

He silently perched on a tree branch and peered through leaves when his target stopped in front of a locksmith's shop. A few seconds later, Sasuke emerged from the store and Naruto immediately closed his eyes wanting to forget what was happening. He clenched his chest which was beating painfully. He suspected. He found out. He expected it but why did seeing them hurt a lot? Stupid heart. Why couldn't his heart be as logical as his mind, anyway?

When he opened his eyes, his husband and close friend were gone but it was okay. It was better that they left because at that moment he couldn't. He felt hot and cold. He wanted to cry at the same time laugh. He couldn't understand why he felt such conflicting emotions at the same time. He ungracefully landed on the ground and vomited nothing but water. Naruto doubled over as pain wracked his body. In reflex, he gripped the grass beneath his left hand.

Tsunade baa-chan, this is unbearable.

But he couldn't make up which was unbearable- the pain in his heart or in his stomach.

-SasuNaru is love-

"Was yesterday not enough, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked. Both of them were at Amaguriya because Sakura wanted to eat yokan on her rest day.

"Would I be here if it was?"

"Everything is happening too fast. Can't we take it slow? It won't be good at this pace."

"But Naruto..." he trailed off. His instincts told him that Naruto had started having his suspicions.

"Is your husband and you should tell him," Sakura stated. "It can't go on like this forever."

"You make it sound like this is bad. I'm not the only one keeping secrets here."

The kunoichi sighed. "I can't believe you still think that way. I showed you his medical files."

"It may not be about his health," Sasuke hissed, his irritation matching Sakura's. The woman would never understand. He, himself couldn't either. It was just that his guts told him that Naruto was hiding something.

"Let's calm down. We didn't meet to argue, right?"

"Hn."

-SasuNaru is love-

His love for Sasuke was unquestionable. That much Naruto knew. So even when jealousy had fully bloomed in his chest like a flower in full spring, he decided that he'd let Sasuke be. If he finds completion and happiness in the arms of anyone then so be it. Besides, it was still him whom Sasuke went home to. But for how long? He didn't know and it didn't matter. As much as he wanted to confront Sasuke or murder Sakura, he found himself abiding the bastard's choice. He didn't know why but he was giving way to him.

It didn't occur to the blonde that he was close to treating himself like a second-hand shoe ready to be thrown away or that he was degrading himself by letting Sasuke do whatever pleased him.

"You're questionably in a good mood tonight," Sasuke added casually as he dried his hair with a towel.

Like the previous nights, He had come home near midnight then went to shower. Naruto immediately reasoned that it was the man's way of getting rid of the smell during his and Sakura's tryst.

"I'm just happy," he said with a shrugged of his shoulders while chewing on a pen.

The dark-haired man padded to him and took the pen away. "It's distracting," he murmured huskily, his eyes intently focus on soft lips.

"It is now, isn't it?" he countered with a foxy smile.

"Yeah."

Blue eyes swept over pale chest before landing on one particular anatomy. Obviously his spouse's mistress couldn't tire the dark-haired man out the way he did. He smirked at the man in front of him before licking his lips provocatively. Naruto let out a gasp as pale fingers grabbed a fistful of his hair and pulled him forward.

Sasuke shivered in pleasure and excitement as Naruto kissed him with an intensity that made his toes curl. He leaned forward, pushing the blonde on his back and covering his body with his own. He lightly brushed the hem of Naruto's favorite orange shirt before snaking one adventurous hand.

They never broke their passionate liplock, not until Sasuke had to get rid of the shirt. It was just a few seconds but it was enough to rip the offending shirt from the blonde's head; to take big gulps of air and to make them needy once more. Their mouths crashed again for another fiery dance.

Naruto moaned, tilted his head more and opened his mouth wider. He arched his body allowing Sasuke to slip his boxers and pants down. He moaned as his hard-on came in contact with the towel wrapped around Sasuke's waist. In a blink of an eye, he had his spouse as naked as him. Impulsively, he rocked his hips against his husband's causing a moan to explode from the other man's abused lips.

Sasuke painstakingly left marks on tanned neck before he moved southward leaving a burning trail on flushed body.

Everything was more than okay. It was hot and consuming and things would have escalated if not for Naruto's brain coming up with images of Sasuke and Sakura, causing him to stiffen. Those two expert hands which were everywhere and that splendid mouth on his stomach, were the source of his close friend's pleasure.

Confusion became Sasuke when the blonde pushed him away and noticed the latter's flagging erection.

"I can't," Naruto choke out.

"Why?" Sasuke asked while touching the other's manhood to harden it once more.

The blonde shied away from his touch. Before, the dark-haired man could react further, he grabbed his clothes and disappeared leaving a bewildered and unsatisfied Sasuke.

What the hell is going on? Sasuke asked while wiping his pre-cum-stained hand with his towel. He decided to search for his blonde after a very cold shower.

Why are you like this?

-SasuNaru is love-

Iruka groaned as he stumbled into the hallway and opened the door.

"Naruto?" he croaked.

"Sorrytoilet," Naruto stated in one breath before rushing to the toilet and vomited everything he had that night.

Instead of following his so-called son, Iruka went to the kitchen to boil water.

The blonde closed his eyes as he saw specks of blood on what he threw up. Weakly, he stood up and flushed any traces of his condition. He washed his mouth before joining Iruka in the kitchen. When he got there, a bed-draggled Kakashi was there.

"Sorry for waking you up," he said. He flinched as a cup was thrust into his hands, its heat in complete contrast with the coldness of his skin.

"Shouldn't you be in your bed," Kakashi stated, his eye observing the blonde.

"Couldn't sleep so I decided to take a stroll."

"I see," the man said, humoring the blonde who was obviously lying. Before he could say anything else, he felt Iruka squeezed his left thigh threateningly.

"Do you still feel sick? Are you okay?" the brunette asked.

"It's just an upset stomach. Probably caused by the grasshoppers I ate this morning."

Iruka made a face while Kakashi smiled. It wasn't a lie. Both men knew he went to a nearby village to honor the village chief who was celebrating his hundredth year birthday and all foods served to guests of honor like Naruto were exotic. The only thing that looked edible were frogs and grasshoppers. Of course, he refused to eat or touch the latter as it felt he was eating Gamabunta and his family. The grasshoppers didn't taste bad. In fact it tasted good but his stomach didn't feel the same way and it took his nausea he felt towards Sasuke and Sakura's affair an opportunity to reveal its opinion.

"Can I crash here for tonight?" he asked a sympathetic Iruka and completely avoided the ever sharp Kakashi. He was about to make his speculation known when Iruka's toes pinched his left leg. "Sure," he heard his spouse say. "You can also use the shower if you want."

Naruto gave them a brilliant smile before he trudged his way to the shower.

Lukewarm water hid his hot tears while his sobs were being drowned out by pattering sounds of water as they hit the tiled floor. This time, he didn't seek comfort knowing it won't come.

"You go ahead," Kakashi told his spouse when the latter stood up to go back to their bedroom. "I feel like staying here longer."

"Don't stay too long," the brunette said affectionately making the other man grin.

-SasuNaru is love-

Sasuke nodded to one of the guards stationed at the hokage tower before he left. He had been looking for Naruto for quite some time, going to places were the blonde frequented a lot. At first, he checked the Uchiha compound then the Hokage sleeping quarters then the Hokage office before he decided to go to Kakashi's place where he knew the blonde won't go

at the middle of the night and rudely wake the couple up. Before Sasuke could push the doorbell, the door swung open.

"I've been waiting for you," Kakashi said in a form of greeting and Sasuke knew Naruto was there. "Had a fight?"

"No. He just left suddenly," Sasuke replied as he made his way inside. "He's getting stranger and stranger everyday."

The older could detect frustration and confusion from the younger man's voice. "He's just probably tired," he assured, conveniently forgetting to mention that the blonde had emptied his stomach. He didn't want to add worry to what his former student was feeling. "The door on the left," he answered helpfully.

The Uchiha leader nodded and walk into the room. He padded to the bed where one body lie forlornly. Under the ribbons of soft silver light, Sasuke could make out the frown gracing soft feature. Softly, he tried smoothening Naruto's look.

And if the blonde choose that moment to wake up from his abstract dream of shifting shadows, he would have seen love darkening Sasuke's inky eyes and would have question what he believed. But he was emotionally spent and sleep made him numb to everything like a drug.

After making sure that Naruto would be warm through the remaining night, he went home because he could feel that Naruto won't appreciate his presence but he decided that he'd talk to Naruto when morning comes.

-SasuNaru is love-

Naruto let out a pain-filled gasp as he was slammed against a wall. To attack him inside the hokage tower, along the hallway that led to his office no less... only an idiot would do such thing.

"You've been avoiding me," a very familiar voice hissed.

Or one of the best ANBU captains who happened to be a member of ANBU's highest echelon and his husband. He gulped before looking at glaring eyes.

"I'm not," he retorted defensively.

Did his dobe think that he was stupid? Sasuke wondered. It was obvious that Naruto was avoiding him. Both of them had reached the tower at the same time but the blonde acted like he didn't see anyone; they had breakfast at the canteen and Naruto left even though he wanted to stay and they met at the hallway and the blonde detoured.

"Then what the hell are you doing?" Sasuke demanded while keeping the struggling blonde in place.

Naruto struggled more. How could he be near when he knew he wasn't the only one now? How couldn't he struggle when the source of his pain was imprisoning him between a wall and his body that knew pleasure that he- Naruto didn't cause.

"Let go," he begged.

"Not until you tell me why you're acting like this or why you left suddenly and stayed at Iruka-sensei's place."

"If I'll tell you, would you let go of me?"

"Deal."

Naruto took a deep breath and stared into black pools. "I have an erectile dysfunction," he confessed in a whisper. He didn't bother gauging his husband's reaction as he swiftly freed himself. He had just taken one step when he was slammed back to the wall again. Naruto pressed his head against the flat surface when Sasuke's dangerously calm face came unbearably close.

"I don't fucking believe you," the ANBU captain growled, his lips slightly brushing against the blonde's. "You were fine last night."

"I couldn't keep it up for long." Sasuke detected the desperation in his voice. "Now let go before anyone would see us." Unfortunately for the blonde, he didn't give a damn on who would see him- an ANBU captain pining the hokage- his superior against the wall.

"I don't believe you," Sasuke repeated with a hard glint in his eyes. And much to the blonde's horror, he realized Sasuke would kiss him right there and then. But instead of protesting, he gave the man a challenging smile.

"Naruto! Sasuke-kun!" came a familiar voice just as their lips met for the briefest seconds.

Both males look to their left to see Sakura. Naruto's mind brilliantly observed how the three of them formed an isosceles triangle but a triangle nonetheless. They had reverted back to their early teens except that this time things were different. He pushed away from Sasuke who was glaring at the guilty-looking kunoichi.

"Sorry to disturb you guys but-"

"It's okay. Sasuke and I are done. He's all yours," Naruto said before briskly adding, "I expect you guys to be prompt during the mission briefing."

"What was that all about?" Sakura asked. She could feel the sharpness coating her friend's words.

"I was about to find out when you rudely interrupted."

"Sorry but I got worried when you didn't show up in my office," she reasoned. "We only have few minutes left before the meeting. We have to be quick."

"Hn."

-SasuNaru is love-

"Simple," Hiko commented.

"I wouldn't assign Sakura if it's as simple as it sounds," Naruto said. "I want you guys to be careful. I expect your presence here one week from now."

Everyone nodded. Knowing that Sasuke was staring at him, he looked at the former and grinned. He grinned even when his mind was busy speculating the things Sasuke and Sakura would do. He grinned even when it hurt to look at Sasuke knowing he wasn't his anymore. Exclusively his that is.

When the team had left, Naruto massaged his temples before he sighed. He glanced at his right and asked his secretary, "If you are blue, which would you prefer, orange or pink?"

Konohamaru had known Naruto for a long time and had served him as his secretary for a great length of time and yet there were moments like now when he didn't have any inkling of how the blonde's mind works.

"I don't have any idea how to answer that," he replied honestly.

His superior waved his hand. "That's okay. You don't have to answer because I made up my mind already." And he smiled, totally optimistic about his life without Sasuke.

-SasuNaru is love-

The moment Sasuke stepped into the village four days later he felt like he hadn't left at all. His thoughts were nothing but of that of his wife. His mind was stuck in the village. In fact, he couldn't remember anything about the mission or how many people he killed because he was working in automatic mode.

He, together with his team and Sakura, made their way to the hokage office where Shikamaru instead of Naruto awaited for them.

The lazy lit his cigarette before saying, "office-in-charge." It was obvious anyway because he was seated on the couch with the coffee table filled with troublesome work. "Let's start the debriefing..."

-SasuNaru is love-

An hour later, Sasuke was already walking to the front door of his home. He was about to slid it open when Akemi from the inside opened it. The two looked surprised as if they were looking at the time mirror then blinked.

"Welcome home," the younger Uchiha greeted. "I'm leaving."

Sasuke nodded, "don't let your guard down."

Akemi smiled. He was about to leave when he remembered something. "I received a letter from Kisho. I posted it on the kitchen table. And chichiue is acting strange. I mean, he's not in his, I quote 'Naruto strangeness'. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?" His father had to because he couldn't put a finger on his chichiue's strangeness. Sometimes, he'd find the man staring into space or looking at pictures with a longing look. When asked what he was doing, his chichiue shrugged his shoulders before claiming that he was just a sentimental fool and immediately requested that he- Akemi treat him to ramen.

"More or less, I do," Sasuke answered, snapping his dead-ringer from his thoughts. "I'll worry about him. Now, don't get yourself killed during mission."

Akemi smirked before he left.

Sasuke trudged his way to his room feeling tired and sleepy. He looked at the bed contemplating whether he should take a shower and sleep or skip the shower part when he noticed a white envelope on top of ironed and folded clothes Naruto had prepared for his use after his shower.

He picked the envelope immediately assuming it was a love letter from his sweet wife. He let it pass that the dobe didn't use a stationery. That didn't matter to the Uchiha leader who was eagerly unfolding the white paper.

His world and his time jarred to a sudden stop and stilled to silence as he stared at the paper, blinked then stared again to make sure that it was a divorce paper he was holding and not the love letter he assumed. A second later when he was really certain, he felt himself falling from heaven to the ground then plunging to hell where his heart had plummeted the very second he stared at the document.

Stupid, moronic, idiotic and foolish blonde. What was he trying to achieve?

-SasuNaru is love-

The slamming of the door jarred Shikamaru from his lazy stupor. He opened his eyes to see a very furious Sasuke.

"Where the hell is Naruto?" the man demanded in a barely controlled angry voice.

Shikamaru made a noise at the back of his throat. "As you're aware, he's at the ANBU's final examination site and we both don't know where. You know the SOP."

Of course, he knew. All qualified examinees would meet the proctors at Point A thinking they would proceed to Point B as announced earlier. They wouldn't know that they'd be going to Point C until the last second. The only ones who knew where Point C was were the proctors, the Root leader and the hokage. It was a precaution measure against disruption. And Shikamaru was not a proctor this time so basically he didn't have any information about Point C but he was the office-in-charge surely he had an idea.

"No, unfortunately I don't have," the shadow master said, guessing what Sasuke was thinking. "You have no choice but to wait for two more days."

The Uchiha leader cursed under his breath, nodded at the other man and left. The lazy genius sighed. It didn't take a quarter of his brain to figure out that Naruto did another stupid thing. He shook his head. His sympathy definitely went to Sasuke.

TBC

With the divorce hanging over his head, can Sasuke make the blonde stay?