Summary: Sasuke's life was going according to plan...until a baby was delivered to his doorstep. He's positive it's not his, so who's could it be, and why did he get it? But if it's not his...why does it look so much like him? And why is the handwriting on the note so familiar?

Warning: This story is AU, rated T for safety, and may contain a little OOC.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters except for ones I may create in later chapters.

A/N: Well, here's the next chapter. It's not the longest in the world, but it's good enough. I kinda just stopped where I thought would be a good place to pick up… So, here's the next chapter. Sorry it took so long for me to put up. I was, and will continue to be, very busy.

Baby Wishes

Written By: Alley-Oop

It was about five in the morning when Kayo began screeching again. Sasuke sat up quickly, startled by the unfamiliar wakeup call, and, realizing what it was, rubbed his eyes sleepily. It was too early! Stupid baby…

Slowly, Sasuke flung his feet over the side of the bed and just rested his face in his hands. He had actually thought it was all a dream up until Kayo had started crying this morning. What a disappointment.

Finally, Sasuke woke up enough to check on the baby. He stood and looked over the edge of the bassinet. Sasuke actually was stunned at what he saw. The night before it had been too dark and he had been too tired and groggy to notice, but now he fully saw what he was dealing with. Lying in the tiny bed, its face scrunched up angrily, laid the most beautiful baby Sasuke had ever seen. Kayo had a thiny, fuzzy patch of raven-black hair atop his pale, baby face- surprising because he was still so young. His cheeks were slightly flushed, the baby squealing with all its might at the moment, just adding to his baby-like cuteness.

When Sasuke looked more closely, he saw that the child even had a slight bit of muscle definition. It was amazing how familiar the infant looked. Sasuke then realized that the baby looked exactly like him! He turned his head to look at himself in the mirror behind his dresser and thought he would shit a brick at what he saw. Kayo and him were exactly alike, although Kayo still had all the normal baby features.

That was when Sasuke nearly let himself believe that this might be his child. He didn't know how that would've been possible, but it just might've been. There was no way for Sasuke to know for sure, but he did know one thing… Kayo needed to shut up!

Swooping down, Sasuke swiftly and gently scooped Kayo out of his bed. Somehow, it was almost comforting the way the infant's body seemed to morph to meld with the crook of Sasuke's arm. But that comfort did not make Kayo quit crying, and Sasuke didn't know what would.

He made a slow procession to the kitchen, snatching the bottle he had used last night from the side table he had left it on as he walked past. Somehow, Sasuke managed to hold the headache-inducing child while rinsing out the bottle, which was a lot harder than it sounds.

Some time later, when Sasuke had successfully fed, burped, been puked on by, and changed Kayo, he took a moment to run a frustrated hand through his hair, which was flat and shiny with grease. He hadn't had time to get a shower yet, so he probably didn't smell the greatest either. Sasuke waited until he was absolutely sure Kayo was asleep before he took a quick shower, taking the time to revel in the wonderful quiet. There was no way that he could keep the child, but he didn't want it to be taken from him. In his mind, the child was his possesion, whether he was the biological father or not- it had been given to him, right? That had to mean something. He couldn't bear the thought of it being put into an orphanage if they couldn't figure out the real mother and father.

Sasuke himself had been in an orphanage before, for most of his childhood, actually, and it was not a good place to grow up- horrible, in fact. As much as he hated kids and didn't want to deal with one, he'd much rather take care of Kayo than send him to an orphanage. Not even he was cruel enough to do that to a kid.

Sasuke sighed heavily when he faintly heard the baby's cries over the running water. He finished quickly in the shower and stepped out, quickly wrapping a towel around himself and hurrying out to the living room, where he had left the infant laying on a thick blanket on the couch, placing a pillow at his side so it didn't roll off.

At first, he wondered what had awoken Kayo, because he was pretty sure it hadn't been the water. He waited a few seconds before he heard the doorbell ring. Sasuke knew that he didn't have time to get dressed, so instead he scooped up Kayo, wrapping him in the big blanket, and held the baby against his firm, slightly wet chest. Kayo scrunched up his face, but slowly stopped crying as Sasuke rocked him, making his way to the front door as he did so.

When he opened it, he was hit with a blast of –1-degree air and about a –15-degree wind-chill. Lovely way to get even more woken up, if the baby hadn't cut it. Also, it didn't help that he had just gotten out of the shower and was still dripping wet.

Then Sasuke saw the obnoxious idiot that had made Kayo start screaming again and sighed. As if he didn't already have enough children on his hands.

"God, Naruto, it's early. Come in or stay out," Sasuke grumbled, his way of saying: 'come in or leave, and close the door behind you.'

Naruto stepped inside, smirking widely. He closed the door as softly as he could, considering Sasuke almost had Kayo back asleep again. He waited while Sasuke went upstairs to put Kayo in the bassinet and get dressed. The brunette came back down, lugging the entire bassinet along with him.

"I thought you didn't like kids," Naruto said, his smirk rapidly morphing into a full-fledged grin.

"I don't," Sasuke answered bluntly, starting a pot of coffee for Naruto and him.

"Then why are you babysitting?" Naruto asked. Sasuke couldn't blame him for coming to that assumption. That's the way it might have seemed to anyone, he supposed. After all, he was not the fatherly type, and it was no secret. Babysitting would have been reasonable.

For a brief second, Sasuke wondered if he should tell Naruto the truth or lie and pretend he was actually babysitting. He soon enough decided that lying would only get him into trouble in the long run.

"I'm not," Sasuke said. He turned to face Naruto and leaned back against the counter. Naruto looked more than a little surprised with Sasuke's answer.

"Nephew?" Naruto asked.

"No."

"Relative at all?" Naruto pressed. Sasuke pondered his answer on this for a moment.

"I don't know," he finally said, shrugging his shoulders casually, as if, either way, it didn't matter.

"You don't know?" Naruto gave Sasuke a long, scrutinous, suspicious look with one blonde eyebrow cocked. "What is that supposed to mean?" Naruto had thought Sasuke knew everything, now here the raven-like man was, not even knowing if or how he was related to a mysterious baby that seemed to have materialized out of thin air overnight. That was a shocker.

"It means I do not know," Sasuke retorted, breaking it down as if (or because) Naruto was retarded.

"So, you're in denial and he's actually yours?" Naruto parried. "Either that or you just don't want me to know what's really going on and are lying about it to me because you're ashamed to admit that you have a son from a one-night stand…"

"Naruto, please, it's not like that at all." Sasuke shot Naruto's idea out of the water before Naruto could think on it any longer. "You're not even close."

"Then help me out! I'm not a mind reader. I can't just take the information from your brain." Naruto made a weird hand gesture to go along with his theory of mind telepathy, alerting Sasuke to how truly strange his friend was.

"Obviously not…" Sasuke mumbled under his breath, following it up quickly with a, "Do you want sugar?" as he poured their coffee.

"Yes, please."

The two fixed up their drinks and sat in a comfortable silence for a little while, both completely lost in their own thoughts. Sasuke was nearly startled when Naruto asked, "So who's the mom?"

Sasuke just took a long drink of his coffee as he thought about how to word his answer exactly. He gave up eventually with a sigh and answered, "I don't know."

"Sasuke, c'mon! Quit playing mind games with me and tell me. I feel left out!" Naruto whined. Sasuke looked at the blonde who was sitting on a stool pulled up to the opposite side of the counter as Sasuke.

"Well you know just about as much as I do! I don't know whose kid this is or where it came from, but it's here now…" Sasuke said. He then launched into his tale of the previous night, leaving out everything after the letter, which he had shown to Naruto.

"Shit…" Naruto said, half with sympathy, half with disbelief. He still thought that Sasuke was pranking him, but for some reason he knew that the Uchiha would not joke about something this serious. "So… when are you going to call and report it?"

"I was going to when you came," Sasuke said. He refilled his cup and just held it in his hands, absorbing the warmth.

"I think you should keep him, whether Kayo's yours or not," Naruto suddenly piped up, looking at the slightly older man who was still leaning against the counter.

"No," Sasuke responded. "Not unless they plan on putting him in an orphanage."

"Well, you should report Kayo now. I'm sure you'll be happy to have him off your hands," Naruto said. Sasuke could already feel the guilt trip coming on, and he didn't want to hear it.

"Yeah. Will you go wait in the living room and watch Kayo?" Sasuke asked, trying to avoid Naruto's guilt speech by sending him out of the room. Naruto nodded and stood, exiting the room. However, he paused at the door.

"Ya know, Sasuke…"

Sasuke put his coffee cup down harshly, causing some of the dark liquid to slosh out onto the marble countertops.

"Naruto, don't. Not right now, please. You can harass me all you want later, but I know what's best for me, and right now that is getting Kayo off my hands. I don't want you pressuring me into keeping him. I just want to make this phone call and figure out how to get my life back on track." Naruto's shoulders visibly slumped, but he nodded and walked into the leaving room, leaving Sasuke to contemplate whether he had been trying to convince Naruto or himself that he knew what he was doing…

A/N: Yay! New chapter! Everyone be happy and listen to Sway by Michael Buble with me!

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