AN: Kill me and burn me at the cross if you must, such will be my fate either way! I promised before Christmas to update, and now here it is, the third week into the new freaking year! *Bows deeply* GOMEN! Please, I shall bite my tongue and speak no more! Read on and curse me back to hell! *crawls under rock*

Note: Suna Akurei, Hyūga Hisae, Kojika Nara © Anna Uzumaki

Pairing(s): Naruto/Sasuke With: Neji/Gaara, Shika/Kiba, Sakura/Lee, Hinata/Shino, Ino/Choji, Kankuro/Kojika, Temari/Tenten, Itachi/Kyuubi, Hidan/Kakuzo, Pein/Konan, Deidara/Sasori. later mentioned pairings.

Warning(s): Yaoi, lemon(s) in later chapters, sexual content (Duh!), slight nuggets of OOC-ness (bear with me), adult language, blood/gore, angst, drama, possible rape and KARMA.

Disclaimer: Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto

Chp. 14

October 19th

Passion Pit- Where I Come From

10:34Am

As the sun shone through the Nara's bedroom window, it's rays hit right on both of the sleeping males who grumpily pulled pillows over their heads to block the sunlight and the earsplitting ringing of their cell phones which were across the room on the floor by the door, having been dropped as the two were using them as flashlights to find their way through the dark of last night. However, even with such annoyances disturbing them at the moment, neither moved an inch to answer their phone or to close the blinds. But that soon changed as both of them were suddenly and none too gently awakened by Shikamaru's mother, Yoshino.

"WAKE UP YOU LAZY BRATS!" Yoshino yelled and hit both boys over their heads with something rather hard once she had yanked the pillows from over their heads.

"Moooom!" Shika practically whined and curled in on himself while holding his aching head.

"What the hell?!" Sasuke exclaimed groggily and covered his head in pain while still lying on his stomach, refusing to open his eyes. 'What the fuck…' He mentally groaned.

"Wake up now or else." Shika's mom threatened as she headed back to the bedroom door and tightened her grip on the baton she had hit them with a few seconds ago.

"Geez, so troublesome," Shika lifted his torso from the bed with a loud yawn, but kept his eyes closed, "okay, I'm up, now please…" He groaned and blindly pointed to his bedroom door, a signal for his mother to leave.

"Don't make me come back in here, both of you are already missing class!" Yoshino warned as she closed the door behind her. However, it was just then that both males realized something and as soon as they did, both snapped their heads towards the other.

"Uh, what…" Shika looked genuinely confused, making this the second time the raven had seen him look so lost.

"….please don't tell me…" Sasuke stiffened and quickly looked himself over, then looked at Shika from the corner of his eyes. Both were still dressed, minus shirts, but from the evidence left on the pale males' torso and hints of evidence left on the crotch of the Nara's jeans. It was in that moment, that they had little bits of what had happened last night flit through their minds… they had slept together.

"My life… just became so much more troublesome…" Shika drawled out and let his head fall into his hands as his mind raced through the negatives that were sure to come from what they had done.

"Y-your mom… you don't think she noticed, do you?" Sasuke asked in a far-away voice, not even wanting to believe what they had done, and pulled himself together enough to question and remove himself from the king sized bed, seeing as how he felt as though he had just been knocked off a cliff. 'This seriously can't be…' He repeated over and over to himself.

"If she did, we'd be dead by now." The lazy male said with one hand over his mouth and stared into space, "this is such a drag, I'd rather she kill me now. Cause once Kiba finds out…" He continued with an exhausted sigh, which only made his head throb painfully at the action.

"Well I'm not stayin' long enough for her to question why we were even in the same bed to begin with." Sasuke grimaced as he pulled on his shirt and grabbed his now silent phone from off the floor, "hn, this wasn't the kind of payback I was plannin'… but…" He trailed off as he looked at his missed calls, most being from Itachi and surprisingly enough Naruto, whom he was sure still had his phone shanghaied by his white haired grandfather, and a few from Neji, who was no doubt calling to see why he wasn't in class.

"Karma's a bitch…" Shika finished his sentence and he seemingly materialized beside the raven and picked up his phone to check his missed calls, all excluding one from Sakura who more than likely figured he wasn't coming to class since he didn't answer after one call, the rest were from Kiba… who left voicemails with each missed call. Those voice mails would be, without a doubt, full of shouting about sleeping so much and not answering the phone.

"I'm goin', I value my life too much," The onyx eyed male said, but paused once he was halfway out the door, "I hope you survive dude, otherwise, who's gonna kick Lee's ass?" He mentioned with a final smirk before making a quick retreat, but not before hearing the Nara grumble out something along the lines of doing so to their bushy browed friend being too much trouble. As the raven somehow safely made it out of Shika's apartment without his mom catching him, he idly wondered if Shika would even tell Kiba what had transpired. He agreed with him to some extent about the whole thing being troublesome, but he knew that it was better to just confess and get it over with, unlike how his boyfriend had done, and with the thought of Naruto, Sasuke could only guess at how he would take him having cheated on him… even though both were drunk, he having been drugged actually, but none the less not aware of what was going on. But as he exited the elevator and walked into his suite, he debated on whether to call up the blonde right now, if he was still somehow in possession of his phone, or wait a week until he got back in town to confess what happened… he decided rather quickly to choose the latter of the two and decided to just head back to bed, classes be damned, and think of possible approaches on how to break the news. All in all, this was extremely troublesome.

November 16th

5:50Pm

Four weeks later, almost a whole damn month of neither of the dark haired males not confessing to their boyfriends about their slip-up. Four weeks, and it's all thanks to Shika practically pleading with Sasuke not to tell Naruto what happened until he told Kiba, why had he wanted to wait? The pale male could only guess at the one possible reason, and that reason would be that Shika thought it one of the most troubling things in his twenty-one years of living. Sure, he knew that he was going to tell his fang-faced boyfriend about the whole incident soon, but if he had to make up a plausible excuse on his reason for not telling sooner, he would quickly say that he wanted to finish the semester first and that he didn't want to be stressed out even more before exams. That's not saying that doing either or would cause him to be less stressed out, he was pretty sure either way would be a drag.

"Waa~!" The pale blonde haired girl literally cried, snapping Shika out of his thoughts, and she fell onto the huge couch in the tanned male's suite, "finally! A break, a break!" She continued to sob into a pillow.

"Ino calm down, it's only fall break. Classes will start back ne-" The crying girls pink haired sister sighed before getting cut off and plopped down on the back of her legs, successfully stopping there thrashing.

"Don't say it Sakura!" Ino twisted around awkwardly to glare at the pinkette menacingly, who only sighed even heavier and sank down deeper onto her legs, "Gah! Get off you cow!" She exclaimed and successfully bucked her off.

"Can-it Ino-pig!" Sakura hissed and snatched the blondes' legs off the couch and reclaimed her previous position, minus the legs.

"My god! Could you guys be any louder?!" An equally loud voice exclaimed rhetorically at the two stepsisters.

"Shut up Kiba!" Both girls turned their heated glares towards their brunette friend, who was seated on the opposite couch with a few of their other friends, which included Neji, Shika, Hinata and Sasuke. Lee and Choji being absent, seeing as how Lee won a bet with the tattooed cheek male and was now at the gym possibly being worked to death.

"You all should just shut the hell up." Sasuke clipped with a pure look of annoyance, not even bothering to look in the direction of those in question. Rather he seemed determined to make his phone seem like the most interesting thing in the world.

"Geez, Sasuke, what the hell got up ya ass?" Kiba huffed and plopped down beside the now partially frozen Shika, though Sasuke wasn't as frozen, rather he was more concentrated now on keeping his head from exploding. 'Fuckin' hell, maybe Kiba is smarter than he looks…' He mentally pulled his hair out.

"Hah, I said the same thing dude, he's been moody ever since I escaped the clutches of my perverted gramps." Naruto chuckled from beside the brooding raven.

"Hm, it's high school all over again." Neji chided with a smirk and ignored the glare sent his way.

"I think all he needs is some counseling, where is Kyuu? Maybe he can give him a free session, he has his psychology degree after-all." Sakura prodded with a look of contemplation.

"Don't people usually talk about others when they're not in the same room?" Sasuke glared at those in question.

"Well seeing as how we're all friends, there's no point in keeping secrets like this from each other?" Shika stated and rubbed the back of his neck, and simply shrugged off the glare of death sent to him by the pale raven.

"Right, and we all know what keepin' secrets can lead to." Naruto added before he could catch himself, however once he did he snapped his eye to and from the lavender haired Hyuga so fast that no one else could've possibly seen the motion, save for Hinata who had met his quick glance and proceeded to nearly turn into a tomato.

"H-hey, I though Sakura said to h-save Kyuu give the therapy sessions?" Hinata giggled, albeit nervously, which thankfully eased the tension in the room drastically.

"…. Hn, he's a bit unstable to be counseling us don't you think?" Sasuke smirked after a short inhale to calm himself down, how much so he wished that he could just hang the Nara over the 50th story patio and force him to come clean to Kiba… then again, that meant that he'd have to do the same with Naruto, and if he were being at all honest with himself…. He wasn't ready to do just that yet, or better yet, he hadn't thought of how to do so yet. Would Naruto be mad? Of course he would, but how mad? Even though between them both he was the first to fuck up, but he would no doubt blow a fuse if he thought that Sasuke had cheated out of spite and revenge…. 'No, maybe, we'll hide it until classes are over…' The raven mentally contemplated.

"Now, that, I couldn't agree with more." Neji nodded and stood, "we'll catch up with you guys later, we've gotta rendezvous with our parents soon." He continued and glanced at his watch before raising his brow at a clearly nervous looking Hinata.

"Huh? They're actually gonna be home early?" Ino asked with a surprised look, seeing as how, not just the Hyuga's, but the majority of their parents were often not home until midnight or even later.

"Y-yes, since thanksgiving is next week, t-they've put a hold on business a-affairs…." Hinata answered while standing and quickly adjusted the sweat coat Neji lent her, seeing as how it had somehow started to constrict around her torso.

"What's with the baggy clothes lately, Hinata? Ya tryna bring back the '80s look?" Kiba joked and snickered, followed by muffled chuckles from the other, including Neji.

"K-kiba!" Hinata blushed deeply before huffing and yanking the grey eyed males' hand, "c-come on Neji, we're gonna be late." She continued and tugged her snickering brother out of the suite, barely giving anyone time to bid them adieu.

H/N.P.O.V.

As the siblings made their way to the elevator, Hinata still held onto Neji's hand as though it were a life rope. She hadn't been feeling ship-shape for the past few weeks and today was no different, and she was sure that being in her parents' presence wouldn't mend anything. Hell, the only thing that kept her from breaking apart was Neji, even Shino wasn't giving much reprieve, and she was sure that he knew that, but no matter how many times he prodded her to tell him what was wrong, she just brushed it off because there technically was nothing wrong… nope… nothing at all… nothing until now that is, as they had now made it to their suite two floors below, Hinata had been so wrapped up in her thoughts that she hadn't even registered the elevator ride or even when Neji lead her to sit on the couch… to her, she was now in the dungeon of doom.

"Hinata," Neji called to snap her out of her thoughts, "HINATA!" He called again louder and this time successfully snapped her out of it, seeing as how she jerked half a foot off of the couch.

"Huh? W-w-what?" She looked at him and her surroundings quickly.

"Sheesh, Hinata," Neji pulled her into his side, "you should calm down, we still have a couple hours until mother and father get home-" He continued before getting cut off.

"I-I can't…. I can't tell them…" Hinata interjected while staring down at her trembling hands, 'It feels like an earthquake happening… I wish it was, that way…' She thought while she just barely heard Neji's muffled voice.

"No, you're goin' to tell them today. You can't push this back any longer." Neji affirmed and watched her with intent eyes, just knowing that she was wishing for anything to happen that would save her from telling.

"B-but… what i-if they get m-mad?" She questioned and continued looking at her hands, but still feeling Neji's gaze on her.

"They're our parents, so I won't lie and say that they won't be mad, father really more than mother to be more precise… But, it will be alright." Neji answered and ran a hand through his untied hair.

"…H-how do I tell them?" Hinata inquired and finally looked up to meet her brothers' gaze.

"Heh, now that's somethin' I can't help with, but… I'd guess it will be the same way you're gonna tell Shino and everyone else, which I'm honestly surprised that you haven't told them yet." Neji smirked and squeezed the top of her head playfully, "all I can do now is support you." He continued with a small grin, and only after getting a teary eyed nod from his distraught younger sister, did he pick up the remote and turn to something that would pass the time until their parents got home.

However, as soon as the TV came on, Hinata was sucked back into her thoughts, so whatever Neji had decided on them watching was lost to her ears, though she stared at the TV without even seeing it. Sure Neji had mentioned simply telling their parents the same way she would tell her parents, but the fact that she hadn't even told Shino was on another tier of anxiety itself. She had wanted to tell of course, but whenever she tried to get the words out her nerves took over and made her sick in every sense of the word, she'd even fainted trying to tell him when she had spent the night with him last month… in all she was at a loss… and as time passed she thought of somehow leading her parents to guess, like a game of charades'… but this was no game, far from it in fact.

'Maybe I should just…' Hinata continued thinking before the clock tolled 8:30pm, which nearly caused her already weak heart to completely shut down, she had been so wrapped in her thinking that she hadn't even heard the hours previous sound from the clock. But before she could collect herself the front door opened, followed by their parents' voices', "Neji~~…" She whimpered and clutched his sleeve, only to have her body automatically follow Neji in movement as he stood.

"Showtime…" Neji leaned down to whisper to her, however, his words fell on deaf ears as soon as she saw her parents.

"Hm, what's this, a 'welcome home' perhaps?" Hiashi asked with an eyebrow raised in amusement.

"What's most shocking is that they are even home." Hisae giggled and allowed her long haired husband to remove her coat before his own and hand it in the foyer closet.

"It's Sunday mother, everything is clos-" Neji playfully rolled his eyes before being cut off by a surprisingly loud Hinata.

"Mother, Father, I'm pregnant!" Hinata blurted out with a face painted red, and panting as though she had just ran a marathon… which was impossible in her case. However, the silence that followed after her words was thick, and seemed to last long enough for her to somewhat catch her breath, she had nothing left to say and could feel the shock rolling off of Neji beside her. However, once the silence was broken, the space around them was once more earsplitting loud.

"…. YOU'RE WHAT!?" Hisae exclaimed with one arm still in her coat as she brought her hands to cover her mouth, "Hiashi!?" She called out and spun around just in time to see him walking back out of the suite.

"Smooth sis…" Neji whispered to a still tomato red Hinata and ran his hand through his head to calm himself.

"Neji!? You knew!?" Their lavender eyed mother exclaimed again and this time turning towards her easygoing son.

"Urg… yes mother, I've known…" Neji hung gave an awkward smirk at his mother, but it quickly fell as he watched her face process what he'd just said, 'Shit…' He mentally cursed.

"KNOWN?!" Hisae shrieked and snapped her eyes at her red daughter, whom looked as though she was going to faint any second now.

"…. I-I-I-I'm…. u-hh… three months…" Hinata just barely stuttered out, without biting her tongue off in the process.

"… Oh, Hinata…" Hisae covered her mouth and wept.

"I'm Sorry, Mother…" Hinata said in a lifeless tone as tears fell down her cheeks, she was at such a loss for what to do that she barely felt Neji's hand on her shoulder.

"….H-How long… have you known?" Hisae hiccupped after a short minute.

"…. T-two months…" The purple haired girl answered, still not really seeing or feeling anything.

"And you Neji?" Hisae looked to her son as she patted her face dry with a handkerchief.

"Urk!... Um, I found out the same day she did…." Neji answered and averted his mothers' gaze, which probably wasn't the best thing to do, seeing as how the next thing he knew he received a smack across his head, though it wasn't intended to hurt, only to get a meaning across, which he completely understood.

"And you kept this from me? From us? Your father!?" Hisae scolded with a pink face and glanced at the front door with some faint hope that Hiashi might have come back, but that hope was short lived as the foyer remained empty.

"It wasn't my duty to say mother!" Neji defended himself and smoothed his hair back from the hit.

"Never the less Neji! This is serious!" Hisae reprimanded her son, having to crane her neck slightly seeing as how she was less than a foot in front of him and how tall he was.

"M-Mother, please, I didn't… you're m-mad I know… but p-please, don't take it o-out on Neji!" Hinata came to her surroundings after the hit Neji took. However, she was taken aback once she took in the look her mother gave her.

"Mad? My dear daughter, after the accident—after all these years thinking… I'm happier than you could know sweety." Hisae admitted, trying hard, and almost failing, not to bring up the accident from years ago and the outcome it had given her, "However, your father is another story." She continued with a light giggle.

"…. What…?" Neji and Hinata deadpanned with twitching eyes as they looked at their now glowing in happiness mother.

"Yes, yes. I'm terrible, I know. But darlings', how else am I going to receive any grandchildren?" Hisae crossed her arms and raised a knowing purple brow at her son.

"MOTHER!" Neji exclaimed despite himself and turned light pink. 'You have to be shittin' me…' He mentally fell into a wall.

"You thought I didn't know? That's cute, however, I'll leave it up to you to tell Hiashi about Gaara." The purple haired mother pinched his cheek.

"Hmph, don't hold your breath…" Neji turned away to hide his embarrassment.

"Mother, y-you're… really not u-upset?" Hinata asked warily and tried her best to keep herself from laughing at Neji's predicament.

"Huh? Sweety, I'm your mother, of course I'm upset, but only because you're so young. But, never the less, I am elated, Hinata." Hisae smiled sweetly and embraced her trembling daughter.

"M-Mother…" Hinata sobbed into her mothers' chest.

"Oh sweety, it's going to be okay. I know by now Tsunade must be taking great care of you two." Hisae comforted and pulled back enough to place a hand on her daughters' sweat-coat covered stomach, "Ahh… speaking of which, what say Shino of the baby?" She inquired.

"H-huh? Sh-Shino?" Hinata flustered and re-flexibly turned to Neji, who only gave a slight smirk before speaking.

"She hasn't told him, yet." Neji answered with inflection towards Hinata that she would be telling him soon.

"Oh honestly, Hinata! The father should always be the first to know!" Hisae scolded and pulled out her personal phone.

"B-b-but… I can't… h-he might…" Hinata flustered once again, and was sure that she was going to faint this time around, before her mother interrupted her.

"Be mad? No. Faint? Maybe… Tsk, you'll have to call him over here… with Neji present, and tell him tonight." Hisae interjected and tsk'd at her phone, "I on the other hand need to chase down your father, that man… I'll be back shortly you two." She continued and hurried out the door, leaving her children standing in confusion at what had just happened. After standing there for a solid minute, they simultaneously turned to each other and lightly laughed.

"Our mother is seriously weird." Neji chuckled and dragged a hand across his face, still shell-shocked that she somehow knew about him and Gaara.

"Heh, agreed…" Hinata giggled and as if by some twist of fate her phone vibrated… it was Shino.

"I think I'll defy mother and leave you to tell Shino when he gets here." Neji smirked and began to make his way to his bedroom, though he was quickly followed.

"W-what!? Y-you can't! Why!?" Hinata followed him to his room where he disappeared into his closet.

"Hah, cause I said I'd stand with you against mother and father, not with Shino," He spoke from within his closet before coming out in a plain V-neck white shirt and grey sweatpants, "Besides, what you two need to talk about is private, this time it doesn't require my assistance." He continued and held his hand out in front of his pink faced sister, whom only gave him a pitiful look before removing his grey sweat-coat and watching him shrug into it.

"W-where are you going?" Hinata trailed behind him as he headed to the front door.

"To see Gaara, and though I know mother isn't goin to tell father… I still can't bother to see him right now." Neji paused at the door to the main hall with a look of true discomfort.

"You b-better come back tonight, I d-don't want to be alone with father!" Hinata crossed her arms, which tugged back her loose shirt, officially showing off her obvious baby belly.

"Hn, mother will be with… you two." Neji smirked and poked her showing bellybutton, which cause her for the billionth time tonight, blush deep red.

"N-neji!" She gasped and turned her torso from him, only to be yanked into a bear hug.

"I'm goin', good luck with Shino, like I said earlier, just tell Shino the same way you told mother and father." Neji released her and gave her a knowing smirk before disappearing down the hall and onto the elevator.

"…. I didn't m-mean to blurt it out…" Hinata mumbled as she closed the door and made her way to her room before dialing her worrying boyfriends' number, and as usual, no matter what he was doing, he picked up on the second ring.

"Hinata, any difference in the way you're feelin'?" Shino's voice quickly asked in his usual odd way through the phone.

"U-um… kinda..." Hinata answered and willed her hand to stop shaking, "S-shino, can you come over t-tonight?" She asked as steadily as she could in her current situation.

"… Yes, of course. I'll come now." Shino agreed.

"O-okay… umm, I'll be… I'll leave the d-door unlocked." Hinata stated before saying their goodbyes'. After ending the call, she relaxed further into her bed and as she did she felt something that made her right herself once again into a sitting position and place a hand over her stomach, "a-again…" She mumbled and rubbed her stomach as she felt another movement in her stomach… no, this wasn't just any movement, this was definitely a kick.

AN: I... I have vacation coming soon, I shall post the next chapter then! Mata ne!

Reason for song: I really feel that this song befits what going on once the story swapped over to Hinata and Neji POV, ne? Everything will be alright? They're just silly things? Well, we shall see.

Please note: Kojika Nara, Suna Akurei, Hyūga Hisae are mine, well my versions of Neji, Hinata and Gaara's parents names, as well as Shikamaru's sister's name. But mine none the less.

- Anna Uzumaki