Finally chapter three is done! I started it and kept messing it up and re-writing parts and gosh I'm always worrying that my chapters aren't good enough or as good as the last ones. I hope you like it, I really do, people seem to even though I put my own writing down but I think everybody does that to a degree right?
Anyway enough enough. Right to answer questions/comments from previous reviews: 1. I'm sorry I keep making typos, I generally finish these when I'm really tired in the early hours of the morning so I'm a little dazed T.T I often type 'did' when I mean 'didn't', shouldn't' instead of 'should' and so on. If the sentence contradicts itself its probably because I've done that. So at the beginning of the last chapter when I typed 'Didn't not know' I probably mean 'did not know', sorryyy, for all my typing errors. I hope I havent made as many as this, my brain is so used to reading the typos it sees them as the right word now! 2. If I caused some confusion over this I'm sorry. Naruto did know about Haku and Zabuza having a baby but he is so upset over it he doesn't like to talk about which is why he was stuttering in the last chapter. Sasuke said 'Haku and Zabuza had a baby and we need to take care of it!' becuase he was stressed out and just blurting things. I didn't mean for it to sound like Naruto had no idea, sorry. Finally 3. Yep it does take that long to adopt! In real life theres no way this adoption could happen so fast but hey its fanfiction! Real adoption can take several years.
Right I do not own Naruto and Nakushita Kotoba (Sasuke's ringtone) and several other things in here blah blah blah xD
I hope you enjoyd this, I feel as if I rushed but this is twice as long as my other chaps so I guess I spent more time on it really!
Please enjoy, please review!
Kat/thatsupergeek :)
It was eight am and golden sun shone in through the undrawn curtains, missing closed obsidian eyes but landing heavily upon the eyelids of Prussian blue ones. The owner of the bright eyes groaned and attempted to tug the covers over his head, however they were being tightly held hostage by his sleeping partner. After several more attempts he sighed and sat up, rubbing sleep from his tired eyes and glaring at the Uchiha breathing heavily next to him. Curiously, he poked the pile of covers, topped with a mount of black hair and received no response. He grinned and poked harder, still nothing happened. With a small and slightly evil laugh he rubbed his hands together and then began to slowly push Sasuke towards the edge of the bed. There was a hitch in the man's breathing but nothing more and Naruto paused in his actions, this was probably the first time in a while Sasuke had got several hours of deep sleep, should he really be doing this? He narrowed his eyes as he remembered back to the week before.
"Naruto get up."
The blonde mumbled in his sleep, content in dreamland, where he was bouncing high above the treetops on the back of a giant frog...
"Naruto."
As he soared high he heard somebody calling him and turned to see a Hawk flying behind him. He grinned widely and told the Hawk to shove it...
"I'm...the...bes...t...ninja....nn....the...village..."
Sasuke stared down with raised eyebrows as his partner mumbled nonsense in his sleep and then smirked, walking towards the adjoining bathroom.
In dreamland, Naruto cheered as the Hawk flew away "See! Nobody can defeat me!" He turned round again and gasped when he saw the frog was falling towards a large lake at the base of a waterfall. "Wait!" He shouted, looking round desperately, seeing there was no way they would avoid the water, they would plunge straight into-
"ARGHHH!" Springing out of his slumber Naruto sat up in the now soaked bed and looked round frantically. It took him a few blurred seconds to realise he was freezing because he was covered in water and he was blinking the liquid out of his eyes as it dripped from his drenched hair. "C-cold! Cold! C-cold!!" He gasped as he scrambled form the bed and the water pooled on the floor underneath him. It was then a deep mocking laugh was brought to his attention and he looked up, still panting in shock, to see Sasuke stood at the foot of the bed with a bucket in his hands.
Back in the present, Naruto decided there was no debating his plans and firmly pushed Sasuke off the edge of the bed, where he rolled to the floor and landed with a muffled thud, saved by the many covers wrapped around him like a cocoon. Naruto, thoroughly expecting Sasuke to raise from the floor like the living dead and punch him in the face, was surprised when he just heard a sigh and the rustling of covers before the previous steady breathing set back into place.
"Fuck you."
Oh, there it was, Naruto grinned, satisfied he'd annoyed the Uchiha enough and sprawled out in the now spacious bed, making himself comfortable. The comfort lasted all of ten seconds before, somewhere in the room, the portable phone rang loudly.
"Oh for frogs sake...Sasuke, where's the phone?" Naruto grumbled, pulling open drawers and searching under the bed, the ringing drilling into his head shrilly. Sasuke merely smirked into the covers and wrapped them round his head, muffling out the loud sound and ignoring Naruto.
Karma. He thought happily, settling down to fall back to sleep.
"Sasuke! Don't ignore me, bastard!" Naruto barked, tumbling out of the bed and beginning a frenzied search along the shelves on the adjacent wall. "Sasuke!"
Sasuke sighed, Naruto was louder and more annoying that the phone, besides if it was Karin calling, Naruto would have to deal with it. He reached an arm out of the covers and began blindly scrambling round for it before his fingers brushed along the ringing device. He grabbed and threw it absent mindedly, at the same time Naruto turned to go and pull him from the covers. The phone soared through the air towards him, but he hadn't seen it coming and he wailed when it smacked him in the crotch, falling to the floor in a heap, the phone spinning by his head. With a whimper and several swear words he brought the phone to his ear and pressed the answer button.
"Hello?!" He squeaked in a voice several octaves higher than usual.
"NARUTO! WHY DIDNT YOU TELL ME YOU WERE ADOPTING!?"
The blonde moaned and dropped the phone to avoid Sakura's voice damaging his eardrums anymore. When the voice continued to blur out and even the nocturnal Sasuke sat up in his cocoon, he grudgingly picked it up again.
"Sakura, calm down." He begged desperately and heard a 'humph!' from the other end of the line. "How do you know we're adopting anyway?"
"Temari came over yesterday with Shogi-Kun and said you'd gone to her house and asked for their car seat! I asked her why and she said Sasuke told her you guys were going to adopt Haku's baby! Why was I not the first to know!?"
"Oh...heh, how is Shogi-Kun?"
"DON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT!"
"I'm sorry I'm sorry!" Naruto apologised, rubbing his abused ears and finally coming out of the foetal position Sasuke had unintentionally forced him into, wincing slightly. "Look Sakura, I'm sorry, we only made the decision yesterday and we really needed a car seat, we were probably gonna tell you today anyway, y'know."
"I can't believe this; you guys are seriously going to be fathers! This is so exciting! How-oh, here's Lee."
Naruto stiffened and braced himself for Lee's explosion.
"NARUTO-KUN! CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW ARRIVAL OF YOUTH!"
"T-thank you Lee..." The blonde squeaked
"Yes! We ourselves..." Naruto heard Sakura hiss at Lee to stop talking and there was a brief shuffling before her voice returned to the phone. "Lee has to go to work now." She told him and he heard Lee shouting a goodbye to him down the phone before the line quietened again.
"What was that about?" He queried and Sakura shrugged the matter off as unimportant, instead asking him to tell her more about their adoption. Naruto sighed, deciding Sasuke was better off explaining and handed the phone to him.
"Hello Sakura." He said tiredly down the phone and Naruto heard her giving him a 'congratulations'.
"Suuuure, I get a telling off and he gets a 'congratulations'..." He grumbled, flopping down on the bed.
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Somewhere on the very edge of the city, in a seemingly abandoned warehouse, a hand tapped absent mindedly on a gnarled desk. Black fingernails ghosting over the knots in the wood before a ring-wearing finger pushed down on a receiver button. The man chuckled to himself and pushed another button on the series of whirring machines surrounding him, waiting until a series of beeps finished and a voice signalled somebody answering the phone.
"It's happened...it begins now, hmm."
There was a pause before a male voice answered: "Okay." And the line went dead, leaving the first in the eerie silence of the warehouse room again. The man took off his head set, stood and stretched, black cloak falling down around his mid-shins. He turned to the notice board on the cracked walls and grinned at it, striding forwards as his eyes slyly pinpointed a photograph on the left side of the board. A still imagine of Sasuke Uchiha stared back at him.
"Better watch out, hmm..."
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"Achoo!" Sasuke blinked, startled by his abrupt sneeze and remained blank looking when Naruto turned to him.
"Someone's thinking about you!" He chirped before turning back to Sakura. Sasuke looked up at the blinding lights on the ceiling of the centre and mused silently, he was one of the world's most popular manga artists...half the planet could be inadvertently thinking about him right now. Sniffing impatiently he brought his attention back to the floor of the store and caught up to the three he was with. Sakura, after telling them off this morning had decided to come along and help them shop for the 'new arrival of youth', as Lee so artistically put it. They were also with the midwife Choza had promised, she had arrived that morning and given them what felt like a whole library of information about childcare. She had demonstrated bottle sterilising, nappy changing, dressing, transporting and several other necessary things Sasuke insisted he already knew how to do. As well as this she explained feeding time, bedtime routine, illness symptoms, and a multitude of things in the file she had given them. Sasuke had put the file into his work room instantly, as anything left to the hands of Naruto would be broken, eaten or lost.
"Eeeeeeeeh! Sasuke look!" He looked for the blonde source of the loud squeal and saw Naruto holding up a baby T-shirt, it was yellow with a green frog on the front. "Can we buy it?!" He asked eagerly and Sasuke frowned, walking over to inspect the garment.
"Naruto, she can't wear this for at least another five months." He told the excitable man, who pouted and put it in the trolley anyway despite the '6-12 month' age tag.
"Well its one for the future then!" He grinned and strolled off to find something else to annoy Sasuke with.
They had been in the store for fifteen minutes; they were here to buy things they had to have before they could have the baby, i.e. a cot, milk, nappies, clothes etc. So far they had travelled down one isle and the Sakura-Naruto shopping team had half filled the trolley with baby outfits. It was true they needed clothes, (and they had used this as their excuse at first) but it was now getting out of hand.
"Can we stick to the list now?" He sighed as he noticed Sakura's eyes widen at another frilly baby dress. Naruto snorted at him.
"Do you do anything without a list?! I bet you even go to the crapper with one!" He squatted with a somewhat serious expression, one he adopted when mocking Sasuke, which was often and usually humiliatingly in public like this. "One, lower pants! Two, sit down! Three-"
Half the store thankfully didn't get to hear step three on the imaginary toilet-going list as Sasuke marched over and had him in a headlock before he got the chance to announce it. After the raven was satisfied with the choked apology Naruto gave, he released the man and ignored him whilst he spluttered dramatically in the centre of the isle.
"Naruto, go find baby wipes." Sasuke instructed, glancing over the list, he would pick something small, something he couldn't mess up.
"I'm on it!" The blonde punched the air dramatically before jogging up the aisle and out of sight.
"He's going to get lost you know." Sakura sighed with her arms folded, Sasuke hid a smirk.
"Yeah I know."
The pink haired girl tried to stop her own smirk forming on her face. "You're terrible, Sasuke." She rolled her eyes and wandered off to speak with the midwife. Sasuke had been sharp to notice her taking an interest in the midwife since she first arrived but had said nothing, she could just be being social, after all not everybody was like him. To distract himself from his thoughts before he got to curious he got back to the task at hand, deciding they should probably move away from the clothing aisle now and get onto the baby-food and furniture aisles instead. He let the others know and they lolled behind him while he successfully found the baby milk section.
Now he was a genius, no doubt about it, but as he looked upon the many brands of milk all claiming to do the same wondrous things for infants, he developed a small amount of admiration for women. He turned to ask the midwife for advice when he saw the two women standing with their arms folded looking smug. He frowned at them and turned back to the shelf, he could tell what they were thinking from here. They were smugly assuming men knew nothing at all about childcare and were amused by the fact that Sasuke Uchiha, despite the high intellectual level his brain was at, as still a member of the male community. Well he would show them...
He picked up one of the brands and decided it was satisfactory, it wasn't going to turn his child into a novice but it said it would help the immune system so it was good enough. There was a 'tsk' as he turned to put the tin of milk powder into the trolley however and Sakura took it from his hands before she stood in front of the selection and pondered.
"Not that one." She flapped her hands about and Sasuke narrowed his eyes at her, it was 1-0 to the women...
"What if I wanted that one?" He asked and Sakura laughed in response.
"You had no clue what one to buy so you just picked that one up to save face." She paused before picking out a different brand to the one Sasuke had and handed it to him. "Here, that's one of the best."
The Uchiha grumbled to himself as he put the large tin in the trolley, picking up a couple more seeing as it would be all the baby would be consuming for a while, a thought struck him.
"How do you know so much about this anyway?" He saw a flash of nerves in Sakura's green eyes before her smile was set back in place.
"I'm friends with Temari, Sasuke. We talk all the time; I've just picked up on things because of her telling me about Shogi-Kun."
"Right." Sasuke hummed, not thoroughly convinced, deciding he would buy baby food nearer the time the baby could eat it to avoid being degraded any more. He sailed down the aisle, heading for the back of the shop where the furniture and DIY section was before large doors exited to a garden centre. They spent about fifteen minutes roaming round noting potential buys before the question of Naruto's whereabouts were raised. Sasuke sighed, it had been so nice and quiet without him, this he said aloud and received a short laugh from his female acquaintances.
"You know, anybody who didn't know you two any better would not believe you were in a relationship."
Sasuke smiled, this was true in ways. He had always been quiet, a loner, easily irritable, stoic and even. Everything about Naruto was the opposite, the man was loud, social, more likely to irritate than be irritated and lived with a determined grin upon his face. Even their appearances set them apart, with Sasuke sporting stylish, dark coloured, simple attire and Naruto with a loud, individual busy style that should look ridiculous, but somehow he pulled it off. Sasuke smirked as he put cream blankets into the loaded trolley, never had he known a man look so appealing in Hello Kitty boxer shorts. Despite their differences they worked well together, it had been said opposites attract, many times. The raven however was not a fan of the whole 'you are my opposite and my destiny' vibe, he explained the opposites attracting by the fact that people, if they were to meet someone exactly alike to them, would not get alone with them. It's human nature to not like yourself, even if only something small about yourself, which is why many humans seek out companions to make themselves feel better. It made sense therefore why people would be attracted to somebody the polar opposite to them, there would be nothing to see yourself in and nothing to hate. There would be no boredom because it would always be a challenge trying to adapt and fit yourself into the life of somebody completely different.
Sasuke's challenge had been Naruto. He'd had past relationships, none of which he was interested in very much because they bored him. Any partners he had aimed to praise him, worship him, do their best to please him but where was the fun in that? If somebody was willing to give you everything you wanted then where was the chase or the challenge? He had no sense of control in those kinds of relationships because there was nothing to control, and he liked control, he liked to work for what he wanted. Even the first time he had looked at Naruto he knew, whoever this man would be in his life, an enemy, friend, lover or simply a man passing by him occasionally, he would be a challenge. Naruto didn't try to give him everything he wanted, he argued with him, fought with him, annoyed him and somehow forced laughter out of him. Even in their secret life between the sheets of their bed Naruto would attempt to dominate him, failing mostly unless Sasuke was feeling particularly happy or drunk. Sasuke loved the feeling of having control, loved to chase and fight with him, loved the shock in Naruto's eyes when he surprised-kissed him and somehow between the stupid annoying jokes and the countless visits to his friends houses and the late nights curled up on the sofa taking no notice of the television, he'd somehow grown to love Naruto too. It was something he'd never intended to happen but had always suspected would. Sasuke was not Sasuke without a Naruto chasing after him and Naruto was not Naruto without somebody to fight and relate with him. It was like two magnets, take one away and its purpose is gone, nothing to attract to.
Sasuke looked around absent mindedly, noticing Sakura was chatting with the midwife again and plopped a frog covered baby towel into the baby bath placed on top of the pile of items he was pushing round.
It wasn't like he'd given in to loving Naruto straight away or anything, he'd fought the feeling with all his might. In fact a few months into the relationship he'd packed up his things and disappeared. He left the area, changed his number and tried to forget he'd ever associated himself with the blonde nuisance. In the couple of months he had been alone he tried to convince himself of many things. One being that his sleeping trouble was not due to the fact he had nobody sprawled all over him like a heavy radiator, no, it was because it was a different bed than he was used to. Another being he loved not having friends of Naruto's waving to him on the street all the time and he loved not opening the cupboards to find nothing but ramen, which would fall from the shelves like an avalanche. He liked having the shower to himself and liked having an empty text message inbox. He could deal with having nobody to say goodnight to him and could make do with the lack of plants lining his windowsills. He wasn't sure about the cold empty feeling of the couch and didn't know what to make of the lack of anything entertaining about television anymore. He didn't like the way the wallpaper in the dining room of his new house was orange and he hated the way anything with a frog on reminded him of the man he'd left and he hated how he'd dream about him and hated how he'd subconsciously doodle swirls on everything and all his new manga characters had blonde hair and blue eyes and he hated the fact that he might just might, maybe, possibly, somehow might definitely miss Naruto.
The Uchiha subconsciously chose an orange and blue baby mobile for the nursery.
After he'd realised that he 'might just might, maybe, possibly, somehow definitely missed Naruto' he'd been torn between going home or trying even harder to forget him. He'd loved to have done the latter, unfortunately for him he'd never been lucky and Naruto's constant attempts to chase after him were making him hard to forget. After the blonde had found out where he now lived he firstly tried the ignoring game, however, it was hard to avoid someone who stood outside your front door for hours on end though and talked to you through the letterbox. It had taken a week, just a week, and Sasuke had somehow grown accustomed to the voice coming from the door and handing him his mail through the window. He didn't mind when Naruto began to follow him to work at the publishers in the morning and walked home with him afterwards or when he followed him to cafes and happened to decide he couldn't sit by himself. One day Sasuke hadn't slammed the door in his face when they returned to the house and Naruto had followed him inside. It happened the next day too and soon it became a routine like it had been before they'd left. It had taken another week of Naruto following him inside, spending the evening with him and going home for it to progress to Naruto spending the night. A few days of sleeping on the couch and Sasuke had 'fallen asleep' on the couch next to him, breathing a sigh of relief with the slumbering Naruto had curled into him and hugged him tightly. Up until then the two had been acting like friends but Sasuke had known it would only be a matter of time. He knew he'd lost the minute Naruto hugged him in his sleep because he never remembered feeling more relieved and at home in that moment than he ever had in his life. He'd fell asleep with the man, awoke feeling happier than he had in weeks and kissed Naruto so fiercely the minute blue irises poked out from underneath his eyelids that it took the blonde a minute to realise he was awake. After that, they moved back in together in the suburbs and things were the same as they always had been, except with a new sense of permanence because Sasuke knew Naruto was not going to let him get away again.
It amused him really, the whole reason he'd targeted Naruto in the first place was because he loved the feeling of controlling him and getting reactions from him so easily. In the end, when he found himself a changed man, deeply in love and enveloped in the blondes life, he wondered if he'd been the one being controlled all along.
"HEY! I got them!"
Snapping back to his senses he involuntarily smiled as he heard the voice but of course the smile was replaced with a frown when he turned around to face the panting blonde, sporting an armful of baby wipe packs. Had he been gone all this time looking for wipes?
"What took you so long?" He asked, moving over so he could dump them in the trolley.
"Weeeeeeel, I had some trouble finding the aisle and then there were all these different ones and I got confused so I asked some woman pushing a pram and-ooh!" Sasuke jumped, not expecting the sudden squeak, thankful Naruto hadn't noticed as he was leaning over the pram excitedly, picking out the frog towel straight away. "This is awesome! You sooo picked that out just because I love frogs! See you do love me!"
"Hmm." Sasuke hummed in response, rolling his eyes and finding another thing on the list to keep the blonde busy. Upon finding nothing he trusted Naruto to buy he sighed and turned to him, catching his attention just before he would have set several display mobiles off. "Go pick a teddy bear or something for her from the toy section." Blue eyes lit up at the news of the new task and he turned to rush away, Sasuke caught him first. "Make sure it's not got loads of things she can pull off and choke on!" He called, pushing the trolley up so it was beside him. "And nothing weird! And nothing unsuitable for her age and make sure-"
"Sasuke! I can pick out a teddy, bastard, stop panicking!" Naruto pouted, taking a larger step to escape the Uchiha rant of doom. Sasuke raised his eyebrows and grabbed the blonde's arm, he tried to protest but was pulled into a brief yet forceful kiss.
"Now go." The Uchiha finished.
Naruto blinked at Sasuke's for a few minutes before the blank look was replaced with a grin and he saluted before running off again. Sasuke was content until Sakura came up behind him and pinched his cheek, cooing 'Aww'.
"Shut up, shut up..." He mumbled as they walked past the entrance to the garden centre, he wondered if he should buy some flowers for the nursery's windowsill...no, he'd let Naruto pick them, he liked gardening, he knew what he was doi-
Confusing Sakura, he stopped abruptly and backtracked a few steps, when she turned to see Sasuke reading the notice on the glass door of the garden centre she asked him why. He merely smiled, asked her to mind the trolley and wandered into the centre, emerging a few minutes later with no plants.
"What was that about?" She questioned as he returned and began pushing the trolley again.
"You'll find out soon enough." He said playfully before heading off down the cot aisle. Sakura raised a brow and looked at the sign he'd been reading.
HELP WANTED!
APPLY WITHIN
She wondered why Sasuke of all people would apply to help out in a garden centre but shrugged it off, he'd promised she'd find out soon.
Several items and a Moses basket later and Naruto still hadn't returned. They had wandered up and down the shelves and visited the toy area and even tried ringing his mobile phone (however they had no signal in the superstore).
Running out of ideas and as an aftermath of the toy section visit, Sasuke's more childish side came out to play and he wandered to the help desk. Sakura and the midwife stood chatting by the trolley while he smirked, grin widening when a woman's voice calmly spoke out over the intercom system.
"Attention customers this is a lost child announcement. If Naruto Uzumaki is in store could he please come to the helpdesk to be collected. Thank you."
Sasuke listened sharply, before he heard a loud crash coming from somewhere in a nearby aisle.
"Found him." He said, thanking the woman on the desk and bypassing a laughing Sakura to stroll into the toiletry aisle, where he spotted his red faced partner stood in front of what was a shelf of deodorant. The contents of the shelf were now scattered around him and clattering away loudly across the hard floors.
"Gosh I can't take you anywhere can I?" Sasuke smirked sarcastically at the sight, Naruto looked around and blushed as people stared at him before marching over to Sasuke and trying to smack him in the arm, the hit was dodged by an amused raven, thoroughly enjoying Naruto's embarrassment.
"LOST CHILD?!" The blonde squealed, still trying to hit him despite the growing number of odd looks it was getting him. He seemed to realise he was the centre of attention and lowered his voice to a hiss, as if that would have got him anywhere.
"Well you do act like one, smooth move with the deodorant by the way, that topped it off nicely." Sasuke continued to fluster the blonde, who looked guiltily at a Lynx can as it rolled past them.
"That was YOUR fault, bastard! I was picking some up and that stupid announcement came on and I got annoyed when I heard my name and-"
"Decided to knock the shelf down?"
"NO! I just pulled the can out too harshly and then all went flying everywhere! They're like dominoes! I couldn't stop them!"
Sasuke hummed and folded his arms, smiling when another announcement came on over the intercom system warning customers there had been an accident in one of the aisles and to be careful not to trip on any of the many cans that had escaped the shelf. Naruto jerked and groaned when he noticed some of the cans had rolled completely out of the aisle and into others.
"Dammit! Why are all the cans round huh?! Who decided deodorant had to be round?!" He asked exasperatedly.
"I dunno, why don't you go and ask whoever invented it? Be careful not to get angry and knock him out too." He received a glare. "Where's this teddy I told you to get anyway?"
Naruto gave him a blank look before life flashed up in his eyes and with a 'oh!' he ran back to the shelf and picked up one of the few things left on it. He dumped the toy into Sasuke's arms, who looked at it questioningly.
"Didn't I say get a teddy bear?" He noted, looking into the eyes of a cuddly fox plush. It was an orange-brown colour with black plastic eyes and a chubby tail.
"Well...yeah, but there was loads and I didn't know which one to get and they all looked the same and then I saw this one on its own at the end of the shelf y'know and it's waaaay cuter than the others and I like foxes!"
The raven stared at the man and back to the fox, he wasn't sure why but the two looked similar. Naruto had always bared some animalistic resemblance. He had three faint scars on each cheek that looked like whiskers; Sasuke had only learned about the origin of the scars a few months ago as Naruto was very secretive about them and always evaded answering when he asked.
When Naruto was younger, before he'd come out of his shell and made friends, he was bullied a lot. He was an orphan and always found it difficult to cope in school when his classmates went home with their parents and he was left alone waiting for his teacher and guardian to finish marking test papers and take him home with him. He used to be a troublemaker because he wanted people to notice him and craved attention, however this just made the other kids dislike him more and they began to pick on him. Instead of telling Iruka out of fear he'd just be bullied more, he used to scratch his face when he was alone in his bedroom, whenever he got particularly upset he'd do it sometimes even subconsciously. It became a paradox comfort for him and Iruka could not stop him from doing it as it resulted in Naruto getting angry and hysterical when he tried. He began seeing a child councillor and as life moved on and he moved to primary school, he became stronger, he stopped self harming and began standing up for himself and trying to make friends. The scars remained on his face like whiskers but they were a part of him now and he looked at them and the memories they brought as events that had made him stronger.
Sasuke traced the line of the whiskers on the fox plush and gave a sad look, agreeing to buy it and rolling his eyes as he heard the victory cheers. He let Naruto carry it and noted the resemblance again. Naruto could have looked like a cat with the whisker marks but he didn't. Naruto was not like a cat, he was not graceful, solitary or mysterious. He was more...wild, brash and canine but not doglike. A fox suited him perfectly, plus as he'd said, he liked the animal, so if there was an animal to associate him with, besides his favourite (the frog) it was a fox.
The mental debate lasted to they got to the tills and began packing the items in bags, ignoring the curious looks the woman was giving them. It was fair, he supposed, they did have nothing but mounds of baby items, it could be classed as somewhat odd.
"Are you...expecting?" The woman asked, looking to Sakura and Sasuke, who were putting the heavy box containing the baby basket into the trolley together while Naruto was helping the midwife put things on the conveyor belt.
"No, they are." Sakura answered, nodding to Sasuke and Naruto. The woman blushed and mumbled apologies, saying nothing more. Sasuke and Sakura shared a look between them, both feeling put down by the woman's obvious embarrassment about the men's relationship. The pink haired woman sighed, patting Sasuke on the shoulder before packing another bag - some people were just like that, she supposed. Sasuke was ignoring the now silent employee, Naruto hadn't even noticed and jumped as his lover snapped at him to come help pack. All he did was grab the fox plush when it had been scanned and Sakura along with the midwife dropped their packing to coo away at how adorable it was.
Women... Sasuke sighed mentally.
The house had been silent for most of the day, aside from the noisy fiasco first thing in the morning. Aside from the odd creak it was quiet, was quiet, before a bag laden Naruto shoved the door open and half collapsed onto the ground, disturbing the house's comfortable peace.
"HAH! See I can carry more bags than you!" He panted victoriously as Sasuke entered the house carrying only a couple. He put them down and turned to help Sakura with the Moses basket but she could easily carry it herself, he sometimes marvelled at the woman's strength. Naruto pouted as he was ignored before he realised what Sasuke's intention of the challenge had been. "Wait! You just said you could carry more bags knowing I'd grab them all, didn't you!?" He gasped.
"Ding, ding, ding we have a winnerrrrr!" Sasuke mocked enthusiasm, even ringing an invisible bell above his head. Naruto punched him and Sasuke's leg sprung forward on autopilot, aiming for Naruto's shins.
"Guys seriously, what are you!? Children?!" Sakura fussed, breaking them apart while she tinkered round on her phone. "Oh!" She stopped and then halted their glaring contest to look at her. "Oops sorry guys, I nearly forgot, I'm gonna be late for an appointment so I'll have to leave now. Call me when the baby arrives!"
"What appointment is it?" Naruto asked innocently and received a smack across the head. "OW!" He whined angrily. "What was that fo-"
"You don't ask about a lady's appointments, where is your tact!" She put her phone into her bag and hugged each of them before turning to leave, calling goodbye on her way out. Sasuke smiled, content in his earlier suspicions and rolled his eyes at Naruto's cluelessness. His back cracked loudly as he stretched and fell back onto the red squashy sofa behind them, tiredly checking his phone like he had been doing all day since he woke up. He was awaiting Choza's call about the baby. It was afternoon so it may have been a little early but he checked regardless all through the day for any word.
Naruto watched as the Uchiha placed his phone on the coffee table and sighed, laying his arm over his eyes. "Hey." He said quietly, laying down next to the raven and poking him on the nose. "Don't fall asleep."
"Hmm."
Naruto rolled so he was on top of the darker haired man and pulled the arm away from his eyes. "Hey, smile, bastard." He weakly poked his forehead.
"I would, but there's a blonde moron lying on me." He retorted with a yawn, Naruto gave him a glum look before he smiled playfully again, leaning down and kissing Sasuke's forehead. The Uchiha nuzzled his nose upwards until it touched the blonde's and their lips connected lightly. Naruto smiled, brushing the black bangs out of Sasuke's eyes and holding the sides of his face gently while he deepened the innocent kiss. The Uchiha brought up his arms, resting a hand on the back of Naruto's neck whilst the other rubbed his spine warmly. He glided his tongue along his lovers and felt Naruto return the gesture, lovingly encasing the pale face underneath him. The kiss was deep and reached the point where their heads moved softly in unison to a chorus of rustling clothes, quick exhalations and gentle moans. Naruto felt Sasuke's and ghosting along the bare skin underneath his T-shirt, it was a movement of love, not a push towards passion however and the kiss descended the imaginary bedroom stairs, their lips slowing to a series of soft meaningful touches. Naruto felt the joint kiss end and placed his lips firstly on his lover's cheek, then his neck before he let his heavy head rest in the warm junction between Sasuke's neck and shoulders.
"Hey, Sas?" Naruto said quietly, breath rolling out over the silky skin his face was buried into. He laced his fingers into Sasuke's free hand, the other still tracing light lines into the skin near the bottom of his back.
"Hmm?"
"Can you believe that in a few hours, we could be fathers?"
Sasuke paused, placed his hand flat on Naruto's back and rolled them over so they were side by side, looking his lover in the eyes whilst keeping their hands joined between them.
"Hopefully." He sighed.
"No, definitely!" The blonde chirped, full of confidence as always, Sasuke gave another look to the phone he could barley spot due to a mound of blonde hair in the way and smiled briefly.
"Yeah."
They fell quiet again, Sasuke closing his eyes peacefully, feeling Naruto playing with his hair, relaxing him.
"Hey Sas?"
He knew it wouldn't last.
"Hmm?"
"If were gonna have a baby soon, shouldn't we go put the stuff in her bedroom?"
"Hmm."
Silence ensued again and Sasuke fell back into the hypnotic state Naruto put upon him with the gently stroking of his hair. He could feel the man's breath hitting his face softly and wondered how far away his lips were, he didn't have the energy to open his eyes.
"Sas?"
"Hmm?" He breathed.
"What are we calling her?"
His eyes forgot their tiredness and opened to see Naruto a few inches away, looking at him less sleepy but still peaceful as he was. He shrugged weakly, he'd been trying to think of names all day but none had stood out to him and he just kept referring to her as 'the baby'. She needed a name he knew, she had done for a month now, he knew one would come to him and it would be perfect but his epiphany hadn't happened yet. He hoped it wasn't going to turn into some kind of mental blank like his work had. At least he had Naruto to help with this problem even if it did.
"We'll think of something." He sighed, Naruto buried his face into his chest.
"Sasuke." He mumbled, voice vibrating up his ribcage.
"What now?"
"Don't go to sleep."
"I know." He insisted, however he fell deeper into his relaxation, senses becoming a little hazy, he was aware of Naruto poking him and scolding him but he was too tired to give a damn.
"Fine I'll just go and look through all the drawers in your desk and-"
He got as far as the kitchen before Sasuke tackled him and nearly sent them flying to the ground. There were several mumbles of 'bastard' before the blonde broke free and rolled his eyes at the raven, who was stood in the doorway to his office like some kind of leopard guarding its prey.
"What have you got in there anyway that's so secret huh?" Sasuke watched as his partner swerved the breakfast bar and made for the cupboards for his daily ramen fix. He found it funny that the blonde could not multitask and yet he managed to pull ramen from the cupboard, leave the kettle filling while he unwrapped the plastic from the polystyrene cup and then fill it in record timing with no spillages.
"Nothing..." Sasuke answered his question, leaning on the doorframe of his office as he watched Naruto now impatiently tapping chopsticks on the kitchen units while the noodles soaked. "Nobody sees my manga drafts before my publisher and if you went in there then everything would be a mess or on fire in two seconds flat." He stayed by the door, Naruto could spring at him at any moment. It wasn't that he didn't trust him, no, he most definitely did not trust him. Sasuke was highly secretive and Naruto, highly curious. Put the two in a house together and it spelled chaos. Naruto had been known to try anything possible to take a look at the exclusive sketchbooks and drafts in Sasuke's office so boiling ramen didn't make him seem any less dangerous.
The blonde snorted, turning to him momentarily. "You're the pyromaniac, not me."
Sasuke sniffed at him passively, he had been known to set things on fire on occasion, if you could call once a month 'on occasion'. He didn't mean to, he just seemed to attract sparks and flames for some reason, it was no wonder he was so stressed, his whole life revolved around permanent pens and paper, two highly flammable substances.
"Besides." Sasuke looked up at Naruto who was now facing him with a cheeky grin. "I bet the real reason is because you secretly love to draw yaoi and have loads of yaoi manga and gay porno magazines in the drawers."
Sasuke snorted at him and told the blonde to stop being ridiculous, at the same time going into a mental frenzy. Damn...I need to lock that drawer!...
While Naruto was occupied with doing a victory dance as the three minutes of ramen stewing ended Sasuke slipped into his office unnoticed – or so he thought.
"Going to hide your porn?!" The blonde called from the kitchen and the Uchiha took his embarrassment out on the carpet which suffered under the gaze of the glare of doom.
"No!" He called back, locating the keys to the drawer under his desk and locking it, then locking all the others too so it wasn't just a single suspicious one locked. "I just got a manga idea." He excused his actions as an afterthought.
"Oh really?" Naruto didn't sound convinced. "What it is then?"
"Like I'd tell you!" Sasuke retorted, emerging again and grabbing the bags they had left by the entrance to the living room. "Now come on, stop playing around, we have a nursery to make."
"Says the one about to fall asleep until I threatened to unveil his porno stash!"
"I do not have a porno stash!"
"Yeah yeah, whatever..."
.
As the earth shifted in space and the sun fell away from a certain side of the hemisphere, light began to fade in the small upper bedroom of the suburban house two men now stood in together. Soft evening light cascaded in through the open window, casting silky shadows of grey, pink and orange across the cream coloured walls. What was once a spare bedroom was now a room fit for a baby. A miniature bathtub, filled with wipes, rubber ducks, baby oil and the frog towel from earlier that day lay in front of the decorated wardrobe. On the wooden doors now hung a height chart that you could slot pictures into and small framed photos of rabbits and other such creatures. Inside was a little girls paradise, a rail and shelves now full of tiny frilled dresses and pastel baby grows in a rainbow of colours. Small booties and socks lay side by side at the bottom next to a folded up pram. On a dresser full of nappies and products laid a pale squashy changing mat and opposite, a small creamy Moses basket containing orange and ivory sheets, sleeping under a small tinkling mobile. On the walls hung photographs of a hyperactive blonde and a quiet brunette, soon to be fathers. Alongside the captured memories were ones of a beautiful woman and her husband, Haku and Zabuza. The room was quiet as the two surveying men stood and admired it, feeling he stillness of the sun set air. The room felt homey, yet empty at the same time, the personal touches – several ramen cups on the rainbow coloured rug, the photographs, the fox plush in the basket – should have gave the room a personal feel. It did, but the same mixed feelings were running throughout both Sasuke and Naruto's veins.
Sasuke took in the room, in dim fading light and wrapped his arms around his lover who was burying his face into the raven's chest. He noticed the bare windowsill.
"Plants." He said softly, Naruto gave a 'hmm?' "Flowers...I was going to ask you to choose some for in here for her, that's what's missing."
"Mmm...Apart from her herself." Naruto mumbled into his T-shirt.
"Yeah..."
A bird chirped outside as they fell silent again, it wasn't the plant making the room empty and it wasn't all down to the lack of baby. Sasuke knew what was running through their minds, knowing Naruto would voice it. He had been waiting for Naruto to voice what they were feeling for a while now, soon enough, the blonde began to fidget before he squeaked a sentence into his partner's chest.
"It's not right..." Sasuke remained silent, stroking the man's back tenderly as he waited for him to continue. "She should be...with her mom and dad..."
Feeling a pang in his own chest, the Uchiha squeezed Naruto into a hug as he heard a small telltale noise of tears. His suspicions confirmed when he tipped the blondes chin up to see the blue eyes shining with tears, softly rolling down his scarred cheeks. With clouds reflected in his irises from the open window, it looked like the sky itself was crying. Sasuke thought he'd never seen such a sadly beautiful sight, it was like this room. He knew at some point the realisation would hit them, it would hit Naruto that his close friends had been murdered, it would hit Sasuke that the baby he wanted so badly was an orphan because of his brother and that his partners tears were also caused by him. Naruto had heard about his friends deaths but he'd not cried until now, he had been too in shock, Sasuke had been waiting for the man's breakdown since that day. Whenever Sasuke had tried to get him to talk about it he evaded the chat, giving one of his trademark grins and changing the subject. Naruto was always making people hopeful with that grin, helping his friends, helping him...but Sasuke knew his positive energy that he gave to many people, came at a price. Occasionally there were times he'd see so much sadness in his lover's eyes when Naruto though nobody was watching, it made him want to cry, although that wasn't possible, he hadn't cried since his parents were killed.
"Sasuke..." Naruto sniffed and then sobbed into his torso, each choked cry slipping straight through his damp T-shirt, through the complex weave of his skin, around his ribs and directly into his heart. He wanted so badly to wrap him in a bubble and protect him, he made do with encasing the crying man in his arms and leading them to a blanket covered chair by the window. Naruto sat in his lap and hid his face in between Sasuke's neck and shoulders, his tears dripping gently down pale Uchiha skin. "Sasuke why...w-why them? I miss them...Why did he..." His sentence ended in a series of ragged breaths and heartbroken wails. "I'm sorry." He gasped in between sobs. "I'm sorry, Sasuke, I..."
"Don't." The Uchiha choked, cradling the back of Naruto's head firmly and holding him close, a small anger rising up from his stomach. "Don't be sorry. Think of yourself for once, not me." He fell silent again as he let the man cry all the pent up sadness out of himself, mourning his friends death into Sasuke's heart, where he'd keep it and be sad for the blonde days after he was finished crying. Naruto got over things quickly, he replaced sadness with hope, determination and a strong belief that good could come as a result of a bad event. Just like the baby...
"Hey now." Sasuke whispered as he felt Naruto's crying subsiding, he held him further away so they were face to face and used the blanket from the chair to wipe his eyes gently. "She'll be here soon, you don't want her to see you upset do you?" Naruto shook his head glumly, a sad smile on his face. "Then tomorrow we can ring Kakashi, Jiraiya and Iruka and surprise them like you wanted, hm?" He stroked the blonde underneath his reddened eyes with his thumbs, holding the man's face in the palms of his hands. When Naruto maintained his gaze on their laps he whispered his name, and held his face up when it rose to look him in the eye. He looked at him meaningfully. "They will be proud of you...I am."
He meant it too, every time he would see the child he would be reminded of his brother but every time Naruto saw the child he would be reminded of his friend's death. Despite this, he'd agreed to adopt the baby, knowing it was what Sasuke wanted, he'd gave a speech and fought to get her as quickly as possible because Sasuke wanted that. Only now when they were stood in the nursery were the telltale signs of sadness showing but still Naruto was going along with it. Even without Sasuke, he would be doing and it was what the Uchiha admired. He could feel Naruto tracing circles on the back of his neck, thankful for the comforting gesture. Naruto knew Sasuke was hurting like he was, but he just couldn't express it. The raven stared sadly as a lone tear escaped from his lover's left eye and slipped down his cheek, the tear trail pressed into his own when the blonde kissed him softly upon his lips, then cuddled into him again, this time his teas falling silent. They pulled the blanket over themselves and held each other. As they shared their sadness, Sasuke marvelled at how something so small, beautiful and precious could bring two people so much pain.
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Kono ryoute ni kakaete iru mono toki no shizuku,Sotto nigirishimete wasureta kioku nakushita kotoba Hey hey eheh Hey heyeeeheeey
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Hitotsu hitotsu omoidaseba,
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Sasuke groaned quietly. "Go awaaaay Karin..." He mumbled, reaching his hand out to grab his phone from the bedside table, frowning when his hand grasped thin air. Opening his eyes, he realised why and snapped awake sharply, trying to move but hearing a small snort and finding Naruto to still be asleep on his lap. Soon after this he found the room was now in total darkness aside from the moonlight streaming in through the still open window, causing a chill to float through the nursery. Sasuke would have shivered if it were not for the radiator-like blonde still tightly wrapped round him with the blankets.
Shit, how long have we been asleep!? He frenzied, trying to reach for the phone vibrating its way along the floor away from his outstretched fingertips, the ringtone Naruto had forced him to use still blaring loudly. "Damn phone!" He hissed, holding his partner tightly with one arm while he just managed to grab the singing phone, Naruto, could sleep through anything. He almost dropped it when he saw who was calling.
Incoming call – Choza Akimichi
He bit his lip and pressed the answer button, gripping the phone tightly as he put it to his ear. This was the moment he'd been waiting for all day, to find out if they had been accepted as the baby's new parents. It was something they were both nervous about, so he should have woken the blonde for this moment but he was still snoring lightly into Sasuke's chest and he knew it would take a few minutes to wake him – he couldn't wait that long.
"Hello?" He answered firmly, still half in belief that this was a dream and that Karin would in fact answer and start trying to have phone sex with him.
"Mr Uchiha," Choza replied, there was a pause and a jolt of panic ran through the Raven, wondering if the serious formal tone meant bad news.
What's with the formalities!? Please don't say we haven't been accepted...
He didn't dare breathe in case he didn't hear the next part; he silently wished Naruto would stop snoring and muttering things in his sleep. He usually found it amusing but not now when he was about to discover if he had a daughter officially or not. "Sasuke,"
Now it's back to my first name...does that mean we have been accepted? Just hurry up and tell me!
"Congratulations."
The moment he heard that word, his brain froze, just for a second while he processed the word and what it meant. He'd expected an overwhelming feeling of happiness but he just felt...blank...he felt like he'd just come out of a coma, he wasn't sure what that felt like but he would give a bet it felt like this. He couldn't feel anything, for a moment he forgot everything, his head was filled with a sudden and overwhelming silence and time seemed to have stopped.
"Sasuke? Sasuke!"
"S-sorry!" He stuttered and almost like a waterfall everything cascaded back to him. He could suddenly sense Naruto again, feel the cold on his bare arms, and hear the dull buzzing in his head.
"You seem shocked! All our hard work wasn't for nothing you know!"
"Our...we...?"
"Sasuke Uchiha, you are now a father, congratulations, you've been accepted, she is in your care now."
Sasuke could hear the large smile in the man's tone and was glad he was already sat down because he would definitely have needed to be seated as he was hearing this.
I'm a father?
"I-I'm a father?" He asked aloud after he'd thought it, hearing a hearty laugh from the other end of the line. "I'm...I'm a father!" He gasped, eyes widening as it sunk into his mind a little further. "N-Naruto wake up!" Frantically he shook the blonde's shoulder; he needed him to be hearing this too, he needed somebody else to have their pulse beating rapidly in their ears and a tingling running through their veins and a dryness in their throat. "Naruto come on, please!"
"Sasuke, you sound a little in shock, calm down, it's okay." Choza reassured, hoping the man wasn't about to have a nervous breakdown on him. He was amused that Naruto seemed to be sleeping at this moment, he didn't know the man well but it seemed to be typical of him.
"It's more than okay!" Sasuke insisted, voice getting louder as the new knowledge settled in more and more. "Can we come to the centre now!?...Naruto wake up!"
"Sasuke, Sasuke, please, yes you may come collect her but please-"
"We're coming now!"
"Mr Uchiha, listen to me, I know you are excited right now but please try to calm down before you make your way, I don't want any road accidents because you're too hasty and worked up!"
Sasuke paused and took a few deep breaths, the effort just making him feel lightheaded, all he could think about was the fact he had a daughter and she was waiting for him.
"And don't worry." Choza began, almost reading his mind. "She's not going anywhere; you can pick her up at any time tonight." Sasuke tried to calm himself before answering.
"We'll be there soon." He insisted, still shaking Naruto, who was determined to stay asleep and clung to him like a baby orang-utan.
"See you soon, Sasuke."
"Goodbye."
The line went dead and the raven dropped his phone immediately, putting his face into his hands and trying to get hold of himself.
I'm a father...I'm a father...I'm a father...okay calm down Uchiha...calm...nice and calm...think peaceful thoughts...a nice organised room with everything labelled and colour coded...hmm...that's better...now if Naruto would just-
"WAKE UP!"
"Huh?"
"Naruto!" Sasuke gasped as signs of life showed themselves, trying to push up from the chair with the man still clinging to him. He got them to his feet, where Naruto slumped against him, falling back into his deep sleep. "Naruto! Don't go back to sleep! Naruto we've got a baby!" He picked the man's legs up so he was carrying him, the blonde wrapped his arms around Sasuke's neck and mumbled, only partly conscious.
"Mmm...Yeah...love you lots, baby."
Well he'd got one word right.
"No!" Sasuke snapped, marching out of the room and down the stairs, still carrying the man. "I'm not flirting right now for Christ's sake! Of all times for you to be sedated!" He got to the living room, hoisting Naruto up with one arm while he tried to locate his car keys. The sharp hoist and the loud rattling was what broke Naruto free of the unconscious state into a semi Cooperative one.
"Mm...Sasuke...put me down I'm...not a...baby..." He moaned, trying to wriggle out of the exasperated Uchiha's arms.
"Funny you should mention babies! I've been trying to tell you for the past ten minutes that WE HAVE ONE!" He flapped, now rushing round for his coat.
"Oh...okay." Pale hands froze on the furred hood of the coat and he turned slowly, wearing a face of horror at the man's lack of enthusiasm. Naruto started back at him blankly for a few seconds, before adopting a face that asked 'why are you looking at me like that' and then his jaw dropped, his eyes widened and his hands came to smack himself in the mouth. "WAIT! YOU MEAN-"
"YES MORON!" He grabbed the coat and ran back over to his partner, who was now aware of what was happening, he wasn't sure why he was running at him, he'd never felt compelled to run at anybody before, he hoped Naruto knew why people did this because he didn't. His impulses and adrenaline were acting for him at the moment. Luckily Naruto was more socially adapted and spring from the couch, catching his lover in a fierce hug as they made contact, almost knocking the wind out of both of them. Naruto stumbled and they fell back onto the sofa, holding onto each other as if their life depended on it, the same thought revolving around Sasuke's head over and over like a stuck record.
I'm a father...I'm a father...I'm a father...
Haphazardly they stood, untangling themselves from each other and this time both of them rushing, Naruto asking questions as he ran to get his jacket and phone. Sasuke clung to his keys tightly, embarrassed that the tinkling noise coming from them was being caused by his hands shaking. To cover the tinkling noise he hastily explained they had been accepted and were going to pick her up from Choza at the centre straight away. He almost dropped the keys when he realised Naruto was ready, and walking with him to the front door. They suddenly came to be outside and Sasuke was aware he was attempting to lock the door, Naruto raising an eyebrow when he noticed the Uchiha was shaking too much to get the key in the lock and growing more and more frustrated.
"Sas, let me do it." He took the keys from his fumbling partner and locked the door swiftly. "And don't even think about driving when you're like that! I'm going to drive."
Sasuke didn't argue for once, he was aware he must be acting oddly, he wondered if he were having some kind of mild panic attack because everything seemed oddly silent, magnified and out of place to him. He felt Naruto grab his arm and blinked in the blonde's direction, briefly seeing his face before his lips were clamped tightly to his. A gasp uttered its way into his partners mouth as the dull, spinning, whir of confusion in his head ended swiftly. Coming back to his sense, he mimicked his lover by taking his head in his hands and deepened the kiss before pulling back and hugging him tightly again.
"Thank you." He whispered meekly, Naruto smiled into Sasuke's shoulder.
"Let's go."
The car ride, for Sasuke, could not have gone any slower. Every meter they drove seemed to be taking twice as long as it usually would, traffic lights took centuries to turn green and roundabouts were like a never ending cycle of doom. Naruto was in fact driving a little faster than he should have been but Sasuke couldn't tell whilst his head was in some kind of other realm, constantly insisting Naruto drive faster, much to the blonde's disgruntlement, he was already over the speed limit.
They came to yet another traffic light that halted them before a roundabout junction. Great... Sasuke thought, his foot rocking impatiently on the dashboard where he'd rested it, not only do we get the worlds slowest changing lights, no, we get the worlds slowest entrance to the never ending spin cycle of vehicles! He muttered under his breath at first abuse directed at the light he was glaring at out of the passenger window, eventually the muttering wasn't enough.
"OH COME ON! EVOLUTION WAS QUICKER THAN THIS!" He roared, shocking a surprised Naruto, who had just been silently congratulating Sasuke on his quiet past five minutes. He'd hit the horn as he jerked violently in his shock and jumped again as the loud noise sounded.
"JESUS!" He gasped, holding his chest. "Talk about overkill! I just had a double heart attack!"
Sasuke, currently ignoring the dirty looks from the other drivers due to the unnecessary 'beep' hadn't even noticed the horn going off, too busy swearing at the red light, which turned amber as Naruto managed to breathe properly again.
"GO! GO! GO!" Sasuke shouted and Naruto panicked, something going horribly wrong between the clutch, accelerator and gear stick, resulting in the car stalling and several annoyed beeps coming from behind them. Sasuke shrieked and Naruto's mind blanked for a minute, taking a deep breath to get hold of himself before he sorted the problem out. Unfortunately this gave him a second to take in the past fifteen minutes of his life and it resulted in a small chuckle, which developed into a laugh and then a violent case of giggles that he couldn't stop as he sorted the car out and got it going again. "Stop laughing!" Sasuke gasped, looking out the back window and seeing some nasty death-glares from the waiting drivers and he knew death-glares better than anybody, they were nasty. This only fuelled Naruto's laughter on more however and Sasuke felt the urge to laugh himself as he took in sight of the half crying half overjoyed man beside him. "S-stop it! Were stopping all the traffic!" He warned again, begging his lips to stop tugging up at the corners. "N-Naru..." He muffled a laugh. "Seriously!"
A loud beep from the car behind them set them both off and they fell about laughing on the dashboard, Naruto tried to speak but the Uchiha couldn't understand him through the sobs and sharp breaths leaving his mouth, only fuelling his own cachinnating more. By the time they actually jerked into the roundabout, the lights were just about turning red again and they continued to crack up as the waiting line of cars was stopped a second time round.
"I think...we pissed...them off!" Naruto choked, trying to wipe his eyes, new tears falling from them as he did so, Sasuke was holding his diaphragm, which was jerking so violently he feared it was going to snap. He couldn't remember the last time he'd laughed so much, to the point where tears were now falling from his own eyes and onto his lap. The only time tears ever formed in his eyes was when he laughed so much he could help it and he didn't laugh forcefully for long periods of time often because sooner or later he'd-
"HAHAHAHAHA!" Naruto cracked up as a snort escaped in-between Sasuke's chortles, causing the man to laugh so hard he actually couldn't breathe and in fear of bursting or causing a crash he silently mouthed he had to pull over. Once at the side of the road they shuddered forwards in a silent laughter, neither able to stop it. Eventually they had to breathe and did do loudly, the breath only fuelling a louder laugh, Naruto trying to talk again and failing, almost paralysed with the giggling, holding a shuddering arm out and grabbing Sasuke's shoulder, the raven fell in towards him, unable to keep his self control.
"Oh...my...god..." Naruto whooped "I haven't...heard you...snort...in so long!"
"That's...why I don't...like laughing!" He gasped, then taking in a large breath again, except it came out in a long snort and Naruto feared his sides were going to split or he would throw up. The chortling was now getting painful.
"Oooh! Ooh Sasuke stop...it!...I...cant!...breathe!"
"I...know it...hurts!...so bad! Ohhh!"
They held onto one another clumsily for support, Sasuke with his face in Naruto's neck while the blonde continued.
"Oh! Come on stop!...We have...to go get...a baby!"
Sasuke snorted again loudly and they wheezed, clutching their stomachs whilst they laughed over one another.
"We...ow!...need to....ahh!...stop!..." Sasuke warned, Naruto making noises of discomfort. The raven brought his laughing lips up Naruto's neck to his mouth and tried to kiss him, resulting in more giggles and snorting, so he gave up, moving back to the man's neck, where he sucked on it – anything to keep their mouths preoccupied.
"Ah!...hahahha....hahahahhaaa!..ow!...Sasuke!..." Naruto guffawed as Sasuke half laughed into, half devoured his neck. The Uchiha's body suddenly becoming very interested in its new task as Naruto, like him, continued to moan at the pain of the laughter. He ran his tongue over the man's throat, unlocking his seatbelt and pressing into him, feeling Naruto tangling his fingers in his raven locks. His mouth grew hungrier, nipping at the skin, feeling Naruto flinch with a slight gasp, their actions taking place with the same intensity and lack of control as the laughter had. The blonde was arching into him, moaning as the laughter began to die further away and their diaphragms released painfully. "Oh! Oh god that hurt! Haha! Ah, god, Sasuke!" The Raven lost some more self control, pushing the man underneath him back so they were lying across the two chairs, Naruto squeaked loudly. "Hand brake up the arse!" He gasped and set them off laughing a little again as he shifted, the Uchiha licking his chest, his lips, his throat, any part of him he could find, still panting from the effort of his laughter.
"Ah!...hahaa!...Naruto...fuck...!"
"Sas...ahh...S-sasuke...god...oh...haha...hahaha...ha!...ha! W-wait! Fuck, stop!" Sasuke continued, lost in the aftermath of his laugh-attack, Naruto moaning when he lifted up his shirt and sucked just above his navel. "Ah!...No...s-stop...don't...no!...Ah STOP!" The blonde grabbed his lover and pushed him backwards so they broke free of each other, both wheezing loudly as cars zoomed past behind them. "We can't do that on the side of a road!" Naruto panted as he glanced up at Sasuke to see the most seductive silky look in his eyes, face flushed and hair messy upon his head. "Fuck! Why do you have to be so hot!?" He let his head fall forward, where it hit the wheel and set the horn off again, both of them laughing involuntary and sending the other a warning glance.
"Don't start me laughing again!" Sasuke frowned, gasping for air tiredly, sending another sultry look Naruto's way. "I'll have to kiss you again."
"You weren't kissing me! You were eating me!" The blonde argued, trying to get rid of his sex-hair in the mirror and smoothing his clothes out...not that he'd be able to smooth out his jeans...he hoped that problem would be gone by the time they got to the centre.
"I stopped us laughing, didn't I." Sasuke made himself more presentable too, fastening his coat up, it stopped a little under his hips and Naruto tutted loudly, Uchihas...they had to have solutions for everything didn't they? Even hard-ons...
"Yeah..." He grumbled "But the car smells like sex now!"
"Wouldn't be the first time..." Sasuke sniffed back at him and Naruto hid a grin before he straightened himself out, they had places to go and babies to meet.
"Anyway...are we finished?" He sighed.
"Well...not technically." Sasuke mused, looking into Naruto's lap and raising his eyebrows. "Would you like me to go in and get her?"
"N-no!" Naruto blushed, pulling his small jacket round himself. "I'll be fine when we get there!"
The raven grinned slyly and leant forward, Naruto mesmerised by his onyx eyes in spite of himself leaning forward too as Sasuke whispered onto his lips. "Really? I could sort out your problem for you now if you want?" He licked his bottom lip lightly and Naruto almost let his eyelids flutter shut.
"No!" He squeaked, fanning himself in a fluster, "No definitely not! Not at the side of a road, bastard!" He started the car up again quickly and made sure no cars were coming before he got them back onto the lane. "Besides, it's your fault in the first place! If you hadn't have decided to spontaneously devour me then we wouldn't be having this conversation! Weren't you shouting at me to hurry earlier on, we have a baby to see!"
"Yeah..." Sasuke hummed, looking out of the window. "But you started us laughing in the first place and you were...making all these...noises...and it turned me on...so it's your fault."
Naruto blushed at him and pointed out that he wouldn't have even laughed if it weren't for Sasuke acting like an overworked, overprotective mother. To which Sasuke insisted first of all, that he was not and secondly Naruto was fun to fluster.
The last few minutes of the journey were considerably quieter, after their 'moment' Sasuke felt calmer, like he'd gotten some of his excitement and anxiety out of himself, however he was still rocking his foot on the dash and Naruto could see the man biting his lip nervously too. As they got into one of the more crowded streets and the steady pulsing glow from the lampposts turned into floods of erratically placed light, Naruto slowed down and found somewhere to park. When they arrived and found somewhere just outside the centre they sighed thoughtfully in the silence of the recently stopped engine and looked at each other apprehensively.
"Well." Naruto began softly. "She right in there, waiting for us." Sasuke looked out of the window behind Naruto's head as he nibbled his lower lip, blinking down when Naruto took his hand. "You okay?"
The Uchiha nodded, squeezing the more tanned hands in his and leaning forwards to kiss the man they belonged to before leaning his forehead against his. "Are you okay?" He whispered. "When we woke up before...I didn't get to ask."
"I'm fine, it been a hectic night..." Naruto reassured, stroking Sasuke' cheek lightly, watching the paler man as he looked over his shoulder at the building fearfully, before his gaze was pulled back to his partner. "I love you." Naruto said with a small smile, Sasuke smiled back at him.
"I love you." The men shared a tight hug before they took a breath and opened their doors to the chilly night air. The light from the building glowing onto the stairs as the two walked up them, hand in hand. They were at the glass doors when they heard it, the familiar wails of their baby they had heard the day before. They smiled at each other as they journeyed to the entrance area and the echo from before clicked back into place in Sasuke's mind.
I'm a father...I'm a father...I'm a father...
"Boys!" Choza greeted eagerly when they came into view, he smiled, they looked terrified. "I'm glad you're here, the darling has been crying for the past ten minutes we brought her out here! I'm sure you can work your magic." He shook their hands and congratulated them again before reaching down into the pram and pulling the crying baby girl from it. Instinctively Sasuke reached forwards, heart racing, this is what he'd been waiting for. She was placed in his arms, warmth spreading through him as she snuggled into his chest and ceased her crying within a few minutes. Naruto rolled his eyes at the Uchiha, rubbing his shoulder as they looked down at their new daughter.
"I'm a father." Sasuke spoke aloud, fearing if it stayed in his head revolving round any longer he might explode.
"No." Naruto corrected, wrapping his arms around the back of his lover and stoking his child on the head gently. "We're a family."
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"This is base number nine...I listened to the call...its confirmed, they were accepted." A deep voice gruffly announced into a head set, ring adorned finger on the transmittal button. A fuzzy few seconds pause and then:
"Understood...you know the next step."
A sly smile crossed them man's face as his work for the day was done, he crossed the small secret room to the notice board on the wall. An identical map of information to the rest of his organisation was pinned to it and he wrote down the latest news, marking it as important. All the while the sly grin never left his face and it only grew when he grabbed a photograph from it and fell back into his chair, cockily eying the picture. A still Zabuza stared back at him and a deep heartless chuckle fell from the man's mouth. He let the photo rest on his black-cloaked lap and tapped it.
"Hope you're having fun in the afterlife, brother. The rest of your family will soon be there with you..."
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Dun dun dunnnn...
Kakashi/Iruka/Jiraiya entrance next chapter! More is revealed next time...
And ah I had to get some cheesyness and boylove in there xD
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