Chapter Seven

The Good and the Bad

"Uzumaki Naruto, 17 years of age, born October 10th, is this all correct?" The nurse asked me. I nodded slowly and she wrote something down. "We have your test results back Naruto."
"Well then just don't stand there and ask me stupid questions! Tell me why the hell I bled out so damn much!" I gripped the sheets afraid to hear the answer. So soon after Sasuke had asked me to marry him I was going to get some horrible diagnosis I just knew it!

She sighed "There was, and still are, trace amounts of an unknown poison in your blood stream. It affected your kidneys…and they're slowly shutting down."

Sasuke stood from his chair, knocking it over backwards "WHAT!?" Tears glistened in his eyes; his lower lip trembled slightly "No, I refuse to believe it! No!" I felt so bad for him, so many bad things have happened to him.

I sighed deeply and sat back against my pillows. "my kids…my boyfriend, no, fiancé, I can't just leave them all behind." I closed my eyes and let a tear trickle down. "I can't die yet"

The blond nurse shook her head "We'll put you on the transplant list but I don't want you to get your hopes up." She put her hand on my shoulder "Donors are pretty hard to come by right now." She looked to Sasuke "We're doing all we can…just try to make him comfortable."

"That's all I've been doing for the past month!" Sasuke forced himself not to shout but there was no use in trying to hide his sorrow. "Find someone! I don't care if I have to go against the village just to find a donor. I'll do it too if you don't find one by the end of the week!" He glared at the nurse. I was proud of him of keeping his anger under control enough to keep his eyes black. His jaw clenched he hissed "I'm NOT losing someone close to me again!"

She took a step back from the bed "There is one thing we could do for him. She set her clipboard down and dug through a couple of cupboards "Uchiha Sasuke, we'll need to run blood tests but," She turned back to Sasuke, a needle and syringe in her small hand "if you are a match and you wanted to, you could be a donor for Naruto."

I sat up again, my eyes wide "Sasuke could be a donor!?" I looked over to him chewing at my bottom lip "well I did say I wanted you in me." I smiled hoping he'd get the sex joke.

I watched as the nurse took Sasuke's blood and bid her farewell, promising to be back soon with the results.

Sasuke took my hand in his as he sat back down. "It's been a long time since things pinched me like that. And only you would make a joke like that at this point. You know damn well what I meant when I told that to you." He nuzzled close to me "I'm blood type O positive so there's about a 99% chance I'll be a match to you. I promise I'll make you well again."

I cuddled close to him "Sasuke, I literally owe you my life. I promise to do anything you ask of me without question." I felt like I was walking on air. I had just gotten the worst news of my life and then the best. "…you know that includes getting rid of the twins as well" I added quietly. He asked me if he could fry them almost every other day. "I love you so much that I would do this for you."

"I love you too, that's why I can't let you kill the kids, you'd yell at me every time I brought it up, I'm not going to get rid of something you've fought so hard to protect and keep this past month, unless you absolutely have to kill them" He put his forehead to mine, his bangs hiding our eyes "The only reason I keep offering to kill them is to protect you, and because I'm scared, I'm scared to be a dad, I'm scared that they are indeed Itachi's, I'm scared of losing you"

How could I have done this to him? Had I not once in the past month taken his feelings into account? I had assumed he offered to kill them because he didn't want little ankle biters hanging around him day and night. I felt my heart break just a little bit more when he confessed his fears to me. "Sasuke, I'm scared too, of being a parent, of who might be the father and of leaving you." I give him a small laugh; I found it a bit funny that the great Uchiha Sasuke was afraid of the same things as I was. Maybe we weren't as different as we though? "Sasuke, it may be for the better if you get rid of these two. They wouldn't be healthy and probably wouldn't live long anyway." I placed his hand over my stomach "If I have a baby I want it to be yours."

"Take a deep breath, I won't hurt you, I'll just shock the kids," My heart sped up, taking a deep breath and holding it He send a soft shock throughout my body. When he took his hand away I let my breath out, he whispered "I love you more than anything Naruto" and kissed me.

I held him as close as was physically possible. The tears pour from my eyes; my body shook with each sob. It had to be done, I knew this but that didn't make it any easier. "Lo-look-looks like…" I sniffed "our fears" and hiccupped "are gone." I moved my head down so I could hide against his shoulder. No, our fears weren't gone. Once Akatsuki found out that they were no longer going to have an heir … there's no telling what they would do. "I've never felt this bad before Sasuke."

"I know, Naruto, I'm sorry, I would have given anything to get around this" He ran his cold fingers through my hair. For as long as I can remember that had been the one thing that calmed me down without fail. "If those guys come for you I'll kill them, I'm not going to let them take my future Husband" Future husband, I loved the sound of that.

"And I believe you Sasuke. With all my heart and soul I believe that you will stand by my side through thick and thin." I moved up and gave him the best kiss of his life! I tried to pour everything into that kiss, all my pain and happiness and every emotion in between.

I was filled with joy when he put just as much emotion into the kiss as I did. When he pulled back I turned around seeing the nurse in the doorway. This time, however, she looked happier than the last time. "So what's going on? Am I going to live or what?"

"You're going to be fine Naruto." She said walking over to the bed, hanging the charts at the foot of the bed. "We'll get you both prepped for surgery as soon as we can. Naruto, Sasuke, you don't need to worry." She smiled and pulled the blanket back over my legs "But I must insist that you two refrain from such kisses and under no circumstances are you to have sex. Do I make myself clear?"

Sasuke rubbed my shoulder, his arm around me "Yeah, don't worry; I won't do anything to put him at risk. Oh! We have a request. He gazed deeply into my eyes and nodded. With a small nod he continued "The twins inside naruto, we'd like you to take them out."