Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Notes: Thanks to everyone who reviewed or placed my story on their alert and/or favourite's list, it means a lot to me. This is my first chapter story for Naruto, not including Pay Back.

Bubbles and Paper

Takeshi let out a sigh as he breathed in the early morning hustle, the sounds of children begging their parents for candy, the sounds of hoofs hitting the ground coming from the draw mules and of course the shouting of people wanting to be served.

He had escaped his Aunt and Uncle's house while they were getting their children ready for the day, his Uncle was going to train them to fight in snow. Takeshi hadn't wanted to explain to his younger cousins why he was at their hose so early in the morning so he slipped out of the bedroom window.

Takeshi was on his way to see someone close to him, someone who had known about his sexuality before even he did. And after how his father acted he knew he needed to see her, for her to tell him it was alright, and that sooner or later his father would come around.

His father had been cruel, but maybe he was right? Maybe if he really tried he could be… normal. The same as everyone else…

It hadn't been more than 20minutes before Takeshi found himself standing in front of the large two story house, with the large village crest on the front door.

The door was opened, as always, which told Takeshi who was home because there was only one person that careless. He walked up the red stair case and towards the opened bedroom door.

"Takeshi?" A loud voice called from the ensuite bathroom, "In here." As if he couldn't have noticed that for himself.

The bathroom was warm, hot steam filled the room, small orange lights glowed against the mirror, but his interest was the person in the bath surrounded by bubbles.

The bubbles barely covered anything, he saw the tops of her breasts, the long length of her smooth legs, and if there was even an inch of less water Takeshi swore he would see everything.

"Want to get in?"

He smiled, "Move over."

Her bright green eyes watched him as he stripped himself of his clothing, folding his clothes and placing them in the corner of the bathroom.

She slide down towards the taps allowing Takeshi room to move in behind her. "Want me to wash your back?" He couldn't deny he was attracted to her, a person would be crazy if they weren't.

She sat between his legs, and leaned back into his body, his arm wrapped around her waist as he rested his chin upon her head, looking down there was no hiding her ample breast that, with every small movement, would dip into the warm water.

It had been a long time since they both felt uncomfortable been around each other naked, for them it was comforting, the touching skin had given them a feeling of being one, of not being alone, it was something they did, something they do. It was their thing.

Her wet strawberry blonde hair stuck to his chest, "How'd it go?" she whispered, her normally loud voice almost restrained to the bathroom, as if there were others on the other side of the door.

Takeshi bit his lip, "Not well. Father… He kicked me out, Sushi, he said something's… really hurtful things." Her hand rested upon the one he had around her.

"It'll be ok Takeshi. It really will." For a few moments it was silence.

"Want to wash me?" Ahh, she always knew what to say.

Takeshi grabbed the sponge and placed a small amount of body wash on it. He start with her smooth back, he did it in small circles taking care around her scars, he can remember when she got certain ones. The straight scar near her shoulder blade was just a few weeks after her 15th birthday when she was attacked by a group of Cloud nin. Her squad managed to get rid of them but she was slashed while protecting an innocent bystander.

He remembered his panic when he heard, how he rushed to by beside his best friend at the hospital, and mostly how she gloated about getting it and her mother telling her father 'Oh God, she's just like you.'

Sushi's parents loved each other; it's so easy to see it. Uncle Naruto will bring his wife flowers every Friday, Aunty Sakura always made sure her husband had food for work. They laughed and smiled, held hands in public and often Aunty Sakura and Uncle Naruto could be seen chasing each other around the village.

His parents never did that. They never held hands, they never joked around, his father never brought flowers home and though his mother would make sure his father had food it was because she had too.

Takeshi dipped the blue sponge into the water and ran it softly over Sushi's arm, just brushing against her chest causing her to shiver.

"Are you cold?" He whispered into her ear, she shook her head but stay silent.

Dipping the sponge back into the water he leaned forward and placed the sponge on her right foot, slowly bringing it upwards to the top of the knee where he would normally stop but he couldn't help thinking that maybe he could be normal.

The sponge sat on her knee before he drew it down her thigh, his heart beat hard then a jack hammer, he went down stopping after he felt her legs twitch, he was enjoying this slightly and wanted to draw it out if only for a little bit longer.

He left go of her waist, moving her hand that was laying on his, as he started to wash her neck, dipping the sponge between her breasts, he felt her rosy pink nipple stiffen as his damp wrist brushed against it.

Without warning Takeshi wrapped his arms around his friend who gasped with surprise as they emerged from the warm water. He stepped out of the bath and placed Sushi down, her green eyes wild with confusion and a hint of arousal. Her breasts heaved and for a second Takeshi wondered if he could do it. If he should do it.

In a second he imagined their future together. They would have a daughter with his dark hair and her green eyes, a son with her blonde hair and his dark eyes. They would live in a small comfortable house on the Uchiha compound where he'll be able to see his family every day. His father would help train his children in the snow while he and Sushi held hands in public while everyone smiled at them.

This is a future he can have.

His arms wrapped themselves around her as he lowered his pale nude lips on her cherry coloured ones. For a split moment he felt dizzy as he took in her very essence, he remembered their childhood, how she had always crushed on him until she realized, he remembered Akemi, how his friend at left the village, and it was at that moment he picked her up, just enough so her long legs would wrapped around his waist.

He carried her out of the bathroom towards her bed, gently placing her down he looked over her, he had seen her naked so many times but he had never seen her. Her flushed body, her legs around his waist… on movement and his future with her could be real.

Takeshi watched her body rise from the bed just slightly.

He made that move.

Outside it started raining.

Sasuke walked into Naruto's office.

"What's up?" Naruto asked without looking at his best friend, his desk completely covered with paper that needed to be signed, mission that needed to be approved, mission reports needing to be read…

"I want divorce papers." Naruto jumped up looking at his friend like he was insane.

"W-What but y-you and Hinata! You and Hinata?"

Sasuke looked at Naruto like he was a fool, "No you idiot, Takeshi, I need parent-child divorce papers."

"Oh good because I thought you and Hinata…What?

"Naruto I don't have time, I want this… this nightmare to be over. Give me the papers."

Naruto looked at Sasuke dumbfounded, "But Sasuke, he's your son."

"Not for long. Soon he will be no one to me."

Naruto bit his lip, "And to Hinata?"

"She will learn that I'm doing this for our family. Now give me the papers."

Naruto sighed, he had no choice, when a parent or child comes in asking for those papers he must give them. After all they must be signed by three people. the parent/parents and child in question.

"I hope for your sake Sasuke, you wake up and see what you're doing." Naruto whispered to his friend as he handed over the papers.

Sasuke took the papers, "I know what I'm doing Naruto. I have a family name to protect." He walked out of the office, slamming the door along the way.

"My friend, the name is just a word. Family are loved ones. I really hope you see what you're doing." Naruto closed his eyes for a moment before continuing with his paper work.

"AHA! Shikamaru was attacked by three children! I'm putting this in my funny pile!" He grinned.

The house cold, it felt like no one had lived in it for years. Like no family had spent their many happy moments in the walls of his house.

There was no Katsu, no Taro, no scent of his wife's wonderful cooking. There was nothing.

"Hinata?" Sasuke called, hoping for a response.

A door down the hall opened and Hinata walked into the dining room.

Her eyes were red from crying, her hair a mess but tied back into a bun, her eyes were sad and cold. "Sasuke." She whispered. A thud came as a shock to Sasuke causing him to notice the bags that Hinata at put down.

Was she leaving him? "What's going on Hinata. What's in those bags?" Sasuke hoped that there were rocks, heads of their enemy, new clothes, anything but the reality of what was happening.

Hinata bit her lip as tears welled up in her pupil-less eyes, "Sasuke, I need you to think about what you're asking from this family." Hinata whispered, "I need you to think about us, our children, our future"

"What are you saying Hinata?" Sasuke bit out coldly.

"Sasuke I don't want- "

"I know what you want Hinata, I can't give in. I'm not weak; I'm not going to let him come back. He can't, I've signed the papers. In a few days he will no longer be a Uchiha."

"Papers?" Hinata whispered as a tear runs down her pale cheek, "Sasuke you can't mean it!"

Sasuke grabbed his wife and held her arms tightly as another tear fell, "Hinata I can lose a million battles, I can an arm, I can even lose this compound, and I will lose that faggot child of ours. It's for the Uchiha name Hinata!" His voice was clear, cold, and deadly.

"I love Takeshi! I love him! I carried him, I felt him kick, I heard his first cry, and saw his first steps. That child is mine. That child is ours!" Hinata broke, her voice screaming at her husband, it was the first time Sasuke had ever seen this but it angered him, she was going against him.

"YOU GAVE ME A DEFECTIVE CHILD!" He yelled at her, his short nails cutting into her skin.

Hinata's eyes widened, her heart stopped if only for a second, and her walls crumbled, tears spilled non-stop and Sasuke for the first time regretted saying his thoughts out loud.

"What is the Uchiha name worth Sasuke?" Gem purple white eyes looked empty and dead glazed into his firey black ones.

"It means everything Hinata. Nothing is more valuable than the Uchiha name."

"Even us Sasuke? Us, your family?"

She hoped, so badly she hoped, he would answer no but when he said nothing she knew his answer.

"Then you must understand why I'm doing this." Hinata didn't hide her falling tears as she picked up her two bags and walked out into the pouring rain."

Sasuke was alone.

For the first time in 17 years the house was silent, the house was unwelcoming, and Sasuke was completely alone in it.

They laid there, on the plush orange floor of her bedroom, the only sound coming from the rain bashing on the roof.

He wanted someone to say thing, anything, just as long as that someone wasn't him. If someone didn't say something soon Takeshi feared that they would be frozen in time.

Thankfully they weren't as Sushi rolled her herself onto his chest. Her index finger making tiny circles near his belly button, he was not scared she wanted something, or to go again, to enjoy the feeling.

"You…" His heart froze and pounded at the same time. "You can't lie to yourself Takeshi."

Sushi moved herself up and laid on her side, staring at him as he mirrored her, her soft hand touched his cold cheek, "You are what you are. You can't chose to be gay. You can't chose to be straight. What we did was fun, but it can never happen again." Her green eyes were dull, a little sad, today they had lost a piece of their innocent friendship and they both knew it.

"You knew," Takeshi bit his bottom lip, "You knew why I… why we…"

"I do. And I'm not mad at you. I understand that it was something you needed to do."

Takeshi sat up, the orange coloured blanket falling and revealing his naked chest, "I used you. YOU! My best friend." He wanted her to be angry; he needed her to hate him. What he had done was unthinkable.

Sushi sat up, holding the blanket around her chest, "I went along with it. I should have stopped myself."

She took a breath, "Takeshi, you needed to know, to know with no possible chance of being wrong. And I would rather it be with me than some stranger who caused this great change you are feeling."

He hugged his friend. She was right. She sometimes had the brain of a bird but Sushi, she was never wrong about these things.

He didn't noticed the sadness in her eyes. Because once a upon a time she loved him, and their moment of being one wasn't just for him. She needed to know.

And now… now she can move on.

The next morning rain turned to snow and as Takeshi stood in front of his Hokage with his three comrades he hoped that this mission would be over quickly.

Soon he will be back in his village. Soon he will see his mother and siblings. But most importantly he will move on from his father. He will be stronger, faster, he will sign those papers and he will build a life. With children, with a pet or two, with his male lover.

Soon.

"Mrs Uchiha?" "Yes?" It was Anbu, her heart pounded, she knew what was going to come was no good. "The Hokage has requested you join him as soon as possible."

"Hinata?" Naruto watched as the woman before him struggled to contain herself. "Hinata? It'll be ok."

Sasuke sat in the dining room, his words that he spoke at his father's grave still ringing in his mind. Is it a blessing? Fate?

"Mrs Uchiha, you should tell you husband."

Sasuke smirked as Hinata walked out of the compound, it was fate, it was a blessing.

Ok so here is the math: Sasuke and Hinata are 34. They married when they were 17. Takeshi, who was born when they were 20, is 2 years old then Katsu who is 15, Taro is 8. Which makes Takeshi 17.

Sushi is 16.

Meaning of their names:

Sushi is just a nickname given to her as a baby, her real name doesn't come up yet.

Takeshi: Bamboo tree, unbending.

Katsu: Victorious.

Taro: Strong boy.

Akemi: Dawn of beauty.

Jiro: Second born male. (Which does mean that Sakura and Naruto have three children. The first born make just hasn't come up yet.)