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Tsunade was being completely unfair. I didn't understand why she was forcing me to stay in the hospital until the fucking tests where done. It was complete bullshit.
Sasuke came every day to see me though, which I would never tell him, but made it a little okay to stay at the hospital. Sometimes he would spend the night with me and other times he would stay until visiting hours where over.
My other friends came to see me as well during my stay at the hospital. Kiba, Shikamaru, Choji Lee, TenTen, Konohamaru and his little friends, Iruka, Shino and even Ino and Neji came to see me. Sakura came to see me too, or well came to see Sasuke would be more like it. I thought we had made up, but it seemed like Sakura was mad at me again. Psh...this was why I stopped liking girls, they are just way too confusing for me. I mean they say one thing but mean the exact opposite and if you say the wrong thing because they said the opposite of what they were feeling, they got pissed at you! God that's why me and Sasuke got along so well. We just said what we felt even if it hurt the others feelings. We knew that we could handle the truth. Gah I got off point.
I would try to start up a conversation but the tension between Sakura and surprisingly Sasuke would make me shut my mouth. After a half hour of silence Sakura would stand abruptly and leave without even saying a goodbye. After the third time it happened I couldn't contain my frustration anymore.
"Teme what the hell is up with Sakura?" I demanded. Sasuke snorted.
"Nothing for you to be concerned with dobe." He said with a tone leaving no room for argument, trying to make me drop the subject altogether. The stupid fucker was treating me like a child.
"What do mean nothing for me to worry about? Every time Sakura comes in I feel like she is going to murder me! How can I relax in that type of atmosphere?" I complained. Sasuke looked at me for a moment with, once again, an unreadable look. Why did this keep happening? Since when was I not able to tell what the teme was thinking? We had been together for so long that we just knew what the other was thinking just by looking at the others face. So when I thought I was going to lose myself in all the confusion Sasuke stood up and patted my head.
"I'll take care of it Naruto so don't think about it anymore." He said almost like he cared making a sudden warmth explode in my chest. However the bastard smirked and ended with,
"Your brain isn't used to it." I'd kill him one day. Stupid prick! I tried to throw something at him but by the time I finally grabbed something he was gone. Teme.
Three days have passed and Sasuke hadn't come to see me again. It affected me more than I wanted it to but I tried not to think about it. Sasuke was, after all, marrying Sakura they were probably doing some stupid thing for the wedding. Even though I would repeatedly tell myself I didn't care, at night when I thought the loneliness would consume, I would curse the teme for doing this to me. For a little while I could blame him for everything that was happening and not have to listen to the part of me that knew it took two to tango.
Another two days passed without any sign of the bastard when Tsunade entered my room with the results.
"Congratulations Naruto. You're having a baby." Tsunade said casually but my heart stopped.
"You're sure...run the test again there has to be a mistake." I said frantically but deep down I knew that the results would be the same.
" I already have run this test three times Naruto and all came back positive...I..." I barely heard her over the pounding in my ears. This had to be a sick joke! There was no way, no fucking way!
"Naruto."
I didn't want to hear anymore.
"Naruto we-" I couldn't handle anything else. All I could think about was how I would never get over Sasuke now.
Maybe I thought that if I left the area everything would go back to normal. Or maybe I thought that if I physically left the area I could also leave the memories that tied me to him. Maybe I was just scared. Whatever the reason in the next second I ripped the I.V out of my arm, jumped out the window, and ran like the devil was at my heels. And in my mind the devil was because no matter how fast i ran the memories still plagued me. How was I supposed to get over Sasuke now when I was having his fucking kid? Oh god a child... I was having a fucking child? Was that allowed? Could I have a child to love? What if no one liked him and called him names because of me? What if he didn't like me? No one else loved me in the village when I was a child and were only just now beginning to accept me. So what if my child hated me too? Could I handle a baby by myself? Could I raise a child on my own?
My body was heaving from the tears that should have been falling from my eyes but I couldn't cry. Too tired to even keep moving I curled up on the ground and told myself to sleep. Just go to sleep.
I was walking through the village, it was warm and the sun heated my skin making a smile spread across my face. I wasn't going anywhere nor was I doing anything, just walking aimlessly around until something caught my eye. I don't know how long I walked for when I heard a small voice call me. I turned towards the voice to see Sasuke standing in front of me. No it wasn't Sasuke, it was a child, a child who looked like Sasuke but had blue eyes...like me. This child I knew very well because this child was mine. Smiling I crouched down and expanded my arms as the child ran towards me.
"Daddy!" Yelled the small voice. I encircled the child in my arms and thought he was mine. This child was mine.
Logic tried to tell me otherwise. I didn't want this child did I? How could this child possible be mine? But one statement ran through my head again and again. I would never leave this child alone in this world while I still lived. My heart hummed in agreement and I realized that it really would be okay. I could worry about the future when it finally became the present. Until then I would love this child, my child, to the best of my abilities. I would protect him until the day I died, even if I had to do it alone, it would all be alright. One parent was better than none. This child would never know the feelings of hatred and loneliness because the Bastard and I had felt enough of that for him. My child would be loved, even if only by me. I would love it enough for everyone else.
"Naruto." I looked up from my child's embrace to see Sasuke staring down at us. Muscles that I hadn't even realized were tense soon relaxed at seeing the teme's face.
"Dobe." I love this man. That one phrase continuously repeated in my head and the accusation I had realized before, the fact that I would never stop loving Sasuke, suddenly seemed alright.
"Dobe!" Why was he screaming? I was right in front of him the idiot, and he calls me a dobe. I was about to call him such but my voice wouldn't work. My mouth was moving and my head was screaming the words I wanted to say but nothing would come out. I hadn't noticed that the child, my child, had disappeared, I was only concerned with my voice.
"NARUTO!" His panicked voice only made my anxiety rise. Why was he losing his composer? What was happening that was so bad? Suddenly the earth shook and I couldn't keep my thoughts focused.
"Wake up Dobe!" Sasuke demanded. Wake up? Wasn't I already awake?
"Stop shaking him! Sasuke he's freezing and probably hypothermic by now." Said another voice. Sasuke now held me close to his chest and was rubbing up and down on my arms making them spark at the contact.
"We have to get him back to the hospital ASAP." The other voice spoke again.
"Hn." What a bastard. My train of thought was cut off when I felt him pick me up like a damn baby and start to carry me somewhere. I would have struggled but my body was just so god damn tired I couldn't even tell if I was dreaming or in reality anymore.
I woke up again in the hospital the dream from before haunting me again, without the earthquake and stuff. I looked around the room and felt a sense of deja vu wash over me when I spotted the teme in front of me. I would have laughed if Sasuke hadn't given me a look that promised death if I did. I swallowed to moisten my extremely dry throat and not because I was scared. Like the bastard could ever make me scared. With that in mind I moved my mouth to speak.
"What's up your ass teme?" I croaked. Sasuke's glare turned even more deadly, which I personally thought was impossible. The bastard had always had a talent to surpass my expectations though.
"You know what." He said so coldly I would have pissed myself if I was anyone other than Naruto Uzumaki.
"What are you talking about teme? How would I know what's up your ass?" I asked getting irritated that he was treating me more like a criminal instead of his friend. Then Sasuke growled. Yes growled, as in something an animal would do. I jumped in surprise at the noise and turned to tease him but stopped when I saw the look of fear and anger on his face.
"You fucking moron! What the hell do you mean you don't know what my problem is? God damnit Naruto! In two weeks you almost died twice. What the hell possessed you to run out in the freezing cold rain, wearing a fucking hospital gown, when you were in here because you almost died of blood loss for unknown reasons? You stupid idiot! Don't you ever pull that shit again!" Sasuke practically roared. I sat frozen in place not with fear but with pure shock. It was in that moment I realized that I meant something to Sasuke too. I knew that Sasuke didn't love me like I loved him, not in that way at least. Sasuke loved me as a friend, but still loved me enough to give a rat's ass about me. Hell he was actually worried about my well-being and that alone made my heart clench in a way that I couldn't describe. I was going to be just fine. What was going to happen in the future I would never know and the past couldn't be changed, but the present was here so why not stick to that as a game plan and work through it. Baby steps you know?
We didn't speak after that. I moved over in bed to give the teme room to sit, which he did. We didn't talk. We didn't need to talk because the bastard and I communicated better without words. I grabbed the teme's hand and squeezed it which meant I was sorry. The bastard fingers wrapped around mine and squeezed back saying that all was forgiven. Absorbed in our contentment of just being near each other, we didn't notice that our hands where still intertwined, nor did we notice when we fell into a peaceful slumber with our heads resting against each other. Not that I was complaining.