Had I ever mentioned what a nag Tsunade was...because she was being a very annoying one. I rolled my eyes for what seemed like the millionth time that day.

"For the last time Granny I want to keep the kid." I said carelessly. Ok, so that probably wasn't the right way to go about things, but hey! She had asked me the question like fifty times now!

"Naruto damnit! This is not something to take lightly! Have you even thought of what raising a child would entail? Not to mention everything you would have to give up? You may have to give up being a ninja and in turn give up your dream of becoming Hokage. Are you ready to make that sacrifice?" Tsunade seriously warned. Honestly, I hadn't even thought of what I would have to give up for this child. My dreams? Would having and taking care of my child really take away from my dreams? Well if Naruto Uzumaki was good at anything,

"I'll take my chances." it was convincing myself of my own plans.

"What?" Granny stammered through clenched teeth.

"I'll take my chances." I boasted with a smirk of confidence. Tsunade ran a hand through her hair.

"Why? Why are you so determined to keep this child? What will you gain from having it?" She asked in frustration. Wow...and people said I was dumb. How could she not know?

"Cause its mine." I said letting her know just how dumb I thought the question was. Her head snapped up and furry over took her expression.

"You stupid brat! Do you not understand the maturity it takes to raise a child? This isn't a toy Naruto it's a human being!" She screamed while slamming her fist on her desk.

"I know that it's a human being inside of me, if a monkey was growing inside of me I would be really concerned." I joked causing Granny to sigh.

"Naruto this isn't a joke." She said a bit desperately. I nodded my head letting her know that I was serious. She looked me in the eyes for a moment as though my real intensions would soon give way and all would be explained. However keeping the child was my real intension so not much was to be found.

"Why do you want this child so much Naruto? Why are you willing to give up everything up for a child who isn't even meant to be here?" I winced at the last statement wondering if she even knew what she had just said.

"My kid has every right to be here just like every other kid. Don't you dare put him down because of who gave birth to him!" I shouted while glaring at her to a point I think Sasuke would have been proud. No one had the right to put down my child, not even the Hokage herself. Before granny could get over her shock I continued.

"I know better than anyone how it feels to be unloved and alone. I have been for most of my life and I...I refuse to do that to anyone yet alone my own child. If I did, what kind of man would that make me? So I will be having my child, besides if I can't love and take care of my own flesh and blood than I don't deserve to be Hokage...hell I don't deserve to be a ninja at all!" I finished. It scared me to be raising a child alone but the love that Sasuke and Sakura and even the pervert and Kakashi and Iruka had given me would be all the strength I would need. They were the ones who taught me to love and showed me what it was like to not be alone. I owed them everything. Sakura and Sasuke could bring over their kids and they could all play together. Wait wouldn't Sasuke and Sakura's children be my kid's half siblings? How would I introduce them to each other?

And anyway Sasuke would visit saying that I couldn't be with children without supervision. Grrr yeah he would say that with a damn superior smirk on his stupid face. I should just shove my god damn birth certificate in his stupid smug face!

"NARUTO!" I snapped my head up and refocused on the conversation I was having to realize that death was soon coming if the glint in Tsunade's eyes was any indication. I swallowed loudly and looked for all my escape routes.

"Naruto...would you please try to pay attention." I nodded swiftly almost giving myself whiplash. She looked at me sternly for a minute and then began where she had left off.

"So...you said if you found out if you were really pregnant you would tell me how this all...occurred." Tsunade prompted. A flush rushed into my cheeks though I tried to will it down to no avail. Sighing I resigned to my fate and braced myself to go through the memories I had been trying to run from.

"Sasuke's... It's Sasuke's." I stated with as little emotion as I could.

"What?" Whether she asked because she was shocked or just didn't hear me I didn't know and so repeated.

"The baby is Sasuke's..." And before she could ask anymore question I began to tell her everything. How I had been in love with the idiot to the very undetailed sex we had. I attempted to cover up the wavering in my voice when I found some of the memories hard to get through, but Tsunade said nothing and never once interrupted me. When I finally finished she stayed quiet than asked,

"How are you going to tell Sasuke? He is getting married in a couple months now right?" With horror filling my body my eyes flew to hers.

"No! He doesn't need to know! No one needs to know!" I said with way more panic than I had intended to. Surprised by my outburst (you would think that nothing could surprise her anymore when concerning me) she stared at me.

"Naruto...you don't want to tell Sasuke? I understand not telling the village but... You plan to raise the child alone?" She asked hesitation lacing her words.

"Yeah… I mean Sasuke and Sakura are getting married in a couple months like you said and he can finally live out his dreams. Sasuke deserves to be happy and I will personally get rid of anything that stands in his way. So this will be kept a secret from everyone including Sasuke. Yeah I know it will be hard to raise it on my own but I know I can do it!" I looked up at Granny when I noticed that she still didn't respond. Maybe if I knew what I do now I would have realized the huge flaw in my argument. However the old lady finally sighed and shook her head.

"Even if I tried I wouldn't be able to talk you out of this right?" I shook my head and gave her my famous Uzumaki grin.

"You're damn right about that."

A month pregnant and I still couldn't believe it. No matter how I looked at myself in the mirror I still looked the same as I did...not pregnant. I thought I was supposed to get all fat and weird and shit. But Granny said that I shouldn't start showing until about the third month and that I was already a hormonal wreck. Stupid old people. I hated to admit it at times but Tsunade was a really big help with the baby. Between my break downs to making and serving me melted butter and raw onions, she was really supportive. Though Shizune was really the one made the onions and stuff so i guess I really should be thanking Shizune instead of the old fart.

Throughout the mess of trying to figure out what to do when the child was born Tsunade decided that Shizune should know. When she described the fact that she couldn't deliver a baby a healthy baby and keep the Kyubbi at bay I instantly agreed. I knew that if Granny told Shizune to keep her mouth shut she would with a smile.

However I was still in the whole 'planning the wedding' shit, though Ino hasn't yelled at me since I came out of the hospital. I tried to concentrate on the baby inside of me but damn that part of my brain that wouldn't stop the fucking count down to the wedding. Six months...six short months until the bastard was officially tied down. But what killed me the most was that the bastard looked so passive about the idea, like he could care less whether he got married or not. But I decided not to dwell on it and worry about important stuff. Like my baby!

"So what are you going to name it?" Shizune asked with a soft smile while she looked down at my belly concentrating on squirting freezing cold goo on it. I stopped looking at the screen as she began to smear the stuff and looked at her in surprise.

"What?" Shizune turned her head towards me, her surprise now mirroring mine.

"The child...what are some names you have thought of for the child?" She elaborated. I shook my head.

"I haven't thought of any..." It was silent for a minute neither one of us knowing what to say. It was causing my heart to beat fast thinking that I had made a mistake already for my child. But then Shizune just shrugged her shoulders.

"Don't worry about it Naruto you still have plenty of time." She said softly and I wanted to jump up and embrace her and tell her to say it again, but instead I kept my composure and let her continue her work. Both of us looked at screen waiting until we saw something that resembled a human child in there but then Shizune heaved a large sigh.

"Sorry but it looks the Kyubbi's protection of the child is making it so that we can't see it." Shizune said worried. I laughed.

"No big deal. After all I am Kohana's number one surprising ninja; it would be boring if my kid wasn't the same!" I exclaimed. She laughed and shook her head.

"You're absolutely right Naruto. It would be boring." And once again I felt at peace.

Did I ever mention what a bastard Sasuke was? Cause he was one of the highest order. All I did was ask him one simple question and he still couldn't get that stick out of his ass long enough to give me a decent answer.

"Hn."

"Come on teme! You had to have thought about the names you would pick for your darling children! I just want to know some of your top choices for a boy and a girl!" Damn asshole was being stubborn. With the way he was regarding me you would have thought I asked what type of porn he liked to jerk off to or something! It wasn't like I was trying to make fun of him, I just thought he should have a say in what our child's name would be.

"achi..." He said taking me out of my inner rant.

"What?"

"...Dobe...I said Itachi...I wanted to name one of my kids after him." He said softly. Hmmmmm...Itachi...That would be an awesome girl name.

"What?" Opps...Did I say that out loud?

"I mean don't you think that it would be an awesome girl name?"

"No. That was my brother's name you idiot." I could feel the irritation pooling off of him.

"So? It's like bringing out her hidden flavor you know? And then we can give her a really girly middle name! It would be so adorable!"

"Why wouldn't we just give our child a normal girl name? And why does she have so many names to begin with? Giving her three names is weird."

"Because that's boring! Come on we have to give her an awesome cool name!"

"Dobe."

"Fine so what about a boy name? Besides Itachi."

"Takahiro."

"Hmmm...and the middle name be Minato?"

"Why would your father be the boy's middle name? Why couldn't that be our daughter's?

"Because Minato is not as pretty of a name as Itachi. Besides your brother looks way more like a girl than my dad!"

"What? You moronic idiot, how does my brother look like a girl?"

"He had ridiculously long hair and he painted his nails. SCREAMS girl right there. Or emo..."

"Sasuke Naruto why are you talking as if you two are going to be having a child?" Holy shit! When did Sakura get here?

"Hn...The dobe wanted to know baby names I liked." Sasuke stated. She laughed and shook her head.

"I swear you and Naruto fight more like a couple than we do Sasuke." She teased. I wanted her to say it again and tell her to shut up. Those words gave me a sense of false hope that in the state I was in I couldn't handle.

"Hn." Sakura giggled.

"So why so interested in baby names Naruto hmm? Got a secret you're hiding from everyone?" Sakura teased but my face paled while my stomach began turning in so many knots I thought I was going to get sick. In the back of my head I knew she didn't know anything. I knew that but god my brain melted into a puddle of poo when I thought of Sakura knowing everything. She would hate me. I tried to think quick on my feet for an excuse, anything but my mind came up blank...I never was very good on the spot.

"You know Naruto. He was probably trying to convince Sasuke to name the children something ridiculous." Sakura laughed while nodding. I would have gotten pissed but my stomach was full of relief and gratitude towards my unknown savior. That lasted about two seconds before I started to pout more putting on a show than upset.

"You all suck..." I mumbled which was answered by a huff.

"I don't want to hear that from you, you lazy bum." The threat behind those eyes made me laugh nervously while rubbing my tummy.

"I don't know what you're talking about Ino!" I said on a note of hysteria. Note to self: do not let Ino near baby.

"Hey by the way when did you plan the party for?" Ino asked on a casual note but I gulped knowing I was going to be in trouble.

"Well you see...about that..." I said while rubbing the back of my head trying to buy me some time to think of an excuse. When Ino's eye twitched I felt my face pale, and took a step back. I braced myself for the beating I knew she had been waiting to give since Sasuke and Sakura announced their wedding but nothing came. Slowly I opened my eyes to see that Ino was glaring at the ground with her arms crossed. Confused I looked around to see Sakura looking at Sasuke and Sasuke glaring at Ino. Before I had time to think about what was happening Sasuke snorted.

"Why the hell would you leave the idiot to plan my bachelor's party. The dobe would probably ruin it." He smirked.

"You stupid Teme! Any party I plan is amazing and you know you're jealous!" I shouted enraged at his proclamation of my party skills.

"Besides in the end he would be the one that was most trashed and I would have to drag him back home." Ohhh...it was on the tip of my tongue that the last time we had gone drinking I dragged his sorry ass home but I couldn't say it. Bringing up those old memories would do nothing but endanger the safe haven I had created to protect him. It stung a little to think of it but...I felt so dirty.

By the time I realized that Ino, Sakura, and the bastard where still in front of me they had already begun to talk about a whole new subject which of course involved the wedding. Oh how I was starting to hate weddings.

Hey guys! Well I posted another chapter and i really hope that you guys enjoyed it! Please leave a comment on what you thought about it and i really want to thank my current reviewers! You guys inspire me! lol But I hope that you guys continue to review my stories. Thanks!