I walked leisurely through the streets of Konoha while looking at everything and nothing at the same time. The light breeze blew my hair making it so that it tickled my face and I closed my eyes while throwing hands behind my head to enjoy the teasing sensation. Well that was until I ran into something. Embarrassed I opened my eyes and looked around making sure no one saw me before focusing my attention on the thing I ran into. I guess thing is the wrong word to use here it was actually a someone which, instead of lowering the hue in my cheeks, increased it.
"Sai? What the fuck are you doing?" I yelled ready to punch the stupid idiot. Why was he always in my way?
"Ah loud as ever I see fishcake." He said with a large grin on his face. Ohhh he was asking to get the shit beat out of him!
"What did you say? You stupid jerk." Sai looked contemplative for a minute before looking back at the book in his hand.
"Hmm… I thought it said saying hello using a nickname would make the person feel better… hmmmm strange…" Nickname? NICKNAME! I'd give him one hell of a nickname while I kicked his ass!
"That's not a nickname you idiot! And where the hell do you buy these books at anyway? I'm going to burn that place down." I'm pretty sure that there was fire burning in my eyes but Sai said nothing about it.
"You are always so quick to resort to violence…I heard that was bad for your health and since you are just now recovering I don't think it wise for you to decrease what little health you have left. I mean last I saw you weren't feeling well right?" He said while flashing that fake smile of his. The fucker was asking for trouble. I about to split his lip open when the last time we met flashed through my mind.
"Wait a minute! Sai what the hell were you doing in my bed that time! You're a stinking pervert aren't you?" I demanded while pointing an accusing finger at him. Sai looked blankly at me for a moment before he dug his nose back into his book.
"To fix a misunderstanding…to fix a misunderstanding…" He mumbled softly as he quickly turned the pages.
"Wha…mis…Don't play games with me!" I yelled while I grabbed the book out of his hands.
"Now tell me why you were in my bed!" I said a little more calmly, little being the key word. Sai looked at me again and smiled.
"Well in my book it said that when a friend is sick you go and visit them. But when you were in the hospital I couldn't because I was on a mission so I decided that I would go visit you at your house. But you were sleeping and so I read that it was rude to wake people up so I crawled into bed and waited until you woke up." I'm not gonna lie I think my mouth was hanging open at his calm explanation that he thought was completely logical. But I couldn't help what happened next. I felt my body begin to shake until the uncontrollable laughter took over and tears were pouring out of my eyes. Sai's face looked clueless which only increased my laughter.
"God Sai how the hell are you such an idiot? Oh man…" I said wiping the tears from my face while slowly controlling my laughter.
"Haha I'm ok Sai as if minor injuries could keep me down!" I shouted while giving him a thumbs up.
"You are always so extraordinarily loud, it's a wonder you haven't been killed yet." He said as though he was talking about the god damn weather. Stupid jerk was begging to die wasn't he?
"You jerk wad!" I shouted while aiming a punch at him which he easily avoided. I threw another but he caught both my wrists and held them tight making it so I couldn't escape.
"Naruto you have gotten rather large have you not?" Sai asked and I felt my face flush and I struggled twice as hard to get out of his hold.
"Shut up you stupid bastard! I'm not getting fat I just gained some weight is all!" I said while focusing on getting away. I mean it wasn't like it was easy to conceal a big ass stomach from everyone and don't think that I wasn't trying! However I found that I didn't like where this conversation was heading.
"You're right it's not like you got fat but something else. It happened so quickly that there is no way it could be weight gain right? Not to mention it seems that the only place you gained weight is…"
"SHUT UP!" I shouted while glaring at him. Just when the hell did Sai become so perceptive. I finally managed to get out of his grasp. Panting I stared up at Sai my gaze not wavering.
"I already told you Sai I just gained a little weight, nothing serious. So leave it alone." I said curtly and turned around walking away.
He didn't chase after me demanding I answer him thank god. The last thing I needed was another person bothering me to get more information about what was going on. Like Sakura wasn't bad enough. Throughout the past two weeks since the whole baby holding incident Sakura had been avoiding me like the plaque and watching me at the same time. She had obviously convinced herself she was crazy but she felt something was going on. Every time I so much as saw a glimpse of pink the next second it would vanish.
I didn't dwell on it because honestly I did have bigger things to worry about than the stupid love triangle between team seven.
"Hn. Troublesome." Mumbled a gruff voice from behind me. A big smile light up my face as I turned to the laziest person in Konoha.
"Shikamaru you lazy ass! What the hell have you been up to?" I said while slinging my arm around his neck. Shikamaru sighed as if I was wasting his energy by making him answer.
"Hokage - sama sent me to retrieve you. She said it was important business or something annoying like that.
"Ah that stupid Baa-chan always bugging me…" grumbled as I crossed my arms and headed toward the Hokage tower. When I noticed that Shikamaru wasn't following I turned around and tilted my head to the side.
"What's wrong? Too lazy to walk?" Shikamaru looked at me before sighing again.
"Troublesome." Then he shoved his hands in his pockets and began to catch up with me.
We finally made it to the Hokage tower and of course I barged into the room without warning.
"Whats up old lady?" I asked while crossing my arms on top of my stomach. Nice part about being fat is that now I had a nice arm rest.
Tsunade glared at me and then turned to Shikamaru.
"You may go now." She said softly and Shikamaru left without another word. Confused with the cold treatment I turned to face Tsunade again.
"What was that all about?" I mumbled while pointing my thumb to towards the door.
"Sit." She commanded while she sat down herself. I was about to tell her I wasn't a god damn dog but she cut me off.
"You have to go into hiding." She said completely serious. I was floored for a moment trying to understand what her words meant. It was like my brain could not comprehend the meaning of it.
"Wha- hiding? Why do I have to go into hiding?" I asked all my frustration seeping through. Tsunade sighed and placed her chin on top of her knuckles.
"I am getting too many questions and am having hard a time producing answers. Sakura especially is getting hard to evade. I don't know what you said to make her so suspicious but she continuously is asking me questions about you and your health. There is nothing else I can do and this has to be kept under lock and key. Not to mention it seems everyone has begun to notice how huge you have become." She said as she gestured to my stomach which made me feel oddly exposed. Like I was standing naked in front of her or something. Fighting the feeling of needing to cover up I put on the best anger face I could make.
"But there is still so much I want to do! I need to make his room, and buy his cloths and food a-and …"
"Naruto." She cut off sternly.
"I will buy-" She began but I quickly interuped.
"No! You can't I have to I-" I was the one who was going to give birth to him. It was my responsibility. These were the same reasons I refused to borrow any money from her. I was still a man and I couldn't borrow money to raise my own kid, my pride refuse to let me. I had enough saved up by now to get us started. But I wanted to have those experiences. The first baby cloths, the first crib, the stroller, the rocker, everything. Maybe it sounded womanly or maybe just really pathetic but I didn't care! I wanted to get the full parent experience and having someone else do something like that for me would completely ruin it.
Tsunade seemed to study me for a long time before she finally answered.
"Naruto…" She was annoyed that I was acting so ridiculous but come on! It was a big deal right? I was going to begin to argue again when Tsunade raised her hand as a signal for me to stop talking.
"Alright Naruto I will let you go shopping however, I want it done in secrecy. You may disguise as whoever you want but do not go as yourself. I don't need you to be taking any more chances alright?" I smiled and nodded my head in agreement.
"Good. Now let's get you ready to leave. Shizune!" Granny called. Shizune soon made her appearance.
"Yes Lady Tsunade?"
"Take Naruto back home and pack his stuff. Then take him there." Shizune nodded and we turned to leave. Hmm…alright what was I going to have to pack? I guess I would have to cancel my plans with Kiba. Then something that should have hit me earlier made me stop in the middle of the door way.
"What about the wedding?" I called back to Tsunade. By the surprise look on her face she clearly had forgotten about the wedding as well. Or at least I thought she had, maybe she was hoping I had forgotten about it. Psh as if! I mean how could I not know that the wedding was in two months I was in the fucking wedding!
"I was going to tell them that I had sent you on a training mission." She stated. I thought about it for a moment. Maybe someone up there was finally giving me a break from my messed up life? But still…
"I'll tell them." When Tsunade only looked at me I sighed and began to explain.
"The bastard would be pissed if I wasn't the one who told him about it. Plus only a coward would make an old lady tell someone that they couldn't be in their wedding anymore." I said with a big grin on my face. When I peeked my eye open I could see Tsunade's fist clenched.
"You ignorant Brat!" She shouted while I ran out of the room.
"Naruto don't run! Think about the baby!" Shizune shouted after me.
I was at Sakura's front door wondering what the bastard would do when I told him I couldn't attend the wedding. I was pretty sure he wouldn't care but that just made me feel so…replaceable. However I blamed the hormones for making feel so vulnerable. After staring at the front door for a minute I gathered myself and knocked. When the bastard finally answered I smiled.
"Hey teme wanna let me in? I need to talk to ya." I asked walking past him while I started to take off my shoes at the front door. He snorted and shut the door behind me. When we finally got settled on the couch I realized that I didn't know where to start but the bastard decided to give me a hand.
"You get fatter every time I see you." He stated. Well it wasn't exactly the smoothest or nicest greeting but hey he is a bastard after all. I huffed and crossed my arms, my plan being put into action.
"Pah you and Tsunade both! Man she called me to her office this morning and told me I had go on some training thing! Its complete bullshit." I looked slyly up at the bastard to see if he had cotton on to the idea but it didn't seem to affect him. When I realized that I was going to have to explain it I heaved a sigh.
"Which brings me to my visit." I drawled out while Sasuke looked me in the eyes.
"Hn." I wanted to smack for such a lame way of asking me to explain but I managed to refrain.
"So Tsunade is making me go on a training mission to get back into shape…" When he continued to stare at me like I was an idiot I scowled.
"For at least three months…" Still nothing! How did anyone consider him a genius? I mean what idiot doesn't remember that their wedding was in two months!
"I can make it to the wedding!" I shouted getting impatient with him. For a minute Sasuke stared at me and then his face took on a thunderous expression.
"What do you mean you can't make it?" He said way too calmly to not be considered deathly. I found myself trying to put space between us attempting not to show the panic on my face.
"Well I mean…It's not like I have a fucking choice asshole!" I shouted feeling more defensive than I wanted to. But the look he gave clearly stated he was upset, which I thought was stupid.
"You're my best man you have to be there." He stated. My face flushed and I felt my eyebrow twitch.
"Bastard it's not like I have to the best man. You can easily find another." Funny how I said the one thing I didn't want him to say. His glare intensified at my words and I then I was flying across the room. I almost couldn't catch myself because of the extra weigh I was carrying. But because of my ridiculously awsome skills of ninjaism I managed.
"You stupid bastard what the hell was that for? I could have gotten really hurt." I screamed as I realized all the potential dangers that he could have put my child in.
"Hn." He grunted and the urge to attack his stupid looking face increased.
"You stupid bastard! What the fuck do you want from me?" I snarled enraged by the cold treatment he was giving me.
"Dobe." He growled out slowly while his armor of steel began to crack under my yelling. I didn't care though, it's not like the bastard or me ever held back when it came to each other.
"What you stupid teme?" I egged him on waiting for him to snap completely. I was surprised when instead of a fist to my face I was greeted with a finger pointing to the front door.
"Leave." He said not meeting my eyes. I felt my face flush and my emotions go haywire at the rejection and command I was given.
"You fucking coward! What now that things aren't going as you wanted them to be you're just going to leave, runaway just like you did last time! Why don't you come and talk to me like a god damn man instead of a fucking…pussy that you're being!" What happened to all of that self-control I had been practicing on? Why was it that Sasuke could always make me lose my cool? I huffed from the sheer power of the emotions that coursed through my veins, causing me to shake in the adrenalin rush I had felt from before. I finally looked back into Sasuke's eyes only to see a cold stare return my gaze.
"Leave. You are no longer apart of this wedding." He said with no emotion, none to show that he was shaking at the knees or quivering in his anger like me. Then he turned and casually walked out of the room and into the bedroom like nothing had happened and shut the door between us and everything we had ever shared.
That night I lost my best friend, my team mate, and so much more. I was no longer welcomed by either Sakura or Sasuke and the thought killed me. I apologized to an empty room to everyone involved in this sticky messed up triangle and I felt for the first time like I didn't know where to go from here. What did I have left now that everything was gone? Sasuke, Sakura, my dreams…everything. The tears were rolling down my face and I felt so alone and unwanted. Sure as a child I was always alone and hated but…being hated by the most important people in your life was a whole new world of pain making me feel so vulnerable. But I was Naruto Uzumaki and I was a strong man who didn't give in to loneliness. I had my child who I would love with everything I had and would make sure he was brought up to a young man he wanted to become. Believe it!
The next day I went into the flower shop and found Ino trimming some roses. When she felt my presence she turned around and smiled up at me.
"Hey what's up?" She asked while she returned to her work. I laughed and scratched the back of my head while nervously rubbing the wrapped box with my fingers.
"Ah nothing really… I was just hoping you could do me a favor…" I asked softly which got her full attention.
"What?" She said as she rubbed her hands on her pants. I pulled from behind my back the box that I had been rubbing before. Ino cut me off scooting closer to my face.
"Naruto what happened to your face? You like shit." She said and I laughed.
"I'm fine but listen I can't make it to the wedding… Can you give this to them?" I asked while slightly pushing the box into her hands until she had a firm grasp on it. Confused she looked up at me.
"What do you mean you can't make it? Sasuke's going t-"
"Don't worry he uninvited me to the wedding so I don't think that will be a problem." I said with a smile that actually hurt to wear. Before she could say anything more on the subject I turned around leaving.
"It's all good, you know how moody the bastard gets. I'm sure in no time at all, when I come back from the training Tsunade's making me do, it'll be like nothing even happened. So no worries all right! I'll see you later and make sure you give that to them!" I shouted as I walked out of the shop and towards my house. When I got inside my apartment I looked around one last time to see if I would need anything else before I walked out and locked the door. As I left the village that day I knew it would be completely different when I came back again just as I would be different too. Which it was, just not the way I planned, but when has my life ever been predictable?
NOT THE END! I was afraid people would find out where I lived and shoot me down thinking this was the end...Heehee :) Anyway this chapter is up and now I have 10 count em 10 chapters up! WWWWHHHHOOOOOOAAAAAAA! lol I really hope you guys like this chapter and if not well I know you guys will LOVE the next one... Though I'm not telling whats going to happen I know that you guys will be excited! SO the next chapter is going to be dedicated to my amazing reviewers! Oh and here's something that made me die on the floor laughing! One of my reviewers ADeadBlackRose said that there was a song by Hilary Duff called where did I go right. SO of course I listened to it and no shit it follows creepily to my story! Well I think it did anyway... Anyway please review! You have no idea how much it inspires me to write when you guys tell me what you think about my chapters, which is why I love all my reviewers! Oh and if you haven't noticed yet my oneshot is posted...in case you cared. I'm talking alot I realize but I have only gotten five hours of sleep in the past week so I'm kinda going crazy! I stayed up just to post this to you guys! LOVE! lol Again REVIEW!