Thanks for the reviews. And for the next chapter - this will be moved to Itachi and Naruto main characters page. This is due to Itachi showing up more than Sasuke as well as a relationship being shown between them. This may yet finish with SasuNaru, instead of ItaNaru. However, I think the majority of readers are hoping on the latter as of date…But feel free to correct me; if I'm wrong of course.

IMPORTANT: Will be moved to 'Itachi' 'Naruto' as main characters next chapter.

WARNING: Beware of squirrels…I mean, be fearful Sasuke lovers; this is apparently not a good chapter for him. And I don't mean that his hair isn't perfect gasp as if it ever couldn't be! (can you feel the sarcasm?) Seriously though. My friend loves Sasuke and I got hit after this chapter. She even went so far as to say that in my story she dislikes Sasuke…which I find hard to believe. mutters Damn fan girl. Personally, I didn't think it was that bad…

RickaZcurser - Sorry, I was gonna use weeks or something; or maybe even put it in the correct timeline; but then I realised that I couldn't make it flow as well. Basically, it's just the events that passed in the time gone by. I am a proud Hyuugacest supporter - even though over here in England it isn't classed as incest. So, if you think that Itachi's winning (though Sasuke being a bastard helps your reasoning)…who do you WANT to win?…Just curious.

aylan - Can you really remember that? From when you ere three? You must have been really strong willed and minded. I suppressed mine and remembered it through alcohol and totally freaked out. I don't even remember freaking out; just feeling absolutely terrified. At first I thought it could've been a sick dream, but then the little things started to make sense and parts of it came back: like how I sent my brother away, something shoved in my mouth and running to a display caravan and locking myself in it. I can't even remember how old I was. As for characters; people can act shallow, but generally they have a story and I find it pointless to add a character to simply be there and not give them a past or actual definition to their personality. Oh, and believe me, I'd never rip off another story because I have too much respect for the authors to do so.

Hakuluver104 - Nope, I did not. Sakura's is a girl but Naruto hasn't told anyone yet, though he does know. You will find out before their birth - but I'll tell you that there is at least one girl and one boy.

magikphoenix - Don't worry - the cliff hanger resolved here! Hmmm well it is one of them…But yay! It's nice when people aren't mad at you - and that it was resolved so easily…I feel special…

Sugar Crazed Duckie - Kakashi? It was Shino who talked to Naru-chan about that, I'm positive. I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter though. I thought people wouldn't really like it because it was more descriptive than progressing the story or situation with Sasuke. So thanks.

SoSickOfNyQuil - Yay! I actually like SasuNaru. But the reason is predominantly based off of Naruto's obvious like for him. I wrote this when I was pissed at Sasuke, but it's great to know you won't mind which side of the fence, so to speak, that I'll take this. evil grin As for Sasuke; I personally want him to break…hard and without mercy…so that he is so self loathing he could die. Kukuku...If you haven't guessed, I have experience in betrayal.

fourthiv - Yeah, I would love to see the bastards face, too. And I hope it gets even better for you, also.

deadly-grace - Yeah it's a good thing for the baby and Naruto; but you know the bastard will find another way to screw things up…Like in this chapter…HATE him, I do…I'm not a fan of Sakura, but she's grown mentally, so I don't want her to get hurt either; but the fact remains that with Sasuke around, someone's gonna get burned. I'm lazy too, but I try to update between course work; and as for cheering up. I have been described as 'emo'. The fact is that I do have a negative view on the world - but it's the world that put it there and it occasionally affects me. I completely love your chorus and, as I, too, enjoy a somewhat happy ending; it may not be sunshine and roses, but it won't cause emo's to cut themselves.

Akirakun17 - Naruto's about three and a half months pregnant now. That 'book' could be classed as a late gift for Naruto's birthday, soon after Naruto got pregnant - didn't take many tries, ne? So that was early November. Sakura was pregnant in late November. At Christmas he was already in a new team and now its mid February. As for Kakashi; the symptoms Shino describes, like body changing and mood swings are true with pregnancy, but the fox wanting to eat Sasuke represents the rage toward him and 'Itachi' means weasel.

madd envy freak - Aghhhh, don't do that, I'll be down one reviewer. ;-p Maybe you should get some ice for that. And thanks for the enthusiasm! Here have virtual cookies to feel better…

Hiei Girl 003 - I'll try, lets hope for no off days!

Stalker-san - I wish it was. Believe me when I say I wish it was…

kai-luver-666 - I think my ego just improved 10 points. I'll keep this in mind while writing.

NARUTO

The noise of his front door closing over the spray of water and his natural instincts of not being alone alerted Naruto to the extra presence. It didn't feel threatening, but the twist in his stomach put up doubt that it was Iruka or Kakashi. Kakashi never used the door anyway and Iruka always yelled at some point.

He had a choice. Go and confront the person or wait until they found him. The only way out from the bathroom was one door. One way that they could enter but escape was severely reduced. Damn it - what kind of ninja didn't have an escape route? Capture is greater in the open with the factor of surprise, yet greater still when there's no chance to run and his current weakened state being of no help. Choice made, he tied the towel as tight as he deemed safe around his small bump and grabbed a kunai.

He only got two steps from the room before his face met the wall.

"You've been avoiding me." Seethed the Uchiha. "You think you can just slip away? You belong to me, Naruto." He sucked on the back of the blond's neck, pushing against him and showing him his arousal. "I have needs and I know you do, too."

"Then." Naruto struggled, only earning a slight grunt from the man behind him. "Then go back to your wife."

Naruto twisted his arm behind him, slashing blindly with the kunai. Sasuke easily caught his wrist and twisted the blond around to face his smirk; kunai clinking as it hit the ground.

"Now, now, Naru-chan. No need for violence. And she isn't my wife."

"She will be! And I won't do that to her. Sakura-chan's a g-"

"Shut up, Naruto. It's always about her. She's nothing." He growled. If Naruto was taken aback by the almost-jealous statement, he didn't show it, although some of the fight left his voice. Physically drained from no chakra, he was not only unable to fight back, but he was definitely in no mood to.

"Go home, Sasuke. I don't sleep with married men."

"I'm not married, yet, am I?" He smirked, bucking against the younger teen.

Naruto bit back any noise his voice could betray him for. There was still something about Sasuke; some deep feeling lingering within him. He just couldn't flick it off, no matter how hard he tried or how much he wanted it gone. Maybe it was because, really, he didn't want it to be. The deepest connection he'd ever had was before him now, and that was one thing he could easily react to. But he hated him as much as he loved him: perhaps more so. Three chances: Sasuke had left him three times.

He wasn't coming back.

He wasn't coming back, but he wanted Naruto. No. He wasn't enough. An heir…the clan…Itachi…love…love…Sasuke didn't love him.

"No. Sasuke, stop." He weakly pushed against him.

"Naruto, Sakura's nothing. It's you I think of when I'm with her." Was it him , or did Sasuke's voice sound softer? "I need a kid. Just one." 'You have seven!' He wanted to scream. So badly he wanted to. "I have to stop from moaning your name when I come." But she is already pregnant. Why did he still sleep with her? Why…? "You can feel it, cant you? My need for you?" Why marriage? Sasuke ground harder.

Naruto gasped. He almost believed him. Almost. It was so easy to believe him. Sasuke had been the only one to see him for just him, just Naruto. He'd never hated simply because he'd been taught to. He'd never looked upon him with those eyes. He'd seen him as an equal; even if he would now so vehemently deny it. So why was he thinking of Itachi now? When he was so vulnerable and needy to believe, why was it Itachi he heard? Itachi telling him so plainly that they were all lies…?

"No." Sasuke ignored him. "NO." Sasuke denied him. "No!" Sasuke lied to him. "NO!" Sasuke betrayed him, played him - all of him. He took pleasure in it. Not because of a seal. Not because of his brother. "Get away from me!" The first person he'd trusted so completely. "Don't touch me!" Yet knowing, deep down -where the remnants of his love for Sasuke now lay - beforehand, that he never should have. He wasn't meant to be loved. He couldn't be loved. The proof was here, in this dark eyed beau that knows his soul the most. "I never want to see you again!" He shoved hard.

A scowl. "You're mine, Dobe.. Get used to it. I can do whatever I want."

"So, what? You gonna rape me now? It's nothing new, Bastard, so don't act like it's anything special."

"It's not rape if you enjoy it though, is it, Usuratonkachi?"

"Enjoy it? Don't make me laugh. I'd rather have Itachi inside me!" He yelled and immediately regretted it.

A shooting pain flew in his cheek, as he was back-handed with a force to the floor. "If you say anything like that again, I'll kill you. You don't seem to grasp the concept that you. Are. Mine." And there was a sincerity amongst the anger and hatred shadowing the face above him.

"You declared me as yours, Bastard. You also declared you as mine. When you voided yours, mine went with it. If anything, I belong to him. My life in his hands-"

"Right now, your life is in my hands." He grinned, devil-like, placing the earlier discarded kunai at Naruto's throat and leaning dangerously over him.

Naruto didn't understand himself. When he was regretting some of the things he said, when he knew he should keep quiet, he continued further. "I am Itachi's." Especially how some words weren't actually true; how he didn't even believe the words, or even acknowledge them as his view. His promise to follow was not a declaration of ownership. Was he destined to forever be seen as someone's possession?

"Do you want me to show you just how you are mine, Naruto?" Sasuke sadistically stated.

"If you fuck me, I'll scream his name."

The blow to his head with the back of the kunai hurt, there was no denying it. Still he pushed at Sasuke; against the hands that roamed his body; protesting to the molesting fingers. He hated being so weak - to be that dominated and detested boy of his past. Now at a point in his life where respect, recognition and the ability to protect those he wanted was achieved, if only by some, he allowed himself to become nothing all over again.

Somehow, he found himself wanting Itachi there. The elder Uchiha needed him alive. He couldn't extract the Kyuubi without a breathing body, a beating heart. But, for some reason, he felt Itachi would want him alive - or at least, the babies. Why else would he allow their birth? Could he not extract the Kyuubi in these conditions?

And Sasuke…Sasuke would want these babies alive, also. That would secure Naruto's life - merely for the future he carries. If he was less of a person, he could find himself resenting the life he was creating. Jealousy, was sure, a terrible thing. But still, it was them he was protecting. An existence is nothing without love. He'd told himself such before in the few moments of weakness, in which the kunai had been directed toward his own flesh. On the other hand, who was he to deny life?

His towel was off, but so was Sasuke. Before his chakra was developed and accessed he'd been fighting. He wasn't direct and fist-heavy for no reason in battle. Taijutsu was a style for all classes of people. Simple or complicated, it was human nature to fight back, and fight he forever did. So as Sasuke once again pounced on him with ease and a strength backed by chakra, he lashed out. Two punches, four kicks, a bite and nine scratches. Wild animals shouldn't be chained, after all.

He contemplated it. In fact, he wanted to should and cry; pound the Bastard for leaving him; yell to him that he was pregnant with their kits. It wasn't for them though - not for the babies. He knew in his heart that they wouldn't die this night - that he wouldn't die. Rings of 'Where would the fun be in that' echoed in his mind. The memories of worthlessness, asking if they would kill him. It always ended the same…their backs. He could practically feel their amusement as they faced away, fixing their trousers and walking away into the night as if nothing had even happened.

It was Sasuke's eyes now that bought tears to his own. They were supposed to show care and love, not the lust driven haze containing anger, frustration and, somehow, joy. A joy of sickening humour. If anything stopped him from speaking of the pregnancy, it was this display across Sasuke's irises. Naruto was not selfish and he cared about others - sometimes, too much. His mouth remained closed to the truth of the life within him. He couldn't sacrifice the possible happiness of his children with the teachers he trusted most, for a useless fantasy.

Uchiha Sasuke would not feel guilt. If Naruto shouted of the seven miracles - as their creation could be seen as nothing else - growing steadily inside him, the raven he so desired, would not change. No matter what he did, this teen would not stay beside him, before him or behind him. He would leave, like so many others - like he had before. There would be no apology or love confession and the dream that those arms would be, once again, protectively around him, shattered. It didn't matter how desperate he was for that feeling again.

"Are you happy now?" He whispered not showing his surprise that Sasuke had actually stilled momentarily. The tear-induced-quiver only added to his resignation.

"That you're finally going to let me fuck you senseless?" Sasuke's voice had taken on a lighter and almost happily content tone. Naruto hated how his voice could betray his actions; his eyes so often closed from reading. "Of course." The caring change shook Naruto, more. It was as if nothing had happened to distance them previously. Like it was all a demented nightmare bought on by his subconscious. "You should know by now that I love you, Dobe."

But he didn't.

Itachi had said so - the one who really knew Sasuke the most. Nothing he had described love as being was here, now. Naruto didn't feel safe, he didn't feel loved. If Sasuke loved him, he would leave him alone, right? He wouldn't torture him with these sinful kisses and shows of what he can never have…He wouldn't have chosen Sakura in the first place, only giving a promise that he would, again, in the end. Another's happiness before your own; wasn't that what Itachi meant?

"No…You don't." Naruto mumbled.

His head was suddenly slammed against the ground. "Yes, I do, you idiot."

Tears finally trailed rapidly down his face, his throat constricted against the begging-to-be-free sobs. "Are you happy that you succeeded?"

Sasuke growled. "Succeeded in what, idiot?"

"In making me… know what it's like…to lose them?" To lose you.

Sasuke frowned. "What are you-"

"I've never had them, right, Sasuke? So I don't know what it feels like…" He smiled pathetically in a pained way. "To lose them."

Sasuke's face and body froze, tensing up at his old, rage-filled words, spouted so sorrowfully from Naruto's mouth. Naruto felt him. Those words yelled so clearly at the blond, so many years ago, at the waterfall Sasuke now refuses to name. And here they referenced him. Clarification wasn't needed to know such a term. But Naruto hadn't lost him, as he should know whilst looking up at him, that Sasuke was still alive.

"Dobe." The raven almost sounded regretful. A hand reached up to the side of a scarred cheek. "I'm here, okay? Sakura's a mission. I'll always come back to you. You're all I want - you have to know that…You just have to wait."

"…I'm…" Naruto started. He was so close to believing it once more. So close. When Sasuke acted like he was the only one in the world. It was so easy to give in and see what he'd been before. And can be again. Was his hope's response. But this was limited, because he didn't know - he thought differently. When the sun rose, nothing at times like these seemed to matter to the Uchiha. He chocked out a weak, heart wrenching laugh. "Don't worry, Sasuke…I'm used to it…"

This time, there was definitely no declaration of how he shouldn't be. And now, Naruto found that each time the other didn't say this line, it hurt more than the last. Being unable to fight anyway, in his current circumstance, and the potential to damage those he gave up his own life to protect if he did; he let the youngest Uchiha dominate his body once again. Despite the bordering gentle caresses and careful way he was handled, the sex just didn't posses him in the same bliss it once had, even though Sasuke's passion raged strong. He uttered no name between the inevitable moans, nor opened his eyes once through the entire experience.

To him, each thrust Sasuke delivered felt like a goodbye. Each lick across burning skin he imagined as an apology. And each feather kiss tracing his body whispered of betrayal and guilt. He knew in the morning that Sasuke would be gone, despite the mumbled words of such sweet torture ghosting to his ears now. He could predict avoidance and denial edged in every glare he would see, so polar opposite of the fervent and needy connection of tongues, lips and saliva.

Amongst all Naruto knew tomorrow would bring, there was no doubt in his mind that Sasuke would return. For his property. For his right. A dirty hidden secret that Naruto refused to be. Sasuke's tongue darted into Naruto's mouth as he rode out his orgasm into lifted hips; continuing to pump in and out, despite his softening state until Naruto did, too. Sasuke always made sure he came, Naruto mused, despite himself, as the older teen collapsed beside him in the position he was so fond of.

So, spooning against a raven prodigy, the blond loser stared blankly at the wall. In the arms of a bastard, the dead last silently thought his plan. The betrayer would leave tomorrow morning, as would the betrayed. Because this embrace wasn't of warm fuzziness or safety. It lacked such affection - emptiness remained. Because, tomorrow, when Uchiha Sasuke's lies stopped, the monster's game would end. The demon was leaving: Uzumaki Naruto was getting a new apartment.

NARUTO

Ha ha, I bet you lot thought I was having him leave Konoha didn't you? Admit it now! Lol. Seriously though, did any of you consider that rape? Because my friend did, and well, I'm not sure anymore. I have a feeling that some won't like me now. Hmmmm…Killer intent…Damn it, is Dani reading this again?!

DON'T FORGET: Main character change 'Sasuke' to 'Itachi'. (But Sasuke's not out yet!)