Thanks for the reviews, faves and alerts. Specially 'cause of the flame I got. TnT
noone cares enough - Hehe, well as much as I can express it, ne? Not even I'm sure what the teme was thinking and I wrote his death-worthy fuckery-ness.
ddd - I assume that's kinda good? ;-p rubs back of head
Tseu Tsumi - Hey, I didn't know you were related to that alien on Men in Black! The regeneration looks painful. Lets say that you got one of those absolutely right. I'm glad that went down well actually, 'cause I added Ino in at the last minute, making a slight detour into this chapter…also newly written.
DesperateLoveKoi - Sorry!! I was gonna make it longer, but I hope this one make up for it. I was originally gonna add two scenes in the same chapter, but I couldn't help writing Ino's part in. I always knew that one was a yaoi fan. I commend your ideal reaction. Heck, I can actually imagine you hiding in a pile of clothes with the camera clicking away, maniacal laughter and a subtle-less banner poking from you…okay…I definitely have to draw that…aghhhh! I have pocky and I'm not allowed it! cries
DarkRavie - If I had a nosebleed like that over some hot action, I wouldn't be able to wait to tell someone. ;-p And even if this weren't my story, I'm sure that Sasuke would act like a prick. Hehe.
Shu Puff - Rubs head nervously I hope not, I've already got a stalker...and I don't mean on the net. ;-p Lol. Seriously, though. I'm glad you like the story. I start to think of stories endings myself. Sometimes I even drift off into my own world of playing it out in my head. As you can tell, I am greatly accustomed to weirdness and the very concept of it comforts me, so don't apologise! I'm trying to make the story to the extremes of regular life. In other words, bad shit always comes with the good, damn it.
Akirakun17 - I understand what you mean; when the end comes, you think that you missed a chapter or something. Either way, don't be hesitant about yelling at me if you think I missed something out. I have a memory like a washing machine. Some things get stuck at the back or fade completely, though the shadow of knowledge will always be there. I think you figure right about our closet yaoi fan, Ino. I'm just thankful that the wedding is so close. Sasuke might just find our Naru-chan if confrontation weren't so near. As for the truth…I'm sure Itachi has a little something under his sleeve…A kunai?…Huh, what?…Itachi, don't kill him! Hmm, now I have a crack pic in my head. Anywho, I'm glad you were still functional. ;-p Ja.
DOKIDOKIpanic - I refuse to pity Naruto! Pity is too much of an ugly word; like a disgusted shame; as if nothing can be done for him. Sorry if it sounds as if I'm being nasty to you, as it's not my intention, but I only pity people I dislike. I can sympathise with Naru-chan, but never take him for a lost, worthless cause. Gomen for my negligent rant…I really hate 'pity' though. Please, forgive me. There will be some good for our blond between the InoSaku…talk.
black suede - Hehe, I'm glad. It's nice to feel needed…wanted, even. I hope you like this, also.
RuByMoOn17 - So do I. Two of my favourite characters. The third is Gaara, but he's mine. Lol. ;-p
TenshiUmi Hana - They do say that there's a thin line between love and hate. Wide grin I could easily use the love one for this review though. I assume the juicy parts mean yaoi, so okay. We all need our daily dose, ne. ;-p
FuriousDeragonmaji - Lol. She had to grow up in someway, ne. And besides, she's probably still on a high from the ItaNaru scene. ;-p
Vixyfox - Hehe. I never thought it'd be so popular. And yes, try the combinations. Someone has to enjoy what I can't anymore. TnT
lazeee an demented - Hey, I do that all the time. joins in arm waving Ino's little secret is revealed here, and she knows so much. I think it's the delving she did to find why her 'sexiness' wasn't working. It made her perceptive! O.o And I'm still jobless. TnT
LovelessFan123 - Hehe, okay!
kameotoluvsgaara - People change after three years…to a degree. Her obsession with Sasuke and flirting with Neji gone askew, she delved into the love 'psyche' and came out a genius! Either that or found love and can now recognise the signs. But does Naruto now understand love and can HE recognise the signs? There is after all, a difference between loving and being 'in love'…
ScarletOfTheBlue - I like the commentary. But yes...fun…will begin. smirks evilly All different types of…fun. Especially seeing as you forgot one thing; Itachi's also more sadistic. Heh.
Fox Loves Shinigami - Thank you. I finished writing this out on paper last night. So I do what I can.
the Crimson Eagle - I love evilness, so I can't fear it. This story does derive from my trust in evil rather than a friendly face, you know. Liked your review there btw. I will reply! I'm glad my drawings weren't too bad. ;-p The wedding will be ugly, but Itachi will give a little surprise there. After all, it all can't and so soon, ne. I've decided you are like an evil child with the wuv talk…kawaii.
Dragongirl Jun - Although you are never going to read this, miss, I will say one thing. If I have more reviews, and possibly hits, favourites and alerts than you do for my story, how can you give me advice? I had a look at your summaries and to be honest, I was not impressed by them. To judge someone based off of preconceptions or surface flaws is shallow and therefore, I refuse to be your target.
NARUTO
Standing before the door of her best friend's new residence, Ino felt her confidence waver. She wasn't naive enough to believe her relationship with the pink-haired medic would remain the same and that rattled her. Sakura had become and stayed her friend because Ino, herself, had willed it. Sakura had always tried to distance the bond between them in both subtle and confronting ways. Yet Ino always came back to help and save her in all ways she was able to. This time, she wasn't so sure the girl would allow her to continue.
With a defeated feeling already beginning to form within her, she brought her hand up and knocked on the heavy oak of the Uchiha building. Sasuke wouldn't have moved in the medic-nin, had it not been for the wedding and Ino felt that there would have been no wedding without a baby. Even without the knowledge she held, she wouldn't have been comfortable with their progression into marriage. The reasons and actions were too suspicious and she found it hard to trust Sasuke anymore, due to his justification of betrayal.
"Ino?" Sakura asked after a moment, staring at the heavily thinking girl.
"Oh, hey Sakura." The blonde distractedly greeted her friend, too busy worrying over how to start the topic she wanted, to be fully aware of the other girl.
"Are you okay? Do you need something?"
"Sakura, there's…something I, we, need to talk about."
"Oh? Is it Sasuke-kun? Is he okay? Tell me he's okay, Ino!"
"Tch. Everything's about him!"
"What do you mean? Of course it is; he's my husband." Sakura glared. "My husband, on a dangerous mission."
"Not yet forehead-"
"You're jealous. That's it, isn't it? You can't stand the fact that he chose me-"
"I slept with him." Ino glared back, regret shining in her eyes as Sakura bristled.
"W-What? You…You're lying, Sasuke-kun would never do-" She vehemently denied.
"It was before you told me you were getting married, but…I just couldn't not tell you anymore. The thing is, Sakura, y-you were, well you were with him at the time, I think…I didn't know though; I promise I didn't know." The blonde girl's eyes were screwed together, tears spilling from the clenched lines the effort caused and her body showing defensive signs, as if to block the yelling and hatred she was waiting for.
"It doesn't matter." The hatred that never came with the calm and decisive words Sakura used. Ino's eyes shot open in shock and she forced her gaze to raise to the woman standing regally in the doorway. "He's chosen me now; it doesn't matter."
Silence passed as Ino stared on in wonder. "…I…"
"Did you tell Naruto? Is that why he left us; because he couldn't stand looking at us anymore? At me? Knowing?" Sakura chocked out.
"Naruto? I didn't tell him anything! I haven't told anyone before now…What happened to him anyway? Today, he seemed so broken. Naruto's never supposed to look like that." With her plaguing thoughts on the boy and her strife to find a different focus, Ino inadvertently put fourth an uncaring appearance on her company's situation.
"Come in, Ino. I…need someone to talk to." Sakura retreated, distant and incomplete in her own way, leaving the door open for more than just one blonde, but only expecting the female present to follow. And with apprehensive anxiousness, Ino did.
Sakura was sitting as a tiny figure, drowned in the intense, dark and depressing atmosphere of the Uchiha home. The chosen deep colours and heavily draped windows seemed to repel the light; and with it, Sakura's seemed to be dimming. There was a constant lurking of foreboding energy in the home that Ino knew was present before Sakura had even been eligible for the role of mother to the new generation of Uchiha. The strong woman that Sakura was, was not shown in the image before the blonde's eyes. Only a frail and insecure female remained by the effects of the environment. Why was Sakura letting herself be consumed?
"I don't know why Naruto left." She suddenly spoke in a voice so different to the picture Ino had gained of the pink-haired woman. "At first, I though he was crushed that I didn't choose him. Imagine my surprise when he said he was gay. There was a spite there, you know, under the surface. Was what he felt for me a lie? And when he said he'd gotten some girl pregnant, I was even more confused-"
"Pregnant? H-How is that even possible? He was all over this guy today, well more like the gut was all over him, but-"
"Ino!"
"Sorry."
"You know, he tried to tell me, Naruto did. He asked me right out that 'If Sasuke was having an affair, would I want to know?' He's been avoiding us, see. Sasuke's been fuming and demanding Kakashi to let us see Naruto; he's even tried following him so he can lead us to the idiot. Nothing works, Ino. Sasuke won't believe that Naruto's really ill, even though he never went to the Chunnin exam like Sasuke did. I mean, Naruto would never pass up the opportunity to fight and climb the ranks - it's his dream. With it being held in Sunagakure this time, Naruto should've jumped at the chance so he could see Gaara-sama, you know?" Sakura urged, looking toward Ino for approval.
"Y-Yeah, but I promise you Sakura, I never said-"
"I know Ino." Sakura looked away once again with a sad smile. "But even since he said that, I can't get it out of my mind. I saw him at Ichiraku Ramen when Sasuke was in Suna, at the exams. He's gained weight and seems unnaturally drained, but why? He said his lover turned out to be married, but if he'd never introduced us, or at least told Sasuke, why would it effect him so much? It couldn't have been serious." Sakura rambled and continued.
"So I see him and he says that nothing he does is my business; that his problem isn't my business. You and him…you're my best friends…and he turns around and tells me that. It…hurt; more than I thought it would. He told me I wouldn't want to know and then he asked me that…that dreaded question. It was like he was so sure that Sasuke would betray me. That look in his eyes stunned me so much that I've started believing it, Ino. It was a pain he was protecting me from; I know it. He said his problem was something as destroying as that…"
"But you still asked, right? You didn't just let him deal with whatever it is alone?" Ino asked, incredulous as guilt formed on the medic-nin's face and tears fell with a strangled sob, trying desperately to hide from the provoking hormones. "Oh, Sakura."
"I just turned away…What kind of friend am I? He actually used the word 'destroying' and I was so selfish as to think about myself. As he's sat there, telling me in his own way that he's suffering alone and in silence to protect us all, I let him. I told him that I'd rather live a lie with Sasuke-kun because in the end I've waited so long for him, I'm the one he'll come home to and I'm the one having his child. I said…that something that would ruin my selfish dreams, I'd ignore…I…rejected him in the worst way possible. I rejected acknowledging his pain…"
As Sakura broke down sobbing, Ino hurried to comfort her. She held the self-wrecked girl in her arms, unable to let the disgust at her words outshine the pain at seeing her friend upset. It was as if she had to choose between friends, which not only could she not do, but that Naruto wouldn't want her to do. She rocked the shaking girl, finally coming to a better understanding of the self-isolated despair Naruto could not keep from his face. More than ever, she wished she'd approached the still-Gennin that forcefully earned everyone's respect with his own struggles, only to gain more undeserved anguish.
"We've all been bad to Naruto, ne?" Ino's voice shook despite itself. "We've all done and said things he doesn't deserve and we should hate ourselves for liking his position as dead last, knowing that there was someone inferior to us. We've been the worst kind of people and as far as I'm concerned, we can never make up for what we did. But I saw him today, Sakura. I think that he's found someone that really loves him now and he deserves it, more than anyone, I guess. Maybe that Benito guy can heal him better than any of us can, in a way we can't even imagine." She tenderly pushed back hair from the bowed head that shot up in ferocity.
"You don't understand, Ino! He smiled so broken and said I wouldn't want to know, and I accepted it. He said his situation was exactly the same. Exactly, damn it. Just the thought of Sasuke…I just smiled like he said nothing and went on about my wedding. I made him promise to come and see my happiness, when he's like that. How am I any better than Itachi when I use the same tricks? I saw his need to get away from me and forced his word before he broke down in front of me!" She yelled.
Ino was shocked in her position of consoler. She'd never told Naruto of that night, so how would he know? Then again, she'd always suspected that on that night…it was Naruto that Sasuke was thinking of. She remembered that Naruto was on a mission, though she couldn't recollect when exactly; she never was good with dates. She had given her virginity to the youngest Uchiha, even though she didn't love him anymore, and not sure if she ever had, really. She just remembered her angst-like mood at finding out Shikamaru was officially dating Temari. She'd overlooked him for so long that she'd lost him before she'd tried.
So why not be with her first crush? It had been such an innocent and clouded decision, despite what the choice had inevitably involved. When it was all over and they were dressing whilst sitting on opposite sides of her double bed, she'd glanced over and saw his frown, as though concentrating on something important. She foresaw rejection and didn't care. Thinking of doing a decent thing for him, amongst their dirty chaos, she started.
"Don't worry. I was thinking of someone else, too."
He hadn't said anything; just narrowed his eyes after the initial shock that might have been because he thought she still lusted after him. He'd opened his mouth, as if to deny her observation or demand her to reveal her unrequited love, but she'd cut him off with a small smile and bold, haunting words.
"I think Naruto feels the same. He wouldn't have chased after Sakura, like he did you."
He'd scowled at the time and didn't say a word as he left. Then again, he'd never really talked to her. She'd always thought that Naruto could be the only one to get through to Sasuke…at least after she'd lost the blindness she'd had when her overly obsessive crush on the Uchiha remained. When he'd got together with Sakura, she saw his still-impassive approach to her, just as everyone else did. Ino couldn't understand that the only one of their graduating class that forever preached true love, was forcing herself into something that was so obviously transparent not to be.
The guilt of unknown origin pulsed at her…and suddenly her subconscious, paranoid conclusions rushed at her. So many pieces of an invisible puzzle fit together in a way that it she was shocked. She felt guilty because she felt responsible. If because she mentioned Naruto and they had had a secret relationship, she was responsible for his pain. If Sasuke was with Sakura for the clan, it was her fault for not getting pregnant. Was she the instigator for it all?
"Tch. She's not crying again?" Were Sasuke's greeting and sarcastic words. The love her pink-haired friend wanted, Ino couldn't find here.
"Sasuke-kun, welcome home!" Sakura looked up with a forced smile. "I suppose the hormones are getting to me, ne?"
"Whatever. What are you doing here, anyway, Yamanaka?"
"Talking to my friend. Why? Does it bother you, Uchiha?"
"Go out and talk." He dismissed.
"Oh? And here I thought you wanted news on Naruto. My bad." But it was also this bastards fault.
Sasuke turned with spinning Sharingan. "Why would I care? That Dobe promised me Itachi and then fled like a coward. That's my only interest."
"Shame. I'm sure that he'd love for you to meet his fiancé." She stated casually, bringing a bright relief from her friend, suddenly upon her with questions.
"Fiancé? You never told me that! Is he hot? It is a he right? Do I know him? When's the wedding? I'm so glad."
"Hey, hey, Forehead. I don't know all that." Ino backed up at her anxiousness.
"What do you mean fiancé?" The words were riddled with a venom promising painful death that had Sakura an a jealous defeat and Ino in a reacting hateful scowl.
"I mean what I say. They were out buying kimonos for your wedding today, Uchiha. You know, the one to Sakura?"
"That Usuratonkachi doesn't deserve to be happy and I won't let him be until my brother's life is taken by my hands. Naruto is mine and that bastard can't have him."
"The one with his tongue down Naruto's throat?"
Sasuke growled and threw an expensive looking vase, containing Sakura's pitiful attempt at brightening the dull room, with a deranged vigour, to smash against the far wall, making the two girls jump. Before Ino could yell, he'd gone with swirling leaves and once again, she was spoken to before she could voice her question of the violence frequency.
"Naruto asked what I'd do if Sasuke promised to always come home to someone else. This obsession with Naruto…is there something there Ino? Something I refuse to see? Tell me 'no'."
"Sakura, I…It's not too late, you don't have to marry S-"
"And deny my child her father? Deny my happiness? You're so selfish Ino, wanting Sas-"
"Are you even listening to yourself?! Or what we just-"
"Please. I'm tired. You can show yourself out." Sakura stood, only calling back a few words before she left the gaping Ino to her own departure. "I'm having his baby. He'll have to learn to love me."
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Sasuke appeared at the worn training grounds that he'd claimed upon his return; lost in the endless surrounding forest. At least, it was endless to those stupid enough to miss the semi-simplistic genjutsu he'd created for his own privacy. He growled at his own irrational and sudden anger involving the dense blond idiot he owned. The only reason for his frustration, he deduced, was because of the fact that his property had escaped. What right did that idiotic Dobe have to take back his word from him?
The young Uchiha attacked at the splintered training post at his side with violent disgust, imagining that repulsive, whiskered, tan face receiving the punishment it so justly deserved. To deny and anger him was worth the ultimate price and when he'd disposed of that despicable man he was forced to call his older brother, he'd enjoy bringing pain to that equally betraying pile of worthless, Genin-ranked, weak in every sense of the word, disease-containing ex-team mate of his.
He loathed the blond more than Itachi. At least that bastard took his love and destroyed his mind, but Naruto had planted his monstrous essence inside his plagued head and threw away the self-weakening affection he'd given, despite his own superior views of it only being a flaw in human design. And now he had the gall to talk of marriage to another! He had no right to such a thing from the very minute he had spread his slut legs for him. He knew he should have marked him as an Uchiha whore when he had the chance.
Damn his stupid fucking feelings. Damn his stupid fucking generosity. To think he actually cared for a slut like Naruto. That dumb blond had forced him to feel something and then walked away from his responsibility. Things would have gone so much more smoothly if that female Yamanaka had given in to him. It would be a lot easier to imagine her similar features as the blond he desired. Cutting her hair to that ridiculous, wacky hairstyle of Naruto's and pounding her ruthlessly from behind, until she screamed in ecstasy at his brutality, would give him such greater pleasure than now.
Sakura was traditional and unwavering in her stubbornness that he struggled to imagine the complete domination of the one he both wanted and loathed in such an intricate wind. Her being a fan girl, he'd counted on. When she'd give him a son, he could fuck Naruto all he wanted and the bitch wouldn't do anything in her blissful world of denial. He'd do him in front of her, too; just to show her how she failed as a lover. And he'd love her tears.
But that moronic Usuratonkachi had to ruin everything. How could he obtain sexual gratification without Naruto's screams and utterly submissive look urging him to completion? It was fortunate that Sakura got pregnant so quickly, even if he still used her body when Naruto's exasperating evasiveness became too much and sweet memories of orgasmic beauty milking his prolonged ejaculation overrode his mind with insatiable lust. Things would've carried on so smoothly if the fool hadn't been so clingy and alerted someone as dim-witted as Ino of their fucking habits. Such an intense tightness, too.
Even now, in the midst of Sasuke's persistent rein of blows on the breaking training posts with his fuelling anger, the dopey face of Naruto contorting in completely dominated lust bought the beginning of an uncomfortable erection forming in his pants. The way that sweating face glistened and his body undulated beneath him in absolute desperation. The best part above all, however, had to be that gasping mouth yelling his name so wantonly and moaning for him alone. It was the only reason he'd not yet forced himself in there. The Dobe should be quivering in fear for the detached torture he had sadistically planned for him, for even thinking of replacing his neglected love.
Oh, yes the Usuratonkachi would pay.
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Kakashi walked into his shared home with Umino Iruka after his return from his team's mission, bar Sakura of course, to see the said academy teacher was dozing heavily on the sofa. His cute face may have bought a content smile upon his own, had his mind not been plagued with other, more dark thoughts. Recently, Sasuke's aura had been radiating a greater malice and his persistence of Naruto had increased substantially.
The Uchiha had questioned Kakashi's motives and constantly made to leave their training sessions, which he strategically placed to allow Naruto peace of mind that his ex-team mates wouldn't catch him during his excursions. It took a lot to impact a positive view on Kakashi, which Naruto hadn't even tried, yet succeeded all to easily. For his mere presence, Kakashi owed a lot toward; but for Iruka, alone, he owed his life, as that's how much Iruka had become to him.
The silver-haired Jounin lived for his friends first and his village second, but still; had someone told him that he'd fall in love - with another man no less - he wouldn't have even contemplated the notion. Naruto had finished the job Obito had started, opening Kakashi up to accept a relationship he'd feared to think of in his youth. So with Naruto as is student, 'step-son' and semi-liberator, he'd become a little…protective, he'd say.
Therefore, as he saw the Uchiha advancing fast in his suppressed rage, he was wary. He knew there was something lurking in wait to cause pain, beneath that hostile and icy exterior, demanding information for a friendly purpose Kakashi promptly saw through. Hate was a strong emotion and was streaming from the unaware Sharingan user that demanded his compliance. As much as Naruto wanted to believe it, Kakashi couldn't have faith in the consistency of the curse seal's influence, deeming the Uchiha's judgement null.
Sasuke was becoming a threat…and threats needed to be eliminated.
NARUTO
So, if you read between the lines and match things up, Ino was after Naruto and just before Sakura. I assume Sasuke's intention was fertility with his little women friends and he's like a jealous obsessive. Hmm, maybe I should thank my stalker for the idea…though that might get me in deeper…
Just for my own peace of mind: does my summery totally suck? I'm a little apprehensive to ask, but when I read my flamer's summaries, I wasn't impressed, though they said mine sucked. I refuse to take advice from someone I don't respect so I'm asking you guys that care to read and reply what you think. Should I change it after all this time or leave it so that you can identify the story?
The other story is now up. It was intended as SasuNaru, so it's there for now at least. In case you want to read it, it's called 'Smile as I Fade Away'. Thanks.
TIMELINE
October - (Late) SasuNaru begins.
November - (Early) Pregnant, (Around 10th) Party, (Mid) Day mission, SasuIno (Late) Mission starts.
December - (Early) Mission ends, Sakura Pregnant, (Week later) SasuSaku marriage told, Naruto moves teams, (Late) Failed visits, Observe NejiHina, KakaNaru talk.
January - (Early) Kakashi makes a lie, NejiHina told to be false. (Mid) Sakura tries visiting. (Week later) last failed visit.
February - (Early) Questions of father stop, (Mid) Sakura's baby's sex, Sasu rapes Naru, Naru moves. (Late) Meets Sakura, Stops training.
March - (Mid) Finds Itachi, Saves Itachi, finds Itachi's curse seal, InoSaku talk, SasuSaku wedding
August - (Early) Naru's due date.
September - (Early) Sakura's due date.
In order of occurrences, tell me if I've missed anything and I'll add more as it's revealed.