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July 30th, the twelfth week

Naruto was smiling at him. Normally that wouldn't have bothered the Uchiha but this smile, this smile was a weird smile. He didn't know what he had done to make the blonde so happy but as he sat in the kitchen, eating his breakfast, Naruto was smiling at him.

"What?" Sasuke asked. Finally fed up with the strange silence, he put down his spoon and sat his elbows against the table. "What are you smiling for?" Naruto's grin grew wider and he looked back down to his own bowl of cereal, stirring the contents of the bowl instead of eating them.

"You're appetite is back." The blonde looked up again, the edges of his eyes wrinkling in pure joy of the fact. Sasuke wrinkled his brow and looked down to his own bowl of cereal. He didn't consider it that big of a deal, he was hungry so he was eating.

"Everyone needs to eat, Dobe." Sasuke muttered and filled his spoon with another mouthful of milky mush.

"Yeah but, the last few weeks you weren't eating as much and I was worried, you know?" Naruto rested an elbow on the table and set his chin in his raised hand, the goofy smile still on his face and Sasuke could feel those bright blue eyes on him.

"And now I'm gaining weight, Dobe. My regular pants are too tight." Sasuke scoffed. Dark eyes glanced up and Naruto was still smiling at him and he looked back down at his bowl again. Naruto sat back in his chair, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Well you are kinda pregnant, Teme. I wouldn't be surprised." Naruto's shoulders began to move in silent laughter; his smile growing wider and his pearly whites were showing.

"Not funny." Sasuke muttered. He tried to sound angry but Naruto knew he wasn't actually angry and the blonde started to chuckle out loud. Ignoring his lover's laughter, Sasuke continued to eat his soggy cereal. When the blonde finally settled down, started to eat his toast he continued to glance up at the Uchiha. "I'm not going to get any bigger just because you're staring at me, Usuratonkachi." The Uchiha quipped.

"It couldn't hurt to try." Naruto garbled out with his mouth full of toast. Rolling his eyes, Sasuke stood up and took his bowl to the sink to pour out the leftover milk and wash it.

"Hn, idiot." Sasuke told the blonde. "Hurry up and finish, you're going to be late." He could hear Naruto shoving toast into his mouth and then coughing and choking on it. When he put the bowl on the drying rack he turned to see Naruto chug the rest of the milk and slam the cup down on the kitchen table. With a gasping sigh, the blonde stood up and brought his plate and cup over to Sasuke and the sink.

"Are you going to come with me and wait for Kakashi?" Naruto handed the plate and cup to Sasuke who started to rinse them out. The blonde opened a drawer, found a towel and started to dry the bowl on the drying rack. "Or is he not going to show up like last time?" Sasuke shrugged his shoulders and continued to clean the dishes. Silently, they cleaned and dried the dishes and when they were done, Sasuke watched Naruto run back to their bedroom to grab his jacket and headband.

"I'll see you off." Sasuke told the blonde when he came back with his stuff in hand. Naruto smiled and Sasuke made his way to the door, the other male right behind him. Naruto closed the door behind him as Sasuke stepped out into the street, turning around once it clicked shut and ran to catch up with the Uchiha.

"So…do you know if you're gonna get a ceremony for passing the chuunin exams?" Naruto asked. Sasuke shrugged his shoulders and kept walking. Naruto seemed satisfied with the lack of an answer, preferring to slip his hand into Sasuke's grip.

"There really wouldn't be a point in having a ceremony, no dignitaries to show off too." Sasuke said. He looked over to the blonde as they turned a corner, walking onto another street that led to the compounds entrance.

"I guess so," Naruto looked around the empty buildings lining the street and then looked up to the rooftops. "Do you think Kyoko tried to get into another house to use the bathroom again? I haven't seen her around yet." Sasuke's memory flashed, after hearing the terrified girls' screams the second night she was in the compound, Naruto and he had found the girl stuck in a booby trap in one of the shops.

"She's probably in a garden still sleeping, Dobe." Sasuke looked up at the sky and wondered how long it would take him to start hearing her screaming if she had gotten stuck in another trap.

"Is she going to stay outside every night?" Naruto asked. They were in sight of the gate now; Sasuke shrugged his shoulders and continued walking. When they stopped in front of the gate, Naruto slipped his hand out of Sasuke's grasp and gripped the Uchiha by his waist.

"She's free to do whatever she wants, Kyoko's just too scared of anything she might find to actually want to look." Sasuke muttered. He raised his head to look up the few inches into blonde eyes.

"You can ask her to help you clean, as long as you lead, she'll follow. I'd almost say she's in love with you." Naruto grinned. He leaned down and kissed Sasuke softly. When the blonde pulled away, Sasuke snorted and let his fingers wandered until he found both sides of the orange jacket's zipper.

"More of she feels in my debt and will do anything to help me." Sasuke muttered and leaned up for another kiss.

"Even better, at least I don't have any competition." Naruto murmured through pressed lips. Sasuke pulled away, leaning his forehead against the blondes. Rolling his eyes and playing with the zipper until it latched, Sasuke let Naruto place a short peck against his lips.

"You don't but I do." Sasuke snorted. Naruto raised his eyebrows in surprise, silently asking what he was talking about. "You can't tell? Sai thinks he can be a better lover than me." The Uchiha frowned as Naruto finally started to understand why Sasuke hated his replacement so much.

"Sai?" Naruto asked incredulously. "The man can't find enough emotion to really smile, why would he want to be with me?" Sasuke sighed softly. He pulled the zipper of the jacket up until it was completely zipped before letting his hand trail down the blonde's clothed chest.

"Because, Dobe, you made him feel something." Naruto's grip on his waist tightened.

"I don't care about Sai, I just want you." The blonde's voice in his ear was soft, making Sasuke's chest tighten. Pushing Naruto away, Sasuke moved to open the gate. He knew the blonde was smiling at him and he felt his ears grow hot.

"Hn." Sasuke muttered. He opened only one side of the gate and glanced outside. Yamato and Kakashi were both standing outside, both of their attention turning to the opening door.

"Are you going to do what Obaa-san wants?" Naruto suddenly spoke up. Sasuke glanced back to the blonde before stepping over to the seal.

"I don't really have choice. I'm not going to wait for Kakashi to show up anymore." Sasuke pressed his hand against the seal and felt the tingling sensation as he unsealed the gate.

"Kakashi, what you doing here? You're four hours early!" Naruto joked. He stepped out of the compound as the white haired ninja moved forward, hands in his pockets and looking more sullen than usual.

"Hokage-sama ordered me to bring him here so he wouldn't be late today. I had to go to Iruka-san's house to find him." Yamato answered for the sullen jonin. Naruto patted the white haired man's shoulder as they passed.

"I appreciate the effort." Sasuke told Yamato. Naruto turned around to wave goodbye to the two inside the compound and Sasuke gave the blonde a half quirked smile as he pressed his palm against the seal again.

"I need to invest in one of these barriers." Kakashi mumbled absentmindedly. The blonde's figure became blurry as the seal reactivated and the Uchiha glanced to his old sensei. "Did you notice?" Kakashi asked. He turned around to look at the blurred image of the outside world. "No anbu guard today, I don't think you'll be under house arrest for much longer." Shutting the main gate, Sasuke silently thought about it and decided he didn't care. There was too much to clean in the compound; he didn't have time for villagers or missions.

"Hn." Sasuke responded. Silently, both men strode down multiple streets, Sasuke leading Kakashi to the courtyard he had taken Naruto to the first day they had moved into the compound. When Sasuke had come here before he had ignored the overall unkemptness of it, weeds had grown over stonewalls before dying, leaving their dead vines to cling to the rock.

A tree had withered and died, it's bark petrifying a corner. Sasuke hadn't thought about it before but with the barrier up there was no way for rain or wind to get into the compound. Nothing had changed from the last time he had entered the courtyard but the figure sleeping on top of the wall had not been there before. Kakashi noticed the other presence and stared up at her. Changing his stance, the white haired jonin flung a kunai, striking into the stone and lodging the weapon halfway into the top half of the stone, inches from the redhead's body. The girl hardly stirred.

"No wonder she didn't pass the chuunin exams." Kakashi murmured. Sasuke looked away from the sleeping girl above them and moved to the center of the courtyard, finding the center of it before digging the gravel up and out of the way of the glass covering.

"Just let a drop of blood hit the seal, there," Sasuke pointed to the tiny part of the black inked seal before he lifted the circular glass up. "And you'll be able to come and go as you please." Kakashi stepped closer to Sasuke, peering down at the small opening.

"What do I do when the Hokage takes me off babysitting duty?" He looked up to Sasuke who pulled his own kunai from a pocket of his pants and held it out to the older man, pommel first.

"Another drop of your blood on the seal, it locks you out again." Sasuke answered. Kakashi's one visible eye blinked as he took the kunai from the younger male's grasp.

"That's rather simple, I was expecting it to be a lot more complicated." Kakashi held out his hand before bending down to the ground. Carefully, he cut the tip of his pinky finger and watched as a drop of blood dripped into the shallow hole in the ground.

"The seal itself is complicated, it was made for easy access to those who knew about it." Sasuke placed the glass over the seal again and pushed gravel over it with his feet. Kakashi had stood back up and squeezed his pinky finger against his thumb to stop the blood flow. The white haired man walked towards the sleeping girl and jumped up on top of the wall.

Sasuke turned his attention to his old sensei, his hand reaching up to his stomach to rub it absentmindedly. The jonin stepped up to the redhead's feet and stared at her with no response. If it had been Sasuke in Kyoko's place he would have been awake by now and Naruto would have at least shifted in his sleep. Finally fed up with the redhead's lack of response, Kakashi nudged the girl's bare feet with his foot. The girl snorted in her sleep and turned her head. Deeming this insufficient, Kakashi shoved the girls' feet off the side of the wall with his foot and watched what the girl did.

Kyoko's body lurched sideways and then backwards as she woke at the feeling of falling. "Waah!" The redhead cried out. She tried to catch hold of something with her arms but she flailed them wildly without success. Toppling over herself, Kyoko landed on the upper half of her spine and neck, her lower body collapsing onto the ground quickly after. "…Ow." The redhead muttered quietly. Her green eyes were just barely open as she sat up. She started to survey her surroundings and yawned, slow to wake up.

"Do you have your mask still?" Sasuke asked. He dropped his hand from his stomach and slipped both of his into his pockets. Kyoko looked over to him and raised her hands to rub her eyes as if she were still a child. "We're going to start on the next house today and clean all the dust out."

"Mhmm," Kyoko hummed. She got to her hands and knees before she stood up and stretched, her clothes full of dirt and the armpits of her shirt were slowly turning yellow from sweat.

"You need to shower." Kakashi jumped down from the wall and landed next to the redhead only to have the girl shriek in surprise before backing away from the white haired man. "You stink." The jonin continued as if the girl had not freaked out.

"Stop scaring me!" Kyoko screeched. Her eyes were wide and body tense, as if someone else was going to jump out at her.

"Then stop being such a crappy ninja, child." Kakashi retorted. Growing tired with the topic of conversation, he pulled out his Icha Icha Paradise book. Kyoko seemed to take offense to the jonin's remark and barked out a response

"My name is Kyoko and how am I supposed to do that?" She glared at Kakashi but it was Sasuke who answered her.

"By becoming a better one."

July 31st, still the twelfth week

"Your body is responding well. I can feel it right here, just below your abdomen." Sakura pressed down again, just above Sasuke's crotch to show the Uchiha what she was talking about. Sasuke raised his head from the bed and swatted Sakura's hand away from his lower abdomen before rubbing the area softly.

"Anything else?" Sasuke asked. Sakura shook her head and moved to close up her bag on the other side of the bed. The Uchiha sat up, swinging his legs to the floor and pulled down his shirt. Since everyone who was in the compound knew about the pregnancy, he had started to wear his sleeveless shirts again and was glad to do so. The only thing was when he looked down to his left, he could see the seal and it felt almost strange to see it.

"No, just make sure you get enough exercise everyday. If your feet start to get cold you need to massage them to get the blood flowing again, Naruto can do it for you if you'd like." Sakura closed her bag and picked it up as Sasuke moved to open the bedroom door.

"Hn." Sasuke muttered. The Uchiha opened the door and let Sakura pass him into the hallway. Sakura looked back to him, half amused and half concerned.

"I'd thought you'd be more excited to have Naruto waiting on your every whim." Sakura pointed out. Sasuke raised an eyebrow and shook his head just a fraction.

"He'd turn it into a reason for trying to get intimate." Sasuke muttered. Sakura turned to the Uchiha as they stopped in the middle of the hallway, looking mildly concerned.

"Are you guys fighting?" The pinkette asked. Sasuke shook his head.

"No, I just don't feel like." Sasuke trailed off. To Sasuke's surprise, Sakura smiled and turned back around. She continued walking until they reached the living room, Sasuke following her.

"Doing it? You're appetite for that will probably return in a week or so, it's been noted in multiple studies." Sakura told him. They both glanced around the living room, noticing the blonde lounging on the sofa, Kakashi leaning against the kitchen doorway and the redhead sitting behind the coffee table, facing Sasuke and Sakura.

"Everything okay?" Naruto asked. The blonde gave his teammates a hopeful smile as Sakura nodded her head.

"All finished then?" Kakashi shifted his position but was still leaning on the doorway.

"Almost, I'm going to need her signature before I leave, for the genin list." Sakura nodded to the redhead. Kyoko looked up from fiddling her thumbs in surprise. Before the redhead could ask a question, Sakura had pulled a slip of paper and pen from her pocket and moved to kneel down next to the other girl.

"Um…I didn't get much schooling up in the mountain." Kyoko hesitantly spoke. Sakura just pushed the pen into the redhead's hand and waved off the girl's worries.

"Don't worry about it, we just need your signature to confirm your acceptance of your genin rank." Sakura stood up and smiled at Naruto. Sasuke moved to sit on the couch, Naruto lifting his feet and sitting up to make room for him. Kyoko bit her lower lip nervously and placed the pen on the paper. Slowly, she wrote out her name and the rest patiently waited for her to finish, silently. Growing tired of waiting; Kakashi stepped forward and looked over her shoulder as she wrote.

"Apricot tree?" The white haired jonin spoke out loud. Kyoko dropped the pen as Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke all leaned forward in varying degrees to see what the girl had written.

"You're name is spelled the same as 'apricot tree'? Did your parents want you to get picked on or something?" Naruto asked. The redhead's face turned bright pink as she picked up the paper and shoved into Sakura's hands before abruptly standing up.

"I'm going to go outside, I need to train." She blurted out and practically ran from the room.

"Well that's a strange way to spell her name." Sakura looked over to the blonde who shrugged.

"Well at least I'll be able to remember her name now." Kakashi spoke up. His students all turned to look at him. "Apricot."

August 6th, the thirteenth week

Sasuke opened his eyes before blinking, then blinked once more. The sun was already up and peeking through the window shades. His brain slowly pulled the pieces of his situation together and after a whole minute of relaxing, Sasuke realized he had two options.

He could go to the bathroom and take care of the problem himself, or he could wake the blonde up to help him. Now that was a dilemma. Smiling at his sarcasm, Sasuke gently pried Naruto's hands off his waist. Following his upper body's reach, the blonde's whole body had turned so that he lay on his stomach. Pressing his lips down in the crook between Naruto's shoulder and collarbone, Sasuke trailed his lips up the blonde's neck. Naruto's breathing changed, growing deeper and more through his mouth than his nose.

"Mmmh." The blonde below him attempted to stretch out but with Sasuke on top of him he didn't get very far before opening his eyes and yawning loudly. Turning his head over to look at the Uchiha. "Good morning." Naruto murmured. He attempted to turn over to kiss the man on top of him but Sasuke rolled over with him so that they were lying side by side.

"Morning." Sasuke responded. Naruto closed his eyes and puckered his lips childishly. Snorting softly, Sasuke met the blonde's lips chastely. Naruto broke the kiss first, stretching out on the bed languidly. Unsatisfied, Sasuke moved back on top of the blonde and licked Naruto's lips before kissing him again.

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Naruto pulled away from the kiss and blinked, surprised by the obsidian depths staring back at him. "That was, intense." Naruto breathed. He blinked again and licked his reddened lips, his breathing slowing to a normal pace. "I don't think morning sex has ever been that great." Sasuke raised an eyebrow and quirked his lips up in a smirk.

"It wasn't just morning sex, Dobe." Sasuke kissed the blonde on the lips and languidly moved his lips against Naruto's. "It was birthday sex."

"Mmh, right." Naruto murmured into the kiss and raised his eyebrows as he closed his eyes. Leaning backwards, Naruto lowered himself onto the bed, Sasuke on top of him. "It was really good birthday sex too." They laid there in silence, Naruto's arms wrapped around the Uchiha's waist and Sasuke's head nestled in the crook of the blonde's neck. For every minute that ticked by, Sasuke shifted. After at least what must have been a century, Naruto looked down at the Uchiha's head. "Are you okay? You keep moving." Sasuke huffed indignantly and shifted again.

"It's the baby, it feels weird having something press against my stomach." The Uchiha spoke quietly. They fell into another silence, Sasuke shifting every now and then when it got too uncomfortable for him.

"Apricot isn't going to walk in on us anytime soon, right?" Naruto asked. Sasuke shook his head.

"She's probably still sleeping out in that training field…and she has a real name." The Uchiha muttered. "If you keep calling her that it's going to catch on with the rest of the village."

"Relax Sasuke, you and her are still under house arrest, the only people who call her that is me, Kakashi-sensei and Yamato-san." Naruto smiled when Sasuke sighed. "Why do you care about what Kakashi-sensei calls her anyway?" The blonde suddenly asked. Again, Sasuke sighed, lifting his head to look directly at Naruto.

"Usuratonkachi, I have to deal with her every day. She complains about it constantly." Naruto grinned at the statement, blue eyes bright with delight.

"Doesn't she complain that she can't become a better ninja when you keep making her help you clean out houses too?" Naruto watched Sasuke frown and shook his head before raising his hand to the blonde's chin, caressing the smooth skin.

"I told Kakashi that if she wasn't going to help me clean then I'd make him do it. That's when Kakashi follows her around and tells her how bad she is as a ninja." Sasuke lowered his gaze to Naruto's lips, which had returned to their normal pink color, and ran his thumb over them. Naruto chuckled, his chest pulsating underneath Sasuke's as the thrum of it echoed in Sasuke's stomach.

"He would annoy her rather than do actual work." Naruto saw Sasuke's eyes dart down to his mouth and raised his head high enough to press them against the Uchiha's own bright red, bruised lips. The kiss was chaste, their lips pressing against each other's softly for a moment. Both had closed their eyes as Naruto's grip on Sasuke's waist tightened. "I was too rough." Naruto moved to follow Sasuke and ran his hand down the pale skin of his lover's side. Sasuke looked down to his own body to see red marks where the blonde had held him up, a small ripple of irritation ruptured across his senses when Naruto's fingers brushed against them.

"It's doesn't hurt, Dobe." Sasuke caught Naruto's hand and held it, intertwining their fingers together. "The most it's going to do is bruise for a few days." Sasuke's reassurances barely had an effect on the blonde who continued to stare at the marks with a frown on his face. "If you want to make it up to me, you'll get in the shower with me."

Naruto's expression softened and he looked up from Sasuke's waist to smile softly, a twinkle of mischievousness glinting in the light. "And if I don't?" The blonde asked. Sasuke pulled Naruto by his hand off the bed and leaned in close to the other male.

"Then I'll make you." Naruto grinned at the Uchiha and brought their intertwined hands up to his lips, kissing the back of Sasuke's palm gently.

"I can't argue with that logic." The blonde told Sasuke. Smirking, Sasuke pulled Naruto into their bathroom, Naruto shutting the door behind them.