My Everything
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Chapter Notation: Kurama/Kyubbi loves to meddle.
Chapter Three
Naruko hated herself for it, but there was no denying that she felt relieved. She felt relieved when Sasuke left Sakura. It seemed he still wasn't interested in their pink haired teammate.
"I still say you should claim him before this becomes a problem. He might not want her, but there is always the possibility that another female will catch his eye." Kurama warns her.
The blonde tries to imagine it. She honestly didn't know what kind of woman Sasuke would actually like. He seemed to dislike everyone almost equally.
He'd shown romantic interest in exactly zero people to her knowledge. She couldn't see that changing anytime soon, but he did want to restore his Clan. So sooner or later, he kinda had to choose SOMEONE.
"Then he won't have any time for me." She mutters.
He'd spend it with his wife and kids. Sasuke was practically obsessed with restoring his Clan. She doubted he'd let them out of his sight for even a minute. (Even if it was still impossible to picture him rocking a baby, she knew that he was going to do it at some point.)
After all, he had said so when he was fucking twelve that he was going to restore his Clan. Sasuke was nothing if not, determined to reach his goals. He always achieved them.
Although sometimes, things didn't work out the way he planned. She sighs sadly, as she remembers learning the truth about Itachi. It wasn't fair what had happened to either of them.
"You know, for a ninja…you aren't very sneaky." Sasuke says, standing behind her with a kunai to her throat.
Naruko blinks. Somehow without realizing it, she had followed him. Sasuke must have noticed though. Great, just great. Now how was she going to explain this.
"Yeah. Well there's not much point in sneaking up behind a friend, right? You aren't an enemy ninja." She replies with a smile.
"True. But next time, it might not be me who notices. It might be an enemy ninja and they might not have an issue with slitting your pretty little throat." Sasuke warns her.
Naruko blinks. Had Sasuke just called her pretty?! Well more specifically, he had called her throat pretty. But that still counted, didn't it?
"You think my throat is pretty?" She asks.
"Naruko, your throat's appearance is not the point. The point is you could have been killed, if it wasn't me. Someone might have taken advantage of your guard being down. It doesn't matter how powerful you are, if you aren't aware of your surroundings…bad things can happen." Sasuke tries again to warn her.
He sighs and lowers the kunai. She never took anything seriously, other than dragging him back or beating "bad guys." She really had to work on that.
He thought her becoming Hokage might have changed that, but Naruko was still Naruko. At the end of the day, she apparently thought the world was all sunshine, rainbows, and likely unicorns were also somewhere in the equation.
"Yeah. Yeah. I know. A ninja must always expect the unexpected. I'd ask you to lunch, but you already ate." She mutters.
"You were spying on me and Sakura?" Sasuke asks in disbelief.
"I wasn't spying. I just happened to notice that you were eating lunch together. I'm not blind." The blonde tries to defend herself.
"Uh huh. So how did it go with the Council?" He asks deciding to change the topic.
Naruko twitches. God, it made her so angry. They actually thought they could breed him like he was some thoroughbred horse or something! It was sick! It was wrong and it made her see red.
Sasuke shakes his head. She had always worn her heart on her sleeve. That's why he knew he had to do something. Sasuke pushes her against a tree and keeps her pinned there. He was not going to let her Go Kyubbi and kill the Council.
"Naruko, calm down. Whatever it is, you can tell me." Sasuke assures her.
"They basically admitted you were right. It just makes me so mad! How can they treat a person like some prized piece of livestock, that they want to breed?" She asks.
"Because not everyone is as noble as you. They've always viewed ninjas that way, but especially ones from Clans that possess bloodlines. It's nothing new. It's something they like to keep out of the public eye, but behind the scenes they do love to try to manipulate such things." He tells her.
That's when Naruko's eyes widen. His hair! His Jonin uniform! His body! It was all exactly like in the dream from this angle. Oh God! She had been dreaming about Sasuke!
"It's y-ou." She whispers and looks at him with stunned, wide eyes.
"What are you talking about? Yeah this time they want to treat me like some horse they want to breed, but I'm far from the first. I doubt it's any different than how they would treat Hyuga Clan members." Sasuke continues.
Naruko blinks. That was supposed to make it better? Was he insane? He just accepted this as a fact of life? She was shocked. Sasuke didn't seem disturbed by this at all. He sounded like he was more inconvenienced, than anything.
"Nothing. Wait, you aren't angry with them?" The blonde inquires in confusion because she just didn't understand.
"About this? No. I knew it was going to happen. Besides, I have you. I know you. You'll talk them out of it. So just calm down. As much as I would love to see you kill them, it isn't worth it. Don't throw away everything that you've worked so hard for, for me. It's really not worth it." He says.
"Alright. I still don't like it though. Have you thought about it? I mean I know you want to restore your Clan and everything, but I haven't seen you even look at anyone." She says.
Had he thought about it? Sasuke had thought about it almost every day, nearly without fail. But it just didn't work.
His eyes were fine. Sasuke admired beautiful women as much as the next man. The last Uchiha's sex drive was also perfectly healthy. But that was where it stopped. Other than on an aesthetical level, no one besides Naruko could hold his attention. It always came back to her somehow.
"I've thought about it." He admits.
He supposed that he always knew deep down. Well at least since the age of twelve, which frankly was close enough to always to him. Sasuke had almost died fighting Haku. His last thoughts had only been that he couldn't die because he hadn't killed Itachi and of HER. Everything else was always about his family or her.
Stupid things. He remembered how they always fought at the Academy. Sasuke remembered the kissing incident. The day that they had been placed on the same team had flashed across his mind. For Godsakes, he even remembered them competing with each other over who could eat the most food. That is what had been on his mind, as he was positive that he was about to die.
"So is there anyone?" She asks.
"Yes and no. Come on, it's going to rain. Unless you want to get soaked, you should probably come with me." He says, taking her hand, and teleporting them inside his home.
"Yes and no? What does that mean? So there is someone?" The blue eyed ninja asks.
"There's always been someone. But it's not an option." He states as he makes sure the doors and windows were shut firmly.
"She's not an option?" What did that mean? Naruko briefly contemplates the possibility maybe Sasuke was in love with a married woman or something.
"Who is she and why isn't she an option?" The Hokage demands.
"Naruko, let it go." Sasuke says an flicks her forehead in a small chastisement for her being nosey.
Oh Hell no! She was not going to let it go. Her best friend was possibly in love and he wasn't even going to try? That wasn't like Sasuke. He never gave up. What was wrong with him?
"I'm not going to let it go! I want you to be happy. So why aren't you trying to be happy? Why isn't she an option and again, who is she?!" The woman inquires once more.
Sasuke raises an eyebrow. As usual, she was being stubborn. Well if she wasn't being stubborn, she wouldn't be Naruko.
"Because she deserves better. I don't know if you've noticed, but everything I touch turns to ash." He warns her and heads over by the fireplace.
Naruko's eyes widen. She had no idea that he felt that way. Did Sasuke really believe that? That he shouldn't be with the person he loved because he was cursed or something?
"You're being ridiculous. That is completely not true!" She protests.
"It is and you know it. I don't really understand why you want anything to do with me. Do you enjoy being in pain? Is that it? Is that why you chased me so long? Does it make you feel like a martyr or something?" He asks.
She blinks. Naruko wasn't sure whether to feel insulted, hurt, or just to feel incredibly sad for her friend. She sighs and wraps her arms around him tightly. She didn't know what to say, so she'd just show how she felt.
"I don't enjoy being in pain. Which is why I don't want to hear you talk like that. You aren't cursed or anything like that. You're a good person, who has had a lot of bad things happen to you. Yeah, you made a lot of dumb decisions. But that doesn't matter now. What matters is you're safe and you're home." She tells him.
Sasuke sighs. He almost wished that she would stop doing it. He almost wished that she would stop forgiving him for everything. The last Uchiha knew he didn't deserve it. It really was selfish to give into it.
He knew that she'd be better off if he had just stayed away. Naruko would have been heartbroken. But she would have gotten over it, eventually. As long as she knew he was alive and okay, maybe she could have moved on. But he caved. He came back.
"I'm not a good person and we both know that." Sasuke says and cries out in pain when he felt a sharp pain to his cheek.
"OWE!" He says and rubs his injured face in shock when he realized Naruko had just slapped him.
"Yes, you are. Don't say stupid like that or so help me bastard, I will kick your ass. Then you are going to have a really hard time finding a wife. I mean your personality is so bastardly, you kinda have to rely on your looks to find someone." She says.
"You realize that you just contradicted yourself there? How can someone be a good person and have a bastardly personality?" He mutters.
"I don't know! You just are! Stop trying to confuse me and yourself. It isn't going to work. Now you done brooding? I mean I get that is kinda your thing, but come on. You should be at your brooding limit by now." She says.
He shakes his head in amusement. Maybe she was right. As horrible as the past was, it was over. Sasuke knew he couldn't leave again. It would break her. This time he had to stay. He cursed himself once again for coming back.
Sasuke wanted to blame those damn foxes, but he knew the truth. He would have come back eventually anyway. He loved her and that wasn't going to end well for either of them if he acted on it.
"Maybe you're right. Maybe I'll feel better after a shower. If you want anything to eat, help yourself to whatever is in the kitchen. I did go to the market to pick up a few things. But I got sidetracked with Sakura." He says and heads off, presumably to the bathroom.
"I got sidetracked with Sakura." Naruko mutters.
It was back. The jealousy was back. She hated being jealous of one of her best friends, but she couldn't deny that was what was happening.
"Are you a girl or a woman? A woman would take advantage of the fact he is about to be naked and it's just the two of you in this house." Kurama taunts her.
"What?! You pervert!" The blonde shrieks at the fox demon in her mind for his outrageous suggestion.
"I'm not the one who was having that dream about being taken by him against a tree. So you are going to be a girl then? You are too afraid to claim your mate. You faced his ancestor without blinking, but cower at the possibility of telling him that you want him. Humans are strange creatures." The Nine Tails continues his taunts.
She cuts off the link. One of the advantages about having been aware of Kyubbi's presence since the age of twelve, was that she now had some control over when their exchanges ended. She could effectively tune him out, if she really wanted. The fox could override it, but apparently this took a lot of energy and most of the time he didn't feel like bothering.
Naruko now knew that Sasuke was the man in her dreams. Why she didn't see it before, she wasn't sure. Maybe her subconscious had suppressed it because she wasn't ready to deal with it.
"Doesn't matter now. He's in love with someone else." She mumbles.
The blonde for the life of her, couldn't figure out who. It probably wasn't Sakura. Sasuke hadn't really been looking at her with longing. From what he said, he should be looking at this person with at least wistfulness. But there had been nada at that lunch. Still that left the question, who had caught his eye?
Did she even know that Sasuke liked her? Probably not. Sasuke had never been good at sharing his feelings. He was right when he said they communicated more through their fists than their words.
"Well she's definitely got to be a ninja. That much is for sure." She decides.
Naruko honestly couldn't picture Sasuke being attracted to a civilian. A civilian definitely couldn't handle him. Even if Sasuke tried to be gentle, she imagined he was a vigorous lover. He probably fucked like he fought, hard.
"And you call me the pervert. Hmm, I thought you were more of a romantic than that? I would have thought you would go with a more idealized description of sex, like making love?" Kyubbi observes.
It seemed the furball, couldn't resist making a comment to THAT particular thought. Kurama was her friend. But sometimes, it would be nice to have a LITTLE privacy in her own head!
"Shut up, you perverted fox!" She grumbles.
"I'm not the one that was musing over how roughly the Uchiha prefers to mount his female." Kurama replies and retreats further back into her mind, apparently feeling rather pleased with himself for that little zinger.
Meanwhile Sasuke sighs as he gets in the shower. Naruko knew that he was in love with someone. She'd be like a dog on a bone now. The blonde was the most stubborn woman he had ever met. She likely wouldn't stop until she got an answer.
He briefly contemplated lying. Sasuke quickly dismisses the thought. She knew him too well. The blonde would likely see through that in under a minute. Besides, who could he name?
"She'd never believe Sakura or Ino. Tenten is still grieving over Neji. I doubt she'd believe that I fell for Hinata because we haven't even spoken two words to each other. Damn it." He mutters.
It was pathetic. He had wanted to return her hug. But he couldn't. If she gave him an inch, he knew that he'd probably take the mile. Why couldn't life have been simpler? He briefly imagines how things might have been different if his family had lived.
"I still can't believe you married a blonde." Fugaku says and shakes his head at Sasuke in amusement.
"Fugaku." Mikoto says warningly and places her hands on her hips.
"I'm only teasing the boy. When is she due back from the office?" He inquires.
Sasuke shakes his head in amusement. He informs his parents that Naruko usually finished paper pushing by 5 or 6. So she should be here soon.
"Sasuke, it's not very nice to refer to her Hokage duties as paper pushing." Itachi chides him gently.
"Eh it's okay. That's what I call it myself." Naruko says as she comes bounding through the door.
Sasuke smiles smugly and walks over to his pregnant wife. He wraps his arms around her and kisses the top of her head. For some reason, he strongly suspected it was going to be a girl.
"You are glowing, Naruko." Mikoto greets her daughter-in-law with a smile.
"Thanks. I wasn't really glowing so much this morning. Morning Sickness is not fun." She says and snuggles into Sasuke.
"It'll pass. I remember when Mikoto was expecting Itachi. For a couple weeks, she barely left the bathroom." Fugaku says with a chuckle and earns a glare from his beautiful wife.
"Someone is barely going to leave the couch if he keeps it up." She warns him and Fugaku gulps.
After eating, Sasuke and Naruko head home. They made love and Naruko fell asleep. Sasuke held his blonde against him protectively and drifts off to sleep with her.
"If only things were that easy." He mutters and was suddenly really glad for cold showers.
His little daydream had ended in rather vivid detail. Sasuke was definitely not going to risk taking care of that "problem," with Naruko in the house. He knew his luck.
With his luck, she'd walk in on him. They'd both be mortified. She'd probably call him a pervert and start throwing things. Then they wouldn't be able to look at each other in the eyes for weeks afterwards. (How she had trained under two major perverts and still kept her innocence was beyond him.)
"Better face the music." He mutters as he gets out of the shower.
Sasuke quickly dries off and throws on some clothes. He heads back to the living room, where he sees Naruko had curled up on the couch. He raises an eyebrow.
"Bastard, it's raining cats and dogs out there. I'm not going anywhere." She says.
"It'll clear up." He says and then smacks his forehead when he hears the loud clap of thunder.
"Or not." She says and the power goes out.
"This is ridiculous. FIREBALL JUTSU!" He says and blows a fireball into the fireplace, providing some light for them.
She sighs in relief. Naruko really hated the dark. As long as she had some light, she didn't mind a bad storm. Though she kinda wished Sasuke had fixed the roof a little earlier.
"I guess it's worse in the living room. You can sleep in one of the guestrooms if you want." He says.
"Alright. Thanks, bastard." She says and saunters off.
For a moment, Sasuke was memorized by the swaying of her hips. He was reminded of the dream. He idly wondered how fast she cold move those hips and then smacks himself mentally for it.
Those thoughts would only lead to the need for another cold shower. It was pointless to torture himself in such a fashion. He sighs and heads to his room. It was going to be a very long night.
Naruko finds one of the spare rooms and flops onto the bed. Thankfully, it had windows and it was still daylight. So she wasn't in the dark.
She knew no one had slept in this room for years because of all of the dust. That didn't matter to her though. What mattered was she was in the same house with Sasuke.
Sasuke was back in the Leaf. After years of being away, he was home. It seemed like he was going to stay for good this time to!
"He wouldn't be talking about repairing the roof, if he was just going to leave again, would he?" She asks herself.
"If you are that worried about him leaving again, you could give him a good reason to stay." Kurama suggests.
"Like what?" She asks, hear earlier annoyance at the fox forgotten when she realizes he might actually have an idea.
"You want him. He clearly wants you or he wouldn't have been watching your backside so closely. The solution is simple." Kyubbi continues.
Naruko blinks. The crazy old fox had lost it. Sasuke hadn't been staring at her ass earlier, had he? There was just no way that Sasuke would do something like that. It was, well very much not like him.
"He wasn't looking at me that way." She protests.
"Yes, he was. Now as I was saying, he wants a family. You happen to be a fertile female, who is of age. The desire is there between both of you. He'd stay for that. The urge to den is powerful. He's smart enough to realize that traveling with a pregnant woman, let alone a small child is difficult. He'd want to reestablish roots." The Nine Tails finishes.
The blonde couldn't really disagree about that. If there was one thing that would definitely get Sasuke to stay, it would be a child. But he wouldn't want to have a kid with her.
He was in love with someone else. Clearly, someone that he viewed as being unobtainable. Though she got the impression that was based almost exclusively on him being too hard on himself. He'd already atoned for his sins. Sheesh. He was the real martyr, not her.
"Yeah, he wants them. Just not mine." She mumbles.
"Who wants what?" Sasuke asks, having come to check on her.
"Oh um nothing. Just talking to Kurama. You know how he never shuts up." She says nervously.
Sasuke raises an eyebrow. Honestly, he didn't know much about her relationship with the fox demon. He knew that they could communicate with each other and she somehow had become his "friend," but not much else.
"No. Not really. You never really tell me what he says. Though it does explain why you space out so much. I just thought you were an airhead before I knew that you had him inside you." Sasuke says with a shrug.
"YOU BASTARD!" She says.
"Now, I know you are having conversations with a demon. Maybe it was better when I thought you were just very easily distracted." He says with a laugh and Naruko twitches.
That was it. She lunges at him and pins him to the floor. Sasuke looks up at her with an arched eyebrow as if to say, "Yeah, you got me pinned. We both know you aren't going to do anything. So you might as well let me up."
Well maybe that was Naruko projecting her own thoughts onto Sasuke more than anything. She knew that the last Uchiha was far from the most expressive person in the world. But she didn't care at the moment. She just had to prove him wrong somehow. She just didn't know how she was going to do that exactly.