Parthenogenesis

A/N: All I have to say is: I LOVE YOU NARUCHAN! I really do! This one's dedicated to you! (and I even edited it for you. Probably still not perfect though, but readable enough)

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor am I Japanese, nor do I speak japanese, so please forgive any errors on that part. Any errors aside from those are still available for flaming.

Chapter 10: The Secret Unwritten Laws of Konoha

Like a good little ninja, Shizune sat at her desk reading through the pages of the books just like Hokage-sama had asked her to. She was determined to have them all read and reported by the end of the week…which was tomorrow!

She had gone through only half the books and was now stuck on a book of medical techniques that seemed so purposeless. She threw the book down in frustration. She was never going to find anything useful in this mess! Not a single book was related to another! She caught sight of the book she had just thrown down. It had opened to a random page that had a little drawing on it. The drawing looked so familiar. Where had she seen that before? She pulled the book closer, smoothing out the page that was crumpled from the fall. ‘Of course,’ she thought, ‘it’s almost the same as the one Uchiha-san drew. This could be it.’ Finding a second wind, she began studying the book again.

O0o.o0O

“Tsunade-sama, Tsunade-sama! I’ve found it!”

“Found what?” asked Tsunade drowsily, holding her head- yeah, she definitely had a hang-over.

Shizine quickly noticed this. “Tsunade, how did you get drunk at a no-drinking party that YOU hosted?” asked Shizune, head dangerously large in anger. Shizune herself had only dropped by the party for a few minutes to congratulate the birthday boy before getting back to work.

Tsunade waved it off, “Konoha Secret Technique: Hidden Bottle of Sake no Jutsu. But tell me- did you find out what happened to Naruto and Sasuke?”

“Yes, Tsunade-sama, but you’re not going to like it,” said Shizune, setting the book down in front of the older woman. The page was turned to show a drawing.

Tsunade glanced at the seal drawn on the page, but then did a double-take. “This,” she whispered in disbelief, “but this. Artificial Insimenation. It shouldn’t be possible in a male.” She pulled out the drawing of the seal on the ground in Suna that Sasuke had given her. The two seals were nearly the same. Nearly.

“But some of these runes are different and this,” she said, pointing to one of the drawn circles, “is repeated multiple times on the one the Uchiha gave me- four circles in all. But then that would mean…” she trailed off, looking up at the black-haired woman.

Shizune finished the thought, “That would mean multiple births. And below the seal in the book- See the warning?”

Tsunade nodded and read it out loud, “Not to be employed by two males. The male body can not support a child, and the offspring in a male-male crossing would have a one-in-four chance of having YY chromosomes. The lack of DNA encoding in YY would result in a stale-born offspring and would cause harm to the carrying human.”

Tsunade and Shizune fell into silence, thinking about the new information.

Tsunade began muttering her thoughts aloud, “The Kyuubi is behind this. We’re sure of that. But how does it relate. If the chance of YY is one-in-four, why would Kyuubi take the chance to make four children…unless he wanted a YY child. Could he manipulate a YY’s DNA? But why would the fox want that?” She fell into silence again. A few minutes later, she picked up the picture of the seal again and began studying it again. “Shizune,” she said over the paper she was looking at, “Go fetch Naruto and Uchiha-san. I will know nothing for certain until I can look over the two of them.”

“Yes, Hokage-sama,” Shizune said and then she was gone.

O0o.o0O

“Hokage-sama, Shizune-san said you sent for us?” It was Sasuke. Naruto was standing nervously beside him. The blond boy kept shooting the Uchiha quick glances, but the raven-haired boy ignored it well. Was that a blush on Naruto’s face? Was there something going on between the two boys? ‘Nevermind,’ Tsunade scolded herself, ‘There’s something more important going on here.’

“Yes, I sent for you. Naruto, do you mind lifting up your shirt?”

“Only for you, obaa-chan,” cheekily winked Naruto, but Tsunade noticed his blush seemed to increase.

Sasuke turned to observe Tsunade as she prodded with chakra along Naruto’s middle. Her brow was furrowed. It made both of the boys a little nervous, especially when she asked Naruto if he had been feeling any of a long list of symptoms, which he answered positive to.

“Now you, Uchiha. Lift up your shirt,” she ordered shortly.

The two boys sent each other incredulous glances, but Sasuke gave into the Godaime. She prodded with chakra along his stomach as well, and her brow furrow even deeper.

She went back to her desk after checking Naruto’s stomach again. She was checking the DNA of the children and comparing it with that of Naruto and Sasuke. There was no doubt about it- the two were going to be parents. She sat in silence, her fingers balanced in front of her on her desk, fingertips touching.

The silence finally frustrated Naruto into breaking it. “Come on, old lady, tell us what’s up? You furrow that brow any more and it’ll make a wrinkle that will show through your genjutsu.”

Right after he said it, he cringed, waiting to feel Tsunade’s massive strength punch him through a few dozen walls. But no pain came. He peeked open one eye to see Tsunade glaring at him, yet not hitting him. The blond boy glanced at Sasuke who nearly imperceptibly shrugged his light shoulders as if telling Naruto he didn’t have a clue either as to Tsunade’s strange lack of violence.

“What’s wrong, obaa-chan? Why didn’t you hit me?” Naruto asked, truly concerned.

“Because, by common standards, it is not looked very well upon someone who hits a pregnant person, Naruto-chan.”

“Naruto-chan? PREGNANT?” yelled Naruto, stuttering in his own fury of the two implied injustices done to his masculinity. He once again shared a secret glance with the Uchiha. The barely noticeable twinkle in those black eyes calmed Naruto down- the Uchiha obviously thought this must be some kind of jest. The thought of him being pregnant was ludicrous. So ludicrous, Naruto started laughing at it.

“OH, HA, ha, ho,hahaha,” he laughed, trying to catch his breath. “I see what this is about…aha…ha…So you found out that I didn’t stop Ero-sannin from peeping on you in the bath house a couple of weeks ago…ahaa..he promised to teach me a new jutsu if I let him spy..ahaha…took you long enough to get your revenge…but props…I almost believed you….NOT! What a stupid joke, obaa-chan. I suppose you would’ve told me next that the Teme was the father of my pretend child…ahaha…hah…you must be slipping in your old age.” He fell into more laughter, laughter that the Uchiha actually joined into, even if it was just an escaped chuckle…or two. Well, not really, but the Uchiha laughed silently in his head.

A vein was pulsing in Tsunade’s forehead. Naruto quickly noticed as the ticking vein became visible from a distance. It shut his laughter right up. Tsunade sure didn’t look like she was kidding.

“YOU LET HIM DO WHAT?” The Godaime yelled. “Oh, wait until I get my hands on that pervert. He’ll soon be missing a valuable part of his body. If he wasn’t out on an information-collecting mission right now, I’d castrate him in front of the village.” She fumed to herself.

Naruto was now a little bit worried. “This isn’t about Ero-sannin?”

“No, I’ve been trying to tell you Naruto. You’re pregnant. Look.” She pulled out the seal Sasuke drew and the one in the book. She quickly explained the meaning of it all and everything that had been going on during Naruto’s nightly sleep-walks. Naruto was just staring at her blankly.

“Naruto?” Tsunade asked.

Naruto seemed to snap to. “Sorry, Obaa-chan, but you lost me at the part where you said I was pregnant. It’s not possible. I can’t be pregnant, obaa-chan. I’m a guy. I can’t have a child.”

“Children, actually. Four of them. That’s what I’ve been trying to explain to you, Naruto, and Sasuke’s the father of them. You see, this seal that Kyuubi drew in your sleep, it artificially combined your DNA with his. The seal was changed in two ways, however. There was a new section of runes that I think was supposed to let you duplicate your own DNA so that you could reproduce on your own- asexually, if you will. But the change didn’t work. Sasuke tells me that it wasn’t until he accidentally stepped into the sealing circle that it began to work meaning he is a contributor to the children. And the other change to the seal is the repetition of it. It created four embryos inside an artificial womb made of Kyuubi’s chakra. The only reason I can find for as to why the Nine-tails would want four embryos is because there is a one-in-four chance of a male-male crossed child ending up with a YY DNA sequence. The child would not be able to survive. Maybe the Kyuubi plans to use that child’s body for its own purposes, but I don’t know. You’d have to find Jiraiya. Maybe he could answer that question.” A dark silence fell over the group at Tsunade insight. The Kyuubi could be trying to escape its confinement inside Naruto. That could be bad, real bad.

The silence lasted only so long before Tsunade broke it, trying to lighten the mood. “Well, you’re pregnant Naruto, with Sasuke through a new type of parthenogenesis- reproduction without the sex. Congratulations. I’ll put it in the medical books and name it after you. We’ll call it Uzumaki Parthenogenesis- the Uzumaki Virgin Birth.”

Naruto coughed nervously, “But, uh…um…I’m not a virgin.” He then muttered something about Ero-sannin, pervert, training trip, and all-inclusive studies. This caused both Tsunade and Sasuke to look him over once more. Tsunade disapprovingly as a mother-figure, and Sasuke like a jealous lover, though they were not quite lovers yet. ‘Might as well be,’ thought the Uchiha, ‘He’s carrying my children. CHILDREN… FOUR OF THEM!’

Tsunade waved it off, “Mere technicality, Naruto-chan.” Naruto bristled at the chan. “The idea is still the same- becoming pregnant without sex. Jiraiya’s nightmare has become real- there’s a human who physically does not need sex to reproduce.”

Naruto began nervously coughing again and scratching the back of his head. Tsunade was kind of freaking him out talking about sex all openly and shit. Quite freaky, not to mention she was his mother-figure and an old lady. That actually made it kind of gross.

Naruto pushed those thoughts from his head with a sigh. “Am I really pregnant, Obaa-chan? This isn’t some type of sick, cruel joke, or maybe I’ve just got some tumor or something that you’re confusing as pregnancy?”

“I wouldn’t be that cruel, Naruto,” answered the Hokage.

“What am I going to do?” Naruto asked nobody in particular. Sasuke could easily see the worry on his face. ‘Why is he so worried?’

“I guess we’ll have to tell the council about this,” sighed Tsunade, as she thought of all the work that would entail.

Naruto’s eyes filled with fear as he looked about frantically, as if he were searching for a safe place to hide. Finding no such place, Naruto practically begged Tsunade, “Please, baa-chan! Don’t! They’ll kill me! Keep this a secret, please! They’ll kill me, baa-chan!” Sasuke eyes widened at the display of raw fear from the boy- the boy who had a fearsome demon inside him, the one that faced down Shukaku, the one that could face off against Orochimaru without so much as a whimper. But now, the boy who never seemed to know the emotion of fear was suddenly struck by it. It pained Sasuke’s heart to be able to see his fear, but be unable to put an end to it.

Tsunade appeared to be in a likewise situation. “Naruto, certainly you must be exaggerating just a bit,” she said with a chuckle that died on her lips as she saw Naruto’s fear-filled eyes. “Surely they wouldn’t kill you for such a thing. Shinobi have children everyday. This may not be the conventional way, but they are just babies after all. The council may try to get you to abort them, but they have no power over such things.”

Naruto’s head shook furiously, and her heart seemed to sink. “No, baa-chan. I thought you knew. They were supposed to tell you. You are the new Hokage. You’re supposed to know.”

“Naruto, what are you going on about?”

“The Laws.”

“There are no laws against this Dobe,” said the Uchiha.

“Not the written laws.”

“Then which…” trailed Sasuke.

Tsunade’s eyes filled with understanding. She cut the Uchiha off, “The Secret Unwritten Laws of Konoha. But, there should only be one these days, the one about not mentioning the Kyuubi to the younger generation.”

“No, Tsunade. There are five.”

“FIVE? In all of Konoha history, there have only have been three unwritten laws at most at a time to deal with the most secret of Secrets. Naruto, tell me the Unwritten laws.”

“We’re not allowed to speak of them, baa-chan, you know that, but…” Naruto did a series of seals and a cloud of smoke appeared in Naruto’s hands. When the smoke cleared, there was a scroll in his hands. The blond boy said, “I wrote them down, mostly so I could review them for any loopholes that might give me. I’ve only found one so far, but that’s not really here nor there.” He held out the scroll to Tsunade who took it with shaky fingers. These unwritten rules were dangerous and they had her nerves on panic-mode. She unfurled the scroll while Sasuke moved around the desk to better read over the Fifth’s shoulder.

It read:

The Secret Unwritten Laws of Konoha, now written by Uzumaki Naruto. These are the secret laws of the Leaf as began by the Third and added on to when need necessitated by three-fourths vote of the council. To break or to reveal any of these rules warrants death.

Law I: No one may ever speak of the Kyuubi or of Uzumaki Naruto being a demon container. Written by the Third on the day of the sealing of Kyuubi.

Law II: Uzumaki Naruto may not use physical violence against any non-shinobi citizen of Konoha. Passed by the Council on the day I entered the ninja academy.

Law III: To protect the image of the Leaf, Uzumaki Naruto may never reveal the Kyuubi to anyone unless the dangers of the mission necessitate it, or the current Hokage orders it with the approval of the majority of the Council. Passed by the Council on the day of my graduation from the academy, on the day I learned of Kyuubi within me.

Law IV: To protect against possible release of Kyuubi from S-class missions, Uzumaki Naruto may never rise above the rank of Jounin. Passed by the Council on the day I was promoted to chunin.

Law V: For the sole purpose of preventing any chance of offspring under the Kyuubi’s influence, Uzumaki Naruto may never marry nor partake in the act of sexual intercourse. Passed by the Council on my 16th birthday.


“Our village…has laws like these?” asked Sasuke, staring at Naruto in either pity or wonderment.

Naruto would have neither. He ignored the Uchiha and turned instead to his grandmother-figure. “Baa-chan, we can’t tell the council. I have broken the law indirectly with these babies. They will kill me.”

Tsunade grasped her head in her hands, “What would you have me do, Naruto? They’re unwritten rules. We can not change them. Contrary to popular belief, the Hokage does not hold all the power in Konoha. We just do the paper work.”

“Tsunade…I can’t…give them up. I won’t let them kill the babies, and I won’t let them kill me.” The room fell into silence once again. The other two seemed to have forgotten the Uchiha was still there. He wanted to ask Naruto more about these laws, but he would wait. Now was not the time. It was the time to calm the man he wanted as a lover, and now carrier of not only Kyuubi, but also his children.

“Send us on a training mission, year long at least, longer if possible. We can get away from this village and keep the council from finding out about the babies,” Sasuke said quickly.

“Send ‘us’ and ‘we?’ Just who exactly do you plan on me sending with Naruto?” asked Tsunade.

“Me, of course. Logically, I am one of the strongest Jounins Konoha has, so I can protect him. Plus…they’re my children too, aren’t they? I won’t let anyone hurt them, Tsunade-sama.” The thankful look Naruto sent him at his suggestion made Sasuke’s heart flutter. Whatever bonds the two had had just seemed to become stronger to the Uchiha. Was that because of the children on the way? Naruto’s childen? His children?

“That’s all very good and noble and all, but do you plan on delivering the babies yourself? Like I said, this isn’t going to be a traditional birth. Naruto’s going to have to be here in konoha to have your children. That is, assuming nothing goes wrong with the rest of the pregnancy.”

“It will be fine. Naruto and I shall leave the village under the pretense of a training mission. We will set out to find Jiraiya, who is the closest thing we have to a seals expert that will aide us and he can tell us Kyuubi’s plans for that YY child and give us options. We can hide out where we need to and keep a low profile. When Naruto starts…showing, he can disquise himself as a woman,” this was met with a snort of outrage from the blond, but Sasuke continued on ignoring it, “and then, when the time comes, or when we run into trouble, we can come back to Konoha, disguised of course.”

Tsunade carefully considered the options. It seemed as though this might work. In fact, it seemed like the only viable option for Naruto other than death by the council. Hands more resolute, they handed Naruto back his scroll of unwritten laws without shaking.

“Very well. I will assigned the two of you a training mission. I will also get together some vitamins for you, Naruto, to take with your pregnancy. And you, Uchiha, I have some books for you to read about pregnancies and the like. They should prove valuable. I want a report at least every month, every week would be better, but I know that won’t happen, so I won’t delude myself as such. By your seventh month, Naruto, I want you back in this village for a check up. You may have to live in a nearby village for a month before that, if you wish to make it. With four children, regardless of the fox’s chakra, it’s going to be hard for you to travel.”

She looked around the office at the two boys, two boys about to become true men in this world, two boys with enough determination to find a way to keep this family they created by accident. She was suddenly reminded of younger times. She gave them a warm smile.

“Prepare yourselves for the journey…and…well…good luck, you two.”

“Thanks, baa-chan,” said Naruto, giving his mother-figure a hug before leaving her office with Sasuke by his side.

O0o.end chapter.o0O

A/N: My thoughts on this chapter? It needs some tweaking. Maybe I’ll rewrite it sometime when I have time.

Anyway, next chapter? It will be out…tommorrow. It will be a short chapter, but it will be mostly Sasuke’s reaction to the SECRET LAWS OF KONOHA. (I seriously have no idea where those laws came from. I was just writing the chapter and then WHAM. They were there;)