Path to Perdition (complete)

Chapter 13:

The news of Uchiha’s marriage to Uzumaki reached everyone’s ears soon enough. It also reached a certain Sannin’s ears. Tokuyama flinched as the bowl shattered right next to his ear. He whimpered a little staring at his master’s twisted face.

“O…Orochimaru-sama…is something wrong?” he wondered what wrong he had done. His master had asked him if he had heard anything interesting and he had related a bit of gossip, that he had picked up, while strolling through Fire country.

The Sannin glared at the cowering man. “Where did you hear this?”

“Everyone in Fire country is talking about it. Some Konoha ninja were talking about how they knew it had to happen…please don’t be angry, Orochimaru-sama.” The man stood up shakily, still leaning against the wall.

“You are dismissed.” Orochimaru waited till the man had left before giving way to more anger; all of which was directed at Uchiha Sasuke. The sole reason which had lost him everything! Naruto had been so well trained until that bastard had ruined all his hard work.

Orochimaru sighed, trying to make plans. He didn’t have as many strong ninja as he used to. He would never admit it, but he missed the blond container. After all six years was a long time to spend with someone and something had to have built up? Orochimaru thought of himself as the person who shaped Naruto. He looked at Uchiha as the person who stole Naruto from him. Naruto and Jassin would have been the perfect warriors if only Uchiha hadn’t turned Naruto into a soft person.

Orochimaru had tried to kill Naruto because he’d thought that the boy had gotten too mellow…that he would be a burden but now he just wanted the blond back. He knew it wasn’t love…it was just possessiveness. He wanted to see the Uchiha squirm and pine to death, as the blond was taken away from him! In the darkness of the room, Orochimaru smiled. His smile widened into a grin and then flowed into laughter. Oh yes…he was looking forward to seeing Naruto-kun.

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“I like the white one…I don’t see why you don’t want to wear it!” Sakura placed her hands on her hips.

“That’s because me and Sasuke don’t have a definite role! I don’t want to be the BRIDE! I top Sasuke as much as he tops me, its equal footing! If I wear bloody white, it’ll give the bastard ideas!” Naruto glared at the offending white suit.

“All right fine! Don’t swear so much ok? So what, you’re going to wear black too? Why don’t you guys just get married traditionally? Wear kimonos or something!” Sakura yelled back, getting a little angry.

“No. I don’t want to wear a kimono… I prefer trousers. Why can’t Sasuke wear white?? He can be my bride, it’ll be much easier!” Naruto grumbled checking out a black tux, at the far end of the rack.

“I am not wearing white, dobe… yeah let’s just wear kimonos…” Sasuke strolled towards them wearing his trademark smirk.

“I like this one. It’s cool!” Naruto pulled out a black tux, with a black shirt and white bow tie. “See it’s got that touch of white. You can wear one with a white shirt. That’s all. We’re equal then….we both have a touch of virgin white!”

Sakura snorted. “Virgin white? Everyone in this village knows you’re not virgins….we’ve heard you going at it often enough. At your volume, people from the Water country would have heard you as well….”

They both had the grace to blush a bit. Sasuke agreed with Naruto and they went to the wedding gown store and waited for Sakura to pick up her dress. She was getting married tomorrow and they were getting married in four days time.

Then Sakura dragged Naruto to the press to see about the invitations which had to go out to a lot of people. Naruto and Sasuke decided they would forget the traditional gold and cream and went for a funky one with a black background and dark blue print. After that they posted the invites and went to Lee and Sakura’s house.

Naruto collapsed onto an armchair. “See this is why living together is better! We’ve been on our feet since seven! If we were living together, then we’d have all the joys of marriage without having to run around so much!”

Sakura smiled at him. “Marriage is hard work, Naruto. It’s supposed to be the ultimate test of love actually… so it just depends on whether this is worth it…”

Naruto sobered up when she said that. Yeah it’s worth it. Sasuke’s worth a lot to me… he smiled too. “Yeah… I guess. But I still can’t wait for it to be over and done with!”

Sasuke smirked. “Ne, Naruto…you’re such a softy under that tough exterior! Never would have thought it!”

Naruto shook his head. “Only for you, Sasuke…only for you!” He grinned as Sasuke stood up to help Sakura with dinner. Naruto was an OK cook, but then since he didn’t have to do it so much at Otogakure, he hadn’t been able to perfect it.

Lee turned on the TV and they watched Yu Yu Hakusho, which was Lee’s favorite anime because of all the fighting. At one point, Naruto could feel frustration building in him… why didn’t Kurama kill his opponent? The dude could it in precisely three moves.

“Damn you! There’s an opening, why don’t you bloody take it?! Come on Kurama don’t just stand there, do you want to die?!” he burst out, shaking his fist at the TV with a frown. Then he looked around to see the other three staring at him.

“Dobe… did you just whine?”

Naruto’s eyes widened. “N…no I did not! You’re imagining things! I do not whine!”

Sakura’s face broke into a grin. She put on a mock serious expression and said in her doctor voice. “Well what have here? The symptoms show that Naruto’s joy of living and obliviousness seems to be returning…”

Lee nodded, before jumping on the blond and hugging him so he couldn’t breathe. “Naruto-kun’s YOUTH has RETURNED… the FLAME STILL BURNS WITHIN…!”

“It won’t be burning much longer, if he doesn’t get any air to breathe. Could you please stop endangering my fiancée’s life?” came Sasuke’s voice. He had returned to finish stirring whatever it was that he was stirring.

Lee let go, turning red with shame, while Naruto’s purple-ish blue colour faded. “Naruto-kun, I apologize, I did not mean to squeeze you to death.”

Naruto cleared his throat, sucking in a few deep breaths. “Well, it’s all right… I’m ok. Gosh I wonder what your children will be like…” he said standing up with a grin, hoping against hope he did not live to see the little terrors…

At that moment Sakura came in beaming. “Wonder no longer, you’ll know in six months time. Lee and I wanted to tell you… I’m pregnant!”

Sasuke dashed in at that moment to catch his blond fiancée who’d fallen forwards… he had fainted in shock…or fear… of Lee’s children…wow!

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Sakura’s marriage went of without a hitch… the sky was cloudy, as it was monsoon, but not a drop of rain marred the ceremony. The reception went off without a hitch. Sakura and Lee’s carriage drove off into the sunset, which this was not imagined. Naruto watched them go; he couldn’t believe that he would be going through the same thing in three days time. He turned to find Sasuke waiting for him and gave him a small but genuine smiles…genuine smiles were rare for him nowadays. His fiancée gave him a look and started to walk back home, Naruto sighed and followed.

When they got home, Naruto went to his room. Sasuke declined to follow him, apparently understanding his need for some alone time. Snuggling down into his orange comforter after throwing off his suit jacket, Naruto let his thoughts go and took a bit of time to glance around. It would take time for him to get use to these bright colours once more…it wasn’t that he didn’t like them, but it felt out of place and jarring. However you looked at it, Naruto had changed and he preferred dark or pale colours to bright ones.

Thankfully Sasuke had decided to paint their bedroom a nice pale blue. They’d decided to move into the master bedroom, which once had been Sasuke’s parent’s room. Sasuke had started renovations, not wanting to sleep in his parent’s room he way it had been. Itachi’s room had been demolished and made larger, converted into a gym for them to work out when they didn’t spar or felt like letting off steam.

The large room where his parents had been killed was demolished completely. Sasuke had absolutely no idea what to do with it! Converting it into anything or using it would be sacrilege. Naruto felt happy that he had influenced the dark haired man to forget the past…that he was the reason for Sasuke moving on at last. This renovation was long overdue.

The house was done up in a ‘bachelor pad’ sort of way. Both being guys, didn’t want too many useless things lying around. They just painted different rooms in different colours and went for metal and wood furniture. Even their cutlery was just warm and earthy. Sakura wasn’t too happy about this, but Naruto had pointed out, that ‘warm and earthy’ was fine, and that they would most probably not ever use pink or pretty!

All said and done things were going fine. But Naruto wondered if it would all work…if this marriage would work. The moment they’d fallen in love, Sasuke had had to give up his dream of repopulating the Uchiha clan. And even after everything they’d been through Naruto had an inkling of doubt whether Sasuke would be content with just him and no children. They hadn’t discussed the matter yet, and Naruto wondered what the outcome would be if they did.

His train of thought shifted to Orochimaru. He idly mused on where the snake would have got to…he’d have to hunt him down soon; it wouldn’t do to let him gather minions once more…he did that way too fast! Naruto sighed, he still had to avenge Jassin, a snake like Orochimaru shouldn’t be allowed to live. His eyes gleamed as he imagined various scenarios where he murdered Orochimaru…tortured him, hurt him, and turned him loony…

A knock on his door sounded, bringing him out of his murderous musings. The door opened to reveal Sasuke who sauntered in and threw himself down next to the blond, seemingly unaware that he’d stopped ‘important’ thoughts. He seemed to have changed into more comfortable clothes. Naruto scowled and shifted to make more room for the dark haired man. The smirk on bastard’s face was enough to know that Sasuke had some idea of his thoughts and had thought it best to intervene. He snuggled closer to the blond and slipped a hand under his white shirt, lightly tracing the pattern of the seal that had been there before the dobe had merged with Kyuubi. Naruto ignored the fires that those fingers lit wherever hey touched his skin.

Sasuke buried his face in the blond head. He whispered something. “Mrs. Uchiha Sasuke…”

Naruto jerked, unaware that his had had hit Uchiha’s nose. “What?”

Sasuke rubbed his nose with a frown. “I said, Mrs. Uchiha Sasuke, dobe…that’s what you’ll be soon…”

“What do you mean teme? Why should I take your name? Why can’t you be Mrs. Uzumaki Naruto? After all you were the girl when I took your virginity!” Naruto’s eyes narrowed dangerously.

Sasuke sighed. “Guess like we’re going to have problems with this…”

Naruto’s eyes lit up. “I have an idea! You be Uzumaki Sasuke and I’ll be Uchiha Naruto…that way we solve all problems…”

Sasuke shook his head. “That defeats the purpose, Baka! I…well I wanted us to share a name… have someone who belongs to me…someone I belong too…”

Naruto looked at him, blue eyes unfathomable. Then he grinned. “I feel the same… then why don’t we try this…and I’m making a sacrifice here ok, so listen attentively…”

He bent down to whisper something in Sasuke’s ear. Sasuke listened, a small smile forming on his lips. Then he nodded, letting Naruto capture his lips in a kiss. By the aggressive way the blond kissed, he knew he was going to bottom that night. He sighed and gave in to the blond.

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Sasuke looked into the mirror and gulped. In five minutes he would be getting married to the dobe! No one knew, but under his shirt he’d worn all his good luck charms, making sure that everything would go well… there was a knock at the door and Kiba steeped in grinning at the look on the Uchiha’s normally stoic face. The dog man grinned and patted Sasuke on the shoulder.

“You’ll be fine buddy. Slap a smile or a pleasant expression before you get out there you looked like a cornered rabbit!” Kiba seemed to find great amusement in it and grinned, the Uchiha’s death glare having no effect seeing he all ready knew what the man was feeling.

“So…” Sasuke couldn’t think of anything else to say.

Kiba shook his head a bit. “Well, everything’s ready. You should meet Naruto at the aisle in about 60 seconds. One of the girls we come here to get you!”

Meet him at the aisle. That was another one of Naruto’s hare-brained ideas… that they don’t do the ‘bride’ walking up the aisle thingy, since there was no bride! Instead they’d meet and both would walk up the aisle, equally and then be married. In a way Naruto was so difficult to handle, but Sasuke wouldn’t have him any other way… “Gosh I’m feeling sentimental!” he said to himself in disgust.

“Yeah! I’m so glad I get to see these moments…after all it is being recorded!”

“What!” Sasuke looked round and saw a closet a few feet away was open slightly. Suddenly Lee burst out.

“I have recorded the scariest day of your youth! I have done that to Naruto as well, but Sakura said she’d do his! Ino is to care for you, but I don’t know where she went!” Lee pranced around a little and Sasuke’s face jiggled up and down in the camera, until Kiba told Lee about it.

Then Ino came running in. “It’s time!” she said breathlessly and Sasuke forgot to breathe. He choked until Kiba pounded him on the back saying something about not dying on his wedding day!

The blond experiencing the same feelings, but on a lower scale. He was surrounded by Shikamaru, Chouji, Gaara, Temari, TenTen and Sakura. He was ushered out hurriedly to get to the aisle on time.

Sasuke walked down feeling extremely nervous. He looked up and met azure eyes, the blond smiled at him. Sasuke thought he was going to faint and held onto his sanity. This wedding was making him a little too vulnerable. Moegi and her friend Hisana were the bridesmaids, Sakura was maid of honour and Lee was best man. Hinata and Kiba’s daughter Hinamori who was two was flower girl.

Sasuke and Naruto stood next to each other then they gripped each other’s hands and walked down the aisle. Tsunade started the ceremony and soon thy came to the vow part.

Sasuke went first taking a deep breath. “Uzumaki Naruto…we’ve really been through loads. When I think of you, I see sunshine…my sunshine. You lit up the darkest years of my life, stopping from doing stupid things and beat me up when you felt like it… no wait…you got beaten up… ok moving on. I can’t pinpoint when I fell in love with you, but it was a really long time ago and I can’t think of being with anyone else. When I asked you to marry me, I just felt more fear than I felt any other time… if you’d said no I would have…well let’s not go there… um… Naruto, I’ll be your till death do us part and after…I love you.” He’d never said such sentimental shit in his life! But he meant all of it!

Naruto’s was shorter. “Uchiha Sasuke… I hated you, envied you and wanted to be you…but now, I want to be yours instead! Yeah you’re right, we’ve been through a lot, we were really alike and I don’t think anyone understands me the way you do. and even after everything, if you can still say you love me, then I needn’t be ashamed of saying I love you…because I mean it. I love you and yeah, we’ll be together for always…”

The sundae blew her nose and wiped her eyes spoiling the moment, before continuing. “Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke I now pronounce you, man and wi… well men who are married! You may kiss each other, but don’t get too into it, I’ll have night mares!”

They glared at her, before softly kissing each other. The Tsunade smiled. “I present the Uchiha Uzumaki couple. Uchiha Uzumaki Sasuke and Uchiha Uzumaki Naruto.

Cheers burst out with mutters of ‘finally’ lacing the crowds. The newly weds were swamped by the crowd. Sasuke looked at Naruto who was thanking people and shaking their hands, a small grin on his face. Sasuke wished he could just pick his husband up and cart him of for some wedding night love, but they still had to get through the reception and cut cake and lots of other stupid things. Sasuke didn’t see why they had to cut the cake, but Naruto had said if they were gong to put so much effort into it, then they’d better have cake…and well Naruto was partial to cake.

Naruto looked over at his dark haired husband who was oblivious to the congratulations he was receiving…he saw a glint in those eyes and knew the night was going to be fun. Wow, he was married… and to Sasuke! Wow! He reached out, to rub Sasuke’s arm, trying to jolt him back to reality!

The reception was at a pub, so people could dance and get drunk. And when not on duty, Konoha nins loved just that…which is why a lot of people who didn’t like the couple came as well! Naruto and Sasuke had the first dance…they burnt the dance floor with their sizzling moves, Sasuke had to admit, he’d never seen Naruto like this, the blond was just so hot!

At about one in the morning, they were done with the partying. All the presents were left in one of the spare rooms for later. They stepped into their room together and looked at each other for a few moments. Then Naruto stepped forward, lacing their fingers together…”Hey there, shujin-chan!” (Husband)

“Are you the wife then?” Sasuke asked a glint in his eye. Naruto shook his head.

“Keep dreaming, Uchiha!”

“Yes I will, Uchiha!”

“Shit this doesn’t work when I’m sharing you’re name!” Naruto leaned forward gently kissing Sasuke. “You still owe me for letting your family name be the surname…you’re definitely uke today!”

Sasuke sighed. He kissed the blond, slowly moving towards the bed. They both started to undress pulling of their clothes unhurriedly, trying to turn the other on… that turned into a contest as well. By the time they were done, they were both erect and desperately needing the others touch. But Naruto was slow and gentle, teasing the dark haired man, but it didn’t last too long. They were both tired and needy. Naruto stretched Sasuke quickly, prepping him, before lubing his own cock. He aligned it with Sasuke’s entrance, and slipped inside with one sharp thrust. Sasuke cried out as Naruto hit his prostate with that one thrust. Then they started thrusting at a feverish pace, Naruto panted trying to aim at the spot continually, wanting Sasuke to cum first. Sasuke moaned and writhed under him, lips parted, face flushed, a think sheen of sweat all over him. He came suddenly, shooting ribbons of cum onto their stomachs and Naruto followed soon after, collapsing on top of his new husband.

Then the blond got up, bringing a wet rag to clean them both up. He finished and lay down next to Sasuke covering them with a blue quilt. The dark haired man slipped an arm over him, burying his face in blond hair. “Finally… we finally belong to each other…”

Naruto held him tighter. “Yeah…we will, forever…” they fell asleep, safe in each other’s arms, satisfied at long last, happy with their reward for everything they’d been through. They knew the peace wouldn’t last forever, but for now…it was enough.

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A/N: ok, sorry about the lemon ok? I was just getting into the mood when my friend Genna walked in and I had to stop. Then she killed the mood by talking about this teacher we hate…eeeewww! I had to wait until she left for the stationary store before I continued so I had a small time slot and no mood! So I’ll write the lemon separately and then post cos I know their wedding night had to special ok? Love you all!!

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Taka

Itachi: Taka if you aren’t done, I’m leaving. We need to have a quickie before that friend of yours gets back!!

Taka: Itachi! I ain’t in the mood!!

Itachi: fine (walks away)

Taka: Itachi!! (Glomps)

Itachi rolls and pins her on the ground and the next scenes have been cut!!

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