A Dog's Life

Welcome to a new chapter of ‘A Dog’s Life’ as I have mentioned before, their will be some confrontations that people may not be comfortable with, but there is a lot of issues that need to be resolved in the story itself… especially concerning Naruto’s pregnancy and the people that are determined to keep Naruto away from Sasuke, but it will all turn out all right in the end. While this isn’t the ending yet, I hope you enjoy it and thanks to everyone who has reviewed and continues to review… I appreciate the support.

A Dog’s Life-Chapter 19 by KitsuneFun

Disclosure: I don’t own Naruto, that honor is held by Masashi Kishimoto, I am just a fanfiction writer doing this for fun.

Itachi found himself laying on his back staring up at the sky, it was peaceful laying on top of the cool grass as it pressed against your back, while the clouds slowly moved, making random shapes as they passed. He could see how Shikamaru liked to view the clouds, it gave you time to just be… and for the moment that was precious to Itachi.

“I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought this was a good idea…” the raven haired youth looked up in surprise at the voice, he saw a beautiful woman with long red hair that fell to her waist and pale skin the color of snow, but the most remarkable thing was her eyes that were a shade of blue so beautiful it almost hurt to look at them, she gave him a slight smile before sitting down next to him on the grass.

“Aren’t you worried about ruining your dress?” he asked hoping the beautiful woman would stay.

She gave a soft laugh that made Itachi’s heart thump loudly in his chest, “Sometimes forgetting about the small stuff is important,” she turned to look at him and gave another smile before holding out her hand to him, “I’m Kyuubi… and you are?” her red brow rose in question when she noticed the boy pause to look at the hand before clasping it softly as though he was afraid to touch her.

“My name is Uchiha… I mean Itachi,” Itachi felt his face burn slightly with a blush as the woman looked at him oddly.

She nodded before staring off into the distance, “An Uchiha… I have heard of your clan from Yondaime,” she gave a slight frown as though thinking about something painful, “I am starting to worry about him and Shuzaku… it seems,” she shook her head and laughed before looking at him again, “I shouldn’t worry about these things… just look at the clouds,” she leaned her head back and closed her eyes.

“You can tell me…” Itachi stated hesitantly while sitting up, his heart had refused to calm down since he’d first seen Kyuubi and he found himself blushing more than normal around the beautiful woman, “I mean I won’t say anything…” he managed to blurt out despite his nervousness when those blue eyes turned towards him again.

“Don’t worry its not your decision… its just something I have to think about and have observed since I noticed the tension lately between Shuzaku and Yondaime, I suspect that he might be cheating on her…”

Itachi’s eyes widened in surprise at the confession from the woman, ‘Who could he be cheating with,’ he thought, out loud he asked, “Doesn’t Yondaime-sama loves Shuzaku-san… he wouldn’t… he loves her as much as my father loves my mother,” at the mention of Itachi’s father, Shuzaku seemed to flinch and cringe slightly, he wondered about the reaction.

“I’m afraid their might eventually be a confrontation between them soon… and Fugaku-san will no longer remain quiet about it,” Itachi leaned forward hoping to learn more about this, ‘It,’ that Kyuubi was mentioning, but the woman no longer seemed to be forthcoming with anymore information, but instead had turned to give him a soft smile, “I can only hope that it passes Itachi-kun.”

Itachi’s heart squeezed pleasurably at the way she said his name, slow and infused with warmth, he found himself wanting to become closer to this woman and didn’t understand the feelings coursing through him, it was confusing, “Kyuubi-chan… do you have a mate?”

The woman turned to look at him oddly before giving a nervous laugh; “Well no…” she lifted her hand and pinched his cheek, “And before you ask… I’m sorry, but as cute as you are… I’ve already given my heart to someone else and unfortunately he seemed confused about his feelings right now.”

Itachi nodded sullenly before lifting his head to look up at the clouds in order to hide his hurt, “Yondaime-sama…”

Kyuubi was surprised at the mention and laughed nervously, “Cute and smart… you better watch yourself Itachi you’ll break hearts when your older…” at his answering blush she chuckled again before leaning in to kiss him softly on the cheek startling him, “Don’t ever change,” with those soft words she rose to her feet to walk off, she briefly turned to look at him once over her shoulder and waved, “Thanks for watching the clouds with me… we should do it again sometime,” however that was the last time he’d heard from her, Itachi had been told later that she died giving her soul, in the form of a crystallized heart, to Shuzaku so that she could bear the child that Yondaime wanted.

It was during a party, that his young brother attended along with the family, celebrating Shuzaku’s pregnancy at the palace, that an incident occurred between his father and Yondaime and they ended up being forced to leave the castle, even Itachi who was once apart of the royal guard was banished from the golden tower of Rasengan.

It was that incident that drove Itachi to resent not only Yondaime, but also his father and he had vowed to become the next king by force if he had too, it was during that time that Orochimaru told him about the key and how he could accomplish his dream.

(Currently at Itachi’s Castle)

Itachi watched as Diedara locked ‘the Key’ into some chains attached to the ceremonial sacrificial pole in the center of the room, the blond haired boy seemed about the same age Itachi had been when he had first met Kyuubi, he still felt a slight pain grip his heart over thoughts of the woman and he didn’t understand the emotions any more than he had back then, unless that had meant she was his chosen mate, ‘No…’ he shook his head at the thought since if that had been the case he would have died along with her.

Eyeing ‘the Key’ again he found himself jealous that his brother had accomplished something he never could, finding a mate, and at such a young age, it seemed unreal to the older Uchiha brother, “Diedara leave us a moment.”

The long haired blond man turned to give him a saucy wink, “Sure boss-man,” before leaving the room.

“What’s your name?” Itachi found himself asking.

The blond boy seemed confused by the question before he suddenly glared in Itachi’s direction, “Why do you care?”

Itachi sighed slightly before walking over to sit next to ‘the key’ on the floor were he was currently sitting with the chains binding him to the post in the center of the room, “I don’t really… but I find myself curious about the one that my brother has mated with.”

The blond turned to look at him slowly from bottom to top, making Itachi smirk as he leaned in close to the other boy startling him, “Do you like what you see Key-chan?”

The blond haired boy snorted once before turning his head away, hiding his blush, “My name isn’t Key… It’s Naruto… you know you look a lot like him.”

“The unfortunate side effects of having the same parents,” Itachi tried to cover a laugh as the boy eyed him as if he were nuts, “I think I can see why my brother chose you… you compliment each other.” Itachi turned look up at the ceiling of the room a moment in thought; he was surprised when the boy spoke next.

“Itachi why do you hate Sasuke so much?” the boy asked curiously, his head tilted slightly to the side as he awaited Itachi’s reaction.

Naruto was surprised when the raven haired man laughed, “It’s funny but I don’t seem to know anymore… it feels like I am obligated even though I have my doubts…” he moved to place a hand on Naruto’s stomach gently.

The blond tried to move away from that hand, suddenly feeling nervous, “Don’t touch me!”

“Don’t worry Naruto-chan,” the blond frowned at the chan part, “I was just feeling the two baby’s power lines…”

Naruto froze at the words, “Baby… that’s not possible…” he shook his head turning away with a frown a moment before glaring again at Itachi, “I’ve only been with your brother twice there is no way I am pregnant!”

Itachi gave Naruto a glare before pulling his hand away, “Don’t you mean Sasuke and Gaara?”
Blue eyes narrowed dangerously at the suggestion, “I’ve never had sex with Gaara… and I am not pregnant…”

Itachi stood up suddenly to glare down at Naruto, “Orochimaru told me himself that his spy saw you and Gaara having sex right after you made love to my brother… you should know better than to lie…”

Naruto’s eyes widened in shock, “But I didn’t… I’ve only been with Sasuke… I love Sasuke,” Naruto tried to stand up only to find he didn’t have the strength in his legs and he ended up collapsing onto his knees painfully.

“Ah I wouldn’t move Naruto-kun, you wouldn’t want to hurt yourself with that much paralyzing venom in your system,” Orochimaru stepped from the shadows with a slight grin, Gaara was trailing him and their was a blush on his face as he eyed the two, it seemed out of place to Itachi seeing the red head blush.

“You Bastard!” Naruto growled up at the sennin, wishing he was free to strangle the older man.

Orochimaru only smiled down slightly at him, “I only want what’s best for Itachi-kun’s plans so unfortunately I have to make sure that you can’t escape,” the slow look that the sennin gave him made Naruto’s skin crawl, “But if you desire so I can always delay the ceremony a couple of days,” the older man’s long tongue came out and he licked his lips slowly in front of Naruto making the blond shudder in horror.”

“I think I would prefer death first,” Naruto muttered turning away.

The sennin gave a sickeningly sweet smile before nodding, “As you wish… Itachi we need to make plans to insure that the others are ready when the gate falls… we wouldn’t want to be caught inside the magical wormhole when that happens.”

Itachi nodded his head once, “As you wish Sennin-sama…”

Orochimaru gave a brief nod before turning to walk out the door, “Gaara watch the boy while we talk,” with that Itachi and Orochimaru left the room.

Gaara stood frozen as he eyed the blond who refused to acknowledge him, “So you found out?”

Naruto flinched slightly before raising his head to look at Gaara’s face, “Why did you tell them I slept with you?”

The red head blushed uncharacteristically again, “Because I did…”

“No you didn’t… I would remember if I had sex with you…” he stopped talking when he noticed Gaara’s intense look.
“There is a lot of things you don’t know about the magical world… and one of them is what a changeling is…” the redhead could feel his pulse race as his senses took in the blond’s smell, “Unlike the fey we can change our shape to any form we desire,” Naruto continued to eye him in confusion as Gaara kneeled close to him, “For instance… like your precious Sasuke,” Gaara couldn’t stop the sneer that crossed his face saying his rival’s name.

Naruto licked his lips nervously, “Why… why are you mentioning this?”

A smirk appeared on Gaara’s face before a rippling motion appeared around him making Naruto’s eyes hurt as they tried to focus on a clear line, soon the rippling was replaced by the form of Sasuke, making Naruto’s eyes widen in surprise.

“Sasuke?” the raven gave him a slow smile before leaning close to press his lips near Naruto’s ear.

“Sorry… but I’m not your precious Sasuke,” it was Sasuke’s voice and his smell that confused Naruto. Gaara had a way of making him believe it was his mate despite his heart telling him it wasn’t Sasuke.

Naruto jerked back to eye the other with a hurt look on his face, “How could you do this to me…” the blond started to shake and tears appeared in his eyes as he faced the amused looking raven.

Gaara knew he was damning himself by his own actions, but it was so hard for him to give up the feelings he had for Naruto, “You did it to me first… how could you choose him over me?”

Naruto pulled away as far as he could, bound to the post as he was, and tried to look away from his ex boyfriend, “Would you stop looking like that…”

Gaara growled in frustration pulling the blond face towards him, “I love you more than he ever could… he’s not worthy of you!”

“And you are?” Naruto gave a chocked sounding laugh, “You’ve been lying to me from the beginning Gaara… is that even your name… god.” he mumbled closing his eyes and taking a shuddering breath, “I can’t believe everyone has been lying to me from the beginning… except Sasuke… he may be a bastard, but I can take someone being a bastard as long as he’s telling the truth…” he opened his eyes to glare up at Gaara who still held his chin, “What I can’t deal with is someone I have given my heart to lying to me…”

“Naruto…” A slight coughing sound near the door to the room interrupted Gaara; he turned to glare at a returning Diedara.

“Sorry to interrupt your little make out session with the key, but it seems we have a problem…” Diedara gave a slight uncomfortable grin when the red head turned to glare at him.

“And what problem is that?” he mumbled as he reluctantly moved away from Naruto.

“Apparently we are under attack from Yondaime’s royal guard, Fugaku’s guard and the remaining Sennin,” the long haired blond gave a nervous laugh as he fidgeted in the doorway, “I was told by Orochimaru to bring ‘the key’ to him and Itachi… they plan on leaving with the boy and continuing the ceremony elsewhere.”

“No!” Gaara bit back the rest of the word he wanted to say, but he knew that if he didn’t do something now it would be the blond’s last chance, that Naruto could die if Gaara didn’t intervene, “I’ll take him…” he mumbled in a calmer voice than he felt in that moment.

“Thank god…” Diedara sighed putting a hand to his chest, “I was worried about the instructions I left with Tobi at the battlements… so I’ll go help with that while you bring the boy to Orochimaru,” with that he left the two alone.

Gaara gave a sigh of relief before turning around to face Naruto, “We don’t have enough time it seems… we better move quickly,” he knelt down and started removing the chains.

Naruto eyed the other boy’s head as he knelt in front of him, it seemed so strange how only a few weeks prior he had thought he was in love with Gaara, “I’m sorry…” the red head looked up at him briefly, “I can’t be with you like that anymore… whether it’s a good idea or not I can’t help being in love with Sasuke and if there is any possibility, like Itachi said, that I am pregnant… then I want to raise them with Sasuke.”

Gaara sat back up pulling up the blond with him, “Even if they are mine…”

Naruto glared up at him, “I won’t forgive you for that… even if I understand your reasons… even if the children are yours, I will never be with you again Gaara.”

Gaara nodded, his face was filled with hurt as turned away from Naruto, “I won’t say that I will stop, but if there is ever a chance where I can take you from him… I will.”

The blond gave a slow warm smile as he thought of Sasuke, “If it means leaving without him I would rather die.”

(Elsewhere, outside the castle)

Sasuke looked up at the tower in resignation, ‘I will kill everyone who keeps you from me Naruto… just wait for me.’

“It’s a good thing that Orochimaru was arrogant enough not to realize that Anko wouldn’t tell the location of Itachi’s base… otherwise we might not have found it,” Tsunade muttered from next to Yondaime and Jiraya as they stared up at the battlements.

“As much as I think Itachi is a bastard… he really is a genius at having put this all together,” Jiraya muttered taking a drink of Sake.

Tsunade glared at him a moment for the comment, “God how could I have married such an idiot?”

Jiraya waggled his brows towards the woman, “Cause I know how to love you long time.”

Yondaime glared at them both, “Would you two shut up…” he pressed a hand towards his head, “No wonder I’ve had such a traumatizing childhood…” he found himself eyeing Fugaku as he walked up towards the group.

“I hope at least your more prepared for this… otherwise we might as well turn around now with a leader like you,” he muttered unaware of the angry look Yondaime shot at him.

“And what the hell is that supposed to mean you bastard?” Yondaime yelled moving till his nose was almost touching Fugaku’s own.

Fugaku smirked, “Just what it means… idiot.”

Yondaime growled under his breath, “No wonder I forbid you from stepping in Rasengan… you can be such an ass Fugaku!”

Fugaku turned to give him a leveling look, “And you would know all about my ass… wouldn’t you?” he turned to walk off leaving a flushed Yondaime behind.

“What exactly did he mean by that son?” Jiraya asked as he eyed his son’s actions suspiciously.

Yondaime continues to blush, “It doesn’t matter… we have to focus on getting Naruto out safe and sound.”

Tsunade smiled noting the uncomfortable look on her son’s face and smiled, ‘Things are definitely turning interesting.’

Well that’s it for chapter 19, as I have said before the ending is coming soon and yes Sasuke and Naruto will eventually be reunited ^_^ so I hope you all look forward to it and please review… I love hearing your opinions on my story.