The Bad Boy and the Baby

A/N: Ok, here’s the result of the M-preg voting…it’s 12 to 5 in favor of M-preg. So please keep voting until the time comes for me to decide ok? If you’ve already told me what you prefer then is ok. And the ones against it? Please bear with me until I decide if I want it to be M-preg ok? Oh and sorry about the spelling mistakes…most of them are due to a keyboard problem and plus I write in British English though my computer is set to he US version and tends to muddle the whole thing!

Chapter 2: Sasuke's Gang

Itachi gaped at his younger brother. The last he’d heard, Sasuke had been as opposed to this as Naruto was… so what the hell was going on?? Naruto was gaping at the dark haired boy as well. Sasuke adjusted his storm gray Gi sleeve a bit and looked up at them all with a small smile. The Uzumakis (except for Naruto) beamed at him.

“Naruto is really lucky to have a fiancée like you! You seem to be so understanding!” Tsunade said, looking like she’d squish Sasuke to death in a hug!

Itachi smirked at that. If they only knew what Sasuke did when he was with his gang and about the hordes of fan girls who followed him around or his passion for dangerous jutsus. Oh well, if Sasuke wanted the marriage then he presumed it was all right. This Naruto might be a good influence on him.

Arashi stood up. “Well, shall we head to the dinning room then? We’ll discuss when to have the official engagement and announce it to the public. We’ll also settle the living arrangement and so forth…”

The dinner was really sumptuous, a wave country cuisine. They had soft spiced dumplings; rice noodles with tender chicken cooked in hot garlic sauce, fried rice and another dish of stir fried prawns. For dessert there was chocolates and ice cream. Sasuke refused both, not being a fan of sweets. During dinner, they were mostly silent as every time Arashi brought the topic of the engagement up, Naruto threatened to leave. At last they went back to the living room, Arashi dragging Naruto with him and plonking him down on the cushion.

Tsunade pulled out an astrology chart and they decided that the engagement could be held in a week’s time. Jiraiya drew up the guest list making sure to add all of Konoha’s young beauties, until Tsunade realized what was going and slapped him over his head. Naruto just pouted through the whole thing, refusing to speak to anyone.

Basically Sasuke had nothing to do. He opted to watch the blond and his family, wondering exactly how he was going to fit in. he wondered if he had really made the right decision. Then finally Arashi turned to the couple to be.

“Well, we have decided that Tuesday would be a great day for you to get engaged. Since the nobles and the Kazekage are coming over, it will be the perfect day to make the announcement as well. We will discuss your living arrangements after the engagement. We expect that you will spend time getting to know each other before then?” Arashi looked at them expectantly.

“Yes” “NO!”

Naruto and Sasuke had answered at the same time. Naruto’s father blushed a bit from embarrassment. “Don’t worry about it, Sasuke-san. I’ll talk to him.”

Itachi suddenly butted in. “Maybe they need some time to themselves, Arashi-sama? We could retire to another room?”

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The boys or should it be men sat in silence for a long time. Naruto trying to pointedly ignore Sasuke, but getting irritated since Sasuke seemed to be more interested in examining the fabric of his Gi. It went on till Naruto couldn’t stand it anymore.

“Why do you want to marry me, teme?”

Sasuke looked up making Naruto a teeny bit breathless, as the candle light played over the pale face, making those dark eyes seem depthless. “I could ask you almost the same thing, dobe. Why don’t you want to marry me?”

Naruto scowled. “I asked you first.” He waited for a reply which didn’t come. “I don’t even know you teme! I just got back and all ready I’m supposed to get married!”

Sasuke looked a bit thoughtful. “Well, you could get to know me. Being married won’t be such a bad thing dobe.”

Naruto stared at him. “What if I don’t like you after the marriage? What will we do? Get a divorce and destroy the alliance?”

Sasuke stood up, shaking his head a little. “The way I see it, your refusal now could destroy the alliance anyway, it doesn’t matter if it’s destroyed now and later. What matters is, whether you’re willing to give it a chance. Anyway, I’m tired and sleepy dobe, because unlike you I don’t have time to lounge about. I’ll come see you tomorrow morning.”

Naruto frowned. “I’m not a dobe, teme!” but Sasuke had all ready left the room. A few minutes later Naruto heard the front door shut and assumed that he had left the building as well. He walked back to his room and lay on the bed. Maybe this Sasuke wasn’t such a bad guy, but then…marriage? No way!

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When Naruto woke up in the morning, he heard voices coming down the corridor. Then his door suddenly opened and Sasuke walked in. Naruto squeaked and tried to hide under his bed covers.

“PERVERT!”

Sasuke’s amused voice only served to infuriate him more. “Dobe, I just came to see if you were ready. Should have known lazy ass would still have been in bed.”

“I slept late! Don’t just barge into people’s bedrooms asshole!” Naruto was relived that he’d worn his pajamas the night before, instead of opting to sleep in his boxers as usual.

“Well, your grandfather gave me permission. Actually he’s the one who brought me here and forced me in. And then he disappeared.” Sasuke shrugged. “Why don’t you go have a bath and stuff? I’ll be downstairs having breakfast since your grandmother is forcing me to have some. Everyone in your family seems to be forcing me to do something or the other…”

“Yeah? Welcome to the family, bastard! You’ll be doing things you don’t want to a lot more! Now get out of my room!” Naruto disappeared into the bathroom and finally heard his door shut.

Naruto came down wearing a blue button shirt and jeans. Sasuke was all ready eating his omelet and rice. The rest of his family was there too. They were all talking and laughing…well Sasuke wasn’t laughing or talking too much. Naruto wondered why the other boy was so quiet, but then that was Sasuke all over, so he guessed he’d always been like that.

His father was ignoring him. It hit Naruto the moment he sat down and the normally cheerful Arashi shut up. he knew his dad was feeling embarrassed about the way he’d behaved last night, but he had to understand it was Naruto’s life they were talking about. Instead the Hokage’s attention was completely focused on Sasuke.

After breakfast he decided that he’d go with Sasuke, find out some more about him. The moment they stepped out; they were surrounded by a horde of girls. Sasuke just ignored them and continued walking, but it really creeped Naruto out to have so many females looking at them like hungry hyenas.

“Sasuke-kun, who’s your blond friend?”

“Move aside bitch, that’s the Hokage’s son. Sasuke-kun! Good morning!”

“Sasuke-kun! Naruto-kun!”

“Oh marry me Sasuke-kun!”

“Let me bear your children, Sasuke-sweetie!”

“I love you! Grace me with your presence forever!”

Naruto smirked. So this was why the bastard had such a huge ego! He wondered what Sasuke was thinking and wished he could read the dark haired man’s mind. Then someone came running up to pounce on Naruto.

“Naruto! Long time no see! How come you’re hanging with Sasuke-kun? Good morning Sasuke-kun!” It was a girl with pink hair and green eyes. He also had an abnormally large forehead.

“Yeah I just got back, Sakura-chan. Um…I’m with Sasuke….because, well…” Naruto wondered what to say. He needn’t have bothered as the bastard decided to answer for him.

“Naruto and I are getting engaged. It was arranged by our families a long time ago.” Sasuke informed her coolly, not bothering about the thousands of girls who’d fainted behind them.

“If it was arranged why don’t you just refuse? You can’t be seriously getting married right?” Sakura asked them her eyes wide.

“I like the match. Naruto might be having second thoughts though.” Sasuke stepped forward as if to move on.

“Sasuke-kun…” Sakura whispered. “But I didn’t know you swung that way… you …”

At that Sasuke turned around and the temperature seemed to have dropped to chilly degrees. “You know nothing about me. No one knows anything about me. Stop acting like you do… that goes for you lot as well.” His voice was ice, cold sharp and disdainful. It was like Sakura and the rest were not even fit to be the light coating of dust on his shoes.

Then he turned around, gesturing to Naruto. “Dobe, let’s go.” Naruto looked between him and a heart broken Sakura wondering who to be with. But then Sakura snarled at him.

“Your fiancée is calling you!” Then she whirled around and walked away. Naruto rolled his eyes and ran after Sasuke. He glared at the dark haired man.

“Why do you have to be like that? You hurt them, but you really hurt Sakura-chan! She really does like you a lot!” Naruto yelled, pointing an accusing finger at Sasuke’s face.

Sasuke turned to look at him, the blank look still on his face. “You want me to marry her dobe? Because she likes me? They’re all annoying!”

Naruto stared at him. “Are you always so cold?”

“Hn. Better get used to it. So what do you want to do now?” Sasuke turned away, smirking about something. Naruto had come to the conclusion that Sasuke’s face had just four major expressions…the small smile, the blank look, the cold anger and the equally cool smirk.

Naruto wished he could see more of Sasuke… the man he was supposed to marry. But with this dark eyed man everything seemed to be under lock and key. There seemed to be absolutely no way to break into that invisible barrier he put up between them. “How about we go somewhere where I can meet all my old friends? I left about two or three years back right after I got m jounin rank, so we have loads of catching up to do!”

Sasuke nodded. He was glad the blond wasn’t acting as cute as he had the first time they’d met. Sasuke did not want to be seen doing mushy things when he could be seen by his gang. They went to a restaurant called Yummy Barbeque and found the whole gang gathered there. Sakura too. By the looks the two of them got, no doubt she’d told them all.

But after a moment of silence, they all jumped up to surround Naruto, hugging him and giving slaps on the back. Sasuke suddenly felt left out…sure he knew them all and worked with them countless number of times, but he hadn’t…couldn’t develop this kind of camaraderie! He just watched as Naruto scratched his head, trying to answer all their questions at once.

Then blue eyes met black and Naruto came forward. “Aren’t you going to join in bastard? How long are you going to stand there watching us?” Naruto smiled.

Kiba guffawed. “Uchiha, join us? The famous leader of the Fan join lowly people like us? Naruto, he’s been here for two years and he’s yet to join us for a meal, or even a drink.”

Sasuke didn’t deign to reply to that, keeping his eyes on his fiancée to be. Naruto grimaced and then waggled a finger at Sasuke. “Well that will have to change now that I’m here. Get your ass over here, teme! We’re going to eat with our friends.”

Sasuke shrugged, taking his place next to the blond, but still not paying any of them any attention. Just as they first piece of meat got decently barbequed someone burst in. It was Tayuya. Sasuke looked up a frown marring his face.

“Sasuke-sama, we need to talk right now!” she dropped to the ground, Sasuke didn’t like being disrespected.

“I thought I told you that you guys had a holiday till next week. I don’t want to be disturbed.” Sasuke glared at her, the Uchiha death glare. But then Tayuya was used to it.

“Sound attacked headquarters…” she said trying to convey the urgency of the message. “Kabuto realized that you’d given us a few days off… the coward.”

Sasuke’s face went tight, his mouth moving into a small snarl. He stood up and turned to Naruto. “Guess you’ll have to get home by yourself dobe. I have things to get done. I’ll meet you later, maybe tomorrow.” Then he leaped off, Tayuya in tow.

Shikamaru shook his head. “He’s going to get himself into trouble soon… that Kabuto is mostly probably trying to kill him.”

Naruto sure enough seemed to have a big question mark on his face. Chouji explained to him while shoving bits of meat into his stomach. “Sasuke has a gang called the Fan. They’re really notorious for a lot of things… like shoplifting, getting with women and stuff like that. But then they have these rivals called Sound. The leader of Sound, Kabuto is out to get Sasuke, since he usurped their authority around here. They’ve been getting into loads of fights. Sometimes the gangs’ traffic forbidden jutsus throughout Konoha…I think Kabuto sells to other villages, but Sasuke’s too honorable for that.”

“Yeah he seems to do it for the kicks. It’s unhealthy, but he is one weird guy. He keeps himself to himself and refuses to get close to anyone! You’re going to have a really hard time if you’re marrying him. Itachi is a bit better; he at least socializes a bit. They’re both genius ninjas, quick learners and such like.” Kiba continued as Chouji stuffed a really big piece into his mouth and had to stop explaining.

“He got the jounin title the moment he arrived. It seems he’d been in Water country, at Hidden Mist with his parents before. And then later he and Itachi went to Suna…they achieved jounin rank there. After two years there they decided to come back here. So they arrived here two years ago.” Ino added her two cents. “He’s awesome! If I wasn’t going out with Chouji, I really would be one of his stalkers like Sakura here. Hey, did you know Sai is his cousin?”

Naruto shook his head. He was a little pre-occupied with mulling over what he’d heard about the Uchiha. He wondered where Sasuke had disappeared to and found himself hoping that the man was all right. Neji started to grill him about why he was marrying the Uchiha and he explained as much as he could without having to go into detail about the fact that he could reproduce.

Then he made his excuses and left, deciding that he wanted to see his protégé Konohamaru and his little gang and then maybe he’d talk to Sasuke, if he was home. Naruto didn’t feel like waiting till tomorrow.

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Sasuke grit his teeth as he saw the small house they used as their headquarters smashed up. It was still standing, but it was in no condition to be used and the records of the number of scrolls they had bought and sold were destroyed. Of course he’d expected this and did have back up copies and kept the scrolls at home as well, but he was furious and ready to pay Kabuto back at any cost. This was because Kabuto couldn’t find any other way to hurt him.

He would burn that bastard’s headquarters down to the ground. It was against his better judgment, since he knew it would provoke a gang war, and he was in no position to fight, especially if Naruto got involved. But then keeping quiet would damage his reputation. He made up his mind.

“Sakon…check out Kabuto's place… report to me the moment you sense that they’re not there.” Sasuke frowned deep in thought. Kabuto’s headquarters didn’t have any neighbors so he could make this pretty spectacular. “Kidoumaru? Line the place with anything flammable you find… flour bags, etc…”

Tayuya stared at him. “Sasuke-sama… you’re not going to…”

Sasuke smirked. “Of course I am. Sakon should be back any minute now to tell me that it’s empty…they’ll have gone on their lunch break.” And sure enough Sakon did appear and say the same thing. Sasuke made his way over to that lonely little hut, where Sound gathered.

Kidoumaru had done his job well. They stood really far away as Sasuke made the seals. “Katon goukyaku no Jutsu!” the place literally blew up, until all that was left was scorched ground and pieces of wood. Sasuke smirked satisfied and joined his gang for a drink at one of the local pubs. He remembered that he also had to meet a customer.

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The deal with the customer had gone fine. Sasuke always made sure that the person he was selling to, wasn’t going to turn against Konoha. And that the scroll he was asking for wasn’t anything too dangerous. Of course, he kept all the dangerous scrolls for himself… the type he sold were forbidden for some silly reason and it was the ninja who cast the jutsu who’d be in danger. But then he had his own reasons for being in this business… he was searching for someone.

It was six in the evening when Kabuto showed up. Sasuke smirked and walked out to greet him. Kabuto was looking crazed and angry. “I’ll run you out of town Uchiha!”

Sasuke grinned then…a blank grin. “Are you sure about that? Hn. You’ll be the one running…I’ll never let you come back!”

They sprinted to the training grounds, so that they could fight without interruptions. Sasuke stretched and readied himself. Then Kabuto ran towards him. Sasuke dodged the kick, whirling around to clasp Kabuto’s foot and then threw him into the trees. Kabuto crashed through the trees, but surprisingly righted himself. He held up his right hand and Sasuke saw a concentration of charka on it.

Whatever happened Sasuke knew he had to dodge that hand. He made a few seals. “Katon goukyaku no jutsu!” He aimed the fireballs and shot them at Kabuto who seemed to have gained some speed. Kabuto dodged and rushed forward, Sasuke moved away, but the tip of Kabuto’s charka caught him on the arm. Sasuke gasped as his left arm went limp.

Kabuto smirked. “It’s a charka scalpel. I just severed the muscles in your left arm. How are you going make seals now Sasuke?”

Sasuke opened his eyes which were crimson and spinning. He could not copy that jutsu, but at least with the sharingan he could increase his speed and dodge better. Sasuke attacked, throwing shuriken with his good arm. Kabuto dodged those, but he didn’t see the Uchiha come at him from behind and was caught by surprise when Uchiha’s legs caught him around the middle and he was thrown face first into a tree.

Kabuto stood up, his face smashed up pretty bad. He gave a howl of rage and slashed blindly at Sasuke. Sasuke dodged and attacked and it went on for about fifteen more minutes. Then Sasuke saw the Kabuto’s blade had dulled a little. He let his guard down a little, which earned him a long cut down his right cheek. He cursed, so it could still cut!

He needed to finish this off as well. He knew Kabuto was a medic nin and so he had to be extra careful. He had to use a jutsu and finish this off. He wondered if he could form the Chidori in his right hand… he laced his fingers through his dead left hand’s and began to form seals for Chidori. It hurt; his right arm wasn’t used to concentrated power like that. Sasuke snarled and went in for the kill. Kabuto charged as well… the Chidori was weak but it succeeded in paralyzing Kabuto. Sasuke was breathing hard…it had ended at last. It was then he noticed that Kabuto’s blade had gone right through his right side and a copious amount of blood was gushing out. He disentangled himself from Kabuto and tore his shirt off. He held it to his side trying to staunch the blood till he got home and Itachi patched him up.

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Naruto was waiting for Sasuke to return. He was sitting by the front door in the living room with Itachi. Itachi was being pretty nice and had offered him ramen. They’d talked about Water country and Suna since Naruto had been there as well. They both knew Gaara, the Kazekage and were really good friends with him.

Then suddenly the door opened and a very bloody Sasuke stumbled in. Naruto looked at him in horror, as the dark haired man looked at Itachi. Itachi stood up, tight faced.

“I think you went overboard today Sasuke…”

“Just patch me up will you…?” Sasuke croaked obviously in complete pain. Then he seemed to notice Naruto and the blond saw a new expression cross his face.

Sasuke was staring at him in horror. “Why are you…?” was all he managed before passing out on the floor in a pool of his own blood.

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A/N: that’s it for now…I’m tired. I will go through this again now to see that there aren’t any mistakes. So hoped you liked it and thank you all for reviewing! I love you guys….I hope this met up to the expectations. The plot is pretty big actually and there are loads of sub plots like Sasuke’s past and the reason he’s doing this gang thing, and Naruto’s trip and stuff. So stay tuned!!

Taka