The Agreement

The Agreement

Chapter 21: Sakura’s Side

Sasuke was the first to wake up the next morning. He woke up in a tangle of arms and limbs, and it was hard to tell whose limb belonged to whom at first. Some time during the middle of the night Naruto had turned over so that his back faced Sasuke, and Sasuke had wrapped his arms (and one of his legs) around Naruto. Hinata was on her side so that she and Naruto were face to face while one of her arms draped protectively across his arms and therefore Sasuke's arm as well. Even shy Hinata had snaked one of her legs in between Naruto's. Naruto's arms remained close to his chest as though still afraid to touch either of them. Still, it didn't matter. Naruto had stayed the night, and Sasuke wasn’t foolish enough to think that Naruto wouldn’t need time to adjust. Staying the night meant acceptance, and Sasuke would milk that for all that it was worth.

Naruto finally knew that the children were his, and Sasuke had a strange giddy feeling, as though things would somehow work out. Feeling happily groggy, Sasuke enjoyed watching Naruto sleep, and he moved closer to Naruto as though to stake his claim on him.

A soft knock at the door a few minutes later made Sasuke come to full alertness. A smile tugged at Sasuke's face as he realized whose chakra was at the door, and he wondered what their visitor would think of their sleeping arrangements – even though they were all still fully clothed.

"Come in," Sasuke murmured, hoping not to wake the other two, but wanting to see the reaction of the visitor as they lied in such a position.

"Hinata, Sasuke-" but Neji stopped speaking as soon as he entered, his mouth hanging open, his body in an awkward stance of entering the room and stopping mid-motion.

"Morning Neji," Sasuke said quietly, not able to keep the smugness out of his voice as he watched the usually stoic boy look completely shocked and dumbfounded. Sasuke wondered why Neji was in his and Hinata’s part of the Hyuuga compound, but at the moment that thought was pushed to the back of his mind as he enjoyed watching Neji’s reaction.

"U-uh..." Neji tried, but words seemed to be caught in his throat. Sasuke slowly but gently untangled himself from Naruto and Hinata, which resulted in both of them shifting positions. Thankfully neither of them woke up. He knew Hinata would be mortified to awake with Neji in the room, and it would make Naruto feel awkward as well. In order to make sure they stayed asleep, Sasuke grabbed the stunned Hyuuga by his upper arm and led him out of the room before speaking, closing the door softly behind them.

"Yes Neji?" Sasuke asked, slightly amused at Neji's expression. Neji seemed to snap himself out of his sudden daze.

"Sakura is here, looking for Naruto. I told her I didn't think it was any business if he was here."

"Really?" Sasuke asked, slightly surprised at the protectiveness in which Neji spoke about Naruto.

"She apparently came here looking for Naruto. When no one answered the door here she came to the Main Household entrance asking if we could get Naruto for her. His chakra presence is so outstanding that it was obvious he was here. I didn’t even need to use my byakugan to know that he was in your room where he used to sleep when initially caring for the quads. If I had it my way, I would have told her that he wasn’t here. I think you’re well aware of how I feel about Sakura and Naruto together." Sasuke nodded. Neji’s intent to break Sakura and Naruto up and try and get Naruto together with Hinata was obvious. "But even she could tell he was here. She asked me to come get him for her. I assumed that Naruto was spending the night here because she had done something to upset him," Neji said as he looked at the closed door, "but apparently I was wrong. It seems he may have done something to upset her."

"No, you were right the first time. She did something," Sasuke corrected. He didn’t want Neji thinking that Naruto being a part of his family was something wrong.

Neji looked hesitantly at the door again and then back at Sasuke. Sasuke raised his eyebrow, daring Neji to ask him about Naruto.

"The three of you…?" Neji asked, trying to prompt Sasuke.

"The three of us, what?" Sasuke said, not giving Neji any more information than what he asked. Neji frowned, shaking his head as though he wasn’t sure if he wanted to know or not if they were having a threesome.

"Who’s the father of the quadruplets?" Neji asked boldly. Sasuke smirked.

"I am. And so is Naruto," Sasuke replied. Neji’s eyes widened.

"But clearly you knew about it – and don’t have a problem with it?" Neji asked. It was clear he was fishing for what to make of seeing the three of them in bed together. Sasuke just chuckled quietly feeling that that was all Neji needed to know for the time being and decided not to answer Neji. He nodded toward the closed door of his bedroom.

"Don't wake them up yet. I'd like to talk to Sakura alone," Sasuke said, remembering what he had promised Naruto the night before. Sasuke began walking away from the door, but Neji grabbed his upper arm.

"What...what was that in there?" Neji asked, looking at Sasuke. Sasuke just smirked. Clearly Neji wasn’t ready to let the subject drop.

"Nothing to concern yourself with," Sasuke said, but Neji didn't release his grip on Sasuke's arm.

"It looked intimate," Neji pressed.

"Not as intimate as I would have liked," Sasuke murmured before wrenching his arm away from Neji and descending the stairs. He'd let Neji work that one out on his own.

Sasuke wiped the smirk from his face as soon as he saw Sakura sitting on his sofa in the living room. He hadn’t realized that Neji had let her into the house already. A part of him had a mental image of him standing at the front door they spoke with the end result that he slammed the door in her face, but perhaps this way was better. He might be more civilized toward her, which was what Naruto wanted after all. Even so, it was hard for him to be civil around Sakura right now, despite his promise to Naruto.

There was no denying that he was still pissed off at her for a plethora of reasons, the least of which being that she had almost hit his daughter the night before. Even if she hadn't slept with Lee and hurt Naruto so badly, and even if she hadn’t almost hit his daughter, he still would have wanted to smack her for hitting Hinata.

Sakura stood up from the couch and put her hands in front of her.

"I should never have raised my hand against Seiryuu. I would never have actually hit her. I’m sorry," Sakura apologized sincerely. Sasuke looked at Sakura and nodded. While he was pissed off at her, and he wasn't sure whether or not she really would have hit Seiryuu, he still felt the sincerity of her apology. He knew it wouldn't happen again. Hopefully she knew if it did, she wouldn't ever have the opportunity to apologize because he would make sure to squeeze the life out of her if she ever hurt any of his children.

"You had no right to hit Hinata either. Why aren't you apologizing for that?" Sasuke demanded coldly. He wasn't going to let Sakura get away with anything easy. Sakura swallowed.

"I have told you before, and I know you may not believe me, but there has to have been something between Hinata and Naruto. It's obvious that...that at least Tenpi is Naruto and Hinata's son. I did a paternity test," Sakura said, fighting tears.

"A paternity test?" Sasuke asked, crossing his arms over his chest, wondering why she hadn’t told him about it before.

"It is possible that if a woman has sex with multiple partners, and has multiple eggs, that she could technically give birth to children at once with more than one father, though it is unusual." Sakura paused, and Sasuke merely stood there, looking at her. There were so many things he wanted to say to her, so many things that he was annoyed about, but he held his tongue, wanting to see where Sakura was going. She seemed a bit intimidated when he didn't speak, but she continued anyway. "Of the children, I noticed that Tenpi seemed the least like you. And the day that I came after the quads’ coming out party when I did a check up on all the quadruplets, I took a sample of Tenpi's blood..."

"So you took a blood analysis and found that Naruto was Tenpi's biological father? And you knew for that long and never said anything?" Sasuke asked incredulously looking at Sakura. Sakura nodded her head. Why hadn’t she confronted anyone with that evidence before?

"I'm so sorry Sasuke. It's true. I didn't want to believe it, but the proof is there. I wanted to give Hinata and Naruto time to confess on their own. But they didn’t! They didn’t confess that they-"

"They never had sex," Sasuke stated firmly. Sakura clenched and unclenched her fists.

"The evidence-"

"Is that Tenpi is Naruto's son. Not that they had sex," Sasuke said, crossing his arms. Sakura stared at Sasuke in disbelief.

"What is wrong with you? The only way for-"

"It's not the only way for Naruto to be the father, which I might add, he is, and I knew he was," Sasuke said. Sakura looked stunned.

"What are you talking about?" Sakura asked, confused.

"Naruto and Hinata are Tenpi's biological parents. Seiryuu, Muchuu, and Kitsu are mine," Sasuke said. Sakura licked her lips, looking stunned.

"You...you knew...?" Sakura asked slowly, her mind trying to register why Sasuke would know something like that without being phased by it.

"All four of the quads are Naruto's," Sasuke said, unable to keep a satisfied and proud smirk off of his face. It didn't help that he was taking sadistic pleasure in watching the confusion on Sakura's face. "If you were to do an analysis of all of the quads you would find Naruto to be the biological "father" of all of them. However, only Tenpi is Hinata's. The rest are a mix of mine and Naruto's genes," Sasuke said, looking at his hands as though they were more interesting than Sakura, all the while smirking quite smugly.

"What?"

"Naruto didn't have an affair. First, and foremost, it wouldn't have been an affair even if he had had sex with Hinata. Which he hasn't."

"What?!" Sakura said, standing up. "You're spouting nonsense! What has gotten into you Sasuke? This isn't like you at all!"

"No Sakura," Sasuke hissed, his smirk vanishing, "this is very much like me. You've no idea the lengths I went through to get what I want. You've no idea the lengths I will go through to give Naruto what he wants," Sasuke said. Sakura shook her head, but stepped back from Sasuke.

"I don't-"

"Naruto," Sasuke said simply. "I've always wanted Naruto. I love him, and I will do anything for him," Sasuke said. The information seemed to finally register with Sakura, and her brilliant mind began to make the connections.

"How – how are the quads Naruto's?" Sakura asked. Sasuke launched into the details of the medical information he had taken from Kabuto, explaining in detail to Sakura as he hadn't to anyone else, knowing she would be able to understand the medical jargon he had so painstakingly learned. And once the words started, he couldn't stop himself.

Sasuke explained everything that had transpired, starting from his first plans to have Hianta be the surrogate mother to the polygamous marriage that they had entered into to Naruto being the quads’ biological father. He even told her what he had done in order to get Naruto’s sperm.

Sasuke let Sakura digest the information.

"You're sick," Sakura said, her eyes wide. Sasuke shrugged.

"At least I'm not unfaithful," Sasuke taunted, completely unabashed.

"I-I thought he was having an affair."

"So it made it right for you to have one? Did it make you feel better about yourself to know that it was okay for you to have an affair just because you thought he had had one? Two wrongs don't make a right, and in this case, it was never Naruto who had done anything wrong. Naruto can't do anything wrong."

Sasuke enjoyed the pleasure of watching Sakura's world crumble around her, watching the way that everything she thought she knew was pulled from underneath her, allowing her to examine her own faults, allowing her to examine everything that she had done wrong.

"What I did was wrong, but what you did was fucked up. To do that to Naruto…to force him like that…to not ask him," Sakura bit out. Sasuke looked off to the side.

"And what about what you do to Lee? I hear he doesn’t remember anything after being drunk," Sasuke bit out.

"That’s different. Lee consents," Sakura said.

"He’s drunk and forgets what happens!" Sasuke countered.

"He consents, even if it was wrong of me," Sakura said. "I shouldn’t have hurt him that way. He did remember the times we had together, but brushed it off as a pleasurable dream. He and I talked things over this morning. Lee, well…he’s heart broken to say the least, but we talked things over this morning, and Lee agrees with me. I should never have hurt Naruto that way either. I won’t ever cheat on Naruto again, even if I thought he was still having an affair. The look on Naruto’s face last night when he caught us was so hurt that I couldn’t forgive myself. I came to apologize, even if Naruto doesn’t forgive me."

Sasuke looked away from her. This was the part he wasn't looking forward to: keeping his promise.

"I told Naruto everything last night. He made the connection that the reason you thought he was having an affair was ‘justified,’" Sasuke spat out the word "because you were under the impression that he was having an affair. He seems to understand where you were coming from." Sasuke’s next words were so much more difficult to speak than he thought they would be. "He wants you back."

Sakura looked surprised.

"He-he does?" Sakura asked, timidly.

"He loves you, something I have never been able to understand with the way that you treat him."

"I love him, and that is up to Naruto to decide, not you," Sakura said.

"Unlike you, I won't deny Naruto anything he wants – or deserves. I helped give him the children he deserved when you couldn't," Sasuke said, unable to help himself from reminding Sakura that he was better for Naruto. Sakura looked livid.

"It all goes back to the fact that I can't have children, doesn't it? If that were the case, than you and I-"

"Still would never have worked out. Stop deluding yourself that it was only your inability to have children that made me not want to be with you. You wanted me first and foremost above Naruto, but I never, ever, wanted you, even if you had been able to have children. And it would have been worse for Naruto if you ere able to. You would have always wanted my children, not Naruto's."

"People change-"

"But you haven't, not in this. Don't even try to lie. I don't know why you're so hung up on me when I never gave you any inclination that I would reciprocate your feelings. I was your teammate, yes, but even before that, in the Academy, you were like a leech. The feelings you had for me were tainted right from the beginning because of how you went about trying to get me."

"Not everything is about you," Sakura bit back. Sasuke smirked.

"I think it's only now that you finally realized I'm not the kind of guy you thought I was. It took you long enough," Sasuke said.

"You’re right; I didn’t know how horrible you are. You’re manipulative, cruel, and selfish. And you’ve hurt Naruto just as much as I have, maybe more! I love Naruto, not you Sasuke, and I was stupid to have ever liked you," Sakura said, bite behind her words.

Sasuke glared at Sakura, wishing that he had had this conversation with her in front of his doorway so he could slam the door in her face. Even so, he had promised Naruto that he would help get Sakura back for him. Damn his promise. This wasn’t going very well.

"Sakura?"

Both Sasuke and Sakura turned to see Naruto entering the living room holding Muchuu. Sasuke couldn’t help but feel his breath catch as he saw the way that Naruto held Muchuu differently than he had just the day before. He hadn’t thought there would be any difference in how Naruto treated the children after he found out that he was their father; he was wrong. Naruto seemed even more possessive and protective than before. Or perhaps it was just Sasuke who thought it seemed the way.

"Naruto, I’m so sorry," Sakura said as tears welled up in her eyes. Sasuke watched her, gauging her reaction. He wanted to say something about how her tears looked extremely fake, but he had a feeling that they weren’t, even if he wanted her to be faking it. She clearly wasn’t.

"Sakura, I need to talk to Sasuke for a moment. Alone," Naruto said coolly as he held Muchuu close to him. He turned and entered the kitchen. Sasuke was almost as shocked at the iciness in which Naruto had greeted Sakura as she was. She looked as stunned as though Naruto had slapped her again.

Sasuke got up and walked past Sakura into the kitchen where Naruto was waiting.

"Muchuu woke up before the others did," Naruto said as he placed Muchuu in his highchair and began going through the process of getting out a jar of baby food and a small spoon for Muchuu to eat from. Sasuke waited, knowing Naruto couldn’t possibly have wanted to talk to him just about the fact that Muchuu needed to be fed.

Sasuke turned toward the open doorway between the kitchen and the living room, watching as Sakura peered into the room after them.

"Naruto-"

"How are they mine Sasuke?" Naruto asked. He too looked out into the room briefly at Sakura. His face turned passive, and he lowered his voice so that Sakura couldn’t hear them. "How did you make them mine? You said you…" Naruto looked off to the side, his face turning red. "You said that you took my sperm. Last night I had a dream. It reminded me of one I had a couple years ago. The dream was of us…together." Naruto didn’t go into details of what “together” meant, but Sasuke could tell by the way he said it, and by the way his cheeks turned red that he meant of them having sex. "How – how did you take my sperm?" While Naruto didn’t seem angry, his tone seemed apprehensive, and held a slight hint of betrayal in it, as though he knew what Sasuke had done to him.

Sasuke swallowed. Perhaps he should have told Naruto everything last night. He had planned to tell Naruto the exact way he had extracted his sperm, but not this soon. Sasuke’s eyes flickered out to the living room as he saw Hinata enter the room while holding Tenpi. Sasuke mentally groaned, feeling as though Naruto couldn’t have picked a more inconvenient time to ask Sasuke to finally confess to all of his wrongdoings.


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