The Bad Boy and the Baby

Chapter 3:

Naruto wondered what the hell had happened to the dark haired man. Itachi looked really worried as he cleaned up the wound and started to stitch it up. Naruto had offered to call his grandmother, who was the greatest medic nin of all time, but Itachi had curtly refused, explaining that he didn’t want anyone knowing about this if possible.

“But why not? His life is in danger! What if it gets infected?” Naruto persisted, wondering how Itachi could be so stubborn. The older man glared at him.

“Listen, I would appreciate it if you could keep this to yourself. I don’t want anyone to know and I’m sure Sasuke doesn’t either, otherwise he’d have gone to the hospital himself.” Itachi finished stitching the wound. He placed lint on it and began to bandage it up. “You don’t have to worry, I studied medicine for a while in Suna…and while I’m not excellent at it, I do know enough to be able to treat him.”

Naruto frowned, but kept his mouth shut. He waited for Itachi to finish and then sat down by Sasuke. Itachi cleaned up and then pulled up a chair. He glanced at Naruto and sighed. “He should be fine. And I must warn you that he’s going to be angry to see you here when he wakes up.”

“Why is he doing this Itachi-san?”

Itachi looked up, a fleeting look of hurt and something like worry in his eyes. He decided to answer honestly. “I don’t know. He tells me he likes to do it for the kicks. If he has another reason I don’t know about it.”

Naruto nodded and let it go. After about two hours, Naruto saw Sasuke’s eyelids flutter a bit. Then those dark pools opened, as their owner blearily glanced at his brother. Then Sasuke’s eyes shifted to focus on Naruto’s shock of blond hair. He gave the blond a blank stare before turning to his brother.

“What’s he doing here?”

“Naruto-kun had come to see you, Sasuke. And when you did come home, he got worried. So I let him stay.” Itachi’s face was carefully blank, but Naruto noticed his jaw tightening just a little bit.

Sasuke turned to Naruto giving him an ice cold glare. “I told you I’d see you tomorrow. You have no right to come here and butt into my business!” His voice was calm, but there was a hint of rage.

Naruto slipped on his most innocent look. “I just wanted to see how you were! I was really worried… but I guess you’re fine now.” He hung his head a bit. “I just wanted to talk to you, about the engagement, but I’ll see you tomorrow.”

Sasuke watched Naruto get up and turned to Itachi. “Why don’t you go with him? I want to be alone right now…”

Naruto turned to see anger suddenly fill Itachi’s face. He smiled at Sasuke. “No I’ll go on my own. I don’t need any pissy Uchihas following me around!” And with that the blond left.

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The moment the blond left Itachi turned to glare at Sasuke. “What the hell happened?”

Sasuke gave him a bored look. “Kabuto fought me because I burnt his headquarters down to the ground. He’s in worse shape than this though.”

Itachi grit his teeth. “I don’t care what shape he’s in. You have to stop all of this right now! You’re going dismiss that gang of yours and if I hear anything about it, I’m not going to tolerate it!”

Sasuke raised an eyebrow. “You know something? Mind your own business. I’m eighteen and I don’t have to do anything, just because you’re telling me too. You haven’t cared these past two years, why do you care now?”

“I’ve always cared! It was ok, these past two years because it was nothing too dangerous. But this Kabuto business had been getting a little out of hand. Now that you’ll be marrying into the Uzumaki family, this has got to stop! Fun has its limits too. Grow up Sasuke, and give it up!” Itachi stalked out of the room, shutting the door with a slam.

Sasuke lay on his bed thinking. He could never tell Itachi about his goal. His brother would never allow it, or his brother would do it for him… and Sasuke didn’t want that. He grimaced, thinking about how to fool Itachi and reach his goal. Maybe his gang would have to go…he could still run the forbidden scroll racket if word got out in those circles that he was their sole owner.

He nodded. That would appease Itachi, and he would be able to keep everyone in the dark. Then his mind shifted to Naruto. Sasuke thought about the blue eyed blond for a quite a while. He had no idea why he’d agreed to the marriage, other than the fact that the contract was irreversible. But if he was in his right senses, he’d have been trying his best to get out of it. Something about Naruto made him want to make him, his. He wanted to possess the blond, which was the only thought in the boy’s head

But then again, this was marriage! Sasuke knew that somewhere in the back of his mind, he’d accepted and wanted to be tied to this blond person for a very long time. The fact that Naruto was refusing, made the chase loads easier and amusing…he would get that damn blond to want him… whatever the cost.

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Naruto woke up in the morning; his first thought was to wonder whether Sasuke was all right. even if he didn’t want Sasuke to be his fiancée, he’d seen sides of Sasuke that were nice and he wanted Sasuke to be his friend. And that was how it would be even if they got married. It would be a big sham of a marriage, because they’d just be friends.

He pulled on a grey t-shirt and an old pair of jeans. As he went down to breakfast, he wondered whether Sasuke had turned up, yet. But he just saw his family seated here. Making quick work of the rice and egg, he went for a walk. He debated whether to go to Sasuke’s house and check on him. Lost in this trail of thought, he walked headlong into something warm. The warmth ringed around him as he fell.

“Why don’t you watch where you’re going dobe?”

Naruto looked up to find himself chest to chest with the object of his thoughts. For some reason he could focus on anything but the pair of lips a few inches away from him. Then the lips opened slightly to emit a tsk-ing noise and the lovely warmth moved away from him.

Naruto blinked and took a good look at Sasuke, who should have been looking a bit worse. The taller boy had a smirk gracing his features, but what caught Naruto’s attention was his sudden change of attire. The brunette was wearing a V-neck sleeveless top, with broad sleeves which stopped at the edge of his shoulders. It was a pale blue, moving towards gray, with tight black jeans. The outfit showed of his arms, which were muscular, but not in the body builder way and accentuated his very nice ass.

“My face is up here dobe, did you knock your head yesterday or something?” said the vision of gorgeousness, slamming Naruto back to his senses. The blond shook his head a little as if to clear it and looked up at the bastard.

“No!” he frowned a bit before realizing why he’d been looking for the man. “So are you all right? You sure you should be up and about? You might just faint like yesterday…” Naruto said sweetly.

Sasuke’s face soured a bit. “That was once. I’m sure I can handle being up and about… for some reason, I don’t seem to be able to stay away from you…” his voice had a touch of huskiness to it.

Naruto looked away, a light blush painting his cheeks. He didn’t know how to reply to that. But before he could, a few more people came up to them. One of them was Tayuya, who he’d seen yesterday; there were two other guys too.

“Sasuke-sama… we heard that you defeated Kabuto yesterday! We always knew you’d show him!” Tayuya smiled at her leader. “who’s Blondie?”

She knew she’d made a mistake when Sasuke’s jaw tightened briefly. “This is my fiancée to be, Naruto. Naruto meet Tayuya, Kidoumaru and Sakon…my…acquaintances. If you don’t mind, could you wait here a moment? I have something to say to them and then I’ll be back.”

He moved to a side, letting them follow and then looked at them. “Well, then. I’m done with this gang.” Then feeling he owed them something at least. “I’m sorry, I know we’ve had good times together, but my brother isn’t too happy and I’m going to have to quit it.”

Kidoumaru stared at him. “WHAT DO YOU MEAN QUIT? WE’RE FRIENDS DAMN YOU! WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE THIS IS SOME BUSINESS WE’RE RUNNING?”

Sasuke raised an eyebrow. “It was a business we were running. You took me as your leader and you were my subordinates. We had a really good relationship, but now it has to end. but I guess I should thank you guys…you did help a lot!”

Then he turned on his back and started to walk back to Naruto. But Kidoumaru couldn’t hold it in. “LISTEN TO ME DAMN YOU! WE THOUGHT OF YOU AS A FRIEND! AS ONE OF US…DON’T YOU DARE TURN YOUR BACK ON US! Sasuke…stop it! Why can’t we still be friends?”

Sasuke stopped, his eyebrow twitching irritatedly. Naruto saw something in his eyes that was smothered in an instant. Then Sasuke coolly turned back and walked up to Kidoumaru. “Because, I’m getting married and I don’t have time to hang around with you wasting my time. And because I have other goals to be met that can’t be done with you hanging around. Now shut up. you’re pissing me off.”

He saw Kidoumaru open his mouth once more and punched him in the stomach. “I said shut up. And I’m sure you understand that I want to be left alone…”

Naruto watched the whole thing wondering what was going on. He’d heard Kidoumaru’s yells, but he couldn’t hear Sasuke’s replies. He didn’t like what was going on, but he decided not to intrude, when Sakon shot him a venomous glare, before helping Tayuya in picking Kidoumaru up and leaping away.

“I’m sorry about that. I’ve decided to forget the gang. Itachi was angry yesterday and well, it doesn’t seem like too much fun. So is it going to be ramen again? or do you want to spar?” Sasuke asked, hoping it would be the latter.

Naruto took a deep breath and thought about it. “Let’s spar. After all I’m a jounin too… I’d like to get back into practice.”

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They decided to use taijutsu. Naruto wondered how Sasuke could move in those tight jeans, but he managed really well. They began with a quick charge, each attacking and blocking in a blink of an eye. Naruto swung his leg, when he saw an opening, but Sasuke realized and caught his foot and threw him. Naruto somersaulted, placing his feet against a tree and pushing off, to gain more momentum. Sasuke jumped high in the air, trying to slam down on Naruto’s back, but he wasn’t prepared for Naruto to suddenly get behind him. The blond lashed out with his arm and Sasuke dodged landing back on the ground.

It went on that way for sometimes, before they got into a body lock, each trying to bear down on the other. Then Sasuke dropped thinking of rolling away, but Naruto dropped with him. They rolled a few feet, battling for domination, when Sasuke suddenly grabbed Naruto with both arms. He blond struggled, wondering what was happening, and why Sasuke wasn’t fighting to get on top.

Then he saw the way Sasuke was looking at him, a goddamn smirk adorning that beautiful face, as he stared up at the blond above him. Naruto just stopped all movement, aware of every bit of him that was touching the Uchiha…which was all of him, except for his head. “Um…Sasuke? What…?”

“Are you nervous Uzumaki? You’ve stopped struggling I see…or is it because you wanted this?” the Uchiha pulled him closer, placing his face an inch away from Naruto’s.

Naruto turned scarlet. He placed his arms on the Uchiha’s and tried to pull away. But Sasuke’s grip was pretty strong. Naruto wondered whether he was going to be kissed. He mentally prepared himself for it, a part of him wanting to be. But Sasuke kept that inch distance between them.

“I’ll admit that you’re pretty strong…” the dark haired man whispered huskily. “That’s a good thing…our children will have strength from both sides…”

Naruto could only breathe in sharply intensely aware of the man’s warm breath caressing his face. He moved his head forward just a bit, eyes slipping half shut as he saw the Uchiha get ready to move…and nothing. The Uchiha’s arms were suddenly off and Sasuke had placed his head on the grass, smirking evilly at the blond.

“Maybe if you could get off me, dobe, I could buy you some ramen?” Sasuke said in amusement. He watched as the blond went from red to purple and then back to red.

He’s teasing me the bastard! But I wanted to…Naruto cut off that line of thought, before getting to his feet and glaring at the dark haired man. “Ten bowls. I feel like ten bowls of ramen.”

Sasuke blinked and then rolled his eyes. “Anything for you, Naruto-kun…”

Naruto’s mouth fell open and then he frowned. “Don’t call me that…”

“Do you prefer dobe, then?”

“Just shut up! Shut up, Uchiha-bastard!”

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Ten bowls of ramen later, Naruto lay back in his chair. Sasuke had let him eat his fill, watching him with those obsidian orbs, until he’d felt so self conscience that he had to keep all his attention on the bowls. He wondered why the Uchiha had to look so damnably hot, today.

Suddenly Sakura burst in with Ino, Kiba and Shikamaru... “Naruto, did you know that Sasuke-kun dismissed his gang?” they both stopped when they saw the Uchiha raise an eyebrow at them.

“Uh…Sasuke-kun! We didn’t know you were here…” Ino gave him a sheepish smile.

Sakura grinned inanely too. “Yeah, well, we just wanted to say hi to Naruto! Hi there Naruto!” Kiba and Shika were expressionless.

The temperature reached zero degrees. “Since when did it become your business to inform my fiancée about what I do?”

“No! It was just…well everyone’s talking about it. And we thought…” Ino searched desperately for an excuse.

“Listen, Naruto’s our pal and since he’s to be engaged to you, we thought he should know. After all, you are a secretive asshole and we don’t want Naruto to get hurt.” Kiba cut in looking belligerent.

“Did you ever think that maybe Naruto might know? Considering he witnessed the whole thing and I let him…” Sasuke’s mouth turned down at the corners. “I’m having second thoughts about this marriage, if it means I’m going to have you lot spying on me for the rest of my life.”

“They wouldn’t do that! I wouldn’t list..en…” Naruto trailed off as he belatedly remembered he was the one who was supposed to be against the marriage. Why the heck had he jumped in the moment Sasuke had said that. “I mean…if we get married that is…”

“Hn. Whatever, dobe. What are we doing next?” Sasuke stretched a little, allowing everyone a glimpse of a very toned stomach, as his t-shirt lifted up a bit. Naruto tore his eyes away and stood.

“Well, I don’t know… maybe we could go take a walk? I mean, I have to see a lot of places I used to hang out at?” Naruto gave Sasuke a nice, soft smile. But to his irritation the bastard just expressionlessly nodded. He turned to his other friends, letting them know that he wanted to be with Sasuke for a while, with his eyes.

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They’d gone everywhere! Naruto had dragged he Uchiha to the training ground which had three stumps, pointing at where he’d been tied up once… then they’d gone to the Hokage tower and bothered Naruto’s dad a little, after which Naruto had dragged him to some waterfall, he’d fallen off, then to the academy, then to mission room, then to a lake and to a park. Sasuke wondered where they’d go next and then he realized.

They climbed the stairs on Hokage Mountain side by side, letting the breeze, blow their hair back. Naruto smiled, he loved feeling of the wind blow around him and seeing the view as they climbed higher. He glanced at Sasuke, who seemed to be deep in thought, his dark bangs caressing his pale face.

“So you stayed in Suna…did you know Gaara?” Naruto ventured a question.

“Gaara? Yeah I knew him…. Pretty well actually. Maybe you could actually call him a friend.” Sasuke turned to look at the view presenting Naruto with the back of his head.

“So you do have friends… well a friend. It’s nice to know that you have at least two friends…” Naruto grinned.

“Two?”

“Well, Gaara and me… I mean we are friends aren’t we?” Naruto raised his eyebrows.

“Friend? You and me? Maybe. I can accept us being friends; since friendship is the base for other relationships…you must know I’m aiming for more dobe.” Sasuke was still looking away. “I want a family of my own…”

“Yes about that….well, ok.”

Sasuke turned to stare at the blond moron who seemed to think he was making a lot of sense. “What’s ok?”

Naruto stuck his tongue out. “And you’re supposed to be the genius Uchiha! I’m saying ok, I’ll marry you…let’s go ahead with the engagement, if only to give it a try…”

For a long moment Sasuke just looked at him. “And what do you think this marriage will be like?”

“Well, we’ll be friends! It’s not like I’m attracted to you or you to me…it’s just to keep that contract going…” Naruto grinned merrily. “That way we’ll both be happy…”

Sasuke gave him a bored look. “Yes…friends. And we are supposed to make children how? Unless we’re friends with benefits…. Which will just the make the marriage all the more real…?”

Naruto blushed. “Well…I don’t know…we don’t need to have children right away do we?” then he got more serious. “It will still be a sham marriage, even with the sex, if there isn’t any love…”

Sasuke remained silent, not answering that question. Naruto looked up at the sky. “Well, I guess we’ll just have to deal with that though, ne?”

“Hn.”

They had reached the top and stood there looking at all of Konoha spread out before them. Both immersed in their own thoughts, just enjoying each other’s company. Sasuke wondered if love could be a part of this…but then it was too soon to tell. And they were just getting to know each other. But there was one thing he definitely had to set right.

It was dark now, almost seven and Sasuke wanted to get back home. There was something he needed to read up on. He turned to Naruto. “So, are you done?”

Naruto nodded. “There’s just one more place I want to go to…care to visit it with me?” Sasuke just sighed and made a few seals to poof them to the bottom of the mountain. He followed Naruto, as the blond walked through the throng of people. They reached a rickety gate; Sasuke had never been in this part of town before. He looked around and realized it was a graveyard.

Naruto kept walking and then stopped at a lone grave with a white marble stone. Sasuke stopped next to him, wondering why Konoha had a graveyard…they cremated their dead didn’t they? Naruto looked at him reading the question on his face.

“Sasuke, meet my mom… mom this is my fiancée Uchiha Sasuke.”

Then Sasuke glanced at the name on the grave. It read Uzumaki Sakiko, loving wife and mother, hope you’re happy wherever you are…. Naruto reached out to caress it. Sasuke nodded. “Nice to meet you Sakiko-san.”

“Yeah, I guess she’s happy to meet you too! My whole family seems happy that we’re getting engaged…” Naruto sighed.

Sasuke felt a tiny bit hurt, but refused to say anything about that, instead he just shrugged. “What can I say? I’m a really good catch!”

Naruto frowned. “We’re going to have problems if you have an ego that huge!! I think it covers a 20 miles radius! Anyway, I guess we’ll leave, I don’t want to argue here…”

Once more they resumed walking. Naruto noticed that Sasuke looked a little pale, his jaw drawn in a tight line. He wondered if the wound was hurting him. But when he asked, Sasuke just shrugged it off. Naruto wondered if this was how their marriage was going to be. Of course they were comfortable with each other, but there just wasn’t any love! It was too soon to love and he really was having doubts about this whole thing. His family wanted the marriage done with as soon as possible, so he wouldn’t be surprised if he ended up marrying Sasuke within the month.

He glanced at his fiancée once more… you couldn’t deny that he was gorgeous. But all that apathy, it just made you soooo curious to know what had made him like that. No genuine smiles, just smirks and sneers. Maybe one or two genuine smiles. For someone this confident and cool, Sasuke had seemed pretty out of it when Naruto had first met him. And now in a few days Sasuke was becoming this seductive person. It intrigued Naruto…. He waned to know who the man he was marrying really was….these weird mood swings and sudden sides to his personality were unnerving.

“Dobe, we’re here…”

Naruto turned to look at the Uchiha and then up at his house. How had they gotten there so fast? He felt a bit reluctant to let the Uchiha leave. “Um…would you like to come in?”

“No. I have to get home.” Sasuke answered in a clipped voice, he knew he had started to bleed through the bandages and it would start showing through his shirt soon. Then he saw Naruto’s face fall a little and started feeling a bit guilty. Shit, why does he do this to me? I don’t have to explain myself to him!

The look seemed t draw him towards the blond. He suddenly slipped his arm around the blond’s waist, and bent down to place a chaste kiss on his lips. Though the moment his lips met those petal soft ones it took him every ounce of self control not to slip his tongue in and kiss the living daylights out of him.

“See you tomorrow, dobe. Your grandmother wants me to come for lunch, so I’ll see you then. Don’t come looking for me ok?” and then he leaped away.

Naruto stood at his door step watching the figure disappear a finger on his lips. He hadn’t expected a kiss like that… not so chaste…then he just shrugged and walked into his house. The more he got to know about the Uchiha, the more of a mystery the man was…

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A/N: hey y’all! Sorry for the again!! Hope you liked this chapter… ok here’s a question: should this story only be until they get married or should it go with them being married and the stuff that happens then? Cos it’s still not going to be all smooth sailing once they get married you know? Well let me know what you think! Oh and since my keyboard is a little touchy about the letter ‘t’ and one or two others there might errors in this. I’ve cleared up most of them though! Ja ne!

Taka

P.S: please review….it’s very disheartening to see how many people read this and don’t review…. And I’d like it to be a bit