As Long as it Feels OK

/*AN: Here comes the chapter that I have dubbed, "The moment of truth." I look forward to your reviews. ^^ They help me write faster so keep them comming! I work a job that keeps me busy for 5 out of the seven days a week so I can't write random nights a week anymore, chances are it'll only be one chapter a week from now on. I just wanted to let you know. */

*DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the characters in Naruto. If you have a problem with male/male content then you probably shouldn't read this story as it will eventually be coming to that.*

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Naruto sat staring at the wall across from his bed. It was raining and the quiet pitter-patter against the window was calming for his nerves. He was waiting for Sasuke to visit again, he'd been waiting since the Uchiha left in the night. His brain felt that being nervous was more important then sleep.

Tsunade hadn't stopped by, either because she was too busy, or because she felt that Naruto would be well enough with the normal hospital staff. They had come in a little after dawn to see if he was awake and needed anything. They brought breakfast not long after.

Every time he heard footsteps in the hall his heart jumped into his throat and he was sure he'd die the moment that Sasuke would walk into the room. His heart was pounding and he was sure he'd choke on it any minute. The scenarios running in his head ran from the Sasuke being overjoyed and fucking him through the hospital bed to Sasuke being furious and driving a kunai through Naruto's heart.

He glanced to his night stand and reached for the glass of water sitting there. It tasted stale when he swallowed but it helped to wet his throat. He was sure that someone must have force him to swallow sand paper while he was unconscious.

Quiet footsteps turned the corner into the hall that Naruto's room was located in. The blond dropped the glass and it shattered on the ground. He sat frozen, unable to even feel sorry for the shards of glass on the ground. He turned to face the door again, there was a silhouette that looked very similar to a rooster tailed team mate of his.

He swallowed around his heart again. The door slide nearly silently to the side and a pale hand made itself visible as it was thrown wide. Sasuke's head peeked into the room and a surprised expression crossed his face to see a stunned and worried looking Naruto sitting up on the bed.

"I had hoped you'd still be asleep."

Color crossed the blond’s cheeks, 'Have to tell him, have to tell him.' "Why?" He gave a weak cough at an attempt to free up his heart.

"Because I brought you something and I didn't want you to see." That same smile crossed his lips again and Naruto's cheeks deepened in color.

"Oh..." The blond lowered his eyes. “You should come in and sit down.”

It was Sasuke's turn to look a little nervous but he complied, he even slid the door shut behind him. He approached with a little daisy in his hand. It sat in another cup of water.

“Be careful of the glass. I knocked it over in the night.” Naruto lied through his teeth.

“Ah.” the nervous Uchiha sat the flower on the nightstand and sat in the chair next to the bed, “What is it you needed to tell me?”

Naruto tried clearing his throat again, to no avail. “Remember when I said that I'd try to find Naruko for you?”

Sasuke instantly perked up, smile spreading over his cheeks, “Yeah I said you were an awesome friend because of it.” His eye slide shut as his smile grew.

“Well... I'm not that good of a friend.”

“What are you talking about? Of course you are!” The grin slid off his face and a serious look took it's place, “If you weren't such a good friend you wouldn't have brought me back from Orochimaru.”

The blond clutched the bed sheet in his fists, “Yes, of course I'd do that but I've also betrayed you in probably the worst way possible considering your situation.”

“What situation? What's this got to do with Naruko?” The Uchiha was beginning to look very frustrated.

“The situation that you're the last of your clan and that it's your responsibility to continue it.”

Sasuke was silent.

“Naruko isn't real.”

Sasuke was still silent.

“I'm Naruko. I used my Oiroke no jutsu, that was the costume I wore to Sakura's party.”

Sasuke simply stared at the blond in the bed. Naruto hadn't counted on silence. He could have dealt with anger and frustration and even hatred, but silence was much, much worse. It caused him to babble.

“I had no intention of doing what I did, well I had intended on going to the party as a girl but I hadn't planned on doing with you... what we did... Kiba essentially dared me to, he kept egging me on saying when else would I get a chance to do something like this, and the sexual tension we suffer as shinobi after puberty well into becomming young adults is so high I thought I'd never get a chance to release the tension like that so I took it. I knew what I wanted and I took it, and I mean, I've always found you attractive, I fought it, up until recently, I didn't want it to get in the way of our missions and everything, so I kept shoving it off and denying it and everything, but I finally got a chance to see what it was like with you, I finally got to know what all those girls wanted and you wanted it too so I thought I was doing you a favor too...” Naruto paused for a breath and looked at Sasuke.

He would have kept going except that Sasuke was white as a ghost, his hand was slowly reaching for Naruto's face, but quickly diverted to his collar. Sasuke stood and took Naruto with him. He lifted the blond off of the bed and looked him straight in the eye. He searched blue with his black, trying desperately to find a lie, see a joke, anything other then what he'd just been told. “My dream girl wasn't a girl at all...” His lips slowly descended to Naruto‘s.

When they met, Naruto's brain jump started, color covered his skin across his cheeks and down his neck and chest. He pressed back against those lips, only when he responded Sasuke dropped him. He fell back to the bed as the Uchiha fell back to the chair.

“Fine.” That old scowl took up residence on a pale face. Sasuke fell silent again.

“Ano... That's not the worst...” Blue eyes shyly raised to angry black. The question in Sasuke's eyes didn't have to be spoken. “You know... Ninteen years ago, that demon fox, Kyuubi was defeated by the Fourth?”

Sasuke barely nodded.

“Well, the fox wasn't really defeated, it was sealed inside a baby boy who had no parents, who was to be a child of the village, who was to be loved and looked at as a hero, but instead was shunned and hated for the being he carried inside of himself. Well, that was me.” Naruto lifted his shirt to show the seal around his belly button, the seal he'd taken so much care to hide when he used Oiroke no Jutsu for Sakura's party. “And now, instead of carrying just the demon fox inside of me... I'm carrying the heir to the Uchiha clan as well...”

Naruto searched Sasuke's eyes for any kind of reaction, but again he was graced with silence. He could see the gears working inside Sasuke's head behind his eyes, pulling everything into place, allowing himself to absorb the information he was just graced with.

Naruto continued his explanation, “The Kyuubi allowed my transformation into a female to be more completely then I ever thought, he thought that it was time for me to begin reproduction and it's possible that he's partially responsible for why I went along with what we did, but he isn't entirely responsible. Now, instead of simply allowing what be would be, he's using his chakra to keep the child alive inside of me, instead of healing me. That's why I'd been in here so long, why I didn't heal as fast as I normally do.” He pause to take a breath, and look Sasuke in the eye. “Sasuke, I'm pregnant with your heir.”

Sasuke stood and walked to the door, “Give me time.” He opened the door and slid it shut behind himself. It was another reaction Naruto hadn't expected.

The blond thought for sure he'd explode if he didn't get out of this white washed room right away. He glanced quickly around, his jump pants were folded on the shelf, as was his t-shirt. He leapt out of the bed stripping along the way. He hopped from one foot to the other in an attempt to get the pants on faster. He pulled the black shirt on over his head and turned towards the window.

He threw the window open. He wanted to give Sasuke the space he needed, he didn't want to seem as though he were following the other boy. He would deal with this alone if he had to. Jumping from the window sill into the rain he headed toward the Hokage Monument.

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Naruto didn't turn when he heard someone approaching from behind him. He was unarmed and defenseless but he couldn't bring himself to care. He was dripping wet and freezing, the sun indicated it was somewhere in mid afternoon and that he'd been sitting on top of the Third's head for a few hours.

"Ne, Naruto-kun. You shouldn't be out here in the rain. Tsunade's got every med-nin out looking for you." Sakura's quiet voice was not what the blond was expecting.

He turned to look at his female team mate, "Hey Sakura-Chan. I'm fine. Sit with me, please?"

She pulled her jacket further down over her bottom so she wouldn't be sitting in the wet, "What is it Naruto?"

"How do Kunoichi do it?" The blond had turned his passive gaze out on the village again.

"What do you mean?" She watched his profile carefully.

"I mean, we all deal with love, and family, but how do Kunoichi deal with bearing children and fighting?"

The pink haired ninja was silent for a long time before answering, "I'm not sure. I think that we each will deal with it in our own way. I think that I would continue with my work until my condition became obvious and then I would withdraw from missions and simply keep up with my training instead. I don't think most would let it interfere until it became unblinkingly obvious."

Naruto nodded but didn't respond.

"Why do you ask? Do you fancy someone?"

"No. Well I do, but I've just been doing alot of thinking lately and it was just something I was wondering about. I'll explain everything later, ok?" He turned a fox grin on Sakura.

"...Sure. Common, let's get you back to Tsunade and dry you off before you catch your death." She slid his arm under his and helped him to his feet.

Naruto suddenly realized how weak he felt. He leaned some of his weight on his team mate. She touched a hand to his forehead.

"Oh my god, you're burning up, he have to get you dried off now!" She actually scooped him into her arms and leapt from the side of the monument to the roofs below. She ran top speed to the hospital.

"Ne Sakura. I'm fine..." The blond’s eyes slid shut and he rested his head against her shoulder, "How can you be carrying me?" A slight shiver traveled through his frame.

"I've been getting training from Tsunade-Sama remember?" She burst through the front doors. "Get Tsunade-Sama, now! I need a warm blanket some towels and some scissors." She continued through to the nearest room and gently laid the blond on the bed.

When the tools were brought to her, she cut his clothes from his violently trembling body and dried him off as best she could, "You're gonna be okay Naruto. You're lucky I found you when I did." She threw the heated blanket over him and he drew it tightly around himself.

"Tsunade will be here soon and she'll be able to fix you up good as new." Sakura grinned this time, an honest smile, one that was rarely seen.

"I know I will be. I'm Naruto, I'm going to be Hokage someday." He buried his face deep into the pillow and let unconsciousness caress his brain before blissfully falling into it.

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/*AN: That's it for this week folks! I hope you liked it. There's still quite a bit to happen before we find out what Sasuke's decision is, so be sure to tune in again next week. ^^ */