The Bad Boy and the Baby

A/N: We’ll be calling Uchitake, Takeshi Ran whenever he is with Naruto. Please remember that Takeshi Ran and Uchitake are one and the same…oh and I’m gonna make this pregnancy a bit short I think…maybe about 8 months or 7 months since it’s Kyuubi and all…

Chapter 9:

2 months later… (Naruto 5 months preggers)

Naruto sighed and cuddled into his couch some more. It was kind of cold outside, the rain pouring in torrents and the most depressing fact of all…Sasuke was out again. It had begun to irritate Naruto that Sasuke was suddenly so busy. He was always gone, up early before Naruto and back late when Naruto was all ready half asleep. Arashi had complained to Naruto that the boy seemed to be taking inordinately long to complete even the simplest mission. The Hokage was worried about the raven, wondering if all was well.

He wasn’t the only one. Sasuke had been acting so weird these days. His old cold and uncaring façade was back up and he refused to spend too much time with Naruto. Even when they were together Naruto could see that it was sort of fake…like Sasuke wanted to be elsewhere. The blond wasn’t stupid, he knew something was up. Sasuke was hiding something. But for some reason Naruto tried not to bother. He wanted to ignore it and leave it be…but you know what? No matter how many times he told himself that Sasuke needed this space, his mind came up with many plans to figure out what was happening.

I don’t need Sasuke to live…he’ll get back to being himself…or maybe this is the real him? Forget it, I cannot let this bother me, having a good mental outlook is essential for the baby as it is for me…at least Mirai and grandma say so…so I won’t let it bother me. Naruto straightened, rubbing his belly a little. Looks like it’s going to be just you and me for dinner again kiddo…unless we’re hit by a stroke of luck and don’t have to dine alone.

Again loneliness swamped him. He hated these bloody mood swings…it was horrible knowing they were mood swings but having them anyway. He was pregnant! So what if Sasuke was busy, he could be around a little more. I’m being unreasonable…I wish he’d tell me what was happening…I wish he’d trust me enough to tell me…I’m his husband…I might act like an idiot, but I can help him can’t I? No…I probably can’t…after all I’m not even allowed to go on the smallest mission anymore…I’m useless…

The doorbell rang jolting him out of his thoughts. He forced himself to smile a little. I guess luck hit us after all, eh baby? He made his way to the door, it couldn’t be Sasuke anyway…he’d let himself in. opening the door he saw it was Takeshi-san. The man had been dropping in a lot and Naruto loved his company. Next to Mirai and Sasuke, Takeshi-san was a lot of fun to be with. In the past few months, since Sasuke started to behave weirdly, Takeshi-san had been around constantly…his presence was a great help to boost Naruto’s cheer.

“Uzumaki-san…”

Naruto smiled a real warm smile. “Takeshi-san…come on in!” he let the man in and closed the door. “So would you like some tea or something?” Naruto saw that the man had all ready gone into the kitchen. “Takeshi-san!!”

“Uzumaki-san, please have a seat. I’ll make the tea for both of us…would you like English tea with milk?” Takeshi-san grinned at him. “Don’t give me that look, Uzumaki-san. In your condition you should be resting more…”

“I’m sick of resting. Please let me make the tea or I might just go mad!” Naruto’s voice came out low and desperate.

Takeshi stopped and took a good look at his blond target. Something he hadn’t felt in ages surfaced and he smiled. “Let’s do this together then, ne Uzumaki-san? You boil the water and I’ll get the cups, sugar and tea bags…that way you’ll feel better and I won’t feel like a bastard for imposing on you in your condition…”

Naruto snorted and took the offered teapot. “Hn…you make my condition sound like I’m dying or something. I’m just pregnant…deal with it.”

They went about it pretty nicely and then sat down in the living room; Naruto on the couch and Takeshi on the arm chair. Takeshi sipped his tea thoughtfully, before turning to Naruto. “So what is really bothering you, Uzumaki-san…?”

Naruto debated on whether to tell him or not…but then decided to reveal a part of the problem at least. “Well…I’m just feeling a little off. I mean I’m not allowed to do any missions because of those chakra surges and I’m not allowed out of the village incase someone tries to kill me again…” he paused seeing the look on Takeshi’s face. “Well I am the Hokage's son, so of course they’ll either capture me or kill me…so dad won’t let me out of the village. I haven’t been able to do much here since all my friends are busy on their own missions and Mirai seems to be all distant suddenly. I’m sure Itachi likes her though…so that must be getting to her as well. It isn’t fair! I’m only carrying a child and most of the pregnant women around here work till the last two months!! But no…they don’t know how soon my baby will born…they don’t know what it’ll be like since I’m male and all that shit…”

When Naruto finally quietened down, Takeshi shook his head. “You must be feeling pretty caged. Maybe you should ask your husband to accompany you and go out more often…”

The light just slipped off Naruto’s face and sped away. “Um…Sasuke’s busy. So yes maybe when he isn’t…”

Takeshi wanted that light back. Yeah he knew all this was his doing, but he couldn’t see Naruto this down for some reason. He sighed he might develop a split personality at this rate…considering that he wanted Naruto happy and Sasuke sad…which seemed a little impossible right about now. But he couldn’t help feeling that a person like Naruto wasn’t worthy of a wimp like Sasuke…”Come on, Uzumaki-san…it’s stopped raining. Let’s take a walk shall we?” I’m only doing this so he can trust me…once I have his complete trust I will ruin Sasuke’s life!

Naruto hesitated but only for a moment or so. He grabbed his jacket upon Takeshi’s insistence and stepped out. They walked out of their block and onto the streets or central Konoha. The streets were a little muddy after the rain’s but everything looked nice and perfect. Naruto breathed in the nice fresh air and sighed happily. He’d missed this…he liked doing his missions in this kind of weather.

Takeshi led him to the park where they walked briskly…or as briskly as Naruto could since he had gotten quite big. Then they bought green tea ice-cream and Naruto insisted that they add wasabi sauce to it since he had a craving for both. Unlike Sasuke, Takeshi did the same and ate it with him. Naruto felt nice and light…he hadn’t felt like that in ages. He agreed to walk up Hokage Mountain. When they reached the top, Naruto stood on the Sandaime’s had and closed his eyes.

“I wish I could fly off…”

Takeshi grabbed his elbow and forgot the honorific. “No dimwit…if you did, then I’d have to explain to you husband and parent…which I wouldn’t relish.”

And then something happened that made Naruto really almost fall off. He grabbed a spot on his tummy. His eyes widened some more. Takeshi looked at him worried. “Uzumaki-san! What happened…?”

Naruto forgot all propriety as he grabbed Takeshi’s hand and placed it on the spot. “Tell me I’m not dreaming…” and then Takeshi felt it…a nice hard kick. The baby was kicking.

Naruto practically glowed. “I’m so happy…I’ve been waiting for that to happen! Wait till I tell Sasuke…”

Takeshi drew his hand away too quickly, but Naruto didn’t notice, still babbling about Sasuke. All anyone ever thinks about is Sasuke! Idiotic, wimpy Sasuke…

Naruto grabbed his hand and yanked him down the mountain, almost wanting to run home. He met Mirai on the way and got taken away by her, leaving Takeshi Ran standing alone on the cobbles of Konoha’s street wishing for Sasuke’s death…

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Sasuke wiped the sweat out of his eyes as he walked out of Orochimaru’s room. He made his way to the bathroom and began to wash up. He had to be quick about it incase Orochimaru cam in while he was at it and wanted another round. He had finished and was pulling on his shirt when the pale man came in. the snake smiled and wound an arm around Sasuke, let his palm chest on the raven’s chest.

“You’ve improved…keep at it and you’ll be able to beat Uchitake…” he whispered in Sasuke ear, turning him around to kiss him softly. “Now I hear that your ‘wife’ is feeling neglected…maybe you should treat him a little better don’t you think…or he’ll suspect something…”

“What I do at my home is my business. I’m with you because we made a deal…we’re both benefiting from it. Naruto will have to deal with me being like this for a while…I’m sure he can handle it…” Sasuke pulled away from Orochimaru and buckled his belt.

“Oh I’m not so sure…you see my spies at Konoha say he’s been spending a lot of time with that new neighbour of yours…be careful Sasuke…unless you don’t care of course…but the boy is carrying your child after all.” Orochimaru pulled on a bathrobe. “Anyway, you’re right…it isn’t any of my business. You can take two days off. I have to go see to some things of my own.”

Sasuke felt a wave of jealousy. “Whatever. I expect to learn something good when you get back. If this is all you have to offer I might as well study from Naruto’s grandfather…you guys were on the same team, ne?”

Orochimaru’s eyes flashed. “Careful Sasuke-kun…I might just forget our deal. Just because I want you don’t mean I have to deal with your tantrums…” then he let leaving Sasuke to his own thoughts.

Not that these thoughts were any good. No matter how much he cleaned up, he felt dirty. Orochimaru made him feel dirty. No other men or women had done this to him…he just couldn’t bear to be around Naruto when he felt like this.

It’s your own fault ne? You chose to come to Orochimaru…if Naruto tires of you and decides to leave then you’ll have to deal with it. Sasuke sighed, for a man like him; he had an unusually good conscience. Maybe he should give Naruto sometime…after he had a good bath of course. Maybe they could just do something quiet at home together. He checked the mirror to see if Orochimaru had left any marks…there were very very light marks here and there and one small dark one by the back of his neck…Orochimaru had some liking for hat spot it seemed…

Sasuke shrugged, it wasn’t like Naruto was going to see it anyway. He buttoned up his shirt and left. He could see his old gang watching him from one of the underground houses he passed, but he took no notice of them. No one mattered but Uchitake…after Uchitake died, he could safely grow to care for people and get back to loving Naruto.

It didn’t take too long to get to Konoha. Sasuke had come up with a teleportation scroll for the clearing right outside Otogakure and for a bit away from the gates of Konoha. I could only be activated by his own chakra so the chance of it being found by anyone wasn’t there.

He nodded to the guards at Konoha’s gate and made his way back to his house. On the way here he saw Mirai talking to a man who was blue and looked like a shark. The moment she noticed him, she dismissed them and turned to face him.

“Where have you been? Hokage-sama has been looking all over for you…”

“Out. I was training a way off from here…” Sasuke could see her eyes narrow, but she let it go. “I’ll head to his office now. Have you been to see Naruto?”

Mirai shifted a bit uncomfortably. “No something has come up regarding my shop…I did bump into him today for a short while, but I left early.” For some reason she did not say anything about Takeshi being there…the way the raven was acting, who knew how he’d react. And well Naruto himself would tell him.

Sasuke began to walk away but Mirai called after him. “Oi, bastard….naruto has a surprise for you!”

Sasuke frowned a bit, but decided to go on to Arashi’s office now. When he went in he saw his father-in-law slumped on his desk snoring softly. “Arashi-sama…Arashi-SAMA!”

The blond snorted and jerked awake, looking around a little confused. Then he saw Sasuke and spluttered a bit. “You, I thought, well, where, who?”

“You wanted to see me?”

“Yes, Sasuke…where have you been? Is anything wrong? You seem to be taking a long while to finish even the simpler missions…” Arashi gave him a serious look. “Maybe you should meet Kaasan for a check up…”

Sasuke tried not to let his annoyance show. “No, it’s ok. I’m just a little tired nowadays. I’m…” he racked his brains quickly. “I’m a little nervous about Naruto and the baby…I keep having nightmares about losing them…” this was not altogether a lie…he did dream that very often. “So I guess I haven’t been getting much sleep.”

Arashi looked a bit sympathetic. “Yes I think I know what you mean. Sasuke, would you mind if I pulled you off missions, so you could care for Naruto a while? You see we don’t know when the baby is due and he’s well…he’s gotten so big lately, even Kaasan is worried…”

NO… was what Sasuke wanted to say….it’ll hold me back! But then he couldn’t say that to Arashi of all people. So he made a compromise. “I wouldn’t mind. But could you please do me a favour? Could you forget the missions and give me a few hours to train by myself? I mean I love being around Naruto, but during my training I like doing it alone…and I can’t train with him now…”

Arashi must have sensed his desperation. The man nodded. “So I’ll put you off all missions, but I’ll give you about four to five hours a day to yourself…is that ok?”

Sasuke nodded. Then he pushed his last mission’s report forward. “There’s been a lot of activity going on near Rice country…maybe you should up Konoha’s security…I heard rumours of an ‘Otogakure’ on my way here…” Sasuke had no idea what made him tell the man that. Maybe it was just his sense of duty, but if he ever got caught near there then Arashi would suspect him for sure!

The Hokage looked at him for a short while before nodding. “Fine, I’ll talk to the elders about it. Now be on your way Sasuke…Ja.”

Sasuke left the Hokage office still brooding about that slip up. Sure they’d think he was helping them, but he hadn’t even wanted to talk about Otogakure in the fist place. At least not when he would be going there pretty frequently. He stopped at Ino’s flower shop and picked up just four roses with some baby’s breath and headed home.

When he neared his apartment, the delicious smell of hot pot assaulted his senses. He let himself in to find the living room empty, but he could hear Naruto humming in the kitchen. Sasuke crept to the kitchen and couldn’t help but smile. Naruto was wearing a black polo-neck shirt which was huge on his shoulders and dark green pants. He was standing over the stove and rubbing his tummy occasionally as he stirred the sukiyaki.

The blond felt something and turned to see Sasuke standing there with that sweet smile on his face. He couldn’t help the excitement bubbling up inside him. he almost ran at Sasuke and hugged the tall man, babbling excitedly. All Sasuke could hear was “you missed it…”

He pushed Naruto back a little. “Missed what dobe?”

“The baby, Sasuke!” Naruto glowed. “It kicked!”

Sasuke’s eyes widened. “You mean it finally kicked…?” he made to hold Naruto but stopped. “That’s really nice. Listen I’ll just bathe and come out, ok, Naruto? I’m feeling really dirty…” Sasuke backed away, but thrust the flowers at the blond. “Um…these are for you…I know I haven’t been all that fun to be with nowadays but…sorry…”

Naruto took the flowers and smiled. “Yeah go bathe…its ok, I forgive you bastard…”

Sasuke made sure to scrub himself raw before he went out to meet Naruto again. The table was set with quiet music playing and Naruto was seated staring off into the distance. Sasuke took his place opposite the blond. “so tell me when did it happen, dobe?”

So Naruto recounted the whole time that Takeshi had spent with him and how the baby had kicked atop Mount Hokage. “I know it’ll grow up to be Hokage!! Just like I’ll take over from Otou-san once I’m back to training!!”

Sasuke couldn’t help the irritation that rose when he heard that the Takeshi guy had been there, but he quelled it. He couldn’t blame Naruto for wanting to get out of the house a little. He smiled and talked back though he was wondering how he could co-ordinate spending time with Naruto as a husband and going to Orochimaru to train and other things…

Once they finished dinner, Naruto insisted that they go out to get some dessert. They decided to call Takeshi-san, but he appeared to be out. Sasuke watched his blond as Naruto talked and laughed and realised how much he’d missed this. He wanted to take his blond into an alley and be naughty, but Tsunade had told him to lay off the sex for a while. Darn…

On their way back Naruto took him to the paint store so they could browse through all the colours. He was determined that Sasuke choose but got mad when the man said black and blue. Sasuke got nagged all the way home.

When they finally stepped in, Sasuke was almost jubilant. Finally they were away from prying eyes and finally Naruto was alone and finally he could make out with his husband. Tsunade had not banned making out. He was about to press Naruto against the wall, when a chakra surge hit. So he ended up carrying the blond to the bathroom instead and then he had to wait for the blond to feel better.

Once Naruto was finally back up and talking, Sasuke made his move. He slammed Naruto against the back of the couch. His dark eyes took in every single detail of the blond’s face down to the way each whisker mark curved. He bent down and kissed Naruto softly. He couldn’t help but compare it to the way Orochimaru kissed and how this was so much better.

“Sasuke…we can’t…well we can’t do IT…baa-chan said…” Naruto began in a whisper.

“How can you talk about you’re baa-chan at a time like this?” Sasuke demanded a little annoyed that the blond wasn’t solely focused on him. “Dobe, I know…I won’t do anything that will hurt you or the baby.”

Naruto nodded and kissed him back, letting himself revel in the fact that Sasuke was being himself and that they were finally kissing, touching and in contact after so long. They began with soft slow kisses that just dissolved into more passionate ones.

Sasuke slipped his hands into Naruto’s shirt and while naruto worked on getting his off. They ground against each other a little, not enough to arouse each other a lot but just out of habit. Naruto just wanted to feel Sasuke again, where they had sex or not. He let his hands roam the raven’s back and love welled up in him. This was his Sasuke…not the cold bloody bastard who had been around the past month or so…

He kissed Sasuke neck and moving down the pale white column. His blue eyes studied every detail until they came to rest there. And right there, right when Naruto was enjoying the happy fact that his husband was with him…he found it. That’s a hickey…

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A/N: Yes this seems like a good place to stop. Ok here are a few important things to discuss. Please review. Please advice me since I have too many stories to finish and your reviews are what keeps me going. This is not a threat but depending on the review count I’m going to have to decide which stories to rush and which will go on hiatus, so please review!!

Taka

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