Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Dreams of the Heart ❯ Betrayal and a cold Christmas ( Chapter 8 )

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Betrayal and a cold Christmas

Fourth month

It had taken Naruto two hours to calm Sakura down, finally allowing her to sleep silently once again. The girl was shaken up, what ever had occurred in that room left her with a painful fear that stopped her from being alone in any room. Naruto silently left Sakura's bedroom as to not wake her up, he headed back towards the stairs that met at the end of the second level's hallway, carefully making his way down the stairs, being cautious as to not make too much noise, the blonde entered the lounge room only to see a dark haired man sitting calmly on the lounge, Naruto stood at the other side of the room his arms crossed over his slowly growing belly, waiting for Sasuke to beckon him over, but the Uchiha didn't. Instead Sasuke spoke from where he was seated,

“Why is it, that Sakura occupies most of your time and concern?” Naruto's jaw dropped a couple of centimetres, the words that had come out of his lover's mouth seemed slightly unpleasant, they were sharp with annoyance,

“What are you talking about Sasuke” this drove the Uchiha into a swarm of rage, his blood boiling,

“I'm talking about how you never let me in Naruto. You're always with Sakura! Leaving me out of the loop, it looks like you might as well be married to her rather than me!” Naruto moved forward to where Sasuke sat, the blonde grabbing his lover by the arm gently, only to have it yanked out of his weak grip,

“Sasuke…This is why I spend time with her, you don't want to be close to me like we were before, its like my body repulses you now, all you do is avoid me and go out all day and come back really late at night, what am I suppose to do? Sit on my own all day.” The straw on the camel's back was broken, broken hard and fast with a giant kunai,

“I'M ALWAYS OUT TRAINING TO HELP PROTECT YOU!!! WHAT HAPPENS IF SOMEONE TAKES OUR CHILD, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW POWERFUL OUR CHILD WILL BE IN SOMEONE ELSES HANDS IN THE WRONG HANDS? DO YOU?!?” Sasuke breathed heavily, his black eyes staring directly into Naruto's, the gaze was broken as the blonde averted his eyes, the appearance of tears sprung from his sky blue eyes,

“No. Obliviously according to you I don't. You seriously think I don't know this…I should know this better than anyone, it's inside of me. But what I need isn't protecting it's my lover to be at home with me loving me and helping me go through with this.” Naruto stood up, almost loosing his balance from the difference in weight at his front, tears were streaming down his cheeks, making them moist, he looked like a child that had it's feelings hurt,

“I need your help your encouragement, Sasuke I'm a freak! What's happening to me isn't natural, this whole thing isn't natural, MEN AREN'T SUPPOSE TO HAVE CHILDREN LIKE THIS!” Naruto's body was set into motion as he ran out of the lounge room towards the door, the Uchiha he left behind was neither fully struck by guilt but wasn't completely guilt-free, a small pain of frustration and the voice of Tsuande inside his head told him that he had been a bad bad boy and that he should chase after Naruto. Sasuke sighed as he left the house, locking the door behind him as he went, he searched around, Naruto had already disappeared by the time Sasuke had left the house premises, which left Sasuke to only guess possibly where he might have gone, the Uchiha searched the village, and yet no sign of a mop of Naruto's blond hair, he past by Ino's and Neji's house, only to be discouraged from entering when he heard the both of them yelling at one another from within the house. Sasuke was in some real trouble, it was nearing night time, a blanket of darkness beginning to sweep across the sky, Sasuke could only think of one other place that Naruto could be; the mountain with figure heads of the Hokage's.
The raven-haired man hastened his pace as he darted for the top of the mountain, the glimpse of a figure could be seen as he arrived at the top, Naruto sat at the end of the mountain sniffing softly and swinging his legs over the edge of the cliff, his arms draped around his middle,

“Naruto? You dobe, why did you run off?” Sasuke moved nearer to the blonde, putting a hand on his shoulder, all the reply that he got from his lover was a bunch of sniffles,

“Lets go home Naruto, I think everything has been resolved now, I'll try and stay home more often, now lets go dobe” the Uchiha saying anything he could to get the blonde to return home before he got sick from the cold night weather, he softly messed Naruto's blonde hair and stood back up, waiting for the blonde to do the same. Naruto turned his head and gazed up at Sasuke's tall figure standing over him,

“Okay…” was the only word Naruto could say without having it sound terrible because of his after sob sniffles and hiccups. He stood up slowly, watching as Sasuke started to slowly walk back in the direction that would lead to the village, a crumbling noise could be heard,

“Sasuke!!” a shrill yell of his name came from behind the Uchiha, he turned to see Naruto slowly falling, the edge of the cliff slowly crumbling beneath his lover, Sasuke dashed to grab Naruto's hand, catching it just in time, the boys body hitting the side of the cliff with a hard thud, a small whimper coming from the blonde's lips. Sasuke pulled Naruto up with difficulty, he weighted more than usual and his palms were sweaty, Sasuke heard the sound of a small pop, the noise causing him to fear that something had happened to Naruto, he gazed down and watched as the shock gripped Naruto causing him to pass out for a moment. He pulled the blonde up with one last heave, once Naruto was on stable ground Sasuke wrapped his arms around his lover, cradling the pregnant boy in his arms, pain shot up the Uchiha's his right arm, it was dislocated, Sasuke judged by the gravity of the pain. Naruto peered up at Sasuke, his words coming out muffled due to his mouth being covered by Sasuke's shirt,

“I'm `orry” Sasuke judged that Naruto was saying sorry, he just smiled back letting the blonde go,

“Let's go home”

The both of them holding hands as they returned through the village back home. They arrived home fifteen minutes later, Sakura had woken up and had already prepared some dinner for the three of them, the lovers entered the kitchen, Sasuke plonking the blonde onto a chair in front of a plate of food, the Uchiha then proceeding to grab onto Sakura as he pulled her along outside of the kitchen all the way up the stairs onto the second floor,

“Sakura…”

“Yes? Anything wrong?”

“Yeah there is. My arm is dislocated, and you're the medic ninja can you fix it?” with finishing that sentence Sakura grabbed onto Sasuke's arm yanking it up and then back into it's socket, the Uchiha forcing back a scream,

“There all done” Sasuke moved his arm around in a circular motion,

“Thanks, oh and I think Naruto has a few scratches”

“What happened to you both?” Sasuke said nothing and left down the stairs back into where Naruto was,

“Wonder if everything is okay…” with this Sakura also made her way down to continue with the dinner she had been preparing.

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A young man slept silently upon a large queen size bed, a lump of dark blue sheets lay half over the blonde's body while the rest covered the floor, the man had no shirt on and around his middle the sheets came up into a bump, his lover was nowhere to be seen, a sudden chill came into the room causing the blonde to wake up, he raised up slowly a small four month pregnancy bulge became uncovered, the cold air touching Naruto's bare stomach making him flinch and quickly pull the covers over his belly. He looked around and found that Sasuke was not in the room, Naruto found Sasuke's shirt on the floor, grabbing it and putting it on, `A little small now…' he walked over towards the semi open window, small white balls began to fall from the sky; snow.
Naruto placed his hand onto the glass and wooden frame of the window, pushing it closed, a pair of arms wrapped around the blonde's body, the arms just making it around his middle, he tilted his head to the side and found a tall dark and very handsome Uchiha staring blankly out into the slowly covered snow grass,

“I don't remember it ever snowing here” Sasuke said,

“Me either” Naruto replied a small smile forming on his lips, snow for Christmas, it seemed like a miracle. They stood there for an odd three minutes just watching the snow migrate from the sky to the ground, covering it in a white blanket,

“Sasuke?”

“Hmmm?”
“I'm a bit hungry, can we have breakfast?”

“Yeah sure.” Sasuke removed his arms from around Naruto, the dark haired man walking towards the door, the blonde trailing behind, his hands rubbing the mound on his stomach as it gurgled and growled in hunger,

“Okay baby okay, mommy and daddy are going for breakfast” Naruto said this with a big grin, the blonde was awfully cheerful this morning, which wouldn't be so strange except Naruto was four months pregnant and so round bellied that Sasuke presumed that Naruto must be eating too much food and that it was more fat than the baby's doing. Sasuke entered the kitchen first; Sakura had become her normal self again after the incident, she bustled around the kitchen placing different plates onto the table, as Naruto entered the doorway his eyes opened in shock to the last plate that Sakura had placed down, `the scary little lee look a like pills!!' is all that ran through the blonde's head, Sasuke turned to Naruto his dark black eyes sending questioning vibes towards the blonde,

“You said you were hungry a minute ago, you gonna eat dobe?” Naruto snapped out of his daze, nodding violently as he plonked himself down onto a chair beginning to shovel food down into his mouth and eagerly awaiting unborn baby. Sakura was busy also eating leaving no room for her to notice that Sasuke was staring out the window, his onyx eyes gazed outside into the snow filled sky,

“Is there anything wrong Sasuke?” the Uchiha snapped his head in the direction of his name, Sakura sat with her eyes looking straight at Sasuke, lately Sasuke had to be careful what he said to her, the pregnancy was beginning to play with her emotions causing her to have violent out-bursts which almost resulted with half the house disappearing, the last out-burst being because she couldn't find her favourite shirt, in the end Naruto had fallen asleep on it after Sakura had placed it on the lounge after ironing it.

“Yeah I'm fine. Just thinking a bit” Sasuke said this as calmly as he could,

“Oh I see. Well I hope you didn't forget the Christmas party that's on tonight”

“What Christmas party?” Sasuke's eyebrows knotted together, `What's this girl thinking? Naruto can't be seen in his condition' Sasuke looked towards Naruto, the blonde seemed to be okay with everything,

“Naruto did you know about this party?” Naruto stopped eating, swallowing down the last amount of food,

“Yes Sasuke, I did know. To tell you the truth I'm a little nervous about it, what if everyone thinks I'm a freak…” Sakura was now clearing the table, Sasuke just sighed `Not this again. Okay Okay don't say anything stupid or the dobe's gonna cry'

“Narut….” Sasuke's words being cut off

“It'll be okay Naruto. These are our friends for over eight years, they will understand” Sasuke scowled himself for not being quick enough to say anything,
“Exactly what Sakura said Naruto. Things will be fine, besides you have me there with you, and it's just all our friends, everything will be okay. Do you trust me?” Naruto's jaw nearly dropped off, `Did Sasuke just say something sweet? My god I think he did!' Naruto stretched his arms forward pulling Sasuke into an unexpected hug,

“Thankyou…Sasuke”

Sakura stood watching the pair trying to embrace each other lovingly, their small bundle of joy inside Naruto making the process of hugging difficult, she smiled tenderly then gave off a rough cough,

“Ah Naruto? Sasuke? Were going to be late for going shopping for Christmas presents”

“Eh?” Naruto gave off a dumb look,

“We have to go outside!?!” the blonde said loudly

“Well yes Naruto that is the idea” Sakura said, the smile was wiped off her face when she looked at Naruto's large belly, then looked at her own,

“We haven't been seen for over two and a half months now, no one really knows that were BOTH pregnant” Sasuke just stood with a blank look on his face,

“Yes it's true, we haven't seen anyone since this all started. The village has been kept in secret about Naruto's condition, Sakura is there anything you could do to…perhaps make Naruto not stand out so much?”

“Well…if Naruto doesn't mind wearing a wig and some shorts I think we can get around the village people” Naruto had a very bad feeling about this; Sakura had an evil glint in her aqua eyes.
Ten minutes later Naruto comes back down from upstairs with Sakura trailing behind him, all Sasuke could do was stare in shock; Sakura turned Naruto into a real women now! The blonde came down the stairs wearing a blonde wig its hair all out and almost past his buttocks, he wore his usual long loose shirt that he used now that he was pregnant and a pair of tight ninja shorts, and a shimmer came from the blonde's lips, Naruto really did look like a girl,

“You look good dobe” Sasuke said,

“Well I don't feel good. This damn lipgloss is so weird. This crap is glittery and tastes like berries. I seriously think its evil” the blonde pouting for a moment at Sakura.

Sakura opened the door pushing Naruto out the door, Sasuke behind them, they walked through the village, un-noticed, un-seen, no one seemed to realize that the young blonde pregnant lady that walked beside the last Uchiha was in fact Naruto, but what worried Sasuke the most was the whisperings that the villagers were making about Sakura, each women they passed seem to make some comment about the so called “father” of her child, Naruto glancing over to where Sakura walked, noticing that she was forcing herself to not listen to what the other women were saying.
They strolled down the streets of the village, going from shop to shop looking at things they could buy for their close friends, they shopped for four hours finally finding presents for everyone, Sakura and Naruto's stomachs began to growl at the same time,