Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Things Can Only Get Better, Right? ❯ Things Are Not So Normal After All ( Chapter 1 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Last time on Between A Rock And A Hard Place: The land of sand has come down with a terrible plague, killing its villagers. Tsunade is requested to come and find a cure. But unable to go right away, she sends team Kakashi to investigate before she makes her arrival. On the way to Suna, the team runs into trouble and who comes to their rescue? Well Gaara of course. Naruto, who already has confusing feelings for Sasuke starts finding more good qualities in Gaara than ever before. Obviously not liking how close the two are getting, Sasuke also tries to get Naruto's attention. After some snooping, Tsunade finds out that the village of the sand is sick because of Gaara's spirit Shukaku. Months earlier, Gaara had tried to exstract Shukaku from his body once and for all. He failed but, seeing that its presence was threatened, par tof Shukaku's spirit went in search of a new host to occupy. Everyone it tried could not handle Shukaku's presence and died because of it. Naruto wants to help so he goes to Kabuto to see if he could help save the village with his medical&experimental experience. Kabuto puts Naruto in a sticky situation in which Sasuke helps him out and chooses to reward himself with...Naruto's virginity while he is too intoxicated to oppose. Gaara finds out and leaves them in his fury and depression. Orochimaru finds Gaara and after having been informed by Kabuto about the situation, he tricks Gaara into coming with him so he can remove Shukaku. But the only reason Orochimaru will help is so that he can be Shukaku's new vessel himself and recieve all his power! Orochimaru succeeds in extracting Shukaku, which nearly kills Gaara in the process. Now as a little reward Orochimaru is interested in taking Naruto's Kyuubi as well. In the end, Orochimaru and kabuto battle it out in Konoha against Naruto, Sasuke and Gaara. Orochimaru is killed and Kabuto escapes. Last we see of Kabuto...he is injected Naruto in his sleep with some strange substance and flees. Konoha shinobi find him, and Kabuto proudly announces Orochimaru will be back sooner than they think!

The town of Konoha had suffered a heavy blow after Orochimaru's attack. Tsunade had made sure not to mention to the villagers that Orochimaru had in fact relayed a message of his return. She couldn't have the town worrying over matters when they needed to make repairs to the town first. Though she truly hoped Kabuto was lying and that Orochimaru was not on the verge of finding another vessel to sustain his life. Regardless of what she wanted, she knew it would have no effect on what would actually happen. She was just grateful Konoha had the help it did now from a few members of Suna.

Gaara was kind enough to offer a hand with repairs and he even had a few members from Suna come over for assistance. Though Tsunade had a feeling the only reason Gaara wanted to help with repairs was so he had an excuse to stay longer with Naruto. In her opinion it was a reckless decision considering the town of Suna shouldn't be left without its Kazekage for too long even if Gaara's siblings were capable of taking care of things for awhile.

However, it was just as Tsunade had thought. Gaara was called back to Suna after only a week of assistance. Temari had made a big deal about needing him over there to take care of a massive amount of forms needing to be read and signed. Gaara was more than reluctant to leave his new little lover but everyone would probably agree when they say the responsibility of being Kazekage came before one's own love life. And so, yesterday had been a disappointing day for Naruto as he bid farewell to Gaara…

Naruto whimpered softly as he laid in bed, his head buried deep into the pillow Gaara had used just yesterday. He could still faintly smell Gaara's spicy scent on the pillow and it was making him awfully nostalgic. He couldn't help but think he was pathetic for acting this way for being without his lover for just twelve hours. He missed Gaara already though he had lived the first thirteen years of his life not even knowing of him so this made him pathetic without a doubt.

"Gaara…" Naruto muttered softly as he rolled over onto his back and gazed up at the ceiling. He felt terrible right now. Besides the obvious throbbing in his heart he felt a little light headed and tired which was unusually odd for him. With his healing abilities and abnormal chakra supply, he rarely ever felt down in the dumps or even got sick. Was this how it felt to have a break up? Though he knew he wasn't dumped, just having a break until Gaara came by to visit Konoha again. There was no telling how long that wait would be since Suna and Konoha seemed to be busy with strengthening their defenses again.

He turned his head briefly over to get a glimpse of the clock. It was only eight in the morning and he would like nothing better than to sleep in. But of course he couldn't. Tsunade had been kind enough to tell him he would be back on regular missions with his team after Gaara left so he had to report in today at the training ground. Worse than that…he would have to face Sasuke again. It didn't seem like he would have much fun with his rival now that he knew Sasuke could possibly hate him now more than ever because of his relationship with Gaara.

"Sasuke?" Sakura called out softly as she looked to the raven haired boy. He seemed so entranced in his thoughts that it was beginning to scare her. She wasn't really aware of anything that had went on during the boy's trip to Suna. In fact it had came as such a surprirse to her when she heard that Naruto was actually dating Gaara now. It was the talk of the town. Of course no one was saying anything bad considering they have to be insulting the Kazekage which wasn't a smart thing to do. Everyone knew of Gaara's attitude and that he wouldn't hesitate to harm anyone he didn't like.

Sasuke jolted lightly when he heard his name called and finally looked back to Sakura. He glared briefly before giving up and sighing. This whole Naruto and Gaara thing had him nervous and irritated. He didn't want Naruto to think they couldn't be around each other because he still liked him and yet at the same time he was more than eager to steal Naruto away from Gaara since he was not here to stop him. Surely Naruto could fall back in love with him when Gaara is away for so long each year.

The Uchiha stiffened when he suddenly saw the orange mass heading their way. Well at least Naruto seemed chipper like usual. He could only imagine what had Naruto in such a good mood. He trembled with illness at the thought of Naruto and Gaara going at it constantly to make up for the time away from each other. Damn, why couldn't he get such thoughts out of his head?

"Hey guys!" Naruto exclaimed, holding his usual loving bright smile. Sakura couldn't help but smile back. She was so glad to see Naruto cheerful as ever. She was worried he might be depressed with Gaara gone.

"Wow Naruto, you actually made it before Kakashi, big shocker" Sakura mentioned sarcastically.

"You rang?"

The three turned instantly to see Kakashi kneeling on a branch in a tree, in his hand the latest copy of his favorite ecchi book. "I've been here for awhile Sakura. Do you really have such little faith in me?" he retorted in a playful voice.

Sakura rolled her eyes. "yeah right sensei. I bet you're just saying that!" Sakura insisted.

Sasuke looked annoyed even more with this average routine. Why was everyone acting so normal? Him and Naruto had fucked, Gaara nearly died, Konoha was nearly destroyed and the entire population of Suna had been put in danger of an incurable disease caused by their own Kazekage. Could things really go back to normal this quickly? He didn't like pretending such things didn't happen when they did obviously.

"Something wrong Sasuke?" Kakashi questioned, raising a curious brow as he looked over the Uchiha. Sakura and Naruto both looked to Sasuke as well, actually suspecting he would have an answer different from his usual response. Sasuke merely glared an obvious 'no'. "Alright then, let's proceed" Kakashi insisted. "Tsunade originally had assigned us up for a C class mission today but I told her you guys weren't ready for anything yet. We need to go back over training. As we are all aware, Sasuke and Naruto weren't up to par with our latest enemies in battle. The battle shouldn't have taken nearly as long as it did and you two certainly should have been more aware of what was going on before things had a change to get out of control" Kakashi scolded.

Naruto frowned sternly. He was upset with himself for not being as strong as he could be to protect everyone. Sasuke on the other hand didn't care to much about not having protected Gaara. Though he was annoyed he couldn't impress Naruto any longer with his own strength and abilities. The dobe always use to try to be him, unknowingly admitting that Sasuke was better than him. It was always so much fun taunting Naruto like that. But he had a feeling all that was over now.

"So let's begin. Sasuke and Naruto I want you two to spare. Sakura you're against me" he insisted. Of course he knew Sakura would be no match for him but he just had to partner up Sasuke and Naruto. He could tell those two had a lot to work out for some reason and fighting just might be the way to do it.

Team Kakashi began their sparing for the next couple of hours. Sakura was having the hardest time keeping up with Kakashi. Sasuke normally would have been trying just as hard to keep up with Naruto because of his large amount of chakra but today was different for some reason. Naruto was slower than he was before and even using his chakra seemed to be tiring him out a bit.

"N..Naruto-" Sasuke grunted out as he blocked another kick with his forearm. "Are you…" he quickly delivered a few punches of his own, strengthening them with his own chakra. "Alright? You seem…" he huffed as Naruto simply dodged them and rammed him in the stomach with his fist. "Tired" Sasuke finally managed to finish saying. He could see a heavy layer of sweat already on the blonde's brow while he himself was still pretty refreshed.

Sasuke gasped briefly when Naruto was careless and accidentally let him kick him in the chest. Naruto went flying back, a cloud of dust and dirt forming when his body was pushed against the Earth. "Naruto!" Sasuke rushed over, but thankfully he hadn't reached Naruto's side by the time the blond suddenly rolled over and vomited. Naruto writhed heavily as he coughed up stomach acids. Sasuke frowned, noticing Naruto probably hadn't eaten breakfast today or even dinner last night and yet he was still throwing up. "Naruto are you feeling well?"

Naruto nodded firmly as he wiped his mouth on his sleeve. "I don't need you pity teme. I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself" Naruto grumbled. "I'm just a little under the weather."

"None the less Naruto, you should still go get checked out by Tsunade" Kakashi interceded as him and Sakura walked over. "I can't have you training if you're sick."

"But-!" Naruto didn't have a chance to finish before Sasuke had him scooped up in his arms. "Hey put me down you bastard! I'm not sick!" he yelled out, flailing his arms and legs. He could have easily gotten away but he didn't want to hurt Sasuke when he was still only trying to help.

"Naruto just shut up and get checked out. If you really are fine then Tsunade will just send you back and you can train again" Sasuke explained bitterly. Why did Naruto always have to be so stubborn? He could see the reluctance in Naruto's eyes before he finally gave in. Sasuke carried Naruto back toward Tsunade's office. Hopefully she wouldn't have any bad news for them.

"He's what?" Sasuke yelled out. His eyes widened instantly when he heard this. Tsunade had to be joking. There was absolutely no way in hell Naruto could really be…

"He's pregnant" Tsunade repeated with a displeased look. They stood outside of the examination room since she knew having Sasuke in there wouldn't help Naruto cope with this certain information. "I'm not even sure how it happened but there is definitely another life inside of him. I checked his chakra flow and it is unusually low. It seems all the extra chakra is being feed into the baby right now so I can't send Naruto out on missions like this" she explained.

"But Tsunade, Naruto is a boy! He can't get pregnant!" Sasuke retorted. He couldn't even imagine how this was possible. He turned green simply imagining that Naruto and Gaara were freaky enough to do it while Naruto was in his 'sexy-no-jutsu". That would probably explain it but he had a feeling Naruto would never willingly do it as a girl. So there had to be some other way.

Tsunade sighed heavily. "I'm afraid there is no other clues to explain why this happened. Though I suspect this wasn't natural at all. The womb Naruto currently has is much smaller than any womb should be. In fact I suspect it is actually growing. Which means…it had to have been put there in the first place."

Sasuke looked at her in utter confusion. Naruto's womb had been put there externally? But who would have the technology much less the motive to do such a thing?

To Be Continued…

A/N: Well there you go guys! The first chapter of the new sequel to 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place'! I'm so happy I finally got to write this. I had wanted to get to it sooner but man life came up with so much things for me to do. Thanks for summer, I had the time to get all my ideas back together and finally write this out. I really hope you guys like it so far and please keep on the look out for the next chapter.

For all you skeptical male pregnancy readers, I assure you my fanfic has a slightly more plausible reason and portrayal of male pregnancy. I, myself, can't enjoy a mpreg fanfic unless it makes sense and that the uke isn't a total girl about the situation. I will keep Naruto in character as much as possible so bare with me!

Important Note: I will try to keep up with constant updates now that I have things straightened out. So you can expect an update at least once a week. That is if everyone else promising to keep up with their part of the deal and leave reviews! I'm not going to bother posting fanfics that no one will read. So make sure to R&R. Alright I'll see you all next week!