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Constellations (complete)	By : momhuey8 Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 1362 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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“I have been to see my fam…” Neji straightened and cleared his throat. “The Hyuugas.”
“What happened?”
“I’ve been disowned, dishonored and disinherited.” He slumped. “If I’d stayed on the porch another minute, I believe I would have been dismembered and disemboweled as well.”
“Why?”
“There is a list, you see.” He ticked on his fingers. “Associating with an Uchiha is one. Associating with an Uzumaki is another. Having relations with a male is yet another. Having relations with two males takes it over the top. I’ve come to learn that my uncle’s disappointment in me defies coherent description.”
“What did you say?”
His face softened. “I told him I was going into the fluffy pink bunny business. If it’s okay with you two, I’d like to become an official board member.”
“I think it would do wonders for our market position,” Sasuke said, taking his hand.
Suddenly, there was a rapid knock on their door. Naruto opened it and Hinata burst inside, looking around frantically. When she spotted Neji on the couch, she rushed over and knelt at his feet.
Neji-san,” she sighed in relief, her hands clasped at her breast. “You are well. I have been so worried.”
“What’s going on, Hinata?” Naruto asked.
“My father is so very upset.” She looked at Neji. “I know it is because of your visit this morning.”
He nodded. “He disapproves of this arrangement.” He indicated Naruto and Sasuke.
“Neji,” Naruto gasped. “Your seal...”
Sasuke stiffened. “Do you think your uncle would…”
“Of course not,” Neji’s voice wasn’t entirely convincing. He hadn’t told Sasuke the whole truth about his father. “Surely, he wouldn’t…over something like…” He voice faded.
“Would your father use the seal on him?” Sasuke asked Hinata bluntly.
“I…I’m not sure,” she stuttered. “Under normal circumstances he is very rational and that would be irrational. But he had a monstrous temper and sometimes he becomes…” She looked at Neji. “You know how he can get.”
“Can you get rid of it?” Sasuke cut in again.
She leaned in and pushed Neji’s hair aside. “He has not taught me the technique. I don’t think he trusts me completely.”
Then she smiled, “But I think I can do it anyway.” She took Neji’s hands. “I made a point to learn the secret years ago, in the hopes that I could help you someday. To make sure you never suffered any more hurt at the hands of a fellow Hyuuga.”
Neji’s breath caught. “Hinata…”
“Can I help you, cousin?”
Neji was absolutely mortified when a tear slid down his cheek despite his best effort to stop it.
As he considered the changes in his life and the surprises coming his way daily, fate was looking more and more like a child’s fairytale.
Neji finally made his way to the porch, carrying two cups of tea. Sasuke was out there alone, studying the constellations, and Neji had been aware of his wish to speak to him privately all day.
The two stood side by side sipping from their cups for a time, Neji waiting for Sasuke to say what was on his mind.
“So are you staying?”
“I’d like to be certain that this is what both of you want.”
“It is.”
“If I had what you two have, I don’t know that I’d share.”
“You would,” Sasuke said, blowing on his tea. “That’s what a family is.”
Neji studied Sasuke for a moment.
“Your perspective and Naruto’s are not the same. While each of you has an endless capacity to love, you would be able to give equal amounts to whomever you deemed to be family, whether that is one person or one thousand. Whoever becomes your family, by heart, by writ or by blood, would be the recipient of one hundred percent of your love, your industry, your protection, your loyalty.
“Naruto is the same in his capacity to give love,” Neji continued, “but he only sees you.”
Sasuke shrugged. “He just doesn’t know. And as you pointed out, it’s our responsibility to show him. Everyone should be part of a family, especially him. Imagine for a moment, Naruto as a father.”
“Naruto would be the finest of fathers.”
“Do you think it would make him happy?” Sasuke asked shrewdly.
“I do,” Neji answered.
Sasuke nodded. “But he would never choose that route for himself because he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. We have to show him. So I am asking. Will you commit to us?”
“I’d like to stay.”
Sasuke set his cup on the rail and turned toward the other brunette.
“I need to know because I want to start a family.”
Neji set his cup down as well, and looked at Sasuke. He nodded, “Yes, the Uchiha genes…”
“No,” Sasuke interrupted. “Uzumaki.”
Neji waited.
Sasuke turned toward Hokage Mountain, taking in the humbling display of faces; Konoha’s heroes, Naruto’s father, and someday soon, Naruto. After a moment he continued.
“Everyone’s always been so fixated on the Uchiha gene pool, touting its strength and importance from one end of Konoha to the other. I don’t understand why Naruto’s lineage is ignored here.”
He turned back to Neji. “It carries a history of the strongest ninja in the world. It stands for nobility, devotion and sacrifice.” He rubbed his face. “The Uchiha legacy is filled with insanity and instability. If any of us should have kids, it should be Naruto.”
Neji reached up and fingered Sasuke’s hair. “As I come to know you, I’m discovering such a remarkable man.”
“Naruto has made me…”
“You never give yourself enough credit. An amazing heart beats in that chest of yours. Naruto may play a part in uncovering the diamond that you are, but you are still a diamond, nonetheless.”
“Neji…”
“I want to tell you; since I don’t think it will be unwelcome…I love you.”
“Neji…” Sasuke put his hands on Neji’s chest. Neji grasped his wrists.
This was the thing they did. Sasuke would either free himself or not, telling Neji what he wanted, with degrees of variation.
More often than not, Sasuke wanted Neji to take charge.
As an Uchiha, Sasuke spent nearly every waking second consumed with trying to control the world around him, often butting heads against immovable forces.
For these few minutes, with these two men, he could relinquish control and feel completely safe in doing so. It was such a relief to let go, let someone else be in control for this time. No judgments, no ridicule, just pleasing one another.
What he’d developed with Neji was different than what he had with Naruto, however. With Naruto, he yearned to hold himself out, almost begging the blond to master him.
With Neji, he needed to make the brunette fight for it a bit. Sometimes with Neji, the balance would shift back and forth and once in a while something would rear its head and Sasuke would press Neji for submission
Usually not, though. He’d learned as a child that everything came with a cost. Indeed he was uncomfortable with anything that he didn’t pay for. If he didn’t pay for something, it wasn’t really his and could disappear. So he needed the slight, initial discomfort that came with submission. It was the price he paid for something he didn’t really deserve outright.
No matter how the struggles with Neji ended, though, it was always exhilarating.
And now as the two tussled for control, Sasuke felt joy and gratitude for the miraculous life in which he found himself, for this second chance.
As Neji finally pressed him onto his back, Sasuke cupped his face and looked hard into his eyes.
“I love you, too.”
Naruto sat on a rooftop nearby, having also sensed Sasuke’s need to speak with Neji alone. He wrapped his arms around his knees and looked to the sky, unseeing. As was often the case, his enhanced hearing was giving him more information than he wanted.
He wasn’t sure how he felt.
In his secret, perfect world, it would be Sasuke and him. And the children Sasuke wanted.
Then again, in his secret perfect world, he would not have a demon inside him, promising to bring his world, his life down around him in flames.
But he did have the demon, and even now, many enemies were out there, plotting to take his life.
He sighed. If he flipped it sideways, however, and looked again at his secret, perfect world, what he really, truly wanted was Sasuke’s happiness. If he lived one year or a hundred, that was what would give him joy. And Neji made Sasuke happy.
So he was still getting what he wanted, it was just the side entrance.
He’d always been fond of Neji, who had an amazing soul and who had been there for him when others had not.
He would come to love Neji, he knew, was coming to treasure him more and more every day. It just would never be the soul searing emotion he felt for Sasuke.
He shrugged mentally; maybe he needed to get used to that notion; because he would love children differently than he loved Sasuke also.
Then he blinked and his heart lurched as a truth hit him and he began to understand what his lovers were talking about. That’s how families were made. Parents and siblings and children, all had different types of love for each other.
As he sat there in the darkness, it all became clear. He suddenly saw what Sasuke saw all along; a growing family. His breath caught and goose bumps covered his skin as he pictured himself as part of a clan, a growing sea of humanity; a future that extended beyond himself; touching lives and being touched in return.
He was going to die one day, they all were. But Neji and Sasuke knew a secret that he hadn’t known, and they were trying to share it with him. He realized that it must have been a secret his own parents had known. That secret was family. And that meant a history; a time before he was born. And it meant a future; life and love even after he was gone. The number of years didn’t really matter. It was the quality of those years. The mark one made. The happiness one created in others’ lives.
He would agree to this request for Uzumaki children. And he would embrace what he was learning with Neji, how to take his love, spread it, and cast it toward the future.
The years ahead no longer seemed disconnected, hollow, irrelevant. Because he, Uzumaki Naruto, would be there, if not in body, then is spirit. His children and his children’s children would walk the earth, leaving footprints, shaping fortunes and futures in their own spheres of influence, giving his father’s life and his own life, and indeed Sasuke’s and Neji’s lives significance beyond their personal accomplishments and failures.
He was basking in the fullness he felt in his heart when he heard Sasuke again across the compound.
“No. Stop.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Can’t you feel it? He needs us.”
There was a moment of silence then Sasuke continued.
“I want him here. I need him here. With us.”
Seconds later, two naked brunettes appeared on the roof and Naruto was so happy to see both of them.
Sasuke knelt in front of him, caressing his cheek, trying to understand the emotion he felt coming from him.
Neji knelt next to Sasuke and took one of Naruto’s hands, his expression one of concern as well.
“Naruto?”
Naruto smiled and put a palm over each heart.
“My family...”
When Naruto woke up the next morning, Neji was sitting on the foot of the bed and Sasuke was propped against the dresser at the end. They were both looking at him. He sat up and the sheet pooled in his lap.
“He did it.” He pointed at Neji, who huffed a quiet laugh.
“Tch. Idiot.” Sasuke rolled his eyes. “We want to talk to you.”
“It was an accident.”
Sasuke shifted once and then shifted again. Then he inhaled. “I want a child.”
Naruto blinked. He hadn’t expected this conversation quite so soon. But then, he realized, this was Sasuke; he should have known better.
“To be more specific, I…rather, we want your child.”
“This is seriously the weirdest dream I’ve ever had.”
“What Sasuke is trying to say is that,” now Neji shifted uncharacteristically, “is that we want your child.”
Naruto stuck his finger in his ear and wiggled it. “Thank you for the…uh…clarification.” Neji blushed as Sasuke smacked him on the back of the head.
Naruto leaned back on his hands and looked back and forth between the two dark haired ninja. “Why mine?”
“We want a child and we thought about the options; Uchiha, Hyuuga, Uzumaki. Do you see where I’m going with this?”
Naruto nodded. “Definitely. Your babies probably come with tiny raincoats to go with the little black storm clouds they’re born with.”
Both dark haired shinobi raised their eyebrows at him.
“Seriously guys. Should we really be having kids at all? What if…something…happens to one of us one day?” Neji could feel Sasuke’s chakra spike and he interrupted.
“We are all shinobi,” he said. “I’m Anbu. Sasuke will be Anbu in a matter of weeks. Besides that, Sasuke could fall off the roof replacing those tiles next week, or choke on a rice ball tomorrow.”
“Excuse me?” Sasuke put his hands on his hips and pursed his lips in Neji’s direction.
“Don’t fall into living for the end,” Neji said to Naruto. “The end is planned. We know you’ve seen to that. For now, we ask that you try not to predict the date and enjoy the journey. With us.”
Naruto chewed on his lip.
Finally Sasuke pounced on him and pinned him to the mattress.
“Look, I love you more than life and I want to raise your child.”
“Well, why didn’t you just say so instead of all this gene-pool bullshit?” Naruto grinned.
“Neji, help me. Now that it’s settled, I’m going to inspect the quality of Naruto’s sperm.” And he shoved his head under the sheet.

Next up: First of four (count 'em) time skips...
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