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Crossing Boundaries for You	By : Sasunarufan13 Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 12499 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto nor make profit of it. Kishimoto owns it.

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Author's note: Here I am with the third chapter!
Warnings: a bit of drama, I suppose, but nothing too bad.
I hope you'll like it!
Chapter 3
"What am I doing?" Naruto whispered aghast as he stood frozen in front of the closed door. He had taken the bus to reach Sasuke's place and all the way here he had been arguing with himself, trying to find a way to introduce the topic of surrogacy to his friends. He had thought he had finally found a good way to break it to them, but now that he was here, waiting in front of their door, a heavy weight seemed to plummet through his body and he swallowed nervously. Scratching the back of his head, he bit his lip and contemplated once more whether it would be a good idea to announce his idea tonight. There was no way the couple would agree to let him help; Sasuke would have to go very far in order to get a child and the blond man couldn't imagine his best friend being willing to sleep with him, even if that resulted into a pregnancy and therefore his own child.
Sleeping together had the potential of messing up their friendship and if there was one thing that Naruto couldn't stand to lose, it was Sasuke's and Sakura's friendship.
But he really wanted to help them …
His gloved hands clenched into fists on either side and he shuffled with his feet, wincing when the cold wind grazed his cheeks. Well, he couldn't keep standing here, right? Sakura would be wondering where he was if he kept loitering here on their porch.
Taking a deep breath to steady himself, filling his lungs with the ice cold night air, he raised his hand and pressed the button of the doorbell for a couple of seconds. Once he deemed he had pressed on the doorbell long enough, he let his hand drop to his side and he rocked back on his heels; blue eyes swivelling from left to right, taking in the dark, huge shapes of the trees surrounding the property. One streetlight cast an orange glow across the grass and somewhere further down the street, an owl hooted softly. The noise of traffic was a faint buzzing sound.
The light in the hallway being turned on caught Naruto's attention and he turned to face the door when it opened, revealing Sasuke in a pair of dark slacks and a white shirt of which the first two buttons were undone, revealing glimpses of sharp collarbone and smooth, pale skin.
"You took the bus?" Sasuke greeted him and stepped aside to let him enter.
"Yeah, I hope I'm not too late. The second bus got stuck in traffic for a bit," Naruto muttered and slipped his gloves into the pockets of his jacket before hanging it on a silver peg. His shoes, a bit scuffed at the sides, were carelessly put underneath the jacket and he hastily slipped on the house slippers to avoid the cold floor touching his feet.
"Nah, you're not late. Sakura is just putting dinner on the table," the dark haired man informed him and beckoned him to follow him to the dining room.
Naruto couldn't resist the urge to flicker his eyes at Sasuke's arse, noticing how his trousers clung to his arse quite well. Hastily he brought his eyes back up, feeling ashamed for having ogled his friend like that.
Keep it together, Uzumaki, he scolded himself silently, praying fervently that his cheeks weren't as red as they felt like. And if they were, he hoped that Sasuke would just attribute that to the cold air.
Warm, green eyes looked up when both men entered the room and Sakura smiled as she straightened up from putting the third plate on the table.
"Naruto-kun, it's so good to see you again! It's been too long," she told him and came over to hug him after rubbing her hand over her light green apron; her pink hair, which smelt faintly like lavender, tickling his cheek.
He returned her hug with a smile. "It's nice to see you again as well, Sakura-chan."
"I already put the food on the plates to avoid having the pots cluttering the table, so let's eat!" she smiled, but Naruto noticed how her cheered appearance seemed forced, like she was trying too hard to keep the smile on her face.
His resolve strengthened at seeing that. He had the power to turn that smile into a real one and he would use that power. He would leave it up to them to decide whether they wanted to accept his offer.
Naruto took a seat next to Sasuke and inhaled deeply when the aroma of the food curled into his nostrils. "Hm, that smells good, Sakura-chan!" he grinned and looked at his plate. Sakura had made mizutaki, a hot pot dish with bite-size pieces of chicken, small blocks of tofu, Chinese cabbage and shiitake mushrooms, which had simmered in kombu dashi soup stock. Little bowls filled with ponzu sauce to dip the food in it were placed in front of their plates. Usually this particular dish was cooked at the dining table, but Naruto figured that Sakura simply wasn't in the mood to carry too much dishes back to the kitchen.
After expressing their thanks for the food, they started eating and a short pause followed before they slowly started to talk about their job. Sakura did most of the talking during dinner, as she clearly needed to let off some steam of everything that had happened in the hospital. She especially seemed to dislike one particular nurse named Yamanaka Ino, who she had got into several spats with before during the past few weeks.
Naruto let the both of them do the majority of the talking; he didn't have anything particularly interesting to say and in spite of his resolve, his nerves were starting to act up again, making it difficult for him to concentrate on the ongoing conversation.
Dinner ended around an hour later and they leant back into their chairs, sipping from their drinks as outside the wind howled impressively.
"You've been so quiet tonight, Naruto-kun," Sakura remarked and furrowed her eyebrows. "Is something the matter?"
Startled, he looked up from his contemplation of the table cloth – it was a very light pink one, almost bordering on white, and it had roses embroidered on it – and stared at the pink haired woman. "Huh?" was his eloquent reply and he cringed, taking a hasty sip of his drink to cover up the way he had cringed.
"I said: you've been quiet this entire time," she repeated patiently and frowned harder. "Is something bothering you?"
Well, there was no better way to start this particular conversation, was there?
His hand shook a bit when he placed his glass back on the table and he felt dark eyes narrow at that sight. In a vain attempt to hide the shaking, he brought his hands down to his lap where he started to fiddle with a loose thread of his sweater, nervously plucking at it.
"It's … Okay, first promise me you'll hear me out," Naruto muttered and looked at them pleadingly. "No interrupting before I'm done, no throwing dishes or shouting or … or anything really, until I'm done talking."
"What on earth did you do now, idiot?" Sasuke pressed his lips tight together and the look he favoured the blond with was full of suspicion.
Naruto glowered at him. "I didn't do anything, bastard! Just hear me out!" he bit out annoyed.
Sakura eyed him with a strange mixture of curiosity and apprehension, but she nodded silently, placing her own glass in front of her plate before crossing her arms.
Idly Naruto wondered whether that was to keep her from throwing something at him. "I, eh, I think I know a way to help you get a child," he blurted out and almost cringed again at how abrupt he had sounded just now.
"What the hell are you talking about, Naruto?" Sasuke asked flatly and his whole body stilled.
Naruto glanced down, feeling uncomfortable underneath his heavy gaze. "I thought that, because Sakura-chan is having some trouble with it, you could get a child through, you know, surrogacy," he mumbled and cleared his throat.
"Surrogacy," Sasuke repeated blankly. "Like hell will I allow some stranger to carry my child," he continued scornfully.
"I didn't mean a stranger," Naruto replied and raised his head again. His cheeks heated up, but he stubbornly kept his head up. His friends wouldn't take him seriously if he kept his gaze at the ground.
"Who are you talking about then?" Sasuke furrowed his eyebrows and cocked his head to the right. "Did you talk to any of your friends about it?" His clenched fist on the table was difficult to ignore.
"No, I …"
"You're not talking about any of our mutual friends, right, Naruto-kun?" Sakura suddenly broke through their conversation and both men switched their gazes to her, a bit startled. Her light green eyes were far too knowing for Naruto's liking.
"No," he admitted and rubbed the back of his neck. He released a sigh and bit his lip. "I'm talking about me. If – if you want, I – I can be your surrogate."
There. It was out. He had given them the offer. Now it was time for them to decide whether they wanted to accept his offer or not. The butterflies in his stomach started to multiply once more.
"Naruto-kun …" Sakura trailed off and bit her lip in an uncharacteristic sign of uncertainty.
"Did you lose your mind?" Sasuke asked abruptly and stared at him as if he was crazy. Well, the dark haired man probably suspected he was.
Naruto sighed and shook his head. "I didn't lose my mind, bastard. You want a baby and I can give you one. You don't trust a stranger to carry your child, but I'm not a stranger. I looked up what needs to happen. I already started to monitor my temperature and …"
His rambling was cut off by Sakura. "Naruto-kun, we can't ask you to do that," she murmured and gazed at him with a complicated mixture of feelings. "We're the ones with the problem; you don't need to burden yourself with that."
"But I want to help you!" Naruto protested and leant forwards, supporting himself with his elbows on the table. "You want a baby, right? Well, I can help you with that. It's not a burden to me, I swear!"
"But you can't have your egg taken out to be fertilized with Sasuke-kun's seed, right?" Sakura prodded and she only faintly blushed.
"Well, no," the blond admitted reluctantly and refused to glance at the man next to him. "It … According to the magazines I read, it would have to be, you know … the natural way." His cheeks seemed to heat up even more and even Sakura looked uncomfortable.
"The natural way?" Sasuke sounded cool. "You mean I would have to have sex with you?"
Was it Naruto's paranoia that imagined the faint disgust ringing through Sasuke's voice or did the dark haired man really loathe the idea of sleeping with Naruto to have a child?
He knew that the chances of Sasuke being at least bisexual were slim to none, but he couldn't help but shrink a bit, hurt blossoming up in his chest. It wasn't his fault he had been born as a man.
He swallowed and nodded meekly, finding his fiddling fingers way more interesting than the heavy dark eyes trained upon him. "Yeah, the magazines said that in my case, a particular sort of hormone gets activated during, during sex and that makes it possible for a pregnancy to happen."
He seriously hoped that Sasuke wouldn't ask the name of that type of hormone – Naruto was already more than happy to understand at least the gist of what the articles had been stating.
Sakura nodded thoughtfully. "Yes, I've read about that hormone before," she mumbled and her pastel blue painted nails tapped slowly on her arm. "If the egg was taken out to be fertilized with seed, the hormone wouldn't be present in your body when the egg is inserted again and the pregnancy would fail. The only way for men like you to have a baby is through sexual intercourse."
"Yes, and the way I know when I'm the most fertile is by taking my temperature," Naruto muttered, remembering that particular bit of information in the third magazine he had read. "It'll be a couple of degrees higher than normal."
"Did you by any chance already start taking your temperature?" Sakura asked neutrally.
Naruto glanced away guiltily. "Yeah, since I read those articles I've been keeping track of it." He shrugged, a bit uncomfortable. "So far there hasn't been any change yet."
"Why the hell are you even offering to be our surrogate? This is not like taking a walk in the park, Naruto!" Sasuke spat and scowled at him.
"I know that! I did my reading!" Naruto snapped back heatedly. "You two have helped me so much all those years, now I want to help you."
"Naruto-kun, you don't need to pay us back for our help," Sakura sighed and grimaced. "We helped you, because we wanted to; not because we were expecting something in return."
"I know," Naruto repeated sullenly. "But I just want to help you guys this time. I know how much you want a baby and I can give that to you. It's something I can do to help you."
"Oh, for fuck's sake!" Sasuke hissed, shoved his chair violently backwards and stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind him on his way out.
Naruto flinched and his shoulders slumped. He didn't hear Sasuke's car, so the man was probably still in the house, but it was clear that to him the conversation was over.
"I didn't mean to make him angry," he mumbled apologetically and finally dared to look up.
The pink haired woman offered him a weak smile. "I know you didn't, Naruto-kun." She shifted on her seat and ran a hand through her half long hair. "I think he's just …" She sought for the right word to describe the state of her husband. "Overwhelmed," she decided and nodded. She chuckled weakly. "None of us were expecting you to offer something like that, you know. It's not exactly a light offer."
"I realise that, but I assure you, I just want to help you," he replied and released his abused lip. "This is something I can do for you two and I know how much you want to have a baby."
"It's really sweet of you, Naruto-kun," she smiled sadly. "But there are just so many risks involved with it, you know? I mean, that baby would still be biologically yours as well and …"
"I swear I won't keep it!" he hastened to reassure her. "As soon as the baby is born, I'll hand him or her over to you, I promise."
"You're saying that now, but …" She shook her head. "It's … I've seen women who act as a surrogate become attached to the baby they are carrying and that's quite normal. I mean, that baby is inside of them for nine months – it's difficult not to become attached to something that has been growing inside of you, that you felt moving around. And at the end of the road, they were – more often than not – sad that they had to give up the child. Some even decided to keep it and fled before the parents could take the child. It's just so complicated and it messes with friendships. I'm not sure whether …"
"Sakura-chan, when have I ever broken a promise?" Naruto asked and gazed at her intently.
She hesitated, before she gave in reluctantly, "Never."
"I promise I will hand over your baby to you once it's born. I want to see you two happy and I would never forgive myself if I made you unhappy," he said determined. "I can keep my distance from it, I promise. I won't turn out like some of your patients."
Silence fell over the dining room like a blanket while Sakura bent her head and seemed to think about what he had said. Giving her time to contemplate it – he knew it was a tough decision, one which shouldn't be rushed at all – he looked away, out of the large window. Nothing but blackness greeted him. The streetlights didn't reach this far and the property behind the house was surrounded by large trees, blocking the streetlights situated in the street behind their garden. The wind was still howling outside, making leaves rustle and the younger, smaller trees wave back and forth gently.
Eugh, he wasn't looking forward to going back to his apartment in this weather. The central heating in his apartment wasn't enough to block out all the cold seeping through the cracks and he would have to bundle up in several layers before he went to sleep if he wanted to avoid becoming too cold to get a decent rest.
He had agreed to meet up with Iruka for coffee tomorrow afternoon and it wouldn't do if he sat there yawning. Not to mention that helping out Kiba with his dogs whilst being half asleep was something that wasn't recommended either.
Blue eyes were drawn to the square, black clock hanging on the wall behind Sakura and he inwardly sighed when he saw that it was already a quarter to ten. There would be fewer busses driving at this late hour and it would be a hell to catch one. He so hated relying on public transport.
"I'm going to talk about this with Sasuke-kun," Sakura announced, startling him out of contemplation of the clock. "It's a big decision and I can't make that without his consent." She looked exhausted, grim, but there was also some hope warring with weariness deep in her eyes.
Naruto thought she appreciated his offer, might even agree to it, but she was too overwhelmed now to do something about it.
He understood that. He had had almost three weeks to come to this decision; he would give the couple all the time they needed.
"Okay, I think it's time for me to go home," he smiled feebly and stood up. "Don't want to miss the last bus."
"I can drive you," she offered immediately and stood up as well.
He waved his hand dismissively. "No thanks. No need for that." Unwillingly he looked up at the ceiling where in one of those rooms Sasuke had shut himself in. "I can get home without any problems."
She looked at him sympathetically as he went to collect his jacket, shoes and gloves. "He won't stay mad; you know him. At least he can't stay mad at you for long," she smiled encouragingly.
"Yeah, I know," he smiled weakly and pulled on his gloves. Sasuke did indeed never stay mad for long at him, but then again, all those other times didn't involve him offering to play their surrogate. "Good night, Sakura-chan."
She hugged him. "Good night, Naruto-kun. Be careful."
He waved at her once more as she stood in the door opening and he flicked his eyes at a window on the first floor, where light shone through the heavy curtains. With a despondent sigh, he turned around, stuffed his gloved hands in his pockets and made the trek to the bus stop, all the while scolding himself for not bringing up the topic in a more delicate manner.
He really didn't like leaving Sasuke angry behind. It brought up memories he rather didn't recall.
Now he could only wait and see what his friends would decide to do.
AN2: Next up: Sakura and Sasuke inform Naruto of their decision.
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I see you all again the fifth of May in the fourth chapter!
Cuddles
Melissa
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