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The Sacrificed	By : Sasunarufan13 Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 5667 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto nor make profit of it. Kishimoto owns it.

Chapter List
- 1-Part 1
- 2-Part 2
- 3-Part 3
- 4-Part 4
- 5-Part 5
- 6-Part 6
- 7-Part 7
- 8-Part 8
- 9-Part 9
- 3
- 4
- 5
Author's note: Many apologies for keeping so long with this part. Another story was taking me longer to finish and this week I have been quite tired for reasons I still don't know. But I finally powered through tonight and kept working on it so I could finally finish it (so going to regret this in the morning). Again apologies for taking so long.
Thanks to the following reviewer: Ookima
Warnings: Time skips; fluff; mature content; MPreg (oh yes, we're finally going there); talkative Sasuke; vague hints of abuse; mention of blood
I hope you'll like this part!
Part 4
He must have dozed off for a bit, because when he opened his eyes next, he was surprised to find that they were at a brook closest to the cave. He was seated on Sasuke's lap, their legs in the chilly water, and the wolf was cleaning him with the water, running his hand across Naruto's chest and his back before sliding them over his legs.
"I didn't mean to fall asleep," was the first thing that left his mouth and he blinked, his cheeks heating up a bit when Sasuke chuckled lowly.
"I don't mind; at least you didn't fall asleep during it," he smirked. "Now that would have made me question my skills if that had happened."
"There's nothing wrong with your skills," Naruto murmured, ignoring the way his cheeks warmed up even more with that admission.
That earnt him a kiss in his neck and he shivered, though not from the cold because Sasuke's raised body heat ensured that he felt nothing of the slight chilly September air.
"How are you feeling?" Sasuke questioned after some silence had passed between them. He'd stopped cleaning Naruto; his warm hand resting on Naruto's right thigh.
Naruto shifted a bit, stilling when the ache in his lower back worsened for a moment. It wasn't anything awful, not a debilitating pain, but it was definitely there as a reminder of what they had done together.
"A slight ache, but nothing bad," he admitted. He thought about lying about the discomfort, but Sasuke always knew when he was lying and he was feeling too comfortable to start an argument.
"Not anything too bad?" Sasuke gazed at him intently, ready to catch even the faintest whiff of a lie.
"No, nothing too bad," Naruto smiled and felt bold enough to lean forward and catch Sasuke's mouth in a kiss. "I feel good," he admitted; wrapping his fingers around soft strands of black hair.
More than good, even; he felt like he was floating, his limbs still heavy with pleasure even though it must have been at least more than an hour ago since they had consummated their love.
That thought sent a shudder through him and he pressed himself even closer against Sasuke; his entire body running hot underneath those burning eyes.
"Yeah? That's good to hear," Sasuke murmured, nuzzling the hollow beneath Naruto's right ear.
"How come you washed me actually? I thought you - " Naruto cut himself off, too embarrassed to continue.
"You thought I what?" Sasuke prompted him, pulling back a bit to look at him curiously.
"That you would like it more if I smelt like you," the blond admitted embarrassedly.
He'd been reading about wolves before Danzo had decided to literally thrown him in front of one, and the book had said that they liked to mark their territory – whether objects, nature or living beings – so Naruto had kind of expected Sasuke to behave similar, given his wolf side.
"Someone is well informed," Sasuke rumbled, sending more blood rushing into Naruto's cheeks. His eyes glowed red when he wrapped his hand around Naruto's neck and his mouth hovered close to his when he murmured, "I do like it very much when you smell like me, that's true. Some water won't get my scent off you or your scent off me anytime soon, I promise. I figured you'd be a bit more comfortable if you weren't completely sticky." He smirked and captured Naruto's mouth in a deep kiss before the blond boy could come up with a form of retort.
Naruto was more than fine with that, though.
If Naruto had thought he had grown addictive to Sasuke's kisses and his touch, it was nothing compared to now when he knew how it felt to have Sasuke in him. It still ached at the beginning when Sasuke first slid inside him, but with every time they did it, it became easier and easier to ignore the slight pain, especially when his senses were positively drowning in pleasure.
With Sasuke no longer forced to hold himself back, he became a lot freer with his touches, especially the not so innocent ones, and Naruto learnt that there were a lot of things one could do with a tongue and fingers. He also learnt that a human body could be very flexible if one wanted to be, but that always left him with burning cheeks and a belly which squirmed funnily so he tried not to think about that too much for fear he would walk around with a permanent red face.
It was quite astonishing, really, how much progress they had made in the months since Naruto had been dumped here. He had gone from being too fearful to even open his mouth around the Beast to being incredibly vocal to Sasuke's absolute delight. Sometimes he became aware of how loud he could be whenever they slept together and he would try to stifle his voice somewhat at least, a bit embarrassed by the way it would echo in the cave.
Sasuke would have none of it every time. Whenever he noticed that Naruto was trying to be more quiet, he would growl and do something like bite his neck or thrust even harder to distract the blond, admonishing him for trying to smother his voice.
Naruto would accept the scolding and stop trying to be quiet – until the next time he thought he was too loud and the game would start anew. He didn't mind, however, because Sasuke had very interesting ways to make him stop stifling his voice.
"You're feeling up to going outside for a bit?" Sasuke questioned, padding into the cave.
He'd gone outside a little while ago to investigate a peculiar noise. He hadn't appeared too worried about the noise, however, so Naruto hadn't been concerned and had remained behind in the nest, dozing after the round of lovemaking they had just finished.
Upon hearing his lover's voice, he opened his eyes and stretched his entire body, wincing slightly at the dull ache in his lower back. "It's still day, right?" he asked, looking around for his clothes.
He had started wearing his clothes less and less when inside the cave, because more often than not he ended up naked anyways, so there was no point in getting dressed when those clothes would come off within a couple of hours. Sasuke definitely loved this change in routine, given how his eyes would gleam whenever Naruto walked around completely naked. The blond boy was not entirely as confident as the wolf shifter was about being naked, but Sasuke's more than approving reactions helped him feel better about himself whenever he did dare to walk around naked.
Considering it was September now, though, and he didn't have this built in heater like Sasuke had, he would need to wear his clothes if he wanted to go outside. It might not be freezing yet, but that didn't mean it was warm enough still for him to traipse about sans clothes.
"Yes, afternoon," Sasuke confirmed, still keeping his wolf form.
That piqued Naruto's interest, because lately Sasuke had accompanied him in his human form more often than in his wolf form when they walked around outside.
"Yeah, okay, where are we going?" He found his shirt and trousers underneath the rickety table for some reason and pulled them on, clenching his cheeks when he felt something warm and sticky drip down.
Sasuke's eyes were definitely glowing when he turned around to face him, but he surprisingly didn't react to what he was certainly smelling now. Whatever it was that he wanted to show him must be quite important then.
"You've got a visitor," Sasuke answered.
It took a moment before Naruto's brain analysed the comment and his eyes widened; his hands freezing as he was about to tug down his shirt. "A visitor?" he repeated dumbly. "Baa-chan?"
"See for yourself," Sasuke replied, jerking his head towards the exit of the cave. If wolves were capable of smiling, he would most likely be doing that now.
Excited, butterflies racing through his stomach, he rushed through the tunnel system; the wolf following him like a shadow. Had Tsunade decided to visit him on his own? Had Sasuke heard her wandering through the woods and had decided to guide her to the cave? That would explain why he had been gone for a while.
The sight of weak daylight glinting at the end of the tunnel had him speeding up for the last part and he practically burst out of the cave; eyes wildly roaming around the space to find her.
Immediately he realised Tsunade wasn't here. Instead –
"It's really you," Kakashi said dazedly; his dark eyes wide with disbelief. "She was – she was right. She was actually right. You're here, you're alive."
Naruto stared at the only father figure he had known, took in the haggard appearance, the silvery hair sticking out in every possible direction, the long bandage wrapped around his right arm. He was still dressed in his uniform, making him question whether the man had only just come back from whatever mission he had been sent to and the sight of him, so familiar even after months of not having seen it, had tears stinging the back of his eyes and his lower lip trembled.
"Kakas-"
Arms suddenly swung around him, drawing him in a tight hug, and he stood there in complete shock for a moment, for Kakashi had never been the affectionate type, preferring to pat heads and shoulders as opposed to embracing someone.
But here he was now, hugging Naruto desperately tight as if he was afraid this was all a dream and he needed to reassure himself it wasn't.
"You're okay, you're here," Kakashi kept repeating, rocking them back and forth as if Naruto was a mere child instead of the young adult he actually was.
He didn't care. He hugged Kakashi back just as tightly, burying his face into his shoulder, uncaring if tears escaped or not.
Of course Tsunade had promised to send Kakashi to the forest as soon as the man was back from his mission, but a small part of Naruto – a part which had started rearing its ugly head the second he had comprehended just how dangerous Kakashi's work could be – had feared that he would never get the chance to see the older man again. Because something could have gone wrong during his mission, or he could have been held up for so long that by the time he arrived here, Sasuke and he would already have left.
But he was here now, right in front of Naruto, injured but fine otherwise and that thought had him squeezing his arms around Kakashi even harder. The older man grunted but didn't let him go, exhaling brokenly.
"Thank you," he said.
The words jarred Naruto for a couple of seconds, him not understanding why Kakashi would be thanking him, until he realised he wasn't talking to him – but to Sasuke.
Sasuke, who was still in his huge wolf form, lingering just outside the cave like a demonic guardian from hell. He was sitting down, probably as to not overwhelm Kakashi with his sheer size and at Kakashi's words of gratitude, he huffed; his tail swishing back and forth.
"I wasn't going to keep you from him," he grumbled. "I promised he could see you once you showed up."
"Still thanks for taking care of him," Kakashi said quietly and took a deep breath, pulling back slightly to look at Naruto. "Now what have you been up to here, hm? Aside from potentially chattering this poor wolf's ears off."
Naruto grinned, dried his eyes with the back of his hand and settled down for a long talk, more than eager to fill Kakashi in on the months they hadn't seen each other – leaving out the more intimate details, of course.
There were some things he didn't want his pseudo father to know about, no matter how easy the man was to talk to.
"You do a lot for me," Naruto remarked quietly, watching Kakashi disappear between the trees.
It was quite late, the sun having disappeared behind the clouds several hours ago, and evening was settling in. All around them the woods started to come to life with various night animals, the little creatures preparing themselves to take over from the beings who were going to sleep now.
There was the sound of bones shifting and cracking, bending back into human features, and he leant automatically back when arms closed around his waist.
Sasuke hooked his chin over his shoulder and muttered, "Of course I do, you're my mate."
The words had warmth pooling down in Naruto's belly and he smiled, his hands landing on top of the wolf shifter's. "Yeah, I'm your mate," he agreed, sighing softly when lips pressed a hot kiss in his neck.
He didn't know when the next time would be that he would see Kakashi again. They couldn't meet up regularly for fear that other people – people who were a whole lot less fond of Naruto – would discover where he was going to and betraying their secret.
That was okay, though. He had seen Kakashi again, after so many months of fearing he had lost the man forever, and that would be enough to sustain him until the next time.
October hit the country by introducing itself with a lot of rain and wind; the howling at night so bad it nearly resembled Sasuke's wolf cry at times. They started gathering more wood to prepare for the upcoming winter, for Sasuke sensed it would be a particularly bad one.
He could smell it in the air, he'd explained when Naruto had looked at him confused, and well, if Sasuke sensed it, Naruto believed him. So they went out each day to gather wood and Sasuke switched his hunting tactics from small animals to the bigger ones once more, in order to salt the meat for the winter and prepare more fur blankets.
More tea leaves in bags were snatched out of the homes of unsuspecting villagers, together with a miscellaneous collection of clothes, including a pair of heavy boots.
At Naruto's stumped face, Sasuke explained, "Just in case you need to go outside during the winter. That way you can keep yourself warm." He eyed Naruto's old clothes critically. "Because the ones you have now aren't going to do anything to keep the cold out."
Which was true, Naruto conceded, looking down at his thin shirt and his scuffed trousers. He'd been wearing them so for so long already – out of pure necessity – that the cloth had become dangerously thin and it definitely wouldn't do anything to keep him warm during a harsh winter.
The boots were a tad too big, but he could work with that, because he didn't foresee himself making long journeys if the winter was really going to be as bad as Sasuke said it would be. As he sorted through the piles of clothes, deciding which ones were suitable and which ones weren't, he was once again struck by the thought of how much Sasuke was doing for him.
It was a thought which regularly popped up in his mind, because even two months in their new relationship, he still found it hard to believe at times that Sasuke had chosen him out of everyone he could have.
But here he was, in their cave, sorting through clothes while Sasuke was preparing some tea for the both of them. It all felt so domestic and tranquil that it had Naruto pausing in his inspection of a brown sweater and had him swallowing a lump down his throat instead.
"You okay?" Sasuke appeared quickly in front of him; his black eyes narrowed and sharp.
"Yeah, yeah, I am, just … I love you," the words tumbled out of his mouth before he could think twice, before he could stop himself, but he didn't want to stop, because it was true; by the gods, with every fibre of his being he loved this beautiful, kind man in front of him, this man who miraculously loved him back, "and I want to be your mate."
Sasuke blinked, a bemused smile gracing his lips. "You are my mate or have you already forgotten what we did yesterday?" he teased, squatting down in front of him, gently pulling the sweater out of Naruto's weak grasp.
"No," Naruto said urgently, shaking his head and sitting up on his knees. His heart started beating quicker, but he knew what he wanted, what he perhaps had wanted the second Sasuke had suggested the offer. "I want the Mating Bite. I want to be your Mate."
The words hung suspended in the air between them, making the atmosphere heavy with tension. Sasuke completely stilled like a predator about to jump on its unsuspecting prey.
"Naruto, do you know what you're asking of me?" His voice descended to one of the lowest pitches Naruto had heard so far and it had his stomach performing several flips and turns in response.
"I know. I want you to Bite me," Naruto said breathlessly, shuffling closer. He halted when Sasuke held up his hand.
"Naruto – if I do that, I won't be able to hold back, you understand? "
"I don't need you to hold back," Naruto reassured him, grasping at his arms. "I never need you to hold back, I don't want you to."
It pained him to think that Sasuke still thought he needed to keep himself in check. He didn't want that at all, didn't want his wolf to hold himself back for whatever reason.
"No, Naruto, you don't get it." Sasuke shook his head. "If I Bite you, you'll be thrown into a heat. Your body will change while you're accepting the Bite, and chances are you won't remember what will happen during that time. But I will. Because the moment your body starts changing, the second you'll be thrown into a heat, I'll want nothing more than to breed you full with my cubs. I won't be able to stop myself because you will be calling out to me even if you don't know it consciously." He was nearly panting by the time he finished, his speech interspersed with growls and snarls, red draining the black colour out of his eyes.
"It's okay, I trust you. I want that, I promise," Naruto said, grabbing Sasuke's arms tightly. "I know you'll take care of me."
"That's not – because the Bite will be fresh, the chances of you becoming pregnant are really high," Sasuke warned him; his eyes intense and the tips of his fangs descending slowly. "I can try to pull back on time, but I don't dare to promise it and with how prominent your heat will be … You'll most likely end up with child after the change is complete."
For just a couple of seconds, Naruto wavered, old insecurities making him wonder whether he would be a good parent. But then he remembered he had Sasuke at his side now and he felt stronger at once. He knew he could do anything with Sasuke as his mate and that included raising a child.
He tried to imagine himself full with Sasuke's child, attempted to imagine how a child with both their features would look like. He thought it would be the most perfect baby who would ever exist, because it would be created out of their love, and that decided it for him.
He smiled and darted forwards to kiss Sasuke. "I thought I told you I don't need you to hold back anymore? Or have you forgotten that already?" he laughed quietly, his breath catching when Sasuke abruptly rose up and smoothly picked him up from the floor, marching with him to their nest.
"Last chance to back out," Sasuke said, jaw visibly clenched.
Naruto just closed his eyes and kissed him in response.
When Sasuke rose up, sitting on his knees between Naruto's spread legs, the blond felt incredibly strung out, as if all his nerves were pulled tight and vibrating like strings being plucked. He was already a mess, his entire body shivering; his chest rapidly rising and lowering as he tried to regulate his breathing.
That was no use, however, when fingers were wrapped almost casually around his cock, yet still tight enough to keep the pleasure from overflowing. Sasuke already had made him see stars once before, but he was quickly making his way up to a second time and most likely even more after this, because Naruto still wasn't Marked and was feeling too empty for his liking; Sasuke having only used his tongue and hands so far.
Not that he didn't appreciate that, but he would appreciate it a lot more if –
"You ready?" Sasuke's voice rumbled from somewhere deep within; his eyes an odd mixture of black and red as his control tethered on the verge of being completely lost.
"Yeah, I'm ready," Naruto breathed out a moment later when he understood to what Sasuke was referring.
"No going back after this," Sasuke said lowly and his hand started moving up and down Naruto's cock again; his thumb pressing against the leaking tip with every stroke upwards, making the blond whimper weakly.
"I know, I know, I want it, please!" Naruto panted, squirming underneath the hulking form of his soon to be Mate.
"You're too damn perfect," Sasuke growled and abruptly leant down.
Naruto wanted to say something, perhaps along the lines of Sasuke being the one who was too perfect for this world, but then the hand around his cock twisted in a peculiar but interesting way at the same time sharp teeth buried themselves in his neck, right above the junction where his neck met his shoulder.
Burning pain crashed into the wave of exquisite pleasure, mixing until he couldn't even tell which was what, and he was only vaguely aware of yelling, his back arching as he came almost violently; Sasuke holding him into place with simply his fangs and his hand. The wolf shifter was growling almost wildly, his strong body vibrating above Naruto's, as if he was the one who had been drowning in pleasure just now and not the blond.
The dark haired man pulled back abruptly and his entire mouth was stained with Naruto's blood. The sight of it should scare Naruto or at the very least fill him with disgust, but he could only stare up in wonder at the other one, watching him lick the blood away from his lips and his fangs, while the bite mark in his neck throbbed with heat.
Sasuke studied him intently; his gaze flicking back and forth between the bloody mark in Naruto's neck and his face. His hands started rubbing along Naruto's sides as if to soothe him, sometimes slipping low enough to caress his still quivering thighs.
Blue eyes blinked and Naruto opened his mouth, but paused; his eyes rolling up to the ceiling instead of Sasuke's face. He didn't understand what was wrong at first, merely feeling a bit off, but then he realised his vision was starting to blur as if his eyes were tired. He wasn't tired, though.
Far from it. Even though Sasuke had coaxed an orgasm out of him twice already, his body thrummed with energy anew and he started quaking for some reason, as if his body was experiencing a mini-earthquake. There was unfamiliar heat pooling in the pit of his belly, not like the one he felt when the pleasure became too much, yet not entirely unlike it either, and he reached out with his arms, needing Sasuke's touch to ground him.
"Sa-Sasuke," he stammered, starting to feel unnaturally hot as if the room was too warm. But that couldn't be it, not with the wind howling outside, travelling through the makeshift chimney to play with the flames in the hearth.
"Ssssh, ssssh, you're fine," Sasuke murmured, nuzzling his left cheek, sliding his arms underneath Naruto's back to pull him up. He ended up straddling the wolf shifter's lap with hands rubbing across his back. "Just let it happen, all right? Don't fight it, you're okay, I promise. This is just the Bite starting to change you, nothing to be afraid of. I'm here, I won't leave, I promise. Just hold on to me, just relax, that's all you need to do."
Even though every muscle in his body wanted to tense up, fighting against whatever was making him feel out of sorts, he listened to Sasuke, because Sasuke had never lied to him before, so if he said he was going to be fine, he trusted him. Because Sasuke would take care of him, like he had been doing ever since he had been dumped at this cave.
"That's it," Sasuke said lovingly, praising him and rubbing his thumb across Naruto's cheek. "That's it, just relax, you're doing so well, love. All you need to do is relax and let me take care of you, okay?" he cooed, carefully lowering Naruto back onto the thickest part of the nest, where fur after fur had been piled up.
He could do that, letting Sasuke take care of him. Sasuke was really good at that.
Of course he's good at that, a voice whispered in the back of his mind. He's your mate, he knows how to take good care of you.
Warm lips, tinged with the faint aftertaste of blood, touched his and then –
He let go.
An inferno was raging inside of him, he knew, because he was both hot inside and outside; his skin coated with flames, it felt like. Flames which were only doused when Sasuke touched him, when Sasuke kissed and licked and bit and when he finally pushed into Naruto, breaching him for the first time, stretching his entrance to its limit, Naruto felt like he could finally breathe again; his lungs expanding with the much desired fresh air.
"That's it, you're taking me so well," Sasuke was praising him, but the words reached him in an odd muffled sort of way, as if he was under water. "Look at how good you're taking me right now, you're so beautiful, so perfect and all mine. My beautiful, precious mate."
Words of praise, of desire, of love, kept pouring out those sinful reddened lips, only temporarily silenced when their kisses grew too deep, bordering on filthy, leaving Naruto gasping for air while at the same time begging for more, because Sasuke was what was keeping him grounded, his touch the only thing that prevented him from floating away as the heat threatened to overwhelm him.
Then Sasuke would thrust harder into him, tiny pricks of claws digging into his hips, and the heat would retreat, pushed back underneath the ever growing pleasure.
"You're going to look so amazing with your belly full with my cub," Sasuke murmured, peppering his face, his neck, his shoulders with a multitude of kisses, smirking when a faint brush of his tongue across the Bite Mark had Naruto whining, his nails scratching furiously at Sasuke's back. "You're going to be amazing at this, I just know. Our baby is going to be perfect because it will have you as its mother and they're going to grow up loved and adored. Just like I will love and adore you for the rest of our lives, because you're my mate, mine alone. Do you feel good, sweetheart? Does this feel good?"
He changed his rhythm then, his thrusts turning long and deep, his cock pressing almost ruthlessly against that one special place inside Naruto, sending sparks of too much, no, not too much yet pleasure through his system; his own leaking cock pressed between their stomachs.
The ability to form actual words had left Naruto a while ago, and so he could only moan in agreement; his breath catching in his throat when Sasuke hiked his legs higher up around his waist, the new position pushing him even deeper inside the blond, something he had thought was impossible.
He was not so out of it that he couldn't feel Sasuke growing inside of him slowly, the tugs at his entrance whenever he pulled out and pushed back in tell-tale signs that his knot was growing and would soon lock them together for a while.
He couldn't wait for that. He couldn't wait for Sasuke to knot him properly, to fill him up with his seed, breed him. He wanted all that Sasuke could give him, desired to show him what a good mate he could be to his wolf. Sasuke could do whatever he wanted to and Naruto would let him, because he was a good mate and he wanted Sasuke to know that.
Sasuke's soft laughter in his neck had him shivering and he barely managed to focus on glinting red eyes when Sasuke lifted his head and looked at him. "Of course I know you're a good mate, you're very good to me," Sasuke whispered, mouthing at his jaw. "And I know you can take what I give you, because you're absolutely perfect. My perfect, beautiful mate, all ready for me to knot and breed. That's what you want, no? Being knotted so well there's no way you won't be carrying my cub after this."
His voice descended in a mixture of a hiss and a snarl, his fangs on full display now; his red eyes burning brighter than the summer sun. There were claws where hands should be, wrapped tightly around Naruto's hips, keeping him immobile should he try to escape.
He didn't want to escape, though. Not now, not ever.
Licking his lips, he focused on Sasuke, on his bit off snarls and the way his eyes glowed unnaturally; blood red having overtaken his normal black colour a long time ago. His mouth felt dry, his tongue too big for his mouth, but he finally got his vocal chords to cooperate and gasped, "I'm yours."
The snarl escaping Sasuke at hearing that was so unholy, so possessive, it reverberated deep within Naruto, connecting with something there and the next second, the final tidal wave of pleasure crashed over him, and he screamed; his entire body spasming and shaking in Sasuke's embrace, his pleasure drawn out again and again as Sasuke's knot finally caught, pressing against that one spot deep within him until –
Everything went dark.
Disorientated, sluggish and sore beyond belief.
That was how Naruto woke up, having no idea how much time had passed. He was still in the nest, cradled within Sasuke's arms; his back pressed against the wolf's chest. They were still connected, he discovered when he tried to move, and he could feel himself blush.
His blush deepened, his entire face burning, when Sasuke chuckled lowly behind him; a hand coming down to rest on his thigh.
"You with me again?" Sasuke murmured, kissing his shoulder gently.
"Y-yeah, how – how long …?"
"Hm, probably a few days," Sasuke replied thoughtfully. "Didn't really keep track of time. It's somewhere in the evening now, though."
"Oh." Naruto blinked surprised, not having expected to hear that a few days had passed. No wonder he felt so sore …
Wait …
His hand flew up, touching the raised ridges of the Bite Mark in his neck and he exhaled slowly. "Did it – did it take?" he asked wondrously.
"The Mark? Yes, it did. You're officially my Mate now." The hand on his thigh shifted upwards, covering his belly instead. "Your heat? Yes, yes, it did."
Naruto stared down, looking at the hand covering his belly almost protectively and he inhaled sharply when his brain finally worked out the implication. "You mean I'm – "
"With child? Yes, you are." Sasuke sounded both incredibly proud and immensely pleased about that. "I noticed your scent changed overnight. It's still faint, but I'm sure: you're pregnant."
"We're having a baby," Naruto breathed out amazed, his own hand descending onto his stomach, overlapping Sasuke's.
There was actually a baby growing inside of him now, a little tiny being who would be the perfect mix of him and Sasuke … He could hardly wrap his mind around that, too astonished by the knowledge.
"I've got a present for you," Sasuke murmured then, breaking him out of his reverie and Naruto turned his head surprised.
"A present?"
"Hm, it's tradition in my family to give our Mate a present, something meaningful to thank them for enriching our lives with their presence," Sasuke said and he seemed to be searching something at his side of the nest.
The blond blinked when a necklace dropped into his view. The cord was black, almost as black as the night, and it held a shimmery pale green stone with a hole in the middle. On each side of the stone, a long fang was hung and it took him a moment before he realised those were bear teeth.
"Sasuke …" he trailed off stunned.
"This stone is called a Fae stone, you know why?"
Naruto shook his head; his eyes glued onto the pretty pale green colour.
"Because the stone has a hole of its own, not something manmade. It means that this stone is a mirror to the Fae world," Sasuke explained. "You look through this hole and you will be able to see all sorts of Fae without them being able to see you."
"Oh wow," Naruto breathed out amazed, carefully touching the stone with his index finger. "And the teeth?"
"A reminder to everyone out there that they are not to harm you," Sasuke said calmly, but there was an undercurrent of danger running through his voice. The dangerous tone was gone the next moment, replaced by a soft one. "Will you grant me the honour of you wearing this?"
"Absolutely!" Naruto said before he could even think twice and he could practically feel Sasuke smiling as the man helped him put it on.
Carefully grasping the stone, testing the sharpness of the teeth with his thumb, Naruto murmured, "Thank you for giving this to me."
Sasuke gently turned his head around to kiss him. "Thank you for becoming my Mate."
There was something special, almost magical, about the knowledge that a child was growing inside of him.
Even though he knew full well that he wouldn't be able to see any changes, let alone feel something, for another couple of months at least, that didn't stop him from touching his stomach every day, marvelling about the little miracle that was unfolding in him.
He had gone from being a poor, unwanted orphan to someone loved and desired by one of the most beautiful and kindest men he knew and now they would be making a family of their own.
Thinking about the little babe inside of him made him wonder sometimes how his parents would have reacted should they have survived until the present day. Would they have been happy to know they would be getting a grandchild in this rather unconventional way?
Ah, but if they had still been alive, it was likely he wouldn't have met Sasuke at all then.
That was a thought that left him feeling a bit off kilter. How strange it was to realise that it was only his status as the unwanted orphan that had allowed him to meet Sasuke at all. It was something he didn't like thinking about, he decided soon, and figured that thinking such thoughts couldn't be healthy for the baby either. He'd heard women in the village talking, telling each other that negative feelings were something to be avoided when one wanted to have a healthy babe. Because if you felt too negative, that would have an effect on the baby and the baby would get sick then.
He didn't want anything bad to happen to his unborn child and resolved not to think about anything that could make him feel unhappy.
Still, sometimes it would be nice to know if his parents would have been just as happy as he was with this baby. It made him wish Danzo had at least given him time to pack so he could take some of the old pictures and his blankets with him, the only things he had still left from his parents. It couldn't replace them, obviously, but it had often made him feel closer to them, imagining the warmth and weight of the blankets were them hugging him.
"What are you thinking about?" Sasuke asked and sat down next to him.
He was sitting in front of the fire, warming himself up after having gone outside to take a leak. It was definitely freezing now, so it had to be somewhere in November. It had started to snow as well and it promised to be a heavy bout, making him happy that they had thought of creating a stock of the most essential necessities. The less they needed to go outside in this horrible cold weather, the better.
"Hm?" He looked up, relaxing against Sasuke when the man pulled him closer. "Just … It's something stupid," he smiled ruefully.
"It can't be stupid if it has you frowning like that," Sasuke chided him, tapping his forehead. "Come on, tell me what's wrong."
"I was thinking about the pictures and the blankets I had to leave behind," Naruto admitted quietly after a pause. "They obviously didn't give me time to pack, but I wished they had. That was all I had left from my parents and … I know it's stupid, but I wish I still had them."
"Not stupid at all," Sasuke murmured and drew him in a warm embrace. "You could never be stupid."
Naruto pressed his face into Sasuke's neck, taking comfort in his hug and ignoring the stinging wet heat behind his eyes.
When he woke up the next morning, folded, painfully familiar blankets and a collection of pictures greeted him. He could only stare at them, his fingers trembling when he reached out to touch the first blanket, the cotton cold and rough, but oh so welcome underneath his fingertips.
"You – you went out and got them for me?" A lump formed in his throat and he blinked tears away, his next exhale shuddery as he rubbed his thumb back and forth across a raffled corner of the blanket.
Sasuke cupped his neck and when Naruto looked up, he was kissed softly. "You needed to have them, right?" Sasuke said, caressing his cheek. "So I went out and got them for you."
"Thank you," Naruto choked out, wrapping his arms around the wolf's neck in a tight embrace.
He had his pictures and his blankets again.
If he had doubted before whether Sasuke truly loved him, all those doubts had now been swept away, destroyed with the presence of the pictures and blankets he had missed so much ever since he had been forced to leave his shack.
Now he had them back and he could tell his baby all about his grandparents and show him or her how they looked like.
He could look at his mother and father again.
If their next kiss tasted somewhat salty, wetter than normal, neither of them remarked on it.
He hummed to himself, looking through the pictures Sasuke had gone out to collect for him. It hadn't been until an hour after having woken up to see the blankets and the pictures waiting for him, that he had realised Sasuke had actually gone inside the village to get these things for him.
"It could have been so dangerous!" Naruto said worriedly. "You shouldn't have done that. What if someone had seen you?"
"Then they had best prayed they would be gone before I got to them," Sasuke snorted and drew him in for a kiss. "No need to worry, nobody in there is a threat to me. There was nobody outside at that hour anyway."
Which well, was true. If Kakashi couldn't take on Sasuke – which he couldn't, he had admitted as much when he had been here – there was nobody else strong enough in the village to defeat Sasuke, let alone be able to subdue him. Kakashi was one of the strongest people Naruto knew, so if he was incapable of defeating Sasuke, then there was no need to worry about someone else.
Still, to think Sasuke had risked his life just to get some pictures and some old blankets … It made him realise just how much the wolf shifter actually loved him.
He paused at the picture he had drawn of Tsunade; it showed his grandmother sitting behind her desk, a concentrated look on her face. He had drawn that one back when he had been sick with the flu and she had kept him at her house, unwilling to let him stay alone in his shack. He didn't get sick that often, so he knew he had really scared her when he had collapsed in her office that afternoon, the fever burning away all his strength.
The next one was one of Kakashi, during the rare times he had caught the man napping. He smiled at the picture, recalling how Kakashi had startled awake right when Naruto had drawn the last line.
The older man had been embarrassed to have been drawn asleep and had chased Naruto around, attempting to get his hands on the picture, but the blond boy had been quicker and eventually Kakashi had had to give up, making him promise to never show it to anyone.
His smile grew when Sasuke came to sit behind him, his legs bracketing Naruto's, and his arms resting casually around his waist.
"I've been meaning to ask – why have you not asked to see more people than those two?" Sasuke inquired curiously.
The question innocent as it was had Naruto tensing up nonetheless and he slowly put the picture down, staring at Kakashi's sleeping face. "Because there's nobody else to see," he answered simply. "Nobody else wanted to be around me but them."
"Did the others hurt you?" His voice was still calm, but an edge was nonetheless audible in it.
"Naruto," Sasuke said warningly when the blond was silent for too long.
Naruto heaved a huge sigh. "Sometimes," he muttered, frowning. "A lot," he admitted more quiet, rubbing over his left wrist.
When he concentrated he could still feel the stinging smack of the wooden stick hitting his wrist when one of the shopkeepers had falsely accused him of stealing an apple.
It had just been one of the many injuries he'd experienced whilst living at the village, because no matter what, people always seemed to have found a reason to hurt him.
He stilled when Sasuke hooked his chin over his shoulder and started caressing his stomach. "Can you tell me about them?"
Naruto stared at the pictures for a long time, remembering the taunts and the curses, the bruises and the pain.
He took a deep breath and started talking.
AN2: So yes, I hope this made up for the long wait *coughs* I also hope nothing came across as too rushed in this chapter ...
Please leave your thoughts behind in a review; should you spot any mistakes, please point them out to me.
I hope to see you all back in the next part (because this thing just keeps growing, jeez)! Please stay safe and take care of yourselves!
Cuddles
Melissa
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