"Na-Naruto?!" Ino gasped at seeing her old classmate sitting on the throne of the Sound Village, married to Sasuke Uchiha.

Naruto turned to look at her. There was recognition in his eyes, but they were missing their usual spark of life that was so Naruto. He smiled at her pleasantly, but not his full-face smile.

"Hello Ino-chan. I am happy to see you. Thank to for finding the time to come and visit us. I know you must be busy. But my Lord-husband couldn't wait to announce our marriage and soon arrival of our firstborn."

Useless to say, the Konoha group was speechless, they didn't know what to make of the situation. They had come thinking of saving their comrade from imprisonment. They never expected to find him a willing partner of the Uchiha.

A quick look at Kakashi confirmed to Shikamaru that Naruto was not under a Genjutsu.

Sasuke smirked at seeing the shocked faces of the shinobi from the Leaf. He had thought about putting his beloved under a Genjutsu. It would have definitely made the process faster. However he didn't want a puppet. He wanted his Naruto, whole, with his bright personality, his big smiles. He wanted him, just madly in love with him, like Sasuke was of him.

Kakashi coughed to break the awkward silence fallen in the Hall.

"Not to sound rude. But can I ask what happened, Naruto? Last time we checked you had been kidnapped from your village, your home, and kept captive here for more than a year. Plenty of our men died trying to rescue you, killed by orders of your husband."

Naruto looked down for a second before returning his blue eyes to his former companions.

"I am deeply sorry for what happened to your men. No reason is worth the lost of lives. But I don't regret what happened. It was my destiny to be with Sasuke. I was roaming in the darkness all my life, until Sasuke came for me and patiently showed me the light. My destiny is here, with my beloved husband, who loves me more than anything. And it is my destiny to carry his children." He sweetly caressed his large belly. "This child is obviously a gift from kami. I am just sorry it took me so long to realise all this." He looked apologetic to Sasuke.

Sasuke smiled sweetly at him and kissed his hand. "I could have waited all my life for you. You are my soulmate. We are meant to be together."

"Enough with this nonsense!" Kiba shouted, "Shut your fucking mouth!"

He launched himself at full speed on top of Akamaru toward the Uchiha, ready to just kill him and take Naruto home. End of the story.

No one expected Sasuke to do nothing. He just remained sat on his throne, smirking. The reason appeared very soon. Naruto stood up from his own throne and calmly positioned himself in front of Sasuke, arms spread, ready to use his body as a shield to protect his husband.

Kiba's eyes widened in surprise. "What?!"

It was too late, he couldn't stop himself in time. Soon he would crash against the blond. But before it could happen, a purple full-body Susanoo surrounded Naruto, defending him from the attack, and punched Kiba and Akamaru against the wall further from the throne.

The other Konoha ninjas were ready to attack, but Kakashi stopped them.

"Don't be stupid. Do you want to start a war? He is still the Otokage."

Unhappy, they stepped back, still glaring at Sasuke with hate.

Once sure no one was going to do something stupid, Sasuke removed Susanoo, stood up and hugged Naruto from behind, putting his arms around his waist, caressing his swollen belly. He kissed his cheek sweetly. "Thank you for protecting me, my love" Naruto blushed. "Take him away" Sasuke ordered his guards. "Put him in the dungeons." Then he turned to Konoha shinobi. "Inuzuka will stay there, unharmed, until it's time for you to leave. I think it's quite generous of me, considering he attacked me, my Consort and our unborn child." He said looking at Kakashi in particular, knowing he would understand what he was implying, that he was being very magnanimous.

Kakashi looked back without blinking for a minute, then he nodded. "Thank you, Uchiha-sama. I apologise for my companion's rushing behaviour. There is going to be no further troubles."

"I am sure of that" Sasuke said. "All dismissed."

00000

The night air was warm, lightly caressing Naruto's skin. He was standing on the balcony in his and Sasuke's bedroom. He was only wearing an orange yukata. It was open, leaving his front completely naked and exposed to the summer breeze. He was caressing his belly lovely, trying to infused all his love to the child, while looking at the sky full of stars.

"Hmm" Sasuke groaned from behind him. He was laying on the bed with an arm over his eyes. Using his Mangekyou Sharingan to create Susanoo caused him to be temporarily blind. It only lasted a couple of hours usually. That Sharingan was quite new.

"Oh my poor dear husband." Naruto said while walking to the bed and sitting down on it, right next to Sasuke. "You shouldn't have overdue it. Kiba would have not hurt me for real. First you trained me too well. Second he was my friend"

"Are you defending him?" Sasuke snapped unhappy.

"Dear, I am on your side. I love you. But I can't deny I was actually happy to see my old comrades. We grew up together after all. We lived great adventures together. I missed them"

Sasuke grabbed his wrist. "There shouldn't be space in your heart and mind for others but me. I am your whole world. I am sharing you with no one. I am only willing to do so with our child, and that's only because he has my blood and chakra."

Naruto smiled. "How do you know he'll have your chakra and not mine?"

Sasuke smirked. "There is a special bond already between us. I can connect with him using chakra, and when my chakra touches him, he answers."

As to prove it to him, Sasuke passed a bit of his chakra into his belly, and immediately the baby kicked happily. Naruto smiled. The baby was always very enthusiast when he sensed Sasuke, as if he knew he was his father. There was a strong bond between them.

"See?" Sasuke smiled.

"I see. We already know who his favourite between us will be, nice reward for lending him my body."

"Do not worry, my dear. He loves you deeply already. I can feel it when I connect with him. One day he'll be very protective of you, like I am. You are ours. No one will take you away from us."

Naruto smiled, used to his husband's possessiveness.

Sasuke groaned once more due to the pain. Naruto softly caressed his black hair, trying to comfort him.

"Do you want a cup of tea?"

"No. Only your sweet body can subdue my pain."

Naruto knew what he meant. He stood up and straddled Sasuke. He sat on his lap and started to caress his chest.

"Uhm... yes, this is what I was talking about" Sasuke moaned, enjoying his beloved 's touch like always, especially when he could not see, making him more sensitive.

"Let me take care of you, my Lord. Let me worship the body that always gives me so much pleasure. Let me adore the father of my child."

Naruto kissed him deeply on the lips, the neck, biting occasionally, his muscular chest. Then he straightened up and started to move his hips with circular movements, forcing an erection from his husband.

"Oh my darling. You are driving me crazy"

"I know how to serve yo, my Lord"

"So you should know what I really want"

"Of course I do"

Naruto took Sasuke's hard member and guided it in his tight hole. As soon as it was all in, he started to ride him passionately, hard and fast, putting to good use his famous stamina. All the while, Sasuke kept one hand on his hip and the other on his belly. The baby was moving.

After many minutes joining their fleshes, both were about to climax. The baby was restless.

"He is moving so much. He is so strong." Sasuke said, mind almost fully clouded by pleasure, while still caressing the belly.

"He is indeed. Well, I suggest you enjoy him while you still can" Naruto said, suddenly cold.

Sasuke came. Then he seemed to remember what Naruto had just said.

"What do you mean, darling?"

Naruto bent forwards and put his hands to Sasuke's face, and with pretence to caress it, he put his fingers against his temples.

He whispered in his ear. "It means he is not yours anymore. Only mine. It means... I am not your darling anymore"

That said, and before Sasuke could react to the shock, he quickly infused Kyuubi's chakra in Sasuke's brain, causing him to fall into a coma, since Kurama's chakra worked like poison on everyone that was not a Jinchuuriki. He would stay like that until Naruto decided to remove the red chakra from his body.

He stood up, wincing when Sasuke's member exited him. He looked down at his husband's sleeping form with every drop of hate he had in his body. After all, this was the monster that took him from his home, kept him captive and violated him over and over again, ruining his life, for more than a year.

Naruto put a hand on his belly. "Now you are safe, my little one."

But the only response he got from the baby was a strong kick on the side. Clearly he was not happy with what his mommy did to his daddy.

"One day you will understand"

00000

"Kakashi sensei, we need to do something!" Sakura cried.

"Yes, but how?" Ino asked.

The Konoha shinobi were all reunited in Shikamaru's room, trying to figure out their next move, considering the new unexpected facts they learnt that morning.

Kakashi sighed. "This situation is worse than I thought. One of us has been put somewhere under guard, which is bad considering we were planning to grab Naruto and go before the end of the negotiations. Then I was expecting Naruto to be locked up, not for him to be Sasuke's Consort and Otogakure co-king."

"Well, you are not totally wrong, Sensei. I had been locked up for a long time when I was taken here"

All the shinobi of the Leaf turned toward the door with their weapons drawn, only to put them down when they saw who was there.

Naruto himself was at the door, as if it was the most normal thing in the world. Useless to say, everyone was shock; also to notice that he was wearing his old usual orange and black ninja clothes, gone was the rich kimono. He looked exactly like their old Naruto, before the kidnapping. The only difference was his huge pregnant belly.

"Na-Naruto?" Sakura said, shocked and confused.

The blond smiled at her. "Hello, Sakura-chan. I am happy to see you. I am happy to see all of you"

Shikamaru gulped. "Naruto, what's going on?"

Naruto turned serious, "There's no time to explain. We need to go"

"What? Hang on. We cannot just leave. What's happening, Naruto? What about Sasuke? And we cannot leave Kiba" Neji pointed out.

Naruto looked at his old comrades. "There's no time. You need to trust me"

Everyone stayed still for a while. Then Kakashi spoke. "I trust you, Naruto. But later I need an explanation!"

"Of course, Sensei. Let's go"

Following the blond, the group easily reached the outside of the village, and to everyone's surprise Kiba and Akamaru were there waiting for them. They also noticed a clone of Naruto, holding something on his shoulder.

"Hi guys. Took you long enough" Kiba said.

"How did you free yourself?" Lee asked.

He pointed at the original Naruto. "One of his clones rescued me."

"And what's that?" Shikamaru pointed to the clone.

The clone moved and there was Sasuke Uchiha himself, unconscious.

"What the hell?" Ino said.

"Don't worry, He is harmless at the moment." Naruto said.

"But why is he here?" Kakashi asked.

"So we can take him back to Konoha with us. He is our enemy after all, a criminal, who deserves to be judged."

"You managed to take him out all by yourself in your condition?" Shikamaru was impressed.

With the coldest voice they ever heard from him, Naruto said. "I had plenty of time to plan this. All I needed was the right opportunity."

The group decided not to press the issue, understanding there was a strong trauma in Naruto's soul, and with time it would be all revealed, and maybe one day it would heal.

For now, they were happy to start their journey home with their friend finally back and their great enemy captured.

Mission accomplished.

00000

The group reached Konoha the next day by night. they used one of the Anbu secret tunnels to enter the village unnoticed. They went directly to the Hokage Tower, where Tsunade was waiting for them.

As soon as they entered her office, she ordered Kakashi to put Sasuke in the Anbu jail in the basement and to bind him, including his eyes, with Chakra blocking devices. Then she stood up from her chair and slowly approached the blond.

She touched his cheeks with her hands, taking in every detail of that face she had missed so much.

Slowly she hugged him tightly. "Welcome back home, kid"

Naruto returned the hug with joy, feeling like he could finally breath. "I am home, Ba-chan."

She stepped back, once again the proper Hokage. "As you can image, you'll have to answer a lot of questions." She said, looking at his belly with a raised eyebrow.

Naruto smiled down at his belly, caressing it with love. The baby hadn't stopped kicking since they left Otogakure and was being particular fussy since Sasuke was taken away.

"I know Ba-chan. Can I sleep for a bit first? I am exhausted."

"Of course. All of you must rest. You did a great job. I'll see you here first thing tomorrow morning. Naruto, you can sleep in one of the guests' rooms here."

Everyone nodded and left the office.

00000

The next morning everyone was back in the Hokage office: all the Rookie 9, Kakashi, Gai and Iruka sensei.

"So Naruto. Can you tell us what happened to you?" Tsunade asked from behind her desk.

Naruto looked down for a moment. It was not easy for him to tell this story, but he trusted his friends, even with his weaknesses.

"Sasuke kidnapped me one afternoon while I was training. He blocked my chakra and put me under a genjutsu to make me fall asleep. I woke up in Otogakure, in his chambers, chained to his bed. And I remained chained to that bed for a whole year" He took a break for a moment. No one dared to speak, probably anticipating what he was about to say. "I am not ready to tell the details, but to put it simple, he... he raped me, everyday, constantly, in the most humiliating way possible, trying to break me into being his. It was not working. I wasn't giving in. But the problem was he wasn't giving in neither. So after about a year, I changed strategy. I pretended to give up, hoping that with time Sasuke would give me more freedom."

"And he did" Kakashi stated.

Naruto nodded. "Not right away, but yes, when he saw I was being with him willing he let go of the leash a little bit. When I married him, he allowed me my chakra back, so I could train. As soon as we got reconnected, Kyuubi and I fused together as friends, and come out with a plan. As soon as Sasuke would become weak for any reason, I would put a bit of Kurama's chakra in him.."

"Of course. Bijuu's chakra works like poison to no Jinchuuriki" Tsunade said, very impressed with the plan.

"It took me so long to act on it because Sasuke was always vigilant, and always with someone. During this wait, I got pregnant..." Naruto sighed. "Well, the opportunity I was so waiting for arrived with you guys. I knew I had to make it so one of you attack Sasuke, so that he would either be harmed or become weaker in order to defence himself, or me. Sasuke used a complicated and strong form of the Sharingan. He became temporary blind and that's when I attacked. The rest is history"

"You did good, Naruto. You behaved like a real ninja. You defeated a dangerous man. You left a powerful nation without a leader and a heir. I am happy to see you are still the unpredictable Naruto" Tsunade said, smiling, then she turned serious. "What do you want to do about the baby?"

Naruto frowned. "What do you mean?"

She cleaned her throat. "I mean that if you want, there are ways to get rid of an unwanted child."

"No! He is mine. Regardless of how he came to be or who his father is, he is my child. I love him. He and Kurama were the only ones keeping me sane in that hell."

Tsunade smiled, "Then congratulations on your soon fatherhood. And what about Sasuke's condition?"

"He will stay in coma until I remove Kurama's chakra. I can keep him like that for awhile, but it will be impossible for me to keep him controlled during the childbirth"

"We'll be ready to confine him by then. Don't worry" Kakashi said, putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Thank you. And thanks all of you for no giving up on me"

Everyone smiled. Happy to be all together again.

Before leaving, Naruto turned to Tsunade. "Ba-chan, I would like to ask you a favour."

"What?"

"I need to speak to Sasuke one more time, just to let him know he lost. Then I'll put him back into a coma until the labor."

"All right, but be careful"

"Of course"

00000

"I would have never thought that one day I would wake up here"

"On the other hand, I have been dreaming of this moment for a very long time"

"I must admit, my beloved, that I am impressed. It's not everyday someone manages to outwit me. You really are perfect for me"

Naruto stepped forward toward the cell containing his husband. He grabbed the metal bars and looked inside. Sasuke was sitting up on the bed, his body wrapped in a security jacket that forced his arms to cross in front of his chest and tied behind his back, while his eyes were tightly covered to prevent him from using the Sharingan. The whole cell was designed to block chakra.

"Even after I put you here, like an animal, you still think we are perfect for each other?"

"Of course. We are soulmates. You were made for me. This is proof that you are the only one at my level. And I was made for you. Only I can inspire you to greatness. To become stronger. My love for you knows no end."

Naruto scoffed. "You are delusional, Sasuke. Yours is not love. It's obsession and possessiveness. It's your need to have power over others."

"You ARE mine!"

"NO, I am not. I never was. That's what I am here to tell you. No once you owned me. Everything I did that looked willing was a lie. I tricked you, you, the Great Sasuke Uchiha. I win. I wanted you to know that. Now I'll put you back to sleep. Don't worry. I'll take care of our child. He'll know nothing but love, and as soon as I settle down I'll also deal with Otogakure…after all, thanks to you, it's mine as well."

Sasuke smirked. "Do as you wish, my love. But let me make you a promise right here right now, Naruto. One day you will lower your guard. One day you will make a mistake. A moment of weakness. And when that day comes, being it tomorrow, in ten years, or in a few months..." He said while moving his head in the direction of his swollen belly. "I'll be ready. You will be mine once again, and this time I'll never let you go. I'll make sure no one finds you. This is a promise."

Before he could get pissed and start an argument with Sasuke, giving him power over him once again, Naruto put him back into a coma. He breathed deeply and then turned to leave.

What he didn't know at the time was what Sasuke thought before closing his eyes.

"My dear love, you are the one that was outwitted. Do you really think I didn't have a plan for this eventuality? Silly one. The seed of your doom has already been sown."

Deep in the belly of his blond mommy, wrapped in the warmth of his body and love, and surrounded by the purple chakra of his father, a baby opened his eyes for the first time.

They were red with Sharingan.

THE END