A/N: Hey all, so it's been a hell of a long time since I've written anything. I wanted to come back with something sooner than this but alas things got in the way. Well I am very rusty so that's why I have a bunch of stuff I wrote to try to get back into the flow of things. I hope you guys enjoy anyway.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
A young man about the age of 22 stood on the sidewalk, he looked as if he had just gotten the life knocked out of him. His cerulean-blue pools were wide open and filled with horror. The rest of his body was frozen while he stood there.
"Shit." He thought. "What the fuck am I going to do?"
"Hey buddy will you move." Someone spoke from behind him.
Naruto had not heard the voice because he was completely wrapped up in his own thoughts. The stranger sighed slightly and pushed him out of the way. Naruto did not respond instead he just remained in the frozen state that he had been in for several minutes.
"My life as I know it is officially over."
After what seemed like an eternity the young man moved from the spot he was standing in. The blond male shoved his hands into his pockets and walked along with no real goal in particular. He had no clue where he was going and right now he didn't care. He only had one thought on his mind and that was focused on the events of earlier. No matter what else he did that day Naruto was sure he wouldn't be able to forget those previous events.
"Shit it has to be a lie. It can't possibly be real, this can't be happening."
He wished that he had been at home in bed so that way he could possibly be trapped in some awful dream. The young man focused his thoughts for a moment long enough to decide that he should go into a bar for a drink. He definitely needed one. He sat at the bar.
"What'll it be hon?" the dark-haired female bartender asked him.
He really needed something strong like vodka, but he didn't wish to drink so much to the point where he may end up drunk. He still wanted to have a rational mind.
"I'll have a beer."
"Alright, a beer it is."
He didn't bother to look up as she placed the beer in front of him. She couldn't help but take notice of the young man's facial expression. The poor guy seemed totally lost. He looked as if he had somehow had the life drained out of him.
"Hey, what's the matter hon?"
Naruto slowly looked up when she asked this question. He sighed heavily.
"My life has been shot to hell."
She blinked curiously at his choice of words. He definitely sounded extremely depressed right now. She had seen and heard many a sad story in her days of bartending. She was definitely intrigued by what he had to say.
"Aw, come on. It can't be that bad, cheer up. It can always be worse."
"Oh well its bad. It's as bad as it gets."
He finally took a sip of the beer that had been sitting there for awhile now.
"Do you want to talk about it or would you rather not?"
"Hm," Naruto sighed. "It's not like it could stay a secret forever or something. I don't care if I tell you about it."
"I'm all ears."
Naruto nodded and then began his re-collection of what had taken place a few hours ago.
(Flashback)
The blond-haired young man had just received a phone call from his friend Ino Yamanaka. She was a pretty platinum-blonde haired female with aqua colored orbs and was the same age as him. They had known each other for quite some time. They had never really been close when they were younger but recently their relationship had changed from mere acquaintances to occasional sex buddies. Occasionally they would hook up no strings attached, just some friendly sex to relieve any sexual frustrations they were having. He wasn't sure why she had called him though. He couldn't read her tone of voice so he wasn't sure what was going on. Naruto hoped that everything was alright with her.
He now stood outside of the blonde's apartment. He gave a firm knock and waited for Ino to come to the door, several minutes had passed before the blue-eyed female came to the door.
"Ino, hey." He gave her one of his bright smiles.
She didn't smile back for him.
"Come in okay." She said in a serious sort of tone.
Naruto entered her apartment, something told him that he should probably remain standing. There would be no fun today and more than likely no sex would occur between them. The condom he had in his pocket was bound to go unused.
"Ino what's going on? Why did I have to come over right away?"
The platinum-blonde had her back turned to him as she stood with her arms folded.
"Naruto," She whispered.
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
She slowly turned around to face him. Her eyes held a look of uncertainty and regret that he hadn't ever seen from her before.
"Naruto I….Naruto I'm sorry."
"Sorry." He repeated. "Why are you sorry?"
The blue-eyed female didn't say anything at first. Naruto had a pretty good idea on where she had been going with this, or at least he thought he did.
"Hey, are you saying sorry because you don't want to be my sex buddy anymore. Its okay you don't have to be sorry Ino. It was pretty fun while it lasted though, huh?" he gave her a smile.
Ino shook her head.
"It isn't about that."
"Oh, okay. So then what's going on?"
She looked away from his gaze once more. Naruto started to walk towards her.
"What's wrong? You can talk to me." His voice held concern.
"Naruto I'm just so sorry." She spoke with a few tears in her eyes. Now he knew for sure something serious had to be going on with her.
"Ino don't cry, it's alright."
"No it's not alright. It's not alright at all. Naruto I….I'm sorry to have to tell you this but I'm pregnant."
With those words his whole world came crashing down before his very eyes. He saw nothing but absolute white. He stared at Ino and she stared back at him. She was clearly waiting for some type of response, any type of reaction from the blond man.
"What did you say?" Naruto asked.
"I think you head me."
"No." Naruto shook his head. "What did you just say?"
He needed to be sure on what he had heard come from the platinum-blonde's mouth. It was possible that he might have heard her wrong.
"I'm pregnant Naruto." She repeated.
Naruto suddenly felt as if the room was spinning. He needed to get the hell out of here as soon as possible.
"Oh, fuck." He ended up cursing. "I have to go."
"Naruto wait." She started but went unheard as the taller blond bolted out of her apartment. She hadn't been expecting that he would run out like the way he did.
"Naruto we need to talk. I can't believe you ran out like that."
Naruto finished his story. The bartender looked up from the wine glass she had been cleaning.
"So you're girlfriend is pregnant and you ran out on her."
"She isn't my girlfriend."
"But you guys are sleeping together?"
"We haven't in weeks but that's not what matters right now."
"That's true." The bartender nodded. "What matters is that she is pregnant now. Do you really think you should have run out on her like that?"
Naruto paused to take another drink of his beer. The bartender was probably right. He shouldn't have bailed on her in the way he did. He should have stayed and listened to what she had to say. They did have a lot to talk about at this moment, but as soon as she had revealed to him that she was pregnant he completely panicked.
"You're probably right."
"Of course I' am. Don't you think you should go talk to her?"
"I can't see her right now. I don't even know what to say to her."
He didn't care if he was being a punk, a chicken, or a downright coward. Naruto simply could not face the blonde right now at this moment. Honestly he wasn't sure if he ever could.
"What do you mean you don't know what to say? I'd say you two have quite a lot to discuss don't you?"
Naruto quickly finished the rest of his beer and dropped some money on the table.
"Yeah I'm sure you're right miss."
"Of course I' am." She said proudly.
"Anyway I should probably go. It was nice getting that off my chest I guess."
"Yeah it helps to talk sometimes. Bye, oh wait don't forget to go and talk to your girlfriend. You can't ignore her forever."
"She isn't my girlfriend!" Naruto shouted loudly and exited the bar.
He had been right though he and Ino were not dating. They were not an official couple. The truth about their relationship was that it had been a completely sexual one. There were no feelings there only sex, each time they were alone together meaningful conversations rarely took place. It was strictly things like "Do you have a condom?" or something like "My place or yours? And even "Will you be gone in the morning or are you planning to stay for breakfast too?"
It was always fuck now any questions could be asked later. He liked that their relationship was simple and not complicated, only now it seemed that things were about to get complicated.
"Okay,' Naruto sighed. "I should go back over there to see her. I shouldn't have run out on her."
Naruto wasn't sure about what he would face when he returned to her place, but whatever it would be he was going to deal with it somehow. The young man made his way back to Ino's place. He hoped that she still wanted to see him. He didn't want her to be so angry with him that she didn't even want to see his face.
"I hope she will still want to see me."
Naruto had only thoughts of earlier on his mind as he stood there outside of her apartment for the second time in a matter of hours. He took a breath before proceeding to knock. It took her a few minutes but Ino came to the door. Her eyes widened as she saw Naruto standing there. Honestly she truly wasn't expecting to see him again, at least not this soon.
"Naruto." Her voice held surprise.
"Hi Ino, can I come in?"
"I don't know."
"I promise I won't run off again. I'll leave only when you want me to."
She nodded and moved to the side so he could come into the apartment. Ino motioned for him to have a seat on the couch.
"I tried calling you a little while ago but it went straight to your voicemail."
"Yeah," He nodded. "I'm sorry about that. I wasn't really checking my phone to see if I had any missed calls."
Ino sat down in the armchair across from the couch. She needed to have the distance between them, for some reason having this space felt right.
"Ino." He whispered her name.
"Yeah,"
"I'm really sorry for running out like that."
"It's ok. I just wasn't expecting you to leave in that way."
"Yeah I'm sorry." He repeated again.
"Don't worry its over."
It was really far from over. Their problems were just really beginning. They had a lot that they needed to discuss.
"Ino are you sure?" He questioned.
She looked up to meet his gaze. Naturally he would ask that question. There could always be a possibility of a false positive result on a pregnancy test.
"Naruto I'm sure."
"Take it again Ino please."
"I bought a few more tests earlier. I already took two Naruto and they were both positive."
"Ino please just will you take it one more time. I need to see the results ok."
"Do you want to watch me take the freaking test too?" She asked almost angrily.
Of course there was no way he wanted to sit in the bathroom with her and watch her take a piss on a stick. That was simply gross and he didn't want any part of it. He definitely needed to see though the results of the test with his own eyes.
"Ino quit joking. If you have an extra test please take it. I just want to see if it's positive."
"Do you think I would lie to you Naruto?"
Naruto shook his head. He didn't believe that she would lie to him. There was no reason for her to even want to lie about being pregnant in the first place.
"No, I know you wouldn't lie to me Ino. I just need to see the results. Please just understand Ino."
Ino gave a slight nod and then made her way to the bathroom. She had purchased three tests but only had taken two of them which turned out to be positive. This would be the last test that she would take, after this the next step would be to schedule a doctor's appointment. This would be accurate for sure if done at a hospital or clinic. Naruto stood with his arms folded as he waited for Ino to come back with the results. He felt extremely nervous. The waiting was the absolute worse part. He had never been good with waiting anyway, and this happened to be very important. These results were going to change his life in a huge way.
Meanwhile the platinum-blonde sat in the bathroom and waited for the results. She had a good feeling that the previous results of positive would show itself again. She may have wanted them to not read positive but she had a feeling they would. It was much too late to fix this. Whatever would be would be. A sigh escaped the pretty blonde and she began to sway back and forth slightly, humming a little tune to herself.
"I don't know why he needs for me to take this again. It's not going to change."
Five minutes had finally passed. The blue-eyed female picked up the pregnancy test and looked at what it read. There was a blue line which meant positive.
"I knew it was going to be positive."
She took the test in her hands and went to take it to show Naruto. Ino found him pacing back and forth, he looked up to see Ino standing there.
"Jeez what took you so long Ino?"
"It takes about 5 minutes for the results Naruto. Try to have some patience."
Naruto took a deep breath. Ino then handed the young man the pregnancy test so he could see the results with his own eyes. He immediately looked to see the blue line.
"This means that it's positive right?" he asked.
"Yea." She slowly nodded.
"Damn." He thought. Naruto put the test down on the nearby table. This was her third test and they had all come up positive. There was no getting around it.
"Shit Ino this is so fucked up."
All the blonde female could do was nod her head in agreement. This had to be the worse thing that could possibly happen to her.
"I know."
Naruto sat down on the couch, putting his hands to his head. A few minutes had passed before he uttered the words that no woman ever wanted to hear.
"Ino is the baby mine?"