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:Turu’s POV:

I watch my mom stare deeply into obsidian eyes. I look at mom, then at the stranger, and then back at mom. I didn’t understand what happened. When this guy said, “So you have a son now?” mommy went pale as a ghost. His eyes widened and his lips trembled. I’ve never seen mom this nervous.

“Mommy…?”

Mom had whispered some thing. The next thing I knew mom had fainted. Before he landed on the floor, the stranger caught us. I stare at the man, while I, still in my mother’s arms, am filled with amazement.

This guy…

I know this might sound crazy, but he looks a lot like daddy.

He carried mom in a bridal style way. “Hello there. Your mom is going to be okay, we just need to get him to a hospital and he’ll be fine. What’s your name little one?” He asks me in a soft tone, though in a creepy, cold way. I was a little scared. It was enough to send chills down my spine. I didn’t want to answer, he looked scary, but mommy always said to be polite.

“T-Turu... Uchiha Turu is my name.” I replied with a smile. I know I said I was scared but somehow this guy seemed…nice. “I am 6 years old and I love to play ninja with mommy and daddy!” I grin.

“That’s nice. Okay Turu, let’s get your mom to the hospital.”

We took off without a second word. I was actually relieved. The man didn’t ask who my dad was. I didn’t like going around bragging about how my dad is the strongest and smartest ANBU alive. I’m proud of being the son of Uchiha Itachi, it’s just...I didn’t want people to think that he had a conceited son. I didn’t want to anger my dad nor my mom. Along the way I couldn’t help but stare at the man.

Yup. I know it’s strange but, maybe…this guy may actually be one of my relatives…

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:Naruto’s Dream:

The blond shed tears. The sound of a crying baby echoed in the walls. “It’s a boy! Congratulations Naruto, it’s a healthy baby boy!” Tsunade said as she handed the small baby to his mother.

Naruto smiled, cried, laughed; all these emotions ran through him like blood.

“He’s…he’s so beautiful…” the blond mumbled. He bought his son close and placed a soft kiss on his forehead and smiled. A pale hand cupped Naruto’s cheek.

“He has your eyes.” Itachi said as he smiled. Looking at his first born son gave him butterflies. It’s true. Giving birth to a child can change a person’s life forever. The older man kissed his lover’s cheek and gave him a warm hug. “I-I never thought…dreams can actually come true.”

The blond mumbled as he closed his eyes and breathed in heavily. Many things happened over the years, but this particular event, was the happiest.

“Naruto…” The blond looked at his lover, “I promise, no matter what I’ll protect you and my son.” Naruto smiled and shed more tears.

“I know you will Itachi, I’ll also protect you and Turu….”

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:Normal POV:

Turu and Sasuke were currently in hospital room where Naruto lay resting on the bed. Turu sat next to his mother on a stool. He grasped Naruto’s hand and squeezed it lightly.

“Mommy, come on wake up! We have to go home before daddy comes home!
He whined. ‘Seriously, why did mom faint when the stranger spoke to him? It’s a little weird.’ The small boy glanced at Sasuke only to look away quickly. Sasuke stared straight at Turu.

‘Mommy…? Naruto… Is this boy truly your son? If so, who’s the father?’ Desperate to get some answers, Sasuke stood and walked towards the small Uchiha. “Turu, when is your birthday?” he simply asked. Turu blinked a few times. He wasn’t sure whether he wanted to give information out freely, especially if it was a person he didn’t know.

But he only asked for his birthday and it couldn’t hurt to just tell him that.

“Uh…my birthday is in April. April sixteen. So I am six years old. How old are you mister?” Turu asked without thinking.

Sasuke smiled, “Well if you want to know, I’m 19. Almost the same age as your mother!” He smiled at the smaller boy. Turu forced a smile out, ‘Nineteen? Mommy is 18 so…what does…? Who the hell is this guy?!” Mentally frustrated, Turu wished someone would come in and disturb this awkwardness.

Sasuke was about to ask yet another question. But before he could someone had burst in through the door.

“NARUTOO!!!”

A blonde haired girl howled as she ran towards the bed and grabbed Naruto by the shoulders. “Naruto wake up!!! How dare you forget about our celebration?” She started shaking the boy mercilessly.

“Ahem.” Ino froze and looked to her left. She widened her eyes and turned pale.

“S-Sasuke…?” Just then a groan was heard. Ino looked back at her teammate and smiled.

“W-what happened?” The blond rubbed his eyes trying to will away the sleepiness.

“Naru-chan, you’re okay.” Naruto looked at his surroundings, spotted his son sitting in a stool next to the bed.

“Mommy! You’re awake, c’mon get up! We still need to go and eat some dumplings and go visit the family.” Turu tugged his mother’s arm. The blond smiled. Though quickly enough his smiled turned to a frown when his gaze fell onto a certain man’s obsidian’s eyes. Ino realized the tension between the rivals and tried to intervene.

“Now boys, what do you say we all go get something to eat and talk this over.”

“Ino, take Turu and wait outside.”

Ino’s brows knitted together in fear. She knew Naruto’s story well. The blond had mourned over Sasuke’s betrayal for practically a month till he met the Uchiha’s older brother. At first, she didn’t approve, though whenever she spotted Naruto, he glittered with happiness and energy. She knew he was happy with Itachi and she decided to support them both, the only problem was now that Sasuke is back out of the blue, how can Naruto cope?

“Alright. Come Turu! Let’s get you a snack from the vending machine!” Ino held her hand out.

Turu grinned and turned to his mother, “Mommy will you come?”

“In a few minutes sweetie, just do as aunt Ino says for now okay?” He kissed his son’s cheek and smiled. The smaller boy smiled and headed towards the blonde woman.

Satisfied after the sound of the door shutting, Naruto looked at his ex-lover. He glared.

“Now Naruto, don’t look at me like that. You might hurt yourself.”

“What the hell are you doing here in Konoha teme? Aren’t you supposed to be with that snake bastard cheating your way to power?” Naruto swung his legs over to the side of the bed, though within a blink of an eye Sasuke had placed his hands on either side of Naruto’s hips.

“I see the years have been kind to you Naruto.” It’s been six years and up to this day Naruto still looked younger. He had grown possibly three more inches.

“Time hasn’t passed enough.”

“Naruto what are you doing with a child?”

“That’s none of your business.” Naruto pushed Sasuke away. As he stood up, he couldn’t help but look upset all the while. ‘Out of all other years, why did he choose to come back this year?’  Naruto’s gaze was fixed on the navy colored door. His son was out there with Ino. His palms became sweaty. The silence of the room made him want to crawl under a rock. He finally was able to convince the Hokage to make an announcement to the village about why it wasn’t Itachi’s fault he killed his clan. During this time, Naruto was pregnant with Turu.

Itachi didn’t have a choice in the matter. Itachi had two choices. Either he himself, kill his clan or some strange hired foreign ninja’s. The older Uchiha refused his family’s blood be poured on tainted palms. The news had shocked the entire village. The villager’s point of view of the situation had completely changed. To some, they couldn’t believe it while others had their hopes up high. Slowly but surely, the entire village had accepted the Uchiha.

Naruto smiled every day, knowing he and his beloved had been accepted. The threats and glares had died down. Soon, Itachi had been able to stay in Konoha, so the couple had decided to live in the Uchiha estate.

At first, Naruto was worried that living there might stir up bad memories for his beloved. No conflict had occurred within the months of living in the estate and Naruto was grateful for that. Six months later the blonde had announced to his family and friends that he was marrying Itachi. The lovely news had spread out the entire village like some plague.

Turu had been born several months later. When the family had walked the streets on sunny days, pedestrians had stopped them, wanted to congratulate them and take a look at the Uchiha baby. They stood there with sparkles in their eyes. They commented on how Turu was the most beautiful baby they’d seen in awhile, from the Uchiha clan that is.

A lot of memories had been formed during Sasuke absence. Naruto couldn’t help but have a very bad feeling about the younger Uchiha’s arrival.

Silence had enveloped the rivals.

“I came back for you.”

Naruto blinked. He turned his head and looked at Sasuke over. “What do you mean for ‘me’” Sasuke gazed changed to the floor.

“I-I realized how important you were while I was with Orochimaru. I didn’t think my emotions would drive me this far. Every day I tried to forget about you, yet you plagued my mind…” he clenched his fists and knitted his brows. “I began reminiscing about the times we spend together. I then realized how I couldn’t live without you. I regret it.”

“You realized this when?”

“A year after I left…”

Naruto felt enraged. ‘A year…? A fucking year after he left?!’  Naruto felt like punching the shit out of Sasuke. The Uchiha was an idiot when it came to love. Enraged, Naruto fixed his eyes back on the door.

“You might have had a chance…” Naruto began, “if you came back within that time frame I might have forgiven you and taken you back. But what the fuck were you doing during those two years?!” Naruto said the last part louder than he intended to.

Sasuke sigh, “I thought it was a good idea to still gain power and then come back to you, though there was something that you said…” Sasuke slowly walked in front of the shorter man and looked at him in the eyes. He leaned forward and whispered into Naruto’s ear, “…you said you’d give yourself only to me.”

Naruto smirked. “That was back then, and this is now. I am fully married and gave birth to my husband’s baby-“

Before the blonde finished, he felt something wet penetrate his earlobe. Sasuke had nibbled his ear.

Naruto pushed Sasuke away. Naruto covered his ears and blushed profusely. “What the fuck Sasuke! Keep…keep your tongue to yourself!!!” The blonde yelled. The young Uchiha chuckled with amusement.

“Tell me Naruto, who exactly is your husband? Is he satisfying you properly? Does he penetrate you how I use to…?” At this point Naruto couldn’t take it he was embarrassed, ‘and the bastard fucking licked my ear? What the hell is his problem?’ That gave the blond enough reasons to beat the living daylight out of him

Sasuke slowly wrapped his arms around the firm waist. “Why don’t you leave that loser and come back to me. I can fulfill your every need…” Naruto was about to shout at him though once again he had been touched. The older boy had groped his bum.

Within a second Sasuke had been seeing stars.

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“Ne, auntie...I don’t like that stranger guy. He makes mommy nervous and upset.” Turu explained his emotions that were flowing in his mind. He wanted to tell someone, tell someone how he had a very bad feeling about the stranger.

“What? Turu, you can’t judge every book by its cover. I bet that man is a very nice gentleman.” ‘A gentleman?... Yeah right, nice one Ino’

The blonde haired woman couldn’t help but want to avoid the subject of the matter. Sooner or later Turu may need the history between the stranger and Naruto.

Stranger...

Uchiha Sasuke. Turu’s only uncle.

“C’mon Auntie! Let’s go deliver mommy’s ice cream!”

Before Ino was able stop the small boy a loud crashing noise made both ninja flinch. Both Ino and Turu ran towards the loud crashing noise in fear of some kind of invasion. Once the pair had made their way to the source, Ino couldn’t help but giggle softly.

There stood a large whole in the wall and a bloody Sasuke lay there knocked out.

“NEVER, and I mean never, touch me like that again. Not only do I belong to someone else, I have a family to care of and I am very happy with them!!!” the blonde exclaimed as he admired his handy work.

“Mommy!” Turu ran towards his mother and tugged his pants. “Are you okay? Did this guy try to hurt you?” Naruto smiled and picked his son up.

“Don’t worry Turu-chan, you know mommy can’t get hurt. Now how about we go and see the rest of the family and tell them about your success!” He grinned as his son’s expression changed within the second. The small Uchiha grinned, which looked exactly like Naruto’s, and clapped his hands.

“Alright, but here, eat your ice cream mom we bought your favorite one!”  Naruto accepted it as his son handed him the iced, strawberry flavored dessert.

As the pair made their way out of the hospital, nurses had run towards the Uchiha, one of them had checked his pulse. Shouts were herd as they rushed the raven into the emergency room. All the while Ino was the eye witness and smiled as the scene somehow seemed amusing to her.

Noticing the lost presence of her comrade, she ran after the blond, “Hey Naruto! You didn’t really try to kill him…right?” She couldn’t help but ask though at the same time  think what Sasuke had done to tick Naruto off.

“Well…no but the bastard deserved it. Any how see ya later Ino, I’m taking Turu to the Akatsuki for awhile. See ya tomorrow!”

The blonde Kunoichi stared at the blonde until he was out of sight.

“Oh Naruto…” she smiled and sight. “Oh Naruto. I can’t help but feel worry for you and your family. Can Sasuke’s return cause damage to you and Itachi? How will you explain it to Turu? Kami-sama please help out this family…please, don’t let any one get hurt…” Ino clasped her hands together desperately wishing nothing serious will happen from here on out.

She turned her heels starting walking towards a familiar path, leaving nothing but footprints of her feet on the dirt floor…

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On the next chapter of “The Ways of Love”:
Preview

Itachi’s heart felt as if it was being stung by bees. Naruto had told him the latest news; his little brother had returned. Itachi was smart enough to figure out that he had returned for what he had left.

Naruto

HIS Naruto.

“Will he leave me for him? Will those feelings he felt so long ago return? Naruto…will you leave me and Turu behind after what we’ve been through after all these years?”

OMG! Itachi is having doubts! NU! Will Naruto leave him? Review and you will find out!