I still don’t own Naruto.  What…did you think that fact would change over the course of one chapter or something?  Gawd, why do you people make me admit this!? 

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Anyway…this chapter is where things get a little…weird.  Just to warn you.

Chapter 2

Two years went by quickly.  By then, everyone knew about Naruto and Sasuke being together.  And, nobody glared at Naruto when Sasuke was there, much to the relief of both of them.  And, their relationship seemed to be accepted.  Nobody pried further into what they did…except for Kakashi (much to their embarrassment), who would often ask idly about their sex life to tease them…he never meant any harm…but Naruto swore the guy got a kick out of embarrassing the living daylights out of them.  That is, until Iruka came and forced Kakashi to behave.  The relationship of those two were pretty well known by now as well.  But it was during one of the teasing sessions by Kakashi that made Naruto think.

Sasuke frowned and looked at the blond who had been unusually quiet as they lay in bed.  Turning over, he glanced at the said boy and saw a troubled look on the teen’s face.

“What’s wrong?” Sasuke asked.

Naruto nearly jumped, startled by the voice.  He shook his head, “N-nothing…”

“You suck at lying.  Did you know that?”

Naruto sighed, “It’s just…what Kakashi said earlier.”

Sasuke raised an eyebrow, “I started tuning him out last year.  Though, it’s funny to watch you get all red-faced…”

“That’s not what I……you’ve been tuning him out!?”  Naruto sighed, “Well, that explains why you never get embarrassed when he talks about our sex life…”

“I……is that what he talks about?  The pervert…” Sasuke muttered something under his breath that Naruto couldn’t quite catch, but was certain that it entailed torturing a particular lazy-eyed, silver-haired, perverted Jounin.

Naruto sighed and turned over, staring at the wall.  Earlier…Kakashi was teasing us again.  Just for fun…but he…he’s right.  The Uchiha clan was wiped out.  Sasuke’s the only one left.  How’s he going to rebuild the clan if he’s with me?  “Ne…Sasuke?”

“Hngh?” came the half-asleep reply.

“If you…ya know…ever want to rebuild your clan……it’d be okay with me if you…you know…wanted to find a girl and…” Naruto stammered.

“Dumbass.  Don’t ever talk like that again.  I love you, got it?”

“Yea, but Kakashi said earlier…”

“I don’t care what he said.”

“What about rebuilding your clan?” Naruto sat up in bed, slightly angry, “When we first met and introduced ourselves six years ago, you said that you had two dreams…or ambitions.  Whatever the word you used.  And one of them was to rebuild your clan!  How are you supposed to do that with…!?”  He was cut off when Sasuke captured his lips in his.

Sasuke drew apart, then lay down, “Shut up and don’t talk about it.  I’d rather have you, alright?”

“But…”

“Drop it.”

Naruto bit his lip and looked at the sheets.  He could just tell that Sasuke was slightly disappointed.  He knew…but he doesn’t want to be with another woman…he wants to be with me…Tears ran down his face.  It’s not fair…why does Sasuke have to suffer so much?  He blinked when a pair of strong arms wrapped around him and held him close.

“Why are you crying?” Sasuke whispered, “I can’t sleep when I know something’s bothering you.”

Naruto shook his head, and just twisted around in Sasuke’s arms to burry his head in the boy’s chest.  I wish there was something I could do…

By morning, Naruto decided that he should get some advice.  Sasuke had a Jounin mission that day, so Naruto took that opportunity to walk to Iruka’s house.  He knocked on the door. 

Then again.

Then again.

Then, he just about kicked it down.  “IRUKA-SENSEI!!”

Finally, the (dented) door opened to reveal a twitching Iruka wearing only a pair of boxers.

Naruto stared.  Then blinked.  Then turned red and spun around, “For goodness sakes, put some cloths on!!  And then can I talk to you?  Alone?”

Iruka blinked, and had the decency to look even more embarrassed then the blond boy, then turned even more red when he realized that Naruto knew that Kakashi was over.  He was able to stammer out a positive response before disappearing back inside. 

Naruto stared at his ramen, stirring it slightly.

“Something must really be wrong if you aren’t eating your ramen,” Iruka noticed.

“Ne…Iruka-sensei…” Naruto’s blue eyes grew sad, “…how come Sasuke can’t have at least one of his goals come true?  How come something always comes between it?”

“Pardon?”

“The battle with his brother…wasn’t for the reasons he first thought,” Naruto sadly stirred the ramen again, “…and as long as he’s with me, he can’t rebuild his clan…”

“You can’t help who you fall in love with,” Iruka shrugged, “He truly loves you.”

“Yea, but then he can’t rebuild his clan,” Naruto stopped stirring his ramen, “It meant as much to him as killing his brother had…”

“Maybe he has a new goal now,” Iruka suggested.

Naruto shook his head, “I can tell…it still bothers him.  When he told me to drop the subject last night……there was definitely disappointment.”

“But he doesn’t regret loving you, and you don’t regret loving him……right?”

Naruto nodded, “We don’t regret it…and I really do love him……that’s why I want to find him someone that can…”

“No,” Iruka shook his head, “Don’t do that, Naruto.”

“But…” Naruto managed to look like a helpless little kid again, despite the fact that he was just as tall as Iruka and his voice had deepened somewhat.

“I know you want to help him…but finding him some woman isn’t going to do anything to help.  It’ll just make things worse,” Iruka said sternly, “Promise me you won’t do it.”

Naruto sighed, “I promise…but I still…”

Iruka shook his head, “What’s done is done.  Come on…eat your ramen.”

With a heavy sigh, Naruto did as he was told, not even tasting the noodles.

Naruto walked slowly down the streets.  Well, that was a dead end…He thought Iruka would be able to help him.  He even asked Kakashi when they got back to the house.

Kakashi had the same response to it as Iruka did, but was much more adamant in making Naruto promise that he wouldn’t do something ‘stupid’ as finding a girl for Sasuke to revive his clan with.

Sighing in frustration, Naruto headed home.  Nothing he could do now, and he knew it.  Still, his brain wracked itself.  There had to be something he could do.

Night came, and Naruto still hadn’t figured out a solution to the problem.  Sasuke came home, muttering something about idiots and missions.

“Ne…Sasuke?”

“What?” Sasuke asked, flopping down tiredly on the couch.

“I was wonder’n……when we first introduced ourselves, we all had specific dreams and such.  Now…Tsunade is starting to train me to be the Hokage……but your dreams have…”

“Come and gone,” Sasuke shrugged, sitting up.

“Don’t you have any?”

“Just being with you is fine,” Sasuke stated, giving Naruto a quick hug before going to the shower.

Naruto sighed again and nearly punched out the wall in frustration.  I know it still means a lot to him…!  Kakashi said he won’t admit it cause he doesn’t want to hurt my feelings or neething……but there must be something I can do!!  Iruka said he fell in love with me, and you can’t help falling in love with someone……but he still gave up one of his dreams, just cause he fell in love with me!  It’s not fair!!  And…there’s probably nothing I can do about it…

“NARUTO!  Pay attention!  Don’t you want to be the Hokage?!”

Naruto rubbed the growing lump on his head from where Tsunade whacked him.  “I hardly consider doing your paperwork learning about being the Hokage…”

“This is what the Hokage does for half the day…get used to it,” Tsunade grunted, then sighed, “So what’s eating you, kid.”

Naruto frowned, balancing the pen on his nose as he stared at the ceiling.  “Sasuke.”

“Did you two get into an argument?” Tsunade raised an eyebrow.  That would be a first, actually.  Everyone had expected that rivals-turned-lovers would argue every step of the way…but the only arguing they did was playful arguing.  They had a disagreement or two here and there, but it never turned into a full blown argument.

“No…we didn’t have a fight or an argument,” Naruto sighed.

“So…spill.  What’s bothering you?” Tsunade looked at him.

Naruto sat up, catching the pen as it started to go flying off his nose, then proceeded to tell her the entire story.

Tsunade tapped a finger to her chin thoughtfully.  It had been fifteen minutes since Naruto finished the story.

“Well…” Tsunade started, “…there is one thing that you can do……”

Naruto brightened.

“However…”

Naruto’s smile was wiped off his face.

“…it’s a forbidden technique,” Tsunade eyed the boy thoughtfully.

Naruto was now just about slumped helplessly in his chair.

Tsunade sighed and sat on the desk, “I could probably do it……but forbidden techniques have their drawbacks.  This one has a very large drawback.  I haven’t met a man yet who was brave enough to do it.  Not only that, but it hasn’t ever been successful…”

Naruto perked up again, “You can do it?  Well, what is it?  What, what?”

Tsunade eyed him, then finally spoke again, “It would take a great sacrifice on your part…and…on you as a man.”

Naruto blinked, “As a…man…?”

Tsunade nodded, “Jiraiya has told me about your Oiroke no Jutsu…and because of that, it just might work since you’d already have a female form to go to.”

“Then…I can go female enough for…?”

“No,” Tsunade shook her head, staring seriously at him, “And I want you to give this a lot of thought, Naruto.  The effects of the Jutsu…are permanent.”

Naruto frowned, thinking.

“In other words,” Tsunade pointed at him, “You would be a woman for the rest of your life.”

Naruto’s eyes widened.  “For the rest of…?”

Tsunade nodded, “And even if you use Henge no Jutsu to transform into your male self…you’d still have female anatomy.”

“That’s…the only way…?”

“That’s the only way.  And if it doesn’t work……I’d rather not say.”

Naruto frowned at the desk.  This…was going to take a lot of thought.

“Naruto…are you still up?”

Naruto looked over at the teen laying next to him in bed.  “Yea…”

“Didn’t I tell you to stop thinking about…?”

“But what…what if someone said…well……Sasuke…would you still love me, no matter what I looked like?”

“…Why are you asking me something like that?”

“Please…just answer the question.”

“Of course I would!” Sasuke sat up, staring at his blond lover, “I’d still love you if you grew nine tails and sprouted fox ears!  Naruto is still Naruto!”

Naruto smiled, looking at the sheets.  “Even if I wasn’t a guy anymore?”

“Of course……what?  I just said, it doesn’t matter what you look like!” Sasuke shook his head, then rapped Naruto on the head, “Am I getting through that thick skull of yours at all, dumbass?”

When Naruto didn’t retaliate like normal, Sasuke grew concerned.

“Naruto?” Sasuke asked in a quiet tone.  He wrapped his arms around the blond and gently nuzzled the boy’s hair, “What’s going on?  I don’t like seeing you unhappy.”

Tears gathered in Naruto’s eyes, and ran down his face.  Finally, he couldn’t take it anymore.

He told Sasuke.

Everything.

Even what Tsunade said.

Silence met with them after the confession.

“And you’re…actually thinking about doing this?!” Sasuke pulled away from Naruto and stared incredulously at the boy.

Naruto put his face in his hands, tears running down his face, “I…I’d do anything…just to have one of your dreams come true.  Sakura got her dream of being a medic nin, though she didn’t know it when she was younger…she still got it.  Kiba, Hinata…they got their dreams.  Neji got his dream.  Shikamaru, Ino…they got their dreams.  Even Iruka-sensei.  And I’m getting mine.  Tsunade is training me to be the Hokage.  But…you don’t get your dreams.  It’s not fair…”

“But that doesn’t mean you have to change yourself…!!”

“Yes it does!” Naruto wailed, “Don’t you see!?  There’s nothing else I can do!!”

“You don’t have to do anything, you idiot!!  I love you just the way you are!!”

“You said you’d love me if I changed…”

“Well, I didn’t think you were seriously considering actually changing!!  This is a big change, Naruto!!  We’re talking about manhood, here…!!”

“I don’t care!  I’d go through the humiliation…I’d get used to it!  I invented a Jutsu a while back, when I was twelve!  The Oiroke no Jutsu!  I’ve used it before!  I think I can live with it…!!”

“You’ve what!?  Look, you aren’t twelve anymore…”

“But when I did the Jutsu, I had the body of an eighteen year old woman!!”

Sasuke stared at him.

“I know, it’s wrong!  Everyone told me!  But…!!”

Sasuke suddenly held him tightly.

“S-Sasuke…?”

“You’d go through that for me…you’d change permanently into a woman for me…why?”

Naruto was surprised when something wet dripped onto his pajama shirt, and he realized that Sasuke was crying.  He wrapped his arms back around the other boy.

“Why?”

Naruto took a deep breath and smiled, then kissed Sasuke gently and hugged him once more, “Because…I love you.”

Sasuke and Naruto stood in front of Tsunade.

“Are you absolutely sure about this?” Tsunade looked at them seriously.

Naruto nodded.

“There’s no going back once it’s done,” Tsunade stated.

“I know,” Naruto nodded again, then smiled at his lover, “But…I love Sasuke.”

Tsunade smiled, then signaled him to step closer, onto a scroll that had a space between odd writing for someone to stand on.  “Ready?”

Naruto nodded.

Sasuke shifted, “Naruto…you don’t have to…”

“But it means a lot to you, right?” Naruto smiled, flashing a thumbs up, “Besides that…this is just another adventure we’re getting into.  Sure, it’s different from the adventures when we were kids…but it’s still an adventure.”

Sasuke let out a chuckle, glancing at the ground before looking back up, his eyes smiling at the blond, “That’s one of the most intelligible things I’ve ever heard you say, idiot.”

Naruto grinned in response.

“I’m starting now,” Tsunade stated.

Naruto nodded and closed his eyes, concentrating.  He could hear Tsunade saying the different hand signs, and knew she was forming them.  He could almost feel the chakra building in the room.  Suddenly, he found himself in front of a familiar cage, with a dark corridor behind him.

“Kyuubi…” Naruto whispered.

The fox demon looked at him.  “What are you doing now?”

“Changing…because…I want Sasuke to have his dream,” Naruto stated.

“Ha!  Nobody is that selfless!”

“Look, stupid fox…I’m just asking you to cooperate!” Naruto glared, “Because I want him to be able to have children…so that he can rebuild his clan!  Because I love him, dammit!!”

Silence.

Naruto looked up, and was surprised to see the look of madness he had long associated with the Kyuubi gone to be replaced by an almost gentle look.

“You wish to have kits?” the Kyuubi’s booming voice was now a softer tone.

Naruto nodded haltingly, “Y-yea.  Tsunade’s performing a Jutsu that’ll turn me into a female…for good.  But you need to cooperate…I know that it’s not in your nature to…”

“Don’t speak as if you know,” the Kyuubi bristled, “For your information, stupid human, I’m a female!”

Naruto could only stare.

“That’s why the Jutsu is going to work,” Kyuubi grinned, “Want to know a secret about it?  It was created by the fox clan when we had a shortage of females.  Someone needed to change into a female to bear a litter.  We sealed it away because some of the members were abusing it…and it was dangerous.  It could be deadly if it didn’t work.”

Naruto could only stare dumbly, “I didn’t know that…”

“Of course you didn’t!”

“How come you didn’t tell me you were a female?!”

“You never asked.”

Naruto stared at the Kyuubi for a few moments before breaking into laughter.  He grinned as he found himself slowly floating away from the cage, and knew he was returning to the real world.  “Thanks, ya damn fox.”  Was said affectionately, and he saw the fox smile at him before the real world came into focus again.

“N-Naruto…?”

Naruto’s eyes opened, and looked around.  Everything looked the same…though, Tsunade and Sasuke were staring.

“What?” Naruto questioned, then blinked.  My voice sounds…higher…?

“Y-you…” Sasuke pointed shakily.

“Ha!  I’m more developed them you are!” Tsunade declared, poking Naruto’s chest.

That was all it took for poor Sasuke.  The next thing everyone in the room heard was a ‘thump’ as Sasuke fainted dead away.

“I guess the shock was too much for him…?”

“Either that, or he isn’t used to seeing a naked woman,” Tsunade winked.

“I’m…NAKED!?”  Naruto looked down to see female features, and tried to cover up.

Tsunade laughed, “I think…you’re going to need a little advice…”

“I think I need some cloths first!!” Naruto squeaked.

Tsunade laughed again.

“Stop laughing and give me a hand!!”

A year and a half later, Sasuke and (a female) Naruto were looking over the edge of a crib that had a sleeping, three-week old baby in it.

“He has your face,” Naruto grinned at Sasuke.

“I think he looks more like you…without the whisker marks,” Sasuke playfully poked Naruto’s cheeks.  “And he definitely has your blue eyes.”

Naruto smiled, “That all depends…he’ll have your eyes if he can use the Sharingan.”

It was Sasuke’s turn to grin, “I guess so.”

It was silent.

“Do you regret me doing this, Sasuke?”

Sasuke wrapped his arms around Naruto and kissed his lover deeply, before drawing apart with a smile, “Not one bit.  You aren’t regretting your choice, are you?”

Naruto smiled, eyes sparkling, “I never run away.  And I never take back my word.  I’ll go down the path before me, and the ones I choose, with no regrets.  That…is my Nindo.”

THE END

Once again, sometimes, I really don’t know where these ideas come from.  Especially this one.  I’ve never really seen anything much like this…please don’t kill me for this wacky idea!  I know it’s weird…but I had to write it!

Hope it was enjoyable (if not a little strange)!