Grandchildren

By Bashfulglowfly

Late one night

"Sakura, I…"

"Shh…just love me."

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The next afternoon

"Do you, Itachi, take Izumi to be your lawfully wedded wife?"

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Six years later

"Is it legal?"

"Well, it not illegal."

"It's experimental."

"I don't think you two have thought this through enough."

"Naruto and I have been thinking about this for over a year. This is the only way that the child will be truly both of ours."

"I think it's disgusting."

Sakuke turned cold eyes to his sister-in-law. "And how many children do you have?"

Izumi flushed bright red and turned her face away.

Naruto smiled faintly at Mikoto and Fugaku. "We did our research and we talked a long time to the people who are doing it."

Sasuke spoke up. "The Doctor in charge is Orochimaru Yashagoro."

Fugaku raised an eyebrow at that. "He always seems to be on the cutting edge of Medicine."

"Wasn't he sanctioned for something?" asked Mikoto.

Sasuke shook his head. "No, he was investigated but legally they decided that he'd done nothing wrong. He showed his research to them and they backed off. The Medical Board warned him that ethically he was probably treading toward thin ice but he wasn't sanctioned."

"So, what exactly happens?"

Naruto laughed. "We'll give you the papers they gave us. I think you need a Ph.D. to really understand it but they take an egg, remove the contents and put in our DNA…somehow."

Mikoto and Fugaku looked at Sasuke who shrugged. "Don't look at me. That's the way I understand it as well. I'm a business man not a doctor. We were also told that the assistants dance naked around the table as Dr. Yashagoro and Dr. Yakushi do their work then a first-year medical student is sacrificed to the gods." His voice was dry as the deserts of Suna.

"SASUKE!" Mikoto was appalled but Fugaku, Shisui and Naruto roared with laughter. Izumi sneered and Itachi drained his glass of wine.

Itachi spoke softly. "I'm glad the two of you are going to have children together. When will the procedure happen?" He poured himself another glass of wine.

Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other. Sasuke looked at his family. "It already happened. Three months ago."

Everyone except Itachi began talking over each other trying to be heard. Finally Fugaku shouted. "Silence!"

Mikoto looked at her younger son and his husband. "I'm guessing the reason you are telling us now is that the surrogate has passed the critical time and the baby is thriving?"

Naruto smiled shyly. "Babies. We're going to have twins." He brought Sasuke's hand to his mouth and kissed it.

Fugaku's face nearly split apart with his grin. Then he sobered. "The surrogate…she won't try to keep the babies from you, will she? I've heard stories…"

Sasuke inclined his head at his father. "I can understand why you'd be worried. She agreed to sign a contract that was drawn up by our lawyers. It's pretty air-tight even though this is a new medical advancement. I'll give you a copy of the contract later."

"They should have told me." Muttered Fugaku.

"Client confidentiality." Shot back Sasuke.

Fugaku muttered something under his breath that sounded like "should fire the entire lot of goddamned traitors."

He was ignored.

"So, one of your children will be the future Head of the Uchiha Clan." Said Fugaku

Izumi gasped "MY child will be the future Leader of the Clan!"

Fugaku turned an impassive gaze to his daughter-in-law. "Are you pregnant?"

Izumi shrunk in on herself. "No."

Naruto regained Fugaku's attention. "Actually, Sasuke and I decided that their surname will be Namikaze." Sasuke nodded.

Fugaku leaned back in his chair and stared at his son and son-in-law. "Yes, I see where you are going with this. You're the last of your clan. It makes sense." He gave a gentle smile at Shisui. "Shisui can still get married again and have children."

Shisui bit his lip. He had been married but his beloved wife and unborn child had been murdered by a drunk driver. "I will always miss Ai and our child but I will do what is necessary for the Clan." He paused. "I'm dating someone that I like very much. I'll bring her to meet you soon."

Mikoto hugged him and Fugaku gave him a pleased nod. "When the two of you are ready, Shisui."

Sasuke snickered. "And if Shisui doesn't work out, you can always make Obito and Kakashi do the same thing Naruto and I are doing!"

Shisui and Fugaku snorted with laughter.

Mikoto leaned forward. "To go back to the previous discussion. Are you absolutely sure the surrogate won't try anything?"

"She's our friend." Said Naruto. "She offered to help us."

"A friend? Who?" asked Shisui

Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other and carefully didn't look towards Itachi and Izumi. "Sakura Haruno."

Izumi snarled and jerked to her feet, the chair thudding onto its back behind her as she stomped out of the room.

Itachi drained his wine glass again and reached for the wine bottle only to discover that it had been moved away. "I think you've had enough." Murmured Shisui.

Itachi curled his lip at his cousin, stood up and walked out of the room, staggering slightly.

"Sasuke…Naruto…" Mikoto said softly.

Fugaku covered her hand with his. "No, I see their logic. Of their most trusted friends, Hinata Inuzuka, Ino Yamanaka and Tenten Hyuuga are married to future Clan Leaders or will be the Clan Leader in Ino's case. They wouldn't be suitable." He sighed. "Sakura is …clanless."

"She's related to the Sabaku Clan."

"Distantly. Her branch was banished two hundred years ago because of a failed assassination attempt against the Sabaku Clan Leader at the time."

Shisui snorted. "Not banished really. The assassin's wife was smarter than her husband. She knew he was going to fail so she grabbed her children and got the hell out of Sunagakure before her husband was caught. She was out of Suna completely before the Clan Leader paused in torturing the idiot and remembered he had a wife and children and began looking for them."

Fugaku nodded at Shisui in thanks. He rubbed his chin. "Does this make the two of you happy?"

"Yes."

"Then we're happy too."

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Shisui, Sasuke and Naruto stood in the Media Room and stared at Itachi who was passed out in a recliner. Naruto picked up an empty bottle of vodka from the floor and threw it in the trash.

"His drinking is getting worse." Said Sasuke. Naruto wrapped an arm around his husband's waist.

Shisui sighed. "Yeah. I know. It's not affecting him at work…yet. But people are starting to notice. Obito and I are taking most of the meetings outside the company."

"Outsiders don't need to know that he has…issues."

"Exactly." Shisui looked at the younger pair. "You know, if your babies are successful, Fugaku just might tell Obito and Kakashi to do the same thing."

"I think he'd rather have their child or your child over her child as Clan Leader at this point." Said Sasuke softly.

"Why won't Itachi divorce her?" asked Naruto.

"Uchiha don't divorce. They might kill their inconvenient spouse but they don't divorce." Shisui's voice was very dry.

"It's the twenty-first century. Time for new things to happen." Replied Naruto.

"At this point, if that woman does get pregnant, Father would probably insist on an DNA test."

Itachi mumbled and flung out an arm. Shisui walked over to a cabinet and pulled out a throw blanket, tucked Itachi's arm back against his side and covered him. "I'm not hauling his drunk ass up three stories to his own bed. It won't kill him to sleep here."

Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other.

Shisui stared at them with narrowed eyes. "What is it that you're hiding."

Sasuke sighed and pulled out his phone. He flicked through it quickly then held it out to Shisui. "This is a recent picture of Sakura."

Shisui took the phone then stared at the photo for a long minute. He looked up, stunned, at the other two.

"This isn't a joke."

"No."

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Fugaku stared out the bedroom window. He wasn't looking at anything in particular. It just gave him an opportunity to think as Mikoto readied herself for bed. He felt her come up behind him and he reached out an arm to pull her close.

Mikoto rested her head against his shoulder. Even when he was a giant pain in the ass, she loved this man to death.

"Mikoto."

"Hmmm."

"In the morning, talk to Itachi about divorcing his wife."

Mikoto jerked away from him in shock. Her dark eyes wide as she stared at him. "Fugaku…"

He raised a hand. "I know. Uchiha don't divorce. We may be able to exert quite a bit of power but with today's forensic advancements, it's harder to cover up a murder. So, divorce is easier than killing the bitch. And I have enough against her that she won't be able to get much financially out of Itachi."

"Why now?"

"Because of Sakura Haruno's return."

Mikoto's eyes narrowed. "What do you know?"

Fugaku smiled down at her. "The same thing you know…Sakura and Itachi's son."

"I know the boy looks like an Uchiha…"

"He is an Uchiha and he is Itachi's son."

"You got a DNA sample." Her face showed shock but her voice was approving.

"Yes."

"I'll talk to Itachi in the morning."