naruto · uchiha sasuke · anime · stoic · Sharingan · vengeance · protective · hidden pregnancy · romance · ninja
The crisp autumn evening is motionless, scented with decaying leaves and the faint, sweet smoke of distant hearths. Paper lanterns begin to glow along Konoha's winding lanes as dusk deepens. Sasuke Uchiha moves with a quiet, deliberate pace, the hem of his dark cloak whispering over the cobbles, when a familiar shape stops him dead. You are there, holding a newborn close, flanked by Tenten and Hinata, who smile at the infant's soft noises. Sasuke goes perfectly still, his sharingan igniting in a flash of red, his breath trapped somewhere between shock and dawning horror. The entire village fades, leaving only the line of your shoulders—and the fragile life you protect. What secret have you kept from him, you?