The golden fox

Damn council

-1 month later-

Naruto groaned as he hobbled up the stairs to the viewing area, Kakashi walking slowly behind him incase he fell. Sakura chatted like an over excited bird as she lead the way, not noticing Naruto's slow pace as she took the stairs easily while Naruto slowly dropped back. After the second pause for rest he turned to Kakashi with tired eyes.
"Kaka, help me?" Kakashi grinned behind his mask as he easily scooped his oversized mate into his arms and swiftly scaled the stairs, ignoring all the whispers and eyes focused on him and his mate. Kakashi happily sat down next to Gai and Sakura with Naruto curled up protectively around his bloated stomach on his lap.
"Wow, Naruto-kun! You seem to have gained some weight!" Gai yelled while pointing at Naruto's bulging stomach area. Naruto's eyes filled with tears causing Kakashi to panic. His tears soon turned to anger and not even a second later Gai was lying on the ground in the middle of the arena, dazed and in pain, with Naruto standing triumphantly on the railing surrounding it.
"I'm not fat you jerk! How dare you, come back up here so I can slap you silly, you bowl cut, spandex wearing freak!" Naruto roared. Kakashi came up behind him and gently grasped his hips as to not startle him.
"Come on Naru, you're not fat honey! Come down here, you look perfect the way you are" Naruto smiled warmly down at Kakashi and allowed him to lift him down from the railing and into his arms again.
"I don't know how you can send a full grown man flying with a single punch but not be able to make it up a flight of stairs." Kakashi mumbled to himself as he carried Naruto back to his seat and sat down again. A moment later and the chair next to them was once again occupied but this time by a grinning Anko, green and yellow lying at her feet. Naruto looks over at his kits and smiled.
"How are my kits doing? I haven't seen you around lately" the muttered 'because I'm not suicidal' was ignored while Anko thought up an excuse to tell her precious mama that the reason they haven't been around was because of his crazy mood swings.
"We've um .... We've been looking for a present for the baby, we're going to have a new sibling so we want to find the prefect gift for them" Anko mentally applauded herself and looked over to her mum, seeing Kakashi give her the thumbs up behind his back.
"Oh that's so sweet of you guys! I can't wait to see it so be sure to bring it around after the tournament" Anko, green and yellow nodded their heads furiously before they all slipped away unnoticed a moment later to go scrounge up the perfect gift. Naruto turned his attention to the arena when the speaker stepped forward. Everyone settled down in their seats to listen.
"The first match will be Sasuke Vs Garra. Will the participants please step forward" Sasuke and Gaara stepped forward while all the other chunnin hopefuls jumped up to their viewing sections and lent against the railings Naruto stood on not so long ago to watch.

The fight started out rather uneventful. Gaara's sand blocked every attack Sasuke sent his way and now without the insane raccoon barking in his ear his attacks were much more controlled and thought out where as before he simply tried to crush them in his sand. Gaara went through great lengths to not kill Sasuke as he flittered around the arena, obviously because he is Naruto's team mate and he didn't want to upset his saviour.
"Yay! Go Sasuke! Go Gaara!" Naruto cheered, suddenly standing beside Shikamaru who turned his lazy eyes upon him before sighing, muttering a 'troublesome' under his breath. Kakashi sighed, jumping over to his very sneaky mate.
"Naruto shouldn't you be cheering for Sasuke only?" Kakashi asked as he watched his mate watch the fight excitedly.
"Why should I have to cheer for only one person when it's clear Gaara is trying his very best too!" Naruto spun around to face Kakashi with a large grin.
"Don't you think?" Kakashi immediately nodded, choosing to ignore the whispered 'whipped' that came from his left, suspiciously close to Kiba and Shino.
"Of cause sweetie, you cheer for whoever you want" Naruto grinned wider and turned back to cheer for Sasuke and Gaara. Kakashi slumped his shoulders when he noticed Shikamaru staring at him.
"His mood swings are things of horror" was all he offered as explanation as to why he agreed so easily to Naruto's every word.