Naruto was reading a newspaper while his son, Boruto Uzumaki, was trying to get into a game of wrestling with him. His girlfriend, Hinata Hyuga, was sewing in their kitchen

"Dad, I'm gonna take you down!" yelled Boruto, who had been continually throwing pillows at his father.

"We'll see about that!" And with that, Naruto disappeared, leaving behind a cloud of smoke. "No fair! You used a ninja trick. Oh well, two can play at that game!" Boruto made two shadow clones and sent them to look for his dad around the house.

"You guys play nice!" Hinata called from the kitchen. Naruto ran back into the room and crashed on the sofa. Right when Boruto was going to attack, an ANBU appeared in the middle of their living room. "Sorry to interrupt, dickless, but Lady Tsunade is demanding your presence. Naruto sweat dropped, "You can at least still call me Naruto, Sai. Anyways, I will be there immediately."

Before Boruto could try to stop his father, they disappeared in a cloud of smoke, leaving Hinata and Boruto left in the house. "He always leaves us behind! I'm starting to think that all his 'love and affection' is fake!" Boruto yelled and stomped off to his room. Hinata just stood there shocked. She wanted to tell Boruto that what he thought wasn't true, but she began thinking the same as well. He isn't the same as he used to be.

~~~X~~~

"Thanks, Sai, for getting me out of there, I don't know how much longer I could keep up the act." Naruto said, as they relaxed by a tree near team 7's training grounds. It was getting hard for Naruto to act like the father he was supposed to be, ever since he heard that Hinata was pregnant with his child, he started acting… differently. He has been finding excuses to go out on missions, and finding his other friends' activities interesting, like walking Akumaru with Kiba, playing chess with Shikamaru, or even eating BBQ pork skewers with Choji. He hadn't meant to get Hinata pregnant. He was sure to use protection every time they were doing something like that. He remembers Hinata asking him if they could have a child, but Naruto would turn her down every time saying that he wasn't ready.

"You're welcome, but the hokage does wants to see you. The 'immediately' part was fake though, she said when you can." Sai responded. Spending time with Yamato and Kakashi was worth it. He was learning to understand emotions better, though he could still be offensive sometimes. "I understand that you think that Boruto was a mistake, but you should at least try to make him 'not' hate you."

"I don't think that Boruto was a mistake… ugh, it's just that, I wasn't planning on having a child so soon. And Hinata's father, Hiashi, is pushing me to marry her! Ugh! He makes me so sick sometimes!" Naruto frustratedly replied to Sai. Sai just simply nodded his head. He'd never been in a situation like this before, but he can understand Naruto's frustration. "Well, he doesn't get to make that decision for you, doesn't he? If you truly love Hinata in that way, you'll marry her when you are ready. It's bad enough you two had a one- sided planned child, with that one side being on Hinata's behalf."

Naruto was nearly shocked at Sai's words. "I have never heard anything come out of your mouth that was so… so- "

"Genuine?" Sai chuckled, "You know, I do have more emotional experience than Kakashi's books you know." Naruto laughed, "Yeah, you're right. Let's get going to obaa- chan and see what she wants." And with that, they both started a race to the tower, jumping across the rooftops towards the Hokage.

~~X~~

Hinata sat at home, silently waiting for Naruto to return. "When is dad coming home? He needs a lesson on the definition of 'family time' apparently." Boruto complained. "He's a ninja," Hinata started, "He's going to be busy for a while and apparently, every day." Hinata deadpanned. She started to wish that she hasn't given up on her ninja status, just so that she could be by his side at home and on the field.

Hinata had to do some sacrificing to be with Naruto. Her father, Hiashi, didn't really want Hinata marrying Naruto, especially since he was one of the main people who had heard the rumors about Naruto and Sakura being a couple. She wanted to settle down and start a family with him. She became a house… girlfriend? She wanted to be Naruto's wife so bad. She smirked as she remembered when Naruto told her that she'd make a great wife. But no, it was always Sakura that he was after. She sometimes wondered if that's who he was seeing every time he leaves the house to escape family bonding time. She knew that that he'd been escaping them for sure; she wasn't stupid. Every time she and Boruto wants to hang out and just be a family, he always leaves saying that "I have a mission, or I'm kind of busy right now." She hated that. It was her dream to be by Naruto's side and have him happy with her. It was a selfish dream, but now that it 'was' making progress, she decided to do whatever it takes to make Naruto love his family again.

"He should be back soon." Hinata said. Boruto just rolled his eyes and went out the door. "Where are you going, Boruto!" Hinata shouted. "I'm going to ask Tsunade for a mission, I'm bored and tired of waiting on dad to come home!" And with that, Boruto slammed the door shut and it was now just Hinata in the house. Yep, that was the way that it was nowadays. Naruto found excuses to leave the house and Boruto would get frustrated and leave too. Hinata would be left alone in the house with no one to talk to. Ever since she got with Naruto, she hasn't really been hanging out with her friends that much. She'd suggest going to visit them, but with TenTen owning a weapons shop and being an ANBU, Ino owning her family's flower shop and being and ANBU, and Temari overseeing a team of genin, she was out of luck. Then there was Sakura. "Sakura..." Hinata quietly said to herself. She had been the one who put her and Naruto together in the first place. Then something hit her. Her Naruto- kun might not have been in love with her in the first place. He was in love with that pink- haired kunoichi. "What if Naruto is with me because he'd do anything and everything for Sakura? What if she told him to get with me and he did it because she asked him to?"

Hinata shook those thoughts out of her head. After a few more minutes of thinking, she broke down into an episode of crying upon the realization:

Naruto would never love her, or any woman at that, like he did or does Sakura.