He held Asuma's spawn at arm's length, staring at the chubby thing gnawing on the ear of its toy. It gurgled, kicking its equally pudgy feet in the air.
"You're very…" He started, tilting the thing to the left then the right because it made funny faces when he did that; then it smiled a toothless smile, dribble running along the seam of its lips.
"Eugh."
He finished, disgusted.
He looked to the lounge; the baby's mother was conversing with her favourite pupil. The thing was handed to him to keep him busy and not interfere with the women's well needed chat. Basically a babysitter. He sighed, feeling the thing wriggle in his hands like a worm. He was hardly qualified.
Watery sniffling that brought his attention back to it. He grimaced slightly as dense drool dripped onto his gloved fingers, coating them charitably. Nasty little thing. The toy pig that he'd pushed into its small fingers absently fell to the floor as its fat hands came up to rub over its eyes.
The red faced infant hiccupped a cry and he panicked.
"Shhhhh!...Well now little guy…" he carefully hugged the crying baby to his hip, fishing around his flak jacket with his other hand. "Where did I put it…?" he mumbled, searching.
"A-hah!"
His favourite book made an appearance, "Come on now, "he said, bouncing the child in an imitation of what'd he'd seen Kurenai do before. "Let's read a story, just us two." His visible eye crinkled merrily.
"Now please stop crying."
"How far along are you?" The red- eyed woman inquired, setting the steaming tea on the table. The comforting scent of rose and pinewood drifted into the air, welcoming Hinata to take a sip and sip she did.
Holding the warm mug in her hand, fingers curled around the middle she took another generous gulp before answering her former Sensei, "Approximately 8 weeks, give or take." she said, "I wasn't sure if I actually was...pregnant," she said, followed by a pregnant pause (Ha!) before continuing, "My Chakra fluctuated wildly during training and I only went in for an appointment when my summoning of my Byakugan showed something...you know? Different from the norm." Kurenai nodded encouragingly, taking a sip of her own. "And the rest is history, as they say."
Hinata sucked in a shaky breath, "Kurenai-Sensei, what am i going to do?" she croaked, emotions that had been bottling inside her spilling out. Her eyes blurred and she looked upwards, vision clouded, "Please guide me. I'm so lost."
How could Hinata redeem herself from this? How could she come back from this? She would become a young mother. An unmarried Main branch, conceiving a child out of wed-lock. She never wanted to be one in the first place. And now, now she had to take responsibility for their foolish actions on that night. Curse her screwed sense of judgement. She only wanted to have a bit of fun. To be desired.
Why didn't they use contraceptives? If only there were a Jutsu to go back in time.