A/N: Hello world! I hope you'll be joining me for the next installment of "Blastomere"! I've really loved the feedback from all of you and I absolutely adore all of you that have favorite and followed. The support means so much more than you know! As for some of the reviews I just wanted to go ahead and respond to some:
Longblackdress: I appreciate your compliment and will do my best to update soon
Hime23: I had to run your review through google translate in order to answer so I apologize if I didn't get the full gist of your question but my best answer would be that you'll have to read to find out why Hinata hates Sasuke. This chapter will help in establishing exactly why she doesn't recognize him at first. In this story they didn't know each other very well as kids and haven't seen one another in about six years so Hinata doesn't quite remember what he looks like. As for your question stating that Sasuke donated sperm after fertilization I would just like to indicate that every section of this story is labeled with a Date and time. Hinata is inseminated on the 27th of May. Sasuke inquires about donating his sperm on the 19th of May and actually donates it about a week before the 27th. So Sasuke has had a whole week for his sperm to be in the fertility treatment center's system and Hinata picked his donation during this week and set up an appointment to be inseminated by it. Thank you for allowing me to clarify this! Feel free to ask me more questions
Guest: I'm so very happy to hear that I've managed to hook you! I'll do my best to satisfy you further Senpai ;)
Without further ado I present to you:
Chapter 3: Every Member of The Hyuga Family Drinks Tea
One Week Later June 3rd , 2015 at 9:12 AM
Hinata couldn't ignore the alarm on her phone anymore and quickly shut it off and shoved it under her pillow in annoyance. She had been feeling so tired lately and she simply wanted to keep sleeping, but there were too many things on her schedule for today. She had no time to indulge.
There was the frivolous matter of getting up everyday by 9:30 in order to eat brunch with her family at 10:00. The Hyuga family was extremely traditional as per her father, Hiashi's preference.
His preference of tradition dictated that:
Every member of the Hyuga family must live within the Hyuga Manor and complex.
Every member of the Hyuga family must share the same roof.
Every member of the Hyuga family must eat all of their meals together unless physically unable.
Once one marries into the Hyuga family they are considered a member of the Hyuga family and are obliged to act like one.
Every member of the Hyuga family must drink tea together even if they don't enjoy it.
Every member of the Hyuga family had to at least pretend like they enjoyed tea (Hinata liked it so she didn't mind).
Every member of the Hyuga family must contribute in some shape or form to their family business, which was the business of making tea.
Said business was referred to as the Hyuga Essentials and Hiashi had gone to the liberty of making two separate collections of tea and had named them after his two daughters, Hinata and Hanabi. Hinata's collection blend was a compilation of chamomiles and Jasmine infused green teas while Hanabi's collection blend was a compilation of strong and robust black teas infused with cinnamon and citrus.
Three days ago Hiashi announced that there was to be a new collection of tea blends inspired by Hanabi's daughter, Aito in celebration for her upcoming first birthday. Hinata portrayed as much happiness as she could muster over this, but overall found that she was less than enthusiastic. She loved her niece. She really, really did. Hinata just didn't like the way that her niece had been conceived.
Hinata grumbled as she threw her hair up into a bun and grumbled at the taste of her toothpaste when she brushed her teeth. She would worry about showering later after she got this stupid brunch over with.
Hiashi Hyuga was a very idealistic man. Being the owner of a tea business he used to travel a lot around the world in order to cultivate different teas, but after realizing how much time he missed of his daughter's lives while being away he decided that a new tradition was in order.
They would have a family portrait painted of them every single year in order to commemorate their family. Hiashi thought that this was an excellent idea as he had always been wistful of the fact that were only a few photos of his wife around the home from before she had passed away.
Hiashi had hired one of the most popular painters in the city of Konoha. He was an artist named Deidara and he was the most beautiful thing that Hinata had ever laid eyes on. She had been shy at first, but Deidara had been quick to return her affections and their relationship blossomed. After an entire year Deidara finally asked Hinata to marry him and she had never been more pleased about anything in her entire life.
That is until Hanabi became mysteriously pregnant at the age of eighteen. She had not been seeing any suitors that anyone else in the family knew about. Hinata also hadn't understood at the time why Deidara had seemed so irked by it.
Hinata couldn't believe that there was a time where she had been so naïve. It was only a year ago and yet she found herself so much different then she had been at that time. That must be what tragedy does to a person. It must make them mature significantly faster. Hinata had only been twenty-two, but after it was revealed that Deidara was the father Hinata had felt like she well into a midlife crisis.
She felt like she really could have aged over a hundred years by the time Hanabi gave birth to her daughter, Aito. Hiashi had been furious of course. Deidara hadn't just messed around with one of his daughters, but both of them and of course it was expected through familial tradition that Deidara make an honest woman out of one of them.
That woman was not Hinata and as much as she told herself that she was too prideful to accept the likes of him it still hurt her deeply. He had still cheated on her after all.
There had not been anymore family portraits after that and Hiashi had never bothered to pursue the matter.
So this was an everyday predicament that Hinata found herself in. Everyday she ate brunch with Hanabi and her stolen family. Everyday she had to look at Hanabi and her stolen family. Every day she had to go to sleep two doors down from Hanabi and her stolen family.
Every day Hinata had to convince herself that it wasn't a stolen family. It was simply a family that Hinata didn't get to have.
Neiji and his wife, Tenten at first had been extremely mouthy about it. They had wanted to stand up for Hinata on her behalf. They wanted to get Deidara thrown out of the household, but Hinata had stopped them. She was miserable, but she also didn't want her sister to be as well. Not to mention she couldn't bear the thought of her niece not being able to see her father.
Neiji and Tenten couldn't argue with that. They did have two little twin boys of their own, Hiroto and Yuki. They didn't want to imagine their sons not getting to see one of them.
So for a year Hinata acted as if nothing bothered her. She was quiet because she didn't know what to say. Hanabi was quiet because Hinata assumed that she was ashamed. Deidara was a dick so whatever he said didn't matter. He had tried to explain himself to Hinata, but she wouldn't hear it. She wanted to push this entire mess as far behind her as possible. She wanted to turn to stone and not be affected by any of it.
Hinata slipped a lilac colored sundress onto her slim frame and placed her hands on her belly. She hadn't taken a test yet, but she planned to today and she was so excited to finally get her answer. Although there was this inkling in the back of her mind that told her it was impossible for her to not be pregnant. Her loneliness would finally be over.
She suddenly felt much lighter as she walked over to the eastern wing of the house where the morning meal quarters were located. Hiashi preferred dining for morning and midmorning meals in the eastern wing meal hall where he had a wall of stained glass that filtered in colored light as he and his family ate.
It just so happened that Hinata sat across the table from Neiji and diagonally from Hanabi. Their families sat to the right of each of them. The way the stained glass was set it made it color them in a maroon light while Hinata and her father were bathed in a pale looking azure one that filtered in through the other side. Even brunch was melancholy. It was also stuffier than normal due to the fact that no one wanted to talk to one another.
Hiashi wasn't one for talking much to begin with. Neiji and Tenten refused to talk to Deidara. Hinata didn't quite know what to say to either of them and she really only ever spoke to Neiji or Tenten in private. So most family moments for the last year were almost lethally quiet and awkward beyond measure.
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One Week Later June 3rd , 2015 at 10:03 AM
"So no annoying ass lady is going to come to me and demand child support, right?" demanded Sasuke.
He sat across from Naruto while they were eating breakfast together. Well it was really just Naruto eating like a pig. Sasuke really wasn't in the mood so all he really did was push his food around his plate with his fork.
"Ish a lil late fer thut", said Naruto with a full mouth.
Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Swallow your food you idiot", he pointed at Naruto with his fork in disgust.
Naruto swallowed and sighed halfheartedly. Content with his food and overall lifestyle.
"It's a little late for that kind of worry", he sniggered. "You've already donated your sperm. Any minute now it's going to be used".
"That doesn't console any of my current worry", sighed Sasuke. He had felt awkward doing it, but he had really enjoyed getting the money from doing it. He even considered doing it again, but he wanted to make sure that there were no possible risks.
"Jiraiya already explained to you that the whole system is anonymous. Your name or identity is never included. All they really get is a picture and a background check to make sure you aren't a serial killer", scoffed Naruto.
"Hn", Sasuke looked down to his food and finally took a bite. Naruto was an idiot, but sometimes he knew what he was talking about.
It's not like Sasuke really cared that much anyway. The only person that Sasuke had even considered having children with was far from his reach and not interested in him in the slightest.
He had pined after her for most of his life, but there was never any good way to express how he felt. He tried doing it in secret once and that back fired on him terribly. Since then there wasn't really anyone he was interested in. Sometimes he still even thought about her.
"You know though since you're sort of infamous I wonder if anyone will recognize your picture for the donor sample", Naruto scratched his cheek in speculation.
Sasuke almost choked on his food at that thought. The media buzzed around him like flies. He could really only go out in disguise now and sometimes they still caught him. They hadn't managed to notice that he was staying at Naruto's though. His residence was still under the radar. He just knew that Konoha city saw him as a scummy bad boy of a black sheep that stood out as an embarrassment to the rest of his perfect family.
The media loved to eat up his scandals as well as photoshop old photos of him that made him look like he was in either illegal or less than savory predicaments.
Sasuke did what he could though in order to combat this. He wore his hair extremely long like Itachi, but he let a lot of it hang in his face and had done so for most of his life. Part of the reason being that he knew he had an effeminate face and he was embarrassed so he tried his best to hide it. He even tried growing facial hair, but his face never seemed to want to cooperate.
He also had a nasty habit of wearing sunglasses almost all the time. He had seriously gotten into drinking when he was sixteen and had a problem. This resulted in him wearing sunglasses to not only block out light to prevent oncoming irritation from hangovers, but nowadays it also helped him deflect the media's attention.
"Jiraiya sort of took care of that", Sasuke made himself breathe deeply as he realized that there was no way anyone would recognize him.
Jiraiya had made sure that his donor headshot looked almost nothing like he usually looked.
The headshot did not feature sunglasses, but instead regular glasses that were fake. Jiraiya had claimed that they would make him look more honest and more intelligent. Jiraiya also requested that he pull his hair into a rather uncomfortable ponytail that made his scalp itch. He even had to don a ridiculous floral button up that made him look like some touristy dad.
In retrospect this was most likely the desired effect as that was what future mommies to be wanted to see.
Damn Jiraiya was good. It escaped Sasuke as to why he hung out with Naruto of all people. Although Sasuke realized that he really wasn't one to judge.
"Anyway Sasuke", Naruto made his voice chime happily. "Your brother texted me because you haven't answered his texts yet".
"And I don't fucking plan to", scoffed Sasuke. He hadn't even read them in all honesty.
"Well you know that Itachi asked Ino to marry him. They're having an engagement party tomorrow, bastard. Don't tell me you're going to completely abandon your brother during the most important time of his life", Naruto shoved a forkful of food into his mouth.
Sasuke was well aware. An announcement had been made that Itachi had asked his long time girlfriend, Ino, to marry him and they planned on having an engagement party on the 4th. Sasuke got the announcement and was slightly pleased, but would never admit that so instead he buried the announcement addressed to him underneath Sakura's rose bushes.
Though Naruto and Sakura had gotten one too as Sakura was good friends with Ino and so it created a situation that Sasuke couldn't hope to ignore. He knew that Naruto would drag him there whether he liked it or not. It was just going to be unpleasant seeing as he hadn't spoken to his family in six months.
Sasuke choked on his food for a second time that morning as he realized that Naruto was holding his phone. When did the bastard get ahold of that?
"Oooh", Naruto looked deviously from over the screen. "Itachi wants you to be his best maaannnnn! How honorable!"
"Shut the fuck up you idiot", growled Sasuke as he made a move to swipe his phone, but Naruto stood up from the table and danced out of his reach.
"I'm just going to answer this and tell him that you'll do it", Naruto's voice was filled with mirth.
"LIKE HELL YOU ARE!" Sasuke stood up from the table and darted over to Naruto to once again snatch his phone away, but had the wind knocked out of him when Naruto planted his foot straight into his abdomen.
Balancing on one foot while Sasuke struggled for breath Naruto decided to answer one of Sasuke's missed calls from his mother, "Hiya Ms. Mikoto! Oh Sasuke's in the shower, but he wanted me to call you back for him and let you know that he's going to the party tomorrow. He also wants to be fitted for a tuxedo because he agreed to be the best man!".
Naruto giggled and there was some incoherent babbling from the other end of the line as Mikoto spoke excitedly.
"I know, I know", Naruto sounded like a gossipy schoolgirl.
Sasuke gained his wits back and managed to grab his phone, but the damage was already done. Even though he had hung up the call and punched Naruto in the face there was no going back from the promises that Naruto made on his behalf.
If Sasuke chose to go back on his word or to not show up then his family would come to find him and he couldn't have that. They'd make him go to rehab after all the trouble he'd gone to trying to avoid it at all costs.
This was all just a huge bother.
A/N: Well there you have it! I hope you've enjoyed chapter 3! I know that I have! I'll write you all next time in Chapter Four! Stay tuned guys.
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