"Come on, up we go!" Hinata used her not to well tuned muscles to heave her daughter onto the stools of the Ichiraku Ramen bar. The small girl giggled loudly catching smiles from the surrounding customers.

"Hey there you two." Ayame smiled brightly at the two of them from behind the counter. "How have you been?"

"I want ramen!" Yumi yelled grabbing her chopsticks.

"Yumi, manners!" Hinata half scolded half laughed at her daughter. She did her best attempt to try to scold her daughter on manners, but it was really very hard to scold your only child you insisted could do no wrong. Ayame only laughed at the small girl, all to ready to serve her best and cutest customer.

"And what would Yumi want today?" She asked smiling.

"The usual please." Hinata said tying a napkin around her daughter neck while she attempted to swirl in her chair.

"Coming right up." She smiled brightly and disappeared into the kitchen.

Within the time she was gone Hinata attempted to distract her daughter from the man with a bowl of hot ramen who sat a seat across from her. She was having no such luck until Yumi's bright blue eyes caught something behind her.

"Hana!" The girl squealed and jumped off the chair all together. Confused and almost suspicious Hinata turned to watch her daughter jump in to her sisters welcoming arms. The tall woman with dark brown hair smiled wide at the girl balancing her on her hip before taking her back to her mother.

The day Hanabi saw her new born niece for the first time it was as if something completely different awakened inside her. She was no longer the coarse, cold, Hyuuga she was brought up to be around Hinata and her daughter. She laughed, she smiled and she loved to play with her little niece. She even took it upon herself to teach Yumi beginner ninja techniques much to Hinata's initial disapproval.

"What brings you around?" Hanabi asked her sister placing the smiling little girl back on her seat.

"Lunch, and yourself?" Hinata said smiling nodding to the seat between the man with ramen and Yumi herself.

"Hana want lunch too?" Yumi asked almost jumping up and down in her seat.

"Yes, Hana want lunch too?" Hinata asked smiling at her sister. Even if Hanabi had just eaten a whole feast with her team mates, she knew there was no way she could say no to Yumi. Such was the case with every other human being in the village when it came to this child.

"I would be honored to join you!" Hanabi beamed at the young girl who giggled delightfully in return. When Yumi busied herself with one of the place mats Hanabi turned back to her older sister to answer her question.

"I was coming back from the training grounds when I saw you two come in here, I thought I'd say hello." Hanabi said suddenly helping Yumi spin in her chair.

Hinata smiled warmly, she often wondered if it wasn't for her ball of sunshine daughter, what would her relationship with her sister have become? Would they still be strangers like they were so much in their youth? Would Hinata still be that strange quiet and shy embarrassment of a Hyuuga while Hanabi was the shinning example of the head's child?

She shook the thoughts from her head and instead smiled at the sight of her younger sister enjoying the time with her niece. Hinata and Hanabi never really had a true child hood. They did not have play dates or go to birthday parties as children. They were trained; they had play dates with trainers to be strong and learn to fight. In many ways Hinata could see Hanabi seem to relive the childhood she missed through Yumi.

"Speaking of which," Hanabi broke through Hinata's thoughts. "When are we going to see you back in the training grounds? Just because you had a kid doesn't mean you should completely forget about being a ninja." Hanabi's voice turned from that playful childlike to a scolding mother hen.

"Who said I forgot about it?" Hinata raised an eyebrow and then reach out fix a strand of hair that feel from Yumi's hair do. "I just have different priorities."

"And what if Konoha needs you again?"

"I will be there to answer." Hinata said her face soft. Leaving behind the exciting life of a ninja wasn't hard decision to make, and each time she heard Yumi laugh, or felt her small arms hug her it was never even a regret.

"You'll be rusty." Hanabi pressed.

"Perhaps."

"Then maybe we should spar just to keep you in shape." Hanabi said no longer hiding her initiative.

"Maybe." Hinata smiled at her sister who seemed like she was going to respond but Ayame had returned with their bowl of ramen. One very large bowl along with three smaller ones.

"I thought I heard you talking to someone, and I figured they'd stay for some as well." She said pushing the bowl to Hanabi. Hinata said her thanks to the young woman while she poured ramen into Yumi's bowl. Next was Hanabi who listened intently while Yumi spoke of their day until now with mouthfuls of ramen.

Hinata watched the scene amused. How could she have never wanted this?

"Oh my god…oh my god…" Her breath was short; her lungs seemed to want to collapse. This couldn't be happening now! Not now! She still had several more weeks before this happened.

"Maybe it's not what you think?" Shino's very calm voice broke her frantic trance.

After their encounter with Neji, had suddenly mentioned she felt faint. Shino had wasted no time ushering her to sit somewhere cool. They were sitting in a very nice tea room, both with a fresh cool glass of water. Hinata's however was already near empty.

"What else could it be?"

"A number of things, your father has asked to speak with you before."

"Well yes…but…you know…" She glanced down at her stomach almost in shame. There was a long silence between them before he chose to break the silence.

"I never thought it would be you." He said lightly. It made Hinata blush, no one ever thought it was going to be her. No one ever thought she was going to do anything.

"Are you…upset?" She asked tentatively.

"A little." He admitted much to her surprise, she gasped and was about to ask for repentance when he interrupted her.

"I think Kiba expressed it good for both of us. How would you feel if Hanabi said she was pregnant?"

Hinata thought about this; Hanabi pregnant? That would mean Hanabi would let a man touch her in other forms of battle, the thought alone was almost laughable, but she knew what Shino was trying to say. And she was really very grateful to it.

"He said he's not leaving." Hinata assured him.

"I would expect nothing less of him," Suddenly he leaned over and grasped her hand in his. It was a strange jester, something he had never done before. "However, you of all people would know how bad it's going to be. And as great as he is, he is after all only human; just like you."

Hinata looked down unable to meet his eyes. Yes she knew that, she knew that all too well. And as much as she didn't want to admit it, as much as she truly wanted to believe her Naruto would forever be there for her she couldn't help but doubt. Her father was one obstacle, but what about after that? What about their jobs, what about the village? What about his entire life as a ninja? There were so many doubts and obstacles in front of her now, suddenly the option of running away was just too tempting.

"I know." She said pulling her hand out of his. "But so am I. And we will be facing this together, as scared as we may get, we'll be together." She gave him a weak smile.

Shino didn't respond; he didn't nod or say a word of acknowledgement to this. But Hinata knew; she knew her friend, she knew he understood. He had his own concerns but he understood her. She also knew that despite what he may not say, Shino would always be there when the world turned away. And for that she was more grateful then she could ever say, and he knew that too.

The bell chimed new customers and Hinata began to wonder if she should take that death march to her father's house just yet or continue to wait and stall for time as much as possible, maybe she should start thinking of some kind of story to stall her time. Luckily the fates answered for her and Sakura appeared at the tea house entrance. She caught sight of Hinata at once and smiled at her walking over.

"Hinata, I'm glad I found you. Tsunade wants to have an…" she stopped herself when she caught sight of Hinata's company, to which Hinata only nodded in response allowing Sakura to continue. "An examination as soon as possible."

"How soon?" Hinata asked, hoping against hope for the correct answer. If Tsunade wanted to see her now, her father would just have to wait. The Hokage of the village would have first choice when it came to seeing her ninja's wouldn't she?

"As soon as you can."

"Today would be good," Hinata answered. "Maybe even now…"

Shino suddenly cleared his throat; a warning known only to her or kina. In that single sound he phrased his entire lecture of how she should not be running off when she was being expected else where. Sakura seemed to catch something too because she just smiled a friendly smile back at Hinata before answering her.

"Sorry to cut it short but I just came to pick up her lunch. When ever you can, but please make it soon Tsunade would really like to see you. "

"Of course." Hinata replied with her own friendly smile before the two women said their good byes. When she looked back to her company he was looking at her with his trade mark unreadable expression.

"Should we find Naruto?" He asked suddenly.

"No. Naruto is busy today with other things, and if it is that that my father wants to talk about I think having Naruto as far away as possible would be a good idea." Hinata sighed and threw back the rest of her water, she thought briefly that if she wasn't pregnant it would probably be the strongest liquor this place had. But then again, if she wasn't pregnant to begin with she never would be in this mess.

She got up to leave with Shino at her side back out in to the winter streets of Konoha. Most of the snow had melted over the past week since their last snow fall, now most of the buildings just had small icicles or frozen puddles around. The air was still a biting chill but it wasn't too horrible. When an icy wind flew by she drew her jacket tighter around herself, weather it was the real cold or the fact that with each step she was getting closer to judgment day she couldn't say.

When they were almost near the entrance to her Hyuuga Main House, Shino excused himself leaving her to walk the rest of the path alone. She wanted him to go in with her, she wanted him to hold her hand but then again, he was her friend and a good friend at that but not her babysitter. And if anyone should be here right now it should be Naruto, but for his own health she refused to bring him into this. She gave a weak smile at the branch member guards who gave her small nods letting her through.

When she reached inside her warm house she hadn't been in almost two weeks she sighed at the familiar smells and sounds. She wanted to run into her bed room, jump into a hot shower and just sleep for days. But instead of following her bodies desires she instead dragged herself to the dujo where she knew someone would be. She was right; inside she saw Hanabi and Neji training.

"Excuse me," She said quietly interrupting their precious training time. "Have you seen father?"

"He's in his study." Hanabi said giving her a strange look. Almost as if she knew something, Hinata didn't know why but this scarred her a bit. She nodded and bowed respectfully to her old cousin and younger sister and left them to their training. She didn't see them turn to each other and give each other concerned glances before returning to their training.

She stopped outside her father's study and took a deep breath. Shino was right, it may have been nothing. It may just be a recap of her mission like he sometimes asked, there was no saying he knew anything about her recent condition. No one knew about it except for a handful of very trustworthy people. There was no real danger; it was just all in her head. Taking another very deep breath that made her lungs ache she knocked quietly on the door waiting permission to enter.

When she hear him grunt his approval she opened the door, more hesitantly then she had in the recent past. He was bent over his large desk with papers up to his ears. He looked like a male version of the Hokage and had much of the same temper to match. Though he was much more passive aggressive with it then Tsunade could ever be.

"You wished to speak with me father?" She asked quietly, when he looked up she tried her best to give him a smile.

"Yes, please sit." He gestured to the seats in front of him and she obeyed. "I was wondering how your mission went."

Hinata breathed such a sigh of relief her body visibly relaxed before her father. Thankfully his head was bent and he didn't notice it in the slightest.

"I-It was good…I-I mean a success with some mishaps along the way b-but nothing too bad."

"That's good to hear, and how are you?"

Something changed in the air. Something was strange about her father; he was being too casual…too nice.

"F-Fine father and how are you?" Hinata played along, she knew all of the Hyuuga games but this was new.

"I'm doing quite well, a bit stressed what with the clan and all, but you know how that can go."

"Y-yes."

"Sometimes I just need to get away…" At his last words he eyes Hinata suspiciously. Her heart jumped in to her throat, she swallowed hard. Too hard, he saw, and she mentally cursed.

"L-Like a v-vacation?" She kept the innocent theme going as long as she could. She was the innocent one after all.

"Something like that, or perhaps I should lie about a mission just disappear for almost two weeks."

'Shit! Shit! SHIT!'

Hinata had never been one to really curse, but at the moment it was the only thing running through her mind.

"F-father?"

"The day you left on your supposed mission I was asked why you weren't seen leaving with your team." He folded his arms and looked right at her. His passive face so calm it was damn scary. "Hinata, why would they not see you with your team?"

It was now or later…now seemed to be fitting but maybe she could hold it off a bit longer. Do what she did with the boys, lean into it, get him someone familiar with the idea before dropping the bomb shell.

"I-I was sick. Sakura p-pulled me from the mission, do to p-personal illness."

"Then why did you not come home? Where have you been this whole time?"

"With Sakura…I-I didn't come home b-because I didn't want you to think I was w-weak." She was getting really good at not really lying.

"I see, then why were you seen with that Uzumaki boy a few days ago?"

That's it, the jig was up. She was completely toast now. Maybe she should just commit suicide right here and now, or just get up and leave and run far far away ninja law or not. When she didn't answer her father gave her a heavy sigh.

"Hinata, I am not stupid," He began and her body tightened almost to a straining point. "I am well aware of your little infatuation with the boy, and I have tried to play blind over the years hoping it would just go away. But you are almost of marrying age, and I'm afraid you are spending too much time with him. You are a Hyuuga and you can not let such men as him put a bad influence in you."

Hinata found his choice of words to be quite ironic. She had to hold in a cough of a laugh while he continued on his rant of honor, and discipline which holds the Hyuuga's proud name. She began to see her options; she could just sit here stay quiet and just accept everything her father said. That would buy her more time, but at the end of this speech he would expect her to heed his word and if she was seen with the Uzumaki boy again, that might mean unwanted trouble. Speaking of which, she could just get all that trouble over with and blurt it out like she did in the Hokage office. The third option, one she was beginning to like, was getting him used to the idea of Naruto, or at least tolerating it before breaking the big news that he was a grandpa.

She didn't hear the last of his speech, but he had finished talking and was looking at for an expected answer. She took a small breath, relaxed the hand on her lap and made her choice.

"I understand what you are saying father I truly do and I appreciate your worry for my sake and that of the clan. However, Naruto and I are good friends…" she took a hard deep breath. "Actually f-father we are m-more then friends…"

Hiashi seemed to be stuck dumb, by this. He eyed his daughter dangerously, daring her to take this conversation further.

"More?"

"Y-yes father."

"What do you mean by more?"

"N-Naruto and I have been in-involved for some time."

"Involved? What do you- For how long?"

"Almost over a year…" She said in such a whisper she prayed her father didn't hear it but when he suddenly stood up and slammed his hands on the table she recoiled in fear.

"A year! Hinata you have been lying to me for a year!" He was furious, he was red in the face, and he looked ready to strike her at any moment.

"I…we…y-yes father. I am sorry for lying but I knew if I told you, you would make me stop seeing him and I-"

"Your damn right I would stop you, in fact I forbid you! You are not to see that boy again, I will have Neji and Hanabi or whoever else is available with you at all times to make sure you don't go behind my back again!"

Well that was just extreme…

Despite her growing anger and frustration Hinata swallowed her pride and continued as calmly as she could. She knew her father would never really harm her…right?

"I can't do that father."

"You most certainly will!"

"No father, Naruto and I…we are apart of each other's lives now, you can't do that to us."

"Yes I can!"

"No father, Naruto is…I'm…"

"Are you married? You married him behind my back too!"

"No father…"

"Then you are not bonded together, you are forbidden-"

"I'm pregnant."

A heart beat, and then –

Hiashi's world seem to have stopped. He stood there completely dumbstruck as before. He didn't move, he didn't twitch, it wasn't until Hinata had the courage to meet his eyes again did he suddenly explode.

"GUARDS!"

With in seconds six guards were in his office waiting at attention for his commands.

"Find Uzumaki and bring him to me!"

Without question to Hiashi's seething words they were off in a puff of smoke. Hinata stood frozen, she blinked and then looked terrified at her father. He seethed, he almost foamed at the mouth. His normal passive face was red as a lobster cooked in boiling hot water.

"F-Father?" She asked but he didn't answer, instead he couldn't even look at her. She spun on her heal and out the office, she had to find Naruto before they did. God only knew what Hiashi would do to her beloved once he got hold of him. She didn't get far before she heard her father's bellowing scream to stop her. She got even less before she felt hard arms around her. She heard Neji's voice to calm down in her ears, but she was near tears and even closer to hysterics of her lovers impending death to actually listen.

When he refused to let her go as per her father's order she stomped him hard on the foot which caused him to loose concentration. Then with the heel of her hand she hit him under his chin with all her strength and chakra combined. Sending her cousin flying behind her Hinata was off in a dead run to where she knew Naruto would be.

'Oh god no, oh please god no!'

She prayed to every god in existence she wasn't too late. She got closer and closer to the training grounds where she knew he usually did some mid day training. Maybe that would good; maybe he would be riled up and be prepared to fight his way through.

When she saw him, he was punching a log and doing various combinations. He sensed her before she was even close. When he turned to look at her his face went from care free to worry the second their eyes met.

"Hinata? What's wrong?"

"My father…the guards…he knows…" She tried to string a sentence together to make sense but was having to much difficulty on account of shortness of breath, and this sudden constricting in her lungs.

"What does your dad know?"

But she didn't answer in time. Suddenly she was pulled from his grasp and Naruto was pulled back as well. She heard his cries of protest before she saw the guards.

"Uzumaki Naruto." One of the guards said.

"Huh, what…what's going on?" Naruto sounded not only frightened, but completely confused.

"Stop it! Stop it! I order you to stop!" Hinata screamed but no one cared.

"Come with us boy." Another guard said and began dragging him. Hinata tried to break free but the held her close.

"What the hell are you doing, let her go! What is all this!" Naruto was getting angry, she could tell. He was scared, angry and confused.

"Leave him alone!" She tired one last time but again no one cared. Someone said something to her about her father, and then about a demon but she couldn't distinguish what. Someone yelled her name, but she didn't see who. Before she felt the ground beneath her the world went black.

TBC- Hiashi and Naruto conflict. Konoha is in an uproar of scandal!
AN: I'm having so much fun with this story! Hope you like the latest chapter/cliff hanger. Any who a few things to mention. As far as Hanabi goes i based her off a friend of mine who was actually a completely bitch before my friend had her baby. And then all of the sudden after she saw her new niece it was complete 180 and is now the uber cool awsome aunt. And next to nothing is known about Hanabi except that she excells greater then her sister, I thought it would be fun to play with. Much more on her relationship with Hinata in the upcoming events also another lemon to look forward too! YAY sex!

Thank you so much all of you! Love you bunches!!

PEACE!