Finally... I update! Aren't you excited? Well you should be.

Hinata was angry. Angrier than she'd been in a long time. "Just leave," she said, turning her back on the shocked man who was now behind her.

"But Hinata… I…"

"Out," she said firmly at his protest, not bothering to look at him.

"What did I…"

"I don't want to hear it," she said abruptly, dashing into the bedroom, slamming the door behind her.

Sasuke sighed. "Damn it, Hinata," he cursed under his breath. He stomped out of the house, not bothering to pull on a jacket as he walked into the steady rain. He muttered to himself about how difficult she was being, and how much he couldn't stand women. Sloshing through the puddles, he arrived at the Hyuuga manor, completely drenched.

He let himself in, not even bothering to knock, too cold and wet to even care. Neji was the first to spot the unexpected guest, and immediately went to ask Sasuke what was wrong. Sasuke glowered and irritably said, "Women."

Neji was just slightly confused at what Sasuke was trying to get at, but clearly something had happened between Hinata and him. "What happened?" Neji asked carefully, trying to not invoke the Uchiha's wrath.

"She's being… she's…" Sasuke tried to find a way to put his frustration into words.

Hanabi did it for him, popping out of nowhere and finishing his statement, "A moody pregnant woman?"

The two of them looked over at the younger girl. "I guess you could call it that," Sasuke said moodily, looking away in contempt.

"Now, now Sasuke," Hanabi said, playfully patting his head. "How about you let a female go over there and work some magic? I'm sure she'll feel better after venting to her little sister. And then I'll fill you in on the details when I get back. Sound good to you?"

Sasuke ignored her, like he usually did. Neji was ignoring her too. He turned and asked Sasuke, "So, what exactly is the problem?"

"I don't really know. She just seems to want to pick fights with me lately. And she just kicked me out of the house."

Hanabi cleared her throat to get their attention. "Hello! I said I'd help out!"

Sasuke and Neji both continued to ignore her. Neji shook his head, before his sympathetic, "She must be in a really bad mood."

"Yeah," Sasuke said evenly. "I just don't understand why."

"It is weird. She's not the type to get upset and take it out on someone," Neji said, weighing the options. "Perhaps she's mad because you forgot something or said something."

"Yeah," Hanabi said. "And I hope you're not ignoring her like you're ignoring me. Then she has a completely justifiable reason to be pissed at you."

"What?" Neji asked his cousin, finally deciding to pay attention to her.

"Oh, never mind. You men are all alike," she said, turning to leave. "I'll be back in the morning."

"Uh… where are you going?" Neji asked in concern.

"To be a good sister to Hinata," Hanabi shot back as she closed the door.

Neji glanced over at Sasuke before he stood up. "Well since you need a place to stay for the night, I'm sure you can stay here. Hiashi won't mind and Hinata's room has been vacant since she left. You can sleep there."

Neji stood up and walked away. Sasuke decided to follow him, knowing that his brain was too stressed to deal with his moody wife right now. Everything had started getting crazy with the treaties between nations starting to get breached. Naruto was desperately trying to resolve the conflicts before they could start, and he was relying heavily on Sasuke, Shikamaru, and Gaara to do this. The close personal friendship between the Kazekage and the Hokage had some benefits, certainly, but that was not deterring the rebels from causing trouble for both of them.

Sasuke had led several missions in the last two weeks to help squash the rebellion. There were still no signs of improvement, and Naruto was starting to get stressed out trying to devise how to nip a war in the bud. Fortunately Shikamaru was a strategic genius, and he was putting his brain to good use advising Naruto on how he should handle everything that happened.

But Sasuke also got sucked in. As much as it sometimes seemed to the contrary, he was very close friends with Naruto. So whenever Naruto wanted to vent or complain, Sasuke would listen. Of course he'd make some sort of snide remark afterwards, but he was always there for his friend. Naruto counted on him, especially for the tough missions, which is what he was being sent on.

Sasuke breathed in the smell of the room as Neji opened the door. It was musty and faint, but he could smell Hinata there. "Sleep well. I'm sure Hanabi will get everything sorted out for you. She's surprisingly good at it," Neji said as he slid the door closed and left.

Sasuke wasn't surprised that Neji hadn't offered him any clean clothes. However, Sasuke was cold and wet, so he decided to warm up by taking a hot shower. After that he scrounged through Hinata's old room, trying to find something to wear. He had spent a few nights here before, so he hoped he'd left something behind. He was fortunate to find that he had indeed left a pair of sweatpants as well as a few other assorted articles of clothing. After pulling on the pants, he climbed into the bed. He found it difficult to fall asleep because his brain was working on overtime, trying to figure out why Hinata was mad at him. Consumed by thoughts of his wife, he drifted into the all-encompassing black void of sleep.

"Hinata, open your door," Hanabi demanded, pounding on the closed entrance.

Hanabi was let in by her crying sister. "What do you want?" Hinata asked, wiping away her tears.

"I wanted to know how you are. Sasuke seemed really worried about you," Hanabi said matter-of-factly, walking into her sister's room.

"He's not worried about me," Hinata said, quietly. "He's never here, always away on missions. Can't he just tell Naruto no and stay here with me?"

"That's why you're mad at him?" Hanabi asked, not really seeming all that interested.

Hinata didn't say anything, staring at her feet. "I don't understand."

Hanabi sighed and stood up. "Sasuke is going out of his way to be a good friend to Naruto, and you feel like he's forgetting about you. So you're lonely and jealous."

"I… I didn't say that," Hinata said, keeping her gaze off of her sister.

"But it's true though," Hanabi said, moving to sit down on the bed, and bringing her legs up to her chest.

Hinata sat down next to her, and then sighed. "Yeah. It is. I think he should be paying more attention to me. He has only been home two nights in the last two weeks. I want him here. With me."

"You're being selfish, Hina," Hanabi said lightly. It was the rarely used affectionate nickname her sister had given her and the usage of it put all of her attention on Hanabi. "Sasuke's just doing his duty to the country. He probably feels compelled to make up for past sins and help out his friends. He's working so hard to protect you. And I mean honestly, if he really had that much of a choice, don't you think he'd be here with you?"

Hinata thought about it, letting her sister's rare profound words sink in. "I guess you're right. It's just I'm carrying our baby. Our baby. With him not being here, it seems like he doesn't care about me or the child."

"Hinata, you know he cares. It's just the crazy pregnant lady hormones talking."

Hinata blushed looking away. "I'm not a crazy pregnant lady."

"You are too," Hanabi said smirking. Hinata whacked her with a pillow, which Hanabi promptly returned with a light punch on Hinata's arm. After a couple more swings at each other, Hanabi said, "Just wait. Soon you'll start showing and then we won't be able to goof around like this."

"I know," Hinata said, letting her body fall back on the bed. Hanabi did the same, laying next to her sister.

"Yeah, you'll be fat and can't move or do anything," Hanabi retorted, the grin plastered on her face a clear indication that she was joking.

"Th-that's not true!" Hinata replied in indignation, having not caught the joke. "I won't be able to do much because I don't want to risk hurting the baby."

"Silly Hinata," her sister said, snuggling her head into the pillow. "I know. Now go to bed. I have to do stuff in the morning."

Hinata was going to ask what "stuff" Hanabi was talking about, but when she opened her mouth to ask she heard a soft snore from Hanabi. Deciding that her sister had either fallen asleep really fast or was pretending to be asleep so that she wouldn't be disturbed, she kept her mouth closed and opted to go to sleep herself. It was about fifteen minutes later that she finally drifted into a peaceful slumber.

Sasuke was shaken awake the next morning. "Hey, Uchiha Moron," Hanabi announced loudly, "get up so that you can be informed of the mysterious ways of the female mind."

Sasuke glared at the girl who'd interrupted his slumber. "Go away," he muttered, turning over.

"No. Because I'm going to tell you about how easy your situation is going to be to remedy."

"How?" Sasuke growled.

"Well, first… Hinata's mad at you because of all the missions you've been going on. She wants to see you more often, 'cause you know, she thinks that when you're gone all the time it means that you don't love her."

"But that's…"

"How it is," Hanabi finished, rather sarcastically. "You've been married for what? Like three years? Shouldn't you know how this stuff works?"

Sasuke snorted. "I'm no female expert. I spent half my life avoiding them. It was only a few years ago that I got interested in a relationship of any sort."

Hanabi smirked. "Yeah… I always wanted to ask you about that. I mean, why on earth would you choose Hinata when you hypothetically could have chosen anyone else? Other than her boobs, of course."

"You think I fell in love with her because of her breasts?" Sasuke guffawed. "You're one crazy little girl, Hanabi," Sasuke said as he moved to get out of bed. "Why don't you get out so I can change and all that?"

"No," Hanabi said with finality. "You didn't answer my question."

Sasuke sighed. "Fine. In all honestly I don't know what it was. I got used to her company, and then when it was deprived from me, I realized I felt something for her. She'd snapped me from my indifference. I cared about her safety, and I gradually starting realizing how female she was. That's about it."

"That's lame," Hanabi decided after a moment of thought. "I was hoping you'd tell me something about how you picked her because she was a fox in bed or something like that."

Sasuke stared at her, partly alarmed that Hanabi would say such a thing, partly moping because it was the furthest from the truth (Hinata refused to have sex until they were married), and partly smirking on the inside because the statement was true (Hinata was, in fact, a fox in bed). However, he dropped all these thoughts and put on an act, glaring at the girl and telling her, "Get out," in his pissed off voice.

Hanabi cowered before she vanished, getting away from him as fast as she possibly could. Once she was gone, Sasuke stood up and surveyed his appearance in the mirror. He looked a little disheveled, but Hinata didn't really care so he poofed himself back into his own house. When he got there, he appeared in front of an extremely startled Hinata. She 'eep'ed before she regained herself, then sent a glare his way.

Sasuke sighed and put his arms around her, embracing her in a hug even though she remained rigid in his arms. "Listen," he whispered into her ear, "I'm sorry that I've been gone all the time. If you had told me I would have been more than happy to say no to the missions. I didn't think it bothered you."

Hinata relaxed into his arms, drawing close to him. "Thank you," she whispered against his chest. "And I'm sorry that I snapped at you. You didn't deserve it. I was being selfish."

"It's okay," he whispered to her as his hands traveled up her back to play with a lock of hair. "I forgave you before I even left." She looked up at him, into his eyes which were staring down at her intently.

She took a deep breath, and realized something. His scent was off, but extremely familiar. "You slept in my room last night."

"Mmm," he nodded. "Neji said I could sleep there."

"You should go back and tell him thank you," Hinata said softly.

Sasuke bent his head down, kissing her neck gently. "Later," he said in a husky voice.

Hinata knew what he meant, the way his tongue licked over her flesh a clear indication of where he wanted to end up. He was insistent, longing to ease the tension in his body, his pent up sexual energy. Hinata wanted that release too. She needed to feel him, all of him, needed the physical manifestation of his love for her.

He had her pinned on the bed in almost no time at all. His fingers deftly unbuttoned her pajama top, stripping it off of her. Hinata's hands grasped at the back of his pants in an attempt to pull them down. He worked hers off faster though, leaving her naked underneath of him. With his body against her firmly she could feel his length through his pants. With a small movement, his own pants were thrown to the side, leaving nothing in the way. He slid in with one fluid motion.

Hinata gasped, enjoying the feeling of him thrusting into her. She came and came again before Sasuke finally reached his peak and collapsed on top of her. He rolled off, making sure to grab his pants before he substituted himself back into Hinata's old room in the Hyuuga complex. Hinata came along with him, beside him with her hand draped on his chest as she struggled to catch her breath.

It was then that Neji picked the most inopportune time to walk into the room to wake up Sasuke. Getting a good look at both Sasuke and Hinata's naked form he shut his eyes tight, frantically trying to get out of the room. However, his Byakugan had inadvertently activated, leaving him ogling Hinata's naked body against his own will. Struggling to turn it off, he ran into several pieces of furniture in the room, effectively doing just the task he'd come into the room for. Sasuke was up in a heartbeat, pushing the confused eye jutsu user out of the room.

Neji calmed himself, not sure what to think. Sasuke slammed the door on his face. Neji stood in the hallway trying to figure out what exactly had happened. But that was only until he started hearing noises. He knew that the noises could only be from one thing, and so, in order to avoid further mental scarring, he left the area as quickly as he possibly could.

I hope you like. There probably won't be updates on much until the beginning of May. End of the semester and finals. Fun stuff.