Passionate Kisses
Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. It looks like the update notification emails still aren't sending. I am trying to update this once a day though. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this chapter.
Chapter Notation: I got a lot of requests for the Uchiha Brothers to go into Overprotective Mode when it comes to Hinata. Thus there will be a "fight scene" and very mean-spirited insult thrown at Hinata. As some readers might view that as a trigger, I will put warnings before and after that scene. You can skip it without altering the plot. For those of you who do choose to read it, happy reading.
Chapter 11
A week had passed and Hinata was making her way home, after ordering a few things for the wedding. As attentive as her lovers were, they didn't seem to have much interest in planning the more mundane details of their wedding. Itachi and Sasuke would express their opinions on simple matters like what kind of cake they preferred, wedding colors, and so forth. In the end though, it was rather clear they were more interested in the Honeymoon than the actual ceremony.
"What kind of cake would you two like?" Hinata knew that they didn't have much time to plan their wedding and it was really only thanks to their families' money that this wedding was going to be held on time. "I need to let the bakers know."
Her future husbands gave her amused expressions. "The kinds of cake that are available are of little consequence to me." Itachi was going to be difficult by being so accommodating! Hmpf! "I'm far more interested in you than any cake, at any rate." And now he was going to be difficult by being so damn distracting with his seductive words!
The bluenette needed to get them to focus! Maybe, Sasuke would be more well-behaved in this respect. Perhaps, Itachi just saw the wedding as more of a formality than anything. They were already essentially living together and lovers. Sasuke might view such things as more important than his elder brother did.
"Itachi, this is important! We're going to have a lot of cakes. My family is so large. One cake would never be enough, but I want to make sure that we have at least one that you'll both like." Money could only go so far though. At the end of the day, the bakers did need a certain amount of time to prepare the cakes. No matter how much they paid them.
The elder Uchiha brother chuckled and kissed her forehead. "Alright. Red Velvet then." Good! An answer! "And while I'm certain that the bakers will produce a fine cake, it will never taste as sweet as you, My Love." And…seductive Itachi was backkk!
Sasuke rolled his eyes at his brother's antics. Her younger lover was better at physical displays of affection than whispering sweet nothings, but that was fine with Hinata. He was getting better at the latter and well the former certainly made up for any lack of gushiness.
"Vanilla with strawberry filling." She should have seen that coming. Sasuke didn't like sweets, but just plain vanilla would have been too predictable for him. "I don't like sweets, except for you." And….Seductive Sasuke had decided to make an appearance as well, it seemed.
Itachi raised an eyebrow. "You're such a CopyCat. You do know that, right?" Sasuke shrugged in response.
"I like chocolate cake. Alright, now onto wedding colors and invitations." Her lovers groaned in response and Hinata giggled. This was going to be harder than she thought, but it would be worth it in the end.
There was just so much to do and so little time. They were getting there though, even if she had to nag at them to focus. Itachi and Sasuke would much rather drag her off somewhere and ravish the Hyuga Heiress than focus.
Though they seem to have some unspoken rule where after two three pounces, they'd just snuggle with her for a day or two. She was pretty sure that was the Uchiha Version of taking it easy on her.
Warning Fight Scene
"Hey, it's the Uchiha Slut!" Hinata winces. Unfortunately, she had known that something like this was bound to happen sooner or later. "What are you doing out and about without your Masters? I figured they'd have you on pretty short leash." Jura and Kira were far from the only ones to have an issue with her relationship with Sasuke and Itachi. She couldn't even walk home without someone trying to pick a fight with her!
She sighs and keeps walking. It was best to just ignore them. Maybe, they'd get the point and go find someone else to harass them.
That didn't work. "Hey! I'm talking to you!" Someone grabs her arm and Hinata whirls around to face them.
There were times when Hinata sincerely wondered, if people forgot that she was a Jonin. "And I wasn't talking to you." She was a formidable ninja in her own right. Just because she was "nice" didn't negate that fact.
"What? You think that you're too good to talk to us?" Well yes, actually. She did. "Just because you're the Uchiha Brothers' Plaything." It hurt to know that was very likely how most of the village viewed their relationship, but she tries to tell herself that it didn't matter. "Because you're not!"
Itachi and Sasuke had done their best to assure her that it didn't matter and it usually didn't. "I don't want to fight and I don't want to be the ones responsible for your deaths." It was so easy to forget the rest of the world when she was in the Uchiha District.
There she was lavished with praise and love. Often a very physical kind of love, but she digressed. Outside of the District though, Hinata was smart enough to realize that every time she went somewhere, encounters like this were an all too real possibility.
"Our deaths? What are you talking about?" Sasuke and Itachi would kill them for talking to her like that. "They ain't gonna do nothing. They're on a short leash." Obviously, this man didn't know her lovers very well.
He thought that Itachi and Sasuke wouldn't kill him because they were on probation so to speak? He was being ridiculously naïve. The man was named Kosva and he would be lucky to see another sunrise, if the Uchiha Brothers found out about this.
Kosva wasn't alone though. His teammates Gonzo and Bika were with him. Bika was a woman, but Hinata would be lying…if she didn't admit that she'd often mistaken Bika for a man. The woman was more masculine than her teammates sometimes.
Gonzo places his hand around her waist. "You know, he's being mean. He can be nice though." Hinata doubted that. "If you were really that interested in threesomes, there are a lot of other men who would be interested in giving you what you want." She hadn't been before her engagement, but that was besides the point.
"Gonzo, let go of me." The Hyuga Heiress really didn't want their blood on her hands. As much as they were being cruel or making her feel uneasy, she didn't want to be the cause of their deaths. "For your own safety."
Gonzo's red eyes narrow at her, upon hearing that. The man certainly had a distinctive look. Hinata had to give him that much. With his apple red eyes and long lime green hair, he'd stick out in any crowd and it didn't help matters that he was probably as tall as Jugo was.
"Looks like she's not going to play nice." Kosva wasn't going to stop, apparently. His violet eyes gleam with malicious intent as he sizes her up. The man's short midnight black hair billows slightly in the wind as he moves closer. Like a tiger stalking its prey. A very skinny tiger, but she digressed.
Bika seemed to be having second thoughts. "Alright, guys. You've made your point. If she wants to be their little toy, that's her business. What a disgrace to the Hyuga Clan, but let's go." The tall and willowy woman turns to go. "We don't need her Masters showing up." Her long straight purple hair that reached to the middle of her back sways slightly as she does so. "Come on." The woman's dark blue eyes were getting rather nervous and Hinata knew why.
Bika clearly wasn't as foolish as her teammates. Not that it did her any good. A punch sends her flying straight into the nearest wall. Uh oh.
"You know, I normally don't particularly care to hit women and I was considering letting you go as you were being fairly reasonable until now, but you just had to go and ruin it." Sasuke's voice. That was Sasuke's voice. "Stay down and that will be the end of it though. Get up and I'll enjoy tearing you apart."
He wasn't alone though. Itachi was standing next to Sauske and his Sharingan was now activated. "My brother is right." He saunters over to Gonzo and removes his hand from Hinata's shoulders. "What kind of men would we be, if we allowed someone to dishonor our future wife in such a fashion?" This wasn't going to end well.
Bika's eyes go wide with fright and Hinata couldn't blame her. The woman had a very good reason to be in fear of her life. While the Hyuga woman was used to associating the red eyes of her husbands with passion, the other Jonin wasn't. Right now, they looked positively demonic.
"Very poor excuses for men." And Sasuke was egging Itachi on. Hinata winces at that knowledge because she knew what it meant. Normally, Itachi was the less impulsive brother. So the fact that he was engaging in this behavior and Sasuke was encouraging him, meant that they were both going to overdo it.
CRUNCH! The bluenette hears a crunching sound and screams of agony. It didn't take a genius to figure out what had just happened. Itachi had likely just broken every bone in Gonzo's hand.
Itachi smirks. "If you ever touch our fiancée again without her permission again, I won't be as merciful." That was merciful?! "I'll start breaking more vulnerable body parts." She really hoped that Itachi didn't mean what she thought he meant.
Sasuke slams Kosva into the wall with a mighty kick and unsheathes his sword. Slicing a large gash across his cheek. "And if you ever say such things to her again, I will cut out your tongue." Hinata knew that he wasn't bluffing about that. "And then as my brother said, I'll move onto softer body parts." He really meant it.
"You damn demons!" Kosva stares at Sasuke hatefully. "The Leaf would have been smart, to just have killed you all off years ago. Ripped out your treacherous hearts, if you even have hearts!" That was going just too far.
Sasuke and Itachi looked like they were going to murder him and honestly, Hinata was half tempted to let them. "Don't speak to my husbands in such a way, if you want to live." With that, Hinata walks over and knocks him out.
It was really the only way that he was going to get out of this encounter alive. "Now, are you going to do the intelligent thing and leave or do you want to see how much of a demon we really can be?" Itachi really wasn't helping matters!
"We'll leave!" Bika says as she grabs Kosva and runs off with her other comrade. Well at least that was over.
End Fight Scene
Hinata watches as her attackers leave. Only two of the three were still conscious, but she digressed. They were lucky that was all that Itachi and Sasuke had done to them.
"Are you alright?" Itachi looks at her with concern. She could see it. The guilt shining in his eyes. Itachi blamed himself for what had happened and Sasuke, if anything looked even more guilty.
She sighs and kisses both of their cheeks. "I'm fine. They were just being cruel." That was true. "With their words, nothing more." Well at least it hadn't escalated beyond that point before they showed up.
Sasuke looks less than convinced as he caresses her cheek. As he does so, Itachi scans her up and down. Most likely looking for any signs of injuries.
"You're not fine. The way that they treated you was unacceptable." The elder Uchiha brother murmurs. "And it won't be tolerated." Yes, Hinata could see that.
The younger Uchiha wraps his arms around her waist and sighs. "Come on. Let's get you back to the District." That did sound nice. "I think that's enough wedding planning for the day." Hinata nods in agreement.
She hated that this was going to be a reality of their world for the foreseeable future. Most people saw their relationship as unusual at best. That or a secret fantasy that they would never express. At worst, it was deviant to them. This was unlikely to be the last time someone would try to pick a fight over it.
"Alright." Itachi begins to head off. "Itachi, where are you going?" Hinata asks in confusion.
"I'm going to speak with the Hokage about this." Hinata blinks. He couldn't be serious. "They might be foolish enough to report it and I'd rather have our side of the story known." Well maybe he had a point.
It would look a lot better, if they "confessed." Though Hinata didn't think they'd done anything wrong. Those other Jonin had clearly been intentionally trying to pick a fight. That much was obvious.
Sasuke nods approvingly. "Alright. I'll take her back to the District. You can handle Kakashi." With that, Sasuke Flickers off with Hinata.
Itachi sighs and heads towards the Hokage Tower. As much as he didn't want to do this, he knew that it had to be done. Not that he felt they had done anything wrong. Quite the contrary, they'd showed far more restraint than those scum deserved…but Kakashi might not see that way.
"Itachi, you can come in." Hmm. The Sixth Hokage must have sensed his chakra. Good. That meant that he wouldn't have to wait around while someone told the other man that the eldest Uchiha was there.
The younger ninja walks inside and glances at Kakashi warily. "It gives me no joy, but I have to report an innocent. Bika, Gonzo, and Kosva were harassing Hinata about our relationship." That was putting it mildly, Itachi thinks to himself. "Sasuke and I took care of the matter."
It didn't surprise him that Kakashi looked rather alarmed at that information. Itachi knew what the other man was thinking. He was wondering, if he and Sasuke had killed them.
"Are they still alive?" It was a reasonable question. "I was afraid that something like this was going to happen." So was Itachi. "It was almost inevitable to a degree." True.
Itachi glances out the window towards the Uchiha District in response. His brother should have made it back there with Hinata by now. The Body Flicker Technique was a highly useful one.
Itachi nods. "They're still alive. Gonzo will need to see a medic about his hand, but other than that…they're largely fine." They had use threats more than actual force that time.
"Good. That's a relief." He knew that it was. They had put Kakashi in a very difficult position. "I know that you were just defending Hinata, but I can't have the two of you terrorizing the village." Itachi understood that.
He and Sasuke already had reputations. Beating up everyone who upset Hinata was not going to do much to improve them. And for their lover's sake, they should really work on improving their reputations.
"Yes, I know. Hinata didn't ask for this, but as a woman marrying two men…she is going to be the target of all sorts of vile behaviors." That was just the simple truth of the matter and they both knew it.
Kakashi sighs. "I'm aware of that. I will see what I can do. I'll overlook the minor injuries that you caused this time. I suppose I can put out a bulletin that harassing fellow Leaf Villagers about their personal lives won't be tolerated and will be punished accordingly." That might help. Slightly.
"I would appreciate that greatly and I know that they'll feel the same way." It was a start and Kakashi was trying to help. "Fortunately, we're all getting along very well with each other. It's the rest of the world that is proving more difficult." That was most assuredly true.
Eventually, the Leaf would get used to it. It generally just took people awhile to get used to anything different and their relationship was definitely that. Two men sharing a wife was not something that happened often. It was even more rare when those two men happened to be brothers.
Itachi didn't want to know what sort of deviant scenarios that the likes of Bika, Gonzo, and Kosva had dreamed up. He was certain of one thing though. They were likely far more deviant than his fondness of feather dusters.
Kakashi nods in understanding. "Good. Has jealousy been an issue?" It was sometimes, but Itachi liked to think that he was managing it.
"I can't lie and pretend that it isn't." Though things were going much better than expected in that regard. "Sasuke and I are doing our best not to let it become an issue though. It's an adjustment, but as I said…our relationship with Hinata is going wonderfully. Sasuke and I are growing closer as brothers as well." It had been so long since he was last able to be a proper brother to Sasuke. It was refreshing in a way to spend this much time with him.
Though he knew that their parents likely would have been scandalized at such an arrangement, at least now Itachi was able to help Sasuke. To offer him advice. Just not the kind of advice that he had ever expected to give about his own lover. Advice to help Sasuke seduce Itachi's lover. Life could be strange sometimes.
The Hokage pauses for a moment. Not Itachi could blame him. "Good. I'm glad. Well if you need anything, please don't hesitate to tell me." This situation was throwing everyone for a loop. So why would Kakashi be any exception?
"I'll be sure to do so." Itachi smiles. "Believe me, we are trying to make this work and not to destroy the village in the process." Truer words had never been spoken.
Back at the Uchiha District, Sasuke sighs. He hated that Hinata had to put up with such comments from the villagers. None of those sheep would have ever dared to speak with him or Itachi in such a fashion.
Warning Brooding Sasuke Scene
Cowards. The lot of them. Just another reason why he would never be able to understand his brother's loyalty to this village. Sasuke was loyal to Itachi, Hinata, Naruto, Taka, and Team Seven. Other than that, he felt no real attachments to anyone else in this village.
"How about I show you the Clan Hotsprings?" That might take Hinata's mind off her ordeal. "They're very nice."
Well he did make some notable exceptions. He would step in to protect Hinata's sister or her team as well. Maybe, Hiashi because he was his future wife's father and the Hyuga Clan in general. Other than that though, he didn't particularly care what happened to about 90% of this village.
He wouldn't go on a rampage and destroy it, but that was mostly because of his precious people. They did care about this village. "That sounds nice." Hinata smiles bravely.
He knew that she was probably only a breath or two away from crying. Though she was trying to be brave. "Great." For his sake. She was unfailingly kind in that respect. Trying to make him feel like less of a failure.
Sasuke should have protected her more. He should have known that she was going to get harassed. How could he have been that stupid? Itachi was right, he really was foolish.
End of Sasuke's Brooding Scene
"Sasuke, it's not your fault." Hinata was a perceptive woman. She obviously knew where his thoughts were heading. "You and Itachi can't be with me all the time." The bluenette walks with him to the hot springs. "That and even if they weren't saying these things, they'd be thinking them."
That was supposed to make him feel better? "They don't deserve to breathe the same air as you, let alone to speak to you like that." Sasuke strips and gets into the hot spring with her.
There was no need to bother with towels. They were already lovers and this was the Uchiha District. The only one who might dumb enough to come charging in unannounced was Naruto (and maybe Sakura). And if they did, he'd kick their ass.
Hinata sighs and disrobes quickly, joining him in the hot spring. "Well no. It was more intended to be a rational observation." She snuggles into his arms.
"I'm not feeling very rational at the moment." He kisses the top of her head and embraces her tightly. "They hurt you and we should have hurt them worse than that." He wasn't nearly as forgiving person as Hinata and Itachi. Sasuke just wasn't wired that way.
It just infuriated him. Hinata and Itachi were two of the kindest people on the planet and yet, they were baring the brunt of the village's judgment. And he was supposed to be okay with that?
"I don't want you to hurt anyone for me, unless it's self-defense." Of course, she didn't. She was too kind. "Alright?" Damn it.
She was going to make him promise. Sasuke just knew it and he couldn't go back on a promise to her. That wasn't any way to start a marriage.
How was he supposed to resist though? "Alright." When she was giving him The Face. The Face was the adult version of the Bubble Eyes Jutsu. Which was still lethal. No one could resist a big pair of pleading bubble eyes.
"Good. I w-was thinking that if Itachi was okay with it, I'd be okay with it." Okay with what? "I mean we are getting married. It might be smarter to wait awhile until everyone gets used to the idea of us all being together, but nine months is a long time and we do have a Honeymoon coming up." Oh!
Hinata was offering to have their children. Obviously, she had somewhat already consented just by marrying them and well, they all knew the terms of their contract. Still he hadn't expected her to be willing to do that so soon.
He kisses her. "Are you sure about that?" Sasuke wasn't an idiot. Hinata obviously didn't him to kill those idiots. "You don't have to just to protect those insects." And this was a very, very good way to distract him from killing said insects.
"Well if you're both okay with it. Would you…be upset, if it was niece or nephew instead of your son or daughter?" That was a fair point. They didn't know if Itachi could have kids, but if he could…it was as fifty-fifty shot.
Sasuke couldn't lie to her. He'd be disappointed. Really disappointed, but he was a big boy. "I'd be disappointed, but it'd be okay. I'd love my niece or nephew unconditionally, just like our son or daughter." Sasuke would find a way to cope with the disappointment. With that thought in mind, he kisses her forehead reassuringly.
Maybe, it might be better without the Paternity Test though. They'd never know. That way no one's feelings could be hurt, but not knowing might drive them all crazy.
"Good." She smiles, after returning his kiss. Good was good. Good meant that he'd given the correct answer.
Hinata pauses. "We'll talk to him about it when he gets back." She snuggles into him and Sasuke smiles. "I'm sure that either way, our first child will be beautiful. Whether you're the biological father or Itachi is." That was true!
"And ridiculously spoiled." Sasuke smirks at that. That was very true. "Just like the two of you spoil me." Again, that was definitely true!
He smiles more and caresses her. "The most spoiled child in the Five Nations." He wasn't kidding. "But if they're anything like their mother, also the most beautiful and kind." He kisses her cheek and Hinata smiles.
He could live with it, if Itachi was the father. Sooner or later, he'd have a child with Hinata. Maybe more than one. Though if they each had two children with her each, that was four. They were really going to have to figure out the math.
Oh well. They could worry about that another day. For now, Sasuke was perfectly content to just enjoy the fact that he had a beautiful, naked woman in the hot springs with him. A beautiful, naked woman who was going to be his wife and sooner or later, also the mother of his child. Life was good, even if there were far too many annoying insects buzzing around.
