Chapter 12

Hinata awoke in the hospital, feeling dizzy and numb. She noticed some flowers to her right, a kind of lavender colored flower was in the center, as if it were the heart of the entire peice. As a small breeze came from the window just behind them, the flower moved as if it were beating. She looked at them, still dazed, untill she realized that the flower was not moving, nor was there a breeze for the window was closed. It was just her vision faltering.

She looked to her left, and realized her old sensei, Kurenai was sitting right beside her. Soon as Kurenai noticed she was awake, she smiled. Hinata tried to smile back, but the strange feeling in her gut was searing worse than ever. Instead she grimaced and clutched her gut, curling into a ball under the sheets.

" Are you feeling alright, Hinata? You put too much strain on your body. Why did you go out and train with the little one?" Kurenai asked putting her hand gently on Hinata sholder. But she didn't know what her sensei meant.

" Wh-what are you talking about? What little one?" Hinata asked looking up at Kurenai with a confused expression.

" You meant you don't know?" Kurenai met her gaze, noticing that her old student knew nothing of what was happening. Hinata just shook her head.

" I see. I should let the docters tell you, for I only got a breif description. I guess I'll come to see you later, for I have a few errands to do," Kurenai said, exiting out the door.

Suddenly, Hinata heard someone arguing outside her door. It was her father, his voice full of anger and greif.

" WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S--"

" Not so loud, she's sleeping, and really needs rest to heal. Why don't you just go on back to the waiting room and we'll handle the rest," She heard he friend Sakura say. What was going on?

" FINE! BUT THIS ISN'T OVER! THAT LITTLE PUNK WILL PAY!!!" she heard her father stomp away. Then she heard a sigh come from the other side of the door, just before Sakura herself came in.

" Good, You're awake," She said, taking a seat next to Hinata. " But, there's something I need to tell you."

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" Hey, why did you want me here? What's going on? I had a physical last week!" Naruto shreaked at Tsunade.

" Naruto, calm down. It's really important. But you have to calm down and keep quiet. Also, I need you to promise that you will not be too alarmed when I tell you," Tsunade told Naruto gravely. " But you must know, It's about Hinata."

" Lady Tsunade, I need you to come out here for a sec. I need you to take a look at this," Shizune, Tsunade's assistant said, coming in. She glanced at Naruto, " Er, in private."

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As soon as the two women left, Hiashi took his chance to slip in and talk to the boy the he despised more than anything in the world at the moment. He hated to do this, but at the same time, it was a good revenge.

" Hey, uh, boy! I have something to tell you about what the hokage is about to tell you," Hiashi said, pulling up a seat next to Naruto. " For they think that since you were with Hinata a month ago, ( behind my back) they think that you are 'it'. But I must tell you, I have had Hinata pick someone to be her husband, long before she was with you, and she fell for him instantly. So, that guy is 'it'. She cheated behind your back, and she told me that she planned this. That was the reason I was angry, that she was toying with peoples emotions. It doesn't sound like her, true, but that is all I am authorized by the Hyuuga compound to tell you." With that, Hiashi got up and left, leaving Naruto clueless.

A few minutes after he left, Tsunade came back in. She took her place behind the desk, and put her hands on the table in the way she usually did.

" Okay Naruto, do you think you are able to take what I am about to say?" She asked. Naruto just nodded.

" Alright, Hinata is..."

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" I need you to sit back," Sakura told Hinata, placing an arm on her shoulder. Hinata was like a sister to her when she was with Naruto.

" Well, acording to our charts, and this blood test, you're, erm, pregnant," Sakura said, painfully watching the shock creep across Hinata's face.

" I also need to tell you that from all of the training you did earlier may have killed your fetus. And also with what happened way back when in the illimination rounds of the Chunin exams, your uterus hadn't really healed all that well. Because of that, you really shouldn't be carrying. So, if this all works out, this little one could be your only child. I really hate to be the one to say it," Sakura said, pulling her friend into a reasuring hug.

Suddenly Hinata started to cry. Sakura thought it was ofshock and saddness, but she was really crying of both joy, and of the realization that this little one of hers could be lost. But she then noticed a smile on Sakura's face, on that made her feel better strangely.

" Don't worry, I promise that I'll make sure you both are okay! And I will keep that promise, just like Naruto keeps his!" she said, determination in her eyes.

" B-but Father wouldn't let me have any friends over," Hinata said after a few minutes of thinking.

" Well, from the damage you've taken, you're gonna be here for a little while. Your ankle was completely shattered, so you won't be able to walk for a long time. You will heal completely, thank god, but you will be weel-chair bound for a while," Sakura said, analyzing the charts next to the bed.

" Um, there is a question that's bothering me," Hinata said, looking down at her hands. " Wh-who is the f-father?"

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Naruto wandered around in the hospital, not even thinking of where he was going. Everything he thought was so wonderfull in the past six months, was fake, and had completely washed down the drain. He never expected any of this to happen, and he was very, very angry at himself for not seeing through her web of lies.

All of a sudden, he noticed he was in an unfamiliar wing. It was one he'd never been in before, one he knew he'd never have any need of being in, the Maternaty Room. It was the place people would go when a baby was born. But Naruto wouldn't have any need to be here, unless his friends decided to have one of their own.

" You know, I believe that room just across from where we're standing was the one you were born in, 19 years ago," Naruto heard somone say behind him. He turned around, and saw that it was Kakashi, his old sensei.

" 19?" Naruto asked.

" Well, today is your birthday, right? I asume you've changed another year, like everyone else," Kakashi said, not looking up from the lates Make-Out book in his hands.

" Huh, I suppose you're right. It's a pretty sucky one though," Naruto replied, looking at th number 9 on the ward across from him.

" I guess things happen in life, I suppose. Guess I won't be much help. But you know, talking things out, or just talking to someone can really help. Whoever, or whatever is bugging you, you should really go face it. That's one of the steps of becoming a man," Kakashi said. " Oh, by the way, that was a line in this book. I just came across it as I was talking to you, kinda a funny coincidence, don't you think?"

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" Can I talk to you?"

" O-of course," Hinata said to her father, who was looking at her with pained eyes.

" Look, I think, I think I may have been too hard on you. Because I gave you that training exercise, I could have killed you," he said, holding onto her hand, rubbing the top of it slightly.

" Father, there was no way we could have known, If anything it was my fault for putting two and two together," Hinata said, trying to reasure the man who apeared to be on the brink of tears.

" No, I take much of the blame, I should have let you go with your friends when they came and asked the past month," her father replied.

" It can't be helped. I'll be healed soon, and then all of this will be over," Hinata tried to smile the best she could.

" You're right. It will be over. I am sorry to say that the elders of our compound will not authorize this," he said, gaining a befuddled look from yhis daughter. " they will not allow you to have this child."