I know you hate me.. XD
CHAPTER 12
He knew he failed her when he saw Hinata clutching her stomach on the floor, the smell of iron was in the air and he had to urge himself to breathe. "S-Sasuke, the baby's coming.." Hinata whimpered in pain.
He knelt beside her and pulled the back her skirt forward between her legs and to the front to stop the baby from coming untimely. He may know some things in medical ninjutsu but delivering a baby wasn't one of them. He looked at Hinata and saw her face scrunched, sweat glistened along her skin. "Hang on.." He clutched the skirt to her hand and carefully lifted her towards the bed.
Her other hand gripped his shoulder, and he felt himself go weak. "Uhh.. It hurts.." She cried.
"Tsunade!" He screamed towards the door, he couldn't leave Hinata.
The former Hokage was quick to barged in the room, her assistant Shizune was behind her. The blond instantly went to Hinata and proceeded to remove her underwear, to check her while Shizune took her vitals. He paced inside the four walls, anxiety filling the room as Hinata screamed in agony.
His head snapped and asked no one in particular. "What's happening?" He sounded demanding.
The old hag had the balls to push him towards the door. "Step outside!" She screamed as she opened the door. But he didn't want to leave Hinata's side. His eyes never left her form, he could see her breathing hard and crying.
"Naruto! Keep him on the line!"
A familiar hand went around his neck and he was dragged outside, he didn't even have the strength to fight. "Sasuke.." Naruto, it was Naruto.
"Calm down!" He slapped his face slightly, as he pushed him down to sit on the chairs along the sterile hall.
"How is she?" His best friend asked, there was worry in voice as well as panic. He looked around and saw no one else with him, no Sai, no Yamato and most of all no Sakura and for that fact he was glad. "Oi your eyes."
He clapped him on the back. Making him blink his eyes back to normal. "Teme breathe!"
Breathe?
Yes. Foolish little brother, breathe.
It was Itachi's voice inside his head. He sucked in a deep breath, closing his eyes to get a grip. But as the darkness filled his vision there was only an image of his parents dead, but something was wrong, Hinata was there as well. A new addition to his nightmare. She was bleeding all over, the stench of death lingered and he wanted to gag. He opened his eyes as well as his closed fist.
Blood. It was already drying along his large trembling hands. Her blood on his hands, is this a sign of how i failed her? "She was bleeding.." He whispered. Beside him Naruto looked sad on the floor.
A crow inside his head repeated. Failure! Failure!
"..I think it's my fault.." He had kissed her and then left her like some coward. Shino said that they found her unconscious, he didn't even asked her if she was fine, he didn't asked her how his summon died, or why she was unconscious. No, he just went there and kissed her like a man drowning, like he was sinking and she was the only thing he could reach. It was his fault, he should've known that she has been through a lot of stress, her body could only take so much.
The blond went rigid. "How is that you're fault?"
How could he tell him? In everyone's mind, it was his right to kiss Hinata, because they loved each other, they loved each so much the made a baby. But that was a lie, and he didn't have the right to kiss her, she doesn't love him and he didn't know how he felt about her, it could be lust but something tells him that it wasn't. If it was lust, he wouldn't care that much.
"She's.. She's not even due yet.." No. Not until next month. He swallowed what felt like his heart when he heard her whimper echo from the other side of the door.
His friend patted him on the back. "Sasuke, Hinata is strong.. I'm sure she'll be fine.."
"Let's just wait okay?" His friend gave him reassuring words.
It felt like an eternity. To just sit there and wait. His mind going to places he didn't like. But as the door opened and the old Hokage stood with a small bundle in her arms, there he could see tufts of black hair, all thought was lost to him.
"It's a boy.." She said with a tired voice. "Sasuke I need to put him in an incubator. Get inside, Hinata needs you."
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The head of Hyuuga clan felt himself sweat as he saw the former Hokage. Hakame Hyuuga, an Anbu told him his daughter was going to give birth. He immediately left the meeting he was in and gave orders to send for Hanabi as soon as she's back from her mission. He left the compound with a pounding heart. It didn't help that Hinata's mother, his beloved wife died of childbirth. "Hokage-sama, am I too late?" He asked desperate for answers.
The older woman gave him a glance and gestured for him to follow. "Hyuuga-sama, I need you to calm down for me." She said as she walked along the halls of the hospital. He followed, and stepped beside her.
"Hinata is recovering, in the moment Sasuke is with her. She delivered a boy." In the corner of his eyes he could see the blood that smeared her white lab gown, it's stench making him gulp and tremble on the inside. A boy, she said. A sweet boy he knew.
He nodded but couldn't help but knot his eyebrows. "Hinata isn't due till next month how is this happening?" Confusion marred his once stoic face.
The woman looked stern, angry even. "When she was brought here by the Inuzuka, we did all the test to understand why it happened. I personally scanned her body to ensure that nothing was amiss."
"And you told me you found nothing."
She nodded as she took a left turn. "Yes. We thought that she might be dehydrated and Hinata said that she used to faint a lot. But I think someone did this to her, the Aburame did sensed someone."
He's never been more grateful that Hinata had teammates with such kekei genkai, he remembered the stunned faces of her teammates when he thanked them for keeping an eyes on Hinata, he couldn't blame them, it was the first time he acknowledged the Aburame and the Inuzuka. "Perhaps it was a jutsu? Poison perhaps?"
A growl escaped the former Hokage's lips. "We're trying to find out how this slipped, we couldn't detect it, whatever it is - jutsu or poison."
"The boy Hokage-sama.. Is he well?" Hiashi asked, his voice a trembling grandfather.
Tsunade Senju sighed. "I'm afraid the early delivery didn't help, he's weak and premature, he will be monitored 24-7 until he is fit for discharge. For now he's in an incubator and will not be exposed to most elements."
The news saddened him but he knew that kami won't let anything happen to his boy. His grandson. He's a Hyuuga as well as an Uchiha, so he will be strong. Now there was only one thing that needs some answer. "Who would do this to my child?"
She gritted her white teeth and looked him in the eye. "Someone who hates the Uchiha."
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As he entered her room he expected to see her asleep but instead she was awake. Dark circles surrounded her eyes, she was pale and was still breathing hard. Relief flooded her eyes as she saw him. "Sasuke.. Take me to him.." She reached for him as he approached her bed, her small hands gripping his arm.
"Please.." She begged. And he couldn't utter a single word. He scanned the room and saw a wheelchair at the corner. He retrieved and unfolded the chair and gently sat her down. Once Hinata was settled, he opened the door and pushed the wheelchair outside.
He saw Naruto stood abruptly as he saw them and assesed Hinata's condition.
"Naruto, tell team 8 about this. Including Kurenai." Sasuke spoke.
For once the blond seemed speechless and stuttered awkwardly. "S-Sure.."
Sasuke then pushed the wheelchair and scanned the hall, immediately he flared his chakra, enveloping the whole hospital so he could sense him and where he resides.
He stopped as he felt a small flicker in the right wing, an Uchiha. Standing frozen, he felt her hands crepts to his and gripped them, urging him to go on. And he did.
With every step he took he imagined how the boy will look like, he only saw his hair and it was enough to silence him. Was he even ready for this? His brother's son was just a few steps from him and he could feel his heart pounding. He isn't the last anymore.
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A wall divided her from her son. It was transparent but still a wall. Hinata felt her heart constrict at the thought of not being able to touch him.
She saw his chest moved, breathing in some air. But she could see that action was not easy. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, her vision blurred because of the tears. She blinked and felt them fall.
"Why did this have to happen?" She sobbed and clutched her once full belly.
"He's all that's left Sasuke.." She cried remembering Itachi.
"That day when your eyes bled.. You asked me if I loved him.."
Sasuke's question haunted her even in her dreams. "Did you love him Hinata?" She recalled how she faltered and stuttered when she answered him.
She continued as she look down on her lap. "..I confess that.. at that moment I wasn't sure myself.."
She saw Sasuke move in front of her, she didn't look up. She reached for his large hand and squeezed them as she shared something from her heart. "..but In the short amount of time that we knew each other and had, I loved him.."
"..In that moment I loved him from what I know was love.." Love was Itachi showing her the truth about him, love was when he trusted her, love was when he wanted her almost desperately, love was when she wanted him too, love was when she returned his kiss.
She loved Naruto when they were kids, she knew that what she felt for Naruto and Itachi were both love but it had some differences, just two different kinds of love that comes in different times. She loved Naruto as a child, she loved Itachi when she was just blossoming into a woman.
She sobbed and sadly smiled as she almost felt how it felt that night. She has touched freedom. "..I forgot how I was failing my clan and my father, I forgot how Naruto never acknowledged me.."
"..It was impulsive but I gave myself to him.." She saw how her father's face looked so hurt as she came home impure. How he begged her to name him.
She looked up and looked Sasuke in the eye. He understood. "..If this gift is what I get for acting impulsive then i'll do it again."
"But to see my boy like this.." She let go of his hands and sobbed to hers.
Her firstborn looked so small. She wanted to touch him, and whisper words to him. To soothe his pain with her kisses and to sing to him. But she couldn't, a wall separated him from the world. She couldn't even nurse him.
She cried and cried silently into her hands until he took them away from her red face and kissed them as he knelt in front of her. "I'm sorry.." He apologized.
"..I'm sorry Hinata.." He repeated. But she didn't know what he was apologizing for. He didn't do anything wrong. He was a victim just like his brother.
"I forgive you." She whispered to him and saw his tears flowing from his eyes. Such a sight to see Uchiha Sasuke crying. She didn't want to see it again.
If the situation was hard for her as the mother of her child, she could only imagine how Sasuke felt. To see his last kin inside a machine fighting for his life. She remembered how he thanked her that night. When her baby moved and she let him plant his ear to her belly to hear her child dance. Her child. His nephew.
She reached for his face and wiped the salty substance dry. "Gods, don't cry.." She pleaded with him as she felt herself go weak again but he nodded and she couldn't stop herself from kissing his forehead.
"He's strong.." She reassured him. "I know it.. Itachi is watching him, he won't let anything bad happen to his son."
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She couldn't believe what she had just heard, her heart pressed tightly against her chest. She knelt on the floor and let her mind wander. She tricked him. Hinata tricked Sasuke.
A tear left her green eyes, and a smile was threatening to rise on her lips. She had been with Sai and Captain Yamato, they escorted Juugo, Suigetsu and Karin to the Hokage while Naruto went ahead to the hospital knowing that Sasuke would be there.
Sasuke. The thought of him gave Sakura goosebumps as she remembered how he looked at her that night in the lake. It didn't matter if he tried to kill her when he came back or when he made her experience the tsukiyomi. She forgot all about the pain as soon as she saw him approaching the clear lake to quench his thirst.
What she would give to be in that moment again. It was the closest and most intimate thing she's ever experienced. To be naked in front of the man she loved for so long, she recalled how the tips of her breast tingled, she remembered the ache between her legs when his dark eyes landed on her.
For years her love for him has been an innocent one. But soon as she heard the news that he was going to be a father, something inside her wanted to crave for him in a different manner. Things that her young old self wouldn't even think of.
She looked at him in a different light now, in her eyes he was virile and she wanted to see just how manly he has become. And that night in the lake, she was so close to see but she recalled the sharp words that came out of his mouth.
He wanted her to leave her alone. To accept the fact that he was with Hinata now.
She cried that night, and felt another piece of her soul died when he walked away from her. Just like how she died when he left the village years ago, only this time she was almost ready to give up.
She sobbed and laughed like a mad person, her hands quick to muffle the sounds escaping her lips.
She can't give up now. Not when she knew the truth.
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"Hinata you need to rest." Hs sighed and squeezed her shoulders. She was looking really pale. Staying here would only strain her already weak body.
"But I can't leave him.." She sounded dreadful at the idea of her leaving her son.
"Shizune is with him, you need to recover." He gestured at the former Hokage's assistant inside the Nursery ICU.
Hinata looked at him, her eyes pleading. "But.."
He needed to be her strength right now. "Recover and then be there for him."
She slowly blinked and eventually nodded and took one last glance at her child. "Hai.."
He walked through the silent corridors as he pushed her along. He absentmindedly touched his forehead as he had recollections of her kiss once lingering there. There was nothing sexual about it, but it made him feel better. So much better.
He saw Shino outside her room and he nodded opening the door for them.
Once inside a shriek of voice was heard. "Neesama!" Hanabi jumped to her sister and hugged her tightly.
Hinata seemed genuinely surprised and hugged her back. "Hanabi, i thought you were on a mission?.. Father?" Hiashi was there as well. By the looks of it, the Hyuuga head has been waiting for them.
He approached Hinata and touched her cheek. "How are you feeling?" He asked sounding very fatherly.
"A little tired and sore." She answered as Hanabi finally pulled back and fixed her hair. Behind her was her lovely sensei, in her arms was Mirai sleeping soundly.
"Kurenai-sensei.." She said.
Sasuke took all this time to look around the once empty room. Hiashi and his daughter was there, as well as Hinata's guardian Ko, Tsunade was also there, Kurenai and the rest of team 8 was also there thanks to Naruto following his words. But his blonde best friend was nowhere to be seen.
Just then the Hokage came in, as usual Kakashi was late. But he didn't mind. He needed answers on why Hinata was unconscious, and why she gave birth so suddenly. Someone was doing this.
"Hinata, Sasuke.. I think it's pretty obvious that something's amiss." The copy ninja started. But door opened and a blur of pink and yellow flashed inside.
Naruto was there as well as Sakura. He grinded his teeth and felt his fingers twitch.
Sakura opened her mouth and for a moment he thought she was addressing him. "You're a liar.."
"Sakura, I think we should leave!" Naruto held Haruno's arms and attempted to drag her outside. Beside Sasuke, Kiba flinched when Sakura pointed her fingers at Hinata.
"You fooled us all.." She seethed in anger that even Kurenai's daughter stirred in her sleep.
Kiba took a step forward and screamed back at her. "Bitch you better watch your mouth!" He warned and bared his fangs.
"You tricked Sasuke into this.." Her voice full of accusation and even pity for Sasuke.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Sasuke finally answered. Realizing that his new dream would be killing Sakura slowly but with Hinata and her kid, it was not an option. Not inside this room where the former and present Hokage was present.
Naruto wrapped his arms around Sakura's waist and lifted her off the floor. "Sakura, let's go!" He begged.
"Tsunade-sama teach your apprentice some lessons." Hiashi interfered, and looked at the blond Senju.
"Wait! Hiashi-sama needs to hear this!" Sakura shrieked.
"Sasuke is not the father of her child!.." She shouted at the top of her lungs and suddenly the whole room was quiet. Just the sound of breathing and the feeling of thick dread hung around them.
Kill her!
Kill her now!
"..Uchiha Itachi is!" She said the words like she was saving him, if only she knew. She wasn't saving him, she was digging his grave.
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Glitterbomb is an Incubus song, just an inspiration for the chapter. Glitters are pretty but messy.
