Sasuke found himself waking up in the middle of the night with a massive headache. When he had gotten home, all he did was drink and drink. Now that he was married, he couldn't sleep with a girl to make his problems go away so now all he could do was drink.

He sat up carefully wincing every time his head would throb and looked back at the empty side of the bed where Hinata slept. This time he knew he had messed up big time. He wouldn't even be surprised if she left him. Why was he such a coward and tell her about Ren?

"Hey." Itachi opened his door.

"Itachi, what the hell are you doing here?" Sasuke asked groggily.

"Sasori called and told me what happened yesterday." Itachi replied. "Sasuke, you're married. Everything that you've tried to sweep under a rug for the past years needs to be uncovered or you'll lose her forever."

Sasuke snorted and grabbed an almost empty vodka bottle. "I've probably already lost her by now." He grumbled and gulped down the rest of the liquor. It burned his throat and made him cough.

Itachi bent down to pick up another vodka bottle beside his foot. "How many of these have you had?"

"Two, maybe three."

"Sasuke, don't try to drown in your problems." Itachi walked over to him. "Go and talk to Hinata to straighten everything out."

Sasuke looked up at him through glassy eyes. He wanted to be alone and he definitely didn't need a lecture from Itachi.

"Who do you think you are? Mother?" Sasuke snickered. "Just go away and leave me alone. Since when did you care so much about me? Psh, the brother who wouldn't even look at me until last year."

"…"

Sasuke groaned and fell back onto his bed. "Itachi, just kill me now. I'm tired of all of this bullshit. Just end my life now"

Itachi sighed. "My dear brother are you really suicidal?"

"In the drawer." Sasuke began. "There's a loaded gun…use it."

Itachi's eyes widened as he pulled the drawer opened and spotted the gun. He then lifted Sasuke off the bed by his collar and shook him.

"What the hell is wrong with you? Sasuke you're not thinking clearly! Why do you have a gun?"

"To kill myself."

"Sasuke what good will killing yourself do huh?" Itachi yelled and shook him again when he didn't respond. "Huh?"

Sasuke hung his head so that his bangs concealed his face. "With her gone….I-I don't know what to do anymore."

"Live! That's what you do! You live!"

"When you've lost something precious to you twice…what's the point of living anymore?"

Itachi stared at him. 'Twice?…oh right mother.'

"Sasuke do you think mother would really want you to give your life away?"

"…"

"What about the rest of the clan or your friends and family? How would they feel if you took your life away?"

Sasuke looked at Itachi with empty eyes. "I don't care what they think."

Itachi flinched. He had lost Sasuke in his despair. There was nothing else he could do.

"Whatever." He dropped him on the bed. Itachi grabbed the gun and pointed it at Sasuke's head.

"Are you sure you want this?"

Sasuke nodded his head.

"Then do it yourself." Itachi handed it to him. "At least try not to be a coward when killing yourself. I'll come back later to pick up your dead body." He said and walked to the door. "But before you pull the trigger, remember that today's Ren's fourth birthday. Think about how he would feel if he didn't see his dad at his party. I know when mother first died you were heartbroken when she wasn't there." And with that he was gone.

Sasuke gazed at the gun in his hand troubled.

'Today's Ren's birthday.'

"What am I doing?" He sighed.

'Sasuke you're so funny.' Hinata giggled.

Sasuke closed his eyes tightly trying to forget her voice. "Stop it!"

'Sasuke!'

"STOP IT!" He cried and slid to the floor. "Please, just stop." When he opened his eyes they went straight to the gun. He swallowed hard and held the gun to his head.

'Sorry, but I'm done.'

"Uncle Itachi, where's daddy?" Ren tugged on his shirt.

Itachi smiled and patted his head. "He should be here soon."

"Oh, okay!" Ren smiled and left him.

Itachi looked out the window. His throat began to clog up. 'Sasuke, did you actually do it?'

"Daddy!"

Itachi spun around quickly to see Sasuke picking up a happy Ren. When their eyes met Sasuke couldn't help but smile and watch his brother leave the room.

"Daddy I'm sorry."

Sasuke looked at Ren. "Huh?"

"I'm sorry for cursing at you and running away from you."

Sasuke smiled. "It's alright. I'm sorry for not explaining it to you."

"It's okay, mommy explained it." Ren said. "Okasan (mother) is here too and so are Uncle Sasori, Gaara, and Naruto."

Sasuke's heart stopped beating for a second. "Hinata is here?"

"Mhm. She's in the living room with everyone else."

"Let's go." Sasuke set him on the ground and followed Ren to the living room where laughter filled the air.

Sasuke's eyes searched the room until he saw Hinata resting with her head on Gaara's shoulder.

"Okasan." Ren tapped her arm.

"Yes?" Hinata opened her eyes and smiled at him. She set up and tucked a piece of her behind her ear smiling at him.

"You like chocolate cake right?" Ren asked.

"You bet she does." Gaara answered for her. "She'll eat anything chocolate. I bet if you were chocolate she would even eat you."

Hinata laughed and pushed his shoulder playfully. "Don't tell him that! Just look at the expression on his face. You scared him!"

Gaara laughed. "I'm just joking Ren! The only person you need to look out for is me! I love to give kisses." He bent down and kissed Ren on the cheek.

"Ew!" Ren laughed wiping his cheek.

"Gaara germs." Hinata said.

"You want some too?" Gaara kissed her cheek also.

"Oh, no! Now you have them too!" Ren said.

Hinata smiled at him and then noticed that Sasuke was looking at her. He didn't look hurt yet he didn't look surprise. It was like he had expected her to act this way.

Either way she ran over to him and gave him a hug.

"Hinata?" Sasuke stumbled back.

"You idiot!" Hinata held him tighter. "Why would you try to kill yourself?"

"Itachi…told you?"

"What was I going to do without you?"

Sasuke could feel his anger meter rising. "If you knew I was suicidal why didn't you come for me damnit?"

"Because I had faith that you wouldn't leave me. I knew you wouldn't leave without saying goodbye."

And then it was like her words just washed all of the pain and suffering he was feeling from out of his body. Sasuke slowly wrapped his arms around her. "Hinata, I'm sorry. For everything."

"I know."

"Will you come back home?"

Hinata pulled away and smiled. "No."

"What? Why?"

"I'm still angry with you." She huffed and patted his cheek. "See you in a week or two."

"Hinata!" He cried.

Hinata ignored him and held out her hand to Ren. "Come on Ren, let's go on the moon bounce."

"Okay Okasan." Ren took her hand and nearly dragged her out of the room.

Gaara stood up to follow but not until he stopped to talk to Sasuke.

"You're very lucky to have someone like Hinata, but if you hurt her again. I'll be the one to catch her when she falls. You'll end up losing her to me." He brushed by Sasuke and called after Hinata.

Sasuke clenched his hands into fists. Why wasn't he a good person? He kept messing up with everything. Hinata didn't do anything to deserve this and deserved better. Her love for him was too much that it hurt. He was so stupid.

"You're so screwed." Hanabi said breaking his thoughts.

"What do you mean?"

"You've got to deal with the Hyuuga clan." Hanabi smiled.

"Has Hinata told them?"

Hanabi tapped her lip thinking. "Then again maybe you won't be in trouble with them. Knowing Hinata, she'll wait a couple of years to tell them but…." Hanabi smiled at him.

"She has told Neji. It was bad enough that he really never liked you so you're pretty much a dead man." She gave him a salute. "It was nice talking to you while you were still alive my brother-in-law."

Sasuke suddenly felt sick to his stomach. He and Neji never really did get along in the first place and now that this had happened he doubted if Neji would take it easy on him. He needed to find a way to get Hinata to come back home and fast or he was a dead man walking.