She had always pictured her child as having beautiful blue or lavender eyes. Instead, he had obsidian eyes, like his father. She and Sasuke had gotten stuck together during a blizzard and kept each other warm. After the war, Sasuke had left on a journey of redemption before she knew that she was pregnant. When he returned, Hinata told him the truth. "Sasuke, this is our son."

She didn't need to be saved. She wasn't in danger. And she had never felt more unsafe than she did behind those castle walls. Princess/Dragon AU OneShot

There are creatures that lurk in the deep, a foreign folk not like her own, and the consensus has always been that merfolk and sharkfolk don't mix. But his strangeness is what compels her, and so to the dark depths she goes, heart wide as the ocean itself and her curiosity an anchor pulling her down, down, down–