Sakura stared at her blankly. Hinata frowned, suddenly knowing the answer to her question.
"I… would have to check your file," Sakura mumbled, cleaning up her supplies.
"I was, wasn't I, and you didn't tell him?" Hinata accused her with horror.
Sakura stopped, set her jaw. She sighed, setting the equipment down. "It was the least of our worries at the time."
"He had a right to know!" Hinata snapped.
"There was nothing we could do to keep you both alive. There was no treatment that wouldn't have malnourished it in such an early state. There were no options to give him, so I gave him none." Sakura defended, looking both ashamed and angry that she had to defend herself.
"He has a right to all of my records. He should have been told either way. It's his child." Hinata reminded her.
"I had no way of being sure of that." Sakura defended.
Hinata's mouth fell a gap at her in disbelief, and the medic quickly turned away, embarrassed she had tried such a low blow.
"How far was I?" Hinata asked in a whisper, feeling the weight of what she already suspected but now, with the confirmation, it felt all the more real.
"About seven weeks, there was no way we could have saved it in the first trimester with your condition. Your body naturally disposed of it to save itself." Sakura's face cringed into what she had seen on many medics' faces when giving news they didn't want to and in a way. Hinata felt bad for being so angry with her for keeping it from her, but it still wasn't right. "Sasuke never asked about the pregnancy, so we assumed he didn't know. How did you find out?"
"I had suspected I was pregnant and told my team before leaving but couldn't find Sasuke before departure time," Hinata explained with a frown. A new question popped into her head. "Will this cause problems with me getting pregnant in the future."
Sakura stared at her in disbelief. "You don't even really remember him, and you're still thinking about having his children?" Hinata tried to ignore the implications.
"I want to know if it has affected my ability to have children," Hinata repeated deliberately.
Sakura sighed and shook her head, finishing her packing. "No, it shouldn't. It was a normal miscarriage. Your hormones didn't spike any more than they should, and your body got rid of the undeveloped fetus naturally. We didn't even need to remove it."
Hinata sighed. "Too early to even determine gender."
"I'm sorry." Sakura finally sighed. "I should have mentioned." She finally admitted. "Most of the staff didn't know. I kept it off your records. Tsunade doesn't even know."
Hinata nodded solemnly, nothing she could do now.
Hinata didn't flinch when her husband tossed an empty jar across the kitchen. She let her eyes fall to the shattered glass.
"I should turn her in for withholding medical information! She could lose her damn job!" Sasuke growled, slamming his hands on the table.
Hinata left her eyes downturn with the corners of her lip, knowing this was far more painful for him. "There was no way to save it." She relayed. "It would have been written off as a medical miscarriage."
He sighed, releasing the tension in his shoulders and pinching the bridge of his nose, closing his eyes.
Hinata hesitantly opened her mouth to relay the rest. "It should not affect me bearing children." His eyes popped up to look at her in shock and confusion.
He stared before finding words. "You still..." He stopped, looking for his words and scowling, looking down to re-find them.
She took pity. "I wanted to know if it was still an option. I am married to a man who I think would be an excellent father given the opportunity." She smiled, leaning her head down to look under his bangs.
He sighed, looking with clear embarrassment and forced straight lips. "I hate when you do that."
She giggled as the air in the room became less heavy. "What?"
"Turn something stressful around by being cute. Let me be angsty." He sighed, rounding the counter.
"Never." She smiled as she accepted a light kiss.
Their problems did not end. Hinata finally asked what the Hyuga sealed letter that Neji brought was, and Sasuke reluctantly showed it to her.
"They want to contest our marriage?" She asked aloud.
"Since you have no memory of marrying me, they want to try to have it considered null, so they have a claim over you once more." He explained. "I'm kinda glad they won't find out about the pregnancy. They. They would try a little harder knowing that there was a chance to dispute who got the child."
Hinata chewed her lip, looking carefully over the wording of the summon, and perked. "Well, I guess I need to speak to the Hokage." She smiled up at him.
He snorted. "You're kidding?"
Hinata had not yet seen Naruto, and despite that, she asked if she could go in alone. Sasuke made her an appointment with him and walked her with that horrid chair there, but she got out of it and asked him to stay outside. He was reluctant, but she knew he wasn't going to say no.
She stepped in alone to a confused Hokage. "Oh, Hinata-chan, you're here." He peaked around her as she closed the door and walked to his desk with her paperwork.
She brushed her hair behind her as she stood up, politely with her hands in front of her. "I would like to refile my marriage, Hokage-sama."
"What, why?" He asked, opening the file scrunching his nose. Then closing it. "And I was also told you still have no memory."
"My medical file shouldn't be discussed with partners, even if that partner runs the village." She prompted with no sign of a frown. She knew he would know.
"I requested the information." He reopened the file. "Still not sick of him then?" It wasn't a question, more of an observation. "Why are you refiling?"
"This is a decision that I made before my amnesia, but it's a decision I would like to make again." She explained. "I want it to be clear that this is my decision to stay with my husband."
He rubbed the back of his head. "Well, legally, I have to say yes. There is no reason for me to say no, but...can you sit for a minute."
She nodded, sitting in the chair across from him.
"Tell me how you're doing, really, both of you. I'm sure you know none of us are getting along right now, but I still want to know." Hinata wondered if he acted this mature in front of Sasuke and if their relationship would be better that way.
"He loves me." She answered with a small smile. "I do not doubt that he won't leave me, and I want to show him I am not going anywhere either."
"Wait, does he know you're doing this?" He looked past her at the door.
"No, he thinks I am here about." She dug out the Hyuga letter. "This, which is only half the truth, it only gave me the idea. This makes it legal as my current mental state, which according to Sakura I was cleared for all rational function after my concussion my last visit and now only require physical therapy and the last of my prescribed medications."
"Well… can't argue with that..." He glanced down at the paperwork. "You're missing his signature."
"I want to make sure you approved it first." She looked back at the door.
"Well, I can't deny it. Well, I won't." He shrugged.
"Thank you." She smiled, heading to the door to let her husband in. "Could you sign something for me?"
"Don't be mad if I read it." He headed in, clearly not wanting to be in the office, but she could tell he would rather be in here with her rather than out there by himself.
"Please do." Naruto held out the paperwork, and Sasuke sat in a chair and skimmed the paper quietly until his face scrunched up and looked up at Naruto.
"Is there something wrong with our marriage papers?" He asked with a glare. It would be his fault if there was as he filed them.
"No, I'm refiling." Hinata sat beside him, setting her hand on his knee.
"What?" He asked.
"She's renewing it." Naruto grew a goofy grin clarifying.
"Is this because of the Hyuga letter? Hinata, I'm not losing you to them. You don't have to do this." Well, she wasn't expecting this reaction, but she did think it would be a possibility.
"That's not why I am doing it." She assured him. "I want to stay married to you, even if I don't remember the first time." She smiled, laying her hand on his. "Will you marry me again?"
Naruto held out a pen in anticipation with a too-big grin on his face like he was seeing puppies rolling over.
Sasuke looked between them, snatched the pen from Naruto, signed his name, and set the paper and pen down on the desk with a click.
Sasuke wasn't sure if he should be happy with what she had done. He wanted to be, but he wasn't sure what about it bothered him. He knew his wife, and it was something she would do, but was it for the right reason? She always had good intentions, and he could selfishly hope it was because she loved him like she had before, but what if she was just doing it to make it easier on him. No, it would probably have the opposite effect with the village. They would think he did it to keep her instead of letting her go back to the Hyuga.
Sasuke ruffled his hair in frustration. He was thinking about it too hard. He glanced over at her in the kitchen, happily clipping around now that she could. He would just have to trust her, wouldn't he? Her decision.
She came toward him with a tray, and he jumped up to take it from her and put it on the table.
"You don't look happy with me." She voiced, pouring his tea.
"What?" He asked. She glanced up, looking ashamed. "Oh, no, it's just..." He sighed. "I worried that you did this because…." He rubbed his forehead. "I don't even know..."
"I did it because I wanted everyone to know that I decided to stay. They can believe what they want, but I am staying with my husband." She smiled into her tea before looking up. "Including you."
She needed to stop giving him looks like that with the bedroom just down the hall.
She started to giggle.
"What?" He frowned, setting down his cup.
"You just went red up to your ears." She covered her lips, and he shrank.
Being laughed at by your wife for being turned on by her. Great.