Hinata sat on the roof holding out a small container of nails as Sasuke put on new tiles where the leak had originated, she shouldn't think of his frustration as cute, but it was. "I don't think it was your fault the roof leaked."

"I built the damn roof." He grumbled.

"Yes, but with no experience, one leak in a few years sounds good. I know houses built by professionals eventually get leaks within a few years. Sometimes it's just your supplies."

"Whatever." He grumbled, hitting the last nail with a sigh. "Can you make those tomato pastries?"

"The egg and caprese tarts?" She wondered, looking off to the side, did they have everything for it?

"Yeah." He picked up his things and headed down the ladder.

"I think we will have to go to the store, but I can make them." She headed down after him knowing full well that he was not looking up the latter for just stability.

Hinata covered her mouth to hide her smile. "You have gotta be kidding," Sasuke grumbled.

"I will never understand how you think there is only one type of each food." Hinata giggled.

"But there are like six types of the one type of cheese that is ridiculous," Sasuke whined.

"How did you cook before meeting me?" She picked up the one that she would need.

"I didn't. Tomatoes, sandwiches, and premade meals can go a long way. When I was on the road, I ate whatever Karin made." He grumbled out.

"You don't talk about her much. What is she like?" Hinata wondered, tilting her head.

"Annoying." He told her flatly. "Think Sakura with glasses. Violent one second, then lovesick the next. I think I put her off eventually when I stabbed her." That sounded much worse when he said it so ideally.

She looked confused. "Wasn't she on your team?"

"She was in the way." Sasuke shrugged. "It was a darker time. It wasn't far off from the time I tried to kill Sakura."

She frowned at him. "That must have hurt you."

He looked at her, confused. "What do you mean."

"Well, I know that you have always been too ambitious, but to go through people that you at least once care enough about to have in your life, means you were letting it consume you. Once it's no longer all-consuming, you look back and wonder how or why you could do something like that. Sometimes you can justify it, and sometimes it haunts you." Hinata explained, she still cringed at the number of flaws she overlooked in Naruto, excuses she had made for him, and how much time she had spent in her young teenage years thinking about him. It wasn't on the same level of killing someone for him, but she would have likely died for him, she still would, but she had better reasons now, not a childish crush.

"You're amazing." Sasuke broke her thoughts. It was her turn to be confused.

"What?" Hinata received a kiss she hadn't expected, and he put an arm around her. "I don't know what I did."

"That's okay," Sasuke told her he released her and kissed her forehead, heading toward the register.

She didn't understand.

Hinata squealed from the other room. "Sasuke!"

"What?" Sasuke asked with his toothbrush hanging out of his mouth.

Hinata held up the mail she got. He noted the Hyuga seal. "Hanabi-chan wants us to come to see the baby!"

He watched her excitement unphased. "Okay." He kept brushing his teeth. She giggled at his lack of enthusiasm and prodded him with her finger.

"Go back to the bathroom." She smiled down at her note.

Sasuke felt weird in the Hyuga compound. Most of the Hyuga wore long traditional yukata attire, while he and Hinata wore more modern street clothing. It made them stand out. The baby was a few weeks old already, but to him, it still looked like a potato, a cute, slightly creepy-eyed potato, but a potato still.

"He's so big." Hinata cooed as her sister handed her the infant.

"I know. He was big when we were born too. I was in labor for nearly 44 hours, had to have the healing done, and the council is already talking about me having another." Hinata grumbled. "If they want another one, I'm having it in the hospital where they have drugs and c-sections."

Hinata smiled at her sister's humor.

"And god, he hates feeding. He struggles to latch." Hanabi whined. "But the council doesn't want him formula feed."

"What about a pump?" Sasuke was officially lost as they continued talking about baby things. He wondered how Hinata knew all this.

"I want one, but I can't get anyone to get me one because the council seems to have every one of supreme mummy-watch." Hanabi rolled her eyes. "I can't even bribe Neji to get me one. He's too embarrassed."

"We'll get you one and a hand full of the bottles," Hinata promised. "Were considered bad influences anyway, right?"

Sasuke smirked. "Yeah, we can get you contraband, baby paraphernalia."

Hanabi laughed.

Sasuke made a face at the 'pump.' What an odd technology, a vacuum for breast milk.

Hinata filled the basket with bottles, milk storage bags, and pacifiers. "I can't believe the council is making her care for the baby like it's the dark ages."

Sasuke nodded in agreement making a face as he remembered that her mother had died in childbirth. He certainly hoped that was not related. He wasn't going to bring it up to find out.

"What is this." He asked, flipping the packaging over.

She tilted her head. "It's for getting stuff out of the baby's nose."

Sasuke looked at the small turkey baster-looking device. "What?"

"Babies can't blow their nose, so if they get something in there or have a cold, you have to suck it out with this." She explained.

He put it back. "How do you know all this?"

"When my sensei had her baby, we helped out a lot." She explained. "Since Kiba-kun and Shino-kun never wanted to deal with the body stuff, I was the one that did."

He nodded thoughtfully and then quickly decided to stop thinking when Kakashi having children crossed his mind. Nope, he would not help with any demon spawn he would have.

"Hinata. Hey." They looked up as Ino headed toward the child on her hip. "Should I be offering congratulations?" She asked, looking at the basket.

"What? Oh, no." Hinata waved her hand. "My sister had her baby, and she needs a few things."

"Hyuga house arrest," Sasuke added.

Hinata gave him a look. He shrugged.

Ino nodded. "Say hi." She told her son, attemping to get him to wave.

Hinata smiled and waved at him, but he hid his face.

"Guess he doesn't remember you." Ino pouted.

"That's alright." Hinata smiled.

"Here you go, contraband baby care from this century," Sasuke said, holding out the bags.

Hanabi's smile grew as she dug through the bag. "Thanks, these are going to make my life so much easier."

"How's father been taking it?" Hinata wondered.

"He's pouting like he's too young to be a grandfather." She rolled her eyes. "He was about as happy as the council was when I got pregnant, especially when he found out it was Ryu's."

"I'm sure." Hinata nodded.

"I had to have the biggest tantrum to keep him unsealed, and now they want a big wedding and another kid. They're giving me whiplash here." Hanabi sighed.

"They pushing you to marry Ryu-san?" Hinata gapped.

"Soon as they decided not to seal him, it was the next thing out of their mouths. I put my foot down and said I was waiting until I had recovered then they could plan their wedding. I wasn't walking down the aisle with my insides still falling out." Hinata glanced at Sasuke, who wore a confused look, better if he didn't know.

"Well, on the bright side, you marry the guy you like." Hinata tried to move the subject.

Hanabi smiled. "Oh, father was mad but not nearly as mad as Ryu's mother. She had the worst fit when she found out. 'Disgrace!'" Hanabi minced her future mother-in-law. "'How could my child be so disrespectful as to deflower the heir!'"

"They have them brainwashed," Sasuke made a face.

"You have no idea." Hanabi sighed. "His entire immediate family was outraged that he would do something so 'demeaning to the heir.'" She rolled her eyes. "We slept together, not wore nothing but our underwear to the shrine. His mother acted like she had never had sex, and the idea that he had was the most terrifying thing she had ever heard."

"You know, I remember having an aunt that threw a fit when she found out that I knew where babies came from. She had three kids." Sasuke's face twisted at the oddly specific memory.

Hinata sighed as he closed the door and giggled as Sasuke wrapped his arms around her middle, resting his head on her shoulder. "At least let me get my coat off."

"You could take a lot more off than that." He said huskily in her ear.

She felt herself turn red, and he retracted. "Sorry."

"No… it's fine." She pulled off her coat and slipped out of her shoes, looking at her feet, pondering what he had said. She stepped into the main room and pushed down all the embarrassment pulling her shirt over her head as well.

She heard Sasuke stop what he was doing. Her face turned redder as she dropped the shirt to the side and continued with her pants.

She heard him begin to move again as she kicked them to the side as well and moved to take off the undershirt when her hands were covered.

She felt heat trail up the back of her neck as his hand took the fabric and slowly pulled it up over her stomach. She felt herself straighten; she got goosebumps across her arms.

She moved to let him pull it over her head and swallowed. What did she do next?

He pulled her to him. Her mostly bareback against his shirt was an off feeling. His lips connected with her shoulder as his free hand ghosted her stomach.

"You don't even try to be this cute, do you?" He hummed.

She pouted, becoming more embarrassed. Cute? That's not really what she was going for.

"If you're trying to be less cute, this isn't helping." He looked up at her from her shoulder, poking her cheek. "I didn't mean it as a bad thing." His hand continued to ghost her hip, where it slid down her side over her thigh.

"You're teasing." She whined quietly.

"You know, I thought that's what you were doing." She could feel the smirk as her face got impossibly redder.

She snapped her hand down on him and peeled herself away. "Your turn." She did give him time to respond as she pulled his shirt up. He chuckled, letting her pull it over his head. She moved toward him and hid her face as she tried to undo the button on his pants.

Instead of laughing at her struggle like she thought, he instead leaned his face down into her neck, breathing a hot breath. He gave her shivers on her bare skin before laying a kiss over the strap of her bra.

She bit her lip as she got the button loose.

"Hinata." He whispered. "You know our curtains are open."

Hinata paused and blanched, barring her face. Sasuke's back was to the windows, so she was covered by him, but he was right with it being dark out. It was possible for anyone walking past to peer in.

He chuckled, she frowned. He knew the whole time, didn't he?

He moved down, picking her up, legs on either side of his hip with a firm grip on her thighs. He carried her toward the bedroom and dropped her down on the bed. She pouted up at him feeling thoroughly embarrassed and now doubly so.

"No one saw you." He assured, kicking his pants off and leaning over her. "I wouldn't want to share."

She squeaked, hiding your face.