Oh my god! When was the last time I updated this? Last year. I'm very sorry. It's just..I lost my muse somewhere, honestly. This new year, new chapter. I will try to update faster. Help me!
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Chapter 5
Hinata marched to her door while drying her wet hands. Assuming it was Kiba, he sometimes dropped by to have lunch with her, so she trailled to her door and opened it calmly. "What is it, Kiba—"
Yet the person or people who stood in front of her door weren't Kiba at all. She had never saw so much black hair and onyx eyes in her life so she thought she might have a culture shock.
Sasuke was standing silently there together with a man she met at the day prior, his brother, she remembered. In the group of four strangers, two were women. The first woman was the splitting image of Sasuke although in opposite gender and of course lovely smile which Sasuke never showed, while the other one was older with her silver hair yet kind smile.
The rest were men, one was a stern faced man who no older than her own father. While the last man was a young man with dark black spiked hair. He looked so tired and wretched, as if he had just got landed on the earth after being thrown all around the world in a light speed, beaten up and drown into the deep sea before dragged back to the ground.
Sasuke stepped up and announced their arrival, Hinata looked at him and his handsome face. "We want to meet the baby."
She knew it. They wanted Haruto.
Her clouded mind and fast beating heart weren't working in harmony at all. Sasuke's voice seemed to come from a far-away land and she had to process it so difficultly but finally her body moved. She stepped aside to let her guests to enter her room. "He..he is inside." she replied softly.
They went to the living room at the end of the hall. Hinata felt her apartment shrunken significantly when the Uchihas set their feet in her room.
"I'm sorry for intruding your place so suddenly, sweetheart." The younger woman of the two said warmly. Hinata nodded and blushed furiously when she heard how the woman called her. Sasuke smirked when he saw Hinata's blush, he knew what was inside her pretty head.
"Um.. It's okay." Hinata replied.
"Perhaps you should introduce us first, Sasuke-kun." The elderly woman said.
"Hn.. My father, Uchiha Fugaku." He said indicating the old man. Hinata bowed and introduced herself while the stoic man just nodded in acknowledgement.
"My mother."
"My name is Uchiha Mikoto." she smiled to Hinata and the Hyuuga bowed politely.
"That stupid man over there is Uchiha Obito." which gained him a smack from his mother but Sasuke ignored it. "And his grandmother." Sasuke explained shortly.
"It's the most unimpressive and short introduction I have ever seen, brother." The man with long hair tied on his nape said lightly.
"And you know him, my useless brother." Sasuke ended nonchalantly.
"Sasuke." Mikoto warned.
"What?" He replied in bored tone.
"Please, behaved." Mikoto smiled at Hinata awkwardly, "I'm sorry, Hinata-chan. Is that okay for me to call you that?" Hinata nodded, her mother had passed away long time ago and she had never heard a motherly voice calling her name. She missed it so much.
Mikoto beamed with happiness, "I swear I teach them to be polite even when they were baby but something was wrong with my method, it seemed. I don't know where his attitude comes from." she sighed in the end although all of them could see she was trying to be modest. "The older he gets the more rude he is. He is just alienated, perhaps."
"We almost believe he got accidentally swapped when he was a baby for being so rude and cold. All of Uchiha are warm and friendly people, I swear. We wonder where he gets his uniqueness." Sasuke's brother kindly explained to her.
"As if." Sasuke snorted.
"Too bad he is clearly an Uchiha, ne?" Obito's grandmother added with a soft laugh followed by Mikoto while Itachi just chuckled.
Hinata thought Sasuke was the exact example mixture of his mother and father. He had her mother's features while his father's cool demeanor. Also, he was not that rude or cold, Sasuke was just being...well, himself. She didn't see it as a problem, though. However, all of her guests amazed her, they had such mysterious and undeniably beautiful complexions which you couldn't find in any ordinary person, especially the young male species.
"Last night my son dropped a bombshell and surprised us." The Uchiha patriarch said suddenly. "Apparently, one of the young man in our family decides to have fun way too much and forgets that his actions can cause serious problem." His gaze was placed on the man who said nothing at all since Hinata saw him.
"Darling." Mikoto warned.
He paid her warning and continued, "I will appreciate it if you can show us the truth to bring us out of the dark, young miss."
Hinata nodded, "I understand. Please sit down..um..I will bring him. He should be awaken at this moment." she said nervously and disappeared into her bedroom.
Uchiha Fugaku took the liberty to sit on head of the sofa, like he usually did at home. Itachi, Mikoto and Obito's grandmother sat on the long sofa, Obito stood awkwardly in the middle of the room while Sasuke stood next to the window, clearly was very comfortable there.
"I can't believe we have to be in this situation." Fugaku frowned but his voice was stern.
"It can't be helped, right?" Mikoto answered. "Oh, I can't wait to see the baby! It's been a long time since we have baby around us to be spoiled."
"That's right, ne?" Obito's grandmother added. "When are you going to give us more babies, Itachi-kun?"
Itachi just smiled, "Not so fast, I suppose. With Obito's baby, I am spared for several years ahead."
"But you are not that young anymore, Itachi-kun." The elderly woman said.
"That's right. Your father and I already have you, and Sasuke was on his way to meet us when we were at your age." Mikoto agreed wholeheartedly.
"Is that so?" Itachi asked, looked surprise although he had heard his mother's share of thoughts for years. "Too bad, mother since you have to wait more patiently for me to give you that."
"Mm.. Hopefully I still have my black hair at that time. I want to be a young grandmother, you know." she teased.
"You are beautiful no matter how you change, mother." Itachi said honestly.
"My.. Itachi-kun is a sweet boy." Obito's grandmother patted his shoulder.
"But, still..." Mikoto insisted.
"Well, if you want to be a young grandmother perhaps you should press on little brother more." Itachi answered wisely.
"What?" Sasuke raised his brows when everyone's attention shifted to him. Even Obito looked at him in shock.
Mikoto's eyes blinked, her smile appeared fast, "Oh! That's right! You talked about a girl last time I called you. Who is she? Do I know her? Are you going to bring her home? Are we going to meet her soon?"
Sasuke pretended to be deaf from his mother's long list of questions. "Ara? I can't wait to meet her myself. You should introduce her to us too, Sasuke-kun." Obito's grandmother added.
"You have met her, mother." Itachi answered for his brother. That made not only Mikoto's attention but also Fugaku's to him while Sasuke was glaring darkly to his brother. "That's the first time I heard about this." and that came from Sasuke's father.
Damn Itachi and his loose mouth.
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"Ohayo. Haruto-kun." Hinata said when she entered her bedroom. The small baby was busy attacking and chewing his left foot when she entered and blinked to her.
"What are you doing?" she sat and touched his plump cheek. "Your family has come to take you home, little prince." Haruto let his covered foot away and blinked at Hinata innocently.
"You must be very happy, ne?" she whispered lowly, "I will miss you badly, though." at the end of her sentence she bent down to kiss his forehead softly. Haruto mumbled and grabbed Hinata's long hair energetically, he laughed when Hinata gave him another kiss. The little baby didn't understand her sadness at that point. "I will miss you, Haruto-kun." and she hugged the baby tightly.
Hinata pulled the baby out of the bed carefully and cradled him in her arms desperately, "I will miss you. I love you, oh, how I love you, my little prince." she said in stutter, her heart wasn't prepared to separate from the little baby.
Haruto giggled at her warm hug, "Why are you laughing, hm?" she cooed and he laughed louder. "What is so funny, hm? What funny? Funny?" she cooed and nuzzled his nose to her. They fell into a laughing fit.
"That's right, we can still meet. If they are as good as Sasuke-san then I can still meet you." Hinata assured herself. "Although, I don't want you to go." she hugged the baby again.
Yet she didn't have much time. "Let's go. Your family need you more than I am." Hinata tried to reason.
When Hinata stepped back to her living room, her guests stopped talking altogether. Mikoto and the older woman giggled, Itachi looked satisfied, the silent man looked somewhat amused while Sasuke looked as if he was going to kill someone.
"Oh, my?! Oh my?! What a cute baby!" Mikoto decided to cut the silence. Her arms stretched immediately when she saw Haruto.
"What's your name, baby boo?" she cooed expertly. "It's Haruto-kun." Hinata answered politely.
"A baby boy, very cute and handsome, too." she smiled solemnly, "Uchiha Haruto-kun, I like it." she smiled at Hinata. "So do I.", The gray haired woman scooted closer and played with Haruto's small hand. They clearly were bewitched by the little baby.
Looking at how comfortable Haruto in Mikoto's arm, Hinata decided to excuse herself to get some refreshments for her guests and also giving them a private family time.
"You've already known who the father is, I presume." Sasuke's voice startled her and she almost dropped her glass if only he didn't catch it immediately.
Hinata nodded by his question. She could see similarity of Haruto and his father, the only one who didn't say anything since the start. He must be very flabbergasted by the sudden truth. "How did you find him?" she poured cold tea to the glasses.
Sasuke shrugged and answered while playing with her crystal tea set. Sasuke helped Hinata to organize her cookies and small eclairs with green tea cream filling she made the day before, his hands moved automatically without being told. "Not that difficult. From all of the Uchihas, he is a bit more like an idiot. There must be something wrong with his brain." They looked natural in Hinata's small kitchen.
"Not only his brain, he has some problems with his little fellow, too." He added with a smirk in the end. Hinata blinked before blushed when she understood his meaning. "T..that's not nice, Sasuke-san.."
"Hn.. He is lucky he gets Haruto as his son, or else." Sasuke snorted and brought the tray full of heavy glasses of tea easily, leaving Hinata with the smaller and lighter one.
She had to stop when he saw Haruto in his father's arms who sat on the sofa at the moment. Both of them were observing and studying each other deeply. Hinata could see it, the same expression and traits of the man in Haruto although Haruto had them gentler. It was a stunning yet emotional moment at the same time, Haruto who had only met Sasuke was fascinated with his own father, while Haruto's father was awed by the baby existence which he never knew or thoughts he would have.
"How do you feel, Obito?" His grandmother asked kindly, her soft expression made her looked younger than she supposed to be.
"It's..it's incredible, interesting, shocking, and unimaginable altogether. I can't believe it." He answered without shifting his gaze from the baby.
"Given your unawareness of him these several months, it's understandable." Itachi said nonchalantly.
"Still, it's not a reason to be so irresponsible. You fail as an Uchiha member." Sasuke's father remarked.
"Darling." Mikoto hushed him.
"I know. I have never intended to." He replied calmly. "Never have imagined that.."
Fugaku sighed, "We have come to this far so I expect you to be responsible. As your uncle, I will make sure you do." Obito nodded, he grinned at the baby which made Haruto giggled as a response.
"Haruto-kun knows you love him, ne?" Mikoto commented happily.
"Yeah, I can see it." Sasuke replied dryly.
"You won't believe how I feel, Cousin."
"Sure, I am not the one who is arranging wild summer slumber party involves women and swimsuit at my cousin's house. I definitely don't understand how you feel."
Fugaku's face turned red not because of embarrassment but more likely rage, Mikoto and Itachi just shook their head in amusement. "Obito!" Yet it was his grandmother who scolded the new father sternly. "I don't remember raising you to be an insolent and wild man. You never know how difficult your mother tried to have you." her chin length hair swayed as she talked.
"Yeah, I second that. I have my kids on my stomach for long time. Long enough to break my feet." Mikoto sighed.
"Obito, I give you some space like you wish but it doesn't mean you can be so immature and careless." Fugaku said in more higher tone. He clearly was displeased by Obito's lifestyle.
"I know. I know." Mikoto took Haruto from his arms. Obito scratched his head in frustration, "I never intended to. It's a big shock for me, too." His shoulder slumped down.
"About his mother..." Itachi trailed off, it was clearly the most important thing at that moment.
"Don't tell me.." The old woman looked at Hinata, concluded quickly yet wrongly.
"No, no. I'm sorry but it's not me. I am not Haruto-kun's mom." Hinata waved her hands furiously. "I found Haruto-kun in front of my door weeks ago. There is only a note. Oh! That's right.." she marched to a small cabinet next to her television, "Here. I found this together with Haruto-kun." She handed the paper to Haruto's father.
Obito read it carefully before Itachi snatched it from him and then it was snatched from Itachi by Fugaku.
"It's difficult to find someone only from this. Have you seen her?" Itachi asked in serious tone.
"I..I don't know. I didn't see her."
"Do you know whose writing is this?"
"It's impossible.." Obito murmured lowly.
"So, You do know about her." Fugaku pressed.
"Maa.. Isn't it better, you should bring her and.." Mikoto added brightly.
"But we should find her first, mother." Itachi said logically.
"So, who is she? It's better to bring her here now or—"
"My, my.. Fugaku, you shouldn't be so impatient." Obito's grandmother reprimanded.
All of them were talking at the same time, making Haruto confused and scared of them. Hinata was torn between asking them to stop or taking Haruto from Mikoto's arms yet she wasn't sure if she was allowed.
Fortunately, Sasuke was generous enough to take the baby from his mother and handed the baby to Hinata, much to her relief. Haruto was blinking his tears away but he didn't brawl.
Such brave boy.
All of his family and Hinata were too occupied that they failed to notice bell ringing at the door. Sasuke sighed and decided to open it yet before he could take another step, the person behind the closed door was rushing into the room, clearly knew Hinata's pass code by heart.
The guest picked Sasuke's irksome more. Hinata's uninvited guest, who knew the pass code and used it freely was none other than the stupid and useless detective with stupid things on his stupid cheecks.
"Hinata! You will be surprised of who I found— whoops?! Am I disturbing you?"
Hinata saw his confused look and went to him, "N..no, it's nothing serious. They are Haruto-kun's family from his father's side, the Uchiha family."
"Yeah, I can see that." He dipped his head as acknowledgement and the black haired family replied in return.
"It's all thanks to Sasuke-san that we can find them quickly." Hinata explained and that made Sasuke smirked proudly.
Eat that, dumbass.
"Well, that's even better since I found the little boy's mother this morning." Kiba announced loudly.
Hinata gasped and she could hear the people behind her murmured lowly. "The mother.." He heard Obito asked.
Kiba went back to the door and back to the living room with someone following him.
"You are.." Hinata said when she saw the woman. She was the one they met at the grocery yesterday.
"Rin.." Obito said in rasp voice. "So you..."
"Rin-chan?!" Mikoto gasped.
"So, it's really you, ne?" The grandmother nodded in agreement.
"She is Nohara Rin. She works as a marketing manager at N store. We found where she went after that day and after a long talk, she decides to come." Kiba said formally. "Sorry for the wait, Hina." He grinned to the Hyuuga.
Hinata shook her head, "It's okay, Kiba-kun." she smiled gracefully to him.
And Sasuke growled.
The newfound mother took Haruto away from Hinata. "I miss you. I miss you, my baby." and cried. Hinata stood there rigidly and nobody said anything. Haruto was quiet and calm in his mother's arm. As a baby should in his real mother's arms.
That Haruto found his real family was so touching yet so heartbreaking for Hinata.
Obito raised from his seat, "Why didn't you tell me?" He asked suddenly.
Now it was Rin who went rigid, "Like I would. You treat me like one of your useless bitches, showing off what weren't yours." she said flatly yet coldly.
"That because I want to impress you!"
"Impress my foot! You brought me to places I don't want to be, showing how mighty you are only to get into my pants!"
"You don't understand!"
"Of course I don't!" Rin snapped back. "We spent months together doing crazy and embarrassing things which I never wanted. Only to feed your stupid ego!"
Sasuke raised his brows, never heard his cousin's friend to be so harsh before.
Hinata saw how Rin turned into raging woman so she took the baby from her quickly. Kiba had long went away after the short introduction, knowing he was already no use after telling Hinata about Haruto's mother.
"My stupid ego?! You enjoyed it, too! Don't you dare to lie to me." Obito barked back. "But then you disappeared without notice!"
Then he added quickly, "I knew it. You use me to fulfill your dissatisfaction, right? So when your true target opens his arms, you fly right into him, huh?!" Obito accused darkly. "Is that why you left? You used me to fill your boredom and run away when he asks you to come, right?!"
"To work, damn you! Unlike you, I work to earn my keep! I won't survive my living if I don't, unless I get some payment for whoring myself to you like your bitches!" she hissed, "I am not like an ungrateful bastard who likes to use people's things like his own!"
"Ouch, that hurts." Sasuke commented which gained a dark gaze from his father.
Obito went silent.
Mikoto walked next to Rin and circled her arms around her shoulders as a support. "I just went home for a week to find out my pregnancy. I was so happy that time." she closed her eyes and beads of tears fell quickly one after another.
"I came back to tell you. But then I saw you were having very nice time with a blonde bimbo." Rin threw the fact immediately.
"I thought you left me. I thought you realized I was not good enough to be with you." Obito sighed again, "Since we were little kids, you admire Kakashi more than you do to me. You prioritize him more than you do to me. Deep down here I know you love him more." He placed his hand on his left chest.
"At that time I thought..I thought you did it with me because you were refused by Kakashi."
Hinata grimaced when she heard a loud smack. Rin was standing in front of Obito and her hand was clenching tightly after the hard slap. Hinata thought perhaps the new mother wasn't sure whether to give another slap or a hard punch altogether. The tall Uchiha froze on his feet yet his expression showed how he regretted his words while the rest of audiences tried to give as much privacy to the couple as possible, which was almost impossible in the small living room.
"You deserve that." Uchiha's elderly said wistfully from her seat.
Itachi decided to pull Obito away before hell broke while Mikoto pulled Rin back to his arms, for everyone's sanity. Rin went back to her wrecked mood. "Let's move to Sasuke's place and talk, alright? We shouldn't impose Hinata more than this, ne? I'm sorry, Hinata-chan for involving you more than necessary." Mikoto said wisely. Hinata assured that she was fine.
Fugaku marched to the front door followed by Itachi who dragged Obito along. Mikoto let Obito's grandmother to escort Rin, then she went to Hinata to take Haruto.
Hinata looked at her uncertainly, "C..can I?"
Mikoto nodded softly so Hinata hugged the baby as tight as she could without suffocating him then kissed the crown of his head. "I will miss you." Then she kissed his cheek softly, Haruto smiled at Hinata. "You naughty boy, knowing I can't forget you.. I love you." she mumbled then handed over the baby to Mikoto.
"I'm sorry, Hinata-chan." and Mikoto indeed looked pained to take the baby from her.
Hinata shook her head, "Umhm.. It's okay. Haruto-kun is going to be happier with his real family now."
"He is as happy when he is with you, too." Mikoto replied kindly. "Thank you for taking care of Haruto-kun so far. We will visit you soon or you can visit us, too when everything has settled." Mikoto offered.
"Yes..sure. I will look forward to it, Uchiha-san."
"Ara.. Don't need to be so formal with me, you can call me Mikoto." and Hinata did. They went to the front door. "Sasuke?" Mikoto cocked her head looking at Sasuke who stood next to Hinata.
"I'll help Hinata to organize Haruto's belonging. He will need them."
"Alright." she stepped aside, "Oh, before I forget. Ask her number because I will need it to arrange small reunion after this." she winked. Sasuke rolled his eyes knowing his mother's real intention.
Hinata cleaned up after her guests went away so did Sasuke. The cold tea which she served had turned warm long ago, forgotten by her guests. It was understandable, given the hectic and terrible situation. Hinata put her still full glasses into her tray, water started to drop when she moved them.
She could see thin layer of water around the glass surface and she brushed it off of it. The water slid down easily, fully disappeared from the surface. Just like Hinata's existence in Haruto's life.
Okay, that's for this chapter. Don't kill me! See you later!
Ps. Happy (belated) new year! (since Christmas was waaaay long passed already) *cry*