Birthright
Author's Note: There is a massive time skip for the epilogue. That means all of the Uchiha Children are elderly and we're doing the Afterlife Epilogue. There will be character deaths, but I do promise a happy ending! Oh and fair warning, this is the longest chapter that I've ever written! So there should be something for everyone in this epilogue! Anyway, I do hope that you all enjoy the grand finale of Birthright!
Popular Demand: Special thank you to all my reviewers. I do see the reviews, guest review or not, and try to take any feedback into consideration. That includes the one about emotional depth, but I do have a different order planned for the Uchiha Family. With that in mind, I am considering another Sasuke x Hinata x Itachi story. Feel free to check out the plot bunny on my profile or to make requests, if another scenario springs to mind for this pairing.
Chapter 33
Five years. It had been five years since Hinata's, Sasuke's, and the Clan's heart was broken by Itachi's passing. The fact that he had died of old age, hadn't made it any easier. Itachi Uchiha may have lived to be a hundred, but it hadn't been enough for their Clan.
"Devastated." She washes some dishes in their home.
One of the dishes was as red of a tomato. Which only reminded her of Sasuke. Her second husband who had passed on two years ago. Like his older bother, Sasuke had also died of old age.
"Are you alright, mother?" Aiya blinks as she walks over to the Uchiha Matriarch.
In those three years, Hinata had clung to Sasuke and he to her. Both of them had been somewhat lost without Itachi, but they still had each other. They had each other and their children. And their grandchildren. And their great grandchildren. That made it bearable.
Hinata sighs as she looks over at her now very much elderly daughter. "I just miss them." Aiya's hair was now longer raven black like Sasuke's, but as gray as Kakashi's had been. That was only to be expected though. She was in her early eighties.
"I know." She embraces her mother as tightly as she could. "They're in a better place now though and neither of them would want you to grieve like this." Hinata knew that.
That didn't make it any less difficult. Tears were threatening to spill forth from her eyes, but she wouldn't allow it. Hinata was not going to cry in front of her daughter. Not again. She had on the days of her husband's passing, but the Uchiha Matriarch wouldn't do it again.
Hinata nods. That was true. "I know. How are my great grandchildren doing?" The bluenette forces a smile.
The Uchiha Clan had definitely grown. A lot. She was now a great grandmother several times over. It was actually a good thing they had a District. Though a few of the more adventurous Uchihas were already spreading throughout the village.
Hinata knew that was the smart move of course. If they weren't as tightly clustered or isolated as they had been, it was less likely to happen again. The unthinkable. Another Massacre.
"They're all doing wonderfully. It seems like only yesterday, they were entering the Academy." Aiya smiles and kisses her mother's cheek. "It's truly amazing, how quickly they're all growing up."
The former bluenette would have preferred to have them all clustered in the District together. It would have been easier to see them that way, but spreading out was probably wiser. Besides, there were still a lot of Uchihas in the District and Aoda's family still lived in the forest nearby.
Hinata smiles at her daughter's words though. "That's good. I'm sure they'll all be fine ninjas in no time." It was so strange. Hinata could remember with perfect clarity the day Aiya and Arashi entered the Academy and now they were both grown. Grown with children and grandchildren of their own!
Time flew by so quickly. It had been over eighty years since she married Itachi and Sasuke, but it hadn't been enough. The time had flown by so quickly, proving the old saying true.
Time flies when you were having fun. In those many years, they had known great joy and thus, it had been over in the blink of an eye. The five years without Itachi and two years without Sasuke though, those years had been slow. Agonizingly so.
"Of course." Aiya laughs and smiles. "It is their birthright after all. The Sharingan, the Byakugan, and to be great ninjas." That thought was true and brought a smile to Hinata's face.
She just wished that Itachi and Sasuke had been here to see it. They had always both doted on their children and descendants so much. She couldn't help, but glance at the door as if expecting to see one or both of them come walking through it.
Come walking through it and to scoop her up in their arms. Carrying her back to the bedroom. Where they would all lay next to each other and fall asleep, after making love.
"Of course it is." Hinata smiles at that thought and finishes with the dishes. "Well I think I'll go for a walk and I'll see you later." She kisses her cheek. "I love you. Make sure to give my love to everyone else."
Aiya nods. "I love you too, mother and I will." The elderly woman nods happily at that and heads off with some flowers in her hands. She was going to put some flowers on her husbands' graves.
Meanwhile in the afterlife, Itachi sighs as he watches Sasuke. His foolish little brother was going to drive himself crazy. Not that the elder Uchiha could entirely blame him.
He had done the same thing himself when he first passed on. Every day, he would watch over the mortal world. Selfishly hoping that Hinata, Sasuke, or both of them would join him. While at the same time cursing himself for being so selfish.
"Sasuke, stop it." He pokes his forehead. "The woman is a hundred years old." Itachi smiles at him reassuringly. "She'll join us when the time is right."
His brother glares at him and rubs his forehead. "I'm a hundred years old as well, will you STOP with the forehead poking?!" That was true, but no. Itachi wasn't going to stop!
"Of course not, Sasuke." He smirks. "You're my foolish little brother and it's my way of telling you that I love you and annoying you at the same time." Honestly, it was killing two birds with one stone and just an enormously efficient gesture!
The younger Uchiha rolls his eyes. "I just miss her." Itachi nods sympathetically at that. "It's been two years."
If Sasuke thought two years was bad, he should have tried five. Though Itachi wasn't cruel enough to say that. His brother was clearly hurting.
"She'll join us soon enough." Itachi smiles down at the sight of Hinata walking towards their grave. "Even after our deaths, she's such a dedicated wife. Putting flowers on our graves."
It was morbidly romantic, Itachi supposed. He knew that he was being ridiculous. Hinata was an elderly woman.
Realistically, she didn't have that much time left and she'd be back where she belonged. In their arms. They just had to be patient.
A few minutes later, Hinata makes her way to her husbands' graves and sighs. She'd done this countless times before. It never got any easier as she read the inscriptions.
Their names, their date of birth, their date of death, and the inscriptions. "How can one single dash be the measure of a person's entire life?" In that life, they had both know so much pain and so much love. It didn't seem right, that only a dash represented their entire lives.
At least the inscriptions did a better job. Itachi's inscription in particular comforted her. Here lies Itachi Uchiha. A loving husband, brother, father, and Clan Head. He was the wildfire that allowed the Uchiha Clan to rise from the ashes and begin again. It suited him. A fire could kill a forest, but it could also nurture the soil to allow a new one to grow in its stead.
"He would have liked it." Hinata smiles as she looks at Sasuke's.
Here lies Sasuke Uchiha. A loving husband, father, brother, and friend. It is only by tasting darkness, that appreciating the light is possible. And that light is love. The love of your family.
The Uchiha woman smiles. It was very Sasuke. It was hard to believe that eight decades ago, most of the village had been terrified of him. Likewise of Itachi. By the end though, they had been very much beloved.
That's when it started raining, pouring actually. Hinata quickly lays the roses on their graves and tries to head off. Hoping to get out of the rain before she got drenched.
That may not have been her brightest idea. "Ahhh!" She slipped and fell. And after that, for a time…there was only blackness. Until there wasn't.
"My you are a pretty one." That was the first thing Hinata was aware of when her eyes finally opened.
A woman's voice. Definitely a woman's voice. She looks around in confusion until her eyes rested on a woman with long dark hair. Black like a raven's feathers. With eyes that were black as the night sky and ivory skin. She looked so familiar. The woman also looked to be about thirty years old.
"Pretty?" Hinata blinks. At a hundred, the woman didn't believed that she qualified as pretty. "Wait. Who are you?" And why did she look so familiar?
The woman smiles. "Yes, you are." She offers Hinata her hand and helps the woman stand up. "Forgive me. Where are my manners?" Which was far easier to do than it should have been at her age. "I'm Mikoto Uchiha."
That was impossible! That was the name of Sasuke's and Itachi's mother! The woman had been dead for decades! She certainly wasn't a healthy looking thirty something!
"This has to be some sort of dream." That's when Hinata notices the reason why, she had such an easy time getting up.
Her hands. They were no longer old and wrinkled, but young. She blinks and looks at the stands of her hair. No longer were they gray with age, but the midnight blue that she had lost at least twenty years ago.
Mikoto shakes her head. "Most people say that at first." She smiles at her. "You've crossed over. This is the afterlife." The woman seemed ready to catch Hinata in case she fainted, which was a good thing. Hinata wasn't entirely sure that she wouldn't have, otherwise.
The afterlife? She was dead? Hinata blinks. She had known for awhile that she was elderly and it was always a possibility, but for some reason her own mortality had never seemed that real.
"How?" She hadn't felt any pain or anything.
"You tripped on the wet ground of the graveyard. You fell and well, now you're here." Mikoto gives her a sympathetic look.
Oh. That was rather anticlimactic. After everything she had seen in her life, tripping had been the cause of her death?! Nevermind, Hinata knew that it wasn't the cause of her death that was important. It was her family! They were going to be so heartbroken!
"What about my children?! My grandchildren?! My great grandchildren?!" How long would it take them to realize she was dead? Hours probably. Someone would pass by the graveyard surely. "Oh God!"
Mikoto shakes her head and tries to settle her. "Hinata, you were a hundred years old. I'm sure that they've been preparing for this for quite sometime." That was true. "It is the natural circle of life. That and as beautiful as the descendants are that you have so generously given me, they aren't the only family you have." She smiles at her. "Itachi and Sasuke are waiting for you."
Itachi and Sasuke! That was right! She was dead and so were they! They had to be somewhere around here, right?!
"Where are they?" She looks at her pleadingly. "Can you take me to them?" Hinata pauses and looks at herself again. "And are they, like me? Young again?"
Mikoto smiles and nods. "Yes, I can take you to them and I'm sure that Sasuke and Itachi can explain everything to you." She takes Hinata's hand. "It's only natural to have questions. I'll Flicker us there." And with that, the former Uchiha Matriarch does precisely that.
Hinata blinks when they arrive at their destination. It looked like their District, but it wasn't made of wood or stone. It was made of clouds?
"Sasuke, Itachi!" Mikoto's voice rings out. "I have a surprise for you!"
The Uchiha Matriarch seemed positively giddy. It was sweet, but Hinata's heart was pounding too loudly to register much else, as she sees senses her husbands' chakra signatures approaching and quickly.
Far more quickly than they could have been at the time of their deaths. Had they reverted back to some version of their younger selves too? She supposed anything was possible.
"Thank you, mother." Itachi was the first to get there.
He was in his twenties again. Hinata blinks as she was soon wrapped in his arms. "Yes, thank you." Sasuke soon darts over to them and wraps his arms around Hinata as well. Itachi's arms were behind her and Sasuke's in the front.
Mikoto laughs. "When they finally decide to release them, you should know that your parents are here as well." She looks at Hinata and then her sons. "They're most eager to see you. I'll let them know you're here and they can expect you in…" Mikoto trails off as if unsure of what time frame to give them.
Sasuke smirks. His eyes already flashing ruby red. Well some things never changed, Hinata shivers in anticipation. Uchiha Pouncing Mode was still a thing even in the afterlife.
"One of the benefits of the afterlife is one doesn't get tired." Itachi smiles at Hinata. "You also don't feel pain here. The only suffering one really feels is missing those still in the living world or watching the suffering of that realm."
Sasuke nods as he looks at his mother. "I'd say a month." A month?! He couldn't' be serious. Then again, as she saw one Rinnegan and three Sharingans looking at her, Hinata was pretty sure he was damn serious.
Mikoto laughs and nods. "I shall see you relatively soon then." The Matriarch smiles. "Besides, I still have to inform your father of your wife's arrival and her parents, as I have said." And with that, the other Uchiha woman saunters off.
Sasuke smirks down at their wife in their arms. She was back. Really, really back and he had every intention of taking advantage of that fact.
"Assuming you have lived a mostly just life or you have genuine remorse for your misdeeds, one ends up here or getting reincarnated." Itachi caresses her cheek. "If one ends up here, you revert back to your physical form when you were happiest or at your strongest." He smiles slyly. "Very few people want to spend eternity as an elderly man or woman."
That was definitely one of the biggest benefits of the afterlife, Sasuke decided. It would have been very difficult to thoroughly ravish their wife when he was well into his nineties. In his early twenties though, well that was an entirely different matter!
"Oh." Hinata blinks. "That makes sense." She squirms and giggles when Sasuke scoops her up.
With that delightful thought in mind, he quickly carries her into their house and Itachi follows suit. He didn't even need to tell his brother what he was planning at this point. Itachi already knew.
"Your wedding kimono looks beautiful on you." Sasuke smiles at her. "You'll likely have to take it off or it'll get shredded though."
Hinata was dressed in her wedding kimono. One unconsciously chose their outfit, just like their age. So perhaps, that wasn't surprising. It pleased him though. It pleased him that of all the outfits she could have chosen, that was the one that had made Hinata the happiest.
Warning Cloud Lemon
Hinata blushes, once the door was shut and slowly slides out of it. The beautiful fabric pooled to the ground rather elegantly. Though there was nothing elegant about what Sasuke was feeling!
Itachi smirks, clearly feeling just as pleased as Sasuke was. "No lingerie." True enough, their wife's completely naked form was on full display.
A feast for the eyes in Sasuke's mind. All the way from her midnight blue hair down to her cute little toes. Though it was the endearing ruby red blush that spread from her cheeks all the way to her gorgeous breasts at the moment, that was driving most of his lust.
"Well, it seems that clothing is subconscious in this world." Hinata's blush deepens. "Perhaps, I just figured it was better to go without than to have you two destroy another lingerie set."
"Very practical of you." Sasuke pulls her close to him and captures her lips in a heated kiss. "We've missed you." Trying to devour her mouth. "So very much." Memorizing every corner of it with his tongue and lips. It had been years. Two very long and painful years!
Itachi chuckles as he quickly discards his clothing. Throwing them into the corner without at care in the world. Maybe, he really was the foolish brother. He should have stripped before kissing Hinata, but he couldn't bring himself to tear himself away from her lips long enough to do so.
Hinata sighs softly in pleasure at the kiss and blushes as she notices that Itachi had already stripped. The thought sent a jolt of anticipation rushing through her body. Making her shiver and her nipples tighten in response.
Sasuke's kiss was a thing of beauty though. The raw desire, love, and passion in it, was almost breath taking. She moans into it as she admires the sight of her once again young husbands, especially Itachi.
"As you probably remember, Sasuke has never had much patience." Itachi chuckles. "Of course, who could blame him when he has such a beautiful, naked woman in his arms?" Stunning. All that lithe muscle and lightly sun kissed skin was on full display. "And one who is already wet for us at that?"
She huffs slightly at Itachi's words, after breaking the kiss. "What makes you think that you know such a thing for a fact?" It was true, but still embarrassing and Hinata had her pride, damn it!
Sasuke was already stripping. Like white marble, she decides. Perfectly sculpted, just like his brother and equally well endowed. It was something of a miracle that they all fit together so perfectly. Judging by her lovers' size, they probably shouldn't have.
They did though. The mere memory of their former passionate lovemaking sessions was indeed making her wet, but Itachi didn't need to know that. At least not yet, he was being a smug bastard!
"Because I have spent decades memorizing everything about that beautiful body of yours." Itachi smirks as he pushes her onto the ground. "And I have always delighted in the fact that we have such a wonderfully responsive wife." Hinata was now laying on her back and Itachi was quickly joining her on the floor that was made of fluffy white clouds.
The clouds felt so perfect against her skin. Like a warm silk. The sensation of the clouds against her skin was almost orgasmic by itself. The Uchiha woman was tempted just to roll around in them.
"It feels good." Sasuke smirks at her. "Doesn't it?" Rolling around in the clouds had always been a favorite pastime of his. Even Itachi couldn't resist indulging in such a thing, from time to time.
"Mhm." Hinata sighs in pleasure, but was soon moaning and panting when Itachi parts her legs and licks her womanhood roughly.
Sasuke watches in fascination as Itachi's tongue went everywhere. He knew from personal experience how sweet their wife tasted and how much she enjoyed their attentions. He shivers at the memory and from the gorgeous visual that Hinata presented at the moment.
Beautiful. She was simply beautiful the way she was stretched out, naked against the fluffy white clouds. The clouds which were supposed to be a symbol of purity, but the way she was moaning was anything but. His wife was arching against Itachi's mouth in desperation as her skin flushed with a rosy blush.
"I-Itachi!" And the sound of her moaning Itachi's name, well that was enough to stir him to action, especially a certain part of him.
Sasuke walks over. "I've missed you. Particularly the feeling of being inside you and the feeling of your lips wrapped around my cock." Itachi had always been more natural at this sort of thing. The lewd seduction, but Sasuke was painfully aroused and he was more than willing to give it a shot at the moment.
Itachi smirks as he pulls away from Hinata. Savoring her whimper of protest as he nudges his wife on her hands and knees. "Hinata, perhaps you would be so kind as to indulge Sasuke by sucking him off?" Until her mouth was by Sasuke's arousal.
Their wife blushed prettily, but Itachi notes with more than a little glee that she complied. "Thank you, Itachi." Judging by the way that Sasuke was now moaning and thrusting against her pretty lips, Hinata was complying most enthusiastically.
The way she bobbed her head up and down was rather mesmerizing. Itachi had been privileged to be on the receiving end of such treatment many times in the past, so he knew fully well the amount of ecstasy that Sasuke was currently experiencing. "J-Just like that!" Sasuke groans in pleasure.
Never one to waste an opportunity like this, Itachi quickly goes back to licking their wife. Hard and fast. Teasing her clit by nibbling on it and pumping his fingers inside her soaked womanhood.
Hinata moans around Sasuke's cock. "Itachi! Sasuke!" Lost in pleasure.
Both from the feeling of Itachi making love to her with his talented mouth and the sounds of Sasuke's own bliss. He was so hard and thick. It probably wouldn't take more than a few more licks and sucks to send him over the edge.
"Such a loving wife." Sasuke gazes down at her adoringly. "Don't worry, we'll make you feel just as good as you make us feel." And she knew that he would keep his promise.
The feeling of Itachi's tongue and teeth was incredible. She was so close! The bluenette arches back against him desperately as his fingers tease her to the brink of madness. It was everything and yet, not enough at the same time!
"Indeed." Itachi licks her faster as he teases her with his fingers more. "A most excellent wife." Who was going to cum for them, he thinks to himself.
The way she was arching against him so frantically and how utterly drenched her soft folds were told him everything he needed to know. Hinata had missed them just as much as they had her.
"Itachi! Sasuke!" And he was soon proven right. "Oh God!" She came hard and fast, releasing Sasuke just before she did.
Of course, his foolish little brother wasn't far behind. Though of course, that wasn't a mark against him. Itachi doubted any man could have resisted Hinata's hot, little mouth sucking them off.
"Hinata!" Sasuke pants harshly. "T-That's the real paradise."
Itachi smirks. No. Not quite. "We're getting there, but there is still quite a bit more to do before we can truly call it paradise." After all, his wife and brother may have had their first climax, but his own arousal was still throbbing in a painfully, wonderful way.
Sasuke pants as he tries to regain his breath. "Come, My Queen." He smiles at her as scoops her up. "We've got a surprise for you."
It was a short walk, but rather awkward for Itachi. Still the result was worth it. They soon arrived in one of the Playrooms they had designed for their beautiful wife. The Mirror Room.
She looks around in confusion. "Why are there so many mirrors?" The ceiling was covered in them as were the walls. The only place that didn't have mirrors on it was the floor. Which was made of the fluffy clouds.
"So you can watch us make love to you at any angle." Sasuke purrs dangerously in her ear as he stands behind her. "And since Itachi was so nice to you earlier, I think it's only fair that he gets to enter you first."
Hinata shivers at Sasuke's naughty words. His breath hot and seductive against her ear as Itachi smirks and walks over to her. Obviously, he was inclined to go along with his brother's plan.
"I think that's fair." Itachi smirks as he kisses Hinata. "What do you think, My Queen? Do you want us to take you and make you scream our names just like we used to?" He murmurs between passionate kisses.
Hinata kisses back eagerly. Savoring the taste of Itachi's kiss. She was addicted to their kisses and touches. It had been Hell to be without her husbands, but now they had been reunited and it felt so good to be back in their loving embrace.
"Yes." The word came out almost like a breathless prayer. "I do. Please." But she didn't care.
"Good." Itachi smirks as he buries himself between her thighs and groans in pleasure. "You feel even better than I remember." So hot, tight, and wet. Just for them. They fit together so perfectly!
Hinata moans and Itachi smirks as he sees his wife looking around. No doubt watching him take her as Sasuke held onto her from behind and soon joined him. Both of them claiming their wife, over and over again.
There was nothing more erotic than being inside Hinata as she screamed their names. The sight of her completely surrendering to the pleasure that only they had ever had the privilege to give her. Such absolute bliss.
"Do you like it when we both take you at once, Hinata?" And Sasuke was apparently trying his hand at lewd seduction. "Because I know that we do. You feel so good." He growls in approval as he nips her ear and licks her neck, his hands drifting further south. "Wrapped around us like this." Toying with her clit. Smart man.
"YES!" Hinata moans as she arches back against them, kissing Sasuke briefly before turning her attention back to Itachi. "Oh God, yes!" Heatedly kissing him as well. Her hands sending delightful shivers down his spin as they explored his chest and his back. That felt incredible!
Hinata was drowning in pleasure. The feeling of both of her lovers making love to her at once was unlike anything else. She was so full! Completely cocooned in their warmth as Sasuke toyed with her clit and the two thrusted in perfect unison. The three of them becoming one.
It was hard to tell where one began and the other two ended, but it was a beautiful picture. She could see their image everywhere. They were surrounded by so many mirrors, it was almost impossible not to.
"Don't stop!" She was begging, but that was of little consequence to her at the moment. Hinata never wanted it to end. The feeling of being so close to the and seeing the love and desire in their eyes was pure ecstasy. Itachi was right, this truly was paradise.
She digs her nails into his back in response as she kisses him heatedly. Itachi's hands were now roaming over her breast and squeezing her ass as the two of them plunged inside her. Deeper and deeper. "I-ITACHI! S-SASUKE!" Making her scream again and again!
Perfect! This was absolutely perfect. Sasuke growls with primal satisfaction as he slams into his beautiful wife and admires the gorgeous sight of her getting ravished in all the mirrors.
So hot, tight, and wet. So perfect. It always amazed him that she could so easily take all the love they gave her. She was such a tiny little thing, except for her womanly curves. Yet, she was able to take both of them at once and give them eight beautiful children. It was nothing short of amazing.
"Ours." He slams into her as if to prove her point, making her scream more. "We're never going to be separated again." That was a promise.
As if sensing the direction of his thoughts, Itachi also picks up the pace. Hinata arches against them frantically, moaning desperately. One final powerful thrust from him and Itachi was all it took to send the three of them spiraling over the edge at the same time.
End of Cloud Lemon
That was just the first of many lovemaking sessions though. For a month, their home was a tangle of limbs and heated moans. They made love on every spot of their cloud home at least once and in some cases, several times.
Eventually though, their senses returned to them. Once they had bathed and dressed, Hinata decides that she really should visit her parents and meet the rest of her husbands' family.
"Come on." She smiles at them, beckoning the two of them to join her.
They chuckle and follow her. "We're coming." Sasuke and Itachi follow her for her reunion with her parents, some of her family, and the other Uchihas.
"Hinata!" Hiashi, her mother, Neji, Hanabi, and Konohamaru come over to greet her eagerly. "It's so good to see you!" And so did Sasuke's parents.
A man wearing a Military Police Force Uniform chuckles as he looks at her. "Yes, I believe I can understand what distracted them so thoroughly for a month now." He must have been Fugaku. Sasuke's and Itachi's father because Mikoto playfully swats him.
"You'll have to forgive my husband." She smiles serenely. "We've all just waiting a long time to reunite with you and I'm afraid he can be a deviant sometimes." Uh huh. It seemed the apple didn't fall too far from the tree then!
Hinata giggles. She shakes her head in amusement. It was rather surreal to see everyone. Hundreds of people must have greeted them before the day was over.
Several hours and eventually, it was just her parents, her in-laws, and them alone together. Fugaku smiles and points to a cloud and towards something. Hinata blinks and looks down.
"They're all there." Mikoto smiles. "Eight children, 24 grandchildren, and 56 great grandchildren." Hinata smiles at that thought.
Twenty-four grandchildren might have seemed like a lot, but when you had eight children, it wasn't really. Perhaps not surprisingly, Kenji had sired the most children. Six. Though Arashi and Aiya each had three. That made twelve. The triplets all had two, which brought it up to 18. Hoshi had four boys and Shisui was the proud father of two Uchiha Princesses.
Itachi nods and caresses her cheek. "They're all laying flowers." He gestures towards their headstones. "It looks like they've finally inscribed yours." Indeed they had.
Her name, her date of birth, her date of death, dash, and inscription were all on her stone. It was the inscription that made her smile most though. Here lies Hinata Uchiha. Loving mother, wife, sister, daughter, and friend. The woman whose love was responsible for reviving the Uchiha Clan and bringing the light back into our fathers' eyes.
"That's very poetic." Hinata smiles.
"Yes, that's how we know that it didn't come from Hoshi." Sasuke chuckles as he ignores his wife's dirty look.
It was true and he wasn't going to take it back. Hoshi had other talents though. A very direct manner of speaking that often brought laughter out of even the most tightlipped ninja.
Sasuke smiles as he looks down from the clouds and sees the massive crowd that had gathered. He had both of his families back now. The original and the new one.
"We're very lucky." Itachi smiles as he kisses Hinata's cheek and smiles at their family. "To have our beautiful wife and so many wonderful descendants."
Sasuke nods in agreement. As was expected, their children had thrived and found love of their own. This was true for even Amaya, who had a devil of a time reassuring Ryo that her fathers weren't actually going to kill him for touching her. And now they were all grown, with children and grandchildren of their own.
Their family was a gifted one and their range of interests quite diverse. They had Uchihas in every ninja specialization imaginable now. From medic all the way combat ninja. Academy instructors, Senseis, Trackers, Intelligence Specialists, combat ninjas, medics, housewives (and househusbands), and even a Kage or two. (Did Aiya being married to the Kazekage count? Sasuke thought it did)!
Itachi chuckles as he kisses Hinata and pokes Sasuke's forehead. "Well I'd say that's one very much restored Clan." He looks at the rest of his family with sympathy. "I regret that I had to end the first generation to bring about the others, but one can't argue with the results."
Mikoto and Fugaku sigh as they embrace Itachi closely. Surprisingly, it was Fugaku who was the first to speak. "It is regrettable, but I am proud of you Itachi. And of you Sasuke." He sighs and pulls Sasuke into the hug. "My biggest regret is how much time, we wasted on hatred. That I wasn't as good a father, as I should have been."
Mikoto sighs and caresses Fugaku's cheek. "And I should have foreseen what was coming. The Leaf was going to strike back." She shakes her head. "Itachi, Sasuke, you never should have had to suffer as much as you did, but you thrived in spite of it." She smiles at Hinata. "And you helped them to do so. I'll forever be grateful to you for loving my sons."
Hinata smiles back. "And I'll forever be grateful to you for bringing them into the world so that I could love them." After all, without Mikoto and Fugaku, there would be no Itachi and Sasuke and that wasn't really a world that Hinata wanted to live (or exist in).
"Come, we're having a Welcome Home Celebration for Hinata." Fugaku glances at his sons and Daughter-In-Law, after embracing them tightly for several minutes. "It's to die for." He smirks at his own pun and Mikoto laughs as the four of them follow the proud Uchiha Patriarch to the festivities.
Itachi sighs a few minutes later, when he notices Hinata sighing and looking down at their descendants wistfully. "They'll grieve you. As they grieved us, but this is the natural order of things." He smiles at her. "Besides, you'll always be with them in their hearts and you taught them the most important lesson possible before you passed on."
Hinata smiles at him, trying to dispel her melancholy at the sight of her descendants' tears. "And what lesson is that?" She looks at him.
"How to love." Itachi smiles and kisses her cheek. "That's what you taught them. Now, don't dwell on it much. Our children will likely join us here soon enough." They were all well into their twilight years, after all.
Hinata nods. "You're right." And with that, she allows herself to be swept away into her husbands' arms, dancing on the clouds.
Itachi smiles at the sight as the three of them dance together. This was truly paradise. Now, that Hinata was here and he knew that their Clan was a thriving one. All the pain of the past seemed to have been washed away and even his foolish little brother, was happy. What more could anyone possibly ask for?
A family, forgiveness, and love. He had everything that he had ever wanted. So did Sasuke. And one day, their descendents would join them in this Kingdom of Clouds. Of love and light. Hopefully, with their own loving husbands and wives.
Hinata smiles as she dances with them. "I love you both. I'm sorry that I kept you waiting for so long." Her smile was more dazzling than the Sun to Itachi.
"I love you too." Sasuke smiles as he kisses her.
Now, that was a good idea. "As do I, more than words could ever say." which is exactly what kisses were designed or.
Passionate kisses were perhaps the easiest way to say, "I love you." Truly, it was amazing how three simple words could mean so much. And with that thought in mind, the three of them exchange several of them while they danced and danced upon the clouds, surrounded by their loving family members.
"I hope one day they all have what we have." Sasuke smiles as he looks down at the clouds.
Hinata smiles and nods in agreement. "They will. Along with the Byakugan and Sharingan, love is their birthright."
Itachi could only nod in agreement at this because truer words were never spoken. Their Clan had always been one that felt things intensely. Love and hate in equal measure. When they hated, it was with a poisonous intensity. And when they loved, it was with an indescribable joy.
"Very true, My Queen." He smiles and kisses her cheek.
Sasuke gives him a dirty look. "OUR Queen!" Itachi couldn't help, but chuckle at that correction.
It was also very true. Though Itachi still knew that Hinata was right. One day, their descendants would find a love just as deep and true as they had. That was a pleasant thought. Though there was still one final thing that he had to do.,
Itachi pokes Sasuke's forehead. "Yes, our queen." He shakes his head in amusement. "That goes without saying, my foolish little brother."
"Always and forever." Hinata giggles.
Yes, always and forever. Itachi liked the sound of that. Nothing could separate the three of them now, not even death. And Itachi truly wouldn't have it any other way, even if Sasuke was glaring at him for poking his forehead.
"You're never going to let the forehead thing go, are you?" Sasuke sighs.
Itachi shakes his head. "No never, Sasuke." He smiles serenely. "Just as the two of us will never let our queen go, I'll never stop poking your forehead. As I've said before, it's my way of saying that I love you." Itachi smirks.
Hinata smiles and kisses both of their cheeks. "And I love the both of you." Bringing a smile to both of their lips.
"I love you too, Itachi." Sasuke sighs. "I just wish you chose to express your affection for me in a way that didn't leave bruises on my forehead." Itachi laughs at this.
"Perhaps, I'll think of something." His grin grows. "Though I do believe I felt Naruto's chakra signature earlier, just so you know."
And as if on cue, a blur of blonde hair could be seen pouncing Sasuke. "HEY, YOU BASTARD!" Naruto grins. "Oh hey, Hinata. Glad to see you made it. Looks like the gangs all here now." He looks around and blinks. "Um I'll just tell everyone to come on over and join the party."
Sasuke twitches. "You're such a loser." He just had to go and ruin the moment like that! "Whatever. Go get them." And with that, Naruto takes off, soon coming back with the Rookie Nine and their families.
"He didn't ruin the moment, My Love." Hinata smiles soothingly. "He only made it better." That was all it took.
Just one smile and Sasuke's irritation was completely soothed. Hinata's smile had always been a balm on his soul in life and in death, that apparently hadn't changed. It was impossible to be upset about anything, when she looked at him that way.
"I suppose you're right." He smiles and resumes dancing with Itachi and Hinata as the Rookie Nine Families join the fray. "Though it's a good thing that one can't get tired in the afterlife, otherwise we'd be in for a very, very long night."
Hinata smiles again and kisses them both. "That's true, but as long as I have the two of you, I can handle anything." She laughs. "Even a Rookie Nine and Family Reunion Celebration."
Sasuke couldn't help, but smirk at that. "I'll hold you to that." Their beautiful wife clearly didn't know what she was getting herself into, but Hinata was about to find out how chaotic celebrations in the afterlife could truly be.
Not that it mattered. He knew the truth. Sasuke and Itachi were never letting their wife go again, now that they had all been reunited in the afterlife. Everything was perfect in his mind.
The raven haired ninja couldn't be happier. The Uchiha Clan was thriving both in the mortal world and in the afterlife and he had his beautiful queen back. What could possibly be better than that?
"Mmm alright." Hinata smiles as she snuggles against them. "Just as long as neither of you ever lets me go again." Sasuke couldn't help, but smirk at that.
That was one promise that didn't mind making. "Of course." And neither did, Itachi judging by the way he was holding onto their wife so tightly.
Hinata couldn't help, but smile as she snuggles into the safety of her lovers' arms. Her mortal life might be over, but that mattered little.
What mattered most was that she had Itachi and Sasuke back. And dead or not, she knew one thing. There were many more passionate kisses and training sessions in their future.
"It's a promise, My Queen." Itachi smiles. "Well our Queen."
Hinata laughs at his correction. "Good and I promise to never leave my Kings again." She smiles up at them as they continue dancing upon the clouds. "After all, there's no place that I would rather be than in the both of your arms." And they all smiled at this, because each of them knew that truer words had never been spoken.
Hinata could scarcely believe her life had ended this way. She could remember a time long ago, when all she had wanted out of life were three simple things. To be kind like her mother, strong like her father, and to marry the man she loved.
Who would have ever thought that she would accomplish all three and then some. Not only had she become strong and kind, but she had married two men that she loved more than anything. Life could be both strange and wonderful sometimes, she thinks to herself as she allows herself to be twirled around on a bed of clouds by her loving husbands.
Though she was certainly wasn't going to complain. She was quite possibly the luckiest woman in all of paradise. Hinata had a loving family and two wonderful husbands.
Two wonderful husbands that could still take her breath away with a single kiss and she knew that their afterlives would be pure bliss because of this. "Perfect." Everything was perfect because they had each other.
In time, they would have everything. Each other, their friends, and their family. One day, their children and descendants would join them. Until then though, Hinata was sure that they would find a way to pass the time.
"Hinata, come with us." Sasuke smiles at her slyly. "We still have to show you the rest of the house." And with that, he and Itachi lead her away from the party and back towards their home.
She smiles at that thought. "Coming!" She quickly follows them because if the Mirror Room was any indication, her husbands had likely devised quite a few ways for them to pass the time in a rather enjoyable fashion.
"No, not yet." Itachi smirks at her as he opens the door for Hinata. "But you will be soon enough."
Hinata squeaks and blushes at that thought. She didn't have long to dwell on her embarrassment though. "I couldn't agree more." Sasuke smirks as he pins her against the wall playfully. "My Dear Brother." Because Uchiha Pouncing Mode had definitely been activated.
Thank goodness that it was impossible to get tired in the afterlife. Otherwise, she wasn't sure how she would have handled two very passionate husbands, but she damn sure would have given it her best try! After all, who could resist Uchiha Pouncing Mode?