"You and Itachi what?"
Hinata winced and closed her eyes tightly. She just knew he'd be angry. "I-I'm sorry... I-It's just that... I-Itachi was..." she opened one eye and watched him pace nervously around the room.
Okay, she's not pregnant. Well, she might be, but that wasn't the news she had to tell me. It was something far more worse, scary, worrisome, unwholesome, than I expected. Itachi apparently had SEX with her right after I had sex with her and now she feels guilty. But what does that do to our potential baby? Does that make it his baby? Or am I still going to have a little blond-or-blue-haired kid running around the house a few years from now?
Deidara stopped when he noticed Hinata staring at the floor. And then, eventually, him. He heard her apologizing, and his mind rushed to correct the situation. "No! No, Hinata, it's fine! Well, it's not fine, but I'm okay with it! Well, not okay, but..." He stopped himself. Hinata looked at him, confused. "You don't need to apologize." he said, finally. "I understand that Itachi... forced you into it." Hinata fiddled with her thumbs and looked down. "Th... That's not all I'm... concerned about, Deidara."
Now, she didn't exactly take a test, but she felt a bit odd inside. She meant to take a test later, but since she's technically under house arrest, she couldn't go out and buy one.
"Deidara... how would you feel if...you got me pregnant?" Hinata looked at him with a pleading look. Deidara stared back, then, after a while, smiled at her reassuringly. "I'd feel like the luckiest guy on earth to have you bear my child." He cleared his throat from the awkwardness of that sentence. "I'd do all I can to support you. But right now, unfortunately, it'll complicate things." he pulled her into another hug, kissing her head softly. "Now, is that all the surprises you have for me today?" he chuckled and let her go. Hinata nodded and smiled. "Thank you so much for understanding, Deidara." She leaned up and kissed his cheek. "I love you."
Deidara walked Hinata out of the hotel and to the car waiting in the parking lot. He nodded awkwardly at Kisame, who casually did the same. "Thanks for waiting, Kisame-san." Hinata said, stepping into the car. After saying their good-byes, they waved at each other until the car was out of sight. And, as Deidara walked back into the hotel, he thought,
That man looked like a fish.
-:-
A few months passed, and Hinata was already getting bigger by the day. She walked when she could, but most of the time she sat near a window and read a book, listening to soft music (sometimes, she'd let the baby listen by putting the headphones on her stomach.) She hoped the baby liked music.
Kisame would often join her, as would Itachi. Itachi's time, which was usually occupied by work or other things, was appreciated by Hinata, since he was at least willing to show that he actually cared for the child. He'd even keep the maniacal smiling and physical rape threats to a minimum, which made Hinata rest easy.
Today, however, was a day that neither Kisame or Itachi could join her. There was a big business opportunity that simply could not be ignored. Almost every successful businessman was going to meet at the Konoha Trade Center, where many companies were willing to share... well, something. Hinata didn't quite get it herself, but she understood that Itachi had to leave and that Kisame was requested to accompany him. It's such a shame, she thought, that I have no one to enjoy this beautiful day with. As if reading her thoughts, the baby in her stomach kicked her lightly. She chuckled, even though it hurt a bit. "Except for you, of course, baby." She stroked her stomach gently and smiled.
Her attention was brought back to the window, where she heard a light ringing sound. It was a pretty sound, that mesmerized her into looking at the sky. After a few seconds it would stop, and then start again. What a peculiar sound. Familiar, too. And, after a bit of thought, it sounded a bit... cellular. Like a ringtone. A ringone... to a cell phone. Upstairs.
Her cell phone was ringing!
Hinata stood up abruptly, then, in sudden pain, sat back down. She'd have to take this slowly.
She carefully walked across the hall and up the stairs, staying near the wall and railing for support. When she finally reached her room, she found her cell phone in a box in the far corner of her walk-in closet. She brought it to the small couch in her closet and sat down, sighing with relief. Then she checked her missed call.
Deidara.
Smiling, Hinata called him back.
"Hinata? Why didn't you answer?"
"Did you forget that I was pregnant? 6 months in, and my phone was upstairs. We don't have elevators." Hinata could practically hear him stiffen a little. "Oh my god, I'm sorry! I didn't mean for you to exhert yourself! Are you alright? Did you get hurt? I'm sorry!" He slurred all the words together, and Hinata laughed, making him stop. "I'm okay, Deidara. You don't have to worry." Deidara sighed with relief. "So why did you call?" she asked.
"Well, I wanted to take you somewhere. Sasori told me that he was going to this business thing, and that Itachi would be there too. So I thought it would be easier for us to... you know, go out." He sounded sheepish, which made him cuter than he already was. Hinata smiled, blushing a little. "I'd love to go, Deidara." He sounded happy. "Great! I'll be at your house in five minutes, okay?" Hinata nodded, then said "Yes." They hung up, and Hinata stood up, beginning her endeavor to get dressed and go back downstairs.
-:-
"So, Kisame, what has my darling wife been doing lately? Anything I should know about?" Itachi was generally excited to be going to this business event. But, in his mind, his wife always came first. Even when he was on his way to his 'second'.
Upon hearing this question, Kisame visibly stiffened up, arousing suspicion. "Kisame? Is there something?" Itachi allowed himself to look surprised. Kisame was one of his best butlers and most of all his best friend. (Even he had to admit that he and Hinata weren't on the best of terms). "You're my most trusted of employees, you know. I can tell you anything, and you should tell meeverything." Kisame looked away, which was a bad move that even he had to acknowledge. "Nothing's wrong, Itachi-sama. Hinata is fine." Itachi smirked a bit; he knew something was up, and he caught Kisame with the guilt trip very nicely. He gripped Kisame's arm, and made him look straight into his eyes, which had turned a blazing red.
"Tell me."
Kisame took one more glance outside, then mentally apologized to Hinata. "She's... been seeing Deidara in secret. While you were at work." he bit his lip. Itachi smiled a little. "That's not all, is it?" Kisame nodded vigorously. "That's all I know." He was never much of a liar, except when it was giving blind compliments. Oh, he shouldn't have told Hinata he could keep a secret! Itachi's grip tightened, and Kisame was forced to tell him everything.
"She... might not be carrying... y-your child." Itachi's eyes widened, his grip loosening. He looked, for the first time, disappointed. He looked extremely unhappy. "And she told you this herself?" he asked, shakily at first. Kisame nodded. Itachi looked depressed - he was beginning to look older than he really was. "Well, whose child is it, then, Kisame?" He was staring blankly out the window. "I don't know... Perhaps... Dei-"
The car stopped, and Itachi quickly stepped outside. "Nevermind, don't tell me. I'll just try to get through the day without killing anybody."
Kisame couldn't tell if that was a joke or not.
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Sasori stepped out of his car, dusting himself off. He didn't realize that he hadn't used the Air-Con in his car in over two years. When he turned it on, dust circulated in the car and stayed there until he opened the windows. He coughed a little, and a dust clump came out. Disturbed, he hoped no one else saw that and continued on his way.
Then, at the entrance, he saw a bunch of paparazzi crowding two individuals. Getting a closer look, he realized that it was Itachi. Sasori took out his cell phone and took a picture, immediately sending it to Deidara.
Who the hell is that fish guy?
-:-
Deidara looked at his phone as it vibrated with a text message. He laughed when he read the text, looking at the picture of the same guy he saw last night. Before he could reply, he saw Hinata stepping out of the house gates, looking exhausted. Alarmed, he hurried out of the car and towards her, holding her up with his arm. "Oh, I did it again, didn't I? Making you do all this work. I'm just terrible." He helped her into the car and kissed her cheek quickly before walking to the driver's seat.
"It's okay. Where are we going?" Hinata leaned back comfortably in her seat. "Oh, I don't know. I wanted to spend the day with you, I guess." Deidara scratched the back of his head. "Where do you want to go?" he asked. She thought a moment, then said, "That one place. We had one of our dates there... uh..." She thought a little more. "Which one?" Deidara started the car. "Um... The one with the sunset. I remember we spent the whole day there..." She didn't notice how Deidara began driving. "What was the place? It was a cliff, for sure." He smiled and parked the car in a parking lot in front of a jungle gym and swings.
"Here?" Deidara opened Hinata's door, and she blushed, surprised. "Exactly." she looked around, holding on to Deidara for support, even though she said she could walk herself. "Well, it's not sunset, so maybe we could just... play for a little. You know, swings and slides." He brought her to one of the swings, making sure she was comfortable. "Ready?" He pushed her gently, letting her hair run through her fingers as she swung forward. She giggled at that. "Your hair is really... silky. Did you know that?" He kept pushing her just to feel her hair. "I wouldn't say silky, Deidara. Soft, maybe, but silky's taking it a bit too far." Deidara stopped the swing, making her gasp in surprise. "Silky is the understatement. Your hair is lovely, Hinata." He kissed her hair, then her cheek.
Hinata smiled, then gripped her stomach in pain. "What? What happened?" Deidara put a hand over her stomach, then quickly pulled away. "Do you want to sit down? Like, on a bench?" He helped her to one of the benches, wrapping an arm around her shoulders when they sat down. Hinata managed a smile again. "I-It's nothing. The baby's going to be a soccer player, I know that - it kicks so hard." she rubbed her stomach, and Deidara tried touching it again. Freaked out, he pulled away just as quickly. "Are you sure that's a baby? It feels like there's an alien in there." He studied his hand, then Hinata. She laughed. "Its kicking so hard because you made my heart beat faster. You're such a charmer, Deidara." She kissed his cheek. He laughed a little.
After a while, the baby stopped kicking, and the two were able to relax on the grass. It was getting late, and it became so peaceful that all their worries seemed to disappear with the day.
"What are you going to call it if its a boy?" Deidara asked as he watched the sky slowly turn orange. Hinata shrugged. "I was thinking about... Yuki. But I guess it all depends on Itachi's answer." She felt him frown a little as he hugged her. His lips pressed to her shoulder, and he stared at her neck blankly. "What if it's our kid?" he asked, muffled by the fabric of her small sweater. She put a hand on his arm. "I'd name it Yuki. Because I was thinking of the baby as our child. Not Itachi's." His frown still remained, but it seemed to loosen up a bit. "Would you still love the kid, even if it weren't mine?" Hinata nodded. "Of course. Either way, it's still my child." This time, surprisingly, she felt him smile. He moved his chin up so that it was over her shoulder. "Were you expecting a different answer?" she asked as he kissed her cheek. "No. I'm glad you're going to love the baby." he said softly. She rolled her eyes. "You don't make any sense." she tilted her face away from him so that he could kiss her neck.
"Well, I want you to love it, because if it's not mine, I won't love it."
Hinata turned to stare at him. "Why..." She thought about it before saying anything more. It made sense that Deidara wouldn't love the baby. It wasn't his, and he wouldn't be the father, so what was the point in dividing his love between the two people? (The baby and Hinata, that is). And the child would be a constant reminder that Itachi made love to her after he did, and it would be a constant reminder of what happened before. How could he love something that made him remember such things? When she looked back at Deidara, he was giving her a look that repeated all the things she thought of. "Well, it makes sense... I suppose." She wanted to sit up, and Deidara helped her.
"Let's... go see the sunset. Okay?"
-:-
The business event was over, and Sasori walked out of the building, happy. His goal was to gain enough money to help Hinata with her baby and maybe move in with him and Deidara (depending on some circumstances, of course). He had not only reached this goal, but surpassed it on so many levels. He was so happy, that, since they were both in town, he decided to drop by Deidara and Hinata for a visit. He pulled out his phone and dialed Deidara's number as he walked out to his car.
--
Itachi didn't look as happy as he should have. He had gotten many branches for his company, which would make him considerably richer, but he still looked... morose. He knew that all the money in the world could buy his wife's love.
Kisame trailed behind Itachi, a guilty expression on his face. He wasn't sure if it was because he gave Hinata away, or if it was because he gave Hinata away and made Itachi look this miserable.
Over the crowd, only one voice - one name - drifted over into Itachi's ears.
"Deidara?"
Itachi stopped, also stopping several other people in their tracks. He turned and watched as Sasori, a familiar red-headed figure, walked to his car. He grabbed Kisame by the arm and dragged him into the car, telling the chauffeur to follow Sasori's car.
-:-
As they were walking, Deidara felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. Sasori was calling.
"Hello?"
"Deidara?"
There was a lot of background noise - like people talking and walking and making a big deal. "It's loud over there - you finish your business-thing-a-mah-bobber?" Deidara asked. "Oh yeah." - The sound of a car door closing - "I can get a lot of money now - Enough to help Hinata with the baby - and maybe move in! Circumstance depending, of course." Deidara smiled. "Great! That's awesome, Sasori." He glanced at Hinata and grinned, and she smiled back. "Oh - and where are you? I'm in town, so I thought I'd drop by."
Deidara gave Sasori their location, unknowing of the limousine following his friend a few cars behind.
-:-
I JUST KILLED A SPIDER ON MY BED WITH THIS LAPTOP WHAT DO I DO I'M SCARED OF SPIDERS OH MY GOD WHAT DO I DO I DON'T HAVE PAPER TOWELS AAAAAGHH.
In other news,
HOLY SHIT I HATE SPIDERS. I LIVE IN THE BASEMENT AND SUMMER'S WHEN THEY COME IN THE HOUSE TO COOL OFF WHICH I DON'T APPRECIATE VERY MUCH SINCE I LIVE IN THE COOLEST (LITERALLY) ROOM IN THE ENTIRE HOUSE.
I'M GOING TO DIE.
Oh, and this story's going to end soon ._.