Disclaimer: I'm terrible at fight scenes. I also don't own Naruto.
Today was the day.
Approximately one month had past and Hinata's time was up. She had put it off until the last possible second, but, she knew that her days of procrastination were finally over.
Hinata smoothed down her usual ninja attire, double checking her appearance in the new floor length mirror she bought for the bedroom. She was thankful that she had chosen such a baggy jacket to hide her body, her baby bump wasn't entirely noticeable, but you could tell her jacket was more snug then normal around the stomach area as if she had undergone weight gain.
It was time to face the music and Hinata was shaking in her ninja boots. A look at the clock indicated it was twelve noon, that meant Hiashi would be in-between training sessions with Hanabi and would drink his tea quietly in his office/study.
She had no more time it waste.
Glancing at a picture of Naruto and herself taken recently at Ichiraku hanging on the wall, she felt her resolve strengthen when she glanced upon his smile. His smile had saved her. She wouldn't run away. Hinata never ran away, not anymore.
It was their nindo, their ninja way. To never give up.
Locking the apartment (she'd been able to locate Naruto's spare key) she held her head high and made her way towards the opposite side of Konoha, where the Hyuga compound stood.
She needed to act like everything was fine. No one knew she was pregnant and she wasn't about to give herself away. Yet, she couldn't help but to be on alert, paranoid, darting her eyes from person to person seeing if they suspected anything.
She did her best to blend in with the crowd, walking on the outskirts of the village streets, being neither seen nor heard. She tried her best to keep her hand from resting on her stomach as she walked, a habit she'd formed as of late.
She already felt such a deep love for her unborn child, their unborn child, and couldn't help but want to touch it as often as she could. Lost in her thoughts, before she knew it, she was staring down the now daunting gates to the Hyuga compound.
With a deep breath, Hinata easily walked passed the guards and into her home. Making sure to cloak her stomach in chakra (to hide the foreign signature from the Byakugan) she slid the shoji door open.
"Tadaima" She called softly, knowing that no one would answer. Slipping off her ninja sandals, her bare feet padded against the tatami mats of her traditional childhood home. The grand woodwork and ornate carvings gave the place a historical and regal look. It was the perfect reflection of the Hyuga clan, one of the oldest clans in Konoha.
Hinata shakily made her way to her fathers study, bracing herself for the worst possible scenario. She expected to walk out of here no longer a Hyuga. Yes, their relationship was slowly on the mend.
After standing up against Pein, Hiashi had come around to Hinata a bit more, but whatever small seed had started to grow would surely be squashed with this news. A tenative knock on the wooden door, a gruff "Come in" was heard.
Hinata hesitantly peaked her head in, noticing her fathers surprised stare. She was, after all, a day early from her "mission" return.
"Hinata what a surprise." Hinata bowed deeply, settling on a grey pillow across from her father.
"Hello father. I have, um, I have something that I need to tell you. That is why I'm h-here today." Hiashi set down his cup of tea, cracking one eye open.
"What is it silly girl? I don't have all day. Hanabi must get back to her training soon." Hinata took a deep breath, then let it out slowly. Steeling her gaze, she stared directly into her fathers eyes.
"I-I'm...well...ano...I'm pregnant."
Hiashi blinked twice. "I'm sorry, what?"
"I'm pregnant with a baby, Otou-san." Hiashi remained quiet, unsure if this was a joke or not. His shy daughter, Hinata, managed to get knocked up? It was preposterous in his mind.
"That is a very funny joke, Hinata." Hinata was surprised that her father did not believe her. She knew this might happen and had a backup plan just in case. Reaching into her ninja pouch, she pulled out a grainy black and white photo. A sonogram of her baby she'd just gotten the day before.
In the top right corner of the sonogram was the patient name and date. Hiashi nearly keeled over and had a heart attack. His teenage daughter, his first born, his little Hinata was pregnant? That means that she had...he shuddered to think about it.
"Who is the father?" This was the moment Hinata had been dreading all day.
"It's..ahh.. it's Uzumaki Naruto."
Hiashi set down his tea cup sharply. Closing his eyes, he couldn't even bare to look at his teenage daughter. Of course the father would be Minato's son. Hiashi remembered when Kushina had shared the news of her pregnancy with him and his wife, Hitomi. She'd once joked that they could end up in-laws. Hiashi didn't find it so funny at the time, not wanting his precious first born to date until she was thirty.
However, he made a promise to his late friends Kushina and Minato and he was going to keep that promise, no matter the cost.
He couldn't even begin to grasp the concept, really. A child? A baby? His daughter was still a child herself! Not to mention, this was a time of war. How would his daughter bare a child during such a turbulent time? And the council, they won't let his daughter alone if they found out and they will eventually find out. He had to do what was best for her. She would hate him now, but, maybe she could forgive him later.
"Get out. I don't want to see you right now. I'm very disappointed in you. Pack your things by tomorrow night and never step foot in the compound again. I assume you have living arrangements, if the child is Uzumaki's after all."
Hinata could feel the tears prick her eyes. Hiashi's heart nearly snapped in two. He schooled his emotions with years of practice, but the look in his daughters eyes was something even he could not bare to look at.
Without even a semblance of a reply, she quickly shut the shouji door. Paying no mind to any of the other Hyuga around her, she hastily ran from the compound and into the nearest brush of woods.
She sobbed and sobbed letting out her loss. What would she do now? It was only a matter of time before her father called her back to the compound to officially kick her out and strip her of her clan name.
She slowly stood up off the ground, her tears gradually drying up and her sobs turned into quiet hiccups. She had another being to be strong for. She had to be strong for her child and so she couldn't let herself show weakness.
Meanwhile, Hiashi pulled out the clan registrar from his office vault. He thanked Kami that he was smart enough to get all the elders of the council to sign the scroll ahead of time when it was first made up.
Scrolling down through the main branch members, she spotted his eldest daughter, Hyuga Hinata. With a heavy heart, he grabbed the ink brush and blotted our her name, using chakra to erase the old ink.
At the very bottom of the scroll, under a foreign branch, he wrote a new name. Satisfied, he sealed the scroll back up and locked it away in his vault. His daughter may hate him now, but, his grandchild would be safe and the promise he made to Minato and Kushina would be fulfilled and that was all that mattered.
Meanwhile, Hinata found herself seated on one of the stools of Ichiraku, indulging in her third bowl of pork ramen she'd been absolutely craving. This baby was definitely Naruto's.
"I haven't seen Naruto around, Hinata. Is he on a mission?" Ayame, Teuchi's daughter, had become good friends with the pale eyed teen ever since she had started her relationship with Naruto.
"Hai. Naruto-kun will not be back for another month." Ayame sighed, then chuckled to herself.
"At least with him gone, we won't go out of business." With a wink, Hinata blushed, glancing down at her nearly empty third bowl. Her stomach hadn't even began to feel full.
"You must miss him, to be eating that much ramen. It's almost as if he's possessed you or something." Ayame meant it as a joke, but Hinata nearly choked realizing how much truth there was to the statement.
Carrying his child inside her, one could call it that, in some weird, twisted sort of way. Hinata decided against her fourth bowl of ramen and would instead pick up some cinnamon rolls from her favorite bakery on her way home to Naruto's apartment.
"I do miss him quite a bit. But, he's a hero now, I can't hog him all to myself. The ninja world needs him, this mission is classified so I don't even know where he is." Ayame nodded sagely.
"That's true, but, you are also his girlfriend. You're practically his family and so he also has a duty to you as well." Hinata thanked Ayame and paid for her meal, taking in the older girls words.
He had a duty to them both, huh? Somehow, Hinata felt it wouldn't be in her nature to be selfish, no matter how much she wished she could be. Hinata didn't want Naruto to fight in the war, because he could die, and then where would that leave her unborn child and herself? But, Hinata knew where a ninja's duties lied, and the village always has and always will come first.
If Naruto doesn't save the world, there wouldn't be a world for Hinata and their child to live in.
'Looks like it's just me and you for now, baby. I can't wait to meet you.' As Hinata unlocked the door to her new home she wondered what their child would look like. Would it be a boy or a girl? Would they have lavender or blue yes? Blonde or Blue hair? Whiskers or no whiskers?
Hinata had a feeling though, as she ate her cinnamon rolls at the kitchen table, that their baby would be a boy. A little blonde boy as bright and beautiful as his father. Stripping off her clothes and throwing them in the newly bought hamper/laundry basket, she stared at her body in the full length mirror in their bedroom, marveling at her now noticeable small baby bump.
She was three months along now and would soon be entering her second trimester. She marveled at her raised belly, stroking it up and down. Their child was inside of her, growing, and each day Hinata could feel herself falling more and more in love with motherhood.
By the fourth month, Hinata had read that her baby bump would grow exponentially and she would no longer be able to hide it behind baggy jackets and loose shirts. She had no idea how she was going to tell Naruto, he'd certainly take one look at her and get a good guess of what was going on before she could even break the news to him.
Slipping on her chosen relaxation clothes ( a pair of boxers and a baggy shirt from Naruto) she settled down on the couch and cracked open the newest baby book Tsunade had lent her. She'd found these books extremely helpful, it made her feel less alone, knowing that millions of women had gone through the same ordeals throughout history.
She had a lot of things to prepare before Naruto's return still and these books covered everything from pregnancy to raising a child itself. Hinata would have to spend the next month not only finishing the bedroom and nursery, but also baby proofing the apartment.
The books had stated that babies and toddlers got into all sorts of trouble once they'd learned to walk and crawl and the last thing Hinata needed was her son getting into their Kunai sets.
Before she knew it, she'd fallen asleep, book in hand. A symptom of pregnancy was fatigue and it had Hinata deep within it's clutches. She felt like, if she let herself, she could practically fall asleep anywhere.
Next time on TTWBU, Naruto makes his grand return with new, telling information in tow. But will his reunion with Hinata go as either of them expected? Also, I feel like fanfiction portrays Hiashi WAY MORE EVIL then he actually is. Yes, he's strict, but, I've never seen him to vicious to Hinata in the Anime nor Manga and so I wrote him as such.