Haru is let down from the horse. He bounds over to his mother. Confusion and concern shows appears on his face, when he doesn't see his father.

"Don't worry. He just went to talk to Naruto. Oh there they are." Hinata says, seeing the two men walk back.

"Hi, Uncle Naruto." Haru says cheerfully, he was relieved that his father was back and happy to see his "uncle."

"If he didn't look almost exactly like you, I'd ask for a DNA test. He's way too happy to be your kid. Must be Hinata's influence. Hey, there!" Naruto says with a smile and Sasuke glowers at Naruto for that comment.

"Father is a happy person, usually. Unless he doesn't get to train with mother. Then he gets grumpy." Haru tells Naruto and makes a face that tells the blonde that a grumpy Sasuke was not fun. (He could certainly sympathize with the kid there!)

"Really? Sasuke trains with Hinata? Didn't see that coming. I mean no offense Hinata, but Sasuke plays pretty rough." Naruto says.

Hinata blushes ruby red. Sasuke seemed to be trying not to laugh. Naruto didn't get it.

"I don't think father is that rough in training. Mother always tells him to go harder." Haru says.

"Haru, why don't you go see if you can win a bigger prize at the dart game?" Sasuke says and hands the kid some money, who bounds off with Hinata.

"He didn't mean...regular training, did he?" Naruto asks.

"No, loser. He didn't. Thank God, he's too young to understand what he was talking about." Sasuke says with a sigh of relief.

"So, sounds like you and Hinata get along...really well in the future." Naruto offers.

"Go ahead. Get it out of your system." Sasuke says and shakes his head.

"Harder!" Naruto snickers.

"I knew it was coming. Loser, we have a son together. Its pretty obvious that at some point, "training" was going on." Sasuke says.

"Sounds like a lot of training was going on." The blonde snickers again.

"You really are such a loser. At least I have a lover. You were too oblivious to even notice, she liked you. Guess blondes don't have more fun after all." Sasuke says with a smirk.

"Damn. That's a first. You actually made a joke. A bad one and totally inaccurate, but still. Anyway, he's a really cute kid. Still shocked he's yours. He seems so friendly and normal. He must take after Hinata in personality and you in looks." Naruto says thoughtfully.

SMACK. Naruto was just asking for it. Sasuke rolls his eyes. Hopefully the blue eyed ninja was done with his smart mouthed comments.

"Owe! Alright. I'm good now. I think. So does he have any brothers or sisters?" Naruto asks.

"Don't know. He's smart. Too smart to tell us something like that. Believe me, I've tried." Sasuke admits with a sigh.

"Well maybe you just aren't asking in the right way." Naruto suggests.

"Naruto, just let it be." Sasuke warns him.

"Oh alright. Alright. So where is he staying?" His friend asks.

"My District. Hinata and I weren't really sure how her family would react to him. It's awkward to explain that the reason why no one recognizes him is because he's from the future. Plus, I don't really trust them around him. They like to brand children. He's Hinata's son, she's the Heir so that should make him a member of the Main House. But he's also mine and I'm not a Hyuga. If they even tried to put that seal on him, I'd kill them all." Sasuke continues.

"Yeah, that wouldn't end well. Does Hinata's father know?" Naruto asks.

"He knows." Sasuke states and twitches.

"Oh. He didn't take it well, huh?" His teammate inquires.

"That bastard actually believes that I forced her and that's how she got pregnant." Sasuke tells Naruto and twitches some more.

"No way! I mean you've done a lot of horrible things. But you'd never do THAT!" Naruto says in outrage.

"Exactly. As far as I'm concerned, he can stay as far away from Haru as possible." Sasuke finishes with a scoff.

"Yeah. That sounds pretty brutal. Must suck for Hinata. You know to be caught in the middle, like that." The blonde observes.

"Yes. She's the only reason I haven't killed that prick, yet." Sasuke admits.

"We really have to work on your homicidal tendencies. You have a kid now. Well you are GOING to have a kid. That can't be your default response whenever someone pisses you off." Naruto points out.

"I know." Sasuke says.

Hinata smiles as she takes Haru to play the dart game. She knew that Sasuke just wanted an excuse to talk to Naruto alone. It wasn't everyday that you found out you were a father. Well that you were going to become a father. Of course he was going to want to talk to his best friend.

"Look, mother I popped three balloons!" Haru says.

"Good job." She says proudly.

She takes a moment to look at Haru when he was busy playing the game. He looked so much like his father, but there were hints of her. His hair, his eyes, the way he'd sometimes fidget with his hands when he got nervous, and how desperately he wanted everyone to get along. He'd seemed so sad that night when he thought they were fighting. And he loved horses just like she did.

"Father, just whacked Uncle Naruto again." He says, as if this was an everyday occurrence and Hinata concedes it likely was.

"Your father and Naruto just have an interesting way of expressing that they care about each other." She says.

"I know. My friends and I don't do that unless we are practicing for the Academy" He says with a nod.

Well that was good news. He had friends. Frankly, that was a relief. She knew that for the most part her family tended to be pretty reclusive.

Hinata had been painfully shy before she was put on her team. She had wondered if maybe Haru would suffer from the same social anxiety. It didn't seem like that was an issue for him though.

"That's good." She agrees and once Haru claims his prize, she heads back to meet with Sasuke and Naruto.

Haru bounds over to his father and "uncle." The boy was excitedly showing off his bigger stuffed animal. Sasuke nods and listens to the boy babble about the dart game attentively.

That was one thing that she was no longer worried about. Sasuke did genuinely seem to adore their son. It was sad really. He had accepted the DNA results without question. It certainly made things easier. But it was still painful to realize that Sasuke had been so desperate for any sort of familial bond, he didn't care about how it came about.

"Hinata, is that your sister?" Sasuke asks, watching a younger Hyuga approaching them through the crowd.

"Hanabi!" Hinata says and races over to meet her.

"Yeah. That's her sister." Naruto confirms.

"Hopefully she's less annoying than their father." Sasuke mutters under his breath, but Naruto heard it.

"Sister! I'm so glad you are okay. Father told me about everything." She says.

"What'd he tell you?" Hinata asks cautiously.

"That your son from the future is here and you are staying with Sasuke. Sasuke's really the father?" She asks with wide eyes.

"Yes. We have about a dozen paternity tests to prove it and well...look at them." She says.

Hanabi looks at Haru and Sasuke. Yeah, she could see Hinata's point. Talk about like father, like son.

"Yeah...he's definitely the father." She says after a few minutes.

"I really hope that father and Sasuke can learn to get along better. They've almost come to blows more than once." Hinata replies with a sigh.

"I always figured it'd be Naruto. I guess you just have a thing for Team Seven Rookies." Her sister teases Hinata.

Hinata blushes. She didn't know what to say to that. How could she possibly explain to her sister everything that had been going on?

"Well at least Sasuke isn't oblivious. So that's an improvement. I mean Naruto is amazing and everything, but...kinda dense." Hanabi offers.

"He's not dense. He's just...well he's better at noticing things on the battlefield than off." Hinata defends her former crush.

It was stunning really. It should have still stung her that apparently Naruto was just never going to notice her. But it didn't hurt, like it should have. Her crush had just faded away without her even realizing it. Now she knew that is all it was. A crush on the first person outside her family to show her kindness.

"Yeah. I guess that's true. How are you two...you know getting along?" She asks.

"Good. He's been nice to me. That and he gets along great with Haru. I mean I never would have thought I'd see Sasuke Uchiha, the man who used to give this village nightmares, giving a boy a piggyback ride." She says.

"Really? Oh that I have to see." She says with a giggle.

"Yes, really. Haru seems to love it." Hinata says.

"I'm glad that things are going so well for you. I want you to be happy. Oh and I guess if you are going to get ambushed by your son from the future, it helps that the father is gorgeous!" She says with a smile.

"You should see him without his shirt." Hinata mumbles.

"You did?! Wow, I guess you guys are really getting along!" Hanabi states.

"It wasn't like that. It's a long story." The bluenette replies with a blush.

Sasuke tries to ignore it. But he could feel the Hyuga Sisters' eyes on him. He was being assessed. Naruto would call it being "checked out." Hanabi was younger than Hinata. So she lacked the tact of her elder sister.

"Hinata's blushing about something." Naruto observes.

"She's usually blushing." Sasuke points out.

"Yeah. True." The blonde agrees.

"I'll see you later. It's getting late. We should really try to establish a bed time for Haru. Routines are important for kids." Sasuke says.

"Wow, this is going to take some getting used to. I mean I see the kid. But it hasn't sunk in yet. Um congrats, it's a boy?" Naruto offers awkwardly.

"Yeah. I'm still getting used to it myself." Sasuke says.

"Good night, Hanabi. Tell father not to worry." Hinata says as she walks over Naruto and Sasuke, Haru was just getting off the horse again. (He'd snuck off for a another ride while Hinata was talking to her sister and Sasuke was distracted by Naruto.)

"I'll try. But you know how father is." Hanabi tells her.

"Guess she took the news better than your father." Sasuke says.

"Yes. Though that's not hard to do." Hinata says with a small smile.

"True. You want to head home?" Sasuke asks.

"Alright. It is getting a little late. It was nice seeing you, Naruto." The Hyuga Heiress says.

"Yeah! You too, Hinata. He's really cute! Like I told the bastard, he must take after you." Naruto says cheekily and darts off before Sasuke could whack him again.

"He really is such a loser." Sasuke mutters and heads home with his family.

His family. He had a family again. Granted, it wasn't...through conventional means. Well at least not yet. But he had a living relative and whatever Hinata was to him at the moment.

What was he supposed to call her? She wasn't his wife. They weren't even together. But she was the future mother of his child. Friend just didn't seem to cut it.

They weren't really friends either. He knew almost nothing about her, other than she liked bubbles from champagne and was a good mother. That and she really knew how to lick an ice cream cone. He mentally slaps himself for that last thought.

"Come on, Haru. Let's get you to bed." Hinata says and leads the young boy off.

He really should change that, he decided. At the very least, he should AT LEAST know some basic things about her. He didn't even know her favorite color. What kind of man didn't know that about the mother of his child?!

"Good night, Haru. Sleep well." Hinata says, tucking him in.

"Night mother." He says and snuggles into his bed.

"Sasuke, I put Haru to bed." She says, a few minutes later and looks around for the older Uchiha.

"Great. I'm in our room." He calls out.

She blushes. OUR room. He had said our. She shakes her head. It probably didn't mean anything. She was overanalyzing this. The blue haired woman quickly heads to their room. Where she was surprised to see Sasuke sitting on the bed, with a large bottle of champagne, two glasses, and what she was pretty sure were some chocolate covered strawberries.

"Sasuke?" She asks.

"I figured since we have a kid together, we should probably get to know each other better. I don't really know anything about you, other than you like champagne. So..." He trails off.

"You're right and that was sweet of you." She says with a smile and sits down on the bed with him.

He was trying, she decided. Hinata admitted that he didn't have much to go on. So he'd went with the only thing he knew. The least she could do was not throw his efforts in his face.

Sweet wasn't exactly what he was going for. But he decided it was a start. He smiles and pours her a glass.

"Thanks." She says and sips it.

"Maybe we should start off...simple. What's your favorite color?" He asks.

"Lavender. Yours?" She replies.

"Should have guessed that one. Red." Sasuke answers.

"Oh alright. Do you have any hobbies?" She asks.

"Training?" He ventures.

"Sasuke, there must be something you do for fun besides training." Hinata says.

"Not really." He admits.

"There has to be something." The bluenette argues.

"I like being with you and Haru." He says.

"Well that's not really a hobby, but I'm glad. I like swimming." She says with a smile.

"Swimming is good. You'll like our clan's hot springs." Sasuke offers.

"Your clan has hot springs?" She asks.

"Yeah. Come on, I'll show you." He says, offering her his hand and taking the goodies with them.

"Alright." Hinata replies and lets Sasuke lead her off.

She blinks. Hinata didn't realize that they had hot springs. They were rather large too. It'd be easy to fit ten or twenty people inside them.

"My mother and father used to come here all the time." He says.

Well now we know how baby Uchihas are made. Hinata thought to herself. She couldn't help but giggle.

He tilts his head. She was giggling. He didn't get it. Shrugging he slides out of his shirt and pants, getting in the water. Sasuke felt a bit...smug when he saw her blush.

"The water is fine." He tells her.

"Sasuke, I didn't bring any a suit." She mumbles.

"Your lingerie will work." Sasuke says as if it was a perfectly normal thing for him to ask her to half strip.

"Um okay. Turn around." She says.

Sasuke gives her a look. It was pretty simple to understand. His eyebrow went up like, Really?

He shakes his head in amusement and turns his back to her. Well if she wanted him to respect her modesty, he would. But he thought it was a rather pointless gesture. They were going to have a kid together. So it was only natural that he would see her naked sooner or later.

"Sasuke, you're back!" Hinata calls out stunned.

"What about it?" He asks in confusion.

"Scars." She says.

"We're ninjas. Besides, they aren't even that dark." He states.

"No, they are really like actually. But this one...should have killed you." She says and traces her fingertips over a particularly long scar on his back.

Hinata guessed it was from a sword. It should have sliced him in half by the looks of it. It wasn't that thick, but it was long. His scars were mostly a light silvery color, that you wouldn't notice against his fair skin unless you were really looking closely. But it was a miracle he was alive with this collection.

"Karin's healing abilities prevented them from getting too dark, if you were wondering about the color." He adds.

"I was a little. I'm glad she was there with you." Hinata says and privately thinks, You might not be alive today, if she hadn't been.
"Me too." He says.

Hinata's natural desire to minimize pain must have overcome her. It was the medic in her, Sasuke thought. Well he supposed the reason didn't really matter, so much as that she was still touching his back. It felt....good.

She didn't really know what came over her. Maybe it was only natural to reach out and touch someone when you saw a serious scar like that. But Sasuke wasn't protesting. So this emboldened her a bit. She continues to glide her hands over the old scar.

"Does it hurt?" She asks.

"Not anymore." Sasuke tells her.

"That's good." She says.

"Do you have any?" The Uchiha inquires.

"Just from Pein." She tells him.

"Oh." Sasuke says, feeling a little guilty.

If he had been there, maybe he and Naruto could have taken Pein out before that. Before she got hurt. But still it was good she only had one major scar. He'd just make sure she didn't receive a second.

"It's alright though. I don't mind getting scars if it means that I protected my most precious people." She says.

Sasuke half expected angel wings to just shoot out of her back. She was far too kind, too good. How the Hell such an innocent person could be a ninja, was beyond him. He found himself grateful that she was a medic now. He didn't think Hinata could really bring herself to do what was sometimes necessary to do on the battlefield.

"I'd rather it wasn't necessary for you to get scars to protect them." He says.

"Thank you." She says and continues gliding her hands over his back, marveling at the feeling of his muscles underneath her fingertips.

He was wound up so tightly. It was like his muscles were coiled like a cobra, ready to strike at any moment. Hinata found herself wondering if it was painful to be like that.

"You need to relax. It's not good to carry that much tension around. It builds up toxins and can be really painful." She tells him.

"I see the medic training is going well." He states in amusement.

"Yes. I could...help you if you wanted?" Hinata asks shyly.

"How?" Sasuke asks.

"I could get the knots out of your back." She says.

"Are you offering to give me a massage?" The dark haired man questions.

"If yo-u want one. I w-on't, if you don't want me to." The bluenette stammers out quickly.

"I'd like that." He says.

"Really?" Hinata asks.

"Yeah. For Haru's sake we should probably get...more used to each other." He adds as an afterthought, trying to make her feel more comfortable.

"You're right." She mumbles and places her hands more firmly on his back, rubbing it.

Sasuke closes his eyes and lets out a pleasure filled sigh. Maybe she had a point about the toxins or whatever. Because fuck that felt great. He leans back against her and purrs in satisfaction.

"You're purring, like a cat." Hinata giggles and continues the massage.

"I do not purr like a cat." Sasuke protests.

"Yes, you do. I didn't know people could do that. I like it though." She says and soothes his tense muscles with her gentle touch.

"Well as long as you like it and don't tell anyone that you mistakenly think I purr like a cat, I guess my pride will survive." He mutters.

"I won't tell anyone." She promises.

"Good." Sasuke replies and goes back to enjoying his rub down.

"How do you get your hair to stand up like that in the back?" She asks curiously.

"I don't. It's just naturally like that unless it's wet." He states.

"Oh. I was going to say. I can't imagine you spending hours everyday in the bathroom trying to style it." She says.

"I wouldn't do that." Sasuke scoffs.

"I know. That's why I said I couldn't picture you doing it." Hinata says and rubs his shoulders.

"You have no idea, how good that feels." Sasuke murmurs and leans even further into her touch.

"What was it like...while you were away?" She asks.

"It's not something that I like to talk about. I needed to become stronger. So I left. I did things that I shouldn't have. But I did get stronger. Now I'm back." Sasuke says.

There was no way in Hell he was ever going to tell her about the Sound. Such darkness shouldn't be mentioned anywhere near Hinata. She was too kind and gentle. It'd be better if she never realized what sort of depravity really existed in the world. Better for Haru as well.

"Oh. I understand." She says.

"That's it? You aren't going to ask about it anymore?" Sasuke questions her in shock.

"If you don't want to talk about it, I assume it's for a good reason." She says.

"Most would keep asking anyway." The ninja states.

"If you want to tell me, you will in time." She says with a smile.

That was something that he liked about Hinata. She didn't pry apparently. That was good to know. There were things he definitely didn't want his future wife to know about his past. Everything he'd done and seen. If she knew about even half the things that happened while he was away from the Leaf, he was positive she would have run in the other direction, screaming.

"What's wrong? You are tense again." Hinata comments.

"It's just the past isn't something I want to think about. I'd rather focus on the future. It seems...better." He says.

"Alright." Hinata replies.

"If you want...I could do you. It's only fair." Sasuke offers.

"O-kay." Hinata squeaks.

Sasuke takes that as consent, skittish as it was. He gets behind her. Most of Hinata was covered by the water. So he really couldn't see much, other than some lavender lacy bra straps, her creamy shoulders, and the top of her slender back.

He liked what little he could see though. He liked it a lot. He feels his Sharingan activating. Thank God that Hinata, apparently didn't know what that meant.

"Let me know if you don't like it and I'll stop." Sasuke tells her.

It occurred to Sasuke, that was a very real possibility. He was used to fighting. That was his default mode. The young ninja wasn't really sure he knew HOW to be gentle anymore.

"Alright." She mumbles.

Sasuke places his hands on her shoulders and rubs them as gently as possible. Her skin felt soft and warm. His hands brushed against her hair occasionally and he couldn't help but marvel at how silky her hair was. Everything about her he decided, was soothing in some way.

"Nhhh!" Hinata says and arches into his touch.

Sasuke's hands were large or at least they seemed that way to her. His touch was surprisingly gentle. It contrasted nicely with the rough calluses on his hands. She figured it probably had something to do with using the Chidori so many times. But the roughness felt good and made her shiver.

His hands were also warm. She figured that was partially because of the hot springs, but had come to associate heat with him. He was from a fire clan and the few other times he had touched her, he'd also been warm.

Sasuke figured that nhhh was a good sign. He slides his hand a little lower, underneath the water. The fire user begins to work on her back. He smirks, enjoying the little mews of pleasure that Hinata would bestow upon him here and there. Well...at least physically they seemed to be compatible. That was good news for Haru, he decided. Though he wondered just how far he should push his luck. How far could he go before Hinata's shy nature kicked in and she bolted?