Forced Wedding

Pressure

Upon entering the house, she peeked into the room and saw that Toshio was still asleep. Should she wake him up at once? How would she tell him the news? she went to the living room and sat on the couch hugging her knees and trying to assimilate the new situation in which she found herself. Many times in her childhood she had dreamed of being a mother, when she decided to be a shinobi she knew that her career would be her priority, and once she had achieved recognition for being a good kunoichi she might consider having children, but that was before she started her relationship with Neji.

Neji had started to like her since she was 14 and her hormones began to awaken, but she was unable to do anything about it, and so it was for a few years. They both went on with their lives, they were A class jōnin and were to start preparing to apply for their promotion to S class, Neji would probably go on his way to be ANBU. They trained on occasion, until she asked him to help her improve, she knew that with sporadic training it wouldn't be possible, and though she hated to admit it, he had a higher level than her. She thought he would refuse, but fortunately he agreed and from then on in every free space they had between their missions they started training.

She still liked him, she had recently turned 18 and they had been training together for a year. In hand to hand combat she felt at a disadvantage, not only because he surpassed her in strength but because she could swear she could feel electric sparks every time she was very close to him, that her skin would bristle with any rubbing they had, that was another big reason why she liked to wear the baggy clothes.

It was even worse when they argued after the fights, they should make a training plan focused on improving them both, but Neji was stubborn and believed that he didn't have any faults, so they directly went from physical to verbal fights, and argued quite a lot when they were planning the next trainings. She used to find herself hyperventilating and with her senses exacerbated when they started those disputes, many times wishing to finally kiss him, other times just wishing to hit him. One day she couldn't take it anymore and kissed him, it was a brush of lips to which he didn't respond, and she noticed that she had made a big mistake and what she felt wasn't reciprocated, so she ran away.

At the next training session she tried to pretend that nothing was wrong, Neji was as expressionless as ever and hadn't made any comment about it, so she decided she wouldn't try again. After the training was over they were in another discussion when he kissed her, neither of them said anything and went home. That's how things continued until that first time they had sex. Little by little they started to become even closer, going beyond the barrier of friendship, their conversations started to go beyond just training or missions, to the personal realm, to their dreams, likes and goals.

Before that first time she cursed every time she had to go to the hospital to be injected with hormones to avoid pregnancy, as all kunoichis were forced to take contraceptives, as she considered them unnecessary. But she was infinitely grateful for that because, carried away by the heat of the moment, neither of them thought of taking any additional protective measures. A part of her began to dream that some years later they could talk about having a family.

Until that day she had not stopped thinking that if she had children it would be with Neji, she had been stupid not to discard that dream from the moment she agreed to marry someone else and signed the marriage certificate, besides having realized that when she left Konoha, she hadn't had the contraceptive injection again, and being married to Toshio it wouldn't be provided without her husband's request. Likewise, her cycle was so irregular that so far she hadn't noticed any change in it. She sighed with resignation, dawn had arrived with her still awake. Slowly she got up and went to bed to wait for Toshio to wake up.

He woke up and got up to go to the bathroom, she sat on the edge of the bed to face him, when her husband returned to the room he looked her up and down, reproachfully.