Forced Wedding

Agreements

She took a few steps through the village and without being able to avoid it her feet took her back to Tenten's house, since her departure they had kept all the personal belongings that were there in a warehouse while they defined what to do with them because when they presented the available candidate to the emissary of the village of Lightning, the man made it clear that it wasn't necessary for her to bring anything. All her clothes would be according to the new position Tenten would have in that village and she wasn't expected to use weapons under any circumstances, so all the arsenal Tenten had and that had taken her several years to get should stay.

The brunette hadn't said anything, nor did she give any sign of reconsidering her decision. Tenten just nodded when she was told it was time to go and without further ado she left. The house became the property of the village and was put up for rent, being rented by a family who had no problem taking it furnished but from what she noticed through the window on some of her walks, they had changed the upholstery of the furniture to something less colorful.

Was that all? Was that the whole storm? No, she knew it couldn't be and on that visit for the chunin exams she just put on her best village representative face, surprised at how sad Tenten looked in general. She could see that the brunette had adapted as much as possible to her mission, to being the silent, smiling wife of a diplomat and future feudal of a village, but in the process Tenten had lost herself. The brunette was no longer the cheerful, smiling kunoichi everyone knew. She didn't understand it, she went over and over the matter and it made less and less sense that they had asked for a jōnin to put her to that use, there were women who were bred from birth for tasks like that. Why waste a high ranking shinobi on being a trophy?

That night she had stayed in the office reading some reports as with all the ninja from other villages present it wasn't a good idea to go for a walk, likewise her paperwork had quintupled as having to attend the fights was damming up horribly and she had already said goodbye to her hours of sleep, at least until said exams were over. 

The first thing she felt that early morning was the presence of the Hyūga climbing the wall and positioning himself outside her window, she was definitely letting him in too much, especially since she knew how difficult the situation was for him and that he still would have insisted on being present like a pain addict, but that he dared to spy on her was far beyond what she was willing to endure. She was about to turn in her chair to yell at him but at that moment she could feel the other presence finishing up the stairs and peeking timidly into her office.

She saw her falter in her presence, Tenten was frightened before finally admitting that she had attended at that hour to a doctor's appointment for feeling unwell, so she had checked her over, discovering the throbbing pile of energy that was beginning to grow inside her. Joy wasn't a word to describe the reaction the brunette had, it was something more akin to resignation.

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She exhaled heavily, Tenten had just left after her fourth month ultrasound. She would like to say that it was simply collateral damage, a mission gone wrong. But the situation was far from such a definition, meaning, a mission gone wrong could result in serious injury and an undetermined hospital stay, detriment to health, loss of some bodily function or even a limb, in the most extreme cases life could be lost. LOSING a life, not GAINING a life, not coming back with a new life as a result of such a failed mission.

Although such an outcome was precisely because Tenten had fulfilled to the letter what she had to do in the role she had to play and that was to be for the rest of her life, since everyone was unaware that the denouement of such a union was going to be the fall of a feudal lord and the decline of a small village that had been prosperous up to that moment. She wanted to offer her the alternative of terminating the pregnancy and thus not having a permanent reminder of what those months were like, but before she even attempted to mention anything, the chocolate orbs gave her to understand that she wasn't going to do it. Regardless of the other factors, and even if Tenten didn't have a shred of appreciation for the man responsible for her condition, she hadn't been forced and the creature already bulging in her belly wasn't to blame for anything.