Intertwined {A NaruHina Story}

-12-

Naruto

My baby.

In about seven months...

I'm going to have a child running around here; someone to look at me.

I'm going to be a father.

Slowly, sitting up from my laid back position on my bed, I heavily sighed. 

I know it's a mistake. Conceiving a child at this age was probably the worst thing that could happen to any college student. 

But after seeing just a simple ultrasound like that...

I don't know, I smiled to myself. 

Could be the best thing to happen.

There's no way I'm getting any sleep at the moment. Might as well go and take a walk to wrap my head around this completely. 

I stick my head out of my room first; still low-key kinda afraid one of my crazy hookups would come back to haunt me on this cold night. Honestly, I don't need that right now.

When the coast is clear, I wander towards the elevator and take it to the 1st floor. I pushed the door open; allowing the cold wind to smack me dead in the face.

Hinata has finally trusted me. Today especially when she looked at me as we watched our baby grow showed me that she was finally able to open up to me. I can't go and screw that up even when she said it was okay.

It could be a test for all I know. And it would be too wrong on my part if I did.

I want to love this baby with everything.

And there's one other thing I want to happen.

I want to love his/her mother as well.

One.

Two.

Baby steps.

A child can't grow up with their parents only being "just friends". I think it's wrong. What will they think when their two biggest role models are friends? Where would they ever learn to love? It's wrong and it's something I need to fix in both my life...

And at least try with Hinata's.

Right now, we honestly have no feelings for each other. Well, if you count her feelings of regret forever getting to know me in the first place then maybe.

Other than that.

I stopped in my tracks.

Things are about to get too complicated for my liking but...

A father's gotta do what a father's gotta do, right?

"N-Naruto-kun?" hey, I know that shuttering voice.

"Hinata?" I turned to the bench where we were sitting at just a couple hours before to see the mother of my child staring back at me. Around her body, a simple light jacket that isn't going to protect her against this late October weather.

"What are you doing out here?" I asked, shoving my hands back into my pocket as I took the three steps towards her.

She shrugged, "I'm just...registering."

When I drew closer, I recognized the ultrasound picture in her hand. It wasn't too light where she was sitting but just enough to make out the little mass laying in her belly.

"Here," I sighed when I looked up at her. 

Hinata wasn't shivering but she must be cold. So I did the most gentlemanly thing I could manage and slid my own jacket off. She was already refocused on the picture when I laid the jacket on her slim shoulders.