The Girl Under the Mask-Kakashi x OC Romance

Chapter 50

I had been hospitalized for weeks now, but finally due to be released soon. Lady Tsunade insisted I be under the hospitals attentive care until I was back to a healthy body weight.

And by healthy- nice and fat for me and the baby. At least that's how it felt to me. I know, I realized I was nearly skin and bones when I woke up in that bed, but since I woke up it had felt like they've been buttering me up with food every chance they could get.

Not that I minded all the time. It was fun some times as Naruto and the kids liked to make a game of it. Since my pregnancy was like one big craving, they liked to come up with new and weird ideas for food to make me try and then squirm as they watched me enjoy it. To name a few, I'd been fed Sriracha dipped bacon wrapped around a pickle, chocolate dipped calamari and a Macha flavored ice cream topped with jalapeños.

So I finally looked like I was back to my normal weight. And now my baby belly was nearly another month bigger AND back to its fullness now that baby and I were getting enough food. If they tried to put a corset on me now, it wouldn't be able to get around one part of me. Even my boobs were turning into bazongas-as Jiraiya so kindly described it. I doubt I'll fit into any of my bras when I leave here...mental note, Jiraiya is not allowed to help escort me home.

I was nearly ready to go home, but not out of the woods yet. Honestly, I didn't want to be out of the woods. Going home held a new fear for me. Once I go home, I'll no longer be on the serum drip that has been keeping me from using my kekkai genkai if the jutsu were to take me again. The thought of me being able to change in my own home and attack my family made me not want to go home ever again. But Kakashi believed that if I hadn't changed back after all this time, why would I now?

Cause Mother knows how to play the long game I thought bitterly as I looked over to Anko by my bedside.

Anko was the newest to join the game, "what will Ama eat?". Proudly laid before us was an assortment of dango, which she was also happily enjoying herself. She just wasn't eating the ones drizzled in soy sauce or coated in Wasabi dip. Well, I made them look so tasty she tried at least one of each, and then learned her lesson and didn't eat another.

And since Anko was with me for a lunch break, Kakashi was catching up on some matters at the Hokage's office with Lady Tsunade. This was also my opportunity to get Anko's help.

"How many mo- days till -ou out of -ere?" She reminded me of Itatsu as she talked around a mouthful of dango.

I looked down at my hands where I had kept fiddling with an empty dango stick. "Lady Tsunade thinks I should be out in 4 more days."

Anko took a big gulp and patted her chest a few times before she spoke again. "You don't sound so excited to be going home." She had noticed. "What's the matter?" She seemed to read me so well.

"I...it's just..." I kept opening my mouth, then closing it, trying to find the words without making it sound so wrong...like I was speaking behind Kakashi's back... I am speaking behind Kakashi's back...well, I got to get it out... "I need your help, Anko. For when I get out in four days. Help that's just between me and you." I finally got out.

Now that made even Anko rear back her head in surprise. "Between me and you...as in don't tell Kakashi...your husband."

"Yes, okay-" I sighed with my own disappointment, "-and I know exactly how it sounds, so stop looking at me like that!"

Anko raised her hands in surrender to judgment. "Fine. What exactly do you need my help with?"

I pulled back the hospital sheets to reveal the clamp that was still tight around my ankle. "Mother still has control over me. I don't know why she hasn't used it, but it's there. Kakashi wants me to come home, so I can be close to him and he can watch me, but...but I'm just so scared of what I might do to my family if I did...what I might do to her..." I cradled my belly tenderly. The thought of harming my unborn child made me lie awake at night since Tsunade told me when I could go home.