The Girl Under the Mask-Kakashi x OC Romance

Chapter 51

It was my last night in the hospital, and I couldn't fall asleep for nothing. I don't know why, though. Kakashi had gotten rid of my fear of returning home still dammed by the jutsu.

But still I was nervous. I'd been away for so long, what if things had changed? Itatsu might be more independent and not need me so much...I promised him no monster could ever take me away from him, and now here I was 9 months later, gone from him all this time. I left him, and yet I'm the one not ready to see how he's grown without me. But he had no choice and neither did I.

And what if Kakashi and I aren't the same? Since I've been in the hospital we've been stronger than ever...but what if we're different once I leave? He's had to make due without me for so long, and now I've come back as this big pregnant woman...what if he doesn't find me attractive this way? And then we grow apart because the intimacy is gone?

I scowled and gave myself a good smack to the head. "Stop it! Stop thinking nonsense. There is nothing to worry about." I murmured to myself. I just need to get out of my head. And a good stretch might do that.

I threw off the covers and wiggled my toes. A walk sounded just perfect, actually. Out of the habit I formed whenever I got up, I reached for the IV drip to pull it with me as I walked. My hand reached out for nothing, now remembering Lady Tsunade removing it after the clamp disappeared. "That's right-" I smiled, "-I don't need it anymore."

I pushed off the bed and an uproar began in my belly. "You couldn't sleep either, huh?" I cooed to the restless girl kicking on my bladder. Glad it wasn't full right now.  "Then we'll take this walk together."

It actually felt really good to move from that bed and use my legs. I didn't like how long I'd been stuck to it. I know I needed to get better, but I'd never stayed put like that in my life. It was driving me antsy.

I walked through the dark halls of the hospital with one hand on my belly and the other skimming the bumps in the wallpaper as I walked passed. And not gonna lie, walking a dark hospital at night can give you the heebie jeebies. I was in a wing of the hospital that just had rooms for patients with minor recovery. Minor recovery meaning that at night there was just one nurse to make sure all the patients were ship shape. And the only light in the main room outside my door was a small bulb above the nurse's station. The nurses station that was currently empty with an "out for break" sign at the desk. This also meant there was no one to stop me as I roamed outside of my area of the hospital.

I weaved my way down stairs and through corridors, keeping myself entertained as I tried to see if there was one window I could see my home through from here.

There was a loud bang on the other side of two large doors down the hall that made me jump. It was followed by shouting from the other side. "Someone, please help!" I read the sign above the doors and realized I had reached the ER without meaning to.

"Oh god." I overheard another voice gasp, much quieter than whoever was shouting; but they were close enough to the doorway for me to overhear. "What do we do?"

What do you do? This is a hospital, isn't it.

"Please, it's my son. He snuck out in the dark to play and fell from a tree. I don't know how long he'd been hurt before I found him." A woman-clearly his mother-sobbed for help.

I glanced through the small window in the doors to see a very distraught woman clutching her boy maybe a year older than Itatsu. Her hands and chest were smeered in his blood from carrying him. It couldn't have been avoided if she tried, looking at that wound in his neck. A broken tree limb skewered him like a blade, holding steady right in his throat. And at this point, that branch was probably the only thing keeping him from bleeding out, but clearly it couldn't stay there as well.