After a slightly awkward yet mostly pleasant meal with his family, Naruto retreated to his bedroom alongside Hinata as the kids both went into their respective rooms.

“My Hinata~” Naruto happily hugged his wife the moment they entered the bedroom, making the mother of two blush as she realized where Naruto was going to lead this. He tightened his arms and pulled her off of her feet before twirling her around, making her yelp as she grasped his shoulders tightly. In the position, Naruto’s face was directly pressing against Hinata’s ample bosom and he didn’t shy away from showing his appreciation to her.

The woman squealed when she felt Naruto’s lips brushing the naked skin of her chest. She didn’t even notice when he tore apart her hoodie from the neckline to reveal more of her cleavage. She felt a sense of heat gathering in her abdomen when she felt his lips clamping a part of her skin between her breasts and sucking. Just as Naruto stopped twirling her and slowed down, Hinata was quick to put some force in her arms, attempting to push Naruto back.

“Stop, Naruto-kun …” She said, blushing yet with a sense of sternness in her tone that told Naruto that she had an important reason behind her resistance. He kept his arms wrapped around her and kept her off her feet while pulling back from her chest and looking up at her face.

“What is it, Hinata?” He asked, meeting Hinata’s white pupil-less eyes, “Everything okay?”

“Let me down, Naruto-kun,” She said with a stable voice. “There’s something we need to talk about.”

“Okay,” Naruto nodded, loosening his arms and letting Hinata’s feet touch the ground. His wife’s hoodie now had a much deeper neckline, torn lower than even her breasts, it was barely keeping the bountiful mounds hidden and leaving Naruto with a tantalizing view of half of her breasts visible from the middle. Hinata didn’t seem to mind his impudent gaze at her body, though the blush that went up to her ears did give away her embarrassment.

“Sit with me,” Hinata went over to the bed and sat down. Patting the surface beside her, she called Naruto.

Naruto took a breath and approached Hinata, sitting down beside her, he wrapped an arm around her shoulder, “What’s wrong?”

“I should be asking you that question, Naruto-kun,” Hinata spoke, turning to look Naruto in his eyes. “This drastic change in priorities, seeming endless affection. Don’t get me wrong, I truly love how you are spending more time with us, but I can’t help but be skeptical. Did something happen, my husband?”

A stuffy feeling took root in Naruto’s chest when he heard Hinata’s words. He had no idea about what he should say to her. He was of half a mind to just divulge everything to her, but that conversation wasn’t going to play out the way he wanted. Hinata was different from Kurama. Ultimately, the Hokage decided to give her a mix of the truth along with some omissions. “Sasuke is returning to Konoha,” He said, “Most likely with news of the Ōtsutsuki. The world is about to be embroiled in chaos of an unimaginable scale.”

Hinata took a breath after hearing Naruto’s words, feeling comforted by the presence of his arm around her shoulder, she leaned toward him, resting her head on his shoulder, “We were expecting something like this. The signs were there for years, but not so soon …” She said, raising her palm and tracing it along Naruto’s chest and resting it directly over his heart. The steady beating of his heart calmed her down.

“Not only that,” Naruto said, “but I also have a premonition that whatever is coming, we aren’t ready for it. Not even close. I’m not going to leave my kids all alone to deal with these problems all on their own.” He turned his head and rubbed his nose on Hinata’s head, inadvertently smelling her hair as he planted his lips on top of her head. “Do you understand?” He asked her.

“Will you tell me about this premonition of yours?” Hinata asked him, “I wish to know …”

“I won’t know anything concrete until Sasuke returns,” Naruto said. “This whole thing could just be a bad feeling and nothing more.”

“But what if it is more?” Hinata asked, “What then?”

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“I have some things in mind,” Naruto said. “My first priority, however, is to take a trip to the Land of Whirlpools.”

“Do you think that you will find something in the ruins of Uzushiogakure?” Hinata asked, understanding what Naruto meant by going to the Land of Whirlpools, “I’m sure that everything valuable has already been ransacked by Iwa, Kumo, and Suna after their joint attack. At this point, those ruins are probably completely empty. Missing-nin from any of the villages won’t spend the resources to travel to such a remote place. Ultimately, it’s going to be nothing more than an empty, ransacked ruin.”

“You are right about that,” Naruto said, “but I doubt that any of the three villages would just allow me to waltz into their treasuries and take away the stolen relics and knowledge. Better to start with the source and if I find traces of something useful, I will follow it. If I don’t find anything, then we will see about the more extreme route.”

“When do you plan to leave?” Hinata asked with a sigh, hoping that Naruto would at least wait for the Chunin exams to cheer Boruto on.

“Don’t worry,” Naruto said with a smile, reading his wife’s thoughts. “I don’t plan to up and disappear in the morning. I will go after the chunin exams are taken care of. Tomorrow, I will send a shadow clone there to probe the situation.”

“I feel that …” Hinata hesitated, but Naruto patiently waited for her to speak up, gently rubbing her shoulder. “I feel that there’s something more. Something that you aren’t telling me about. Is there something specific that you expect to locate in Uzushiogakure?”

“I really can’t get anything by from you, can I?” Naruto smiled fondly. “Yes. I do expect to find something. Call it another premonition of sorts, but I feel that there is something in the ruins of Uzu that only someone with the blood of the Uzumaki can uncover. And that something might just be the key to defeating the Ōtsutsuki.”

“Let’s lie down,” Hinata said standing up and walking around to her side of the bed. “You are going to stay for Hima’s birthday, aren’t you?”

“Of course,” Naruto said before pausing for a moment. It was at this point that he’d just received the memories of his shadow clone that was at Sakura’s place. Quickly processing everything, he scooted backward instead of walking around to get into his spot. “I feel like I’d lost my priorities for a while there when I became Hokage. But I’m going to move differently now. You’ll see.”

“Move over …” Hinata said with a crooked smile on her face as she rested a hand on her hip. Naruto didn’t seem to hear her as he lay on his side and rested his head on his hand, looking at his wife.

“Don’t want to,” He said, fixing his eyes on the massive cleavage that Hinata was sporting after he tore apart her hoodie. “You aren’t wearing your bra …”

Hinata blushed, realizing Naruto’s intentions, “I took it off before dinner. You know I don’t like wearing one when I’m at home. Now move over, I want to rest.” She tried to push Naruto away with a gentle push.

Just as Hinata’s hands made contact with Naruto’s arm to push him to his side, he wrapped his arm around her and pulled her into his arms.

“Naruto-kun!” She squealed before exclaiming with a gasp as she felt Naruto wrapping his arms around her. Her back was pressed against his chest as she felt his hands moving along her torso.

“My Hinata~” Naruto whispered in her ear as his hand slipped into the torn cleavage of her hoodie, tracing his fingers along the skin of her soft mound.

Hinata gasped as she felt a familiar shocking sensation that came from Naruto’s touch on her breast, “Not … not today, Naruto-kun …” She said with difficulty, unable to resist as Naruto’s hands kept moving along her body. The other had already slipped under her hoodie and was caressing her stomach, slowly moving lower.

“Why is that, my love?” Naruto asked, feeling the heat radiating from her face as he whispered in her ear. “Are you down?” She merely responded with a shy nod, unable to form any words in response to his question.

Naruto sighed, still continuing his caresses but they got more gentle and less passionate than before. He continued gently rubbing her belly but pulled his hand away from her breast, bringing that arm under Hinata’s head, and allowing her to use it as a pillow. He leaned closer to her, “If it didn’t hurt you so much, I would’ve taken you anyway, the blood be damned.”

Hinata didn’t doubt Naruto’s words in the slightest. She was intimately familiar with his Uzumaki virility, having already sired two children within a few years of their marriage. It took her quite a bit of work to convince him to take preventative measures, otherwise, they would’ve had far more than just two children by now.

“I’m sorry, Naruto-kun,” She apologized, feeling guilty as she felt his excitement intimately poking her from behind. They had discovered this particular problem during the first month of their marriage. Sex would be an extremely painful process for her during her time of the month.

“Hey now,” Naruto whispered in her ear, “it’s not your fault. So what if I have to hold myself back for a few days? It’s always so much more satisfactory when we do it after holding back for a while. Especially how you agree to all my demands, my debauched wife …”

Hinata only blushed more when she heard Naruto’s words, slapping his arm.

“You really took all of the perverse traits from your Jiraya-sensei …” She mumbled to herself, prompting Naruto to tease her even more as he continued gently rubbing her belly and comforting her.