Haru woke up somewhere he didn't recognize. His lavender eyes dart around nervously. It looked like his kidnappers didn't realize he was awake. He had to act fast. He Summons Aoda and promptly passes out again. It took so much chakra to summon the giant serpent and it was just too much strain for his young chakra network.

"Dammit! We should have bound the kid's hands!" Zaku growls and looks at the massive summon in terror.

How the fuck were they going to deal with a snake the size of a two or three story building? His employees, if you could call them that, usually captured their prey by drugging them. Most were not combat fighters. And they were going to need combat fighters to deal with THAT.

"Master Sasuke?" Aoda calls out.

Sasuke was wrong. He didn't sense Master Sasuke at all. He looks around in confusion and sees the Hatchling. He was unconscious. Well it didn't take a genius to figure out that Haru was in trouble and had summoned him for help.

"You will put Master Haru down immediately." He hisses.

"Zaku! What do we do?" The leader of the Black Market Dealers hears one of his followers cry out desperately.

"You damn idiots. Kill the snake!" He growls.

"You really should get a nicer master." Aoda observes as he swings his mighty tail at them.

"You know he's right, you are a jerk sometimes!" One says.

"QUIET!" Zaku snaps.

Meanwhile Sasuke returns to his home. He found Hinata unconscious. Sasuke rushes to her side.

"Hinata! Wake up!" He says, cradling her in his arms.

"Sasuke?" She asks and her eyes were unfocused from the effects of the sleeping gas.

"Yes, it's me. What happened?" He asks and holds her tightly, afraid to let her go.

"We were attacked. Sleeping gas. There were a lot of them. Where's Haru?" She looks around for her son and then her eyes widen in horror.

"They took him!" She says.

"I'll get him back. I promise. Naruto stay with Hinata." He says, as the blonde comes into view.

"You got it! Don't worry. I'll protect her." His best friend assures Sasuke and stands next to Hinata protectively.

"I'll fix this. I promise I will." He tells Hinata, kissing her forehead, and then darts off like a bat straight out of Hell.

"Sasuke, slow down. You'll need help if you are going to follow that trail." He hears another voice call out a few minutes later.

"Hiashi." He says suspiciously and eyes the Hyuga Patriarch with distaste.

"We may not like each other. But that is my grandson and your son whose life might very well be at stake. For his sake, just this once we will have to work together. The Byakugan is better at tracking than the Sharingan." He says.

"Do it." Sasuke tells him.

"I see him! Your snake is there as well. There are a lot of men. I'd estimate at least a hundred. About a mile due East of here." He states.

"A mile? Your Byakugan can see that far?" Sasuke asks.

"Yes. There is a reason why I lead my Clan. We must hurry." Hiashi says and flits off with Sasuke.

Aoda was growing annoyed. So many humans. They kept pricking him with what he assumed were tranquilizer darts. He smacks them around with his tail. Master Sasuke had said to protect the Hatchling and that was exactly what he was going to do.

"You are all going to wish that I had killed you. I sense Master Sasuke's chakra approaching swiftly." The snake warns them and wraps his tail around an unconscious Haru protectively.

His job was now very simple. Aoda would protect the Hatchling from the crossfire. He expected that Master Sasuke was going to be quite glorious in his fury. The Snake Summon was relieved in a way that Haru was unconscious. It was not proper for a Hatchling's eyes to see such...unpleasant sights.

"Hiashi, get to Haru quickly. I can see Haru is wrapped in his tail. Get him home quickly. Kill them if you have to, B\but leave the leader for me." Sasuke says.

Normally, Hiashi would argue with Sasuke. How dare he presume to order him around like he was his subordinate?! But he would have done the same thing in Sasuke's position.

A father, a real father, would always protect his children and would utterly eviscerate anyone who attacked his family. As much as he loathed Sasuke, he had the right to call First Blood.

"Haru!" Hiashi says as he swiftly approaches his grandson.

Aoda eyes Hiashi warily. He knew that this man and Master Sasuke didn't get along to put it mildly, but he could scent that Hiashi was the Hatchling's family. He had overheard Sasuke give his instructions. It was alright to entrust him with the Hatchling, but Aoda didn't like it.

"I will go with you." The snake says.

Hiashi nods. Haru was unconscious. He would need all the help he could get. He locks up the chakra of two men that rush at him and grunts when one managed to sneak up in his blind spot and hit him. He whirls around and starts exchanging blows with that man.

Back in the Uchiha District, Hinata rises to her feet. She had to go and help Haru. She couldn't just leave her family out there on her own. She had to help! Besides, those Black Market Dealers had terrorized her family. Even Hinata had her limits.

"Hinata! What are you doing? Get back here!" Naruto says.

"I'm going to help him. I can't just leave Sasuke and Haru out there to face them alone!" She says.

"Hinata, you are pregnant! You can't go rushing off into a life or death battle like that. It's no longer just your life that's at stake!" He protests.

"I know. But I can't just wait here!" She says and races off.

Naruto growls. He chases after Hinata. Dammit! Sasuke was going to kill him if he saw Hinata on the battlefield!

"You have no idea, how much I'm going to enjoy this." Sasuke states as he looks at the Dealers and activates Tsukuyomi on those unfortunate enough to be within his range.

It was only a handful, but the fact their comrades had stopped moving and were suddenly screaming in agony, got the attention of those who hadn't been ensnared. In the world he created thanks to his eyes, he started by stabbing at all their non-vital points with his sword.

Sasuke made sure to twist the sword while it was still inside them to inflict as much pain as possible. Then he skinned them ALIVE in the world he created. He was just getting warmed up. He could make them suffer. Hinata wasn't here. He didn't have to worry about her being horrified.

"What is he doing to them?!" One of them asks.

"Some sort of Genjutsu with his eyes. Don't look directly at him!" Another answers.

"Oh that's not going to save you. You wanted to chop MY son up into parts and sell them. There's nothing on this earth that is going to save you. By the time I'm done with you, you are going to be RELIEVED to go to Hell." Sasuke promises and soon flickers behind the one that realized their agony was connected to Sasuke's eyes, stabbing him through the lung with his sword.

He smirks when he saw a splash of deep red mix with the green grass. Blood red. Let the bastard bleed to death, slowly. Let him watch as he ripped apart his comrades. Fitting. It would be fitting.

"Hiashi, duck." Aoda instructs him and the Hyuga man did indeed duck as the snake instructed.

Aoda swings his tail at some of the ninjas attacking the Hyuga Patriarch. He might not like the man, but he was trying to protect the hatchling. That was what was important.

"Sasuke!" Sasuke hears Hinata's voice and freezes.

She couldn't' be on the battlefield! Was she crazy?! She was fucking pregnant. When he got his hands on that loser, he was going to kill him.

"Sorry, bastard! She wouldn't listen to reason." Naruto says.

"Hinata, go home NOW. I got this. There's no reason for you to endanger yourself. Aoda has him." Sasuke says.

"Sasuke, I love you. But you are stupid if you think that I'm going to let them go unpunished for what they put our family through." Hinata says.

He tilts his head to the side. Hinata on a revenge kick? That was new. Honestly, it was such an alien concept to him that he found himself frozen in shock.

Well she was a mother now. It was only natural she'd want to protect her children. But still, Hinata was sweet and kind. Her wanting revenge didn't compute.

"FUCK!" He hisses when he feels a blade go through his stomach. Zaku had snuck up behind him while he was talking to Hinata.

"SASUKE!" She cries out.

The sounds of his mother screaming woke Haru. He looks around and watches with horror. A sword was sticking through Sasuke's stomach. He had to him! He felt just a flicker of chakra in his system. But it should be enough. He could do it. It was just like Mikoto had said once...

"Big sister, how did you and Takeshi do that?" He asked in amazement, when he saw the Sand Ninja and Mikoto fight their way through hundreds of enemy ninjas.

It had been an ambush. They had gotten separated from the rest of their families on a diplomatic trip. It was a set up.

These weren't just bandits. These were highly trained enemy ninjas. Father had shown him the Bingo Book once and Haru recognized some of the faces in the crowd. Yet, Takeshi and Mikoto had defeated them all.

"They had the numbers, but we had something even better." She said as she embraced her younger brother.

"What's that?" Haru asked.

"Love. Love is the strongest jutsu of them all. You will always be at your strongest when you are fighting to protect someone precious to you, as you and Takeshi are to me." She said smiling.

Haru didn't really understand it then, but he did now. Normally, he wouldn't have tried to access his chakra when it was this low. He knew how dangerous it was, even at five. But his father needed him NOW. He couldn't wait for Haru to feel better. So he raced over, running as fast as his little legs could carry him, and snuck up behind Zaku.

"FIREBALL JUTSU!" He says and Zaku was soon screaming as the flames burned his skin to the bone.

"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" Hinata snaps at the Market Dealers as she raced over towards her lover and their son.

SMACK. BAM. CRUNCH. SNAP. Her Gentle Fist was being anything but gentle that day. There were so many of them. It was like whack a mole, as soon as you had one down, another would pop up.

"SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" Naruto yells, deciding to speed up the process and helping Hinata fight through the crowd.

The bastard needed help now. Thank God that Hinata was a medic. She'd be able to patch him up. They just had to get to him before he bleed out.

"That's my boy." Sasuke says proudly at his Fireball Jutsu and slurring his words.

He'd lost too much blood. Sasuke knew that. A stomach wound was a serious one. Even Uchihas were not immune to bleeding to death.

"Father! Stay up! Stay up! If you fall asleep it will be bad!" Haru shouts at him.

"Y-Yeah. It would." Sasuke admits.

"Mikoto, Tai, Sachi, Akemi, me, and Arashi. We call Arashi, Sparky!" He says, trying to distract his father and keep him awake through the pain.

"And why do we call him S-parky?" Sasuke asks, coughing up blood.

"He makes lots of sparks! He has strong lightning chakra!" Haru tells his father, in a desperate bid to keep him awake.

"Well that makes sense." Sasuke says and tries to focus on Haru's voice, but it was just so hard to stay awake.

"I got you!" Hinata says and leans over Sasuke, beginning to perform a healing jutsu.

"Mother!" Haru cries out in relief.

"It'll be okay, Haru. Reach into my pouch and take out some red pills. Your father has lost a lot of blood. He'll need blood replenishing pills." Hinata informs him.

"Here, mother." Haru says, digging out the requested pills from the pouch, and Hinata places them in Sasuke's mouth.

Zaku had fallen to the ground, surrounded by fire. But Haru was only a five year old child. A child that had already used far more chakra to summon Aoda than the kid should have had by any reasonable measure. His flames while they burnt hotly, didn't last for long. Zaku could feel that his skin had been badly charred, but he was alive. He could move.

"DIE!" He says and goes to slam his sword through Hinata and Haru.

"You are mistaken. It is you who shall die." Hiashi informs him, bolting over, grabbing Zaku by the neck, and slitting his throat with a kunai.

"Finally, he decided to be useful." Sasuke laughs and winces in pain.

"Sasuke! Don't speak. You lost a lot of blood. Save your strength. We gave you some pills, but you have to take it easy." Hinata warns him.

Sasuke nods and smiles up at his future wife. Beautiful. He was vaguely aware of Naruto telling them that he and Hiashi were going to take Haru home. Haru was safe. Hinata was safe. Mikoto was safe. That was all that mattered.

Well ALMOST all that mattered. He had to send a message after all. No one was going to attack his family again if they weren't suicidal.

He rises to his feet, Hinata had patched up his stomach. He decided to take advantage of this. There were still Black Market Dealers on the field. They had to be dealt with.

"Hinata, you should go back with them. You don't need to see this." He warns her.

"Sasuke, I love you. ALL of you. That includes your dark side. You don't have to protect me from it. Besides, you aren't the only one who is angry." She says and shocks him by stealing his sword.

"Hinata?" He asks.

He blinks when he saw his innocent kitten run around on the battlefield with that sword. Sasuke was almost positive she had never used a sword before. Her technique was...jerky to say the least. But while crude, it appeared very effective at...decapitation.

"That works..." Sasuke says and he rushes at the remaining Dealers, his Chidori charged fist tearing through their chests and ripping out their hearts literally.

Hinata was decapitating people with a sword. The world had completely shifted on its axis apparently. Soon enough the two very much angry parents finish off the rest of the Dealers.

"We are going to need some tree branches, big ones." Hinata says.

"What for?" He asks in confusion.

"To mount their heads on and place them in areas known for their Black Markets. It sends a message." She answers him.

"Who are you and what have you done with my Hinata?" Sasuke asks and raises an eyebrow.

"They tried to cut out our son's eyes and kill you. I can't forgive them for that. I want to make sure it doesn't happen again." She says and looks at her feet.

"I can't either. So...you are good at playing with both of my swords." Sasuke says.

"SASUKE!" She squeaks.

"Was it wrong that I found the whole vengeful Goddess thing, hot in a disturbing way?" He questions.

"Probably." Hinata says.

"I'll just put that on the list of things that I think that I know I shouldn't. It's a long list. It's likely number 773 or somewhere around there. Let's go home." He says, offering his hand to Hinata, and he leaves some clones behind to conduct the gruesome task of sending a message.

"Yes." She says with a smile, taking his hand, and heading back to the Uchiha District with her future husband.

"We should bathe and change our clothes before seeing Haru. I don't think it'd be a good idea for him to see us drenched in blood. He'd probably think it was ours." Sasuke states.

"Good point." She agrees and they head in through the backdoor of the house and into one of the bathrooms.

He turns on the water and Hinata strips. She was eager to get the blood off her. She felt like she'd never be CLEAN again. Sasuke soon follows suit and helps her in.

He smiles and holds her against him. Sasuke gently starts cleaning her. Hinata was relieved to see that it was actually washing off.

She'd never killed in cold blood like that before. She hoped she never had to do it again. How could Sasuke even look at her the same way again?

"You feel guilty. You shouldn't. They would have done worse to Haru. And your list of "sins" is still far smaller than my own." He reassures her and kisses her shoulder.

"You don't look at me differently now?" She whispers.

"Well now I know not to piss you off. But other than that, no. You're still my kitten." He tells her and wraps his arms around her tightly.

"Good and you're still my Sasuke." She says.

"Once we are clean, we should probably take you and Haru to the hospital. I want to make sure there weren't any negative effects from the sleeping gas." He tells her.

"Good idea." Hinata agrees and leans into his hold.

"I love you. But we shouldn't keep Haru waiting." He says, turning the water off, and drying them.

"You're right. He needs us. He's got to be terrified." She says with a frown.

"Anyone would be." Sasuke states and they quickly dress, heading off to see Haru.

"Is he alright?" Hinata asks her father.

"He overused his chakra. I gave him some replenishing pills. Haru is just going to have to sleep this off. There's no other cure for it. Did he really summon Aoda?" He questions.

"I taught him. I see why he wanted to know now." Sasuke says.

"Astonishing." Hiashi says.

"He takes after his father and is very proud of his big snake." Hinata says.

"HINATA!" Hiashi says scandalized.

"She's pregnant. How do you think that happened? Did you think we called the stork?" Sasuke says with a smirk and he heard Naruto snicker.

"Uchiha!" Hiashi growls warningly.

"Stop. Stop. You two were finally getting along, sorta." She says.

"Alright." They say with a sigh.

"Haru, we are going to the hospital. We want to make sure that neither of us got sick from the sleeping gas. Okay?" Hinata asks gently.

"Okay, mother." Haru says, using Sasuke as his own personal jungle gym, and taking his place on his father's shoulder's.

Hiashi raises an eyebrow. It was such a strange sight, to see Sasuke Uchiha give someone a piggyback ride. But the oldest Uchiha seemed used to it. It was as if he had done this many times before. Maybe he had.

Hinata, Sasuke, and Haru takes off. They leave behind a very confused Hiashi and an amused Naruto. Hiashi shakes his head and decides to wait with Naruto. Going with them would only mean a more crowded hallway. Life was strange sometimes.

"Sakura? I need you to have a look at Haru and Hinata. They both were hit with sleeping gas. Hinata is pregnant, so obviously I'm concerned for the baby. AHHHH MY EYES. MY EYES!" Sasuke says as he walks in on Sakura and Lee locked in a rather hated lovers' embrace.

"Sasuke! Don't you know how to knock?!" Sakura blushes scarlet and hides behind a curtain.

"It's a hospital! I shouldn't have to. How was I supposed to know you were Playing Doctor with Bushy Brows?" He snaps.

Sasuke blinks. What happened to Lee's eyebrows? They were no longer bushy. What was going on here?

"I had them shaved. Sakura said she'd only go out with me if I changed my clothes and had my eyebrows fixed." Lee tells him.

"Right. Well um good call. Anyway, Sakura?" He asks.

"Give me a minute to throw on some clothes and then I'll have a look at them." She promises Sasuke and the eldest Uchiha nods, leaving that room.

"Sasuke, are you alright?" Hinata asks.

"I saw something that no one should ever see. It was horrible. I am traumatized for life." He says.

"What did you see?" She asks and is suddenly very worried for Sasuke.

"Sakura and Lee...training." He answers.

"Really? Sakura and Lee? No way. Are you sure?" The bluenette asks with a giggle.

"I know what I saw. What I saw can't be unseen. My eyes." He whispers in horror.

"Sasuke, aren't you being a little overdramatic?" She inquires with a giggle.

"No. No. I'm not being overdramatic. If you saw what I saw, you would be traumatized too!" He protests.

"You poor baby." Hinata says in amusement.

"Yes, yes that's right." He says.

"Would some training later, make you feel better?" She questions.

"Yes, yes it would." Sasuke replies.

"I don't know why people say it's hard to understand you. All it takes to make you happy is your family, training, and some tomatoes." She says.

"Mhm." He agrees and kisses her.

Sakura comes out a few minutes later. She had thankfully dressed herself. So Sasuke didn't need to be traumatized further that day.

"Let's have a look at you and Haru." Sakura says kindly.

Hinata, Sasuke, and Haru nod. Hinata goes first as she was pregnant. Haru yawns and uses his father's back and shoulders as a pillow of sorts. Poor kid was exhausted.

"Well I ran some chakra and blood tests. Looks like it was just a sleeping gas. No harm was done to the baby as far as I can tell." She assures her.

"Good." Sasuke and Hinata say.

"I could have told you that. Big sister is perfectly healthy." Haru mumbles sleepily.

"Alright, Haru. It's your turn." Sakura says.

"Okay." He says and lets Sakura run the tests.

"He overdid it. But the chakra pills are already working. He's going to need to sleep it off. Nothing more I can do for him really." She says.

"Good. Let's get the both of you home. You both could use some sleep." Sasuke says.

Sasuke takes his family home. He tucks Haru in and takes Hinata to their room. Hiashi was still there. He couldn't blame the Hyuga Patriarch for sticking around this time. He was obviously concerned for his daughter and grandkids.

"They are both going to be fine." Sasuke says.

"Good. You did well today, Uchiha. Protecting them." He says and turns to head off, along with Naruto.

"So did you." He says.

Hinata smiles. Well it was a start. She knew that both men loved her deeply in their own ways. If nothing else, they'd tolerate each other if it meant protecting her and Haru. She squeaks when she feels Sasuke scoop her up and carry he to the bed Bridal Style.

"Get some rest. Now that the Market Dealers are gone. We can start planning the wedding and you are going to need to be extremely well rested for the Honeymoon." He tells her.

"Eep!" She says.

"And it doesn't really matter where we go. You aren't leaving the hotel room anyway. So you can pick." He finished with a smirk as he joins Hinata in bed.

"Promises. Promises." She says.'

"Oh trust me, I don't make any promises that I can't keep." He tells her and Hinata shivers when she saw those ruby red eyes of his, she didn't doubt that for a second.