Tsunade was wondering just what she had done, be it in this life or a past one, that made some almighty presence of this world hate her so much that it would throw something like what she was currently dealing with on top of all her god-forsaken paperwork. ‘Why did I agree to take this thankless job again?’ she thought while rubbing the bridge of her nose. ‘Oh, right! A blond haired blue eyed, orange wearing idiot. I swear, nothing is ever easy once Naruto gets involved, is it?!? And to think he only got back from his training trip a month ago.’ Slumping slightly in her seat she cast a glance back at the ANBU that was currently reporting to her about Naruto’s resent… ‘Actions’ seemed to be accurate enough word for it. She could see why the ANBU before her was so shaken. 'She definitely didn’t look like that a few hours ago.’ Mentally Tsunade pulled up what she remembered of this particular ANBU from earlier this morning.
The ANBU was female, as one could tell by her figure. She was about a head shorter then Naruto, her poise perfect as one would expect from a member of her clan. Her midnight dark hair fell gracefully down to about her mid-back. Her body was the sort that turned the heads of men and most women would kill to have, the grace in which she moved with only added to her beauty. She wore the standard black pants and long shirt, with the standard ANBU armor consisting of; one chest plate, two armguards with extensions to cover the top of her hands, a set of shin-guards and a simple Ninjato blade strapped to her back just under the ends of her hair. The only non-standard to her attire was the color of her armor which was all black with a dull-dark red on the edges and her ninja sandals and kunai holster, both of which were black. Turning her gaze upward, Tsunades’ eyes settled on her white mask with the look of a grinning wolf.
‘Yes. That was only a few hours ago, and now look at her... She’s barely 2 years older than Naruto and now has to deal with something like this…sigh… Though Hinata might have it even harder than this one.’
Sighing for what seemed like the umpteenth time since this meeting with Wolf started Tsunade turned her gaze back to the mask once more. “Take that thing off, would you.” She muttered. Wolf, though slightly shocked, proceed to, admittedly shakily, do as her leader commanded of her. Removing the mask revealed the pale cream skin and white eye of the Hyuuga clan. Her right eye was covered with a custom made eye-patch that required no bands to hold it in place and simply covered her eye, extending to cover the area that would show her pronounced veins when Byakugan was active. The patch had a custom made seal on the inside; it was meant to stop any chakra from passing thru, save for the bare minimum.
‘Sad to know her right eyes “condition” was caused by her own father trying to alter the Caged-Bird seal that was placed on her. Though, I guess he did succeed in some manner of speaking.’ Deciding the young women before her had been left nervously standing in place long enough. Tsunade attempted to try and clarify what she had just heard. So with her voice of authority in place she began. “Wolf, no Tsubaki Hyuga, please tell me once more what you saw.”
Nodding the now named Tsubaki began to repeat her report of observing one Naruto Uzumaki. But when she got to the part of Naruto performing the unknown justu Tsunade cut in to get a better understand of what happened. “Tsubaki, your saying that Naruto Uzumaki preformed the justu with the intent of it affecting Hinata Hyuga, yes?” getting a nod Tsunade continued. “You then explained how Hinata suddenly collapsed to the ground clutching her mid-section, and even how she seemed to be affected by the justu itself.” She paused for just a moment but, when she continued Tsubaki could clearly hear the irritation in her leaders’ voice. “All this and you have still yet to tell me why you seem to be in the same position as one Hinata Hyuga! SO, I suggest you tell me how you seemingly became pregnant yourself within the timeframe of 5 hours!”
Tsubaki, for all her ANBU training could only look down in shame as her leader finished her irritated rant. Looking down however, only made her feel even more shame with a bit of embarrassment thrown in to the mix. Her eye took in the image of the pale orb of flesh that now sat were her once firm, flat stomach had been. She couldn’t even hide it from view, as it seemed to defiantly shove her normally semi-loose fitting black shirt aside as if to say, ‘Here I am world! Look upon me in awe and amazement!’ She had entered the Hokage’s’ office in a rush, huffing and puffing, her face bright red, though her mask had, thankfully, kept that hidden from view. She had even been forced to remove and leave behind her armor chest-plate to keep herself from, likely, snapping it in half.
Tsunades’ anger and irritation however, was squashed the moment she saw the defeated and utterly humiliated look cross the pregnant women’s’ face. Taking in her size with a practiced eye Tsunade concluded that Tsubaki would likely be carrying a set of large triplets or maybe a set of small quadruplets. ‘And from what she has told me, Hinata is even bigger! Oh, joy…’ She snapped from her thoughts just in time to barely catch the whispered explanation from the young girl. “…a pulse, mam.” “Excuse me?”
Watching Tsubaki take a deep breath before answering with a stronger voice, “The justu let off some sort of pulse, with Uzumaki at the center. I activated my Byakugan just in time to see it hit me. After the growing stopped, something I was forced to remove my chest-plate for, I panicked for a few moments before, calming myself and scanned the area around me with my Byakugan. The pulse, thankfully, didn’t go much farther than my position, so it was easy to scan the entire radius of the justus’ range and found no other females to be affected. As far as I could tell only Lady Hinata and myself were affected.”
‘Well thank god for small miracles then! But, we still need to do something about Hinata and Tsubaki. Their clan will not take them returning like this very well. Hinata will likely be branded and Tsubaki might be banished from the Hyuga clan along with Hinata. Something needs to be done….’ And so with that a plan started to form in Tsunades’ mind. One that might give the brat a family and give the two girls of the Hyuga clan protection from their own traditions. ‘That brat better be thankful for this. Hmm, I wonder how he'll take being engaged to two girls?’
“Tsubaki, tell me how do you feel about the idea of being able to keep your old friend, Hinata, safe and being able to live as part of a happy family with her?” The blush and almost dreamy look on her face gave Tsunade all the answer she needed. ‘Good thing her files imply her to be bi-sexual, and I’m sure she can come to love being a Mrs. Uzumaki just as much as she seems to love the soon-to-be Hinata Uzumaki.’ And with a small grin she started to put her plan in to motion.