I'm Going to Be a Dad!

Naruto pulled Hinata into his arms ten times faster than he threw a punch.

It wasn't the usual domineering, aggressive embrace, but rather an extremely careful one, like holding a wisp of moonlight that might dissipate at any moment.

"Your eyes have become so beautiful."

He lowered his head, his thumb brushing against Hinata's trembling eyelashes.

Hinata buried her face in his chest, her shoulders trembling violently, her silvery-white pupils glistening with tears.

It's been half a month since we last met.

She practiced every day until her veins turned blue and her fingertips bled, all so that when he returned, he would see a version of herself worthy of him.

"Go inside and cry."

Naruto smirked, put an arm around her waist, and led her inside. "The door's open; it wouldn't look good if those Hyuga Clan."

Bai followed quietly behind, closing the door behind him, a slight smile playing on his lips, without saying a word.

Tayuya wanted to follow him in, but was silently stopped at the door by Shiro.

"... Okay then."

Tayuya pouted, turned around and walked downstairs, "Locked out again."

The scene in the living room made Naruto pause in his tracks.

The coffee table next to the sofa was filled with various tonics and warm jujube soup. Karin was carefully pouring water into a cup, her hands trembling as if she were defusing a bomb.

Shizune crouched beside the sofa, her fingers resting on Hinata's wrist, seemingly performing a routine check.

Upon seeing Naruto enter, the two stood up simultaneously.

Karin's expression was extremely subtle—between excitement and nervousness. Her lips moved, but she managed to squeeze out only, "Naruto- nii... you, you sit down first."

Shizune immediately took two steps back, making way for him, with a look of relief on her face that said, "You're finally back, I can hand over the shift now."

Naruto narrowed his eyes.

He glanced at Karin's trembling hands as she served the water, then at Shizune's deliberate stepping aside, and finally at Hinata, who was seated in the center of the sofa, covered with a thin blanket, with three bowls of different flavored nourishing soups in front of her.

This is quite a spectacle.

It wasn't like welcoming her husband home.

Like serving an empress during her postpartum period.

"... What happened?"

Naruto pressed Hinata back onto the sofa, then squatted down in front of her, placing his hands on her knees and looking up at her.

Hinata's tears hadn't stopped.

His face was reflected in her silvery-white pupils, and her lips moved several times.

"Naruto-kun."

She finally spoke.

The sound was extremely soft.

So quiet that it could be drowned out by the chirping of cicadas outside the window.

"I... I'm pregnant."

The world was silent for two seconds.

Naruto's expression went from confusion to blankness to --

"Got it?"

He repeated it.

The tone was frighteningly flat.

Hinata gripped the edge of the blanket tightly with her fingertips, tears pattering onto the back of her hand.

She thought he would be unhappy, thought the timing was wrong, thought—

Naruto suddenly stood up.

The chair legs scraped against the floor with a screeching sound.

"I'm going to be a dad?!"

That shout made all thirty Hyuga Clan guards downstairs Byakugan.

Naruto cupped Hinata's face in his hands, wiping away her tears with his thumbs, his azure eyes burning with a bright fire.

"How many days has it been? Who checked? Is it confirmed?"

Three questions were fired off in quick succession.

Hinata could answer, a loud, sobbing voice came from the doorway.

"Yesterday! The highest-level confirmed case in the medical team!!"

I don't know when Hiashi came upstairs, but he was standing by the door frame, his eyes red and his eyes streaked with tears.

The head of the Hyuga Main House cried like a child, his nose turning red.

"These are the first direct descendants of the Hyuga Clan and Uzumaki clans!"

Hiashi's voice trembled, "For twelve hundred years, the Hyuga Clan has never produced a descendant with silver-white eye power— Naruto! This child is destined to rewrite history!"

Naruto turned and glanced at him.

Then he laughed.

That smile wasn't the mockery he usually showed to enemies, nor the seductive charm he used when flirting, nor the arrogance he displayed when facing a powerful opponent.

It was pure, unadulterated joy.

"Father in law."

He called out, his tone unusually solemn, "Thank you for taking care of her."

Hiashi nodded vigorously, unable to say anything.

Naruto knelt down in front of Hinata again.

This time, the movements were incredibly gentle.

He slowly reached out and placed his palm on Hinata's still flat stomach.

It's warm.

Soft.

Inside lies a brand new life, one that belongs to him.

Let me hear it.

He turned his head and pressed his ear against it.

Hinata's hands trembled as she touched his blond hair, her fingertips digging into the strands, tears silently streaming down her face.

Quiet.

Utter silence.

Naruto closed his eyes, instinctively activating Mind's Eye of the Kagura's Eye perception mode—

The next second.

His pupils contracted sharply.

Within that faint life form, an extremely pure Chakra fluctuation was pulsating rhythmically.

This is not ordinary Chakra.

That is...

Naruto's breath hitched for a second.

That noble, bluish-purple light, seemingly capable of distorting space and controlling gravity and repulsion, flickered extremely faintly deep within Hinata's abdominal cavity.

Like a star yet to be born.

Deep within my mind, a system notification rang out.

[Warn--]

[An abnormal bloodline mutation has been detected in the host's offspring embryo!]

[Analysis in progress... Analysis complete.]

[The embryo's eye meridians have already exhibited a dual genetic superposition state of "Pure Byakugan" and "Uzumaki Sage Body Yang Release"--]

[Preliminary assessment: This descendant possesses the theoretical conditions to awaken the "Tenseigan".]

[Tenseigan: The supreme Dōjutsu in the legends of the Ōtsutsuki Clan. It controls gravity and repulsion, and can manipulate the cycle of life and death.]

[System Assessment: If the bloodline is fully awakened--]

[He will be born with the first naturally divine body in the Shinobi World since the Sage of Six Paths.]

Naruto slowly raised his head.

Something was churning rapidly in his azure eyes.

He placed his palm on Hinata's lower abdomen and tightened it slightly.

No one spoke in the living room.

Bai stood in the corner, quietly watching this scene.

Karin gripped the cup tightly with both hands, her breathing rapid.

Shizune, her head was lowered, her bangs covering most of her face.

The Hiashi was still wiping away tears at the entrance.

Only Naruto knows.

This child--

It's not just the starting point for the Uzumaki Clan's revival.

It redefines the ceiling of the entire Shinobi World.

He lowered his head and pressed his lips to Hinata's lower abdomen, giving it a very, very light touch.

"Little guy."

The voice was low and slow, carrying a gentleness that made everyone's heart skip a beat.

"Your father has been waiting for you for a long time."

Outside the window, the autumn wind swirls up fallen leaves.

Konoha was as bustling as ever.

No one knew that on the second floor of this unassuming apartment, a life capable of overturning the millennia-long order of the ninja world was being quietly conceived.

When Naruto looked up, his gaze passed over Hinata's shoulder and landed on the Hokage Rock in the distance outside the window.

The cliff, etched with the faces of Hokage from past generations, cast long, dark shadows in the setting sun.

The corners of his mouth slowly curved upwards.

The system's blue notification box was still floating in the corner of the view, with the last line of small text slowly scrolling up--

[Note: The complete awakening of Tenseigan embryo requires extremely stringent conditions...]

[It is recommended that the host continue to monitor this and provide sufficient "Pure Byakugan primordial Chakra" to nourish future generations.]

[Additional hint: An abnormal high-dimensional sensory fluctuation has been detected in the direction of Hidden Leaf —it seems that "someone" has also sensed the birth of this embryo.]

Naruto's smile remained unchanged.

But his hand on Hinata's waist tightened.