Passionate Kisses

Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. I hope you all enjoy the grand finale of Passionate Kisses. Oh and this could potentially be my third fanfic ever to crack the three hundred review barrier. So that's exciting! (Well for me anyway).

Important Announcements: The Passionate Kisses Sequel will likely be posted sometime tomorrow and I have a new Sasuke x Hinata story up. It's a collaborative effort with my good friend, celestia193 and called She Deserves Better. The Passionate Kisses Sequel will be called Birthright. So if any of you are interested in reading the sequel, knowing that should make it easier to find. I hope to see everyone there. =)

Chapter 30

The next day, Hinata was out shopping with her sister with the twins while Sasuke and Itachi were at work. Unfortunately, she already knew why Sasuke was unexpectedly busy. The Daimyo's body had been found in their District.

"That's terrible about what happened to the Daimyo!" Hanabi walks next to her as Hinata pushes the stroller. "He just dropped dead of a heart attack during Sakura's and Naruto's wedding!" She waves her arms frantically. "Right out of the blue too! I didn't even know he had any heart problems!"

The bluenette was trying her best to be casual about the entire affair. Well casual with the proper amount of somberness mixed in, but she wasn't sure that she was succeeding. "Well it's possible that he had a heart condition and kept it a secret or that he just didn't know he had one." She sighs. "Sometimes people can look perfectly healthy on the outside, but have serious conditions they aren't even aware of on the inside."

Hanabi nods. Thankfully, her sister appeared to accept that answer. Hinata wasn't sure what she would have done, if that wasn't the case.

"Well you're the medic." Hanabi winks at her. "So you would know."

Hinata nods and tries not to breath out a sigh of relief. "Exactly." That would have given everything away.

She didn't know this for a fact, but she doubted it was a coincidence. The Daimyo had been stalking them with a Betrothal Contract "offer" for months. And now, he just happened to die of a heart attack in their District?!

The bluenette loved her husbands. She truly did, but there was no denying that there was still a lot of darkness in their hearts. At the end of the day, they were still beautifully wounded creatures. And animals were at their most vicious when they were wounded.

"So why don't we go get them some new cute baby clothes?" Hanabi giggles and winks. "And maybe, something cute for their daddies too!"

Her sister didn't seem particularly scandalized by Hinata's marriage. The Uchiha Matriarch knew that her marriage was highly unconventional, but she couldn't imagine life without either of them at this point. Which was why, she knew she had to tread very carefully about the Daimyo Situation.

She didn't want to lose them, but she highly doubted the Daimyo's death was an accident. If she confronted them about it, Hinata didn't know what she would do, if her suspicions were confirmed.

The twins giggle madly at that. "Oh I'm sure that their Daddies would just love that." Hinata smiles, trying to hide her discomfort.

If they did it, the proper thing to do would be to turn them in. Hinata just couldn't though. She loved them too much and she didn't want her children to grow up without their fathers.

"I'm still curious." Hanabi grins at her mischievously. "How does that work exactly?"

Maybe, it was better not to know. If she didn't know for sure, her conscience could be clean and she wouldn't be at risk of losing them. If they had done it, Itachi and Sasuke were capable of covering their tracks.

The Daimyo was already dead. Her family being torn apart wouldn't bring him back. Did she really have to give up everything for a dead man? That didn't seem fair.

Mercifully, Hanabi's words provided the necessary distraction that Hinata oh so desperately needed. "Very, very well." She blushes. "I'm still not going to give you any graphic details."

"Well the fact that you have twins and haven't been married that long does tell me one thing." Hanabi grins. "It must have been a Hell of a Honeymoon."

"HANABI!" Her sister could be so outrageous sometimes!

Luckily, the twins just giggle and seem to find her embarrassment amusing. Then again, her children were generally such happy little babies. It was ironic given their father's tragic pasts, Hinata muses.

Hanabi laughs. "Alright. Alright." She opens the door of the shop for them. "Let's just go inside."

Hinata nods and follows after her. As they walk inside, she notices that they aren't the only Hyuga women there. There was a Main House and a Branch House Member inside as well. Well that and about a dozen or so other Leaf Villagers milling about.

The relationship with the rest of her family and the twins was a complicated one. Clearly, everyone was enamored with the twins. (Who wouldn't be?) But they just didn't know where they fell in the Hyuga Hierarchy.

"Lady Hanabi, Lady Hinata." The other Hyugas come over. "It's so good to see you." The Branch Member smiles at them.

The Main House Member nods and peeks into the stroller. It was hard not to fall in love with Aiya and Arashi. No matter your situation. Babies were just cute in general, but Hinata liked to think her twins were the cutest. (Though she acknowledged that every parent probably felt that way).

Hinata smiles. "It's good to see the two of you as well." There was no reason not to greet her kin happily.

They weren't regular Hyugas. So some might want to consider them Branch Members, but they were the children of the former Heiress of the Clan. Obviously, they should be Main House Members, right? But then again, they didn't have the Hyuga name, no matter how strongly their Clan's blood might run in their veins. It had to be terribly confusing for them.

"What are you guys here for?" Hanabi looks at them curiously.

The Main House Member smiles. "Oh we're just picking up a couple kimonos. Did you hear about what happened to the Fire Daimyo?" She pauses. "I'm sorry. That was terribly insensitive of me. You must have. Lady Hinata, I'm so sorry that happened."

Hinata nods somberly. "Yes, it was quite the shock to discover what happened to him." They didn't have any proof. Sasuke and Itachi were smart enough to cover their tracks, if they did it. Right?

Meanwhile Sasuke sighs. Well at least the hard part was over for now. The Daimyo's body was being examined.

Not that they were going to find anything. Itachi had used a Genjutsu and it wasn't like they could probe the man's mind now. He was dead. There was nothing left to probe. They hadn't laid a hand on him.

"Are you alright, Sasuke?" Kakashi walks over to him. "It must have been quite the shock when you heard the news." Eyes full of concern.

Sasuke nods. "Yes, I'm fine. Hinata is a bit more shaken up though. I'm just really glad the twins didn't' see him." He sighs. "They're young, but you know children shouldn't be exposed to death."

The medics were still working on Raiden's body. Tamika, an advisor to Raiden, was watching fretfully. So the Uchiha knew that it was very important to put on one Hell of a show.

"That's true." Tamika forces himself to give Sasuke a brave smile. "Give your family my best. It must have been very traumatic to find out he died on your lands."

The raven haired ninja subtly looks Tamika up and down. He needed to know, if the other man was going to accuse them of anything. His posture and words weren't aggressive though.

Either he really didn't know what happened or he was a damn good actor and not suicidal enough to raise the issue. Sasuke couldn't decide which was the case, but without any proof…it was unlikely it would have really mattered.

"Thank you." Sasuke smiles. "That's very kind of you to say. I am truly sorry for your loss."

He wasn't. Not really. In Sasuke's mind, they had been harsh. They probably should have given the man a chance to save his mind, but he wasn't going to risk it. He wasn't going to leave his family's fate in the hands of some pampered noble who couldn't take no for an answer.

He nods pleasantly. "You're welcome."

Apparently, neither could Itachi. Still, dealing with all of this was exhausting. Sasuke could only hope that Itachi was having a better time at the Academy than he was dealing with all these loose ends.

Elsewhere Itachi smiles as he help show some of the students how to properly throw a kunai. It was such a basic and fundamental skill. He took great pride in instructing them in this particular art.

It reminded him a great deal of when he had first taught Sasuke. Speaking of Sasuke, Itachi chuckles at the memory of last night. His foolish little brother could be delightfully amusing sometimes.

Itachi smiled as he got home and noticed Hinata was quietly sleeping on their bed, snuggled into Sasuke's arms. Her hair was still wet. Likely from a shower.

"You look entirely too smug." He chuckled. "I assume that you indulged in your childish impulse to even the score?"

Most people would have forgotten about it by now. It had been six months. Six month since had had made love to Hinata in the library. Actually, it was now slowly edging closer to seven months.

Sasuke wasn't most people though. He could plot "revenge" for years. That was of course, Itachi's own fault. He was the one that had made Sasuke that way.

Sasuke smirked. "Yes, I did." He probably should be jealous, but Sasuke's expression was priceless.

"And I take it that it was a mutually enjoyable experience?" The elder Uchiha tried his best not to laugh at his smug, foolish little brother.

He wasn't making it easy for him though. "Of course! I made sure to pay extra attention to her breasts due to your absence." Uh huh.

His brother was becoming a deviant. Well actually, scratch that. He already was a deviant. Again, this was mostly Itachi's fault.

Well and Hinata's. His wife's beautiful body and willingness to please them probably only added to any natural deviant tendencies that Sasuke had. Oh well. As long as his wife wasn't protesting their kinks, Itachi supposed it was okay.

"You really shouldn't steal their milk like that, but I would be lying…If I said that I hadn't wondered from time to time." He shrugged.

Sasuke shook his head in response. "I didn't steal anything. If there's a need, the mother's milk just naturally replenishes itself. You're not the only one who can read medical textbooks."

Itachi quirked an eyebrow. He wasn't sure whether to be impressed or disturbed. "You actually researched that?" Sasuke just nodded and Itachi gave into the impulse to laugh. His foolish little brother truly was one of a kind.

"Flick your wrist. It'll help." He smiles at one of the children.

In a few short years, he supposed he would be teaching the twins how to do the same thing. Just as he had taught Sasuke.

Of course, that was a ways off. In the meantime, they had to make sure not to get caught. They had assassinated a Daimyo, even if his official cause of death was a heart attack.

A few hours later, Aiya giggles as her Mommy and Daddies were giving her and Arashi a bath. She loved baths! Her brother was a different matter though.

"WAHHHH!" And he wasn't afraid of letting their parents know that.

Hinata sighs and scoops him out of the water, cuddling him to her chest. "It's alright, baby." She didn't mind that she was now getting soaking wet (and her husbands definitely didn't).

Itachi chuckles. "Well I suppose that it's only to be expected that Aiya would prefer water." Yeah! She loved water!

Sasuke shakes his head and kisses his son's forehead. "It's alright. We wouldn't let you drown." He promises him.

Aiya giggles and just splashes around some more. Oh wait! What was that yellow thing!

"This a rubber duck. You can play with it, if you like." Itachi hands it to her and Aiya eagerly sets about investigating her new toy.

Arashi gives his sister a rather incredulous look. What was wrong with her?! Why did she like baths so much?! They were weird.

Oh wait. What was that yellow thing that Daddy was showing her? Hmm. He wanted to get a better look at that. He tries to snatch it.

Aiya shakes her head and holds into it tightly. The implication was clear. She was going to battle him for it! Alright, if that's the way she wanted it. That's what they were going to do!

"Itachi, do we have a second rubber duck?" Sasuke raises an eyebrow. "And I can't believe I just said that."

Itachi laughs and nods, showing a second duck. When you had twins. It was just easier to get two of everything. It saved one on so many headaches.

Sibling rivalry was a natural thing, but it was especially prevalent in twins. Well so he had heard anyway. Unlike the Hyugas, twins weren't as common in the Uchiha Clan.

He hands it to Arashi as Hinata gently sets him back in the tub. "Of course, I had a second one." Itachi smirks. "What kind of father would I be, if I didn't realize the twins were going to fight over such things?"

A very bad one. He could remember when Sasuke used to try to borrow his stuffed dinosaur. Borrow, his kunai. Pft. His foolish little brother had been trying to steal it obviously.

Hinata shakes her head in amusement and the reset of the bath proceeds uneventfully. Well, Itachi mentally corrects himself. As uneventfully as it was possible for such a thing to go in the Uchiha Household.

A short while later, the sun had set and they were all in bed. Hinata snuggles between them both. They were laying down.

Thoughts of sleep were far from her mind. She wondered, if they would tell her or not. If she pressed, if they would deny it or if they would admit it. Maybe, they hadn't actually done it though.

"Is something on your mind, My Queen?" Itachi looks at her with concern.

She didn't really believe that, but as long as Hinata didn't ask…she had plausible deniability and her conscience could remain clean. Though that was really the only clean thing about their house.

Keeping up with two babies and two frisky Uchiha Brothers meant that it was a miracle their house didn't look like a disaster zone. She tried her best though. And Sasuke and Itachi were very good about helping her, but still.

She pauses. "I was just wondering…what the two of you thought this marriage would be like."

She couldn't really tell her husbands the truth, but Hinata didn't want to lie either. The bluenette couldn't tell them that she suspected they might have killed the Daimyo!

"Well I wanted to make you my real wife." Sasuke kisses her cheek. "I'll admit that initially it was more about restoring the Clan than anything. We were little more than strangers." He pauses. "It was also the principle of the thing. I had hurt a lot of people and I didn't want to hurt you for something that wasn't even your fault."

Itachi nods as he runs his fingers through Hinata's hair. "Well that's about what I expected from Sasuke." It seemed that the elder brother was also struggling for the right words to say. "I wanted to treat you well, but I figured that Sasuke would be your real husband." Another pause. "I didn't really feel worthy of your love or anyone's love, really. Not after everything that I had done."

Sasuke glances at his brother with guilty and sad eyes for a moment. Hinata finds herself sighing. He wasn't the only one. She felt guilty for "lying" by omission, but the young woman knew that she didn't really have any other choice.

If she was going to keep her loving family intact, well this was the best way to go about doing that. Hinata simply had to distract them from the real reason why she was upset. Besides, she was curious about their answers.

"Oh. I see." She kisses them both. "You're both worthy of love and I don't want you to think otherwise."

Itachi and Sasuke return the kiss. It was obvious that their pasts were likely going to haunt them for the rest of their lives, but Hinata didn't doubt for a moment anymore that they were happy with her. It was just that they would have to learn to be happy with themselves and in time, she was sure that they would. Eventually.

"I figured that Itachi and I would just…split you in a way." Sasuke seems to realize that could be taken the wrong way, so he quickly clarifies. "If that's what you wanted and he didn't insist on playing the part of a martyr. I never really imagined that we would be with you at the same time."

Hinata had assumed something very similar and that was assuming that Itachi even wanted to be with her at all. She had figured Sasuke would. If for no other reason than he wanted to restore his Clan.

Itachi shrugs. "I'm no martyr." He leans over and pokes Sasuke's forehead. "And you should be literate enough to realize that definition can't be applied correctly to me."

Sasuke gives him a dirty look. "You didn't die for your beliefs, but you did everything else that you could for them." He sighs. "If it wasn't for you, the Leaf wouldn't be standing."

Hinata pauses as she considers that. That was likely true. It was truer than she ever wanted to admit, really.

"I thought similar things, though I'm happy that I was wrong." She smiles and snuggles between them. "This is where I belong. Where we all belong. Sharing passionate kisses with each other. And other things." She winks.

Itachi smirks. "I quite agree." He smirks more. "Now about that bag of lovely lingerie that I saw stowed away underneath the kitchen counter."

Hinata blinks. There were times when she truly wondered if her eldest husband didn't secretly have the Byakugan as well. He truly seemed capable of seeing through walls and nothing stayed a secret from him for long.

"Lingerie?" Sasuke smirks as well. "That sounds like fun."

Well maybe, there were more pleasant ways to take her mind off of Raiden. Spending the night in her husbands' arms and modeling some new lingerie, well that sounded like a fun way to pass the time.

Elsewhere Kakashi pours himself and Hiashi some sake. There were times when it was absolutely necessary for him to do so. The Hyuga Patriarch was an important member of this village and keeping him from losing his mind was critical.

"I think that it's all worked out rather well." He smiles at him.

Hiashi sighs and the silver haired man knew the other ninja was going to be difficult. "Far better than I ever expected." Clearly, he still had his reservations about Hinata's marriage.

Kakashi supposed that it was just the cultural taboo of it. It was rare for a woman to have two lovers at once that knew about each other. Even rarer for her to marry them both at the same time and not only that, her lovers were Itachi and Sauske Uchiha.

"I don't know why you're still taking this so hard." He smiles. "Itachi and Sasuke worship the ground that your daughter walks on." The CopyCat Ninja pauses. "And you got two adorable grandchildren out of the arrangement. Really, what more could a father ask for his daughter?"

He'd just have to use reason. Eventually, Hiashi would warm up to his Sons-In-Law. The man simply had to. Otherwise, there would likely be a rift between him and his grandchildren. That was something that Kakashi most assuredly didn't want.

Arashi and Aiya were going to grow up knowing that almost half of their family tree was deceased. They were going to need the Hyuga Clan to fill that gap and the former Hokage was under no illusions about what that would mean. To the Hyugas the Caste System was everything and neither twin fit neatly into that. It was going to take some time for everyone to figure out where they fit in this brave new world.

A world were the boundary lines were much blurrier. "I suppose that's true." Hiashi sighs and that was difficult for someone was traditional as Hinata's father to accept.

Kakashi smiles and sips his sake. "Besides, judging by the passionate kisses at the wedding, I imagine you'll have lots of grandchildren." He probably shouldn't tease the other man so much, but it was just too much fun not to.

It was a childish impulse, but there were times when it was just amusing to get under the other man's skin. And really, he had brought it on himself. What was he thinking signing that contract in the first place?

"Yes." Hiashi gives a curt nod. "Two children would be a rather small Clan revival." He sighs again as he takes a large gulp of sake. "I'm just glad that they managed to restore the District. Though I really wish that they wouldn't use a large snake as a babysitter."

The silver haired man chuckles in response. "Well, Aoda does love children. Though you're right. I would be surprised if they stopped with just the twins and Hinata is still young. More likely than not, they'll at least go for a tiebreaker." Kakashi laughs. "After all, they have one son and one daughter. A third child is necessary at a minimum."

Hiashi shrugs his shoulders and Kakashi knew that he had won. While the other man was stubborn, he was also a practical sort. Hinata was already married to them and had two children by them (well either Sasuke or Itachi. Then again, there was a slight possibility they had both fathered one of the twins, human biology could be fascinating), but Kakashi digressed. In short, his objections would fall on deaf ears at this point and Hiashi was very much aware of this fact.

"True enough." He sighs. "I just hope that Hanabi's marriage will be more conventional."

Kakashi nods. "Of course. Well she and Konohamaru seem to be growing close." He probably shouldn't have said that, but Kakashi couldn't resist.

Hiashi twitches. The man took the bait. Every single time. The former Hokage figured that was just a father thing though.

"Really?" He twitches more. "I shall have some words with that boy. She's far too young."

"Oh it's just friendship." Kakashi pats him on the back. "Maybe, even puppy love. But that's all. I wouldn't worry about it."

Hiashi looked a little less than convinced, but he finishes his drink. "In any case, I should head back to the Estate. Thank you for the drink. Goodnight, Kakashi." And with that, he was gone.

Kakashi looks at the Moon that was now high in the sky and sighs. It really was like the brothers. They had gone through so many phases, but for now at least. The Moon was full and the future was bright.

Though there was still one tiny problem. "God help us all, when Aiya becomes a teenager." He chuckles as he takes out his favorite book. "That poor girl has two overprotective fathers and an overprotective grandfather to deal with. She's never going to get any peace and if Arashi takes after either of his fathers, he'll be chased by all the girls."

Well that should prove most amusing. Kakashi just hoped that Itachi and Sasuke didn't traumatize the village boys too badly and that Arashi was less aloof than his fathers. "That or he'll have to get very good at playing, Hide and Seek." He chuckles to himself.

Oh well. That was a story for another day. For now, well he had a good book and some village hot springs to enjoy. Thank God that he was no longer Hokage. Naruto could deal with the whatever happened next and Kakashi could just enjoy the show.