There was a fog in her mind like she had dipped her head in marshmallow and had got in her eyes and ears. Shapes and color flitters around as she opened her eyes painfully and voices she couldn't identify were forming words she couldn't make out.

She could barely make out the syllables of her name from different angles.

The bright white background where the colors were flashing in front of, told her hospital. The pain told her she was the patient. She held her hands to her face to will away the nausea the colors were causing.

She focused on the voices hearing her name more properly. "I-I'm going to be sick." She mumbled, her own voice was slurred as she was guided to something she could empty her stomach in only she had nothing in her stomach. Acid burned her throat as she heaved, yanking the edge of her empty stomach stretching the muscles around it painfully.

Someone rubbed her back and she was offered water from another direction.

She focused her senses on the yellow that sounded female. Tsunade she hoped. Ino or Tsunade. As her eyes focused for her she was glad she was right. She reached out to her.

The older woman took her hand into her much more stable manicured one. "How are you feeling?" She asked with a smirk of her painted lips.

"N-Not well." She replied covering her eyes again as well as she could and willing away more gaging. She could feel IV's and tubes, she was strung with them.

"I would guess so, you got hit pitty hard, and you have been out for a while. You have a concussion that is treatable, but I am more worried about other effects." The older woman explained looking over at a clipboard.

"I-I don't remember being hit." She offered though it was difficult to think at all right now.

"That's what I'm worried about." Tsunade mumbled wearily patting her hand. "How old are you and what month is it?"

Hinata felt a trickle of fear, missing memory? "N-Nineteen, and I think it's mid-summer." She dug out.

She heard a loud crash in the corner of the room making her jump and uncovered her eyes, the room had gone dark, the blinds had been closed in the time she had her eyes covered. In the now dim room could make out a shattered lamp and a male she hadn't seen, or at least she thought she hadn't seen, in years.

"Sasuke, don't make me remove you, you knew it was a possibility." Tsunade growled.

"Three years!" He barked. "THREE YEARS! She won't remember me at all!" He slammed his hand flat into the wall like he was trying his best not to do more damage but still take his anger out on the underlying surface.

"S-Sasuke Uchiha?" She asked bewildered. Did she know him? He thought she did. When had he even came back?

He locked eyes on her and they were hurt. Horribly lost and pained. Her not remembering him definitely meant something to him. She could feel the rising panic in him or was that just her own as she slowly took in she didn't remember three years of her own life.

"I don't know if I should trust you to explain." Tsunade frowned at him.

"You don't have much choice in that regard do you." He growled back.

Tsunade pointed a painted finger at him dangerously. "Watch it, kid. I might not have the Hokage power to anymore but I can still physically kick your ass out of the damn village." She wasn't the Hokage? Okay, noted. The ex-Hokage sighed and her voice went soft. "Do you want me here?" She asked Sasuke with a rub of her temple.

"Quite honestly, no." He crossed his arm, he still glared dangerously but it started to hurt again.

Tsunade turned to her and slipped her hand from her and patted her leg. "I won't be far if you need anything okay?" She told her, Hinata nodded in response, she was intensely curious what the Uchiha avenger had to say to her.

"She will be confused take it slow, no big bombs to start with, let her put it together a bit." She warned pointing a scolding finger at him as she left the room with a last glare.

Now alone with him, Hinata chew her bottom lip slightly, helping her growing anxiety. She found she was now the center of attention, she looked down at her hands, the nausea came back up but she breathed evenly to attempting to make it pass as the Uchiha crossed the room.

She started to have a lot of questions. What had she done for the last three years, where was her family? Shouldn't they have been here when she was woke up? How did she get hit? Who hit her? What was she doing? Had she passed on her title yet?

Her hand flew up to her forehead.

"You're not sealed." Sasuke mumbled as he sat where Tsunade had been at her bedside.

"Wh-why not? I-I'm 22 I should have passed my position." She fumbled looking up at him and quickly looked back at her lap to avoid the direct gaze.

"There are several reasons, but the main one was Hanabi." Her sister and she had just started getting along well and bonding last she remembered, had they got so close that she had fought for her freedom? Had she never stepped down?

She stared at her hands as questions piled and despite having stared at them for last couple minutes, she seemed to have missed what was odd out there. Two rings on her left hand. The questions washed away to one.

She could feel the Uchiha watching her as she lifted the hand closer to her face and turn her hand over. "Wh-when did I get these?" She whispered not really talking to him, she didn't think he would know.

They weren't well-made rings, they looked like they had been made manually. The non-precious metals of both rings had tool marks and the one held a dull lavender pearl. They were well taken care of, but showed some signs of wear, scratches on the underside from working with her hands while wearing the rings. They were obviously sentimental rather than fashionable, had her father really let her wear these. He would hate something like this.

She blinked, being brought out her thoughts once more when he held out his right hand. She looked up at him and hesitantly placed her hand in his to show him what she was talking about. His face held masked pain, poorly masked pain. His eyes were shadowed with it as he gazed very directly at her fingers. He thumbed over the rings, first the one with the pearl. "I gave you this just under 2 years ago." He mumbled in a low tone. "And this one I gave you 4 months later, I have one to match."

She blinked at his softened face, he frowned at the two rings as he touched them gingerly. He was gentle with her hand, so much so she hadn't realized he had fully engulfed it in both hands as he leaned his elbows on the hospital bed. He did have a similar ring on his left hand.

It clicked and her face turned red and the panic set in fully.

"W-We are…." She gasped.

"Married." He confirmed bluntly not looking up from her hand.

"I-I, but, I-I don't..." She didn't remember meeting him after he left at all. When had he come back? She guessed it would have been about 3 years since that's how long he had been concerned about. His hand tightened on hers comfortably like he feared she'd pull it away or maybe it was because she began to shake. She was a bit too shocked to react violently either way.

"You don't remember me at all." He mumbled in a low tone of depression. She realized that this wasn't the same Uchiha she went to school with. He wasn't hard, cold, and arrogant. He was depressed and hollow, and she was almost sure it wasn't just because she didn't remember him. Something deep-rooted that she couldn't remember was there in his eyes. Like his life stop holding meaning. It hurt to look at.

His eyes slid up to meet her and she gave him the hollow look directly.

"I-I'm sorry." She felt the bubbling tears. She was missing a such a huge chunk of her life and she wasn't even the one suffering. She had known him well enough to marry him, she had to have loved him. Where was all that?

"It's not your fault." He growled, his eyes hardening on her. "Don't you start feeling bad for me that's how all this started." His voice trailed slightly at that.

She sniffed as the tears dropped from her cheeks and his face softened again and he swore. He brought a hand up her face to wipe her cheek and she was surprised, she didn't flinch. She didn't feel any familiarity but the unguarded looks of pain convinced her she could trust him and she should.

She pierced her lip and opened her mouth then closed it feeling it tremble, wondering what questions to ask first. One bubbled to the surface as she thought about getting out of this horrid hospital bed. "Wh-where do we live?"

He blinked once seemingly surprised that was her first question, after a moment something like relief washed over his face. "I built you a house in the Uchiha district." He then frowned. "I hope I didn't ruin your garden while you away from it." He mumbled.

"I-I have a garden?" She asked then she got the context. "H-How long have I been asleep?"

"Three weeks before you were stable enough to wake, they told it was possible you slip into a comma and you might never wake up." His hand clench over her hand, though it didn't hurt, he was surprisingly gentle with her. "Before that, you were gone for one week on a mission."

She nodded filling out the information. "Wh-when will you be able to take me… home." It was a new feeling thinking her home wasn't the cold compound. Wait did he say he built it? "Y-You built me a house?" She blushed at her own confusion and oddly sequence questions.

A light smirk came to the side of his lip. It was refreshing to see a bit of light to him. "Yes. You were surprised the first time as well." He then frowned as the meaning of his own words hit him. "Not sure when I can take you back."

"Well, I actually just came to talk about that." Tsunade voice came from the doorway.

Sasuke's face through up a barrier and glare at the woman. Hinata's blinked at the sudden change. "Well?"

"If you follow very strict guidelines, increase her dietary intake, and come in for ALL her checkups and therapy." Tsunade told him pointedly. "I'll let you take her home tomorrow afternoon."

Sasuke looked relieved, his hand over hers gently squeezed like a reflex to tell her how he felt. What closeness was she missing?

"Now I have a few more tests to run and I'll explain the restrictions." She started off. "So if you can be patient for a few more hours and she feels comfortable with the situation you can take her home in less than 24 hours."

***TheUnstableLiz***

**I know it has been done before, I hope to not hit the same beats or any annoying cliches and just make a sugary sweet heart bleeding story of Hinata rebuilding an understanding through Sasuke's stories of their first relationship.

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