Ch 210 : Give birth

Makoto intercepted Mikoto on her way home and brought her to an empty lounge in the Hokage Building.

Mikoto sat nervously on the sofa, her gaze flickering toward Makoto before quickly looking away.

"Lord Hokage... is there something you need from me?" she asked, forcing herself to remain calm and maintain a composed appearance.

Makoto, however, went straight to the question that made her heart skip a beat.

"Whose child is it?"

"..."

His piercing gaze locked onto Mikoto, making her feel as though needles were prickling her back.

"Whose child?" he asked again.

Mikoto forced a smile and replied, "Lord Hokage is well-informed; I just found out myself... of course, it's Fugaku's."

Her voice was strained, barely maintaining a façade of steadiness.

To Makoto, it was a clear sign of her desperate attempt to hide something.

He placed a sheet of paper on the table.

Mikoto glanced down and recognized it as her medical report from the hospital.

"Two months along, huh? Are you so sure it's his?"

Mikoto avoided looking at him and insisted, "Of course it's Fugaku's... it has to be."

Makoto nodded. "If that's the case, then have the baby. I'm sure Fugaku-senpai will be very pleased to hear the news."

Mikoto's face instantly turned pale as though she were suffocating.

She forced an awkward smile.

"Fugaku and I... aren't planning on having a second child for the time being."

Makoto replied calmly, "But I've heard Itachi mention several times that he wants a little brother."

"He's just a child; he doesn't know better..."

Her voice grew weaker, and she dared not meet Makoto's eyes.

Her recent physical discomfort had already left her anxious.

When the hospital confirmed her pregnancy, she was utterly bewildered.

Thinking back, it had been a long time since she'd had any intimacy with Fugaku.

After that incident, they'd even started sleeping in separate rooms.

The only person she'd been with was the Hokage...

She was completely unprepared for this and had no idea how to face what lay ahead.

The only solution she could think of was to hide it for now and later find a way to get rid of this child who should not exist.

But right after leaving the hospital, she ran into Makoto.

"Are you afraid?" Makoto asked calmly.

"..."

"Tell me the truth."

Mikoto's heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

She knew she couldn't hide it from him.

Gritting her teeth, she said, "So what if I am? What if it's your child? Lord Hokage, you have your family, and I have mine. This child is a mistake, never meant to exist. What does knowing the truth even matter?"

Makoto frowned slightly. "You are the child's mother. How can you say such things about your own child?"

Mikoto let out a bitter laugh. "Am I wrong? Who would look forward to this child's birth?"

"I would."

"..."

Mikoto was momentarily dazed, staring at the determined man in front of her, much younger than herself.

For some reason, Fugaku's image flashed in her mind.

Something inside her was stirred.

She lowered her head, laughing self-deprecatingly.

"Don't be foolish, Lord Hokage... Let's pretend none of this ever happened. I will keep it a secret forever."

Makoto firmly responded, "No. You will have the child."

Mikoto's face darkened with anger. "Are you crazy? If Fugaku finds out I'm pregnant, he'll know the child isn't his!"

Or was this man just treating her as a child-bearing tool?!

Makoto replied calmly, "So what if he knows it's my child? Would he dare refuse?"

Mikoto was stunned.

She found this Hokage terrifying, his overwhelming assertiveness leaving her helpless.

She asked, "And after the child is born? Would you be fine watching him call another man 'father'?"

Makoto replied, "I will have arrangements by then."

Mikoto finally said in frustration, "You're a madman!"

She didn't want this.

She didn't want her life to be disrupted by this unborn child.

Even though her life was already in shambles, she still held onto a faint hope—a hope that she and Fugaku could return to how things used to be.

Mikoto knew very well that the other party had nothing to offer her.

This Hokage, always so loving with Ayari, had only sought a fleeting moment of pleasure with her.

Such a secret affair carried no responsibility.

Makoto spoke slowly, "In any case, just focus on having the child."

Helpless, Mikoto could only say, "...I think we both need to calm down and talk about this later, okay?"

After leaving the Hokage's office, she returned home.

Fugaku and Itachi were not back yet, and the large house felt cold and empty.

Sitting on the bed in her bedroom, Mikoto held a framed family photo, staring at the image of the three of them together.

She repeatedly ran her fingers over the picture.

After sitting there for a long time, she suddenly heard a sound from the living room.

"I'm back."

Fugaku had returned early from the fire department.

The restless Mikoto immediately got up upon hearing his voice and quickly walked toward the bedroom door.

But just as she was about to step out, she stopped.

She composed herself, trying to appear calm.

Fugaku, however, came directly to her door.

"Mikoto... I have something to talk to you about."

"..."

Lowering her head, Mikoto walked to the living room and sat on the sofa.

Fugaku sat across from her.

"You're... pregnant, aren't you?"

His first sentence hit Mikoto like a thunderclap, leaving her mind completely blank.

Her pupils widened as she looked at Fugaku, but her husband simply sat there with his head lowered, avoiding her gaze.

There was a long silence.

Mikoto sat frozen, not knowing what to say.

Should she apologize? Should she explain?

But wasn't it Fugaku who had caused all of this?

Or should they discuss a proper solution to the problem?

Her mind was in complete chaos—the events at the hospital, the confrontation with the Hokage, and now this situation, one after another, giving her no time to breathe.

Then Fugaku spoke again, and what he said left her completely numb.

"Since you're pregnant, focus on taking care of yourself and the baby. Didn't Itachi always say he wanted a little brother or sister?"

Her eyes widened as she stared at Fugaku, questioning him sharply, "Do you even know what you're saying?"

"..."

Her husband—the father of her child—was telling her to give birth to another man's child!

She had a foreboding feeling that this child's arrival would completely shatter their family.

Fear gripped her heart.

It shouldn't be like this—her life shouldn't be like this!

This overwhelming terror made her abandon all pretense.

On the brink of collapse, she stood up and walked toward Fugaku, tightly grabbing his hands.

With a desperate tone she hadn't used in a long time, she pleaded, "Fugaku, I don't want this child. Let's get rid of it and leave here, okay? Our family can leave Konoha and go anywhere. Let's go back to how things used to be, okay?"

Fugaku's face twitched slightly, as though he was suppressing something, but he forced a smile that masked all his emotions.

To Mikoto, that smile was unbearably mocking and hurtful.

He said, "Mikoto, aren't we living just fine here in Konoha? We're not going anywhere."

Mikoto stared blankly at him—at her husband, at the man she had once deeply loved and who had once loved her in return.

Her eyes unconsciously overflowed with a sense of despair.

Fugaku continued, "I've been reassigned. Starting tomorrow, I have to leave the village. I'll probably be gone for a long time."

This time, Mikoto had no reaction.

She didn't even ask where he was going.

She simply stood up in silence and walked into their bedroom without saying a word.

Fugaku could only swallow the rest of what he had intended to say.

As the head of the Uchiha clan, he had been reassigned by the Hokage to a garrison post at the borders of the Land of Fire.

It sounded absurd, but it was the undeniable reality.

He stared intently at his wife's retreating figure.

What he felt was not loneliness but a profound and overwhelming sense of disappointment, a desolation that reached its very core.

The door closed softly, without a trace of emotion leaking through.

Her figure disappeared entirely behind that door.

The human heart can only bear so much despair—like a surface that has already absorbed all the water it can hold.

Even if an entire ocean flows over it, it cannot take in a single additional drop.

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