On 9/4/07, The Eternal Lost Lurker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Disclaimers: 'Naruto' is the property of Masashi Kishimoto, Jump Comics, > TV > Tokyo, and Viz Communications. No infringement is intended and no profit > is > being earned from this derivative work. > > > > > > "Mama? How come you always have your head wrapped up like when Papa made > that kitty mad? Did you make a kitty mad?"
$What kitty? Random kitty? She sighed, looking past the top of his head at something far away. "Well, > it was when your Ojisama and Obasama got married. I've told you about why > my > eyes are like they are, right?" > > "Un! It's a...keke...kekky..." $Kinky genki? "Kekkei genkai." > > "Right, an' Jichan an' Bachan have it too." $Of course, the weird thing here isn't that they use a seal on people not in the direct line of succession, it's that Neji married his cousin. "Respect," she chided automatically, not really expecting to win this > particular argument for a few more years. "Well, my family has a rule..." > She paused, trying to decide how to explain it. "When my papa and your > Ojisama's papa were little, one of them got a mark on his head and the > other > one didn't. The one with the mark is supposed to protect the one without > the > mark, because the one without the mark is going to be the leader when they > grow up." $This actually does indicate that someday, even in canon, Hinata or Hanabi one are going to get the mark. Because if even brothers, twins, obviously right there with the purest of blood, are singled out and one of them sealed, sisters are definitely going to be. The boy in her lap frowned. "That's dumb." > > "Yes, just a little bit. Well, the mark is important because it keeps bad > people from taking away the eyes of someone who has it if they hurt them." > She winced at how awkward that explanation was, but her son's formal > indoctrination into the life of death that ninja lead was still over a > year > away, and his mind was still very much innocent. > > The boy frowned. "So why doesn't everybody have the mark?" > > "Because that's not how it works. It's one of those grown-up things." > > "Oh." While he stopped to think about that, she continued. > > "Well, your Obasama is my sister. Your Ojisama had the mark when he was > little--barely older than you are now. And my sister and I didn't have it. > But when we got older, our papas and grandpapas and uncles and > great-uncles > all decided that they needed to...well, cheat...and put the mark on a > different person. So they took the mark off your Ojisama and put it on me, > and then he married my sister." > > "Oh." The boy thought about that for a minute. "Why?" > > "Because they were better at being leader than me." $Minor nitpick, 'leaders' would sound better. "Really?" > > "Yes, that's right." She saw a protest coming, and cut across it. "Mama > isn't a very good leader, Sho-kun. Not the kind of leader your Ojisama and > Obasama are. That's why when they put the mark on me, I understood. I..." > She trailed off, then smiled. "If they didn't put the mark on me, I > probably > wouldn't have gotten to marry your papa, and you wouldn't have been born." > > "Oh." The boy paused again, thoughtfully. "That'd suck." > > "Yes, yes it would," she said, giggling. > > "Does papa have a mark?" > > "No, papa doesn't have a mark. Papa doesn't have the same eyes as mama, > does > he?" $He has a mark, sure. Not the SAME mark, but it's still a mark. "Oh, right. And...I don't either, so I won't get a mark?" > > "That's right!" > > The front door opened. "Yo!" an exuberant voice called from the entrance. > > "PAPA!" The boy scrambled off his mother's lap and ran out of the room. As > he went, she watched him, smiling, but there was an old pain in her eyes. > *I > hadn't thought about that in so very, very long...* > > "Oi, Hinata, you okay?" > > She looked up at the tall, broad-shouldered form of her husband, his blue > eyes staring at her with concern. She started, and blushed. "Hai, anata. I > was just thinking, is all." > > Naruto squatted down in front of his wife, an odd look of--disgust?--in > his > eyes. "Neji sealed Muzashi today," he said quietly. > > Hinata looked down. "I...I know," she said. "I...wasn't sure if he was > going > to go through with it, but..." > > They both sighed. "One day, Hina-chan. One day, I'll put a stop to this > stupid branch family shit. I swear it." $Way to procrastinate, dude. A rubber shuriken bounced off the back of his head, breaking the mood. With > a playful growl, he turned to tackle their son to the ground and tickle > him > ferociously. > > Watching them play, Uzumaki Hinata smiled. The irony of her past had never > once been lost on her, after these many years. The cursed seal had not > enslaved her, but rather set her free; free to follow her own way, free to > be the person she wanted to be, to be with *him*... > > To have this family that could never have been hers, had she remained in > her > gilded cage. $There are, actually, quite a few places that could go. This is, probably, the nicest it could possibly be if Hinata does get sealed. Nice job, very clean. -Nugar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.chez-vrolet.net/pipermail/ffml/attachments/20070904/62af9940/attachment.htm --- .-------Anime/Manga Fanfiction Mailing List--------. | Administrators - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Unsubscribing - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Put 'unsubscribe' in the subject | `------------ FAQ URL coming soon.... -------------'
