Italics Hanabi writing
Bold Present
Times past
Misinterpreted
To her fellow shinobi she was the quiet one.
To her enemies she was a weak morsel that had a strong will.
To her teammates she was the one that needed protection.
To her family she was the defect that would have made tradition, pride, and family structure crumble.
She was Hyuuga, Hinata.
And to me she was my sister.
A wrinkled hand brought a brush up elegantly. The writer was trained from an early age that every body movement must conceal every mental emotion. Hanabi dipped the brush into an ink stone and frowned. Her hand shook slightly.
Have I become so old that holding a brush makes my muscles twitch with exhaustion?
The hazy light from the lantern danced across sunspots and played with the shadows on her pale, wrinkled hands. The said hand twitched slightly as Hanabi put brush on paper.
In the Hyuuga compound you will find no trace of her. She is in neither the sparse branch house library or in the vast main branch library. She is not even in the Hyuuga record, which every Hyuuga born child is written down so a lone Hyuuga body cannot be taken into enemy hands unnoticed. Hinata is not in the Hyuuga history because she was a defect of the main branch. Even with strong genes she still blundered with inelegance. I was the obvious choice to be the heiress but tradition got in the way. Instead of resisting fate like that lowly branch member Neji I worked around it. If I could not be the head of the Hyuuga clan because I was born second then why can not I change that fact and be born first? Why can't I kill my older sister Hinata and be first born like it was supposed to be? These thoughts entered my head after I defeated Hinata in a spar at age seven. That was when I decided that I would be head of the Hyuuga clan and take my sisters life. This was her fate. It was predestined that I would destroy the Hyuuga trash from Konoha.
Hinata starred into the dark depths of a pond in the Hyuuga compounds. Hinata fixed her gaze on a small fish that swam freely in the pond.
"Hinata-sama it is time for your solo mission."
Hinata watched as a larger fish came behind the oblivious small fish.
"Your father requests you to not fail this mission like the last one."
The large fish opened his mouth; the small fish leisurely swam.
"Yes." Hinata stood up and walked to the gates.
The large fish engulfed the small fish.