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-VampireLover02
"You are to be married," he stated. No emotion, no regret. Heartless in all of its sense.
"What? Hiashi-sama, you must be crazy. I respect that she needs to be married off, but not to me." Neji rose from his seiza form, ready to fight the older man head on. His usual emotionless eyes were full of hate and confusion.
"Neji, as Head of this clan I must assure the strongest heirs; with your two's talents, I will assume just that," claimed Hiashi.
"But Hiashi-sama-"
"Neji-nii-san, hold your t-tongue. I am willing do as my Father asks." The young woman spoke looking forward, as tears threaten to come free. Neji's glares subside as he sits back on his heels once more.
"Hinata-sama, this is not only your say. My fate has always been controlled by the main house, and I refuse to let my fate now, become yours."
"Neji-nii-san, are you s-still twelve with your talk of fate and what not?" he grimaced, "You should know by now to a-accept your so called f-fate."
"I refuse," he said, a fist forming on his thigh.
"Neji, the council has decided, you will learn your place, or your fate will be decided by me," stated the women's father, his Byakugan raging. "Hinata, is that your answer?"
Her face tightens in pain and sorrow, shuddering as a few tears escape and run down her cheek, leaving a disgraceful streak.
"Y-yes Otou-san, I will embrace my f-fate." She looks straight ahead, trying to hold what little honor she has left.
"Neji?" asks her father, his harsh, white eyes glaring at young man.
Hinata's eyes watch as Neji's firsts clench, and then relax in defeat.
As his last attempt, hoping to strike pity into the Head, he answered, "Your daughter does not want this. Your heiress does not want this."
"She has already given her consent," her father says, ice in his voice.
"Yes, while tears weighing down her answer, drowning her hunger of freedom, with her thirst for approval."
"Water can keep a man living longer, her thirst will be quenched. What is your answer, Neji? Choose wisely," grunts Hinata's father.
"I accept, as long as Hinata-sama accepts," Neji says, defeat ringing in his voice.
Neji is never the one to simply, accept. To accept the Hyuuga rules. To accept his father's death. To accept fate.
This is not the Neji Hinata knows. But this Neji, although in the midst of being overcome, holds the greatest honor of any Hyuuga, main or branch house. He chooses to follow his leader, blind and unsure, but to follow never the less.
Both bow to their leader as he dismisses them by the wave of his hand. The young couple steps out in to the empty hall way, and began walking down to the dormitory wings on the other side of the compound. The silence is awkward, and unsure, only the sound of her sniffling remains.
"Will you stop crying now, Hinata?" Neji sighs, the corner of his crooked frown twitching, while trying to hide his amusement.
She stops in her tracks and turns to him with her head cocked to the side, like pitiful dog, while tears still side down her face.
"What? I thought I was doing a good job?" Hinata says making her fake stutter stop, and pouts at his growing smirk.
"You looked too happy, and you even answered him the moment he said it. Couldn't you act more surprised?" He says dropping the titles, "We need to work on your acting, Hinata."
"Like he was going to find out? Please Neji, he sat there like he had us under his control. He didn't even realize that we've been waiting for him to say this for years."
"Well, it was the only way. If I asked him to marry you before, he would have killed me," he said kissing my forehead, sending a scarlet flood onto the girl's cheeks.
"You know I would never let him," she smiles.
"Hinata, you're strong, but I doubt you could stop Hiashi when he's pissed."
"You d-don't b-believe in m-me?" She says giving him the biggest, hurt puppy dog eyes she could muster. He stared at her, his eyes glazing over at her action's temptation, before he snaps out of his newly established fiancé's grasp over him.
"Kami, you're such a seductress," he laughs. Blood rushes to her face at his comment, knowing he was referring to many things. He leans down and kisses the rose on her cheeks.
"I can't wait to pull out that ring you gave me months ago," says the heir as she sighs at the feeling of his lips.
"I'm glad it can finally get some use."
Hinata smiles, and wraps her arms around his lithe, muscular torso. She rises up on her toes, and uses her balance to stand as she nuzzles her face in the crook of his neck. The powerful scent of earth and spearmint makes her smile in content.
"What are you doing?" he asks, while wrapping his strong arms around her waist. He kisses her temple, and she can already feel the blood rush to her cheeks. Cousin or not, if the fates allowed, she knew she would remain by his side. She chuckles a bit, and then replies with a smile.
"Embracing my fate."
Seiza: Japanese style of sitting.