PROLOGUE
"Her name is Hitomi-san," Hiashi told him, hands behind his back, peering out his window.
"Hai."
"She is a distant relative of ours and was raised in Suna, an envoy of our clan to the Sand. But she is prepared to come back. As is her duty," his uncle continued.
"Hai."
"Do you understand what I'm saying, Neji?" He asked, turning to face his nephew.
"Hai."
Neji could almost see a shadow of worry in his uncle's face, then. But the thought was erased immediately. Worry? His uncle? That would never happen.
"It means she will be the woman you are going to marry, when you come at the right age, or when the elders decide it is time," his uncle explained further.
"I understand," he did. Very much. He had understood it, long before, when he watched the mark disappear from his father's forehead.
"Good," Hiashi said, after long minute of pause. It was rare, not to have any arguments on this matter, but his nephew did not seem to have any worries about it. And there was nothing he could do to change his mind.
Neji nodded. "May I leave?" he asked.
Hiashi nodded.
Neji turned to walk away.
Clangs of metal weapons and grunts from the trainers resonated even to his uncle's office. The whole estate was busy training and preparing, there was no disappointing the clan tomorrow. And he was no exception, he needed to prepare. And to show everyone.
As for what his uncle had just told him, well, there was nothing he could do. It was his fate. No matter how much he would fight, he would never be able to change what was already set on stone—not that he had any interest in fighting. There was no one else he had ever considered to marry, no one his emotions had ever become attached to.
But then why did he feel a heaviness in his heart? And why did the image of a sudden teammate flash into his mind?
No matter.
He erased his thoughts, his feelings. It was just his hormones, he was a teenager after all.
It was just a temporary heaviness, marriage was something—something aside from so many—that he had no choice about. It would disappear soon enough.
He had other things to worry about, like the Chuunin exam he had tomorrow.
END OF CHAPTER
A/N: Yay! An update! And a Nejiten one too! I honestly hope this fandom never dies, even if... *chokes.
I got the idea for this a year ago. I wrote this prologue five months ago, and now here it is! Nejiten fans, please don't disappoint me, and I'll try not to disappoint you.
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