Author Note: Yup, I should be working on my other stories right now but I couldn't help it so here we go. One shot unless I either get unreasonably inspired and feel compelled to write it down and share it with the world or someone asks for more.
Disclaimer: Naruto, blah blah blah, me, blah blah blah, Masashi Kishimoto.
My name is Hyuuga Hanabi, ex ANBU captain and A-class missing nin—better known as the Renegade Lilly. I'm seventeen, I'm tired of having people tell my story and I'm sick of hearing it. What gives anybody any right to tell my story for me? Not one of those parasites in that damned Kage-be-cursed village ever knew me. Not my father, my sister, my teammates, my subordinates, my teachers or my family. My "family"—the only family I ever had was Neji. And they killed him for trying to save me, so I killed them. And now there really is no family.
I gave his ashes to Tenten the next morning but his headband I keep, even if the symbol on it means next to nothing to me.
Once upon a time things were better than this. They'll tell you there was an ambitious little girl named Hyuuga Hanabi who hated her sister and murdered her family. She did it for the challenge, because she was gifted and bored, she was a genius, she never failed and she could finish B ranked missions in a day. She became ANBU captain at thirteen and wore a blank white Hunter mask never spotted with a drop of blood, so she became known as the White Lilly. Then one day her cousin died and she killed her family. Now she lives somewhere on the edge of Sunagakure out of wedlock with S-class missing nin Uchiha Itachi quietly plotting the demise of Konohagakure. Presently, she is known as the Renegade Lilly.
"One day her cousin died..."? "She was a genius"? "Somewhere on the edge… with Uchiha Itachi…plotting the demise of Konohagakure," do you really believe that? If I wanted too, I could have wasted that pathetic city a long time ago. Not because I'm a genius, but because I have the ability and the right to do so if I want to. They deserve it for all the hell they served. Sasuke left, Tenten left, Kurenai left, Anko left and Shino left, everyone has their own sob story—Neji was slaughtered. There is no one left in that stupid city that I even vaguely respect.
And then they say "out of wedlock", like it's something I should be ashamed of. How would they even know—and where the heck are we suppose to register our civil union? For the record, we did get married by a roving monk who actually came from that city, Konohagakure. He told us he felt sorry for us and said he'd never tell anyone; I know he was more scared than sympathetic but who wouldn't be? At least he wanted to perform the ceremony for us. We thanked him as he left and sent him safely, with our blessing, on his way—two weeks later we found his body on the road en route to Kirigakure, carved up by bandits. We cremated his body, burned incense and representations; then Itachi scattered his ashes while I tracked and exterminated the bandits.
But seriously, let's start at the beginning. I am not a genius. Neji was a genius, but unfortunately so was my father. I am of average talent. The only reason I got anywhere near genius level was because I trained relentlessly and studied with geniuses—so perhaps all the time I spent with them taught me to think like them.
At any rate, what natural talent I had didn't save me for long. I graduated academy in a year and went on to become an ANBU Hunter nin, then ANBU captain. That's when my family thought I had gained enough influence to become a liability. The fact that I wasn't entirely scared, submissive or under their direct control worried them and the Hokage; they all remembered an episode like this not to long ago that ended with a very dangerous S-class missing nin. So they decided they would give me the seal, but Neji was not about to let all the work he had put into me to make me heir go to waste just so he could be ruled by some two-faced wench like Hinata.
He had a plan. Father discovered it but still Neji fought for me, because securing my freedom would be the same as ensuring his. He wanted to marry Tenten and have their children grow up free. He fought and he was slaughtered. Slowly and painfully, by activating the seal, it dragged on for hours and everybody was made to watch as an example of what happened to rebels against the main house. He looked at me and gave me look that begged me to kill him. I couldn't do it—so he writhed in pain for another hour before he finally died in my arms. I killed everybody.
That isn't saying much, Konohagakure had just finished a war with Iwagakure, Tonbogakure and Kumogakure, so guess who was sacrificed to save the precious main house. That's right; Neji was one of only six branch house members left and of the others: one was a coward and the other four were lapdogs of the main house. I had no reservations about killing anybody.
Afterwards, I carefully washed and prepared Neji's body, then said my prayers and cremated him; I left the others to rot. I bottled his ashes and put them in a pretty ceramic jar meant for a main house funeral, then delivered them to Tenten in the morning along with the Will and Last Letter which Neji had the foresight to write. By ten a.m. the smell of rotting corpses was beginning to spill over the outer edges of the Hyuuga compound so I went to ANBU head quarters and decided to save someone the paperwork of declaring me a missing nin. I discreetly filled out and filed the correct forms then gathered the rest of the things I would want from my office and left Konohagakure. I sprinted a safe distance to edge of the Rice country so I was outside their jurisdiction and then watched the pandemonium erupt in Konoha with my Byakugan.
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