Author: Uchiha Yumi

Title: Some things you can never change.

Genre: Angst / Romance

Summary: Two cousins. One fate. One kiss. NejiHina, Long Drabble

Rating: PG

Parings: Neji x Hinata

Main Characters: Hyuuga Neji, Hyuuga Hinata

Special thanks: A special thank to Lilya-chan and FunnyNeko, for reading and correcting all of my nasty stuff.

Notes: English is not my native tongue, so please, tell me about my mistakes!

Well, this fic is an experiment.

I wrote this on September, this is one of my first works ever.

The point is, it was written in Italian and this is the translated version.

You know, usually translations are "less beautiful" compared to the original works.

What do you think? Just let me know.

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Dedicated to Kai and Tsukiko (they know who they are) and to those who reviewed "Uncovered" (ItaHina) and "Ten words to one kiss" (ItaHina, One-shot).

I'll try to update "Uncovered" as soon as possible.

Or, rather, as soon as I'll be less insecure…. blush

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Dawn was enlightening the room, casting on the high walls some stains of white light.

The silence was so deep and astounding that she was sure, if her breath wouldn't have been so huffed and fatigued, she would have been able to hear her own heart beating.

Hinata glanced at her hands: small, tiny paths of blood were running along her slender limbs, slowly dripping on the wooden floor.

Probably, she had also a couple of cracked fingers, but she felt she couldn't stop.

She didn't have to stop.

She recommenced to punch the wall, rhythmically.

Ever single hit stole from her a moan, a soft, hurting wail.

But she didn't care; every sharp pain her bloody hands sent down her flesh, every single sigh escaping from her lips, just reminded her about how hard she had to try.

She didn't have to surrender.

"The Hyuuga family doesn't need someone like you. Someone not even able to compete with her younger sister!" that's what her father told her when she was a child.

And that's what he kept on repeating. Every single day of her life.

Her limbs didn't support such a hard effort. She suddenly fell down on the floor, her swollen and deformed hands leaning on the wood.

She closed her eyes.

Even breathing had now become something painful.

She lingered like that for a moment, laying on the wooden, wintry floor as an old, torn cloth, contemplating the irregular rhythm of her own heartbeat and the slow, hurting sighs that parted from her opened lips.

"Hinata-sama"

She abruptly turned, her eyes flying open.

A tall figure with long, brown hair was standing by her side.

"Neji-nii-san" she faintly whispered.

She struggled to collect the last, few hints of her strained energies and she stood up, trying to hold onto the wall. The same wall she had already stained with her own blood.

She noticed Neji was staring at her hands.

Hinata blushed and hid them behind her back, lowering her head.

"You can't change your fate, Hinata-sama"

Things rolled in a blink of an eye.

She felt his warm breath heating her neck and his soft, tender lips being placed on hers.

A kiss.

She crumpled again on her knees.

Hyuuga Hinata couldn't help but harmlessly staring at a light-blue kimono slowly disappearing in front of her.

Her pale eyes were now darkened with tears.

OWARI