A/N: The challenge: 'What does your favorite character—or your favorite pairing—get fannish over?' (Wordcount: 100)

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Like every other shinobi in existence, Hyūga Hinata had a secret. Ask anyone on the street and they would say her long-standing crush on one 'Naruto' was it. Wrong.

(Please. This is the Hyūga we're talking about; misdirection is their middle name.)

No, sweet-as-pie Hinata had a taste—like many of her kin—for perfection. More specifically (and considering her occupation this was quite appropriate) a certain killing perfection.

Her byakugan flared as she peeled back the wrapping to reveal the latest volume. She reddened. Takahashi had put him on the cover: Champion of Hearts, Lord of the West, Sesshōmaru.