A/N: Just a quick update. Welcome to the mind of Hizashi!
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Chapter Two
"You're very pretty, Haruka!"
Haruka smiled, Neji's left eye twitched.
"Thank you, Keichi-kun! You're pretty, too!"
Before Neji could scare away the five year old boy that dared flirted with his daughter - in front of him, no less - Haruka continued.
"Almost as pretty as my daddy!"
And all was well in Neji-land.
When Hizashi was 8 months old –
"Happy birthday, Neji!"
Neji looked up from where he sat at the table and smiled back at Sakura, who was seated across from him with Hizashi in her arms. On the table lied a simple cake with a neat 'Happy Birthday, Daddy!' script in kanji written across the vanilla frosting.
"Tou-tou-tou-tou," Hizashi squealed, clapping along with his mother.
The Hyuuga male quickly bowed his head, made a wish and blew out the candles on the cake in one blow. Hizashi looked on, amazed.
"Ano, what did you wish for this year?" Sakura started, a slight underlying playful tone in her voice. Neji smirked.
"Can't tell you, can I?"
Hizashi made a sound, reaching over for the sweet-smelling cake when Sakura stopped him, "Not yet, sweetie, we still have to give daddy his present!"
Now he was curious. "Present?"
His first birthday present as a father.
Sakura nodded, "Hizashi has a very, very special present he wants to give daddy, right Hizashi?"
"Tou-tou-tou-tou!"
I wonder what kind of present an 8 month-old can give?
A clay handprint?
Ramen noodle art?
Wet kisses?
A dirty diaper?
Interestedly, Neji cocked his head slightly to the side when Sakura suddenly lifted the baby up to his eye level in front of her.
Hizashi looked back curiously at his father.
The two Hyuuga males were face-to-face now.
Sakura cleared her throat, seriously.
"Hizashi, what do you do when daddy's being a meanie?"
Neji was taken aback at her words, immediately confused. "Sakura, wha-"
As if on cue, Hizashi's eyes narrowed.
"Ba-koo-ga!"
The brown-hair ANBU captain froze in his seat; breath caught in his throat and mouth hung ajar.
There, in front of his, little Hizashi's lavender eyes glazed back at him, little eyes protruding from his temples towards his eyes.
Byakugan..
At 8 months old, his son has activated the Hyuuga's bloodline, Byakugan. Unheard of his Hyuuga's history at such a young age.
"H-hizashi…." Neji breathed out, finally. Sakura let out a giggle as Hizashi continued to stare his father down.
Ignoring the words that Sakura had stated to prompt this momentous occasion, Neji felt the back of his eyes burn.
Let it be known, that year on his birthday, Neji shed a proud tear.
When Hizashi was 2 years old –
Until absolutely no circumstances is Hyyuga Neji allowed to bad mouth the remaining Uchiha in front of his wife.
And of course, Neji had learned this the hard way. Courtesy of her fists.
That bastard…
It wasn't a surprised that the Hyuuga heir didn't get along with the Uchiha male; thus the two often remained a safe, civil distance away from each other, only speaking to each other when absolutely necessary ('Hn, hn') and communicating with each other (nod, grunt) as little as possible.
"Okay, Neji, I'll off to train with Sasuke-kun!"
That blasted name - !
With a tense grin, he gave her a peck on the cheek, "Of course, Sakura."
Neji waited for the pink-haired medic to leave the property before turning to his son who was currently sitting in his high chair. He reached into his robes and withdrew a piece of paper out, couching down to his son's eye level with a serious expression.
"Okay, Hizashi, now that mommy's gone, let's continue practice."
Hizashi looked up from where he was playing with his toy kunai and blinked at his father, who was holding out the piece of paper out in front of him.
A photograph -
"Hizashi, when we see this man, what do we say?"
-of Sasuke
Hizashi eyes brightened as he clapped his small hands together excitedly, "Ohayou, Traitor-kun!"
Neji smirked, "Good boy."
When Hizashi was five –
"My father got called away on an important mission!"
"Well, my pa is the best jonin out there!"
"My dad defeated five enemy shinobi all by himself!"
Hizashi rolled his eyes borely from where he sat at his desk, working on his advanced homework.
Why am I the only one that has to do all this extra work?
"My daddy's the coolest!"
"No, mines is!"
"You're all wrong – 'cuz mines is the best!"
So irritating, the young Hyuuga male inwardly groan, trying to drown out the excited chatter of his classmates while scrawling on his worksheet. Now what was the second formation of this fire-style jutsu…?
"Oi, look, Hyuuga's dad is probably a dud!"
What?
"Yea, he has nothing to say about his dad, his father's probably a civilian of the Hyuuga clan!"
An eye twitch.
Looking up at the group of boys next to him, Hizashi frowned. The group of boys started to snicker, all rambling in agreement with the aforementioned comments.
"You all are so troublesome."
Quickly gathering his school supplies, the lavender-eyed boy got up and made his way to the door.
"See! It's true!"
"Hyuuga's embarrassed of the truth so he's running away!"
"What a wuss!"
"How humiliating!"
That did it.
Now he was angry.
Whipping his head towards the direction of his classmates, the Hyuuga child smirked.
"My father is the Head Lord of the Hyuuga Clan as well ANBU captain of Squadron Three Assassination squad so you all can tell your dads that they could probably learn a thing or two from mines."
With that, Hizashi left the classroom with a confident stride, leaving his flabbergasted classmates behind him.
Idiots.
When Hizashi was seven –
"Aniki!"
Hizashi smiled at his little sister's greeting when he opened the front door.
"You're back!"
"Hello, Haruka, I'm home."
Three year old Haruka squealed, stumbling over to her big brother and latching onto his right leg, "Aniki play with Haruka!"
Giving his sister a sympathetic smile, he patted her on the head. "I'm sorry, Haruka, but I have to study. Maybe Otou-sama or Kaa-sama can play with you."
Little Haruka shook her head abruptly. "Tou-Tou-sama and Kaa-sama are busy!"
Hizashi frowned, picking up his little sister from the floor and carrying her into the living room area. "Where are they?"
Usually his parents always set aside time to be with him and his sister after school at the end of the week.
Haruka gave him an innocent look, "Making babies!"
Hizashi frozed mid-step, "What?"
Haruka shot her brother an impatient look, "Kaka-jiji said they are making babies!"
Hizashi looked on, confused. Then he remembered what his father once told him about where babies came from. "So they're out in the gardens planting seeds?"
Haruka shrugged. "I don't know…"
I guess homework can wait.
"Let's go see if they need help."
Haruka smiled, "Yay!"
In the corner sat a silver-haired, one-eyed ninja, so engrossed in an orange book that he had missed the entire conversation.
A/N Already Hizashi is taking after Neji's personality =3
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