A/N: Because the Hyuuga 'family' system is screwed up. Hiashi sees a picture of his dead brother and reflects.
As he looks at the picture, he realized that his brother will always haunt him.
Why?
Why did you choose to die?
Where you stronger than I, at the end?
Did the Branch family surpass the Main family, just from that one sacrifice?
I was older. Why couldn't I protect you? Should the younger brother die for the older brother?
Is it true? Is our whole clan system just enslavement? Why would you choose death? Why did you leave your only son alone?
Was I supposed to care for him? There is nothing I can do. He is of the Branch, one of my daughters will become the heir.
Why? Why was your child born stronger than both of mine? Is this punishment? Is this your revenge, brother?
No, I cannot accept this, the Main family needs to be stronger. Don't ask why, its how things are. Generation after generation… the Main must be stronger than the Branch, must control the Branch family.
One of mine is a disappointment, but the other… she can learn, learn to dominate, unlike the other.
Don't look at me like that. It's for the good of the Hyuuga… you understand, Hizashi? It's always been this way… no sacrifice can change it, no prodigy alter it. We're all trapped in the system… you think I'm free? My children have to be strong leaders, to carry on the clan; I have to be strong too. You think I wanted you to die? Branch or not, you're my brother, my only brother.
If I had been allowed to cry I would have. But the head of the clan cannot weep over the loss of a mere Branch member… it was your duty and you should be proud to have died for me.
No…
Is this what I really think? Or is this what I've been taught to think?
No… I know. You know too, don't you?
I'm just a doll. All leaders are dolls; I gave up my own emotions a long time ago.
My emotions, my dreams… are dead. Just like you.
Just like I will be. Dead. Soulless.
A Hyuuga
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