AN: Very random drabble, spawned by looking for quotes about knives
Naruto sighed, "Women sure are complicated."
Shikamaru snorted at him from a little distance away. "They're TROUBLESOME, is what you mean. Really..."
Chouji grinned next to his best friend, and confided in all and sundry: "Ino's mad at him again. Over Temari."
Kiba and Naruto whooped and whistled and made ribald comments; even Shino seemed to smile under his collar, while Shikamaru groaned and scowled at his friends.
"The god of death, the wind, the underworld, the ever-burning entrance to hell, the knife-edge, poison, serpent, and fire - women are all of these in one," Neji said suddenly, idly, as if to the air. Silence fell as everyone gaped at him. Neji took a decorous sip of his tea, then said, again as if to the air. "Or so my uncle says."