#73: Eyes
-Sunpies-
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto et al.
The Hyuuga eyes see everything, and in such close proximity Hinata's eyes are as good as Neji's.
"Get up."
She does and when she looks at him in the dappled sunlight –sweating, humiliated, and angry-, Hinata can't remember when this training stopped being about her.
Another strike to her left side (where the bruises will already take days to heal) and she falls. It's a heavy wave of pain that hits her -why is she so slow? Hanabi wouldn't stop. Why doesn't her father care?- and she has to wrap her arms around herself to keep from bursting into a thousand pieces of floating dust on this sunny place.
Weak.
"Get up."
And she does, because she can see that someday she won't be slow, she won't stop, and her father will care. Illuminated by Naruto, the tunnel only runs so far before it opens. Someday things won't be like this. She won't break.
Maybe.
She falls.
"Get up."
Until then, her eyes, Neji's eyes, the world's eyes, tell her that this is Hyuuga.
#73: Eyes
-Sunpies-
For Lady Silvamord