My Heaven
Chapter One: Father
If tears could build a stairway
and memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to heaven
and bring you home again.
Today, is the anniversery of my father's death. The main branch of the Hyuuga clan, a few branch members and I are heading to my father's shrine.
The monk chants the prayers and the blessing's for my father and for the clan.
As the ceremony finished, Hinata, Hanabi and the other Hyuugas bowed at my father's grave. They soon departed. But I stayed.Oncd they were out of sight, I let the unshed tears, fall from my eyes and down my cheeks. some tears wandered down my nose and onto my lip. I tasted the salty droplets as I remembered the events years ago.
Flashback
"Where is my father!?" asked a four-year old Neji asked.
"A Hyuuga must do what benefits for the clan. What your father did was to protect the secrets of the byakugan." Neji's grandfather said.
"What does that have to do with me seeing my father?" I said as I dashed behind my grandfather and ran through the doors.
There he was. Brother of the Hyuuga clanhead. Hyuuga Hizashi. My father, lying on the ground with a a white silk blanket covering his body. "Father?!"
I ran to my father's unmoving body. But my uncle, Hiashi blocked me from coming any closer.
"Your father is dead. He died for the sake of the clan and the Byakugan" said the stoic voice that belonged to Hiashi.
"Your father is dead. Your father is dead. Your father is dead." those words rang in my head over and over again. My legs suddenly felt limp and I fell to the floor crying in the fetal posistion. I felt strong arms lift me up and carried me to my room. I was to consumed with sorrow that I didn't even bother to look up. The person who carried me held me in their arms until I fell alseep. Until now I didn't know that that person was Hiashi himself.
End flashback
By now, my face was drowned with tears.
"Neji!" I hear a familiar voice cry out. I turned and saw Tenten. She looked so beautiful. She wore a black long sleeve dress that ended up to her knees. It contrasted perfectly with her flawless porcelain skin. She carried a bouquet of white lilies. My father and mine own favourites. She ran towards me, laid the lilies down and wrapped her arms around my shoulders and I cried upon hers.
Once I could cry no more and my eyes were red and puffy. Tenten said her prayers and my eyes began to become normal again. We walked through the village silently.
A bird flew above us. Father, I have created my own fate, but have not completed it yet. So far it's been great. Naruto and Hinata are engaged and are a happy couple. Hanabi is still trying to find out her true identity and has resigned as clan head, making me next in line. Team Gai are now closer than ever but I still feel incomplete. Is it because the love of my life and I shall never be together? It is true. Her name is Tenten father. She's the sole-female member of Team Gai, my sparring partner and my bestfriend. I know that you would have liked her. She's my everything. But, the elders, the tradition. It forbades the branch clan members to wed with a commoner. Fate can be so cruel or is it the clan?
How can something be so amazing but so horrible at the same time? I wish that you were here to advise me. Father, I miss you so much.
Authoress' Notes: I know that this chapter was also short but I have writer's block. But atleast my update time was quick. I'll try to write even more in the next chapter.