Here's the latest drabble I wrote for a livejournal community. You can vote for weekly fanfiction winners at community./narutocontest/
Unwanted
She had never asked for any of it, the prestige, the responsibility and yet the burden had been bestowed on her ever since she was born, the title of "Heiress" weighing heavily on her shoulders.
In all honesty, she didn't want to become the next head of the Hyuuga household. Doing so meant they expected her to be perfect, an expectation she would forever fall short of. She had already disappointed her father so many times. No matter how diligently she trained, she never improved enough to satisfy him and she knew the pressure would only be amplified as time grew nearer to when the fate of the household would be put in her hands.
She knew her father had wanted a son but had been given two daughters instead. He had told her that her gender made no difference as long as she had the strength and ability to lead the family, but she couldn't help but wonder if every time he looked at Neji, he wished he had had a son just like him instead of her.
She would gladly give all that she had to her cousin. He wanted so bad to be a part of the main house, to be accepted. It was ironic that he longed to get inside the very walls that she wanted to escape from. He was a better ninja than her, that much was certain and she would have gladly stepped aside if she thought she could do so without breaking her father's heart.
Even her younger sister seemed better suited for the job than she, showing far more potential than she ever had at Hinabi's young age. It was just another factor that added to the pressure on her that became a little harder to bear every day.
She couldn't even be herself around her clan. If they knew about her long time crush on Naruto Uzumaki, they would scorn her for sure. Even if he was strong, he was reckless and wild, no more than a vessel for a dangerous beast in their eyes.
She was tired of it. All she wanted to do was worry about herself and her own training, honing her abilities only for the betterment of her team and for Konoha. So many times she had dreamed of running away and leaving the Hyuuga household to fend for itself, for it certainly seemed better without her.
But she wouldn't, and she wasn't sure weather it was because she was too weak to run or too strong not to stay.