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Title: Foolish Boys
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Neji on Hinata's love life.
Warnings: Mature themes.
Summary: "He watches them fail to fall in love with her."
He watches them fail to fall in love with her.
That dog boy, who never clues in to what it means, that his heart beats faster around her, that he angles his body away from her as they walk, ready to lung forward at the first threatening motion the world makes.
That bug guy, too enthralled with minutia to realize that he has someone precious on his team.
The fox boy, too damn stupid and loud to realize she loves him madly. Naruto is the one whose failure is unforgivable, Neji decides, because she adores him and he doesn't even notice.
Maybe it's the Branch House blood that Neji can't quite manage to purge from his veins or maybe it's even more simple and primal than that, but he sees (from across Konoha, from the way her fingers curl at the dinner table, from the way the breath catches in her throat) that Hinata is miserable. (He hates her from her clear, unmarked forehead to her quaking toes, and somewhere in his head is his cute cousin dressed in white who he wants to protect).
Neji has killed her, has stopped her cardiac muscles with his chakra, has made her bleed and bleed and bleed, (and part of him regrets that and most of him doesn't) but somehow those foolish, primitive boys strike him as having committed even worse crimes against her heart than he did.
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Neji on Hinata's love life.
Warnings: Mature themes.
Summary: "He watches them fail to fall in love with her."
He watches them fail to fall in love with her.
That dog boy, who never clues in to what it means, that his heart beats faster around her, that he angles his body away from her as they walk, ready to lung forward at the first threatening motion the world makes.
That bug guy, too enthralled with minutia to realize that he has someone precious on his team.
The fox boy, too damn stupid and loud to realize she loves him madly. Naruto is the one whose failure is unforgivable, Neji decides, because she adores him and he doesn't even notice.
Maybe it's the Branch House blood that Neji can't quite manage to purge from his veins or maybe it's even more simple and primal than that, but he sees (from across Konoha, from the way her fingers curl at the dinner table, from the way the breath catches in her throat) that Hinata is miserable. (He hates her from her clear, unmarked forehead to her quaking toes, and somewhere in his head is his cute cousin dressed in white who he wants to protect).
Neji has killed her, has stopped her cardiac muscles with his chakra, has made her bleed and bleed and bleed, (and part of him regrets that and most of him doesn't) but somehow those foolish, primitive boys strike him as having committed even worse crimes against her heart than he did.