Fic: "Foolish Boys"

[redbrunja]

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.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, I didn't think of it like Hinata being trapped, but you're right, she is - because she would never make the first move, and none of the guys would realize they should.

[wildwesternwind.livejournal.com]

It was an epiphany. Shes just as much bond by her own sense of propriety and shyness. And of course Kiba and Naruto are oblivious to most things. You would think Shino would pick up on something as he seems to be the most aware of things in general...but then again, even if he was..he would probably have the whole self-doubt-who-would-want-a-bug-filled-man thing going. Kiba, probably takes Hinata's prescence and what she means to him for granted and would only realize his own feelings when she was taken away by someone else.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

.he would probably have the whole self-doubt-who-would-want-a-bug-filled-m an thing going

Damn. You and another ljer are making me crave Shino fic so hardcore.

And Kiba is totally the type of boy to not realize his feelings until Hinata's with someone else.

[wildwesternwind.livejournal.com]

I do what I can. Actually, some Shino fic does sound good right now.

In some ways Kiba is more oblivious than Naruto. I mean, Naruto atleast realizes that he really likes Sakura...but Kiba, not a clue with Hinata. For both of them who can be so freakishly perceptive at times, they are big idiots in their own rights.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That's true. Naruto is really attunded to his id. I bet Kiba is better about being aware of other people, but Naruto is more straightforward about what he wants.