[10/10] Closed

[not_thedragon]

Who: Sasuke & the Hyuuga on a return engagement
When: Evening of 10/10, time snatched in between everyone's schedules
Where: Hyuuga Neji's sweet bachelor pad aayyyyy
What: If wishes were fishes beggars would eat and also Neji and Hinata would no longer be engaged. Alas, Konoha's impoverished remain hungry.

Frankly, the past few months were beginning to blur into an indistinguishable sequence of bad and worse. The jounin exam had easily been the least eventful item of all, something Sasuke wanted to attribute to his own skills but suspected had more to do with the fact that they were at least structured in some deliberate way. Interrogation training was ...

Removing all sense of time from a would-be informant was a tactic that apparently needed firsthand practice, which was as much as Sasuke's brain wanted to dwell on his current regimen of training.

He knocked on Hyuuga Neji's door well past sundown, trying to look more like someone who could contribute usefully to the attempt to releasing his teammate and her cousin from an unwanted engagement and less like someone who was ready to lie down in the hallway and go to sleep pillowed on one of the three fledgling goshawks curiously trailing him. Maybe Hinata's bears would be with her and could tire the birds out so they would go to sleep when they got home.

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[gentledheart]

Carefully she lowered the tray to the table. Her hands going to work pouring tea with a quick efficiency as she passes out cups of steaming tea. The steadiness of them belying the fact that Hinata was starting to get a little nervous the closer to the date of the final meeting drew. Not that she can hide how she's feeling from two people who know her quite as well as they both do.

Hinata scoops up one of the chicks then, petting their fluffy feathers once she's settled. Head tilting slightly as she scrolls through her mental listing of clan members. There were so very many and the relationship between Main and Branch Houses haven't been particularly solid over the years. She glances to her cousin. "You might have more luck in terms of allies than I will, Neji-nii."

It wasn't a secret she wasn't the most beloved member of the Main family.

[heavenly_earth]

Neji accepted his with a murmur of thanks, cradling the tea between his hands and nursing it with a sigh. It always helped to steady his nerves and clear his mind. Allies..

He caught Hinata's with a forced smile. It seemed neither of them were well-loved. "Unfortunately, even the Branch is largely wary of close association with me. I'm too close to the Head Family, and the outcome of this engagement has left my position within the clan rather tentative. By the same token, traditionalists within the Head Family believe that even marriage shouldn't change anything in regards to my station."

They don't even want him really, just his firstborn, but that would be a bit crude to say outright.

Neji inhaled the sweet scent of jasmine over again. "But we're not completely alone. My father will support us, and as Hiashi-sama's.... aid, he should have access to some records. There could be harsh penalties if we ask too much of him, however."