[dated back to the night Hiashiko is brought before the Hyuuga Elders to explain how the hell her twin is still alive]

( She laced her fingers together before her and did not sit. She would stand as her son did, for this was the world changing beneath their feet. )

Set a couple days after Hiashiko and Hinaji's talkHyuuga Hizashiko wondered if the nurses in the secure ward were used to strange requests. They had barely batted an eye to some of her odder requests and hadn't even paused when she had asked for a scale. She now had several books, and even a scroll or two, to keep her from going crazy while she ( Read more... )

( Dying sounded like a happy plan. )

[[backdated to earlier this month]]

"Haruno-sensei, you have a visitor here for you. Should I direct her here, or...?" A pause. "Um, Haruno-sensei? ...Sensei?"

"Huh?" Sakurai looked up from the book in his hands and at the male-nurse standing in the doorway. The newbie male-nurse. No one in the hospital called him by his last name unless ( Read more... )

( proof that yes, Sachiko's mindwalking training continues~ )

( some quiet time to offset Hyuuga dramas )

It was interesting, what medical care and good food could do to a person. Though she was still thin (and its possible, would always be) Hizashiko looked far better then she had just a few short months ago. She no longer looked like a diseased, ratty mess or like her bones were in danger of poking out of her skin. Her hair was well kept and looked ( Read more... )

When his mother finally gave him a date to come meet her, Hinaji had felt more confident than he'd thought possible. The news he'd come home to had shaken him badly, and the only way to prove it for himself was to confront Hiashiko. But as the time drew closer, the confidence he'd first had had seemed to wane and be replaced with uncertainty and ( Read more... )

Hinaji had told Sachiko he would inform Kiba of their discussions, but he still found it difficult. He wasn't entirely sure why, either; Kiba was his closest friend and more, and it wasn't like he was doing anything wrong too bad. But he still felt awkward thinking about it ( Read more... )

( Suuuuuure it's a friend. )