What Welcomes Me Still

[hungrytiger11]

Title: What Welcomes Me Still
Author: hungrytiger
Notes: Written as a gift!fic for inner_poise_yo. Hope you like it! Cross-posted to chuunin and hyugacest
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Comments

[lapetitecosette]

You are sooo talented. This was creepy and lovely and just gah! xD Amazing.

I especially liked, "looking so lovely he thought his heart might break"!

LOOOOOOVE ♥♥♥

[hungrytiger11]

Your comments on my stories always make me so happy I wrote them! Thanks!

THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!

[inner_poise_yo]

"The kunai meets resistance but that’s okay."

The sentence is really just amazing. For some reason it really gets to me, I got this really strong mental image of Neji's weapon slicing into his enemy's neck, and I can see the look on his face as the initial resistance of someone's body hits his kunai. Morbid, I know, the subject itself is, so it's ok. :)

Your take on Neji is pretty interesting. I never imagined him to be nervous that he might've disappointed his father, or his uncle. I always saw him as this infallible, confident guy, and the only thing that could rankle him on a mission is failing it. I really like how those insecurities came out.

I'm off to re-read this on ff.net and hopefully have some more to say!

Re: THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!

[hungrytiger11]

EEE! I'm really glad you liked it!

I think part of Neji's insecurities come from the time period I pictured this taking place in, though I only vaguely mentioned it in the story. I sort of pictured it about six months after Naruto left town. So Neji would have just been made a chuunin. Therefore I think the failed Sasuke-retrieval mission is still fairly fresh in his mind, and it is also reasonable to assume as a Genin he'd managed to never kill a person. It is also reasonable for him to begin to figure out he's in love with Hinata (which he is, he just doesn't maybe entirely realize it. Hence the words "care for" or "kill for" instead of love.) As for his uncle...well, I bet he'd be pretty horrified of somehow letting his Dad down, considering how vengeful he becomes due to the dad's death. He might not care about what his Uncle thinks but if anyone suggests his dad would be disappointed that might hit home.

[indira14]

Wow - I don't think I have much to say about this, except that it's amazing. (As usual). But this was a bit different from what you usually write, in the sense that it focused on a more insecure Neji. And I loved the contrast between 'care for' and 'kill for'. I'd recognise your style anywhere - there's something distinctive about it, you know? Once again, this was amazing.

[hungrytiger11]

Oh, Thanks! Its always nice to read your comments, and its good, I guess, that my voice is distinctive! I hope so anyway.... :)

Poor Neji, he's in love with her and hasn't quuuiiiiite realized it yet.

[ghostfriendly]

Hinata gets over things quite well, and Neji gets to mope. Great stuff!

[hungrytiger11]

Well, to be fair, Neji is the one who just killed for the first time. Thanks for reading by the way!