[RP Thread] The Final Sealing [Open to Hyuuga]

[hyuuga_hinaji]

[For your listening pleasure~ In the Sun] The morning of his sealing left a bad taste in Hinaji's mouth. He sat in his room, the sky still dark. He wasn't to receive the seal until the sun rose, a new life beginning with the kiss of light to the sky, and he hadn't been able to sleep at all. His thoughts kept racing and stopping, his mind a

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[hyuuga_hiashiko]

She had been able to avoid this day for many years, but not even the Head of the Hyuuga could avoid Fate forever. Hiashiko rose an hour before the appointed time in order to prepare herself. She dressed in the same white-and-silver kimono she had worn months ago, when her eldest child had been demoted and her youngest put in his place

[white_sky_eyes]

Like his brother, Hanabi hadn't gotten any sleep, and he knew the two of them were in the same situation because he'd repeatedly used his Byakugan to check up on Hinaji all through the night.

He'd been worried. But all Hinaji had done was lie there. Not doing a thing.

Typical.

He'd silently come up behind Hinaji en route to the Sealing Room. The two of them were almost there now, not a word exchanged as they made their way through the dark compound. The pouch of ceremonial ashes his mother had asked him to take was occupying one of Hanabi's hands, but the other was just limp at his side.

He should be doing something. He should be protecting his brother. He should...

"Hinaji..."

He should say something, at least.

"...niisan..."

Hanabi gave it up and looked down. There wasn't anything he could say.

[hyuuga_hinaji]

Stuck in his own little world, he barely heard his brother's soft voice behind him. Pausing his steady march towards his sealing, Hinaji turned to look back at Hanabi, frowning slightly. Why was he looking down? The heir shouldn't ever look at the ground...right?

"...Hanabi."

Things were still strange between them, although the rift that had separated them (made in part because of Hinaji's belief there already was one) had shortened, but it would take a long time for them to be close. If they ever were.

But still, it was nice to be able to talk, even if it was strained. And under less than ideal circumstances.

"...Good morning." Somehow, even standing before the doors to the Sealing Room, the words weren't hollow or bitter.

[white_sky_eyes]

"It's really not," Hanabi answered, almost exasperated with his brother's kindness. His sacrificial nature. He was so different to all the others in the clan and Hanabi realized it more and more every time something like this happened.

But there still wasn't anything to say. Hanabi had his part to play in this, and for just that second as he looked at Hinaji's face he understood that his elder brother could never do what he was about to.

In some warped but obvious way Hanabi wondered if it all wasn't more merciful this way. But, of course, mercy didn't come into this. They were Hyuuga and nothing else.

"I... You don't have to forgive me for this," he said, looking his brother in the face for a moment before turning away sharply and preceeding his brother's arrival into the Sealing Room.