Four A.M.

Four freaking A.M.

The damn sun wasn't out and Tentsuke was already up wandering the streets, almost half asleep. No, he chided himself with quick slap across the face. Awake. Be awake! Long day, lots of training, fun times. Yippee.

( ...manly, manly scars... )

( You don't forgive traitors )

( She hadn't really spoken to her eldest son in several weeks. )

Hinaji had let his garden go untended for far too long. The weeds were nearly everywhere, choking out his poor plants, and for the first time in a while he found himself on his knees ripping up weeds and putting his little plot of land in order. With Konoha's hot sun overhead the work was hard, but satisfying. His herbs would grow and he would ( Read more... )

( He'd hurt her badly, and it didn't matter that he hadn't meant to. )

Backdated to when Nejiko came home from her previous mission and found out about Hinaji being sealed.

( They had spent their entire lives stuck in Hyuuga house politics. )

All of Team Eight together was starting to be a more and more rare thing. Kiba was taking on clan duties, Hoshino was taking on clan duties and... Hinaji was taking on clan duties. They all tried to get together, but at times it seemed harder and harder. So Hoshino's suggestion of everyone getting together for lunch was a very good one ( Read more... )

It had been something in the way he asked her, if he could talk to her. It wasn't like normal, and hinted at something more. And that made Kiba worry, as nearly anything that concerned Hinaji or Hoshino did. So once he'd given her where to meet him, she had hurried there as fast as she could, Akako at her heels ( Read more... )

He hadn't visited the grave in a long time--not since last year. He felt guilty about that, about only coming around the anniversary of a bad memory, but he'd never been very comfortable there. He'd barely turned six when his father passed away, and while he couldn't remember the man very well besides brief glimpses of a smile and a strong, ( Read more... )

[Backdated to after his talk with Hanato and his second talk with Kiba]Personal problems had never been something Hinaji was good at talking about, especially not when said personal problems involved his teammate and relationships. But Hinaji knew his sensei was the best person to go to for advice, and he'd said he would give it, so ( Read more... )