[Meme] Ask a character a question

[runespoor]

Okay, so I've been tagged by mariagoner and I'm curious and possibly a masochist, so I'll do this.

Ask any character I write/have written a question.

It may be in the context of a fic or not, what you like. Also, I'll try to do this IC, which really means that if you asked, say, Hinata, a painfully embarrassing question, she may just clam up and bluuuuuuush - or if you asked Kabuto [whom I've never written, but that's for the example] 'SO WHAT WERE YOU THINKING IN [insert fic title here], RLY,' chances are that, on a 0-10 scale of honesty, 10 being the most sincere, he'd be at something like -150.

I'll try not to take too long on the answers but Internet =/= access at home, so it may take me a while. Otoh, if you find this, say, four days from now, you're welcome to ask anyway. equivalent trade, yo.

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Tenten's reply: …We fought it off. I mean we had a row. And Neji just didn't understand that there was anything wrong with what he had done.

I mean, I know I used to joke about entitlement issues from time to time, but I'd never have guessed – he was never like that with us. Or with anyone else, for that matter.

Though – you know, retrospectively, I wonder.

Maybe there were things during our missions, when we talked with civilians, hints, maybe I just didn't realise what was going on. I can't believe Lee and I were that oblivious. I mean, how were we supposed to figure something like that out?! He's my teammate, not – it's not as if our souls were forever bonded or I don't know what crap! I know how he works, how he reacts, I know his strengths and his weaknesses, I know what he doesn't like having to deal with – the three of us. A team, that should be enough, right?

Guess I can't help but feel betrayed. (And guilty, okay, but honestly how could we possibly see that one coming?)

Lee and I, we trusted him. And maybe it's because he's our team leader – and you know, he earned that, neither Lee nor I are really the type to cower and roll over just because someone tells us so, and the only reason he became our leader was because he made good plans and he listened when we argued he'd overlooked something or we had a more workable idea – but I felt betrayed. It was like he was betraying the team.

He was taking a decision that wasn't just his, he just went ahead.

And like Lee said, on top of everything else it was a short-cut. A short-cut. Like any of us had got where we were because we'd taken short-cuts!

Except him, for all I know now. I would never have believed that before, because he had a very strict work ethic and he's never been into slacking off – it's gonna sound strange, but I thought he had honour, you know.

I mean, he's a competent ninja so we always sneaked around and everything if we could avoid straight fights, but you could see he didn't like that. And even when he fights – he never attacks without a warning. Which I always thought makes him sound kinda pompous because he always announces that he is a Hyuuga blablabla, and that was out of place for a shinobi, but yeah.

Honourable.

And that poor girl – Hinata, right – it was as if she wasn't even a person, the way he treated her. I don't know what I'd have done in her place. Okay, I'd probably have gone for my shuriken, but when I think about it – if I'd been treated like that all my life? I have no idea what I'd be now.

I just hope her teammates stuck by her, because… yeah. Poor girl makes it to the second test of the chuunin exam, she's a rookie, everything's going just fine, and then – wham. End of dream.

So if on top of that her teammates hated her after that… I couldn't blame them for it, though. Kami know how I'd have reacted if it had been Neji giving our scroll over.

Not sure though, because after all she's the victim there – and I don't know how the Hyuuga works but I've got to say, if it's a matter of breaking up one's team vs politely telling the stuck-up heir that he can go and find his own roll and put it up his ass, and 'betraying one's team' sounds like the better option? Yeah, something's seriously wrong.

But he just didn't get it.

And – well, okay, I'm not especially proud of it now, at least I wish things could have been different – but in the end Lee and I just took the pouch in which he'd put the scrolls – Neji wasn't that far gone that he'd attack us himself, I think, or else he was just dumbstruck, and I had shiny pointy things aimed straight at him – and I think we were going to go after the rookies and give it back, and you know, if Lee insisted I'd have been ready to give them ours as well, and then he tried to take it back, and that may have been panic or maybe Lee just slipped, which if you know him at all you know is unlikely as me going blonde, because Lee? Taijutsu master, and perfect physical control? You can bet, and panic? Panic? Lee? Ha right.

So anyway, we had the scrolls in our hands and Neji tried to take them back, and the scroll –