[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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That was actually too long for just one comment.

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

It opened, okay?

Next thing I know I'm in the hospital and the second trial is over. So we never made it to the third test, in the end.

But you know, in a way I think perhaps it's not that bad.

I mean sure, technically we'd lost six months.

And okay, Gai-sensei hasn't let us take that exam – because you can bet Lee and I told him everything about why we'd acted the way we did. I'm not sure if he was really ecstatic about what we'd done, but I can tell you, he was much more angry/disappointed in Neji right then.

He's not going to recommend us for another exam until we relearn how to work as a team, he says.

I know that for Lee and I, it means that we have to relearn how to trust Neji again, and that is never going to happen unless Neji clears whatever's his deal in his clan. I have no idea how long that's going to take, but Gai-sensei's already told us that he's ready to recommend Lee and me if we want to take part in an exam as members of another team.

Maybe that's what we're going to do. Yamanaka Ino has been made a chuunin in the latest exam, so that leaves only Akimichi Chouji as a genin in that team.

I don't know, I haven't talked to Lee about it yet. In a way it'd be depressing, but in another –

I know that Hinata's team hasn't been allowed to take last exam either; supposedly because it was taking place in Mist, and the Hyuuga has history with Mist. So if we do enter this session, maybe we'll meet them. If the Hyuuga allows her to enter, that is, and if they don't I don't know what I'm going to do, but it's not fair that she gets punished for something Lee and I did because of what our teammate had done. Luckily her sensei's Kurenai-san, and she's never been the type to let herself be bullied by big clans and names and jackasses who treat people as if they were pieces of furniture.

If they do enter, though – and maybe even if they don't, I don't know yet, maybe I should talk with Lee, people make fun of him but he gives good advice, sometimes – then I'll talk to them. At least to tell them I'm sorry, even if that's not going to help anything.

Wow, I've really rambled. And usually that's not my thing, but I guess I just needed to get it off my chest. Not sure if that answers your questions, but… *shrugs* See you again, maybe.

Re: That was actually too long for just one comment.

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

And that was actually too awesome a story just to exist within these two comments! I really do hope you release this as a fic at some point-- seeing the fall out of what happened in the last batch of fic is just fascinating.

I love the fact that you showed that there are real consequences to the subjugation of the branch house to the main house in the Hyuuga that extend far beyond Hinata feeling bad or having to disappoint her team. (Though I know that Shino and Kiba and Kurenai would never blame her, she probably would beat herself up over it if she actually did end up giving their scroll over to Neji.) That Gai, the champion of hard work over in-born genius, would disqualify him makes an incredible amount of sense. Now I'm thinking of what Hizashi probably felt in the aftermath of knowing his heir had been disqualified from the Chuunin exams. Eeep, what would his reaction be?!

Your Ten-Ten, especially, is wonderful. I never paid much attention to her in the anime or manga-- not that there was much to pay attention to-- but you make her just as real and sharp and living a character as your Ino, another minor CC you elevated in your stories. I'd love to see more of her and Lee having to wrestle with Neji's crazy entitlement issues in the future!