[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.

Comments

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

Hee. Hee hee heee! I think your Neji tends to be far more a physical innocent than mine. "The sort of arrangment" indeed!

And one more for Hiashi in this 'verse (say in the aftermath of the latest bunk of drabbles):

Hiashi: Why did you then sacrifice yourself when you knew Hinata probably needed you so badly as a child? Do you think her newfound strength after you were gone was worth the degredation she suffered without you as her buffer towards the main house?

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well in here Neji's a romantic or something. The word 'arrangement' confused him. On the other hand, he is perfectly aware of all the occasions sparring gets him to have his hands on Hinata ('brushing against' might be more accurate, but he gets what he can). He is also aware of dreams and such, but he blames it on the training. Hey, he's the one who made the link pretty = wanna fight.

Note: even though I don't know the characters in your icon, everytime I stay staring at it for a few moments because I find it so funny.

Hiashi's reply: I expect these questions cannot be avoided.

The truth is, I never intended things to go as they did; I think I must have hoped for my brother to find the strength to stand up to the Council after I had done the same to him, and not to live his life and his son's – and… Hinata's and her mother's – according to these same rules I died precisely to make him realise weren't enough.

I did think what I was saying; I was indeed willing to die so my brother would live. And… Hinata… My daughter was probably not as present to my mind as I spoke as she should have, but I was nevertheless convinced I was doing the best for her. Do you imagine for even one moment the Main House would have allowed their clan head to just die? And – if they had – do you have any idea of how the clan would have gone, under the control of the council?

My father was the one who separated my brother and me. He was the one who ordered me to be branded into the Branch House. Do you imagine how life would have gone had the clan head's power suddenly disappeared? Do you truly think my existence wouldn't have singled her out and made her a perfect target? – and Hizashi's son would never have forgiven me and would have likely transferred his hatred onto her as well.

Hinata had a mother. She had a mother, an uncle and his wife, and a cousin who was only older than her by one year. I wasn't – or at any rate I never should have been – my daughter's only support in this world.

And she was two; too young to be sealed.

Somewhere I hoped that Hizashi would find the strength to take her in as his daughter.

It is too late to have regrets or second thoughts. Yes, I dread what could happen to her – the clan's punishment if they learn she betrayed its heir; my brother, his son. I dread both of them. And I fear where this – whatever it is, this anger of hers, this willingness to break the rules, her disregard of the clan – may take her. How easily she might stumble on a wrong path. She is my daughter and I hate having to acknowledge it, but – how much farther can she go?

She has disobeyed the clan.

Worse, she has been disloyal to someone – a person, her cousin. Her circumstances were extenuating, I'll give her that. But she has. And there is only one step between disobeying the clan and disobeying the village.

And… at same time… I am astonished at the resources of strength, fortitude, and determination she found and showed. I am wary of what may become of her – but I am also proud that she found both the will and the way to carry on her dream.

I can only hope it will not be her downfall. I do not want her to prove me right after all, that maybe she would have been happier if she wasn't a shinobi.

But then, there was never a choice.

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

Heeeeee! Your Neji and his "accidental touches" reminds me a bit of this fic I wrote way back when (http://mariagoner.livejournal.com/7179.html). Leave it to shinobi to figure out a way to group someone you're trying to beat the crap out of. ;) ♥

And that icon is indeed the love! ::uses it once more for the hell of it::

And oh Hiashi. Oh Hiashi. I really do adore the way you can bring such poignant life to even the minor characters in your universe. You really make it seem as though they themselves have a story worthy of telling, if only they had the time enough (as Hiashi really didn't) to tell it. And I love how much pathos you bring to the way he sees his own daughter, torn between being horrified at her apparent disobedience (which his brother, perhaps, has treated more mildly than Hiashi himself would!) and wonder at her strength, even though it's tempered by concern over her. You do wonders with all of the Hyuga, not just Hinata and Neji!