Hmm.. the Hinata in number 19 was pretty interesting.. I guess since we didn't really go that much into her mindset during the Celebrationverse! (or at least, when we did, it was the very first one, and then she really _did_ seem normal >>;) Her mindset though, is very strange.. I thought she liked Neji (re: original Celebration fics), but in here there's a lot more detachment from emotion. It's like she's looking on as an outsider, and letting him do smutty things to her because it's "interesting," and not because she likes touching him. There's a thing implied, too, that by "letting" him do that to her, she can also refuse him.

Hmm.. her preoccupation with the bloody sleeve is interesting, too. It's hard to pin down exactly if she's feeling actual remorse, or shock; or if she's merely diverted. It seems like she's staring at it with the same mental detachment as when she lets Neji kiss her, but then earlier you say that she had killed them the most painless way she knew how (also disturbed at the fact that she knows *which* of the ways would be painless XD;), almost as if to spare them from the torture, but then she's done it before...

It's puzzling, a bit disturbing, and very messed up. ^^ *huggles it* XD And, well, the other two.. are also messed up and especially 18 shows some interesting dynamics in Neji and Hinata's relationship. And I like the subtle, but still very powerful smut in 20. XD; I guess there's some symbolism with the cup, but I'm not gifted enough to guess at it. :P XD