31_days August 11 - Naruto - The Tender Vine -

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August 11: I claim proud kinship with your race and blood - Naruto -The Tender Vine - Hyuuga gen.

[Now imagine Neji saying “I claim proud kinship with your race and blood, Hinata-sama”.]
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Their eyes are a milky white, like melting snow or a baby’s skin. They are a proud clan, running back for centuries upon centuries, traditional and tall like the aged buildings they live in. Well-kept antiques with sepia scrolls and faded ink which tells stories just ever so biased, just ever so false and misleading.

Like all families, they hide their secrets behind closed lips and closed doors.

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Vines must be pruned, trimming off the smaller shoots so the large ones can live. It benefits the plant in the end, all gardeners know this.

The most beautiful vines are always pruned carefully, the smaller, weaker ones cut so the other can flourish. Snip, Snip.
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Some or born lucky, others are cursed by fate or mere seconds. With their wings clipped - it benefits the clan, surely preventing uprisings and many deaths.

Neji looks out the door of his room, cage really, at the twisting vines, watches the hired gardener
pruning the grapevines, watches as the tender younger vine is stripped away to benefit the older, wiser main vine.

Snip, Snip.

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[;; Sorry, my classes ran really late so I kinda had to just throw this together. Gah]

Comments

[go-hifreann-lea.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of doing of Hyuga fic for this challenge, but I wasn't inspired enough. The metaphor is beautiful & it fits wonderfully. Great job.

[measuringlife.livejournal.com]

It was a hard theme to do ^^; I barely made it [I was a few minutes late, actually]

Thank you~ Classes kinda ate me so I didn't get to take it as far as I wanted to =/ Oh well.