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He’s eighteen when he realizes that it’s not too late. It’s a seed – something small that roots between his lungs, and all of a sudden he can hardly breathe for it. Hyuuga Hinata has inherited her clan in the wake of her father’s death. It’s spring, and Konoha smells fresh for it when the wind blows east. West brings along the stench of the buried, incongruent – a reminder. The war is six months over, but everything is off-kilter still, and Neji finds himself in a familiar courtyard, facing away from tragedy.
Or: Neji and Hinata: the beginnings