#pro neji

[indra-tenrou]

Okay I don't give a fuck or shit about how old you are or what have you, but there's absolutely no fucking excuse for Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata's behaviors in these panels

Seriously, Hinata's rubbing in Neji's slave status in his face, Naruto's disrespecting a genocided clan after Sasuke lost to Lee and Lee himself nearly killed him too, and Sakura's telling the survivor of said genocide to drop he goals so they can have fun. Do you people not see how messed up this shit is? This shit is messed up even for a bunch of 12 year olds and the added context within the series makes this worse.

Also don't give me that whole Naruto's an orphan crap, because Sasuke, Neji, as well as Kabuto and the Ame Trio were all not only orphans but way worse off than Naruto by a ridiculous margin, something I plan on making a post about later, but none of them acted like this, and Neji had the added fact of being a slave with a mark branded onto his forehead that could torture and kill him anytime the Main Family wanted, and Sasuke was fucking tortured and made to live in the same compound where his clan was killed, and yet neither of them acted like this.

Seriously, the excuse that Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata are just 12 is just fucking stupid and wrong on so many levels, no 12-year old should ever be saying shit like that, they're fucking old enough to know better. Naruto's ugly mug has absolutely NO excuse to say this, and both Sakura and Hinata's behinds have fucking parents so they especially shouldn't be left off the hook.

But of course, Sasuke and Neji are a pair of meanies to Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata, while those three are all sweet little angels who deserve the whole world and all that bullshit, yadda yadda. Bitch please, miss me with that bullshit.

[antigonesiropdefruit]

The slave died at the age of seventeen to protect her, and she preferred to rave about Naruto's hands.

She's now over thirty and still hasn't been shown to do anything for the secondary branch.

You're not going to get us to like her. She's not the fragile baby you make her out to be.

[maricacarica]

While Hinata isn't to blame for being born into the main branch.

Neji isn't to blame for hating her, he was her slave. His only mistake was not being born into main branch, and because if that he had to suffer. Because of her, his dad died (while willingly). Whether it's her fault or not, Neji had a right to hate her. Esspeicially as a kid. Even if she was kind, he was still her SLAVE. Seen as less for nothing but being born in bad place. His emotions are completely normal, it would be weirder if he liked her.

[sasuke-shway]

[kcuf-ad]

If I hear that Sasuke shouldn’t have left Konoha, I will beat the person up.

HAVE YOU WATCHED THE FUCKING SHOW?!

It is the same village that were bigotted against the Uchiha, allowed the Hyuuga to have the seal jutsu on the others, made someone kill the clan because they were moronic enough to not have a Peaceful conversation with Fugaku, hated a kid for over 10+ years because he had the 9 Tails Fox (WHICH HE DIDN’T EVEN KNEW ABOUT) and had child soldiers.

[pansexualmadara]

Happy Birthday Neji, you deserved so much better.

[sakuraharuno156]

Let's look at Infinite Tsukuyomi dreams once again:

and see how it's clearly shows Hinata is a really sh*tty person

Worth to mention - this is their perfect world, this is how they wished it to be. No limits, no restrictions, everything is possible.

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Let's see how they want the world to be:

Gaaras dream:

His parents are ALIVE AND HAPPY. His siblings are with their parents and they are all a close, cute family.

Lee and TenTen:

Lee wants to fight with Neji/Naruto and win, but Neji wanted to fight with Lee and we know they were sparring frequently.

So in Lee's perfect life, he and Neji are still happy with the only difference being - Lee finally won. Sakura is in love with Lee, but she is still herself. She is doing what she is always doing - being loud and happy, SHE IS HERSELF.

TenTen is standing with Neji and doing what they are always doing - judging Lee and Guy

So in TenTen's perfect world - Neji is alive and they are all (weird) happy family like they were before.

Choji, Shikamaru and Ino:

Chiji found love and his father is proud of him. Nice, self-explanatory.

Shikamaru is watching 2 couples (Kurenai x Asuma and Shikamarus father and mother) while doing what he loves - complaining. Asuma is ALIVE and meeting his child, Shikaku is ALIVE and with the woman he loves - Shikamaru's mother.

So in Shikamaru's perfect world, they are all the same people with their loved ones. Shikamaru is complaining and happy to see them together.

Ino is with Sai and Sasuke who are fighting for her and her father is happy and proud of her AND ALIVE. Sasuke and Sai are fighting for Ino but look! They are not blushing, not doing anything OOC, they are themselves but in love with Ino.

So in Ino's perfect world, she is popular (with two guys she is attracted to), her father is happy and proud of her.

NOW TO THE SELFISH TEAM:

Kiba and Shino:

They are both successful, Kiba is the Hokage and Shino found a new species. Not much to add there.

But then, Crème de la crème, this b*tch Hinata:

In Hinata's dream, she is with Naruto (no surprises) and Neji is alive, but is it? Let's break this down:

Naruto is not Naruto. He is quiet, just sitting there. Naruto, the child with SO MUCH ENERGY he cannot stand in one place, just sitting. Naruto the child WHO SPEAKS SO MUCH is just quiet.

In Lee dream - Sakura is in love with him BUT SHE IS ACTING LIKE SAKURA, SHE IS SAKURA.

In Ino's dream - Sasuke and Sai are fighting over Ino, BUT THEY ARE THEMSELVES. They act like themselves. THEY ARE THEMSELVES.

Everyone who dreams of someone imagine them as they are. Sakura is Sakura, Sasuke and Sai are themselves. Even Temari speaking her one word in Shikamarus dream IS TEMARI. She speaks like she usually do when they are together.

But Naruto in Hinatas mind? Quiet. Stagnant. She could have imagined him as himself as a talkative, over-energized, NARUTO, but no. Quiet.

But that's less infuriating - more just annoying.

Now to the infuriating part.

WTF NEJI.

Why is he annoyed? Why in Hinata's perfect dream - Neji is mad and stalking her? Why in a world when they can be friends, when Neji can be proud of her (like fathers in Ino's or Choji's) she imagined him as unhappy?

And why is he spying on her? Why is he not happily with her, or with his friends OR HIS FATHER, but he is just sitting in the bushes and stalking Hinata?

That's again, not Neji, people who imagined the opposite of Neji saw him like Hinata wanted him in her dream.

Look at Road to ninja, a movie when they are THEIR OPPOSITES. What is Neji doing? Stalking Hinata and getting angry. Wow, would you look at this.

(And yes, that's a filler movie, and no I don't like studio pierrot, but COME ON, WHAT THEY IMAGIN AS THE OPPOSITE OF NEJI IS WHAT HINATA WANTED NEJI TO BE)

SHE COULD HAVE IMAGINED HYUGA CLAN BEING FIXED, MAIN AND SIDE BRANCH HAPPY TOGETHER.

But no, let's imagine that everything is like it is, Neji is still her slave (even after his death - she still imagine him as a slave, propably with his curse mark), he is spying on her and unhappy with it :)

Why dream of change, when you can be with your crush (who acts like a completely different person) and still having your slave, but in this world - he is stalking you! Yeey....

I can't, I can't with that character, every chance she gets to do the right thing - she keeps on proving how s*it of a person she is...

[whtybsshe]

For me, there is a lot of significance on why Hinata addresses Neji as “older brother”. Figuring that out, completely demolishes any attempt to argue that Hinata is comfortable with the slave system in the Hyugas.

And it isn’t just to get “closer to him” or because she’s just so “kind and warm”. Well, she is kind and warm and gentle and loves her brother and her sister. But that honorific alone crosses the bounds of it.

In every culture the elders hold importance and respect, but this especially goes in East Asian culture, particularly rooted in Confucianism. In Japan, it is also known as senpai-kohai (senior-junior). As its name suggests, it describes hierarchical structures, the younger must respect the elder and the elder must guide the younger. This works mainly in institutions and social groups (-san, -sama, -chan, -kun etc) , but this moral code more or less, has naturally reflected into homes and families as well. But even without mentioning senpai-kohai, we’re all pretty much informed about how in Japan, there are honorifics used for elders, how “you should listen to your elders.” Again, this isn’t just exclusive to Japan or Asia, so not only we are knowledgeable in it, we also relate to it to some degree.

We know hierarchy is an already established tradition within the Hyugas. Hiashi became the head just because he was minutes older than Hizashi, not to mention the main and the branch family themselves is based on, maybe a little more complicated than age differences, but still is based on one.

What this all means, is that Hinata isn’t just referring Neji as an actual family member rather than a servant. Hinata is giving him a degree of authority over her to him. She, a member of the main family, is putting him,a member of the branch family, above her in some way, hence the honorific she uses. Hinata, my insane girl, does not give a shit 👆😍🫶

We don’t have any other proof whether younger main members refer to older branch members with honorifics. Another testimony is Hanabi who also refers Neji as older brother, however it’s not a strong antithesis as firstly, this was done in a filler episode (390, Naruto shippuden) Secondly, even if the filler episode holds validity, Hanabi is then again, Hinatas younger sister which has most likely influenced her to address Neji the same way. Additionally, main branch members lead the lower with fear (the caged bird curse), in heavy contrast with Hinatas anti confrontational nature. I doubt there’s anyone else who does the same thing as Hinata and possibly Hanabi.

I don’t think this is a bare minimum in any way, I think for a girl who has never had a choice , is a hell of a way to express disapproval with what is happening and it’s really a shame Kishimoto just dumped it aside or off screened the development of Neji, Hinata, Hanabi and the Hyugas in general.

PS: My view and my interpretation of senpai kohai isn’t entirely correct but rather on what I’ve read and observed. This is based over my opinion and I would love to hear yours!!!