NejiHina week 2021

Prompts used: Sunlit and First Love
[Then she smiled. It was the most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life]

With this work, I wanted to show the moment when Neji realizes that since they established communication and resolved past conflicts and grievances, Hinata has come to mean something more to him. It is not necessary that he immediately identified this feeling and formulated it for himself as falling in love or love. Most likely, it will take him time, probably years, during which he will go through the stages of denial of his feelings, anger, that his feelings are unrequited, bargaining with himself, that it is enough for him to be by her side and know that she is happy, even if not with him. Well, this is a completely different story.

At that very specific moment, he realizes how important she is to him, how important it is for him that she smiles again, that her smile shines brighter and warms him more than the rays of the rising sun. He realizes that he does not know what will happen to him if she is not there.

[Hinata smiled at him and rushed towards the gentle morning sun, carelessly brushing her hands against the fluffy silvery tufts of the grass, while Neji froze behind, continuing to stare absently at her trail. Confused, he felt how the emptiness in his chest, formed when the darkness and hatred receded, filled with warmth, and the world around him became a little brighter. He stood immersed in himself until Hinata called out to him. Neji shook his head and walked briskly towards her.]

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