#it's kinda ironic bc when i first got into naruto i couldn't stand neji bc of how he treated hinata

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this image lives in my mind rent free. there's so much here and i really wish the manga had gotten deeper into these two's deeply fucked up relationship bc it's fascinating.

according to wikipedia, yin (the black bit) represents the female/passive/negative principle in nature, while yang (the white part) represents the male/active/positive principle in nature. yin is covert, of the netherworld, the north side of a hill, the south bank of a river, the moon. yang is overt, belonging to this world, the south side of a hill, the north bank of a river, the sun. some other stuff too

the name hyuuga is written with the characters for "sun" and "approach", but the second character can also mean "defy". hinata's first name is just a different reading of the kanji of their surname (which is hilarious but that's not the point), but as a noun "hinata" means "sunny place" or "in the sun". i believe it's also been used to mean "the direction the sun is shining". with the reading "hyuuga", though, the same kanji is also an archaic noun meaning "facing (opposite) the sun". so hinata, the all-but-disowned heiress of the clan, is "a sunny place facing the sun" - both an undeniable part of her family, yet ostracized for her weakness.

neji's name means "screw", or it can refer to a key or a spring in like a watch or a clock or something. there's a few kanji it could be written in, but only one of them caught my eye - 螺旋 is a rarer way of writing "ねじ" (usually just written in hiragana afaik, tho neji the character's name is written in katakana) but the more common reading of 螺旋 is ら(螺)·せん - rasen. if you haven't already caught it, the kanji for rasengan is 螺旋丸­. that's not super relevant, just interesting. anyway, neji who "defies" the main family is one who "faces (opposes) the sun". but at the same time he's its strongest member (or. the one with the most potential. probably most of the jounin hyuuga were stronger than genin neji). so he's "a screw in the sun" - a fundamental piece of the machinery that it may not be able to function without, even if it can't be seen from the outside, like the inner workings of a clock.

idk where i'm going with this i just think these two are fascinating and i would've liked to seen more of them concerning one another

#naruto #naruto shippuden #hyuuga clan #hyuuga family bs #hyuuga neji #hyuuga hinata #people try really hard to give naruto a sun-moon dynamic with someone but like. that's silly #the narutoverse HAS sun-moon symbolism. just with hinata and neji #naruto has his full moon-crescent moon thing with sasuke tho which is also pretty nifty #also i freaking adore how they're positioned there #neji looks down on hinata. hinata looks up to neji #the moon resents the sun for shining but can't has no light without it. the sun doesn't need the moon but gives it light anyway #there was so much that could have been done with this #what they're meant to be vs what they are vs who they choose to become #the POTENTIAL #just realized i'm only ever interested in neji when hinata is also involved. and hinata is much more interesting to me when neji is there #i don't care about neji at all outside of that and i'm not too interested in canon!hinata outside of that either #it's kinda ironic bc when i first got into naruto i couldn't stand neji bc of how he treated hinata #ofc NOW i'm older and understand a bit more of what he was going through but it's still hard for me to like him most of the time #except when it concerns hinata. who is the main reason i didn't like him in the first place #go figure? i guess? #they are sososososososo fucked up and i love it #unrelated note: maybe the reason i can't really get behind naru/hina is bc all the interesting potential i can see just kinda went untouche #naruto au where hinata and neji spend the two year timeskip plotting a revolt and they kill hiashi while he's fighting hizashi #then while the war is going on they're running around in the background freeing every hyuuga they can find #naruto wins the war and turns around to see hinata completely restructuring the clan and takes inspiration for the village #he works with sasuke and sakura and the others to try and fix All That Shit #THAT'S a naru/hina i could get behind #also. when they kill hiashi i don't imagine it being like a ''mwahaha vengeance'' thing it'd be more like a tragedy #there'd be a flashback of how close hizashi and hiashi were as children and how growing up the way they did messed them up