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Commissioned by EternalShiva

Scene 1: The Family Pond
"Twice Shy" Origin: Chapter 10


Happy 4th of July everyone!

I know I said I'd post this last night, but I got caught up in family stuff for the fourth and it kinda got too late to work on it by the time I was done.

At last, the final page of this scene is finished. This scene is one of two manga-style scenes I'll be doing for EternalShiva's Five Scenes commission. The other three scenes will be full color pictures depicting the scene.

Now, I know a lot of you are confused about what's going on in these four pages, which means you didn't read EternalShiva's Twice Shy fanfiction *glares* So, since this is the last page, I'll go ahead and post the excerpt of the scene as it was given to me by EternalShiva. This should clear up any confusion, or make it worse XD One or the other.


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Hinata put her chin on her knees as she stared into the family garden pond, her bare feet squishing in the grass. She had her right hand dangling over the edge, playing with the ripples of water the fish produced as they swam by. She didn’t know how to take her father’s role in Naruto’s current state. When Neji had told her earlier this afternoon that her father had been dismissed as clan leader she had been shocked but once her cousin had gone into the details as to why, she shut down everything inside her. Her mind had gone blank and a strange void had formed inside her abdomen.

She felt nothing inside her, she was drained, betrayed. Neji had unwillingly left her here, saying he would return later to join her for the festival since he was now regent and had to sort out the mess caused by the council of elders. She had said nothing and sat down, feeling numb.

The fish in the pond suddenly scampered as a shadow appeared behind her. She stiffened and felt an unwanted lump in her throat form, recognizing the footsteps she had always feared, the footsteps that had always intimidated her in the past. Right now they disgusted her.

“Hinata I...” her father began to speak, wanting her forgiveness.

“Go away.” She whispered, her throat tight. She wasn’t ready to talk to him yet. Her voice shook under the emotion and Hiashi's shoulders dropped in resignation.

“As you wish.”

It was several minutes before Hiashi heard Hinata’s mournful cry in the garden, her heavy heart on his conscience and for the first time in several years since his wife had passed away, he felt like a broken man.

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So there you have it. Directly copied and pasted from the note she sent me, which was copied and pasted from the chapter XP Now you can judge for yourself how good of a job I did at depicting this small, but emotional scene.


I'll post a link to Scene 2 at the bottom here once I have it finished XD

Enjoy!

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Naruto Concept belongs to Masashi Kishimoto
"Twice Shy" Original Storyline belongs to EternalShiva
Are belongs to Jared Sanders