#Neji Hyuga (kid)

[ludwigplayingthetrombone]

Team gai moments we were robbed of

Gai: Neji! Neji: Sensei Gai: How are you feeling?? Neji: Fine. What about Naruto and the others? Gai: Everyone made it back to konoha, but sasuke got past naruto still. Neji: [exhale] No casualties then. Lee included. Gai: Thank goodness /you're/ ok, Neji. Proud of you. Lee and tenten: NEJI!!

[atoriv-art]

rivals!

[rikustarlight]

Enjoy from a quick sketching session this morning on procreate

I’m just….UGH NEJI WOULD’VE BEEN THE IDEAL FATHER AND BORUTO WOULD’VE LOOKED UP TO NEJI AS A FATHER FIGURE WHILE NARUTO WAS BUSY…KISHI COPPED OUT WITH THIS ONE….there I said it with my whole chest.

As you can see, Meiten can be a bit stabby-hotheaded-pants like her mother sometimes… Their kids may mostly look like Neji but their personalities are definitely Tenten. They have their work cut out for them for sure!

Just some quick sketches of the kids. I’m missing ChouChou and Inojin but they would’ve made up the squad.

More sketches

Nejiten Kids head cannons | Nejiten Kids Designs | Nejiten head cannons

[thesauce8]

[team7-headquarter]

I can't take Naruto seriously sometimes because I have to laugh at some of the "omg this kid must be a genius" moments of the manga.

Most of the time it's so painfully clear those are just kids. Confused, desperate, traumatized to no end, scared. Kids that want to believe in a greater good to justify the violence they commit. Kids, just kids. They don't know who to trust, they get manipulated, they make me want to tear apart the adults in their lives and scream and cry an—

Shisui's solution to stop the Uchiha coup was to brainwash Fugaku and to be honest? Fugaku was not even half the problem. The problem was that the Uchiha prejudice had reached unparalleled levels, that the system was stepping on them and had been stepping on them since Hashirama was still alive. There's no way that the clan would have stayed quiet, even if Fugaku ordered them to not follow the plan.

Shisui was smart for his age but he was desperate and he was scared and he was, at the end of the day, just a teenager. That's why he got killed by Danzo. That's why he suicided and left the burden to Itachi to carry.

Itachi was a kid too. Fuck the genius title, it is complete bullshit in Naruto. He thought that the solution was to follow Hiruzen's plan because he was so traumatized by war, he would do literally anything to avoid it. But massacring his whole clan was any better? Didn't he kill innocent people all the same? Didn't he prolong the suffering of Konoha? Hiruzen had the audacity to say that Itachi was wise as a kage in his young age, which is stupid and shows what Hiruzen thinks a kage is and how they should think.

Shisui and Itachi were not geniuses. They were kids / teenagers who happened to be more ways to mold and turn into weapons. That they were smart doesn't mean they were adults.

Neji? He was strong, he was smart and mature. He was one of the best members of the Hyuga clan at 12 years old, a pattern shared with Shisui and Itachi. However, the Chuning Exams made it very clear that Neji was as lost and confused and hollow as the rest of those "geniuses". He was lied to. It's a tradition at this point: how much info do you think they are keeping away from you so that you behave like they want you to behave?

Kakashi? He said it himself that he was stupid for believing he was such a big deal, when in fact his attitude didn't help him save his teammates or properly train his students. The genius title only served to cause him pain. In the Naruto universe, people assume you are immune to emotions or being your age if you're a genius, it seems.

"This kid is a genius" and then the story proceeds to show them making a terrible decision that is not even theirs, it's the system playing with them.

Over and over and over again.

[enchantingpeachfury]

[fellowskydalorianbrainrotter]

parallels of my two favorite anime characters — Neji Hyuga, Shouto Todoroki

[colorfulfoxengineer]

Stopping Neji from killing Hinata

[gros-chat-fait]

Konoha's three-headed beast.

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I realized recently that this blog had its 5th birthday back in August. So this is sort of a celebratory redraw of maybe the first drawing I posted, aptly titled: Naruto's harem. It exists in an alternative universe in my brain where Neji is alive and thriving and is being an awesome uncle to Naruto and Hinata's kids; Shikamaru/Temari are nomadic diplomats neither of which have to give up their homeland nor their day jobs for the other; and Sasuke is still a wandering deep-state agent, presumably (can you tell I haven't read the sequel?); and they all help run the village behind the scene.

Now have I improved? The more I draw the more I realize how limited my abilities are, but it's fun nonetheless to create and share the worms in my head <3 Thank you all for looking at my stuff and liking/reblogging and yelling about them in the tags/comments and decided that I'm worth following; I do see them all and appreciate all of them so much. I'm just not good with words <33333

For comparison:

[alybur635]

I remember seeing someone say that Neji isn't a caring person. I feel like people only say that because he's a stoic character. Or they are thinking of Genin Neji. That one episode where Hinata goes blind from training hard with him and straining her eyes in the process; he acts like he doesn't care when confronted by Naruto and Sakura. But later in the episode, we see him luring away a cat so she doesn't trip. Silently handing her a cup and pitcher so she can drink and just sitting in silence with her the whole time. And is later outside leaning against the wall as she's heading back towards her room.

Then we see Naruto and Sakura are heading over to visit, and instead they eavesdrop over Neji and the doctor's conversation. Whether it's dub or sub, I like how you can feel the tone and emotion in Neji's voice on how he wants Hinata's eyes to be better by the weekend so she can see the fireworks display. He sounds emotional even while remaining stoic. When the doctor leaves and the tone of his voice is still the same and he grits his teeth, I love details like that. So he ends up resorting to leave the village to find the eye bright for her eyes, and isn't it illegal to just randomly leave the village like that?

The fact that he was about to do something illegal just for her eyes says a lot about him. Neji seems like the type that would pretty much do anything for a loved one/someone he cares about. And even in the end he wasn't successful; he was staying by her side silently as she listened to the fireworks going off. Like, idk, that sounds pretty caring to me, lol. I know it's technically just a filler episode, but I like doing deep dives on his character analysis, etc. He still has that soft side of himself that he buried deep down and kept up walls up from people and not opening up. He's just a softie at the end of the day.

You get it so so much anon.... bless you get it

Neji is a caring character, he CARES!!!! He cares about his friends and loved ones sm,,,,

But, I will honestly say if I had to place a bet for gets people into thinking he isn't caring or just this really cold character is... probably how he was when he's first introduced. But really, Neji was like that not entirely without a reason (y'know... dead father and clan trauma) he was really just this traumatized, angry teen that was lashing out and keeping people a good emotional distance away from him. Keeping his walls up from people, y'know (I would also like to say it was even done to keep himself from getting attached to others in an underlying fear of either losing or having said people get taken away from him like what happened with his father). But also as we saw with the aftermath of his fight with Naruto, we saw him slowly start emotionally opening up to his peers. He visibly wasn't as bitter or offputting as he was when first introduced and he was changing!

I will say a big fat YES to all that you said anon, really does prove that Neji does indeed care about people and does try to amend mistakes he makes. The think about him, that I think this does also prove, is that Neji isn't the type to just outright verbally apologize or say "I do care", to him, I can see words are almost meaningless without some degree of action put into them. He cares, but he's going to demonstrate such with ACTION over just relying on words to prove it. He does a handful of times actually, and this scene was one of those times. (Also I love that scene bc it really shows the development Neji started undergoing as a character,,,)

[dark-elf-writes]

I’d like to thank our resident tree frog @hobgoblinlife for making me think about a Nejinaru child because that’s now ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT.

A little kid with tangled blond hair and signature Hyuga eyes. A bright sharp-toothed smile and whisker marks on their cheeks. They never cover their forehead, always keeping the unblemished skin on the display. Even after they make genin they wear their headband around their neck like their aunt does. A promise to everyone that they will not be caged. That their father is no longer caged.

(Naruto had presented the seal that would break Neji’s with a half-feral smile as his wedding present. Neji had made his appreciation of said gift very very clear.)

Just Naruto and Neji with a feral little genius who ever seems to sit still but picks up concepts they’re interested in almost instantly. A sweet talking little thing that can charm sweets or cool lessons or whatever else out of just about everyone with only a sunshine bright smile. The bane of Uncle Iruka’s existence in a classroom setting because they argue about everything but they are pretty clearly each other’s favorites outside of the classroom which Iruka lords over all of their other aunts and uncles. Sass machine. Their first word was “Bastard” directed at Hiashi and Naruto laughed so hard when he heard it he had to sit down in the middle of the damn street. Kiba who taught them to do it looked smug for weeks.

Just no thoughts only Nejinaru child.

[atoriv-art]

older designs for my specialest guy

[rikustarlight]

Red; because yes. How stylish they are! Neji is usually depicted in white or blue but I think a nice deep red compliments him

andtentenbutyaknowsheberockingthatredhellaniceaswellsowhybotmakethemmatch

My other head cannon is that all members of Team Gai got a simplified quote of their motto:

Stronger than we were yesterday —-> stronger than yesterday

It’s on their collarbones to keep close to their hearts.

[sinnbaddie]

Thinking about Gai and Neji please just end me already

[hyugahell]

Neji you look like your ready to be put in a casket you sleep like dis? 🤨 https://pin.it/3hMKXvqlA

Neji: I do not naturally sleep like that! There was something in the curry that left me in that state, I swear it!

[enchantingpeachfury]