"I just wish to say." you say, raising your hand. "That everything I did was in pursuit of withdrawing from the conflict that Hinata initiated and throughout which I never made a single direct attack."
You feel as though hot breath is suddenly on your neck, and when you turn, Hinata's byakugan-veins are bulging. As are her normal veins. You didn't realize she had so many in her pale eyes.
As the devil of the Uchiha, you are not given to panic, or fear, but you respond to this by realizing how little chakra you have available for your fight or flight reflexes at the moment and attempt to pull a little back by your spiritual fingernails.
For some of it this works. Some slips out of your grip. A little...
... That's funny. It feels like you pulled a little chakra back in through a different chakra-sphincter than you pushed it out through. Tenketsu. It feels different, unsettling, and strange. But also good, sort of?
It's kind of... a thin stream of chakra feels like it's flowing in a fragile current around your wrist, there.
"Settle down, you." the principal says to Hinata, breaking you out of your self-inspection and attempts to ignore her mouthing about 'killing you with her own two hands'. "And you, pay attention." he says, to you directly.
The old ex-T&I Chuunin leans back in his seat. It's in a case like this that his past is clearly apparent, as he judges the both of you with a stare.
"Detention for the both of you. Until you're notified otherwise." he says. "Hinata, you clearly need to learn some restraint."
"i what." she says, under her breath.
"So until notified otherwise, you will be assisting the younger children in their taijutsu lessons. You are not to attack them. Purely defensive." he stresses. "And as for you, Mio..."
He frowns.
"The kind of girl who uses her classmates as replaceable shields... you obviously need to learn some empathy." he says. "So you'll be going from class directly to the hospital in the evenings, helping to care for invalids and such."
"Eh..." you reply, not at all thrilled by that.
"Do you have... a complaint?" he breathes out, slowly.
You rapidly shake your head in the negative as Hinata's teeth grind.
...
Well, if nothing else, the clan will be happy that you dragged Hinata into the mud, publicly. There's sort of a polite thing between your clans, even if you both usually try to pretend it isn't there.
A few days pass before anything particularly notable crops up. Hinata doesn't bother you again, though her white-knuckled death-stare is focused on your jugular in every class. In spite of the extra work, you feel a little more rested, with a few... pseudo-coils circulating chakra out of your body and then back in, along one arm. Not far outside of the skin. Just a few centimeters. But...
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[ ] Dodging Omiai.
[ ] Is it Terminal?
[ ] Crows and a Red Moon.
[ ] ??
