[For fuck's sake, Yuri--] You shouldn't bow so low to someone you don't know. [Or bow at all as far as he was concerned, but if this was her choice- which it very obviously was- then what did he care what she did with herself? Neji's left with the tug of guilt at his rebuke and failure to act, you know, like a decent human being. No, they were entirely too different and she was too easy to read that there must be some hidden depth to her he's overlooking completely. He wants to tell her, again, that when he had asked for patience he hadn't meant they try their hand at fixing their already strained relationship right now... but they'd gone in too many circles already.

Again, he has to stop what he's doing to turn to her. He nods his head. He's already bowed to her once, anyway.] Hyuga Neji. [It's-- weird. More times than not, that was enough to say about himself.] Jonin. Assigned to the Second Division. [Leading the clan Hyuga to victory through the front lines. So much for that... but no, he wasn't in a battlefield now. He was in a large, absurd closet introducing himself to a girl who knew him instead of painting lipstick onto a mutated spider.] Loyal to the village of Konoha first. [Naturally. And if Yuri couldn't see that that meant his friends, he wasn't sure what else he could do for her. No 'pleasure to meet you' or 'honor is all mine'. Because that was a lie. He looks behind him and... up. To the ceiling. They could now get on with this, then.] Do you remember there being another room connected to this wall? [The left one. As far a Neji recalled, the answer was 'no'.]