[FFML] [Naruto] White Bird

[aleh at aol.com]

    The biggest problem with this story is that it shows a distinct lack of understanding of just what a souke 
(main house/main family) and a bunke (branch house/branch family) actually are. 
    
"Main" and "branch" houses are relational terms, kind of like "father" and "child" and were often associated with physical 
houses. There was only enough "room" in the "house" (often literally) for the head of the house, the head's wife, the head's 
parents, the head's unmarried children, and the heir's spouse (and possibly kids, the heir's heir's spouse and/or unmarried 
kids, etc.). Anyone who didn't fit into one of those roles would have to move out. One way to do this (for a male, anyway) 
was to "build" their own "house" with the help and support of the house they originally came from. This new (and often 
physical) house would be viewed as a "child" of the "main" house, and owe it allegiance akin to the loyalty that a child 
owes its father under Confucian philosophy.


 
The other way to get out would be to marry out, and into anoter house... in which case, the person marrying out was 
basically viewed as dying while a "new" person would "come into existance" in their new house... and that's a drastic 
oversimplification. In any case, the seal is canonically not used on members of the Hyuuga souke, and the only way for 
Hinata to wind up in one of the bunke is for her to marry into one.

 



Yes, this means that even the Hyuuga "main house" has its own "main house" to which it owes loyalty, it's just that said 
house: (A) doesn't have the Byakugan, (B ) isn't named Hyuuga, (C ) no longer exists (in the sense of having been wiped 
out), or (D) can be described by more than one of the above descriptions. The Japanese emperors legitimitized their power 
in large part by claiming that their house was the original "main house" from which all of the other Japanese houses 
"branched".
 









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