Fighting Dreamers ; Part One
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Sakura and Neji
"NEJI!!!"
Neji looked up from his healthy lunch of plain rice and umeboshi on top. Ten Ten, who was drinking water, glared at the newcomer. Ino stiffened and huddled closer to Neji.
As for Lee...
"SAKURA SAN!!!!"
"OH, LEE SAN?! YOU'RE HERE, TOO!?"
"OF COURSE, SAKURA SAN! WHEREVER YOU ARE, I AM-"
Ten Ten cut him off by throwing her water bottle at his head.
Sakura, stilled fumed, breathed in and out. "NEJI!"
"What," Neji asked, obviously pissed off.
"How dare you do that to him! You idiot!" Sakura yelled.
Neji slapped his hands on his face. "What did I do, this time?"
"You hurt Naruto when he did nothing wrong!!!" Sakura yelled, she slammed her hands on the table Naji was seating at.
"Haruno, I was in the classroom as the same time as you. Remember our fun "little race"?" Neji asked with a bored expression on his face.
It was then, that he noticed that Ino wasn't moving.
Neji's eyes narrowed.
"Well, maybe not you. But on of your brainless members!" Sakura argued.
"So you have any evidence?" Neji asked and his took a sip from his tea bottle. "Or will Uzumaki not speak of who had done this to him?"
Sakura froze.
Neji continued.
"Or is it because you know, and you want to take it out on me?" Neji asked.
"Shut up! I'll...I'll get you back!!!" Sakura yelled and she pointed accusingly to Neji.
"FIGHT, SAKURA SAN!!!" Lee yelled.
Ten Ten stomped on his head and grinded. "Shut up, Lee."
"Thank you, Ten Ten," Neji said.
"My pleasure!" Ten Ten answered and she blushed.
Sakura stared.
"Geez...you guys are really..."
"Sakura!!!"
Sakura turned back. "Kiba?"
"Sakura!!!" The boy ran to her and started to huff. "Naruto and Shino are caught up in a fight!"
Neji twitched.
"What?!" Sakura yelled. "With who!?"
Kiba pointed at Neji. "His reign of doom attacked them just for getting soda!"
Neji inwardly sighed and rubbed his temple. "Fine, let's go."
"WHO SAID YOU WERE COMING?!"
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Shino and Naruto
"There they are!!!" Sakura yelled.
Of course, it was clear who had the upperhand.
Naruto was kicking some guy in the ribs, his left cheek was still bandage, but he looked pretty beat up considering there was at least ten guys there. His lip was bleeding and his hair was a mess. On Naruto's right hand was a big cut, which means that Neji's team had used weapons when Naruto and Shino had not.
"YOU STUPID GUY! I WAS JUST BUYING A...DAMN SODA!!!" Naruto yelled, with the last part kicking to emphasize his point.
Neji turned to Ten Ten. "Who told them they could fight?"
Ten Ten stiffened. "No one."
"I see, take note. All ten of these men are to be cut off from my team."
Ten Ten nodded.
Shino, on the other hand, was unscathed and was also kicking a guy. He stood up and looked over.
"Hello, Sakura."
"Hiii, Shino!!!" Sakura greeted. She turned to Neji.
"Take that! My boys are strong!"
"Slut," Neji stated before walking over to where his "men" were.
"WHAT DID HE SAY?!" Sakura screamed.
"Calm down," Shino advised and he held down Sakura's shoulders.
"Hey, are you okay?" Naruto turned to someone, who was crouching next to the vending machine.
"Who..." Neji turned to glance.
"It's okay! Their gone!" Naruto yelled, throwing his hands up. "The baddies are gone!"
And it wasn't until Naruto moved that Neji could see the person.
The person who was scared to death by the comotion, who was probably just getting a soda.
The person who was bleeding from her temple.
The person named Hinata.
Neji's eyes narrowed and he walked over to where Naruto was and glanced at Hinata.
"Idiot!" Naruto hissed. "You're scaring her!"
Hinata lowered herself to the ground, she touched her temple and felt the moist blood.
In pure devisation, the girl chose that this, this time right now, was the best time to faint.
Oh. My. God.
Neji slapped his forehead and all hell broke over.
Why him? Why Hyuuga Neji?
"OH DEAR GOD, YOU KILLED HINATA!!!" Kiba yelled and he took the girl over his shoulders.
"SHE GOT IN THE WAY! I DIDN'T MEAN TO HIT HER!!!" Naruto yelled in protest.
"YOU HIT HER!?" Sakura screamed.
"NO! I MEAN...yes...I mean..." Naruto started to mumble.
"THE FUZZ!!!" Yelled Lee, who triple jumped to the chaos.
"THE FUZZ IS HERE!" Lee repeated.
"Yeah, I know." Naruto replied.
"Idiot! He means the police are coming, damn, school must've called them..." Sakura mumbled.
Neji wasn't even paying attention, instead, he stared at the girl on Kiba's back.
"Give her to me," Neji told Kiba.
"HELL NO!" Kiba yelled and clutched Hinata closer.
"She's my cousin. Give her to me," Neji demanded.
Kiba stared. "You two are cousins?!"
"Stupid! You couldn't tell?!" Sakura screamed.
"Sakura, we need to hurry," Shino said.
Sakura bit her lip. "Kiba, give Hinata to Neji and let's leave."
Kiba gawked. "Sakura..."
Sakura stared at Neji and then turned to run away.
Kiba placed Hinata in Neji's arms and started to run after Sakura, quickly picking up his pace and catching up with her.
"Neji?" Ten Ten looked into Neji's direction, but he didn't answer.
Instead, he was staring down at Hinata's face, the blood was mixed into her hair. Naruto hit her in the temple.
Neji cursed inwardly.
"Ten Ten, you and Lee go to the Kokoro Cafe, I'll be joining you in a while. Leave these punks here, the police will think they got into a brawl and that guy passed out in exhaustion," Neji said before sprinting off.
Ten Ten only stared at Neji's running feature.
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Hyuuga Family
Neji bit down his scream in agony, the hot metal was brought down again to his right arm. Neji felt the heat and shut his eyes.
It was faster this time.
Neji held in another scream and started to hit the tiled floor with his other arm.
He felt a shadow loom over hiim. The kitchen tile was now looking a bit hazy and everything was swirving in the kutchen. The stove was on and making a gasly smell around the room.
Hiashi stood, there, with the hot metal in his gloved hands.
"That's enough, you may leave now."
Neji got up and made an attempt to bow, he was shaking as he did it.
"H-Hai, Hiashi sama..."
"If she ever gets harmed again, you'll have to repent for what they do to her."
Neji nodded and wobbled out of the room.
Hinata stood in the hallway. Her heads was bandaged and her arm. She stared at Neji's figure, the burning skin was making a tint of smell in the air.
"Neji niisan..." Hinata began, but Neji just walked past her.
Suddenly a kunai was thrown next to Neji's leg.
Neji turned around and saw Hinabi, standing there with a smirk on her face.
"Hey, dipshit. Go pick up my kunai," Hinabi said.
Hinata covered her mouth. "Hinabi! You shouldn't-"
"I said, pick up my kunai, branch member," Hinabi said.
Neji cursed and bent down slowly.
Damn, and she was only nine.
As soon as Neji reached out with his unburnt arm, Hinabi rushed by, "accidently" puting force on Neji's wounded arm. Neji gritted his teeth in pain and fell over.
"What's wrong, branch member?" Hinabi sneered. She picked up her kunai. "See? Even a nine year old can do it."
"Hinabi!" Hinata yelled. "G-Go to father right now!"
Hinabi glared. "To do what?! 'Hey, father! Did you know that Neji can't even do one thing for me?!' Goos idea, sis!"
Hinabi turned to run tot he kitchen.
"Hinabi! I didn't mean that!" Hinata yelled. "Th-That girl..."
Neji struggled to stand up and he gripped the doorframe.
"Are you okay, Neji niisan?" Hinata asked and she was reaching her arms out but Neji slapped them away.
Wobbling, Neji made his way out the door and after that, Hinata could hear the faint sounds of an engine running.
"Neji niisan..."
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Ten Ten and Lee
"Hey...Lee?" Ten Ten nudged the boy next to her.
"What?" Lee asked, his mouth was full of chow mein and there was sauce on his lips.
Ten Ten twitched.
She turned to the owner, who was patroling the area and casually talking to customers.
"Hey, Kakashi!!!" Ten Ten yelled.
The white haired man stood up and walked over to their table in the corner.
"What do you want?" Kakashi asked in a bored tone.
"More tea," Ten Ten said, she held out the empty tea kettle.
"You'll have to pay extra," Kakashi said.
"Don't care. Give me some, Kakashi."
Kakashi picked up the empty tea pot.
"You know, there are only three people who can call me by my first name." Kakashi said and he poked Ten Ten in the head. "...and you're not one of them."
Ten Ten stuck her tongue out and watched turned back to Lee.
"So, Lee. How do you know Neji?" Ten Ten asked, as if she was getting drunk off herbel tea.
Lee swallowed his dish and took a napkin from out of no where.
"Me and him go back waaaaay to kindergarden. He was a lone wolf from the very beginning," Lee said, with emotion in his voice.
"Uh huh..."
"So! I befriended him! We were together and was never seperated!!!"
"So in other words, you followed him?"
"'Till the end. Of course, I had to get home schooled in eigth grade because of my taijutsu classes!!!" Lee yelled and he kicked for emphasis.
"Hey, calm down." Kakashi said and he placed the tea kettle next to Ten Ten.
Lee continued.
"I mean, with the whole issue with his family and all..."
Ten Ten stopped drinking and placed down her cup.
"What issues?"
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Neji
Neji sat on the park swing and drifted off slowly into his own world from there.
He would meet up with Ten Te and Lee later. It was still to early to do so, also, he needed his burns for a heal a bit before going.
"Hm? What are you doing here?!"
Neji, without looking up continued to stare blankly into the ground.
"It's a free world, Haruno."
"Apparently."
Neji saw Sakura's footsteps leave in front viewpoint and from the corner of his eyes, he saw her seat herself on the swing next to him.
"Feels nostalgic, doesn't it?" Sakura asked, "This place."
Neji closed his eyes and turned his head to the sky, feeling the air rush to his neck.
Opening his eyes a bit, Neji wondered if he should pick a fight, or not.
"You know, I've only seen you with long sleevees," Sakura pointed out.
"It's the school uniform, Sakura." Neji replied.
"So? Every rebel knows that you can roll up your sleevees during the summer," Sakura pointed out.
"Trying to give me fashion tips, Sakura? From a person who shortens her skit, I don't need to hear very much," Neji countered and he leaned his head on the chains of the swing.
"Listen you! I'm just saying...that...oh my God..."
Neji's eyes snapped open he then realized that his loose shirt was being blown up an inch.
Right by his wrist, close to his hand was a burn stripe from last month.
Trying to desperately pull down his sleeve, Neji turned around from Sakura.
He heard Sakura's footsteps walk closer to him.
"Neji...Neji let me see-"
Suddenly, Sakura was pushed down to the gravel.
"Don't. Touch. Me."
Twice.
Twice he had been forced to say that to her.
Just the same way as four years ago.
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Naruto and Ino
"Narutoooo!!! Get out of the damn bathroom!!!" Ino yelled.
"Can't your hair wait five damn minutes?!" Naruto yelled.
"Hell no! I have to be at the Kokoro cafe soon!! And by the way...why are you IN MY HOUSE?!" Ino screamed.
"Your mom let me in!!!" Naruto argued.
"Well I didn't! Get out of my life, you jerk!!!" Ino screamed.
Suddenly the door burst open, causing Ino to tip over a bit.
"There you are-"
Ino was cut off by Naruto's appearace.
His clothes were ripped, blood was seeping through his uneven, white bandage wraps. His cheek wound was re opened and there was blood stains all over his clothes.
"Naruto...what happ-"
"You know what, Ino? I really believed you were special. I really believed you to be different," Naruto said and he walked pat Ino, making trudging noises.
"Naruto, I..."
"I'll finish bandaging at Kiba's house. I'm sure he'll let me in."
And Ino could only fall to her knees and hear Naruto's steps fade away from her.
"Naruto...if only you knew...if only you knew what a childish fantasy your in when you stay with Sakura." Ino said.
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"Boss...it's almost time..."
"Aah."
Drip. Drop.
"So, what's the plan?"
"We finish off those...mutts."
Drip. Drop.
"Understood, we'll await your orders in the main room."
Doors shuts.
"Uzumaki Naruto...Yamanaka Ino..."
Drip. Drop.
"I'll get you this time, and you can join Haku in six feet under."
Door rams open.
"We've located them...Boss Zabuza!!!"
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Towel: Ooh...things are getting interesting now...
