Comments: Hi everyone! This is my first time writing about NejiSaku! Thought I'd give it a shot since I've read so much of it lately! Anyway. This will be multichaptered. But I'm writing anoter fiction alongside this one, so if you're reading this going "Oh! She won't update in forever, don't worry. I update more than once a week. At least I try. This is set during Shippuden so Sakura-15 Neji-16. That about wraps it up! So I hope to see you again!
Summary for Chapter one: An already wounded Hyuuga decides it isn't enough training. Not much of a summary. Otherwise I'd be giving too much away.
Disclaimer: Honestly, do I have to say it? If I did own Naruto, which I don't, this couple would exist. And SasuHina. Or NaruHina. Duh.
On with the story!
--- x --- BEGIN CHAPTER 1 --- x ---
Entering the Konoha Gates was Team Gai. Consisting of Tenten, Neji, Lee, and, well, Gai. By the apperance of their clothing, the scratches on their bodies, and the sweat beadlits on their fore heads, you could tell they came back from a long and hard mission.
Out of all of them, Hyuuga Neji probably took the most of the hits. The enemy had gone to attack Lee in his blindspot. Neji, knowing this, stopped the attacker and probably save his good friends life. His arm slowly reached for his left hip, as it was seering with pain. He immediatly dropped his hand. He wanted no one to know. It was hard enough to prove himself, because he was a branch family member of the prestegious Hyuuga Clan. He wanted no one to think of him as weak.
Before even saying goodbye, he slowly walked away, heading for the trainig feield. Wincing at the pain in his side that he foolishly ignored.
"Ah, Nejiiii!" Tenten called out, as her friend headed farther into Konha's training forest. "There he goes again. Instead of resting, training himself to death." Sighed Tenten.
"At least his youth is at full power!" Cried their former trainer, and current leader, Gai.
"I would train along with him, but I promised Gai-Sensei a race. 750 times around Konoha later." Explained Lee.
It didn't matter anyway. Neji was already out of sight, and the rest of his team was heading home.
'Neji, stop being so self concious! God. He did fine on the last mission. Barely scratched.' Thought Tenten on her way home.
-xXx- 2 hours later, training field -xXx-
'Just...a...little more.' Thought the exhausted Hyuuga.
He continued to spar with the imaginary opponent in front of him. (Aka, the log) He hit it in several points, leaving enormous dents in the log.
Making several more hits to the inanimate object, he suddenly stopped. His side was now on fire. He couldn't bare it.
Clearly out of breath, he ignored the wound and he continued. He fought for as long as he could when he felt the unbearable pain in his side again. Clutching his hip with his hands, and kneeling in pain, he thought to himself.
'This is just a scratch...It's nothing.'
He clenched his teeth in anger. He needed to get stronger. He could not stay at his current level. Not for the world.
His hands, suddenly started to feel damp. He then looked at his hands in horror. They were filled with blood.
'Crap! I re-opened the wound! Got to stop the bleeding!'
He reached for the medical kit in his pack,but his vision was already starting to blur from the severe blood loss.
'Damn, don't lose it Hyuuga. Stay awake. It would be bad if I fell unconcious here!'
He forced himself to stand again, only to fall to his feet again.
He tried to get up once more, but his efforts were all in vain.
Breathing heavily, his head fell to the floor.
'Don't...lose...it. Don't. Don't...'
His eye's slowly fell shut. He knew he was losing conciousness.
'Dammit...'
(A/N: Don't kill me! I love Neji too! I don't want him like that!)
-xXx-
Sakura was strolling through the woods. She hadn't anything else better to do anyway.
Then, she noticed the entrance to training ground three.
'Oh, this brings back memories! This is where Sasuke-Kun, Naruto, and I trained with Kakashi-Sensei for the first time!' She thought to herself with a smile on her face. But her smile quickly desolved.
'Sasuke-Kun...do you even want to come back? Do you miss your old lifestyle at all?'
She decided to walk through the training field.
'It's almost like walking in the past...'
Suddenly, she spotted someone unconcious in a pool of blood.
'Is that... Hyuuga-San?' She thought while racing towards the dark haired male. 'Crap! What happaned?'
She turned him on his back and noticed a large wound on his left side. She then put her ear to his chest.
'There is a large wound on his hip, which is causing an unstable amount of blood to pour out, not to mention his breathing is irregular! This is bad.' She focused her chakra into her hands and concentrated on the deep wound first. It slowly started to heal, but Sakura well knew that this wasn't going to heal in one go. But she did notice, his breathing slowly started to go back to normal, and his blood loss slowled by a lot until she closed the wound enough.
She finally got her patient stable enough to moe from this location. The hospital was full enough already, with the doctors too busy to look at this.
Sakura came to a final decision.
"Sorry Hyuuga-San. I hope you don't mind staying at my place."
-xXx-
Sakura watch Neji sleep on her only bed.
'He has such a kid's face when he's asleep! I never expected that from Hyuuga-San... I guess that's a perk for medical ninjas.' She thought to herself.
She started falling alseep sitting down. Afterall, medical jutsu's took a toll on her. After using them, she got tired easily.
Her eyelids felt like little weights were attatched to each of her eyelashes.
She closed her eyes and went to sleep, slowly slipping off her chair.
Neji is sure in for a suprise when he wakes up...
--- X --- END CHAPTER 1 --- X ---
Hope you enjoyed! Not exactly funny for a romantic comedy...But don't worry! We will get there soon enough!
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