Forget Me Not
Author's Notes: I've been toying with writing something of Neji and Sakura. Because actually I like the idea of Neji and Sakura being together than Sasuke and Sakura. So I hope you enjoy! By the way Temptations is still going to be updated regularly so no worries! Also the title might change as well. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
OKAY has anyone noticed that people have been copying my plot line story in Temptations?!
Oh and I've been finding that quite a lot of stories with Neji and Sakura have something to do with them being on an undercover mission as a couple, is that from imagination or the manga or something? I hope someone will clear that up for me. Thankx!
Important things to Know: In this chapter I have purposely made it very vague because you'll find out all the real details later on in the story. This story starts from the ending to the beginning then back to the ending. Just to let you all know. Italics are flashbacks but remember in the next following chapters there are no flashbacks.
Summary: Their love had just budded. It was close to being turned into an everlasting beautiful flower if Neji hadn't taken a mission where he went under a jutsu where he had forgotten their love. Heartbroken, Sakura must find ways to bring back his memories. However with the Hyuuga clan pushing her away, she is finding it hard to be determined. In her dying moments, can Neji regain his memories? Can their love start to bloom again?
Disclaimer: Don't own the characters but the story!
.:Beginning:.
Prologue: Dying
The sand was wet and heavy as she ran. The rain was thick and falling constantly on both of them. Their breaths mingled. Their bodies sore and tired, wanting to collapse. The ocean waves raged and the thunder clapped loudly in the gray skies.
How long had they been running? She was not sure.
Would they survive? She hoped so.
Her heart pounding, almost as if it could burst from her chest, she finally collapsed onto the wet sand on her knees. She pulled the man off her back and quickly laid him down on the soft sand.
"Neji…" She whispered, patting lightly on his cheek, urging him to wake up. His eyes blinked twice before they could manage to make out a dim view of her.
"Just leave and save yourself." He said in a whisper, barely able to make use of his voice.
She shook her head, her pink hair glued to her face from the rain. He wondered if those were tears streaming down her cheeks or were they rain drops cascading down upon them. He couldn't tell and the pain was too much.
He felt warm charka from the inside and knew vaguely that she was healing him.
"I'm not leaving you, Neji-kun." She told him.
Who had called him that before?
He could not remember.
Neji could feel the pain falling away, as if it was never there. Just a bad nightmare. He sighed softly, and closed his eyes. He had almost forgotten how he had received those injuries.
Until footsteps made him snap his eyes open.
Sakura was determined. She poured all her energy into healing him, as quickly as she could. She could feel one last major injury and she was almost done. So focused was she on her healing, that she did not hear the familiar footsteps coming near.
"Sakura!" Neji shouted and she turned her head a little to see their enemy approaching closer. "Get out of here, Sakura!"
"Not without you." She told him and finally, all his wounds were healed. But he could not move, his body too tired. His mind beckoned him to sleep. But he couldn't, he wouldn't. He struggled against the growing darkness.
She pulled him up and made a move to start running again until their enemy was just twenty feet away. She turned around.
"Move it, Sakura. I'm here to get him, not you."
"No." Sakura said in some finality.
"You were always getting in the way." He said.
Suddenly she was pushed down by Neji and she could see that their enemy had launched his attack, speeding their way towards them. The familiar sound of those thousand birds chirping and the view of blue chakra, almost like thunder around his hand.
She stood up quickly, her eyes wide. She didn't think about it. All her mind was thinking was the wonderful man behind her.
And so she took the hit.
The chakra ripped its way through her lungs and she coughed blood onto the familiar shirt of their enemy. She could feel his fingers gently touch the corners of her heart, stroking it as if he had not made up his mind to kill her yet. It would be easier for him anyways, if she was out of the way, he could take his target down.
Neji….
She needed to protect him.
She ignored the pain biting around her body and pushed every ounce of her energy into her fist. She looked up into those familiar eyes of her enemy, suddenly hating him all over again. Fist clenched and teeth gritted, she rose it up and slammed it hard into the enemy's chest.
The enemy withdrew his hand from her body, coughing up blood himself. He glared at her. "Next time…." He said before he did a jutsu to slowly sink into the ground and disappear.
Sakura slowly sunk to the ground, pain was forcing her mind to shut down. Something warm wrapped around her and she wondered if they were Neji's arms.
Through the rain and the thick foggy haze in her mind, she could see chocolate brown hair and beautiful pearl eyes. She smiled. She did it for him. She pushed herself up a little, wrapped her arms around the neck she had kissed long ago. She pushed her face into that long beautiful hair she loved, the one she envied. And she whispered those familiar words that she knew he did not remember having heard until now.
"I love you, Neji-kun."
And then Sakura slipped into an empty darkness.
Neji looked down at the dying girl. His heart hurt although it was not physically wounded.
'Get back to the village.' His mind made up, he started running, ignoring the protesting muscles in his body. The rain beat him down and his strength was slowly dimming and the weight of the woman in his arms was growing too much. Activating his bloodline trait, he searched for a cave or anything to rest for a short while.
He found one two miles west, twenty miles away from their village. He decided they would rest for no more than a half hour and as he went into the shelter and built a fire, he couldn't help but stare at the peaceful girl who's blood had soaked into his shirt and had oozed from her wound.
'I love you, Neji-kun…that's what she said.'
His eyebrows furrowed. He had never even been friends with her, much less lovers. He had never recalled a single mission with her until now.
She was delusional! He decided.
But when she said it, his heart fluttered. He felt warm against the freezing cold of the rain and the strong winds.
Neji looked down at the unconscious woman. She looked as if she was sleeping instead of being in a coma. Thick eyelashes rested softly against pale skin, pink hair fanned behind her. Pink hair, the most unnatural and ridiculous hair color.
Her hands were at her sides, fisted in their black gloves. Her wounded chest lifted slightly up and down as it struggled to breathe. Her lips were a deep purple, from the cold. She was beautiful nonetheless.
"Neji!" A woman said. She launched herself into his arms. She buried her face into his neck and kissed his pulse. "You're okay." She said and pulled him down for a kiss.
His arms wrapped around her petite waist. Pulling back, he pressed his forehead against hers. He smirked and closed his eyes, enjoying the warmth of home in her arms. "Of course. I promised you I'd be back."
His head hurt. Something was unlocking with his mind where there was heavy chakra against, trying to force those locks to remained locked. And suddenly, he was having memories he did not know he had.
It caused pain, too much for his fragile body and mind to handle. He gasped.
The last thing he saw was her beautiful sleeping face. The last thing he did was reach for her hand.
And slipped into darkness before he could.
Author's Notes: You like? This isn't the FULL ending. It starts at like the beginning of the ending to the real beginning. So it's very vague but you'll find out everything soon. Hope you enjoy and review!