Summary: Neji is extremely sick as he has been diagnosed with poisoning. His crush died so now he's waiting for death. But what if he really comes!
I never have much to say so don't worry. I won't bore you with rants.
Chapter 1
It was raining. Konoha never looked so bleak. There was much thunder, and so much lightning it looked like day. Luckily, there wasn't much wind to pound the heavy raindrops on anyone outside.
Many were cooped up in their homes wishing for things to clear up--though it wouldn't anytime soon--but they just had to deal with it. One particular person, having milky white eyes with the slightest hint of amythest, long raven hair, and skin as white as snow, was in a way one of those people.
Neji had been going through a lot a stress since he'd turned 16 as Hiashi wanted Neji to become the next heir. He still thought Hinata was too weak and Hanabi was second born and he didn't want to ruin tradition. If Hiashi wasn't forcing the other higher Hyuugas to accept him, he was trying to force feeling of attreaction towards his daughter and heiress, Hinata.
Neji didn't care for Hinata in any other way other than duty and brotherly affection. Neji was now to be married to a broken Hinata.
Announcement of Naruto's disappearance caused Hinata to become upset his death only caused her further heartache. He too was upset that the person who brought him back to light had died but he couldn't be he was killed .
Yes. Uzumaki Naruto, Kanoha's number one ninja of surprises, was assumedly assasinated.
He remembered how thing's went. How foolish they all were not to notice. How ashamed they were to realize how late it was that now they notice his absence.
Things were fine in Kanoha but after a little over a week, people started to notice something missing. It wasn't untill Tsunade had assigned a mission for him and few other shinobi of the Rookie 9 and Gai's team that they noticed the silence.(AN: Took then long enough! The bastards.) Naruto was to be one of the members of the team to go but he never showed up.
The leader, Shikamaru, was the first to recieve the mission and as he went to inform the others, he couldn't find Naruto. When the team got back to the tower--minus one--they thought about where they had seen the blond last. Then it struck--no one had seen him.
The Hikage had immediately sent out anbu to find him. Now she was nervous. She had been so preoccupied with papers and missions that she hadn't notice the lack of sound--more like screeching--from her 'younger brother'.
The anbu returned reporting that the blond was nowhere in or near Kanoha. To make sure, Tsunade sent Kakashi to double-check the village as he was his sensei and was most likely to recognize Naruto's chakra signature. There was none.
They both reported that when thay checked Naruto's home it looked uninhabited--the dust was collecting all over the place, the food rotted and the garbage was still there making a horrible odor. Checking with his favorie ramen shop, the owner complained how he hadn't seen the young boy at all and thought he was on a mission.
Tsubade sent out teams but they found nothing. Naruto had just disappeared. It wasn't until weeks later did Tsunade recieved reports of an unidentified body found at the bank of a river but wild dogs had already consumed it up to the point where you wouldn't even know it was human and it had rotted into almost nothing.
The only things they had as proof were few shreds of orange clothe scattered about the body and a leaf hitai-ate found a few feet away.
Neji sighed at the memory. He wished he could have been there more for Naruto and was pushed by Hiashi to comfort the distressed Hinata. His fiance, he reminded himself.
'That's it' he told himself. He must stop thinking of him. It was damaging mentally and emotionally. He was already unfit with his health. The damage done when they went to retrieve the Uchiha had started to affect his body in ways and he was deteriorating slowly.
It was found out too late that the spear that pierced his body those years ago held a small amount of poison that would remain dormant for a while before its spores grew and attacked the body. At the time it had gone unnoticed but after feeling ill a month later, Gai had told iashi and advised he see a doctor.
That was when he found out. When they all found out.
To this day, Tsunade hasn't found a cure but is still trying and going to the hospital had become familiar thing and he hated it. He sometimes felt like death was near but always avoided it. He wasn't afraid because he didn't have much to live for. He was a shinobi, bound to die at any time for his village. His was just a prolonged.
Deciding this was enough thinking and brooding, he silently headed to his room. He lived alone so no one would bother him except other brach members that were concerned, medicnin, Hinata, his team and rarely Hiashi. When reaching his destination, he covered himself and slept, trying to forget his troubles.
In the middle of the night, Neji stirred in his sleep before waking up. Checking his alarm clock he saw the bright red numbers red 2 a.m. He turned away from the light but was unable to rest.
Neji got up from his bed, seeing no reason to just lay there he headed to the kitchen for a snack but on the way there he suddenly felt weak. His vision blurred as he fell to his knees, clutching his stomach in pain.
Faintly he heard the flapping of wings somewhere around his but he couldn't concentrate for he felt like hot disecting tools were cutting up and examining his innards.
He felt the presence of someone wrap around his body and he looked up with tired eyes, panting heavily staight into shocked cerulean ones. He gasped.
'Naruto...'
Chapter 1 End
It's not that I hate Tsunade, she's just really busy and everyone else is too preoccupied with themselves.
So yeah. That's it. I'm really now to peppy (brain too slow so excuse lack of a better word) right now but I'm almost always like that. Even my friends say I speak in monotone. If you've read my other stories and I sound peppy, that was a rare occasion.
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Right now I'm too tired to stare at the computer screen so...
...bye.