Hi! This is my first NejixHina. I hope you like it. Please, if you don't like the couple, don't read it. I'm not really a fan of it, but the idea came to me and I just had to write it. So, enjoy!

Unknwon feelings

Everything started that day

Everything started that day. It was a sunny day, as far as he could remember. Team Gai had just arrived from a very long mission, and they were looking for food. Gai left them half way, for he had to report to Tsunade sama. That left the three teammates looking for food. As they walked through the streets of Konoha they found the Ichiraku's place, the seats almost full, for the Kurenai's team was taking lunch.

"Hey guys!" said Tenten "Can we join you?"

"Hey! How are you doing?" asked Kiba "It's ok, sit."

"Hi…ugh…Hello, Neji kun, Tenten san, Lee kun…" said Hinata in her usual shy voice.

Neji sat next to her, not that he was too happy about it. Tenten sat next to him and Lee next to her (please don't ask me how did they all fit on the bar).

The meal was going just fine; Lee was talking in a very enthusiastic way about their recent adventures and Neji, as usual, was stuck in the middle of a crazy chat between the named Lee and Kiba. They were finishing lunch when the disaster came.

"Naruto is coming" said Shino, as serious as always, but something in his tone of voice made Kiba turn around.

"What?" said Kiba as he, for Neji's relieve, interrupted his discussion with Lee about the red monkeys from who-knows-where "Oh no…"

Oh yes. That's when disaster started. Hinata had turned her face to the table so she wouldn't see Naruto; her face was bright red. At the mention of the 'Oh no' she turned around to see what had happened, but Kiba stood up faster and covered the whole view.

"Ah etooo…Hinata chan, eh, well, maybe we should leave…" he said, trying not to look too suspicious "I mean, we already finished and…" but his try didn't work. Hinata felt that something was not ok, so she just saw through Kiba with her byakkugan.

The moment she did it and the others looked at what Kiba was hiding, things began to fall. Tenten stopped breathing, Shino munched nervously some noodles (but of course nobody noticed it), Kiba covered his eyes with a hand, Akamaru hided behind Kiba, Neji looked confused by the whole matter, Lee almost died of a heart attack (but that's another story) and Hinata's world seemed to have stopped for what they saw.

There they were Naruto and Sakura, kissing in the middle of the street. Tenten turned around to face Lee, that was now getting an unhealthy white color on his face, and Neji finally seemed to have caught the idea.

When Naruto and Sakura finally pull apart, he said something to her that made her laugh, and her laughing made Naruto smile, a nice, deeply in love smile.

Hinata close her eyes in pain and turn her head to face the table; Neji was the first one to see a small tear falling slowly down her white pale face. She was hurt, dying inside. Nobody spoke during several seconds, and Neji felt a horrible feeling in his stomach, an unknown feeling. Then Tenten finally turn to face Lee and asked:

"Lee…Are you alright?" she was being very careful with not hurting his feelings.

"Ah...?" it took him a few seconds to process the information "Yeah, well, not exactly" he corrected on a very weird tone of voice "but, I'll be fine, I saw this coming, I guess. And it…well, it's not that I'm still so in love with her anyway" he said this last thing in a whisper, but Tenten could hear it. She was going to ask him what he meant by that when she was suddenly interrupted by Kiba's voice.

"Hinata…" said Kiba "please, let's just go…it's going to be ok" but then again, his try didn't work. Hinata tried to hold her tears back but she couldn't. Instead of that, she stood up quickly, with her back facing Naruto and Sakura's direction "Hinata…?" asked Kiba.

Naruto and Sakura were approaching to them, and that's when she couldn't handle it anymore.

"Hey guys!" said Sakura "Hinata chan, how are you d…"

But her phrase stood in the air. Hinata began to run. Kiba made an attempt to run after her, but was suddenly stopped by Neji's arm.

"What are you…?" began Kiba.

"I'll go for her" he said in a very cold voice.

"What? You? You don't give a damn about her!! Stay out of my way!!" he said angry, trying to release himself from Neji.

"I SAID I WILL GO AFTER HER!!" he screamed as he pushed him back, and he scared himself with that. Why he was loosing control like that? "I'm…I'm sorry" he apologized…wait…he just apologized…to Kiba…What was happening to him? "I'll find her and take her home…I'll see you guys later" he said to a very astonished Lee and Tenten. And, hey, wait a second… 'I'll see you guys later'?? What the hell was that?? Kiba made an attempt to follow him, but Shino stopped him, grabbing him by the arm.

"Leave him" he said "it'll be better if he takes her home. We will go visit her in the morning."

"But…" Kiba began, but was suddenly interrupted by his teammate.

"He is her cousin anyway" Shino continued "it'll make her happy if he goes after her. He never pays attention to her, but he is doing it right now. It'll be fine."

"I hope you're right" said Kiba as he turned around to face a very confused Sakura and Naruto "We'll need an explanation for them…"

Meanwhile, Neji was jumping from roof to roof trying to find Hinata…and an answer for his latest behavior. What on earth had made him feel so angry? And why did he loose control like that?

"It's her tears fault…" he thought as he was running through the streets, leaving the confused crowd at Ichiraku's far behind him. He had never seen her cry in pain like that…but why was he so upset about it? It's not like he had some feelings for her. Well, she was from the Hyuuga main branch, so that meant he had to look after her, besides, she was his cousin; and yes, he used to think that she was pretty back then when they were Childs and yes she was even more beautiful now…and she was always trying to spend time with him even when he didn't listen to her nor pay her much attention… and such a pretty girl didn't deserve to cry in so much pain…

Wait again!! Why was he thinking in all this foolishness? He would just find her and then take her home. And in spirit of that…Why was he running after her in the first place? That ramen must have had something in it…

He ran for a little while, but it didn't take him long to find her. She was sitting next to the river side, her face buried on her knees. She was crying, and what a crying. It was silent, painful, but silent. He stood away from her for a while, not so sure of what to do next. She still hadn't noticed him, for what he could see. He finally decided to go and talk to her, but still wasn't sure of it. He walked through the daisies and sat next to her. That's when she noticed him. She looked up as he sat just to hide her face again after identifying him.

"Go away, Neji kun" she said on a very tired tone of voice, as if she had already screamed her pain to the world "I want to be alone…"

He had never seen her like that, nor heard her talking like that. He suddenly felt…scared. He felt pain, he felt anger. Why was he feeling all this? Why? And why was she suffering so much? It was not a secret for anybody that she had always been in love with Naruto, and he never cared of it…or maybe…did he actually cared of it? No, it couldn't be that. In one way or another, he was now there, with a deeply hurt cousin, and with no idea what to do next.

He finally got an idea. 'Whenever Lee is upset, Gai sensei puts a hand on his shoulder' He remembered. He felt kind of stupid for doing it, but he still had to try. He slowly put his right hand on her shoulder, and then whisper to her ear:

"Hinata sama" said slowly "it's ok to cry…I guess, I mean…" he didn't have the foggiest idea about how to follow from there "It's going to be alright…" that was the best of him.

But even with his inexperienced way of comforting, something in the tone of his voice caught her attention. Was he being nice to her? Was he caring of her? Was it the cold Neji's voice? No, it was someone else's voice, the voice of a warmer person, the voice of the little kid she met long ago. When did the little kid had returned? She will never know that for sure; what she actually knew, was that there was a warm hand on her shoulder, and that it felt very kind.

She looked up at him. He was looking in a different direction. She touched his hand resting on her shoulder with her own, making him feel weird, nervous.

"Arigato, Neji kun." she said, tears still on her eyes "but I still want to be alone" her voice was so sad…that Neji turned to face her.

"Hinata sama" he said as he moved his hand from her shoulder to her wet warm cheek "Hinata sama, you shouldn't cry like this, you really look better when you are smiling…"

What on earth was that?? He asked to himself. It was not the kind of comment he would have said. His body was reacting against his will. He would have blamed the ramen again if he hadn't been so busy trying to stop himself from doing something even more stupid.

But he couldn't. He couldn't avoid seeing the surprised look on Hinata's face. He couldn't avoid the impulse of approach his face to hers. He couldn't avoid whispering to her ear:

"Don't cry anymore, please" Was he begging her now?? "It's ok, I'm here. But if you can't contain yourself…" at this point, he was facing her again, and their heads were so closed together that he could feel her breath; he rested his forehead against hers and whispered "if you can't contain yourself from crying, I'll wait…" What the…

They got closer, so close that their lips almost met. Almost, that's the word, for he reacted for the first time on Kami sama-knows-how-long. He finally gained control of his body, and turned his face to a different direction.

"I…I'm sorry" he whispered "you can keep on crying if you want, I'll wait to take you home…"

"Neji kun…" said a very stunned Hinata. Neji's cheeks were turning from a very pale tone of pink to a bright red, and he was looking the daisies as if they had something interesting to see. Hinata's face was bright red too, more than usual I mean, and she felt confused. Still, in the moment he released her she couldn't contain her pain anymore, and new tears began to fall down her cheeks "Neji kun!"

She threw herself into his arms. He didn't know how to react, but after several seconds he hugged her back, and prepared himself to listen to whatever she was going to tell him.

"I…I…" she began, tears falling down her face "I should have told him my feelings before" she said this while crying, so Neji found it hard to understand her words "and now…now…" more sobbing "Now it's too late!!" more tears.

"It's…ok…" he said in the calmest voice he could use "this will pass…and…" he was searching for something comforting to say "well…you will find someone else, someone who would love you more…" more tears. He begged for it not to be his fault.

They stood on that position of crying and comforting for a long time. So long that when Neji tried to move, he realized that Hinata had fell asleep on his arms, her cheeks still wet, and it was now sunset. He grabbed her on his arms at the purest princess style, and took her home. When he arrived he found that everyone was on the chuuning exams, whether just as spectators or serving as judges. He took Hinata to her room, laid her on her bed, and covered her with clean sheets. He couldn't avoid staring at her sleeping; it was a nice picture, so peacefully…

He left the room confused, but the worst was about to come. The moment he felt safe on his own bedroom, after closing the door, he laid against it, sat on the floor, covered his mouth with one hand, and felt a small single tear going down his cheek; then another followed the first one…then another… and then he began to really cry. Why was he crying? He just remembered Hinata's painful crying, the tears coming down her face, the pain on every word she spoke. And, beyond that, his useless comforting words, for no mattered what he said, she was in so much pain it didn't seemed to be a helpful try.

He cried in silence for a long time, frustrated, confused, hurt. Actually, he felt more confused than everything. Why did it hurt that much? It would take him a long time to understand.

Finally, after an hour or so, he stopped crying; he took a bath, put on a clean pajama, and went to bed. It took him a half of that night to fell asleep, for small tears were still falling down from his eyes to the pillow. Luckily for him, he didn't have any dreams of any kind that night.

Hinata opened her eyes as Neji left the room. She was shocked for everything that had happened that day. She began crying again when she remembered the picture of Naruto and Sakura, but it suddenly blew away when another memory came into her mind: Neji comforting her. And then a stronger one came to her: Neji almost kissing her.

But it couldn't be. It was ridiculous; perhaps, she was so depress in that moment that she imagined the whole thing. Yes, it had to be that. Neji…trying to kiss her. What a stupid idea. However, he did take the time to listen to her, and then he took her home. She had at least to say thank you.

So she stood up and went to Neji's room. She was about to knock the door when she heard something…what could that little noise be? She had the feeling that she had heard it before… it was like… someone sobbing… and the noise came from… no, it couldn't be. But sill she had to check. She used her byakkugan to see through Neji's door, just to find him on the floor, against his door, crying.

She stood quiet for a moment, and then she turned away, too confused for doing anything. Why was he crying? Was it because he was in love with Sakura? Or, maybe, was it because of her? Why was this situation confusing her? She arrived to her bedroom while thinking this; she closed the door behind her and changed her clothes to her pajama. She fell asleep after an hour of painful, confused crying. Luckily for her too, she also didn't have any dreams of any kind.

Well, there you go... did you like it? I'll submit next chapter in a couple of day, I hope. Please, leave a review!