Disclaimer: I am very sad to announce that I don't actually own any of the characters in this story or the group or albums mentioned at the end

This story's setting is bit modernised from the setting of Naruto

Yes, it's late. Neji-kun's birthday was on 3rd July, I know. I made a comic strip of this story on his birthday and then decided last night to write this…so…

Neji's Birthday

Neji looked at the small girl in front of her. Hinata was blushing rather cutely and stuttering over her words. She hadn't had a stammer for years.

"H-Ha-Happy b-birthday Neji-niisan," she managed at last, holding out a neatly wrapped box for him to take.

"Thank you, Hinata-sama," Neji replied. As Hinata walked away, he opened the gift and found a very expensive pair of black Converse inside the box. He smiled (and for anyone who doesn't know Neji, that's rare).

"NEJI!!!!!!!!!!"

He looked up to see two frantically waving people speeding towards him, each carrying a package in their arms.

"Happy birthday!!!!!" Tenten and Lee chorused. Tenten held out her present.

Neji unwrapped it to find a bottle of herbal shampoo. He thanked her and she grinned happily.

I knew he'd like it, she thought.

The hyperactive Lee now held out his gift. As Neji unwrapped it he was met by a blinding greenness and had to shut his eyes for a couple of seconds. As he tore off the last of the wrapping paper and saw what was inside, the skin under his right eye twitched violently and he sweat-dropped.

SPANDEX?!

He looked up and saw that Tenten's reaction had been much the same as his. He tried to rearrange his face into a smile of thanks but couldn't quite manage more than a grimace. Luckily, Lee was too busy explaining how he hadn't been sure what to give Neji for his birthday so he had gone to Gai-sensei for ideas. Gai-sensei had suggested spandex. As Lee finished his monologue, he went into the pose he and Gai had patented as the 'Nice Guy' pose and failed to notice how the green monstrosity of a present had been met.

Suddenly, a cloud of sand erupted next to Lee and caused him to practically faint in shock. At the centre of the sand the symbol 'Ai' was visible. The sand cleared to reveal a redheaded person holding something in his hands. What was strangest, though, was that Gaara was blushing. Yes, GAARA was blushing. The sight was quite spectacular.

When they saw Gaara blushing, Tenten and Lee freaked out so much that they both ran away screaming.

"I just wanted to give you these…happy birthday," Gaara said quietly, pushing whatever it was into Neji's hand before disappearing in a cloud of sand.

Once he registered what had just happened, Neji looked down at what he had in his hand and saw a CD player and three CDs. The CDs turned out to be 'I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love', 'Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge' and 'The Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance…How did Gaara know that Neji had wanted these for months?

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A/N: HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEJI-KUN!!!