Hiya! well, this is gonna be a series off ten drabbles with random pairings of Naruto, I don't care really much about people don't liking the pairings ( for I don't like some myself anyway) and I've got most of the pairings already done ( well, in my head, I guess). Still I like to hear suggestions about what pairing you lot do like, and what kind of relation that would be...building critism is always welcome to, flames will just be caught and kept in my closet to warm me up when I'm cold...

Disclaimer: I only say it once, though I don't think one of you would ever think I'm kishimoto: I in fact are NOT kishimoto, don't have a twin brother, don't happen to live in Japan and only can dream about being rich and owning certain Naruto characters ( mostly all of them). If I did, I think you would notice it...

The first drabble is a NejiSasu pairing, 'cause it's one of my very favorites and I really find that there is too little Neji - Sasu love on fanfiction! yayz!

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They didn't say it, never.

Not even when Naruto made a fool of Sasuke, saying he was such a scaredy cat, not daring to say it to his boyfriend, while he managed to say it at least ten times a day to Sakura (she often didn't even notice, being to busy watching Sasuke and arguing with Ino).
Sasuke would just growl at him, and point out how Sakura every time got annoyed when Naruto said that he loved her, and would hit him. Then Naruto would be pissed off, and a fight would start, mostly ending with Sasuke winning anyway.

Not even when Hinata would timidly nudge her fingers together and asked in a feeble voice why he didn't say it, just those three words.

Neji would just glare at her long enough to make her uncomfortable, and than sigh and say it didn't matter anyway.

Because it didn't.

Sasuke had a brother to kill - who had become already an ANBU captain at the age of thirteen - and maybe won't even survive it himself. And then, íf he would survive he would have to choose a woman, to revive the old Uchiha clan.

Neji was the honour of his own clan, and great things were expected from him. He would lead the ANBU in many successful missions, and later probably marry his cousin to support her in the hard task of being the head of the family, and to refine the bloodline.

No, they hadn't a change together, it was never meant to be, and would never happen.

It was too dangerous to say it aloud, make it something real, for it would raise only hope that would be crushed sooner or later. It wasn't a good idea to tell anybody either, because they were both the best ninja of their age, and it would surely leak out to the hokage, or worse, to Hiashi, and a sever punishment would be inevitable, along with not being permitted to ever speak with the Uchiha boy again.

Only Hinata and Naruto knew about it anyway, Hinata because of her attentiveness to neji – and the fact she once caught the two boys kissing on the training grounds, when she herself had sneaked out of the mansion at 2 am to train. And Naruto…well, he had this great ability to piss off Sasuke to the point of finally telling him what's on his mind.

After that, he had kicked Naruto's ass that badly that his mate couldn't sit properly for days.

So nobody knew it, and when Sasuke went away to Orochimaru to get stronger, never to return again, Neji didn't cry like all couples did. He didn't even mention it, because, hey, wasn't it just what they already had expect? Their love would never blossom, or even exist, because one of them would die, or disappear anyway.

That, and the little round fan Neji found on his nightstand the evening before told him more things the raven boys ever had said to him.

They didn't say it,

they knew it.

"I love you"