Disclaimer- I don't own Naruto sadly T-T, but the idea of this story is from my pure imagination. Yay! ^-^ !
Chapter 1 –
Trees can talk?
Neji was crying on his pillow. 'THEM…it's their entire FAULT. My FATHER, the ONLY family I had left …KILLED for the MAIN BRANCH!'
he thought bitterly, sobbing in grief, he grained his teeth together in anger.
His father was the only family he had left, since his mother died, when he was four years old. He calmed down. At least he knew
that his father would be much happier now that he was with his rubbed his tears away. He got up from his bed. He was
heading for the door. He put he's shoes on and left the house. He
walked and walked without the slightest clue were he was going. He ended up at the edge of a forest. 'Why am I here?' he thought
to him self, as sadness filled his heart. Neji's head filled with memories of his parents. He fell on his knees as the pain in his heart
grew too large for him to contain inside himself.
A stream of tears fell for his eyes. The sadness inside of him grew more and more. Finally he got a hold of his emotions and
sealed them inside in a dark, deep corner of his heart. His nose came across a lovely smell. Something inside of him tolled him to
follow the smell to where ever it took him. He did, he followed the smell and it took him to a weeping willow tree. The branches of
the tree reached the ground, creating a curtain to hide the trunk of the tree. He heard sobbing coming from the inside of the tree.
He hid in the bushes around him. "Who's there?" answered a sad voice that came from inside the tree. 'Trees can talk?' he thought
"s-s-sorry I did mean to interrupt you it's just-" he stuttered but was interrupted "why are you apologising . . . you didn't do
anything to me" the said in a calm tone. 'Why am I apologising to a tree? How is it that the voice changed so quickly?' neji was a
little confused and embarrassed. He had a small blush. The tree's voice laughed at this remark. The sadness in neji was suddenly
forgotten in that small dark deep corner in his heart. He laughed at his embarrassment. The atmosphere was suddenly cleared of
all bad feeling. The tree's voice giggled. "Well then you must be lost" the voice said in a concerned way. "No-no I'm sure where I
am but thankyou." neji thanked the voice. The atmosphere once again dropped to reality. "Who're you supposed to be mad at?"
the voice asked him. Neji's eyes widened at the sound of this sentence. 'How did she know about that? I didn't even mention the
main branch… how?' he asked himself. "It doesn't matter how someone knows information it's only important what the person
answers to the question." The voice said in an almost-sad voice. "So are you going to tell me?" the voice changed into a cheeky
tone. Neji blushed slightly. 'Should I tell her? Well…I guess I can…I wonder' he thought in curious way. "Can you keep a secret?" he
asked her. "Of course" the voice answered. "Well I'm mad at the main branch of the hyuga clan" he said with a sigh, but still in a
bitter tone. "Y-y-you hate the hyuga clan… you shouldn't … it would be a waste of time. They are too strong…for only a person to
want to take down…it's best to forget about such an impossible thing especially since the main branch is lucky to have their prodigy
guarding them. Not only that but they are both a large clan as well as being a strong clan. I heard the prodigy is a real genius.
They say he 's quite the strong guy." She said with an interested tone. Neji smirked; this wasn't the first time someone had said
that to him but, he still did blush. This was the first time a girlhad said that to him. "They not that strong or large in number any
more especially since they've lost a very special member of the clan…a-as for that prodigy I-I don't think that he's that strong I-I
mean nobody can be a true genius even if they prayed to kami-sama every night for the rest of their life…and those are just
rumours." He said with a blush across his face. "And what makes you so sure about that? Have you met him?" she said with a
curious voice. "Or is it that I'm talking to him myself? Well…that would explain the blush" she said in a cheeky voice. 'She's good at
guessing' he thought with a smirk. "As a matter of fact, yes, I am the hyuga prodigy a-and thank you for your compliments…" his
face was red. 'n-no it can't . . . he can't be . . . it would be a disaster if they found him here . . . he needs to leave . . .
immediately!' she thought. "Ummm… I think it's time for you to go, I mean it's almost midnight, it's better for your safety. I'm
really the last person you should be talking to at this moment…please leave at once." She said in a worried way. He was completely
confused. 'Why is she trying to push me away? Is she in trouble? Why would she be in trouble?' he thought. The voice sighed
heavily. "I'm really sorry…but you need to leave, if you don't you'll be in deep trouble…trust me you need to leave. You'll regret it if
you stay. . . You. . . Must." She said in a concerned. "Why?" Neji asked curiously. The voice didn't answer. Neji took 3 steps forward
just as he made his third step three kunais' flew at his directions at a fast speed. He swiftly dodged all of them. "GO AWAY!" the
girl shouted. "NO!" neji yelled back. "Why?" the girl's voice changed to a sad voice. "Who are you?" neji asked taking another step
and dodging all of the kunais that flew to his direction. "I am who I am … and you don't need to know me or my name" she
responded in a feisty way at first but then her voice went back to being in a sad tone. "Why? Why is it that you sound sad then, if
you wish not?" he asked in a curious but annoyed way. "'why?' is that all you can say? Besides isn't there better stuff for you to do
besides irritating me?" she said in a bored tone. Neji's eye brow twitched in a way that said 'you've hit a nerve and that's not a
good thing'. "Isn't there a place you would rather be then here?" she asked in a really bored voice since neji hadn't moved an inch.
"Noooop" he answered in a very annoying way. "You have no idea who you are messing with and on top of that you haven't got the
slightest clue in how much trouble you'll be if someone fined you here. BAKA!BAKAJANAI!" she shouted in a very bored tone. "Why
is it that could be so ba—" neji turned around because he heard a branch crack behind him. A woman, around her forty's, was
standing there. "Oh sorry, if I startled you. I'm just looking for a girl around your age, long light brown hair, tied up in two twin
buns, brown eyes, slightly tanned skin, she was wearing a blue gown that reaches the floor and the sleeves are very wide. You
wouldn't of had seen her run by around here?" the lady asked Neji.
"Ah, well no I haven't—" neji stop at his sentence. He then realised that this lady's clothes had rips and blood stains every where.
This woman was wearing a dark purple mid-thigh kimono. Her leaves didn't cover her shoulders and were only long enough to cover
her up to wrists. Neji also noticed a katana handle next to the ladies neck. She had scrolls as well. Neji got a bad feeling about this
lady. A reallybad feeling. The lady started to laugh. Her laugher felt cold and dark. The atmosphere suddenly got cold and tense.
The lady drew out her katana. It was dripping with blood. "I'm sorry, but I THINK IT TIME FOR YOU TO JOIN YOUR PARENTS!" She
changed at neji without mercy. Neji froze. He couldn't move a single muscle. He closed his eyes. THUD! Neji opened one eye to see
what had just happened. A girl about his age was standing in front of him. She had light brown hair tied up in two messy buns. She
was wearing a blue gown, which reached the floor. Her sleeves were indeed wide and had come down revealing lightly tanned skin.
"Well, well, well what are you doing here, Tenten? I would have had thought that you would have run away by now. Seems you
aren't as smart as everyone thinks you are the woman snared venomously at the girl that had just save Neji's life. "Oh, that's the
sweetest thing you've ever said to me but, I'm not the chicken you are. That's why I'm still here. Now why exactly would you be
looking for me? Do you really want to kill me this badly?" tenten's voice dripped with hatred. The woman's smirked turned into a
frown. Neji felt the tension in the atmosphere. He didn't like this tension. The lady flipped back a couple of feet away. "Are you
okay?" Tenten asked Neji, not turning around from her current position. "Yes I'm fine but, how-" he was interrupted by Tenten once
again. "I thought I tolled you that it didn't matter, besides didn't I tell you to run?" she asked him. "HYAAAAAH!" the woman
shouted as she charged at Tenten. Tenten moved her sword in front of her to defend herself. The sword cut Tenten's arm. Tenten's
sleeve was cut and Tenten's arm was a river of blood. The woman was kneeling on the floor with a very deep cut wound on her
waist. The woman fell on her ass. She did a series of hand seals. She started to her wound. Suddenly, Neji's hand was being pulled
away from were they were. "Hurry, we don't have time she maybe hurt but she's a fast runner!" Tenten shouted.
They run for at least thirty minutes non-stop. They finally came to a stop. Tenten sat down under a tree. "Baka, why did you stay?"
Tenten asked neji after a while. "You did actually expect me to leave some one who is in trouble, did you? Plus you're injured." He
responded. "Yes, I did. Any sane person would have left even if I was injured." She responded him. "Well I guess I'm insane
then." He answered back. ". . . Thank you . . . for staying back" Tenten looked down with a small blush. Neji turned around to see
tenten's expression. He saw her faint blush which made him blush himself. "But, next time run or it will cost you your life. Ok?" she
said looking up again. Their eyes met. They both looked away, blushing. "I should be the one thanking you for saving my life . . .
thank you" he blushed even more. He turned around so Tenten wouldn't see his blush. 'Darm my face is so hot. Why is it that
every time I look at her, I feel like I have butterflies inside my stomach?' he thought with a really red face. Tenten blushed so
much that she would have bet hinata at blushing. Neji noticed this. Then he remembered. "Are you going to tell me how the woman
was?" he asked. "She's my . . . my aunt"