Summary: NejiNaru, AU, Neji POV. Neji and Naruto attend the same boarding school. Neji is cold and detached from the world, but some how Naruto manages to worm his way into the Hyuga's heart.

Disclaimer: …no, I don't own Naruto,… that is, only until I take over the world evil cackle

Notes: You may be wondering why I am writing this instead of working on my other fic, … Well, one day I was sitting in the cardboard box that is my room, in the basement of the house that I live in, listening to the rats and roaches as they scuttled around, and clutching my shotgun to protect me from the evil mutated beavers, and lo' and behold I was visited by lady fate, the mistress of inspiration, and several of said beavers. It was a beautiful weekend and I was left alone by all of man kind with my trusty DVD player, a stack of DVDs and a box of saltine crackers. You may be wondering about the saltine crackers, but they are my newest fetish, so you might not want to know…. Eh-heh… Well I spent the weekend gorging on the boob tube (and no this is not a reference to pornography) and my muse CAME BACK! All shall rejoice! Okay, so maybe not, but still, it works. Oh, and I know this is not the story where I should be focusing my new-found inspiration, but hey, beggars can't be choosers…And I think I'm gonna start the story now….Eh-heh…

Do you believe

In heaven above?

Do you believe

In love?

Yet again, Neji was glaring holes into his bedroom wall. This was starting to seem like a ritual lately, now that he was trying to isolate himself from his family.

'Damn him to hell, can't stay out of my business, now can he?'

Neji's glare intensified as the object of both his loathing and love came into his room.

'I don't need your help… at least not in this way…'

Flashback

Neji was struggling down the hall of his abhorrent school, carrying all the council work from the last meeting, all of which he had to complete during his lunch hour. He damned the fact that he was an overachiever and that everyone else on the student council was so damn incompetent. Yet again they had managed to dump all the work on him, the lazy bastards. And this time, it was not only all the regular work, but the plans for the class trip as well. He should sabotage it just to get them in trouble…

A flash of blonde

came rushing around the corner from the lunch room and knocked into Neji, causing all the paper to go cascading all over the place.

"Watch where you are going moron," growled Neji before looking up at the adorable blonde sitting on the floor in front of him.

Neji almost blushed, but then stopped himself. Sure he might have a major crush on the blonde in front of him, but it was rude to dash around without looking where you were going.

"Gomen...Gomen nasai Neji-sempai!" Naruto's eyes widened, obviously not expecting to run into the student council PRESIDENT, and for said president to call him a moron.

"Whatever, just help me pick up the papers. Neji caved into the blonde's shocked look, he couldn't stay mad at that face. That, and the fact that he was hoping for one of those cheesy "both people reach for the same paper, touch each other's hand, look into each other's eyes, and fall madly in love" scenes that you see in all the chick flics around today. And one of the secret fetishes of Hyuga Neji just so happened to be watching those cheesy chick flics...

"Mou... Hey, are these the plans for the class trip? Where are we going?" Naruto asked conversationally.

"I haven't decided yet."

"Oh... Hey, wait, isn't the whole council supposed to decide that together?"

"Well, we would, if the others actually decided to put forth effort every once in a while." Neji said bitterly.

"You mean you're the only one that is doing the work? That isn't very fair! Why are there any of those other people on the council then?"

"Because the council election is more of a popularity competition than anything else, and nobody seems to care that mostly morons not even qualified to pick their own nose are making decisions that affect the whole school."

"Say what?"

"Never mind, just hand me those papers over there."

"Wow, what are all these?"

"Just more council work..."

"And you have to do it all yourself?"

"...Yes..."

"Wow, that's a lot of work!"

"And that's an understatement."

"Huh?... Well, you still need help, either way."

"Well, duh..."

"I'll help you!" The blonde said enthusiastically

"WHA?"

"Cool, come on lets go!" Naruto grabbed Neji's arm and dragged him down the hall.

"Let go of me." Neji mumbled, almost blushing again.

"What did you say?"

'Nothing, just go to the library."

Naruto careened down one hallway, and then another, never pausing to see where they were going. He just dashed headlong into whatever came in his way.

'He's really hurt himself one day if he keeps going around like this.'

One-hour later-

'Holy cow Neji-sempai! We're not even nearly done yet! How do you do this everyday? It's just crazy!"

"...I manage..."

"It must be tough...' Naruto prattled on and on. Not that Neji minded the company, he quite enjoyed it, although he had to make sure he wasn't drooling every once in a while. The problem was the fact that Naruto never seemed to run out of things to say, and Neji was torn between jumping him or ripping out his vocal cords.

"Well, I'll just meet you after school then, how 'bout by the student parking lot?"

"Huh?" ' What is this moron talking about?'

"Well, I was just offering my help so you could finish those papers after school, and you said yes..." Naruto was confused, and when he was confused, he got the cutest little wrinkles on his forehead that Neji just wanted to kiss...

"Uh..."

'Crap'

End flashback

Now Naruto was at his house, in his room, and there was no one else there but the two boys and again Neji's patients were being strained...

' Hmmm, should I jump him now... or just beat him senseless to stop all that noise?'

Well, Neji, this is what you get for letting your mind wander and leaving your mouth on autopilot...

TBC

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