Title: Return
Summary: There is a silent power at work. Unknowingly advancing. Known to none, except one. Haunted and Mysterious. Shounen ai….
Warning: Shounen ai
Pairings: Maybe Neji / Naruto and more.
He was running, there was no where to go. It was dark. The murky water under his feet, shining strangely from the moonlight. There wasn't a single sound. There should have been, he was after all running past the forest. It was quiet, too quiet.
He stopped, looked around for movement. There was none. A branch snapped, its crunch echoed, causing nesting birds to fly away.
Suddenly there was the familiar splash behind him. His long silky hair whipped past him as he turned swiftly.
There it was. The huge monstrous being, its shadow taking up the whole area. Nine snake like tendrils swishing behind it. The fiery depths of its eyes causing a shred of fear to go through him. It looked as if it was stalking its prey as it moved towards him. Snarling and growling.
His hands went to his pouch to find something to throw at it. The pouch wasn't there. He panicked, the last thing any ninja would do in this situation. All rationality left him as his terror increased. His breath came in gasps, lungs beginning to hurt. He put his hands together in a seal, to perform his signature jutsu. Nothing happened. He tried again and again, but still nothing. It felt like he had no chakra at all.
He tried activating byakugan. But to no avail. He then realised he was sinking, it was as if he was never a ninja. What had happened to his chakra. It was hopeless. The wasn't anything he could do. The nine tails was advancing on him. He was choking on the water, he tried to move his arms but he was paralysed.
He was going to die. He didn't want to, not yet. He wanted to see his team mates, his little cousins, and Naruto. He didn't know why he wanted to see Naruto, but he did.
It looked like it wasn't going to happen. He saw it. It's jaws opened wide, humongous teeth dripping with blood. He saw it, Naruto's orange jacket, with the spiral. No! It had already eaten Naruto. He couldn't do anything. "No!" he screamed, "You can't do that, not to him," fear won his pride. "Don't come any c-closer."
The last thing he saw was it's cruel laughter and its tails whipping about._
Neji woke up. He was breathing hard, the fear he felt in the dream still lingering. He pushed the sheets aside, got up from his bed and went to the window sill. He opened the window, letting the cool breeze inside.
He leaned against the window frame and started to think about these dreams. They have been going on since the beginning of the week. It was always the same one again and again. The nine tailed fox was always there and its laughter was always the last thing he hears before waking up.
He didn't know why it was always Naruto, the nine tails had eaten or mutilated. He didn't even know why he was dreaming about the nine-tails or Naruto in the first place, he has nothing to do with either of them.
The fact that he associated Naruto with the nine-tails was laughable. But there was something about Naruto, something hidden. He'd noticed after the Chunin exams, the strange chakra that came from Naruto after he had blocked Naruto's chakra system. It was impossible, but you would expect the unexpected from the number one unpredictable ninja.
It had been three years since that day. Neji had trained even more in the hopes that he would be able to defeat Naruto next time in battle. He had improved his jutsus and even invented a few. Now that he thought about it, Naruto was supposed to be coming back tomorrow. Hokage-sama had informed the whole of rookie nine last week.
What he found weird was that the thought of seeing Naruto again felt ominous and a felling of dread crept up his spine as he remembered the whole reason he was thinking about Naruto.
He shivered as the wind blew into his room and through his thin night clothes. He shut the window and went and sat on his bed, his back on the headboard of the bed. He leaned against it and sighed. He realised that he was fearful of meeting Naruto, not of Naruto but the fact that Naruto always died by the nine-tails hand. He was very afraid. He had never felt this humiliated by a dream, reducing him to a shivering mess.
Neji came to a decision. He was going to stop thinking about the nine tails. The Yondaime killed it and it is never coming back. He should really star to make an effort as these dreams were affecting some of his ninja duties, his team-mates were beginning to notice, even Lee, who was always on about training.
Neji prepared himself for another sleepless night.
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