Majestic Love

By : HikariMaiden

Disclaimer : I do not own Naruto.

Chapter One -- The Encounter

Have you ever had to go through life waiting for something that you know that it will never happen? Life is always like that. You hope and hope that someday all of your wishes will come true, that all your worries go away, that you have everything, and everything included the one that you loved. Truly enough life has a way to change things, either for the best or the worst.

"Crap I am so late for training." gasped a late Sakura, who now had turned sixteen. She ran and ran, pumping chakra to her legs to carry her to her destination as fast as they could. Late. That is one thing that Sakura hated doing.

Late meant irresponsibility, unlike fashionably late, being and hour late was LATE.

" Damn alarm clock." Ah how life seemed to be going fine and dandy until that day, her alarm clock apparently had chosen not to work that time, and made her be late. She could only imagine her teammates responses. 'Probably overslept' Kakashi. 'This is useless waiting for someone who is Sakura.' Sasuke. Naruto, well Naruto was Naruto and so she could only brace herself for her interrogation.

After a while, she finally reached the bridge, catching her breath, she looked around her, and she saw, nothing. After all her running around, she didn't see anybody. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Just the breeze blowing around her hair. Scrunching her nose, she turned around and then began to use her chakra to find them.

Her pink locks, which where gathered up in a high ponytail, had eventually grown a little bit above her waist, whipped behind her. Her jade eyes, searched her surroundings once again and still nothing. Sighing she went and walk around, not even a bit of chakra detection. Slowly she went and sat near the shady tree. Deliberately, she lowered her head and began to relax, maybe they were late.

When she had barely closed her eyes, she dodged a shuriken. Furrowing her brows, she sensed another one coming her way, she then stood up, once again dodging another one. Growling in frustration because she couldn't see where they were coming from or sense it for that matter.

Taking a deep breath, she barely managed to dodge the next one that was coming, which whizzed by her head managing to cut the tips of her bangs. Her eyes widened. Then out of nowhere, a kunai knife came at her, she did a back flip, managing to hit the knife and burying it deep in the tree, though she ended ripping her hair band.

Then she finally felt the bit of chakra that was hiding just a few feet away from her. So fast, she ran to a better position and punched the ground, making the earth shake and managing to hint to her where exactly that person or persons were.

Said person widened his eyes at this. Cursing softly, he jump, only to be caught by the sleeve of his shirt. Startled at the sudden touch, he turned around with a kunai knife and aimed it. He had seen her in front of him and was sure that she was not behind him. Boy was he wrong. The knife was stopped merely inches away from her forehead.

"Neji?" she seemed startled. She let go of his sleeve.

His eyes had widened and he left his had holding the knife fall to his side. Growling inside, he berated himself for being so careless, of course she had used 'that' jutsu.

Moving back to see her, he looked at her. And then he spoke. " Not bad, for Sasuke's kunoichi", and then he walked out to the clearing where she had been. He saw the clone go poof and then she was walking behind him, murder in her eyes.

" For your information, I do not belong to anybody." she spat, not liking how people still believed that she was still fawning for Sasuke, sure she still called him Sasuke-kun, but that was a habit, and it was hard.

Shrugging his shoulders as if not caring, Neji began to settle himself down the same tree she had chosen before. He then closed his eyes and went into meditation mode.

Sakura narrowed her jade eyes at him and then looked at him suspiciously. "What was that all about anyways?" she asked curious as to why the sudden attack.

Shrugging once again, not even bothering to open his eyes, he said softly. " Just removing you from my spot." he said as if he was explaining the weather for the day, which apparently seemed that it would be raining any moment. Where the hell were her teammates?

Opening and closing her mouth, comically resembling a fish, she huffed and narrowed her eyes to slits, not frightening him in the least, because of course he had his pearl like eyes closed.

Neji knew that would have made her mad, that is the reason he had said it. He felt her chakra rise to a very angry level. Smirking in his head, he could only imagine her cheeks pinked with anger, her eyes fire lit, her bottom rosy plump lip, was being nibbled at trying to hold her tongue, her chest heaving up and down, her breaths deep. Slowly, he let his left eye open barely, but enough to see that sure enough everything he thought would happen did. Predictable, he thought.

His thoughts were stopped suddenly when he felt the tip of a kunai knife on his throat.

'okay so maybe not' he thought to himself, barely, had you not been looking at his face, you would have miss the small wrinkle on his nose and the nibble of his lip. Raising both his eyebrows high, he felt her breath on his neck.

"Listen Neji- kun" she emphasized the kun. " I do not belong to anybody, I am strong enough to protect myself and you could have asked me to move nicely and I would have done so instead of you attacking me." she said, her breath tickling his neck.

He let out a small chuckle, knowingly that he would be startling her, and he felt her hand falter. " Then where would the fun have been?" he asked disappearing from her arms, and then she let out a small squeak when she felt both her hands held by one of his and he was only a few inches from her face, eyes narrowed, yet she could see a glint of amusement at her predicament.

" You are not bad, not bad at all kunoichi, but apparently not good enough" he whispered and she felt his hands released her hands, his breath tingling her lips.

"Well Neji-kun, you just never know do you?" she said and with that she disappear from in front of him only to find her on top of him.

It went by so fast that he could only brace himself for the impact of the ground with his back, reflexes coming into play, he grabbed her waist and they landed on a very compromising heap.

There in the middle of the clearing was Neji lying on his back with Sakura straddling his waist, his hands on her hips, her hands on his chest, their faces barely a few inches apart, and both had closed eyes. His hair was splayed on the ground, her hair had come loose, was now shielding her face and barely concealing his.

A third person appeared suddenly, and gasped at their position. It was non other than Sasuke, his onyx orb were wide, his mouth agape, his face priceless. Then another one arrived, Kakashi, he bump into Sasuke and raised his head to see what had happened and there in front of him was a view. Quite a view to say the least. Sakura and Neji? His visible eye widened. Abruptly his back felt something and turning around, he saw that Naruto had bumped into him. He had wanted to prevent Naruto form saying anything but as always it was useless for once he had a glance of pink, he rushed to her, but stopped abruptly, his eyes widening at the sight before him. His Sakura with Neji? Well even if he had given up on her and was going out with Hinata, he still was overprotective of her.

His mouth opened and closed just like Sasuke's a while ago.

Finally he said. " Oh my god Sakura, go get a room!" startling both shinobis up.

There in front of Sakura's teammates and teacher, who had a look of confusions, where both the blushing Sakura and the uncomfortable Neji. He looked anywhere but their faces or Sakura's for that matter. Taking a deep breath, he disappeared, it was time for his team's training too.

Sakura turned to look at him, but didn't see him, her eyes narrowed at his cowardice for not helping her clear the situation.

She stuttered when Naruto had asked when was the wedding, Sasuke snorted, and Kakashi seemed to grinned.

" I..Wha…huh?" she said dumbly. Sasuke looked at her, but then he smirked at her. He had come to like her as one of his best and closest friends next to Naruto. Besides he had already been thinking on looking for a girlfriend just not Sakura, for she was like a sister to him.

Her eyes widened and she turned a brighter shade of red. " Okay, first of all there is nothing going on between us. Second, this all just happened to be a very good example as coincidence, but not like I need to explain anything to you guys, right." she said blushing all the while, remembering her encounter with Neji. This of course encouraged her group perverted smiles, well from Kakashi and Naruto, and Sasuke well he tried hard not to laugh at her predicament. Sighing, Sakura chose to ignore them, and began to walk up to the tree that Neji had so rudely taken her from.

Remembering how that had happened , she turned a suspicious glance at them. " So where were you guys, because when I got here nobody was here when I had arrived?" she asked.

The guys looked at her as if deciding to tell her or not. Sasuke than smiled, something that he rarely did whenever anyone was around him except for his teammates, smirked, but not smiled.

" We were on the search for our team's kunoichi, since she was late." he said, shooting a 'right guys?' look. Which they both agreed too.

Her face then broke out into a big smile, making them all smile.

" Okay, okay, enough sentimentalities, let's get training, though Sakura might be tired from all of her activities with Neji. " Kakashi joked, earning a 'you're dead' took from Sakura who was making her way towards them.

Laughing nervously, Kakashi had backed out already, not wanting to meet Sakura's fist,. After all she was a genin, just like Sasuke and Naruto. Naruto and Sasuke both smirked at their teacher's predicament.

" Come on Sakura-chan, enough of this lets get started." Kakashi said, then he disappeared. He appeared on top of a tree. "Okay, now lets begin the training for today" he said. And so the day went by with both the three genins and their sensei's training.

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