Isolation
It had all started with an innocent kiss. Sure, she knew him better than anyone else. However, for the first couple of years of being a team, she had a crush on their teammate. He had found out about that when they had first started dating he, had been completely flabbergasted. Not that he wasn't saying that Lee was not worth having as a partner. It was just his exuberance for life was too much at times.
Back to the subject, they had just finished training. He had been a jounin for two years now. She had been promoted a month ago. He is resting underneath the Sakura tree. She joins him a few minutes later. Sitting next to him as close as possible, without actually being in his lap. Within the past year, they had started to notice each other. Although they never said anything. They weren't naïve. They had known each other too long, not to know what the other thought.
His hands on the earth next to her sides. She had been facing him, sitting Indian style. He leaned in the next moment, giving her a chaste kiss. The next moment, she was in his embrace. Her head resting on his shoulder. His chin resting on her head. His arms around her. They continued to watch the sun set.
They had been together for a year, before he asked her to marry him. They had been married secretly a month later. The rules of the Main and Branch house rules still existed. Therefore, his marriage to an outsider would be considered a taboo. But he had always been a person, who didn't let others' decisions dictate his own. Besides, he could never be with another woman but her. She understood him better than anyone ever could
They both knew that their relationship wouldn't be kept secret for very long. For they are remembering the promise, Naruto made to him during their fight years ago. Once he became the Hokage, the regulations between the Hyuugas' would end. Although, it proved to be longer than Naruto, Tenten, Hinata, and Neji anticipated.
Months went by peacefully. Even though, they kept their martial relationship private, for fear of the repercussions'. They knew would come out. They had just thought, it wouldn't have occurred the way it had. Naruto had been appointed as apprentice to Tsunade for the title of Hokage. From his first moment of display, despite his immaturity. Tsunade knew he was destined for greatness and he would eventually succeed in his goal.
Their first year anniversary was quickly approaching when they found out she was five months pregnant. By some miracle, their relationship was still a secret from their friends and more importantly his family. They had only recently let Naruto and Hinata on their secret. That can of worms finally came out.
He had just returned from a mission. Tenten had had their child while he was away. They had a son. After spending half the night with his family, he made his way back to the Hyuuga compound. What he found was the situation, he had been dreading the most. Hiashi and some of the other male Hyuugas were there, along with Hinata.
"Neji, I have let it slide that you have stayed single all this time…However, I can't overlook this situation anymore…" His uncle addressed. Neji is now in front of him. "A month from now, you are to marry Hinata, and in that time your current arrangement will be done away with…I had an informant follow you days before you left on your previous assignment."
Neji looked to his cousin, knowing what this meant for her engagement to Naruto. Her sister appeared the next moment with Tenten and their child. "Neji, look what your foolishness has caused." He obeys his uncle, even though he is afraid. For by Hinata's expression, it is the scenario they feared the most. Her voice only confirms it.
"Neji." He turns slowly to be greeted by his wife's face. Hanabi behind her. Their son in Tenten's arm. Hanabi pushes her, causing her to fall. He reacts instinctively, only to be met with restraint. Before he can attack. He is hit in his blind spot. He hits the ground. The other male Hyuugas don't give him a chance to retaliate. He screams in pain, before becoming unconscious. (the curse mark).
Tenten tries to move forward to help her husband, when Hanabi trips her. Hanabi roughly shoves her to the ground. She touches one of Tenten's pressure points. Before Tenten, loses consciousness however, she feels her son being yanked out of her embrace. She tries to move when she hears her son whimpering.
One of the unnamed male Hyuugas' picks her up, before roughly shoving her away. The world goes black as she sees Hanabi holding her son, walking toward her father. And that Hinata's fear still has her rooted to the spot, next to her father. Fear for both of them evident, as Neji is carried away.