Back with a new story. XD I'm going to be juggling this one and "The After" for a little bit so updates on the two stories might not be as quickly..also because I've encountered my nemesis yet again known as the writer's block. Those who have gone through the struggle and survived I applaud you, now I hope I can make it through myself. XD

For the sake of this story there might be some out of character here and there from characters, I'll try hard to not make it a very common thing but I hope you guys don't mind it.

But! Without further ado here's my next story. "This is Normal?"

I hope you guys enjoy it!

[JacoboSama]

Disclaimer: I don't own the series Naruto or any of its characters.

"But you can't leave me!" A young girl with crimson red hair that was neatly tied up in a ponytail called in despair. Her fragile hands reaching to grasp the rough felt palms of the male who's back was facing her. "Please just let me-!"

"Yoko stop." A low baritone voice cut Yoko mid-sentence. "It's over, you should have thought twice before cheating on me." Brown locks of long hair cascaded down the male's back, his height overshadowing the petite girl behind him who tried to plead him to stay. "I trusted you.." hints of hurt in his voice could be heard while he looked over his broad shoulder to look at the girl that he was once proud of calling the love of his life. His twin moon eyes baring into her glassy sky blue eyes that were tainted with tears. The male pulled away from her grasp and headed towards the door to leave her behind for good but Yoko stubbornly ran towards him and wrapped her arms securely around the male to stop him dead on his tracks.

"Neji, please! It was a mistake I don't feel anything for him, please don't leave me!" She cried and pleaded. She was hiding her face in shame of her mistake, the horrible mistake she had committed on cheating on such a wonderful man. "Please don't leave me.." She sobbed quietly into the back of Neji's cotton white shirt, staining it with her tears.

Neji fell silent, the hurt he was feeling for such a betrayal now evident in the shadows of his lunar eyes. "No," he spoke, attempting to hide the hurt he was feeling, "it's over." With his final words delivered coldly to the woman he had sworn he'd make his wife, he took hold of her petite hands to loosen himself from her grip and with confident strides walked towards the door. Yoko's wheeping behind him as she fell on her knees and covered her eyes. She wouldn't dare witness him leave while Neji made himself the promise that he wouldn't be so foolish and trust people such as her, then walked through that door without another word to shed.

"AND CUT!"

Came a voice through a megaphone, a man sitting on a chair witnessing the entire scene for himself along with different angled cameras that all faced the small scene that had just happened. The man that was sitting on his chair placed the megaphone down and stood up. "You two are naturals at this!" He complimented with a satisfied smile. By the time the man stood up Yoko had already gotten up to her feet and began to wipe away the fake tears with a cocky smirk.

"I have been acting for years now you know? This is just a walk in the park, besides making a movie with teen pop sensation Neji Hyuuga would look amazing in my resume." She added already visualizing her life of amazing fame and glory with twinkling stars in her eyes.

"Right, right, right!" The director didn't pay much attention to what she rambled about and fixed the baseball cap he had over his head. "Good job to you too Neji! This is going to be your first movie based on your life!" He congratulated, not realizing that Neji had actually not gotten back to where the scene was shot until after he was done. "Uh, Neji?" The director looked about in search of the teenage boy. "Where is he?"

"I think he went to get a drink sir." Spoke a camera man.

"Ah! Well alright! Take a fifteen then afterwards come back here so we can discuss a few matters and that's a wrap!" He said in an elated voice, obviously happy with the scene that had played. Everybody else joined in with the director's cheering and went to take their respective fifteen minute break.

"This is tedious." Neji sighed as he drank a bit of his warm morning coffee. He hated being famous, he didn't like it. At first maybe it was fun, the thrill of becoming well known and getting paid a lot got to his head but that little high didn't last too long. Neji comes from a family of famous people basically. From the day he was born he was destined to be someone important or someone of high status. In Neji's case he became big through singing. Neji's a well known singer internationally and it didn't take him that long to hit it big because of his family's background. He had extra help. He had his fans, his haters, you name it, he had it all and it was all pretty amazing to him once upon a time but now, now it's just ridiculous and annoying. Lately he's been getting tired of this life, it was such an easy, and dare he say lonely (believe it or not), life. Having to be isolated from the rest of the crowd as if he were some alien from another planet, being surrounded by bodyguards twenty four seven when he just wants to get a simple whopper from Burger King, like what the fuck? He just wants a damn burger. High taxes, the high taxes were the worst, then the usual stalkers he had to look out for, having to act as if his life is ever the bit interesting in internet social medias, and the worst, even worse than taxes, was not being allowed to attend college. Something Neji learned about himself over time was that he loved to learn, he loved school, but that was stripped away from him after he graduated high school and was forced to become famous. He wanted to continue to college but his uncle, who was his manager now, didn't allow him to.

Ever since Neji's father died in a horrible car accident a week before Neji's graduation Hiashi, his father's twin brother, has taken over Neji's life along with being his manager. Hiashi wasn't only his manager but Hiashi ran a well known company as well.

Neji shook his head and took another drink out of his warm coffee. This whole movie idea about his life was Hiashi's idea to make Neji even more famous. He didn't like it because it was about him, Neji didn't like it because in this movie there were things added that have never happened to him. The last scene he shot never happened, ever, in fact Neji's never had an actual girlfriend. He's had his flings once he shot up as a superstar, one night stands and whatnot but nothing he ever committed to. "Me getting cheated on? How absurd." He shook his head in disbelief to the thought of such a thing.

"Is something wrong, Neji?"

Speak of the devil.

Neji looked over his shoulder towards Hiashi. "I'm sure you know the answer to that yourself."

Hiashi could be said to be a mirror image of Neji himself but older. As to why they looked so alike was because Hizashi, Neji's father, was Hiashi's twin brother. Neji didn't really mind that a lot of people said they looked alike since it was a given fact.

"You've been pretty unpleased with a lot lately." Hiashi pointed out with his arms firmly crossed over his chest. "Is this the infamous drama queen phase I've heard of?"

Neji almost spit out his coffee but quickly composed himself and turned fully around to glare at his uncle. "This is not a phase," he began with the calmest voice he could muster, "I'm just tired of this life, Hiashi-Sama." He ended respectfully. How dare he call him a drama queen, Neji was no drama queen. He wanted drama queen then Hiashi better take a look at the American celebrities down in North America. Neji's been there a couple of times and sweet baby Jesus have mercy, they wine about almost everything.

"We went over this already Neji." Hiashi spoke with strict attempts to get his own point across. "This is your life now, and this movie will certaintly get you an even better life. I didn't know you could be such an actor."

"I don't want this life anymore, sure I liked it at first I found it somewhat thrilling but I no longer have a desire for it. I want to be able to go out in public like I used to without having about twenty men on my back to guard me, I want to continue my studies. I want to go to college and have a career, a different one..not one where things just get handed to me because I ask for it." Neji hated to admit it but this was an easy life.

Hiashi let out a sigh of his own and shook his head. "No Neji."

"My father would have let me be what I've wanted to be." Neji argued. His said statement catching Hiashi off guard and earning Neji one of his intimidating glares. "It's true and you know it is. Just..just at least let me go to college and out in public on my own. Think of it as an experiment. I won't entirely quit all of this yet, I can juggle the two with ease," Neji couldn't help but to smirk with confidence with known knowledge of his own at how well he can organize himself, "if I don't like it then I come back here and devote my life entirely to this," that seemed to have soften Hiashi's glare towards Neji, "but if I do like it then I quit all of this and go on my own path." Neji finished. Now that he thought of it, it somewhat sounded like a bet. Neji could sure be good with words sometimes.

Hiashi was now looking at Neji with an obvious thoughtful look. Hizashi did indeed tell Neji a long time ago that he would support him on whatever road Neji chose, having trust in his son's judgement. But Hiashi wasn't Hizashi and-

"You'll get more time to focus on the Hyuuga company." Neji interrupted Hiashi's thoughts. Neji held his hands up. "Just saying."

Hiashi let out a sigh in defeat, the thought of actually having a lot more spare time to focus on the company was just way too tempting to deny. "Very well then, but," he continued, "you'll still attend to every event and interview I've already put on your schedule. Any project, such as the movie and any future singles, are put on pause."

Neji could live with that. Interviews and events weren't that bad. "It sounds good to me." Neji nodded his head. Oh the smell of sweet victory, how much Neji's missed it.

Hiashi nodded as well. "Do you have a college in mind?"

"Yes, the college you and my father went to."

Hiashi rose a brow in skeptical at Neji's choice. "Konoha Public Institute?" Hiashi asked in a tone of disbelief. "That's a public college Neji, anybody can go there."

"I know it is." He nodded his head with a small satisfied smile.

"Why not go to a prestigious institute such as Suna or Otto?"

"Because I don't want to."

"Do you want to kill me from a heart attack? Is that your goal?"

Neji sighed. Now look who's being the drama queen. "What's so wrong with going there? You and my father went there and got your deegrees, I'll do the same." He gave a simplistic shrug. "It's no big deal."

"Your father and I went there because we were teen boys. We had a.." He coughed and spouted the words quickly, "rebelphase."

Hiashi probably wanted Neji to not catch the last part but unlucky him this was Neji, he was quite keen at everything so out of his mere amusement Neji pushed it. "Excuse me I couldn't quite catch that last part, what was it that you said?"

"You little-" Hiashi made small hand gestures as if he were about to choke Neji but that would be way too unprofessional, he had to keep his image. "Rebel phase." He finally said with a dead tone in his voice. He didn't want to admit it but Hizashi and him weren't exactly the dream twins his father wished to have when they became teenagers. He blamed Hizashi for most of it though, he was the one to always come up with ideas.

Neji smirked. "See? I'm not doing much of what you and my father did though. I just want to try it out because it catches my attention. Besides we made a deal, interviews and events that have been added to my schedule already I shall attend, you have my a hundred percent gurantee that I'll be there, but projects are put on pause until I give feedback about how it's going." His father would be so proud. Neji just won his first argument with his uncle, life was good, indeed it was. Neji noticed that Hiashi's look had doubts so wiping the smirk off his face he offered his uncle a reassuring smile and nod. "I'll be okay, if things get bad I'm coming straight to you."

That seemed to have worked because the corner of Hiashi's lip tugged ever so slightly into a small smile but then it disappeared as soon as it appeared. "Just like your father." He heard him mumble. "Very well Neji, I give you permission to attend Konoha Institute."

Neji bowed respectfully to his uncle. "Thank you, Hiashi-Sama."

By the time the clock struck nine thirty everybody in the set was set to leave. Hiashi let the actors and crew know of the status of the project, that it was in current pause until further notice. Not many were happy, like Yoko she looked pretty pissed off, but then there were some others that were actually quite pleased with what they were informed. "Take it as a vacation." Neji had told them and some were actually happy about it. What was going to suck the most out of this though was the rumors that he was sure would soon start to spread, he really hated those. There was once a rumor about him being a cross dresser. Like really? What the hell right? There's nothing wrong with having long hair, nothing at all. In fact he wasn't the only one in his family with long hair, his uncle had long hair too along with others! Sure he would kill anybody who tried to damage his gorgeous long brown locks of hair but that didn't mean he was a cross dresser. The things people do these days in order to get attention, Neji would shoot them.

Neji placed his black jacket on along with the hood to cover his head and appearance. It was a chilly night tonight but Neji had something else in mind, he wanted to go visit this institute he would be attending in a few weeks once he's accepted. He had no doubt he would, Hiashi himself said anybody can get in there with ease.

"Going somewhere?"

Just when Neji was about to go for the door of course his uncle makes an appearance. "I am. My car. Goodnight!"

"Wait." Hiashi said in an icy tone which made Neji stop dead on his tracks again.

'Damn it.' Neji thought and looked over at his uncle. "Yes?"

"Don't get caught." Hiashi smiled slightly and threw some shades at Neji, who caught them easily but was slightly surprised with his uncle's action. "We don't want the press harassing us just yet." With a chuckle Hiashi headed to the opposite direction Neji was headed, probably to get some paperwork and then head home.

With a smirk he slipped his shades on and nodded his head. "You can trust me." With those words Neji took hold of the keys and headed out of the studio towards his gorgeous, dare he say wonderful, yes he went there, black toyota sports car. It was a beauty, it was his baby, he took good care of it. He's had it for some years now and it always looked like he had just gotten it yesterday.

Indeed tonight was kind of cold he realized on his walk towards his car. His hands warmly safe within the depths of his pockets, that was until he finally got to his car and got inside. Once he started the engine Neji hit the road towards the Konoha Institute, wanting to take a look at it for a little bit. He wasn't going to trespass or anything of that sort, he just wanted to look at the campus itself and see just how it stands. The roads seemed to be empty, nobody was out since it was pretty late. Neji didn't blame them, he'd want to be sleeping right about now himself. He looked at his GPS for further instruction. "How long until I get to my location?" He asked. His GPS was a personalized device that was made and installed specifically for him, it was a pretty amazing piece of work.

"Almost."

Neji frowned at the GPS response. "How about a specific time rather than a bland statement?"

"You humans use seconds, minutes, and hours, so one of those three, choose your pick."

Neji sighed and shook his head. "Stupid device."

"I love you too Neji-San."

Having a personalized GPS wasn't always a good thing, he took that back.

After a few more minutes, about twenty minutes, Neji arrived to the Konoha Institute and parked his car in an open space available for parking. "Didn't need the stupid GPS to find my way." He mumbled.

"That's what they all say."

"Oh shut up." Neji glared at the contraption and then got out of his car after he made sure that his hood and shades were properly placed on to hide his appearance. Once he stepped out he closed his door he walked towards the front of his car to gaze at the building located on the other side of the street. He leaned slightly back against it, soft enough to not leave any sort of mark, with his hands in his pockets.

The building wasn't pretty bad in the eyes. Its front entrance was plain and simple, almost like a short runway that led towards the front doors. They looked like they were automatic. The building itself was fairly tall and big. Windows over the surface like any other building but he could already tell that this looked like a fair place to study. He was going to start working on his application first thing in the morning and send it. He can already see the chaos his father must have caused here, this was also where his father met Neji's mother so this place had a special spot in his heart-

"Excuse me, but what are you doing here?"

Neji's thoughts snapped out of their constant traveling and looked at the direction the voice came from. To Neji's surprise on the sidewalk that was connected to the parking lot he decided to park was a girl with the cutest hairstyle he's ever seen. Almost comical. A girl with brown hair tied up in two buns over her head, chocolate brown eyes, and an attire that clearly indicated that she was probably a waitress. "What does it look like I'm doing." He responded back. Neji personally didn't like it when strangers just thought it would be okay to talk to him as if he were just someone else. Did she not know who he was? He was the famous-wait a minute she probably can't tell who he is with how covered up he is.

"You're either planning to bomb this place which if that's the case I'll be ready to call the police or you just purposely dress like a creeper." She responded, unaffected by the response he had given her before.

Did he really look that bad? "I'm going to be attending here soon so I wanted to give it a look before applying."

"In the middle of the night, when nobody's around? Really? Why can't you just come when the sun's out? There's already employees in there to get it ready and I'm sure can give you a tour." She informed him.

If only it was that easy. Neji shook his head. "I can't because I work all day," some of it was true, "I get out late at night."

"Oh, well if it's work then I guess I can understand." The female nodded her head and looked at the building. "Currently working myself to pay for my studies. I'm going to go to this campus too."

Neji nodded his head. "Just graduated?"

She smiled. "That obvious? Graduated high school a few months ago, been working since then to save money. All I can really afford is this place but I'm not complaining. How about you Mr. Creep?" She asked.

'Mr. Creep?' Neji glared at her through his shades. "I was taken out of school to work." He settled with simple responses so he wouldn't give much of himself away. "Was given a shot to study again so I'm taking it."

"Good for you!" She smiled at him. For some reason he felt that small praise was a lot more sincere than it sounded. "Then I guess I'll be seeing you here?"

Neji nodded his head as a simple response.

"Okay then, I'll get going, just wanted to make sure you weren't going to bomb anything because this place holds my future."

"I'm not going to bomb anything." He said slightly annoyed.

"Just saying!" She laughed lightly and began to head the direction she was originally heading. "Smooth car by the way. Have a goodnight Mr. Creep." She waved and Neji watched her leave and plug her ears in, probably to listen to music.

'Interesting girl.' Neji thought to himself and then soothed the back of his neck with his palm. He walked back towards the door of his car and set himself inside, starting the engine again. "Do I really look like a creep?" He asked.

"Yes." The GPS answered.

"No one asked you!" Neji glared at the stupid thing and then began to drive his way back home.

Tenten watched the amazing looking sports car that creepy guy got on go its marry way. "Men are so weird." She laughed to herself while she listened to one of her favorite artists, Lorde. Who could really blame her, the girl knew what she was singing about. Work was a pain in the ass, mainly because of the stupid men and their damn eyes that can't seem to look at a girl straight in the damn eyes. She worked at a five star restaurant known as Ichiraku's. The owner of the place along with some co-workers there were amazing, a few bad apples here and there but she could shut them up easily. Her problem were the people that went there, all spoiled rich people and working as a waitress didn't help because she'd see them all the time she went to work. It was annoying to her. Sure not everybody was that way but for the most part she just wanted to get a frying pan and smack all of them with it to where they wouldn't know what year it was. Very brutal of her.

She couldn't help it. Rude people made her this way, but at least she was out of work now and didn't have to deal with them. She also had the next two days off so those were very good news and sweet sounding music to her ears, just like the music she was listening to right now. Other than her job and financial struggles her life was pretty good. She graduated high school with good grades, sharing an apartment with her four best friends, still in contact with her good high school friends other than these four, and visited her parents for the holidays when she had the chance. It was a wonderful life to live. It was a simple life. Tenten already knew she was going to start her real struggles when the month was over because college was going to start. She always struggled with money, she doesn't know how it happens or why. She just really struggles with money. When she needs money she's on the thin rope for it.

Tenten began to hum to the tune of the song she was listening to while she continued her walk home. She lived in an apartment just a few blocks away from the Institute so walking there and back wasn't much of a problem. Three of her best friends were actually going to be attending the same campus as she was. Ino, Sakura, and Hinata were going to Konoha with her while their oldest roomate, Temari, was going to be on her second year in Suna. There was no rivalry between the girls because of it though, they were all good friends with one another.

Finally arriving to the building in which her apartment was located Tenten walked into the building and slipped her sweater off. Her apartment was just on the second floor of the building so taking the stairs wasn't going to kill her. She took the stairs to the second floor and reached into the pocket of her sweater for the key in front of a door with the numbers and letters B25 and opened the door. "I'm back." She yawned.

"Welcome back Tenten, how was work?!" The first to greet her was Sakura who was in their small little kitchen probably preparing some popcorn to watch a movie with the rest of the girls.

"Like always Sakura." Tenten rolled her eyes and closed the door behind her. She dragged her legs towards her bed and then let herself fall on it. "Ugh, so tired."

"You sound terrible honey." Ino watched Tenten with a concern expression from her bed.

"Tell me something I don't know Ino." Tenten turned herself over and then sat up to slip her shoes off. "Hey, where's Hinata?" She asked, realizing that her shy friend was no where to be seen.

"She said she had somewhere to go, family business." Temari spoke from the couch in their small living room. "Someone came over to pick her up, she'll probably be back soon."

While Temari spoke Tenten had already changed out of her damned working clothes and into her comfy clothes, she then laid on her stomach on her bed and rested her feet on her pillow while she watched the television. "If you say so, but what are you watching Temari?"

"Paparazzi news," a smirk tugged on her lips, "did you girls know Neji Hyuuga's working on a movie about his life?"

Sakura from the kitchen gasped. "Are you serious?! He's already going to star on his first movie?!"

Ino nodded. "You're so slow Sakura. I already knew that. Just in a few months and he's already a huge hit."

Tenten rolled her eyes and shook her head. She didn't give two shits about Neji Hyuuga but everybody else seemed to. He was a big deal because he's the first young person to get famous so fast. Her friends loved his music. Tenten wasn't a fan but she had to give the guy some credit, he really did know what he was doing. "Let's just hope he gets hit by a bus soon too." Tenten giggled slightly.

Sakura laughed from the kitchen and then walked into the living room where Temari is. "You really don't like him do you?"

"I don't hate him, I just hate all the attention given to the guy. Makes me grow tired of him pretty quickly."

"You're such a hipster." Ino chuckled and that earned her a pillow to the face from Tenten.

"Oh shut up!"

"Shh!" Temari glared at the girls. "I want to listen to this." Temari got the control and rose the volume of it.

On the television a female reporter could be seen interviewing a man who claimed to be a camera man for Neji's movie while on the bottom of the screen in huge bold red letters read NEJI HYUUGA'S MOVIE CANCELLED?

"So what you're saying sir is that there won't be a movie of Neji Hyuuga?"

"Well it seemed like it. Today his manager informed us that we were all in vacation of some sort." The man shrugged.

"That's interesting. This movie was advertised for weeks now and for it to suddenly be canceled? That would really stain Neji's name if it turned out to be true."

The man nodded his head. "I know it would but I'm not really complaining. I needed a vacation anyway!" He smiled happily.

The female reporter smiled and nodded her head. "Of course you do. Well thank you for your time sir," she shook his hand and he nodded his head, "this is our top highlight of the night we'll see you all next time!"

"Are you freaking shitting me right now?!" Ino said in disbelief. "Cancelled?! I was looking forward to that damn movie, why is it cancelled all of a sudden?"

"Maybe it all turned out to be a lie to begin with." Tenten spoke.

Temari looked over at Tenten. "What do you mean a lie?"

"You know how famous people are now. They always make up bullshit in order to be in the spotlight for a while." She rolled her eyes. "It was going to blow up on him eventually."

Sakura nodded her head, understanding Tenten's point. "Tenten might have a point there."

"If that's true I'm going to be so damn pissed!" Ino yelled.

While the girls conversed over the top highlight of the night on the other side of town Neji Hyuuga was on the side of a road with his car still on. "I don't remember taking this road to my house before." Neji said as he scanned his surroundings.

"Just admit it, you're lost." The GPS spoke within the car.

"I'm lost? You mean you got me lost. This is all your damn fault!"

"You're the one driving and handling the vehicle so it's safe to say this is all your fault."

"I hate you, you know that right?"

Here's the first chapter to the new story. I hope you all enjoyed it!

Until next time everybody, please let me know what you think of it so far, reviews and all are always welcomed and much appreciated. XD Bye bye!

[JacoboSama]