Authors Note:

Hello my peeps, some of you might know the story I wrote called 'Every cloud has a silver lining'. Unfortunately, that was not really my fave plot for a story and I felt like I was not really bringing my 'A game'. So enough with that, and please enjoy my new story! Yes, another Neji and Sakura paring, they are so cute together! Sorry about the blabbing…review! Make sure to tell me if you like 'Every cloud' or this new story. They just came from rescuing Gaara but I changed the ages, the rookie nine is 17 and Gai's team is 18.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, and if I did, then Neji would be falling in love with our pink haired medic as we read. Who doesn't like Neji and Sakura? Yosh! On with the show…I mean story!

Thank You, Kimiko

Expressions

Pt.1

The meeting of two different personalities

Is like the contact of two chemical substances:

If there is any reaction, both are transformed.

-Carl Jung

All seven shinobi walked leisurely through the forest. After saving Gaara only a few days ago and traveling for about two days, they sure were tired. A few such as Sakura and Naruto were sweaty and covered with dirt, but with wide smiles on their faces.

Naruto had his arms folded over his head as he shamelessly tried to flirt with the medic; of course Sakura wasn't the woman for Naruto's type, if only that fact could get through his unsurprisingly thick skull.

"Sakura-chan, when we get back to Konoha, will you go out and um…have some ramen with me?" he sheepishly asked, scratching the back of his head.

She only smiled and politely answered yes, sometimes she really wished that Hinata had more confidence and asks him out already. Every one knew that Sakura did not like the blonde, unfortunately for her, she would catch Hinata frown at her when Naruto would ask her on a date.

"Ne, Naruto why don't you ask Hinata to go with you?" she tried and miserably failed to direct his attention to the Hyuuga heiress.

Naruto sighed and frowned, "Sakura-chan…" he trailed off while putting his arms to the side, "I do not like Hinata-chan like that." He smiled shyly and walked over to Lee, patting him on the back and challenging him to run as fast as he could over to a lone and very ominous cherry blossom tree.

Her eyebrows scrunched together, 'I didn't know cherry blossom trees grew this time of year.' She mused slightly. Sakura's mouth somewhat tilted down a bit at what Naruto had just said, poor Hinata-chan; she wondered what the pale girl's reaction would be when she found out the truth. Sighing for the hundredth time, she thought of the person that she hoped for to come back. She wanted to see his face, to see him smile, but those romantic feeling she had for him were long gone-or so she thought.

Sasuke-kun…

Pushing those thoughts a side, Sakura jogged her way over to the brunette and began talking about the new, stylish weapons of the season. "So pink kunai are in?" she asked, voice cheery and very girly. TenTen waved her hand dismissively and nodded, "Hai, they are very popular with the female population." They both giggled in glee while a pair of dark eyes scrutinized the pink haired girl.

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"Uchiha-sama, is this the girl?" a man with blue hair asked. "She sure looks hot; training with the Hokage really did her good. I mean look at that rack! I would love to…"

Sasuke's eyes flashed intimidatingly, "Jirobu, that's enough." He shot a glare to the perverted man, and continued to watch them carefully.

The blue haired Nin lowered his head slightly, "Gomen Uchiha-sama."

Sasuke heavily sighed and smirked at his cherry blossom. 'You have grown physically.' His eyes turned to sharingan and his smirk widened, 'You will be mine Sakura.'

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Behind the two giggling girls was a Hyuuga who also was scrutinizing the pink headed girl. Neji fixed his white, lavender-like eyes solely on her back and frowned. 'How does manage she capture everyone's attention like that?' Sure her hair was very alluring but it couldn't be just the hair. It had to be something else, maybe if he tried to make a conversation with her that weren't always two words he would know.

He mentally slapped those thoughts away, he was a jonin damn it! He could not be thinking of that, he barely knew the girl. 'Maybe that's the problem.' Neji scrunched his eyebrows and turned his head to the side.

"We should camp here for the night," Kakashi announced, his lazy eye watching Gai carefully. "It's getting dark and we can't afford to lose any shinobi." He joked lightly.

The older man wearing a green spandex suit laughed and patted Kakashi's shoulder, "Come on Kakashi! Are getting that old already?" His boisterous laugh echoed throughout the whole forest. Kakashi only rolled his lone eye and dropped his pack unceremoniously on the ground beneath them.

"I'll search for fire wood, Naruto come along with me." He motioned for the panting blonde. "Sakura fill out these canteens." Sakura nodded her head and picked up the empty canteens that she could carry.

"Make sure to have Lee come and help you!" Gai shouted, "His youth will help you haul those heavy water containers!" He gave them his best nice guy pose before running after Kakashi and challenge him to a fire-wood collecting contest.

Sakura chuckled as Lee came up behind her, "Sakura-san, let's go fill these things. I think I found a creek around this place." He took the remaining canteens off of the ground and flashed Sakura his best toothy smile. She smiled back at him to match his grin, "What are TenTen and Neji going to do?"

Lee waved his hand as if to shoo her away, "Do not worry Sakura-san. TenTen will most likely be napping and if I knew Neji, he would offer to help our fellow comrades." She raised her eyebrow at him, "He would offer his help? Like you mean openly?" A picture of the Hyuuga with his hand outstretched to help someone flashed inside her mind.

She smiled half heartedly and followed Lee to the creek to fill the annoying containers, laughing and making jokes on the way.

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Two red eyes with three black tomoe were fixated on the laughing girl and bobbed haired, spandex wearing boy. He restrained himself when he saw his Sakura trip on a stick, scrunching his eyebrows together when the youthful teen wrapped his arms around his Sakura, preventing her from a non-fatal fall.

That insolent fool! Oh, how he wanted to choke the living day lights out of the boy that was feeling up his woman. Pursing his lips so that his lips looked like a thin white line, he silently jumped -rather flickered- to a tree that hovered over the two shinobi. A frown made its way onto handsome face, sneering at the taijutsu user while watching him help Sakura up on her feet and pointing to the creek nearby.

"Uchiha-sama, what will we do with this girl?" Jirobu asked, hoping that wouldn't be a personal question. Sasuke smirked deviously and opened his mouth to answer, "She just has some promises to live up to." That was his cryptic answer.

In a flash Sasuke and Jirobu disappeared into the darkness of the night.

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Sakura placed her hands on her hips and gave a sigh of relief; she was finally done with filling the damn canteens! Looking over to the boy next to her, she yawned and stretched her arms over her head. "Lee, let's get back to camp. I am sooo tired."

Said boy picked up his filled canteens and walked the pink headed beauty to the camp, stealing glances at her on the way. The campfire was becoming clearer and clearer as they approached their camp site. Sakura smiled and practically ran to it, beckoning Lee to walk faster and he, of course obeyed like the love-sick puppy he was.

When they arrived to the camp site, they found Gai hanging upside down while reading Icha Icha Paradise, Kakashi and his lazy eye doing the same thing but at least right side up. TenTen, the poor girl, was sound a sleep in her sleeping bag, Naruto hungrily eating the fish that was cooking, burning his tongue in the process,and Neji was sitting by the fire with a visible frown on his face and probably had something on his mind.

That did not go unnoticed by Sakura, but she would just leave him to his thoughts. Disturbing a male from the Hyuuga clan while they had something on their mind and was clearly not in a good mood was like playing with fire! And Sakura was not planning on getting burned.

"Kaka-sensei, Gai-sensei, we're done!" Lee exclaimed, jumping in the air for joy as he ran to give Gai a hug. Sakura sweat dropped anime style and gave a feverish chuckle. She was a little perturbed about the lonely Hyuuga acting like nothing was going on, so she decided to play with fire-or rather ice-once again.

Silently creeping up to him, she sat next to him and gave him a smile that could have melted the Uchiha himself. But this was not an Uchiha oh no, he was a Hyuuga, a member of one of the most notorious and noble clans in all of Konoha. But she was also not taken lightly; a proud pupil of the Godaime who clearly treated her like a daughter gave her fame throughout Konoha, sometimes mistaken for the Godaime herself for the beauty and bust she had developed over time. Also known for her medical prowess, insane strength and genjutsu ability, Sakura would make a fine addition to any clan.

"Neji-san, what's wrong?" her voice sounded angelic. He turned his head to her and remained stoic. Puffing out air, Sakura frowned and stood up. "Sumimasen Neji-san, sorry to disturb you." She turned to leave when suddenly Neji's hand unexpectedly shot out and encircled around her wrist.

"Haruno-san, gomen, I didn't mean to act so rudely." His eyes looked sincere and he had a look on his face that would pass for a sorry. Sakura smiled and sat back down next to him. "I can be a jerk sometimes." He joked, while taking his hand off of hers.

She gave him a smile and stared at the stars above them, "Neji-san," He looked over to her and raised an eyebrow, "Please just call me Sakura." He paused for a second and then surprisingly smiled back at her.

"Fine, but only if you call me Neji."

She froze after seeing him smile; his normally handsome face became even more handsome. "Hai, Neji-san—I mean Neji."

Silence filled the air until Kakashi loudly closed his book with a slam. Sakura almost jumped at the sudden alarm and turned her head to her sensei. "Kaka-sensei, what's wrong?"

His head was tilted up to the trees then came back to her, his face held seriousness. "Someone is here."

Gai and Lee fell to the ground on their feet and readied themselves with kunai in their hands. "Kakashi, who is it?" Gai asked, motioning Lee to wake up the sleeping girl. "I don't know, but the chakra signature is vaguely familiar."

"TenTen wake up!" Lee whispered in to the kunoichi. Her eyes opened slightly and yawned, "What happened?"

"Just get up," Lee answered, "Kakashi sensed someone."

She nodded her head sleepily, "Hai."

They all heard a deep chuckle above their heads. "Uchiha-sama, would you like me to kill them now?" Jirobu asked, smiling maliciously.

A hidden man with blazing red eyes flew from the branch and landed in front of Sakura. Frozen in fear, Sakura stood there, unable to move. He placed a heavy hand on her shoulder and leaned in,

"Time to live up to your promises Sakura."

Authors Note:

Please Review. I had so m\ch trouble with this chapter so be easy!