Unforgivable Acts

Neji Love Story

Chapter One

The Bet is On!

I hate my life! Let me explain why I hate my life. I'm stuck as the middle child walking in the shadow of my older brother. Itachi, being the first born, is father's favorite. He's the star quarterback, a genius on the 4.0 honor roll, and student council president. He makes me look like a complete failure every day of my life! I feel bad for my little brother Sasuke who is even more in Itachi's shadow.

Being the middle child, I'm the most ignored out of the three of us. I've tried everything to get my father to praise me, or even acknowledge my existence. I tried to be the good little student, even being declared a child genius, but nothing! I then became the delinquent hoping for the negative attention, but father ignored me more. This angered me, so in order to release this anger I got involved in martial arts. It's only thing I found I love. Also, I've come to the conclusion that it would be better if I just tried to spend as much time as possible away from my father.

Oh, then there's the whole stupid feud between mine and the Hyuuga family. Pretty much it boils down to the fact that both of our families have family business. It just so happens that the Hyuuga's is performing at a much higher rate than my families. This is the reason why the Hyuuga's act as if they are soooo much better than us. I hate them. I have one Hyuuga in my class that I've been competing against since we were five. I despise his arrogant attitude, especially since I've let my grades go. You see he and I were the nominees for the child genius thing and I won. I think he's forgotten this little fact.

"Well, well, well lookie here. It's the Uchiha failure who can't pass a class to save her life," a very familiar arrogant voice drifted to my severely pierced ear, breaking me out of my thoughts.

"Neji," I hissed out pasted clenched teeth, "I can pass these classes. I'm bored to death with them for your information, and if you're thick skull can't remember I was the one named child genius not you."

I glared up at him, from my seat at a table in the cafeteria, passed a curtain of midnight hair that hung in my face hiding it from view. I tucked a piece of my hip length black hair behind my ear revealing my five piercings.

"Kaida," he hissed back matching my tone completely, "Doesn't matter at least I'm not ineligible all the time."

My onyx orbs glared daggers at him and his pale ones glared right back.

"I can pass every one of my class barely trying unlike you," I popped off.

"I doubt that," he mused.

"I can beat you like it was nothin'," I stated, a smirk playing upon my ruby lips.

"Wanna bet?" He challenged.

"Yeah," I stated standing from my position.

"Whoever has the best grades by the end of the semester, including finals results, wins and gets to decided on a punishment for the other," Neji stated.

"Fine by me. You better be ready for defeat Neji," I smirked at his glare.

"I won't lose to you," he countered.

With one final glare he turned on his heels followed closely by his little pose.

"What just happened?" my friend, Lee, asked as he came up to our table.

"I'm going to cream that Hyuuga is all," I stated resuming my seat with a smirk.

This would be a piece of cake.

That memory was the reason I was being, as I call it, summoned to my father's thrown room. It was normally the time I dreaded most. We just got in our semester report cards. Normally on this day I'd get screamed at that I was failing and the Hyuuga in my class was beating me….again. This time I was even more frightened because for once in three years I have straight A's.

I slowly made my descent from my attic room; trying to go as slow as possible to prolong my encounter with my father. I turned into my father's study. I took my place on the pillows before the desk between my two brothers. I finally allowed my eyesight to line up with my father's. The look in his onyx orbs was not something I was expecting at all. His eyes were all big and shit, it was beyond creepy.

"I have your report card," Father said, "This is a big change from last year."

No duh! Already knew that one Sherlock.

"You got straight A's, do you know what this means?" he asked his eyes getting all big again with a hopeful gleam within them.

"No, what?" I decided to humor him.

"You're fallowing Itachi's example of being a perfect student," he stated nearly jumping from his chair in joy.

I looked at him like he was insane then I glared at Itachi and his smug smirk he wore. This only made his smirk widened.

"I didn't do it because of Itachi," venom dripped from my words.

"What?" the three males yelled.

"I made a bet with the Hyuuga in my grade on who was smarter based on our grades," I stated.

"You better not lose," my father's tone dropped to a deadly low.

I swallowed hard, I hated when he got like this. I nodded my head. I stood quickly and snatched the paper from my father.

"I better go and compare the results," I stated as I all but ran from the room.

I ran down the park down the street where two groups waited for me. As I drew closer I noticed Neji and his smug smirk upon his face.

"So how we gonna do this?" I asked, purposely using slang to annoy him.

His eye twitched in annoyance, I smirked at the sight of this.

"We'll have one of your friends and one of my friends look over the results and decide upon the winner," Neji stated.

I nodded. "Fair enough."

So Lee and this weird looking guy looked over the report cards once…twice…three times. We waited patiently. Neji held such a smirk as if he knew something I didn't. I gave him a suspicious look, but this only made his smirk intensify.

Lee and other male turned back to our group. Lee gave me a sorrowful look.

"I'm sorry Kaida, but Neji beat you only by half a point on the English final. Otherwise you're dead even," he stated regretfully.

I knew Lee wouldn't lie to me. I couldn't believe I lost in English! It's my best subject!

Neji held such a smug smirk as his brain landed on a punishment.

"You will have to act like my servant for the entire winter break."

"Are you insane that's three weeks!" Lee yelled.

My body lost all its strength with only those words. My knees collided violently with the pavement. I stared wide eyed ahead. How could I get this by my father? What would he do? What will Itachi do?

"You start tomorrow," he stated with a purely evil smirk adoring his face.