Hi! Sorry I've not updated my HP corssover fics but i'm going through the HP books to try make sure the fics will be good.
Any way this is just something that came up out of the blue when i was really bored on the train. It's an unusual pairing but one of my favourites.
Let me know if you think i should do something similar for my other Naruto pairings and turn this in to a series of one shots. Check my profile for some of my Naruto pairings.
He didn't really know what to make of him. He hadn't fought against any one on the Suna team, but both his teammates had and lost. He wonders who would have won if they did fight, his Byakugan against Kankuro's puppets. He thinks he'd like to find out one day.
Neji thinks that Kankuro is pretty strong, but then again he does have Gaara as a brother and Temari is pretty violent too, he's stuck between two siblings who have no qualms about beating him up so he has to be strong. He likes to think he understands a bit when it comes to Kankuro's father, the Kazekage. When he was alive the Kazekage controlled every part of his life, just like Neji is bound to the Main house. Neji wonders if this is why Kankuro became a puppeteer, he needed something in his life that he could control.
Now the Kazekage is dead and Kankuro is learning to stand on his own, could Neji do that some day?
The first time Neji really looked at Kankuro was when his team was added to the group working on the new alliance with Suna. Despite fighting each other in the exam Temari and Tenten hit it off right away, he supposed it was because they were both strong Kunoichi in their own right and their fight had allowed them to respect each other. Lee kept pestering Gaara for a spar so much that many of the group began to worry for his safety but the red hair seemed to have mellowed out since the chunin exams, apparently it was thanks to Naruto who Gaara seemed to hold in high regard.
Since both their teammates were talking that left Kankuro and Neji in each other's company by default. They'd made various small talk to try and prevent an awkward silence, Neji had remembered the puppeteer as being abrasive and patronising. So it was a surprise that he could be so formal, like a prince but he supposed that Kankuro, like himself, had been brought up strictly because of his family's position.
He also remembered Tsunade-sama telling him that the puppeteer had asked about him when they had gone on that mission to retrieve Sasuke, he'd been out of it because of his injuries and only found out later that the Sand siblings had come to help. He didn't know what to think when Tsunade had smirked at him like that when telling him that Kankuro had wanted to know if he would be ok.
"He what?" asked Neji incredulously. Tsunade continued smirking.
"He wanted to know if you would be ok," she told him. "He seemed quite nervous about asking." Neji was really confused.
"But why? I've never even talked to him before." Tsunade had just laughed at him leading him to think that he must be missing something if she seemed to understand.
It was on this visit to Suna that Neji saw Kankuro without his face paint for the first time, it was then he realised that he really did look like he was related to Gaara, under the hat and the paint it hadn't been obvious. That first time he'd gone to knock on Kankuro's door as he'd been instructed the day before so he could have a tour round the village, Kankuro was obviously not ready as he opened the door looking very sleepy dressed in a t-shirt and a pair of shorts.
When Neji had realised he wasn't wearing his face paint he almost did a double take because to be honest he thought he'd got the wrong room and woken up someone else by accident, that and Kankuro actually was very handsome so he couldn't understand why he hid it under all that paint. His hair was brown compared to Gaara's dark red and he didn't have the black rings round his eyes, but there was no denying that he and Gaara were brothers.
The absence of the paint also allowed Neji to finally notice Kankuro's eyes. They were teal, different from his brother's jade and his sister's aqua, they were the same colour as the seal on his forehead. That had almost given him a heart attack when he saw, he had refused to look him in the eye after that until the puppeteer finally got fed up and forced him to tell him what was wrong. Kankuro had seemed sad until Neji told him he liked having a connection with him, the puppeteer had such a goof grin on his face that it nearly made him laugh even if he couldn't work out why Kankuro was so happy.
It was at the end of the visit to Suna that Kankuro kissed him. Although he'd been intrigued by the puppeteer he hadn't expected him to kiss him, he hadn't shown any inclination to so Neji could honestly say that it had shocked him. That wasn't to say he didn't like it, he had and had told Kankuro so after he'd got over his shock. The other boy's smile had covered his face then and he'd laughed.
"Shut up then and let me kiss you again," he'd said.
So Neji let him kiss him again, determined this time to let Kankuro know that the feelings were reciprocated. That was when he knew what Tsunade had seen that he hadn't. When it was time for the Konoha group to leave the next morning Neji had been a bit sad because he knew it was unlikely that he would see Kankuro again any time soon. It seemed unfair that they should have to be apart after discovering they liked each other, still Kankuro had said goodbye with a smirk on his face that made him slightly wary.
He found out why he'd been smirking a few months later when Gaara was made Kazekage and the Sand siblings came to Konoha to officially present Gaara to Tsunade as the new Kazekage. Neji hadn't known anything about it until Kankuro suddenly appeared behind him in the middle of a training session with his team and hugged him round the waist. The look on his teammates faces would have been priceless if Neji wasn't mortified at being held like this in front of them, oddly enough Tenten seemed to get really giddy over it. When Kankuro explained why he was in Konoha the rest of Neji's team had rushed to the Hokage's tower to greet Gaara and Temari trying to be subtle about leaving Neji and Kankuro alone. He hadn't realised the implications of Gaara being Kazekage until Kankuro said he'd be asking for a lot of mission to Konoha from now on and that Neji had better ask for a lot to Suna. They could still meet each other, they didn't have to push their feelings aside and Kankuro had gone through a lot of trouble to make sure Gaara would let him do this.
Why on earth did he care so much for a shinobi from another country? Why chose such a hard path to follow? He certainly wasn't expecting Kankuro to tell him it was because he thought that Neji was the only person worth pursuing to that extent. That statement made him more happy than he'd like to admit, then he thought the clan would definitely not approve. But did that matter, Naruto had promised to help with his clan and his uncle had become a lot nicer now and Hinata would certainly encourage him. Neji was actually happy, maybe he should start learning to stand on his own too.
Neji wonders if Kankuro's eyes are why he'd become so drawn to him, that and the fact that the other boy is so hard to read, he never knows what to expect with Kankuro but he does know that he's glad he did notice the puppeteer. He thinks Kankuro is a puzzle he's willing to spend the rest of his life trying to solve, he may not believe in fate any more but he likes to think that the two of them were suppose to be like this.
Kankuro's first opinion of Neji was that he was strong but boy was he an arrogant stuck up bastard, he doesn't dare tell Neji that he also thought he looked quite like a girl. The next time he really thought of him was in the finals for the chunin exam, he was half panicking because they were suppose to be invading but he still managed to pay attention to Neji's match. He remembers being ashamed at being glad Neji got so hurt because it meant he wouldn't be able to get involved in the invasion, which should keep him from being killed.
When they'd run back to Suna after the failed invasion he wondered if he'd ever get to see the Hyuuga boy again, if nothing else he'd like to test that Byakugan against his puppets, he didn't think Neji would be adverse to the idea. When Gaara had announced that they were going to help Konoha get back the Uchiha brat who had decided to run off he wondered if Neji was part of the group trying to get him back. When he went to help Kiba and found out Neji was part of the group and was off fighting one of the Sound four somewhere he found it very hard to not go running off to find him, he was a shinobi he had to do his mission first which at this moment was helping Kiba, besides the white eyed boy probably wouldn't appreciate being rescued.
When they all managed to get back to Konoha minus Sasuke, he immediately tried to find Neji only to discover he was in intensive care and unable to have visitors. In the end they couldn't stay long enough to be able to see Neji or Naruto who had also been serious injured. Gaara had asked to be informed when about Naruto as soon as possible and turned back to Suna, Kankuro hesitated for a moment before turning to Tsunade who had come to see them off.
"Erm… Neji is going to make it right?" he'd asked.
He almost wished he hadn't because Tsunade looked so surprised that he'd asked about the Hyuuga and didn't seem to know how to respond. She told him he found be fine, Neji wasn't one to give up and leave things to fate anymore. He had to except that as an answer and was relieve a week later when Gaara received a letter telling them that everyone who had gone on the mission was well on the way to recovery.
The next time he saw Neji was totally unexpected, his team had come with the group working on the alliance between their two villages at the last minute so it wasn't until they got there that they knew they were coming. When Temari went to talk to the girl on the team and the spandex boy pestered Gaara he realised that left him and Neji to talk to each other.
He was a bit embarrassed to know that despite admiring the Hyuuga and respecting him they'd never actually talked, it was probably time to rectify that. It was awkward at first since they had no idea what to say to each other, he was just grateful that Neji was making an attempt as well otherwise he really didn't know what he would have done. He was glad to discover that Neji wasn't as uptight any more thanks to Naruto, seriously that blonde was just a walking miracle. They'd ended up getting along quite well and had agreed to meet up so Kankuro could give him a tour of the village, he really hadn't expected to sleep in though.
He could tell something was up when he opened the door sleepily and Neji just stared at him in silence, he never told him but his mouth was hanging open ever so slightly. At first he figured that he was staring because it was the first time he'd actually seen him, as in been able to see what he looked like under the paint and the hat. He'd just grinned sheepishly and gone to get dressed, it wasn't until later in the day when he realised Neji hadn't looked him in the eye all day. Since they'd been getting on so well he couldn't understand why he suddenly wouldn't look at him. Eventually he'd had enough and just told him to say why he wouldn't look at him.
"Your eyes." He didn't know what he was expecting but that sure wasn't it. Kankuro watched fascinated as Neji blushed slightly and reached up to touch his forehead making him frown.
"Your eyes are the same colour as my seal." The puppeteer has winced at that, he'd heard about the seal in Neji's match against Naruto and was sad that he reminded him of something that caused him pain.
"It just shocked me," murmured the Hyuuga. "But… it's nice to know something connects us." To say Kankuro was shocked was an understatement but he also felt ridiculously happy that Neji was glad to have some form of a connection to him.
That was when he realised he'd fallen in love with the Hyuuga.
Because he didn't know what Neji felt he played chicken and didn't end up kissing him until their last night in Suna. Neji was so shocked he thought he'd been wrong and that he really didn't like him at all. When Neji told him he was just shocked and didn't mind Kankuro kissing him he'd just laughed and kissed him again, after all he was leaving tomorrow and who knew when he'd get this chance again. He knew he was smirking when the Konoha group left the next morning and that it had deeply confused Neji. He just couldn't wait to surprise the white-eyed boy in a few months.
Neji reaction when he did show up in Konoha was priceless, ok so he'd just shown up out of no where and hugged him in front of him team but Neji looked shell shocked which was to say nothing of his team's reactions. He was glad when the others finally left leaving the two of them alone, even if Neji did look like he wanted to seal all his tenketsu which he'd heard was very painful.
Kankuro cheerfully told him about Gaara being Kazekage meaning he'd be asking for a lot of missions so he could come visit him, to his delight Neji full out blushed and his mouth turned up in a small smile. He looked slightly worried for a moment as if thinking about something unpleasant before smiling determinedly. Then Neji kissed Kankuro without being prompted and said he would request missions to Suna as often as possible too.
Kankuro thinks that Neji is a bit of a puzzle. He's really good at hiding his feelings so it makes guessing really fun and with some really interesting results. He remembers when Neji told him he liked his eyes because it made him feel like they connected due to the colour being the same as his seal, Kankuro loves Neji's eyes. Sometimes he wonders if that Byakugan of his can see into his soul because it sure feels like it sometimes. He must like what he sees any way because he agreed to be with him, he wouldn't mind waking up to those eyes every morning knowing that they saw him.
Yeah, so no idea where this came from but i like it.
There really isn't a lot written for this pairing because its so unusual but i just read a story with this pairing one day and fell in love.
Please review and let me know what you think about doing some of my other Naruto pairings.