A/N: So thank you to the people who reviewed! This chapter is for you, unexpectedly it turned a little...nsfw so enjoy that bit! But I love hearing from the readers, so tell me what you think about this chapter.
Btw, this chapter is named for a friend who has a corgi and inspired by my refusal to wear shorts ever again around said dog.
Welsh Corgi
Today, Ino had come in with an excited Welsh Corgi pulling her along. The dog was running around wildly and no matter how much Neji secretly wished for Ino to come over, send him flirty looks, and twist normal words into innuendos, he also knew that the current dog in her hands would jump all over his legs.
Unacceptable.
So, he had made the conscious choice to turn his back to return to his office "empty handed." Not that he had been waiting for her or anything.
But, now fifteen minutes later, with Ino short-clad legs swinging in front of his face, Neji wondered how the situation had happened like this.
She had knocked on his office door and poked her head in. He was at his desk, looking over the charts for patients he would have to see later that day, when she softly called to him. The sight of her bright, blue hues staring at him melted his cold demeanor a little, so he invited her in. Just for one of their regular chats, he told himself at the time.
Except, Ino hadn't stepped over to the coffee machine resting on his bookshelf as she normally did, but instead walked towards him. Neji unconsciously slid away from his desk in his confusion. From there, the young woman had pushed past him and scooted her romp onto his desk and proceeded to sit there. And now the minx was leaning back on her hands, looking at him coyly. The image alone was sending shivers through his body and an idle fantasy passed through his mind (one involving a very naked Ino and his lab coat) before he brought himself back under control. All thoughts of talking had left his mind immediately.
"Ino-" He started, intending to ask her nicely to remove her ass from his desk.
Her plump, wonderful ass.
"Neji," she cut him off and smiled wider at the flash of frustration that traveled over his face. "How close is being a vet to being a real doctor?" One of her hands traveled up and began to twist around the end of braids she was sporting today.
Startled from her question, Neji answered on the spot. "Well, considering the differences between animals and human's anatomy, the two jobs would be unrelated." He eyed her curiously, "Why?"
Ino pouted and the hand now moved to her legs. "Well, you see Benny, the Corgi, gets so excited and he was jumping all over my legs earlier and now…" her fingers started to trace lines on her thighs. "Now, I have scratches all over my legs."
Neji's gaze flew right to her legs before he could stop himself and he narrowed his eyes, searching for the sign of scratches. If he hadn't been focused on the thought of hurt Ino, he would have noticed the thickness of her thighs, the way the two globes of creamy fleshed pressed together. The gentle wisps of blonde hair covered her legs, its fair color blending into milky skin. The softness of her knees, the curve of her calves, and all the way down to the small ankles dangling in the air.
If he wasn't worried about her physical health, he would have thought about the feel of those legs wrapping around his hips, the heaviness of them in his hands.
But, Neji was a medically-trained professional, so his thoughts did not stray to those things. At least not immediately.
In fact, the more Neji studied Ino's thighs, the more he noticed that there were small, red whelps lining her skin.
"Ino, I don't think you should consult me for medical advice." He informed her blankly, returning his eyes to her face.
"Neji, come on!" She nearly moaned his name and the Hyuuga froze in his body. "We're both here, in your office! Don't you want to relieve me" Ino grinned sexily and her diamond orbs started to trail down his body before they came back up to meet his eyes. "Of pain, I mean."
If the sensual way Ino said his name didn't make question himself, the way she said relieve surely did. Ino was interested wasn't she? Why else had she sought him out and invited herself into his office that first time? Shared tea with him and brought herring soba (his favorite) for his birthday? What could possibly possess this incredible, beautiful woman to proposition him so openly?
And while she waited for his answer, Ino had the purest look of innocence on her face. Neji thought of his friend from college who teased him mercilessly for not knowing girls. "You wouldn't know how to interact with a woman unless she threw herself at you naked!" Ten Ten had said. Neji had always been confused by that statement though. He knew what to do what a naked woman, but wasn't the point of the matter the fact that he didn't know women? How to read into their words and pick up on the indirect signals? What if all this was a part of some lust filled fantasy he was projecting onto Ino? The thought made him shudder.
Standing, Neji had made his choice. "I will return with the first aid kit." He said calmly. Maybe if he left the room, he could cool down the heat rising in his body. Then, he could, with a clear mind, decide what to do.
He didn't see the look of frustration cross Ino's face as he turned towards the door.
When he slipped back into his office with the first-aid kit in hand, Neji was surprised to see one of his photo frames in Ino's hands. She glanced up at him briefly before returning her eyes to the picture.
"Who's this?" She asked bluntly, for once her flirty tone was nowhere to be seen.
He sat the kit next to her on the desk and leaned into her space to see the photo. It was something from his college days, a picture of him and TenTen at graduation. The vet kept it on his desk to remind him to check in with the brunette as often as he could, TenTen had been a great friend to him during those days.
Instead of telling Ino all the details, Neji just went for a simple answer. "A friend from college."
Turning back to the medical kit, he fetched out the antiseptic dutifully. But, when he turned to give the ointment to Ino, she made a show of pointedly ignoring him. Instead, her attention was now on all the pictures lining his desk.
"Who's this?" She asked again, picking up a new frame.
"My cousins, Hinata and Hanabi." The Hyuuga answered, his eyes lingering on the sight of his two smiling family members.
Since Ino seemed so focused on the pictures, Neji knew instinctively she wanted him to apply the cream to her legs. He supposed that the universe wouldn't have set it up any other way. He was always ending up in the most…intimate situations with Ino. Not that he minded. Except he did when he went to bed frustrated beyond belief.
With a sigh, Neji reached for the latex gloves he kept in one of drawers (for emergencies only).
"No gloves!" Ino suddenly exclaimed. Neji raised an eyebrow at her. "I'm—uh—allergic! To latex." She finished lamely, batting her eyes to cover her lie (a lie Neji decided to ignore).
Neji paused for a moment but nodded his head in and closed the drawer. Settling back into his chair, Neji put Ino's foot on his knee so he could begin the process of treating her scratches.
Now, when Neji first started applying the cream, Ino had still been asking him questions about the pictures: the one of him and Lee, the one of Hinata's garden, and even the old picture of him and his father. And, as he moved up her calves, Ino had switched her attention to him and started asking more personal questions; about his family and friends. Of course, he answered her every inquiry to the best of his ability.
So far, Neji was still level-headed. Even though the smell of Ino's perfume made a strange sensation start in his stomach and the thought of touching her skin like this also left him a little…stiff in his movements—somehow—he was still able to retain an air of professionalism. Later, he reasoned, he would relive the moments and think through all the details later.
However, when Neji brushed the cream on a scratch along the side of her knee, Ino shut her mouth promptly. Neji paused and watched in fascination as a shiver traveled over her body. Goosebumps suddenly rose up on her legs and Neji narrowed his eyes in observation.
When he raised his head to meet her eyes, heat shot straight to his groin. Ino was staring down at him through hooded, darkening eyes. She was still leaning back on her hands, but now there wasn't an air of casualness about her. In fact, she looked just as electrified as he felt and the smile had left her face. Her cheeks started to flush under the attention of his unblinking, heated gaze.
Experimentally, Neji repeated the motion of his fingers and watched as Ino's back arched a little.
Now, with the room silent and the two adults staring each other in the eyes, the tension in the room started mounting. Neji was sitting eye-level with her legs. All it took was Ino scooting forward a few inches and her thighs could rest comfortably on his shoulders.
The very thought of doing that with her—right now, in his office—made Neji tighten up with anticipation. No longer was his head cool, it felt like an inferno had started in his veins and his heart started pounding rapidly in his chest. The air was disappearing quickly in the room and, it seemed to Neji that Ino had just reached the same realization, because he could feel the gasp she made as her breath caught.
Without a thought of caution—because really, Neji had lost all pretense of indifference—he pressed his fingers against her skin again, this time trailing his long digits upwards, onto her thighs. Ino's skin was hot against the coolness of his touch and another shiver seemed to rack her body. But, still, Ino had not looked away from his eyes. And, as his thumbs caressed the skin of her inner thighs, Ino stared boldly back at him with lust-filled, blue eyes as she spread open her legs for him.
Neji nearly groaned out loud.
His thumbs started to rub slow, sensual circles into the inside of her thighs as his eyes roved over her body. Ino's chest moved quickly as her breath started to shorten and he could distinctly make out the hard buds of her nipples, showing through her loose shirt. He seemed to hit a very sensitive patch of skin because the alluring blonde on his desk suddenly let out a strangled moan as her head tilted back.
Neji was starting to pass the point of no return. His face was calm, but Neji felt anything but. His chest was moving quickly because of the short breaths he was taking in and the blood was rushing so quickly through his veins that he started to go into a light-hearted daze. Until all he could hear was Ino. Until all he could see was Ino.
Her shorts were gaping along the insides and he could see the black silk of her panties. And the thought of what lay beneath them—hot, wet, pink flesh—made the member in his pants swell immediately. He could literally feel the warmth of her sex from where his hands started reaching underneath her to grab handfuls of her ass.
Her plump, wonderful ass.
Neji could hear Ino's nails dig into his desk when he dropped his head to place his lips on her knee. He started kissing her legs, brushing his lips over it gently and sometimes gently pressing his nose into her skin. The hands gripping her ass pulled her forward towards him and Neji heard each and every one of her quiet moans when his lips would kiss just a bit higher.
Unexpectedly, the door to his office opened behind Ino. Whoever had stepped into the room was, not only dead to Neji, but also became the unintentional audience to his and Ino's intimate moment. From their standpoint, Neji was sure it looked like he was feasting on Ino as the view only showed Ino's back and Neji's brown head of hair in between her legs.
Everyone in the room froze for a second.
But, before anyone could say a word, Ino separated herself from him in a flurry of activity. The picture frames on his desk were knocked over (the picture of him and Lee falling to the floor) and Neji himself was pushed back, the wheels on his chair sliding him the extra length to crash into the wall behind him with a bang.
Ino herself didn't even seem to notice. Her red face was focused on the ground as she ran from the room, running pass Sasuke who was standing in the door frame with an amused expression on his face.
And Neji just watched hopelessly as the woman left him behind. With so much sexual frustration to last a lifetime.
The glare he gave to Sasuke should have killed the man, but sadly it didn't happen.
"I just came to let her know Benny was done." Sasuke shrugged with a smirk. "But, I suppose I should have waited for her to finish." The bastard (Neji's new name for him at this point) chuckled at his own joke before leaving the room.
Neji did groan out loud this time, irritation making his drop his head into his hands.
So. Fucking. Close.
Omake
Ino had basically been hidden under a pile of blankets since she got home. The first hour back she had spent screaming in embarrassment at being caught. The next hour, the humiliation finally gave away to frustration. How dare that black-haired bastard, had been repeated many times while she ranted. The following hour was spent in the shower, where she relieved herself. To think that three hours ago Neji's tongue was going to happily to the job for her. Now, she was stuck with her fingers.
Groaning again in frustration, Ino finally emerged from the comforter, sitting up and staring at her reflection.
The only thing good about what happened today was the fact that now she was 85% sure that Neji was completely in love with her. The fact that he wanted to bury his face between her legs meant he was passed the "I want to fuck you long and hard" stage and moving into the "I want to explore every crevice of your body stage." The other 15% was just about his feelings and Ino didn't think anyone could tell what Neji was feeling. Not with that aloof mask in place.
"Oh, but how it had cracked!" She yelled, falling back on her bed. She could imagine his opal eyes now, igniting a white-hot fire along her spine. Ino sighed wistfully at the thought of waking up to those eyes every morning.
Bless the Hyuuga genes. Bless Neji and his handsomeness."
Suddenly, a grin crossed her face. "Not only is he gorgeous, but he also knows how treat a lady." She hummed at the thought of the future she might have in store for her if she kept up with her plan.
