Breathless - Chapter 2

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Quick A/N - I apologize for not updating this sooner. Things just kept popping up and I kept putting this aside. Sorry!! ^^;; To make it up to you guys two fresh-out-of-the-oven chapters! Enjoy!

The face was that of Rock Lee's. He grinned broadly at the pair.

"Oooh on a date with Sakura-chan, I see." He chuckled. Naruto lowered his eyes and glared at him.

"Am not!" Naruto protested. Lee seemed quite amused.

"Are too!" He replied, with a half smile. Naruto stood up and aimed his fist at Lee's face, but he sidestepped, and dodged it, just in the nick of time.

"Naruto and Sakura sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First comes--" Rock Lee began to sing, but was cut off by the return of Alice.

"You're bill." She told them flatly, as she slammed a piece of paper on the table.

"Bitch." Sakura softly muttured. Lee smirked at Alice coyly.

"Why hello there." He said, running his fingers through his jet black hair. Alice rolled her eyes, and walked away.

"Come on baby don't be like that!" Lee called, and ran after her. Naruto decided to look over the bill.

"Hmm....*2000 yen...I guess that isn't that bad....". He placed the money on the table and began to head to the exit slowly, expecting Sakura to follow suit, which she did.

"Umm...Naruto, we haven't eaten yet..." Sakura stated softly. Naruto flushed a shade lighter than her hair, and let her lead him back to their table. After waiting for what seemed to be an eternity (which was actually 11 minutes) their food arrived and was placed on the table (but not by Alice). Naruto broke his chopsticks and dug into his food like he hadn't eaten in days. Ramen noodles were thrown everywhere. Instead of getting angry about it, Sakura smiled and said,

"I like your appetite." Naruto looked up from his bowl, and into her jade green eyes.

"Are you being sarcastic?" He directed. Sakura laughed.

"Uh DUH!!". She politely broke her own chopsticks and started eating. Naruto pouted cutely and mummbled, 'Meanie'.

'To think it would end up like this....' Neji thought to himself as he gazed out the window of the 'Hyuuga Mansion'. The sky outside looked like a painting, vivid reds, oranges, pinks, and purples were spread across; white clouds were dotted all over, it seemed so peaceful. Not awhile ago, outside, the two cousins had trained together. Neji had discovered something he thought to be untrue, but confirmed it was. He had fallen, hard, for his cousin.

(1 hour earlier)

"Come on Hinata-sama, you can do better than that!" Neji shouted, purposely angering his superior to, hopefully, get her to hit that much harder, that much faster, that much better. Hinata was panting heavily as her lavendar eyes were fixed solely on him.

"I'm trying Nii-san! Can we....please..take a break?" Hinata uttered softly and out of breath. Neji had to admit, her long azure hair, messy and drenched, her face a dark red, with beads of sweat glistened off it, thats when she was her prettiest. When she looked so vulnerable, so imperfect. Who was he to ruin that? To ruin the only time he got to spend time with her, to see a completely different side of Hinata only he got to see. Neji sighed inwardly, he was getting tired himself though, so he decided to oblige to her.

"Fine." Neji mummbled getting out of his fighting stance and going over to his bag to rehydrate. Hinata remained where she was, standing still and panting quietly. He turned to her and noticed she wasn't getting any water herself.

"Hinata-sama, what are you doing?" Neji asked. Hinata snapped out of whatever trance she was in and raced to his side.

"I'm sorry..Nii-san...I was just..thinking..." Hinata apologized. Neji cocked his head to the side.

'Thinking? About what?' He pondered to himself. His thought was interrupted by the weak tugging at his sleeve. 'What is it this time?!'

"Umm Nii-san?" Hinata requested in her innocent tone of hers. "I forgot my canteen back at the compound."

"And?" Neji answered coldly.

"Can I have a sip of your water?". Neji grunted angerily, but still handed her the bottle, abit roughly. Hinata smiled, silently thanked him, and took a "sip" of water, which to Neji, looked more like a huge swallow. She finished it and handed it back to him.

"Sorry...I was thirsty.." Hinata giggled nervously. Neji refelected his displeasure and responded with,

"Stop apologizing Hinata-sama, thats a show of weakness!" Hinata's lower lip quivered, tears began to shine in her eyes.

"I'm..sorry..." She brought her head down as the tears rolled down her cheeks. Neji sighed again, and brought her head up, forcefully. He looked into her eyes, that were so identical to his, yet beamed with such beauty and joy, something Neji could never understand. He patted dry her eyes with a towel from his bag, and stroked her hair lovingly.

"It's okay..." He said trying to crack a smile. Obviously it wasn't very good because Hinata grimaced.

"Listen, I'm tired, and I bet you are too, so let's head back to the Hyuuga Mansion." Neji suggested.

"Hai!" Hinata smiled, following him out of the training grounds.

Another A/N: So since I simply love NejiHina I decided to throw it in here. Sorry if its not that great or they seem OOC, that was my first time writing something other than NaruSaku or ShikaIno. ^^;;

FYI: * = about 22.50 in US money.