Well… since I'm such a lazy ass I decided I would write the fic the fastest that I could…meaning it took me almost a week to write this seven paged chapter. I hope you like it.

disclaimer- why do you torture poor souls by making us say it… damn copyright laws…. by the way people THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO SASUSAKU… I made sure of it by adding something that may shock you… I'm so mean bwahahahaha-evil laughter-

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Well we will have other three girls that were good but not as good" Neji came running fast, entering the apartment agitated.

"They told me you picked my cousin!!!" He yelled angry.

"Don't tell me Neji's cousin is the girl" Sasuke said. Tsunade and Kakashi rolled their eyes and turned to the window.

"Neji don't be like that she is—" Tsunade was cut off by Neji's cell.

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"Moshi, moshi?" Neji asked.

"Nii-san!! I need help… I don't know what song to pick"

"For what Hinata-sama?"

"The audition with Black Tsubasa!! It's tomorrow and I don't know what kinds of songs they would like me to sing… Ahh Tsunade didn't tell me anything about it…" Neji could guess she was pouting at the other end of the phone he sighed.

"Just pick a song by yourself, you have good taste, I'm sure they will like it… either way I'll be there… But why did you go to that audition in the first place?!" Neji was becoming red from anger and Hinata's voice trembled. Neji could tell she was going to put someone else on the phone.

"Neji-kun!!" damnit… he wasn't expecting Tenten… the president of his fan club back at high school… she was the main reason why Neji went with Black Tsubasa and to Tokyo…

"Tenten… don't tell me you tricked my cousin into going to the audition" an uncomfortable silence gave Neji the answer.

"You did?!"

"Hehe… you told me not to tell you didn't you?" Neji sweat dropped.

"You know what I meant… now my cousin will have to meet a flirting heartthrob, a really irritated boy and a hyperactive kid with intelligence complex…" he could hear shuffling at the other end but he wasn't sure what was happening till he heard Hinata.

"Nii-san? can we go out to eat… I haven't seen you ever since you went with Black Tsubasa… please…" he sighed. He did want to see his cute little cousin but he didn't want to see that bun-ed hyper girl…

"sure, see me at Danny 0's Bistro in ten minutes" he sighed and continued "Just one condition" he waited for Hinata's confusion silence "NO TENTEN, DON'T BRING TENTEN!" he yelled through the phone. Hinata started laughing while Tenten started cursing.

"okay, then I'll see you there" the phone conversation ended and both of the cousins let the phone down.

"What are you five looking at? I'm going out… DON'T YOU DARE FOLLOW ME" he ended glaring at the three boys. They shuffled their gazes and then connected to the boy's back, he was going out the door.

Once Neji was outside the building they began to speak

"hey I want to meet that girl…" Naruto finally said

"She sounds interesting… and I suppose that if what Kakashi said is true she should be quite good" Gaara spoke and Kakashi bugged in the conversation.

"She's not only good but, damn she's hot… if she wasn't only sixteen I'd be following her" he said looking at the ceiling or at least that's what it seemed but the guys knew he wasn't looking at the ceiling he was remembering the girl and fantasizing with her until Tsunade whacked him on the head.

"You pervert… you are following my brother, Jirayia's, example. And you three you already heard Neji, don't follow him" Tsunade glared at the boys.

"Hey… we just want to meet the girl… and maybe see how hot she is" Sasuke said the last part more to himself than anyone else.

"Well she is hot" Tsunade covered her mouth and avoided the looks that were directed to her, she knew they meant "you kinky, kinky bi girl"

"okay then leave, you are bugging me and I'm leaving for a date" she sighed.

"Man or woman?"

"Man… the last one was a woman so…"

"uhh sure, let's get out of here…" The three boys left leaving the blonde girl to change and the silvery haired man to sleep.

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"Nii-san!!" a blue haired girl hugged her cousin while he picked her up, moving her up and down. She giggled and he let her down on her feet. She smiled broadly.

"So… what's up, how's been everything going?" she smiled while drinking a small sip of her strawberry smoothie.

"hmm not much, the same… just helping Black Tsubasa… and organizing the auditions…" he rubbed his chin as if trying to remember then he changed his gaze towards his small cousin and smiled. He only smiled for her, only her. She had melted that ice that he had built when his parents passed away with hugs, kisses on his cheek and secrets. She was like the small sister that he never had.

"Umm… Nii-san?" Hinata stopped for a second looking outside the window.

"Yeah?"

"Did someone follow you?"

"Why?" he turned to look at where his little cousin looked at. There he saw some blond spiked hair and black spiked one… he sighed and stood up for a second.

"Hina can you excuse me for a second?" he asked her, she seemed confused but she acceded. Neji began walking towards the door and towards the spiky hair. When he reached the front he saw Naruto and Sasuke arguing. Then he made a loud groan to get their attention. They turned to him and gave him a sheepish smile.

Neji crouched next to them and whispered some words. The guys began to back away while Neji had an extremely evil smirk on his lips. He was going to make them pay for following him, but wait, where is… Shoot! Neji looked inside the restaurant and saw him, there, speaking to his little cousin who was fanning herself in an attempt to lower the temperature; he knew she was about to – Thump!!!!— She fainted… Neji entered the restaurant running. Gaara was already checking if she was fine, Neji slapped his hand and kneeled beside Hinata. He picked her up bridal style towards their apartment. Gaara was worried; you could see it in his face, so he followed Neji close, as well as Sasuke and Naruto.

-In the apartment-

Hinata groggily woke up, she opened her eyes and the first thing she realized was that this wasn't her room. The ceiling was totally different than her rooms, she then hear a relieved sigh that wasn't like any other she had ever heard, or at least not one that she had heard in a long while now. She raised her head but she laid down again holding her head with her hand.

"W-What h-happened?" she muttered while she heard more shuffling.

"You fainted little cousin" Neji caressed his cousin's forehead and she heard a leaking sound then she felt some cold cloth over her forehead.

"Damn it…" she muttered under her breath.

"Don't curse in front of other people" Neji said sighing. Every time he was near her he would sigh a lot as if he was slightly annoyed but he was really happy. After all those years he could finally see his little cousin and protect her as well as teach her, as he always did. He saw his little cousin trying to sit up so he walked over to her and helped her a bit. She was sitting but her eyes were closed.

"My head is aching…" she muttered softly as she fluttered her eyes open. She looked around taking everything in. She was sitting in a black leather couch, the walls were painted in green, she was covered by a light blue blanket and she was being observed by four people. She could see who these were. It was Neji and…

"Black Tsubasa" she wide eyed and blinked. It was Sabaku no Gaara, drums, Uzumaki Naruto, bass and Uchiha Sasuke, electric guitar. She gasped in shock and she turned bright red. Gaara stood up from his chair and walked towards the small girl, he crouched beside the couch.

"Sorry if I scared you back there I never meant for it to happen, I just wanted to meet you since Tsunade and Kakashi wouldn't stop talking about you so we decided to see by ourselves…" Gaara turned to look at his band mates, they sighed.

"We shouldn't have been following and peeking all the time… we are sorry… Hinata is it?" Naruto said. The blushing girl nodded.

"I mostly went because of these two…" Sasuke said coolly, Naruto, Neji and Gaara glared at him as if threatening him to say the truth.

"Okay, okay… I did want to see who you were… to see if you actually beat Aoi in looks" Sasuke finished. Neji gave him a look that said something like If you try to touch her like Aoi I will break every bone in your body' kind of look. Naruto failed to see Neji's glare at Sasuke and asked the question.

"And… does she?" Naruto looked at the guy; he gave him a confused look.

"Does she beat Aoi in looks according to you, teme?" Naruto finished trying to read the expressionless face of his friend.

"Umm… why do you ask, bakka?" Sasuke blushed. Naruto looked up at the ceiling.

"'cause for me she sure does…" Neji called the boy as to try to regain his attention. Seeing as his small cousin was blushing furiously. Naruto looked towards Neji but Hinata cut him off before he said anything.

"Ano… I'm still here… I can hear what you are saying…" Hinata saw Naruto blush and she giggled. Neji glared at the three band members and spoke up.

"Hinata, come on, I'm taking you home… I will never let you be with these three awake for more than thirty minutes and I have waited fifteen. Let's go" he stood up and was walking towards the coat hanger when Hinata spoke.

"Nii-san…but I thought you hated Tenten" Hinata looked at her cousin dumbfounded.

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"She's my roommate…." Hinata sweat dropped and Neji fell down -Anime-style!- Naruto walked over to Neji and poked him in the stomach.

"Neji… hey Neji… are you OK?"

"Yeah… yeah… I'm fine" Neji stood up dusting himself up

"Then why did you fall like that…?"Naruto seemed like a little kid asking about everything.

"None of your business, see what I do for you Hinata-sama? Normally I wouldn't go and dare to see your friend… but since I need to take you home I will" Just then a pink blob rushed in the apartment.

"Sasuke-kun!!!" she squealed running towards Sasuke.

"Sakura what the heck are you doing here?!" he screamed in the same pitch as her… only a little bit more deep.

"What a way to welcome your little cousin" she huffed.

"Hai… Hai… I get it… 'Hi Sakura-chan!!!!' that's better?" he sarcastically said. She obviously didn't notice the sarcasm…

"Yep, now where is my cute red headed racoon!!" she walked towards Gaara who just glared at her with all of his might trying to keep her away. Sasuke grabbed her before she touched Gaara.

"Do you want Gaara to ask for a restraining order? 'Cause believe me he will if you hug him once more… if you were a man he would've already punched you" Sasuke stated glaring at the pouting girl. She was acting like a fourteen year old…

"Umm… nii-san… how old is she?" she whispered in Neji's ear. Apparently she had gotten up and was beside her cousin.

"She's two years older than Sasuke, Naruto, Gaara and you. My age basically" he stated also whispering. "But she has the mind of a four year old" Hinata giggled.

"Neji I heard that" she glared at Neji making him fear for his dear life but he couldn't move. "Ohh hi there!! I'm Haruno Sakura, you are?" she asked smiling at the smaller girl. Sakura pinched her cheek. Hinata flinched.

"Don't be afraid, don't worry, I'm sorry, you haven't even told me your name and I'm already treating you as my cute little racoon over there. Is just you are SO CUTE!! If I was a guy I would've already made a move on you" she whispered the last part making Hinata blush a deep scarlet.

"Sakura could you stop scaring my little cousin… she really is trembling… and by the way don't hit on her damn it! If you're bi it isn't anyone's problem okay… now stop harassing Hinata" Neji scolded the pink haired. She pouted and huffed but then regained her composure and smiled at the girl.

"So your name is Hinata? SUCH A CUTE NAME!! I suppose Hyuuga Hinata right?" Sakura grinned. Hinata nodded slightly just when her eyes became as big as ice cream platters.

"Haruno Sakura, Hina Ichigo's lead singer?" Hinata asked commencing to smile.

"Yep… the one and only, so you know of my band huh?" Sakura was grinning as goofily as Naruto. Hinata giggled at this.

"Naruto, do you know where Kakashi is? He kind of called me… according to him to participate on the auditions for your new lead singer… what's the deal with him? He knows I'd love to help you but I kind of have my own band along with Ino and Tayuya" Naruto shrugged.

"No idea… you'll have to ask him personally. He's in his room reading his perverted book" he stated " By the way… next time don't only greet your cousin… he may be your cousin but we are your friends and we deserve to… hey, Neji… where is Hinata going?" Naruto asked confused.

"What are you saying dope?! She is right here besi---de me.." Neji looked to his right then left then behind him then saw her walking towards the elevator. She held her head down in an attempt to hide her tear streaked face.

The bunch of people started running towards the girl. She quickly wiped her face and pushed the button for the elevator. Neji held onto her wrist. Sasuke her left shoulder and Naruto her right shoulder. Gaara just intercepted her. Sakura was behind the guys. Hinata stayed still, shaking slightly.

"Hinata… Hinata, talk to me Hinata… Hinata!" Neji tried to bring her back to earth but she wouldn't answer not rise her head. Sakura bugged in and gently raised her chin.

"Hina-chan? what's wrong… you were fine a small while ago… what happened?" Sakura asked worried. Hinata looked at her eyes and in her eyes more tears welled up. The elevator opened up. Gaara was still blocking the way.

"I-I… I just can't compete against you" she plainly stated. Making the boys shocked and confused they didn't realize they stopped the resistance so she just walked past them and entered the elevator. The doors closed and the five didn't get what just happened. Let us recap: -Sakura arrived.
-hits on Hinata

-asks Naruto about the audition

-she left the apartment

-went on the elevator

"That's it! she was happy for being chosen as one of the semi-finalists… well more like finalists. She heard Sakura say Kakashi asked her to be on the audition and she thought she would never be able to win against Sakura" Sasuke stated feeling all high and mighty since he had figured out every thing.

"In summary all of this happened because of Sakura, huh?" Gaara asked glaring at the pink-headed. She pouted and held her head down. Neji stepped in.

"Damnit Gaara don't point fingers around(A/N… it's just a phrase.. not literal), It wasn't because of Sakura… Sakura didn't know herself, hell, not even we knew. Only the bakka of Kakashi knew and he decided to stay quiet" he said, getting close to the pink-haired. She blushed lightly.

"He's right Gaara… geez since when are you so evil to Sakura… also because of a girl, it's just not normal" Naruto looked at the boy. He has lowered his head and was gazing intently at the floor. Naruto kneeled on the floor and looked right up to see Gaara's face, amazingly he was bright red. He could've been added to a salad and it'd give the same effect as adding tomatoes to it.

"AWWWW Racoon-chan is in love!!" Sakura ran towards Gaara and hugged him tight. Gaara's face went from total embarrassment to total disgust and he started wiggling around so Sakura would let go. He groaned in a low voice. Sakura let go. Neji's face had darkened… now he knew it. He had to keep Hinata way from those three perverts as soon as possible. She had already made one fall in lo- his thought were cut off by no other than Naruto

"Then Gaara I suppose we are rivals now" Naruto seriously said. Neji began to panic. How was he supposed to keep his little cousin away from two people that could be considered his bosses? It's not logical… 'I need to keep her away at no matter what costs… that's it! Kakashi you're a genius… thanks to Sakura my plan has been set in motion.

"I… umm… need to go, bye!" Neji went running down the stairs. He knew that if he ran fast enough he could catch up to his little cousin.

-

"Tenten… it's not that I'm not confident enough, is just…" Hinata spoke softly on the phone.

"Hinata accept it… you were looking for a way out of that audition, you just took the easy way out and since Haruno Sakura was going to be in the audition you got upset… damnit it's so like you" Tenten spat out. The blue haired girl's eyes began to well up. Tenten was her best friend since always… she always helped but this time she was making it worst.

"Tenten… I just can't compete against her" Hinata stated plainly making the older girl sigh.

"you can… you are great at singing, you are an awesome dancer and you play five instruments"

"Had you heard how she sings?!" Hinata wasn't aware she rose her tone a little bit too much. The older girl sighed.

"Yes I have and frankly I think you sing better than her. I did this for you and you should do it for yourself. Don't you think that if Kakashi and Tsunade praised you they should have a good reason?"

"I just don't feel confident enough…" she sounded sad.

-

"Guys… what's with the weird combination of glares?" Kakashi said while reading his book.

"Thanks to you Hinata won't audition" Naruto stated. Now that did catch his attention. He closed his book and looked at the guys.

"What.did.you.do?" he firmly said.

"You mean 'What did I do'" you did it yourself" Sakura glared at his ex-singing teacher.

"I didn't do anything… by the way why do you know Hinata?" the guys told all the story and finally finished leaving a panting Naruto. Sasuke was running his hands through his hair and Gaara seemed pissed.

"Okay so you blew my plan… I called you, Sakura, because I was going to do a fake audition. Tsunade and I already decided that Hinata is going to be the lead singer BUT we want her to start to do the job of singing. But if she auditioned with everyone we would've have to wait for two weeks so we made up a fake audition; And for a fake audition we need fake people, right? So we called four people we knew sang well so Hinata would give the best of herself. I asked you, Sakura, to come by but I didn't know that these morons would bring her here. Meaning…" Sakura finished for him

"YOU THREE MADE THIS HAPPEN BAKKAS!" she yelled at them. They gazed at the floor. Showing defeat.

-Meanwhile-

"Hinata!" Neji yelled across the park. The girl stopped and looked at her cousin. He could see she had been crying and he hated when she cried.

"nii-san…"

"What's with the worry face?"

"Ummm… Dad called" she seemed really shocked. Neji stopped dead on his tracks.

"What?!" he hissed.

"He says I need to go back home"

"But… what about me, the audition, Black Tsubasa, Tenten… what about it all" he showed hurt in his eyes.

"Hey… It's okay… I need to go back in a month. I can go to the audition, Tenten is right… I can nail the audition and beat Haruno Sakura" she said convinced.

"Umm.. Hinata… no, please, don't go… ummm she will obviously win… you don't want to be crushed do you?" 'Damn it I know that she could beat Sakura within the blink of an eye but… I just… she can't! I'm her protector… I can't let them touch her…' he thought to himself, feeling bad for lying to her.

"What are you saying Nii-san… I will go, I promised Tenten… and thanks for the support" she sarcastically muttered. She thought that he was right, but she promised Tenten that no matter what, she would at least go to the audition.

Sooooo? how is it? Do you like it? Ideas!!! please R&R. Don't worry Neji is not evil in this fic… he is just trying to protect Hinata-hime

Neji- you don't believe that yourself do you?

HC- nope

Neji- then why do you say it?

HC- dunno…

Hinata- hi hi!!

Neji- Hinata-sama… why are you so hyper?

HC- -rolls eyes-

Hinata- HC gave me candy!!!

Neji- -glaresssss-

HC- well… review so I can know what you think and mean while I'll run away before Neji kills me

Hinata- bye bye!!!!