Help? Or oncoming pain?
A/N IM SOO SORRY GUYS! I've been working though a lot of mental stuff lately and I'm sorry I haven't updated for eight months! IM SORRY! IM SORRYYYYY! Really I am!
Neji woke up, to hearing screaming, that sounded oddly like the helpful Naru. "Dad! Do whatever you want! But leave Neji out of this!" "NO son of mine will order me! Why is that Hyuuga boy here?!" "It's none of your freaking business!" "What the hell did you just say?! Did you just refuse to answer your father?!" "Yes I did!" "Suddenly Shikamaru's scream pierced the air. "Stop it! Let me go! AHHGG" The bangs on the wall hurt Neji's ears. 'Is Shikamaru ok?! What's going on?! How did me being here cause this?!' Neji came to a conclusion, 'I must leave! I can't let him get hurt for helping me!' Neji struggled up, and leapt out the window, falling and skinning himself, but he streaked for the forest, or the giant green blob with brown mixed in. He activated Byakugan, and was able to see where he was going. He also saw the Naru, being beaten, and raped by his father. Neji froze, 'is that happening because of me?! Or … does he go through what I go through?'
Neji immediately changed directions, and leapt up to the window, just as Shikamaru's father left the room. Neji gently picked up the broken and battered Naru. He headed strait for the forest, not looking back. When he arrived at his, 'wait guess it's the Naru's meadow too…' their meadow, he laid the Naru down. Using the Byakugan, he saw all the broken ribs, and internal bleeding. "Oy we're both a mess." Neji stated. Before using all his chakra to fix the bones, and heal the internal bleeding. He passed out just as he finished, falling on top of the Naru.
Shikamaru woke up thinking, 'apparently I'm not dead… hum where am I?' He felt something heavy on his chest. Shikamaru glanced at the deathly pale Neji, and immediately noted he wasn't breathing! Shikamaru began mouth to mouth, till the Hyuuga took a shaky breath. 'What happened to him?!' Shikamaru immediately remembered what happened before he woke up. 'Dad and I got in a fight over why Neji was here…. And then he raped me while beating me… I passed out. Apparently Neji saved me? How?'
Shikamaru then realized, every bump, bruise, broken bone, internal bleeding, all of them were gone?! 'What the heck?!' Shikamaru glanced at Neji. 'Did he use all of his chakra to heal me?! But why?' Neji began a coughing fit, and couldn't stop, Blood began coming up, and he yelled in pain. Shikamaru lifted him onto his chest, whispering, "breath with me, don't try to breath with the cough, come on Neji, you can do it! Just relax, breath in, and out, there you go!' Neji's fit subsided, and he just whimpered in pain.
Shikamaru took the time to notice, he was in the meadow, sun shining on Neji and him. Neji began crying, obviously having a nightmare, induced by fever. "Why dad? Why us?" he whimpered, "Are we meant to be unloved? What did we do to deserve this?" Suddenly Neji went straight as a board, and moved as if to back away. "Leave me alone! Go away I don't want to be a Hyuuga anymore!" Shikamaru almost heard Hiashi, "Come here boy, I got a new technique to show you!" Shikamaru snorted in disgust. "Dad!" Neji yelled before falling into a coughing fit, even the method Shikamaru used earlier wasn't working!
Shikamaru used his shadow hand, and gently pushed Neji's chest, forcing him to breath evenly, slowly, Neji went back to just crying. Shikamaru felt bad for the Hyuuga, while he had only been dealing with his dad for a month, Neji, obviously had been dealing with it for a lot longer! 'What are we going to do? I can't let him get hurt anymore; he is ready to die, next time I may not be able to save him.' Shikamaru looked at the normally proud silent boy, crying in his sleep. Shikamaru had an urge to hug the Hyuuga, 'What? I never hug anyone..?' Shikamaru gently settled Neji in his lap, and began stroking his hair. "It's ok Neji, I will help you somehow." The soothing hand or the words did the trick; Neji fell into a deep sleep. Shikamaru began dozing off too.
The next time Shikamaru woke up, he saw Neji begin to stir. He gave the Hyuuga one last hug before standing up to prepare a fire. When he finished the fire, Neji was fully awake, but couldn't as much as move a finger. "Ug, what is wrong with me? When did I, Neji, become weaker than a kitten!?" Shikamaru laughed at that, 'it is rather amusing having a weak Neji around.' "Nara! Your ok!?" Neji gave a sigh of relief. "Yeah, thanks, didn't know you could heal." Neji laughed, which turned into a coughing fit. Slowly he regained his breathing. "I must go gather firewood, I will return, be careful ok?" Neji was relieved that Shikamaru left, 'gotta get away from the meadow! Shit!' Neji began crawling towards the thorn place, barely making it before Hiashi caught up. Neji leaned against a rock smirking, "Hi uncle, what's the special occasion now? Did I say Hinata was a sniveling wench again?" That torked Hiashi off, "What did you say?!" "I don't know uncle it already slipped my mind." Was Neji's smart ass comment.
"You think your smart boy?!" "Well actually…" Neji couldn't finish before a fist landed in his face, pulverizing the rock he was leaning on. 'If I survive this, that's going to leave one hell of a mark…. Hope I can fix my hair, I work hard on that….' Neji smirked at the thought, 'that's the way to think when you're about to die…' he mentally berated himself. Hiashi smiled, "Nothing to say smartass?" "Well I could say that if my dad was half as ugly as you I would be very disappointed but…" Another punch, right in the stomach. Neji began coughing up blood. 'Shit this is going to hurt…' Neji just kept the smirk on his face, 'If Shikamaru can deal with what he gets from his own father, then I can deal with it from my uncle! He may look lazy but he is stronger than me…' Hiashi glared at his nephew.
He bound Neji with a jutsu, and forcing him in standing position. "Well guess its time for you to leave the family boy! Much fun as this has been." Neji just kept smirking, 'Thank you Shikamaru, I admire your courage, if I wasn't about to die I might actually think I developed a crush on you heh' Neji laughed mentally, 'true though, It's not often I heal people, I don't even heal my own team mates…. Not sure what that means but…..' Hiashi began pounding into him, and slamming him against a wall. When Hiashi released, he pulled out a kunai for each hand. 'Well here comes the end.' Neji thought. As Hiashi began slowly slicing him, taking his time.
Suddenly Hiashi froze. Shikamaru came out of nowhere. "Leave Neji alone Hyuuga!" Hiashi just stared at the Naru. "He is part of my family; you stay out of our affairs." "Killing a leaf Shinobi is worthy of the death sentence! Now let's move you away shall we?" Shikamaru Walked Hiashi to a cliff, made him turn towards the cliff, and then made him walk off the cliff. Hiashi glaring all the way.
Neji was beginning to black out from the blood loss, but he had time for one more comment, "Why?" before the darkness came upon him. Neji awoke surrounded by comforting arms, he heard the Naru snoring. He glanced at Shikamaru's face, and noticed tear lines, 'was he crying? Why?' Neji had the urge to touch Shikamaru, so he did, even though he mentally screamed at himself not to. Shikamaru jumped when he felt Neji's hand on his face, 'Neji has very feminine hands.' Was Shikamaru's first thought, he noticed Neji hadn't noticed he jumped, so he stayed still, pretending to be asleep. Neji began talking to the 'sleeping' Naru. "Why were you crying? What's wrong?" Neji sighed before moving his hand, "I was supposed to die there, I know I was why'd you change that? Heh, you know what's funny? I used to think you were a person who had no problems; I thought I was the only one who did."
Neji paused and stared at Shikamaru. "You know, I thought I had it bad, with my Uncle, but you deal with your dad, I can't imagine how that feels. Well its kind of funny, before I was blacking out, while Hiashi was slicing me I was discussing with myself why I thought I had a crush on you." This comment made Shikamaru want to cough, but he refrained, it sounded like the Hyuuga was talking to a sleeping person, because he didn't have the courage to talk to a non sleeping person. Neji continued, "Yeah, I couldn't figure out why I healed you, I never even healed my team mates. But for some reason I didn't want you to die. That scares me, I'm meant to die, my dad taught me that, he died protecting Hiashi. Heh, I still don't understand why Hiashi wants to torture me; I guess he feels guilty about being the cause for his brothers demise. Well since you're sleeping, guess I better get going. Thanks Shikamaru, you taught me how to be able to face stuff in a weird way. Heh, I don't talk much, but look you've already got me talking a lot, I sound like a girl. Neji Hyuuga is not a girl!"
Shikamaru decided it was time to wake up, "Well mister not girl, care to explain why you are leaving? How troublesome, make a confession and leave." Neji jumped a foot in the air, and would have fallen if Shikamaru hadn't caught him. "YOU WERE PRETENDING TO BE ASLEEP?! YOU TEME!" Shikamaru smirked, "Would you have told me that stuff otherwise?" Neji just glared his normal attitude back. "How long have you been awake?!" "Since you touched my cheek. Gave me a troublesome shock" Neji jumped up and attempted to sprint off, before collapsing ten feet away unable to see, the world spinning beneath him, he almost threw up. Shikamaru rushed to his side, "You are not able to move, if you move too much you're going to black out.
"No I won't! I'm fine! Let me leave with a little pride will you!?" Shikamaru saw the tears Neji was trying to hold back. Neji was thinking, 'Shit! I just told him everything and he was awake?! There goes my pride! I can't get away here! He is going to tell and everyone's going to turn my honorable name into a fag! Shit! What do I do?!" Tears welled in his eyes. 'NO Neji Hyuuga doesn't cry!' Shikamaru grabbed Neji and pulled him into a hug. "Neji, can you just wait for me to talk? How troublesome, trying to tell someone something" Neji just sat there shocked by the hug. Tears still streaming down his face.
Shikamaru looked Neji in the eyes, and said, "Neji, I like you too, would you go on a date with me?" Neji just stared blankly at him, not comprehending, or, Shikamaru thought, not believing, so Shikamaru planted a kiss on Neji's soft lips, waiting for Neji to respond, Neji slowly kissed back, very unsure of himself. Shikamaru did a cheerful dance in his head, 'finally got my secret crush to like me back!' Neji asked, after breaking the kiss, "Why do you like me?!" Shikamaru laughed, "I've had a crush on you for over a year, I followed you, and I tried to help you with your uncle problem as much as possible without letting you know. I bandaged you up every time you passed out after what he did. I didn't want you to know, I knew you didn't like me. But I couldn't abandon you when you were almost dead by the thorns, how troublesome."
Neji stared at him in shock, "Well, that makes sense; I thought Hinata did that…." Shikamaru laughed. "Lets go get you back to an hotel, I can't go home right now, and neither can you, and there's a cute little spa place over that way a mile or so." Neji nodded before allowing Shikamaru to help him up.
A/N Don't think I forgot about Shikamaru's problem, check out the next chap! It will b good! And after that one! THE SMEX CHAPTER (I am going to make a point of ending every fan fic with a purely smexy chap. That applies to the story obviously )