Fifty Themes: Part Two
-Sunpies-
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
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#11: Loyalty
Neji has to face death before he learns that his first loyalty is to his family, not his village.
#12: Wait
Nobody but Kakashi and Naruto know that Sakura got tired of waiting and asked Neji to marry her.
#13: Change
Although he is assured by multiple sources that she hasn't changed that much, Neji is positive that there is something dramatically different about the way he sees Sakura.
#14: Command
Naruto's first writ as hokage is for Neji to cease violating Haruno Sakura. When Neji "flaunts" his disobedience, Naruto has ANBU arrest him.
It takes several hours for Sakura to find Naruto, but only a few minutes to "persuade" him to release Neji.
(Naruto misses the council meeting the next day, waiting for his jaw to heal.)
#15: Hold
"You could at least hold my hand." Sakura said, shoving the rejected hand into her pocket.
Neji is silent for a long moment. "You could wear that nurses' outfit around home more often. I suppose we both have things to work on."
#16: Need
It's a good thing he's married to a medic because honestly, it seems like he finds himself needing a hospital more often than he needs to replace his socks.
#17: Vision
"The research in the archives is amazing. I wish Tsunade-sama had given me access a long time ago." Sakura mused, exhilarated by her finds over the course of the day.
"I am glad you enjoyed yourself." Neji replied congenially, more or less listening as he perused a scroll.
"Yeah... Neji, I was just wondering..."
He paused in his reading, distracted by the prolonged silence after her question. "What is it?"
"Does blindness run in your family?"
"No... why?"
Sakura shook her head. "No reason."
The Hyuuga and the Uchiha are only distantly related.
#18: Attention
Sakura never figured Neji for the attentive type in a relationship. However it isn't long before she has to ask him for a little space. In his own slightly crazy way he's trying very hard, but there are only so many activities she feels comfortable doing as he looks on in stony silence.
#19: Soul
Neji often thinks how odd it is that first Naruto, then Sakura, then his own son keep adding pieces to his soul. He thinks it is perhaps especially bemusing given that he wasn't aware his soul was missing anything.
#20: Picture
It isn't surprising that Neji is a visual person; his mind is a never-ending pile of snapshot after snapshot, seen in the perfect clarity of the Byakugen, that lead him to his memories.
In his favorite mental picture of Sakura she is lying naked on the bed beneath him, her hair spread out over one of his pillows as she smiles up at him with hooded eyes the color of the forest.
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Fifty Themes: Part Two
-Sunpies-
For Lady Silvamord