Angel: Whoo! Chapter 2! I'm hoping it's good...

Chapter 2

Out of His Element

It felt odd.

Just hearing her talk made his stomach flip and his body heat up. He was acttually nervous. The great, stotic Neji Hyuuga was shaking(inwardly, mind you). She was to come in for his final check-up today, then he was free to go. A new mission would be all prepared and orginized for him and it would all go back to the way it had been...right?

It sure didn't feel like it.

Her voice was still echoing in his head. The way she brought him out of the darkness and talked to him as if he really was counsious. Even though he wasn't.

It was the way she convinced him that he really was needed, if not by her...then his freinds. He doubted she even knew how old he was let alone his name. But she probally knew at least a little. His medical records were here and she was a doctor.

But he didn't get it. When he heard her tell him who she was, his heart had skipped. And before he knew it, he was agreeing to her healing him. Even though he wanted the darkness.

And no to mention seeing those beautiful green eyes most envied of her.

The dound of the door opening snapped him out of his thoughts and the clicking of snadles made him turn his head slightly.

There she was. White coat to her black boots, pink hair in a braid down her back, and a clipboard in the crook of her arm.

" Good afternoon hyuuga-sama." She bowed.

He nodded. " Likewise Haruno-san."

She hesitated before walking forward and checking his temp. Vital signs, the works. " Feeling better?"

" Very much." He was a terriable small-talker.

Her eyes scaned him, noting every bandaged wound and scar. " Now, Tsunade told me you are to stay away from training grounds."

" Excuse me?" His tone turned cold and she instantly tensed. He noticed this and sighed.

" How long?"

Her face brightened and a smile graced her pink lips. He groaned inwardly. " For a week."

A heavy sigh left his lips. " Fine, but I'll have to find someone to watch me." he stood up and streched his limbs. " I'll ask uncle."

She watched him walk to the door and before she knew it she had blurted, " How about I do it?"

He froze in his tracks for a full miniute before turning slowly to face her. His trademark smirk was plastered on his stotic face. " And what makes you think you can stop me from doing what I was told not to do?"

She snorted and pointed to the door behind him, where Tsunade was standing. Her arms were crossed on her chest and a glare was set on her face.

" Hyuuga Neji, she's been training under me for nearly 3 years. I think she is fully capable of taking care of a stubborn Captian like you."

Neji's eyes narrowed at the Fith Hokage and both girls watched his shoulders fall. Along with his ego.

Sakura smiled proudly, then walked past him. " I'll have them send your stuff to my house. You know where it is right?"

He growled and nodded.

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Even if the outside of him showed annoyance and hate to the girl that was currently taking off her coat and placing her keys on the hook, inside he was happy. He was currently sitting on her dark blue sofa and watching the boring tv show that was on. His legs were propped up on the dark wood coffee table and he was dressed for bed. Shorts and a white t-shirt.

It was near midnight and when she saw him on her couch, still wide awake. To say the least she was suprised.

" You didn't have to stay up. You need rest." She gasped.

He looked up and shrugged. " I didn't know where I was sleeping. and plus I kept getting tempted."

" to train?" She asked, she had forgotten all about it!

" No." He snorted, then pointed to the fridge in the kitchen behind them. " to eat that cake you have in there."

Before he knew it, she was grabing onto the couch laughing hysterically. She was wheezing out her words and she looked so damn cute!

Neji narrowed his eyes and let a low growl erupt. Not 5 miniutes with the woman and she already had him mad. She was on a war path and she didn't even know it!

She stopped suddenly, making him look at her. Her eyes were wide and her hand had come up to cover her mouth.

" Gomen Hyuuga-sama." She muttered, then hurried out of the room. " help yourself to the cake!"

He sat there for the next five miniutes just staring at the hall way she disapeared into. Had she done something direspecful?

His eyes narrowed in relization. She had laughed at him, and she must have seen people in the wake of his anger. But it had been a wonderful sound. Like warm honey, with an amost school-girlish tint in it.

He ran a hand through his dark brown hair and shook his head.

God, he wasn't in his element anymore. He'd entered her world, and she was his exact opposite. Why did she make him feel this way?

TBC

Angel: well? I wasn't sure how to end it at first, then the title came to me! I've been watching so many naruto vids...I'm drowning in Neji. (I think it's affecting my brain.) Don't worry though! Naruto and Hinata will enter soon!

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