Uh, I don't own Naruto.

But Fantasy is my character… sorry for randomly inserting a character of my own… I can't make them escort a Naruto character 'cause it'd be too weird. And she's here… uh, to give the characters chances to be together and all, hah hah. And for Neji to be heroic and save the beauty aka Sakura etc, etc…

Chapter 2

Sasuke --) Neji?

"He…Hello?" a girl around fifteen appeared in front of them. She was stuttering like Hinata when she saw the handsome ANBU captain.

I thought she was supposed to be a LITTLE girl… Sakura thought, while the other members of the team were wondering the exact same thing. She's about our age…

"Fantasy, these ninjas will take care of you on the way to Yamabuki," a woman stood beside the girl, then she turned and smiled at the team, "would you like some tea?"

"No thanks," Neji answered politely. So the girl's name is Fantasy… strange name.

They departed the next day as planned...

For the whole day, nobody talked, not even Naruto. This one day was like a millinium! Inner Sakura shouted.

Neji eyed the girl suspiciously, but didn't say anything. He glanced at Naruto and Lee from time to time, but the two still didn't say anything.

"Be careful, this is not going to be an easy mission." Neji whispered to his comrades when Fantasy was asleep in the tent.

"All we have to do is to escort a girl to Yamabuki, what's the big deal?" Naruto shrugged.

"If that was the case, then Hokage-sama wouldn't need to send two jounins and two chounins for this 'little' mission."

"Don't worry, Naruto-kun! With our youthfulness, no enemy can harm us!" Lee did his "nice-guy-pose"; a rainbow appeared, waves came up behind him, and his sparkling teeth blinded everyone. That marked the end of their discussion...

"Good morning!" Naruto said, greeting everyone energetically.

"Good morning, Naruto!" Lee replied with equal amount of enthusiasm. He had been training for the whole morning. If I don't do 1000 push ups, I'd have to do 1000 punches on that log…

Fantasy was observing Lee's training silently, her big blue eyes made Lee feeling very uneasy. This guy is crazy... but very strong... and he has a crush on that bubble-gum haired girl? hmm... interesting people... Fantasy hid her smile.

"Breakfast is ready!" Sakura waved to them.

Naruto and Lee rushed to Sakura.

"Sakura-Chan is such a great cook!" Naruto exclaimed, taking more as he was swallowing it.

"The food she cooks can drive all the weariness out of everyone!" Lee seemed to be competing with Naruto, he shouted as he stuffed the food down as fast as he could just like Naruto. These two had been like this since the start of the mission. Both wanting to impress the girl they loved.

Neji sighed as Sakura watched the two with great concern on her face.

I hope these two don't choke and die...

"Morons." the Hyuuga boy murmured.

Sakura turned to Neji and half smiled when he said that word. He sounded like Sasuke-kun…

-Cling!- (it's meant to be the sound of kunai clinking when they strike each other)

"Sakura-Chan!" Naruto shouted as the foreign ninjas attacked.

Sakura dodged the first thirteen kunais, but more came out of nowhere. She was going to take the hit. Then Lee caught the kunai just in time.

"Sakura, protect Fantasy!" the fuzzy-brow man smiled at her, teeth glinting as brightly as ever. Sakura nodded and ran towards Fantasy.

It's being several years since Sasuke left Konoha. The pink-haired Kunoichi had become quite a strong ninja, but her specialty was still medical jutsus.

She turned out like a second Tsunade in these years... yet she was not the only one who improved. Rock Lee had become Konoha's Number One taijutsu fighter, Naruto had learnt to control some of his Kyuubi chakra... and of course, Neji the Hyuuga genius was the ANBU captain... the first to become a jounin in their circle of friends.

It's funny now she thinks about it... this team represents a whole variety of Konoha's strengths... best taijutsu fighter, most chakra capacity and ninjutsu fighter, most amazing Dojutsu user... and herself was the best medic-nin other than Tsunade...

Three other masked men surrounded Neji. From their stances, they must all be genin to chunnin level...but there sure are lots of them... Neji thought the situation over quickly in his head. This is probably a decoy... our mission should be harder than this... Suddenly, another man attacked him from behind.

-Cling!-

Neji stopped the attack and pushed the man onto another enemy with a soft fist attack.

"This guy has eyes behind his head!" the other man exclaimed.

Neji paused, "Hakke Rokujūyon Shō!"

They didn't see how the ANBU captain attacked, there seemed to be thousands of hands...

"Two strikes!" Neji blocked the chakra point of the two that weren't injured.

"Four strikes!" all four men were hit, not knowing how they got hit.

"Eight strikes!"

…

"Sixty four strikes!"

They all fell.

Neji chicly stood there.

He's so strong and cool! Fantasy stared at him with her bright eyes, and very handsome, too…

Sakura stood next to Fantasy, trying to protect her.

"Are you alright?" Sakura asked her. But the shorter girl didn't answer, she was too busy watching the tall ANBU captain.

Sakura followed Fantasy's eyes and saw Neji standing in the middle of four unconscious enemies... wow, he's cool! No wonder Fantasy is staring at him like this... hey wait, what am I thinking? Did I just think Neji's really cool? Sakura tried to shake the thought out of her mind, why am I staring at Neji with her?!

Neji checked his surroundings one more time with his Byakugan.

That Fantasy girl's eyes are so creepy... Neji thought. I wish she could just stop staring at me! And why is Sakura staring at me, too?! Do I have something on my face?

It didn't take them very long for all of them to finish the fight. Naruto's Kage bunshins attacked the rest of the enemies, sending them into the air while Lee finished them off easily.

None of them was severely injured; there were only very light wounds.

Sakura healed them immediately. She was not really surprised that Neji was completely unharmed. He really is a genius… like Sasuke-kun… The thought of Sasuke always made her sad. She'd do ANYTHING just to get him back...

Sakura tried to stop Sasuke from leaving Konoha, but Sasuke didn't listen to her. He turned around, cold eyes emotionless. She wanted to see what he was thinking through those deep eyes, but she could only feel that the world was spinning around her… Sasuke looked serious, in a way that she couldn't understand... he spoke, in a voice so bitter that made her shiver in fear.

"This is my fate…" his voice faded on the last word. Somehow, he started to change… his raven colored hair grew longer and longer, his eyes became a shade of lavender, though still mysterious… the word "fate" echoed as he changed…

"Ne…Neji?" Sakura reached out as Neji turned away, just like the time when Sasuke left Konoha…

Sakura woke up with a jump, What was this feeling?

Next chapter

A Long Night

The story is diffinitely not about my own characters; It's SakuXneji and it will always be. Fantasy is just here to make troubles so that the story could develop, lol.

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