Since pretty much always I have been able to keep calm easily, I was always proud of being able to think everything calmly through and find a solution as soon as possible for any problem or missions, especially considering that my cell is pretty much made of hot headed fools that rather act first and think later, but I had to say that this moment I was speechless and out of mind.

The words kept echoing in my head, "I have a boyfriend", louder and louder, but my brain could not process it, and so the echoes became even louder. Kiba, who was next to me, just went away in a hurry looking very mad, where he stood I could see marks left from drops of water, tears most likely, but that didn't really matter to me right now.

I remembered when it all happened, when he opened my cage and I just couldn't resist but fall in love with those lively blue eyes, even though when I first met him he was a complete loser to me, a total buffoon with no talent and no hope of ever becoming anything but ordinary, his fate sure to be unchangeable no matter how hard he tried.
I was wrong, of course.

After that I had a bit of trouble accepting my new feelings, but I sure understood there was no way out of it. I was so happy when I had a chance to be in the same mission as him, and if were not for him I would probably had died that day. The mission was a failure, so many times I wished to go and apologise to him, lend my beloved a warm and friendly hand, but the shame of me failing him was far too big for me to show myself, I had to became stronger first.

Since then I always kept a close eye on him, literally, not stalking of course, just making sure he was safe. How sad I was to see him leave the village to train and how much I missed him every day he was gone, it was like the sun was shining very weakly in our village without him, but I was full of joy the day he return, although I didn't go to say hi to him as I was about to leave for a mission.

As days went by I kept a close eye on him again but I never saw him with any other guy, I always imagined he was still heartbroken by Sasuke and could not recover, and as every day I tried to gather courage to go declare my love, and failed, I had a little comfort in the fact I had no real competition.

But now everything fell apart, how could he have a boyfriend? Who? How could I have missed that? Were I to see Naruto with someone, in a romantic way, I would look away without thinking twice, so how could I've missed that? I dunno. All I knew is that the next moment I was barging in his house, eyes wide in rage, Naruto quickly looked at me, his mouth full of ramem of course, he got up but I quickly pushed him against the wall, my two arms next to him, like I was holding the wall, stopping him from escaping my grasp, I looked him in the eyes trying to think of what I should say first but nothing came, he looked puzzled as he swallowed whatever was left of his dinner in his mouth. "Who…?" I couldn't bring myself to finish that sentence.

Naruto was very slow for lots of things and a fool for many more, but he understood what this was all bout very quickly, he looked away and replied, "Even you, Neji? Suddenly everyone is in love with me?"

"Naruto, answer me, please!" I said, trying to make him look at me but he just frowned. "Does it matter?" He said coldly, and I burst in rage, "of course it does! Why, why not me? I thought you were all over Sakura and Sasu…wait, is it Sasuke? Are-" I was cut off by his glare, those blue eyes looking so mad straight in my eyes was a frightening sight. "You thought what? Where were you anyway? Where was Kiba? You all just went away after that mission, none there to give me comfort, what did you expect? How would you even understand?" he said with sharp words that hurt more than any injury I ever suffered, then he turned his head again, still sulking, and continued. "Well, doesn't matter now, I have a boyfriend and am happy, too bad for you-" my turn to cut him off.

I just couldn't handle hearing all those things in silence, it was killing me, in an impulse I tuned his head towards me and kissed him, with all my passion, all that desire I held back since god knows when, and soon I felt something warm in my belly, but it wasn't his hand pushing me off, no, it was something far worse. I felt a great jolt of pain and everything around me started spinning, Naruto started to get farther and farther away very quickly, but I soon realised that I was the one that was shot back by his rasengan and soon I passed by his open door and hit hard a wall. He went to the door, gave me a cold look and slammed the door.

The attack was not strong enough to really hurt me, it was probably something to throw me of, and there, in the floor, I laid, sobbing in silence, unable to move, rejected, a fallen bird. How, how did I get here, in such situation? I don't know how long I laid there and I don't know when I got up, but when I did it was very dark and I was sure of one thing, I wasn't giving up, I wasn't going to lose my cool, I wasn't going to lose to Kiba and I surely wasn't going to lose to whoever his boyfriend was, I was going to find out who it was for sure!

And when I was ready to go I saw him, my beloved, jumping off his window to the roof and then from roof to roof, and I followed him, keeping a fair distance between us but always keeping an eye on him with my byakugan, but I lost sight of him when he got out of the village.

Luckly, Sakura was nearby and I decided to see if she knew anything and stopped in front of her. "Morning Sakura" I told her as the sun was starting to show up in the horizon, and she replied me with a smile, "morning Neji", without wasting any time I decided to go right to the point, "Have you seen Naruto?", she looked at me and took a while before answering, she definitely knew something, "He just went off on a mission, did you had something important to ask him?", I crossed my arms, "Not exactly, is just he seems a bit strange lately and I saw him coming this way and wanted to talk to him but guess I'll do it later….", she looked thoughtful, "Well, sorry to say this but he might take a while, this mission is a bit long….but he is a bit weird lately, I bet he is tired, every month know he have been asked by the same person for a important mission , the same mission of today."

There, I found it! Surely whoever was hiring him was the boyfriend! But does that means that he was from another village? And if he was it probably was from another village it had to be a sand ninja, what other village was that friendly with Konoha? Or was it Sasuke? He could be pretending! Maybe it was someone from the village and they were just doing an act so no one would be suspicious of them! Now that I think about there was a fair amount of ninjas outside the village….There were far too many hypothesis! I decided to ask, " Do you know anything about the mission?" She looked a bit worried before saying anything, "Well…."