I'm so sorry!! Don't kill me!! I know it took me long!! I'm so sorry! I didn't meant to take so long in update the next chapter. I was really busy. College is taking my whole time.

Ok, now, to the point. Here's chapter three, I hope you enjoy it. If you feel it kind of boring, don't worry, it gets better in the next chapter.

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Chapter three: Dreams and breakfast

Hinata was running very fast. She was breathless when she reached a spot in the darkest part of the woods. She suddenly stopped and looked around her. Nothing, whoever was following her had stopped now. She then sighed in relieve and…

Neji woke up suddenly in the middle of the night. He was resting in one side of the camp fire; Lee, Tenten and Gai sensei still asleep. He sat, closed his eyes and covered his head with his hands in pain, trying to forget the last part of his dream. This had to stop. Whenever he didn't have a nightmare about Hinata like now, he had those kind of dreams that suggested that he loved her more than a cousin should…it was driving him crazy.

He opened his eyes again and moved his hands to his lap. He was still breathless. He watched his palms in silence for a while. What shall he do? He couldn't admit his true feelings, not even to himself. Every time he had thought about it he just scream something like 'shut up' to his head and then the idea disappeared. Or that was the idea at least; lately, this method was almost useless. It was either admitting it or denying it. He had chosen the last one, and he was now paying the prize for it.

"Neji?" asked a half sleep Tenten "Are you alright? Why are you awake?"

"I just…" he began, but Tenten interrupted him.

"Not again…" she whispered "Another nightmare?" Neji turned his face to the floor "Neji this can't continue, you haven't had a proper sleep since we started this mission. If something is bothering you, you should tell us, or it'll drive you insane"

"I'm fine, Tenten" Neji lied. He then covered himself with his sheet and turned his back on Tenten "Go back to sleep, I'll be fine"

"I don't believe you, but if that's the way you want it to be" she came back to sleep, not daring to look at Neji again. She was getting tired of asking, so as Lee and Gai sensei. Sadly for them, the boy was too proud to admit that something was killing him from inside out. How can you tell your friends how do you feel if you cannot admit it even to yourself? He came back to sleep after a few minutes.

Later that night, Hinata was waking up at the side of her own camp fire. She opened her eyes to stare at the full moon. She couldn't remember her last dream, but she was sure it was beautiful and peaceful. The first good sleep she had had in almost a week.

She turned her face to one side to see Kiba and Akamaru sleeping. Kiba was mumbling something that she couldn't understand, but she imagined that it was probably something that had to do with food. She turned to her left side. Shino was having a very peaceful sleep. She fell asleep after a few more minutes.

Team Gai arrived from their mission seven days after they left. They were one of the best teams in all Konoha. They were passing by a tea shop when they saw Kurenai's team.

"Hi! How are you, Gai?" asked Kurenai sensei.

"Very good! We are arriving from another successful mission!" answered Gai sensei as he gave her a blinding smile and a thumps up.

"I can see that!" said Kurenai as she sighed in patience. "We arrived yesterday from ours. It was successful too. Would you like to drink some tea with us?" asked Kurenai.

"Well, I have to report to Tsunade sama" answered Gai "but the kids can stay… what about going later for some drink, Kurenai? Do you have plans for tonight?"

"I was going to ask you the same. Anko and Kakashi asked me for a drink earlier this morning. I'll go with you to the Hokage tower to tell you the details. See you boys later" said Kurenai, as she followed Gai to the Hokage Tower.

"Hey Kiba, how are things going?" asked Lee to Kiba, as he sat next to him and Akamaru.

"Good!" answered Kiba "Guess what I saw on this trip!"

"Here we go again…" said Shino and Tenten, almost at the same time. They laugh a bit and then started a very nice conversation about the recent adventures. Neji thought he saw Lee making a shadowed face at this, but it was probably his imagination.

"Neji nisan" said Hinata "H… how a-are you?" she asked with her usual shy voice.

Neji wanted to run away. Seven days without seeing her, and now, there she was, looking more beautiful than he could remember. He wasn't sure he was going to be able of control himself. He then remembered one of those weird dreams about her… and he blushed violently.

"I… I'm fine, Hinata sama" was all he said as he turned around his face to a different direction "I'm going for my tea…" and then, he turned around to get inside the small shop.

"Bring me something too" said Tenten "You know which one I like don't you?"

"Yes Tenten I know…" he said, a little pissed off "Don't expect me to bring yours too, Lee"

Kiba laughed at this. Lee apologized to him as he stood up to follow Neji.

They were waiting for their orders when Lee began talking.

"Neji… did something happened between Hinata chan and you?"

Neji couldn't believe it. So Lee wasn't that stupid…

"I… don't know what you mean" he answered as he turned his face to a different direction; if Lee would have turned to see him, he would found out that his face was almost completely red.

Lee was about to reply to Neji's answer when their orders arrived. Neji took his order and Tenten's, and returned to the bench outside the shop. Lee followed him; there was no point in arguing with Neji when he was angry.

When they arrived, Neji almost drop the tea. Kiba was hugging Hinata while talking about Neji-never-knew-what.

"So, that's how everything happened. What do you think, Tenten? Isn't that a good story?" finished Kiba.

Neji stood froze, what was Kiba talking about? It couldn't be that…

"Haha! It's pretty funny, I most admit. Whoa Neji! You have my tea?" asked Tenten as she saw Neji "is something wrong?"

Neji regain control of himself after Tenten's question. So, it wasn't what he was thinking. He sighed in relieve, but nobody realized. "Yeah, I'm fine, just tired, that's all"

They all sat and told stories on that bench; well, all of them except Neji of course, who sat this time in the opposite side to Hinata and said nothing while drinking his tea. After almost two hours of talking, they all left to their respective homes. Unfortunately for Neji, he had to walk with Hinata all the way back.

Neji found himself in the most uncomfortable situation of his life. He didn't even dare to turn to see Hinata. All those dreams were he hugs her, pass a hand gently on her face, and even kiss her, were hunting him at that moment. (Yes you perverts, that's all he dreams about, so don't have a wrong impression!!). It made him feel guilty.

"N-Neji n-nisan…" said Hinata.

Neji's heart almost jumps out of his body. Without turning to see her face, he answered "Hai?"

"A-are y-you m-mad at me?" she asked in her so usual shy tone of voice.

Neji stopped walking and stood as froze as a statue for several seconds. Angry at her? How could he possible be angry at her?

"I… ie… I'm…I'm not angry at you" he answered "Why do you ask?"

"I… because you suddenly s-stopped t-talking to me a w-while ago" she answered.

Neji didn't know what to say. How could he tell her that he was scared a while ago about she being Kiba's girlfriend? He had experienced an anguish that was unknown to him, and he couldn't sit next to her with Lee watching his movements; Lee could be kinda dumb sometimes, but he was definitely not stupid. He would have noticed him getting nervous, blushing, and shivering at her sight or touch...

"I… have some things to think about that's all…" he answered as he began walking again. He was leading the march now, for he didn't want Hinata to see his blushing face.

"Oh… I s-see" she said "I'm happy…" she said, blushing a bit.

"Why?" Neji asked, feeling curious as he tried to regain control of himself.

"Because you're not angry at me" she said "I'll be very sad if N-Neji niisan is a-angry at m-me"

Neji said nothing; instead, he kept walking, eyes staring at the floor. Could it be possible that Hinata had feelings for him? 'No, she sees me as a brother, nothing more' he thought to himself 'nothing more' his mind echoed. His feelings for her must be the same; they HAD to be the same. 'I'm probably just confused' he told himself. It had to be that.

Yes, it had to be that, and yet, while thinking about it, the image of Hinata being with Kiba, or anybody else, was just so painful…

"Hin… Hinata sama" he said, almost in a whisper "Is there…" he couldn't believe he was going to ask that… "Is there something between you and…"

Neji couldn't finish his question, for Hinata had stopped because of a scene right in front of them. Sakura and Naruto were just turning around the corner.

Neji couldn't think. He tried very hard of regain control of his body, but he couldn't. His body reacted against his will… again.

Aware of the new tears that might come out of Hinata's eyes, he pulled her closer to an embrace. He surrounded her with his arms. She fitted perfectly between his arms.

Hinata blushed violently in the moment she found herself between her cousin's arms. What was going on? Was Neji ill or something like that? She was so surprised that she forgot about Naruto for a few seconds. Then, Neji whispered to her ear "Let's go home" Hinata just nodded. They were gone by the time Naruto and Sakura realized that there was someone else in that long street.

"You know, I could swear that there was someone else at the end of the street" Sakura said to Naruto.

"What?" asked Naruto, turning his face form Sakura to the now empty street. She sighed.

"Doesn't matter" she said. They continued their walk.

When Neji and Hinata finally arrived home, a deathly silence was surrounding them. They didn't look at each other, they weren't hugging anymore, and they were both stunned and confused. Hinata wasn't thinking about Naruto anymore. And then, Neji got panic.

"I… ugh... maybe…" he didn't know what to say, and he was pretty sure that his face was so red now that it had to be impossible not to notice it from a long distance. "I have to go bye!" and he turned to go to his bedroom, almost running through the hallway. Hinata was so confused that she just looked at him leaving. Of being her another person, she might have asked 'What the hell was that?' But we are talking about Hinata, so, she just limited herself to ask 'What happened?' She left to her room after loosing sight of Neji.

However, Neji's subconscious wasn't that angelical.

'What the fucking hell was that?!' he kept repeating to himself 'Why did you do that for? You fool! Now she is going to suspect about you being in love… No! I'm not in love with her!!' he screamed to himself before he could stop. He then closed the door behind him and slipped to the floor of his bedroom. 'I'm not in love with her…' It was too late now. By denying it like that, he had just admitted the truth. And he knew it.

"How could this happen to me?" he asked in a whisper. There was no point in denying it anymore. "How is it possible that I… that I…" it was hard to admit it though. "How could it be possible that I'm in love with her?" he waited for an answer, but it didn't come. He sat in silence during several minutes until he could put himself together. What was he going to do now?

Meanwhile, Hinata was inside her own bedroom, trying to find an answer. Her resolution was 'Neji niisan must be worried about me. Maybe he doesn't want me to get distracted from my missions… maybe he just returned to love me as his little sister!' she giggled. She was very happy that his nisan loved her again. Too bad for Neji that she didn't realize the kind of love he actually felt.

Dinner passed as always. The family ate together, Neji said nothing and only looked at his plate; Hinata was happily talking with her sister. Hiashi finished first, and left to attend some business. Neji practically run the hell out of the room after finishing dinner. Hinata giggled again. Neji cared for her now, and he didn't know how to express it. She will have to give him time to do so.

Neji spread some water to his face once he reached his bathroom. He had definitely to do something about it.

Next day he woke up earlier than anybody else, as always. He went to his training spot inside the Hyuuga compound. Training made him forget about everything for a while. Sadly for him, his mental peace didn't last the whole day.

When he finished, and when the last drop of sweat was cleaned up from his forehead, he turned to the deck of the hallway and couldn't stop himself from blushing.

Hinata, with her long hair tight in a beautiful ribbon, and dressed in a cute yellow kimono, sat in the border of the deck, with a small table at her left. A plate full of steamy food laid on it.

"M-morning N-Neji nisan" she said.

"…" Neji said nothing. He was too stunned at the look of her. When did she arrive? How long had he been training?

Hinata turned her face to a different direction, thinking about what to say next.

"M…morning… Hinata sama…" whispered Neji after a moment of silence.

"I… brought you breakfast, N-Neji nisan" she said "You've been t-training so long…that…you missed breakfast with us…" Neji couldn't believe it. He turned his face to the sky, and realized that there was a lot of light. He lost track of time, and he was so concentrate that he didn't even realized that Hinata arrived with the food. What a fool he was.

"A…arigato, Hinata sama" he said. Then, he sat at the other side of the small table. Was she going to make him company?

He then turned to see his breakfast. It was a kind of different menu from the usual one.

"I c-cooked that for y-you" she said watching Neji's face. Neji couldn't believe it; she then continued "b-because y-you always say that you get b-bored eating the same every day" So she listened to him whenever he talks…

"Thanks… but… why?" Neji asked. Hinata blushed as she answered.

"Because y-you've been nice with m-me lately…" It makes sense, Neji thought, as he began eating. They sat in silence for a while. Neji blushed. Hinata was better cooker that the one that always makes the meals. Breakfast was exquisite; she couldn't be more perfect.

'If I marry her, would she cook for me everyday?' he thought, but he cursed himself immediately after thinking it. Was he playing dumb? He couldn't marry her! He was her cousin! And she was from the main branch! A shadow crossed his face as he thought of it. It was true, they would never be together. Besides, she was still in love with Naruto. Damn you, Naruto!

"D-does it tastes b-bad?" Hinata asked, looking at the hard expression on his face.

"What? No! It is… it is delicious…" mumbled Neji, turning his face to a different direction.

"Really? Oh, I'm so happy!" she said enthusiastically. She giggled again, sending an electrifying feeling up Neji's back.

Neji ate his breakfast in silence. When he finished, he said thanks to Hinata and left to his room. Hinata was happy; Neji was dying inside. These feelings had to stop.


So, there you have! Ok, I'll take the reponsibiliy, you can kick me if you want... But don't kill me! Next chapter will be better, I hope... Have a nice day! Leave review!!