Disclaimer/Authors note/other fun stuff: Okay, well I don't own Naruto as many times as I have said that. Anyways, I found a way to type up my chapters. There might be times when things will go slowly, I know most of my chapters are getting small, but its because of writers block. Actually you might like the next chapter better... Sorry about the title, I have to use word pad.. Not the best for this.

'Inner Sakura'

'A character's thoughts'

Hate, Love or Destiny

Chapter 4

Sakura, last night, was distracted by Neji and what he had given her. She was so tired that she fell asleep with out setting her alarm clock. Sakura had work that next morning at Konoha hospital. If she was late there would be huge consequences. The morning came; Neji had gotten up early, and was making breakfast. Waking up early was natural for Neji. He usually woke up early for training with Hisashi.

That morning Sakura had only thought about last night, and what had happened with Neji. Something didn't seem right to Sakura she hadn't heard the annoying sound of her alarm clock that she had always heard in the morning. Sakura hadn't been going to work because of the arrangements and such that were being made. Sakura yawned and looked at the clock, all of sudden her face turned pale and her emerald green eyes lit up with alarm.

'Crap, I am going to be late for work!!' Sakura thought as she quickly pulled herself out of bed and grabbed the usual clothes that she had worn to work. Sakura didn't really want to go to work that day. Everything between her and Neji seemed to distract her, especially her feelings. Going to work wasn't going to make it any better. The nurses that worked with her where all stuck up and snooty.

Sakura had quickly brushed her hair and pulled it back the morning was cloudy and looked as if it was going to rain. The clouds seemed to frown upon Sakura for waking up late that morning. The bad weather seemed to add to Sakura's already increasingly bad mood. She always arrived on time to work and she didn't want to break her good record. Sakura ran down the stairs and found Neji sitting in the dinning room where he sat eating breakfast.

'Who does he think he is?? He wakes up early and doesn't wake me up?? What's with that?' Inner Sakura yelled. Sakura's gaze was deadly. It was the same death glare that she had given Naruto when they were younger. Her usual happy emerald green eyes were now icy, cold, and filled with hate.

"Why didn't you wake me Neji-san? You know as well as anybody what time I have to be there and obviously I have work!" Sakura said as calmly as possible, trying not to yell, but failed. Slowly, the Kunoichi's voice grew louder and louder with each word. Normally, Sakura never lost her temper. When she did the person she was with coward in fear.

"I don't see it as my responsibility to wake you up for work. You should use an alarm clock." Neji said, calmly drinking the homemade tea that he had made that morning.

'WHAT IS WITH THIS GUY??' Inner Sakura yelled, there were flames coming up behind her as Inner Sakura shook her fist. Sakura couldn't believe that Neji thought that he could give her a lecture as if she was a child. Neji's attitude drove Sakura crazy. She didn't know if she could live with him for the rest of her life. Neji was the hardest person to be friends with. He was stuck up and arrogant. It drove Sakura crazy! It was too much. This morning couldn't have gotten any worse. Outside it started to get darker outside despite the early morning. Sakura walked to the door and slammed it behind her. The loud slam of the door made Neji jump as it shut. Neji sighed as the door slammed and was surprised that the door didn't break. He put his dishes in the sink and wait, bored, in the house.

The whole entire house seemed to be standing still as if waiting for time to move on. Neji hadn't been used to dealing with things like that. Sakura was quite obviously mad at him and Neji didn't know what to do at a time like that. He walked towards the door, but then walked back to the living room and sat down. Got back onto it again and began to wash the dishes.

'I shouldn't have made her so mad, but it's her own fault for waking up late. I'll go after Sakura when she cools down. Then apologize.' Neji thought calmly and logically.

He knew that he was right about Sakura waking up late. Neji did know that he should've woken her up at the same time. They both knew that they would be living together for the rest of their lives. Small things like that shouldn't matter and get in the way of them having an actual relationship. They both were completely different personalities and would need to over come there small differences. Neji dried, put the dishes away, sat on the couch, and looked out the window.

'Sakura might not have gone to work, but knowing her she should be there. If not I have an idea of were she might be.' Neji thought.

Time break of DESTINY!! MUWAHAHAHAHA!!

While Neji was waiting to talk to Sakura, she was at work at the hospital. She had asked Tsunade to get off of work after her lunch. The stress was too much for her to take. Neji was driving her crazy and she didn't want to deal with his stupid attitude. Sakura knew a bit that she had been acting immature about the situation.

'I shouldn't have slammed the door.' Sakura thought as she was assigning jobs to the nurses.

'Cha! He knew it was coming!! He had it coming! He should have woken us up!' Inner Sakura yelled inwardly.

'Yea, but I shouldn't have blamed him for not waking me up it was my fault. I didn't set my alarm clock last night.' Sakura thought back to herself. After the nurses left, she has walked back to her office and worked on some paper work. The time flew by and Sakura had gone to a cafe to get some lunch. Sitting down was Ino by herself. Sakura walked over to her, Sakura needed someone to talk to and Ino was the right person.

"Hi, Ino-chan." Sakura said, as she took the seat next to her friend.

"Hi, Sakura-chan. What's the matter?" Ino asked. Nearby, a small group of girls were chatting.

"I don't know everything, but I am engaged to Neji Hyuga and it's not going so great. I can't back out of it because Tsunade-shishou asked me to, and I dont want to let her down." Sakura said, frowning down at the chicken salad wrap.

"Sakura-chan, I don't know, I mean, relationships are complicated. You hardly know him! You're just going to have to work on the small things that are going on between you and Neji-san. It starts by talking things out." Ino said with a small encouraging smile. Sakura was her best friend and they were like sisters. They came to each other for everything.

"Thanks Ino-chan." Sakura said with a small smile. The groups of girls were quietly talking about Sakura's engagement.

Sakura finished eating, and said her goodbyes to Ino and left the cafe. Sakura left and walked to her favorite spot out in the forest. It was her spot where she usually sat down to think about things that bothered her. The spot was deep with in the forest. There was a waterfall that fell down to a small pond. It looked beautiful when it was sunny. The clouds looked as if it was threatening to rain.

The Kunoichi looked up at the sky and just ignored it. Sakura walked to the edge of the river. A loud crash of thunder woke Sakura from her senses. One drop of water had touched Sakura's pale face. She looked up at the sky as more rain drops began to fall. Sakura turned around to find Neji standing behind her. The tension between the two had grown. Neji realized that it might rain and he had brought an umbrella. Neji put the umbrella over both of their heads.

"Neji-san I-" Sakura started, but Neji cut her off. It seemed that was all he knew how to do was cut Sakura off from what she was going to say.

"Sakura, I am sorry for this morning. I didn't mean to make you upset." Neji said. Sakura blinked and stared up at Neji.

"Neji-san, I am the one who should be sorry. I over reacted and it wasn't your fault that I woke up late." Sakura said as she dropped her gaze down at the ground.

"It's alright Sakura." Neji said with a small smile.

Sakura blinked, a bit freaked out by the fact that Neji just smiled. What was the world coming to? Every time Sakura was around Neji never smiled. It seemed to her that he would never smile. Sakura smiled in return.

"Lets go home Neji." Sakura said, as she blushed a little bit. Neji seemed a bit surprised by that. Neji all of a sudden was holding the umbrella with one hand. With his free hand, Neji lifted Sakura's chin and gave her a kiss on the lips. It startled Sakura for about a minute, but she returned the kiss. Neji started to walk and Sakura soon followed. Sakura put her hand into Neji's as they walked back to the house.

TIME BREAK AGAIN!! MUWAHAHAHAHA!

Sakura and Neji had finally gotten back to the house. The rain had slowly started to come to an end, Sakura started to walk inside and ended up tripping on the front step. Neji grabbed Sakura before she could fall. Sakura hadn't been feeling well when they had started to head back. Neji seemed to understand that Sakura wasn't feeling so good. Sakura's face was pailer then normal and her emerald green eyes seemed to have no life to them at all.

Neji lifted Sakura up bridal style into the living room and placed her on the couch, Neji went into a closet and grabbed a blanket. Sakura knew that she had a fever, but she had a terrible headache so she couldn't foucus at all. Healing was way out of the question, Neji gently placed his hand against Sakura's forehead.

'She is burning up.' Neji thought.

Neji headed to the bathroom and grabbed a wash cloth and headed into the kitchen to grab a bowl. He filled the bowl with cold water and dropped the wash cloth into the bowl to let it soak up the ice cold water. Neji made it back to Sakura and he rung out the wash cloth folded it and placed it on top of Sakura's forehed. Sakura sighed with relief when she felt the cold wash cloth come in contact with her hot forehead.

'Ugh! I can take care of myself! I don't need Neji's help!' Inner Sakura yelled.

'I don't know, I feel so dizzy. I can't foucus my chakra.' Sakura thought back, she stared ceiling blankly. The ceiling seemed to move as she stared up at it. Sakura slowly began to fall asleep. After about an hour or so, she fell asleep.

End of chapter

A/N: Okay, yea this one was much longer than the other chapter hopefully. I promise you that the next chapter will be worth the wait. There is going to be a huge surprise that will shock you all. I am not telling though, I am known for my evil cliff hangers. Oh well it should be up in a few days. I will keep updating as soon as I can. I promise. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and keep reading it. I won't be able to update for a while exams well, schools out yaaaaay! Well after the exams I will be updating more! So yay!