No own Naruto, no getting paid…no anything, but praise from the reviewers…
The fourth chapter is here at long last!! Yays!! The color is black and I'm guessing a lot suspected Sasuke or Shino, but you guess wrong!! Teehee…
Now you will all see who is the all great container of the black slip!! Muhahahahahaha….
7 minutes in Naruto Heaven
Black
Everybody waited for you as you looked down at your paper. This was such a stupid game, but everyone wanted you to play. You were surprised that Neji or Shino or even Sasuke didn't complain about the game being stupid or childish unless they all probably knew before hand and were dealt with earlier on. You looked up staring at everyone with a slight glare. They were all against you.
"Are you going to tell us your color or not?" Ino said impatiently with her hands on her hips. You stuck your tongue out at her just because you wanted to annoy her in which it worked. Finally you sighed in defeat and decided to stop stalling, the longer you waited the longer you'll be in the closet with who ever.
"Okay then...my color is....Black." You looked up eyeing everyone to see who had the same color.
After about a minute you thought no one had your color before Neji coughed and stood up. You colored over completely at the thought of being stuck in the closet for 7 minutes with Neji Hyuuga of all people! Naruto laughed at the expression on your face in which you glared at him while flipping him off.
"Come on ______, get into the closet!" Sakura said a little too sweetly. You glared at her not wanting to go in there with Neji. He really isn't that bad, it was just...Neji. His attitude always rubbed you the wrong way at times, and he never showed any true interest in getting to know you or even being your friend at all. In the group for you he was just...there nothing to it really.
You sighed before standing up as well and started walking over to the closet. You looked into it first and from the looks of it, it was very small and probably near impossible to not touch the other person in there with you. Sighing you walked in first turning to lean your back against the wall as Neji also entered. He didn't say a word to you just walked in leaving his back near the door where it was shut. You closed your eyes waiting for the 7 minutes to end in like 7 seconds, but that couldn't be so you just waited. It wasn't like Neji would really want to kiss you or anything, from what Tenten has said he doesn't even enjoy you that much for the fact of you being loud, out-going, and lazy.
But you didn't care as long as he didn't try touching you then you were alright.
.................
You were pretty sure that a minute had gone by and nothing still had yet to happen. You closed your eyes breathing lightly and trying your best to relax in such a closed fitting place with someone you were absolutely sure hated you. After about another minute you opened your eyes to look over at him but you couldn't see so clearly with it so dark in the closet. You moved a little shrugging your shoulders and bouncing your feet from left to right. It was starting to get pr-etty hot in the closet and as you tried to see Neji you could tell he was unaffected by the heat. This happened to anger you since you wanted to not be the only one feeling hot and sweaty, then again this was Neji Hyuuga here. If he was truly feeling hot and sweaty he wouldn't show it, never.
Another minute gone you were sure. So probably about four more to go and time seemed to be going ever so slowly. Neji had yet to speak and it seemed like he wasn't even breathing at the moment but it wouldn't have gotten so hot in there if he hadn't so you knew he was still kicking...breathing...living...
"Argh! Okay I can't take the silence anymore! Will you say a word or something?" You asked in a tiny fit of anger from your silent companion. He didn't make a move to speak and you were about to knock him one, two when he finally said a word.
"Word." Fist shaking you glared heatedly at him and his annoying sense of humor.
"Okay now you know that isn't what I meant at all!" You stared at him like you could really see him but no matter how much your eyes got adjusted to the darkness you still couldn't see him and you wondered if you truly wanted too. He was probably smirking at his little joke and most lightly laughing at you in your face for all you knew. Sighing with so much annoyance you released your hand and opted to glare at him instead even if you didn't see him you knew his general direction. He was just in front of you.
"You know you think you're so great Neji, well to tell the truth you're good at being a ninja, but you suck horribly at being a friend..." You mumbled out just to see if you could get a reaction of out of him. You did...
"What makes you say that?" Not much of a reaction but he wasn't humoring you with a one word answer. You looked down a little wondering where the hell you were really going with this. For the longest time you had admired Neji from a far much like Hinata did for Naruto, but for you...you watched him because you wished so much that you could be that good. Be that emotionally unattached to everything around you, be able to with stand any situation and come out with a clear head. You didn't really idolize Neji, but you wished you could be a bit more like him. In some situations you would either get angry or blow up about it, where Neji would stay calm and work through it with a clear mind. It didn't matter what the situation could be.
So...when you heard from Tenten that Neji found you a bit...overdone with your emotions and pretty much useless it sort of...hurt. He had no idea about your admiration for him but it hurt to know that he thought of you as nothing but a useless girl not even considered a Shinobi. This was why you had always given snide comments to him or tried to antagonize him.
"You don't do anything with your friends, like take this gathering I bet both Lee and Tenten had to beg you to come here and you were probably busy training or something of the sort. Is there really anything else you do aside from training? I mean come on! Get a life or something!" You watched for him to yell or just start to ignore you but instead he answered back.
"Just because I train extensively doesn't mean it's the only thing I do. I do hang out with Lee and Tenten and I do hang out with Naruto and the rest of them and most of the time it does not have anything to do with training. If you don't know the whole thing ______ then you shouldn't start a conversation that would lead into disaster."
*Punch*
You couldn't hold it in much longer. It pained you to know that he made such an effort to be friends with everyone outside his team, but you. You knew you could be a loner and probably act like you didn't want to be around everyone, but that didn't mean you didn't really enjoy it underneath. Being around everyone you felt like apart of a group. Like you weren't alone for once in your life. Out of everyone Neji was the only one who never came to talk with you, he didn't even try to get to know you at all. Even Shino and Sasuke had at least said more than one word to you in one sitting while Neji really hadn't said a word at all.
You meant to slap him, but you couldn't unwrap your fingers from the fist it was in and so you punched him square in the face. He must not be able to see as well for he didn't block and you actually probably gave him a nice bruised cheek. Not a word was said before he was right on you. Looking up you could see he had activated his Byakugan and was staring down at you making you realize just how much taller he was, but that didn't matter at the moment.
You didn't wince or turn away when he directed his powerful eyes to you instead you looked on staring him down as well with your own eyes. He was so close you to that your own breath didn't make it three inches before hitting his chest. Neji leaned down further still staring at you probably wondering when you were going to turn away from him, but you weren't a wimp and you would not show weakness to him. He was the last person you wanted to see any of your weaknesses.
"I can see now why you're upset." He answered back quickly.
"I'm not upset!" He shook his head, not believing you one bit.
"I know you are _______ and now I can see clearly why. You think I hate you don't you? You probably think I be little you or talk nothing but bad things about you? Well to clear it up for you I don't. The reason I do not talk to you is because I see how much you enjoy seeing others live their lives. You rather watch then participate with everyone else, you truly believe its better they don't notice you...but you're wrong." Your eyes widen as he read you like an open book with everything written down word for word. He read the emotions off your face with his Byakugan. With that realization coming upon you more emotions hit full force and you choked before speaking.
"H-How am I wrong then?" You tried being strong but it seemed all like such an act at the moment. You felt completely fake to Neji and he probably saw it too.
"Because never being noticed makes you feel alone." You felt a hand touch your cheek and you blushed bright red. His hand caressed your cheek lightly making the horrible feelings fade away slowly and a nice kind of warmth fill you.
"And I do notice you..." You laughed shaking your head at him. The hand Neji used to caress your cheek moved down capturing your chin in his gentle grip. Lifting it up you look him in the eyes only to see they were normal now. A smirk was on his lips and you gave him a questioning look.
"Well we have one minute left and the whole point of the game is to kiss..." Leaving it at that Neji leaned down closer to you but it seemed to take forever. Your mind was racing from what you had learned and what was about to happen. This was your first kiss after all and it was with...Neji Hyuuga.
Your lips tingled when you felt the pressure of Neji's lips against yours. His were soft and gentle as he kissed you. You weren't very sure what the hell you were doing but you were doing it. You pressed up to get more pressure on your lips and moved your mouth slightly which brought on more nice sensations from your lips. His hand still held your chin in place, but his other hand came to rub up and down your arm. Your own hands moved of their own accord. Your right came to rest on the cheek you had not even a minute ago hit, you felt the heat radiating off of it and felt a little bad about hitting him, but not much.
Then your left came to place behind his neck pressing him closer while your fingers played with the little hairs on the back of his neck. Neji seemed surprised at how forward you were being with this but let you lead the way much to your surprise. So quickly you pressed your body more closely to his body. It felt so much like you both fit each other, but for now kissing was just good enough. You were pretty sure that after this you and Neji were going to interact much more and maybe have a repeat of this moment...without the punch that is.
A knock to the door brought you both back to reality and he released you with much regret. You regretted not kissing him from the very beginning, but still enjoyed the minute you had with him even if the other six was hellish for you. Once the door opened and you both came out everyone gawked at Neji's cheek. Naruto being himself said the first thing he could think of.
"Oh crap Neji! Were you trying to rape her or something?!" Kiba laughed with him before adding on, "He probably sucked at kissing and she nailed him in the face for it!" Ino eyed you both wondering what truly happened. Lee seemed concerned about it with a raised eyebrow towards his teammate.
Neji just shrugged.
"It was so dark in there Neji walked into my fist." You said jokingly laughing with everyone. Neji shook his head but gave you a sneak peek of his smile before it was stoic and normal once more. It seemed that night was really something....maybe it was good thing you decided to come here with Naruto anyway…
Wow so far the longest chapter I've written for this story. Hope you guys enjoyed this one, Neji was actually a bit easy for me. Not much a challenge when I have another story centering on him and Ino ('Everything you want').
But how was this one? Entertaining? I liked writing this chapter as well as Kiba's since I do like Neji a lot. It was fun as well, I got a bit deep in explaining how 'you' felt towards him and all, but then with complex characters like Neji you sort of have to just so it sounds right…
I'm pretty sure Lee and Chouji will probably be the only ones that'll be easy to explain and write about while Sasuke, Shino, and Shikamaru will be probably longer and more to it…
*sigh*
But hey it's still fun writing this and I hope everyone is enjoying this story thus far since I'm having fun just writing it!!
Next color is: Purple.
Now who could that be? Only I know, which all the colors were pre-placed with the characters...I'm out…
LostsoulofRegret ^_~
Naruto – DONE
Kiba – DONE
Neji – DONE
Chouji –
Shikamaru –
Shino –
Sasuke –
Lee –
Eny, meany, mindy, mo which one of the Naruto characters is holding 'Purple'?
