NejiHina 1:
Harpoon
Hinata didn't like babysitting her sister. Fortunately, her father didn't trust her with anything he was fond of, especially his younger daughter, and therefore Hinata didn't have to do much babysitting.
But, really, spending the day with Neji was not all that different from spending the day watching Hanabi.
Ok, maybe that was unfair. Hanabi was a lot less destructive.
"Why do you guys have so many weapons in here?"
"Because it's the armory," Hinata explained, glancing nervously at the door that lead back to the outside world.
"Why do you have an armory, then?"
If you lived here, maybe you would know, Hinata thought irritably. "Because we're ninjas. Come on, let's go... please?"
She was never really sure of Neji's position in her family. Hell, come to that, she was never really sure of her own position in her family. She figured that it was ok for him to be hanging around, but even she didn't poke her nose in every unlocked door she came across.
"I want to look around. Grow some backbone," Neji muttered, looking at the swords gleaming on the walls. "What's the worst your father could do to you if he found you looking around your own house?"
"Kill me?" Hinata suggested. Lock me in a room with you so he won't have to get his hands dirty?
"He's not going to kill you, Hinata-sama," Neji said, rolling his eyes. "Now stop being such a pansy. It makes you so fugging dislikable."
Hinata sighed and tapped her fingers together. It was a nervous habit of hers. "If I was being a pansy, I wouldn't be standing up to you and asking you to leave," she whispered. Not very loudly.
Neji glared at her. "When I say stand up for yourself, I don't mean against me," he growled. "I mean against people I don't like."
"I'm going to leave now," Hinata said, edging towards the door. "Can you find your way out again without me?"
Hinata was never quite sure why she yanked her foot back at that moment. Perhaps it was some ninja reflex that she never expected to find in herself. In any case, it prevented her from being skewered by the ancient antique harpoon that Neji had grabbed off the wall and chucked at her.
"Holy -- on a -- sandwhich!" Hinata gasped. "Di- Did you just throw that at me?"
"I-," Neji grinned nervously. "I wanted to spend more time with you.. And I didn't know how to ask you to stay."
"So you tried to kill me?" Hinata whispered, staring in horror at the giant weapon embedded in the floor in front of her.
"It got your attention, didn't it?"
There was no good way to respond to this statement, being the kind that only Neji's twisted brand of logic could come up with. Hinata sighed. "You could have just said "Gee, Hinata, could you stay a little longer?" You didn't have to start throwing family heirlooms at me."
Neji rolled his eyes, and said, very sarcastically, "Gee, Hinata, could you stay a little longer?"
"Well, it's not going to work now," Hinata said. "Not after you almost skewered me." With Inner Hinata muttering angerly about how all her relatives were a bunch of fricking psychos, she turned to leave. She also fully intended to tell her father exactly what had happened when he asked why there was a ten-inch gash in the floor. With these things on her mind, she wasn't paying attention when Neji used his 1337 ninja skills to sneak up in front of her and pin her to the floor.
"Let's try this again," he suggested, kissing her. "Gee, Hinata, could you stay a little longer?"
"Much better," Hinata told him. "Sure, Neji, I'd be happy to stay."
A/N: Those of you familiar with LittleKariboh's YuGiOh Abridged, I'm really, really sorry. There wasn't much else I could do with a prompt like "Harpoon".
