A/N: Eh.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Naruto series!
His eyes were wide. Neji couldn't comprehend for a second, there. 'Did Tenten really write this...?' It was quite a simple entry!
Dear Diary,
Hello. I am Tenten. I love Neji and puppies and Neji's ass. Neji is cute. So are puppies. So... I love Neji like I love a puppy. Go puppies. I like slush puppies too. And slushies. Are they different? I loooooooooooove Neji! I wanna call him fuzzy-top... and he shall be my fuzzy-top. Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever...
Tenten (insert millions of hearts and 'x's and 'o's here)
Neji stared at it. "Fuzzy-top...?" He choked, twitching slightly. "She's never called me..." He looked around to make sure no one was around, then whispered: "Fuzzy-top..." He ran to the mirror and took off his hitai-ate.
"No..." He said. "A cowlick?" He immediately licked his hand and tried to flatten it. "Phew..." He said as it stayed down. He started to turn around, but suddenly heard the unfamiliar sound of 'ping!' and snapped back to the mirror. The cowlick was back...
"NOOOOO! THE HYUUGA NEJI DOES NOT HAVE A COWLICK!" He screamed and ran to the store as fast as he could, holding the cowlick down with his hand.
"Hey, Nej-" Tenten and Sakura started to say as he dashed by, but was cut off.
"CAN'T TALK! I HAVE A COWLICK!" Neji screamed and sprinted off once more.
"A... cowlick...?" Sakura looked after him.
"Oh... I seem to remember a diary entry I wrote once when I was really happy about calling Neji 'fuzzy-top'...!" Tenten said, laughing. "I guess, after all these years, he finally noticed it..."
"All these years?"
"Yeah. Lookit him as a baby," Tenten pulled some naked-baby pictures of Neji out of her pocket and handed them to Sakura. She stared at them. There sat a happy full-grown baby, almost a toddler, with no hair, except for one GIANT curly strand of hair that stood on top of it's head sticking straight up. Yeah... that was biggest cowlick Sakura had ever seen.
"Hmm... I wonder... if it runs in the family..." Sakura thought. Tenten got a disturbed look on her face.
"Hiashi with a cowlick... hmm..."
Back to Neji...
"MUST FIND HAIR GEL!" He dashed through Konoha asking every random person if they had hair gel. Finally, someone knew a store.
"...But, it's in the sand village..." A villager told Neji, who stared at him.
"CAN YOU NOT SEE I HAVE A COWLICK? I'M GOING!" With that, Neji jumped off to the Village Hidden in the Sand. It was very sandy there.
"I NEED HAIR GEL!" Neji screamed, running into the shop. Three people turned around and the Hyuuga stopped dead in his tracks. "Wow..."
There stood Gaara, Sasuke, and... Hinata! They were, apparently managing the shop.
"Don't say anything..." Sasuke warned in a death tone to match his death glare.
"And, you!" Neji yelled at Hinata. "Just what are you doing here?"
"I... I... rrrrgh..." Hinata suddenly started to growl. "I NEED MY HAIR GEL, DAMMIT! DO YOU NOT REALIZE HOW COMPLICATED MY HAIR ACTUALY IS? HOW ELSE WOULD I GET IT TO STICK OUT LIKE THIS?" She screamed. Everyone stared at her.
"Hi-... Hinata...?"
"WHAT?" She fumed.
"Never mind."
"And, you! What're you doing here?" Neji asked, completely forgetting about his cowlick.
"I'm surprised you don't know. Masashi didn't put much detail into your hair, unlike my peacocks 'fro," Sasuke stated bluntly. They all then looked to Gaara.
"And why are you here? You're hair isn't that special,"
"I live here," Gaara said in a tone to match his flat-face glare.
There was a pause. A five minute pause of staring at Gaara.
"Okay...?"
"Neji? Did you come in here screaming 'I need hair gel'?" Sasuke suddenly asked.
"Yes."
"Why?"
"I have a cowlick."
With that comment, the trio, including Gaara, gasped and stealthily pulled out one GIANT bottle of hair gel. It was about the size of Neji's room.
"Here! Cowlicks are dangerous things!" They all yelled.
"Now... be sure to use one bottle per use. Okay?" Gaara said like an expert.
"Uh... are you telling me to dump that whole bottle of hair gel on my head at one time, or am I just really really stupid...?"
"Well... both actually... and here. We can help you."
Before Neji could say anything, Sasuke had whipped out three ladders and Gaara and Hinata and him were up them unscrewing the cap.
"Stand on the X," Gaara yelled down. Neji looked at the floor.
"There is no X..."
Gaara suddenly, out of no where, grabbed Lee and Gai and told them to be straight. The straightened out like boards and Gaara made an X out of them and climbed back up the ladder.
"Now there is..."
"You're telling me to stand on my teammate and my sensei... you know that?"
"Yeah."
"Um... okay..." Neji stood on Gai who beeped like a horn whenever Neji stepped on him. The Hyuuga suddenly got a sinister smile on his face and started jumping up and down on Gai and Lee, the X, like a trampoline. Gai beeped with every bounce and Lee whinnied. "WOOHOO! I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THIS!" Neji beamed.
"COWLICK AWAY!" Gaara shouted and pushed the bottle down. Thick pink liquid goozed out in a quick rush, knocking Neji and Gai and Lee all the way back to Konoha.
"WOOSH!" Lee shouted happily.
"BEEBEE!" Gai beeped.
Neji just screamed. Screamed like hell until, finally, someone pulled him out of the stream of soaring liquid.
"AGH!"
"Calm down, Neji, it's me!" Tenten said. "Um... why were you in a waterfall of pink hair gel...?"
Suddenly the cow lick popped back up.
"AAAAARRRRRGH! I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" He took out Icha Icha Paradise and started reading it. Why? Well... let's just say that he felt he needed to do something. Tenten's eyes got big.
"Ne...ji...? Is... that... what I... think it is...?"
Neji looked up and grinned smugly.
"Yes, Tenten. Yes it is," He went back to reading, giggling all the while. Tenten fell backwards and twitched like a bug. Shino came over and looked at Tenten.
"Oh! So that's where I left you, Sophilia!" He said happily and grabbed Tenten and took her away, apparently thinking she was one of his bugs. Neji stared for a moment, then went back to reading. He walked all the way home, completely ignoring his persistent cowlick.
By the time Neji got home, he was blushing bright red and his nose was dripping blood slightly. He gulped. "I-... I have to buy volume two..." He said stunedly. He closed it and ran up to his room. Laying Icha Icha Paradise down, he grabbed Tenten's diary and opened it.
"Huh?" He suddenly noticed something that he didn't like. The dates were too far apart to be one after the other. He looked at the seam of the book and gasped. A page had been ripped out. Neji stared at it for a second, looking completely shocked. "No..." He closed the diary immediately and stood up and started to pace around his room, generating electricity on the carpet. He, then, had even more cowlicks. In fact, his whole head was a cowlick. "There's a page missing..." He pondered for a while more and soon, his newly insane mind hatched an idea.
"Alright! I'll use my awesome ninja skills to sneak into Tenten's house tonight at midnight and retrieve the lost page! Ingenious!" Neji laughed matter-of-factly. "Now, all I gotta do is wait until midnight!"
11:45 pm
Neji was in his room. "Time to go." He said in a ninja-like tone. He was wearing a black-one piece suit covering everything but his eyes.
A/N: For you idiots out there, a cowlick is a piece of hair that won't stay flat. I got that idea from my dog. Thank-you, Shadow-kun! I luff my puppy-kins! (snuggles) Now! I'd like to ask you all a question that I meant to ask in chapter two, but kept putting it off: Where and/or how did you happen to find this story...? (Don't ask... I really wanna know, though!) Neways, thank you for reviews! And, remember, if you want another chapter, reviews make me want to update! So, REVIEW!
