Title: I Think You Can Move Your Hand Now

Author: tanikara kohitsuji

Theme Used: 14. destiny; fate; karma

Pairing: Hyuuga Neji x Hyuuga Hinata

I Think You Can Move Your Hand Now

There are times when he wonders if there was just not avoiding it for them. He may not be as… firm in his beliefs of fate. (Personally, sometimes Neji wondered if Naruto didn't break part of his brain with that punch.)

Actually, on second thought, he knew that blond idiot broke something in his brain. Because before that fight, he never found himself looking at his cousin like this. Unless you counted their first meeting which really, wasn't even a meeting. They didn't say a word to each other. Just looked into each other's eyes. So really, any heart pounding and such cannot be counted since they were too young as well.

Yes, Neji nodded, Naruto was to blame for all of this. If that idiot hadn't knocked some screws loose in his head, he wouldn't have found himself staring at his cousin, drinking in her form, and unable to freaking tear his eyes off those curves and breathe, dammit!

But he had, and so now Neji was wondering if he should have known from the way their eyes met when he first met Hinata that they would fall for each other eventually. Should have felt the undercurrents and just known that she was the one meant for him.

Although groping her during the first chuunin exam (By accident, he swears!) probably did not help him. Because after that his hand just wanted to feel it again (preferably without anything in the way like a thick jacket.)

But because he's done running from fate, Neji had made a plan. He really hoped karma for nearly killing his cousin/hopefully-soon-to-be-fiancee didn't come around.

It is probably said crush on his cousin that made him agree to help her train. Really, it wasn't to see her in that training outfit! He was not turned on by that v neck shirt (complete with a bit of fishnet at the bottom to try to hide the cleavage).

And he was not hoping that fate might throw him a bone and give him a shot to propose. Or accidentally/on purpose grope her. (Don't give him that look. Have you seen her chest?)

So they were exchanging blows, practicing the Gentle Fist style. He decided to say test the waters.

"Hinata… have you ever thought about marriage?" he ventured.

She blocked his blow as she raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"

"I mean… uh…" He searched his mind desperately for a non-proposal reason for his interest.

She stared at him as he paused mid blow.

"I was just…." He glanced into her eyes and felt his mind empty.

He stared into her soft lavender-white eyes, brows furrowed slightly.

"I…"

He went to finish his blow but due to everything (and possibly trying to wrench his gaze away from hers, only down to that little peek of distracting cleavage), he ended up on the floor, Hinata underneath him, a hand pressed to one of her breasts and his lips on hers.

He didn't ever want to move from this spot. Either she was going to kill him or he was going to get lucky. Please let his bad luck end.

She slid a hand up to thread through his hair. He pulled away gently to look in her eyes.

"If this is your way of proposing," she whispered, "then it's working. But the g-g-groping was a little much." A blush flooded her face as a grin slowly started to appear on his face.

"It was just a little bit of karma coming around," he said before moving his hand and kissing her again.


A/N: May I just state I don't really like NejiHina all that much. I really did this for to fill a slot and didn't really like writing it… But I slugged through it for months… Now I can move on to cuter pairings I actually root for.