Suspicions
Normal P.O.V
Neji wandered the castle aimlessly. Not knowing what to do since the Queen had canceled the meeting. He wanted to launch the main plan in action right after the meeting but apparently Lady TianTian was in a meeting with someone else, someone with the name of Gaara.
Neji had wandered into the maids cabinets, the kitchen, and several guest rooms. He walked up staircases made of stone, marble and glass, descended down vast halls, and passed windows countless times. Nothing really sparked his interest until he passed the window on the third floor in the seventh hallway.
At first it seemed like a great boulder, but instead it was two lovers, locked in an embrace. Neji decided to investigate further by activating his Byakugan.
His lavender opals widen in surprise when he realized that it was the Queen herself, but with whom? That is the true question. Who is that man who dare threaten the mission?
Neji was so focused on finding that man, that he did not hear the light footsteps of an elderly maid. "Excuse me? Lord Neji? What are you doing here?"
"Hn," was all Neji voiced.r
"Sir, even though I am a maid, I'm also human. I need a full answer and my name is Kin," the maid said while looking up from her small and petite, five foot figure, to a tall, long-haired man.
"Kin-san, who are those two disgraceful people that dishonour the court to show such a vile act of public display of affections?" Neji said, his pupiless eyes, still focused on the show outside of the window.
Kin, giggled. She than said in a jittery voice "oh, well, I'm not suppose to reveal this but gossip is gossip, especially if it's juicy gossip! That, is Lord Gaara, the son of the Yondaime Kazekage and the Godaime Kazekage himself and he is also the supposed fiance of my Lady," Kin giggled yet again.
"Oh! I nearly forgot. Would you be joining us for dinner? It is suppose to start at 5 pm."
"Thank you. And yes, I will be joining the court for dinner," the maid left, scuttling upon the stone floors.
Neji continued to watch the couple, studying them. His eyes unfolded from his eye socket from time to time, observing their intimate actions.
When Queen TianTian and Lord Gaara left, Neji continued to stand there. But he soon left, taking to the path of Hinata's room.
After several staircases and a dizzying amount of halls, Neji arrived to Hinata's room. He knocked upon the white birch wood, once, twice, thrice. Until Hinata answered the door, showered and refreshed, wearing a Sapphire-coloured yukata.
"Ah, uhm, N-Neji-nii, I uh, a-aren't you s-suppose to be having d-dinner?" the lavendered eyed heiress stuttered.
Neji stepped into her room, inhaling the sweet floral scent, he hated it. It reminded him of the perfume that Kumoko had worn on her final day on Earth. You could say that he had a great hate for women.
He was a handsome man, no doubt. With clear, pale skin, dark, chestnut locks, a smirk that could make any woman's goosebumps rise, a muscular yet slender, tall figure, but the most enchanting feature that graced his face was those two, endless, lavender eyes.
He had women, flirt with him countless times, try to tempt him. Yet they all ended up rejected.
Though it didn't seemed like it, Hyuuga Neji did have a heart. He had women before, but they were only warm bodies to him. They fulfilled a need but nothing else. In his fifteen years of existence, the only times he showed an ounce of affection after his father's death, were on missions, but those feelings were nothing but lies that ended in bloodshed.
When Hizashi died, so did Neji's loving heart and his childhood. Those feelings of care, love, and friendship were now lying six feet under the ground with a corpse. The only feelings that Neji now has, are, anger, sorrow and rage. Nothing more. Nothing else.
"Of course Lady Hinata, but I thought to escort you."
"Oh, o-ok."
We exited the flower scented room and once again, descended down the corridors. They passed the walls of paintings of the royal family of past and present. Both Hyuuga's goose-bump raised as they felt a presence, following them, stalking them. The white-eyed beauty craned her neck to find the something, someone that was following them.
"Hinata-sama, please, there is nothing wrong. It is just your imagination," Neji said in a stoic voice, and like the passive girl the Hyuuga heiress was, she nodded.
They soon captured the scent of roasted rabbit, grilled boar and fresh fish of assorted species. The aroma of assorted spices such as ginger, shichimi togarashi, cassia, basil, thyme, turmeric, accompanied the smell of carrots, tomatoes, crisp apples, asian pears, and sweet dragon fruit.
But a door was standing in the way of a great feast. Neji opened the door to be greeted by a large room, painted with a tasteful blue that reminded him of the Spring skies in Konoha. The long table that was the exact replica of the one in the meeting room was carved with delicately carved figures of stories. The chefs running around the room like free ranged chickens serving food was plentiful.
Hinata and Neji took their seats and waited for the Queen's entrance. They waited and waited. Yet she was still to arrive.
Hinata and Neji had arrived to the eating hall at seven o'clock yet it was eight-thirty and not a morsel has touched not a person's lips.
It wasn't until eight-forty-five until the Queen arrived, her gown disheveled, her hair a mess and her eyes swollen red.
Neji thought of many scenarios explaining the Queen's appearance, but most of them sounded like a worst case scenario.
Neji abandoned his suspicions for now, but for now, he was just to enjoy the feast.
A/N: Hey guys, I know that this chapter is really short and really sucky, but then I wanted to update one last time before moving to Beijing. I'm really sad, since this has been the longest I've been in one place (I know, pretty sad right? I've only been in Canada for about seven or eight months.) I'm gonna miss my friends, my teachers (except for Mr Woloski, he's my perverted PE teacher.)
I'm sorry for not updating in a while, with my recent obsession with Janne Da Arc, Kanjani8, and Twilight Series (Robert Pattinson is so HAWT, for a caucasian guy (not a racist!).
Also, I've been thinking about writing a lemon, I mean just last month, my advanced writing teacher made us write essays about and write one erotica too. I got an A+ on mine, which is creepy. I don't think he knew what Naruto was, which is a good thing since I accidently put the names Neji and TianTian in it.
Well, review! Whether it's about the chapter, Janne Da Arc, Kanjani8, Twilight, or my moving.
Until Again,
Ja Ne!
