Out of all the genins he had ever had contact with, Neji was the only one that didn't end up in the hospital after the Chunnin exam preliminaries. And consequently, he was out of training partners and teammates. His uncle, Hiashi, was out of the question.
So, the young prodigy was bored.
Quickly running out of options, he decided to go visit his teammates. Of course he wasn't allowed to go anywhere near where Hinata's room was, but hopefully one of them was a fair distance away.
Arriving at the hospital he supposed the shinobi had been sent to, he realized that the chances of actually being allowed to visit anyone were slim. This was probably the smallest hospital in the city! Silently raging against his family, the prodigy mused about the crappy fate he had been given.
Amusing himself by cursing everyone in existence, an old hobby of his, he walked over to the visitor's counter and waited for the receptionist to notice him.
"May I help you?" the lady asked, finally placing her pen down and looking up at him. "Who are you visiting?"
"Rock Lee, Tenten." He answered as simply as possible.
"Ah… would you be Hyuuga Neji then?" the woman asked, shuffling through a pile of paper while waiting for his response.
"Hn." Was all he responded, it was all he generally ever said.
"I supposed that's a yes. Well first of all I would like to say it's a pleasure to meet the Hyuuga prodigy and I love everything about you…" the woman started, making the Hyuuga curse his decision to come here and his family's naturally good looks. And let's not forget fate, he cursed that too… a lot.
"Point?" he reminded her, forcing her out of her dreamlike state.
"Ah yes... sadly, and due to the fact that the Hyuugas are paranoid bastards, unlike you of course, you are unable to go visit Rock Lee. Which is a shame really, because you should be able to do anything you want. You are the most powerful Hyuuga, after all…" she continued on rambling. By then Neji had already reached the main staircase, using his byakugan to check where Tenten's room was.
Counting the doors, Neji muttered to himself, "Second floor… fifth, sixth, seventh door to the right." Slowly trudging to the afore mentioned room, He passed a sweeping glance of his Byakugan to see how Lee was doing. As soon as he spotted Lee, the person in question waved blindly at him through the god knows how many walls.
The doctor who was currently checking up on Lee looked at him like he was deranged. Well, more deranged than normal.
He stopped in front of a plain plastic door. Behind it he could hear a grand commotion in the works. Knocking three times on the door, he listened as he waited to be let in.
"-n't make me tell the Hokage to remove you from the kunoichi list." Yelled someone who obviously had lost all patience.
"You actually think that that would stop me from training?" responded a more familiar voice.
"Ano? There's a visitor. Should I let him or her in?" asked a quiet female voice, probably an intern or volunteer terrified by the little spat happening next to her. But that was to be expected, Tenten could get VERY scary when she was provoked.
"Yeah, sure. And also tell him… no, he's probably already figured that out. I don't think that evesdropping is above him. Just let him in." Responded Tenten before turning back to her previous conversation. "Neji needs to train for the Chunnin finals, I can't let him down! It is necessary for me to be allowed to train!"
"He must have other people with whom he can train, you aren't the only one." The stern voice reprimanded. With that said, Neji was let into the room. It looked normal enough, like a regular hospital room for the longer term patients. There was even a stuffed panda bear place on the windowsill as well as a couple of flowers, probably gifts from previous visitors.
"Oh, but that is where you are wrong. Lee is also in the hospital, and Gai-sensei is focusing all his efforts on healing his favorite pupil. The entire of the Hyuuga clan currently hates him because of that little stunt he pulled off with Hinata, by the way, Neji, that was really, really stupid of you… So as you can see, I'm his only option." She said, waving half-heartedly at Neji as he stepped in the room. He muttered his monosyllabic trademark at the critique.
"Tell her the she can't train! Please! That girl don't understand reason!" the stern voice said, now accompanied by a woman raising her arms with an air of defeat.
"I can soo train! I feel normal, so I should be able to train normally too!" Tenten exclaimed quickly, making sure that he took her side.
"See? She wants to hurt herself again! Even if she feels normal, she cannot train. The blow she received by landing on Temari's fan chipped a part of the bone encasing her spinal cord. Even with the enhanced healing, the most she can do right now is probably walk around. And even then, we haven't let her do that yet. All those contortions she does would probably damage the cord itself. And any damage to the cord is permanent, even jutsus can't heal that!" the woman cried out, showing elaborately doodled medical charts and X-rays.
Without even having said a word, Neji stood there, smirking to himself at their little battle. Of course Tenten would win, when she wants something, people normally end up by giving it to her. Especially if it involved training…
With a simple upward movement of the head, he shattered the woman's hopes and dreams. Tenten, reveling in her triumph over the annoying nurse –who had been plaguing her about that for the past three days, ever since she woke up – tore the sheets off the aluminum bed and stood in front of her accomplice.
"I'm up, what now?" she asked, thanks echoing in her words. "Do I get to train now?"
"Absolutely not! You need to try walking first, and then running! The whole process could take up to weeks, and I don't plan on risking your-" the nurse beg ranting, but was unceremoniously cut off by Neji.
"Tomorrow. Six AM. Ground 7." He said before turning around, perfect hair whipping behind him. With a satisfied smirk he marched down the hallway leaving the outraged cries for his teammate to deal with.
Just because he is a naturally sadistic person, he looked back towards the room, byakugan activated, to observe his handiwork. The menacing glare he received attested to the fact that someone was likely to be beaten down to a pulp in training tomorrow.
Sobering his maniacal expression, he exited the hospital promising himself that he would survive the deluge. Of weaponry, that is, weaponry ready to make him pay for leaving Tenten alone with the all too caring nurse.
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