You all know the deal; these characters do not belong to us. They belong to the guy that made them: Kishimoto Masashi… hooray!
(I will summon all that is deadly upon you tiny squirrles!)
OoOoO On The Previous Chapter OoOoO
"…Oh, by the way, there's no real guarantee she's dead so good luck dealing with her alone! I have more fun bothering Sasori-danna then being here"
Both characters that probably would have never met in the canon storyline parted ways; their experience together would never reach the ears of others so it's like they never met all…
OoOoO
Neji began to walk, more like blindly wondering around (pun intended) as he then stumbled into who else? The Blue-Cheese Experiment gone wrong: Naruto!
"huff… wheeze Hey… more huffing… more wheezing Neji…"
Neji couldn't see Naruto but he could recognize that annoying speech pattern anywhere.
"I know I'm gonna regret this" Neji mumbled to himself (He is pretending to be his former healthy self. He just cannot deal with the possible humiliation Naruto could bring if he knew of his dilemma)
With feigning concern and a sarcastic tone he asks him "What happened Naruto, why are you breathing so heavily?"
Naruto responded with difficulty in his wheezing state " huffs…I'm being chased… wheeze… by… more huffing by… Hinata…"
Neji was tempted to laugh until he heard what Naruto said next.
"huff… and…Tenten…"
Neji blinked, he actually blinked a total of twenty six times. He couldn't believe it, but then he remembered…
"…Oh, by the way, there's no real guarantee she's dead so good luck dealing with her alone!…"
"Neji what was that? And why are staring at a mail box?" Naruto said.
Then Neji heard it; the laughter, that mirthless mocking laughter, the gods were making a fool of Neji once again. He forgot to count how many times that has happened. So Neji being Neji he pointed his index finger to the sky and started to curse those mocking gods. In fact he was so furious that he forgot about Naruto and started to blindly (punintended punch trees that conveniently were surrounding him; just waiting to be punched, until he was cut off by Naruto.
"Oi! What's with the theatrics Neji?!" (Yes you heard him right, Naruto isn't a complete idiot!). "Is what Lee told me true Neji? Are you blind?"
Neji froze; he actually forgot about Lee and almighty power of talking to other people about juicy gossip. Well, Neji thought, if Lee knows, then almost everyone in Konoha probably knows. He resigned to his fate (while still cursing those gods) and tried to explain his situation to Naruto in the simplest and quickest way he could. After a good five minutes of explanation (he abbreviated his encounter with Tenten to "my worst experience of my life" and didn't even mention Deidara, it was just too humiliating) Naruto was grinning; good thing Neji couldn't see him or else he would've punched him in the jaw.
"Well, since I'm your typical lazy guy…" Naruto said while leaning back on a conveniently placed tree. "I'm not going to explain my situation, but my imagination will lead you through a sequence of elaborately established scenes that will show you my miseries"
"You mean a flashback?"
"Precisely!"
OoOoO Sequence of Elaborately Established Scenes OoOoO
Our perspective of the world suddenly changes; instead of a radiant array of colors and shapes we are in a world that seems to come from an imagination of a 7 year old-
(Hey I resent that!!!)
- The sky that was once an innumerable amount of shades of blues and greens is now a childish "sky blue" that seems to be colored with a small set of crayons. Heck, the whole scenery is designed with this limited drawing tool.
The clouds are "scribbled white" with happy faces. In fact, the trees that are painted "crayon-style-green" and brown, the houses, the sun and many other inanimate organic and inorganic objects have a happy face somewhere around them. We see the protagonist, A chibi-style-crayon-colored Naruto in his full eye-blinding attire; he is walking down the street and is greeting everything with a happy-go-lucky "hello" He then is unexpectedly stopped by a chibi-style-crayon-colored Sasuke with his opaque set of clothes and a customary gray cloud with a sad face that is constantly raining little sad-faced rain drops; all of this is happening and he isn't even getting wet, such is the world we are in, where science and logic are throw out the window.
"Idiot" says the mean spirited Sasuke and then walks away dragging his bleak scenery of sad faces with him.
"Chuu SUCK!!" Says the eloquent Naruto and then skips away.
Quickly and surely, like the attention span of a squirrel, Naruto decided to get some ramen so he skips away to the Ichiraku Ramen stand. He is then greeted by the "Ramen Guy" as Naruto likes to call the man since despite how old the series is and how much Naruto loves ramen, this guy that makes Naruto's dreams come true doesn't even have a name!!!
After eating his tenth bowl Naruto is satisfied and leaves. As he heads home he hears a bush rustling. He turns his face around and waits to see what comes out of that bush, but before he does anything stupid chibi-style crayon-colored Hinata appears out of the bush.
"Oh… hi Hinata!"
"A--ano… h-hi N-Naruto-kun…"
"You almost scared me there, why are you here?"
We can see Hinata twiddling her finger in typical Hinata fashion, just much cuter.
"A-a-ano-o Naruto-kun… I…um…I"
"Hinata, you okay?…"
Hinata blushes a deep crayon red and violently shakes her head. "Naruto-kun … I… I…" By now Hinata is blushing so much she's almost fainting, but she manages to grab whatever inner strength she posses and screams out:
"I REALLY LIKE YOU!!"
Then in typical Hinata fashion she blinks for a half a second then runs like mad. Naruto just blinks… and blinks… and blinks while staring at the empty space that once occupied by Hinata. He assumes there's something wrong with Hinata (why would she run away like that? Naruto ask himself) so doing the natural manly thing: he follows her.
"Oi--i!!!! Hinata--a! wai--it!!
Naruto finally catches up to Hinata and mistakenly tells her he likes her too. What he doesn't tell her is in what way he likes her. He doesn't say anything in liking Hinata in that way but Hinata in a slight state of shock takes it the wrong way, so she hugs Naruto, a little too tightly. Naruto freaks and starts to run, Hinata then follows. While Naruto's running, the happy trees and scenery fade away… The colors and shapes of reality come back, in the distance he sees a blurry shape that eventually as he gets closer he realizes it's Neji…
OoOoO End of a Sequence of Elaborately Established Scenes OoOoO
"Is that what the inside of your head looks like?" Asks Neji
"Pretty much…"
"So that's what happened?"
"….You know that if I go down, you're going down with me! So if I help you and you help me we might get out of this alive!"
"I just never knew Hinata-sama could be so forceful…"
" Forget that, how are we going to survive this?!!"
"sigh If there was anyone that could be of least help, it would be you Naruto. But because Hinata is with Tenten, I don't know what crazy thing she will come up with. I guess I'm stuck with you… dammit!"
"Oi! Neji!"
"What is it now?"
"Can I get some ramen?"
exasperated sigh
OoOoO The other side of the woods OoOoO
"Well Tenten, now that we're a team we can work together and have our boyfriends, besides mine already said he liked me" Naruto's confession awoke a really forceful Hinata as you have noticed (If that doesn't convince you then just pretend it's true for the sake of argument).
"You're kidding, I thought Naruto was a total spaz!"
"Maybe he got a little freaked out and needed some convincing"
"Yeah, then they will be by our side...FOREVER!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
"Hey Tenten?"
"Yes Hinata?"
"You've been hanging around Gai for a considerable amount of time huh?"
"What gave it away?"
