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"So, Neji." Sasuke said as he stopped mowing the lawn for a moment. The blind teen looked up from where he was raking.
"What?"
"Is the story you told Tenten true?"
"Um. Yeah."
"You don't sound certain." Naruto pointed out.
"You seriously don't." Sasuke agreed.
"Why would I lie?" Neji asked.
Sasuke shrugged.
"I don't know."
"What did you dream about?" Naruto asked suddenly.
"Why the curiosity?" Neji cocked his head in the direction of the other boys. They were all in the opposite side of the garden from the girls.
"Dunno." Naruto responded. He stopped helping Gaara trim the trees.
"He wants to analyze your dream." Sasuke said. "He likes to do that."
"I don't."
"You do."
"Don't."
"Don't deny it."
"Ok. Fine, I admit." Naruto said.
"Gotcha."
"So anyway. What did you dream about?" Neji shrugged.
"In a dark place of course. Just black."
"Go on."
"Hey Naruto."
"Yeah, Sasuke?" The black haired teen smirked for a moment.
"Only girls do dream interpretation."
"Its not 'Dream Interpretation'. I read one of Dr. Tsunade's books on how dreams actually reflect the thoughts and fears of the individual."
"I see." Said Sasuke, momentarily silenced.
"Keep going, Neji." Naruto said.
"Well, I kinda knew the room. It was the room my uncle locked me up in whenever I was 'Bad'."
"I see."
"I just kinda knew that Hinata was in there too and I had to get her out but I couldn't see her of course."
"Yeah? Then what?"
"The reason I had to get her out was because I could smell smoke. Then I just kind of woke up."
"I see."
"So, dream specialist. What does the dream mean?" Sasuke mocked.
"Er. Nothing really. You're pretty attuned to your surroundings aren't you Neji?" The boy shrugged.
"Gotta be. I always relied on hearing, touch, and smell."
"I see."
"That all?" Sasuke said teasingly.
"Well, he's pretty close to Hinata of course." Neji laughed at that.
"Of course I am. She's like my sister. I love her." Sasuke started laughing uncontrollably. Neji frowned at him.
"What?"
"Its like a romance movie, but a bad one. You know, cousins' forbidden love? That kind of stuff."
"Wouldn't it be illegal?" Gaara asked quietly.
"Nope. Not close enough related." Naruto said.
"If Sasuke stops to think for a single instant," Neji cut in. "He'll remember that before I said that I loved her, I said that she was like my sister. Sister not crush or forbidden love or anything like that."
"Oh." Sasuke said and went back to mowing the lawn.
"So you try to understand dreams, huh Naruto?" Neji asked curiously.
"Yep."
"Is it hard?" The blond shrugged.
"Not really. You just look for the fears. Like if there hadn't really been smoke then I woulda said that you're either scared of fires or the darkness or loosing Hinata." He shrugged. "But since the smoke was real…" He trailed off.
"I see."
There was a silence again.
"Naruto?" Sasuke was talking.
"Yeah? Something wrong?"
"No. I just wanted hear you try to interpret this dream."
"Go ahead." Naruto was interested.
"Ok. I was in the garden pretty close to here and Deidara was pretty near me. She was playing with something about this big," He made his hands into a fist, "And it kept beeping."
"Hm." Naruto murmured.
"And I told her to knock it off. She just kinda laughed. I told her to knock it off again. She just kept doing it. I told her to stop again and that I'd tell someone to take that thing away."
Neji started cracking up.
"You know. That's something a kid does. Tattletale." Sasuke glared at him but of course he didn't see it.
"Go on, Sasuke." Naruto urged.
"Ok. So I was heading up to the house and I was passing here and she was following me and it kept beeping."
"Then what?"
"I woke up and the beeping just kinda kept going." He laughed. "It was the alarm clock. Interpret that, Naruto!"
"You have a phobia of Deidara bugging you?" Naruto suggested.
"What about me, Naru?" Asked a voice behind him. He turned. Sasuke, Neji and Gaara all bit back laughter.
"Whoa, Dei. You startled me. Whacha doing?"
"I'm gonna work with you! Yeah!" She said.
"Great." Sasuke said, annoyed.
Deidara flung a twig at him. It stuck in his hair.
Likey? Sasuke's dream was actually one of my own. Only it A) was me, not Sasuke, B) was my little sister, not Dei. I'm not so obsessed that I dream about Naruto, yet. C) I was going to tell my mom, not someone at SHS, D) it was at my house.
Yeah… Anyway. Someone asked if this fic was NejiHina and I'm sorry folks. The answer is no. There are no pairings until about chapter 51 and then its NejiTen and NaruHina with some SasoDei later. Ok. Yeah, I planned out this story. It'll be at least 65 chapters long. Eek. Think you can read all that?
Review or I'll send Dei to your house to pull up all your innocent vegetables, thinking that they're weeds.