I refuse to put a disclaimer here cause everyone should be bright enough to know that I don't own Naruto. I'm pretty sure that's why this is called FANfiction.

((Part Eleven))

Every time, Neji would pick Kumiko up from her day at school in the afternoon and drop her off in the mornings. He would then spend his day practicing his Byakugan and training himself.

Then one day, when Kimi and him were about to leave off to the Hyuuga compound, a teacher stopped him.

"You must be Neji Hyuuga, right?" they asked. It was a woman with black rimmed glasses that seemed to only enlarge her eyes more.

"Yes," he answered, "Why?"

"Well because you are the one that helps her, correct?" she asked but did not wait for an answer before speaking again, "And your name is the one she says most often," she nodded to Kimi, "But I have something to tell you."

Neji waited for her to continue and when she didn't, he said, "Go on…"

"Oh sorry, lost in thought for a moment there," she laughed while he just stared at her, "Well it seems to me that she knew how to talk before you found her but she's simply forgotten. She won't speak another word besides the one you taught her and I'm thinking that there must be a way for her to remember them all. It may take years or it might only take a minute before the memory comes back. The memory to speak," she said before he asked.

"So what are you suggesting?" Neji asked, slightly interested.

"Well," she said, "I was thinking that you might be the key to getting her to talk. She just needs the proper thing to get her talking again."

"And what would that be?" He asked, somewhat baffled by this odd lady.

"I don't know," she said, sounding as if it were obvious, "I'm thinking something you do will spark her memory a bit. Do not try and force her memory though, that could turn out drastic."

"Thank you for telling me this," Neji said and turned to leave, taking Kimi's hand in his, "It's the weekend now so she'll be seeing you Monday," He lifted his arm up to wave, not looking back.

"Good luck!" she shouted and then muttered, "Because you'll most likely need it…" then she turned and walked back inside the tall building.

The Next Day…

Neji, Hinata and Kimi were walking along the streets of Konoha with basically nothing to do. Neji wanted to practice with Kumiko but at the same time thought she should just take it easy for the day after a long week of nothing but school.

"So where should we go?" Hinata asked in her soft voice. He had been talking to her more and more lately and now he was hanging out with her.

"I don't know," Neji said bluntly, "It's nearing lunch time so maybe we should slowly find a place where we would all like to eat."

She nodded in agreement. They were walking around and it wasn't crowded before, maybe five or six people walking on the street in total so Neji didn't feel the need to hold Kimi's hand like she was a little girl. She was ok with it too. But then people started coming out and then more and more.

"Jeez, does everyone come out just for lunch?" Neji asked, glaring slightly at the crowd. He suddenly had this odd feeling as if he was forgetting something. Then he noticed that Kimi hadn't grabbed hold of his hand like she normally would have done.

"Where's Kumiko?" Hinata asked looking behind her. It was just as he had thought.

He turned around to find her gone, nowhere in sight. It was as if she vanished without a trace. The two cousins looked at each other, their own sort of worried look to their faces as they thought of the possibilities.

"Kumiko?!" Neji started yelling as they started their search for the terrified girl.

With Kumiko…

She stared around at her surroundings. Suddenly nothing looked familiar to her and she couldn't find Neji or Hinata either. She looked around frantically, tears forming in her eyes.

"Neji?" she cried out, "Neji!" but nothing happened. He didn't magically appear like she was hoping. She was alone and completely lost.

Wandering around a bit, not finding anyone she recognized, she decided to sit by the road and wait. What she was waiting for, she didn't really know. Maybe she was waiting for sleep to come because that was what eventually happened.

It was Naruto who found her, she being close to the ramen place he went everyday. He had just happened upon her when he heard not so distant calls coming from down the street. Neji was calling her name so Naruto called him over.

"You should watch out for her better," Naruto said as they crouched beside her to make sure she was ok.

For some reason, when Naruto said this, it made him angry. He didn't let it show, though. What had he been doing this whole time?

She woke up later finding herself being carried. In fact she was on Neji's back, like a piggybank ride sort of thing. Her head rested on his shoulder right beside his head.

He found Hinata and the three of them made it home to the Hyuuga compound.

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-Jen-