A just-as overdue Neji for BoxingBunny.
Disclaimer: I suppose since these are required, I must say, "I do not own anything of this fic but the idea!"
xxi — challenge
"You're way too uptight all the time."
Neji's brows knitted together in tacit displeasure. "That's a rather preposterous claim, Kagome-san."
"Oh yeah?" she goaded with her hands on her hips, leaning back.
"Yes."
"Prove it, then."
"How would I do such a thing?"
A peculiar smile suffused Kagome's lips. "How about partaking in what I suggested earlier?"
The Hyuuga wrinkled his nose. "Certainly not," he objected.
"Too much honor at risk for you?"
Neji reassumed a solemn expression; he had just about had enough of this young woman and her blatant provocations.
Perhaps it was time to silence her once and for all, teach her not to poke at his dignity.
"Lead the way," he demanded in a firm nonchalant voice.
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.
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The two meandered through the overcrowded streets of Konoha to Ichiraku's Ramen Shop, ready to join in on the annual ramen-eating contest.
—never mind the fact that a certain blond Jinchuuriki was everyone's best wager for the likely winner.
('Cause there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell that Uzumaki Naruto was going to miss the opportunity of a month's supply of free ramen.)
I look upon pride as a sin.
—Tommy Lee Jones
Author's Note: Heh. Feel free to start sending in requests once again for characters you would enjoy seeing debuted in Reverie.