A/N: I hope you're happy about my sudden urge to write... ENJOY!

Chapter 25: Daycare

Yet another week passed since Neji had been hospitalized. Since that day Neji met Kiba, Neji had met Azimora, officially dubbed Kiba his adopted brother, kidnapped Itachi's acoustic guitar, and took a full week of lessons from Itachi and Shikamaru as they taught him major and minor scales and chords.

"Your adopted brother?" Tenten raised an eyebrow at Kiba sitting beside Neji on his bed reading a Star Wars book with him.

"He's my nii-san!" Kiba said proudly with a grin.

Neji continued reading the Star Wars picture book with Kiba.

"Anakin had saved Padmé yet again from the forces of evil." Neji finished finally.

"Padmé is just as bad as Princess Zelda if you ask me." Itachi muttered.

"No," Neji told him. "Princess Zelda is on a whole new level. Padmé has a gun."

"Touché..." Itachi murmured.

"Besides, Padmé is a queen, not a princess." Neji reminded.

"And nii-san is Obi-Wan!" Kiba said happily.

The room burst out laughing.

"Anakin...shut up." Neji told Kiba with an Obi-Wan accent.

After Itachi and Shikamaru taught Neji the way of the acoustic guitar, Neji was playing songs for Kiba almost constantly.

Then Kiba was taken out of Neji's room.

"Why do I have to go? I want to stay with nii-san..." Kiba whined as the nurse took his hand and lead him out.

"You'll see Neji later." The nurse told him.

Now, we are back to the present. Neji sat alone in his room. He never liked kids all that much, but Kiba was different. In fact, he missed Kiba. Kiba may not know the definition of the phrase 'stop talking', but Kiba was good company.

The doctor walked in, interrupting Neji's train of thought.

"I have a request for you." The doctor said. "You've recovered, but you still need to stay in for another little while. So I'm offering you a chance to get out of that bed and do something else."

"What do you need me to do?" Neji asked.

"Are you good with kids?"

Neji snorted. "No, but I put up with them. Why?"

"The hospital has a daycare facility for the children whose parents are too sick to look after them. We have about ten children ages 5 to 10 who won't stop acting up. The nurses have tried and failed to keep them under control."

"All right..."

"Kiba's nurse told me how you managed to tame him in all of about five minutes. Do you think you could give a whole army of kids a try?"

Neji smirked. "Anything is better than sitting here. I'll give it a shot."

And with that, Neji was put in a wheelchair and he made his way to the daycare with a nurse. Neji rolled his wheelchair through the door of the daycare. The kids didn't even look up from their block towers, cars, and action figures. All except one.

"Nii-san!" Kiba cried and jumped onto Neji's lap without hesitation.

Neji grunted in surprise. "Hey Kiba."

"Listen up, kids!" The nurse called.

The kids didn't even twitch. The nurse sighed with frustration.

"They're kids." Neji looked at the nurse. "They're not going to answer to a call of 'listen up'."

"Hey guys!" Kiba called. "My nii-san's here!"

The kids now looked up.

"Hello." Neji said to them.

"Hello..." They responded timidly, and went back to their toys.

"I'll leave you to it then..." The nurse sighed and left the room to Neji.

"Nii-san, nii-san! Let's play Star Wars!" Kiba cried.

Neji chuckled. "If you insist."

"Okay! Your chair is the spaceship!"

Neji smirked.

"Let's go R2!" Kiba cried. "To Naboo! Padmé's in trouble!"

Neji whistled a couple times and began to slowly manoeuvre his wheelchair across the room. The travel went for about five minutes with Kiba, now known as Anakin Skywalker, calling out random orders that made him sound like a legit Anakin Skywalker.

"Well I'll be..." Neji heard a familiar voice say. Neji turned his head and saw Itachi standing in the door looking very surprised.

"I certainly never thought I'd see the day when Neji Hyuuga, THE Neji Hyuuga, look after a group of kids." Tenten laughed.

Kiba jumped off Neji's lap and ran straight to Tenten.

"PADMÉ!" Kiba cried and grabbed her hand and started to drag her towards Neji, who was now laughing his head off.

"W-What?" Tenten cried.

"You're Padmé!" Kiba cried happily.

"Who's Padmé?" Tenten asked.

"We're playing Star Wars." Neji explained. "Padmé is the lead female in the story."

"Ah..." Tenten was then dragged off to a corner.

"Stay there!" Kiba ordered. "I'm going to rescue you!"

"Can I hinder you?" Itachi asked with a laugh, stepping in front of Tenten. "I'll be Darth Maul or whatever the heck it is."

Neji chuckled. "You have to lose."

Itachi grinned. "I know."

Kiba jumped on Neji's lap again. "To Coruscant!" He cried.

Neji chuckled. "That's going to take a few minutes." Neji replied.

"You're R2-D2! You can't talk!" Kiba cried.

Neji's friends laughed.

Neji put on his Obi-Wan voice again. "Anakin, R2-D2 was left behind for repairs on Naboo." Neji wheeled his wheelchair. "We're on our own out here."

"I'll take the wheel!" Kiba stood up on Neji's lap and jumped onto the ground to push the wheelchair.

Neji gripped one of the wheels so it couldn't turn. "Anakin, there seems to be a malfunction with the left forward thrusters." Neji called as the wheelchair did full circles on the spot.

Neji's friends howled with laughter.

Kiba let go of the push handles, and went to the left side of the wheelchair.

"Neji let go of the wheel." Kiba muttered.

"Who's Neji?" Neji asked in his Obi-Wan voice. "Can you fix the forward thrusters?"

"Master, how do you get rid of a hand?" Kiba asked.

"Take a light sabre to it!" Neji said easily.

Kiba made light sabre noises and tapped Neji's hand with his fist. Neji let go of the wheel.

"LET'S GO!" Kiba called pushing the wheelchair faster than necessary.

"Anakin, not so fast. We're heading into an asteroid belt, and if one hits us, it won't be good!" Neji cried as they wheeled towards a group of children. Neji began grabbing the wheels, causing them to turn when necessary, and they managed to evade the kids.

"How much further, master?" Kiba asked after they got through the 'asteroid belt'.

"Almost there, Anakin. Let me take over." Neji said. Kiba jumped back onto his lap, and Neji manoeuvred the wheelchair about eight feet away from Itachi and Tenten.

"We're arrived on Coruscant." Neji said finally.

"Now I'm going to save Padmé!" Kiba cried jumping off his lap.

"ANAKIN! Not so hasty!" Neji cried with a grin on his face.

Neji watched as Itachi and Kiba made light sabre noises as they fought with invisible light sabres for a long time.

Itachi hopped away. "You're good." Itachi commented. "But, let's see you deal with this." Itachi made wild motions with his arms. Kiba copied, seemingly not taking a single hit.

Kiba made a thrusting motion with his arms. Itachi made his eyes go wide and his jaw drop open. He clapped a hand to his chest and fell to his knees.

"He has... Too much power..." Itachi moaned and fell onto the floor.

Kiba made a final light sabre noise that shows that he put it away, and ran over to Tenten.

"I have rescued you, Padmé." Kiba told her, holding out his hand.

"Thank you." Tenten said taking his hand and standing up. Kiba dragged her over to Neji.

"Get on the ship!" Kiba told her.

Tenten's cheeks flushed as Kiba sat down on Neji's lap. "I'm too big for that, Anakin." Tenten told him.
"No, you're not! Here I'll get off!" Kiba jumped off. "I'll drive!"

Tenten scratched her head awkwardly.

Neji shrugged at her and shook his head.

I don't get it either. He said.

"Come on Padmé!" Kiba cried. "We have to get you home!"

"Just get on before he throws a fit." Neji said still with his Obi-Wan voice.

Tenten laughed despite her awkward situation. "If you insist."

Tenten sat on Neji's knees, her face flushing with embarrassment.

"TO NABOO!" Kiba cried pushing the wheelchair making spaceship sounds.

"Oh this is priceless!" Neji heard Temari laugh.

Sasuke trotted forward and began making shooting noises.

"Anakin, we have trouble." Neji said in a monotone.

"We have to go into light speed!" Kiba cried.

"This isn't the Millennium Falcon!" Neji cried. "Prepare for evasive manoeuvres!"

Kiba jumped onto Neji's armrest, and sat dead behind Tenten as Neji struggled to reach the wheels. Neji grabbed the wheels and began to wheel the wheelchair across the room trying to get away from Sasuke.

"MAN THE GUNS!" Neji cried.

Tenten and Kiba simultaneously turned around in two different directions and began to 'shoot' at Sasuke.

"ARGH!" Sasuke cried and fell to the ground.

"Two more to the front!" Neji cried as Shikamaru and Temari began to meddle with their escape.

"BANG! BANG! BANG!" Kiba cried.

Shikamaru made dodging motions while Temari screeched and fell to the ground.

"Missed!" Shikamaru cried.

Neji reached into his pocket and pulled out a paper Ninja star and passed it to Tenten who threw it with deadly aim.

"GAH!" Shikamaru cried and fell to the ground.

By now, Neji had completed a full circuit of the room and he pulled his wheelchair to a stop.

"We're back on Naboo!" Neji cried.

Kiba jumped off first. "Come, Padmé, we'll return to the castle!"

Tenten slid of Neji's knees and followed Kiba to the side of the room.

"That was fun." Shikamaru said as he picked himself off the ground.

"Anakin, there appears to be a malfunction with the left forward thrusters!" Naruto laughed doing a very bad Obi-Wan imitation.

"Naruto, you fail at the Obi-Wan voice." Neji said, still in his Obi-Wan voice. "May the force be with you." Neji added with a bow.

The group laughed again. Neji felt a tapping on his shoulder. Neji turned his head to see a little girl, no older than Kiba. She held up a book.

"Can you read it with me?" She asked.

Neji smiled. "Sure." He coughed once. "Great now it's going to take me forever to lose the Obi-Wan voice."

Neji pulled the girl onto his lap.

"What's your name?" Neji asked her.

"Yuuki." She replied.

"Hello, Yuuki. My name's Neji."

"Hi Neji-kun..." Yuuki flipped the book open Neji helped her read it over her shoulder. Neji's friends dispersed around the room and played with the kids.

Neji read the book out loud to Yuuki and followed the words with his finger. Neji was only vaguely aware he was reading 'The Princess and the Frog'.

Once the day was over, Neji got the honour of sleeping in the same room as the group of ten children. His friends had long since gone home.

Neji began to lose count of the number of lullaby's he had been forced to sing because some of the children were scared of the dark. He was woken up by every scream of panic from kids whose nights were full of nightmares.

All in all, the things Neji did for the kids didn't go unnoticed. The children soon fell in love with Neji and wouldn't leave him alone. Tenten laughed at this of course.

"Neji! You could run your own daycare center!" Tenten joked.

"Heck no!" Neji said quietly. "These kids are difficult enough!"

Tenten laughed at him.

"I've lost count of the number of lullaby's I've sung, and the number of times I've read 'The Princess and the Frog', and the number of times I've chased Kiba around pretending to be Obi-Wan Kenobi!"

"You make a good Obi-Wan!" Tenten said with a laugh.

"Obi-Wan, Schmobi-Wan." Neji muttered.

Tenten laughed again.

"Just wait till the day I have to leave." Neji sighed. "These kids will go into a state of depression."

"You could get a job here, you know." Tenten laughed. "Be the caretaker of these kids..."

"I have a band to think about." Neji said with a smirk. "Besides. I'm out of here in a few days."

A/N: Hey! I could write a Star Wars fan fiction XD. I had so much fun making that Star Wars part. I hope you liked it! Anyway, I'm tired. I hope you're happy with the three chapters I finished today.

SEE YOU LATER EH? And REVIEW EH!

XD couldn't resist.

SilverEyeShinobi