TPFP

Disclaimer: If wishes were fishes, then Sushi'd be a lot less expensive. But wishes are not fishes, wishes are wishes, and no matter how I wish it, I still don't own Naruto. And sushi is still expensive.

Note: Sorry it took sooooooooooo long to update. -'

((Neji's POV))

I don't think I'd ever been happier. She was alive. She was safe. She was here. With me. So what the hell was going on? And why the hell was Sasuke here? Whatever Hinata was having trouble with; I wish that she had come to me first instead of him.

"Hinata Sama…" I said. She shook her head.

"Not right now." She said quietly. There was something different about her. Tone of voice, body language, expression. Her voice was now demanding, but still sweet. No longer timid. Her eyes held fear, but not the fear that she used to have. She used to fear small stuff, but now there was something else. A solemn, but not depressed expression was plastered onto her face. She jumped from roof top to roof top with powerful leaps and her body stance when she stood was dominating instead of passively standing by.

Why was Sasuke here?

Why'd she go to him before me? AUGH!

Why did she put up a suicidal act?

Too many queries. And I had the feeling they wouldn't be answered any time soon.

Hinata's chakra seemed dangerous. A heavy battle aura with in a small body. I wondered if now she would be able to beat me easily. She seemed to have changed a lot. Had she always been this powerful?

Watch out! Whoops I didn't say that out loud did I?

Hinata tripped on a small barely noticeable chimney spout, and fell off of the roof.

"Shit." I swore.

"…She's fine." Sasuke said. I glared at him, and ran to the edge of the roof to check on her. It was a far drop.

"HINATA!" I called. No reply.

"She's fine." Sasuke said.

"What do you know?" I spat.

"Because she's walking up the side of that building." Sasuke pointed. I felt like an idiot. "Believe in her. She's not weak any more. If she was still weak she wouldn't be this convinced that she could kill my brother. You're being too concerned."

I stared at him. What did he know? I didn't want to lose her again. I sped up, not wanting to look at the Uchiha. He knew nothing. Or maybe he knew more than I did. And that both scared and angered me.

"Neji-nii san. I'm fine." I heard Hinata say. She was running beside me, Sasuke was a little behind.

We continued to run. It seemed so short and so long at the same time.

"Hinata," Sasuke said, not adding the proper suffix to her name, "I have a feeling we should stop and rest."

To be the devils advocate, and because I didn't want Sasuke to have more say than I, I said "Not yet, we can keep going, we can cover more."

"Neji-" It was Hinata. "I agree that while we still have more time, we should stop right now. We need to find some place to hide out until tomorrow, and I believe I should answer any questions you have."

She did know how to convince me.

So I agreed.

Sasuke used his charismatic-ness to convince this teenage girl to let us hide out in her basement. Bastard. I know I'm hotter than he is, yet girls go wild for him. Not like I care, but so far it seems like Sasuke is the one Hinata wanted, not me. He had been more useful so far.

"Okay Neji, what questions do you want answered?"

"A lot, but first off, what is going on?" I asked. She nodded to Sasuke.

"My brother is after her, because he thinks she can lure Naruto to him. He used a new form of his Sharingan so that a part of him would know when she… blabbed. She had to tell me, so I'm assuming he's suspicious that she's alive."

"What happens when she 'blabs'?" Nice vocabulary I asked.

"I get a psychological sword stabbed into my abdomen."

"Why the suicidal front?" I asked next.

"The bunshin was very advanced, so advanced that it fooled even you and father. It was basically a clone of myself, so Itachi thinks I couldn't take it and killed myself. I assume that now he thinks this he'll find another way to lure Naruto into his trap, which is why I'm going to kill him."

Sasuke glared at her. She winced "Which is why we're going to kill him."

I was somewhat jealous. She caused everyone who loved her that much pain for one little, all be it powerful, little brat that no one really likes! Wow…

"I see."

"And I was hiding in Sasuke's house, not knowing it was his, of course, but he found me and he demanded he be the one to kill Itachi and I couldn't say no." She seemed a little annoyed, which made me happy, and he didn't seem to notice her annoyance.

"We should sleep."

"Indeed."