Suna's Kekkei Genkai
Chapter 5: Neji's Secret
Heh-whoa peoples! I must put this in of SNG will kill me.
SNG: I will kill you.
I was having trouble coming up with ideas for this chapter. I knew what I wanted in it, but didn't know how to write it. She wrote part of it and I finished it. See if you can tell what's hers and what's mine. (prizes will be included)
Kankurou groaned a little, masaging his arm. Stupid damn Taijutsu.... Why's it gotta be so hard?
Actually, no. Taijutsu wasn't hard at all. It was just the fact that he had Revenge of the Trainer-from-hell teaching it to him (Tsunade has already been labeled as the Teacher from Hell). Neji was so obsessed with him getting every single little detail right, that training sessions sometimes turned to torture sessions. He did however notice that somethings like the four mile jog before each session were getting easier. He also noticed this morning in the bathroom that he had lost about ten pounds ("Go me!"). Maybe it wasn't that bad.
"You're done already?"
Kankurou jumped halfway out of his skin, and nearly pulled his arm out of it's socket. "Don't do that!" he shouted at Neji, who had somehow (cough cough) crept up behind him.
Neji glared for a few minutes, then looked away embassased like, muttering something under his breath.
Kankurou raised an eyebrow, straining his ears to listen. When he didn't understand any of what the Hyuuga was saying, he asked, "What?"
"Can I....Mumble mumble..." Neji was turning into a male-version of his cousin.
Kankurou's eyebrow raised even more. "What?"
"CAN I EAT OVER YOUR HOUSE?!" Neji shouted. He gulped and his cheeks instantly turned a shade of pink.
Is Neji... blushing?! "Why?" Kankurou asked suspiciously, crossing his arms.
Neji looked away again. "Because you ate over my house the other night."
"....So?"
"It's only fair, ok!?"
Kankurou cowered a little; Neji's face was so red, it was scary. "Um... ok?" Very suspicious behavior, the puppeteer thought, watching Neji out of the corner of his eye as they were walking back to his house.
"...So Neji's eating over here tonight." Kankurou finished explaining the situation to Temari. It was annoying that he had to ask her permission when he was the oldest in the house, but it saved pain later.
Temari groaned. "Does this mean I actually have to cook?"
"NO! I mean... Ordering pizza is just fine..." Kankurou scratched the back of his head nervously.
"Hey, Kankurou," Neji called from where Kankurou had left him in the hall, "is this a picture of Gaara as a baby?"
Kankurou went to look. He couldn't help but snicker a little; it was a picture of him and Temari holding down a screaming Gaara who was trying to kill the camera. The picture was rather lop-sided, since the Cameraman had gotten tripped up by Gaara's sand, but it being the only picture of them together as kids, it was sufficiant. "Yep. That's Gaara." Such nice memories...
"So what do you guys think of Konoha so far?" Neji asked, selecting a piece of pizza from one of the many boxes Temari had ordered (She never specified their order, so the pizza guy just brought something of everything).
Temari and Kankurou looked at each other.
"It sucks," Kankurou said firmly.
"I like the lake," Temari said at the same time.
They looked at each other again.
"Some of it's ok..."
"What about the people?" Neji asked, grimacing as he picked some pineapple off his pizza (SNG: Pineapple on Pizza is just wrong! H-R: Dayel puts everything he can think of on pizza. I think the only thing I've not seen him eat on pizza is mayo and thats cause he hates mayo. Shukaku: I always said he was a freak. H-R clobbers Shukaku).
"They're ok," Temari answered. They looked at Kankurou, who shrugged and made a "so-so" motion with his hand.
"What's Gaara think of them?" Neji asked casually.
"The Konoha people?"
Njei nodded, taking a bite of his pizza.
"Hates 'em all," Temari said at once. "I have yet to fnd anyone Gaara particulary likes."
"...Ohh..." Neji hung his head for a few minutes, during which Temari and Kankurou looked at him, then at each other.
"Very suspisious," Kankurou whispered to her while Neji heaved a big sigh.
"Let me handle it," she whispered back. In her normal voice, she said, "So, Neji?"
"Yeah?" His head popped up again, as if nothing had happened.
"Do you like anyone in the village?"
"In Konoha?" At her nod, he said, after a few moments of thought, "Nope, no one in Konoha..."
Temari gave Kankurou a knowing look. To Neji, she asked, "What about someone from another village?"
"NOT GAARA!" he said at once, in a very squeaky voice. His eyes widened for a slit second, then he muttered to himself, "Shit!"
"....Not Gaara?" Temari repeated, smirking.
"NO!" Again with the squeak. "Shit!"
"What's with your voice?" Kankurou asked, raising an eyebrow.
Neji thought for a moment, then answered, in the same squeaky voice, "Hiashi-sama says all boys' voices change at this age, and anyone who makes fun of me is just mean!"
"You sure it's not Gaara?" Temari brought the conversation back.
"No!" Neji said at once, in his normal voice.
"..." Temari and Kankurou looked at each other. "Hey, Neji, what color are Gaara's eyes?" Temari asked casually.
"Green," he said at once. "Well..." He thought for a moment. "Some people think they're blue, but they're actually a sort of white-ish green color.... actually, it's more of a cross between the two..." and he went on and on...
"But you don't like Gaara?" Temari repeated.
"No!" squeak. "...Shit!"
Very suspicious behavior, Kankurou thought, watching his "teacher" break out into a heavy sweat.
"That was the weirdest thing I've ever seen," Kankurou said, after Neji left, blushing furiously. "You just made me lose all respect for him in one sitting! How am I suppose to feel comfortable training with him tomorrow?!"
"Don't worry. I won't let him rape you," Temari said casually, looking in one of her vast little detail books where she keeps all information she may come across during life. "Besides, it's totally clear he likes Gaara not you."
I am surrounded by weirdos. Kankurou shuddered. "What're you doing?"
"Getting a date for our little faggot," Temari answered, picking up the phone and dialing. She waited for a few minutes, then said, "Hi, is Sakura there?"
Kankurou's jaw dropped. "Temari!"
"Shh!" She waved her hand in his face. "Hi, Sakura? Yeah, I need a favor... Will you go out on a date with Neji? ...No, Sasuke doesn't have to know... You will? Ok, thanks!" She hung up.
Kankurou starred at her. "One, 'faggot' is not a nice word! Two, THIS IS NOT GOING TO WORK!"
"Sure it will."
He gave her a look. "Temari, do you even know who we're talking about?"
"Do you doubt my skill?"
"....I refuse to be involved."
"LET GO OF ME, YOU SHE-BEAST!"
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!"
"YOU HEARD ME!"
"OH, YOU ARE SO DEAD!"
Violence shortly followed.
Kankurou watched as his sister and his teacher began pulling each other's hair. This is embarrassing....
After a few minutes of bickering, a peace-treaty was drawn.
"Ok, fine, I'll let go," Temari began.
"Good." Neji walked away.
"GET YOUR BUTT BACK HERE!" Temari grabbed him and yanked him back.
"BUT I DON'T WANNA!"
"IT'S JUST A DATE!"
"BUT I DON'T LIKE HER!"
Damn, these people are loud, Kankurou thought, covering his ears. Who knew Neji could yell so much?
"Why not?!"
"Because she's a girl?!"
"NO! (squeak) ...Shit..."
"Well, why, then?!"
"...I only like red-heads!"
"Like Gaara?"
"NO!" (squeak)
"You guys are making this alot more complicated then it has to be," Kankurou pointed out, stepping between them. "Let's make it simple. Neji, are you gay?"
Blush! "NO!"
"Ok..." Kankurou turned away. Then whirled back around, pointing down the street. "LOOK AT THAT! GAARA'S DOING A STRIP-TEASE!"
Neji whirled around. "WHERE?!"
"I rest my case." Kankurou walked away.
Neji blushed furiously. "I'm not gay!"
"Then why did you turn around so fast?"
"...Because I wanted to make him stop! There are kids in this village!"
"Oh, really? I thought you'd want to make him stop so you can take him home with you." Kankurou smirked.
"Welcome to the dark side, Kankurou," Temari muttered in his ear while Neji blushed furiously.
When Sakura showed up and she and Neji went to a tea shop for their 'date', Kankurou and Temari sat on the roof of the building opposite the tea shop and watched them. Nothing very exciting was happening, and Kankurou's mind began to wander.
"Temari?"
"Yeah?"
"I just thought of a problem in your plan."
"Excuse me?" Temari glared at him.
"Ok, I think we've established that my instructer is indeed gay. However, the certain boy that he likes a lot also happens to be our brother and who knows our brother more then anyone?"
"Us?"
"Right. So, What kind of person is Gaara?"
"A crazy demon possesed homocidal maniac." (H-R: and i love him!)
"Right. Now, after we've established all this..." Temari nodded for him to go on. "How the HELL do we get Gaara to go out with Neji?"
"Exactly."
"NO!! My plan is perfect! I'll think of something! We have a whole month till Gaara gets back anyway," Temari crossed her arms and leaned against the building. 'Damnit!'
"That was the worst experience in my life," Neji mumbled as he walked home. Not to be mean or anything, but Sakura was really annoying sometimes. All she talked about was Sasuke or Lee or both. However, on his side of the conversation, he learned somethings about Gaara, which he thought he discovered oh, so sneakily. Unknown to him, Sakura wasn't stupid and did realise that yes she was only talking about Sasuke or Lee, but the only questions Neji asked were about Gaara. Neji, smiling began going over things he learned about Gaara that day.
He was really cute as a baby. (H-R: yes he is!!) He like shiney stuff. He could do things that most jonins don't know how to do yet, but he had no clue on simple things like painting walls. Also, his sister was a monster who was dating Shikamaru, but that was a side note Neji didn't really care about. The demon inside Gaara tat made him stay up all night was called Shukaku (Shukaku strikes a 'ta-dum!' pose. H-R turns and stares.(crickets chirk) off the stage).
"Neji-nii-san?"
"GAAH!!!!" Neji literally jumped three feet in the air. Trying to recover what little dignity he had left he replied, "Yes, Hinata-sama?"
"How did your teaching go?" she asked sweetly.
Inner Neji : She's so adorable! "It went fine, Hinata-sama, Thank you."
"You're back later then usual, something happened?"
"The sand nin set me up on a date with Sakura," Neji answered huffily, showing how upset he still was on the subject.
"With Sakura?" Hinata asked confused. "But I thought you liked--" she caught herself and covered her mouth with her hand. "..someone else." she said instead.
"Yeah," Neji said slumped over as they walked down the hallway. "But..." he glanced around for any listening Hyuugas. "that person is on a mission with Tsunade-sama and wont be back for a long time."
"Oh, I'm sorry, Neji-nii-san," Hinata said, truly sorry. The two had become very close since the Chunin Exam and Hinata was the only person he ever shared his 'secret' to. He had told her about Gaara a few days ago and he was quite happy that she was very supportive about it. But right now that didn't change the fact that Gaara was gone and Neji was no longer in his happy place.
Kankurou stepped into the Hokage office. It had been a week and a half since the whole Neji insident and he found that the trainings weren't as bad as he thought they would become, but Neji was pretty pissed aobut the date thing. He had been called there by Shizune, who was covering for Tsunade. It was the first time Kankurou had been in the office when there wasn't a clutter of papers. Shizune was sitting behind the Hokage desk looking very important and official like with her elbows resting on the desk and her hands folded by her chin.
"'Morning," Kankurou said.
"Good morning," Shizune greeted. "I have something for you." She motioned him over and held a scroll out for him. "This was delivered last night. It's to you and your sister." She smiled at him and shooed him out.
"What'd she want?" Temari asked when Kankurou returned. Kankurou held up the scroll and Temari looked at it. "Doesn't look official or anything. I don't think it's from Sunaga."
"You know..." Kankurou said slowly, examining it. "I think...it's from Gaara."
They crowded around the scroll and Kankurou opened it. The kanji (duh people's it's a japanese show) was very messy and uneven like a child wrote it. They began reading the first few lines.
'Temari and Kankurou, Tsunade-obaachan ("Tsunade-obaachan?" Temari asked. "Thats what Naruto told him to call her," Kankurou ezplained.) says my hand writing sucks so she said while she's in meetings I have to write something. So I wrote to you guys. ("Aw! He thinks of us! I feel loved!") The meetings are very boring and I have to wait outside anyway. We're in the County of Grass right now, it's not that different from Konoha, except it's a lot duller. Tsunade-obaachan says she'd teach me this new jutsu that could 'save me life'. But she wont tell me what it is. Also I learned something else special, but I'll show it to you when I get back. I'm learning taijutsu and Tsunade-obaachan told me Hyuuga Neji is teaching Kankurou taijutsu, too. The meeting's over. -Gaara'
"Aw, how sweet!" Temari said, taking the scroll from Kankurou. "He wrote us a letter. He cares!!" she rolled the scroll up and hugged. "I miss him," she said sadly.
"You would hardly know he's here when he is here," Kankurou put in, taking out a blank scroll and pen thing.
"I know, but still," Temari noticed what he was doing. "What's that for?"
"I'm writing him back," Kankurou said, hunching over the scroll.
"I wanna write him something!" Temari said trying to take the scroll away.
"We can both write him something ok?" Kankurou said moving the scrol out of her reach. "But me first."
"Why you?!"
"Cause I'm the oldest! And it was my idea!" Kankurou gave her a 'thats final' look and continued to write.
H-R sing 'School of Hard Knocks' by POD. ta dum! This is my idea that I have been debating with Shukaku for the past couple of weeks. Sorry for those of you who don't like that kind of stuff. Actually, I'm not sorry, It's ur own gosh darn fault if you don't. So there (Sticks tongue out)