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"Dialogue" - Quotes

Italics - Emphasis/thoughts

Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, why am I writing fanfics on it? Surely, I'm smart enough to know that I could change imagination to reality if I owned it…

Chapter 2

Neji was frustrated…and angry. He hadn't been like this in a while, a few months to be exact. In truth, Neji was quite impatient when it came to missions and training. He had just completed a perilous mission, which failed, and, being the prodigy he is, he did not like to lose a fight. So what's the point? The point is that two medic-nins are standing over his hospital bed discussing how long they'd keep him in the hospital. So far, they reached one and a half months.

He groaned as he heard the two medic-nins mention for the twentieth time that he should remain in the hospital for one and a half months. One and a half months? He couldn't just lie around for three weeks when there was a powerful enemy lurking somewhere in the fire country and he had come so close to beating the enemy too. Well, maybe not that close, but he was certain that he could come as close as causing serious damage to that opponent if he trained some more.

Yes, Neji was finally a jounin. Although he still can't beat his teacher Gai, he was getting there. And thus, Neji finally came to a conclusion. No matter how much he didn't want to face her again and admit to her that he needed her help, he had to. He grunted and, with the last diminutive amount of strength he had left, he grabbed the collar of the closest medic-nin and brought the medic-nin down to his eye level. "Get. Me. Haruno. NOW!"

Two weeks had gone by since Sakura met with Neji at the hospital and applied her self-made cream on his wounds. 'That bastard…' those two words constantly repeated in her mind as of a week ago and they just went over her mind again. 'That bastard…so he doesn'teven plan to inform me of how long it took to heal him? ARGH!'

"Hello? Forehead girl? Are you there?" Sakura's patient waved her right arm in front of Sakura's face.

Sakura's attention instantly diverted to her patient. "What'd you call me, Ino-pig!"

Ino grinned. "Well, you were in deep thoughts and ignored me! What kind of medic-nin are you to ignore your suffering patient?"

Sakura glared and purposely extra-tightened the bandage that she was rolling over Ino's left arm that had a severe cut, causing Ino to bellow out in pain. "That's illegal, forehead girl! You can't do that!"

"Since I'm a nurse here, it's legal! How's that for a 'suffering patient' huh?" Sakura smirked as she finished spinning the roll of bandage over Ino's arm.

Unexpected by both girls the door to the hospital room immediately burst open, disrupting the 'friendly' conversation that both girls were having. The medic-nin that arrived was panting heavily. "S-Sakura-san! Hyuuga Neji has requested for you and…c-can you please go see him? He looks as though he's going to slice open the other medic-nin if you don't show up!"

"Alright, I'm on my way," once the medic-nin left, Sakura started to pick up the bandages and hospital ointment that she used to treat Ino's wound and then turned to Ino. "Everything looks fine now, Ino, but you'll have to limit what you do that involves your left arm; the cut might reopen. Although the cut isn't deep enough to be considered a critical injury, it might be cut even deeper if you aren't careful."

"Fine, fine," Ino replied. "So…the Hyuuga Neji requested for you? Oh! Is something going on between you two? HM?"

"Nothing's going on between us, pig!" Sakura shot toxic glares at Ino before exiting the room.

There were two medic-nins standing outside of room 155, the room that Hyuuga Neji was reserved in. Upon her arrival, the medic-nins began to depart down the hall until Sakura stopped the medic-nin that had barged in earlier. "What happened?"

He gulped; his eyes portrayed much fear yet a hint of annoyance and anger. "I-I'm not sure. I was discussing with Ken-san about how long Hyuuga-san would have to remain here until his injuries are fully recovered and then he suddenly grabbed my collar and demanded for us to get you. We know you've got many patients b-but he was adamant and threatened me."

"Alright, you may go now," with that, the two medic-nins then left as Sakura proceeded towards Neji's room. She opened the door slowly and as quietly as possible, not wanting to disturb him if he was sleeping for something. Since she is working at the hospital, she has to take into consideration her patients' pain. The room was quiet and each of her steps on the sleek hospital floor echoed. Neji was sitting up on the hospital bed, his head lowered and his hair down covering his face. "Hello?"

His head lifted only enough for his eyes to be revealed, indicating that he was well awake and aware of her. She stopped once she was in front of him. His chest was bare and she could see the deep inflicted wounds. Her eyes darkened a bit at the site. Although his chest was revealed, it was covered in much blood seeing as the blood has soaked through the wrapped bandages around his body. Once she caught a glimpse of his back, his chest injuries seemed like nothing. She could conclude that his back was stabbed with many kunais. His arms didn't seem to be injured too severely. Were his wounds going to be worse and worse every time he came to the hospital?

"I see you're back again. It's been two weeks," she forced a smile on her face although her mind kept going back to his wounds.

"…shut up," he muttered. "Just heal me."

She leered somewhat. "I heard you specifically requested for me in a rather…unpleasant way. If you only needed someone to heal you, any medic-nin here can." She knew what he meant though. Her more advanced chakra controlled enabled her to speed up the healing process while others might take a little longer.

Neji exhaled and forced himself to say words that he didn't want to but had to. "They were going to keep me here for one and a half months. I…need to train."

Taking a seat beside Neji on the hospital bed, Sakura began to form seals. "Tch you mean and your training. In my opinion, Hyuuga-san, I think you're strong enough. I don't see why you need to speed up training." A greenish chakra encircled her frail hands as she initiated healing him. A silence, as she expected, took place, but who broke it wasn't who she expected.

"I came close to seriously damaging…a powerful opponent, among one of the most powerful I've ever seen. If…if I train more, I'd be stronger and I will defeat him next time…" his eyes stared hard at the glossy hospital floor recalling the fight.

"Sasu…" she paused when realized she was about to say a certain someone's name. "I mean, a former teammate of mine was like that all the time. He, too, was deemed a prodigy like you and couldn't stand one simple loss."

He groaned. "Well, it's not like someone like you would know what one loss means."

To most, they would scream or something at that comment. But she couldn't. She knew that continuing on that topic would result in either her crying or accidentally harming the injured Neji even more. To be honest, though, that comment did hurt her a bit because she knew it was true. A person like her wouldn't know what one loss does when that loss could just be placed under her other various losses. "Whatever. Now, what is it you really want? I know you didn't request me just because I heal quicker than some medic-nins. Also, since when did you begin to have a conversation where you speak more than one sentence?"

"Since I felt like it?"

She smirked proudly. "Admit it. You want me to apply some of my cream on you, don't you?"

When he gave no answer but only looked away, she took this as a 'yes.' "So, how long did it take to heal?"

"…..four days….."

She beamed proudly and took out two bottles from her pocket. She opened both, revealing a light cerulean cream in one and a lavender cream in the other. Neji glanced at the ointment. "What's with the blue one?"

She dabbed her index finger in the lavender cream and began to spread it over his injuries. "The blue one aids in muscle tension. Once again, you've gone over your limits and your muscles are exhausted. While the lavender one speeds up cell duplication, the blue one helps to relax your muscles thus allowing you to move more without your actions limited."

"Hm."

"Impressed?"

"No," he lied.

And thus began the bond between Hyuuga Neji and Haruno Sakura. If you weren't on Neji's team for a mission, you'd be questioning why the Hyuuga revealed almost every detail about his most recent mission to a cute, little female medic-nin who works at Konoha Hospital. Heck, you might even assume that Neji likes the little kunoichi and that is why he opens up to her about missions. Some already do.

"…and then the kunai hit me…from behind," Neji quietly murmured rather brainlessly as Sakura continued to bandage up his wounded arm. She was about to ask more about how he got hurt but decided not to; if you focus on his facial expression and voice, you'd clearly identify that both were filled with annoyance and anger just remembering how he got hurt.

Once she finished bandaging his arm, she smiled at him and got up from the hospital bed they were both sitting on. "You should be more careful, Neji-san. It seems to me like you keep getting hurt every time someone hurls a weapon at your back. One of these days they might just damage your spinal chord with their wonderful and accurate throwing techniques."

He let himself lay back on the bunch of pillows stacked on the bed and mumbled, "Whatever."

"Sakura-san," Lee began, standing up from the chair he was sitting on next to TenTen and Gai's. "Neji will be alright, right? Is he severely injured in any way?"

"Yes, he'll be alright. His wounds will recover in a few days," she replied with an assuring smile and then turned to Neji. "Well, I'll be going now Neji-san, Lee-san, TenTen, Gai-sensei. Neji-san, be careful and I'll see you when you get hurt again." With that, she exited the room and left a tired Neji with his teammates.

"So…" TenTen got up from the chair she was sitting on and stalked over to Neji's hospital bed followed by Lee and Gai. She flopped down on the bed with a wide grin on her face. "Well?"

Neji, with not enough energy to glare at her, decided to just answer, "Well what?"

TenTen giggled as the three other males stared at her oddly. Upon noticing this, she folded her arms and looked up at Lee and Gai. "What? Are you that blind? C'mon! It's obvious that there's something going on with Neji and Sakura. Look at the way he talks like an idiot around her and how nice and warm she is towards him. Plus, he wouldn't even reveal to us how he got hurt!"

Gai and Lee put on a vivid thinking pose until what TenTen said finally clicked in their brains. Lee pointed his index finger at Neji with a devastated look on his face. "NEJI! How could you! You knew all along that I like Sakura!"

Neji rolled his eyes. "Okay, first of all, I don't like Sakura. I only tell her about my missions because if I tell her, then, in exchange, she'll heal me and we all know she's one of the top nurses here. I don't talk like an idiot around her…I talk like an idiot when I'm talking about how I got hurt. Lastly, Lee, are you aware that Sakura doesn't like you? She's always rejecting you."

The other three paid him no attention as they continued to 'investigate' the NejiSaku Romance Case.

"Neji's got a reasonable answer. Sakura is one of the top nurses here."

"But Neji's not one to just tell how he got hurt even for medical purposes!"

"And he's already beaten me in strength! Now, he's going to beat me again by taking away the love of my life!"

"Love of your life? Lee, you can't be serious about Sakura, can you?"

"Why?"

"Er…well, Lee, Neji's right. I mean, she's always rejecting you."

"Because Neji brainwashed her!"

"Don't give up, Lee! The spirit of youth is on your side! Keep trying and Sakura will one day like you!"

"Ugh, Gai-sensei! Stop urging him! It's obvious that Sakura doesn't like him!"

"TenTen! So, you are on Neji's side too? You're in favor of Neji getting Sakura-san!"

Neji sighed sadly. Stuck with a teenage girl, dense taijutsu teammate, and loud teacher…what worse torture would there be? He's already corrected them honestly and yet they didn't even listen to him! Well…at least…he thought he answered everything truthfully. Wait, what did he mean he thought? He knows he corrected him correctly and honestly!

Senko: By the way, this does not indicate the start of the NejiSaku romance ;D the romance between the two will bloom soon...soon! Oh, I have the next chapter done but I won't be posting it until I feel like it v.v which means I'll most likely post chapter 3 when I finish chapter 4 :D Well, that's all for now! Tell me what you all think!

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