Disclaimer: Naruto is belonged to Kishimoto Masashi-sama.
Rate: R (may contains yaoi/yuri relationship, review me if you interested in reading them but I will make this story logically)
Genre: Romance/Drama
Pairing: Neji x Hinata (other pairings…. please vote by reviewing this fiction…onegai shimasu!!!! YAOI/YURI/HET)
Duo Author's Blabbering
Lynx: Dancing like an idiot Yeah, yeah, finished this chapter!!!! Go to the next chapter!!!!! Dash Mwahahaha!!! I'd like to scream!!!! Kyaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!
Edy: Gosh…it's hard to edit her work…I spent more than a night to edit her original work…aiya…you know what, it is because her work was kind of rushing works, sure it has a lot of mistakes to be corrected, but, but, it is easy to me, actually not too easy, but it took my sleeping time for hours!!! Her biggest problem is…I don't understand her words thoroughly…it is because my English is poor T-T I also just found out a grammar mistake in the previous chapter!!! Gomen nasai!!!!
Happy reading, our dear readers
Season
Originally by Lynx
Edited by Edy
Chapter 2: The Unwelcome Feeling
Mist rose from water made inky by moonless night, swirling over the vast lake, from distance a faint light shimmering from the inside structure of a great fortress-the Hyuga's residence.
The cat sat, delicately disassembling her prey. A whisper of wind troubled her fur. She looked up, frozen by the swift, silent shape that cleaved the mist. The figure was breathing heavily, a wisp of smoke coming from his mouth. The coldness makes his throat sore.
"It's about time for the lake to freeze, and snow will start to fall. We must hurry or things will get worse!!!"
"Osu!!!!" And the four of them vanished.
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Hinata was looking thorough her windowpane to the darkness of the night. She cannot help to think that something bad had occurred. Silently she went to her garden. However, somebody was there too, and he was her father.
"What are you doing here, at such late hour?"
"N---Nothing oto-sama, it's just that I can't sleep…s- so I decided to take some fresh air," she said. "Y--you are here for the same reason I suppose," she added. Her father chuckled in odd ways.
"It's seems odd, you never have any trouble to sleep before. Have something bothering you?" Her father was really insightful of her well being, that white-eye of his really can see thorough everything, even the feelings of a human.
"R---Really, oto-sama…t-there is nothing to be concern of," she begged her father while trying to warm herself by tightening her robe. "B-by the way, can you tell me w-where is Neji-niisan…?" she asked, that was right she has not see him for the whole day.
"He had a call. His team is heading for the Rock nation now."
"I--I do hope he's okay, w-what mission is it?" She started to do her natural habit, playing worriedly with her finger. Her face was scarlet by unknown reason. Her father understood something but he decided to just keep it by himself.
"He'll be okay, it's only a C rank mission, and he supposes to be sending a parcel to somebody. Although the Rock nation condition now is not so secure, the number of rebel ninja is increasing. Tonikaku, don't you worry, he's a great shinobi, have faith in him."
Hinata just nodded silently even though deep in her heart she was still so worried about her cousin. The father and daughter separated in the middle of the cold and disquiet night towards the big dimmed residence.
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The snows started to fall. Thick layers of snow covered the ground. Somewhere at the edge of Konoha village, the figures of a few people seen half-running in the middle of the snow-covered ground.
"This is bad, he's deadly off-colour," one of them spoke up. The frigid ground seemed to have no affect to them because they were sweating as if they are in front of the gate of hell.
"Kami-sama saves him, please," a sound of a female, prayed.
"Gai-sensei what should we do?" another loud male broke in full of worry. The heat of a young sick body that was in his arm and the other female's arm kept on increasing, and was very frail. The coldness of the beginning of the winter just made his situation worse.
"We can't do anything for now. We must hurry, --we have to arrive at Konoha, hurry and brought him back to the Hyuga residence!!!" a sound of another male, but this time was in deeper ways replied between his breath.
"He has turned purple, god! What did they do to that shurikens? And he's heavy I can't any run faster!" The sound of the female was heard once more, and this time she seemed to panting hard for the air.
"Stop nagging, Tenten; just let me carry him at my back!"
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"W--What h-had h-happen…?" The girl with raven hair and pearly eyes stunned at the sight of Neji's lifeless body in Rock Lee's arm. Her heart was throbbing fast and her small body seemed to be shaking wildly when she saw his pale face and blood-stained vest.
"What happen to him? Oshiokette kudasai." Hyuga Hiyashi asked strictly while embracing his daughter Hinata securely when he saw her form, making an urge to cry over took her. Neji seemed so dead, her best friend Neji, the thought of losing him was something that she could not bear.
"D--Don't t-tell me h-he's…dead, p--please don't…" Tears began to fill in her so sad pearly eyes. Tenten, Neji's female teammate snapped at the girl's behaviour and stepped forward.
"Yeah, yeah if you insist to let him stay outside in the cold he might have die as you expect, now let him in, he needs a rest," she said irritably. She lost her temper at the moment because of her exhaustion and the urgency to save Neji's life as soon as possible. Lee and Gai were silent; they were having a simple rest in the Hyuga residence's garden to lose their fatigue.
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Inside of one of the rooms, the Hyuga's medical ninjas were trying to heal him while the chuunin team were waiting outside for the reports of his being. Hinata was walking up and down frantically, worried for his situation. She had started to do her natural habit again, the thing she always does every time her heart beating uncontrollably.
"Would you stop that, it's annoying, you know," finally, Tenten broke the uneasy silent that had filled the house since the moment ago. Lee turned at his female teammate. " Tenten, cool down, Hinata-san is worried about Neji-kun," he said, defending the petite girl. Tenten frowned.
"Okay, okay. Sorry, Hinata," she said half-sincerely. Hinata managed to give a tiny smile to the dark-brown haired girl. "It---it's okay, Tenten-san." Tenten returned her a sincere smile of hers. Gai only smirked at them.
"How does this happen actually?" Hyuga Hiyashi had at last, asking the same question that was niggled in his daughter and in his own mind. His sharp pearly eyes that were always gaze people in cold manner shot a curious look to the team's jonin trainer, Gai.
"We meet the rebel on the way, it's seems that the parcel was actually for someone whom they wanted to kill, and that thing was not suppose to be delivered. So they attacked us, and he's been injured with a poison shurikens."
Hinata's father seemed to be satisfied with Gai's answer so he asked nothing more.
For long hours they waited, Lee had been so afraid even to talk and Tenten from the start had always crossed her finger and prayed that her comrade will be alive. In the end, she could stand no longer.
"What take them so long? How much could it hurt him! Uso janai!"
"Tenten, calm down. They are trying their best to cure him. He will be fine. He is strong. He'll be… he'll be… okay," Lee replied. Though he did say that, he just could not cease these forbidding feeling that had conquered his heart, this feeling that had makes him suffocate, made him harder to breathe.
"This is enough, you guys go home, it's getting late, I'll inform you later," Gai instructed his subordinates when he saw they started to lose their patience.
"But sensei, you can't do that, we want to stay here... Kono aitsu wa oretachi no nakamada desu!" Lee refused his teacher for the first time. But before the big-eyed boy could say anything more, a medical ninja appeared right before their eyes.
"Condition steady, the poison had make his body numb for a while, he must stay in bed for a week," he announced. Amid that, brought tears of happiness to their eyes.
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Ultimate darkness, he felt so weak, his eyelids felt heavy, nevertheless he still insist upon opening them. He felt somebody close to him, so close that he could even felt the warmness of that somebody's flesh. And they smell like summer's flower. So sweet… and so pure…
"N-Neji-niisan, yokatta! …You…you're awake," Hinata said. Her eyes seemed bright, big like a puppy and teary.
"Hi…Hinata-sama…" Neji's face turned bright scarlet and he started to stammer when he realized their closeness with her nose almost touching his face.
"What are you doing here?" he asked while trying to sit up straight but he cannot because he was too weak to do so. Hinata quickly came closer to aid.
"A-arigato…" he said as she helped him with his needs. At the moment, he can't help to notice that she had grown so much in this past three years. Her voice softer and deeper, her complexion brighter, and he can feel kindness in every touch of her. She had grown to be a very beautiful lady.
And on top of all that, he cannot help to stop his heart from beating faster. He did aware of this unwelcome feeling and he knew that he should not tolerate with it. But he just cannot help it; he was helpless.
"N-Neji niisan, y-you really shouldn't move too much, it…it is recommended that you should stay in bed for a week."
"Say's who?" he snapped while giving her his sharpest look, a hot demoralizing, look.
"Say's me, Neji-niisan," she replied while giving him her dazzling smile, of course, she defeated him in her naturally shyness. "Neji-niisan h-has been unconscious for three days, and…and now I hope that you won't make my work …you k-know, harder."
"What do you mean, your work?" He knew what she mean, it just that he did not understand why she ever wanted to do it in the first place.
"Actually…I-I've asked oto-sama if I could a-accompany you and…and t-take care of you until you're in a p-perfect health," she answered shyly while playing with her fingers. Neji just looked at the shorthaired girl in blank looks. "Ano…I-I'm going to tell oto-sama t-that you've conscious, I-I hope that Neji-niisan will r-remember what I-I've said," she added with a concern look over her fair face. Unconsciously, Neji nodded as he watch her leaving the white room.
Slowly, his fingers clutched tightly to his shirt at the place where his heart is.
Tsuzuku
: Note:
Edy: Finally, finally I finish editing this chapter!!!!! Arrrrr… tomorrow I shall start working for chapter three…really need rest
Lynx: Finally, finally I finish working on chapter four, now I am starting to move on chapter 5…really need rest
Until then.
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