Akanishi-san: Hehe, well here is Ch7, with more Neji!

Ch7

Izaki yawned as she opened her eyes, slowly sitting up. She turned to her clock and yawned once more, stretching her arms. It was 5:30 in the morning. She stretched her legs as she got up, eyes tearing as she yawned again.

"I wonder why I woke up so yearly…" She mumbled as she rubbed her eyes, slowly changing into her clothes. She grinned as she placed her necklace Sasuke had given her, and stood up. "Well…now that I'm awake…" She turned to her window, to see that the sun was not all the way up yet. "Maybe I'll go to the lake to see the sunrise." She decided, as she walked into the living room.

When she got into the room, she went over to the refrigerator and grabbed a pen on the way. With the pen, she scribbled on the memo pad on the fridge:

Sasuke-Oniichan, I'm going to go for a walk. I'll be back before breakfast. Izaki.

She smiled as she placed the pen down. She looked at the clock once more, and grabbing an apple, she walked out of the Uchiha Mansion.

Lake Area

Izaki hummed as she walked along the lake's edge, kicking rocks occasionally as she watched the sunrise. She bit into her last bite of the apple she had, and tossed it into a trash can that was pretty far away, but ninja who she was; she threw it right into it.

"It's so beautiful…" She mumbled as she stopped to the sunrise. "Maybe I'll come and see this occasionally." She told herself, and turned around, continuing her walk along the lake, but stopped when she saw a certain ninja walking along the road that runs next to the lake. Her insides groaned but her face didn't show anything.

The ninja also noticed her, and stopped also, turning his head towards her. For a moment, their eyes were locked together, saying nothing.

"Er…" Izaki started, "Hello, Huuga-san." She forced a smile. Neji said nothing as he looked at her, and sighed. He scratched his head, and looking once into the sky with an angry look, he walked down to where she was standing. "Erm…" Izaki looked down at the ground, unable to talk.

Neji looked at her with his emotionless eyes as he said a word that Izaki thought she would never hear from him. "Wh…what?" Izaki asked her eyes wide. "What did you say?" Her stomach did couple of flips of glee, Izaki did not know why.

Neji with his neutral face on, he repeated what he had said. "Sorry. I said, sorry." He said once more just incase for Izaki was staring at him, jaw slightly opened.

Izaki shook her head, shaking her hands in front of her. "No, Huuga-san, why are you saying sorry for?" She asked, a little confused. "Wait…does this involve Sasuke-Oniichan?" She eyed the Huuga carefully.

Neji shrugged. "Of course." He said.

Izaki slapped her forehead as she groaned. "Look, Huuga-san. I'm not trying to be rude, but are you only saying 'sorry' to me because Sasuke-Oniichan told you so?" She asked him, hoping he would shake his head and say he was, truly sorry. She wanted Neji to like him, and she wanted to be good friends. 'Why?' She asked herself, but pushed the thought away for the answer he gave.

Things did not go as Izaki would have liked. Neji nodded to her question. "Sasuke just called me this morning that you would be walking around. He also gave a lecture that bored me." He said with his neutral face and voice.

There, Neji had done it, Izaki was usually a quiet girl, but this flared her. The flips suddenly turned to hurt and anger towards the Hyuuga. "Look Huuga-san, I don't want this 'sorry' from you unless you mean it. And to tell you the truth, I don't mind if you think that I am this 'spy' which I am not." She said with a dangerous tone. "I know I just came here just around now, but that does NOT give you any info that I am a spy." She raised her hand, meaning to slap him at least. She wanted to punch him, and cry for what he had said to her.

Why did she feel this way? She had felt something towards the Hyuuga from the first day they met, but she couldn't tell, especially under this circumstances.

Neji closed his eyes, looking bored as ever. He was expecting her slap, or punch, something from her when she raised her hand into the air.

When nothing came to hit him, he opened his eyes, to see Izaki, looking down, her hand still in the air. "Huuga-san, I thought I could trust you." Izaki said, as he saw tear drops falling onto the ground. She threw her head up, revealing that she is crying. "You're the worst!" And without another word, she turned and fled, rubbing her tearing eyes.

"Dumb Huuga-san…AND Sasuke-Oniichan…" She sobbed as she slowed to a walk as she thought she was far enough, growling her anger as more tear drops fell. "He should have not said that because he was told to. No one will be content of an apology that was forced…" She rubbed her eyes, tears still falling. "Why do I feel this way…? Why am I hurt?"

Neji watched her run away, thinking, 'Well, I tried.' But something was telling him to go catch up to her, and tell her he was truly sorry. He felt guilty. He hesitated, but started to run after her. "Uchiha." He said as he caught up to her, walking her pace which had speeded up since he was walking next to her. Izaki only growled in reply, as she rubbed her eyes dry. Neji's inside cringed in the inside from the tears he knew he had caused. He hated seeing tears, and seeing her crying made it worse, his inside filling with guilt. "Look, I'm sorry." He told her.

"I have a name, you know!" She warned. "And I get it. I accept your apology, so go away." She snapped at him, still walking, not even looking at him. She glared with her red eyes straight to her home, hoping that Sasuke will feel something was heading towards him. A dangerous one.

"You don't sound what you are saying." Neji said plainly. "Look, Uchiha, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have judged you like what I did."

Izaki said nothing as she kept walking, her speed going faster, hoping he would give up. But once again, things doesn't go the way she wants. "Uchiha!" He finally growled. "Listen to me!" He grabbed her wrist, and made her stop in front of her. They were suddenly close, which made his stomach squirm, but firmly held his hand on her wrist. He didn't want her to be angry at him, and although Neji denied that fact, and told himself he was only doing it so because Sasuke had told him to, but deep inside, he knew that was a lie. He really didn't want her to be angry at him.

Izaki snatched her wrist away from him, her red eyes staring at him. "Huuga-san, can I trust you?" She asked, her eyes looking into his white Huuga eyes. Her eyes were still wet, and Neji felt even more guiltier.

Neji hesitated, 'why am I doing this?' he thought, but nodded. "Yes."

Izaki looked at him for a little more, and sighed. "Well, I guess I'll forget about this." She grinned towards him. "What ever made you change your mind is probably a big force." She said, as she turned. "Did you eat breakfast?" She asked him, to which Neji shook his head. "Then would you like to come over for breakfast?"

Neji paused before answering, thinking 'Whoa…2 minutes ago she was crying, and 1 minute ago she was mad at me, now this? And why am I feeling better now that she forgave me?' While he was thinking of these things, he unconsciously nodded to her question. "Sure."

Izaki grinned. "Good, come on then." She skipped towards home, feeling better that he was no longer thinking of her as a spy. 'Well, maybe he still does, but there was less thought of that earlier in him.' She grinned. 'I wonder what changed his mind about me. And I'm really glad that he doesn't think that way…I feel so much better.' Silence led them to her home, the two Ninja's thoughts flying on why they felt content.

Uchiha Mansion

"Sasuke-Oniichan!" Izaki called out, as she opened the door. "I know you are home…come out!" She demanded, and Sasuke poked his head out of his room after hesitating.

"Hey." He said weakly. He then saw Neji standing behind Izaki, and frowned. "Why is he here?" He asked, coming out to the hallway, now knowing something was up, and he had less chance of being murdered by his sister.

Izaki grinned evilly, lighting going off in the background. Her glare told him he was still in for it. "Thanks to you, Sasuke-Oniichan, we made up. And I also invited him over for breakfast."

"Oh…" Sasuke replied, as Izaki passed by him, whispering evilly, "I'll talk to you later." Neji walked past him, without saying a word.

"Huuga-san, please sit here." Izaki pointed to a chair as she started to prepare food. "Do you hate any kind of food in particular?"

Neji shook his head, as he took a seat next to Sasuke. "Do you always make breakfast?" He heard himself ask. 'What am I asking!' he thought as he punched himself inwardly.

Izaki shrugged. "Just depends on who wakes up first. Technically, I woke up first, but…" She glanced at Sasuke with a death glare. "Someone thought that it would be wise to skip someone's job." She said and dropped pieces of bacon onto the frying pan.

Sasuke pretended he did not hear what she had just said, but to concentrate on his tea that was in front of him.

Neji had an urge to say more, but held all of them back, thinking, 'Why do I need to make up conversations…with her!" He growled at himself. 'Besides, I don't even know why I said sorry to her! She's a spy, damn it!' He made an angry expression on as he mentally killed himself. Izaki either did not notice or did not care; she placed the food in front of Neji, to which he replied without thinking, "thank you." And smacked himself right after inwardly. 'ARG!'

"No problem." Izaki said, grinning which made Neji stop his conversation to himself, but to flush and look at his food. "Anyway, today's is Shikamaru-san and Chouji-san, anyone want to tell me what kind of people they are?" She asked, sitting down.

Sasuke shrugged as he ate his rice, "Shikamaru and Chouji are normal…semi…" He said, and shook his head. "Forget what I said. They aren't normal. Shikamaru is the quiet, boring one. Sure, he was the first to become a Chuunin and he has good potential…but he's just…weird." He bit into a piece of bacon.

"Weird?" Izaki asked, as she sipped her miso soup. "Why?"

This time, Neji answered, who again, hit himself inwardly as he spoke. "Well Shikamaru…doesn't like to do many things. He's lazy, not weird. Chouji, like he said, just eats a lot, and that's all there is to him. But…they are good fighters."

"Oh…" Izaki answered to him, thinking back to where she first met him.

"Geez, stop fighting, how troublesome." Said a man who just came in, looking bored as if the whole word was made out of nothing. "Shikamaru." He said plainly.

Next came Chouji, eating his chips. "Chouji." He said between mouthfuls.

"OH! Those two!" She exclaimed, clapping her hands together. "Oh…wait…yeah, I think I see what you mean by lazy and eater." She giggled.

Sasuke looked at Izaki. "Izaki, just to warn you, I think your routine today will be looking at the clouds, play shougi, and to go eat Yakiniku." ((AN: Shougi is Japanese chess, I think all naru fans know by now, and Yakiniku is the Japanese BBQ the thing Chouji eats often))

Izaki looked at her brother weirdly. "Really?" She asked, and turned to see Neji nodding. "Oh…Well…err…today might be fun…"

"Well, just telling you that, but I don't know, I think it'll be more interesting than what Kakashi is going to do…" Sasuke said, sighing. "Anyway, Izaki, I'll clean up here, you go get ready." He instructed as he stood up, taking the plates and bowls to the sink.

"All right. But there really isn't anything to get ready for. All I have to do is get my weapons." Izaki said, as she also stood up. "Neji-san, would you wait for me for couple minutes?" She asked. "Your house is on the way to where I am going to meet the 2, so we can walk together." She grinned, and without a reply, she ran to her room.

((Yeah, it was like..5:30 AM earlier, and now, it's magically 8:50! MUWAHAHAHAH!))

"So…" Sasuke said, as soon as she left. "Looks like you guys are all better now?" He asked, scrubbing the plates in his hands.

Neji shrugged. "My thought is no different."

"Right." Sasuke said, rolling his eyes. "Seriously, what you are saying does not match your attitude in front of her." He then turned to Neji, with the half washed knife in his hands. "If you hurt her again, I swear…" He growled, thunder in the background, matching Izaki.

"Ready!" Izaki cheered as she hopped into the room where the two were, to see Sasuke holding the knife, Neji looking at him. "Sasuke-Oniichan!" She said, disapprovingly. "What were you going to do?" She demanded.

"Nothing." Sasuke said, smiling weakly as he turned, and continued to wash, feeling her glare.

Izaki looked at her brother once more, and turned to Neji, and smiled. "All right, let's go!" She said, strapping her claw onto her hip belt.

Neji stood up, and nodded to Sasuke in goodbye, and walked out of the Uchiha mansion, after Izaki.

At the meeting spot

"Guess no one is here yet. Anyway, thank you, Neji-san for walking with me over here." Izaki said, bowing towards Neji.

Neji shrugged. "No problem." He said, and as soon as he turned to go to his house, he saw Gai walking towards them.

"Yo." Gai said, as he saw Neji looking at him.

"Oh, hello Gai-sensei." Izaki said, as she also noticed him.

Neji raised an eyebrow. "Sensei?" He asked.

Gai laughed. "She is my new student!" He said proudly. "Oh, I almost forgot, but Shikamaru and Chouji can't come today." He told Izaki. "They had to go on an emergency mission, and they'll be back by end of today, so they told me to tell you that this is going to have to wait till at least 2 o' clock. Shikamaru said to meet them here, at 2. They told me that they can fix another date then."

Izaki nodded. "All right." She replied. "Missions are way more important than a tour." She said, smiling. "Maybe I'll just hang around to spend time. Thank you for telling me."

"No problem at all. Hey! I have an idea!" Neji felt himself backing up a step. Gai with an idea? "Since you" He turned to Neji, "seem like you have nothing else to do, show her around?"

'WHAT!' Inner Neji yelled.

"Oh, no, it's all right, really, I can walk around." Izaki said, shaking her hands in front of her. "Really, I'll be fine."

Gai hugged her close onto his side and pointed up to the sky. "A young and pretty girl like you should not be left alone on the streets!" He yelled as the background changed, standing in sea with waves splashing behind them.

"Erm…" Izaki smiled weakly.

Neji sighed. Before Gai could go on about his speech that could finish his day, "Fine." He said.

Gai smiled. "Good!" He responded. He gave Izaki thumbs up and turned to Neji. "Watch her!" With that, he left the two.

Neji sighed as he walked back towards her. "So…where do you want to go?" He asked her.

"Hmm…" Izaki said aloud as she thought. "I really don't know." She said, truthfully. "I don't really know this place well yet…" She then trailed off, thinking hard. "OH!" She said, now knowing where she wanted to go to. "Is there a place where you train animal-nins?" She asked hopefully.

Neji nodded. "Yes." He answered. "You want to go there?" He asked.

Izaki nodded. "Yup!"

"All right. This way." Neji answered, as he led the way.

Animal-Nin Training Center

"WHOA!" Izaki exclaimed, as she looked around. "This is so cool! Look! Cat-Nin! Dog-Nins!" She hopped around as she looked at the animals being trained.

Neji sighed. She sounded like Naruto. Great. "Was there a particular animal you wanted to see?" He asked, again, inwardly kicking himself.

Izaki nodded. "Are there…wolves?" She asked. "Dogs are fine too, but I LOVE wolves…"

Neji nodded to her question. "The animals like that are held towards the back of the place. We have to get permission first, though. Wait here." With that, he started to walk towards the main office like thing. When he returned with permission, he saw that Izaki was talking to two guys. Neji felt himself frowning.

"So your name is Izaki-chan, eh?" One of them said, smiling. The man had Izaki backed up into a wall, one arm over her head, resting onto the wall, tapping her. "Are you here to train your animal?" He asked. "I am a trainer here. I could teach you!"

"Hey! Me too!" The other said, smiling broadly. He was also standing next to her, so close that Neji felt himself getting angry. "What animal? Dog? Cats? Bird?"

Izaki smiled weakly. "Erm…actually…" She trailed off. The men were closing in on her with questions.

"How old are you?" "Where do you live?" "Any siblings?" "Do you have a boyfriend?"

At that point, Neji stepped in. "She's on here to tour the place. That is all." He said. "And I'm sure you heard about her. Izaki, Izaki Uchiha." He warned, with an acidic tone. He shot a glare at the two men.

The men, backed up from his tone and about her identity. "So you are the girl!" They both exclaimed. "From Akatsuki…"

Neji narrowed his eyes. 'So they are Jounin or above.' He thought with grumbles. "Anyway, excuse us. We must get going." With that, he grabbed her hand and walked away from them

Izaki frowned as she walked next to Neji, heading towards the back. "What did they mean by Akatsuki?" She asked him. "From Akatsuki? I don't get it." She frowned deeper.

Neji growled. He made a mental note to tell Tsunade that there were careless people around. "Nothing." He said, and took another step, but Izaki had stopped, pulling him back. He had forgotten that he still had her hand. "What's wrong?" He asked, letting go of her had. He turned, and saw that Izaki's other free hand was on her head. "What's wrong?" He asked, again, somewhat worried. He was responsible for her right now.

Izaki groaned. "I'm all right." She told him, looking pale. "I don't know…what they said…" She trailed off, as her knees buckled. Neji caught her just in time, and moved her over to the wall, so she could lean onto it. "I felt…pain in my head…I thought that something was going to blow up in there…"

She winced. Her vision became blurry, and she saw pair of red eyes. They were staring into her, watching. 'Sharingan…? Sasuke-Oniichan?' She thought. No. The eyes felt more powerful, someone with power. But who?

Neji growled. He really needed to tell Tsunade about this. 'Damn…maybe the Akatsuki is waiting for an open spot so they can tap in…' He then looked at Izaki, who was looking a little better. Her vision had gone, and her surroundings were getting clearer. 'Well at least they didn't get in now.' He sighed in relief."Well…call off the trip?" He asked her.

Izaki shook her head. "No, I want to see the wolves, please?" She asked. "And please don't tell Sasuke-Oniichan about this. He'll treat me like a baby." She said, pouting.

Neji sighed once more. "All right. But tell me if you feel anymore pain, all right?" He asked. Without really thinking, he added few more words. "Even if its not today."

Izaki smiled at him. "Thank you."

Neji nodded, kicking himself over and over in his mind. The internal Neji, now was bruised every where. "All right. Let's go."

Izaki nodded. "Yup!" She then, feeling better, started to skip ahead of Neji, walking towards the back door.

"I have the key." Neji said, as he unlocked the door, revealing…?

Akanishi-san: OOOOOOHH! Cliffie! Lol.

BTW REVIEWERS

JapanAnimeGirl: Hehe, well here is the update, hope you review

Jazzy Uchiha: Well, here is more Neji. Hehe, it's so hard to ontrol him though, he's so...quiet. I had to make him a bit OOC. Heck, i mean, REAL OOC.

Uchiha-Clan-San: There ya go, I made him take his words back. Well, in a way.