Day two
"You again." Sakura grinned upon opening the door to Neji's irritated face the very next day. "Let me guess. White isn't considered a color and now you want a real answer?"
Seeing the handsome young man twice in a week was quite a record for her and made her boring nurse life a little more amusing. She had to make the best of it.
The Hyuuga was untouched.
"Second question, woman. And make this as painless as possible."
The door slid further open for him to pass, and he entered in silence.
This time, however, they only stayed standing in the hallway of the door.
"Second question, huh? Is this going to be a consecutive progressive interview?"
He kept his eyes averted from hers in a scowling manner.
"Just answer me straight. No coasting off topic."
Sakura put a finger to her cheek, eying his hand.
"I'm curious. You never do as you're told, Hyuuga-san. Why this time?" she asked tilting her head with a menacing grin.
"Keh." He grunted, disregarding her question.
Sakura crossed her arms.
"Did something happen?"
"No."
"Are you sure?"
"Second question, woman." He said impatiently and Sakura finally sighed.
"Ok. Ask away."
Again, Neji closed his eyes, avoiding her facial reaction.
"Favorite Food."
"Pardon me? What's that you said?" she asked.
"Are you deaf? I said 'fav---"
"I'm sorry, I don't think that is a properly formed query. I thought you said you had a question."
Neji's eyes twitched. The girl was bloody making an ass of him and he didn't like it one bit. This incident would definitely teach him to train harder so that the next time he could whoop Lee's bum to Jupiter. This would NEVER happen again.
"What. Is. Your. Favorite. Food?" he gritted his teeth, enunciating the words as if speaking to a child.
The kunoichi let out a satisfied grin and then stared into the ceiling tiles.
"Favorite food…"
She tapped her chin and bit her lip while scanning her memory of delicacies.
"Spare me the wait, woman! I have things to do." He roared.
Touchy.
"You said you wanted the truth. Patience, little one."
That struck a nerve on the Hyuuga's thinning tolerance. Little one? He was fifteen inches towering her!
Neji crossed his arms and dug dull nails into his skin. She scraped the surface of his mercy. Now she was dangerously straddling the line.
"Fruit." she stated, as if sensing his eagerness to leave.
Byaakugan eyes rolled.
"Can you specify, woman? That's a food group."
Sakura shook her head.
"Can't."
"Can't what?"
"Specify."
Neji was a paper's width of ripping his hair out.
"Why not?"
"One, because I like ALL fruit, and two, because that was your third question. You said you were only here for your second."
DAMN HER AND ALL HER TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE! Who the bloody heck cared about that?
Haruno Sakura. Her main goal was to drive him insane.
He could see it in her eyes.
"You are beyond intolerable, woman." He barked and turned just in time to see her smug smile.
"And you, Hyuuga, are not the genius I had once thought you were."
She was clearly teasing him and he HATED it.
The kunoichi's green eyes rested once again on his bandaged wrist.
"By the way, what happened there?" she asked and he immediately covered it with his long sleeves.
Crap.
"Nothing. I fell."
"Hyuuga Neji doesn't fall. Hyuuga Neji doesn't get careless injuries. And Hyuuga neji doesn't visit me on a regular basis with idiotic questions. I'm beginning to think that all this pieces together…"
Holy crap.
When they said she was smart, he didn't know she was SMART.
"What are you, little miss nosy detective? It's none of your business." He scoffed. It was a bit harsh, but the girl was driving him nuts.
"No, I'm not a detective. But I AM a nurse and that's a broken wrist. And healing injuries IS my business."
Neji was surprised at her keen observations.
Heal him? She was offering to heal him?
The Hyuuga flicked his wrist to prove there was nothing wrong.
"I'm fine."
Instantly a sharp pain shot up from the injury and he had to battle monstrous instincts not to screech out in agony. Lee's secret taijutsu move had definitely taken it's mark and toll on the Hyuuga's body. It WAS a broken wrist all right….
Sakura frowned at his obvious lie.
"You're not fine. Lemme at least LOOK at it?"
"No."
He took the liberty of making this his escape and he began to move towards the door. The girl made no movements of protest.
Leaning against the door frame, emerald eyes watched Neji's finely built back shrinking into the background.
"You're stubborn, Neji!" she called out to him, but figured he hadn't heard.
Before closing the door, her ears caught his deep voice echo back a response.
"And you're impossible."
Glossy lips curved into a playful smile as she shut the door behind her.
What an interesting start to a potential and unofficial friendship…
She was liking this.