A/N: For some reason I wanted to write a fic that switched things up a bit. I'm not going to give it away so you'll just have to read it to catch my meaning. So without further ado, I bring to you Lullaby.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
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All I want is a lullaby
Oh baby bring to it to me now
All I want is a lullaby
Oh baby
Oh baby
Close the door behind you
Come right in
Come closer
Closer
Can't you feel the passion inside?
Dim the lights
And take another step to me- Lullaby, Hikaru Utada
When Ino was thirteen she had decided to expand her broad of friends and get to know everyone much better. After the Sasuke retrieval mission she had come to find that in this profession she might never see her friends again. So with this in mind, Ino had learned a number of things about her friends.
Tenten for example like astrology and her favorite food was Chinese food and sesame dumplings but she hated umeboshi. Hinata had a liking for pressing flowers and liked sweet things, like Senzai and cinnamon rolls but hated seafood such as crab and eel. She had even got close to Shino, despite the bugs, and found that his hobby was observing bugs and he liked simple foods like vegetable salad while tofu balls and more strong-smelling foods weren't his thing. One person, however, that Ino had found was much more difficult of talk to be Hyuga Neji.
Her attempts to get to know him had been rebuffed time and time again. As they grew though, Neji became a more social person and finally opened up to Ino who had all but threatened the boy to tell her at least basic things. When he told her his hobby was meditation, she looked at him as though he was crazy. Something came from that however, since then a friendship had bloomed from simply getting to know people to getting to know him in particular.
It was to a point in their friendship, that by the time she was seventeen she received nightly visits from the handsome Hyuga. They did nothing inappropriate mind you. Neji would sit propped up against Ino's headboard and Ino would lay her head in his lap. Silence was their companion and neither complained of it.
At times, however, Ino would ask a most peculiar request that made Neji look at her as though she had lost her mind. She requested a lullaby. When asked why, Ino stated that it made her soul feel as though it was lifting when she slept. Neji had replied that even if he could, he would never sing. Ino was a very persuasive person however.
Within a few weeks, Neji would sing for her. It started off small. It started as humming in a low tone, just to satisfy the blond, but when she quickly grew unsatisfied with that and request more he would murmur a few tones he remembered his mother used to sing for him when he was a child. Each time Ino would demand more and each time, for some reason or another, Neji would comply. Until his voice was soft but clear enough to understand.
This continued despite Neji's complaints that if his father could see him now he would be ashamed. Ino would pinch his cheeks and tell him to keep singing.Then one day while Neji was singing and Inowas resting her head in his lap,she reached upand tangled her hands into his hairbefore bringing his head down towards her face. Lifting her head a bit, their lips met.
Neji then thought to himself, as he was walking home gingerly touching his lips, that maybe singing wasn't so bad.
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