hah...in German there's a saying, "sturmfreie Bude". It literally translates to "Storm-free Home"--

It means that you're alone at home. That's what I am right now(not counting my roommates), and loving it.

Well, this chappie is another time-filler. LeeNeji.

Thanks for all the reviews! I love you all!

randomness: Oomph. "Mein Schatz." Ah – now it's Fields of the Nephilim, "In the Year 2525".

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Whore Street

Whore Street was busy as always, but tonight just wasn't the Konoha group's night. They'd all missed a lot of their usual rest in the uproar around Naruto's injury, and each one of them was hard-pressed to hide their yawns from the customers. Sasuke had been ordered to rest by Ino and Tenten, and it was a further sign of his serious condition that he had accepted their command without protest. He now lay on Naruto and his mattress, deep asleep.

The two girls were working together to stay awake, offering themselves as a duo in order to avoid embarrassing lapses. The idea behind was it that, if one of them yawned or even dozed off, the other one could cover the slip up and pinch her friend awake in the meantime. It seemed to work pretty well, if the red marks on their hips could be taken as proof.

Gai had taken a few caffeine tablets, and was hyper enough to please any Viagra-pumped Hefner-wannabe(A/N: forgive me. It's a quarter to one in the morning, all right?). Shikamaru didn't seem to notice the difference between this day and any other. That wasn't exactly a surprise; he spent his days in complete inactivity, and sleep was also an action.

Lee had declined his Master's caffeine tablets, and was kind of regretting it. He could stay awake easily enough, but he found his attention span to be woefully short. Though, as he watched his Master nonchalantly finish his customers off like a salesclerk at a supermarket, he guessed that the caffeine would probably not have helped much in that department.

Once he'd filled his minimum quota of five clients, and was feeling sticky and sweaty and just generally disgusting, he told his Master that he was going home. Master Gai gave him a dazzling grin and told him to have a nice long sleep, then skipped to the next car. Lee moved off down the Street, glad to leave the hectically busy section of it and ease his eyes in the cool darkness.

"Hey."

Lee looked up. Neji was sitting on his windowsill as he had been the night before. He smiled slightly.

"'Night," Lee said, grinning. "Did counting whores not work?"

Neji's eyes flashed in amusement. "I'm afraid to try it."

Lee laughed, but it ended up as a huge yawn. "Hmm...What time is it?"

The kid glanced into his room. "Half past four."

Lee winced. "Oooh. Damn, I thought it was three or something."

"Been up a long time?"

"Huh. Hell yeah. One of my friends got hurt yesterday, and went missing for a while. We had to go to the hospital and all...I'm pretty used to sleeping during the day, so this one kind of knocked me out."

Neji cocked his head. "Hn. Sounds shitty."

Lee didn't know whether that was sarcasm or not, but he didn't feel like asking. "Nah, it's all right, you know? If you can help someone with it, then it's all good sometime."

The other kid shrugged. "Maybe."

"So where do you go to school?"

"That huge concrete block three streets up. City Center Number 56."

"Oh. Oh, I know that one! That really ugly one with all the prissy boys, right? No offense."

"None taken. They're assholes."

Lee grinned again. "Ah, common ground."

A soft laugh. "Did you ever...go to school?"

"Hmm? Oh, yeah. I did elementary and the first two years of high school. Then I dropped out."

There was an awkward silence after that. The kid shifted slightly. He wore a loose T-shirt over black pajama pants.

"So...made any other acquaintances here yet? The junkies are really nice, and the ones at the bus stop are all right as long as you don't drop hints about liking whips."

Neji laughed again. "One of the junkies offered me a plushie. That's pretty much it."

"Was it pink?"

"Huh? Um...yeah."

Lee chuckled. "They're always fighting about that one."

"Okay."

"Hell, that's what they do."

"Okay."

"Um...could you speak normally again?"

"Okay."

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Heh. Yeah. Some fun stuff. I have a suspicion that Neji is pretty OOC, but it's not the main pairing so it's not that bad.

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randomness: Subway to Sally. "Die Hexe."(live).

Oh, and note this; the 13th chappie is coming out on a fri the 13th. Hot, isn't it?