A/N: I…still have nothing to say. Just that this is probably going up late because of school and World of Warcraft-ing.
Dark-Princess-Hikari: No, Neji's baby is not going to have Lee's eyebrows. I sketched them out and I couldn't make the eyebrows (or the eyes) work. And yes, me and the magical monkey of mysticism know exactly what's going to happen. rubs hands together gleefully
SilverWing129: Ku ku ku ku ku! Naughty person indeed! I feel especially malevolent! But don't worry, they're not going to die. …In this chapter. Ku ku ku ku ku!
Chapter Four: Ato Gyakute! Naruto ken Neji Koishii! (An Unexpected Twist! Naruto and Neji Wanted!)
Neji winced as his stomach began to hurt. He and Naruto were crouched side-by-side in the back of a dingy cart. Their kidnapper, Taro, didn't seem concerned over if they were comfortable or not. Naruto placed his bound hands over Neji's.
"Neji-san?"
"I'm fine. But this position isn't good for the baby." Scooting forward, Naruto placed his hands over Neji's rounded stomach and frowned.
"It's moving an awful lot. Are you…" Naruto's eyes bugged out.
"Uh…this isn't good." Neji gritted his teeth and hissed.
"What."
"I think your water's about to break." The Hyuuga thought back to the book Hinata had given them.
"Yay."
"Hey, shut it you freaks!" Naruto was about to snap at Zinan, whom had spoken, when the cart suddenly stopped. Taro's voice could clearly be heard from the front of the tiny caravan.
"And who the Hell are you?"
"We're here to take the packages…yeah." Neji could practically see the smile on Taro's face.
"You got the money?"
"Yeah." Both Konoha nin could actually see the sleaze coming off the bandit leader.
"About that. The money we agreed on, it's not really enough."
"Not enough?"
"Yeah. You see my pal here, Zinan, he's got a pretty nasty infection. And medicine ain't cheap, ya' know. The money we agreed on…it might buy enough, but probably not. I don't want him to up and die." There was a sound that closely resembled the sound of someone being decapitated. Zinan's head rolled by. Neji and Naruto made a face.
"What the-?!"
"There. Now you don't have to worry about him…yeah."
"You bastards!" The bandits drew their swords and charged. Naruto took Neji's hands and began to sneak out of the cart. They bumped into an oddly familiar chest. Red eyes, the eyes of the Sharingan, looked at them both.
"Hello Naruto-kun." Naruto didn't have too much time to react before Kisame, always close to Itachi, grabbed them both and held them gently under his arms.
"Lets go, Itachi-sama."
"Itachi!" The older Uchiha flinched and glared at the way they'd come.
"You've got to be kidding me." Sasuke, closely followed by Lee and Gaara, sprang into the fray.
"Itachi, you bastard!"
"Sasuke!" The male's eyes went from narrowed in pure hatred to bugging out in shock. Lee wasted no time in shock.
"RELEASE MY NEJI-KOI, YOU YOUTHLESS FOOL!" Neji took a break from cringing in pain to roll his eyes. 'Youthless fool' was the ultimate insult in Lee Language. Itachi motioned for Kisame to leave.
"Take care of the babies, Kisame, or you'll make a nice plate of sushi."
"Yes, Itachi-sama." The shark/man/thing leapt off into the forest as Itachi fended off Sasuke and Lee. Gaara slipped past him and followed the man who had his fox. Neji noticed, as they were being carried away, that the sand on his back was beginning to cover his face, making it look very demonic and frightening. Kisame glanced back, swore colorfully, and began to run faster. Naruto began hurling obscenities all the while trying to bite him.
"Oh be silent, kitsune! Once we pull your child from your stomach, I will dispose of you personally!" That, apparently, was the last straw for Naruto. He had been ignored a good portion of his life: hated, shunned, glared at, talked about behind his back, even physically hurt. He had suffered through the ninja academy, the chuunin exams, Neji's 'You Are a Loser' speech, Sasuke's 'I'm a Traitor and Still Cooler Than Thou' speech, Orochimaru, the Akatsuki gang, and just about everything else. He was not going to stand idly by while his child was taken from him.
In a split second, his eyes went from blue to red and his whiskers darkened.
"YOU STAY AWAY FROM MY BABY!" Claws raked across Kisame's backs, forcing him to let them both go. Naruto grabbed onto a branch and clung to it, hissing and snarling. Gaara caught Neji in a giant, demonic hand created from the sand on his back. He placed Neji on the branch and got ready to help Naruto, but didn't move.
"Gaara, Naruto needs-"
"Space. Unless, of course, you want to go near him." Neji looked over at Naruto. Instead of cute, innocent, happy-go-lucky blue-eyed Naruto, there was a fearsome, snarling, severely pissed off red-eyed Naruto.
"No, I think I'm good."
The only thing scarier than a demon, Neji decided, is a mother whose baby is in danger.
Kisame flinched as he gingerly fingered the claw marks.
"Careful, Naruto-kun. You don't want to kill your baby." Naruto bared his fangs as nine tails made from his now red chakra twitched angrily behind him. Lunging forward, the fox began to brutally and mercilessly attack the Akatsuki member. Kisame, still under orders to protect the babies, couldn't fight back. Several times he tried to get near Neji, but either Naruto or Gaara forced him back. Kisame finally got a shot in, backhanding Naruto in the face and sending him reeling towards Gaara, who caught him.
"Naruto, you have to stop. What about the baby?" The blonde bared his fangs and snarled, but conceded the fight to Gaara. Kisame seemed fine with this, seeing as how he could (try to) hit the redhead without going against Itachi's orders. Speaking of Itachi, the older Uchiha suddenly appeared between Naruto and Neji.
"Shall we try this again?" As the man picked them both up, Neji looked over his shoulder. Neither Lee nor Sasuke were following him.
"What did you do to Lee?!"
"He won't be bothering us anymore, Neji-kun." Naruto, still in 'Motherly Mode Five' bit Itachi on the shoulder.
"Let me go!" Gaara heard Naruto's tone of voice and whipped around to save them, only to get bashed in the back of the head by Kisame's sword.
"Gaara!" Red eyes flicked from blue to red and back again. The Kyuubi container wasn't sure how to act anymore. He was angry, but scared. Neji helped him by biting Itachi's ear so hard it bled.
"OW!" Itachi nearly dropped Naruto as Neji began pulling back, intent on ripping off the man's ear. He shook his head back and forth like a dog, tearing the ear pretty badly and making Itachi all the more uncomfortable.
"KNOCK IT OFF!" The Hyuuga growled and moved to his nose. NO ONE hurt his Lee and got away with it. Naruto wriggled out of Itachi's grasp and shimmied down the tree to Gaara. The sand nin was laying on the ground, trying to recover from the blow to his head.
"Ow." Kisame tried to pry Neji off of Itachi, whom was trying to make him stop tearing off small and easy to reach limbs, such as he lower lip. Neji was finally pulled off the Uchiha and held wriggling in the air.
"You bastard! You are so dead unless you tell me what you did to Lee!"
"YOSH! HERE I AM, NEJI-HIME!" All eyes turned a very beat up, but seemingly victorious, Rock Lee. He held one of the Akatsuki members under his arm. Beside him stood Sasuke with another one.
"Lee! You're…well, you're alive, at least."
"Yosh! My stunning and limitless youth has once again rescued me from the jaws of pain! I will now rescue my beloved Neji-hime!" Neji blinked, as he not only recognized the tone Lee was using, but the word 'hime'.
"Lee, are you…are you drunk?!" Lee swayed back and forth and Sasuke sighed.
"Yes." Itachi, nursing a bleeding lip, narrowed his eyes.
"It appears that your beloved is a master of the Drunken Fist, Neji-STOP BITING ME!" Having gotten over his shock, Neji redoubled his assault against Itachi's earlobes. Kisame yanked him back and a good portion of Itachi's ear went with him. Itachi froze and his eyes grew huge.
"Itachi-sama?"
"…Ow." Sasuke threw the Akatsuki member he had been holding to the ground and lunged forward.
"Die, Itachi!" The older Uchiha member recovered quickly enough to block Sasuke's attack. As the two began their own private battle, Kisame began the task of fighting Lee without hurting Neji.
"Lets see how well you do when you're missing your face!" Lee, the sake wearing off, was sober enough to be cautious when driving his foot into the shark/man/thing's face. A kunai came from nowhere and embedded itself into his chest.
"Lee!" Sasuke glanced over his shoulder, giving Itachi enough time to drive his knee into his little brother's stomach. The man was about to do more when a giant…tongue came out from the trees and stuck itself to his face. The tongue dragged itself up his face, leaving a long trail of frog slime. The tongue snapped back to its owner, a giant blue frog. Atop it stood Jiraiya (in a heroic-ish pose) and Kakashi (reading Icha Icha Paradise). Over Jiraiya's shoulder was a fairly attractive young girl with long brown hair.
"Yosh! We have finally arrived at the perfect moment to save the day!" Naruto looked like he wanted to hit the man.
"Oi! Ero-sennin! What do you think you're doing, posing like an idiot, when there are people hurt?!" Kakashi looked up from his book.
"Ah, sorry, Naruto-kun! We didn't mean to be so late, but this lovely young girl here was under a spell and required a certain amount of saving." The young girl in question groaned and clutched her head. Itachi, now covered in frog slime, calmly wiped some off his face.
"Your entrance needs work." Neji, a bit angry at being ignored (he's still being held by Kisame), growled.
"GET ON WITH IT! I'M DYING HERE!" He flinched as another wave of pain hit him. At the same time, Lee hit Kisame in the face (again) and began to pound him into submission. As soon as he got the chance, he grabbed Neji and ripped him from Kisame's grasp, placing him on the ground next to Naruto and Gaara.
"Neji-koi, please wait here."
Oh good, he's not drunk anymore. But…is that good?
As Lee leapt back into the treetops, Neji clenched his stomach. Gaara, hand over the wound on his head, frowned.
"Neji, are you…"
"I'm fine." Nodding slightly, Gaara leapt back into the fight. Naruto placed a hand on Neji's stomach and frowned.
"Hold on." Neji couldn't even bear to look at the fight. He squeezed his eyes shut and bit his lip, trying not to cry. Above them, Kakashi and Sasuke fought Itachi while Jiraiya and Lee teamed up against Kisame. Gaara was able to lend help both ways while keeping the two Sasuke and Lee had knocked out unconscious. In other words, it was a very one-sided fight. Finally, Itachi dragged Kisame away from his opponents.
"It looks like our plans will have to wait." They scooped up their comrades and disappeared. Kakashi grabbed Sasuke before he could chase after his older brother.
"Sasuke, we have other things to worry about. Like Naruto." The Uchiha was by Naruto's side almost as fast as Gaara. Lee landed next to Neji and placed a hand on his stomach.
"Neji-koi?" Through gritted teeth, the Hyuuga hissed.
"Now." Everyone was a bit confused.
"Now…home?" Even though Neji loved Lee, he felt like strangling him.
"No. Now baby." Lee's eyes bugged out even more than usual.
"N-now?! But…Tsunade…she said…weeks…"
"And baby said now. So lets go with what the baby says, hm?" Kakashi scooped up the Hyuuga.
"Back to Konoha! Mission done, it was a success!" Naruto grimaced and held his stomach. Gaara frowned in thought, then his eyes widened.
"Naruto, did you just fight through your contractions?!" The blonde smiled nervously.
"Not…exactly…" The speed the group ran to Konoha was beyond human standards. Lee ran as fast as was possible for him, which was pretty damn fast. Gaara used his demonic abilities to keep up with Sasuke, whom was going as fast as Lee. Kakashi and Jiraiya ran a bit behind them (Jiraiya still had the girl). They reached Konoha in a matter of minutes. All of them headed straight for the hospital. Gaara made it first and explained everything in record time (3.2 seconds) and the nurses and doctors began their work.
"You all will have to wait outside." This would have outraged Sasuke and Gaara if Naruto, red-eyed and in pain, glared at them.
"Go. Away." They patiently waited in the waiting room with Kakashi and Lee. Actually, Lee wasn't patiently waiting at all. He would sit down and, five seconds later, get up and begin pacing. He would do this for ten seconds, then walk out into the hall. He would be gone for seven seconds, then come back and wait by the door. He would do this for ten seconds, then start pacing for another ten seconds, and then sit down again. He repeated this over and over and over until Gaara forced him into a chair and snarled at him, threatening to crush him if he didn't stop fidgeting.
Kakashi wisely decided this wasn't the best time to read Icha Icha Paradise and quietly put it away. Gai, Kankurou, Temari, and Iruka arrived not too long later. Gai almost gave a speech about youth, but Lee told him that he didn't feel like hearing about it and would rather it be quiet. Temari and Kankurou attempted to console Gaara, whom stood in a corner, seething. Iruka sat next to Kakashi, biting his nails with anxiety. They waited for six hours before the nurse came out.
"It's done." Three males leapt up and were in front of her, almost physically pummeling her with a million questions.
"Are they all right?"
"What about the babies?"
"Did anything go wrong?"
"Can we see them?"
"Are they hurt?"
"Are they awake?"
"Why'd it take so long?"
"Let us see them!"
"Did they fall asleep?" The poor nurse looked as though she wanted to run out screaming. Iruka shushed the three of them and turned to the woman.
"Are Naruto-kun and Neji-kun all right?" The nurse breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.
"Yes. They're both fine. So are the children."
"May we see them?"
"Yes, but please, only a few at a time. It was very hard on them both. They're very tired. Neji-san's room is there and Naruto-san's room is there." Lee and Gai immediately headed for Neji's room while Sasuke and Gaara made a beeline for Naruto's. As quietly as possible, Lee opened the door and peeked in. Neji sat in bed, propped up against several pillows, holding a little baby in his arms. He was smiling gently at it. The whole scene was so beautiful that Gai made an excuse and ran off to go cry over it. Lee took a deep breath and timidly stepped in.
"N-Neji-koi?" The Hyuuga looked up and smiled happily.
"Lee, come meet our daughter, Hana."
End of Chapter Four
A/N: No, this isn't the last chapter. And I'm thinking of making…wait for it…
ANOTHER SEQUEL.