This story has changed considerably since i first started writing it. It's no longer told through the eyes of Neji but it is a story about Neji. This is told from the POV of Kami, and Kami doesnt care one bit about chronological order. So, until the next authors note, the timeline could be completely different. I will throw in hints to try and orient you some, but trust me, the end will be worth it. Also, this story is being upgraded from K to M. My apologies but... I blame my girlfriend.
Sasuke lay in soft comfortable darkness. Sleep had eluded him for days on end and his body had finally demanded rest. The migraine over his rinnegan eye on the otherhand made sleep impossible. The echoing voice of his wife, Sakura floated to him
"Give it time, my love. The pain will pass."
He smirked at the memory of her worried expression. He closed his eyes and meditated in the cloud of silk and feather down. In the fog of weary concentration, finally his mind drifted to sleep.
Shadows passed over head as Sasuke chalk clacked symbols on the slate under his knees. He waved away a buzzing insect and stared down again at one of five chakra enhancing symbols he had drawn. He squiggled the correct sign for the master and connected the five symbols one to the next and so on, so that all five fed finally to the center symbol.
Clapping chalk dust from his hands he looked up into the roiling grey and red sky. Sasuke's rinnegan eye touching briefly on the familure silver of an old rival.
"Hn." he mutters
A voice rumbles from the ground and sky shaking loose chips of slate, sending them skittering You must only reach for those who choose. Sasuke jerked around reaching for a sword that was not there. He shuddered violently.
Sasuke awakens suddenly. the phantom of his missing arm tingling hot in the toss of silken sheets... a voice... cold and hot, pain and pleasure... life and death rings out in his head.
THEY MUST CHOOSE!
He focuses on the migraine, the seeming source of the voice hand signs flutter into his sight ox, rat, monkey, dragon, dragon, ox, hare, boar... Too fast... Even for his eyes, its too fast. The symbol of triangles and wavy lines from his dream... Five people standing in a ring of chakra... ox, rat, monkey, dragon, dragon, ox, hare, boar, snake, ox, horse, tiger, dog, bird, bird... still too fast... The pain! A spear of fire lances through his rinnegan eye, he screams...
The door bursts open "SASUKE!" a familiar voice rings harsh in the . The pain crumbles inward, sucked into the void within his rinnegan eye... Sasuke's bonelessly limp body falls hard into the silk and feather down of his bed. Darkness... beautiful, precious darkness.