A/N: Okay so it's taken me FOREVER to come out with chapter Two, but you know it's finally out! Anyway Thank you Kuki Salazar for bein' my Beta and putting up with my...me being me lol and well..yeaaaaaah thanks! :D I love youuuu. Anyway. This has taken me soooo long to do, and I am proud of most of it; not the ending. Neji is a little OOC, duh obviously, but he's talking more which is slightly important to the plot; but hey I didn't make him go WAAAAAAAAAAAY OOC, hopefully. Anyway...again the ending sucks I got really lazy in typing it towards the end and I just really wanted to end it.

Song: Moster by Meg and Dia :D

He didn't know what had come over him, but his instincts kicked in: as soon as he had seen the pink-haired girl fly through the air, he had quickly rushed to catch her before she hit a tree. The pale, pearl-eyed boy looked down at the hot-pink-haired girl in his arms. Her face was scrunched up, eyes clenched shut, waiting for the impact of the tree that obviously never came. He watched as one of the lime-green eyes of the girl cracked open slightly. When she realized she wasn't crushed, her face softened and her eyes shifted around. Her electric green eyes looked up at the opal eyed boy. She felt one of his arms under legs and the other on her arm, close to her chest. Her face flushed red as she closed her eyes again.

"T-thanks. You can set me on my feet now." Neji just nodded and let her down, but not gently.

"OW! You jerk! What the the heck was the big idea, doin' that for?" Lina shouted as she stood up and narrowed her eyes at him.

"You told me to set you down." Neji replied coolly.

"YEAH, ON MY FEET! Not drop me, you a-jerk!" Lina shouted, and almost cursed again which had made Neji smirk.

"Sorry to interrupt this entertaining show of affection between two little kids but, I was challenged by you, girlie." The mummy man spoke. At the word 'girlie,' Lina looked over her shoulder.

"What did you call me!"

"Huh, just like the pathetic weaklings you call team mates, you have a temper." The spiky haired guy smirked. Lina's head whipped in his direction. Her lime eyes pierced into his, anger filling her body. Her hands took the forms of shaking fists. She bowed her head, trying not to succumb to her anger.

"What. Did. You. SAY!" She screamed as she glared at the enemy.

"Do I have to spell it out for you? Your team mates are weaklings, and you're probably one too." The older ninja smirked. TenTen and Neji could feel and see the anger sizzling off of Lina, and with Neji's byakugan still activated, he saw her chakra level rise. His eyes narrowed in curiosity, then widen in shock when he saw Lina's eyes. Her eyes weren't the same vibrant green eyes that showed anger. They were...different. They resembled the byakugan, except she had pupils. The Hyuuga boy could see little veins coming from the side of her face. He's never seen anything like it.

Could, she have a kekkai genkai? How could that be? She doesn't come from a clan, her parents are dead! Neji thought as she stared at her, god-smacked. "Lina..."Neji started but Lina's hate filled eyes shifted to him. He got the memo, her eyes just screamed for him to shut up. He sighed and closed his eyes; but as soon as he opened them, Lina was already throwing a punch at the spiky haired sound ninja. The sound nin dodged her just in time, and Lina tumbled onto the floor. She growled as she stood back up and ran towards him, he dodged but she disappeared. The sound nin looked around, but Neji saw where she had reappeared from. The sound nin didn't see it coming to him, one second he was standing looking for her, the next the pink haired girl dropped kicked him in the head. TenTen and Neji's eyes widened, from Lina's physical appearance she didn't look strong enough to perform a drop kick like that.

"What-What the hell!" The mummy man gasped. Lina stopped with a sadistic smile on her face, which obviously didn't mix with the hate filled eyes of hers, the combination of the two weren't good. Lina kept throwing punches and kicks at the mummy man, but each time he blocked. Neji's eyes narrowed at the scene. Lina's loosing, she can't get a hit in. Neji thought to himself. Next thing he knew Lina was on her knees, clutching her head in her hands. His eyes widened, until he saw the sound nin had been thrown back into the tree. The veins on the side of Lina's head grew more, you could distinguish that they were there. Neji's eyes widened again as he saw her chakra level rise even more. Any more of this and Lina's chakra will disperse, she'd black out, or worse—die, Neji thought. But what I don't get is how did that sound ninja get thrown back? Lina didn't perform any jutsu, Neji thought. The sound ninja got up onto his feet and went to release his attack, but instead of Lina going down on her knees, she caused the attacker to fall to his. This isn't making any sense, how can she deflect the sound waves with out using any form of jutsu...Neji continued to think. TenTen looked from the scene briefly and to her team mate.

"Neji, what's going on? What's wrong with Lina?" She asked. "How is she doing all of this with out using any type of jutsu? This isn't normal."

"No, it's not..."Neji mumbled to he realized it. His eyes grew wide and mouth went ajar. That's it! She isn't using a jutsu of any sort, it's her eyes. Her eyes must enable her to see movement of the wind and the air. And seeing that sound waves must travel through the air she's able to see them and deflect them back at him. Neji smirked triumphantly as he understood. The spiky haired sound nin was approaching Lina from behind, TenTen and Neji's eyes grew wide. The fight now was getting unfair. "Lina! Behind you!" Lina whipped around and glared at the second male sound ninja. She smirked sadistically as he flew back.

"Trying to double team me, huh?" Lina's voice was deeper than normal. She grinned evilly as she backhanded the mummy ninja, sending him flying. Lina made her way to the spiky haired ninja, the sound nin tried moving but no matter how hard he tried he was unable to move. Lina cackled as she stomped on his leg. The ninja screamed out in pain.

She's got to stop this...her chakra level is too high to mess with right now. Any more anger and the chakra will burn her alive. Neji thought as he jumped down from the tree and made his way towards her. Lina was about punch the ninja but something stopped her.

"LINA! STOP!" Shibano's scream stopped the pink haired girl. Lina shifted her head to look at her chocolate haired team mate. Tears coming forming and fear seeping from her best friends brown eyes. "Stop, this isn't like you..." Lina just turned away and was about punch again until a warm hand grabbed hold of both of hers. She looked over her shoulder to see the pear-eyed Hyuuga holding her in his strong grip. The pink haired girl growled as she tried to get out of his grip but failed. "Lina, please stop acting like this, it isn't you! You'd never do this! You aren't yourself!" Shibano cried out to her friend. The veins on the side of her face began to disappear, but Neji still saw her chakra level was the same and that her Hyuuga like green eyes were still intact.

"Lina, listen to us! Snap out it! Your chakra level is too high, any more of this and you could possibly die!" Neji exclaimed, but that didn't matter to her. Lina still struggled to free her self from his grasp. The opal eyed boy sighed as he grew closer to her and whispered in her ear. "You need stop, you could kill Shibano..." Lina's eyes widen as she let her arms fall. He felt her chakra level go down slowly. Neji slowly let go of her wrists, but was caught off guard when she spun around and hugged him. He blinked and looked down with wide eyes, the bubblegum-pink haired girl was crying on his shoulder. She gripped his shirt tightly and didn't let go.

"I don't want to kill Shibano..."She whimpered. Neji didn't know what to do, he just stood there. Suddenly, he sensed a different kind of chakra.

"Enough of this..." The mummy sound nin glared as he stood up. "Are you just going to stand around all day, or are we gonna fight?"

"Hn. It looks like it's been taken out of our hands.."Neji spoke up. Lina blinked as she looked up at him, realizing who it was. She stood up by herself and ran to Shibano.

"Sa-Sasuke! You're awake!" Sakura announced. Lina looked away and her eyes grew wide as she saw Sasuke standing up. He didn't look normal, he had these black markings all over his body and purple chakra flowing all around him. Neji turned to Lina and Shibano.

"Lina...get Shibano, and Kisho." he ordered. Lina looked at him strangely, not knowing what he meant. "I don't like this...we probably need to get to higher ground." Lina nodded and tried to pick both Kisho and Shibano up, but failed.

"Uh..Neji..."Lina called softly. The pale lavender eyed boy looked at her. "I-I can't hold two...would you mind getting Kisho?" She asked. Neji sighed and nodded, Lina helped Kisho onto Neji's back and before she could say pie Neji was already up on the branch where they originally were. Shibano got onto Lina's back and the pink haired girl made her way to the tree branch.

"I don't like the looks of this..." Shibano spoke up as she watched the scene. Lina nodded in agreement.

"I don't either, but...we have to just stay and watch how it'll play out. It's Sasuke, so I doubt he'll need any help defeating those goons." Lina stated faithfully in her childhood friend. The group on the tree branch continued to watch the scene. Lina wanted to jump down there and help but she knew she couldn't. She could feel Neji's cold opal eyes watching her. It's almost as if he cared...But maybe it's just that he didn't want some girl that's done nothing wrong die? Lina thought to herself.

It was a good forty-five minutes since the incident with the sound ninjas, and Lina and Shibano were currently teaming up with Team Gai for the moment. Shibano and Lina were looking after Kisho, who was still unconscious; and TenTen and Lee had left to gather wood and food, and Neji stayed, keeping guard.

"Get some rest, Shibano." Lina ordered her as she stood up. Shibano looked up at her pink haired team mate.

"No, you need your re-"

"DON'T ARGUE WITH ME!" Lina snapped as she glared at Shibano, but her face softened when she saw the shock on her brown haired friends face. "Sorry...it's just you went through a lot more than me today, so you need your rest. I'm going to go help Neji keep watch." Lina smiled softly at her friend as she turned around and walked towards the Hyuuga boy. She sighed as she sat down against the tree he was standing against. Neji looked at her from the corner of his eye and looked forward. Lina's eyes cast downwards onto the forest ground.

'How could I have been that strong? I've never been able to leave a bruise on Kisho nor Shibano, always a red spot. Was...I possessed by something? It was just all so weird and overwhelming. I could...see everything in the air around me. It was weird.' Lina thought to her self as she brought her knees to her chest and rested her head on them.

"You're thinking about what happened earlier, aren't you?" Neji asked sharply as he continued to keep watch. Lina looked up at him and nodded, then thought that he didn't see her, she answered verbally. "You know, it wasn't really your fault. You were doing what you thought was right to protect your teammates, it's...somewhat natural." Neji tried to comfort her, but he had to choose his words carefully.

"No. I..I could have hurt Shibano. I've..never EVER gave someone a bruise before, but it was weird, I could see everything in the air, chakra and the sound waves that the sound ninja were sending. I could see that, and I was able to deflect it, just like that..That's what I'm thinking about. I've never been able to do that before..." Lina explained to the older boy as she kept her eyes focused on the ground. Neji looked over his shoulder at her, he sighed and walked over to her; he sat beside her and rested a hand on her shoulder.

"It may be unnatural for you now, but once the chuunin exams are over, I'm sure all this will be natural for you." Neji tried comforting her; in all honesty, Neji didn't know the first thing about anything that was happening to him now.

"Neji..." Lina started and Neji looked at her curiously. "Do you think I have a blood line limit...?" Neji was left speechless; only a while ago he was thinking the same exact thing. "Neji..." Lina spoke as she looked p at him. Neji turned to look and saw her green eyes. For the first time he didn't know what the answer was, nor what to say. Neji's eyes' softened as his hand continues to rest on her shoulder.

"I...I don't know. You could, if I knew whether or not you came from a clan, then I'll be able to find out..":Neji told her. Lina's eyes widened a bit at the news, and a small smiled played on her lips.

"I...I do come from a clan..." She spoke up. Neji's eyes widened a little. "The Hawatye clan, they, unlike the Uchiha and the Hyuuga clans, aren't residents of Konoha, but they originated from the village..." Lina informed him. "That was my father's Clan. I've only met them once, when I was three and at his funeral. There was custody issues, but after that, I never saw nor heard of them again." Lina explained. "I don't really know much about them, except what they look like, their history and such is a complete mystery to me..." She finished and Neji just looked at the ground.

"I'll do some digging...I'm sure my uncle has records of the Hawatye clan." He stated. "Especially if they have a blood line limit that is descended from the Byakugan." Neji finished and Lina's ears perked up.

"What...?"

"What happened today with your eyes, it looked like the Byakugan..."

"Oh.." Lina just sighed. "Neji.."

"Yeah."

"Was I really that scary today?" She asked softly as she looked at him. Neji just looked at her, his arm sliding over her shoulders.

"Yes...you were." He answered truthfully. Lina took a deep breath and latched herself to him, burring her face in his shoulder.

"Please make sure I never get that scary ever again.I don't want to hurt anybody, especially not Shibano..."Lina cried softly. Neji's grip tightened on her shoulder and he nodded. Rock Lee and TenTen came through the trees and stopped dead in their tracks when they saw the scene before them.

"Uh- Are we interrupting anything?" Lee asked as he raised an eyebrow with six fish over his shoulder. Lina jumped and fell off the root she was sitting on. She turned her pink, red-faced head to her new friends.

"Uh...no. Not really..nothing going on her!." Lina stuttered as she stood up, along with Neji. Lina brushed herself off and smiled nervously at the three. "Well, I will go check up on Shibano and Kisho..." Lina laughed nervously as she maneuvered her way around Neji and into their campsite. Lee and TenTen looked a Neji suspiciously.

"So...what was going on? What happened to make you go all...buddy buddy on our Lima-bean, huh Neji?" Lee raised an eye brow at him with a smirk on his face.

"Nothing. She was crying and I felt obliged to put up with her." Lina's eyes widened at this. She looked over her shoulder and glared at the back of Neji's head. OBLIGED! THAT ASS! Lina thought.

"What was she crying about?" TenTen asked suspiciously. Lina caught sight of what seemed like jealousy.

"What happened today...with the sound ninja." Neji answered seriously.

"Ah...That's something anyone would be crying about, really." Lee sympathized as he looked to TenTen and Neji with soft eyes. TenTen looked to the dirt with sad eyes.

"Yeah...but it wasn't natural...how she was acting." TenTen spoke up softly. "And the look in her eyes...it was like she was going to kill..."

"Yeah...it wasn't natural." Neji agreed. "And from what we've observed of her and her team is this: Lina is loud and has a temper, and a mighty big one at that. Shibano, she's easy going, laid back and she takes a joke. And finally, Kisho: He's a combination of the two. He has a temper, not as big as Lina's but it's there, but he is a prankster, likes to make jokes in the wrong situations." Neji finished, and Lee and TenTen nodded in agreement.

"But...I can understand why Lina was so angry..." Lee spoke up, thus causing Neji and TenTen to look at him curiously. "When we were eating, I asked if her and her teammates were close and this is what she told me exactly: 'I don't know what I'd do without one of them by my side, I guess I wouldn't be the same mentally or emotionally.'.She saw Kisho knocked out and Shibano on the verge it must have triggered something in her mind, a memory or something and she snapped." Lee told them.

"Yeah...and that kind of reaction is common with people who have had something tragic happen in their past; seeing the death of a family member or a friend, even being bullied..."Neji told them.

"Was she bullied, though?" TenTen asked.

"Yeah...I'd hear her crying in Hinata's room some days...even now." Neji replied.

"And her parents died...?" Lee asked, Neji just nodded.

"Yeah...but I don't know the details of that story." Neji answered. Lee sighed as he began to walk towards the campsite.

"I'm going to see Lina, and start cooking this fish before it goes bad." Lee told them, the other two nodded. Lee didn't get far from his team when he saw Lina standing there, clenching her fist and her hair covering her yes. "Lina...?" He spoke. Neji and TenTen looked in Lee's direction, they made their way over to him. Lina glared right at Neji.

"You...bastard!" Lee, TenTen, Neji and Shibano, who was still awake, eyes all widened at Lina's words.

"You...You cursed, Lina." Shibano stated.

"Yes, I know and I'm sorry Shibano, but this bastard pisses me off!" Lina glared straight at Neji.

"I hate you! I can't stand you!" She shouted.

"Lina...calm down. You're being too loud, you could give out our position!" Lee tried to calm her down, but it didn't work.

"You were obliged! OBLIGED! I can't believe you! For moment, for a while I thought you were actually an okay guy! No! I take it back! You are a jerk!" She shouted at him. "As soon as Kisho wakes up, we're leaving," she glared.

"Fine, go ahead. I don't care." Neji replied coldly. Lina glared at him. "Have fun trying to control that monster that's in side you next time an enemy comes along. I know sure as hell that I'm not going to be there to help you again." Lina's eyes widened along with the three others watching the scene.

"Neji...that was a-" TenTen was cut off by a loud smack that filled the area. Birds flew away, and silence filled the air around them. Shibano's eyes widened as she stared at her best friend; Lina had just smacked Neji across the face, and it was hard. Neji had a large, red hand print on the right side of his face, but he didn't realize the pain, he was too shocked of what had happened. Opal eyes stared wide into narrow green ones. Lina was breathing hard as she dropped her hand.

"I trusted you for a split second...hoping that you'd help. You PROMISED me. Now I know never to trust you with anything." Lina sneered at him as she pushed pass him and walked away from the campsite. An awkward silence fell upon the group of four. Shibano glared at Neji, and so did Rock Lee; TenTen was in shock of what happened before her to really have much of a reaction at all.

"That was out of line, Neji" Lee stated simply. "I'm going to find her and make sure she's okay," he told them as he handed the fish to TenTen.

"You know, I knew you were a jerk and all, Hyuuga..." Shibano started, and Neji's pale eyes turned to her, "but I would've never thought that you would say such a cruel thing to someone. Now I know." Shibano glared at him and turned away from him. TenTen sighed and started the fire to cook the fish.

"Hey, Lina...?" Lee called out to the pink-haired girl. Lina looked over her shoulder at Lee then looked back in front of her. "What Neji said was..."

"Uncalled for? Wrong?" Lina asked as Lee nodded his head, but also gave her a verbal reply. "Ugh! I just can't believe him. For one moment, he was okay...someone I could actually like being around. Then his pride kicks in and hes a jerk again." Lee looked at her softly and rested a hand on her shoulder.

"Well...give it time? That's what I did when the three of us first became a team."

"And how long did it take for Neji to be civil towards you?" Lina asked, looking at him.

"A few months...about six. Maybe a year. I don't really remember. It just happened." Lee answered, then looked at her with a smile. "Be patient. Patience is a virtue."

"Not one of mine." Lina smiled lightly. Lee chuckled and the two began to walk back to camp, where they were hit with the aroma of cooked fish. Lina's nose twitched at the smell of it. She noticed Shibano sitting beside TenTen, laughing and joking around.

"Shibano! I thought I told you to rest!" Lina exclaimed.

"I am resting!"

"No your not! Kisho is resting!"

"Kisho is also knocked out cold." Shibano told her. Lina sighed in agreement and nodded her head. She looked over at her purple haired friend and saw him stir. Kisho wasn't the type of person to be laying around doing nothing, and it seems that the twelve year old was coming to.

"Well Kisho, my dear dead-weight-of-a friend, I see that you are coming back to join us in the land of the living." Lina smirked. Kisho opened his eyes blushed when Lina's face was so close to his.

"Ah! Lina! What the hell are you doing!" He exclaimed, then looked around. He took notice of the extra three people. "And what the hell are they doing here!" He shouted. Lina sighed and smacked him upside the head.

"They were the ones that helped you guys get away from the sound ninja." Lina told him. Kisho sighed and was about to thank them until he caught sight of Neji; and he glared at him.

"You bastard!" Everyone's eyes widened at the shock and suddenness of the bad language.

"KISHO!" Shibano shouted at him.

"What! I said that when I see him, I'll rip him to shreds!" Kisho exclaimed.

"Oh, really? I'd like to see you try." Neji smirked, "you can't beat me. You just got out of a major fight, and your weaker than normal. Plus, I doubt you could ever defeat me." Neji countinued smirking. Kisho glared at him, then noticed a crimson spot on the right side of Neji's face. He raised a purple eyebrow at it.

"How'd you get that mark on your face?" He asked. Everyone who could, looked at it again, and Neji just closed his eyes. "Does it hurt if you touch it?" Kisho asked as he stood up and went to touch it; Neji winced. Kisho went to do it again but Neji stopped him. "Who gave it to you?"

"I did." Lina spoke up as she glared at Neji.

"Oooh, damn. What'd you do this time, Hyuuga?" Kisho laughed.

"He crossed the line. And I refuse to ever speak to him again." Lina replied.

"I don't think that'll last long at all." Shibano whispered to Lee and TenTen, and they agreed; but Lina over heard her and smacked her on her arm.

"It will! He doesn't deserve my time to talk to him." Lina told her dark-brown-haired friend.

"I don't deserve your time! Hah! Don't make me laugh, Hawatye. It's you who doesn't deserve MY time." Lina's eye twitched as she clenched her fist.

"Oh, really? I didn't call you a monster, now did I?" She shouted at the Hyuuga boy. Kisho's eyes widened. Lina realized what she said, and she was gonna tell everyone not to tell Kisho what had happened earlier that day.

"What happened!"

"Nothing, we were fighting, nothing special. Things got blown out of proportion." Lina told Kisho. "It really isn't anything you should be worrying about, Kish." Lina smiled, but Kisho looked at her suspiciously and glared at Neji; he let it go.

The six gathered around and ate their fish, there was few conversation, just between TenTen and Shibano, reallly; but when it was silent, 'awkward' was the only way to describe it. Team Gai and Shibano got the hint that Lina didn't want Kisho to know about what had happened while he was passed out; and they all silently agreed it was best.

"Well...thanks for everything, guys!" Lina smiled as Team Five gathered their things. "We're heading off, we'll see you guys at the tower!" Lina, Shibano and Kisho waved as they began to walk off. The next day, they got an earth scroll and began to make their way to the tower; it wasn't easy, but they made it. When they got to the tower they were greeted by their sensei: Renji. He told them that they could open their scrolls and that it was a ninja's duty to follow every instruction that was given to them, even resisting the temptation of looking at classified information. Their sensei also ordered them to go get checked up and get some rest, along with getting some real food in their stomach. Lina yawned as she rested her head on the wall. She was exhausted. She hadn't gotten a lot of sleep the past few days, simply because every time she closed her eyes, flashbacks of the day she was 'possessed', as she put it, came to her mind.

"Hey, Lina!" Shibano called out to her, and Lina jumped and looked at her friend.

"Yeah, 'Bano?"

"TenTen and her team just got back!" Lina was sort of happy to hear the news. She really wanted them to make it for the next round. She had hoped that she could face Neji in the third round, to show him that she is strong; that she's worth his 'time,' and she wanted to see Lee. Shibano, Lina, and Kisho, who was being dragged against his will-he didn't hate TenTen or Lee, but he didn't really like them much, went to go greet Lee and TenTen.

Shibano and TenTen were talking, along with Kisho and Lee about Taijutsu tactics, and Lina was standing there, sleeping.

A/N: Anyway I hope you enjoyed it, and please Review; I love reading feedback.

LoL~ Accio