This one is for NarutoIsMe and Hektols, and also for my friend Missy, all of whom said that the chapter A Sudden Proposal was definitely missing something without Neji going after the psycho.
Look, I made it special just for you.
Neji made his way stealthily through the trees, taking a slight detour from the path that would have taken him home after a long, redundant, and tiring mission. But though he might have been tired knowing what would come next certainly gave him enough energy to fight off hordes of enemy nin to get to his current target if he had to.
Following getting Tenten back home and their quick marriage Neji had gone to Naruto privately and had told him what had been done to Tenten. Seeing the light of fire that had entered the man's eyes had certainly given him a hope that they'd be able to take out the sick bastard as soon as possible but his words had stopped that train of thought before it managed to even pull out of the station.
"Neji, that man is a very important person in the political world over there. Unless we want to start another war there is no mission I can give for this." Neji had had to bite down on his tongue to keep his anger in check, though he knew his eyes would have had to have shown it clearly because the blonde Hokage grabbed his shoulder and squeezed, leaning in a bit more as he lowered his voice, blue eyes blazing with fire.
"Neji, as the Hokage I cannot ORDER a mission for this. OFFICIALLY, there is no way that I can do that. Do you understand?" He slowly nodded his head and Naruto leaned back to grin at him, slapping him on his back. "Great! Now, why don't you just sit around for a little bit? Just until the right mission comes along."
A few weeks after that Neji found himself in the Hokage's office again as Naruto gave him a new mission, one that was so easy and pathetic an untrained genin team could have done it. But the point was that on his way back, miraculously, there were just a few short miles separating him and a somewhat familiar gaudy mansion.
Now, wasn't that a coincidence.
It was pathetically easy to slip past all of the man's guards and soon enough Neji was at the door to the room where he had been told the "Master" of the house slept. Silently opening the door he walked into the white and gold room, the moonlight making everything glow unusually. The man was lying in the middle of a huge bed of white silk, snoring loudly as he lay sprawled out as if he didn't have a care in the world. It would have been disgustingly easy to just kill him right then and there but the other person on the bed gave him pause.
It was a tiny girl who could hardly be over sixteen, her dark hair fanning over her pillow as she curled into herself, trying to stay as far away as her handcuffs would allow from the monster that lay beside her. She was so pale that the bruises on her bare skin almost seemed to glow, so delicate that it looked as if just breathing would break her.
Walking silently he went over to her side of the bed, covering her mouth as he woke her so that he could muffle the scream that predictably came as her horrified eyes flashed open. He didn't make a sound as he pressed his finer to his lips to show her to be silent, waiting until she frantically nodded before drawing his hand away.
She was biting her lip so hard that a slow trickle of blood was beginning to creep down her chin, trying desperately to keep her terrified whimpers at bay. Moving slowly Neji reached up over her head and quickly broke the locking mechanism in the cuffs, giving her a moment to rub her raw wrists and helping her sit up, pulling his own shirt over the child's shoulders, sheltering the poor girl from anymore of the ugliness that the bastard could try and taint her with.
Looking into her tear-filled eyes Neji allowed her to see the truth, to see that soon enough she wouldn't have to worry about any of it again. Waiting until he saw that morbid light of understanding and thanks, he nodded once before whispering harshly, "Run." He didn't turn to watch her go, to make sure that she left, instead he turned towards the still sleeping man who snored so peacefully and naively.
Not knowing that a very painful death stood over him, watching him with dangerously cold eyes.
Putting a silencing jutsu around the room Neji took a bracing breath before kicking the other man out of the comfort of a blissful sleep in a comfortable bed and into the hell that he was going to bring him.
"Wah-" He blinked blearily up at the form that stood away, face in the shadows. He could deduce -even in his sleepy state- from the mesh covering the well sculpted torso and from the shoes and weapons that whoever it was standing in front of him was a ninja.
He relaxed, the knowledge that his status protected him from these hired people easing any fears he may have had.
"What? What do you think you're doing, coming in here and..." He led off as the bed caught his eye -or, perhaps it would be better to say that the lack of a certain person on his bed caught his notice.
"What did you do? Where is my wife?"
"There was no such person here."
"I know there was! You better tell me what you did to her or else I'll-"
"Or else you'll what?" Neji asked quietly, crouching down so that the man before him could look into the luminous white eyes that glowed in contrast to the shadows that wrapped around his face. "Tie me up? Hurt me? Don't you think that these methods of yours are getting a bit redundant? And anyways," He said conversationally as a kunai seemed to magically soar across the distance separating them to leave a gash in the other man's cheek, going past his face and tearing through his ear, pinning the chunk of flesh to the wall behind the man. "I don't believe that you're the one with the power to make threats right now."
The bloodcurdling scream filled the room to the brim, continuing on endlessly as it echoed continuously and threatened to shatter the glass that filled the room, though because of the silencing jutsu the world outside of the room continued on serenely.
"Oh, I'd save your breath if I were you. We haven't even started yet, not really."
"Why..." He coughed, tears streaming down his face and blood gushing from his wounds, "Why are you doing it? Is it money? I can get you money, as much as you want!"
Neji shook his head at the man, playing with a new kunai that had appeared magically in his hands, testing the edge with his thumb.
"Don't insult me by likening me to you in any way, shape or form. It wouldn't help you in the least to make me any madder than I already am." The man whimpered as his eyes stayed riveted to the weapon in his captor's hands, feeling so desperately weak and helpless.
How could this man, this stranger, be doing this? What had he ever done wrong?
"Now then," Neji said harshly, standing up to walk the short distance that separated them, "Try not to scream too loudly. It annoys me."
Eventually the screams died away to tortured whimpers, his limbs and joints howling in protest, violent bruises forming on his once unmarred skin, the thick smell of fear and of urine filling the room.
He had no idea how this man was doing it. His eery white eyes glowed in the darkness, the veins around his eyes bulging and making such a frightening sight that he had momentarily been petrified when first faced with them before his screaming began anew. Somehow with just the lightest of touches at certain parts of his body this man was able to cripple him, turning the blood that flowed through his veins into acid and his muscles into a seizing and painful mess.
After years had managed to drag themselves sluggishly by the white eyed ninja stopped, crouching back down so that they were face to face. Neji tugged out a picture from his pocket, showing it to the man before him, watching as his eyes filled with recognition.
"This," He said quietly, "Is the reason that you are about to die. You do not deserve to know her name, you do not even deserve to look upon her face ever again after what you did to her, but I'm going to make sure that you know why I'm doing this. It's because you hurt her and you've hurt God knows how many other people in this way, and because you put a look into her eyes that should never had been there, not ever. That other girl too. But the last reason is because you touched her." He leaned forward so that their noses were practically touching, so that the only thing that the man would be able to see was the white of his eyes.
"And no one touches what is mine." He said calmly as his hand shot out and hit the point directly over his heart, shooting chakra into it with a blow that was harder than necessary but incredibly satisfying. The man's heart stopped beating with that blow and Neji watched as he died before his eyes, feeling nothing but a huge sense of accomplishment and sated blood lust.
He left the body where it was and simply walked out of the room and then out of the house, hitting the treeline just as the sun began to peek over the horizon at the new day. Calm now and fully satisfied, Neji hurried back home and to his wife.
A bit darker than I thought but... eh. It's how I see it happening. It's how I'd do it if someone touched what's mine, just without all of the calm and the Hyuuga skills. It would just be a pissed off me and a pocket knife, a gun and a baseball bat, just for luck.
I am currently falling asleep at my computer so I'm going to call it a night.
Sweet dreams, everyone.
