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Theme Set Alpha 4/5

031. Heroes are overrated

Neji muffles her cries as he surges into her. She jerks and tenses her muscles but she can't close herself off from him. He holds her wrists together above her head with one hand and the other flows over her body, smoothing over skin and sinew, memorizing each curve and dip. He presses down on her and forces her legs open wider. He is joined with her as a man can be with a woman and although she whimpers in protest, he simply kisses her softly.

" Hinata." He breathes against her lips and moves once more.

" Stop." She whispers before arching her body inevitably.

He should stop and pull out, apologize for ever having cause her pain and for ever taking her against her will, but what he does and what he should do are two different things. He knows if he backs off now there will be someone else who is waiting to take his place in her life.

Neji knows no one achieves anything by being passive and he has always gone after what he wants regardless of the obstacles and the odds. And Neji wants her, soft and fluid under him, acknowledging him as a man, and a man who will claim everything about her.

She feels betrayed and it hurts her heart: she can't believe that it is he who is doing this to her and who is causing her pain. But that is all right, he can stand not being her hero (he'll leave that title for Naruto), if all of her belongs to him.

032. Laughter

It's soft and quiet; you would almost miss it if you weren't paying attention. It's warm and brief; almost like a breeze, but you grab onto to it as hard you as you can anyways. Her eyes are bright and her smile is hidden behind her palm, but for her to laugh again, you would gladly go the lengths.

033. What we once lost

" Happy birthday." She whispers as she hands him the bear.

He stares at the brown teddy: it's once dangling left eye now back in the socket, the half ripped right leg now sewn back together, the once depleted padding was now again full, the stains and dust gained through the years were gone, his name still stitched precisely on the bottom with white thread - the whole toy restored back to it's former glory. His mother had thrown the raggedly broken stuffed bear away a month ago, it had been old and dirty, and he had grown up from the comfort of stuffed animals a long time ago.

" Thank you." He whispers back as he holds on tightly to the teddy bear his father had given him that time years ago.

034. Sinful

She was driving him insane. It was blazing and humid and another sickening average mid-summer day in Konoha as the heat wave carried through. But if she didn't stop eating that ice cream cone soon, he would not be responsible for his actions. It was hot enough with the regular heat without his body reacting and warming him up more. He breathed a sigh of internal relief from his place in the shadows as she ate the last of her cone. He tensed and veins bulged around his eyes when she walked into a shop and came out with a single stick Popsicle. He bit off a curse and floundered for his failing control.

Hinata wiped the sweat off her forehead and she wondered in concern how much longer her cousin was going to follow her around the market. It was way too hot for this. She popped the cold treat into her mouth and sucked.

035. Blindness

The first time that Naruto sees, he is confounded in what he thinks is happening. It's in the way Neji drops Hinata off for training and always comes to pick her up at the end of the day. It's in the way her shoulders sag in relief at the sight of her team mates and the way her eyes gain that desperate gleam as she searches for an explanation to get away from her cousin. It's in the way Neji casually places a hand on Hinata's shoulder, cheek, the small of her back, and the way she trembles at the soft touch.

Naruto waits and observes until he is proven correct in what he sees. He waits again, but no one else seems to realize or recognize what is happening. There is a dark possessive air around Neji and Hinata closes herself off from the world more and more.

The first time Naruto takes a step towards Hinata with resolve, Neji locks gazes with him. I won't stop you, the pale white eyes say, but you just might break me.

The future Hokage pauses, frozen at that moment. He sees Hinata's frail form just behind Neji as the Branch Member separates her from the rest of the world. He sees her standing with her body drawn in and trembling slightly as her cousin places a hand on the bottom curve of her spine, and he sees Neji's usual stiff rigid stance as he stands tall and powerful against the world.

But he also sees how Neji will fall and crumble when Hinata is freed from his side and if she will no longer stand next to him. The Leaf is low on ninja count and the Hyuuga are getting closer to healing the rift between the two Houses. The Leaf needs all active ninjas to protect it's reputation and borders, and the Hyuuga have never been better in the past century then when they are observing the possibility of the distance closed between the Main and Branch Houses as they observe the brightest stars of the Main and Branch children. As a stubborn ninja Naruto had never stood down in his beliefs, but as one learning to be a leader; he has started to learn that some things comes at a price.

So Naruto closes his eyes painfully for now when Hinata's head lifts up, and walks away.

036. Blood Stains

He would kill for her. It is his duty as the Branch member to protect the Main family from harm. He does kill for her. He walks a step behind her as her guard and takes out any who comes to harm her directly or indirectly. He also kills to have her, as he buries another kunai into the foreign suitor's heart where he has blocked the chakra point earlier in the fight. When morning comes, there would be a report of how an enemy nin has tried to unsuccessfully steal the Hyuuga's secrets on the Hokage's desk.

037. Water

He finds her on top of a lake practicing her chakra manipulation. She is like a water nymph, ethereal and beautiful beyond words and seducing him with her movements. The sun is high and it illuminates her as she swirls. He leans on to the trunk of a tree and watches her from the forest line until the sunset and she slips into the water for a swim after the hard work out.

038. This is not love

She gasps from under him as her body tenses in release, but her eyes are distant after the lovemaking as she stares off to the side shoji doors. He frowns. She has not had human contact for weeks now, but he can't tell what she is thinking of. His eyes narrows as he gazes at her, but pushes it out of his mind. He curls her up in front of him and drifts off into a restful doze. Beside him she is thinking of the kunai she has managed to secret away under the mattress and the best time for her to attack him would be the next time they engage in this particular activity.

039. Innocence

Ten years later when they are the Head of the Hyuuga, where the Clan is no longer divided, when Hanabi is on the brink of having her own first child, when their own children laugh and giggle without the impending Seal in their future, when Sasuke and Naruto are almost emotionally ready to admit they are both mutually in love with each other, she still blushes under his gaze. How marvellous.

040. Desires

She wants him with a fierceness that is strange and new to her, and frightening. She has never known that it was in her to feel this way about something, and most especially about him. He makes her burn when he walks into a room and the way he makes her flush is different than her embarrassed blushes from before. But she gathers her logic and common sense and chains the feeling deep and tight inside of her, because it must never be set free.

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