Note: Thank you all so very much for the reviews and comments. Thank you! Here's the second chapter and I hope you all enjoy! When I went back to read the first chapter again, I realized that I didn't include a disclaimer for this fanfiction, so here it is below.
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Chapter 2
Neji looked up when someone entered his room, and saw that it was the loud-mouthed and clumsy Naruto. He frowned; he intended to have his rest today and just the sight of Naruto made him more tired than ever. Naruto was a good guy but he talked too much and too loud for his own good, and Neji really didn't want someone like that to annoy him right now.
Things weren't exactly going well for him, Sakura comes in as usual everyday to check on him and but she seemed to have put a wall in between them, it was harder and harder to read her now. Her eyes were more guarded and he couldn't tell what she was feeling.
Is it his fault?
He is, after all, the person who kept silent most of the time whenever she attempted to make conversation with him. Maybe she was tired of his silence and his inability to communicate, or maybe she misunderstood his silence. He was just too nervous to speak! He was afraid that he might say something wrong in front of her and he definitely didn't want that.
"I didn't know that the great Hyuuga Neji daydreams as well!" Naruto exclaimed, a cheeky smile on his face. "What were you thinking about?"
Neji turned to look at Naruto and glared at him.
"You were thinking about Sakura, weren't you?" Naruto asked, the smile growing bigger on his face.
Unable to control himself, Neji felt blood rushed to his face and he knew that his face must be really red.
"No, I wasn't, you idiot." He said firmly, trying very hard to look like he wasn't affected by whatever that Naruto had said. "I was thinking about how my afternoon is ruined with you in my room."
Naruto laughed and put down a packet of fruits on the table beside Neji's bed and sat down easily on the chair next to it.
"Whatever you say, Neji." Naruto said, still looking at Neji with suggestive eyes. And Neji just continued to frown at him, ignoring what he was implying.
Naruto looked at Neji's stubborn face and sighed. "Anyway, I'm just here to check on your sorry ass and you should be glad that I actually brought something for you. I usually come empty handed."
Neji looked at the packet of fruits beside him and his eyes widened at the sight of strawberries. How was it possible that Naruto knew that his favourite fruits are strawberries?
Naruto smiled and nodded at him. "Yeah, I know right? Who could have guessed that you like strawberries? I can't believe that you are such a sissy!"
"How did you know that I like strawberries?" Neji asked. The only time that he remembered eating strawberries was when Sakura brought in all kinds of fruits for him during one of the times he was in the hospital.
"I didn't know!" Naruto said, "Sakura-chan told me, she said that you like strawberries and that I shouldn't come empty handed when visiting a patient. She said that it is rude. But I don't see how I could be rude when you are much ruder than me."
But Neji wasn't listening to Naruto, he had picked up the strawberries that Naruto had brought and was looking at it in wonder. So she knew? How did she know? He never told her…
"And to tell you the truth," Naruto continued, "I didn't buy the strawberries, Sakura-chan squeezed them onto me before I came in here. She told me not to tell you though, I wonder why?"
Neji didn't know what to say. He was already deep in thought, analyzing what Naruto had just told him. He didn't notice Naruto grinning at him wickedly and walking out of the room. So maybe he was just imagining that wall between them, maybe she wasn't mad at him after all.
Just when Neji's thoughts were going wildly in his head, the door opened again and Sakura came in. She was smiling as usual and her eyes widened when she saw the packet of strawberries in his hand. She went to stand next to him at the bed and smiled down at him warmly.
Neji didn't know what to say, all he wanted to do now was to bask in the warmth of her smile forever.
"How are you feeling today, Hyuuga-san?" Sakura asked.
"I'm feeling fine, thank you." He replied, looking up at her, trying very hard to read her.
"I see that you've gotten the strawberries from Naruto," she said, taking the packet of fruit from him, "here, let me wash them for you."
She walked out of his room with the fruits and Neji just stared after her, his eyes still on the door even after she closed it. What was it about her that made him feel like he was always dreaming in her presence and why couldn't he act normal in front of her?
Neji smacked his head in frustration. I am in love with the girl and I don't know what to do but to stare at her dumbly?
Sakura stared at the water running down onto the strawberries that she was washing. But she wasn't really concentrating on the strawberries. She was thinking about Neji and worried about whether she was becoming too obvious about her feelings for him. She hoped that he didn't notice anything from her constant warm smiles and caring questions. She even bought strawberries for him but was too afraid to give them to him so she had asked Naruto to take them to him, telling her best friend that it was rude to come empty handed.
Tsunade had sent her a note with the names with all the suitors she will be seeing and Neji was not in it. She sighed, why wasn't Neji considered as a suitor? Instead, she got people like Genma, Shino, Kiba, Lee, Chouji, Sai, Kakashi and even Lee's teacher, Gai!
Really, what was her shishou thinking when she drew up the list? She looked at Kakashi like an older brother, he used to be her teacher for goodness's sake! And Gai, Genma and Kakashi were all older than her by at least ten years! Just thinking about the list was making her angry, she should have never agreed to this crazy plan of her shishou. And she was not even going to mention Sai, she was going to have a talk with Tsunade after her shift at the hospital had finished and demanded to have Sai removed from the list.
Tsunade knew very well that she never got along with Sai and that she avoided him as much as possible. Good thing that she, Naruto and him have parted and go on their own paths, she couldn't imagine working any longer as a group with the emotionless Sai. He reminded her too much of Sasuke, and that was another reason why she didn't want him to be one of the suitors. Unlike Sasuke, Sai actually smiles, although it was always one of those fake smiles. She could not even imagine going on a date with him. Sakura was beginning to think that this whole thing was a joke that her shishou was playing on her and she was going to set her straight once she marched into her office.
Snapping herself out of her thought, she realized that she had washed the strawberries for too long and so she quickly took them out of the water and onto a clean plate. Sakura sighed, she still have to see more of Neji's hypnotic eyes before she finishes her shift today. It was good that he will soon be out of the hospital, she didn't want to see him so much anymore. Seeing him like this was hurting her more and more because she knew that there was no chance of him and her being together.
Sakura sighed again and began walking towards Neji's room, the plate of strawberries in hand.
Sakura put the washed strawberries onto the table beside Neji's bed and smiled at him. "It's clean and fresh, you should eat it."
Neji swallowed uncomfortably and nodded at her. He reached out and picked a strawberry out from the plate. He looked at Sakura and said, "Help yourself, you bought them after all."
He watched Sakura's eyes widened in both surprise and embarrassment and he almost felt bad for letting her know that she was the one who wanted to give him the strawberries.
Argh, I shouldn't have said it! Neji thought furiously, seeing that Sakura was now looking at him with apprehensive eyes, and the silence between them was getting more and more tensed and awkward.
Finally, Sakura reached for a strawberry as well, not uttering a word and bit at it gingerly, her eyes downcasted. And Neji watched her, feeling more awful than ever. Was he too harsh with his voice just now? Why did he have to be such an ass around her? He watched the bright red colour of the strawberry touch her soft pink lips and just the motion of her biting at the strawberry mesmerized him.
He grabbed Sakura's other free hand with a surprising urgency and Sakura's beautiful emerald eyes looked back up to him again, wide and questioning.
"Sorry," he said, "I don't mean to sound so rude. In truth, I should be thanking you for bringing me strawberries and also for washing them. Thank you, Sakura."
Sakura's eyes widened even more when she heard him called her 'Sakura' with no honorific. She smiled quickly at him. "It's okay, there's no need to apologise, I know you well enough to know what kinds of things you are going say, Hyuuga-san. So it is not offending at all."
She felt Neji's hand tighten on hers and saw a frown develop on his forehead. What now? She thought.
Neji could hear voices in his own head and one telling him to tell Sakura to call him 'Neji-san' at least and another one telling the first voice to shut up. It was an inner battle in his own mind and he was not even aware that he was still holding onto Sakura's hand.
Then, Sakura touched his forehead and Neji's body jerk at her touch, he couldn't believe that his skin was becoming more sensitive than ever to her touch. And Sakura's eyes became even more concerned when she saw the way Neji's body reacted to her touch.
"Are you feeling all right, Hyuuga-san?"
Neji nodded at her and forced himself to let go of her hand. "I'm fine."
He looked at Sakura and saw that she wasn't smiling at him anymore. Instead, her eyes looked sad.
"All right, I'll come and check on you later." She said.
And before she close the door behind her, she looked over her shoulder at him and said, "You will be able to check out of the hospital by the end of this week, Hyuuga-san."
Then, she disappeared off quickly and Neji's heart sank lower than he could ever imagine.
Today was Thursday, only three more days before he could see Sakura freely like this. As a patient, he should be happy that he was all healed and ready to train again but Neji knew that he was feeling more moody and frustrated than ever. He could even feel the frown deepening on his forehead.
Sakura walked away from Neji's room with rushed steps and her heart was beating wildly, like it could jump out of her chest anytime. What just happened in there?
First, he found out that she was the one who bought the strawberries for him, and he was as cold as ever when he saw through her and said, 'Help yourself, you bought them after all.'
She must have looked so desperate, specially observing him to see what his favourite fruit is and then buying them for him. Then, maybe, he must have felt bad for being so sharp with his words and apologized to her. She was, after all, just like he said, the person who thought enough to buy strawberries for him.
One thing she knew about Neji was that he can be blunt, cold, harsh and at times ruthless but he was still someone very in touch with his principles of respecting others and holding up the honor of the Hyuuga clan. So that was the reason why he had grabbed her hand and apologized so quickly. And for a moment there, she thought he meant the apology, and joked with him like she usually did, then, she realized that things weren't as simple as she thought when he frowned and stiffened when she touched him on the forehead.
Just like Sasuke, he had been disgusted with her touch.
He had been disgusted with his touch and that was why he reacted the way he did. Maybe he had noticed her extra attention a long time ago and has had enough of her silly infatuation. He didn't like her touching him and obviously, she had crossed the limit line of their friendship. It was now confirmed that Neji does not feel the same way as she did. And just the thought of it make her more sad than ever, was she really that annoying?
Sakura walked into her private office and closed the door behind her quickly, unable to stop the tears coming out from her eyes.
By the time Sakura marched into Tsunade's office, all sadness had evaporated into indignation over the ridiculous list of suitors her shishou had drawn up for her. She got a feeling that Tsunade might be drunk when she listed down the names. She was going to tell her that she would not go along this plan of hers.
"Shishou!" she said as Shizune shrunk back at the fire in Sakura's eyes.
Tsunade looked up from her desk lazily and pretended that she didn't notice the obvious anger Sakura was in. "What do you want? You won't be seeing your suitors until next week."
Sakura's temper flared and she walked right in front of Tsunade's desk and slammed the piece of paper down with a slap. "I refuse to go along with this plan of yours. The suitors that I am seeing are all not to my taste, why can't I see people that I do not know as personally as I do with them. And what were you thinking when you put Sai into the list? Imagine what he what kind of humiliation he will have in store for me once he finds out about this!"
Tsunade looked at Sakura again and snorted.
"I'm serious!" Sakura exclaimed, "This whole thing is ridiculous!"
"Sakura," Tsunade began in a calm voice, "Sai will not humiliate you like you think he would. He overheard me talking about it to another person and he volunteered to be one of the suitors. In fact, he is actually getting along with Naruto quite well now, why can't you accept him like Naruto did?"
"He volunteered?" Sakura asked, her eyes wide.
Tsundae nodded and Sakura's face went a shade paler than before. "That's it! There's the prove that he has something in store for me, that's why he volunteered, isn't it obvious, shishou?"
Tsunade shook her head. "I think his intentions are good, Sakura, I have never seen him show as much emotion as he did that day when he spoke to me about being one of the suitors. He seemed sincere about it."
Sakura sighed. "All right, one date and if he even try anything, that's it!"
"Okay." Tsunade agreed.
"Now, how did you come up with all these other names? Shino, Kiba, Lee and Chouji are fine but Kakashi, Genma and Gai?" Sakura asked.
A smile appeared on Tsnade's lips and Sakura watched uncomfortably as the ends curled up wickedly.
"I'm not the only one who came up with the list, Sakura." She said.
And Sakura was confused, she frowned. Who else?
Two pairs of shining eyes appeared behind Sakura and suddenly everything had dawned onto her. As the maniacal laughter began behind her, she knew far too well who were the people that collaborated with her shishou in this insane idea.
"Naruto! Ino! I should have known it!" Sakura said, turning around to see them. "Why does the both of you have to butt into my business all the time?"
Ino laughed. "We were just thinking for you, forehead girl. And you should be glad that I am actually helping!"
"Yeah, yeah, Sakura-chan, we just want to help, that's all!" Naruto agreed excitedly.
"And who's idea is it to include people like Kakashi, Genma and Gai?" Sakura asked tiredly.
"Mine!" Ino answered proudly.
"What were you thinking?" Sakura almost screamed.
"Hey, they agreed when we approach them, okay?" Ino said, "it is not like as if we force or begged them to date you. You should actually be grateful, I've always thought Genma and Kakashi to be hot."
"And Gai?" Sakura, "Who put him in this list?"
"Gai heard about it from Genma and approached us himself, we didn't ask him!" Naruto answered.
"But isn't he Lee's teacher?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah, but he said that he just wanted to see how Lee will react when he finds that he is one of the suitors and he told me that you don't have to worry, he is just getting involved in the whole suitor thing to have fun."
Sakura arched her eyebrow doubtfully but gave up on arguing with them and sank down in a chair nearby.
"I should have never agreed to this!" Sakura exclaimed, now she had to go along with this plan no matter what.
"There is no backing out of this, Sakura, you know that." Tsunade said. "And who knows? Maybe you might find the one meant for you after you went through all this drama."
Sakura just grunted, she was too tired to reply.
"So do you have any other questions?" Ino asked helpfully, a bright smile on her face.
Sakura's mouth twisted ironically and said dully, "Ino-pig, you still like to torment me, don't you? I thought we were through with it."
Ino frowned and protested, "Hey, I'm just trying to do you some good! And I did not do this to torment you. I'm going to ask you again, do you have any questions?"
"Yes," Sakura replied, "when does the drama start?"
"This Saturday."
"Oh, but I have to be at the hospital this Saturday and also on Sunday, I have my duties there. Maybe some other time?"
Tsunade saw through Sakura's ploy and immediately interrupted, "Don't even think about it, Sakura. You hardly do anything other than work at the hospital and you never take any days off. The administrator will be happy to give you sometime off for this. In fact, I told him about what is coming up for you and he was delighted by the whole plan. So he even allows you to have Friday off for you to prepare for your date on Saturday."
"What?" Sakura asked incredulously. "But I have-"
Tsunade interrupted her again, "Just do as I say, Sakura. They already arranged for another medic to cover your duties at the hospital so don't worry about it. Take a break once in a while."
Sakura sighed and just grunted again. She got up from her chair and walked to the door. "Good bye to you all now, I still have duties at the hospital."
Tsunade smirked and called out to her before she walked out of the door. "Come and see me tomorrow morning, there are some things I need you to do."
Sakura nodded and smiled weakly at her shishou before walking out of the door and disappearing off the Hokage's tower.
Shizune came back out of her corner and watched after where Sakura had disappeared off and breathed a sigh of relief.
"For a moment there, I thought she was going to use her fist to smash this whole building down. She looked so closed to desperation for you to stop the plan. But it seemed like she just didn't have the energy of the fight in her today to do that. In fact, she seemed like she just didn't care anymore, Tsunade. Do you think that we may have gone too far?"
Tsunade waved Shizune worries away and laughed, "Nonsense, Shizune! I'm going along with this plan no matter what. Neji is going to crack soon."
Shizune didn't look any more comforted by Tsunade words and just continued frowning. "Well, I just hope that you all know what you are doing."
All of the three masterminds smiled at her assuringly, making Shizune more anxious than ever.
Sakura hesitated before entering Neji's room. She was trying to control her emotions and composing herself before she comes face to face with Neji. On her way here to the hospital from her shishou's office, she had been thinking a lot and she had reached a conclusion of all her thoughts.
She was to give up on her infatuation with Neji and just go along with the plan. No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn't see a chance that she could be with him. And just like what her shishou had said, maybe she might find the one meant for her after all the drama.
She knew that she wouldn't be coming to the hospital the next two days and in a way, she was happy for that. She needed to get the handsome face of Neji out of her mind permanently. She was going to check up on him one last time before she embark on this whole new and very different kind of mission.
Finally, she took one deep breath and turned the door knob, walking in there and saw that Neji was sitting up on his bed, his eyes looking directly at her.
"Hyuuga-san, I've come to give you your second and last check up of the day." Sakura said, smiling at him.
Neji just continued looking at her, thinking that she came later than usual and that he had actually been waiting for her. He wanted to ask her where she went but yet he didn't dare.
Sakura sat down beside him and began to check how his body is recovering with the chakra flowing from her hands, Neji just watched her and immediately sensed that there was something different about her since the first visit she paid him this morning. Something different about the way she smiled at him, something different about her movements. Haruno Sakura was bothered by something.
When she was done with checking up on him, she laid down his arm gently and smiled at him again before saying, "You are recovering well, Hyuuga-san."
Neji watched her as she got up calmly and walked to the door, he didn't want her to leave so soon. Usually, they would chat or at least some small talk would be involved but yet today, he could see that Sakura wasn't up for a conversation.
"Have a nice day, Hyuuga-san." Sakura said before closing the door after her.
Neji watched after her helplessly, he just couldn't speak. His whole body has numbed and he didn't know what to think. Somehow, he felt like everything had changed for them, and when she left his room just now, he felt like as if he could no longer reach her. Neji frowned, what is wrong?
On Friday morning, Sakura reported at Tsunade's office just like she was told to do, only to be informed by an apologetic Shizune that her shishou has yet arrived. And so Sakura sat down at a chair in Tsunade's office and waited patiently for her to appear.
Shizune laid down a cup of tea for her and smiled friendly at Sakura, "I hope you are looking forward to it, Tsunade-sama had appointed the best hairdresser for you to get ready for all your coming dates. She even had outfits picked out for you as well. She said that she only wanted the best for you. So, Sakura I hope that you understand that Tsunade-sama only meant well for you."
Sakura widened her eyes at what Shizune was telling her and nodded, smiling warmly, "I understand, Shizune. I know that she cares for me and that she wants me to do well. I was just on a short fuse yesterday, that's all. But about the hairdresser and shishou picking out outfits for me, that she has never mentioned anything."
Shizune giggled, "Tsunade-sama may look all tough and fierce but let me tell you, her heart is as soft as marshmallows."
Just then, Tsunade breezed into the office. "Good morning!"
Sakura stood up immediately and said, "Good morning, shishou!"
Tsunade smiled at her and asked in a serious face, "So, Sakura, are you ready?"
"Ready for what?"
"For the most wonderful and outrageous make over that I am going to perform on you."
Neji watched the new medic change his bandages in confusion as he wondered where Sakura was.
After the medic was done with him and get up to leave, Neji stopped her with a hand.
"Where is my usual medic, Haruno-san?" he asked.
The medic arched her eyebrows in surprise before answering, "Didn't you know? Haruno-sempai will be taking a few days of with the dates her shishou has lined up for her."
Neji's eyes widened in horror, "Dates?"
The medic nodded, "Yes, dates. The hokage had decided that Haruno-sempai should start dating and hopefully get married one day. Lots of people know about this, I'm surprised that you didn't know."
"The hokage wants to marry her off?"
"Yes, she even had a list of names drawn up for Sakura-sempai, and I heard that the first date is this Saturday, which is tomorrow."
But Neji was already not listening to her. Sakura, possibly getting married to another man?
He turned to the medic urgently and asked, "And do you know whose names are in the list? And who is she going out with this Saturday?"
The medic leaned in, eager to share her knowledge of the latest gossip with Neji, she never thought Neji was this conversational. "I'm not sure whose names are on the list but rumors going around are saying that Kiba would be taking her to The Iwasaki's for dinner tomorrow."
Neji nodded ruefully, his thoughts going wild in his brain. The Iwasaki is one of the most expensive restaurants in the town and Kiba must have really wanted to impress Sakura to bring her there.
The medic saw the cease of questions from the great Hyuuga and quickly walked out of the room before one of the rumored tantrums from him comes on.
Neji sat at his bed, his heart in torment and at the same time willing for his body to heal as quickly as possible so that he could check out of the hospital.
Saturday afternoon…
On Friday, together with her shishou, Sakura had her eyebrows done, did her first facial in her life, and went about choosing fabrics for her new kimonos. Sakura felt really bad for her shishou to spend so much money on her. Making just one kimono was already priceless in her eyes, and her crazy shishou had decided to make all together three kimonos for her. Tsunade waved her protests away impatiently and now, here she was standing in front of a hair salon with Tsunade and Shizune beside her.
The hairdresser came out and greeted her with so much warmth that Sakura felt suffocated. She was whirled into a chair with a mirror in front and was immediately shot with the question:
"How do you feel about curls?"
Sakura stared at the ridiculous man standing in front of her and thought, why would I have any feelings for curls?
Seeing that Sakura did not reply, Tsunade nudged Sakura hardly at the shoulder. "So, what do you think, Sakura?"
Sakura frowned and her lips twisted uncontrollably, she didn't know what to say.
Tsunade smiled sweetly at the hairdresser and said, "I think Sakura would love to have curls for tonight."
The man grinned like a Cheshire cat and exclaimed, "Marvellous!"
So Sakura sat there, letting him do whatever he wanted to do to her hair. She hasn't been to the hairdresser's for the longest time. When she was young, it was her mother trimming her hair for her, and when her mother died; her father took over the job. Her father was not used to it, as it was what Sakura's mother usually do. This was why Sakura's hair was sometimes disastrous during her teenage years. And after her father died, she had not had a haircut in ages.
So as the hairdresser, whose name was Sajitoro-san, snip at her hair enthusiastically with passion, she couldn't help it but feel a little bit excited.
So for the first time, Sakura really felt like she was indulging in pampering herself and this didn't feel that bad at all.
Neji had been sitting in his room, cross-legged and eyes closed since he had been discharged from the hospital this morning. He had actually wanted to do some training and yet he didn't, he just couldn't bring himself into moving out of his room. He was afraid that he might do something outrageous if he does ever go out of his room. He would have run to Sakura's home and perhaps do something crazy or he would have run to the Hokage's office and demand to know why he wasn't included in the list of Sakura's suitors.
Which was why he was having so much self control in maintaining his meditating positions and yet all he could see in his mind was Sakura's face.
So much was going on in his tortured mind for the past few hours that Neji was beginning to feel afraid for himself. If he doesn't talk to someone, he may just go out of his mind.
So when he heard footsteps of someone passing his sliding door, he immediately rushed to open it, finding the very bewildered Hinata standing outside. Then, he let out a disappointed sigh, what could he possibly say to Hinata? He had always been so strong and sensible and stony to her and he was not about to shatter that image by pestering her with questions and acting like a lovesick fool.
Just when he was about to close the slide the door shut again, Hinata spoked.
"Neji-niisan, what's wrong?" she asked.
Neji shook his head and answered calmly, "Nothing, Hinata-sama. Sorry for frightening you like that."
Hinata frowned and said, "I already told you not to call me 'Hinata-sama', there is no need for that, Neji-niisan. And you haven't been out of your room since you came back from the hospital. Usually, you would be training like a mad man once you get back, what happened?"
Neji widened his eyes, not believing what Hinata had said to him. This was a very different Hinata in front of him. She was less uneasy in front of him, and he could tell that she had gained a lot of self confidence to speak out like that to him just now, and yet, he did not blame her. It was true, he would usually be training to become stronger once he healed, and that was his obsession. Now, he felt out of control and at the same time he find it very hard to concentrate on any task that he set his mind to. Sakura was disrupting everything that was normal in his life.
"Nothing happened, Hinata-sa-" Neji began and seeing Hinata frowned again, he changed his tune and said, "I meant, nothing happened, Hinata. I'm just a bit tired, that's all."
Hinata let a soft smile lift her lips. "Well, you better rest then, if your condition did not get better, let me know and I can call Sakura. She is your medic right?"
Neji hesitated before answering, "Yes, she is."
"All right, Neji-niisan, rest well. If you need anything, you know that it's just a call away."
Neji nodded and thanked Hinata before sliding his door closed again.
He wanted so much ask Hinata about Sakura and yet he didn't dare. He was still finding it very hard to believe that he could have such feelings for someone, such unfamiliar feelings, and such confusing emotions that were stirring him away from his normal path. But, really, what he wanted now was to run to Sakura and hold her against him and never let her go. And yet, he was struggling not to do that because he find this different side of him so vulnerable and he hated being weak.
Neji sat down once again in his meditating position and closed his eyes determinedly, telling himself that this was just a phase, a phase that would stop soon.
He was the invincible, great Hyuuga Neji, the shinobi everyone called 'the genius' and there was no way that he was going to be defeated by something as silly as this.
Note: This is the full complete chapter 2, sorry that it took so long. I hope that you all like it and thank you all so much for your wonderful and encouraging reviews, I really appreciate them.
