And it was at that particular moment that Neji realized he hated everyone he knew. As it turned out, this didn't really matter much anyway, because he was helpless to do anything but blame:

A) The Main House (because they had to be somehow connected to something that made his life crap)

And…

B) Sasuke (because Neji just hated him in general).

…

"Lee." Neji said in a dangerously sweet voice, "What the hell are you doing to me?"

Lee, being as naive as he was, did not detect the danger in Neji's voice.

"IT IS JUST GREAT IS IT NOT, NEJI-CHAN? WE CAN SPEND QUALITY TIME TOGETHER AS A TEAM!" Neji vowed to buy a pair of earmuffs.

Neji just complained under his breath that Tenten wasn't being forced to endure this torture as Lee began his second lap of the village.

"ONLY FIVE THOUSAND-NINE-HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE LAPS TO GO! AND NEJI-CHAN, OUR BRILLIANT TEAMMATE TENTEN IS DEDICATELDY DICTATING YOUR EVERY MOVE TO A ROCK OVER THERE!" Lee roared.

Looking over (in the direction of your choice), Neji did indeed spot Tenten dictating his every action to a rock- quite possibly his every thought as well. She was surrounded by all the other useless and forgotten characters like Shino and Neji's mother. Consequently, if rocks could show boredom, this rock would have died from it.

Gai-sensei, on the other hand, was yet to say a word. Neji, because of his self-proclaimed 'uber-leet-skillz', knew this was because the Jounin was in floods of tears due to the sheer brilliance and overwhelming youthfulness of his student.

If he didn't hate Sasuke so much, he would have begged to borrow his funeral for a friend CD and some black converse hi-tops.

"Yo! Sorry I'm late! I got lost on the road of life while being attacked by pigeons and helping an old lady across the road."

"Liar!" Called some unnamed random.

Kakashi had appeared in a big, Jounin-ified bang of smoke along with Sasuke, and they were now desperately trying to run fast enough to keep up with Lee. Not that either of them had a clue why they were really bothering.

"NEJI-CHAN! IS IT NOT GREAT? WE HAVE COMPANY!"

Neji sighed inwardly. "Damn Uchiha"

"Lee. Don't call me Neji-chan." Neji groaned, finally trying to free himself.

At the same time, Sasuke managed to overtake Lee. He had an evil plot, something along the lines of making Lee indebted to him…

"Lee-kun, Sakura-chan is searching for you." Sasuke said to him. As Tenten correctly stated to her rock, Sakura would never look for Lee. But Lee was too desperate for Sakura's affection to realize this, and nowhere near bored enough to want to analyze the situation and describe it to a rock in any case.

Lee stopped dead, letting Neji and Gai fly over his head and hit the floor (Neji was very put out about this, mainly because it dirtied his hair). Gai stood up, giving Lee his famous cheesy grin and thumbs up, crying, "THAT'S MY LEE!"

"3…" Counted Neji.

"2…"

"1..."

On cue, Lee and Gai both burst into tears.

"OH LEE!"

"OH GAI-SENSEI!"

Neji tried to back away slowly, knowing that otherwise they would probably try and include him in the overly-emotional hug that was coming... They would be crying out each others names for hours.

…