I wasn't kidding when I said this chapter would be -100 words long.
Sorry.
But if it helps, I'm in the middle of editing the next chapter right now.
Complications
by Nilladriel
3: start
Neji remembered the exact moment he'd fallen in love with Naruto.
It was when he'd lay dying after his fight with the web-making freak from Sound. Maybe all the blood-loss had been getting to his head. Maybe the fear and exhilaration and the sheer feeling of victory had made him a little crazy. Maybe being near-death invited mad thoughts into ninja's heads.
His mind, for some insane reason, had conjured up Naruto. And he'd thought something, although he wasn't sure what. It had been the kind of thought that is not exactly made of words, and not exactly an image, and not exactly a confused bundle of feelings. It had just been... a thought.
It didn't matter what he'd thought. What was important was the moment, the feeling of his heart skipping a beat (which had probably been disastrous, considering his condition then) and deciding that it wanted to belong to Naruto.
Neji made it a point to avoid brushing death as closely as he had that day. The results, obviously, were disastrous.