Why do people say 'pull my finger'? Are you supposed to fart or something? As I was explaining this, my friend heard it as 'after you pull the finger off your supposed to fart'. I was laughing so hard… such funniness… but it's not funny anymore… I'M BORED… SO BORED. And oh yes: I DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT OWN NARUTO.

Here to Stay

Chapter Five: Hunger of the Plants…

Neji was very, very frustrated. Wonder why? No it's not the most probable answer of Gai and Lee driving him insane. No it was not that he lost seventy-five dollars in cash to Cynara. It was more on the following lines of 'because of Tenten'. Now wasn't that sad. The mighty Neji was frustrated because he had no clue where in the wide world Tenten was and he could feel as if someone was trying to mock him. He could also feel people staring at him because he must seem very mad while clenching his fists and talking to himself. As he walked through the streets of Konoha he could feel something watching him. Something that wasn't human or animal like but full of power. Konoha has a lot of plants that I never noticed before. Neji thought to himself.

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Cynara smiled to herself. So far so good and it would stay that way if he kept on ignoring her little friends. Heh. They called her the swamp ninja/gypsy for a reason. Plants were great especially for espionage and assassin jobs. Where do you think the bone path was from? She laughed quietly. Her ferocious plants were getting quite hungry… hungry for blood and soul. She mentally slapped herself, NO she must not stray off task! She couldn't kill… not yet anyways… but her plants could have a little snack…

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Neji was growing quite uneasy. Those plants were starting to get on his nerves. Just a few minutes ago he had heard a yelp and when he turned around he saw a dead deer within a thicket of bloody thorns. The deer was not small but it wouldn't be growing any bigger--- not in that lifetime. And what was really disgusting was that the branches poked the eyes out first after the blood was sucked dry. Neji watched in horrified fascination as the plants slowly devoured the carcass. Then the plants slithered away leaving only bones in their wake. Seeing that the plants were now done their meal and that there was nothing to look at, Neji decided to walk on. But when he looked through the corner of his eye he could see the withered plants slowly stalking him from behind. I'll just ignore them. If they do threaten me I'll uh… What could he do against plants? Against plants you need fire… In times like these I wish I was Uchiha. He decided that since the plants weren't indicating they were going to harm him he would walk on slowly. Then he stopped. Apparently the plants didn't want to him to go any further after witnessing their little meal. In front of him was a stone wall and vines were creeping up to spell a word: 'HUNGRY'. Then the plants advanced. Neji decided to run away from the vicious mob of vegetation. HOLY COW!!! WHY WERE THEY CHASING HIM???

Now picture the moment. Neji is running from a tide of shrubbery that is five times his height. Lee was watching the moment as well. "What are you doing Neji?" He asked.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK I'M DOING?"

"Why are you running from the innocent plant life?"

"INNOCENT? IT'S TRYING TO EAT ME!"

"Okay…" Lee started to walk away.

"WHAT!!! YOU'RE GOING TO LEAVE ME HERE?"

"Yes. Just like you left me earlier on today. I'm just trying to be a nice person Neji…" Lee threw him a huge grin and a thumbs up. "Keep up the good work!"

"ARGH!!!" Neji determined that Lee was now not worth his time and that the 'innocent' plant life was coming close to their lunch. Unfortunately.

Neji ran. The plants did not relent on their chase, to Neji's great dismay it seemed as if weeds were growing out of wooden stands and joining the fun. Unfortunately.

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Somewhere in Konoha Cynara cursed herself loudly. She said they could have a snack, but not in the open! Now they were completely out of control, thinking bloodthirsty thoughts on how to poke a shish kabob through Neji! Ugh… that was the thing with plants. You gave them an order, if it was concerning a meal they would carry it out immediately. If not they would take the precious time to dawdle about! "Why dear god, couldn't I have an easier life and have bloodthirsty plants that could think smartly?" Cynara was now banging her head on a wall muttering curses. "I have no choice… I'll have to let him fend for himself for the while…"

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Neji is still running. Now let me put this simply… he is human, the plants are, well… of course, not. The plants have no lungs therefore they have endless stamina… Neji has lungs and therefore…does not. Now it's Neji's bad luck that Gai and Lee are at the moment not roasting ferrets… if they had there would have been a nice, stinky fire to help protect Neji…but there isn't. So Neji continued running. GOD!!! BYAKAGUN DOESN'T WORK ON THESE CANNIBALLISTIC PLANTS!!! That was true. He had tried and he had failed miserably. Something started dragging him slowly… Please let it not be a plant… please… To his relief it was a human hand. And that hand was towing him into a shop. Looking up he saw that the person wore a hood. Okay… Maybe not so good…

As soon as Neji and his, uh, savior was in the shop the person turned towards Neji as they lowered the hood, "What did you do to get Cynara this mad at you? She normally doesn't send a battalion of plants at someone even if she's mad!" The person whispered furiously at Neji while lighting a candle.

Neji tried to make out who was whispering and nearly dropped dead away when he figured out who it was. Instead his mouth dropped open.

His savior was Tenten.

I know my kind of writing sucks and my grammar sucks more than my writing skills. If you have died because of my grammar than please contact me as soon as possible. And I do not want any backtalk from you Paige… at least I can spell…–Shadow of doom. A.K.A. Shadoom