Chapter Three:

Bring It On

"Hey!" A voice from behind yelled. "What are you doing with Hinata?!"

All heads turned to the voice.

Hinata was in shock, "Neji nii-san?"

Naruto looked back at her, "nii-san?"

Hinata's head felt like it was spinning thousands of times. This was bad terribly bad, she wanted get away from this scene to a point that she wasn't even thinking, but instead doing. Suddenly she pushed Naruto away from her from her as hard as she could, which was extremely hard. Before Naruto could even sort out what was happening, he went flying across the room, his body separating two desks that were together, and then crashed into a wall.

Into screamed in surprise.

"Holy crap!" Kiba stood up from his seat looking at the now squirming in pain Naruto.

"Whoa." Sasuke looked at awe, he looked at the then at Naruto, "Who would of thought a small girl like her could do something like that. Interesting..."

Even Shino looked perplexed with his shaded glasses on, not one of the students ever seen Hinata do something so violent.

"Whoa!" Choji said as he entered the room with Shikamaru, with a bag full of pastries.

"And this day just keeps getting, better, and better." Shikamaru sighed.

Hinata's face was as red as the tomatoes in Sasuke's salad. She froze in unbelief. What did she just do? What happened? Her heart started racing faster and faster. Her breathing started to hitch, the suddenly she couldn't feel her body as her eyes shut slowly. She then fainted.

"Hinata!" Sakura quickly stood up from her chair, causing it to fall on the floor.

"We need to take her to the nurse!" Ino kneeled down towards Hinata.

At the sight of the fallen Hyuga, the boy who was called Neji-nii-san rushed towards the pain filled Naruto. He grabbed him by his shirt collar.

"Why were you touching Hinata! What did you do to her?" His blank eyes looked exactly like Hinata's, but without the beautiful lavender.

The young boy Neji, was a pretty handsome guy. He had long silky black hair, that he surprisingly looked manly on him. He was slightly muscular and tall about 5"10 at least.

"W-wahh?" Naruto mumbled.

Neji held him by the collar then jammed him to the wall.

"Ahh!" Naruto screeched in pain.

Neji continued hitting to the wall back and forth, receiving a gasp from the two girls and a grimace from Kiba. Naruto was now unconscious. Suddenly a hand held Neji's arm that held Naruto's collar. Neji looked to his side to see a bored looking Uchiha.

"Instead of beating him up here defenseless, at least be a man about it a schedule a day to kill him." Sasuke simply said, "Geeze, men now and days, can't even fight correctly."

"And who the hell are you?" Anger was clearly in Neji's deep voice.

"I should be asking you that actually." Sasuke let go of his arm. "Let him go first and we could talk."

Neji looked at Naruto then back at him. Then he let him go, "Name's Neji Hyuga, class 3-2 down the hall. Tell your friend once he's done sleeping, to meet me at after school." He then walked over to the passed out Hinata, causing Kiba, Shino, Ino, and Sakura to step away from her, and picked her up bridal style and exited the room.

Sasuke looked at the door that he excited for a long time before facing the four who sat with Hinata.

"What's his business with her?" He looked at the pinkette specifically.

"O-oh uh…" Sakura's mind was swamped by the sudden scene, that when he started to talking to her it made it even worse. A hot guy like him talking to her? What would she say?

"They're cousins." Ino stepped in, it wasn't a problem for her to talk to guys, no matter how hot they were. "Ever since Middle School, when they weren't in the same class, who would come over at lunch and check up on her."

"Cousins? He looked like her boyfriend to me." Sasuke sighed.

"What?" Sakura didn't understand what made it look like they were boyfriend and girlfriend.

"Families are never close like that." Sasuke monotony said.

Something was odd about Sasuke that moment to Sakura. She looked into his already dark eyes as he talked, it seemed they got darker, as if he was angry on the inside, but tried to maintain it on the outside.

"Are you alri-" She tried to say, but immediately Sasuke put Naruto's arms around his shoulder, and headed out the door.

"Where do you think he's going?" Kiba asked as Choji decided to straighten up the desks and tables as Shikamaru just left the room without a word.

Ino shrugged.

"Where do you think Hinata's going? Why, because he cousin just left with her. " Shino said.

Sakura shrugged, and started helping Choji

"Hope Hinata's alright, I mean it was surprising that she did something like that, but then again that whiskered bitch could go to hell for all I care." Ino balled up her fist by the mention of his name.

"You got that right." They all said in unison, and then laughed.

"But what are we going to tell Kakashi-sensei?" Choji sighed.

"No need, I already know." The teenagers turned towards the door where their teacher and Shikamaru stood.

Ino glared at him. Did he just get Hinata in trouble?

'What? Someone had to tell an adult." Shikamaru shrugged.

"Don't worry Hinata's nor Naruto are getting into any trouble. Consider this the day, when I actually don't feel like disciplining." Kakashi sighed, "Clean up this mess quickly though, gym's about to start."

As the students and their teacher started fixing the classroom, Neji was carrying the unconscious Hinata, sliding through the hall briskly. He passed some of his female classmates who asked what he was doing, but he ignored him, and continued walked briskly. Finally he made it to the rooftop of the school. He laid her on the ground gingerly, and sat next to her for a while. He stared at the sky for a while. He wanted to wait for her to wake up, to make sure she was okay. He always did that when they were younger, watching over her and her little sister, Hanabi. He usually watched over Hinata than Hanabi, since Hanabi was more of the independent, rough around the edges type, but a bit goofy at times. As Hinata was gentle and kind in general, and not really bold. She would take down the walls occasionally if Hanabi or him would get out of line or if they were having fun together, since she was use to them. There were times when she would act confident in front of others, but deep down she could be as scared as ever or probably pissed at the person who tampered with her temper. That rarely happened however, since she was usually level headed, and also barely came out of her shell.

Neji looked at the blue sky, "I'm protecting her, like you use to Father."

As time passed, Hinata's heavy eyes gave way and opened. She jolted a bit as she woke causing her to softly hit her cousin's thigh with her arm. Neji looked down to meet her beautiful lavender eyes.

"Are you alright?" Neji quietly asked.

Hinata groaned, slowly sitting up. "W-wha-" She began.

"You fainted." Neji interrupted her.

"Oh really?" She mumbled, "I haven't done that since elementary school."

"Hn" Neji continued looking at the sky.

"You know, I had a dream that these new kids came, and I pushed one of them to the wall." Hinata laughed, "He was weird and a bit scary-"

"That did happen." Neji blankly said.

"Oh...OH!" Hinata shot up from the ground, her smile replaced with a frantic expression. "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. What do I do?" She paced going in circles around Neji. She didn't mean to hurt Naruto, despite being a bit scared of him and not really want to be around him. She never wanted to apologize this badly before.

"Relax I've already handled it." Neji sighed, he grabbed Hinata's ankle as she passed by to stop her pacing, which slightly surprised her.

She sighed in relief, He already apologized for me, she thought. She smiled widely, and then leaped to cousin's arms. Neji, who was sitting at the time, almost hit his head on the ground, by the sudden hug, and blushed by the close proximity. He then regained his balance.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" She hugged him while showing her appreciation.

Neji's face was as red as an apple. He turned his face the other way, trying to avoid looking at her head that was currently buried in his chest. If he did, his blush would have gotten even worse. Neji wasn't use to hugs. Hanabi and Hinata were the only people that did that with him, which were rare. "W-we should be going now. Fifth period is about to start."

Hinata looked up to his face and smiled, "Yeah!" Little did Hinata know what Neji meant by already handling it.

Meanwhile, there at the nurses office sat a bandaged Naruto on a futon. He had a bandages around his head, arm, and shoulder.

"Are you sure you don't want me to call your parents?" Naruto nodded, the last thing he wanted to do was ask his perverted guardian to pick him up from school. He was probably busy at work.

"You're lucky you don't have a concussion." The nurse said to him, "That little girl sure did a number on you." The nurse turned towards her desk.

Naruto blushed, embarrassed by the comment mumbled, "...shut the fuck up."

"Did you say something?" The nurse turned around to face him.

"N-nothing." He pouted.

"Two injuries in one day, and by girls alone. Sure is going to be a long year with you." The nurse sighed and returned to her desk.

Naruto slightly growled.

A few minutes passed, until there was a knock on the door, "May I come in?" The door opened to reveal a blanked face Uchiha.

"Oohhh! Of course!" The nurse's attitude changes from annoying middle aged woman to endearing newly single woman.

Naruto wonder why woman always acted like that to Sasuke, and never to him. Naruto thought Sasuke was a completely rude jackass, and wondered why people found him attractive?

"Can we talk alone?" He looked at the nurse. The nurse could of melted as she looked at his chiseled features.

"Yes! Of course!" She exited to room slowly gazing at Sasuke until she left the room.

"So annoying…" Sasuke sighed, and took a seat in front of the futon. Girls would practically throw themselves at him, or make it obvious that they were interested, which annoyed Sasuke. He wasn't in his school uniform anymore, but in the school's gym clothes. He wore a simple plain, white shirt, and red shorts, that reached his knees. The gym clothes in Konoha High looked pretty dorky on him, but he still managed to still look attractive in it.

"I thought you left for class or something." Naruto said in a childish voice.

"It's gym, there not even playing basketball. I'd rather talk to you, for an excuse to skip class, than play stupid soccer."

"I can understand." Naruto nodded. Ever since they were little, the two would play basketball every weekend at Sasuke's house until nightfall. It was a great excuse for Sasuke to allow his parents let Naruto spend the night.

"Anyway. I know you're pretty much feeling like crap getting beat up by girls all day." Sasuke snickered a bit.

"Shut the fuck up..." Naruto frowned. The day was the worst day for Naruto.

"I got good news for you though."

"And that is…" Naruto's eyebrow went up a bit.

"Seeing that everyone pretty much hates you on the first day of school-"

"Get to the point asshole."

Naruto was trying his best to make him stand out, and be popular to catch up with Sasuke when they transferred to Konoha High together. When they went to school together it was as if he was in his shadows, to be honest he always felt like that even if it didn't involve Sasuke. It wasn't like he was shy or weak, but he was often ignored or never known by people. He wanted to make a new name for himself, thus the sudden confidence boost. Unfortunately it didn't turn out how he planned.

Sasuke cringed at the name, and then sighed, "You got a challenge."

Naruto huffed, "You mean by another girl who thinks that I'm an idiot!"

"No, from the guy who pretty much ended you."

"What?" Naruto didn't know what he was talking about, "Ended me?"

He must not remember, Sasuke thought. That guy did injure him quite a bit. Sasuke decided not to explain to him. Naruto had a hard day, which bruised his ego a bit, and as a dear friend couldn't find it in his heart to tell him. "His names Neji, not sure what his last name is."

"But how-"

"Forget how! You want to have a good reputation here right?" Sasuke was standing up looking down on the sitting Naruto.

"Well yeah-"

"Then do it, I don't know how, but I got a feeling if you beat him-I mean WHEN you beat him, you sure a lot of people would be talking about you."

Naruto looked at him for a while then smirked, "You're right."

Sasuke knew that the fight with Sakura, he was holding back. He wanted to show the class that he wasn't scared of anything, thus fighting a girl. He did however get caught off guard by Sakura, thus him getting hit in the nuts. The pinkette was interesting to Sasuke. Again with the Hinata situation, Naruto was caught off guard, surprised at the most. Who would of thought a petite girl like her, could really do so much damage. She was interesting too.

There is one thing Sasuke knows, despite what happened today, and it's that when Naruto wants to fight, he CAN fight. He was like a fox ready to pounce on anyone, and winning each battle. He wasn't much of a fighter in elementary and middle, until the two got into some trouble with gangs in their early years of high school. Soon word got out that the two were an unstoppable team, ready to kick anyone's butt whoever asked. They didn't usually look for fights, the fights came to them. With them being at Konoha High the Uchiha knew that it was a good thing to transfer. The high school was in fact as interesting, like he thought. There was something in the back of Sasuke's head telling him life would change for both Naruto and he but he didn't know how.

"I can't unfortunately go with you, gotta head straight home." Sasuke stretched his arms as he yawned. "Anyway see ya tomorrow. We could get ramen or something after school tomorrow." Sasuke headed towards the door to leave.

"Wait, you're going home right after school? That's rare." Naruto looked worried as he said those words, Sasuke never went home straight from school, and in fact he wanted to stay out as long as he could to get away from home.

Sasuke noticed this, "Don't dwell your thoughts on me idiot, think about what move's you'll pull on that Neji kid."

"B-but-"

"Meet him at Imarru Park at 4, the dudes got long hair, can't miss him." And with that he exited the room leaving the concerned, but determined Naruto.

A smiled crept on his whiskered face, "Wooo! Let's do this!" He raised his fist in the air, but soon pulled it back down quickly due to the pain. How was he going to beat Neji after being wounded many times? Naruto shrugged, whatever happens, happens but all I know is that I'm gonna beat him.

*End of Chapter Three*

Hey Guys! Thanks for reading, favoring, and following it means a lot! I also want to apologize for my poor writing skills, I'm still trying to improve. For crying out loud I didn't even describe what Hinata looked like, or what the girl uniforms look like. Oh, well maybe next part I'll put more detail. I also noticed that I but "Neji-nee-san" instead of "Neji-nii-san" nee-san is referred to girls as nii-san is referred to boys, I dearly apologize XDD. Also I know I promised that more characters would be introduced this chapter, but definitely it will happen next chapter. Soon to come is the relationship with Hinata, Hanabi, and gangs. Really excited, since Naruto and Hinata connect in a way in this story through that. Well they have many other connections, but YOU'LL SEE! Anyway see you tomorrow!

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