I'm so sorry about the long wait !!!!!! I've been getting lazy with updating, but I'm gonna try to update all of my stories more often . Now, on with the story !!!

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Neji tried to think of a plan to take down three Akatsuki while still defending Sakura. He needed to do it quickly, so he could dress Sakura's wounds. If he didn't, she would probably die of blood loss. 'Shit…' He thought.

"Why are you here, anyway?" Neji asked.

"Leader's orders." Kisame said and shrugged. "Heard the Hokage was planning on sending a retrieval team to get the little Uchiha." He finished.

"What does that have anything to do with you?" Neji sneered.

"Wouldn't you like to know?"

Neji growled and lunged for the tall blue man. Kisame took out his sword, ready to block any attack thrown at him. Kisame swung his sword down, just barely missing Neji's shoulder. Neji quickly thought up a plan in his head.

The Uchiha would most likely wait for Neji to look him in the eyes so he could use his Tsukuyomi on him. Kisame would use water techniques and his giant sword, while Deidara would use his bombs. Neji's best shot was if he could dodge the chakra-sucking sword and attack Deidara first. He seemed like the easier opponent.

Neji ran up to Deidara before he could put his hand in his clay pouch and attacked him.

"Gentle Fist: 8 trigrams, 64 pongs!" Neji shouted and hit Deidara's chakra points. Deidara gasped and was flung back. He fell to the ground and coughed up blood.

"M-my chakra…"

"The flow has been stopped." Neji responded. Then he turned to Kisame, ready to fight him off. Kisame came at him, sword raised, and swung it down.

Before the sword struck Neji, he spun quickly and released his chakra from his body, creating a type of shield that sent Samehada flying back into a tree. Now it was just him and Kisame, no sword. Kisame did a hand sign.

"Water Style: Water Shark Bomb Jutsu!" Kisame shouted. A shark made of water burst out of the ground and went straight for Neji. Neji jumped quickly out of the way, but he still got splashed with some of the water. He ran at Kisame and quickly dodged a fist, pulling his arm down and hitting three chakra points on his arm.

"You little brat." Kisame growled. He sent a kick to Neji's face. Neji realized he didn't have enough time to dodge, so he raised him arms to his face to brace himself. Kisame's foot made contact, and Neji was sent flying into a tree.

Neji winced slightly as he stood up, glaring at the shark-man. Kisame grinned and looked at Itachi.

"Can I kill him?" Kisame asked his partner.

"Go ahead. Just don't draw too much attention to us, or we could be spotted by other Konoha ninja." Itachi replied. Kisame's grin grew larger as he turned back to Neji.

"You're dead, little brat!" He said, still grinning, and ran toward Neji. Neji quickly got into a fighting stance, ready to strike when the time came. Kisame ran toward him, ready to throw a punch, when Neji's hand shot out and hit him where his heart is. Kisame's movements stopped completely and he coughed. Blood dripped out Kisame's mouth and onto Neji's hand as he collapsed in front of him. Neji turned to Itachi, not looking into his eyes, and once again got into a fighting stance.

Itachi raised his hand and pointed a finger at Neji. Suddenly, his surroundings changed. Neji whipped his head around, to see that he was at the Hyuga compound. Neji's eyes widened when he realized he was caught in a genjutsu.

'But I didn't look in his eyes…' Neji thought to himself.

Neji looked around again and realized what was happening.

It was the night of his father's death.

For about three days, Neji saw the image of his father being murdered over and over again.

"Ahhhh!" Neji cried out, clutching his head and squeezing his eyes shut.

"STOP!" He shouted, on the verge of tears.

"Kai!" Neji shouted, releasing his chakra and dispelling the genjutsu. Neji's surroundings changed again, and he found himself back in the forest where he was facing Itachi. They were both still in the same place, Deidara and Kisame still on the forest floor unconscious, Tobi still knocked out by the tree, and Sakura still slowly bleeding to death. It didn't seem like he was out for more than five seconds.

Neji was about to attack, when Itachi's ring glowed faintly.

"Change of plans. We'll leave you alone, Leader's orders. Get to your girlfriend." Itachi said emotionlessly, and picked up his three partners. He swiftly jumped into the tree, leaving Neji standing there, confused.

'Why would their Leader make them go through so much trouble to attack us, then call off the mission? It makes no sense…' Neji thought to himself. He snapped out of his thoughts when he remembered Sakura, who was still knocked unconscious and bleeding profusely.

"Shit…" Neji growled out loud and rushed over to Sakura. He looked through her bag, looking for her medical kit. He opened it and took out healing ointment, bandages, and a towel. Neji took off Sakura's shirt and noticed that she had bindings covering her breasts. It looked so tight, that Neji couldn't understand how she could breathe.

'No wonder she looks so flat chested…' Neji thought to himself. 'If I don't take off the bindings, then her wounds could get infected, but if I do…' Neji thought, imagining a naked Sakura. He shook that thought out of his head and made his decision. He took out a kunai and sliced through the bindings easily. They fell around her and revealed Sakura's breasts, that were bigger than they looked. They were nicely sized, but not as big as her teacher's. About the size of apples. If he wasn't a Hyuga, Neji would have blushed. But he kept his mind to dressing Sakura's wounds and tried to keep his mind rid of dirty thoughts.

Neji took the towel and sopped up all the blood. Then he took the ointment and rubbed it on all of Sakura's cuts, and then wrapped the bandages around them and re-did her bindings, but this time not as tightly. He wouldn't mind to see a little more in the chest area, so he did it loose so you could actually tell she had a figure. Then he put back on her shirt and looked for any other injuries. She had a fractured ankle.

Neji wrapped her ankle tightly with bandages. When he was certain there were no other injuries that were unattended, he picked her up, bridal style, and took off into the forest, careful not to drop the pink haired beauty in his arms.

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Well I'm finally done. Sorry it took so long for me to update this. I'll try to update this and my other stories sooner. Please review, no flames.