Neji stayed at the hospital for a while talking to them and trying to get to know the two he hadn't met. Soon enough, he felt comfortable around them but still acted like his normal self.
"Well, it's getting dark, I better go," Neji walked towards the door when he noticed a figure in the window. He tried not to make it obvious so the strange figure wouldn't jump in and them.
"Actually, I'll stay longer, it's not like I have anything to do" He walked away from the door and sat on one of the empty beds. Neji spoke as if there was nothing wrong, but he had to tell them before they got hurt. Without changing his expression, he informed them about the figure behind them.
"ThereIsAFigureOutsideYourWindowDon'tLookDon'tActAsThereIsSomethingWrong"
Neji tried not to make it obvious so he smiled at the end, Tenten started to laugh at his smile while the other girls started to giggle. Neji sweat dropped but was glad the figure didn't know what they were talking about. The four had stayed up all night talking with one another but sooner or later, they all fell asleep. Since Neji was known to the hospital, they let him stay for the night. Kairi woke up in the middle of the night to get something to drink, she forgot if the figure was there or not so she didn't pay attention. When she was finished, she returned to her room and saw the dark figure in her room. She gasped and tried to run but he had thrown a kunai and slit part of her arm.
"Who are you?" Kairi asked while putting pressure on the wound.
"I'm surprised you don't know me, I'm Kabuto, a friend of Sasuke" He gave an evil smirk and walked closer to her, she started to panic, everyone was asleep why couldn't they hear her?
"What do you want from me?" Kairi asked as she held her tears in.
"I want you gone, you caused Sasuke and myself, a lot of trouble" Kabuto threw his hand back read to hit her when Neji threw a kunai at his hand. The blood gushed out while having the knife still in his flesh. Kabuto grunted and looked at Neji, he smirked and grabbed Kairi by the arm. Neji's eye looked in horror, what was he going to do with her? Kairi let out a small scream of pain, which wasn't loud enough for people to actually hear, if she were louder, Kabuto would've killed her.
"She didn't do anything to you, don't you dare hurt her" Neji's voice was serious and angry; his eyes were filled with hate. Kabuto let go of Kairi's arm and backed away, he pushed her to Neji and disappeared. Neji managed to catch her before she fell to the floor; he looked at her wound and bandaged it up. He nodded and then ran through the door leaving Kairi with the other two, Neji ran through the front door to see that Kabuto had gone.
A noise from the trees caught his attention; he turned around and threw a knife at the moving tree. Neji heard a grunt and a body crashed to the floor it was Kabuto. The kunai had made its way into his stomach; he got up with intent to kill Neji and all the people that he's met in the hospital. Kabuto smiled and took out the bloody kunai from his body, he threw the kunai back at him but Neji dodged it. Kabuto ran to Neji throwing punches and kicks at Neji with the idea that one kick to the head would knock him out for good; Neji defended himself and fought back.
Just as the ANBU were getting back Neji stopped and looked at them coming towards Kabuto. Kabuto smirked and used his kunai to slit the side of Neji's throat, Neji gasped while holding in the pain. Kabuto smirked; his skin turned pale, behind him the ANBU had thrown kunai's containing chakra in them. The chakra had caused Kabuto's heart to stop; he fell to the ground along leaving a puddle of blood under him. Five of the ANBU ninjas took Kabuto to Tsunade, and two others helped Neji to the hospital. Neji looked at his hand, filled with blood, he held his wound tighter so he wouldn't lose so any more blood than he already did.
The medics brought Neji to the room with the other three girls; Kairi was still awake and was shocked at what she had seen. The ANBU ninja's cleaned up his wound and stitched up the slit, Neji was grunting in pain every time they touched the bloody cut. They patched it up and left him to rest, Neji was injected with a liquid every 3 hours for the pain, which calmed him down. Neji slept through the night while Kairi could hardly sleep at all, what if there were more 'friends of Sasuke'? Eventually she fell asleep along with everyone else.
The next morning, the girls were the first ones awake, Kairi told them about the other night but couldn't explain what happened to Neji, no one told her. The three girls crowded around his bed talking.
"Wow, that's a big slit" Tenten observed.
"Yeah, I wonder if it'll hurt if I poke it" Haku wondered.
"I wonder what HAPPENED" Kairi asked.
Neji started to wake up, the girls looked and were still observing the slit.
"You guys are loud, you know that?" Neji sweat dropped," So you want to know about my slit to the throat?" The girls nodded." Well, after I saved you, I ran to go after Kabuto. We fought for a while until I looked to the ANBU and he caught me off guard, I'm surprised I didn't lose a lot of blood that I died" he took off the patch and showed the girls the wound and gave them a nervous smile. The girls screamed in disgust but laughed, they tried to get the wound off Neji's mind so they talked about other things.
"Neji," Kairi said. Neji turned his head to face her. "Thank you" she smiled at him.
"Yeah, your welcome" Neji was never the one that was used to saying thank you's or your welcome's. They continued the conversation and told Neji all the things he had missed while he was gone.
A/N: SORRY SORRY! No SakuLee in this one but I will include them in the next chapter. I promise : ) I hope you all enjoyed it.