A/N: So here's the new chapter! Sorry for the wait, but I broke my laptop's power cord and I just got a new one. Yay! This was probably the hardest chapter to write and I don't think I did a very good job…::doom:: I sorry. Oh yes! I changed my penname! Don't be disturbed, its still balletphantom…now with a kickass name! XP

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Act II; scene ii

Neji leaned against a thick tree trunk, waiting for Lee to get back. The 13 year old genius was beginning to get nervous.

"It should not have taken him this long." He mumbled. "I hope he doesn't screw this up."

Neji waited a little longer, his heart rate ever increasing as his concerns did. Just when he was about to go search for the path of destruction Lee likely left in his wake, Lee himself bounded through the tree up to him.

"NEJI!" He cried exuberantly. "VICTORY IS OURS!" He launched into a 'nice guy' pose that he no doubt learned from Gai-sensei. Neji was quite pleasantly surprised.

"You did everything I told you to? No mistakes?" Lee shook his head.

"Of course not, Neji!" He smiled. "Every one is in love with the one you said to." Footsteps interrupted the two's conversation.

"Keep your voice down!" Neji cried as he pulled Lee behind the tree, his hand clamped roughly over his mouth. Sakura and Naruto entered the clearing the second after Neji had pulled Lee out of sight.

"Naruto, I don't have time for this." She said, wringing her hands.

"But Sakura! I've been looking for you all night! You can't be with Sasuke!" Neji's eyes narrowed dangerously and he pulled Lee by his neck away from the voices of Sakura and Naruto. When they were out of earshot, he pinned Lee up against a tree roughly.

"Lee," He hissed. "WHY IS NARUTO IN LOVE WITH SAKURA?!?!"

"But…Neji…isn't that what you wanted? Naruto with Sakura and Sasuke with Hinata?" What happened next can be described only as an atomic explosion inside Neji's head.

"THAT IS NOT WHAT I WANTED AT ALL!!!" He shouted, forgetting their stealth. "I WANTED NARUTO WITH HINATA NOT SASUKE!!!" He took a deep breath. "Lee…I swear you are going to fix this or I am going. To. Kill. You. Got it?" Lee nodded frantically.

"Naruto…Hinata…" He said. "Sasuke…Sakura…"

"Good. Now we wait here for the opportune moment."

Sakura and Naruto had begun arguing.

"Naruto, I want you to tell me where Sasuke is!"

"I swear I don't know!" He insisted. "All I know is that he was with you, and I was chasing you, and then I lost you for awhile, and then he was gone!"

"Think about it! What if he's in some sort of trouble?" What if he ran away again? Was the unspoken thought running through their minds.

"Sasuke wouldn't…" Naruto mumbled. "I can't believe you're more concerned about Sasuke than listening to me!" He pouted. Sakura turned very, very red, compliments of her similarly colored hair.

"I AM MORE CONCERNED ABOUT SASUKE BECAUSE THAT ISSUE IS MORE PRESSING THAN YOUR LITTLE CRUSH, OKAY?" She screamed at Naruto, storming away. Naruto was shell shocked.

"Jeez…That was an overreaction." He said. "But I think I'll leave her alone…For my own personal safety." He yawned. "Man, I'm tired." And with that, he sat down on the ground, asleep in seconds. Neji emerged from the trees just after, his hand still clamped around Lee's throat.

"It's amazing how quickly these people fall asleep in the woods…" He mumbled, releasing Lee.

"What are you going to do?" He said in a low menacing voice. Lee answered with wide eyes.

"I'm going to go find Sasuke and Hinata." He said. Neji watched as he ran through the forest at full speed to find the two. Neji rolled his eyes, dabbing the juice from the flower on Naruto's eyelids.

Soon after Hinata and Sasuke came into the clearing, Lee having successfully lured them to the clearing. Sasuke was still professing his love for Hinata is a very loud voice, and Naruto woke. The first sight he saw after waking was Hinata bending over him, concern and confusion mingled on her features.

"Hinata…" He said, immediately spellbound. Neji smirked, hiding behind yet another tree with Lee. "You look really pretty in the moonlight…" She immediately blushed, pleased at being noticed by Naruto. Sasuke was not so pleased at Naruto sudden attraction.

"You're always trying to steal the people I love away from me!" He accused. Naruto and Sasuke immediately launched into an insult war that rivaled all they had had before. Hinata stood off to the sides, tears waiting to spring from her eyes.

"Would you both stop?" She said in a small, ineffective voice. Sakura appeared just behind her, finally relieved at finding Sasuke. She stood beside Hinata, rolling her eyes at her teammates' bickering.

Until she figured out what, rather who, they were arguing about.

"HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN!?!?" She shouted, making Hinata jump. The pink haired girl turned on her companion. "WHAT DID YOU DO?!?"

'W-What are you talking about?" She asked Sakura nervously.

"You must have done something! Both of them were arguing over me earlier! And now they're both in love with you?" Hinata's hands clenched into fists.

"Well maybe they got tired of your narcissism!"

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?" The girls began arguing with the same intensity as the boys, throwing insults at each other even faster than Naruto and Sasuke.

Neji surveyed the scene, fed up and mildly disturbed at the swear words his seemingly innocent cousin knew.

"You know what; they can all kill each other." He said, taking a step back.

"Maybe we should stop them…" Lee said. Neji shook his head.

"Let's just see where this goes…"

"THAT IS IT, HINATA HYUUGA!!!" Sakura shouted. "Let's settle this."

"I don't want to fight you, Sakura." Hinata said evenly, though she was trembling on the inside.

"BRING IT ON, HYUUGA!!"

"SAKURA I'M SERIOUS!! I'M NOT GOING TO FIGHT YOU!!" The boys now turned from their previous argument-who actually deserved Hinata- to who was going to protect her from the evil Sakura.

"HA! You couldn't protect her from a toad!" Naruto laughed. Sasuke simply smirked.

"Yeah right. You'd just annoy her to death."

"I AM SO GOING TO KILL YOU!!" The boys left the vicinity to fight one of their epic battles. Neji sighed heavily.

"Lee, you better make sure they don't kill each other." Lee nodded. "I'll stay here and make sure the girls don't do the same thing." With that Lee was gone, chasing after Sasuke and Naruto to make sure their epic fight did not turn out a repeat of previous ones.

Neji actually felt a twist of guilt starting in his stomach. In this one act of revenge-and truthfully, one act of kindness- he had pitted two pairs of friends against each other.

"I am such a screw up." He mumbled miserably.