Disclaimer: Trust me…if I owned Naruto, u wouldn't wanna watch it anymore…

Author's Notes: Ha! U c? I am updating sooner! Anyway, ive been trying to find more AxL (Athrun/Lacus) fics on for sooo long and I think ive only found…5, so if anybody noes where I can get more fics with the coupling, id greatly appreciate it. Oh yea, it's Gundam Seed…not Naruto (no im not betraying this fandom!)

Warnings: Come on, from the last 3 chapters, do u really expect anything less crazy?

Chapter 4: Lock Away the Ladies

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

"Neji! You open this door right this second!"

Neji groaned into his pillow. He was 20 years old for god's sake…and here he was, being yelled at like a 4 year old to open his stupid door so the rest of the family, which was basically the size of a small country, and who knows what other people, could come in and yell at him!

Well, half of them would yell. The other half would probably bombard him with questions like whether he actually made it into bed with Sakura or not.

"Hyuuga Neji."

Neji groaned again. It was his uncle…and until the day the guy died, he would always be superior.

"Open this door."

Sighing loudly, Neji reluctantly got off his comfortably un-judgmental bed and unlocked the door. Hyuuga Hiashi waltzed into the room gracefully and slammed the door into the faces of everybody else that wanted a piece of Neji to chew on.

"Neji, you should really come to me to talk about these kind of things before you let everybody else find out. The Hyuuga mansion is becoming unbalanced with the weight of all the people crowded outside your door."

Hiashi paused for a moment.

"You know it's like a small country out there. If everybody decided to push against your door, our whole mansion will probably topple like the Leaning Tower of Pisa."

Neji said nothing.

"Look, Neji. I know it's hard right now, but Hyuuga laws state that there will be none of that…stuff until you're married."

This time, our favorite protagonist's head snapped up quicker than a whip.

"Don't tell me you actually believe them!" Neji said, not even bothering to hide the incredulity in his voice. "You can't honestly tell me you think I'd do that!"

He saw with a bad feeling that there was surprise in his uncle's eyes.

"Well…" Hiashi said, "You wouldn't tell anybody else otherwise…not to mention you wouldn't let anybody in your room to talk about it! Did you know that our phone has had more action in the past day than it's had since…well…ever?"

When all he got were strange looks, Hiashi sighed and decided to end the uncomfortable conversation.

"Neji, all I'm saying, is not to do anything too stupid. We specialize in this kind of thing, so you can get them for free you know!"

Neji realized with a thick thud of his heart to the bottom of his stomach that his uncle was referring to "Hyuuga Helpers."

"Anyway," Hiashi continued before Neji could explode, "Just try not to shame our family or yourself, ok? And be very, very careful…"

Hyuuga Neji before. Genius, composed, skilled, graceful, mysteriously good looking.

Hyuuga Neji now. Closet pervert, not so much of a genius, less than composed, still skillful but no longer graceful and more mysteriously good looking than before.

He didn't even have time to say anything as Hiashi quickly opened the door and slid out. Banging and yelling was heard over the calm and demanding voice of Hyuuga Hiashi.

Risking a look at his cute little bird clock, Neji realized he completely missed training. Maybe it was a good thing…he really wasn't sure he was up to dealing with Lee and perhaps a very angry Tenten.

No, it wasn't a good thing at all! That stupid mushroom-head would be spouting all sorts of nonsense to Tenten and then she really would be angry! Tenten and Sakura were friends…and since Lee happened to be one of the witnesses to their conversation, there wasn't anyone else to say that it was all just a big misunderstanding!

He strongly doubted that Sakura would be trying to defend him after everything he had said last night…

He was so majorly screwed over…

Another knock on his unfortunate door came. He ignored it.

"Neji! Let me in!"

Neji turned his head towards the door in surprise. He knew that voice anywhere…

Oh dear…he hoped Tenten hadn't come all this way just to yell at him.

"It's open!" Neji "shouted" but since Neji didn't shout, it was more of an…exclamation.

Then he dimly noted that with all the people trying to get into his room, nobody even bothered to check to see if the door was just open.

"Neji!" Tenten said worriedly as she pushed the door shut again, "Are you ok? It's not like you to miss anything, especially practice!"

"There have been a few…problems…" Neji muttered to her while trying and failing not to notice that they were now trapped in his room together. "You've heard right?"

Tenten turned her head at him and put on this befuddled expression that he just found so goddamned adorable and cute and GAH!

"I haven't heard anything…" She said, and he felt like breaking down and crying because she hadn't heard the terrible things people were saying yet.

"Oh!" Tenten said looking thoughtful, "You mean how everybody's been saying that you've been a closet pervert all these years like Jiraiya and tried to get Sakura-chan into bed with you? I've heard that…"

Neji now just felt like breaking down and crying.

The (cute) kunoichi just smiled at him and shook her head.

"Don't fret over it!" She said with a reassuring pat to his arm, "I've heard it, but that doesn't mean I really care that much for it…"

He didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

Happy since she wasn't offended and angry, or sad because she didn't give a damn that he might've been having a raunchy sex life with other people that wasn't her.

Tenten, in fact, had been greatly affected by this news. Before she went to training, she had gotten a call from a frantic Ino that Neji was a closet pervert much like Jiraiya and to be terribly careful around him.

She had no clue whatsoever what was going on, until Ino informed her about the past night's events…

She had stared at the phone for a good 3 minutes straight. With her mouth open!

Neji was trying to get into Sakura's pants?

Was he really that interested in her? And on the very first date too!

So Tenten had gone quietly upstairs to her room, not knowing what the correct emotion was to feel. For a while, she sat on her bed and stared at a team photo of her, Lee, Neji, and Gai-sensei. Then her attention just fell on Neji.

Lee had been standing on her left, Neji on her right, her in the middle, Gai-sensei in the back. The camera-guy was being stupid and had to take the picture extremely close to them so they were all squished in together. She then suddenly became conscious of the fact that it was the probably the closest she had ever gotten to Neji with him willingly agreeing to it.

Wow…they weren't very close at all.

Sure, she knew tons of details about him, but Lee probably did too. They were teammates after all. So what if she always panicked a week ahead of time searching for a birthday present for Neji? That wasn't any different from what most people would do…

So what if Neji had gotten her these beautifully gorgeous ribbons to tie her hair up for her birthday last year? That's what teammates did…

She supposed that she was sad right then, staring at her team photo and sitting on her bed with not much more than a frown on her face.

Then she took her pillow and screamed into it for a long, long 10 minutes until her throat was sore.

Then she supposed she was being stupid, since she should've been happy for Neji that he was finally doing something more social…even if nobody had been expecting him to do something this social.

Well, nothing left for her to do expect to get on with her life and help Neji out with his.

Even if it meant his life didn't include hers.

Neji watched very closely as Tenten spaced out and had this faded kind of smile on her face.

You know, the kind where in movies, the sunshine would be hitting their face at just the right angle to illuminate it in this picture perfect moment. The kind where he could look into her chocolate eyes and he could see that she was thinking of something locked away and would never tell anyone, but it made her sad to think about it alone.

The kind where he wished he could take her face in his hands, tell her everything was ok, and kiss her until their brains hammered for oxygen.

Then he mentally slapped himself up and down for thinking such a ridiculous thing while she sat less than 3 feet away from him locked together in his room.

Where there was great access to his bed.

His soft, comfortable, king-sized bed.

"Er…" He said trying to run from the hentai thoughts partying in his head, "What exactly, have you heard? Was Lee the one to tell you?"

Tenten snapped out of it immediately and smiled. She then decided to sit down on his bed…

The gods were making fun of him…they really were. Tempting him, rubbing it in his face because he just couldn't take advantage of her like that, slowly driving him completely and utterly INSANE!

"What are you doing?" Tenten asked in mock irritation and dragged him down beside her before he realized what was happening.

So now, they were both on his bed TOGETHER.

He was glad that he was sitting on the side closest to the door. That way, if somehow he lost control of his hands, at least his legs would obey his commands and take him the hell outta there.

Tenten, completely oblivious to the thoughts running through his mind, tilted her head back and let out a sigh.

He couldn't stop himself from gazing at her gorgeous neck and before he knew it, that gaze had dipped a little lower.

No! The injustice! It was as if Tenten had just decided that this would be the day to torture him!

Quickly tearing his gaze away, Neji cleared his throat uncomfortably. Tenten thought that it was a sound of impatience, and realized she had left his question unanswered.

"I heard it from Ino."

Neji turned to look at her when she spoke up. He had been so out of it that it took him a while to figure what she was talking about.

"And Ino heard it from Lee, of course."

Well, that explained a lot.

"Apparently, you were talking to Sakura-chan about condoms and sex."

He couldn't stop the blood rushing to his cheeks. How mortifying…

Tenten let out a soft laugh. But only a soft one, because she didn't want to embarrass or offend Neji any further. Actually, she really didn't want to piss him off more than he was. Neji in a bad mood was like hell on earth turned up a few degrees.

"Stop worrying!" She said as reassuringly as she could, "This whole thing will blow over soon! It's just a matter of time!"

He guessed that made him feel a little better…

"Besides, you can always go for the other sex if the females really turn on you."

Neji came very close to laughing. Tenten was the only one to have this horrible effect on him. Instead, he just settled for a smile disguised as a smirk and glared at her best he could.

Meanwhile…(dun dun dun!)

The hallway outside Neji's door was so crammed with people that the walls had been pushed back a few inches. Now normally, there weren't a lot of people bustling in one particular section of the Hyuuga mansion. There also weren't complete strangers banging on a door either, because not just anybody could waltz into the prestigious mansion.

But today, it didn't really matter to anybody who was standing there. It didn't matter if you were a Hyuuga or not; as long as you were interested in what was happening to and in Neji's sex life, then you were there, standing at his door and trying to get in.

Until…

"Move! NOW!"

A few hundred heads turned to the commanding voice…

Of none other than…

Rock Lee.

"Tell me!" He said to an innocent stranger standing nearby, "Was there a pretty Chinese girl here some time ago?"

A few nods went through the crowd. It looked like the wave!

Anyway…

"She's still in there!" Somebody shouted, and Rock Lee gasped quite loudly.

"I can NOT believe you let her in there after all the stories you've heard! What if he's doing something atrocious to her? We must get in there!"

Many nods came again as everybody got caught up in the lie.

"Hey!" Someone else shouted, "We're Hyuugas! Are we going to let a stupid door get our way?"

"NO!" Everyone, including people who weren't Hyuugas, shouted.

"I wonder what everybody's shouting about…" Tenten said and looked around Neji to the door.

Neji shrugged. "They've been there pounding away out there for a day now. I don't really give a damn."

"Are we going to let him take advantage of a poor, innocent girl?"

"NO!"

"It sounds like a riot's breaking out…" Tenten pointed out nervously.

She had a bad feeling in her stomach.

"Don't be ridiculous!" Neji said as he rolled his eyes, "Hyuugas don't do riot. We're much too composed for that."

"Are we going to get in there?"

"YES!"

"Are we going to stop his madness?"

"YES!"

"THEN LET'S GO!"

As people, the instinct to protect the person you love is in our nature. Even if it meant putting ourselves in danger in the process, it is a small price to pay to see our loved ones safe and happy.

So, when Neji's door exploded in fireworks, his first and primal instinct was to throw himself over Tenten to protect her from whatever was happening.

Isn't it fun how he keeps incriminating himself?

Hyped up over lies and deceit, the first thing everybody saw when the dust finally cleared was a very confused Neji on top of a very confused Tenten.

Silence welcomed itself…

"He's trying to molest her!" Lee shouted in absolute outrage, and seethed deep into his troubled heart at seeing one of his once most trusted teammates on top of his very good friend. On top, and on a bed for that matter!

"As if Sakura-san wasn't enough for you!" Lee cried melodramatically, "Now you go after Tenten-chan? What unholy beast has claimed you Neji? What?"

Passive bystanders stood around nodding and showed their support for their insane leader by giving dirty glares to Neji.

Neji, still too confused by what just happened to even register what Lee was saying, finally realized that he was still on top of Tenten and quickly got off with a light blush.

Then he realized that people in his room were accusing him of trying to molest her.

Was that…

Lee!

Oh that conniving little mothe-

He was going to get the beating of his life followed by the most painful ripping of his skin and getting them stuffed into his eye sockets…

Neji was going to make sure of it.

Then, all of a sudden, ten people under Lee's command decided to jump him and probably beat him before turning him in to Tsunade and serve his punishment. Unholy acts were not tolerated in Konoha, after all.

But since Neji knew he didn't DO anything (feeling the slightest pang of regret), he jumped over them and ran headfirst out his window.

Ah, the life of a ninja. Who cares if his legs technically should've broken into tiny pieces and his face probably should've met his butt?

Running like the wind, Neji left behind the angry shouts of his own family.

So much for not bringing shame…

Ino was still trying to comfort Sakura although the pink haired girl insisted that she didn't need any comforting, because nothing had happened. But Ino knew otherwise…Sakura was in a horrible state of denial. Anybody who had been sexually harassed would've been in denial.

She had been sitting there, talking about how Neji was horrible scum and he deserved to go kiss his own ass when the doorbell suddenly rang.

She almost had a heart attack when she opened the door.

There before her, stood Hyuuga Neji: closet pervert, and he looked pretty damn fine! He was panting slightly (she didn't really want to know why), and he had a very annoyed expression on his face.

"Yes?" She asked trying not to let her voice shake.

"Come to dinner with me tomorrow night."

Such a bold, blank statement!

Ino knew she should've kneed him where it hurt and slammed the door. But the coolness around Hyuuga Neji was undeniable, as was his sexiness.

So she said yes.

Because, after all, it was Lee who told her that Neji was a pervert. And Lee tended to bend the truth a lot when it came to Sakura. And Lee wasn't exactly the most reliable person in the world. And Neji was always known for his composed manner, so everything that was going on just seemed like one big rumor getting more and more blown out of proportion.

Many reasons in mind, Ino smiled at him and closed the door gently. That Neji…it must have turned out bad with Sakura so now he was turning to her.

He couldn't have been all bad…after all, he had great taste in women.

Neji really didn't give a damn about which girl he went out with next. The thing going around in his mind was the current situation he had in his hands.

It wouldn't take long before everybody was saying how he first tried to get Sakura in bed and then moved on to try and molest Tenten after he was denied. It was really only a matter of time.

So, being the genius he was, Neji decided to ask Ino out before the rumor really got around and left him without anybody to date.

It was common logic. Besides, it wasn't like his oh-so-smart Hokage could really do anything to him; she came up with the idea in the first place.

This was all Tsunade's fault anyway…

((( TBC )))

Next Chapter: Blonds Have More Fun

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