Chap 2
When I was done packing I went to the front gate by myself first. I leaned against the wall and looked up at the sky. Hmm... about 12... Where is that ditsy girl?
"N-Neji-kun!" Huh. There she is. . . I watched her as she ran towards me. "You are early, Neji-kun!" And your late.
"Come on, let's go." I sighed and got ready to jump.
"Ahh!"
!DOOSH!
"Oh my-agh! What now Hinata?" I turned around angrily. She fallen flat on the ground. "Hinata!" I ran over to her. "You ditz! Are you alright?" I helped her up. She looked like she was ready to cry. "Ow..." She groaned.
"Huh, come on." I picked up her bag too and slung it over my shoulders.
"Neji-kun, I'm sorry. . .I 'm bothering you again."
"It's fine. Just! Sigh. Look just don't apologize anymore, okay?"
"Y-yes, I'm sor-."
"Hinata."
"S-Sorry!"
"Sigh. You're going have to work on that. Let's get going."
And with that we took off.
O.o.O.o.O.o.O.o.O
"Sir! Please stop running!"
"Stop following me first!"
"B-But! Sir! Please don't make it harder than it already is for me! Please! The advisor will have my head again!"
"Well, you're still alive! Too bad, he DIDN'T have your head!"
"S-sir! Wah!!! Please don't be like that! You're sick! You have to go back with me!"
"No Way! You can't make me!"
"Sir! Don't exert yourself! I'm suppose to be watching over you!"
"Well then, who fault is it if I accidentally trip and fall felt on my face because you were chasing me?"
"No! Sir! Don't!"
"Hah! Now that's too bad now, isn't it?! It's either me or you. And guess what? You. Have got to go!"
"No! Please sir! Ahh! Don't hurt me again!"
"Bleh! You should have stop to begin with!" I stuck my tongue out at him and smushed him with sand.
"Sir!...AHH!..." Plup!
I looked back at Yashamaru. He poped up from the sand cried all chibi like. "Gaaraaa-saaaamaaaaaa!"
"Haha! Sorry Yasha!" Hmm, where should I go now? Since I'm so far anyway. I'll go rest in the forest.
O.o.O.o.O.o.O
" Ano, Neji-kun, we ran out of water."
"Huh? Alright, I'll go get it. Rest here. I'll be back, There's a river a bit further to the left. Be careful little ditz." He took off.
"O-Okay!" I said after him. Why is Neji-kun different from this morning? Little Ditz? That's an old nickname. Is he okay? "Oh no! He's not sick is he?! N-Neji-kun!" Oh crap. I can't carry all these stuff... I! I have to go see him though! What if he's really sick?! "N-Neji Kun!" Uh, where was he?
O.o.O.o.O.o.O
I got up from filling the silver canteen with water. I went to the top of a hill and sat down. Hmm, nice breeze.
"Hey, idiot. You're blocking my sun." A voice said out of no where.
"Huh?" I looked around. Who was that?
"Down here, dumb butt." I looked over the hill. More like down a side of it. There was a red head kid lying down on the grass eyes closed. What's weird was that he had black eyeliner around his eye. What the hell... Does this kid have some freak obsession with pandas? "Hey! Can you move before I knock your face off?"
"What?! I know that your mother taught you better than that. Punk." I said, ready to kick him off the hill. He jerks his head up and glares at me. His forehead scrunches up as he glares at me.
"What the hell?! You have weird eyes." He said trying to calm down apparently, by getting me pissed off.
"Huh?! Me?! Look at you! You look like a panda!" I said getting him pissed all over again.
"At least I have eyes! You don't have smack!" He said angrily as he sat up. "Wonder if you can even see me?!"
"I have eyes. I just don't have pupils! I don't need them and I can see you perfectly!" I could and as I look at him closer. I noticed something. His chakra system? What the...fuck? There was millions of particles, some big, some small, floating around inside.
"Whatever!" He scoffed as he stood up. "Same thing!"
"Huh?! What's the same thing in that?! You little punk!"
"Stop calling me a punk?You...YoU...YOU..."
"HA, what an idiot you can't even find a come back."
"Shuddup bastard!"
"Hey! Who you calling a bastard?!"
"Who else?! Wanna fight bitch?! I'll kick your ass any day! Bring it on!"
Who the hell is this guy?! I opened my mouth to say something when someone tapped my shoulders. "What?!" I spun around and was going to hit them. When I saw it was Hinata I calmed down but scoffed. "What are you doing here?! I told you to wait for me."
"I-I thought, N-Neji-kun might be sick..." She flushed red and looked down.
"Why would I be sick Hinata?" I said forcefully still a bit peeved.
"Be-because N-Neji-kun was so nice to me this-"
"What?! That's why you thought I was sick?! Hinata, I just wanted to do this mission without seeing you cry okay!? So I thought I be nice to you!"
"N-Neji-kun-"
"Aww, how sweet. Man, you guys look very cute together. Adorable, really." The punk red head said. I twitched an eyebrow. This guy. Was pissing me off. Hinata saw my anger.
"N-Neji-kun... I! I suppose you don't know him-"
I turned around and faced the punk and with every bad word I said I jabbed a finger toward him. "Of course I don't know a bastard like him! This little bitch has no manners what so ever! He's just some weird bum I just met disturbing me!" I screamed. I panted a little trying to calm down.
"What?! You were disturbing me first! I told you to move! You could have just moved without a word! But, Nooooo! You had to talk about my mother! What the hell is that?! I get it. You want to talk about mothers? You want to talk about mothers?! Okay fine! Let's talk about mothers!"
"Eh! H-Hold on! Don't talk about mothers now! N-Neji-kun! We should go back and get our things!" Hinata yelled out of the blue.
"What?! You didn't get our stuff?! Shit! Hinata! There's thieves around here! Damn!" I took off toward where we rested.
When I got there nothing was left.
"Shit!" I screamed and slammed my fist on a large boulder. It broke to pebbles.
"Man, someone's pissy." It was that bastard again. He was sitting on a tree.
"Shut up you! If it wasn't for you! Our stuff wouldn't have gotten lost! Dammit!"
"N-Neji-kun! I'm sorry! It was my fault! I should have listened to you and stayed here instead of following you!" Hinata said, her face about to cry. Damn.
"It's not your fault. Okay?! At least I still have the important things on me. Let's just get outta here." I said trying so damn hard not to explode.
"O-Okay... So you're not going to talk about mothers?" I scoffed and looked at her like she was the dumbass of the world. Are you shittin' me? Oh my god. Neji calm down. Don't-
"Bwahahahaha! Oh wow! That's great! Man, haha! You are hilarious, little miss." the red head laughed and laughed. Ok. I was pissed. I picked up a good sized rock and threw it at him. He caught it. "What was that supposed to be?"
"A warning. I don't know what the hell you're doing with yourself. But you better stop smoking or some shit because if not, your chakra's gonna be busted pretty soon." And with that we took off.
O.o.O
I must have stood there for a long time because Yashamaru managed to find me for once. He asked me what was wrong for about a minute or two before he finally gave up and just sat down. Waiting for me to go.
'How?' I asked myself. 'How the hell did he know? That there's something wrong with me? Why didn't I ask him? Who is he? Why didn't he tell me more about it? Why didn't he help me? Why didn't he make it better? Why?! Why?! Why?! That bastard!'
"Agh!" I clutched my head.
"Gaara-sama!" Yashamaru was at my side in a flash. But it didn't feel like he was there. No, it felt like nothing was there. Nobody. No one. Just me. All alone. Alone again.
"AHH!" I screamed as I felt the pain in my body worsened. The scream didn't sound like mine. No.
The scream sounded like a monster. Is that what it is? Is that what I am? A monster? A monster inside of me?
Or is the monster, me?
Why couldn't I get rid of it? Why?
It hurts.
My breathing is coming harder and in shorter breath.
I cough and cough and cough, non stop! Why doesn't it go away? The coughing isn't just normal hacking anymore. It's blood. And I can't stop it. The blood splatters everywhere around me.
"I'm sorry Yasha, I know you don't like seeing blood." I managed to gasp out, mouth full of blood. Trying to give a apologetic smile. I must look like a monster.
"Gaara-sama! It doesn't matter! We must get you back! Now!" He grabs me and takes off. The coughing continues, I can't feel myself anymore. No, I'm losing it.
Please stop. It hurts. Don't do this to me.Is this it? Is my time up? I'm not going to heaven, I know that. They would scream if they saw me. Ha. I chuckled in between my nonstop coughing. I must be really wanting to die. Laughing at a time like this.
I don't want to go to hell though. I wouldn't mind it. But. What if I don't want to see her. Her. Why did she do this to me? Did I deserve it? What did I do? I want to know but, I'm scared. I'm scared of what you'll say. Please don't say it's just because I existed.What if I was never alive? What if I never came? Would you have been alive? And happy? Then maybe I wouldn't have to feel this. Feel this pain. Pain of living.
For nothing.
O.o.O (Neji-kun right here!)
When we reached the Hidden Sand Village it was late evening. The guards at the gate greeted us and took us in. This place... It is entirely of sand. Thus the name Hidden "Sand" Village, I suppose. But how can one live here? The sand is everywhere, carried by the wind. The people here are very well adapt but there is nearly no one in the streets. Some people here and there but nothing compare to Konoha. A councilmen greeted us inside and let us rest in the rooms they had prepared for us. He was puzzled at first, as to why we didn't have our stuff but I explained there was problems on the way here. The councilmen told us I would be in a room right next to the kazekage. While Hinata on the other side. He also said the kazekage was out at the moment and when he came back he would alert us. We said our good nights and settled into our rooms. I was looking out the window of a small balcony when there was a knock at my door.
"N-Neji-kun?" Hinata. I opened the door.
"Yes, what is it?" I said.
"C-Can we talk? For a bit?" She said, nervously. I blinked. Um...k.
"Sure." I opened the door wider and stepped aside. She walked in and looked around. "Sit down." I said.
"Ok." She sat on the chair as I sat down at the end of the bed.
"So what is it?"
"I wanted to apologize for the losing o-our things." She said looking at the floor. I sighed, why doesn't anyone ever look at me when they are speaking to me?
"Hinata. It's fine, they provided for us anyway. So stop apologizing when it isn't necessary,just don't apologize anymore, and please look at me when you're talking to me okay?"
"Y-yes!" She looks up at me slowly. "Um, N-Neji-kun, what do you think happened to red head-kun?"
"I don't know!" I shrugged. "Who cares? He's probably just messed up. Like on crack." I lied down.
"Y-You know thats not it. There's-there's something wrong with him! His chakra formation isn't right! The particles and chakra flow is greatly harmed! Besides that, the particles doesn't seem to stop! There's great clumps of those things attached together and if it gets stuck in his main organs, it could hurt him! Also his lungs are also very disturbed, there are things practically embedded into the sides of his lungs! Those could cause serious damage to his breathing and if it starts bleeds he could drown in his own blood!" In the middle of it, I had propped my elbows up and looked up at her backing up a bit. She was in her moment.
"Wow Hinata.That was the longest thing you ever said to me. You didn't even stutter much. I'm so amazed, I could almost clap."
"Uh! Oh! Th-thank you N-Neji-kun! But...oh! But, I'm serious!"
"Yea, I know, but he isn't our problem Hinata. There's too many people in the world with too many problems. You can't help all of them."
"But, Neji-kun, I feel so sorry for him..."
"Well-"
-BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM-
"Hyuuga-sama! Hyuuga-sama! We need your help!" Some one banged on my door and screamed.
I ran over and opened the door immediately as Hinata stood up quickly. It was some messenger. "What it is?" I said
"It's the kazekage! He's back and he's hurt! He's having another attack!" He said and ran down the hall.
"Attack?" Hinata and I said together. We didn't have time to wonder and ran after the messenger.
He ran into a room and we followed. It was dark with only a lit candle in a corner but the outline of the sight stopped us directly. There was a pool of blood on the floor and a kid was bent over on the ground, coughing blood. A man was beside him trying to help, obviously have no idea what to do. He was also covered in blood.
"Ah!" Hinata gasped. I ran up to the kid and pulled him onto my lap. His head hung low next to mine, I couldn't see his face, and he kept coughing blood up fiercely.
"What the hell?" I looked into his chakra system. "Oh shit." I said in a low voice.This chakra was all too familiar. The kid looked up. Panda eyes bloodshot.
"Hah. You bitch. You again? So you're the Hyuuga..." He rolled his head on to my shoulders and closed his eyes, smirking. He was weak. Really weak and he was still trying to act cool. He had blood dripping from his mouth all over his chin. Like he just drank blood and threw it all back up.He coughed and bloods splattered onto my cheek. I just stared at him, wide eyed, as I looked into his body. His lungs were bleeding and chakra was shook up.What was happening?! There was some sort of tornado inside combining his blood and chakra together, racking up his lung making him cough up the blood nonstop. What else is happening in there?! There must be something else! What?!
"Please! You have to help him! Please help him! He can't die! Help!" The white hair guy screamed at me, shaking on the ground begging. Hinata held him back. "Please!"
"Sir! Please stop!" She said. "Neji-kun! Hurry! Do something!"
What?! Do what?!
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Here! It's just a small cliffie. Sry! But I think it was okay. I like how it's turning out but I lied! I'm sorry!
I think that half of this story might be about how Neji met Gaara in sand. They're staying there for a while so gomen!
Also sorry for such OCCness! Gaara and Neji is kinda out of character. Okay maybe not kinda but really! I sorta like them this way! Not that the original character is bad but ahh! Just! Sry!
Please review! Tell me what you think!
Oh I also wanna ask, how do you spell Neji? N-E-J-I? Or N-E-I-J-I? I heard it was the latter.
Thank you! I hoped you enjoyed this chapter!