A/N: Okay, there was a fair warning in the last chapter about me seriously screwing up the plot, so if you're still reading I suggest you stop now. I'm not too proud of this chapter but whatever, you'll see.

Oh, and thank you for all of my special reviews ! -Gives everyone bacon-

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto... if I did the show would have more Kakashi and Itachi than anything.


Chapter Three

Granted Wishes and Dreams Come True


How is this even remotely possible?

Neji gaped at himself in the mirror. He ran a hand across his forehead again and again.

"I must still be dreaming," Neji concluded. "I mean I've had this dream countless times. I'll dream that the cursed seal was gone then I'd wake up and poof, it'd be there again! Everyone knows that there's no reverse jutsu for the seal, at least not yet . . . "

Despite what Neji had seemed to deduce, everything seemed quite real to him. He looked outside the frosty bathroom window and saw that it had began to snow overnight. Icicles hung from the top of the window, dripping freezing water on the pane.

The brown haired Hyuga leaned back against the sink and watched snowflakes drift past the window idly.

This is impossible. I can't be dreaming but this also can't be true. So what the hell is going on here? ...Unless . . . there actually was a reverse jutsu that no one knew about . . .

"I'll just have to ask Hiashi about it." His stomach growled deeply in protest.

"Okay, I'll just have to ask him later." Neji said, pushing himself off of the counter. He walked back to his room to do the small chores he left unattended He made his bed, picked up any clothes that were on the floor, and rearranged the clothes in his closet by putting the outfits he wore the most in the front and the ones he wore the least in the back.

When he finally finished the tedious chores, he went to put on his hiai-ate, but instead of putting it on his forehead, like would have done normally, he tied it around his neck.

I might as well flaunt it.

He walked out of his room and started down the hall. He passed Hinata's room and was on his way to the kitchen when he noticed something. He turned around and headed back toward Hinata's room.

The door was open so he walked right in.

"What the hell . . . ?" Neji said looking around.

The room was about as bare as Neji's usually was. It was about as bland as a hospital room. Even the blankets and sheets that rested on the bed were an off-whitish color. This made Neji notice another thing.

Usually Hinata would sleep in if there was nothing important going on, and as far as Neji knew there wasn't any thing of importance happening this morning. Under any normal circumstances, Neji would have been the only early riser but today was different.

Neji walked around the girl's room some more and he noticed another big change. Her room was, for once, cleaned. Not cleaned as in items pushed under the bed and in the closet. No, it was actual clean as in clothes neatly hung up, and belongings neatly organized.

For as long as Neji knew Hinata, she had always been a slob, at least in his eyes she was. Her room was always a mess with clothes and garbage strewn everywhere in the room. There was no way that this room, her room, could be cleaned.

He walked out of the room shaking his head.

Will wonders never cease?

Neji continued his journey into the kitchen, where he saw Hanabi eating breakfast at the table. He walked up to her, scowling, and grabbed her by her ear.

"You think I forgot about last night?" he hissed.

Hanabi winced at the pain. "What the hell are you talking about? What do you mean 'last night'?"

Neji pinched harder. "You know exactly what I mean. I know for a fact that you plotted that whole thing out so I'd be alone with Hinata."

"No, I don't know what you mean, asshole. Now let go of me!"

Neji let go of her reddening ear. She glared at him as she was getting up.

"Plus, even if I did know what you were talking about, who'd want to spend time with you?"

She picked up her bowl of cereal, which still had the same amount of cereal and milk from when she poured it, and threw it in the sink. Milk spattered everywhere and bits of cereal escaped from the confines of the bowl and landed on the floor and counters.

"Bastard," she murmured while walking out of the room.

Neji confusedly watched her walk out of the room.

That was odd. Something's different about her today. I wonder what she's so pissed at.

This wasn't like Hanabi at all. She would have usually been smug and bratty, but today it seemed like Neji had offended her in someway, so much so that she lost her apatite and left the room.

Neji shrugged and went to go sit down at the kitchen table. He paused when he passed by the sink, remembering the scene that happened last night. He looked in the sink only to see milk sliding down the drain. He let out a sigh of relief and continued to the table.

He noticed that Hanabi left the cereal and milk on the table, so he grabbed a bowl and poured himself some breakfast. He sat down and started shoveling food into his mouth. He never was a neat eater if he didn't have to be. He finished up and put his bowl in the sink.

Okay, now that I'm finished with that it's time to see what else changed around here.

Neji left the kitchen and walked outside, forgetting that it had snowed. He gasped and turned to get back in the house as quickly as possible.

"Damn, it's freezing out there!"

He made his way back to his room to get a coat, passing a glowering Hanabi on the way.

Guess she got hungry.

Neji got to his room and went to his closet. He looked for his navy blue coat just to remember that it was dirty.

Fine. I'll just get the other one.

He then looked for his tan coat, which also wasn't in the closet. He sighed deeply and took out his 'last resort' coat, which was a deep violet. Neji walked outside mumbling something about hating his coat.

Neji started walking to no certain location. He looked up at the falling snowflakes as they drifted through the air, getting caught in tree branches and on top of roofs. A few brushed the boy's heated skin, instantly melting on contact. He wiped away the small droplets of water on his cheeks, smirking.


"Lady Hinata come look at this!"

The young Hyuga had made a snow angel and carved a halo into the snow above the head. He looked around trying to find his missing cousin. "Hinata?"

Suddenly he was hit in the back with a snowball. He turned around to see Hinata holding two more snowballs. She smiled sweetly before throwing another one at her cousin. Neji ducked underneath it and scooped up a handful of snow, made a snowball, and chucked it at Hinata.

They spent the rest of the day and some of that night playing in the snow. They both came home freezing, soaking, and exhausted. Although they were cold and tired, they wore bright smiles. Neji's coat was draped over Hinata's shoulders to give her extra warmth. She had insisted that Neji kept his coat because he was shivering violently but he just shook his head and told her to keep it.

They opened up the door to their house just to be bombarded with questions asked by their fathers. "Do you have any idea how late it is?!" "Where were you?" "We were worried sick, what were you dong!?"

and at last they said in unison:

"Don't you EVER do that again!!"

They brought their children into the house and sat them down next to the fire that burned brightly in the fireplace while they went to get dry clothes. Holding her hands out to the heat Hinata asked, "That was really fun, wasn't it?"

Neji nodded, smiling warmly. "Yeah but I don't think that our dad's appreciated us coming home so late." he said, chuckling lightly.

Their fathers came back into the room with dry clothing. They changed their clothes and went to bed.

The next morning both Neji and Hinata were terribly sick. Although Neji was congested and achy, all he could think about was the next time he and Hinata would play in the snow.


He shook away the memory and quickened his pace. He turned a corner and ran head on into Hinata. She tripped backwards and fell over a stump. Neji noticed that it was the same place where he had scolded her the day before.

Neji held out his hand as Hinata started to get up. She glared at him.

"Would you like to keep that hand?" she asked acidly.

Neji narrowed his eyes at her. " I was just trying to help you up, so lose the attitude."

Hinata stood up and looked Neji over. He did the same to her. She was wearing a black coat, not unlike the lavender and white one Neji had seen her usually wear. Her hiai-ate was tied around her forehead with sprouts of hair coming over it and resting on the plate with the leaf symbol on it. The snow clung to her navy hair, making it look a shade lighter in the sunlight. The wind blew gently and a few snowflakes fluttered gracefully to the ground.

Neji sighed. I should probably apologize.

"Look, about last night . . . and just now, I'm sorry. I really didn't mean to-"

Hinata cut him off. "Why the hell are you talking to me?"

"I– What? What do you mean why am I talking to you? I'm apologizing to you."

Hinata glowered at Neji. "You...apologizing?" she said with mock confusion. "There isn't any thing you can change about my situation, so there's no point in apologizing to me. It's really just a waste of my time."

Neji ran an agitated hand through his hair. He wasn't used to this kind of thing. And Hinata wasn't making this any easier.

Wait. Hinata had never talked to him in that way. What is everyone's problem today? Hanabi was pissed off and apparently so was Hinata.

"Would you please just stop acting like a brat? I came to apologize to you, the least you could do is try to hear me out." Neji said forcing himself to keep his voice controlled.

"What will you do if I don't hear you out, hmm? Like I said, it's a waste of my time. I have better things to do than listen to a bastard like you." she said with bald hostility. She turned away from him and started to walk back the way she had came. Neji reached out and grabbed her shoulder.

"Just listen to what I have to say!" He said through gritted teeth.

Hinata had stopped walking and stood under the weight of Neji's hand. "Let go of me."

"No. You will hear what I have to say. You will listen to me."

Hinata turned around, looking at him furiously. "That's the problem with all of you main branch assholes. You always want branch family to do as we're told and follow you around like little lap dogs. I don't want to hear your sorry ass apology because it won't change a damn thing."

Neji was confused now. What the hell did she mean 'You main branch assholes'? She is a main branch asshole! If anything, he should be the one ranting about how the main branch mistreated him.

Hinata removed his hand from her shoulder and began walking away again when she stopped in mid-step. "I'm just curious to know," she started, smirking. She began taking her hiai-ate off. She turned around to face him as she slid it off her forehead.

"What will you do, now that I've defied you?"

Neji's eyes widened There it was. The mark that had mocked him for so many years. It's sickly green color and awful symbolism was banded on Hinata's head.

Hinata had the seal.

Neji was left speechless at her unveiling. They both stared at each other in silence for what seemed like minutes. Hinata staring in a slight superior way, and Neji staring in shock.

Hinata let her cruel smirk resurface again. "Heh, that's what I thought," she said putting her hiai-ate back on. "When it comes down to it, I guess you really don't have the balls to do it."

After saying that she turned and left the scene, leaving Neji bewildered.

After a while he was drawn from his haze of confusion by a wind that chilled him to the bone.

His own daughter! Why would he do such a thing? This is madness! Nothing makes any sense around here.

Neji's mind was racing. So many thoughts flew through his mind but he had no idea what to think. He then remembered the scene from earlier that day with Hanabi. She also had worn her hiai-ate on her forehead. Did she have the curse seal too?

Neji went to lean against a wall. How had all of this happened? When had all of this happened? He hated having the curse seal but he'd never wish it upon someone else.

Something is seriously fucked up here and I need to figure out what it is.


"Just one day. Just for one day I wish she would see how it feels to hate someone so much you want to gouge out their eyes. Or rip out their guts." Neji said pacing the floor in his room.

If Neji had looked out the window, he would've seen a star fall to the ground, as if the sky itself were crying.


A/N: Okay I know it was bad. And not just bad, AWFULLY BAD. All caps and everything. It kinda felt like I typed a chapter full of nothingness. Its so hollow and void of soul. And yes, I know...steryotyped wishing...but whatever... --;;

FUNFACT: When I typed this, I had just gotten through watching 300, so when Neji thinks 'this is madness' I really wanted to have Hanabi come out of nowhere and say 'Madness? THIS IS KONOHA!!!' and like kick him in the face and run away. You can probably tell why I dismissed that idea XD... Anyway,

Review please, especially if you're as pissed off at this chapter as I am.

-goes to crawl under rock-