AN: I'm really sorry that this story has waited almost 3 years before getting updated in any way. Life happens, as we all know, for the good or bad. If anyone wants to know the whole story, please send me a PM.

Oh, and please read and review. To anyone that read this chapter way long ago, this is a revision of the original from so long ago. Time gave me a new way to handle this story, so I had to edit a little here and there to make things fit into place.

If you have read many fanfictions, you know the disclaimers too well.

The Next Day (30 days until the wedding)

Naruto needed a place that he could go to take his mind off of the events that were unfolding in his life. "Ichiraku's? Nah. Too many people would know exactly where to find me if I went there. My apartment? Nope. Hanabi found a way in there when I knew I had the doors and windows locked and I had the only key to the door. She might want to try there again. Kakashi-sensei?" An image came to his mind about Kakashi in a leather outfit kneeling at Anko's feet begging her for more punishment as she held a whip in her left hand. "I don't even like remembering walking in on that! That was too much, even for Icha Icha Paradise's standards! Maybe I should go into Ino's Flower Shop! Nobody would expect me there!" He ran to the flower shop, and when he finally got there, he stopped and started thinking to himself. "What kind of flower would be good enough to give to a kinda creepy girl to tell her that I'm sorry for everything crazy that has happened over these past few days?" He scratched his head for a minute, then chewed on his thumb for a little bit. "Maybe I should just ask Ino. After all, she's the flower expert that runs the damn shop." He went inside the shop, only to run into someone that looked like a long raven-haired female. They both fell on the ground ungracefully, then picked themselves off of the ground. "Hey! Watch where you're going!" He looked at the person and saw that it was Neji. "Oh, it's you, Neji-chan. You really need a haircut or something. You looked like a dark-haired female to me."

"What the hell are you doing here Naruto?" The tone of Neji's voice reverberated throughout the store, and even caused a few flowers to wilt upon hearing the venom that was laced within.

"I should be asking you the same thing." Naruto was looking Neji in his eyes. The tension in the shop made it harder for the customers to focus on their selections, and caught Ino's attention.

"What the hell? Naruto is in here! My goodness! Look at that sexy ass body of his! Wait… Am I drooling?" She quickly rubbed her mouth and let out a sigh of relief. "Thank Kami-sama I didn't drool over him. He's Hinata's hunksickle! Or he would be… Too bad she can't see that he's too dense to see how she feels for him." She walked to the two and pushed them apart. "Damn, Naruto and Neji feel so solid!" A huge grin lit up on her face before she quickly focused on the event happening on both sides of her. "Whatever you two are going to do, do it outside. My family and I have spent too much time growing everything here, and we don't want it destroyed." The two ignored the words of Ino and kept their focus on each other.

"The reason why I'm here…" Neji slowly ground out from clenched teeth before looking at Ino. "Is to buy flowers for TenTen. Now that I'm not assuring my guaranteed freedom from this Caged Bird Seal that I proudly wear on my damn forehead," He pointed to his forehead, then tapped it a few times for emphasis so that someone as dense as Naruto could get simply, "I have to try to win back the heart of the one that I had to blow off just so I could have true freedom from my damn Branch Family! You ruined my chances of finally being free! You even had to go and open your damn mouth and get yourself married off to the other head of the Main Family! You screwed me, Uzumaki Naruto! You screwed me out of my fate! You screwed me out of my true moment of happiness! You screwed ME out of my FREEDOM!"

"Jeez, leave the loud talking to me." Naruto relaxed his body a bit. "Yelling, for you, seems so out of character for the stoic Neji that a few people close to you know and love… or fear because of those creepy ass eyes. Besides, Jiraiya would have a field day if he got wind of any two Hyuugas together in bed. Can you imagine all the Neji/Hinata or Neji/Hanabi stories that he'd have everywhere, and the ones that his fans would also write?" Ino looked at him with a puzzled expression on her face.

"What the hell does that have to do with Neji being screwed out of his freedom?" At the same time, Kyuubi was mentally asking Naruto the same question.

"Really, it has nothing to do with it, but there are a hell of a lot of Neji/Hinata stories that Jiraiya has in storage for the day that it ever happens." His mind returned to the shop. "Would all those stories about you and Hinata, or you and Hanabi be worth your freedom? Even then, you'd still be a caged bird, but then you'd be in everyone's homes, or even Kakashi-sensei's weapons pouch. You'd still be Neji'd (Screwed, F.Y.I) either way it g-" Naruto was interrupted with a strong chakra induced palm strike to his chest, sending him flying out of the door of the shop and launching him 50 feet in front of it. Naruto slowly raised himself off of the ground and looked at Neji.

"You still want to play games during a serious situation like this? Fine. I'll play a game with you." He casually walked out through the broken door as if it never existed in the first place. "This little game is called 'Shatter the Demon Vessel's Bones!" He quickly charged towards Naruto, Byakugan at its strongest, with massive amounts of chakra in his hands.

"Crap! This is going to be bad! I don't think I'll be able to dodge his next attack!" Naruto seemed to feel the world move in slow motion around him, including Neji. "Move… Move… Move… Move… Move… Move… Move… Move… Dammit! Why the hell can't my body move!" His body was unresponsive as he saw Neji's palms close in on his unmoving body. Just as Neji was about to hit Naruto, a hand came out of nowhere and blocked his attack. Naruto and Neji looked up in surprise to see Rock Lee standing between them.

"Is there anything wrong, Neji-kun? Why are you attacking Naruto-kun?" Naruto breathed a silent sigh of relief to see the Green Beast of Konoha.

"Neji went crazy in my shop," Ino said as she walked out of the shop to check on the commotion on the streets. Neji took a deep breath and pulled his hand away from Lee.

"Lee, it's nothing to worry about." Neji calmed himself down and turned away from Lee and Naruto. "I just lost my composure for a little while and got mad at Naruto for… certain reasons." He disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Lee turned to Naruto with a smile.

"Naruto-kun, are-"

"Yeah, I'm alright." Naruto interrupted Lee before he could go any further with his sentence. "I think I'll just go home and rest for a while…" He quickly thought of Hanabi waiting for him when he reached his home and got comfortable. "Never mind that, I'll go to Ichiraku's…" An image of a pissed off Hinata waiting on him to grace Ichiraku's shop came to his mind. "Damn! What can I do to get away from them!" Lee and Ino looked at him with a questionable look on their faces. Naruto realized he was receiving uncomfortable stares, and smiled to throw off any questions that may have been aimed at him. "It's a very long and complicated story, and I think it'll be fully explained in less than a month. Do you two think you could wait that long to find out the whole story?" They both nodded as Naruto left in the same fashion that Neji left in.

"Just because you said to wait a month to find out about this, doesn't mean that I'm just going to be a good little girl and wait around for you to tell me." Ino allowed a smirk to grace her face before she started walking to her shop.

"Ino-san, what kind of flowers do you think Sakura-san likes?" Lee's question stopped her in mid pace.

"Well, she likes a lot of flowers. Let me show you some great flowers that she may be interested in. Maybe the power of youth will encourage you to buy her a lot of flowers." Upon hearing the words "Power of Youth," Lee was already burning red hot with passion.

"YOSH! I WILL BUY HER MANY KINDS OF FLOWERS, AND IF SHE DOESN'T LIKE A SINGLE ONE, I WILL WALK AROUND KONOHA ON MY HANDS 500 TIMES IN ONE DAY!" He gave his signature Nice Guy pose and ran into the shop.

"He may be weird, but at least he's going to help pay for the door repairs." She walked into the shop, ready to make a fortune from Lee's unending passion.