Chapter XIV

Love Is So Twisted

Voices Speaking To Me, Have I Lost My Mind

Everyone was silent as they watched and waited for the announcement to pass by.

"Hyuga Neji vursus Rock Lee"

Tenten was the only one who gasped.

Itachi never showed up though, so everything was postponed for tomorrow.

"Shikamaru" Ino watched the lazy brunet that seemed to be out in thought as he looked up at the night sky. There were stars out tonight and only when he was serious and had something in his head did Shikamaru stare at them than the clouds. "Are you alright?"

"This is so surreal" He said after a while and Ino smiled at him "I can't believe it all"

"You don't have to; all you have is to love me" Shikamaru looked over at Ino before sitting up, he had had a talk with her parents and in the end there was no changing it, he was getting married to her. He, who was once a peasant was to be this princess husband in the future and that alone left him breathless.

"Ino" he murmured as he cupped her face in his hands and made her look at him "I love you" he whispered as he kissed her deeply on the lips. Ino moaned lightly and slowly closed her eyes as a smile spread her lips. This was heaven.

Night and Day came like a dream and left the same way with un-weighted time on them. No one was really thinking about the battles that were going to be going on today, they were just glad to watch it happen. But in the Elders section there was more of a heavy air as if a burden was weighted upon them.

Especially Hyuga Hiashi who had his ears ringing with the deal he had finally made with the young Hyuga male who is his nephew. In a way he didn't care, so long as the boy married a woman and nothing more. He just hoped that this was something correct to be doing, letting children decided their own paths of destiny.

He sighed.

"Don't you think it's getting interesting" Fugaku came and said as he sat next to the Hyuga elder. The elder shrugged. Also so long as his daughter Hinata married the Sand prince.

"Not at all"

"Think about how they are fighting for control" Fugaku sighed "It's scary how change comes so soon and unexpected"

"Maybe in your family, but I don't welcome it. This will be an exception" Hiashi smirked "Due to possibilities, only if Neji wins, other wise he will have to marry someone else" Fugaku shrugged and both men looked down at the field.

The same purpled haired golden eyed girl was there again at the stadium and everyone was cheering in the crowds. It was a deafening roar and the air itself was exited. Itachi came to stand next to Neji "After this, it's my turn to play with the elders. I wish you luck Hyuga"

"Yes, thank you, I'll need it" Neji narrowed his eyes "Wait, where did you disappear to yesterday afternoon?"

Itachi shrugged "Wouldn't you like to know"

"On the right hand the pear prince of all Hyuga, Neji Himself!!" She announced, Neji threw a glance at Itachi and shook his head as he walked into his faith. "And on the left, the beasts of all beasts, Rock Lee!!" She yelled and the crowd could do nothing but roar as the two rivals stared each other down on the field.

"Let the match begin" and she was out of there.

Lee grinned and threw his arms over his head, crossing them at his forehead as he then jilted forward and a green glow surrounded his entire body. His hair flew around his forehead and he grew claws on his hands and feats, his hair became longer from the back and his eyes grew slanted and more aware.

His face seemed to stretch but it stayed mostly the same, except for the lip ring that suddenly appeared. His clothing became a green over jacket and orange shirt, green spandex pants and sandals covered by orange warmers that held dangerous weapons. Neji smirked as he witnessed the boy's true form. The finishing touch was the devils tale and the horns, in a green color of a beast.

It was Neji's turn.

Neji removed the headband that covered his forehead and tapped his forehead, the weird x like marking there began to spin as it came to a certain angle and then it spread out around his face, all lines going down his nape where they interlocked each at each shoulder blades and then sprouted out into wings, white with black markings on them. His shirt changed to one that was longed sleeved and almost open, his hair was let out from its tie as it hanged loosely, his pale face flawless, until the veins of his eyes seemed to pot out and covers the side of his head.

His pants changed to black capris that were baggy and he was ready. He moved forward initiating the first move his wings adding speed to his pace and suddenly there was a sharp knife in his hand as he swung it freely into Lee's face. Lee dropped back bending his knees and dodged it and struggled to get back upright.

This was no time for fun and games.

Lee threw out his legs and kicked his lotus kick and then sent flying punches all which Neji dodged and he was the one to kick Lee back. Smiling, he brought his hands over his head and perspiration built up on his palms, the winds quickly moving until there seemed to be a white cloud in there. Lee only brought out a protective shield around him as all of a sudden Neji sent a blizzard of cold wind his way.

"You are amazing Neji!" Lee grinned "but I am not about to lose to you!" Neji didn't say anything as he then started on a new approach of attack and he leapt into the air. Lee gasped and then concentrated hard as Neji send another cold blizzard his way, a green aura covered him and He smirked as he to leap up into the air and then went for an attack.

Neji dodged left to right fluently without missing a beat. Lee want sure if he wanted to strike down the guy before him or just have fun on this match. It was not as if he was in love with Tenten. As he got distracted Neji moved fast and appeared behind him and was ready hit him over the head.

Sasuke looked down at the match and then to the blond and red head by his side, Itachi apparently still didn't want to listen to him about this. Sighing to himself he turned Invisible, one of his many hidden little perks and then he turned like a ghost, he could go through things. Slowly he got up and started to make his way out of there as he rushed out of there before they noticed the empty chair.

He looked around himself as he walked the arena open waiting area and found the pink haired girl standing there with the brunet he had come to know as Tenten. "I bet you are wishing for Neji to win, he is the hunkiest!" Sakura gushed.

"Yeah" Tenten said in a sad voice.

Sakura rolled her eyes and then paused all action as she heard a voice in her head, it was deep and non-familiar, and above all it scared her. 'Say, why don't you open your mind up to me and tell me all about you….?' Sakura tried to stop it, tried not to remember.

But suddenly everything was rushing before her eyes.

Neji and Lee were throwing punches and kicks and then Neji poked Lee in the arm, a simple tap that left the green beast wondering what it meant. Soon he was pocked on his leg and other various places in his body but then he started to move away as he tried to plant a kick on Neji's face.

Neji smirked his hand glowing white and then he tapped Lee's heart, he was clogging him up and doing it good. Lee started to feel himself slow down and this time Neji tapped him it burned and he jumped away, what ever it was that Neji was doing it was making him tired and his skin sensitive.

Neji only brought his hand up and expanded on his ice attack, a blue power ball appearing in the palm of each of his hands before they became like frozen eggs of foot balls and he released them. Throwing them he aimed at Lee who managed to dodge them but then two more were thrown and Lee was surprised barely escaping the attacks as they kept coming and one hit his leg, making him cry out in pain as he fell down.

"AH! What the" Lee looked at his leg; it felt so numb that he could not even feel the cool of the ice. Neji smirked as he saw that Lee was about to break the crystal like substance from his leg.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you" Lee gasped and looked up at him.

"What do you mean?"

"That's not ice, its crystal and your leg has become a part of it, break it and your leg is broken off with it" Lee stared in horror. Shaking his hand he got up and heated his body once more as he melted it off.

"Guess my leg can't melt" He smirked and got back to his fighting stance as a green like sphere was in his hand and he threw it at Lee. Lee was limited in his magic, he could barely extract any from his body, but when he did he knew it drew a lot from him. So he had learned endurance and normal fighting techniques.

"But with your skin so sensitive" Neji got another blue ball of ice in his hand "Makes me wonder how much ice you can stand!" and then he pointed forward and used replica to replicate that simple ice and send a horde of them barreling towards Lee who looked shocked.

He had to think of something quick!!

'Why is it that you act so much like a bitch?' Sakura stayed silent as she kept hearing the voice in her head. "Shut up" she whispered to herself, Tenten had left Sakura's side a while ago in the need to go to the bathroom.

'Not until you tell your parents you don't want this wedding and leave Itachi alone' the voice roared and Sakura shook her head. "No never, he'll be mine!" Sasuke gritted his teeth, Sakura was so dense that he could not get into her mind unless she decided to open it up for him and lay it out like a book.

'What is it that you are hiding' Sakura gripped her head and then

"OH NO SASUKE IS MISSING!! ITACHI IS GOING TO KILL US!!" And the blond and red head came out running. Sakura used that time to run away and run from her problems before she broke down here. There was so much that she is hiding and she has no desire to share it with anyone.

Above all that voice was cracking her already.

"We better find him before Itachi comes looking for him!"

Building up his entire aura Lee drew out his green glow and then put his hands in front and his green like heat stopped the ice, but it kept coming heavily as it pressed into the palms of his hand and his skin could feel the cool and the sores that were building. It was sensitive and his pulse picked up as he tried to think of another way to get out of this.

He didn't want to lose like this. Not now. Not when he was facing Neji.

He wanted to give the brunet his all.

Out of nowhere he pushed to cold back and he won over it, he was already panting hard and Neji looked as if this was nothing. "Come on" Lee gasped out as he tried to draw in some oxygen into his heavy lungs. Neji could not believe that Lee could stop his storm and he decided to give him a tornado mixed blizzard.

"Let's end this Lee"

"Yes, let's"

Sakura was running and panting, she was struggling with herself and the voices in her head

'Take them, they should be yours!' And then the other voices that spoke with more rationality 'You can never have them girly, you couldn't even catch a cold' and then the more remorse 'Can't you see what you are doing is wrong?' The spoke so vividly and she feared them, especially when she could not escape them.

"Shut up, don't talk to me anymore!" she snapped at them. Suddenly she felt her whole body freeze over and she came to a sudden halt that had her gasping and trying to break free of it. Her eyes widen when she saw the Raven she had wanted to take advantage off was standing there before her, his eyes devil red.

"So, care to explain what has you so…" He smirked so deliberately "Frightened"

The word only echoed in the hollow of her head as she told of a past never to be told…..

Sorry, it took so long because I was trying to solve the plot and I still am 9(So it could take long again), but I finished this chapter/Might as well post it. Hope you enjoyed it!! Thank You to all who reviewed!! Means a lot!!

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