Her hands were trembling, Sasuke's screams echoed in the halls.
She was walking slowly toward him, seeing his pain build up with each step she took. Only a foot's distance from him, she extended her hand, the tip of her fingers gliding on his cheek. Her clear eyes were stern and he unhinged his jaw as if fire had taken his body prisoner under her touch.
"EVERYONE MOVE ASIDE!"
The loud warning came from a teacher and the circle that had been watching disintegrated back into their classes. Hinata didn't budge. Kiba had freed the Uchiha and dashed for the bathroom as the teachers and councilors came closer. Sasuke had dropped down to his knees, his bare chest heaving and the tattoo lighting up across his pale skin.
"Sasuke"
"Ge...get away...f...from me."
She didn't take those words to heart, just stepped closer.
"Sasuke, who gave that tattoo to you?"
His eyes were shut, he was breathing as if he were drowning, holding back screams of pain as they caught in his throat. She knew this torture. It was the Hyuuga clan's prized invention. It sent jolts of pain through the body of the person who bare it when it came in contact with the 'rejected' object. She had seen that same tattoo on many of the Hyuuga's servants. Neji bore one that only Hiashi, her father, could control, and the others were all under the command of anyone who ran in the mainstream family. She was able to activate them on certain people, but never tried for she knew how terribly it hurt.
...
Hinata had never knew what the strange marking on the workers was, that is until she finally realized it was a symbol of ying and yang, she had asked Neji what it was a long time ago when they were children, he had pointed to the same exact marking on his forehead.
"Neji-san I never saw it before!"
"Well it's a special Hyuuga one for the lower class branchs, it goes away when it's not needed."
"How did you active it then?"
"I thought of something I'm supposed to reject."
Hinata looked at him silly.
"And what would that be?"
The boy didn't move his eyes from the ground.
"Love."
She let out a stiff giggle, and placed a small hand on the shoulder of her cousin. He gave her an awkward glance.
"You can't reject love, Neji-san. Not with all the power and money in the world. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. Just like you can't reject hate or trust."
The boy stood up from the bench they'd been resting on and offered his hand to Hinata, a tint of embarssment on his cheeks.
"True, you definitely can't."
She laughed, grabbing his hand and fallowing him into the house.
"So Neji, what happens exactly when you think of something you reject?"
She asked, and he felt his grip on her palm tighten.
"Well it's just better for you to not think of it, or see it, or feel it otherwise it'll hurt."
The child let out a sigh and pointed to her head.
"Why don't I have one? Maybe it's because I have nothing to reject?"
Neji stopped.
"Hinata, we don't choose what we reject and what we don't. It's chosen by the council."
She let the shock show on her face.
"Why, they have no right to say what you want to reject!"
Her voice was getting louder, and Neji had no choice, but to pull her into an embrace.
"It's ok Hina-chan, it doesn't hurt for long, and it's easy as long as we remember to reject what we need to."
He felt her arms wrap around his waste.
"Ok, as long as your ok."
Deep inside, Neji of course, felt the familiar pain of the seal. But love, when she was hugging him, wasn't something he could reject so easily.
...
Before she could reach his side, to help him, even as he pushed her away, someones hand blocked her path. Traveling up the sleeve, she saw Neji, his face calm.
"Hinata step back."
"Neji! Wh...what is going on? Why is he bearing that damned curse?"
He let his identically colored eyes move toward her.
"It isn't my place to say."
He grabbed her wrist, pulling her away from the scene. She struggled against he grip silently, but he was way to strong. So silently she allowed him to drag her through the halls. He stopped at her locker, were her book bag and notes lay abandoned, picking them up, he continued on his way.
"Neji where are we going?"
"To your dorm."
"B...b..but.'
"Just shut up and fallow me."
She wasn't used to fighting with him, he was her cousin and usually protected her. But she wanted desperatly to find out what him and Sasuke had been feuding about. They crossed the quad and entered the girl's hall, Neji knew his way around since his current girlfriend, well the boys joked saying "play toy", Ten-ten lived across in 513 from Hinata.
He bought her to the door, giving her a look, and she unlocked it. Throwing her stuff onto Sakura's bed, Neji took a seat on the edge of Hinata's.
"I know what you want to ask me."
She gave him a weak look.
"We were fighting over you."
Her eyes widened, and Neji fell onto the mattress, the dark long hair pooling under him.
"Hinata, why. Why did you fall for him. He's nothing. He comes from the Uchiha clan, he isn't as high in business class as they Hyuuga's are anymore. Maybe a couple of years ago it might have been fine, when his parents were alive, even his older brother..."
Hinata took a gasp of air. Itachi. Even Neji didn't know about the engagement that she had, had. She knew Neji was being protective. He had always told her she'd be married to a man of great fortune, and he'd make sure they treated her right, but even the slightest mention of the Uchiha's older brother made her jittery. After all, Sakura knew, what if she had told Neji?
"...plus he's with Sakura now, and he has no standard the way they present themselves in public. It's vulgar. I can't imagine him doing that to you. I know about the little Summer fling you two had, and really I also know it's better for you to stay away from him, for his own sake."
He proceeded to plop himself into a sitting position once again, reaching out his hand to touch her elbow.
"Neji. It...it was a r..rejection seal right?"
He traced a circle on her skin.
"No. It was a tattoo."
She jerked her hand away, and moved back, her spine clashing with the wall.
"Don't lie. H...h..he was screaming..f..from the pain..."
The Hyuuga genius got up, and began to walk toward his cousin.
"No, it was because I gave him a nasty hit."
Her eyes avoided his, until he was so close that she could smell the cologne he was wearing, and his breaththat tickled the outside of her ear.
"Ne..Neji what..a..are you doing?"
She felt him stiffen as he leaned over her. It got silent, and his heartbeat went faster then hers.
"Hina-chan. Let me do this, I've been rejecting it for so long..."
Without time to answer, she felt the lips of her cousin settle on hers.
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A/N - NO THIS IS NOT A NEJIHINA STORY LOL. There will be some though, as you can see :3 BUT DON'T WORRY THIS IS STILL SASUHINA. I know this one doesn't have a lot of drama, and the promise hasn't been brought up, but wait for the next chappy, I promise it'll be like dramalicious ;)