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Chapter 2: Present
Before leaving Konoha, the captain had decided to test his teams' endurance by going non-stop to the border station. That was before he had the medic added to the team. Even so, he decided to go ahead with the original plan, and, surprisingly, the medic had no problem keeping pace with his team. In fact, she was performing better than any of them.
Neji knew very little about the medic currently assigned to his team. He was told that she was a fully-fledged medic-nin and that her genjutsu and taijutsu skills were exceptional. However, the Hokage said that she wished to improve her ninjutsu skills, in particular her defensive skills. Because of her chakra control, it was determined that a Hyuuga would be the best teacher, and Hiashi had approved.
Neji did not care, he was just happy to have another distraction. He knew border patrol duty could be boring and he was worried that his mind would not have enough to do and it would wander back to her. I wonder what she is doing right now. Neji shook that thought from his head, he needed to focus.
Sakura had set the entire thing up with Tsunade. She has already been an ANBU for nearly two years and had done her rotation on border patrol. But she just could not pass up this opportunity. After having proven her new jutsu against Kakashi's sharingan, she had been looking for an opportunity to test it against the byakugan. But Sakura would not settle for just any byakugan, it had to be the best and that was Hyuuga Neji.
That was why this was so perfect, she even had Tsunade set up the "training sessions" with him. Sakura also needed a less distinctive fighting style. Thus, she was killing two birds with one stone. As Sakura was discreetly staring at Hyuuga Neji she could not help but remember the last few months, especially their last encounter in Konoha.