Neji's POV

Neji was walking to Liana's house to give her the book she dropped when she noticed a page was sticking out a bit. He opened it up to show it was a drawing of his father, a younger Liana and a younger him at the Hyuga compound. Neji recognized the building structure in the drawing behind the three of them.

"How does she know what the Hyuga Compound looks like, she was never there unless she was the little girl I met when I was younger before my father was killed," he said as he remembered when he left with his father on a nice walk then they heard a commotion .

Flashback- 10 years old

Neji was sitting on the floor outside his room letting his feet dangle over the side when his father was walking up to him.

"Neji, let's go for a walk, it is a beautiful day," he said and Neji smiled and nodded.

"Okay," he said as he stood up and left with his dad for a walk.

The sun was high in the sky and he was about to ask his father something when he heard a commotion.

"Dad, I heard something," Neji said.

"Neji, it just might be a figment of your imagination, let's go," his father said when he heard something again.

"SOMEBODY HELP ME," Neji heard someone yell causing him and his dad to stop.

"Dad," Neji said as he looked up at his dad.

"Come on Neji," he said and they started to run to the source of the noise.

They both arrive at a clearing to see no one was there but he saw air bubbles in the water.

"DAD, the water," Neji said as he pointed at the water while his father nodded and dove in.

Neji waited for his father to come back but it felt like it was taking him too long when he came back up with a girl with dark blue hair and almost looked dead.

"Dad, who is she," Neji asked.

"I do not know but she must not know how to swim, let's take her back to the Hyuga compound," he said as he picked her up in his arms.

They walked home with the girl and to his room. He set the girl on Neji's bed and started to bandage her up.

"I have to get some more water, I will be right back," he said and left.

He looked at the girl and walked over to her.

He stood by her head and saw how soft her face was when he saw her eyes start to open.

"W-Where am I," she asked as she looked around and stopped her gaze on him.

"You are at the Hyuga Compound, you are safe. I am Neji what is your name," Neji asked.

"Liana," she said.

"I can tell we will be the best of friends once you are off my bed," he said and they both laughed.

End Flashback

Neji closed the book and thought of the many times he played with Liana but stopped after his father was killed and lost contact with her after a while.

"I can't believe she is the Liana I met when we were kids. I thought I would never see her again," he said as he arrived at her house.

Neji knocked on her door and kept knocking but there was no reply. He was standing outside her door when he heard something break inside.

Intruders, Byakugan.

His eyes shifted to the Byakugan and he saw there were three intruders in the house holding a small scroll. He opened the door and walked inside to see there were three figures. One looked tall and had long black hair with snake like eyes, another with grayish hair and glasses while the last one had white hair but looked sick. They disappeared as soon as he came in when one of them dropped something. He looked around to see there was a broken vase with lilies in them and blue rocks were on the ground. He picked up what the invaders dropped to see it was a scroll with some type of charm on it.

"Who is there," he heard Liana say as he looked up to see she was standing in a towel and her lovely hair was dripping wet with water but she looked scared.

"Liana, it's me, Neji," he said as hid eyes shifted back to there regular eyes and she looked at him.

Liana's POV

Liana looked at him to see he was holding her drawing book and a scroll.

"Did you break my vase," she asked.

"No, there were some intruders in your house. I was knocking then I heard something break. I came in and saw three men were in here, they left and dropped this," he said as he held the scroll out to her.

"Why did you come here and how do you know where I live," she asked as she took the scroll with one hand while clutching the towel with the other.

"I came to return your drawing book and Tenten told me because I offered to bring it here for you," he said as he handed her the book.

"You said there were three figures here," she asked.

"Yes, do you know them," he asked.

"What did they look like," she asked.

"Excuse me but do you know them," he asked.

"Did they look like this," Liana asked as she paged through the book to a drawing of the three thugs and showed it to him.

"Yes, that is them," he said as she dropped the book and she fell to her knees while crying into her hands.

"Liana," he said as she looked to see he was in front of her.

Liana felt him wrap his arms around her and she cried into his chest. She kept crying and crying while he kept running his hands softly through your hair trying to calm her down.

"Liana, are they the ones that caused all this pain to you," he asked in a soft voice that sounded so concerned and gentle at the same time.

"Th-They are N-Neji, I thought they might have forgotten about me but I guess they didn't," she said and felt his one hand touch one of her whip marks on her back.

"Liana, what is this," he asked.

"My past but I don't want to talk about it," she said as she pulled back a bit from him to look at him to see there was more concern in his eyes than before.

"Liana, if you want me to help you, you have to tell me what they did to you," he said.

"I-I can't besides you already saw some of what they did to me," she said as she turned her head away not wanting to see his eyes.

"There is more, what all did they do, Liana," he asked again and made her face him.

"I'll show you but can you wait here so I can get dressed," she asked.

"I will but tell me when you come back," he said and she nodded.

Liana stood up and walked to her room. She got dressed into a long sleeved shirt like the color of Neji's eyes and a pair of boxers with the purple of his eyes and light blue on it. She brushed her hair and let it stay down while she looked at a piece of wall in her room that was covered with a black curtain hiding what was behind it from her and everyone else. She walked back to the living room to see Neji was waiting for her like he said he would.

"It is in my room," she said as she walked back to her room with him behind her.

She walked to the wall with the black curtain and pulled it back to show a wall size bookshelf with drawing books like the one she always carry with her but they were different colors. Some were red, blue, black, white and one was purple like Neji's eyes.

"Liana, these are all drawings of you like they are in your book you have now," he asked.

"Yes and no, some are joy and I transfer the drawings from my black book into these depending on my mood. Red means pain, blue means sadness, black means too much pain, white means joy and the purple has my favorite and memorable moments," she said as Neji pulled out the purple book from the shelf and flipped through it showing only him, his father and herself.

"This has drawings of me, my father and you," he asked.

"Yes but it also has drawings of our training and of the rest of the squad," she said as he flipped to a drawing of just him with some writing underneath it in a different language.

"How can you draw this good and what does this writing say," he asked as she read the writing.

"It says 'Neji with great power and abilities'," she said.

"Is this what you think of me," he asked and she nodded.

"You are a very powerful and well respected shinobi, Neji, just like your father," she said as he closed the book.

"Liana, I better get going, the clan might look for me and I have to go. I will make sure these thugs do not come around you again," he said and stood up.

"Okay and thank you for returning my book," she said.

"Your welcome, see you at training tomorrow," he said and walked out of her room.

Liana heard the front door close shut and his footsteps walking away. She opened the book to the drawing Neji saw and read what it really meant.

"Neji in my vision of his power, he is the most caring person I have ever met and loved," she said and closed the book then put it back on the shelf.

Liana thought of how his touch felt against her skin and how fit he was when she cried on his chest while she closed the curtain over the books. She also thought of how lightly and carefully his hand was in her hair even though it was wet and a bit tangled. She wanted to kiss him so bad but could not bring herself up to doing it. She slid under the covers and fell asleep ready for a night of nightmares.

Neji's POV

Neji was walking home when he looked at his hand that went through Liana's hair ever so soft even though it was wet and how her skin felt against his hand when he wrapped them around her.

Why does she have this affect on me?

Neji thought back to the drawings she drew of him and how her hair smelled like lilies in a light summer breeze.

That writing looked too small to mean what she told me, does it mean something else?

Neji looked back at her house to see her light turn off in her bedroom and he thought of how fragile her face must look when she is asleep he could not bring himself up to kissing her. He turned around and continued to walk away unaware that someone was on the roof of her house.

Person on roof

The person watched as the boy who came into the house when he did walk away unaware of his presence. He jumped to Liana's window and snuck in through it to see she was fast asleep.

You will become my best experiment, Liana but first I have to lead you to me. I know the right time to but until then, I will be watching over you.

He walked to her window and escaped into the night.