CHAPTER 4
Just as promised, Hinata showed up at the training grounds as TenTen finished sparring with Neji. The other Hyuuga nodded to acknowledge her presence as she drew nearer, making the Weapons Mistress look behind her, smiling warmly once she saw Hinata.
"K-Konnichiwa Neji-niisan,"
The shy Heiress stated softly, bowing slightly to show respect to her cousin, and looked to her friend.
"Konnichiwa TenTen-chan, a-are you ready to go?
The older female nodded and giggled some.
"Hai!"
TenTen waved to Neji and grabbed Hinata by the arm, pulling the younger nin to her house. Excited that she gets to make her friend her guinea pig for the make up and such.
Neji watched the two go with an eyebrow raised in curiosity, he didn't know that Hinata and Lee were currently dating. "TenTen only gets this excited when dressing someone up usually…hmmm… she and Hinata must be going to the carnival." Neji thought, narrowing his eyes some, "I'll check on them later.." The Hyuuga Prodigy finished packing and left the grounds to go home and bathe.
Both Kunoichi's were inside the apartment and TenTen made her friend sit on her bed.
"Ok… which Kimono's did you bring?"
"I brought the white kimono with a black obi and it has a red rose on the bottom; the second one is a dark blue with a sea green obi with a pink coral design. The last one I brought is a lavender kimono with a dark purple it's almost black obi and a light sea green dragon winding around the kimono, and stops on the right breast."
Hinata blushed and looked to her friend who was staring at her with wide eyes.
"Wow…You didn't even stutter! Good job Hinata-chan! Ok.. I think that you should wear the last one! Lee would love that..then again he would probably even like it if you went in a duck costume…"
The bun haired teen said giggling softly as Hinata opened her mouth in disbelief but ended up giggling anyway.
"T-That's mean, TenTen-chan! So what are you wearing to the carnival? I k-know you will be spying on me…you always do."
The Hyuuga female said giggling at her friend's face, which was blushing a light pink color, had her arms crossed and turned her head to the side.
"No I don't!"
The Weapons Mistress stated trying to make the blush disappear with success. Hinata gave her an "oh-really" look and they both giggled.
"How did you know anyway?"
"I smelled raspberries when the wind changed directions."
The Hyuuga stated smiling at the other; which caused TenTen to smile defeated.
"Damn…guess I'm busted, huh?"
The older teen said laughing some, and Hinata waited for her answer.
"Well…since it is Neji's birthday…I'll wear something nice."
Ten said grinning like a maniac, and got up, walking to her closet. Once there she opened her closet door and pulled out a red and black kimono. The red parts were roses and the black parts were outlining the roses in a never-ending pattern and the obi was black.
"Oh! That's so kawaii!"
"Arigato! Oh! Do you want to watch that movie now and get ready a little later?"
"Hai, that would be fun"
Hinata said smiling gently and walked out of the bedroom into the living room.
------------Meanwhile with Lee--------------
The Taijutsu Genius was just finishing his three hundred laps around Konoha. As he passed his starting point, he kept going until he got to the kimono for men's store. Lee walked through the doors, already browsing for a kimono that would match Hinata's blue black tresses.
He shopped for ten more minutes before he found what he was looking for. The Blue Beast found a midnight blue kimono with a light turtle green obi and sky blue outlines of clouds. It was a bit much but he didn't care he had more than enough to cover it.
When he came out of the shop, he quickly walked in the direction of his house. It was a medium sized apartment in the woods, so he had some privacy, and had a small chimney. Once in front of the small building, he opened it with his key, and stepped inside. Lee went to his bedroom and hung the kimono by its hanger inside his closet and went to a small weight room.
He picked up some arm curling weights and did squats at the same time. After he did about two hundred and fifty of those, he started doing push ups with his thumb while one hand was behind his back, he did three hundred of these while thinking of his hime. Smiling to himself, he switched hands and did three hundred more.
Rock Lee stood up, looking at the clock and realized that it was 4:00 O'clock, and he ran to the bathroom. He turned on the water to the temperature he liked and stepped into the shower.
Once he was done, Lee grabbed a towel, wrapping it around his waist, but it dropped down to lay loosely against the bottom part of his hip bones. His black hair was wet and clinging to the sides of his face, and he put his hands on his waist, making the muscles in his back and arms flex. The youthful man looked into his mirror, smiling really big, then brushed his teeth; after he did this he grabbed his comb and combed his hair into his normal bowl cut style.
-----------Back with the girls------------
Hinata was just stepping out of the shower, wrapping a towel around her hair, and used the other to wrap around her body. Once she dried her body off, she put on a pair of green cheekers (the ones that only show half of your ass cheeks), and instead of the normal wraps, she put on a green lace bra. The Hyuuga Heiress towel dried her blue black hair and let the semi wet tresses trail down her back as she brushed it. Once she was done this she put on her lavender kimono with a dark purple it's almost black obi and a light sea green dragon winding around the kimono that stops on the right breast.
Hinata went into TenTen's room, to find that she was in her kimono and was just putting her hair up in the trade mark buns.
"U-Um TenTen-chan?"
"Hai Hinata-chan?"
"H-How about you leave your hair down for Neji's birthday?"
"Hmmm…well, I would like to see his face when I don't have them up so…ok but only this once Hinata-chan ok."
"Hai!"
The shy female exclaimed happily and went over to stand behind her friend who was sitting in front of a mirror. Grabbing a brush, Hinata brushed the Weapons Mistress's hair and slipped a headband behind TenTen's ears to hold the rest of her hair back, leaving her bangs to dangle in front of her visage.
While Hinata did this, Ten did her make up putting on some eye shadow, eyeliner, and light red lipstick. The older kunoichi inspected herself and grinned, then made her friend sit down. TenTen braided Hinata's hair and waited for the other kunoichi to nod her head before putting light sea green eye shadow, a little bit of eyeliner, and shiny lips gloss. Both girls looked at each other they smiled at one another, then giggled, complementing on their looks.
After 15 minutes someone knocked on the door and TenTen went behind her friend and uncurled the braid. Hinata's blue black hair was now sort of waving like an ocean at midnight, and she gave TenTen a small smile. Both Kunoichi's went to the living room, Hinata just stood there, nervous and TenTen proceeded to answer the door.
Rock Lee stood there in shock, but quickly regained his shock, grinning at her.
"TenTen-chan! You look so beautiful my youthful teammate!"
The said female just shook her head in thanks, giving him a grin as well.
"Come on in… Hinata's waiting for you in the living room."
"Alright!"
Lee said, holding his fist in front of him and fire sprang into his eyes.
"Stop being yourself and get in here!"
His teammate said getting annoyed, but giggled anyway. Rock Lee followed orders and stepped through the threshold and walked into the living room, after slipping his wooden sandals off. Hinata was looking at one of TenTen's pictures and turned around just as Lee came through the doorway. The Taijutsu Genius's mouth dropped and his eyes grew wide as he took in the beauty in front of him. The Hyuuga female blushed and looked down at the floor, afraid of what he was thinking, that she was ugly or pretty.
TenTen popped him on the back of the head and he went over to his youthful maiden. Lee used his index finger and put it under her chin, lifting her face so he could tell her how beautiful she was. Once her hues met his, he couldn't speak, she looked so innocent and insecure that he was afraid to say anything for fear she might break. So instead, he brought his lips down to hers, gently kissing her.
TenTen's mouth dropped and she stared in amazement and horror; it was cute that the way it happened but it's Lee! TenTen thought, shuddering some, but regained her composure as the smiling couple turned around.
They walked to the carnival and got there at 5:45. TenTen went on her own way even though Lee and Hinata told her she could stay but she said no and went to find Neji.
So Lee entwined their fingers and walked along until he found a booth that Hinata was staring at with a panda prize. Rock Lee smiled and pulled her gently along to the booth, while she was blushing a light pink.
He won the prize easily and gave her the stuffed baby panda.
"A-Arigato Lee-kun!"
Hinata exclaimed softly, hugging the panda bear. While he blushed and tensed up some, then smiled the smile that went ting and a thumbs up while a light red blush adorned his face. The Hyuuga female sighed contentedly, but giggled when she saw his blush. He looked at her with amusement in his big eyes and tilted his head to the side some, looking at her like she was a puzzle he was trying to figure out.
Hinata blushed a little deeper and looked out the sides of her lavender hues, but quickly looked back to him as he gently put his hand on the small of her back and steered her towards the Ferris Wheel. The shy female had to tilt her head back to see all of it and her hues grew slightly wide, the Ferris Wheel had booth type things instead of seats. Like if you sat at one side it tips easily, these are the ones that scared her.
They waited in line, only they didn't notice a certain male behind them, watching with narrowed hues. As they got on, Lee sat on the far right and Hinata sat in the middle and it tipped to the right when it got in motion, and there was nothing to grab onto. So Hinata made due with Lee's kneecap, while he looked at her scared face blushing lightly. Then comprehension dawned on him and he sat in the middle with her leaning on his shoulder some and clenching her hues shut. He chuckled, using his right hand to place it on her waist to hold her to him, while the left cupped her cheek to make her face look at his. She opened her lavender hues as he spoke, slight fear of the both tipping in them.
"Hinata-chan…if you were afraid you should have told me..we would have gotten on another ride."
He said laughing some, thus making his "Youthful Goddess" blush and look down to his broad chest. Lee lifted her face to his again as the ride came to a stop at the top, and he kissed her. She was shocked for a moment, but responded to his kiss just as he was pulling back; now it was his turn to be shocked, but returned her kiss passionately.
The Blue Beast pulled back panting some, and looked to his beauty. Her lips were apart and she was panting as well, her chest was going up and down in time with her lungs. Hinata's kimono had loosened revealing more of her shoulder and collarbone. Lee didn't know what happened but he leaned his head down and kissed her neck. This caused Hinata to gasp some, and lean her head in the opposite direction so he could have more access. He kissed her neck once more, hearing her murmur in pleasure and this sent a jolt through him, so he licked up the side of her neck, stopping at her jaw.
Bye this time Hinata had her hands tangled with his short tresses and he had both hands on her waist. Her chest was pressed against his and they pulled their heads back to look into each other's eyes. The Hyuuga Heiress looked down at his jaw for a second and felt herself leaning towards it; she lightly kissed his jaw making him "oh" in surprise.
Slowly and delicately, she traveled down his neck, making him groan lowly, and this caused Hinata to kiss the base of his neck, and she bit down softly, causing him to groan again and a small pink hickey to form. The Hyuuga pulled back and looked into his dazed eyes, and kissed him again.
Just as they kissed the Ferris Wheel passed the people waiting to get on, causing Neji and TenTen to jaw drop, as they were the people in front, thankfully the only ones able to see. They looked at each other and quickly fixed their expressions and TenTen laughed at Neji's expression before he composed himself.
Hinata and Lee broke the kiss, panting heavily, and quickly fixed their clothes, which were kind of loose. Just as the Ferris Wheel stopped, Lee grabbed Hinata's hand and started talking to her, as they made their way off the ride. But Neji was glaring at them and noticed the tip of the hickey peeking out of Lee's robes; the Hyuuga male stared in disbelief, as did TenTen because she saw it too.
"S-She gave him a hickey?!"
TenTen said so only Neji could hear, then her hazel orbs grew wide. Grabbing her hand, the Hyuuga Prodigy followed his teammate and his cousin.
All the while, Lee and Hinata were oblivious, and were making their way to the barbecue shop. The Taijutsu Genius and the Hyuuga Heiress spoke to the waiter to see if the party reservation was still on, and the waiter told them yes, and that it was towards the back of the restaurant all ready set up with some people waiting.
"Arigato."
They both said, quickly going to the back, realizing that Neji and TenTen were behind them a few feet away. Neji couldn't hear what was going on but TenTen knew and hoped that they were ready.
When Lee and Hinata got to the back they quickly told everyone that Neji and TenTen were right behind them, so everyone got up and when TenTen and Neji rounded the corner everyone shouted, "Happy Birthday Neji-san!"
The Hyuuga male was surprised but hide the fact well and his features softened slightly. Everyone came up to him and congratulated him on his 18th birthday. He thanked all of them and turned to Tenten.
"You knew"
"Of course.. it was Hinata's and my idea to celebrate it since you wouldn't have bothered so we decided to make you."
The Weapons Mistress smiled at him and led him towards the table. Hinata cut the cake after he blew out the candles and served him some first then everyone else. Those people were: Lee, Shino, Kiba, TenTen, Kurenai, Gai, Naruto, and Kakashi (Sakura was on a mission, Chouji was in the hospital for indigestion, and Shikamaru had somehow got wrapped into helping Ino at the Yakamana Flower Shop). Shino gave Neji a book, Kiba gave him a silver chain, TenTen gave him a katana with the words "Hyuuga Prodigy" embedded on it, Kurenai gave him some classical music, Naruto handed him two free Ichiraku Ramen tickets, Kakashi gave him Icha Icha Paradise, and this caused Neji to sweat drop and twitch. Gai-Sensei smiled really big to his student and handed him a book called, "How to treat a lady" which caused TenTen to break out in giggles along with Hinata trying not to giggle. Rock Lee got him some weights for his arms and such.
Lastly Hinata gave him a simple card, with a panda on the front. The card said, "Happy 18th Birthday Neji-niikun!" on the right side, while there was a note on the left. It read, "Dear Neji-niikun, since I was fourteen years old I have tried to find a way out of being the Heiress because I thought you deserved it, no matter what your status to the clan. If you accept to be the Heir of the clan, I will decline and you will take my place. Don't worry, I have talked this out with Hiashi-sama, and he has no choice but to comply because of the research. I hope you will because I believe that you would be the best thing that would ever happen to our family, and I believe that you would be the best leader yet. With Love Your Cousin, Hinata"
Neji Hyuuga looked at the letter in disbelief, eyes growing wide, and his eyes actually tearing up. He stood up and turned around to see his cousin smiling one of her rare true smiles at him. The Hyuuga Prodigy walked over to her, looking at her not believing anything this wonderful could ever happen, but he hugged his cousin hard, a single tear fell down his cheek.
"A-Arigato Hinata"
Her proud cousin said, his voice actually cracking as the tear lingered on his cheek. Hinata hugged him hard and rubbed his back.
"Your welcome Neji-niikun"
Hinata said smiling again and tearing up herself. They held each other a little longer so Neji could regain his composure, once he did, TenTen noticed that he had cried! Her own hazel orbs grew wide as he motioned for her to read the card to herself.
Once she finished, TenTen actually had tears in her eyes too. She let only two fall as she ran to Hinata and gave her a big hug, then she turned to Neji and hugged him as well. Everyone stared at Neji, TenTen, and Hinata like they grew two heads. Kurenai picked up the card, looking to Neji to see if she may read it out loud; so he nodded as he let go of TenTen, but still kept a hand around her waist.
Kurenai-Sensei read the card out loud and started tearing up herself, as did Lee and Gai-Sensei. The rest only stared in shock at the ninja's before them, then cheered happily. Shino and Kakashi-Sensei kept their emotions to themselves as always.
Once everyone calmed down, eaten more cake, and said goodbye to Neji, did they have some privacy. Neji actually smiled to his cousin and thanked her from the bottom of his heart and Hinata nodded smiling as well.
TenTen gave Neji another hug, then looked up to see him smiling at her this time. The Weapons Mistress actually blushed in front of him, then he kissed her full on the mouth because he was so happy. Both ninja's realized what happened after a few moments and they started to kiss again with more passion.
Hinata turned around blushing, as her cousin and best friend's kiss deepened, because she knew what would happen and didn't want to intrude further. So Hinata walked to the waiter and paid the bill for the party out of her allowance.
Rock Lee came behind her as she finished paying and wrapped his arms around her stomach, hugging her softly. She turned in his embrace, smiling softly, with tears running down her face.
"N-Neji-niikun is finally happy, Lee-kun"
The former Heiress stated, her voice cracking, as her boyfriend pulled her more to him so she could cry in happiness against his shoulder. Lee's eyes spilled over in tears as well as he comforted her.
"It will be alright my youthful hime!"
She dried her tears and smiled up to the one she loved dearly; just as Lee let her go TenTen turned her around and hugged her like there was no tomorrow.
"Hinata-chan! He's finally happy! Thank you so much!"
"Your welcome TenTen-chan. I wish the best for you both."
"As I do you"
The older kunoichi said, smiling really big to her friend, then looked up to see Neji give her his famous smirk. So she gave him her cocky little smile and went over to him; Hinata waved to them and held Lee's hand with the other.
"I'll see you later TenTen-chan."
"Alright Hinata-chan. Are you going to sleep on the couch or the guest bedroom?"
TenTen asked which was code for, "are you sleeping at my house (couch) or at Lee's (guest bedroom).
"U-Um I think I will stay in your guest bedroom tonight, ok?"
"Alright, see ya later then!"
TenTen said smiling once more as Neji entwined his and her fingers together.
"Bye."
Hinata and Lee said at the same time and walked outside. The Hyuuga female sighed contentedly, leaning her head on the Taijutsu Genius's shoulder, then she yawned daintily.
"Are you tired my youthful goddess?!"
The Blue Beast of Konoha asked his girlfriend quietly for once. The said female nodded her head and he picked her up bridal style, quickly running to his house. They reached his house within five minutes and Lee opened the door for her. He slipped off his wooden sandals while still carrying her, then he took off her sandals gently. Hinata blushed a light pink color and looked to the side as Lee proceeded to go to his bedroom. The black haired male sat his maiden on his bed, then went to his closet; pulling out a big white shirt, he tossed it to her, and stayed facing the closet door so she could change.
Hinata stood up and slowly took off her kimono, so now she was in her green undergarments. Silently she slipped his shirt on, then she blushed as she realized that his shirt stopped a little higher than the middle of her thigh, so it just covered her ass and if she were to bend over slightly he would be able to see her cheeks.
As she was dressing so did Lee; he took off his kimono and got into a pair of black sweat pants. He turned around when he didn't hear anymore rustling and his eyes grew slightly wide. Lee thought she looked right in his clothes, then he proceeded to walk towards the bed. He sat down on the side of the bed closest to him and she sat down as well. Crawling under the covers, Hinata snuggled into the bed before turning to him, smiling softly, blushing a rose color.
Rock Lee laid down scooting closer to her; wrapping an arm around her waist, he pulled her against him, and they both fell asleep, feeling safe in each other's arms.
