A/N: This chapter is dedicate to AnnaRobsZombies! Hope you enjoy it, hun!

Disclaimer: Misashi Kishimoto owns all the characters and settings and what not. Each OC that appears in my stories belong to their respective creators.

Chapter Six:

Training?

Kye's POV

I lay in my bed, thinking about Neji. Ever since our mission together, I couldn't stop thinking about him.

What's wrong with me? I thought to myself. I'm a ninja, not some silly, love struck schoolgirl.

But, regardless, here I was, thinking about boys. But not just any boy, a specific boy: Neji Hyuga. Someone not known for love and kindness, but rather cold, methodical calculating.

"I suppose he's a good ally to have," I muttered to myself. "Ugh. I so don't have time for this."

Suddenly, Darcy's head popped into my room. "Hey, if you get a second to pause your conversation with yourself, someone's at the door to see you."

"Who?" I asked.

"No one, just your boyfriend," Darcy said as she walked away from my room.

"My… boyfriend…? I don't have a boyfriend," I said to no one in particular as I made my way to the door.

There, standing in the doorway of our house, was just the person I was thinking about.

"Neji?" I asked. "What are you doing here?"

"After our mission together, I was thinking," he said. "You had some good ideas. Would you want to talk about strategy? Over ramen, perhaps?"

"Is this a date?" I asked.

"I-I suppose it could be considered that by some," Neji said. "Perhaps you would want to train, too? I could teach you a lot."

I opened my mouth to say something sarcastic and witty, but, something else came out of my mouth. "That would be great." I smiled at him.

What the hell was that? I wondered to myself. What happened to my sarcasm?

He smiled. "Great, then let's go."

When I turned to close the door behind me, the last thing I saw was Darcy and Akito grinning like madmen. Or madwomen.

I sighed and followed Neji to Ichiraku's Ramen, where we discussed my crazy methods.

"I only bring this up because I just wonder, if we had stood there for just a little longer, would you have been able to think up a different distraction?" Neji asked.

"Oh, I had plenty of ideas," I replied, picking at my ramen with my chopsticks. "Smashing the floppy disk just seemed more fun."

He gaped at me. "So you risked that information just for some fun? What if you didn't remember all of that?"

"Oh, I had faith in my memory," I explained. "But on top of that, I needed to see his reaction. Before I came to this world, I worked with Orochimaru a bit to fight against the Akatsuki while he was in our world, so I can kind of read him. At least, I was able to read him enough to know his reaction was genuine."

"So you did that to make sure he didn't have the information anywhere else?" Neji asked. I nodded. "Impressive. So it was more than just an impulse, or a bit of fun."

"Yeah, sometimes I actually have reasons behind my actions," I said. "I can surprise even myself sometimes."

We had finished our ramen, and were sitting there discussing different scenarios for a while.

"I'd like to work with you on future missions," Neji suddenly said. "I mean, we worked well on the last one, so I think we'd do a good job on future missions."

"I think we would, too," I agreed.

"Would you like to go train?" He asked.

"Yeah, I would," I said. At the same time we both pulled out money to pay.

"I can pay," we both said at the same time.

"I'll pay," I said. "It's the least I can do if you're gonna train me."

Neji hesitated, and, unable to find an valid argument against me, nodded, and said, "Fair enough."

"So what are we going to work on?" I asked.

"I was thinking of basic taijutsu. We'll work on basic fighting stances and stuff, and we'll work our way up to me teaching you how to get around the gentle fist style without being able to use byakugon. If you can evade and defend against the gentle fist style, you can stand your own against just about anything."

"Okay, sounds fun," I said.

We got to the Hyuga manor, and we faced each other in the large courtyard.

"I want to get a better feel of your taijutsu, so let's start with a quick spar," he said. "It'll be a good way to warm up, as well. No weapons, ninjutsu, or genjutsu, though. I need to test your taijutsu if I'm going to train you at all."

I nodded. I moved my right foot back, bent my knees, fisted my hands, and put them in front of my face, taking a basic fighting stance. He did a little bit of a different fighting stance - I think Darcy showed me something like this; I think she called it a tiger stance. He was on the ball of his right foot, with his left foot at a forty-five degree angle, and his knee bent. His hands were straight, with his thumbs bent, and they were in front of his face like mine*.

"Ready?" He asked, I nodded, lowering my stance only slightly. "Begin!" He lunged ad me, and I side stepped, using my lower stance as a spring of sorts to move quickly. I sent a kick at his side, which he blocked by grabbing my leg. He kicked me, and I blocked by grabbing his leg, and we were locked with our kicks being held by the other. Simultaneously, we let go, and each landed a punch on the other, sending the other flying back.

The fight continued in a similar style. It was like we were perfectly in sync. I knew he was strong than me, though, and that he had more stamina then me. But, at this moment, it was like we were performing a beautiful, yet dangerous dance. We were perfectly in sync, we matched the others kick with a similar kick, and followed it up with a punch.

But this dance couldn't last forever, I was quickly running out of stamina, and my breathing was coming quicker and quicker, while he was still breathing normal.

Finally, he sent a kick at me that I couldn't block, and it knocked me off my feet. I sat on the ground, trying to get my breathing under control. After a minute, I was breathing more regularly, and Neji's hand appeared in front of me. I took it, and he helped me up.

"I'm impressed you lasted that long," he said. "You have a really good defense, but we need to work on getting your stamina up."

"How will we do that?" I asked.

"Running," he said. "And lots of training that Gai Sensai put me through."

"Oh, boy," I said completely unenthusiastically.

"No one said training would be fun," Neji said.

"No one said I had to pretend to enjoy it," I countered. Thank God, my witty statements were back. It also seemed like Neji was picking up on them.

He smiled. "That is true." We stood there staring at each other for a while. It was nice to look at him. He finally broke the silence with a cough, and said, "I'd like to start with some basic stance training. I want to teach you the tiger stance."

He started explaining it while he showed me.

"Now you try," he said.

I did as he showed, and, not even a couple seconds after making the stance, my legs began to hurt and soon they stated to shake a bit.

"Does it hurt?" He asked.

I nodded.

"Good, you're doing it right," he said. He went to sit on the ground in front of me. "I want you to hold that stance."

"For how long?" I asked.

"Until I say you're done," Neji said, smiling up at me from the ground.

I groaned, and he laughed at me.

"Neji! It's been hours! Can I stop now?" This was the first time I broke down complaining, and I was very proud of myself. I looked down at Neji. "Are you sleeping? Neji? Neji!" I finally screamed. His head snapped up, and he looked at me questioningly. "Were you sleeping?"

"I might have zoned out," he said.

"Zoned out?!" I cried. "Look, can I stop, it's been hours."

He looked up at the sky, and then looked at me. "Yeah, sure, you can stop now."

I sighed with relief, and fell to the ground.

Neji just laughed. "You'll thank me later."

"Really? When?" I asked. "When you're in you grave and I don't have to deal with your training? But I suppose I'd be thanking whoever put you in your grave." I said sarcastically.

"I'm guessing that person will be you," he said.

By the way he was laughing, I figured he picked up on my sarcasm. None the less, I added, "I was just kidding. About the whole grave thing. I don't want you dead."

He laughed. "I know, Kye. I've begun to pick up on your sarcasm."

With nothing better to say, I just said, "Oh, that's good."

We sat there for a while, staring t each other.

"Key, I," he said, looking down. "Um, well, I'm not really sure how to say this. You're really amazing, and I really like you. Would you like to be with me?"

I stared at him, and finally realized he was asking me out. "Are you… asking me out?"

"I suppose that's what most would call it," Neji said.

"Like, you want me to be your girlfriend?" I asked.

He finally looked up. "Yeah, would you like to?"

"I think I'd really like that," I said with a smile. He smiled back, and we spent the rest of our "training" session talking.

A/N: AnnaRobsZombies, I hope you liked it!

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*I'm actually not sure if Neji does a stance like this, like, ever. But it just seemed like a Hyuga thing. You can look it up on YouTube to get an actually visual of the stance if you want. Just search "Taekwondo tiger stance". This was probably my favorite stance in Taekwondo. It hurt the first time you did it (and many times after until you got used to it), but it was really fun.