AN: You know I have to show the backlash. Riiiight? Also may I be amused that only one person pitied Neiji? Poor guy gets no love. This is one of those chapters I'm not sure how it happened but it decided not to be changed.

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I blame the fact that Itachi and Shisui had no idea what to do when a still in the academy dolt like me had pulled that maneuver on Sasuke that I got out of there all right. Holding tight to that feeling of disorienting being everywhere at once I chakra enhanced my limbs like the dickens even though I felt my reserves depleting fast from the accidental teleportation jutsu to get out of there and then took off as only my family members can at a dead run to the Hyuuga compound.

Do I regret revealing I am crazy chakra controlling weirdo to the Uchiha? Yes, yes I do. Am I upset that I made Emu-Emo eat grass when he was being a brat and insulted one of the sweetest girls I know besides Sakura-chan? One that I know has self esteem issues? Nope. Not in the slightest.

I suppose though it was really a fools hope that I wouldn't end up grabbed and flung to the ground and pinned down just to be staring into red eyes.

It was a hope.

Poof there it goes.

"What was that."

Yeah you know I always thought Itachi was the one to fear not Shisui. But it's Shisui who grabbed me and has me pinned and he's the one whose sharingan I'm facing now. There's nothing of the playful goof left here anymore, just serious and solemn and screaming danger out of every pore to the point I can't believe my ears aren't hearing this.

"No control over it and he made me mad insulting Hinata." I have no idea if the sharingan creepy eye can detect lies as the Byukugan can but I'm just going to assume so. Besides having someone older keeping me pinned down keeps one from saying anything that may result in further bruising.

"..Try again." There's an inflection though that tells me he can detect I'm not lying about the control thing. Yay for speaking Hyuuga meaning I can understand the dialect of Uchiha! May I live long enough to put this to use in the future. Only you know, without running into the Uchiha. Ever.

Sighing I give him a pout. "You're heavy."

He doesn't move.

Come on it was worth a shot.

"I have weird chakra and when I want something bad enough it just reacts." I hate that I'm saying this, I really do but you know Uchiha can murder their whole clan I don't put it past them to dispose of and hide my body so no one ever knows I'm gone and that would devastate Lee. "I've been going to the Hyuuga for help training it for years now but they're still trying to help me understand it."

Red eyes are slowly spinning, like the pinwheels they are named for as he watches me.

Then he's off me and helping me up by just picking me up and setting me down as though I don't weigh a thing. If that's a power ploy it is working and it frankly has me freaked out. Shisui Uchiha is not someone to mess with.

I'm learning that way too late.

Tobirama obviously decided I was on my own because he hated Uchiha.

"So what were you thinking before you planted my baby cousin into the ground?"

"He's only a year younger than I am.." I huff but I give him a wary look. He's still got red eyes. You would think all this time of seeing white, off white, extra white, silvery white, pale as freaking everything, pale lavender, snow, ivory, eggshell, cream, cream puff filling, ecru etc eyes that should be blind the red wouldn't phase me. It does.

"That no one should talk about Hinata like that and I wanted to be over there..shoving his face into the ground.." I am doing my best to not sound petulant but I am pretty sure I am failing.

"And it just works." His tone is still flat. Still dangerous. I can feel the kunai against my throat even though he isn't holding one because that is just how his voice works. May I point out though that I am far more freaked out that Shisui grasped the concept of what I was saying that fast? Wasn't you know, Itachi supposedly the genius?

"Every time."

Shisui's eyes are locked on mine.

"I'll keep an eye on you."

He's gone as if I had imagined the whole thing and there is no reason that wasn't a genjutsu except I can feel the bruises and I swallow hard.

Oh fu*k.

I want my twin.

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I have zero shame in admitting I practically run to my home. Hyuuga's are forgotten I'm in no shape to spar like this. This sort of panic means only one thing..

I need my twin because even his craziness is my sanity.

Lee says nothing when I leap over our back yard wall and collide with him in the middle of his katas, he just clasps me close and holds tight while I shake and pulls me to sit on the ground so he can hug me better.

Because that is the sort of person Lee is.

My eyes are clenched tight and my arms as snug around his waist as I can get them as my face hides in his shoulder. His hands hold me tight enough I'm sure I'll bruise and I don't care as he says nothing. We are twins and despite our differences and different interests there is nothing that can make us forget this. We have a bond so deep it reaches into my soul and scours me of most the Before because when faced with Lee?

It doesn't matter.

The only reason Before matters is because maybe it will help me survive and help Lee and that's all. I'm selfish and I don't care.

Because whomever I was Before? I didn't deserve Lee but now that I have him I will not let go.

We stay there for a long time in that hold, neither of us moving. Finally I look up and gray eyes meets black and I sigh. I don't tell him I'm scared, Lee can tell. I don't tell him I'm worried because he will already know.

"I had a less than pleasant run in with the Uchiha."

Lee just nods once and then without effort scoops me up to take us inside. We have a better chance of privacy in one of our rooms than outdoors even though someone could still easily observe or eavesdrop it is the thought that counts in this situation and I am so grateful for it.

I don't censor as I share everything, except the names because I shouldn't know any but Sasuke's. Lee informs me it's probably Itachi and Shisui because they have reputations and then proceeds to rub camphor and menthol infused wax into my skin where the bruises will be. Yes we have a variation of tigers balm, it's amazing because it interacts with chakra, even for those that civilian's or the chakra coil deformed have.

Much to my surprise, and I admit I'm rather touched because Lee being the big brother twin is rare and adorable..he sneaks out late that night when I'm sitting with kaa-san and granny and goes to speak to Kou.

When he returns home he just smiles at me. "The Hyuuga will take care of things."

I don't ask for details. I'll learn about them in time. For now, I'm happy to sit Lee before me and comb out his hair to do his braid, and let him do my buns in return.

Because you know, it's really nice to let someone else handle something for once.

And when that night I wake up in a panic from nightmares with red eyes, he goes all octopus and makes it better. Well except for where my oxygen is fading.

"Lee stop smothering me!"

"I'm not smothering you I'm loving you!"

"..you dork. Love you too."