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Disguised Curses	By : Raholea Category: Naruto AU/AR > General Views: 2438 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 3
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A/N: I am hoping to make chapters a bit longer as I go, so here's the start of that. I do hope you enjoy this chapter. *evil grins* and to my reviewers...

Sneakyfox: umm... sorry. not planning on it, though if I poke it enough it may produce something rather amusing for that situation. We hope..... Ino-chan, May, and Aini : thanks for your support. Here's the next chapter!!!

CH 7

Sunset had started its array of bright colors when Neji rose from his trance-like meditation. He felt better, relaxed in some ways. He still had butterflies when he pictured the look on Naruto’s face right before he fled, but he no longer felt that insane need to run away. He was calm, collected- once more the cool Hyuga.

Just in time, he thought, as a tingle of chakra swept across his spine. It was familiar, welcome, and as he turned he saw Hinata approaching through the trees. She paused just with hearing range, still trying to give him space. He gestured for her to come closer.

“You came all the way out here. Is it for yourself or did you come to find me, Hina- chan?” He smiled, the one he saved only for his younger cousin. She was the only one that had really bothered to see past all the tradition, barriers, and pain to the boy behind the eyes and seal. Even his friends and teammates hadn’t gotten to look so deep.

Hinata returned the smile as she came within touching distance. “I came to see how you were doing, and to pass along a message.” Those huge pretty eyes closed in on her cousin before she continued softly. “Father said you did it again last night. He contacted Lady Tsunade. She’ll be here in around an hour.” She watched his eyes narrow and jaw clench, and pitied him. He hadn’t wanted anyone to know. “I’m sorry. I volunteered to come find you- ”

“Am I a monster, Hinata?” She flinched, unable to hide her surprise. “Of course not!” Oh, she wanted to get rid of the emptiness in his voice. It was too much like his younger years, except then there was underlying anger in his tone. Now, there was nothing.

“You used to touch my shoulder when we were alone, when you wanted to be comforting. You haven’t done that since that night. I wondered, if maybe you thought me a freak. Or worse.” She fell to her knees behind him, wrapping both arms around him in a hug. He tensed, but permitted the kind act. “If you think I could judge you, Neji, then you forget who I fell in love with.”

He stiffened under her, though tried to hide it. “You still love him, Hinata?” He felt her nod against him. “Enough to stand against the clan elders if you had to? Even if they threatened to kick you from the clan?” He had no doubt that would be the least of their threats.

“I thought for a long time it was a silly crush, but Neji, I do love him. Father said he would rather me have a respectable marriage but he also said he’d be willing to wait a while before forcing the issue. See how things turn out.” He twisted out of her grasp and she let him go. His face, so expressionless to some, revealed to her so many things. She wondered if she would be the only one to see this sadness and loneliness in him. “Just- choose what’s best, Hinata. Whatever that ends up being. All right?” He felt like an older brother, saying that, but he still had to say the words and wait for her acknowledgment It just felt right. “Now let’s get back before Tsunade- sama has to look for us. I’m sure she has enough to say without us being late.”

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Tsunade nodded at the trio in the room waiting for her. It was a private place, away from the main activities of the house, but not really out of the way. Neji knelt on the floor, dressed in nothing more than a pair of loose pants. Even his headband and the substituted wrap were gone, the branch seal shining in the firelight. Hiashi sat in a chair several feet behind the boy, and Hinata was situated comfortably near his feet. “I understand this is a very serious matter, Lord Hyuga?” She asked as she took the empty chair facing them.

“It is, not only a very serious matter but one I hope can be kept quiet for the time being.” He glanced at Neji, wishing he didn’t have to do this to the young man. But he didn’t have much choice yet. “My nephew’s seventeenth birthday was a few weeks ago, as you know. But something happened the night before his birthday that we couldn’t explain at the time. We have since searched through family history and discovered he is not the first to have such a thing happen, but it has been several generations since the last instance. I decided not to say anything unless it reoccurred, which it has, twice. Last night was the third time this has happened.”

Tsunade let her frustration show. “What exactly, has happened, Hiashi?” She looked where he pointed and found a bag sitting about a foot from her side, she pulled it closer and opened it. It was almost full, of some things that appeared large, black and shiny. She removed one and peered at it closely. There was something rather familiar about this... “This looks like- ”

“It is.”

“But the black.. ”

“Are beyond rare, I know. But that is what it is, I assure you.”

She turned the item over in her hand, running a finger up the sturdy core and along the fine, soft, edges. Tsunade looked back up, wondering if she was understanding the implications correctly. “Hiashi, please explain yourself.” Neji looked up at the dangerous tone, seeing her gaze flick from the item in her hands, to him, then back towards his uncle. “It would be easier to show you, if I could, Tsunade- sama?” he asked softly. He doubted whether he could do it on a whim, but it was supposed to be possible.

She nodded, and he closed his eyes, trying to recall those annoying sensations, that feeling he considered so weak. That instinct that screamed he run in the face of true danger. It surfaced easily, too easily, but he fought it, not sure what would happen if he just let go on all of it. He tried to resist the heat coiling up his body, before he heard Hinata’s whispered words.

“It’s ok. We got your back.”

With a whimper he let go, knowing she would make sure he came through this alive. That in this one moment, it was ok to feel weak. He had someone he trusted to make him stronger. The heat made his skin burn and itch and pain building in his body was just too much, he couldn’t block it or push it aside, it was just too much, too soon… !

He heard Tsunade’s cry of shock as once again his vision blurred and he fell into the blessed darkness that kept him from the pain.

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I know, that didn't answer anyone's questions. XD the signs are there. put the pieces together and let me know what you think. accurate or close guesses as to poor Neji still hold an offer for a lemon of your choice. (note that some pairings for possible lemon may have to be one shot out of this story. thank you.) if you enjoyed it, let me know! thanks for my lurvly reviews!!
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