Fate Said you’re the One

Summary: Neji believed in fate. What happened when fate told him that the one for him is his best friend? Will he follow fate, or forget it because he’s afraid of rejection? And who’s this girl from Amegakure that Hiashi said is Neji’s fiancée?

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Disclaimer: My name isn’t Masashi Kishimoto, so that means, I also don’t own Naruto.

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Chapter 1: Karma

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“Neji, my youthful rival, don’t you think it’s a bit harsh to force our team’s youthful flower to train, this late time in the night?” Lee asked with worry. The mini-Gai checked his wrist watch, which came from Ten-Ten during his birthday, and his eyes widened even more.

“It’s 11 p.m.!” he yelled. Neji and Ten-Ten drifted their attention to Lee.

“Lee thanks for worrying, but Neji and I are used with training late.” Ten-Ten assured her team mate.

“Hn.” Neji added keeping his I’m-the-great-Hyuuga-Neji-who’s-greater-than-that-chicken-butt-Sasuke-Uchiha-so-you-better-bow-down (WTF?) look.

“Come on Lee, we might want to leave Neji and Ten-Ten alone so they could express and extend their youth.” Gai said winking. Lee got the picture and winked at them and left snickering with Gai.

“What was that about?” Ten-Ten asked completely clueless about what the 2 green beasts were talking about.

“Hn. Don’t mind them. Let’s continue to train.” Neji dropped the subject. He was fully aware of what Gai and Lee were talking about.

“Okay.” Ten-Ten replied and got into her fighting stance. Neji did the same and activated his Byakugan. He regretted ever thinking of Ten-Ten as a failure because for the past year of their training, the number of times of Neji winning against Ten-Ten was decreasing.

‘She’s getting strong.’ He concluded.

“Neji, you ready?” Ten-Ten asked interrupting the thoughts of our dear prodigy.

“Of course I am, I should be the one asking you that!” the Hyuuga called back.

“Neji, that’s long…well…you were spacing out a bit for a while ago…guess you went to La-La-Land didn’t you Neji?” Ten-Ten teased. Neji blushed the lightest shade of pink, it was impossible to see from Ten-Ten’s place.

“Hn.” He said and waited for Ten-Ten to attack. Ten-Ten shrugged and brought out her scrolls. She placed them on the ground and bent down on one knee. She looked at Neji and smirked, Neji smirked back.

Ten-Ten did a couple of hand signs.

“Soshoryuu!” Ten-Ten yelled and soon the 2 scrolls rose up and formed 2 dragons twirling around, Ten-Ten jumped and twirled as fast as her scrolls. Once the Weapon Mistress stopped spinning, the 2 dragons formed back into scrolls and Ten-Ten bit her thumb and ran it through the marks written on the scrolls.

The moment her skin made contact with the paper, weapons would appear.

Ten-Ten threw everything that would come out from her scroll at Neji. Neji deflected them easily using his Kaiten. Ten-Ten expected that, so she went on to her plan once she saw Neji still spinning, deflecting weapons coming his way.

She continued throwing sharp objects at her team mate with her right hand, and grabbed a Katana with her free hand. Neji didn’t see that one coming and continued avoiding weapons.

‘Neji, it’s your faith to fall in this trap!’ Ten-Ten thought as she rushed towards Neji throwing Kunais and Shurikens that she had in her hip pocket, when she was almost out of weapon, she stopped. Neji stopped spinning and got ready to attack, but he didn’t find Ten-Ten anywhere.

‘She’s concealed her chakra good enough.’ He inwardly smirked, but outside, his face was the same.

Neji felt someone behind him. He grabbed a Kunai from his pocket and got ready to attack, when he felt a sharp object by his throat.

“Got ‘cha! I win!!” Ten-Ten said triumphantly. She still didn’t take the Katana away from Neji’s throat.

“Lucky one.” Neji contradicted. He couldn’t accept the fact the Ten-Ten won. Too much for his pride to handle.

“Yeah right Hyuuga! This is the 5th time I beat you!” she snapped back sticking out her tongue. The Katana had disappeared already and now she was a few feet away from Neji.

“Counting?” Neji asked.

“Well…duh! Obviously!” Ten-Ten said.

“Hn.” Neji replied stuffing his Kunai back in his hip pocket.

“Night Neji, see ‘ya tomorrow!” Ten-Ten bid him good bye picking up her scrolls and placing them back at her back pockets.

“Don’t be late. Sunrise to sunset.” Neji reminded and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

“Don’t be late. Sunrise to sunset!” Ten-Ten mimicked placing her hands on her hips bending a bit and continuously moving back and forth (think of Naruto when he mimicked Anko during the Chuunin preliminary matches, before they were given their scrolls). “Pfft! Whatever Neji, get a life!” she said to no one in particular and she made her way to her house. Unknown to her…

“Ten-Ten, we are going to train an extra 4 hours for that.” Neji said. Uh-oh, the Hyuuga Prodigy didn’t really go away; he just hid in a tree and perfectly concealed his chakra. This time he really went away.

When he reached his house, he was greeted by his cousin’s screaming. Running around the house, waving her hands in the air like an idiot and saying, “FATHER’S GONNA KILL ME, FATHER’S GONNA KILL ME!!” behind the girl was another Hyuuga.

“Hanabi, get back here, or father will kill us both!” Hinata shouted to her little sister. Neji sweat dropped, wonder what the 2 did (Whoa! Neji sweat dropped!)

The older Hyuuga ignored her cousins’ screaming and headed for his room. Once he was in, he locked his door and sighed.

‘Why must fate be cruel? First my parents, now Hanabi and Hinata-sama are screaming and breaking my ear drums.’ Neji thought sitting down on his own bed.

Fate, fate, fate, I’m sick of fate!

What the? If you’re my inner self, how come you hate fate?

That’s good; you didn’t ask me who I am.

BAKA! Why do I need to ask you, when I already asked you before?

Good point Hyuuga.

That’s like saying that to your self.

Yeah, yeah, whatever, say man, don’t you ever think about anything else aside from fate?

Err…yeah…

Really who?

You’re my inner self, how come you don’t know?

Because, my dear Neji, your other thoughts are stuck in your brain! And I’m in your head!

That doesn’t make sense at all.

Whatever.

Listen, Inner Self, I want you to leave me the hell alone and bug someone else!

That is not possible, use your head you idiot!

Oh yeah, right, so anyway… you really want to know who I’m thinking about aside from fate?

Whoa…wait…reverse…who? Awesome!! Neji’s thinking about someone!!

(Whispers) uh-oh, that slipped.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! NOW TO BLACKMAIL HYUUGA NEJI FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE!!

How are you suppose to that when you’re inside my head.

Well, I can talk to other inner selves when you made contact with them…physically.

What the hell do you mean?

I mean, like hand shakes, or anything, as long as you have contact with their skin, you were thinking of something else weren’t you? (mischievous grin)

(blushes) what? No!

My, my, who knew that Hyuuga Neji has his little hentai mind, hmmm?

Shut up! It’s only normal for a 20-year old boy to have thoughts! And besides, I’ve got hormones, which make things more natural!

Natural my butt Neji, just admit who she is otherwise…I’ll keep bugging you!

Alright, alright, geez, fine I’ll tell you who the lucky girl is.

(whispers) that was close, I thought he was thinking of a boy.

I heard that!

Whatever, just tell me who the heck is she.

Fine. Ten-Ten.

Pardon, didn’t hear that quite right? Sorry, (places a finger on his ear and takes out something EW) oh…right…you were saying.

I said Ten-Ten is the girl I am thinking about.

(yawn!) pardon, sorry about that Neji mah man. You see, I was kinda thinking…yeah thinking.

I said, Ten-Ten.

(snores) zzzzzz…zzzzz…zzzzz (yawn) mornin’ Neji, so who’s the girl?

Now, Neji is very frustrated.

“DAMNIT! I’VE TOLD YOU FOR THE BILLIONTH TIME!! TEN-TEN IS THE GIRL I AM THINKING ABOUT OTHER THAN FATE! YOU FREAKING STUPID INNER SELF!!” Neji burst out. Uh-oh…bad timing Neji, bad timing.

Because…

“OH MY GOD!! NEJI-NIISAN IS THINKING ABOUT TEN-TEN…AND I GOT ON TAPE!! I AM SO HELLISHLY RICH!!” a girl screamed while clutching tightly a small device.

“Hanabi. Give. Me. That. Damn. Video Cam.” Neji said in a dangerous tone.

“Who-oh gotta go see ya! Woot! I got blackmail!” Hanabi yelled rushing out the door.

Sighing, Neji decided, he’s got to find Hanabi, tie her, and kill her with his very own bare hands, how? By throttling her. Okay, erase the “killing her” part, Neji can’t kill Hanabi over some video…yet.

Neji ran through the Hyuuga manor, his Byakugan activated to find his little cousin faster, all the while, getting naughty stares from the teenage female maids. He would glare at them momentarily letting Hanabi slip from one location to another.

After a good of 10 minutes, he finally found his cousin. She was hiding behind a big Sakura tree planted in the backyard, unaware of her cousin, poor Hanabi, didn’t use Byakugan…idiot

(Hanabi: I though I was your favorite character! You even used my name!

Hanabi18: Yeah, but does your name has an “18” attached to it?

Hanabi: No.

Hanabi18: Then I didn’t use your name.

Hanabi: But you used Hanabi!

Hanabi18: True, but again, does Hanabi Hyuuga has a number 18 in it?

Hanabi: No.

Hanabi18: Makes sense, tell me that I used your name when Hiashi changed your name from Hanabi, to Hanabi18.

Hanabi: Smart ass

Hanabi18: Bad, bad Hanabi. But, whatever, I’ll torture the little dude in the story

Hanabi: NOOOOOOOOOO!!)

“Got ‘cha you twerp head!” Neji yelled completely OOC. He was referring to the video cam. He smashed in 2 by stepping on it. But Neji wasn’t satisfied yet, he practice 8 Trigrams 64 Palms on it, it only made the video cam smashed into bits. Now, Neji was getting pissed, so he used…

“Kaiten!” he yelled, and soon, Hanabi’s innocent video cam, is now dust.

“Aw man, you ruined it! It cost me 5 D-rank missions, 5!!” Hanabi yelled to Neji holding out one hand to emphasize “5” by using her 5 pale fingers.

“Hanabi, your 5 D-rank missions is just 1 S-rank mission, if I get an S-rank mission…” Neji said making Hanabi’s face light up, Hanabi’s probably thinking that Neji would either buy her another camera, or give her his money.

“I’d keep the money, for myself.” Neji blunted, Hanabi’s face fell.

“Hmph!” Hanabi said and stormed off.

‘It’s called Karma Hanabi, Karma.’ Neji thought.

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The Next day, with Team Ebisu

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“Alright kids, be fine and treat Hanabi nicely okay?” Ebisu asked his students.

“Yes Ebisu-sensei.” Konohamaru, Udon and Moegi replied.

“Alright Hanabi, feel free to interact with them.

‘I would if my cousin didn’t smash my cam into bits!’ Hanabi thought angrily recalling last night’s incident.

“Hi, Hanabi, I’m Moegi” Moegi introduced holding a hand up to shake.

“I know you already. You’ve like told me that for the billionth time.” Hanabi said in a dangerous tone. As cold as Neji but as low as Hinata’s.

Moegi backed a bit.

“Remind me again why you’re here?” Konohamaru asked placing his hands on the back of his head for support.

“Because their ain’t any available cell other than yours.” Hanabi explained roughly. Suddenly, from a distant not so far, a moan could be heard.

“Ah, Neji, uh, stop it.” Moaned a familiar Kunoichi, no doubt, the voice was, Ten-Ten’s. All 4 Genin’s eyes widened.

“Are they?” Konohamaru started

“Having a…” Udon added.

“Naughty…” Moegi stated

“Session of…” Hanabi said.

“SEX?” all 4 Genin’s finished at the same time. They all looked at each other, eyes bigger than the circle Neji can make from his chakra whenever he would use Kaiten. They all nodded and hurried to the source of the voice. Hanabi momentarily forgot about her anger towards her cousin for destroying her video cam.

They peeked through the bushes, perfectly masking their chakras. They were disappointed to see a…

A panting Ten-Ten, one hand on her knee and the other against a tree, she was bending a bit and her bangs covered her eyes.

A smirking Neji holding Ten-Ten’s scrolls in hand.

And what the hell was happening? Well, let’s just see shall we?

“Ten-Ten pathetic that was a weird and useless technique.

“But Neji, you were unfair.”

“Nothing is unfair.”

“Yes it was, no hand me my scrolls!”

“Tell me why you were moaning a while ago.”

“Idiot, I wasn’t moaning…well…it sounded like one since my voice was so weak but…I was panting!”

“Right.”

“I am! Damn it Hyuuga, gimme my scrolls back!”

“Make me.”

From the bush…

“This is going nowhere, let’s go back!” Konohamaru offered, Hanabi, Udon and Moegi nodded and they got back to their training ground.

Bad idea…because…

Back with Neji and Ten-Ten…

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Hanabi18: I am so mean, I can’t believe I ended this chapter with a cliff hanger! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!! That way I’d get reviews!!

Ten-Ten: Review addict!

Hanabi18: What was that? You Neji-loving freak?

Ten-Ten: I am not a freak, and I don’t love Neji.

Hanabi18: Oh, you’re right, you don’t just simply love Neji, you’re head over heels in love with Neji.

Ten-Ten: blushes like crazy Just review so she’ll shut the hell up.

Hanabi18: That’s good girl Ten! Oh, and Mica (a.k.a. blueflame21) it’s me, you know…Yuuri…yeah…that’s me…and hey! This is the story I told you earlier remember…yeah…you know…when I called you…right that one! See you in MonSay on June 10! And don’t forget to annoy our former classmates to death during lunch time! Ja ne!