Servitude

It was
late… and for some reason he couldn’t sleep. Fantasies of disrupting the
“special day” kept running through his mind. Thoughts of the wedding actually
going through just made his heart feel as if he had been struck with his own
“gentle fist” blow to his heart and he was slowly dying.

“To whoever may be listening…” He heard a gentle whisper
above his head. Looking up he could see her shoulder length hair blowing in the
wind softly. “Please just let me be able to hide this until after the wedding.
Father will kill me if he knew the secret I am keeping from him and everyone
else in my family. I do not like lying to the ones I love most in my life, but
it has to be done if we’re to keep our lives.”

She inhaled softly before turning
to look back into the house. She shook her head slightly and turned to look
back at the moon. She just sighed and shook her head before a soft sob broke
through her.

“Hinata…” he finally found his voice as he climbed the
sakura tree. Once climbing enough branches he jumped to the roof and wasted not
a moment wrapping his arms around her. She just turned to bury her head in his
chest.

“Neji, I don’t want to marry that man…”

“Then don’t, runaway with me we can become missing-class=SpellE>nins.” He whispered stroking her hair. She took his hand
from her hair and she placed a gentle kiss against the palm. She looked him in
the eye and he could see pure fear across her face.

“I can’t runaway with you either.” She turned from him and
rested her elbows on her bent knees and rested her head on her arms. “Neji,
it’s been almost a two months since then…” She whispered as she grabbed his
hand. It didn’t take a surgeon to know what she was talking about. After all
they’ve been meeting at least two times a week since then sometimes to do that,
other times just laying in each other’s arms talking as if they were a true
couple in love.

“Hinata…” He uttered slightly as she took his hand and
brought it to her stomach and held it there.

“Tomorrow is my wedding Neji, tomorrow night is my wedding
night and you know as well as I what goes on during a wedding night.” Her voice
broke as she turned to him. “It’s the only way for me to even keep it without
having father kill you.”

“Hinata, what are you talking about?” He was growing scared,
it pale eyes frantically searched her face for some confirmation or some stupid
smile proving the fear that grew within him to be nothing more than a pathetic
joke. But no sort of response came. Instead she just lowered her gaze at the
hand she had placed on her stomach.

“The first time I missed I thought nothing about it, but two
weeks ago would’ve been my time of taboo. But instead nothing came. When a
female misses twice Neji…” She looked him in the eye as something within him
seemed to crush under emotional pressure.

“You…you…” The hand at her abdomen closed into a fist as he
yanked his hand back as if he had been holding it to a flame. She retracted
slightly taking the sudden jerk away as a sign of rejection, after all how
could she be so stupid as to find herself ready to conceive and illegitimate
child. She stood and turned away from him.

“I know he will raise this child as his own, so there really
is no need to worry. I will marry him and pass the child off as his own. After
all I am Hyuuga Hinata. If the child should resemble you it will be easy to
claim he just has strong Hyuuga genes.”

“That man is not raising my seed Hinata…” Neji seemed to
have regained all control suddenly. He turned her around and grasped her
shoulders tightly before he harshly pushed his lips against her own. She had
begun to respond seconds later and he wrapped his arms around her waist pulling
her so close he could feel the wild thumping of her heart against his chest.

“Oh my…” A gasp from the window sounded and the two pulled
apart slightly to see Sakue standing there with her hands to her mouth.

“Sakue…” Hinata spoke and the woman stared,

“You mustn’t allow your father to see you two in such an
embrace.” She said as Hinata moved her legs to take a step back but Neji just
simply held onto her, or rather pulled her closer.

“Leave with me Hinata.” He whispered into her ear.

“I…” She took a step back away from him as her eyes shone
over with tears. “I can’t do that, not to you, not to Hanabi, not to daddy, and
if I lost you I couldn’t bear it…” She whispered then glanced at Sakue who just
gave them a quizzical look. “Goodnight, Neji…” She said and walked back inside.