Begin Anew

Sango: oh wow... i got so many reviews in less than a few hours. i feel proud. and i want to answer to a few reviewers. i know i've never done it b4, but i appreciate all the reviews, not favoriting anyone just....





anciie: i know its been neji/sasu centered, but thats pretty much the story... but dont worry, you'll get ur fix of naruto in just a short bit



qwerty: im not making any promises, but here's just a little peak into the lust confused mind of neji and all the bad ideas pein is giving him... lol...i love the power being an author gives me, dont u?



nejislady: i just love all your reviews. ur awesome! ^_^



and while im still not 100% sure who's gonna be with who...i got a review a few chapters back asking for pein/naru..but im not that sadistic, sorry kelly! on the other hand...





nope sorry, i've said too much





this is why ive never answered reviews. i keep talkin and then everything comes to light. i want to keep up the mistery damn it!!





anywhoo....





yes, this is a long chapter. it really is. just look at the scroll bar. lol....sorry, i'm not in my right mind....











enjoy







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On the other side of town, Naruto had been trying to calm down his racing heart and hormones for the past oh...3 hours. As soon as he left the outskirts of the city where the auction was being held and he became a ball of mulch when Neji showed such dominance, he’d been trying to forget everything by drowning his woes in ramen. He drove the hour long drive to Ichiraku Ramen where the old man treated him like one of his own grandsons and since then had had nearly 9 bowls of ramen. His pockets were depleted but he felt it was worth it, his spirits lifted and he forgot, for the most part, the way Neji made him feel. How his breath ghosted over his lips, how his body felt so good pressed against his, how his skin was so warm under his touch.





Naruto groaned.





No.





He was not thinking naughty thoughts about Neji Hyuuga. He couldn’t. Neji was dating Sasuke!





And Sasuke.





Gods, seeing Sasuke again, in Neji’s arms, hear him plead in such a wanton voice again. His body started tingling as memories of times past when the raven would make those alluring sounds and whisper those needy words to him rose to the forefront of his mind. Seeing the Uchiha act that way, say those things to the brunette while Naruto was there showed just how needy the raven was. Gods, what would it feel like to have them both at the same time? Sasuke with his sluttiness and having Neji dominating them both. A shiver ran down his spine and his eyes fluttered as his half hard cock pulsed in his pants for attention.









The bell signaling that the door to the restaurant opened dinged and a shadow loomed over Naruto’s body.





“Hey, gorgeous.” A deep voice said behind him, making a shiver run up his spine and his blood run cold. His erection wilted and all arousing thoughts left him.









Pein.







The orange haired gang member took the seat next to the blonde. Naruto pushed his bowl away, suddenly losing his appetite—the bowl was half full.





“Thanks old man, but I cant seem to stuff myself anymore.” Naruto told Mr. Ichiraku, ignoring Pein, wanting nothing to do with the fiend next to him. Naruto went to pay the tab, but was stopped by a hand on his wrist.





“Hey, hey, what’s the rush, pet? I don’t bite...too hard.” Pein said, standing once more, trying to overwhelm Naruto with his height, towering over the blonde by a good 7 inches.





“Let go of me.” Naruto said in a controlled voice.





He wasn’t as brave as he’d been earlier with Neji beside him, mostly because the knowledge that Pein was interested in him, stalking him, sent fear running through him. Had it really been just this afternoon that he was at that auction? Had it been just this afternoon that Sasuke and Pein fought for him, Neji being the ultimate winner—the ultimate dom? Only a few hours ago that he found out that the gangster in front of him had a ‘thing’ for blondes? Only a few hours ago that Neji told Pein to fuck off because Naruto belonged to him?





“I'll let you go only long enough to tell your dom to fuck off, so that you can wear this pretty collar and become my slave.”





Naruto’s eyes flashed.





“You bastard.” He spat, jerking his hand free from Pein’s grasp.





“Oh, sorry, did I say slave? I meant pet. They get more attention that slaves, don’t you think?” Pein said with a cheerful grin, his eyes closing as his nose crinkled slightly.

Naruto spun away from the tall man, ignoring old man Ichiraku as he paid, leaving the change as tip, before storming out.





But Pein was unrelenting.





He followed Naruto out and grabbed his wrist again, spinning him and crushing his lips to the blonde’s.





Naruto was about to tell Pein to go jump off a bridge when the orange haired man grabbed his wrist. In a flash the older man spun him around and crushed his lips to Naruto’s open ones. Pein had to lean over far to reach the blonde’s lips and that created a space between their bodies. Naruto protested immediately, trying to kick Pein but the gangster stepped closer, ridding the space between them, forcing Naruto’s head tilting back, his balance shot. But he wouldn’t give up. Who the hell did this bastard think he was?! The blonde’s his right hand became a fist and he swung upward to hit the taller man on the side of the head, but Pein was too fast, and caught Naruto’s hands, pinning them between their bodies. Naruto tried to push the pierced man’s tongue out of his mouth but the gangster mistook it for Naruto finally submitting to him and groaned in approval, reducing the intensity of the kiss. Naruto took the opportunity to bite Pein’s tongue until he tasted copper in his mouth. With a yelp of pain, Pein shoved the blonde away from him roughly. Naruto landed on his butt and spat blood and saliva on the floor beside him.





“You fucking bastard!” Pein screamed, blood splattering from his mouth as he yelled then spit the coppery taste from his mouth. His tongue was still whole, only with new holes where Naruto’s incisors pierced the muscles.





A crowd had already begun to form around them and Naruto scrambled to his feet.





“You’re the fucking asshole!” Naruto yelled, ignoring the people around him, but glad that they were there. He didn’t doubt that Pein would kill him if they’d been alone.





“You’re gonna pay for this you little bitch.” Pein said, this threats more like promises that he always kept.





The adrenaline rush must’ve gotten to his head, because in a voice full of bravado that he didn’t know he had he said,





“Come near me again and I’ll do more than bite your tongue off! I’mtaken. Get the through your thick skull.” With that the blonde stalked off towards his car.





The crowd soon dispersed, leaving a seething Pein to tend to his wounded tongue and ego. Blood ran down the orange haired man’s chin as his fingers ran over the puncture wounds on his tongue.





‘Naruto will pay for what he did and he will be mine, whether he wants to or not.’ Pein thought maliciously as he stalked to his home, plans formulating in this twisted head.







Naruto stopped at a red light, taking a deep breath. The events of a few minutes ago hadn’t caught up with him, so he wasn’t panicking yet. That came later, in the safety of his home, where he could panic in peace without fearing for his life or someone else’s— or for his car. The first thing he did when he got home was throw himself on his bed and scream into his pillow, punching at the soft cushion until some of the steam left his system. Once he was through with his hissy fit, he went to the bathroom to brush his teeth of the disgusting taste that lingered in his mouth; a repulsive combination of pork ramen, nicotine and copper—the latter belonging to Pein, from his cigarettes and his blood.









After thoroughly brushing his teeth and feeling his mouthwash burn his gums and tongue from holing the liquid too long, he could still remember the taste, though it was no longer there. Wasn’t there some type of soap to wash his brain clean of the memory?





He wanted to call someone, needed to tell someone that Pein was stalking him. Kiba came to mind, but he immediately crossed him out, knowing that wasn’t going to get him anywhere; it would only lead to panicking and the brunette screaming ‘I told you so’ at him. so ther was really only two people he could call. Sasuke and Neji. However, the more he contemplated the decision, the more he knew it had to be the Hyuuga. He really wanted to call Sasuke, but Neji was a dom. He behaved, acted like a dom, thought like one, and he would no doubt solve this problem. He had already told Pein he belonged to the Hyuuga, couldn’t there be a way to make it more clear to the orange haired asshole?





A collar flashed through his mind and he was shocked that he had even thought of such things when he had so vehemently refuted that he wasn’t someone’s pet. He shook his head and went to the kitchen for a cold glass of water. There was no way he was going to wear a collar. There was no way Neji was going to collar him. Not only did he not want to be some type of slave, he also knew that the Hyuuga was with Sasuke and he had to forget that he was even in the picture. However, only Neji could help him in this situation. Neji was the only one who could possibly have a chance at getting Pein off his back. Then again, Pein didn’t look like he would back off.





‘You’ll pay for this you little bitch!’ Pein’s voice exploded in his head and he actually flinched in his own empty apartment at the memory.





Ah, fuck.





And he probably got himself in even deeper trouble by what he’d replied to the gangster.





“ARG!” he exclaimed loudly, his right hand fisting in his hair and pulling until he winced at the pain, his left hand tightening around the glass until he feared he would break it.





He put the glass in the sink, hand ruffling his hair in apology to his hurt scalp and went to sit on the couch immediately turning on the T.V. He began flipping through the channels without really seeing anything. He sighed. He knew he was wasting time trying to postpone the inevitable. He had to call Neji. He pulled out his cell phone and scrolled through his phones list, only then realizing that he didn’t have Neji as a contact. He continued to scroll down until his hands hovered over Sasuke’s number.





Even after all this time, his heart contracted painfully at the thought of the raven and he was really tempted to call him just to hear his voice, much like many times when he lay awake at night thinking of the Uchiha, how his skin used to feel against his, his lips, his touches. He shivered and shook his head to clear it of the nostalgia that began to settle over his thoughts. Sasuke had moved on. He thought he’d done the same. Yet here he was, still pining over the man he’d loved for so long, even though he was in a relationship. And now these thoughts of Neji and submitting willingly to the Hyuuga were clouding his mind and he needed to remove those thoughts from his mind. With that resolve he pressed a button and went to the H’s in his phone and immediately pressed the number for Hinata. On the third ring, the shy girl picked up.





“H-hello Naruto-kun. How did the auction go?” She asked, sounding genuinely pleased that

he’d called even though it was so late. It was almost midnight.





“Oh, yeah.” Naruto had completely forgotten about the charity event. Had it really been only this afternoon? Damn! Stupid orange-haired, pierced psychopath, he mentally cursed Pein as his anxiety grew a little more.





“It went well. But something happened and I need to talk to Neji. Can you give me his number?” Naruto asked hastily, his anxiety growing, feeling like everything was rushing up at him and he needed to hear Neji’s voice to feel calm again.





“Oh, okay.” Hinata said, surprised and recited the number she had memorized. “Is something wrong?” She asked a little warily, afraid to know the answer.





“Uh...I’ll tell you tomorrow, ‘kay? Be sure to be at the parking lot early, okay?” Naruto said quickly and hung up before the shy brunette could respond, impatiently waiting for the screen to clear of the ‘call ended’ signal so he could type in Neji’s number.











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Neji’s phone startled him as his ring tone shattered the intense silence of his room. He looked at the display screen of his cell and, not recognizing the number, opened the phone and pressed the ‘ignore’ button. He sighed, throwing his phone beside him, laying his head in his hands, elbows on his thighs as he sat on his couch. The only light in the penthouse coming from the lamp on the table beside him and he wanted to keep it that way.





Today had not gone as he planned.





At all.





And it all started when Naruto stepped into the picture. Unfortunately, there was nothing he could do about it. Naruto was in their lives. He went to the same school as they did, had the same friends they had. Naruto was everywhere. And if Sasuke behaved like that with Neji around, he didn’t want to think about how he would act if they were alone while Sasuke was being his slutty self rather than the ice prince they all knew. He pulled himself up only to throw himself back, head resting on the back of the couch, and his hands came to rub furiously at his eyes. He didn’t want to lose Sasuke to the blonde, but a cynical part of him sneered that he never had the raven, never had a chance since the Uchiha had always pined after the Uzumaki. Yet he knew that the raven wanted to be dominated. Did that mean that just any one could dominate him, or was there something special about Neji?







He was startled from his thoughts when his phone rang again. Glaring at the phone, he found it was the same number as before. Whoever it was, it was becoming annoying. He flipped open the phone with more force than necessary and pressed ‘ignore’ once more. He glared at the phone, daring whoever it was to call again. His eyes widened slightly in surprise when less than 30 seconds later, his phone rang again. The same number. With a growl he flipped open his phone and pressed answer, a curt ‘yes’ barked into the line.





A slight pause on the other side only made his agitation grow.





“Neji?” A tentative voice questioned.





“Yes?” Neji repeated. Whoever it was, was a complete moron. Had they not heard his answering machine—not once, but twice—telling them who they were calling?





“Uh...hey. It’s Naruto.” The blonde said in a relieved voice. As soon as the answering machine picked up, Naruto hung up, not wanting to leave a message.





Neji’s face fell.





Naruto.





Of course.





Who else was as annoying and persistent—appearing where he was least wanted?! The Hyuuga so didn’t want to talk to him right now.





“What do you want Uzumaki?” he asked in a dead tone, wanting to get rid of the pest as soon as possible.





“Oh...so you’re still with Sasuke? Good. It’s better if I don’t have to say this more than once. Put me on speaker please.” Naruto said, glad that the Hyuuga hadn’t ignored his call, or worse yet, hung up on him.





“Sasuke went home, I’m not with him tonight.” Neji said, refusing to say any more. It was none of the Uzumaki’s business anyways.





“Oh, that sucks. But I really need to talk to you Neji.” The Hyuuga was taken aback by that statement and how the blonde emphasized that he needed to talk to him.





“What do you want to talk about?” Neji asked, intrigued. Why would the blonde want to talk to him after what happened today?





“Uh... after...what happened earlier, I went to Ichiraku’s to try to calm down. Don’t blame me; you know how I am with ramen. It’s a comfort food.” He said, interrupting Neji from voicing the ‘idiot’ that wanted to spill from his throat. “Anyways, I was at Ichiraku’s and Pein came in. He wanted me to wear the collar even though he knows I belong to you.”



At that Neji’s eyes widened. Did Naruto just say that? He said it as though it were nothing—like he was talking about the weather.





“I mean...he thinks that I belong to you. But even if he thinks that, he still wants me to be his pet as he puts it, says that its better than being a slave ‘cuz pets get more attention. Can you believe that asshole?!” Naruto finally ended, taking in a deep breath, which lessened the intensity of his rant.





“So...he still wants you to be his...pet?” Neji questioned, trying to determine the gist of the conversation, not having completely understood the blonde.





“Yes.” Naruto confirmed. “And then when I ignored him, he grabbed me and kissed me.”





Neji’s eyes widened as his jaw dropped at the shock he felt when Naruto gave him that news. Pein had kissed Naruto, touched him, was aggressive in trying to get the blonde to be his new toy. And as he thought this one thought popped up clearer than all the rest: Sasuke was not going to be happy with this information. And for some reason, Neji too was upset at what Naruto was telling him. He wasn’t at all pleased that Pein had become a little too familiar with Naruto, especially against the blonde’s will. And while believing that Naruto belonged to Neji.





Neji sighed.





“We have to tell Sasuke.” He said prosaically. He heard Naruto sigh over the phone, none too happy with what Neji said, but having to agree with him.





“Yea, I know. But I hate how he’ll react to this. I didn’t want to tell you guys, but I also don’t want Pein stalking me. Isn’t there a way we can get him off my back? And what is his thing with blondes?” Naruto asked, a rhetorical question—he really didn’t want to know. Neji began to chuckle, feeling more at ease, the longer he talked to the blonde.





“Maybe we should dye your hair.” He heard Naruto laugh loudly on the other line and felt a small happy smile that rarely graced his lips.





“Yea.” Naruto snorted, “and while you’re at it, give me a collar with your name on it.” Naruto joked, laughing as he pictured himself as a brunette with a spiked collar that said ‘Neji’ on it.





Neji on the other hand, stopped laughing.





“I want you to come over to my place tomorrow.” He said seriously, his tone making the Uzumaki go silent as well.





“What? Why?” Naruto asked confused. He’d never been to Neji’s place and had no idea why the brunette wanted him there tomorrow.





“I’ll call Sasuke first thing tomorrow and get him to come too. I’ll need to buy a few things, so you should be here around 11, okay?”





“Uh...” Naruto didn’t really know what to say. What the hell was going on in Neji’s head? “Where do you live again?” Naruto asked, his uncertainty increasing. Neji gave him the address and they said their goodbyes, both agreeing that they would tell Sasuke about the...incident tomorrow.





Neji kept staring at his phone long after Naruto had hung up. He could still feel a smirk upturn his lips as Naruto said his last goodbye, sounding flustered, as though he’d been blushing. Just the thought of Naruto blushing because of him made him feel good...his ego feeling pleased at the thought of the blonde uke blushing because of him. Earlier today he had been totally against the idea of the raven and the blonde together. It still did. But he didn’t really have anything against the blonde. And remembering how the two had been needy submissives for him, wanting him, begging with their body language to be taken, dominated— it excited him. An animalistic instinct to claim both of them.





And now the idea Naruto had come up with, of him wearing a blatant display of who he belonged to for everyone to see, made him want to do it. He wanted a collar like that for Sasuke. Just imaging a collar on the graceful swan like neck of the Uchiha, with his pendant, his name, his brand, for everyone to see, turned him on.





He could almost understand why Pein was so obsessed with marking the blonde as his own.





But that was nothing like how he wanted Sasuke. Pein wanted Naruto because of a whim, a new toy to add to his collection, and Neji felt pity for the blonde, but he could see the appeal with marking someone as your own. And then the thought of adding Naruto to the mix crept into his head and he couldn’t shake it off. Just this afternoon he was telling Sasuke that Naruto would never have him, that Naruto didn’t deserve him. That only he would touch Sasuke in such a way. And now the thought of dominating both the blonde and the raven was exciting.





Something must be seriously wrong with him. He was being a hypocrite, but his body still reacted to the images his mind provided; twisted and contorted memories into lewd and vulgar what-ifs if things had gone differently.





What would have happened if they had gone to the cabin like Sasuke and Neji had originally planned? What if the whole thing with Naruto had occurred a different way and the blonde too had joined them? The possibilities were beginning to overwhelm the brunette and his body was responding, his cock hardening and rubbing harshly against the seam of his pants and he shifter to ease the pressure. The thought of being able to dominate both Sasuke and Naruto like he had this afternoon was turning him on like

nothing else.





Laying back on the couch, he began to palm his growing erection, images of Naruto and Sasuke willingly submitting to him getting him horny. He freed his cock from the confines of his pants and started to stroke himself. Slow, teasing strokes that made his skin tingle and his cock pulse in his hand. He thumbed the tip, smearing the precum around the cock head before lightly digging his nail into his slit, groaning loudly in the quiet room. As the sound reverberated in the room and returned back to him, he snapped out of his lust induced daze.









What the hell was he doing?!







He pulled his hand away from his member as though burned. He did not want to be fantasizing about the blonde! He tucked himself back in his pants and went to run himself a cold shower, still not believing what he’d been doing to himself, wanting to feel ashamed and disgusted but honestly being unable to.





As the cold water hit his feverish skin he felt himself become more alert, yet his arousal didn’t wilt in the slightest. His breath left him in a powerful huff as he stared down at his erect penis, trying to will it away. No such luck. He began to think of his uncle having sex and immediately all arousing thoughts left him, his member deflating pathetically.





Ugh.





This is what he had to resort to in order to stop thinking about the blonde!





Pathetic.





He finished his shower with warm water and dried himself languidly, his flesh once again awakening to his teasing touches, knowing he was doing this on purpose, though subconsciously. He didn’t notice he was doing it until once again his cock started pointing up at him, looking like it was crying for attention as a pearly tear escaped the tip. He was immediately bombarded by images of Sasuke, slutty Sasuke begging to be taken and he could no longer stop himself. Laying on his back on the bed he got himself comfortable as he began touching himself, knowing just how and where to touch to get himself off quickly, wanting to cum now. He felt his orgasm nearing faster than ever before, and he feared he would ejaculate prematurely when Naruto’s face flashed in his mind’s eyes, pleading him with a needy look, asking to be kissed, possessed, dominated. With a startled yelp Neji’s body jerked as his cum spurt out in long streams over his hand, some landing on his stomach and thigh. His body continued to tremble, shivers chasing tremors up and down his spine. With a huff he fell back on the bed, exhausted as his eyes closed against his will.











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Neji jerked awake to the blaring sound of his alarm. He thought his heart was going to explode out of his chest at the sudden intensity and disorientation. He was lying in bed, still naked and in the same position he’d fallen unconscious the night before. Dry cum was crusting his leg and stomach and he was appalled at his uncontrollable lust (raise eyebrow here), feeling ashamed at what he’d done. It was 7am and he had to get ready, buy a few things, and call Sasuke, who was most likely still mad at him, to have him come over before noon. Standing up sluggishly, he stretched long and tall, his limbs making dull cracking sounds as his bones popped in their sockets before getting over his vertigo as blood rushed to his head, finally making his way to the shower, to wash the shameful evidence from his body.





Two hours later he was back at his apartment, with his purchases, waiting for Sasuke to show up. He called the raven twice, leaving a message a second time telling him to come to his apartment before noon. The raven still hadn’t answered. A few minutes before 11, the intercom sounded, the bellboy at the front desk informing him that Naruto had arrived. He told the kid to buzz up the blonde and went to place his purchases on the coffee table. He wanted to get straight to business so that he wouldn’t feel any of the lust he had felt yesterday; he kept telling himself he wanted nothing to do with the blonde. A knock startled him and he went to open the door, taking a deep breath before he went to face the blonde.













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