Secret Smile

Chapter twoness
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Neji awoke to find his vision filled with another face. The person jumped back on realising Neji was awake and sat back to watch the dark haired boy.
“Hyuuga Neji?” he questioned in a voice bairley audible.
“Yeah?” he said, sitting up yawning which was followed by a giggle from the other boy. Neji looked up at him, taking in the other boy’s appearance. Shortish red hair ‘almost blood red’ framed his young roundish face, a small bear lay forgotten at the edge of the platform. The boy was no older than Neji himself, but what drew Neji to the boy were his eyes a perfect green surrounded by dark insomnia rings. On realising he was making the red haired boy nervous, Neji laid back and looked at the lightening sky.
“How’d you know my name?” he questioned the fading stars
“They’re looking for you, panicking incase I found you first.” He finished quietly.
Neji sat up and gave him a questioning look before remembering his Uncles words to him and his two cousins before they left.
‘Beware the Sabaku Gaara, he’s dangerous, a lethal weapon, stay away from him’
“Sabaku Gaara” he whispered
The red headed boy looked at the floor and turned, grabbing his bear by its arm, he made to make his way down the tower onto a patch of sand that had appeared in mid air.
“Gaara” Neji called him back
The red head froze before speaking “You know you were told to stay away from me, that I was a dangerous monster and I would try and kill you.”
“Actually,” the Hyuuga said, “it was lethal weapon, but that was just my Uncle, and he doesn’t know you does he” Neji finishes, Giving Gaara one of his rare smiles.
Gaara stared at him with a half confused, half amazed look on his face.
“So your not gonna tell me to get lost and try and kill me, killing yourself?”
Neji was confused at the ‘killing yourself’ bit, for a seven year old he was strong, more than a match for many. However he smiled again at Gaara and shook his head, indicating that he was not going to attack the smaller boy.
“I’ll let them search a bit more” he sighed, lying back down and closing his eyes. Gaara sat next to him, tense, ready to flee is Neji tried to attack him to stop the sand from attacking the first non-family member to acknowledge him. After a while Gaara glanced at the other boy, only to find that he had fallen asleep. He stared unbelievingly at the dark haired boy, no one chose to sleep in his presence, especially as unarmed un-protected and as vulnerable as Neji was. They were too afraid that they would never wake up again.
Gaara moved some sand into the shape of a loose cocoon around the white-eyed boy to shield his from any wind and because it made him feel like he was protecting someone. He smiled. Gaara curled up on the other side of the platform to Neji but he dared not sleep.
Judging by the distance the sun had moved, Gaara guessed it had been a couple of hours since he has found Neji, seeing as he had found him in the early morning, and the sun was only just rising. A few minutes later, he heard those voices calling again except the words shouted had changed.
“Neji I’m using Byakugan, I’ll find you eventually” A man yelled. Gaara peered over the edge and noticed that this time two young girls accompanied him. He watched as the man approached the tower, however he did not look up. The red haired boy felt a presence beside him and looked round to see Neji lying next to him, The sand cover had followed and now covered both boys. Unfortunately though, all good moments come to an end eventually and by chance one of the girls looked up and saw their faces peering over the edge, Neji’s Uncle followed her gaze and was beside the boys in seconds, shouting fowl words as The scarred red head. The sand automatically reacted, wrapping the man up tightly until he couldn’t move. Neji knew from rumours that Gaara would probably murder his Uncle, not intentionally, but because he didn’t know otherwise. Neji turned to the red head and placed his hand on the other boys arm
“Don’t let him get to you, Gaara, its ok, it... well he did mean it but ignore him, don’t stoop to his level.” As Neji continued calming the angered boy, The sand slowly released its grip and the older man fell loose. On finding himself free, Neji’s uncle grabbed his nephew and they were back in the hotel before Neji could say another word to the boy.
The next night was the last the family was spending there and Neji once again escaped to the climbing tower to wait for the Red headed boy, so he could say goodbye properly.


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ok seccond chapter done seems.. well is, so short though :(,
Gaars so cute bless him ^_^, protecting Neji and all hehehe

next chapter is eight years later and yea rest of story is pretty predictable, but there we go.

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