Inbred

Chapter 20

"I told him."

Neji looked up from his notebook at the man who sat cross-legged in front of him on the bed. "Told who, what?"

"I told Naruto about you."

Neji stiffened and his eyes flew open. How could Uchiha betray their trust like that and tell that stupid, loud-mouthed...loud-mouthed?

"Uchiha, how could you?" he was angry and Sasuke couldn't fault him. That day he found out he had promised to keep it a secret between them but circumstances changed and Naruto needed to know.

"Hyuga, I-"

"No, FUCK you, Uchiha," he spat and Sasuke raised one eyebrow at his outburst. "You said you weren't going to tell anyone, you promised you'd keep it a secret. How could you do this to me?" He knew why Neji was upset. If Naruto told the wrong person and that news got back to the Hyuga family Neji would be in deep shit. He was about to assure the boy that Naruto was not the kind of person that went blabbing out secrets but Neji was getting up to gather his things in an attempt to leave.

"What are you doing, Hyuga?"

"What does it fucking look like, Uchiha," he muttered while he busied himself collecting his books and his writing implements.

"We're not finished with our research," he said simply.

"To hell with the fucking research, Uchiha," he shot back. His body shook with his anger and his face was rapidly becoming red. He had never felt so betrayed in his entire life and even what Hinata had done to him was nothing compared to what the Uchiha did.

Sasuke reached out and grabbed Neji's wrist just as he had collected his belongings and made an attempt to get off the bed. His movements suddenly halted caused him to drop most of the things he had clutched in his arms. Neji grabbed a book in his free hand and swung it at Sasuke's head, the hard-backed literature connected with a loud thud. The blow weakened Sasuke's grip just as Neji was pulling away and it caused him to fall backwards off the bed and onto the floor.

Sasuke shook his head and when he was sure he didn't have a concussion he lunged at the other boy. Neji lifted one leg and brought it up to kick Uchiha in the stomach, the taller man grunted and stumbled backwards. Neji quickly got to his feet, all thoughts of leaving Uchiha's bedroom gone and in it's place were thoughts of beating the traitorous blabber-mouth into a bloody pulp.

He swung a hard fist at Sasuke's jaw, it connected and his head flung to one side. He lost his balance and fell backwards against the closet doors, his body slumping to the floor. Neji straddled him and began to pummel his head unmercifully, forcing the man to raise his arms to shield himself against the assault.

"I.hate.you.You.fucking.bastard." Each word was accompanied by a strike against his head. Sasuke struggled against the other man and managed to push himself off the cupboard and into Neji's chest. The momentum caught the slender man off guard and he fell back to the floor but before he could regain himself Sasuke was atop him, pinning his hands above his head and throwing his legs over Neji's thighs to keep him in place. He bucked wildly against Sasuke's weight in an attempt to throw him off but it was no good the Uchiha was too heavy.

"Neji calm down," he ordered through clenched teeth. The pale boy looked up at him and glared nastily before spitting in his face, the wet projectile almost making it's way into the brunette's eye. Sasuke spat back and it fell on a white cheek. Neji retaliated and spat at him again and Sasuke did the same. They continued to spit at one another until their faces were wet with each other's saliva. They didn't know who made the first move but their heads were now close together and they started to share an open-mouthed kiss.

Sasuke lapped his tongue around the soft lips and Neji craned his head to recapture the pink muscle within his mouth. They greedily abused each other's lips as teeth ground against teeth and tongues warred for supremacy. Sasuke panted and thrust his tongue deep into Neji's mouth then moaned wantonly as he ground his erection against Hyuga's flat stomach.

He swore when Neji bit his tongue and drew blood.

Uchiha pulled away and spat on Neji once again, the boy trapped beneath him closed his eyes and winced as tiny drops of crimson splattered across his face. Neji screamed his exasperation and tried to dislodge the man atop him once more and when he realized his efforts proved futile he started to laugh.

' Ah, shit!' mused Sasuke. 'He's snapped.'

Sasuke got off the boy, he knew he wasn't going to go anywhere now. The room was filled with his loud laughter and the Uchiha waited patiently for the Hyuga's temporary bout of insanity to pass.

Neji rolled over to one side as his chuckling began to ebb and Sasuke leaned down to pick up the boy by his shoulders and drop him unceremoniously on the bed. Neji, didn't make any attempt to get up nor did he speak. Sasuke grabbed a tissue from a box on a nearby counter and leaned over the other man to clean his face. They looked at each other, neither saying anything, their eyes doing the talking for them. When he was finished he balled up the piece of paper and tossed it into the waste-basket then turned back to the other boy and leaned over him, one arm supporting his weight.

Sasuke reached out to caress his forehead and brush one strand of hair out of his face. "Neji, I'm sorry," he whispered softly. "I should have discussed it with you first before telling Naruto."

"You said you trusted him with your life," his voice was just as low and Sasuke barely heard him. "It's fine."

They remained quiet for a few, long moments before Sasuke worked up the courage to ask Neji the question that had been haunting him for so many months. "Why did you kick me out?"

The long-haired boy stiffened and pushed himself off the bed but he didn't make a move for the door he just stood there and ran fingers through his hair. "I don't want to talk about this, Uchiha."

Sasuke got up off the bed then and grabbed his elbow to turn the boy around to face him. "But I do."

Neji just shook his head.

Remembering the advice that Naruto had given him earlier he took a deep breath and prepared himself to open his heart. "Neji, I- I can't take this anymore, ever since that day-" he broke off trying to figure out what to say next wondering why it was suddenly so hard to ask Hyuga the same questions he had been asking himself all this time.

"-I..couldn't sleep, I couldn't function, I couldn't stop thinking about you. I kept kicking myself and wondering if-"

"Sasuke, don't," Hyuga groaned and tried to pull away from his grasp. The only time Neji called him by his first name was during sex and Sasuke felt a small sliver of triumph when he realized his walls were coming down.

He loved it when Hyuga called him by his first name.

"Listen to me, Neji," his voice was rough as he grabbed him tightly by both shoulders. "I kept wondering what it was I did and what I did to you and God knows that whatever it was I'd take it back within a heartbeat because I'd never do anything to hurt you. But Neji, this is hurting me."

"Please, don't." It was a whimpered plea and he tried to harder to break away from his grip. He didn't want to hear this, his heart couldn't take this confession.

"Neji, whatever it was I did, I'm sorry. I'm really, really sor-"

He had managed to break away and bolted for the door but he wasn't fast enough. Sasuke managed to cut him off and was now blocking his only means of escape. "Please, let me go," he begged. Neji didn't like to beg for anything but if it would get him out of this situation then he was willing to cast away his pride.

Sasuke shook his head. "No Neji, I'm not letting you leave until you tell me why."

The smaller man growled and punched Sasuke in the stomach. He leaned over to clutch his abdomen with his hands but when he saw Neji try to get around him and open the door he abandoned the pain in his gut and reached out to grab the Hyuga by the waist and throw him to the ground. Neji got up shakily using the side-table as a crutch, he picked up an ash-tray-like container that was laying atop it's surface and brought it up to throw it at the Uchiha's head.

"Neji," came the growled command. "Put.that.down."

Hyuga obliged him and smashed the transparent object into a million tiny pieces against the floor.

He had tried opening his heart, he had let him know how he felt and he had tried to get him to lower his guard. None of it seemed to work, so...he'd have to MAKE him drop his guard and Sasuke knew of one other way how. He rushed at Hyuga then, tackling him around his midriff and wrapping his arms tightly around the thin waist. Neji brought down his elbow against Sasuke's back and the brunette shuddered at the pain that lanced through his body.

He weightlessly picked up the boy and tossed him over one shoulder as if he were a bag of produce while Neji beat his fists against Sasuke's back and demanded that he put him down.

He did.

Sasuke threw him onto the bed once again and went to pin him down like before but Neji anticipated this and tried to kick him in the groin, he missed and barely grazed a muscled thigh instead. Sasuke pushed that leg out of the way and crawled over the boy then punched him hard in the stomach. Neji coughed and Sasuke punched him again. "What's your FUCKING problem, Hyuga?" he screamed.

Neji replied with a punch of his own but Sasuke grabbed his wrist in time and pinned that hand above his head.

"Do you like playing games, Hyuga, huh?" he punched him again in the stomach and Neji gasped for air before taking a shuddering breath, "Fuck you, Uchiha."

If Neji wasn't so damn beautiful, Sasuke would have slapped him in the face but he had made a promise to himself that he would never do that so he punched him in his stomach again. Neji struggled desperately against the heavier man and raised his free hand to swipe long nails against Sasuke's face leaving red, angry marks across his cheek.

Sasuke swore then grabbed the offending hand to clasp it with the other he had in the vice grip above his head, his other hand he brought to Neji's crotch and squeezed painfully hard making the smaller man shudder and cry out.

"You see this, Hyuga?" he squeezed again indicating he was talking about his private parts. "This may make you a woman but it doesn't mean you have to fuck around like one."

"Don't you DARE touch me there, Uchiha."

"I'll touch you wherever I damn well want to, Hyuga. I'm sick and tired of you treating me like shit, just because you have to play your fucking female mind-games."

"I'm not playing mind-games," he sobbed.

"Then what the hell is this? One minute we're fine and the next you throw me out like some used condom."

"Sasukee," he groaned and tears started to fall down his cheeks.

"Why did you throw me out?"

Neji shook his head and sobbed again. "No!"

Sasuke released him so he could grip the boy painfully by his shoulders and Neji screamed at the top of his lungs. "Shut up!" he yelled back and shook him violently. Neji's threw his head back and cried loudly.

"Tell me why, Hyuga!"

Neji screamed again and Sasuke shook him harder.

"DAMMIT HYUGA, WHY?"

"BECAUSE I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU!"