"FIVE!" yells Neji as he clenches his fists. You flinch at Neji's sudden outburst.

"S-Sorry Neji!" you say with an awkward laugh.

"SORRY!?" yells Neji even louder.

"N-Neji! It was an acci-" Rock Lee is cut off by Neji punching a tree and almost hitting Lee himself. "N-Never mind."

"Now now, lets not stir things up, lets save that for our training today," says Guy-Sensei with a smile.

Neji's brows furrow as he crosses his arms. You decide this was one of those times where you should give Neji space. So you stand in between Rock Lee and Tenten, who was also keeping their distance from Neji.

"Well, I've assigned training partners for today. You two will spar however you'd like, but please do not take it too far!" says Guy-Sensei as he gives a thumbs up with a radiating smile and wink.

You hoped that you and Tenten would be training partners for the day since you two were already best friends. But instead of Tenten, you were Neji's partner. You were thrilled and all, but felt that Neji was gonna beat you to a pulp. Though, you were ready to rise up and fight back if things were going to get that brutal.

You and Neji decide to work on taijutsu while Rock Lee and Tenten work on throwing Kunai and Shuriken on the other side of the training field. There were two logs standing before you and Neji.

"Well, if you're not too afraid of bloodshed, then start doing whatever taijutsu things you do to the log," mumbles the still irritated Neji.

"Yes sir!" you say as you salute to Neji and give him a special (y/n) smile.

"Tch," mumbles Neji as he taps into his Byakugan and gets in fighting stance. "Gentle Fist!"

Neji rapidly starts to puncture his log as much as he could.

You stood there and thought about what you could do. Finally, a light bulb came and you got into your fighting stance.

"Fists of water!" you shout as water covers your closed fists as if it was a glove.

You begin to punch your log repeatedly until Guy-Sensei said it was time for lunch.

"Wow Neji! That Gentle Fist move was cool!" you say as you look at his damaged log.

"Whatever, what kind of scaredy cat move did you use?" questions Neji as he analyzes the water dripping from your hands.

"Scaredy cat move? Excuse you Neji Hyuga, but using water gloves can do more than protecting your fists from injury!" you yell annoyed that Neji did not say thank you.

"Tch, only someone as dumb as you would use water gloves," mumbles Neji.

"What! These water gloves increase taijutsu attack, and if you can manipulate the water using some ninjutsu, then you can do really cool things!" you yell angrily.

"Wow, I knew girls couldn't compare to males in taijutsu. Not only do you suck at reading time, you have to use some lame move to help in your pathetic punching abilities," scoffs Neji.

"Neji! Why do you hate me?" you yell, causing all the attention to be on you and Neji.

You looked at Neji with tears at the corner of your eyes. Neji looked back at you with utter hate.

"Because (y/n) (l/n), inside of you is a monster that I absolutely want nothing to do with. I don't care if you're nice to me after what you did. It doesn't make up for the fact that you killed my mother after I had no one else left. You sorry excuse of a (l/n)!" yells Neji with pure hatred in his voice.

"N-Neji-"

"Shut up! I hate you (y/n)! I hate you!" yells Neji at the top of his lungs as tears streamed down his face.

"Neji!" yells Guy-Sensei sternly.

Neji only turns at Guy-Sensei to give him a glare.

"Calm down Neji, do you even realize what you've said to (y/n)?" asks Guy-Sensei.

Neji then realizes the mistake he made.

"(y/n)-"

Before Neji could say another word, you ran off into the woods towards your house.

"Shouldn't we go after her?" questions Rock Lee with concern.

Tenten nods in agreement.

"No, she's on her way to her house. I know because I live next door," says Neji as he looks to the ground.

Guy-Sensei pats Neji back and gives him a smile.

"It's okay Neji, just make sure that when you see (y/n) again that you apologize, okay?" suggests Guy-sensei.

Neji nods.

"Well, I suppose we can train harder tomorrow since one of our teammates isn't here. So, everyone's dismissed!" exclaims Guy as he runs off to who knows where.

"Well, wanna go grab some breakfast with us Neji?" questions Tenten.

"Yeah, since we didn't get any when we woke up, and I'm sure it's only been an hour or two since we've been here training," explains Rock Lee.

"No, I should say sorry to (y/n) first. I was pretty mean," says Neji.

"Yep, you were," says both Tenten and Rock Lee in unison as they nod.

Neji only grunts in embarrassment.

"Well, once you make up with her, you guys should head over to Ichiraku, 'kay?" suggests Tenten.

"Mmmm, I guess," mumbles Neji as he dashes down the way you went.

. . .

As you were jumping from tree to tree, you were wiping the many tears that filled your eyes.

I knew it! He hates me... I'd probably hate me too if I was super duper annoying... Argh! What's this monster inside of me that he speaks of anyways though! It doesn't make sense, I'm a normal human girl from the (l/n) clan. And why would I even kill his mother? I've never seen her in my life!

As you were busy in your thoughts, you trip and fall to the ground. You grunt and start to cry even more due to the pain you felt physically. Though, the pain you felt mentally seemed even worse.

You stand, but then you flinch a little and fall to the ground.

Damn, I guess I sprained my left ankle!

You then heard a rustling from a nearby bush. You realized that you weren't alone. You pulled out a kunai and stood, putting most of your weight on your right foot.

"Show yourself butthole!" you yell.

A blonde male appeared, nearly scaring you have to death.

"S-Sorry, didn't mean to scare you, hn..." mumbles the male.

He looked about your age, eleven. You analyzed his appearance.

Long blonde hair, blue eyes, Iwagakure headband- wait, Iwagakure?

"You're far away from Iwa," you say.

"Heh, I kinda ran away and got lost and ended up spending three nights out in the wild! Hn.." exclaims the male as he giggles.

"How old are you?" you question as you put your kunai away.

"Why do ya wanna know? Doesn't my name matter more? Are you trying to see the age gap here so you can see if I'm not too old? Perhaps I'm right and you're already into me! Hn!" exclaims Deidara.

"Nah, I'm not into girly guys," you say giving a smirk.

"Hmph, whatever shorty! The name's Deidara and I'm thirteen! What are you, five?" mumbles Deidara.

"Nu-uh, I may be short, but I'm eleven! You poophead!" you yell.

"What's your name shorty?" question Deidara as he ignores your comment.

"Hmph, stop calling me that! I'm (y/n) (l/n)!" you yell.

You and Deidara just stand there looking at each other, the expression of hate written across your faces.

"Stop looking at me weirdo!" you yell.

"Why don't you stop looking at me?" yells back Deidara.

"Hmph, whatever! Why don't you go get mauled by a bear or something you piece of butt!" you yell as you start to trudge away to your house.

"Your ankle is sprained, isn't it?" notes Deidara.

"So what?" you mumble as you continue trudging.

"You shouldn't walk on it," says Deidara as he follows you from behind.

"Whatever, stop following me loser," you mumble.

Before you knew it, Deidara picked you up bridal style.

"W-What are you doing loser!?" you yell kicking around.

"Jeez, stop kicking, lead the way and I'll bring you home," says Deidara.

"Fine," you mumble as you tell Deidara where to go.

After a few minutes, Neji comes flying through the air, kiching Deidara to the ground, causing you to be thrown a few feet away.

"An Iwagakure ninja in the middle of Konohagakure? How weird," mumbles Neji, ignoring the fact that you're in more pain now.

"Tch, a Hyuga? Gosh, must be my lucky day, hn," mumbles Deidara sarcastically.

Before the two could engage in battle, you throw two kunai at them, nearly piercing their skin.

"Knock it off you two! The Hyuga is Neji the jerk and the sweet loser is Deidara," you say as you manage to pull yourself up and trudge over to Deidara.

"Now excuse you jerkface, but Deidara was taking me home," you say ignoring the fact that Neji's eyes widened with... jealousy?

"Oh, so now you want me to take you home? Hn?" mumbles Deidara with annoyance as he picks you up bridal style.

"Oh shush loser, just keep on going in the way you were going before someone had to be a jerk and put me in even more pain," you say as you emphazize "jerk."

An imaginary arrow struck Neji's heart as he saw you be lifted off by a complete stranger.

"Tch, whatever (y/n)! I just wanted to say sorry!" yells Neji loud enough for you to hear.

You ignore his apology and laid your face into Deidara's chest. Deidara didn't seem to mind it as much, so you kept your head in the same spot the whole way.