Obsession
Chapter one
Burning tears
He wasn't sure how it had happened.
How his younger cousin had become his obsession.
He wasn't sure when he had started to feel this way.
He guessed it had been that particular night when Hinata had been walking home alone from the training field. The night had been colder then usual as summer had started to turn into autumn. After spotting Hinata shivering because of the cruel wind on her small back Neji had wondered how Hinata's father allowed her to walk alone at night. He guessed Hiashi just didn't care enough of his daughter to give a thought of her whereabouts. It wasn't like Hiashi would trust her surviving skills enough to know she was safe. Neji had walked behind her for a moment longer than few minutes without knowing if she had been aware of him or not. He had watched how she had wrapped her jacket tighter around her surprisingly beautiful little body. The wind blew trough her thick dark hair blowing it up and down revealing her round neck. Neji had found the sight of her white skin and her hair black as a piece of carbon nearly hypnotic.
Hinata was small but curvy, despite of the fact that she was always trying to hide her body from the eyes of everybody under that ridiculous-looking coat. Her lousy bearing and her huge white eyes made her look so fragile, as if she had been made of glass. Neji had found himself wondering if the skin under her big clothes was as white as the colour of her neck, or even whiter. In his mind Neji was betting that her breast had never even seen the sun… At this point he had noticed that he was walking faster and so was she. She almost ran. Even the wind had been blowing faster, as if the dark wood had been dancing around them. Hinata had almost disappeared from his sight, and that was when he yelled; "Don't worry, Hinata, it's me!" Hinata ran. "Wait, Hinata!" he shouted, "It's me, Neji!" Hinata had started running faster than Neji had though she was able to run. Neji ran behind her for a while, but stopped when he had realised that the girl he now noticed he'd been chasing had disappeared in the depths of the forest. He stood on the path for a while remembering the beauty of her back and neck and her black hair when she had ran away from him like a scared little white reindeer. Yeah, he guessed it was that night when this girl that he used to hate had become his obsession.
He started to look for her whenever he had the change. Whenever he saw her training, he looked for the movements of the hidden body. Whenever he saw her eating, he watched for the movements of those full lips of her little mouth eating small pieces and her throat swallowing the pieces as if it was sore. Whenever he saw her when it was hot, he waited her to take off her jacket, which never left her shoulders. Whenever it was cold he watched her to roll the jacket tighter on her. Early in the morning, when everyone else was still asleep, Hinata ate breakfast in the kitchen of the house in which the main house branch of the Hyuga family lived and then headed to train when Shino, Kiba and Kurenai-sensei probably were still asleep. Neji had started to wake up early just to see how Hinata sneaked silently to the yard of the Hyuga complex and walked trough the yard to the gate. At one morning Neji decided to talk to the girl he now so greatly hated and desired in a weir way. The door of the house of the main house wasn't locked, so he sneaked into the kitchen where she was nipping on a fruit.
"An early bird, huh?" he asked.
Hinata nearly choked on her fruit. "Ne… Neji-oniisan", Hinata said, "Good morning. Want to have some breakfast?"
"How is it possible that you can say all that and notice I'm here without even looking at my direction?"
"Well, I am a Hyuga after all", she whispered to herself.
"Are you making fun of me?" Neji asked, walked to her and raised her head with his forefinger.
"No, Neji-kun. I didn't mean to hurt you." She was shaking.
"You couldn't hurt me with all that you've got, pretty cousin of mine."
"Well, I'm sorry…" Neji allowed her head to fall back down. "An early bird is most likely to be shot down and killed."
"I've got to go", she whispered and nearly ran out of kitchen.
"You didn't eat your breakfast", Neji pointed out. "If you carry on that way, you'll be so thin I could snap you like a stick with my fingers. Not that I wouldn't be able to do it now…"
Hinata was already in the yard, running away with tears covering her cheeks.
"What's up, Hinata?" Kiba asked munching his onigiri when they were walking back from the training field.
It was late afternoon, and the warm autumn sun made them feel blistering enough to walk with their jackets open. The air was still despite of the warm freshness of the autumn. Akamaru was scuttling on the dusty road ahead of them.
"What do you mean, Kiba-kun?" Hinata asked.
"You've been acting kind of jumpy lately", he said with a concerned tone in his voice, "It seems to me that you're only truly relaxed when we're on missions. Is something bothering you?"
"Well…" Hinata started, "I don't know if I can tell. I mean, I guess I'm just imagining things."
"Is it something like a girl thing?" Kiba grinned, "Have you talked to Kurenai-sensei about it?"
"No. I mean, I guess it could happen to a boy too, and I haven't talked about it with sensei."
"What's happening to you then?"
Hinata stopped walking and looked Kiba right into his eyes.
"Kiba-kun, have you ever been stalked?"
"Hello, pretty cousin of mine." Hinata's heart jumped up to her throat.
"Hello, Neji", Kiba greeted and turned back to Hinata. "Tell me who's bothering you and I shall teach them some manners."
The expression on his face was nearly fierce. Hinata was eyeing Neji nervously.
"Actually, Kiba", Neji said, "Would you excuse us? I need to talk to Hinata a little. Secrets of the Hyuga, you see. So if you don't mind."
"Actually we had a pretty important discussion going on. Could this wait?" Kiba asked.
"No, I'm sorry but this is urgent", Neji said immediately.
Kiba looked at Hinata, unable to read a single expression on her pale face.
"Well, I guess it is important then. But Hinata, are you sure you are okay?"
"She's sure", Neji said.
"If you need to talk to me, and I'd appreciate it if you would, you know where I live. Okay?"Kiba said.
Hinata nodded.
"Bye then", Kiba said with a voice kind of unsure, "Let's go, Akamaru."
The dog barked and ran away with his master. Hinata looked at Kiba's back begging for help. She was disgustingly conscious of the way Neji looked at her. She wandered if she should have asked Kiba to stay and help her with whatever she had to face. Well, after Neji had told her father that Hinata didn't trust her older cousin, she couldn't face the anger of her father. He loved Neji like a son, and probably trusted him more than Hinata.
"Who's stalking you, dear cousin?" Neji asked. Hinata gathered her courage and faced his stare.
"I guess I'm just imagining things, Neji-oniisan", she whispered, "But it seems to me that you've been watching me lately kind of unpleasantly."
"What's wrong with watching a pretty girl?" Neji smiled.
"It's wrong if she is your cousin and you are watching her like you'd like to do your will with her."
The strength in her usually weak and shy voice surprised Neji. It made him angry. He was used to be on top in anything, especially when it came to her weak cousin. He forced her hands into his and pushed her to the nearest tree.
"What would I like to do with you, Hinata?" He asked with a fierce voice.
"It seems to me that you'd like to do your will with me. I can see it in your idiotic gaze. I'm not a fool, you know." The strong sound of her voice surprised her as much as him.
"Oh, yes you are a fool, Hinata", Neji whispered to her ear.
"You are an idiot. But you're right. Perhaps I would like to have sex with you. You are a pretty girl after all, despite of the fact that I despise you more than anything in this world. You would be good to shag."
"You wish to rape me, you mean", she said with her voice shaking in anger. Neji licked her ear tip and pulled back.
"Your jacket seems to be open. Is it always like that when the dog boy is around?"
He tried to pull the jacket off her shoulders, but she hit his wrist off.
"It seems to be quite an impressive set of breast you are hiding under that ridiculous coat. I bet even Naruto would want you if you'd dress a little bit sluttier and allowed the world to see you like the little whore you are."
"Get off me, Neji, or I'll activate your curse seal!" Hinate raised her hand to her forehead.
"And your papa surely wouldn't notice that. He sure wouldn't believe me if I told him what you've done? He wouldn't believe you for sure."
He placed his hand on her left breast.
"Such a lovely pair of breast, indeed. But if you tell anyone, if you tell Naruto, if you tell the dog boy, if you tell to that bitch Kurenai what I've said or what I've done, these breasts won't feed any babies, ever. I shall crush them so badly there won't be anything left of them. Do you understand?"
"No."
"Well, perhaps I should crush your beloved boyfriend then."
Hinata didn't know from where she found the strength to kick Neji in the nuts, but after he was on the ground, she spit on him.
"Naruto is stronger than you, and you know it. You might hurt me and I don't care if you do, but you can't threaten me about my loved ones. They are all stronger than you." She leaped away from him back to the road and walked away. It wasn't until she was in her room when she allowed her burning tears to flow.