Title:: Songbird
Author:: Asymally
Pairing:: Neji/Sakura
Theme:: Hearing
Disclaimer:: Does "Asymally" look like "Masashi Kishimoto" to you?
Tenten couldn't sing to save her life. No, really. Neji truly pitied the man that had to listen to her wail and screech through "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
...And by man, he meant both him and Lee. But, since they were teammates, he suffered through every slightly off note and misplaced beat. Besides, Lee seemed to rather enjoy listening to her.
He expected most women were the same as Tenten. I mean, really, he didn't go around and listen to women singing. The same went for Sakura. He assumed that she wasn't necessarily a Prima Donna or anything like that.
The first time he heard her sing was after their first child. She had named him Yuki in the memory of a little boy she had met at a mission once.
One night, he would NOT go to sleep and woke both him and Sakura up with his GODDAMN wailing. It was decided that Sakura would be the one to go down.
Neji had felt a slight bit of remorse for this, which nagged at his conscience and did not allow him to sleep again. Therefore, when he went down the stairs of their comfortable home to the baby's room he was relatively surprised to find the baby being lulled to sleep by a singing Sakura—honestly, when was the last time the thing had stopped crying? He couldn't remember.
It wasn't that Sakura was really any good, but she was a definite improvement over Tenten, seeing as the baby wasn't crying louder and that his eardrums were still intact.
Her voice—although slightly off tune—had a gentle lulling calmness to it that was very relaxing.
He could stand to hear more. In fact, he wanted to hear more.
So when Yuki once again fell asleep, and he and Sakura lay in bed once more, Neji requested, that she sing to him something. Sakura complied. She also complied every other night that he requested her voice.
"It's almost like having my own personal songbird."
Yuki began to cry again.
Hey kiddos(: Yes, I actually did update! Turns out, this has been stuck in my uber slow computer forever. Well.. final chapter. Read and review! And, go and read my other stories(: