Crash!

Something broke outside.

'…huh…?'

She slowly opened her eyes and lifted her head off of her pillow.

Throb

'Ow, my head…..what time is it?', she thought, lying her head back down and grabbing her alarm clock from her bedside table. '…2:30 p.m.?! Did I really sleep this long?…'

It was New Year's Day and 16 year-old Hyuuga Hinata had just woken up. She wasn't surprised she had slept until this hour, after the huge party she had attended the night before. It had been a lot of fun, really: great music, all her friends were there, and then the fireworks…well, truth be said, she couldn't remember it all that clearly.

'Damn that Kiba, spiking the punch again…', she thought, a small smile forming on her lips. 'Well, what matters is that it was great and I had fun'.

She went to get out of bed when suddenly she felt slightly stuck. Behind her, something was grabbing her by her waist. Something big and warm.

As the shutters on her window were almost completely closed, the room was dark, so she couldn't see very well. She thought of using her Byakugan, but figured her head was hurting too much to concentrate properly. So, she slowly reached back over her shoulder with her hand, trying to feel whatever was holding her. She felt a large lump, which was moving up and down very slowly. With her other hand she felt under the sheet and she touched what seemed like an arm.

"W-what the…", she whispered.

She slowly turned to the other side so she was facing the strange body. As she did, she heard a faint grunt coming from under the sheet and she felt the mattress shift.

"Hmph…what…?", someone said groggily.

That voice…

"N-Neji nii-san?!", said Hinata, quickly setting into a sitting position on the bed. She felt a sudden cold. She looked down and saw she was stark naked. As was him.

"OH MY GOD!" She covered herself, yanking the sheet up from the bed.

Neji felt the sheet being pulled and opened his eyes. "...what?…Hinata-sama?! Wh-what are you doing here?", he said, waking up instantly.

"Th-that would be my question, Neji nii-san…t-this is my bed…what happened here?!"

"Your bed?", he said, looking at his surroundings. "But…but how…what…how did I end up here?!", he asked, looking at her as if he was seeing her for the first time.

"I-I don't know…I h-hardly remember how I got here m-myself…p-please look away Neji nii-san, I'm naked!!", she said, her face red as a tomato.

"Sorry", he said, looking the other way instead. "Um, Hinata-sama…do you remember anything from last night?"

"W-well…" Hinata closed her eyes and concentrated on thinking about the night before. She remembered feeling a little out of place at first, seeing all those people dancing and socializing while she just stood there in a corner watching. Then Shino and Kiba had joined her and Kiba had offered her a drink.

'And several others after that…', she thought, chuckling inside.

Then, Sakura had come along and dragged her to the dance floor, and she remembered having a great time dancing with Lee and Naruto. She also remembered talking to Neji about something particularly interesting and watching the fireworks beside him…then some more dancing…a game…Naruto completely drunk…Neji again...and then?

This was not good.

"I-I do, but only minor things...a-and you?"

"Not much either...drinking, talking, putting up with Lee and his 'youthfulness', and then coming home...with someone. You, apparently.", Neji said, with a slight tone of surprise.

"So y-you were the one who b-brought me home..."

"Yes, it seems so...from what I recall you were quite drunk, and I wasn't thinking clearly myself...then I put you in your bed...and from then on I can't remember much, but..." He trailed off.

"But?"

"But...then I remember it was very warm, and there was a bed...I thought it was my bed..."

"N-now that you mention it, I remember getting into my bed. Y-yes...that's right, I got into my bed a-and I was talking to someone, and then the warmth...the heat..."

"And then we both woke up here. In your bed. With no clothes on." Neji said blankly.

"Neji nii-san, a-are you s-suggesting that..." Hinata asked warily.

"...maybe we did something we shouldn't have done?" Neji finished her sentence, glancing sideways at her.

An awkward silence followed.

"O-only one way to find out, then, I guess...", said Hinata, after a moment. And with that, she dived under the sheet.

"What do you mean, Hinata-sama?"

"I mean that i-if indeed it happened, t-there should be some-" She suddenly stopped talking.

"...some what?"

And Neji heard Hinata say the one thing he never thought he would hear from her. And those two little words said everything.

"Oh shit..."