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Irresistible

Irresistible.

That was the first word that appeared in her head whenever she looked at him. She didn't really understand why, but she knew that there was something in his eyes that seemed so… damn irresistible.

She had known Hyuuga Neji for twelve years, ever since they were four. She had only gazed at him from far away, once, twice, and shifted her gaze away. Nothing in him interested her – but the fan girls that seemed to always drool around him.

Sure, she had seen her classmates ogling over him, practically drooling over his oh-so-gorgeous face, while he rejected each and every one of their invitations, his voice sounding somewhere between animosity and disgust.

She, of course, did not understand why the girls wanted him so badly. She had saw, heard and noticed his talents, and admired that and that only from him, but acknowledged nothing more of him.

It was when they all got promoted to genins that she had looked into his eyes. That she had noticed how the Hyuuga so-called prodigy didn't betray any emotions, but she could swore that in his eyes, she saw a little tint of… loneliness.

That alone made him irresistibly lonely to her eyes.

The second time she met his gaze, it was after they shared their dreams with Gai-sensei. Or rather, she and Lee shared their dreams. He was just there, simply being Hyuuga Neji.

And Hyuuga Neji was irresistibly secretive.

Then came the fourth time they met gazes. Surprisingly enough, it was him who brought the whole conversation up. It was basically three months before the chuunin exam, and he had asked her to be his sparring partner until the exams were over.

She had agreed without thinking twice, shocked that the genius had chosen her over Rock Lee. That was the first time they ever exchanged words, and that was the first time she also realized something else.

That Hyuuga Neji was irresistibly blunt and direct.

The fifth time she and Neji had locked eyes, it was their first day as sparring partners. She had wakened up at four AM in the morning, utterly feeling very self-conscious about her first day training with a genius. But when at straight seven AM Neji came into the grounds, face stoic, she learnt something more.

He was irresistibly stoical.

The seventh time it happened, they were at the Forest of Death – the second round of the exams. It was after Lee got beaten up like hell by the Oto nins. As a girl – the only girl in Team Gai, apparently – she had felt responsible to tend to Lee's wounds. Only she had received limited medical training, and she wasn't quite sure of what to do with the wound on his back. Should she open his clothes first, or should she just let the boy's wound unattended? She was struck with the dilemma for quite a long time, and Hyuuga Neji must knew this, for he offered to tend that one wound for her, and she had accepted that offer gratefully. As she watched the prodigy's back as he tended to Lee, she had realized another thing.

Hyuuga Neji was irresistibly all-knowing.

The tenth time they met eyes, it was short after the preliminaries exam. They had just finished sparring, and he had gentlemanly walked her home, since the clock shown 12.11 AM. Neji worked pretty hard before the final exams came, and that was the reason why she was up at midnight. And at 12.26 AM, as he walked away from her house, she noticed another behavior of his.