Caged Birds Lullaby

chapter 33

Naruto had woken up to the sunlight peeking through the window. She groaned audibly and buried her face deeper in her pillow, trying to go back to sleep. It was futile.

Damn that stupid window. And the stupid sun.

It felt like she had just gone to bed and was woken up 5 minutes later, ttebayo! It wasn't fair. After all the pain she went through yesterday….

Grumbling under her breath, she turned her head and gazed down. Neji was still sleeping, brow slightly furred. Maybe he was having a bad dream again? It was the second night this happened.

She sighed worriedly and slid her hand from under the warm white covers to come and rest on his cheek.

So warm.

He immediately relaxed, inkling his head towards her hand.

Naruto stifled a small giggle building in her throat. Hyuuga Neji, the feared prodigy was such a baby sometimes. It was endearing. She liked that.

Stroking his cheek a bit, she thought about everything that had happened. It was only her second night and third day here. And she already felt more at home then in her lonely apartment. But still, there was something…uncomfortable about all this. Maybe it was the fact that she was inside a compound she never really wanted to be in? Especially living..Or maybe it was the fact that she was sharing everything with Neji (or was it the other way around?).

Slowly sitting up, she ran a hand through her messed up blonde strands.

It was so complicated for some reason. She was scared, scared that she got used to this. And she never wanted it to be any other way. Maybe…it was fated for them to end up living together, getting married in the end?

This thought made her blush and she hurriedly removed her hand from his face.

Scooping close to the wall, she hugged her knees, Neji's form disappearing from her view as she looked out of the window.

It was dawn. Weird, this was the first time for her to willingly wake up so early (Kakashi's bell test didn't count, after all she got her sleep in the training grounds that day). Damn her for waking up so early. But it was necessary. She needed to fit her fuuinjutsuu training sometime in her schedule, and maybe mornings were good for that. She would have to think it through. Besides, Neji would be waking up soon as well, as he was an early bird. She rather liked it when he woke her up the previous two times.

Well, maybe today she could do it, and get revenge for the rough awakening he had put her through.

She started cackling evilly, a feral smirk appearing on her face.

Sweet revenge..

Sliding noiselessly off the bed, she tiptoed to the kitchen and opened the drawer, searching.

Where is it ttebayo..come on, where did he put it..AHA! found you!

Hyuuga Neji hated mornings, but living with a clan that rose at impossible hours, he got used to it. Still, that didn't change the fact that he loved sleeping in when he could, even if that didn't occur as often as he would have desired.

Nevertheless, his awakenings where always pleasant. No noise, no yelling, no chaos, all calmness, warm silence and recently, a sleeping blonde (which was an addition he quite liked). He accepted it. It was all ok for him.

But being awakened rather rudely to a scream of 'WAKE UP NEJI TEME' and finding himself sopping in water from head to foot wasn't what he called normal.

Several ticks popped up on his head at the same time, which he would have thought was impossible.

Slowly, he turned to face his attacker. Oh she was in for hell!