||My Little Bird|| [Neji Hyuga x OC]

Chapter Seventeen

[ Hey! This is intense.

Or I tried to make it intense.

I really hope you enjoy this chapter, and I am already beginning to write the next chapter. Hopefully the next one will come much quicker than this one! ^^

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And so their little game of cat and mouse began.

Kira ran a lot faster than Neji did. He constantly told her to wait, more alarmed as time went by without her stopping. She could hear the fear in his voice. She could hear his warnings, something about a cliff. She could hear his pleads to wait for him, so childish and nervous that she was tempted to stop, hug him, and never let go. She knew that he could barely see her with the multiple brambles and bushes she was running through. She knew he was blinded by the branches that threaten to slap him straight across the cheek, and yet she knew that he believed she was just out of his reach. Pitiful, her heart told her. To have all these burning emotions for a prey. To have fun toying with him, yet being eaten on the inside with guilt and worry.

You must be so lonely inside, Kira.

For once, her mind was right. But she didn't have time to think, no, now Neji was getting frisky. This was no longer a playful game, this was a race to grab her arm and hold her back. She made many sharp around his grabs, and only ran faster. Only so far...

Finally. Kira sprinted and slid under a heavy branch, a gap that was much too small for Neji's body to slide through. He was forced to keep his eyes off of her as he made the leap over it, but the instant his feet touch the ground, she was nowhere to be found. Pieces of the once beautifully blue kimono were shredded on branches behind him.

"Kimiko!" Kira heard him call out, from a distance of course. She had lead him to a secluded clearing, a beautiful one. She might be an assassin, but she wanted to give him the best view of his life.

Now, all she needed to do was cloak herself in her normal, black-clad killing wear to blend in with the night around them. She knew, any second, he was going to use his Byakugan and only see a flash of chakra where she stood, where Kira would cry out in mock pain as she would crash the chakra orb and shatter it.

A death trap.

Now, it wasn't necessarily a death trap. He had a fighting chance, but all those sparring days with him, in the afternoons when Gai sensei was busy training Rock Lee, it made her body perfectly fit to defeat him. Now she knew his jutsus, his moves, the way he flinched every time he hit a hard attack he wasn't expecting.

And now, it was time to put all that good observation to use. Good use. Not like watching how his undershirt would tighten so tightly on his chest to reveal his lean, muscular body underneath...not like Kira had done something as pervy as that before, hah.

Kira did exactly what she planned, crying out in pain, breaking the orb, and watching as Neji's byakugan activated. Then her heart shattered again, because he turned to look her way.