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

Chapter Twenty Five

((And~! Here is the part of the story I wrote on Saturday -w-

My updating schedule will now resume. Every Saturday ònó I mean, hopefully. I'm not a very punctual person (sadly) so it'll be around Saturday/Sunday. If I'm extremely late, you can scold me.

Anyways~! Here is the next chapter!
Thanks for reading!
~Rei-chan))
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"And...now we're here."

Neji took a breathe, then realized his mistake. Throughout his storytelling, he had completely forgotten the fact that this dark, barely lit tunnel was caked in the rotting remains of fail beast experiments and a mysterious brown-grey liquid that smelled of sulfur and pure death.

He could not gracefully disguise his gagging and desire to vomit on the floor.

How romantic, of all things. Kira seemed too lost in thought to hear him retching behind her, thank god, and she stopped in her tracks. Her attention was drawn to a smaller section of piping to her left, a different tunnel big enough for two. There was a metal grate sealing it shut, though. She reached towards it slowly to inspect it; if it was loose, if she could pry it open...

And she realized; they had both stopped walking. Neji had regained his composure (stupid boy, she thought with a small smile, thinking he could take a deep breath of air), but...

Footsteps. Quick, urgent, and fast approaching.

Their time was running low, certainly, and so was her own calm composure. "If you're done vomiting, Neji, help me pull this open..." She kept her voice low but fast; and she gripped the side of the metal grate and pulled. His hands rested next to hers.

KKRREEEEKK...

If guardian angels existed, they sure are considering ending themselves now.

The whispers turned to shouts, and the footsteps turned to sprints.

Neji braced himself and pulled the creaky grate with everything he had. He had hidden among the wolves; and now they were going to bite him in the ass.

It opened a few more inches, enough for Kira to barely squeeze through. From the other side, she laid against the rough cement foundation and shoved the grate with her legs. It gave away a few more inches. The hinges on the grate were rusted, and it was a certainly easier to close it than the open it.

They could see figures of the seniors in the dark, howling and yapping and laughing as if they really were teasing their prey.

Neji decided that it was now or never. He stopped pulling the grate and tried his chances at squeezing through along beside her.

The problem was, his frame wasn't exactly...petite. And the opening wasn't exactly quite as wide as preferred, and the creaking and echoing wasn't helping their case. Nonetheless, Kira held out her hand and tried to pull him through.

"What the hell...?! Why do you have birthing hips?!" She strained against his weight, bracing herself against the floor. Half of his body was in, and half of it wasn't.

"Birthing hips?! They're not birthing hips! It's muscle!" Neji harshly whispered. He desperately tried, and it took Kira one more final kick to the grate for it to give just one more inch...

And he popped in like a newborn baby.

"Yay. It's a boy." Kira grumbled under her breath. "Now help me close this!"

"Why? We have to run while we can!"

"This will give us more time!" Kira gripped the sides of the grate once more, and slammed it shut. There were holes for a padlock to close it from their side...