He was frequently wrong but infrequently uncertain.
As he squatted there in the training ground he reached to the side and brushed an errant hair from her face. He hadn't intended to probe, he'd just done it. It was hard for him to shut off the voices from other people much less the feel of their emotions. Something else he figured he'd have to train at.
This was all so strange for him. He'd been alone, shoved to the side for so often.
He'd been feeling the concern and compassion from that weird girl who kept looking away from him, and now he knew a bit more about that. It was, oddly enough, something to both make him happy and scared.
A spike of surprise not too far away caused him to stiffen and begin looking for spies, but that was when Hinata began to stir as well.
Eyes fluttered open, Hinata looked up and around and finally focussed on him. A wave of embarassment mixed with happiness and fright rolled over him. Naruto considered that no matter what Hinata was feeling, she went all out. Every emotion that rolled off of her was particularly vibrant and powerful.
"Hey, Hinata," said Naruto, looking nervous. "You know, uhm. We ought to get together for these training sessions more often."
Naruto-kun is asking to go out more often?!
"Ye-ye-yes, I mean, I think that might be good," said the girl now tapping and twirling her fingers together as she looked everywhere but at Naruto.
Neji Hyuga frowned as the 'hime' fidgeted and otherwise looked like some silly schoolgirl.
Well, she WAS a silly schoolgirl, so maybe that wasn't too unexpected.
On the other hand, when he'd been told to keep an eye on Naruto Uzumaki while between assignments, he had NOT expected what he'd seen with his Byakugan.
Naruto had some new jutsu that allowed him to use something akin to ninja-puppetry. He was darn good at it too, as the chakra strings controlling those kunai (and rocks and branches and such) had been invisible to even HIS vision at this distance.
Neji considered that. Over the last year, he'd heard that this boy named Naruto had gone from dead-last-know-nothing to credible-if-clownish-ninja-student. More surprising had been that he'd suddenly developed skill with fire jutsu, even if he had a tendency to blow things up.
When the boy had reached out and brushed hair from the face of the hime, Neji had nearly accidently dropped his Byakugan out of sheer shock.
At which point this 'talentless boy' had somehow detected his presence. A further shock and bit of information to take away from this encounter.
The Hokage would be informed of all this, but Neji found himself wondering about the hyperactive blond ninja and the hime. He who prided himself on his ability with the Byakugan had missed something.
How very very odd.
Well, it couldn't have been of any consequence anyway.
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