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Who: Everyone
What: The super fabulous one-of-a-kind fairy tale Ball
Where: King Gai and Prince Lee's 'Castle'
When: 8 pm Saturday (will be up from monday to friday)

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The ball.

Neji had been compelled to go. He didn't know why he felt such a compulsion; perhaps it was part of the curse, perhaps it was another swan thing that he just hadn't cataloged yet. The desire had been so great (almost as great as his desire not to go) that it had been impossible to stop himself from showing up. Though now that he was here, Neji was particularly unimpressed and wondering once again why he had come. It was a vicious circle.

He was better looking than all these people. Dressed in the finest--white, as apparently the swan in him demanded--he was above all of this. The music, the dancing--Lee. Who he had fortunately been able to avoid all night, aside from a brief interlude at the door...

He'd been fashionably late. Swan thing. Before this wretched curse, Neji had never been late. Ever.

Ignoring the crowds and possible One True Loves, Neji swiped a glass of champagne from one of the many tables and wandered away from the contingent of dancers, into an area shaded by well-kept trees. The sun was just beginning to set in the distance.

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Neji was busy counting the people he couldn't be bothered to dance with when a leaf fell onto his shoulder from one of the trees. And then the tree above him spoke, in a voice that sounded very much like Naruto's.

He looked up.

Naruto was in the tree above him; how very unsurprising.

Brushing the offending leaf off of his shoulder, Neji crossed his arms and turned his face back to the crowd. Naruto was not worth a kink in his neck, though Neji found it somewhat amusing that the blonde was looking for him. To prank him no doubt...it wasn't bad enough that he'd tried to carry him away like a common goose.

"I'm right here," Neji said finally, voice drawling slightly in an uncharacteristic manner that he hoped showed exactly how unimpressed he was by the situation. Dancing. As if it were necessary.

"What are you doing, Naruto." He wasn't sure why he asked. He didn't really care, though he supposed that Naruto might be useful for chasing prospectives off.

He was certainly more entertaining than watching the dance floor.

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Freaky? How was he freaky? Naruto was the one climbing around in trees like he belonged there. Neji opened his mouth to say something along the lines of at least I'm not a moron when he realized that he didn't really feel like arguing with Naruto at the moment, and would rather not open the flood-gate.

Instead, he sighed tersely. As if the world itself was a burden, and not merely the thought of some perverted fairy getting up in his face on Naruto's behalf. "I'd rather you didn't." Yes, Neji wanted the curse broken. But he also had standards, and people gawked at him enough without some perverted bastard coming and probably magicing his clothes off on top of that.

A hasty glance up at Naruto had Neji stepping beneath the tree further, not trusting Naruto's hands with what looked like something distinctly unpleasant. He would rather keep himself clean---and at the thought of that, realized that Naruto probably could really use a bath. A glimpse at his attire was more than enough of a testament.

"Hn--I don't prank people. What are you wearing. You could have at least dressed up for the occasion."

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"Chastity," Neji replied automatically, eyeing Naruto with distaste. He realized for the first time that Naruto was wearing a dress--perhaps it was expected, or it just fit with his character. Neji wasn't sure why he hadn't noticed before. He was usually rather observant.

"So defensive," he muttered after Naruto's long speech. Well, the blonde was fond of talking, Neji didn't deny that. It was too bad he couldn't find a companion that was the same.

Neji thought instantly of Lee, though, and wondered why he and Naruto weren't friends. Perhaps that much ridiculousness couldn't exist in the same place, otherwise worlds would explode.

"I don't know why I came," he replied honestly. "I felt like it." He knew that explaining the compulsion in different words would only confuse Naruto and make any further explanation impossible. So he just left it at that.

Naruto's enthusiasm was almost daunting. "Not particularly," Neji replied to the blonde's question. "You're the one that enjoys this sort of thing---I'd think you'd get more pleasure out of doing it yourself."

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"Probably why you should have asked your fairy godfather to clean you up before coming," Neji pointed out sensibly, intellectual ego swelling at the fact that he had once again defied lack of logic with pure sense. It seemed to fade away though, as he watched the bomb drop and listened to Naruto further.

What. Had he just. Said something that actually made sense for a change?

Maybe it was because Neji's own feelings were being illogical at this point that Naruto could understand them. Maybe he hadn't been wrong about the blonde all those years ago when he'd said he had the better eyes. These moments were few and far between. Neji looked up and the expression on his perfectly blank face was one of....perfect blankness...but had he been capable of forming a more suitable expression, it would have been one of awe.

"Yes. I know what you mean." Though he'd never wanted to have twelve children or marry Lee. "And you do realize it's physically impossible for you to have children with Lee, right." Just thought he'd point that out.

Sighing again, Neji frowned up at the tree but allowed his stance to give slightly. "Fine. I'll get you something to eat." People were probably thinking he was insane by this point, anyway. Talking to a tree...

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The Hyuuga raised an elegant brow, not necessarily unamused with Naruto's vehemence, but clearly unimpressed. It was an inborn trait that most humans had---not wanting to have children with Lee. The thought of it made Neji's head feel just a bit light and uncomfortable, but that might be the champagne, which he'd never really had a stomach for. Or it might just be the loads of stupid assaulting him from every which way.

Waving off Naruto's proclamation of love with a muttered Don't say it if you don't mean it because he had a curse going on here, Neji grimaced at the thought of being an accomplice in Naruto's pranking. It was just...beneath him.

"I'm sure," Neji said firmly, leaving without a word to go get Naruto something to eat, like some kind of servant. Well, Naruto would just have to deal with whatever Neji brought him. Too bad his tastes recently had the distinct quality of something a swan would eat.

Naruto would survive.