horrah for link, genet's are so cute...
I really the relationship between Naruto and Neji so far..."Naruto didn't fit the profile. Neji... wasn't sure he really wanted him to, now that he thought about it." made me squee.
Okay, it seems to take a turn at "He could see Naruto draw himself back up his tower of self-confidence and optimism..." Neji doesn't want to lose access to Naruto as a friend(or anything more), so he's got to push him so that Naruto has to lean on Neji. It would be dysfunctional, but at this point it looks like the way Neji could keep him is to make Naruto dependent on him somehow. The question is, does Neji need Naruto that much?
From the direction, I think some shit would have to go done in the desert so that only the people who were there would understand it all (ie Naruto and Neji)....I can't think of what...um, Kyuubi coming out, sex, uh...
Oh, if you were just trying to get to the sex...Naruto saying something that give Neji hope that he doesn't have to "go back to being yet another of Naruto's satellites" and that Naruto doesn't want him to?
I kept getting distracted typing this up, so I hope it makes sense...