"It isn't something you should know," Neji denied firmly, shaking his head. "Not yet. And I would prefer not ever." Because now that he had thought of it -- now that he'd realized that his act, intended to protect those he cared about, would be a terrible wound to other people who mattered just as deeply -- he couldn't stop turning the anger on himself, and felt a burning need to protect at least this Lee, if not the one he'd seen so recently on the battlefield, from pain.