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To start off with:

Neji knows that Naruto wants his muffin.

In Naruto's opinion, he's quite sure of it, that's probably just Neji unnecessarily being a bastard.

But he also knows exactly why he didn't get him it, and didn't come over, and that is because he's realized that Naruto needs to learn a thing or two.

But let me roll up my sleeves here and dig for their old, much older history than the current mess.

Once upon a time, there was a hurt and lonely teen, as they happen to come across us so frequently in certain shonen mangas - and when that young man first met Naruto, he instantaeously knew he did not like him. Quite envied him, perhaps, for he didn't know better about this world of the talented and the sore losers and could be himself, instead of living up to expectations. Of course, Neji knew, because what didn't Neji know back then?, that he'd only fall harder once he'd realize his efforts to be recognized had been futile all along. And still. The more you know, the harder it gets to be happy, and even then did Neji question whether the clueless aren't the truly pitiful. Of course, these thoughts completely clashed with his firm opinion, and so he repressed his doubts. Naruto was not at all of importance to him, another among the lowly he'd leave behind as he moved on, rose to the top, where he was destined to end up, after all. Neji didn't care about him until his backtalk got too annoying, too redundant, and he was this close to snapping when he realized that he wanted the point Naruto was making to be true so badly.

Turns out Naruto knew so much better than Neji, and that fact stung like nothing else, not that cracked jaw, or any other injuries inflicted on him during that fight. Since that horrible car crash of Neji's world view, his pride hasn't abandoned him, but it's capable of taking the backseat, where Neji constantly questions thoughts and double-takes. Despite that semi-paranoia of "am I doing the right thing?", Naruto has shown him to depend just a little more on his gut feeling. Having been around him for such a long time, Neji has come to learn how to join rational thought and blatant realism with that little shining ray of optimism so as to not go back to making himself miserable.

If there is a major feeling that Neji has harboured towards the fox kid, it's gratitude. Gay and even more gay as it sounds, Naruto is the one who changed his life, and while Neji's long accepted that Uzumaki doesn't give a flying fuck about being repaid a debt, he's taken to doing whatever is in his might to be there for the other. Whether it's to keep him from hauling his ass straight to jail by beating up one bastard just a little too badly, or to haul him out of jail because he came just a little too late, or whether it's to buy him a goddamn box of cookies with the straightest face you'll ever see when Naruto is on sugar low, it does. Not. Matter.

He likes doing these things, no matter how much he will complain through snark and shunning. By sticking around him, he has come to learn how Naruto ticks, has come to like him, later value their friendship over anything else. That's a biggie. But that's the best example of growing on one another you'll ever see.