For Margarita (Maggie) because everyone loves her. Okay, just so everyone knows, this is semi AU because the characters have been characterised differently.
Havoc- Sasuke
"Oh god. It's them." Tenten squeezed her eyes shut.
"What? Who?" Hinata turned around, and turned back, wincing. "Oh."
If there's one word that could describe the relationship between Sakura and Lee, it would be a decision between 'awkward' and 'inseparable'- it's awkward for everyone else when they're around, and they are just inseparable from their counterpart.
After a moment, the couple passed out of sight, and the two girls continued with their conversation.
"So, Hinata," Tenten smiled. "Have you had your eye on anyone?"
"Mmm…" Hinata thought for a few moments, "No." she smiled, and flipped back her hair.
But Tenten saw them every morning- even though they never really said anything along the lines of flirting, Hinata and Shino did flirt- it was more in the way that they looked at each other, the things that they said without words, even though Hinata continually denied there was something going on between them.
The two teenagers caught sight of their friend Temari holding hands with Shikamaru. Their relationship was more… open than Sakura and Lee's – even though they were a lot closer (making much more use of Public Displays of Affection besides Cuddling) but made up for it by still being openly committed to being an active part of the main group of shinobi.
"Everyone's got a boyfriend," Hinata sighed.
"I don't."
"So there's nothing going on between you and my cousin?"
Tenten smiled. "I promise you, there isn't. We're just friends."
Hinata smiled back, somewhat cunningly. "That's what Sakura said about Lee."
Tenten rolled her eyes and changed the subject. "Ino likes that boy. I can't remember his name, but he's moving back to Suna next week."
"Yes- Kichiro, I think it was."
"Oh yeah." They sat down on a park bench, and said nothing for a few moments, enjoying the sunshine on that fateful Wednesday afternoon.
"So, Hinata- do you want a boyfriend?" Tenten asked quietly.
Hinata smiled dreamily.
"Yes, I think so. Before I'm a Chuunin - I think I'd be too busy then."
Tenten nodded.
At that moment, Chouji walked past, looked for a fleeting moment at Hinata, and hurried on his way.
"Did he just…?" Tenten frowned.
"YES!" Hinata replied, sounding on the verge of tears. "All he does is stare and never works up the courage to even talk to me! It's so… annoying!"
Tenten laughed.
"Aww, well you can't blame a guy for liking you." Tenten smiled. "Who else knows about Chouji?"
"Well… you and Temari and Sakura,"
Tenten lapsed into a thoughtful silence, and Sakura and Lee sat on the bench opposite them.
"Hey guys!" Sakura greeted them brightly.
"Hey Sakura… and Lee." Hinata and Tenten replied. Since getting with Sakura, Lee never spoke much to anyone. His devotion went, much to everyone's dismay, to even waiting outside the girls' toilets for her to come out. Hinata, Temari, Tenten and Ino had begun to be annoyed by it, as had many of their other friends. Tenten, for starters, hated it because he was a part of her team, and he was hardly ever there without Sakura. It was starting to get annoying. When she said starting, though, it usually meant 'starting from six months ago'.
After a few moments, Tenten sighed.
"This is awkward. I'm sorry to say, but I have to leave now because I need to get home."
Neji smirked as he came up behind her.
"No, it's more like you feel obligated to leave because they're boring you to death." He looked at his team mate, and nodded at him. Lee blinked back. "Hinata-sama." His cousin stood, fiddling with the straps on her shoulders as Tenten bit her lip and tried not to say snap something back to the prodigy.
They left the park, and Tenten sighed once they were out of sight.
"Thank you so much." She patted Neji on the shoulder.
He smirked back at her.
"Anytime."
Hinata crossed her arms.
"I'm still here, you know!"
They were walking through the park gates, when they saw Sasuke, lounging in the leafy boughs of one of many trees.
"Hey Hinata…" Sasuke's eyes flickered. "That's a nice top you're wearing."
Tenten saw his eyes move in an all-too-familiar sweeping motion and rolled her eyes.
"Um… thank you," Hinata replied nervously, and Neji cracked his knuckles as he glared at the Uchiha. The Uchiha stared condescendingly back, and jumped down.
"Get over it," Tenten said, dragging Neji away. "Your cousin does have to get home, right?"
Sighing, Neji fell back, and the two girls began to whisper.
"Did you see that?" Tenten asked. "He was checking you out!"
"I … don't think so," Hinata said. "I guess we're kind of close and all, but I think he likes someone else-"
"So?" Tenten interrupted.
"So I'm guessing the point is," Neji said crisply, "that he finds you attractive."
"Who doesn't?" Ino said, coming out from the shadows.
There was a moment of silence.
"Aren't you meant to be going somewhere to say goodbye to your… lover boy?" Tenten fluttered her eyelashes in a mocking way as her voice became high and flirty.
"Oh shut up, Tenten." Ino rolled her eyes, but walked away anyway.
"Lover boy?" Hinata echoed with a laugh.
"It was the only thing I could think of." Tenten shrugged.
"And here I was, thinking you were the only other sane person I knew." Neji sighed.
So yeah… please, review. It's a somewhat mindless plot- Hinata wishes she could have a boyfriend, and then everyone seems to suddenly come out and like her, all at once… with, of course, a bit of NejiTen, because I can't ever get enough of them. I I'm writing it because it's for Maggie, and because I am so damn bored. Sorry.
