THE BEGINNING OF IT ALL
Walking alone in the forest was something I did for, well, most of my life. The forest was like a second home for me. I did everything here. Well almost everything. Living here for about 6 years takes it's tole on you. I've always walked through the forest, walking and more walking, never stopping, I just let my feet take me away. That's just how my life began and I'm guessing that's how it's going to end; walking. All my life I've been craving for excitement, something that would thrill me. Feeling the rush of air as I jumped tree branch to tree branch or the satisfying feeling I'd get when I'd hit a target or opponent. I would never show mercy to anyone; no one ever did for me when I was little, so why should I give them that? It doesn't matter if I've never met the person before in my life. If I get the wrong vibe from anyone it's over for them. My search for thrills, fun, and adventures were coming to an end, I was going to find a death bed for my-self, but then he came into my life. That one day I met him I knew my wish had been granted.
I had changed my appearance from my pink top and and baggy pants. I wanted a more, lets say, appealing look. My hair grew to be too long to be left out anymore so I put it back into my old style that was a signature to me; my panda buns. My bangs nearly covered my chocolate brown eyes. My outfit basically copied his when I first saw him, just more feminine. My shirt was a black T-shirt with the same type of arm warmers as his when were youngerexcept mine were custom made and black with white. I had on black tight shorts with a black school girl shirt. I had on the long black AMBU shoes that went just below my knees, with a heal about 2 inches. My favorite part was the symbol on my back and what it symbolized me as. It was the Uchiha fan. It told everyone who saw it not to mess with me. All ninjas who saw it was to be careful or they'd answer to me or-
"What are you doing lazing about up there, Tenten." I smiled, I was suppose to meet him at the lake a few miles away, but I was slacking off. I didn't want to move from this spot, it was a nice spot.
"I don't wanna get up!" I pouted at him. He sighed and rubbed his temples, I loved doing this to him and he knew it too.
"Don't make me come up there Tenten." He crossed his arms and looked annoyed with a smirk on his face. I smiled down at him. He rolled his eyes and jumped up and picked me up bridal style. I squealed with the quickness of his movement, damn him.
"Now will you come quietly?" he said with that sexy look he used on me when ever he wanted something to go his way. I pouted be I wasn't giving in to his charm.
"Only if you carry me the rest of the way, yes, I will come quietly," I made a cute smile and watched his face drop like a ton of bricks, it was funny and cute. In other words, I've won the battle!
"Fine," He turned around and started walking while still carrying me.
"Aw, don't be like that!" I looked up at his slightly annoyed face.
"Come on!" I pouted again, yet nothing came.
"Please!" he looked down at me and said,
"Say my name then," He smirked, jerk, he knows that when ever I say his name I've submitted to his attention and his bidding. I bit my lip trying not to but how can I ignore him?
"Fine, you win this round, but not the next time, Sasuke." He chuckled and I pouted again and crossed my arms.
"Hold on Tenten," Sasuke said smiling, then he sped off taking us to the lake.
~6 years ago~
I was walking through the Fire country's forest and let me tell you it was BIG. I have no family, or birth place, that I know of. All I know was that ever since I can remember I've been walking. Not in any particular direction, but just to find fun and excitement, I guess. My life so far had been set to one goal, find my match in battle and die. I'd kill, steal, I'd do what ever I needed to survive. Yea I know that sounds low and dirty, but it's survival of the fittest. You fend for your-self and until the day I find my match in power or greater I'll die peacefully. My life is nothing but hell, and no one should live like this. I've killed so many with out second thoughts or remorse. One day I'll be put out of my misery. I sighed and rubbed my fore-head. I sat down near by a tree with my hands behind my head and my legs crossed as I sat in the shade. About an hour later I heard a few voices so I got up and searched for them. If it was a family I wouldn't harm any of them. I don't want anyone to live like I am now if their family is still living, it's not fair to bring another person down to my level.
I hopped up into a tree and looked around for the voices I heard. I saw four figures from a distance. One looked like an older male, the others were about my age. The older male had silver spiky hair with a head band wrapped around his fore-head. He had on a green jonin vest on with a dark blue long sleeved shirt and matching pants. He had some type of tape wrapped up from his ankles up to his lower knee on both legs. I couldn't read it but he had an orange book in his hands. The three that looked my age looked different. I've never seen ninjas dress like this before. One of them were dressed in an orange with a huge white collar. His pants where high water matching orange pants with blue ninja sandals. He had bright light blue eyes and a wide goofy grin on his face. He looked like a good kid, very cheerful and positive. The one next to him must have some type of genetic mutation if it's real because I have never seen someone with real pink hair before. She, I'm guessing, had a no sleeved, dark pink dress with a white lining on the edges of the dress. The dress had a long slit going up past her thighs, but thankfully she had ninja shorts under it. Also with the the blue ninja sandals on as well. The last one looked really familiar, he looked like some one I know. He had dark blue hair with bangs longer than mine! He had on a blue shirt with white arm warmers; he had white shorts with that same tape that older man had wrapped up to his lower knees. I hopped a little closer in a near by tree and listened in on what they were saying and going to do.
"Alright, today's excise will be like the test I gave you when you first graduated from the academy. This time you have to get these scrolls instead of bells. These to two scrolls both have a jutsu on it that will lead you to me but you have to be aware of what the scrolls say. If not, you'll end up like Naruto did before when I left the bell on the ground, walk into a trap." I snickered and saw the blonde scratch the back of his head with a small blush on his face.
"Any questions?" The older one said.
"Yea! I do! Why can't we do this in the village again?" He is loud.
"Think Naruto, I'm going to be setting traps and, knowing you, you'll fall for one of them and cause trouble. What do you think the 5th would say if we started an uproar because you set off an explosion?"
"Well, I didn't think of it that way," He snickered at his own stupidity.
"You idiot, you always ask stupid questions when the answers are completely obvious, you baka!" The pink head yelled and hit him on the head. I don't like her already, that Naruto kid may ask weird questions but it's best to be honest with them or you'll be lost to an answer and solution.
"Sorry Sakura, I just wanted to know." He rubbed his head. The pink head latched her self to the dark blue one who is just standing there looking completely annoyed by the whole scene.
"Get off me Sakura." he said, and with a deep voice might I add. She followed him so quickly with hearts in her eyes. Next thing I knew, the blue head hit the pink girl. She fell to the floor with shock written all over her face. The older man rubbed his fore-head and Naruto got upset pretty quickly. I'm guessing this happens a lot.
"What did you do that for, Sasuke ?!" Naruto yelled. All he did was turn around and walk away with out a word.
"Alright then, lets begin" The older one said holding up two fingers and disappearing. Naruto walked up to Sakura, who was still on the floor from shock. Oh get over it, she made me want to gag; nothing but a love sick puppy. Naruto walked over to her and offered her his hand.
"Come on Sakura lets go," He said with a warm smile. I was disgusted at what she did next. She coldly got up and walk past him and then ran in the direction of Sasuke. I sat there and watched Naruto with a sad face, I felt really bad for him. He was a nice kid but no one seemed to treat him like that. That's another thing I hate about people, how cruel they can be with out ever noticing it. I hear Naruto say some thing but all I got out of it was 'breaking up' and 'family'. I sighed. Maybe, some of them were family members, even though then don't look it. Well that's no excuse so I'll just leave them alone. I watched that Naruto kid turn and walk another direction from the older man and the other two. I hopped down from the tree I was in and started walking away from the group.
About another hour later I heard an explosion from a distance. I looked around and heard that Naruto kid screaming 'ow' and 'my head'. I started laughing to my-self. That older man was right he did end up setting off an explosion. I looked back and smiled. Too bad I couldn't get to know that kid, I bet he would've been a good friend. I looked down sadly and kept walking. I looked up from my stare on the ground to see Sasuke leaning on a tree with his arms crossed staring at me.
"Who are you?" He asked, I stood there shocked for a minute, but I didn't give him the satisfaction of seeing me shocked. I stood there for a minute thinking of what I should do. I don't think that it'd be wrong to just turn and leave, but I can't turn my back on anyone. That was just a basic rule every ninja should know. I know for a fact he can't and won't kill me if I turn and walk away. So, that's exactly what I did. I looked up at him again and started walking toward him, with out words. I walked right up to him, then stood next to him so our shoulders were lined up.
"I'm not obliged to answer that," I said and started walking on again. I reached up and grabbed the kunai that was thrown at my head. I heard him grunt silently, I smiled knowing that I had caught his attack and he wasn't too pleased about it. I turned around to look at him from a bit of a distance now. I twirled the kunai in my hand with the other resting on my hip.
"So what was that for?" I gave him my bored look.
"You didn't answer my question, and I don't like repeating my-self," I smirked.
"Well, I don't like repeating my-self either, but seeing that you don't listen, I'm going to, I'm not obligated to answer anything you ask, understand?" I smiled sweetly and turned to walk away. I had to add something, knowing me.
"Unless you tell me something about you, first, Sasuke." I let his name roll off my tongue just to irritate him. Guessing by the hand on my shoulder, it worked.
"How do you know my name?" I knew that was coming.
"Your 'family' is very loud." I turned around to face him.
"Family?" He looked confused.
"That group you were with, the older man, and the other two." I gave him a strange look. Then he gave me that 'are you kidding me, are you that stupid' look. So, does this mean that I could've killed the pink girl and made friends with the hyper blonde? Sweet.
"Those were my, so called, team mates." He crossed his arms and looked annoyed. Well that explains a lot.
"Ok then," I smiled and handed him his kunai back. "I'm leaving."
"You still didn't tell me anything," I sighed I'm not getting off the hook until I spill some stuff.
"Aright, what do you want to know?" I looked at him with a very irritated face.
"Who are you, for starters." I rolled my eyes
"The name is Tenten."
"Tenten?"
"Yes" I glared at him. What's wrong with my name?
"What are you doing in the Fire country?" I sighed.
"Passing by."
"Where are you from?"
"No where, I'm a by-passer" he narrowed his eyes at me. Hey! It was the truth!
"What's your last name?"
"I don't have one it's just Tenten, I don't have a family." He looked a bit sorry for me.
"What happened?" I glared
"Nothing, I don't know, I have no memories of them." After that we stayed quiet. The wind howled for a brief moment. That's when I felt another presence near by. I could tell Sasuke knew as well. I jumped up into a tree brach that was some what high. I saw Sasuke follow me up as well.
"What are you doing?!" I whispered a yell.
"Be quiet, I don't want to deal with her right now." I knew who he was talking about because no other ninja would dare to wear bright pink and run around in the open. Idiot. I smiled, I wanted to mess with her so I came up with this awesome plan. I looked at Sasuke and smiled, he looked at me with a confused look.
"Stay here, I'll make her disappear." I winked at him and jumped down to scare the pathetic thing.
"W-who are you?" she stuttered, I smiled warmly.
"Someone you hate." She looked confused.
"Why would I hate you?" I shrugged.
"I don't know, I guess it's just me who hates you," I smiled wider. She wasn't getting a thing correct, ha, she didn't even realize that I was some random person she doesn't know. Idiot is going to get her-self killed one day. Baka.
"How can you hate me when we've never met before?" I frowned, not because of her question but because she so damn dense.
"I don't like you. You are a horrible ninja and a disgrace to every female ninja in the history of ninjas. You lack the basics of ninja rules, you give away you presence with out even trying to hide it. You walk around yelling for this 'Sasuke' fellow who might not even be around. You are pathetic to your team mates and you are a pathetic team mate. You wear bright colors when ninjas are suppose to be the complete opposite! And to top it off, you still haven't realized that I'm not anyone you know, another words, I'm a rouge ninja to you. Someone dangerous to you, someone who could swiftly kill with out mercy and still you stand here, pathetic and stupid as even. So what are you going to do or say to that, huh?" I crossed my arms and glared at her. I let it all sink in and them her face went pale, not something I'd expect, and she started shaking. What is going on, am I missing something here? Once again, I did not expect what she did next either; she screamed.
"SASUKE!!!" I waited a minute in complete and utter annoyance. Then the pink head looked like she had the upper hand. Like I was going to regret something. Ha ha, she had another thing coming. Right on Que. He walked out from behind me, surprisingly, and not her. He looked a bit annoyed as he crossed his arms.
"What?" Wow, he is so, so, cool. The pink head looked a bit confused.
"Sasuke! She called me all these names and said all these thing about-"
"I know, I heard everything" He smirked my way and I just smiled back. The pink girl looked back and forth between us in slight shock.
"S-sasuke, w-what are you doing over there, come over here with me!" She looked a bit scared.
"Why should he?" I tilted my head. "He hates you too," I smiled.
"That's not true! Me and Sasuke have been together since we were kids!" She yelled.
"I don't think so," I looked at Sasuke "What do you think Sasuke?" He looked at me and gave me the 'why did you bring me into this look.' All I did was smile.
"I don't like you Sakura, I think you are a bad ninja. You show your emotions, weaknesses, everything. I don't think there is anything you've hid from anyone! You walk around loud and just as bad as Naruto if not worst! You are a disgrace to all female and just ninjas in general! You can't keep your-self out of trouble for a moment and every-time you do stay out of trouble you cling to me like some sort of parasite. You and Ino both confess your 'undying' love for me when clearly I don't like any of you!" He yelled. Boy, way to shoot her down. I mean look at her, she looks like she just died. I laughed at this, not out loud, in my head. Then she looked over at me and her face went from white to red. She whipped her index finger at me and glared hard.
"It's all your fault! Sasuke never felt this way! It's all your doing! You've blanked his mind somehow! I know you did! Sasuke isn't like this!" She scream and threw a kunai at me. Another thing I didn't expect was Sasuke catching it before it came in contact with the middle of my fore-head. Sakura looked with wide eyes. Sasuke didn't look at her, but down at the ground with his bangs covering his eyes.
"Sakura, I'm not as low as you, I wouldn't fall for something so stupid and pathetic. Do you really think that low of every one and so high of your self? You disgust me!" He whipped the kunai brushing her cheek giving her a small cut. She didn't realize it until she felt the sting a few seconds later. She pulled a hand up to her cheek and then felt the blood slowly run down her face. She gasped.
"S-sasuke," She started crying.
"You didn't even see that kunai, did you? Of course you didn't, even though that was one of my slower throws too. It's sad to even be you, how can you even call your-self a ninja? Get away from me, being near you is disgraceful to me." That was the last draw, she was given all the blows and as a result she is now mentally and emotionally unstable. I don't blame her, ok, well, yes I do. It's her fault that she isn't a good ninja. I mean look at all she has, a family, friends I think, a place to live, food to eat, money, what more could you ask for? Nothing. She has everything she needs and more to be a good ninja, yet look at her now. I had none of those things, nothing, but look at me. I'm so strong and I did it all on my own with none of those things she had. I sighed. I watched her retreating form with one arm spread across her eyes.
"So, I guess I'll see you later Sasuke." He looked up at me with a raised brow.
"What? I answered your questions and I did you a favor! I think I should go now!" I was getting upset because I wanted to leave and I have some where to be!
"What's your rush?" He said.
"I have somewhere to be, is that too much of a problem?"
"I thought you have no place?"
"I don't, I just know a group that helped me out. So I'm just going to go back to them and hang out for a little while I guess. Then I'm going to do something. I don't know yet." I turned around and started walking faster so he wouldn't stop me again. I sighed. The sun was setting and I told them I'd be there by sun down. Sempai is going to scold me again. Great.
"What group?" God, he just had to ask.
"If you really want to know, meet me here at midnight. I'll be waiting." With that I held up two fingers and did a transportation jutsu to a small pond not too far away. I thought about what I just said to him and for the first time I'm regretting something. Dragging him along for the ride might not be as bad as I would anticipate. I did tell him that I'd wait so, I'm going to keep my word. Maybe it will be nice to have someone around for once besides those jerks. I jumped up into a tree and leaned back against a branch looking out into the horizon. Wow, the fire country's sun sets are really beautiful.
