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Getting Ready

TenTen's POV

I was in a crouch, panting while the almighty Hyuuga prodigy was standing on the other side of our training grounds with an annoying calm aura. I knew that it would piss me off if he gloated but when he acting as if it was normal to beat me hurt, even if it was true. "Let's take a break Neji," I panted.

Neji turned and glanced at me then at then strewn weapons all over the training grounds, "Hn," he said.

There he goes, I thought angrily, Being an emotionless bastard again. I took it as a yes and sat down at the base of a tree. I grabbed my bag and pulled out a water bottle and took a long drink out of it. I was considering collecting my weapons for the next match when a green blur parked itself right in front of me and yelled, "My youthful teammates!"

The kunai I'd been about to use to stab into the person went back into my pouch, "Lee!" I yelled, "I was about to stab you baka!"

"My apologies for scaring you our youthful blossom!" he yelled again, "But Tsunade-sama wants to see us!"

I sighed and pulled out my scrolls, I decided to ignore the 'youthful flower' comment, I almost (but not quite) got use to it. I opened all of them and made a quick hand sign, I murmured softly, summoning all my weapons back into my scrolls. I turned to see our other teammate, Neji. "Ready Neji?" I asked politely. Of course he was he didn't have to gather up millions of weapons after our fights, all he had to do was stop his damn rotation, and stand there looking as clean and calm as he had been when he got here.

Neji nodded and we all jumped from rooftop to rooftop to get to Tsunade-sama's office. At the door, we were stopped by Shizune who announced us before we were allowed in. "YOSH!" Tsunade-sama yelled when we got in, "I have an A ranked mission for you three. And no Lee, Gai-sensei will not be joining you. For one thing, you guys can do this without his help, for another he is needed elsewhere." Lee seriously looked heartbroken about that little fact. "The mission is that you will retrieve twelve scrolls that were stolen from a village. A medium sized group of missing nins seem to have stolen it. You will probably have to kill them to get them back. According to the villagers, there were about thirty to forty nins. Dismissed!"

We all walked out thinking about the mission. I really hoped that I wouldn't hold my team back, I seriously hated that when it happened. Neji stopped us before we completely left the building, "We'll leave at five in the morning tomorrow, be ready."

We all nodded to each other before walking away from each other. I walked toward Ino's flower shop, wanting to tell her so that she could tell my other friends if I missed any. When I arrived there, I saw Kiba and Ino leaning way too close to each other to just be having a 'friend conversation.' I watched with an evil little smirk on my face while they kissed, isn't it awesome to have blackmail on your friends? After they finally broke apart, I entered with a sarcastic, "You guys sure look like 'only friends.'"

Ino blushed slightly but didn't move away from Kiba, "Hey TenTen, what brings you here?" Kiba nodded a greeting to me.

I smiled, "I have a mission tomorrow that will probably take around a week. If Temari comes during then, tell her to wait for me, she owes me a rematch."

Ino rolled her eyes, "I don't see why you don't just tell Shikamaru, he's probably the first one that will find out if she does come."

"Because," I said patiently, "those two will probably be too busy locking lip and Shikamaru will just call it troublesome, you know him. You and Chouji always find out second seeing that you guys are best friends."

Kiba interrupted, "You're going on a mission with your team?"

I raised my eyebrows, "No shit genius," I said bluntly.

"With Neji?" Ino giggled raising her eyebrows.

I rolled my eyes, "There's nothing going on, I seriously think Neji's worse about emotions then the Uchiha is. Besides, the way you go on about how I go on missions with Neji, I'd think that you like him. Should Kiba be jealous?"

Ino scowled when I said that, "TENTEN!" she shrieked looking the very definition of pissed.

I clapped my hands over my ears, "Kami Ino, shut up. I'm going to go deaf. Anyway, tell Temari that if she does come. Gotta go, I need to see Hinata and Sakura before I go get ready. I don't want Sakura to throw a fit at me after the mission."

I started walking out the door when Ino voiced out what I'd been thinking, "You mean she'll give you a complete bitch fit after the mission if you aren't either dead or injured. If you're dead, she'll yell at you when she gets in terms with it, if you're injured, she'll yell at you while she treats you then complete lecture when you're healed."

I laughed and said right before I walked out the door, "I'll be fine Blondie, just pay attention to your flowers and dog boy."

I heard Ino shriek some cuss words at me before I jumped onto a rooftop and began going to the Team 7 training grounds. The moment I stepped into the grounds, several weapons were thrown at me. I dodged some and caught others. When the air cleared, I saw Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto standing there watching me. I raised up the weapons I was holding, "So, who's are these."

Sakura laughed, "You would catch them. So why did you want to see me?"

I grinned mischievously, "What makes you think I wanted to see you?"

Sakura smirked, she's been way spending time with the Uchiha too long. "One, you're in our training grounds. Two, you wouldn't be seeing Naruto unless it's for a mission because he aggravates you on how thoughtless he is of his weapons. Three, you aren't seeing Sasuke, you think he's a emo chicken ass headed bastard that should be stabbed to death for leaving me and is just starting to forgive him. So the only other person you can see is me. So what's up?"

"I have a mission tomorrow and I didn't feel like getting lectured while I was healing if I got hurt so I came to tell you," I stated bluntly.

Sakura laughed, "I wouldn't lecture you too much. All of Team Gai manages to disappear before they're suppose to." She glared at me, accusing me of doing it.

I grinned, "What can I say, it's boring."

Sakura rolled her eyes, "All right see you after the mission, good luck!"

I laughed, "I hope I don't need it," I said cheerfully.

Sakura smiled at me, "Tell Hinata I said hi," she said knowing I was going to go there.

Naruto's head snapped up, "Hinata?" he asked, "Tell her I love her and I said hi!" he exclaimed happily. I saw Sasuke roll his eyes and wrap an arm around Sakura for some random reason only the lovebirds could figure out. I began jumping away, inwardly laughing at Naruto's antics.

I began jumping toward the Hyuuga Compound, I had wanted to talk to Hinata last because we usually ended up talking for a really long time. She was really easy to talk to and I could open up to her whenever I felt like crying about my family.

I arrived at the wall of the Hyuuga Compound and regarded the door. Naw, I thought cheerfully, What's the fun in that? Besides, the door person always thinks I'm a fangirl for some reason I don't feel like getting pissed right now. I looked at the small spaces in between the stones and threw my kunais there. They formed a weird sort of staircase. I grinned cheerfully as I jumped from one kunai to the next until I was level with the top of the wall. I paused at my top kunai, there weren't any traps, wires, or tricks that I could see but that didn't really mean much. I gently stepped onto the top of the wall and connect chakra strings to my kunai to pull them out. I stored the kunais back in my pouch and somersaulted to the ground. I saw a few Hyuuga women gaping at me, apparently their ladies were more…… well ladylike. I ignored them and began carefully making my way to Hinata's room.

"Stop!" commanded a Hyuuga when I was about to open Hinata's door. "You are not permitted to go into Hinata-sama's room without her permission and you are not allowed to bring in your weapons with you."

The guy amused me, until he said I had to separate from my weapons, "Go screw yourself," I growled, "I never separate from my weapons. Besides, I'm a friend of Hinata's."

The idiot continued to try and stop me whenever I reached for the doorknob. Finally, I had enough, "Look baka," I growled, "I'm a friend of Hinata's and I fully intend to go into her room whether or not I have to go through you to do so. Literally and figuratively."

He stood there and as he was sputtering some protest, I stepped forward and reached for the knob. He tried to stop me, until five kunais that I threw pinned him to the wall. "Dumbass," I muttered.

The sound of a body hitting the wall must have alerted Hinata of visitors because the door opened to show her curious face. "T-TenTen?" she stammered.

"Hey Hinata," I said cheerfully, acting as if I hadn't just broken in and pinned her guard to a wall.

"Hinata-sama," the guard exclaimed, "I tried to stop her but she—"

Hinata frowned at the guard, "Why would you do something as suicidal as that? You're lucky she was in a good mood."

The guard gaped; I guess he was trying to imagine a more pissed mood than the one he had been seeing. I smiled sweetly, you haven't even seen half of it little boy. I ignored him and his attempts to get free and turned to Hinata, "Hey Hinata!"

Hinata smiled at me, "Hello TenTen-san."

I grumbled, "I can't believe you still call me –san, just call me TenTen or –chan, 'kay?"

She smiled, "Sure TenTen-chan, but I get the feeling that isn't all that you came to talk about."

"You're a smart one," I said cheerfully, "Can we inside your room and talk"

"Eh? Oh, of course," Hinata murmured and she gestured me into her room. Hinata's room was simple and in shades of lavender, light blue, and white. All together, it was a pretty room. "So, what did you want to tell me?" Hinata asked once she closed the door.

I pretended to think, "For one thing, my team has a mission tomorrow, for another Sakura said hi and………….." I stopped for a moment, pretending to think harder, "Oh yeah! Naruto gives you his love." Hinata turned a bright red and began playing with her fingers. Even though they've been going out for about a year, Hinata was still adorably cute and embarrassed when Naruto was public about. "He also said hi."

"T-T-Thanks," Hinata stammered. She closed her eyes for a moment and regain control, "Are you worried about your mission?"

I quickly smiled, I ignored how fake it felt and focused on reassuring Hinata. "Ha, the only thing I'll probably have to worry about is freezing from Neji's attitude or drowning in youthfulness," I joked, forcing my voice to be carefree and unworried. "Why, did Neji already talk to you about it?"

Hinata was ignoring my question and staring at me, "You can't trick me TenTen. You might trick Temari, Ino, Sakura, even Neji-niisan but you can't trick me."

I hesitated, "I'm afraid," I whispered, "I'm afraid that I'll hold back my team, I'm afraid of losing the few people that are left that I care about, I'm afraid that I'm going to be betrayed again."

Hinata's POV

I started when TenTen mentioned the betrayal. I remembered the day, I had never seen TenTen so blank, defenseless, broken.

Flashback

I was training with Neji-niisan when an alarm rang for an intruder. Neji-niisan and I paused and glanced at each other, we knew that Lee and TenTen both enjoyed the 'challenges of avoiding the Hyuugas' as they put it. That was their way of saying breaking and entering into the Hyuuga Compound. I hurried toward where the alarm was sounded and saw twenty people spinning around performing the Kaiten. Yes, that's TenTen alright, I thought, No one else could make Hyuugas do the Kaiten as often as she did. I took a deep breathe and pitched my voice so it could be heard, "Stop, that's TenTen!"

The Kaitens faded and I could see TenTen now and she didn't look very well. "Hey Hinata," she said tiredly.

I couldn't help it, my eyes widened. TenTen, the TenTen, the Weapon Mistress of Konoha that got up at dawn to train with my niisan and was still perky and happy was tired? There was something incredibly wrong with this picture. "TenTen!" I exclaimed, "Come on." I hurried over to her and grabbed her arm, gently leading her to my room. While we were walking, I carefully hit some pressure points that would relieve stress. "What's wrong Tennie?" I whispered when we were back in our room.

TenTen seem to gather herself up at her pet name, the one we used only when she looked like crap and we were trying to comfort her. It had happened only once before, when she found out that her parents had left her at Konoha because they didn't want her. After that time of crying over lost childhood, she never mentioned again, the only thing that came out of it was a slightly thicker wall around her heart. "Hey Hinata." She looked at my worried face and managed to smile wryly, "I look like crap don't I?"

"No," I said carefully, "Who hurt you?" I asked glancing at her dead tired eyes.

TenTen didn't answer me immediately, "Hinata," she whispered.

"Yeah?"

"Do you think it's my fault?" I looked at her in confusion. That had to be the weirdest question she asked me. "Did I do something bad?" before I could say anything she plowed on, "Everyone I care about, everyone I loved, everyone just seems to be betraying me…….."

I stared at her aghast. That was what tore her again. I remembered that about a month ago, she had finally let herself open up and got a boyfriend. He seemed a nice enough guy when I met him and I remained polite but distant. They seemed close then I remembered that TenTen had received partner missions with Neji for about two weeks straight. That's when the guy probably did whatever that hurt her. "TenTen?" I received bewildered eyes, "Was it that boy, the one you started going out with a month ago?"

TenTen nodded, "He always seemed to only want to do shows of affection in public and he always boasted to his friends that he was dating the 'Weapon Mistress of Konoha' but I didn't really think about it. When I came back from the mission, we were early and when I visited him I found him in his room making out with another girl. I just left before he noticed me."

I trembled, why would anyone do that to TenTen, she was kind and sweet, (unless you were an enemy nin that we were suppose to kill) and she never really intentionally hurt someone for pleasure. "That-that that BASTARD! I hope he goes and rots in the deepest most cursed pits in the world. He deserves to be killed slowly and painfully." I ranted for a few more minutes until TenTen finally gave me a tired grin. That night, she stayed over at the Hyuuga Compound and I comforted her when the tears came. The next day, she kicked his butt (fairly) and dumped him. She moved on, except for another added layer to her wall.

End of Flashback

"Are you getting nightmares?" I asked concerned. She never said she did but with experiences like hers I didn't know how she didn't.

"Naw," she said cheerfully, "Just, just missions and training is packing my schedule, that's all."

"If you say so….." I said doubtfully. I looked at her face, she was hiding something still but I didn't want to push her. "Do you want to stay over, I still have a few of your clothes that I never returned."

TenTen smiled, "That'll be nice but I don't want to wake you up in the morning, everyone needs their sleep."

"Including you all mighty Weapon Mistress of Konoha," I lectured as I overrode her protests, "I have to wake up that early to train anyway, shut up and get your clothes to sleep."

TenTen smiled, "You seem to be getting the hang of ordering people around," she turned and walked over to my closet and picked out her clothes. "Thanks." She went to the bathroom and changed quickly before coming back and taking out a few blankets to sleep on. "Good night Hinata, sweet dreams."

I crawled over and carefully hit a few stress points, knowing that it'll help her sleep. "Just go to sleep, you obviously need it," I chided gently. I bit my lip, as T watched TenTen sleep peacefully. I felt a sense of foreboding as I watched her sleep, I was going to ask Niisan to watch TenTen carefully during the mission........

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