Author's Note: Just some drabble that popped into my head while I was working on my chapter fic. Yes I am working on it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. :P
Tenten sighed and a vein in her forehead pounded. Most of her weapons lay on the other side of the clearing, and more importantly, out of her reach. It'd be foolish to try to retrieve them with Neji standing between. Hand-to-hand was her only option.
She charged at Neji. She kicked at his stomach. Neji pushed her leg aside, knocking her off balance. Tenten quickly regained balance and spun around, outstretching a hand as she did. Her fist grazed his cheek. Neji snatched her wrist and twisted. Tenten flipped with his assault, and landed solidly. She slipped her wrist from his grasp and hopped back a few meters.
Neji assumed a familiar stance. "Eight Trigrams, Sixty Four Palms!"
Tenten's eyes widened. Oh, shi—
Neji stood before her in a second, palms at the ready. She dodged as many jabs as she could, cringing when they reached their mark. Most of his attacks, she knew, were just to provoke her.
Tenten knocked away the sixty-fourth palm and quickly aimed a roundhouse kick at his face. Neji caught her leg and implanted a palm into her thigh. Tenten hissed and jumped back two meters.
Tenten blew a few loose strands out of her eyes. The nerve of him! She charged again.
Neji flipped Tenten over his head with ease. Tenten groaned and rolled out of the way as Neji's chakra filled hand hit the ground. Tenten glared up at him, her back to the ground.
"That could've been me!" she yelled, motioning at the new crater. Dust steamed from the charred center.
"But it isn't," Neji replied. "So it doesn't matter."
"You are so dead!"
Tenten launched herself at his feet, grabbing a hold of Neji's ankles. She held tightly as Neji kicked his legs around.
Neji scowled in irritation. He bent back, and clenched Tenten's ankles. Tenten gasped.
"Neji," Tenten said slowly. "What are you doing?"
"I'm responding to your rather childish assaults, Tenten," Neji said.
"Oh, ha ha."
Then Neji did something neither of them would have anticipated; he collapsed on her. The weight of his body slammed onto hers and the air in her lungs knocked out of her. She opened her mouth to yell at him but closed it when she realized where her head was. She blushed. Her head was in between Neji's legs, her chin just inches from his crotch.
Her body went limp.
Neji quickly sat up and slid back so that he sat on her waist. Tenten bit her lip, angry at herself for not moving, angry for not minding their predicament. She closed her eyes and exhaled slowly. Get a grip! For once, she was glad that they had been training as long as they did. It gave her an excuse for a flushed face.
She opened her eyes to a smug looking Neji. He bent down. Tenten's eye's flashed and her heart stopped. Is he going to…? Her traitorous body closed its eyes. Her skin tingled when warm lips grazed her cheek. She felt a cool blade at her throat. Tenten could feel his smirk.
"I win." Neji got up, walking toward the water bottles stashed in a nearby grove of trees. "By the way, the chakra in your legs should return in a few hours."
Tenten lay still in the short grass, glaring at the tops of the trees. Gai-sensei once said that you learn something important with every battle. She definitely learned something today. When it comes to affairs of the heart, never trust Rock Lee with your secrets.
