"Are we ever going to stop hurting each other?" Neji's voice rang out, his fingers intertwined with Tenten's own hand.
"I don't know," she answered. "Maybe we're made to be broken."
The night was cool and the rains that had been looming all day had finally started pouring down. The rain served its purpose though. It hid the tears that were falling from Tenten's chocolate orbs. These feelings had never been something that she liked to discuss openly but since they were on the table they might as well.
"I don't believe that Tenten." Neji said his thumb rubbing a circle on her palm.
"Neji…I don't know how much longer I can do this. I almost died today. I'm not going to be able to keep this up. The missions are my job. I won't stop that. It is just knowing that I might now come back from one when I'm connected to someone else is impossibly hard."
Instead of answering he pulled her over to his lap. He held her so that she would know that he didn't care what the future held. Naruto Uzumaki had shown him once that the more he fought the greater the reward would be. His reward had been later in life Tenten and the connection he had made with her. He never told her in so many words that he adored her but it was there. He could tell she felt the same way but being around death all the time was hard on anyone. They had lost many people on the path of being shinobi.
"You aren't going to convince me that this is going to work." Tenten mutter, with her head under his chin and listening to his heart her doubts were starting to be soothed.
"I don't have to convince you right now. I just have to make sure you are will and able to accept that things are going to work. Now please stop crying so we can go home." His voice had a smile in knowing that he had won this time.
"Okay. You win Neji."
They walking home, with his arm protectively around her waist. She knew that he wouldn't let anything happen to her and she wouldn't let anything happen to him. A little happiness right now is what she needed.
A/N: Just a dabble series I plan on writing that isn't obliviously in cannon. It will just go through what their relationship would be like. Have a good one!