A/N: Inspiration for this fanfic is probably all thanks to a whole weekend with my brother and watching a certain anime genre.

I think it's obvious though. XD Before hand I want to thank anybody who's taking the time to read this and enjoying it!

I don't own Naruto.

xXx Chapter 1 xXx

She ran. She ran like her life depended on it, because it seriously did depend on it. If she valued any of it whatsoever that is. She knew this wasn't real, this was just a dream, all of it wasn't really happening but she couldn't get herself to wake up! The bun haired girl forced her legs to move even though they screamed in pain and yelled at her to come to a stop but she just couldn't do it. It she listened to the aching of her muscles and her body then she was going to die. When was this nightmare finally going to come to an end!?

'Don't look over your shoulder, don't look over your shoulder, no matter what you do don't do it Tenten! Don't look!' She internally yelled at herself in an attempt to what was about to happen next. Sadly, the human species will forever have a nack for curiosity. She dared to look over her shoulder and there she saw it. There it was. That single velvet red eye that she's seen haunting her dreams.

Now, she knew what was going to happen next.

From under the single crimson red eye a wicked smile with sharp fangs appeared from the pitch darkness that she was engulfed in, and in just a matter of seconds the beast opened its mouth and reached towards Tenten. In means to feast on its pray.

"NO!" Tenten yelled in panic and fear as she shot herself up from her bed, finally waking up from that horrible reoccurring nightmare. Tenten's breathing was harsh and rasp, sweating and gasping for air in exhaustion. That damn dream was just too realistic for its own good, especially for hers.

She's been having this dream for years now.

She ran the back of her hand over her forehead and then placed her hands over her eyes. "Ugh." A shake of her head was enough to reveal her utmost frustration to her current dilemma.

The dream always started the same. Tenten would be in front of her old high school for just a minute and then a loud roar would immerse from within the building. Next thing she knows everything around her becomes pitch black and that cursed red eye appears before her. Instead of just standing about Tenten always makes a run for it even if she doesn't or does want to move. She runs in pitch darkness for what seem to be an eternity until eventually she looks back at the eye. When both her and the red eye make eye contact it smiles wickedly before eating her. Then she wakes up. It was a never ending unpleasant loop.

"It's always the same stupid thing," she whispered to herself when finally motivated enough to move and get off her bed.

Tenten walked over to her window and slid the blinds up. The light of the bright morning sun beaming in through the glass of her room's window. The good weather itself almost making her forget about the horrible dream she had just woken up from seconds ago. But that's the beautiful weather of Konoha for you.

Tenten was born and raised here in Konoha. Went to school here, had all her friends here, she really didn't know much about anything outside of Konoha given how popular the city was, so there was always talk about this city about ninety five percent of the time. And, it wasn't just popular, but Konoha was one of the biggest and most amazing cities in the entire world. Its seasons were beautiful, the people were amazing, Konoha was the dream city anybody would have wanted to grow up in.

...At least it used to be.

Tenten loved this city and its land with a deep passion but all of that took a drastic change in just a few years. The terrible changes happened back in the endings of her second year in high school.

She shook her head at the memories while she prepared for work. Luck for her, the only good thing that nightmare did for her was wake her up in time to get ready for work. That's the only and single reason she's thankful for such a distasteful dream.

The world wasn't a safe place anymore and that included Konoha. Many lived in fear and sometimes even Tenten was afraid to sleep. All of this slight fear that dwelled within peoples' hearts is all thanks to a few events that took place in the past and have impacted the present greatly.

A few years back ten asteroids came crashing down on Earth. All of them simultaneously landing on different locations of the world. The damage wasn't extremely bad but the strike was strong enough to make the huge chunks of rock drill themselves down to the deepest layers of the Earth. Scientists and government officials from all over the world attempted to dig them out and all failed to do so except for one. This one asteroid did not crash land on soil but it did crash land into the depths of the Pacific ocean.

In the process of carrying it to the surface the asteroid began to crackle open which alarmed the officials. The asteroid exploded and within it roared an enormous creature, which was later named Shukaku, who began to destroy everything in its path. All the nations put aside their differences and joined their armies to try to stop this possum-like beast. Unable to actually destroy it the possum-like beast caused chaos as it successfully destroyed a few cities and places that held civilization. After months of constant struggle the five major nations were finally able to put a stop to it, but not by taking it down but by caging it in the middle of the Pacific ocean in a cage made with their latest technology.

At that time humanity assumed that the odds of something like that happening again were extremely slim but then two years passed and another asteroid located near the great country of Fire exploded to reveal in its depths a fox-like monster with nine tails. At this point in time the nations thought that studying the first beast they captured was unnecessary, but when the second beast appeared they all knew they were dead wrong. The fox monster, which they named Kurama, destroyed countless of towns and killed quite the amount of people. Kurama eventually made its way to the pride and joy of the land of Fire, the city of Konoha. The people of Konoha fought with all they had to protect their city and those they loved but Konoha did take quite the amount of damage and lost a few of their heroes. Konoha failed to actually take down Kurama but did succeed in scaring it away. Using a bomb to take on the beast which got them to cause a minimal amount of damage but enough to make it go away. Sadly the bomb had to be used while a few of Konoha's forces were still trying to fend Kurama as far away from the city as possible. After the bomb went off Kurama just left on its own accord, most speculated that it was because the bomb did indeed damage the beast to some extent to where it had to retreat.

The damage, lost lives, and that attack itself was enough to get all the nations, big and small, to join forces and unite against this threat. The nations sent their top scientists to study the contained Shukaku to the best of their ability while military forces were sent to find a way to force the other "sleeping beasts" (asteroids that had yet to open) out from the depths of the earth and destroy them before they woke up. No matter how hard they tried they couldn't do it so the governments of each nations agreed that attempting to contain them in their current state would be best. So they all built sturdy steel walls around the areas each asteroid were located in.

Pretty stupid idea right?

But that was because the nations had an ace up their sleeve.

Seeing as how human strength and power couldn't get them anywhere in the end the nations decided that fighting fire with fire was going to end with perfect given results. Perphaps even victory.

A year after the attack the nations began to work on a united project called P:- S.O.L.D.I.E.R. Project SOULdier is simple really. Using all of their advancements humanity created their own monsters, giant mecha robots to fight back against these new threats. Specific people with a countless amount of talent were chosen as the riders for the SOULdiers (mecha). As to how riding one worked Tenten didn't really know since she isn't a rider, but she was sure that it was a complicated process.

Everything just went so wrong too quick.

One of the asteroids landed exactly on her school that day. So many people were injured, her best friend was one of those injured. Neji Hyuuga. A boy she grew up with since she was just a little girl. A huge portion of the roof of the class they were on fell on his entire right arm. It was horrible to witness. Everyone who was injured was taken away by officials and since then she's never seen Neji again. Thanks to that event everybody who attended that school were moved to another in which Tenten graduated and then went of to college, but life just didn't seem to like her very much. Guess what happened one faithful night? That's right, Kurama attacked.

The second beast to arise was too much, too much that they had to use a bomb on it to get any good results at all. Brave people were caught in that explosion and all died...one of those valient people was Tenten's father. Tenten lost her father that night and then everything just spiraled out of control. Tenten's mother entered a deep depression that was affecting her terribly so she had no choice but to separate herself from her mother in order to get somewhere in life. At first she was completely lost and had no idea what she was doing but that was until she crossed paths with an old high school friend who was cousins with Neji, Hinata Hyuuga. Hinata was nice enough to land Tenten a job and a place to call her own, the job she currently had was all thanks to Hinata, except that back then Hinata wasn't the boss but now she was. Hinata was such a kind person and has always been nice. Tenten will always be eternally grateful to Hinata for being such an amazing friend. She hoped to some day return all of these favors. Hinata always tells Tenten that she already has because Tenten worked as Hinata's secretary and helped her out with the family company as much as she could but that to Tenten didn't seem like at all that much, she still felt like she owed her a lot more.

"I hate mornings," Tenten groaned while she made her way out of the apartment and made her way towards her workplace before it got too late.

Tenten tapped her pen against the desk as she stared blankly at the numerical number codes that were awaiting to be entered into a specific file for Hinata on her computer screen.

"They really need to upgrade this computer here," she sighed in defeat. The codes were taking forever to get into the file and Hinata really needed them as soon as possible for her documenting.

The company Hinata was in charge of is a family company that's passed on within relatives. Hinata once told Tenten that the one that was going to be in charge of the company was Neji once he was done with school completely. Even Tenten agreed that Neji seemed to be more suitable for the job and as a matter of fact he was pretty psyched back then as well. He always strived to be the best in class to show his uncle, Hinata's father Hiashi, that he was indeed worthy of being in charge, but something happened...

Tenten didn't exactly know what and she once had a phase of asking Hinata for answers as to why it was that the responsibilities of the company were suddenly given to Hinata. She thought it was Neji's disappearance but according to Hinata Neji isn't gone at all. Hinata reassured Tenten that Neji was still out there and though it hurt to know that he didn't even bother to stay in touch with her or let her know that he was okay she was happy to know he was still alive and somewhere out there. Wherever the heck he is. "Jerk," she pouted with her palm resting under her chin while she glared down at her keyboard.

If she ever saw him she was going to give him a piece of her mind...and then maybe a kick where the sun don't shine if you catch her drift.

"Tenten?"

Tenten immediately snapped out of the thoughts of one day kicking Neji right on his baby maker and turned her office chair towards who she already guessed was Hinata. "Hey Hinata!," Tenten greeted with an innocent smile. 'Not like I'm thinking of depriving your cousin of having children or anything,' she thought to herself. The corner of her lips slightly twitching from her own thought process.

Tenten's working station was a simple desk in front of Hinata's office. Hinata had made Tenten an offer of having her own office, but Tenten felt like Hinata had already done enough for her and chose to just have a simplistic station in which she could work in for Hinata.

"I just wanted to check if you were okay," Hinata smiled kindly, obvious concern in her eyes.

Hinata was fell informed of just how Tenten has been, the girl was literally there for Tenten ever since she set foot away from her mother, so Tenten understood her concern, she would have probably been the same way.

"Hinata don't worry. I'm fine, really, I promise," quickly shifting the subject away from her personal life Tenten glared at her computer screen and said, "just these stupid codes here don't want to load into the file!"

Hinata giggled silently. Her friend ceased to amuse her, she loved her company. "I'll make haste that you get a new computer to spare the trouble of something like this, but when those codes finally decide to load you can go ahead and take your break."

"Really?"

"Mhm, there really isn't much work for you to do today," Hinata informed Tenten, "you can probably even leave early if I have nothing important for you to do an hour after your break."

"Yay!" Tenten cheered. "Thanks Hina, you're the best!"

Tenten watched Hinata giggle at her childish action and then set a foot back into her office. Once Hinata was out of sight Tenten glared at her computer screen again. "Now hurry up you stupid computer! My stomach's singing the song of its people!"

She was obviously hungry.

Letting out a sigh of relief Tenten smiled. Sipping on her iced coffee she was making her way back to her work place. She skipped breakfast this morning, horrible decision from her part and she acknowledges it, so of course she was going to get hungry some time eventually. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a girl to have an appetite.

It was a pretty nice day, not cold but not too hot, and the sun was over the blue skies so there was no real reason to complain for the rest of the day.

She stopped on her steps when the signal light turned red, indicating her to stop and to allow cars to take their turn down the streets of his great city.

"What's that?"

"Up in the sky..."

'What's up with the whispering?' Tenten thought to herself as she then looked at the people who were around her. All of them had one thing in common. They were all looking up at the sky and pointing up there, which of course made Tenten curious thus she joined the crowd and looked up at the sky. She narrowed her eyes, the light of the sun blurring her vision just for a couple of seconds until it finally focused again. "What is that?" She whispered to herself.

Up in the distance some kind flying object was heading straight towards the city. At first glance one can think of it as a plane given it wasn't well outlined yet but the closer and the closer it got the more visible it became. "It's a Bijuu," Tenten's eyes widened in horror when the size of it suddenly maximized.

This bijuu resembled an insect, a rhinoceros beetle to be more exact with six insect wings on its back and one single tail. Three legs on each side and some kind of blue and green armor forming its physic, probably as some sort of defense.

The people panicked, panic was now everywhere. People were running as far away as possible, cars didn't seem to care if anybody would get caught under their wheels or if they'd hurt somebody, and this to poor Tenten brought back terrible memories of that terrible night years ago. The insect-like monster made a circle in the air and then dived down at a blinding speed towards the city of Konoha and then let out an ear numing high pitched screech that made Tenten fall to her knees and cover her ears. "S-Shit..." She cursed under her breath. For some odd reason her body was no longer listening to her, it simply felt like white noise if that had a sense of feeling whatsoever. She was even struggling to look around her and realized that others also fell on their knees or fell down. That stupid sound paralyzed them! She could feel tears forming in her eyes as her breathing became rasp and harsh again just like earlier with that nightmare she had. Was this really going to end like this? With her unhappy with the entire world?

She felt a strong gust of wind that made the glass windows of any building around shatter into pieces and fall down on the paralyzed civilians.

Tenten didn't want to watch.

With all of her strengths Tenten shut her eyes and awaited for the Bijuu to begin its job in destroying the city. Feeling an even stronger gust of wind she already knew it was within range and awaited for her insides to no longer be her insides but that never came. Instead a loud sound of something dropping to the sky came down on the soil, thus shaking it and causing Tenten to jump up thanks to the magnitude of it. That was strange, the noise also stopped and Tenten could feel that she had control over her physical body again.

"Evacuate this area immediately!" Came a deep voice from what Tenten thought was maybe the sky but then she looked up and her eyes widened yet again. No, no, not in horror this time, but of amazement.

Before her was a slim figured mecha of the colors black and white. Its right leg dug into the pavement, cracking it as the other leg was placed slightly forward, most likely to balance its weight. She can see some slight shaking coming from the mecha's legs meaning only one thing. Standing up she took a few steps back to get a better view and there it was, the black and white SOULdier was holding on to the insect-like Bijuu by its horn to prevent it from destroying anything else located behind the mecha. She wasn't the only one that seemed like she had fallen in love at first sight, in fact she's never seen a SOULdier from up close! It looked so amazing! Others around her also stared in amazement but then slowly began to take steps away when they realized that the SOULdier was struggling to keep the Bijuu in its grip.

"Are you all deaf or what?!" Came a deep voice from within the SOULdier which snapped everybody out of their daze. "I said evacuate this area immediately!"

This time everybody obeyed and began to run for their dear life, except for Tenten. She couldn't help herself but to admire the design of the SOULdier and just how many years of work were put into it to make it what it was before her.

This was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Seriously, once in a lifetime opportunity, because you only die once. At least as far as she's concerned.

Whoever was driving this SOULdier was most likely going to hate her for zoning out like she was right now under the current circumstances.

So what do you think?! ^^ Thank you so much for reading, and please make sure to review, it would mean tons to me if you do!

I might as well inform that I don't exactly have a schedule set of when I'll update or not, but do know that I'm already working on the second chapter this instant so yay and also working on another fic. XD

See you all next time! :P