Waiting For You.
Tenten looked over the edge of the cliff solemly. She watched the waves crash into the cliff wall and sighed, closing her eyes. She breathed in the heavy salt air. This was her Neji was killed.
She quietly dropped the small boquet of flowers that she'd brought along into the ocean waves. This was the fifth month that he'd been gone. She'd had this much time to get over it and she still hadn't.
Neji had committed suicide here, right here. Only five months ago. And had left her distraught and pregnant. She'd almost lost their baby because of severe depression and anxiety. Neji had never known about their baby.
She sat down on the ledge and let her legs dangle over the side. She breathed in the salty air again and placed her hands behind her for support. Her small chest moved up and down with each breath she took.
Quietly she took out a piece of crumpled paper, creased heavily at the edges where it had been folded and refolded from constant reading. She read it again, even though she'd memorized it a long time ago. It was from her love Neji, that he scribbled just minutes before his tragic death.
My dearest Tenten,
If I don't do this they'll come to kill all of us. Me. You. Everyone. If I'm not here they won't come. I'm so sorry that I had to do this. I wanted to live for you, for us. That one night wasn't meaningless. It was the best night of my life. I really love you, Tenten. I want to stay for you but I have to go. I love you.
Neji.
Those were the last words that she'd had from Neji. The next day was when she found out what he had done. There was no way that she could've stopped him.
Tenten never did find out who 'they' were but she knew they must've been really bad people. 'They' hadn't ever come.
"Neji," she breathed into the wind. She kicked off her shoes, watching them fall into the ocean. Each one made tiny ripples before they were washed away by the waves. There were two shoes, one for each of them.
She thought about the one night that they'd been together, that one drunken night. She hadn't remembered much of it but what she did remember it was completely perfect. Perfect because that was her first time and they'd conceived a baby, too.
Tenten remembered Neji hovering over her, kissing her ever so softly. His perfect body, his perspiring head, his perfect, smooth hair...
And then you had Tenten. Plain, brown hair, plain skin, plain brown eyes. It was amazing that Neji would even give her the time of day, let alone love her.
Finally Tenten opened her eyes, realized it was almost dusk, and got up. She walked back, barefoot, back to Konoha. But before she left, she whispered the same thing that she always did when she came here into the wind. "I'll be waiting for you."