"Come on just a bit farther. You can do it." A girl, around eight with black hair and brown eyes told a younger girl, only about three with brown hair and the same brown eyes.

"I c-can't. T-too c-cold." The three year old said falling to her knees and hugging herself. The harsh cold winds whipped through the air slapping at both of the girls bare arms, just as the snow started to fall, hard.

The black hair girl looked back and stood in front of her. "Don't stop now. It'll only get worse. Now get up." She reached out grabbing the girl's torn blue shirt and lifted her to her feet. "We made it this far and I'm not going to give up our chance to get away because your being a wimp." Her words here harsh, she knew it, but she needed to get through to her head.

The small girl stumbled a bit before regaining her balance and looking at her sister. She squinted her eyes from the snow storm then gasped. "N-nee-chan." She whispered then hid behind her.

"Hm?" the girl turned around seeing a dark shadow whip threw the area then vanish. "Just a bird now come on. We're almost out of the mountains." She said dragging her sister along with her.

The young girl held onto her sister's shirt tighter and looked behind her, only to come face to face with a large black snout and beady red eyes. "Your time will come, when you finish what you started, and this time, it won't be sealed away." The thing opened up it's mouth shooting something around the two young girls slowly suffocating them.

Tenten sat up right gasping and coughing. Her sheets fell off her body and she leaned over the side of her bed spitting out blood. She grimaced then made her way out of her bed and stopped seeing her apartment messy.

Well truth be told it was always messy but it was messier than usual. What the hell? She wondered then bent down to pick up a small crystal. She didn't remember ever having jewelry or anything of the sort so what was this doing here? Her honey brown eyes narrowed as she gazed at it before she got into a coughing fit.

Ugh. She thought placing the crystal on the top of her burrow, then went to go change. For one she had training, and the other reason, she really didn't want to wear any of her clothes with blood on them. She quickly got into her usual training gear and put her long brown hair up into its two buns before going towards her door but stopped seeing that it was broken down.

The confused sixteen year old blinked as she just continued on staring at her door. Well wasn't that just wonderful. She sighed placing the crystal in her pocket and walked out noticing a couple of other apartments had broken doors and such. Strange….she thought t hen quickly rushed out. This was no time to think about this! She had to get to the gates since she had a mission with her team.

As the brunette reached the villages gates she was instantly attacked by two large green blobs. "OH YOUTHFUL FLOWER! WHAT A JOYOUS DAY THIS IS!" one of the blobs, who she guessed was her sensei, Gai, yelled.

"Day?" Tenten asked not really understanding but then the light bulb went off. "SHIT!"

"TENTEN! SUCH LANGUAGES COMING FROM A YOUNG LADIES MOUTH IS UNYOUTHFUL!" Gai scolded,

"Right." She said then wriggled out of his and Lee's grasp. This really wasn't good, it was her what? Her eighteenth birthday? She sighed slightly then blinked seeing Lee trust something in her face.

"A birthday present!" He said grinning and giving her his good guy pose.

She took the box that was wrapped up in, no shocker there, green wrapping paper. "Thanks Lee." She smiled a bit at him then put it in her bag that was slung over her shoulder. "I'll open it later. Don't want to delay the mission any more then it is now." She said knowing that she was already a few minutes late.

"What youthful thinking Tenten!" Lee shouted then turned to his idol. "What is it this time anyway Sensei?" he asked. The other two actually listened to this since they didn't have an idea either. They were told last night to come by the gates around eight o' clock or so.

Gai rubbed his chin while he answered. "Well Lee, we are going to head after a group of ninja's who have been breaking into people apartments. They haven't stolen anything but they did send quite a few people to the hospital."

"Gah! You mean those bastards who broke into my apartment last night?" Tenten asked glad she'd be able to track whoever it was who broke into her apartment at night. She coughed slightly then turned towards Neji as he got up from where he was sitting.

"Did they take anything?" He asked looking at her with his pupiless pale eyes.

She opened her mouth then closed it quickly. Did they? She didn't really check since she was already late. "Um….I don't know." She answered then saw Neji sigh. "But!" she added just so she didn't' seam completely helpless, well she wasn't helpless at all and she just had a tendency to forget some things. Like, for example, check and see if anything was stolen from her. "I found this. It's not much but better than nothing." She said pulling out the crystal and eyeing it.

"That would be helpful if we had an Inazuka with us." Neji said looking at the item in her hand then up at her face.

She huffed slightly putting it away. "Well sorry I'm not a dog Neji." She said flatly then started coughing again, luckily this time she didn't cough up any blood. Well not yet anyway.

"Hn." He grunted then watched her coughing fit but didn't do anything. For a while know the two had been a bit on edge with one another. Lee and Gai haven't found out why, but asked nothing of it.

"Tenten-chan! Are you okay?" Lee asked put a hand on her back. "Yeah. I'll be fine."

Gai eyed her then grinned showing off his bright white teeth. "Alright! Let's head off!" he and the rest of his squad were about to head off when they heard someone call Neji's name. The four turned around to see a girl around there age with blonde hair and dark green eyes run up to Neji.

"Well thanks for telling me you were leaving Neji-kun! We made plans today, but no you have your stupid mission." The girl said bitterly then sighed looking up at him. "oh well! When you come back though I expect for you to make it up." She leaned up on her tip toes and gave him a small kiss.

Tenten averted her eyes away. Great. Just what she needed on her birthday, a bitch. Everything that was putting Neji and Tenten on edge with one another was that stupid bitch Akiko Asari. Her and Tenten have never seen eye to eye ever since what happened ten years ago. It didn't involve either of them, but there two other siblings.

Something had happened on a mission and her brother, Arata was killed, along with their sensei, Katsuo. Sora, Tenten's older sister, and there other teammate, Haru were nowhere to be found. Akiko blamed Sora for this, as did a few others, but Akiko went out to go and make her life hard ever since her brother died. From name calling, to actually fights and now from stealing Neji. Not that he was ever hers, but ever since Akiko and him started going out they saw less and less of each other.

She sighed quietly to herself just wanting to go. "Oh. Tenten." The girl looked up at Akiko as the other girl turned towards her. "Today's your birthday right?" she asked causing Tenten to tense up a bit. Akiko only remembered it was her birthday since it was the same day her brother died.

"Yeah." She said eyeing her then narrowed her eyes as Akiko smirked a bit.

"Such a lovely day isn't it?" She asked faking innocence and this just caused Tenten to snap. She couldn't deal with her today, not at all. That stupid dream she had, those idiots who broke in and the problems with Neji were getting her upset, but Akiko just sent her over the edge.

"Oh why not shut the hell up, and stop your stupid innocent act on me Akiko. He died, so what! You're not the only one who lost someone important!" She snapped glaring at her about to head out of the gates but stopped at what she said next.

"Well at least my brother isn't a murderer."

Did she seriously just? Tenten turned to look at Akiko which caused the girl to flinch. She was ready to go off on her maybe even get into a fight but thought better of it. She turned away and just left her team in the dust.

Hours went by without any conversations between anyone, not even the green beats made any small talk or 'youthful' shouts or whatever it was that they did. Tenten sighed a bit knowing it was her fault for this. Lee and Gai were unsure of what to say, she could tell and Neji was just plan ticked off at her for going off on his slut of a girlfriend.

She was just about to say something to him when a blur came shooting at them from the sky. The four jumped back seeing kunai's and shurikans embed themselves were they just were. A couple of masked ninja's shortly appeared.

One of them, a guy Tenten noticed, stepped forward. "Shinobi. What are you doing on this side of the border of the Fire Country?"

Gai looked at him a bit confused. "What do you mean?" he asked causing the guy to sigh.

"The north-eastern side. Our side." He said spitting out the word.

"I don't think I quite understand what you mean?" Gai said eyeing him a bit then looked around. "If this is Fire Countries land than this would be ours, still." What he said made sense to his three students though it just made the masked ninja's angry.

"Fools. You always think about yourselves." He spat then more masked ninja's appeared around the four. "You don't remember making a deal with us? Or are you to ashamed to admit you share land with demons?" he asked before attacking.

(ugh I haven't really done fighting scenes so…sorry if I suck…plus I'm just gonna skip a bit to the important part! XP) The fight kept on ragging on no matter how many masked ninja's they all took down, they didn't stop coming. Tenten jumped back in time just to avoid a nasty blow to her head then ducked dogging a blow to her stomach. She pulled out a scroll and jumped into the air unleashing a barrage of weapons on the unlucky ninja she was fighting and watched her precious weapons strike most of them down.

Just as she was landing back on the ground another one of her coughing fits hit and she got a blow to the back knocking her down. "I'm fighting a cripple how nice." A feminine voice said then whoever it was helped her up. "Now try harder this time. I actually wanna see you try."

Tenten scowled whipping out another scroll and summoning a bo staff. The girl with the black dragon mask chuckled as she summoned her kantana. The two weapons clashed and Tenten twisted her staff and jabbed down hitting the girl in the stomach then hit her hand knocking the blade out of her hand.

The masked girl formed crystal like blades on her arms. Tenten gasped. "You! It was you who broke into my room?" she asked staring in slight shock.

"Well…not just yours but yes." She answered then sliced down at her. Tenten brought her bo staff up though the crystal blades cut clean through. "Ah what a shame." She could hear the snicker in the girls' voice. Tenten's hand twitched dropping the broken bo staff scowling at whoever this was.

The girls blades formed into a crystal blade slicing and jabbing at Tenten not giving her any chance to summon another weapon. "That the best you go?" the masked girl asked then stepped forward sweeping Tenten's feet out from under her. "Come on is that really all you can do?" she asked brining the blade back then sliced it down.

What possessed Tenten to do this was beyond her. Her hand shot up catching the blade and wrapped her fingers around it while her fist shot out and slammed into the girl. She yanked the blade back then tripped her before kneeling on her stomach and taking the blade to the masked girls neck. Her eyes flashed to gold as she glared down at her. Then it stopped. The pain shot up her arm and she winced pulling her hand off he blade with a sickening sound.

"Well it's starting." The masked girl sighed then took her mask up staring at Tenten with brown eyes.

"N-nee-chan?" she asked and the girl said up causing her black hair to fall to her shoulders.

She got up as Tenten got off her and put her hair in a ponytail. "Yep!" she grinned ready to receive a hug from her sister but was surprised to feel her slap her.

"What the hell are you? Stupid? You know I thought you died and you were alive all this time?" Tenten shouted and balled her good hand into a fist. "You couldn't even of said anything, or sent anything?" she asked glaring at her sister.

"Um….well….no." She answered earning a shove from her sister.

"Why the hell not?"

"I forgot."

Tenten sighed going to say something then started coughing, this time blood showed. "Oh damn it's getting bad. I don't see why not you're not e….." she trailed off staring at Tenten. "It's your birthday isn't it?"

"Took you long enough didn't it, Sora?" She shot back sarcastically then nodded not noticing the battle had stopped and the others were coming towards them.

Sora scoffed then crossed her arms over her chest. "No. I just forgot. It's been a while since I actually saw you and such so its not my fault I forgot." She resorted.

"Sora." Tenten sighed rubbing her head. "I still remember you birthday." She muttered causing her sister to smile.

"AWW! Tennie-bear!" she hugged her spinning her around then stopped noticing two green wearing bowl cut, bug eyed guys and a…was that a girl? "Hi?" she said awkwardly.

Tenten wriggled out of her sister's grasp and looked at the others smiling a bit. "Sora, these are my teammates, Gai-sensei, Rock Lee and Hyuuga Neji." She introduced then looked at the three. "Guys this is my sister, who is a completely and utterly stupid." She added the last bit bitterly.

Sora snorted at her. "Oh shut up. Just because I forgot to tell you I was okay you freak out on me."

"And you can't blame me!"

"Yeah sure I can't."

"Sora."

"Tenten."

Said girl sighed but said nothing more to the older girl. "Anyway um…I say this is a mission complete."

"Oh? And whys that? You found your sister?" Neji asked scoffing slightly. "We still need to find whoever it was who snuck into other's homes." He added shooting Tenten a cold look then eyeing Sora with slight disgust.

Probably judging her because of what Akiko said. Tenten thought but decided not to snap at Neji. "We did." She said then looked at Sora. "She was the one to."

"And why would your sister do such an unyouthful act?" Gai asked causing Sora to stare at him in slight shock.

"Well….I was looking for Tenten. I sorta forgot where she lived, but she moved so I had to check every apartment I could find." Sora answered sheepishly rubbing her neck. "But those people I hurt…well it was an accident. I brought them to the hospital to at least make it better." She added hopefully.

"Hn." Neji grunted.

Lee grinned. "I told you this was a youthful day Tenten! You found your sister!" he shouted giving her another hug.

"Yeah." Tenten said looking at Sora then started coughing again, this time her body started to tremble. "Tenten! Are you alright." Lee asked slightly holding her out to look at her.

Sora shoved him away and let Tenten fall to her knees. "Don't touch her." She said pushing the others back and looked at Tenten.

"And why not?" Lee asked looking at Sora.

She stayed quite for a moment watching as her sister shook. "You'll die."

Craapy first chater! I know I know! But um….it should get better XD

So please review, and such!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TENTEN-CHAN!