Together Forever
i'll come up with a better title when the plot begins rolling...
Disclaimer:...what the others said...
Chapter 1: Training Together (like flowers)
The two stood several feet apart, panting heavily, as sweat streamed down their exhausted bodies. Around them lay kunais, katanas, battle-axes, and kodachis (Tenten's for the most part). About twenty yards away, Lee was kicking the crap out of a log, which was by now a pile of splinters.
"Tenten, you've improved a bit…" Neji smirked.
"Enough to match you I think," she retorted, grinning. She brushed a bead of sweat from off her brow. "Urg…I'm really tired now Neji, can I…?"
"Can you take one more spar? Well, if you're not feeling up to the challenge…" He smiled condescendingly at her, which grew only wider as A vein began pulsing in the kunoiochi's cheek. Neji took great delight in infuriating her, yet he still couldn't figure out why. Just another great mystery in life.
"HYUUGA NEJI, I AM GONNA KICK YOUR ASS TO HELL AND BACK IF YOU KEEP SMIRKING AT ME!" She whipped out a kodachi from who knows where and streaked at Neji.
He grinned to himself. Heh, blinded by rage…funny, is it just me, or am I the only person who seems able to get her up to this level of intensity? Well…I guess Lee can to, but in a different way. He looked at her as she blazed towards him. She's cute when she's angry…so beautiful…yet so…!!??
She was suddenly in his face. He whipped a kunai from his pouch and was about to parry her blow when she suddenly reversed momentum and spun the other way. Oh god, she's definitely improved now…
He barely managed to get another kunai out to block the kodachi when her free hand sneaked under the blades and punched Neji in the midsection. He leapt back with the punch, minimizing the impact, just as Tenten, the smart girl she was, took the liberty of once again spinning around in midblow and dealt a swift whack to the side of Neji's head with the side of her kodachi. Ahh…my head…how'd she get so fast? Ok that's it…
"Let's go weaponless!" He parried a blow and drop kicked the kodachi out of her hand just she did the same to him.
She flipped away gracefully, but he didn't give her the chance to get into a fighting stance, as he flew after her, catching the kunoichi right as her feet landed on the ground. He leapt up and swept his foot forward in a horizontal arc form the side, unleashing a lethal roundhouse kick. Tenten merely went with the force of the kick, flipping sideways with the blow and planting one hand on the ground. Her free hand suddenly shot out and pulled his leg out from under him right before he managed to land properly, and they both tumbled down to the ground, with the end result being Tenten sitting triumphantly atop his chest, her pretty face sporting a leering grin. "So, you want you to kick your ass now or later?"
"…You've gotten better…but you're still…no MATCH!"
Tenten let an out a small, (and very uncharacteristic) shriek as she was sent flying towards the sun. He focused chakra into his legs and leapt after her. She spun 360 degrees and whipping her arms around to slash Neji but he avoided them and yelled, "JYUUKEN!"
He thrust a palm into Tenten's stomach, and to his surprise, she stuck her tongue out at him and exploded in a puff of smoke. What they? Where'd she—
"Jyuuken…" Neji felt someone perform the Gentle Fist Technique on him from behind. What in the world? He had no choice, for if he didn't, he would lose, so he performed…
"KAITEN!"
Approximately twenty seconds later, when Tenten had finally came back down to earth (unconscious and still in agony), Tenten was fuming while Neji bandaged her broken body.
"You just had to go and use the Kaiten at point-blank, didn't you?"
"Well, you would've have knocked the crap out of me if I hadn't, and the Kaiten is defensive maneuver…"
"With enough inertia to rip its way through a house."
He merely smirked again, and Tenten gave him a deft whack with her working arm.
"Ow, that hurt." She's funny when she's angry
"It was suppose you…you d—OW!"
"Oops, sorry about that." He tried his best not to smile as he quickly replaced the bandage he had ripped off with a cautious gentleness used only with Tenten (when they were alone).
When he was with her, he usually felt rather calm. Not that he never looked that way, as he was often referred to as "stone-cold and extremely stoic". Funny thing was, as long as he was in public, he was "stone-cold and stoic". But when he was alone with Tenten, which was unfortunately rare at most, he dropped his cold visage and pretty much opened up his mind to her. She was the only one who could understand him, and his need to be the strongest, as she herself was striving to be the strongest kunoichi. She also happened to be catching up to him far faster than expected.
Usually, he despised girls, for their ability to continuously flirt, instead of training to improve their strength. He hated how they went around in groups giggling and whispering about how cute boys are. He despised their weakness with a passion. In fact he despised almost anyone who was weak with a passion. Of course, he now had a different way of viewing people, not only for their physical but also their mental strength, as he had learned in the Chuunin Exams several years ago, courtesy of one Uzumaki Naruto. Funnily enough, his cousin was enamored with the blonde ramen-loving boy. He was kinda strange though…like when he fought Kiba, he farted in the poor kid's face.
Neji was still surprised at her newfound speed. But of course, kunoichi's were traditionally quicker and more nimble than their respective male counterparts. Sort of. She was already on par with his speed, he surmised. He grinned to himself as he covered a cut with some ointment. Random thoughts about the girl next to him were flying into his mind suddenly. Hmmm…wonder how she looks with her hair down? NOOO…MUST STOP THINKING BAD THOUGHTS ABOUT TENTEN! He grimaced, mentally beating himself with a stick.
"Neji? Why are you still grinning stupidly like that?"
"…Hn…" He had not expected her to notice the expression, much less take it the wrong— SMACK!— way. His face was starting to hurt now. He reminded himself not to ignore her.
After he finished, he picked her up gently, giving her a scolding look. "Still Tenten, you shouldn't have charged me like that…I was afraid that you would decapitate me if I didn't use the Kaiten."
She looked at him frowning, but then her face broke into a warm smile, "It's okay, I guess I shouldn't have gotten that angry at you. I forgive anyways…"
"You, forgive me?"
"What did you expect?" she inquired, examining him closely.
"An apology…" He did it. He just smirked again. He braced himself for the incoming impact. But it never came.
"You wish, Hyuuga, you wish…" She walked off dizzily to collect her fallen weapons. Neji walked after her to help.
"…Wait…Tenten…how?"
"I've been training with you for how long? About five years…I think I can copy your taijutsu by now…"
"…Then that proves that you are one of the strongest shinobi I know then…I'm still shocked at how you did it." He smirked, "Or was it just an accident and you're pretending you did it on purpose?"
Meanwhile, hidden in a nearby tree. Rock Lee, Taijutsu master and the third member of Maito Gai's team, sat in the branches, spying on the happy pair. OH MY GOD! DID NEJI JUST SMILE? AND THAT WAS THE MOST I'VE HEARD HIM SPEAK SINCE…SINCE…blank mind
Tenten perked up as she hastily hid all of her 60 shuriken, 60 kunai, 4 kodachi, and two katanas, along with a vicious 40 kilogram pole blade she called a guan dao. Neji just stared in shock. He just had to blink, didn't he. He had once again failed to observe how Tenten manage to hid her mobile armory within that lithe form of hers, that beautiful, angelic…NOOO STOP IT WITH THOSE DAMN THOUGHTS! DAMN THESE USELESS HORMONES! It was about then he received the sudden urge to pull Tenten's hair out of its buns. Just a thought, really. He enjoyed flirting of one kind, and that was flirting with danger. Unfortunately, he had tried this once, and he had lost the first sparring match of his life within the next ten minutes.
Tenten looked around. She could have sworn she heard something rustle in the trees around them. She then noticed that Neji was still staring at her, or her body at least.
"Neji? Please stop looking at me that way….it's kinda scaring me right now…"
She had thought that he would have noticed the presence of another person by now. Neji blinked as he snapped out of his stupor. He quickly hurled a kunai into the tree Lee was hiding in without looking. Lee tumbled out clutching a kunai in his hands.
"Ehehehe…hey Tenten…Neji!"
"Lee…just how much did you see and hear?"
"Oh, I saw everything!" He grinned as he tossed Neji the kunai.
Neji caught it and glared daggers at Lee, who ignored it.
"I am soooo happy to know that you have a SPIRIT OF YOUTH WITHIN YOU TOO! Even when it's only with Tenten…AND TENTEN! YOU ARE STILL A VIBRANT LETHAL FLOWER OF BEAUTY! ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE WITH NEJI! FLOWERS GROW BEST WITH GOOD COMPANY! THEN THEY CAN CREATE MORE FLOWERS TOGETHER!" The poor Taijutsu master did not realize what kind of onslaught he had just unleashed upon himself.
…Silence had befallen the small clearing. There was a vein twitching on Neji's forehead, while Tenten had absentmindedly reached for her weapons pouch. Neji's iron wall of eternal coldness had been raised once again. And Lee was going to have hell to pay.
end chp. 1
this is my first naruto fic, so be nice and review...and yeah there will be other pairings too, but Tenten-Neji is main
Tenten: HAHA NEJI I'M KICKING ROYAL ASS
Neji: Hn...
BL: Well, as you can see, Neji has once again put up his impassable shield of eternal coldness as he is in public..but of course...(waves to Tenten) he can still be affected by Tenten...
Tenten: (makes puppy face and smiles oh-so-ever-cutely at Neji)
Neji: What now? Stop it...Tenten (kinda smiling kinda frowning now)
BL: See, there you have it, Tenten is the only one who affects this Hyuuga this way.
Neji: ...you are within my field of Divination..."
Bl: Oh shit...