Clarity
Notes: Yes this is yet another collection of one-shot drabbles that I 'borrowed' from a Live Journal community so the themes are not mine!
However instead there being a set 'pairing' for this drabble set I'll have thirty drabbles each dedicated to a different Hinata-pairing, so I will take suggestions for Hinata pairings (only) to go with each of the thirty themes so yeah reader-reviewer participation!
Discalimer: I do not own Naruto anime-manga. Also the themes I will be using belong to Thirty Kisses LJ community so those aren't mine either.
Theme: Look Over Here
Title: Distraction
Rating: K+
Warning: Minor OOC-ness. Fluffy Shoujo-ai and a crack pairing. Don't like don't read!
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Nervously Tenten tucked a stray strand of dark brown hair behind the shell of her ear. A the tip of a tongue running over her lips as she pulled back to assist the 'damage' that she had done to the Hyuuga girl.
Looking back at her was a pair of lavender eyes, but instead of delivering a death glare they were soft and darting around in haze of first-kiss bewilderment. And instead of cold sneer or a detached scowl that Tenten was use to seeing Hinata had taken to worrying her lips with her teeth.
Sunlight from the midday sun filtered through a canopy of green before Tenten gingerly leaned in closer, lips parting, begging wordlessly to be kissed rather than giving the kiss. To which Hinata, though a bit shy and hesitant at first, didn't disappoint.
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It had just started out as simple training exercises.
Standing amidst a menagerie of weapons Tenten watched tiny blood drops falling from Hinata, who bleed from cuts on her arms and legs. The same places where the immature attempts at the Kaitan had failed to deflect the weapons in time.
It had surprised the older female shinobi that Hinata had even approached her about them training together; yet after the first toss of her daggers Tenten realized that Hinata was just emulating Neji in how she planned on mastering their family's secret and jealously guarded technique.
At first Tenten wanted to feel offended, to snap and not-so-politely tell Hinata that she had to put up with one Hyuuga too many as it was without another one pestering her to train for additional hours on end.
"Please…" came the soft almost coo like request that had stopped Tenten in her tracks.
Neji never said 'please' even when she had first started training with him on the Kaitan jutsu when Team Gai were just Genin.
Hyuuga Neji had automatically assumed that Tenten would assist him; not because she was his teammate and therefore an equal, but rather because he 'demanded' it.
Hyuuga Hinata simply asked, treating Tenten with great respect.
"Ready to take a break yet?" Tenten asked, more for herself than for Hinata since she knew already that the Hyuuga girl could train for hours until she collapsed.
Hinata nodded in agreement, a bit too breathless to speak.
Honestly the stupid-stubborn determination was the only similarity that Tenten could visibly see between Hinata and Neji. But then again it could be just a Hyuuga thing to be so willful and stubborn that you forgo health, rest, and even proper hydration just to prove that they were 'right'. Or in Hinata's case, wanted to prove everyone else 'wrong.'
As Tenten greedily took a swig from the bamboo water container she eyed Hinata with a sideways glance.
Tenten wasn't going to lie and say that Hinata was strong; in fact sometimes it became frustrating for her to keep training with the younger girl. Hinata wasn't like Neji in that it took her weeks rather than days to nail down the Kaitan and then came even more training to perfect the still flawed whirling sphere of chakra.
'Why am I doing this?' Tenten asked herself, not for the first time, before capping the bamboo container and throwing it to Hinata.
Without preamble Hinata uncapped the container and drank.
So actually their official 'first' kiss was an indirect one…but then again those don't count right?
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Sitting down Tenten sighed heavily, absently twirling a traitorous object, a small folded paper fan, on her index finger the young woman waited…and waited…and waited even longer, but he never came.
It was not that Neji stood her up…but rather this was his way of saying 'no' to a relationship altogether.
She gave a smile heavy in sarcasm. Of course, she should have known better. Yet again she had jumped the gun and assumed that just because a boy respected her that he liked…
"Tenten-san?"
The young woman looked up, surprised, but at the same time not, to see a familiar pair of eyes but contained by the wrong person.
Leaning forward Hinata shielded her from the downpour with an unfolded umbrella, "Are you okay?"
Tenten tried to smile and say 'I am holding the pieces of my heart in my hands; but yeah I am okay'; however the effect was ruined by the fact that her hair buns and festival kimono was soaked with rainwater that she hadn't even noticed in the first place.
With a small pensive frown Hinata offered her free hand, helping Tenten to her feet and an offer to walk home with her.
Somewhere between the rain sloshed festival grounds and Tenten's apartment the second kiss was shared underneath the cover of a shared umbrella. Curious lips and inquiring tongues tasting the salt of tears. And two slender arms coiled around a smaller and younger frame desperate for warm human contact to ward off how cold she felt.
Funny, while her reaction to Hinata might be easily called a 'rebound'…Tenten's only regret was that the kiss wasn't long enough.
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'This doesn't change anything. I don't like girls.' Tenten thought to herself even as her and Hinata's lips parted at the training grounds.
The next day Tenten lied to Hinata and said that she would no longer have 'time' to help Hinata train.
It all but killed the older girl to see Hinata smile, bow in respect, and graciously thank Tenten for helping her.
It's was for the best though, Tenten had thought; after all she wanted Neji, not his younger female cousin.
It had taken almost a full three-hundred and sixty-five days for Tenten to realize that she had wasted three years, prior to this one, trying to gain the respect and attention of the 'wrong' Hyuuga.
Meanwhile the 'right' one already admired her as a great female ninja, and was already captivated without Tenten having to 'wow' her by performing cute-impressive tricks.
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Since Tenten was known for her accuracy, after the festival or the 'Neji-incident' as she referred to it in her mind, the young woman also knew that one couldn't miss a target that you never threw at in the first place.
So she had "given up on love" altogether rather than making another failed attempt.
But wasn't it "love" when you ended up stealing kisses from your old-new sparing partner?
No. It wasn't love at all.
It was just easier to catch Hyuuga Hinata off guard when the girl was blushing red and her lips were 'bruised' from being on both the giving and the receiving end of so many kisses.
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Notes: There you have it! My first attempt at crush-love shoujo-ai! If you like or want to leave a suggestion for a new Hinata pairing please send a little review my way kay?