"Neji, please leave me alone!!"
"Tenten… please open this door. We really need to talk."
"Neji, please leave me alone! I don't want to talk about it…! You have no rights to barge into my house like this! I don't want to talk to anybody, especially to a cold hearted bastard like yourself!"
"Tenten! We need to talk about it now! It wasn't my fault. I had no choice but agree to it!"
"Go away! Go to that bitch of yours and snuggle up with her instead! Just please… please leave me alone."
The tears were now soaking up the young kunoichi's face as if she were to drown at any given second. Neji apparently didn't know how to handle the situation, was growing more confused by the second; he pretty much had the same questions popping into his head: What should I do? What should I say? Those were pretty much the 2 most important questions he wished he had answers for. He had hurt the one person who had loved him all these years. He wished to make things right but he knew he couldn't. He couldn't stop the arranged marriage from going on. He tried to argue against it to the Hyuga elders but his arguments lead him no where. Their minds were already made up and they were too stubborn to be convinced to change them.
"Tenten! Please open up the door or... or... I'll go ahead and knock it down!" Neji wasn't exactly thinking straight at that moment, he was just rambling anything to see if Tenten would fall for it and let him in.
Tenten only laid on her bed as if it was the only thing comforting her at that moment. She held her pillow with such a strong grip her fingers began turning a mix of pink and white. She continued sobbing and went on ignoring Neji who at this moment was losing his patience. She slowly began rubbing her stomach with great concern. "If only he knew…" was all that slipped her lips in a whisper.
All of a sudden, there was a big bang from her bedroom door. Tenten quickly turned around only to see her door shattered into a million pieces. She was instantly filled with such fear she began to tremble uncontrollably. Her face completely went white and she was in a state of shock. Her eyes began to wander at all the broken pieces scattered on the ground which reminded her of dead parents. She stopped crying and her eyes soon stopped shedding the unnecessary tears. She looked up only to find Neji creep right into her room.
He soon felt this great deal of regret swallowig his whole body but he chose to put it in the back of his head. He actually didn't mean to break the door. It's just that sometimes impatience gets the better in all of us, including THE Neji Hyuga.
He slowly started to walk towards Tenten and towards her bed. Tenten wasn't so sure on how to react to this but she felt as if she needed to escape her room immediately, but for some reason she didn't dare move a muscle. By the time Tenten had the nerve to pick up her legs and run, it was too late. Neji was already close enough that she could feel the warmness of his breath. She hoped not to look at him in is eyes but she found it hard to resist. Once she looks up, she knew it was going to be hard to look away. Tenten tried to see if there was any way to avoid this situation but her mind was going blank with ideas.
"Tenten, what's going on? I feel as if you're blaming me for arranging this wedding, as if it were my fault. Do you really think I want to marry a stranger? Do you think I want to go along with it? Well I don't Tenten, I don't. I don't want any of this. I don't want to marry this woman, I don't want to listen to the Hyuga elders any longer, and I don't want us to fight with each other anymore. I want you to understand I'm still in love with you and I could never love another woman, Tenten." Neji said this all pretty quick for he didnt know how long Tenten would keep him in her room.
"Neji, I know you still love me. I know you don't want to marry this woman either, trust me I feel the same way. I don't know why but I feel as if I can't deal with this anymore, by this I mean us being together. I just don't think it would be proper to be dating a married man. I don't! I don't! I don't!" Tenten soon began to feel all that anger coming up her spine again and she soon began shouting into Neji's face. "I don't want to feel like this anymore! This has been killing me Neji, I feel… I don't how I feel. I just feel so messed up inside! Just please leave me alone!"
Neji was looking at Tenten as if he understood how she felt. He truly wished he could fix it but he didn't have a clue. He noticed that she was trembling all over but then something out of the ordinary caught his eyes. He began walking even closer to Tenten and slowly he reached towards her left hand and carefully picked it up and moved it away from her stomach. He slowly came close enough to her and put one of his arms around her shoulders while his other hand gave a small tremble but he managed to place it on her round stomach; in the same exact place where her left hand used to be.
"Tenten, why didn't you tell me," he whispered, "I'm thinking it's now about 4 months since that incident…" Neji couldn't quite finish his sentence because he, himself, didn't think it could possibly happen to him.
"Neji, I tried telling you but I didn't get a chance to tell you because that was the same day you told me you were getting married and I thought what's the use of telling a man who's going to have a lot of worries with the wedding and the whole marriage life. I didn't want to cause you any more troubles. It's not that I didn't want to, it's just I was too scared to see how'd you react to this. I'm sorry Neji…"
Tenten began pulling away from Neji and for some reason he actually let go of her. He was going to a massive train wreck inside his head. Tenten was right; he wasn't so sure how to react to this. He felt so guilty because he felt it was his entire fault. He felt a lot of different emotions at that instant.
"Neji, I'm going to ask you to leave right at this very minute. I hope you understand but I don't want you in my life anymore. I wished it could have been different but I'm guessing that's not for me to decide. I hope you're happy with your new life with that 'woman' you'll soon be calling your wife." Tenten said this in a complete monotone voice; for she hoped, he wouldn't notice she didn't mean any of the words that just came out of her lips.
Neji looked up in utter shock and he wasn't so sure what to do. He stood up from her bed and tried to look at her; fearing this might be the last time he might ever speak to her, he only managed to say, "Tenten…"
"Neji save your words. I've already made up my mind; I'm going to raise this child by myself and if I need any help I could just ask Lee or Sakura or maybe even Hinata. I can manage this without you. You just worry about your new wife and who knows maybe even your future family with her. I don't want this to affect your marriage!" She slowly began to cry even harder. Neji was in utter shock her words began to sink into his heart and realized after today there was going to be no more Tenten in his life.
"Tenten… I don't know what to say…"
"Well then don't say anything! Just leave me alone for the rest of your fricken life! Didn't you just hear me say I can manage on my own! I feel so stupid to think I used to like you… no love you and all you do is get married!"
Her words made sense to him but at the same time, he knew she didn't mean them all. Her anger has finally began to push through and all Neji could do is stand still and listen to her. Fearing with all the stress going inside her might hurt the baby, he realized he should probably leave her alone and calm down. He began to walk towards the door but then he stopped in the middle of the doorway.
Before he left, he looked up and silently said, "Goodbye Tenten. If that's how you want it to be then it's all right with me, but let me just say I will never stop loving you or caring about you. You're the only woman I'll ever love and I don't want you to forget that. I promise you you'll always be in my mind forever. Goodbye Tenten. I know you'll raise our child with great care and for that I thank you."
He walked out the room with tears on his eyes which began falling at such a rapid pace that he couldn't control it when he got to the front door. He took a last glimpse of her house and silently said, "I'm sorry Tenten" and he left.
Tenten slowly walked towards her window and her tears began to slow down a bit. She then looked out the glass and saw Neji locking the door. Even when she didn't know it he was still making sure she was protected. She squinted her eyes only to see Neji crying. She moved her hands and clutched them both near her heart and she suddenly had an urge to blame herself for everything that has happened that night.
"Neji…" she whispered, "I will never stop loving you Neji Hyuga, and that's a promise. I will find a way to let you know how our child is doing and how they're life is going. You have every right to know how its growing up. I'm sorry Neji…"
Tears had starting choking the young kunoichi's words and they kept falling harshly for the rest of the night. She cried herself to sleep for many nights but she knew she shouldn't put stress on the baby and she began to calm down after many nights.
Neji too had cried himself to sleep that night. Hinata was concerned to see him come home crying but she knew he probably wanted to be alone. With the wedding day approaching any day, Neji soon became cold hearted to anybody near him.
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This is my first fan fic! What did you guys think? Sequel or no? Good or bad? Any spelling errors? Any random errors? Tell me what you guys thought. (by the way can you guys leave me some suggestions for the next chapter?) please and thank you ;
