A/N: I hope you all enjoy this one! When the boys return from the Sasuke Retrieval Mission, it was probably hard on all the girls. Especially those who's teammates were almost killed.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I owned Naruto, then Nejiten would be canon. Simple as that.

Nejiten: 100 Themes

Theme 1 - Life

When he had finally woken up, it was as if he had come back to life.

Or at least it was to her.

She had sat her so many hours a day, sometimes in the night too, if the nurses and Tsunade-sama allowed it. Whenever she sat there, the nurses noticed, she seemed traumatized. You probably would be too if you saw your teammate - comrade, friend, best friend, closest friend - was lying in that hospital bed, motionless.

The only way anyone could tell he was alive was the slow rising and falling of his chest and the beeping of the machine next to him. If it stopped…

Sometimes when she sat there, they noticed, she would be on the verge of tears. Many, many, times she was close to crying. However, being a kunoichi, she held those tears back. It hurt the nurses the way she looked down at him. There was a pain in her eyes completely evident. Every beep she heard made her head spin. What that beeping could do to her, only she would know.

Every beep made her worry "will it keep beeping at that steady pace?" No one ever really knew - no matter how many times her sensei, friends, and the doctors told her - if the beeping would stop. If it stopped…

And if she heard that long beeeeeeeeeee……

Sometimes the nurses wondered why she stayed there so often. It probably did hurt her as much as they imagined to sit there every day and watch her teammate slowly recover. She had even seen the ring of fresh skin on his chest, just missing his heart.

She was rejoiced to hear that no one had died on the failed mission. Everyone was. But all the kunoichis of the Konoha eleven were still in a panic. As expected, they all came back with injuries.

Sakura had worried.

She probably worried the most out of everyone in the village.

Hinata had worried. But she trusted Kiba not to get himself killed. And she knew he and Akamaru worked together better than any boy and his dog. But she still cried when she heard he had been injured badly.

Tenten and Ino worried also, almost as much as Sakura had, for both of their teammates had gone out to try and bring Sasuke back.

Tenten saw the tears in Ino's eyes when she heard her teammates were alive. And she saw the tears fall when she heard of Chouji's critical condition. Ino dried her tears and tried her best to bring herself together. They wouldn't like seeing her cry, now would they?

"They're alive and that's what's important," she told herself. And she headed towards the hospital with Chouji's father. (If she would see Shikamaru, he would get a good punch and loud scolding for making her worry so much.)

Tenten had vaguely wondered to herself if she could do the same thing. Apparently, she couldn't.

"Neji?"

His eyes slowly fluttered open at the call of his name.

He turned to the source of the voice, as quickly as his stiff body would let him.

"Tenten?"

He saw her bottom lip quiver a bit before the tears started streaming. "You're alive!" she said, as she buried her face into his chest. "Thank Kami-sama you're alive..." she sniffed "you're alive..."

A/N: Well, it's a start, I guess. How many "pretties" do I have to put before "please" to get you guys to review?? Here I go…. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty….