TenTen and Neji
AU
Rated: T
Disclaimer: I don't have any legal ownership over Neji, TenTen, Lee, Gai, the Cha Cha Slide, The Cupid Shuffle, or even the prompt. Kishimoto owns the characters; I have no clue who owns the songs, and . the prompts.

..::1. There comes a time when every lonely little boy must learn to dance.::..

"Left foot stomp! Right foot stomp!" A boy stared as his gym class danced, giggling and laughing. His unnaturally pale gray almost white eyes (his pupils were, oddly, the same color as his irises) were wide.

"Hiya!" The boy jumped slightly, startled, as the girl popped up at his side.

"Why ain't'cha dancing?" The girl asked curiously. The boy looked her over uncertainly as she did the same to him. She seemed normal enough with her tanned Asian skin, warm honey brown eyes, and cinnamon brown hair. Her hairstyle was the only thing out of the norm – it was up in two twin buns.

He was unnatural looking in many ways. Though he was pure Asian, he was a paler white than the English-Asian kids. His eyes made him look like he was blind when he wasn't, and he had long milk chocolate hair. He covered his forehead with bandages like he was wounded; yet he wasn't. For a boy his age, too, he was probably underweight and highly resembled a fairly pretty girl.

"'Cause." The boy replied simply.

"I'm TenTen." The girl said, smiling.

"Neji" He curtly replied.

"Eh?! No way! You're the boy all the girls in my class think is cute?! You look like a girl!" TenTen exclaimed, slightly bruising Neji's ego.

"There is no other boy who looks like me, is there?" He asked, girlish voice (1) filled with scorn.

"Well… no…" TenTen mused.

"You ain't dancing just 'cause you don't wanna?" She asked as Neji remained silent.

"Hai."

"Well, you look sad and lonely. You also are watching the others like you wanna dance. You do, don't you?" TenTen said knowingly.

"Don't you want to get back to your friends?" Neji asked sourly.

"What friends? All the girls here have no lives, only playing with dolls and crap… They can't even throw a golf ball well. It's like none of them have heard of the word 'outdoor' or 'dirty'. They fawn all over you, too, though I dunno why… You look and sound like a girl, Neji-san. No offense intended, and, sorry, I wasn't tricked – answer my question."

Neji was fooled, for sure. He was disappointed the girl remembered her question after all her rambling. He didn't answer her question at once, but he pondered himself… did he want to join his gym class?

"… Won't I look stupid, though?" Neji asked, finally.

"Nope! Everyone does it!" TenTen beamed, "C'mon!"

She took his hand and dragged him into the dancing crowd of kindergarteners.

"Just follow what the ojii (2) says; it's not hard!" TenTen said.

"One hop this time! One hop this time!" The voice blared. Neji watched the giggling girl as she followed what the man on the CD said. It looked stupid but fun.

"Oh, you baka!" TenTen sighed when she noticed Neji was just watching (again), looking lonelier than ever. She stood in front of him and took his hands.

"Mimic me." And so he did. When it said to jump, he did, hand in hand with TenTen. Soon a smile wandered onto his face, laughter escaping his lips as TenTen did stuff the wrong way on purpose.

Soon, he didn't know when, he was neither longer mimicking nor holding hands with her; she was at his side, laughing with him. Other kids said they were doing it wrong, but, under TenTen's orders, he ignored them. A boy from the sidelines soon joined the two, doing odd movements galore. Neji vaguely remembered the slightly chubby (3) boy as Lee.

That one dance in kindergarten began the inseparable friendship between the three. They were odd, crazy, weird, and, at some times, cool. Not matter what, though, they were together.

"So… The Cha Cha Slide, ne?" Neji, now a slightly muscled 23-year-old lanky, said as TenTen put in a CD. She had grown into a curvy, beautiful young woman. They were in Neji's garage with out Lee (he was on a date with his forever dream girl, Sakura).

"Uh-huh. The dance that started it all 17 years ago." TenTen chirped. Neji laughed, pulling the girl into a hug.

"It did start everything, didn't it? I remember asking you to the prom when Sakura was playing it, and at the prom, we danced to it." Neji mused, as the track played. It was an old, forgotten song now. Even The Cupid Shuffle had long past, too, after it overrode the Cha Cha Slide.

"Wasn't it playing when you kissed me?" TenTen asked, sliding to the right with the track.

"Maybe." Neji snickered. "And when I asked you to marry me?" He added.

"EH?!" TenTen whirled around to see Neji on one knee, box in hand.

"Kneel down and ask her for her hand." Their old (and closest – they were still in touch via Lee) sensei, Gai's, voice ran through the altered CD.

"Mind marrying an ass like me? Neji asked. TenTen flushed.

"The girl shall say yes and then dance the night away." Gai's voice said, again fro the CD Neji has switched with the original the day before.

"You're supposed to follow the song, ne?" He asked, opening the box.

"H-hai!" TenTen glomped him, laughing madly. Just as the CD said, they followed, and danced the night away… no, actually, until Lee came over after his date was done to find out the results.

A/N: Heh, not what you were expecting, ne? It just came to me after I read the prompt… I took little boy literally and made Neji, Lee, and TenTen's gym class do what I had to do in gym – dance to the Cha Cha Slide. X3

(1) Neji had a very girly voice when he was four in the anime, so I highly doubt it would change too much in a year.

(2) Ojii means old man.

(3) In Lee's flashbacks of his Academy days, he was chubby.

Hope you liked it. I randomly decided to do the 10 For NejiTen challenge, and came up with plots for all ten last night. I could only write three before I had to go to bed (early tennis camp)… and I'm too lazy to write up three in one day. Nyeh! :P I'll tell you, though, some will be AU, others won't, some can be a bit angst while others can be humorous… and the length will change dramatically between prompts. I'll also have a trilogy in here… but bai-bai for now.

~ Tobi