Well, this is my first real NejTen fic. I hope you enjoy it and regard me kindly. Constructive criticism is appreciated and flames will be doused with water. First chapter will have a bit of sensuality.

This fic is dedicated to Matt (Shade the Bat) because he is one of my best reviewers and requested a different pairing.

"Talking"
'Thoughts'
Flashback

Disclaimer: (This applies to all chapters.) I do not own Naruto or anything affiliated with it.

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Winds blow through the trees, the willows whisper around you. You say you are missing a piece of yourself. A piece you cannot find. Are you sure you have not just forgotten?

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Prologue: Dreams

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She gasped as he continued his rhythm, basking in his passionate cry as he drove into her body. She moaned under him, arching her back and molding her body to his as he drove her over the edge.

"NEJI!!!"

Tenten woke up in a cold sweat as she moved aside her tangled bed sheets to find nothing. Scanning her room, she looked around at the various bookshelves and weapons scrolls illuminated by the summer moon. Silence hung in the heavy air and somewhere outside her window, a baby cried.

'It's just a dream,' Tenten told herself, sighing in relief. She calmed herself down, tucking her knees under her chin as she held a hand to her head to wipe the sweat from her brow, but tears began welling up in her eyes as she felt something in her chest throb painfully. She bit her lip.

"Not again."