A Fantasy that Becomes Reality

By thenarutofanfreak22

A NejiXTenten Fanfiction

Author's Notes:

Hey Guys, Welcome back to my Fourth Fanfiction that I've decided to write. This fanfiction is called A Fantasy That Becomes Reality, and is a story about the most awesome and my favorite Naruto Couple, Neji Hyuuga and Tenten. :) YAY WOOOOOOOOOOOOO! LOL THESE GUYS ARE AWESOME MAN! Ahem getting back to the point here. The story takes place in the Original Series of Naruto (Pre-Shippuuden) between the end of the Sasuke Retrieval Arc and probably near the Raiga Arc. This won't be the only NejiXTenten dedicated Fanfiction I will be writing, nope siree.

The Ratings for this story, is M for a naughty lemon WHICH I PLAN ON doing seeing these two are so awesome hehehehe, violence and a bit of bad language in the mix up. I hope you enjoyed reading my other fanfictions, My Goddess and Angel (DeidaraXIno) Shadow Wind (Shika/Temari) and Phoenix and the Blossom (SasukeXSakura) because I know I enjoyed writing them up. Anyway so yeah this is a bit Tenten Centric story but as it progresses you will see a lot more of Neji in it, and his thoughts also on the blossoming of a more then 'Friends' relationship with the awesome weapons mistress. Get my drift guys ;) LOL.

Oh yeah I do not own any of the Naruto characters in this Fanfiction, they belong to the mighty and awesome Kishimoto Masashi-sama, who is a god by the way, so yeah I'm only borrowing them for the pure pleasure of writing this fanfiction and entertaining the muses of many people.

Warning: Heavy Lemon in the final chapter of the story. (Yeah I know they are thirteen in the series, but apparently they should be 14 by the time the Sasuke Retrieval arc ends, seeing it's probably been a year since the Chuunin exams ended and all). Don't like it, don't read it, though you'll miss out the best part of this story if you do. For Mature Eyes Only!

SO yeah please review and read nicely, no fire bombs or rude messages, I'm doing my best here to entertain you guys. And please guys, be very patient with me when I make these chapters up okay? It takes time for someone to create a story; all writers do get writer's block you know :) And plus you guys want a good story right? So anyway, on with the Story :-)

Chapter One: Tenten's Tears and Hope:

Tenten had never thought, that the day Neji Hyuuga and Rock Lee had left, would she be so upset and sick with worry for her two teammates. Tenten had found out that Neji had been helping out Lee with his rehabilitation the day that Sasuke Uchiha, someone who she had thought was quite cute the first day she had met him during the Chuunin Exams, had been chosen to go on a Rescue Mission to get Sasuke back, who had left the village. Of course that didn't compare to her team mate, Neji Hyuuga, the Top rookiee from last year's Class at the Ninja Academy.

Now he was extremely cute, with his ivory pearl like eyes, which were his most impressive asset of course, his long gorgeous dark brown hair; and the fact he was a genius when it came to Taijutsu skills as well as other things related to the Arts of the shinobi. But anyway, back to the story here. (A/N: Hehehehe I'm getting all fan girlish here just thinking about Neji…pardon me…)

Tenten had decided she would go visit Rock Lee the day Neji had to leave to go help retrieve Sasuke, who apparently had taken off somewhere. She knew Neji would have been asked undoubtedly by Shikamaru Nara to join his team to go search, seeing Neji's Byakugan would be needed no doubt to find Sasuke. She had prayed to Kami that Neji would return safely back to Konohagakure.

After she had visited Lee that day, and helped him even cheer up poor Sakura who had slipped into a depression. Little did Tenten know, that Lee had made a foolish and yet stupid plan to go and help Neji, Naruto, Kiba, Choji and Shikamaru out, even in his condition.

It had been the next morning, and Tenten had promised to go on a walk with Lee, so she had decided to get up early enough to go visit him at the hospital.

That was when all hell broke loose; apparently the entire Hospital was in an uproar, as well as her Sensei, Maito Gai. She had been just about to enter Rock Lee's hospital room that he was supposed to be in for his rehabilitation after his surgery, when she heard angry shouting from her Sensei, something about Lee taking off. Her idol, Tsunade was there talking to him for awhile. She broke down into tears when she heard Tsunade say that the team might be killed while chasing after Sasuke during this entire rescue.

First Neji…now Lee…two people that she believed to be her precious people. They were her best friends, at least that's what she consider Neji to be, even if he was cold all the time towards his team mates, and kept mostly to himself. But something had changed, something had definitely changed in Neji after his battle with Naruto in the final part of the Chuunin exams, especially when during his month of preparation, he had asked her to help him train with her. Which was kind of at first an odd request to her; but these types of things were probably extremely rare coming from the Hyuuga Prodigy.

She took it as a sign that he was starting to acknowledge her skill, even if she had utterly failed to defeat Temari in her preliminary match. She knew she would be fearing that woman for quite a few years to come. Hell he had been there for her, even if he didn't realize she knew he was there, when she had been unconscious in the hospital, thank goodness her back hadn't been broken at the time. She had made him think she was still unconscious, but it had warmed her slightly to know he cared even the tiniest bit about her.

Tenten sniffled as she swiped at her eyes, as she leaned against the wall, listening to the two of them argue, she heard during her reverie of the incident a year ago with Lee, when he had accidentally taken a sip of Gai-sensei's sake, mistaking it for water. That had totally been embarrassing if you asked her, that incident. It had taken both Neji and Gai to pin the drunken Lee after he had almost totally wiped out the entire pub with his crazy drunken fighting skills.

Suddenly she felt a shadow upon her, gazing down at her, she turned her dark brown haired head up to see her Sensei there, a look of what looked to be mixed of sadness and worry, and something else, that Tenten couldn't put her finger on in his dark eyes.

Tenten had been right then, on the verge of leaving the village also to go after Lee and Neji, to make sure they were alright. She hated being the only one left behind whenever there was something desperate going on, like this incident right now.

As if he could read her thoughts, Gai-sensei spoke as he placed a hand on her shoulder, to comfort her,

"Tenten…do not waste your youthfulness on mere tears, both my youthful students should be alright, even if the path they have been sent on is an extremely dangerous one."

Tenten only nodded quietly as she wiped her eyes, showing her emotions in front of other shinobi was a violation of one of the shinobi rule #25. A shinobi was not allowed to show their emotions, it would only be a sign of weakness to those of her opponents. But she couldn't get this sickening feeling out of the pit of her stomach that something terrible had happened to Neji and Lee, or was about to happen to them.

Tenten then heard her idol speak, "Tenten, go home and rest, as soon as we hear anything, we will call you, do not worry about your team mates, I'm sure they are fine…"

Tenten gazed up at Tsunade and still slightly frowning, she then nodded once and started heading off towards the exit, feeling like she was useless. She had every damn right to go after her team mates, every god damn right, but she knew she should obey Tsunade-sama and Gai-sensei; it was bad enough they were worried for the entire Rescue team as well, they didn't need a depressed kunoichi getting in the way also.

Tenten only could hope that Naruto and the others would come home safely, and would be bringing Sasuke with them also, as well as Neji.

Tenten was dreaming that night, or rather fantasizing about a certain ivory eyed dark brown haired boy…

Dream Begins:

'Neji…" she called out in her dream.

The boy turned towards her, a slight smirk on his pale lips, "What is it…Tenten?"

Tenten was blushing at the moment, "Um…I...wanted to tell you something that I've been meaning to tell you…for awhile…well since the day of the final part of the Chunin Exams…I think…"

Neji then smiled, as he walked over to her, "You don't need to say another word…Tenten…I already know…" Ivory eyes met brown ones once he was close enough; he was practically within hugging distance of her now.

Tenten raised an eyebrow at him for a moment, "How…you mean…you knew all this time…that I…?" She was silenced when he leaned over and kissed her softly on the lips, her first kiss and it was with the man she truly had wanted to be with, since she first met him in the Academy.

-Dream Ends-

Tenten groaned in her sleep as she opened one of her chocolate brown eyes when she heard someone banging on her window to her apartment, she immediately sat up, realizing that she was totally throbbing in a certain area of hers, from that erotic dream. She then saw who it was banging on her window sill like that, it was morning.

Lucky for Tenten she had worn a pair of black shorts and an old pink tank top to bed, instead of her fancy nightgown. The person at the window, was none other then Sakura Haruno,

Tenten opened the window, and asked, "What's up Sakura??"

"They found them…they all came back…" said an overly excited Sakura. "I'm sure Naruto finally knocked some sense into Sasuke's head and all…"

Tenten saw the hope and sadness in Sakura's eyes, which meant they hadn't recovered Sasuke and Naruto yet, but Neji and the others of the Rescue team. Tenten then asked,

"Sakura…you mean they found Neji…is he…okay?" She was extremely worried.

"From what I could tell, he was in pretty bad shape, they don't know if he'll survive in the next hour or so…Tsunade-sama wanted me to come get you, Lee is okay, Choji is also in pretty bad shape, if it wasn't for the Sand Team coming to their rescue, they probably would have ended up dead, or even worse condition. Shikamaru's also okay, he just has a broken finger, Kiba's got some pretty bad injuries and Akamaru is unconscious."

Tenten nodded and said quickly as she ran to search for some clean clothing, "Alright...I'm going to come with you, can you give me 10 minutes to get ready, I just woke up…?"

Sakura nodded, "Sure…no problem…" Sakura then quickly got off the balcony and waited by Tenten's front door.

Tenten, dressed in her pink Chinese shirt and black baggy pants and zori sandals, her hair was up, freshly brushed in her usual style of hair, about 10 minutes later, walked out of her front door, and immediately rushed towards the hospital. Sakura was not far behind her. Tenten had no idea why she had been dreaming that erotic dream, she only consider Neji to be a friend, as it should be. For god sakes he was a Hyuuga, and they probably had some rule that didn't allow outsiders to date any of their Clan members let alone fall in love with one.

Tenten then remembered the aching feeling she felt when she had woken up out of that dream. Perhaps this could be her own little fantasy, just hers, seeing Neji probably wouldn't give her the time of day, seeing he only considered her his teammate and sparring partner. Especially seeing she felt so lonely these days, seeing both her parents were either dead or had taken off, and abandoned her.

Sakura was attempting to talk to her as they ran for the hospital, reaching it within another 10 minutes, at the speed Tenten was running at,

"Tenten, I hope Naruto…and Sasuke-Kun are okay…" said a slightly upset Sakura. Tenten looked towards Sakura and said, "I'm sure they are fine Sakura, just as much as I hope Lee and Neji will pull through with this…"

As soon as Tenten arrived, she immediately ran to the Nurse's station and asked where they were holding Neji, the nurse gave her the room, and Tenten immediately ran towards the wing of the hospital that they were holding Neji. She nearly collided with her other team mate, Rock Lee as he and Gai-sensei were heading for the exit. Lucky for Tenten she was good at avoiding things in her path, and quickly spinning on one toe, she moved to the side and around Rock Lee, who was shouting her name. Gai-sensei was also calling her name, confused slightly at why she was running in a hospital. She didn't have time to talk to them; she just wanted to see Neji, to see he was safe. She knew Lee looked alright; apparently he only suffered a few minor cuts in his ordeal with Kimimaro, one of the ones that had been helping with Sasuke leaving Konohagakure.

She would give Lee hell later for his stupidity, running off when he had just recovered from a life threatening surgery, Neji was more important at the moment. Tenten skidded to a halt when she reached the room for Neji, to see that Neji's Uncle, Lord Hyuuga Hiashi was standing there, with his arms crossed, his ivory eyes closed at the moment. As if he had been waiting there patiently to see his nephew.

Tenten then frowned, and decided to be quiet and wait patiently for the news, that Neji was going to pull through, whatever injuries he had sustained, to make him in this critical condition in the first place. Her idol came from another room next to Neji's hospital room. She listened without trying to be nosey, the quiet conversation with Hiashi that lasted a few minutes, before Tsunade turned to see Tenten there.

Tenten hoped to kami that, Hiashi wasn't going to attempt to send her away, Neji was someone she cared about too, and she cared about Neji a lot. Tsunade then walked over to speak to Tenten, when Shinzune, Tsunade's servant came running out shouting, "TSUNADE-SAMA!"

Tsunade turned towards Shizune, "Neji's out of danger so far, he managed to pull through…"

Said a delighted Shizune. Tenten wanted to sigh in relief and break out into tears just then. She peered over towards Hiashi and saw what looked to be him praying for a moment, before he went to ask if he would be able to see Neji now, even if he was asleep to confirm that his nephew indeed was alright.

Tsunade then said, "I think that shouldn't be a problem, though he won't be awake for a few days, his injuries that he had sustained through his battle, were very severe, he took an arrow by the looks of it to the stomach and shoulder, not to mention he used up all his chakra and has other deep wounds on his back, who ever he fought out there, had definitely wanted to turn Neji into a pin cushion…"

Tenten frowned, and spoke up finally, "I want to see…him also…I mean I am his teammate, please Lady Tsunade, I…" She was silenced by a comforting hand to her shoulder, it had been Tsunade, "You can see him first then Tenten but only for 5 minutes alright?" "He needs his rest; I have to go check on the other patients…"

Tenten nodded her head, and bowed to both her and Hiashi, she bowed to Hiashi just out of respect seeing he was the head of his clan after all. She was always doing her best to be polite even to those with high status. She then quietly walked in, and passed a few medic ninja who had finished their work and were now going out to do other things.

Tenten saw the glimpse of brown hair underneath a wad of bandages. Tenten at first was shocked at how badly he had been injured, but that didn't stop her from going to see her team mate, who was fast asleep and apparently wearing a breathing mask to aid him in breathing. Tenten bursted into tears again, she sobbed, "Neji…I'm…sorry…I wish…I could have went with you…to help you fight whoever did this to you…"

She wiped at her eyes with her palm. "I feel so useless to the team…I promise I won't screw up next time…nor will I let you guys leave me behind again." She said this softly and very determinedly. This would be her new hope; she would work hard to tell Neji how she felt about him as well as improve her skills. She looked around, and watched as the last nurse walked out of the room, to give her some privacy for her to talk to her sleeping comrade.

She then gently reached over to touch his bandaged hand, giving it the lightest of squeezes. She then bent down and whispered into his ear, "Neji…when you wake up…I want to confess to you…that I…I…love you…" She then kissed the only part that wasn't covered in bandages, his forehead. She then smiled sadly as she quietly removed her hand and slowly slipped out of his hospital room. She knew he probably couldn't hear her confess to him that she loved him, but she wanted to say those words, in hope that he could hear her, and this would help him pull through the small comatose state he had been placed under to heal himself.

Her confession would bring her a new hope, that one day, she would be able to tell him when he was awake that she loved him, she Tenten, the simple girl with no family, and only a Genin, loved the Hyuuga Prodigy, Neji Hyuuga. Yes, this would definitely give her a hope that he might even have the same feelings for her.

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