Breaking Tradition
Tenten had gone away on a year-long mission and when she got back, she'd picked up all sorts of weird customs. Like this eat-all-day on the last Thursday of November tradition.
Neji had tried to tell her it was pointless, but it didn't work.
("It's the same as any other day in the year," Neji argued, and all she said in reply was "Suck it up and invite the others.")
So Neji is stuck sitting at a table with a turkey, of all things, laid out nicely. There are all sorts of nice-looking side dishes that probably don't taste very good, judging by the amount of grease. They aren't even using chopsticks.
"I'd like to give thanks for the food we have today," Tenten starts. Stupid, Neji thinks. When she launches into the story about a race called Native Americans and their first dinner together with the colonial people, Neji stares at the wall and drifts off.
"Didn't the settlers kill them all?" Shikamaru comments at the end of her mushy story. Neji groans. Stupid, Nara, he thinks, glaring at the pineapple head. Very stupid of you.
Even Lee recognizes that as an extremely idiotic question and winces.
Tenten grabs the nearest sharp object (but then, the whole table is covered in sharp objects) and lunges across the table. There's a huge fight after that, so much more satisfying than just sitting and eating.
(Hinata had to hold Shino back as he lunged towards Kiba who was busy trying to stab Naruto and Sakura and they were trying to get at Choji who was having a shouting match with Ino, and Neji was in the thick of it all, fighting everyone.)
"That officially ruins it," Tenten pants when they've somehow ended up outside, lying on cool grass and staring at the twinkling stars. Neji thinks this is better than anything else they could've done and he thinks she probably knows because when a breeze passes through, winding around them, Tenten shifts closer.
And apparently Naruto knows too, because he lets out a whoop and says, "Let's do this every year instead!"
A/N: Happy turkey day to all! xox Here's a little ficlet XD
