Dragon Kunai
NejiTen fanfic
Tenten was sharpening her kunai getting ready to spar with her teammate Neji. One she picked up made her stop and stare at it. It was a shiny steel kunai, with a green handle, the words 'Weapons mistress', and the sign of the dragon after that. On the blade her name was carved.
She looked up from the kunai at Neji who was doing his usual before-sparring ritual. She smiled, then looked back at the kunai, thinking of the day she'd received it.
Flashback
It was the day the new chunin were being announced. Neji and Lee, who were already chunin, were waiting outside the academy to see if Tenten had gotten promoted.
Finally the door opened and Tenten came out. She walked over to her team beaming. She held up a green vest smiling triumphantly. "Oh yeah I'm a chunin," she shouted.
"Congratulations Tenten!" Lee yelled. "The power of youth has not failed you!"
"Nice job," was all Neji said.
"Oh I have to go report this to Gai- sensei," Lee said running off.
"Well that saved me some effort," Tenten sighed. "Considering I have no money I guess I'll head home." Neji nodded and they started home. (Neji always walks her home)
On the way Tenten did a few flips out of excitement. Neji just raised an eyebrow at her. "What? I can't be excited? I mean everyone else I know got presents for becoming chunin and I can't jump around?" she questioned.
"I didn't say that," Neji said with his hands in his pockets. "Besides do you really want presents from the two green idiots anyway?"
"An offer would have been enough from them; I mean Gai-sensei barely knows my name," Tenten frowned. Then she noticed a box sticking out of his pocket. "What's in your pocket?" she asked.
He looked down at his pocket and pulled out the box. "This?"
"Yeah what is it? What's it for?"
"Man you're nosy… but it's for you," he said handing her the box.
She fidgeted with the box in her hands. "What's in it?"
"Open it," he said looking at the ground. She flipped the top open and tilted the box so its contents spilled into her hand. She read the handle and then the inscribed name on the blade of the special kunai. The shiny metal reflected her expression. She looked confused and then smiled happily.
"Oh my god this is awesome! Where'd you find it?" she shouted.
"I saw it at a festival on one of our missions and the man who sold it to me carved the name on it," he explained.
"Why'd you buy it so early?"
"I figured I'd find a reason to give it to you."
"Well thanks, I love it." She smiled and they continued their walk to her house.
Flashback End
Tenten was so lost in thought that she didn't realize Neji was trying to get her attention until she felt him tap her shoulder. "Huh? Um what?" she said falling back to reality.
"I said, 'Are you ready to train,' but apparently you were too busy in your own world to listen," he said, annoyed.
"Oh sorry, I was thinking about something," she explained.
"What was so important that it made you so oblivious?"
"Nothing that would interest you," she twirled the kunai quickly and gripped it in her hand again. "Just thinking about a present I got a while ago."
"Well let's train if it's that irrelevant," he said, walking over to his starting spot, ignoring the fact that she was clutching the special kunai like she was.
"Alright." She smiled, putting the kunai in her kunai holder and stood up. She walked over to her training spot and took out her summoning scroll.
A/N: Everyone's been asking me to write a NejiTen, so I wrote this one-shot. I hope you like it.
