Please Don't Leave Me

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto that honor belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

This is my first attempt at writing a fan fiction story. Please comment and let me know what you think about it. Any ideas would be welcome as well.

Prologue: The battle

They were still surrounded by enemy shinobi and didn't know if they were going to make it home alive. Neji had his Byakugan activated trying to find a whole in the enemies' attack that him and Tenten could get through. All he saw was dozens of enemy shinobi gathered around them and no whole. Standing back to back with her he sadly told her of their situation. They both knew that at least one of them had to make it home alive for the sake of their children. "How many?" she asked him. "I see at least fifty and there could be more", he replied with no trace of emotion. She knew him for years and even though he did not show it, she knew that he was scared for them. He was trying to come up with a plan that would get them safely home but he just didn't see how he could.

She glanced over her shoulder at her teammate, best friend, and husband with a question in her eyes that he understood without her saying a single word, and just sadly shook his head no. She looked around her at the dead bodies littering the ground, among them their teammate Rock Lee. His body lay with many kunai and shuriken sticking out of it. He had put up one hell of a fight taking out quite a few enemies before he received a fatal kunai to his chest and fell to the ground. She just wanted to give in to the grief that was consuming her and collapse in tears over the death of her teammate. Rock Lee wasn't just her teammate though, he was her friend and she thought of him as a brother figure to her. As she fought for control of her emotions she realized that giving in to her feelings now would just get her and Neji killed so she gathered her strength and pushed it to the back of her mind. At times like these she envied Neji his ability to not let anything get to him. She remembers that quite a few people used to consider him cold-blooded because of it. "Well I guess its time for that jutsu isn't it?" she asked him.

Neji stared back at Tenten with a look that said are you sure? She nodded her head and prepared to use her kekki genkai. She closed her eyes held out her hands and concentrated on gathering her chakra from her body, ore from the earth around her, and moisture from the air into her hands. When she opened her eyes again they were a silver color, slitted like a dragon's eye, and there was a ball of liquid metal in front of her. As she concentrated even more on the ball of liquid it started to form hundreds of kunai, shuriken, and senbon. All of the weapons hovered there in front of her as she took a deep breath and looked to her teammate. "OK Neji, where are they at?" By using subtle signals that only Tenten would be able to see and decipher Neji related where the enemy was hiding at. After getting the information from Neji she sent the first round of weapons towards the enemy forces. Several screams and grunts were heard coming from the enemy as a barrage of weapons headed their way. Neji performed his Kaiten spinning around Tenten while he did so in order to protect her as much as possible. He heard a small grunt of pain from her as she was struck by a couple of shuriken in her arms and legs. After he was done with his maneuver he looked around them again. "OK Tenten we're down to about thirty now and they have moved position so that they are closer to us." Again he gave her subtle signals that she followed to launch her second wave of attack with more screams coming from the interior of the forest. As enemy shinobi appeared in front of them Neji told her, "Good job Tenten, there is only about a dozen left. All we have to do is finish off these guys and we can go home. Let's do this." They both focused their concentration on the enemies as they fought. Sometime during the fight they had become separated from each other but they did not let that distract them from their battles.

"8 Trigrams 64 Palms", Neji cried out as his hands started flying at the shinobi coming at him. As the enemy kept appearing in front of him he realizes that he may have misjudged the number of shinobi left for them to fight hand to hand. Left and right they kept coming just to drop dead in front of him a few seconds later. Neji had just used his Gentle Fist technique to dispatch the last of the enemy in front of him when he turned to look for his partner. He found her a few yards away in the middle of fighting three enemies when his gaze saw something horrifying happen and heard a petrifying scream come from her lips.

Another enemy appeared behind Tenten causing her to lose her focus for a split second. That split second of concentration loss was what her enemy had been waiting for as he pulled out a katana from a sheath at his side and plunged it through her chest. Tenten screamed in agonizing pain and felt her strength slowly leave her body. Before she could crumple to the ground in a pitiful heap her inner voice screamed at her

DON'T YOU DARE GIVE IN YET! We have to make it through this for Neji and the children's sakes. We still have one trick up our sleeves that we can use.

You don't mean for us to use the Dragon's Breath do you? She thought to her inner self.

You better believe it! her inner self replied.

Oh great, my inner self is starting to sound like that annoying orange clad idiot Naruto. Well I guess it wouldn't hurt to try it but you know that it will drain quite a bit of my chakra to perform it, right?

We can do it I know we can, besides it will finish this battle then we can go home with our man.

Our man? He is my man. Shut up now so I can concentrate.

Tenten slowly gathered her chakra getting ready to release her newest jutsu. She could feel the warm sticky blood running down her chest to her pants leg. She pushed the thought to the back of her mind before it made her nauseous. The weapons mistress of Konoha got queasy at the smell of blood who would've ever thought that. Her eyes changed from silver to a reddish-orange color signaling that she was ready to go. "Dragon's Breath Jutsu!" What seemed like molten metal shot out of her mouth engulfing the enemy whose screams echoed in Tenten's head as everything around her faded to black.

Left a little cliffhanger for everyone. For those of you who are confused about Tenten's Kekki Genkai, it will be explained in a further chapter. I hope to get the next chapter up in a couple of days.