"Hm. I know we all want to return home, but it's becoming too dark to travel." The other two teammates let out a slight groan of disappointment as their leader said this. "We need to stop and call it a night, tomorrow we-"

"And tomorrow we can begin our journey home!" Lee interrupted with his fresh point of view.

"Right… "

The sun was coming down as Team Neji sprinted through the trees on there way home to Konoha. The month long mission seemed to last forever due to their boredom of walking around waiting for a reply from the Mizukage about current affairs. Just getting there took several days, accompanied by small missions to ease the long wait for a response from an undeciding kage.

They stopped at a small clearing and prepared themselves for the night.

The fire glowed bright as the three got comfortable under the two trees next to the fire. Lee and Tenten had their own tree, and having to decide between the two, Neji sat next to Tenten. "I hope you both have a fair sleep seeing as I expect all of us to *yawn* wake early in the morning… to venture…home" Lee murmured as he drifted off to the sleep he desperately needed.

The remaining two looked at him. "For such an energetic person, he falls to sleep quickly." Tenten remarked, and Neji nodded.

Time passed as they tried to fall asleep. Unable to do so, Tenten's eyes darted around the forest, spotting sleeping birds and chirping insects. She glanced over at Neji sitting next to her. His eyes were closed, arms folded… hard to tell if he was asleep or not. "What is it?" he asked in a calm voice. Tenten shuttered. How can he tell I was looking at him?

"N-no, just restless" She looked forward, and then thought to herself. "hm…."

"Something on your mind?" Neji asked.

"I was just thinking, what are you doing after we return home?"

Neji opened his eyes and turned slightly towards her. "Shower… eat… rest… train"

"I thought so, what about the next few days?"

Neji lifted an eyebrow and looked at her "… train, why do you ask?"

"I was just thinking, since you do nothing but train-"

"I also train others…" Neji interrupted.

"…Same thing. Anyways, I was thinking one day I need to take you out to town, just to relax and not worry about getting stronger for once. You need that."

"What about Lee? I think he trains more than I do." Neji questioned at her curious suggestion.

"I always see him out and about with people, it's you who's always cooped up in the Hyuuga household or in the forest training with me."

Neji paused. "Or maybe you need to spend less time with friends and more time training…"

Tenten turned and looked at him in slight shock. "I train plenty, I just like to balance training and relaxing. Unlike you who is obsessed with his own strength and won't let a friend help him!" She turned away in frustration. He is ridiculous! I've been on his team for five, almost six years now, since we were 12! And he has the nerve to tell me to train more when I try to be friendly! I always train with him! She closed her eyes to try and calm herself down.

Neji looked at the back of her head. What did I say? Training isn't that hard or anything, I was just trying to offer her my thoughts and she blows up on me. Women are complicated sometimes… Neji turned his head and closed his eyes again, he wanted sleep. He relaxed himself, when he felt a weight pushing on his arm. He glanced at the disturbance and saw the brown haired kunoichi asleep on his shoulder. That argument must have worn her out… He watched her sleeping face and found himself quite calm, seeing her resting against him… he liked it. He gave a slight smile of satisfaction and nodded off to sleep resting his head on hers.

The sun rose, and with the slightest sunlight touching his eyes, Lee woke up. He rubbed his eyes and looked East at the sun still close to the earth. "Hm, it's probably around 6 or 7am…. Good enough for me!" He got up and brushed himself off, then noticed the two sleeping ninja against the tree across from him. He froze and stared at the sight before him….. "Aww!" His cheeks turned pink from watching the two nuzzling each other. He got closer and sat in front of Neji with a big grin on his face. Neji felt a presence and stirred, slowly opening his eyes to see a blushing, smiling Lee face to face with him.

He was taken aback with the sudden sight of his teammate. "Lee, what are you blush- …" he looked down and noticed his chin still on the girl's head. In an automatic defense for his reputation, he made a sudden movement that left Tenten falling over on the ground.

"Ow!" She sat up and rubbed her head. Not her ideal way to wake up. She looked up with a weary eye and saw the two boys looking at her. "What? … did I oversleep or something, and how did I fall over?"

Lee, about to speak, was silenced by Neji's glare of death. "Um… nope, you woke up just in time Tenten" he said to ease Neji's tension.

The trio leapt through branches and brush as the sea was coming into view. "Haha! We're almost there!" exclaimed an excited green teammate as he suddenly jolted towards the sea. The other two followed at their own pace.

Even though it was a new morning, Tenten was still annoyed with the previous night's argument. She kept quiet and looked forward trying not to notice Neji slightly in front of her. Neji however was thinking about how he could keep Lee's mouth shut about what he saw. Distracted, he didn't notice a figure trailing them, and Tenten didn't notice the kunai thrown towards her.

This is just the opening to the plot, which I have had in my head for a while based on someone else's fanfic I heard years ago which I cannot find anymore, and an episode of Futurama. Thus ends chapter 1