Hi everyone, this if the first Chapter posted by Meda-Chan. Im really new to this, so please dont get mad at what i write...and if you review, please make sure they are only there to help, and not make fun of my writing. If you write critisizing words, please dont be tooooo bad. Thank You. And i do not own Naruto, if i did, Tenten would have WAY more parts than she does now. And she would not be left out of missions.
Chapter 1 Permission
Tenten walked slowly through Kohona. A flower placed in between her gentle hands. She held a look of disappointment on her face, along with grief and sorrow. She was headed towards the hospital, to visit a friend.
She walked in knowing the exact room number and which floor it was on. It was obvious to her sense she had been there everyday that week. She knocked on the door twice before sliding it open. She walked in gazing around the room, there stood her sensei, staring down at the younger boy in the bed, her teammate. Neji stood off far corner with his arms crossed and eyes closed. He only opened them to eye tenten before closing them again.
She made her way over to the boy's bedside, taking out the old flower and putting in the new. Her eyes drifted to the boy's face, lee's face, his eyes closed. She was at the age of fifteen while Neji and lee both sixteen. Lee lay there quietly, his face looking like a child's. His expression was peaceful, not like the night that caused him to be there.
"I'm sorry lee-kun…" She started staring down at him. "Its not your fault" Neji said from his corner. He knew tenten had been blaming herself for lee's injuries. "Neji's right, it was an accident" Gai said as he placed a hand on lee's shoulder. Tenten looked down, she knew it was her fault, she had the chance to save him but didn't. She nodded to them so they wouldn't continue to tell her she was wrong.
"Tenten, how about you take the rest of the day off" Gai replied. He knew what day it was. He felt sorry for his student to have to deal with the day coming up, the anniversary of her parents death. Tenten nodded. "Thank you Gai-sensei" She bowed respectfully to him as she walked to the door. She didn't bother saying bye to Neji, she wouldn't get a reply form him.
She made her way back through Kohona. She gazed around, she was one of the few chunin who didn't have families. She knew naruto was one the same as her, along with Sasuke. But naruto was different, He didn't know his family at all. Thinking of the loud-mouth ninja made her eyes drift over to the ramen shop. She spotted his spiky blonde hair. He was going on about the different types of ramen to a man. It was a man she had recognized but never really got the chance to speak to. He went by the name of Jiraiya, one of the three legendary sanins.
She walked over calmly, taking the open seat beside naruto. Naruto turned his attention over to her. "Hello Tenten-chan!" he cheered. "Hello Naruto-kun" she replied in a low tone. She ordered a bowl of ramen. The ramen shop owner stared at her. "How is that young fellow on your team…uh…Lee-kun isn't it?" he asked. Tenten tensed, her body relaxed slightly. She looked up at him, a forced smile on her face.
"He's doing fine, the doctor said he should be waking in a couple of days, and he should be getting out in a couple of weeks" tenten replied. Naruto gasped. "bushy-brow's in the hospital?!" Tenten nodded. "It's my fault…" she murmured softly. "Eh? Tenten-chan, you say something?" Naruto asked, he couldn't exactly hear what she said. "I said it's my fault, It's my fault lee is in the hospital now. I'm the one who wasn't fully focused on our mission. He is injured because I made the stupid mistake of trying to show off on our mission!" She yelled in an angry tone. It was not like she was mad at naruto, but at herself.
She was mad at herself for trying to prove herself in front of her comrades. She hated being weak, the only thing she was good at was weaponry. She had weak but fair chakra control, and she was weak at using certain Jutsu.
Jiraiya and naruto both stared at her, along with the ramen shop owner. She felt heat rise up her face. She looked down into her bowl of ramen. Naruto sighed, knowing what it was like to try and prove yourself to everyone. A grin came to his lips. "Why don't you come and train with us. The pervy-sage can teach you a lot" Naruto replied. Tenten glanced at naruto out of the corner of her eye. Training, was that what she needed?. Jiraiya stood, placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Im sure your mother would be proud of you, you have a wonder skill with weapons as she did" He said. The older man turned. Tenten's eyes grew slightly wide. "Wait, how do you know my mother?" she asked. She knew nothing of her father, except he was a master with weapons as she was. The man stopped in his tracks. "I was her sensei, she was my favorite student, besides Minato Namikaze" he responded. Her sensei, than that meant he knew a lot of her mother. Naruto only blinked. "Eh?, so my father, and Tenten-Chan's mother were on the same team pervy-sage?" Naruto asked.
Jiraiya didn't answer, he continued on to walk. "Naruto, I'm want to take up your offer to train with you" She said. "That's great, meet me here in the morning, ok" Naruto said eagerly, jumping up. "It'll be great to have someone to train with" Naruto said happily. "I cant wait, see you later tenten-chan" Naruto said running off towards his apartment.
Tenten stood paying for her ramen. She walked back to her apartment. She slipped her hand into her pocket, searching around for the key. It wasn't there. She sighed, she lost her key again. "Behind your headband" she heard Neji speak. Tenten reached up taking off her headband, her key falling down to the ground. Neji bent down picking up the key and opening the door for her.
"Thank you" she said as she walked in, Neij behind her. "How's lee?" she asked. "The same as when you left" Neji answered closing the door behind her. Tenten sat down on her couch sighing, thinking of her day. "Tenten" Neji started as he sat down beside her, wraping his arms around her into a hug. "Are you finaly going to tell me why, every year you never show up for training or missions around this time?" he asked.
Tenten sighed, I was about time for her to tell. He was her boyfriend after all. Tenten and neji were secretly dating behind their teams backs. If it was revealed aloud to everyone their training sessions and missions wouldn't go as planned.
"When I was born I lived with my mother and father." she started. "My mohter was a master in weapons. She could hit her target without even looking" she said with a smile on her face, proud of her mother. "My father was a Mochi maker, he owned his own shop. He made the best mochi in the whole land, people would come by just to try his Mochi." she said. Neji nodded, to show she had his full attention.
"They were sent off on a special mission when I was 5. I had just started at the academy then. I remmber waiting at our neighbors house, watching the window for my father to come in, for my mother to come in and hug me and tell me how the mission went, and for my father to come in and brag about how many enemies my mother struck without missing" she said again. "I ended up waiting in that same spot, refusing to move from that spot until I saw either of them." She said her voice crackeling. "I remmber staying there until the hokage himself came to speak to me. He told me that both my parents were missing."
It was silence for a while before tenten started speaking again. "I don't think I fully understood it all at that time, I was still a little kid. Till this day, no one has found them or heard from them at all. But every year on that day, I go stand at the memorial stone, thinking of them" she finished her story without sheding a tear. Maybe because neji was there and she didn't want to show him her weak emotion side. Neji leaned down kissing her forehead. "But today, I met Naruto's sensei, Jiraiya-Sama, he said he knew my mother and naruto asked me to train under him. Im tempted to do it, maybe I can find out some things about my father" Tenten replied. "I think you should. I will be training with Hisashi-Sama, and lee's out for a while" Neji said.
Quietness ran throiugh the room again. Tenten closed her eyes and leaned back onto neji's chest. He may have been a rude jerk around the others, but when they were alone, he was her comfort. She fell asleep, hearing neji say he'd be there for her forever.
Thank You for reading the first chapter to Meda-Chan's fanficiton. I will try to do good...
Preview of Chapter 2:
Jiraiya payed attention to the techniques Tenten used. It was simple to see that Tenten was better than Naruto at her Tai-Jutsu skills. Naruto hoped to his feet, rubbing the brusied red mark on his face. A grin made it to his lips as he dusted the dirt off his cloths. "That was good Tenten-Chan, but i will win" Naruto said. Tenten smirked back. "This comes from training endlessly with a impatient hyper boy, and a grumpy hyugha" she said as she got back into fighting stance. "That's enough" Jiraiya spoke, stoping the two. ''Awe come on Pervy-sage, we just started" Naruto whined. Jiraiya walked over to the two, pulling out the big scroll that is worn on his back. "Is Tenten-chan gonna be able to summon a toad like me?!" Naruto asked, excitment in his eyes. Jiraiya looked at tenten, ignoring the spikey haired boy. Tenten looked at the scroll confused.