Chapter One (edited)

When Lee woke up it was already late in the morning. The sun kept hurting his eyes through the window and he asked himself why he had forgot to close the curtains. As he frowned from the intense light, he found his head was aching and his mouth kept begging for some fresh water. What has he done to feel so dreadful in the morning he couldn't clearly remember? While closing his eyes again images of the previous night started popping up in his head. The insight garden in Hyuuga's main house, exceptionally decorated with paper lanterns and the smell of good and tasty traditional food, a lot of people were gathering there, chatting. Hyuuga Hisashi was about to announce something to the family and guests, while Hinata and Naruto approached them. The couple was holding hands and Naruto blushed slightly while rubbing the back of his head. Hinata was smiling and Hanabi come to give her a tender hug and a kiss on the cheek. He found Tenten at his side smiling at the couple while talking to him. Then the image of a white card invitation come to his mind, like someone had just changed the TV channel with the remote control. In an elegant handwriting he could read the words: Engagement Party, Naruto and Hinata. Of course! How could he forget? He had been with Tenten and their other shinobi friends in Naruto and Hinata's engagement party. And what a party!

Lee cocked his head to look at the alarm clock in his bedside table. It's 11am… 11am? IT'S 11AM! I'm so late for training! He was about to toss aside the sheets that covered him when he noticed another person sleeping next to him. A half-naked Tenten was sleeping like an angel in his apartment bed. Half-naked? Bed? What the hell happened?! Lee clutched his own mouth to prevent a scream. Why was his teammate sleeping next to him?! A hot blush seared through his cheeks and for a minute he thought his face was on fire. The strength of the embarrassment almost made him fall off bed.

Tenten slept laying on her side, her face facing him. She looked so peaceful, he couldn't find traces of a fierce personality on her face. Eyelids closed against the dim light of morning and her breathing deep and relaxed, all the muscles in her face and body were totally at peace, like a baby in its first throes of slumber. Her lips slightly parted and her long chocolate brown hair was all over the bed resembling a waterfall. The blankets seem to have adapted to her womanly curves. If he wasn't as shocked as he was, he would probably stay still looking at her beauty, amazed and mesmerized.

While Lee was inner panicking about the situation, he didn't notice Tenten slowly flicker her eyelids open. Streaks of sunlight penetrating the window blind her. She stirs to the side and rubs her knuckles onto her eyes as she yawns. Tenten sits up and rans her hand through her hair, trying to straighten it a little but is suddenly welcomed with an intense throb in her temples. It was like someone had hit her merciless in the head with a hammer, she felt sick and dizzy inside, like almost wanting to throw up. The pain was so intense, she took some time to realize that the sheets that covered her where unfamiliar in colour and texture and the mattress was harder than the one, she was accustomed too.

"Where am- L-LEE?!" she screamed covering her face with her hands but inadvertently peeping through her fingers. "W-w-wha-…!" Lee was in the bed too, right beside her, and was only wearing his short green boxers. She could see every tiny detail of the muscles in his well-trained body he has been crafting patiently through the years. Tenten couldn't deny that she had always fantasize how his body would look like after so many years of hard work training, but to see the real thing and with such a close-up privileged view made her cheeks heat up and her heart pound so hard in her chest she thought it might bruise. On instinct she pulled the sheets up to cover her body who was only dressed up with a black bandeau top bra and black boxer briefs.

Lee's face bloom red and his lips parted.

"T-t-that's not what you're thinking!" he babbled feeling his head spin and all his being tremble. He stretch out his arm in her direction trying to explain himself. "I-I didn't do anything! I-I'm innocent!" Or at least he thought he was. He had no proof to prove himself. How do you prove you didn't touch your teammate when you have no clue why she is sleeping next to you, on your bed, half-naked? Having no memories was truly driving him mad.

Tenten leaned back when his arm brush close and fell off bed when she lost her balance at the edge. She moaned when her head hit the ground. The sheets were pulled along with her and were all tangled up in her legs who were still half on top of the bed. Lee rushed to the edge of the bed and looked down at her visibly worried.

"Tenten! Are you okay?!"

From bellow she had another privileged view over is contracted abdominal muscles. Her head explode. She left the weird and embarrassing position she was in and got away from his teammate by creeping on the floor with her hands.

"D-don't… D-don't get close!" Tenten said pointing at him with a shaky forefinger.

Even feeling like he has been stunned by lightning and engulfed in flames Lee couldn't help but peeking at her womanly body. His eyes went up and down, left to right without his will or consent, assimilating every curve, every convexity and concavity that made her so fascinatingly seductive. Since when did she had that body? Maybe the question should be, how didn't he notice her body before? Well, obviously he never looked at her as a woman before. Why hadn't he? She was definitively a woman. He felt stupid for only acknowledging it in this precise moment.

"W-what are you l-looking at you idiot?!"

Lee got down to Earth and felt speechless while trying to explain his shameful behaviour towards her.

Tenten felt her ears burn. The range of emotions she was facing overwhelmed her. Why was she on Lee's bed? What happened the night before? Did they hook up? Did they really touch each other? No, it couldn't be. That couldn't have possibly happened. She must be having a nightmare, she told herself, just that. She would wake up in a minute and find that that was only a highly sophisticated and realistic erotic dream. Only.

She averted his gaze by looking around the room and end up finding her clothes lying on the floor two meters away. They looked like they were thrown away wildly. Tenten gasped and quickly creeped on all fours to grab them. Lee felt his pulse jump when he caught eye of what the movement of her hips was doing to her butt, which happened to be bigger than he had expected. T-T-Tenten, are you trying to turn me on or what?! She sat on the floor and picked up her white chinese dress pressing it firmly against her chest. Her hands were trembling when she slowly glanced back at Lee.

"P-please turn away so I can dress me!" she said commanding and squeezed the piece of cloth even more tightly with both her hands.

He must have been crazy and stupidly naive when he said "Why turn away? I've seen all of it now." The gaze she flashed him make him stiff in place.

Unable to control the wave of mixed range and awkwardness that overflow inside her, she gritted her teeth and turned her fists into balls.

"Do you have a death wish?!" she cried, highly distressed with the situation "Just turn your damn stupid face away! NOW!" Before I pierce you apart with all my weapons.

"O-o-okay, okay!" he gulped fearing for his life and turned away in bed as quickly as he could.

Tenten breathe in and out to release her accumulated stress, then glimpsed back again to make sure Lee was really following her commands. Fortunately, he wasn't looking. Good. She put on her dress and then pulled out the hair who got trapped inside.

She sat on her knees laying her hands in her lap. Even after dressing herself she was still not comfortable enough to look up and face him. She could feel the butterflies in her stomach and her hands getting sweaty while trying to remember what happened last night for her to wake up in Lee's apartment half-naked. What if they did something they shouldn't have? He was like her best friend for god's sake! Best friends don't wake up on bed together without clothes. Was this the end of their long friendship based on trust and respect? How could she face him during training now? Will she even feel well enough to train with him ever again? The more she thought the more she felt sick and nauseous. She just wanted the earth to swallow her up.

"Y-you can turn now…" she said in low voice her eyes fluctuating between his back muscles and the wall.

Lee raised his head, who was facing the floor from above the bed, and glimpsed back slowly, like making sure his life wasn't being threatened. You never know if Tenten has a hidden kunai ready to throw at you.

Unfortunately for her, their eyes met in seconds like two strong magnets.

"I-" he begun, gesticulating.

"No." she cut.

"But-"

"Don't!"

Tenten stood up in a rush and grabbed the door handle. Her fingers were trembling, and she couldn't bring herself to look back at him again. If embarrassment could kill, she would be dead by now. The image of his abs returned to her mind and her stomach did a succession of somersaults any professional athlete would be proud of. God… I need to get out of here! Tenten rolled the handle and left the room walking on a fast pace until she reached the front door. She went down the step at the entrance and put her black shoes on as quickly as she could.

"Tenten, wait!" Lee hop off is bed and ran to reach her before she could leave. He grabbed her wrist firmly and she end up glancing back at him. "Please don't think I'm a pervert. I can't remember what happened, but I would never do anything without your permission." More than anyone, he wanted to believe in his own words. God knows what he might have done with her in his bed all night that he wasn't aware of. Tenten free her wrist from his grip and shooed his hand, closing her eyes. Lee could see her cheeks flush red when she turned her face away.

"Jeez! J-just go dress yourself!"

And so, she left in such a nervous wreck she almost fell off the building stairs twice.

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