My first ever oneshot! I'm so proud of myself because I managed to write a oneshot that (hopefully) managed to make sense! Whoop!

Disclaimer: In my dreams.

Warnings: NejiTen (duh), SasuSaku (because it's me and I love them) and minor NaruHina (they're so cute!). Also major OCCness especially for Neji, Sasuke and Hinata because they are my puppets! Dance puppets dance!

Hurt

Tenten hurried to the training grounds, fixing one of her buns up at the time. She was so late. Granted it was just 2 minutes but Neji had always been a stickler for punctuality especially for his training. Naruto had softened him, but Neji had confided in Tenten that his goal now was to never lose again after Naruto and Kidomaru, so when it came to training, Neji was still more like pre-fight-with-Naruto Neji.

She finally arrived at the training grounds for her daily sparring with Neji.

"Neji!" She called out when she saw the solitary figure used Juuken Ryuu on a training dummy. He turned stiffly when he heard her voice.

"You're late." He said quietly and Tenten realised the barely contained rage in the lines of his body.

"I know and I'm really sorry. My alarm clock stopped working so I woke up an hour after I was supposed to." Tenten finished with a nervous laugh. She hadn't seen Neji this way since before the Chunnin exams and even then it was only after he was mad at the main house. "Neji, is something wrong?" Tenten asked gently, not wanting to anger him more.

"No." His reply was short, sharp and cold. "Now let's spar." He said activating his Byakugan and getting into his Kaiten stance.

"Okay Neji." Tenten agreed. Whatever helped relieve the anger, she thought. She was retrieving her scrolls, which she was trying to practice using without using too much chakra, when she was hit by Hakke Hyakunijuuhachishou (Eight Divination Signs, 128 Palms of the Hand). Neji finished off by flinging her against a tree.

"An enemy will not wait for you to prepare for battle, you have to ready in an instant. I do not know why I train with such a weakling, such as you." Neji said coldly as he stood above Tenten. A part of Neji could not believe he was saying these things to Tenten, his teammate, sparring partner and, even though he would never admit it out loud, his friend. The other part of Neji, the one controlling his mouth was mad at Tenten for not having any family so she didn't have to deal with any the problems that came with it, plus for thinking she could understand what he was going through when she clearly could not.

Meanwhile while Neji was saying all these cruel things, Tenten's mind was in shock. She just felt numb; it couldn't be Neji saying these things, could it? However when he called her a weakling, a small part of her brain, the bit that always made her keep fighting until the end, sparked into life and said to her, Are you going to take that from him? He may be brilliant, and he may be hot and we may have had a crush on him since forever, BUT you can't take those insults lying down. Now ignore the fact that you hurt all over, get up slowly, without shaking, look him straight in the eye and give it back to him! Now Tenten didn't normally listen to this part of her brain in everyday life, mainly because it was suicidal, but today it actually made sense. She stood slowly so it looked like she was just increasing the tension instead of screaming inside, tilted her head up from its downward position and looked Neji straight in the eye. There was a hint of surprise in Neji's eyes at the expression in hers, but he stared back coldly.

"Neji," Tenten started in a low quiet voice. "I don't mind if you don't tell me what's wrong, heck I don't even care if you take out your frustrations on me physically but if you want someone who will just stand still and take your insults without fighting back then go and find one of you fan club who are so delusional that they won't really care what you say to them. Just leave me alone."

"No Tenten. Our spar isn't over yet." Neji's mouth seemed to be running on its own accord now, he couldn't seem to stop what he was saying.

"Yes is it. You won, whopee for you. Now go and find Lee and spar with him." Neji saw he wasn't going to get anywhere with her, so he decided to just do as she said and allow her some time to calm down. As soon as Tenten could no longer feel Neji's chakra, she allowed her shaking legs to give way and to give into the darkness that seemed so welcoming.

Back at the village,

"Hinata sama have you sorted out the problem yet?" Neji asked as he came across Hinata at Naruto's favourite ramen stand.

"Y...yes I have. It may take a while but it can be sorted out." Hinata said proudly, and Sakura who was with her looked at her with pride.

"Hey you only stuttered once there! You can almost get to the point where you don't stutter at all." Sakura said. "Where is Tenten Neji-san?"

"Why should I know?" Neji said quickly but in his usual cold manner. Sakura's eyes narrowed.

"What did you do." She stated.

"What do you mean?" Neji asked. Sakura snorted and Hinata watched this exchange like you would watch a tennis match.

"Neji-san, although you are a cold bastard, on my team is the coldest bastard of them all. In fact he was such a cold bastard he left me on a bench as he left Konoha, which today is the anniversary is of which is why you really don't want to piss me off today. But that doesn't matter so much because me and Naruto are going to drag him back by his hair if we have to. The point is that you and Sasuke-kun are sort of alike and I can tell when you are lying and at the moment you are lying, so tell me where Tenten is." Neji looked freaked by this speech while Hinata looked sympathetic. She had been hoping that Sakura had forgotten about today but it looked like she had just pushed it to the back of her mind. Sakura spoke again, "More importantly Neji-san, what did you do to her."

"I did my Hakke Hyakunijuuhachishou on her but it was during a sparring match." Neji said as he tried not to look like he was justifying his actions because he never did that.

"And?" Sakura asked in a dangerous voice. "Hyuuga-san you better tell me everything very fast."

"I may have done it before she had a chance to get her scrolls out and I have may have called her a weakling."

"WHAT!?!" Sakura shrieked.

"Sakura-san please keep your voice down." Hinata begged as all the people on the street stared at them. Sakura leapt up and put Neji in a headlock and kept him there, using her newly learned super-human strength. Sakura marched with Neji to a more deserted place where she could scream at him while Hinata quickly paid for the ramen and went after them.

At the Team 7's old training grounds, Sakura stood with Neji still in a headlock with Hinata beside them.

"Now Neji-san you have to understand something," Sakura started in a sugary sweet voice. "Tenten and I are very alike. We both have very gifted teammates. For her it's the prodigy of the Hyuuga clan and the genin specialist in taijutsu, for me it's one of the last remaining survivors of the Uchiha clan and the dobe of the class who exceeded everyone's expectations." Sakura released Neji and he shook himself and looked at Sakura who was staring into space remembering.

"Before I started training under Tsunade-sama, I was the weak member of Team 7, the strange pink haired girl who had no chance of ever catching up to her more skilled teammates. Tenten is unlike me in that respect, she was never weak, she was the Weapons Mistress in her own right, but don't you see Neji-san?" Sakura pleaded, finally looking at Neji. "Don't you understand how much worse it is for me and Tenten, maybe even Hinata and Ino-pig, when we are called weak? It's hard to explain. Do you always beat Tenten in spars?" Neji nodded. "Does she put up a good fight?" Again Neji nodded. "For Tenten she has to train so much harder to even stand a chance against you. And then for you to call her weak despite all this effort, it's like telling Naruto, 'Yeah we know how far you have come but we still can't make you Hokage because it doesn't matter how hard you try you will never be powerful enough'. Tenten needs to train twice as hard as you to even stay at the same level; it's the same with me, Naruto and Sasuke-kun. It's so hard just to stay at the same level as them, that I couldn't even think of surpassing them but I still try anyway. And I think that's how Tenten feels. You have to apologise to her." Neji looked at her and then to everyone's surprise he bowed slightly.

"Thank you Haruno-san. And I have no doubt in my mind that you and Naruto will be able to bring Uchiha-san back." Sakura smiled as he ran off.

"Hinata do you want to spar? After all you have to defeat your father if you want to abolish the Branch House." Sakura said. Hinata nodded and got into a Juuken Ryuu (Gentle Fist) stance.

"I...I will do it for Neji-nii-san and Naruto-kun. And you will do it for Sasuke-san and Naruto-kun. After all your goal is to help them achieve their goals." Sakura smiled at her.

"Correct Hinata. And after all I can't help Naruto and Sasuke-kun if I'm weak can I? And we can't fail the boys we love can we?" She said slyly as Hinata went beetroot red.

"B..but...I...I.."

"Tut tut Hinata. I thought we had cured the stuttering thing. Everyone knows you love him, it's a fact like saying Tenten likes weapons or Naruto likes ramen. Don't worry Hinata I will help you complete your goals just like how I wanted to help Sasuke-kun and Naruto if they were here." Sakura said with a touch of sadness until Hinata threw a kunai at her. "Overeager are we? Fine I'll shut up now." Sakura said as she started throwing kicks and punches at Hinata while avoiding her hands. A certain black chicken butt haired missing nin in the forest silently left and Sakura smiled a secret smile to herself.

"Tenten!" Neji called as he started walking up to where he had left her. Maybe she had gone home. He was about to give up but then he caught sight of a small body in a pink Chinese shirt which she was planning to get rid of soon for a bigger white one. "Tenten!" He called again, this time in horror as he rushed up to her. He turned her over and looked in horror at the dried blood around her mouth.

"She will be fine." A voice said from behind him and Neji immediately swung round in the Juuken Ryuu stance because he recognised that voice. In front of him stood the missing nin, Uchiha Sasuke, already taller and wearing his Sound outfit sans headband.

"How do you know?" Neji asked suspicious, because although he didn't trust Uchiha Sasuke, Tenten was still lying half dead behind him and he had to know what he had done to her.

"I got Kabuto to teach me some basic medical ninjutsu. I healed her because I thought you would be more likely to trust me if I did that rather than let her die. I need you to do something for me." Neji blinked in surprise, Uchiha was like him, he did not speak unless he had to.

"What is it?" Neji asked and Sasuke looked surprised.

"You would do it?" He asked.

"Unlike you Uchiha I have some sense of loyalty to my friends and also to the debts I owe when someone saves one of their lives." Sasuke's eyes narrowed at the remark about loyalty and his whole body tensed in anger, at which Neji tensed to expecting an attack, but none came. He looked at Sasuke to see him looking at him back with extreme dislike but still standing in the same place.

"I need you to give this letter to Sakura and this letter to Tsunade." Sasuke said holding up two letters with the names written on them.

"Why can you not give them to the respective people?" Neji asked taking the letters.

"Does it matter?" Sasuke said, irritated. Neji nodded and smiled smugly.

"If you don't want me to read the letters and then burn them, then yes it is."

"I probably won't be able to get near the Hokage without raising the alarm because as far as I know Kakashi is still here and he would be able to sense me. And with Sakura my reasons are my own." Sasuke said stiffly and Neji once again smiled smugly.

"You know that if you actually talk to her in person, you will never be able to leave again." Neji guessed and Sasuke reluctantly nodded.

"And I have to do this without their help. Don't tell Naruto about the letters; just tell him that I will be back." And with that Sasuke disappeared and Neji smirked to himself and said aloud, just in case Uchiha was still near,

"Uchiha you are so whipped." A kunai aimed at his head was his only answer and he stopped smirking when he heard Tenten stir.

"Tenten?" He asked quietly. "Are you awake?" Tenten slowly blinked her eyes open and looked up at him in bewilderment.

"Neji? Why are you here? I thought you were still mad at me." Tenten said looking away, and Neji unable to take it anymore, wrapped his arms around her and buried his face into her neck. She wrapped her arms around him in return, very surprised at this change in heart.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Neji mumbled into her neck. Tenten smiled in wonder and pulled Neji's head up to meet her eyes.

"Neji why are you sorry?" She asked.

"Because I called you a weakling. I talked to Sakura-san and she told me that for people like you and her, weak is the worst insult I could call you and I didn't mean it like that, I was calling myself weak because I could not stand up to the Hyuuga elders, I was taking it out on you. Also I'm sorry I hurt you." Neji said in a rare fit of apology.

"Apology accepted Neji. What did Sakura say to you?"

"Lots of things but mostly that calling you weak was saying that all your effort in becoming strong was wasted." Tenten was quiet for a second and then she said quietly,

"Smart girl that Sakura."

"I'm sorry." Neji felt the need to apologise again.

"One thing Neji," Tenten said after they sat in silence for a while, "How do you feel about me?" At Neji's confused look she elaborated, "Do you like me as just a teammate or a friend or a...a girlfriend." Neji once again buried his face into her neck and took a deep breath.

"All of them." He said quietly.

"What?" Tenten wanted to hear it again, hell if she could, she would get it in writing. Neji looked up straight into her eyes and mumbled,

"All of them." And then he slowly inched his head forward the remaining 4 inches between their faces and gently kissed her. Tenten was too shocked to do anything, it was only when Neji drew his head back for fear of rejection that she grabbed his head and kissed him hard. She could feel Neji smiling through the kiss and she regretted not being able to see it, but really, feeling it was ten times better. After about ten minutes of making out, they were interrupted by a slight cough. They both turned their heads to see the Dynamic Duo both with identical, blinding white grins on their faces. Tenten turned red with embarrassment and tried to slide off Neji's lap but Neji's arm around her waist held her in place. She settled for hiding her face in his neck. Neji looked down amused at the kunoichi hiding her face and then scowled slightly at the two green beasts of Konoha who were being quiet, and this freaked Neji out more than anything.

"What are you two doing here?" He asked.

"We have come for group training." Gai said while Lee shouted in his usual fashion,

"NEJI-KUN, HOW CAN YOU DEFLOWER OUR YOUTHFUL TENTEN-CHAN LIKE THAT?!" Both Neji's and Tenten's heads jerked up, put a different meaning to the words and Tenten chucked several kunai on hand at Lee, which he of course dodged. Tenten, with a quick kiss on Neji's lips, got up to continue chasing after Lee and do some target practice. Neji growled and glared at Lee and then Gai when Lee went out of sight.

"Ah Neji how good it is that you realised the youthful crush you had on Tenten! Lee and I have a youthful bet going on how long it would take for you to realise it." Gai said accompanied with the 'Good Guy Pose'. Neji glared at Gai even more when his words registered in his heads.

"You had a bet on us?" He said, Byakugan activated. Gai seemed to realise the mistake to his words and started saying,

"Nice talking to you, but I have to go beat Kakashi at another contest, uhhh bye!" He started walking towards the exit.

"Gai, start running." Neji warned in a low voice before he started running after Gai.

Two hours later Neji and Tenten were lying down at the base of the tree Tenten had collapsed in front of earlier.

"Tenten, I feel I have to warn you, I can't be that affectionate in public. Gai and Lee are different but in front of people we don't know I can't..." Neji stopped when Tenten laughed.

"Neji relax," She said smiling at him, "I know. That wouldn't be you, plus I'm just getting used to you being this affectionate in private." She joked and then said as a thought came to her, "But what about when a guy asks me out? Do I say I already have a boyfriend? Do I say it's you?" Neji, whose eyes had shot open at the first question, sat up abruptly and stared down at Tenten.

"Guys have asked you out?" He questioned and Tenten sighed.

"Trust you to focus on that. Yes they have and.."

"Name?" Neji interrupted almost angrily. Tenten seemed to be missing the point. Guys had asked her out. Guys had asked her out when it was known she was his. Well not exactly known but they still shouldn't have asked her out.

"Actually it's names Neji." Neji looked even more disturbed and pissed. "There's Aito, Akio, Daiki, Hyota and Jun."

"They all asked you out?!" Neji said, incredulous.

"Well yes, but I think Hyota wanted to date me to get to you. What you think that it's impossible that this many guys could be interested me?" Tenten said, hurt as Neji realised that he needed to do damage control.

"No! Tenten, I'm just surprised that they asked you out." Seeing that the hurt look was still there and was making him feel like he had just kicked a puppy in front of her, he continued, "Not that they were interested in you because I can understand that but that the fact they actually came up to you and asked you out. If I had known that they actually even thought of asking you out when you are mine I would killed them right there." Tenten was smiling and his way of explaining things but she didn't look hurt anymore so he sighed in relief and lay back down. He could kill them later. "As long you didn't go out with them or anything." Neji said peacefully. All trace of this peace disappeared when Tenten said,

"Wellll..."

"WHAT?" Neji shouted as he jumped up and Tenten looked at him in surprise. She had never seen him this worked up over anything apart from the main house, and shouting was really unlike him.

"Which one?" Neji said and Tenten looked up at him and the death aura and decided to tell a little white lie.

"You remember the mission to the Land of Lighting where we had to escort the rich guy?" Neji nodded and sat down again. "Well you were being annoying and were really pissed at something or another and Lee had eaten all that sugar and you two were fighting and I was fed up of being the go between with you two so I went on a date with the cute busboy at the hotel we stayed at and his name was Aito. I had a nice time but it was more of a distraction where I didn't have to be a brilliant kunoichi, or the Weapons Mistress, just Tenten, just me. It was nice." Of course it wasn't in the Land of Lighting, it was right here in Konoha and she was out with Sakura, Hinata and Ino on one of Ino's girls' nights but she really didn't want Neji to go to jail for murder.

"So it's my fault that you went on a date with him?" Neji murmured. Tenten rolled her eyes, sometimes he could be very egotistical.

"Yes Neji it's all your fault and I will only forgive you if you lay back down here." Tenten said sarcastically, which Neji realised and lay back down. Tenten put her head of his shoulders and curled up beside him. "Besides I'm with you and that's all that matters." Neji relaxed and before he fell asleep he said drowsily to Tenten,

"I have to give something to Sakura-san later. Come with me?" A murmur of agreement was given by Tenten as they both fell asleep in that position and the two (hiding) green beasts of Konoha cried (silently) at how sweet they were. Of course they tried their best not to wake them up, after all Neji and Tenten were dangerous in their own right but together they were formidable and after all Gai and Lee were not completely stupid.

So what do you think? Love it? Hate it? First oneshot so I really want to know how I did. Also should I do a SasuSaku sequel? Please review and tell me!

Also I wasn't expecting Sasuke to be in it so much. He was just supposed to show after Sakura was talking but then it evolved to him helping Tenten. Oh well. Anyway please REVIEW!