Chapter one.

Lonely training and lost wisdom.

'It's just not fair.' Tenten thought while she laid in the green grass. She had run for about an hour as some kind of training but there were two reasons for which it wasn't an effective training: 1 It was only training her stamina which she already had enough and 2 she had to train her skills and how to move with her weapons. She sighed once again and stared at the sky. 'Booooooring!' She pushed herself up and took a few kunai. Her straw puppets were already full with weapons but that didn't bother because she knew exactly how to push another kunai away while pushing another in (another thing she learned by training by herself).

At the end of the morning she sauntered home. On her way home she met an old school mate. "How are you doing Tenten?" she asked happily. "I'm fine." Tenten answered with a fake smile on her lips. "I'm so happy right now." the girl continued as Tenten stared at her "The guy's at my team always take time to train with me, I'm becoming so powerful! One day, I'll beat you." Tenten just smirked at her. "We'll see about that." As the girl walked away Tenten sighed.

"Have you all understood your mission?" the hokage asked. "Yes" answered the team all together (except for Neji who just mumbled "hn"). "Okay, we'll see each other over ten minutes at the southern gate." Gai said right before he sprinted away. Tenten stared at him for a moment. "Are you all right Tenten?" Lee asked. "Sure" she answered as she walked away. Lee looked at Neji who just stared back at him.

They had just taken down a group of ninja when Lee asked Tenten: "When will you use new techniques?" Tenten exploded inside. She looked at him with a glint in her eyes that showed that she was ready to kill. "How can I learn new techniques when nobody helps me with my training!" Gai stared at her, and even Neji didn't know what to say because he realized it was also kind of his fault. "I'm sorry." Lee stuttered. Tenten turned her head away from the three boys. "Let us just go, we're already late." She jumped into the trees, she was extremely quick and could keep it up for a long time (remember? Lonely stamina training). Gai realized that is was his fault and felt really guilty but Tenten was furious and wouldn't listen to him.

"Let us take a break!" Gai yelled at Tenten who was about five meters before them. "I'll go scout ahead." she answered cold. "Since when is she so quick?" Lee asked. He stared at Gai who felt really guilty. And you could see that on his face. "I should learn her a bit more." he mumbled. Both Neji and Lee stared at him (the one with a little more emotion than the other).

'It's not fair! It's not fair!' Tenten repeated in her head time after time. She stopped on a branch and jumped off of it. When she landed on the ground she heard something. She sneaked over to where the sound came from. There were a man and a woman. They were challenging each other to "test each others skills" Tenten looked at them carefully. They didn't have forehead protectors. She saw the man pull a samurai sword out of nowhere. The woman smirked and took a scroll. Tenten swallowed. 'They are weapon users!' she thought intrigued. There were not so many of them who preferred weapons over other techniques. She gasped as she saw them fight.

"It's getting late." Lee said "and Tenten is still not back." "It's not fair for her." Gai mumbled. Both Neji and Lee looked at him. "What do you mean?" Neji asked. "She had to learn all her weapon techniques by herself, yet, I didn't encourage her." "How do you mean she has to learn them by herself, aren't there weapon masters in our village who teach her that?" Lee asked. Gai shook his head. "There were, long ago, but not anymore. But Tenten is a genius, she was drawn to weapons from the very beginning." "But you can find those scrolls in our town, right?" Neji asked. Gai once again shook his head. "You have to earn them. Tenten got them when she was four years old." "From who?" Lee asked. "When the anbu asked Tenten she couldn't remember. They wiped her memory away. They took advantage of a four year old orphan." Gai clenched his fists. "You have to keep this quiet. The third only told me about those things. It was decided back then that I would become her teacher."

Tenten stared at the weapons. "Where did they come from?" she thought. "You can come out now!" the man said. Tenten gasped. "A weapon user, I suppose?" the woman asked with a smile. Tenten felt like blushing. "How did you learn that?" The two stared at her.

"Who were those weapon masters you spoke of?" Neji asked. "Mostly they were orphan's not knowing what to do with their lives. They went to the dojo called: 'house of artistic death'." Lee pulled a strange face. "Who would want to go to a place with such a name?" Lee asked. "Thos who have nothing to lose." Neji answered. "That house was destroyed about thirteen years ago. Tenten used to live there." Lee gasped and Neji's eyes widened. "She probably forgot. So please, don't tell her."

"So you learned everything by yourself?" The man going by the name of Chiharu asked. Tenten nodded. "That's one of the reasons its not perfect." she said with a slight blush while she tried to hide her shame. "Don't be ridiculous!" the woman (Riku) shouted. "We had a lot of help and yet we weren't this powerful at your age. Perhaps you should come with us?" Tenten's eyes widened " To where?" "To the house of the artistic death." Chiharu said. "Are you Konoha ninja?" Tenten asked. "Actually we are, but they don't know that." Riku said. 'This is suspicious.' Tenten thought. "But we can learn you a few techniques right now!" Riku said with a sweet smile. "They don't expect us for a few days back!" Chiharu said. "Why not?" Tenten asked. "Because we went out to test each other. We are brother and sister, although we're orphans." Riku said. "What do you think? Do you want to learn something?" Tenten smiled and nodded. "Then spar with us."

"We should go look for her." Gai said. "Byakugan!" Lee stared at Neji when he searched for her with his Byakugan. "I can't find her, she must be far away already." "Then let's go!" Lee shouted. Gai nodded and they jumped into the trees. After searching for almost two hours they decided to get some sleep and to search for Tenten at dawn.

"Man, its already midday." Lee said when they all woke up. "Byakugan!" Gai looked up at Neji. "Is something wrong?" "I thought I felt Tenten's chakra." he answered. "Where?!" Lee asked. "There she is!" Neji said. "At that lake. "Boom!" "What was that?" Gai asked. "I don't know." Neji answered kind of shocked. 'Is Tenten fighting someone?'

Okay that was it for the first chapter. I hope you like it so far. There's a lot more to come. Hope you'll keep on reading 'cause my first chapters always suck! (that's why I normally write one-shots).

Bye!