I can't even begin to explain… Neji and TenTen are OOC, fair warning.

Bang

By: Jaylonni Love

Part One

She fidgeted, her fingers playing with one another as her leg bounced lightly. This can't possibly go over well.

He stared, trying to figure out exactly what had his girlfriend of five years so on edge. She was fidgety. She never fidgets. She also wouldn't look him in the eye. She always looked directly at him. And it was damn annoying that she was acting so unusual and he couldn't – for the life of him – figure out why she was acting in such a way. She's been like this since we sat down at the table…

"TenTen…" the Hyūga called to the bun haired brunette who was staring at everything in the dining room of their modest apartment but him. Really. She was starting to make him worry. "…is there something wrong?"

TenTen, who seemed to be lost in her own little world for a moment, suddenly snapped her head toward him, her soft brown eyes turning to stare into his pale ones for the first time that night. A sheepish grin crossed her features as her fingers continued to fiddle with one another, "Nope." She was talking way too fast. That too was unusual. "There's nothing wrong at all Neji. Why do you ask?"

Neji blinked, dumbfounded. Did she really just ask why he was asking if there was something wrong? She had been around his cousin-in-law for far too long. His denseness was starting to rub off on her. "Perhaps the fact that you haven't been able to look me in the eye, or the face for that matter, since we sat down at the table would be one reason." He then gestured to her still fidgeting fingers. "And you're fidgeting. You don't fidget. So tell me, what's wrong?"

Shit, TenTen cursed herself. He noticed. He wasn't supposed to notice. "No really, there's absolutely nothing wrong Neji. I'm just…" the timer in the kitchen went off much to her appreciation. So she quickly changed the subject, "I'll be right back; the food's done."

And with that she stood and flounced into the kitchen to retrieve the meal she had specially prepared for them from the oven.

Neji, who remained at the table, stared after her, even more confused than he had been before. Either he was losing his mind or there was something seriously wrong with this picture. The latter of the two seemed to be the only possible answer to the current events happening.

What in the seven hells could have possibly gotten into her within the eight hours while I was at work, he questioned as he peered into the kitchen where his girlfriend moved around, expertly preparing their plates like she had done so many times before. She seemed just fine this morning when I left…

"Here you are," TenTen said breaking his reverie as she placed the steaming plate of food in front of him before sitting down with her own.

He watched her immediately dig in, his brow irking. "Have you forgotten something?"

TenTen blinked, obviously confused. What could she have possibly forgotten?

Almost as if he read her mind, he gestured to the wine bottle that had been sitting out for dinner, "The wine, TenTen."

"Oh," she piped, getting up from her seat and grabbing the bottle. She then picked up one of the wine glasses that hung from their glass display before placing it on the table for him. "There you are."

His brow rose higher.

"What now," TenTen asked, a slight bite to her tone.

"One glass," he stated, gesturing to the single glass that sat on the table. "You won't join me in our evening drink; a tradition that – might I remind you – you started."

"Ah," TenTen said as she got up once again and walked into the kitchen. He heard the tap run before it was cut off and she emerged with a glass of water, sitting down again, "I'll just have water tonight."

Neji face-palmed. He couldn't help it. First she was all fidgety when she never fidgets. Then she wouldn't look at him, period. Then she kept insisting that everything was fine when, obviously, it wasn't. And now, here she was, opting for a glass of water over their usual glass of wine they would have together at dinner as a way to unwind from a long day. There was something very wrong with this picture to the young Hyūga and she wasn't making it any easier for him to figure out with her strange behaviour.

"Ah, Neji," TenTen called cautiously. He could tell by the tone of her voice that she was confused as if he were the one acting unusual, "Is everything alright?"

"That's something I should really be asking you," Neji said letting his hand run down his face. "What's gotten into you?"

"…nothing," TenTen said apprehensively. Right now is not the time Neji… let it go. Let it go. Please let it go.

"You're lying to me," Neji promptly pointed out reaching for the wine bottle and pouring himself a glass. He had the vague feeling that he was definitely going to need the alcohol. "Now tell me what's going on."

"Nothing," TenTen said a little surer of herself. "Nothing is wrong. Absolutely nothing. Can we drop it now and just eat?"

Neji simply lifted a brow as he placed the glass to his lips. A clear indication that he didn't believe a word she had just said.

Dammit Hyūga why do you have make things so damn difficult? "I told you it's nothing."

"Oh really," Neji asked as he placed his glass down on the table again to stare at her.

Dammit, dammit, dammit. I'll have to tell him right now if he keeps this up, "Really. I'm fine. I just want water for tonight. That's all."

Once more the pale eyed male picked up his glass, "You're lying to me again, Ten… I know you better than you think I do." He took a sip of the red wine contained in his cup before speaking again; his facial expression softened to one of concern for his bun haired girlfriend, "Just tell me what's going on already. I'm worried about you."

Now, now, now, now, now, "I'm pregnant."

Neji had been in the middle of taking another sip of his wine; sure she would tell him that nothing was wrong again when she had blurted out that she was pregnant making him sputter and choke.

Oh yeah, that went smoothly, TenTen mused to herself as she stood to help her boyfriend who would probably die from lack of air due to the wine he had been in the middle of drinking and choked on.

Gently she pat his back, trying to help him as best she could.

When he finally stopped coughing, he glanced up at the bun haired woman before rasping, "Would you mind… repeating that TenTen?"

"You know Neji, things tend to happen all the time and well, just because something says that it's ninety-nine percent effective, doesn't always mean that it actually is ninety-nine percent effective and this whole entire situation is proof of that because now I have this little… bean, person, thing growing inside of me–"

Now she was rambling as her hand continued to gently pat his back as if he were still coughing which had stopped when he had asked her to repeat herself.

"–and I didn't realize what it could possibly mean until my period never came this month and now that I think about it, I missed it last month too but I just wrote it off as one of those irregular occurrences that happen every once in a while and thought nothing of it until I woke up this morning after you left for work sick to my stomach and in so much pain. So I went to the hospital after hacking up everything I ate last night and–"

"Ten…"

"–the doctor told me that I was already six weeks pregnant. Can you believe it Neji? Six–"

"…Ten"

"–weeks pregnant. So now there's this little bean, person, thing growing inside me and I think I like it because besides this morning, it hasn't made me want to puke up my insides and–"

"TenTen! Stop talking."

When she heard the stern command, her mouth instantly clamped shut and she grinned sheepishly at the brown haired male she stood beside. She attempted to be meek and cute because that was, after all, what had attracted him to her five years ago in the first place, and what had also got him to tell her that he loved her on the day of their one year anniversary four years prior.

"You're pregnant," he voiced, trying hard to wrap his brain around the concept of her carrying a baby that they had created together.

"Yup," TenTen said happily, "It's our little bean, person, thing."

Neji smiled, shaking his head at his girlfriend. That's why she was acting so strange the entire night since he had walked through the door? "Why didn't you just tell me to begin with?"

"Well because I had a plan you see," TenTen explained. "And I was going to tell you when I felt like the time was right, which would have been after dinner and our nightly showers when we went to cuddle like we usually do before bed but then you had to go and pry and–"

"You're rambling again, TenTen," Neji said cutting her off gently. "Calm down."

Deciding that she didn't want to stand anymore, TenTen let herself fall into Neji's lap, her arms wrapped around his neck as she stared at him, "You're not upset?"

"Why would I be," he asked irking a brow at her.

That had to be the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard her say in the five years they had been together.

"Well we're not married and you always said that you didn't want to have children outside of wedlock and–" TenTen started before she was cut off again.

"You're rambling again," Neji repeated before placing a gentle kiss on her forehead. "And no, I'm not upset. I'm having a baby with the most amazing woman I've ever met that I do intend to marry sometime in the near future. We'll just have one more to add to the celebration."

TenTen couldn't help the squeal that resounded from her throat as she buried her nose in his neck, her arms wrapping themselves tighter around him, her feet kicking happily, "Thank you Neji."

"Don't tell me you were nervous about telling me because you thought I would be upset," the pale eyed man said glancing down at his girlfriend that was nestled in his arms.

"No…" she said slowly.

"TenTen," his tone was one of warning. He knew she was lying right off the bat.

"Okay maybe I was a little bit nervous about telling you because you're so unpredictable when it comes to your reactions about certain things," TenTen clarified. "But I don't have anything to worry about now that you know so let's just enjoy the moment okay?"

Neji chuckled softly, "Alright TenTen."

"Good," she said letting her head rest on his shoulder.

A moment of comfortable silence passed between the couple as they basked in the joy of learning they were going to be parents within the next seven and a half months until TenTen spoke again.

"Neji," she said peeking up at him from her position.

"What is it," he asked.

"Is this a bad time to tell you that there's actually two bean, person, things?" she said sheepishly.

Neji didn't reply. He was too busy passing out from the knowledge that they were having not one, but two children on the first go.

"I take it this was a bad time," TenTen commented to herself as she worked to wake him again.

I have officially fired myself. Bean, person, thing? Why did I think of the conversation I had with my sister when she told me she was pregnant with my first nephew? She literally called him a "bean, person, thing" and I retorted that he was a fetus to which she called me a complete smart ass… but that's a whole other story that I will not get into.

Gah.

Seriously, don't ask me where this came from because even I don't know. I guess this is what happens when you give me Microsoft Office Word, bad cramps, and the desire to entertain myself at four in the flippin' morning... Anyways, reviews are love.

By the way, there's a very small possibility that there may be a second and third part to this... so I'd keep an eye on it if you enjoyed.