"I can't get her out of my head. Why?" Neji interrogated himself for the past five days. Tenten still wasn't awake and all he could do was thinking about her condition and what happened, although it was slowly fading into a blur.
"Maybe because you have feelings for her and you've finally admitted to that." His mind replied to his rhetorical question.
"Tenten, I am so sorry…" He whispered while putting his face into his cupped hands. Neji's mind and body always denied him of feeling the emotions of sadness and regret. Now these feelings had hit him for the first time, and hard. "If I knew it was you, I would have caught you and held you in my arms for as long as time would allow… I cannot burden you with my curse. I never knew I had these feelings for you; had an ability to feel like this… But I can't allow you to come into my life.
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-Haven't you gone home? – She asked putting her hands in his chest.
- I am home… - Neji said
- Neji…. - Tenten started, but then interrupted by Neji, in a kiss, better then the first…much better… hotter, wetter and violent. It hurt her lips, but she loved that sensation, she love it so much that her hands start to undo Neji's hair, letting that long dark hair fall, and then wander, trying to find a way to open Neji's uniform
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Tenten threw the weapons faster than she ever did in training. She jumped to the next tree, aiming for his thoracic vertebra.
I know your weakness Neji-kun.
Neji managed to block some of it, but he was low on chakra. His instincts weren't fast enough when he was so worn out and Tenten wasn't. Many of the weapons cut into his skin. Tenten hesitated.
I'm hurting him...
Tenten remembered what Neji used to say...
Never hesitate. Hesitation is a sign of weakness. Neji strictly told her never to stop unless she ran out of weapons. She was only following orders.
A kunai stuck to his leg and Neji dropped to his knees. Tenten didn't know what to do as she hesitated again.
"Keep... going..." he said, his hands only glowing faintly.
He can't handle anymore... I still have about another 3 dozen then the scrolls...
Tenten jumped down. She pulled out the medical kit she kept handy in her pack. Neji was on his hands and knees. Kneeling down, Tenten quickly pulled out the kunai in his leg. Neji gasped and coughed up blood.
"Neji-kun you used up too much chakra. Stop pushing yourself!" Tenten said almost desperately.
Then Neji fainted.
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"What's wrong?" He coughs nervously and decided to back away. This time it made Tenten frown and moved on forward, thus making the Hyuuga prodigy twitch once more...
"Tenten..." he trailed off. She stopped immediately when she heard her name
"W-what -t happened to your-" he took a glance at what he kept looking at and stared at Tenten with a nervous look. She realized her belly was showing all this time...in...front of Neji! "O-oh y-you like?" she nervously said.
'Come on, go with it. Remember what the book said,'
Neji shook his blush off and growls at her
"N-no it-it's ridiculous, I suggest you cover it up," he said sternly. Tenten frowns once more and looks sadden as she nods slowly. While she was down picking at the book, Neji took a glance at the title of the book
'How...to seduce a guy? What the?' Inwardly, he began to glare at the book. Who was Tenten trying to...'seduce'? She grabbed the book tightly and began to leave the training area but Neji stopped her with another growl plus a glare toward the book
"A-Ano, daijoubu?"
He abruptly grabbed the book with a troubled look, which made Tenten a little bit shock and freaked out at the same time, and growls at her while waving the book around
"What's this?"
"It's a book Neji," she said slowly. His veins were about to pop as he gripped the book tighter
"I know that," he said bitterly. He made a glare at her now and she feared of what he was going to do. He approached her with the same troubled look as he threw the book on the ground
"Who are you trying to...seduce?" Neji said in front of her face. She again blushed but was about to explain that she found the book however she didn't need to for the Hyuuga prodigy grabbed her hands and pressed his body against her
"You are mine, and forever mine," he said furiously before unleashing his lips at hers
'I...' Tenten was speechless but she didn't care for she went with it. Go with the flow, she guessed.
'...I guess that book is not useless after all...'
That was it for the couple as the red hot book glowed with radiance
'I'll have to thank Sakura for this...and to give this back,' Tenten reminded herself but she made a small smirk inside as the Hyuuga prodigy moved his lips toward down her-
'However I think she can wait,'
The Hyuuga genius in turn kneeled before her and put his head on the ground in supplication.
Tenten then began humming as she rubbed the ointment on. Neji would do it himself, but it hurt to move... especially since Tenten always brushed into him... with that silky fabric she called a shirt. Oh shit... why was her hand circling his stomach? Neji almost blushed. Almost. But it wouldn't have made a difference since he was already as red as the Kazekage's hair. How worse could the day get? First, he looked like the Kazekage's freaking hair. Second, Kiba was becoming the number one Konoha must-glomp by the fangirls... and oh shit... Lee was number two Konoha must-glomp by the fangirls. He was third to someone who lost a battle because his opponent farted and to someone who wore green spandex. Third, Tenten was rubbing sunscreen on him. And it was his number one guilty pleasure.
His ego was beaten to a bloody pulp and then paraded naked across all of Konoha. Er... paraded naked across Suna.
Repeat. How worse could the day get?
Lee grinned happily, "Tenten's youth will help you feel better tonight Neji!"
Go burn in hell, Fate.
Kiba broke out laughing, perversely taking it the perverted way, being the perverted bastard he is. Akamaru practically broke the table... even the overgrown mutt was laughing at him. Hinata blushed when Kiba leaned on her for support as he couldn't breathe quite well, and even god damn Shino let out a chuckle. Tenten instantly blushed, putting the ointment down, and scooted as far away from Neji she could.
Neji would have to gentle-fist Lee to hell when they got back... then he would hunt down Kiba and stab him in the gut with every weapon Tenten possessed (which was quite a few). Then, when Shino would try to rescue his comrade, Neji would 128-palms the Aburame into the ground. Then, he would commit the ultimate sin... and slap Hinata-sama on the wrist for being in the main house... and such.
And when the Hokage would ask why he had killed three of his comrades and then, -gasp- did the most unforgivable crime, slapping his cousin on the wrist, Neji would tell her the truth.
Simply, because Tenten had stopped rubbing the ointment on him.
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Tenten.
The sky? No…
Ocean? No…
Neji furrowed his brows. It wasn't everyday the Hyuuga genius found a problem he couldn't solve quickly… he liked it.
He smirked. He liked a good problem.
His mind raced. Animals, plants, food… it all didn't seem to fit.
He stopped suddenly and half smiled again. She was a key.
He looked up toward the sky and saw two birds flying side by side.
She was a key.
A key to the cage that imprisoned him.
She was the key to his freedom.
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"I'm sorry. Anyway I'm safe now." Tenten said snuggling into his chest.
"True. Still I'm worried what they could have done. Or seen. No one but me." He said whispering the last part.
"What?" Tenten asked.
"No one but me. No one is going to see you like that... but me." Neji answered before closing the space between them.
Lifting her chin with his thumb and forefinger, Neji stared intently at the dazed appearance of his brown haired weapons mistress. "I will be the one who will bring you home, Tenten," he continued softly, "and I would search every village, every house, and every cave there is to find if you were kidnapped. My rage," he breathed, his eyes intent on hers, "would not be controlled or be held responsible to those that would dare hurt you and," Neji paused, his lips lined in resolve, "you will come back to me."
Resting her temple weakly against Neji's broad shoulder, Tenten smiled faintly at the sincerity of his solemn promise. She felt the tickle of warmth his breath created against her ear as she was engulfed by his scent and his comforting presence. Clutching the front of his shirt to keep her knees from collapsing in, Tenten inhaled sharply as she lifted her eyes towards his intense pale ones to give her reply.
Eyes clashed and silence passed.
"I know you will," she breathed out quietly, her gaze never leaving his.