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Brotherly Love
–Prologue--
My family was never whole, not once where we a real family.
Dad and my mother married in collage. They where the envy of all their peers: myattractive mother and handsome, brilliant dad. When they got out of school my mother when straight into the real world and got a job while Dad started more schooling.
Two years later my mother was deemed pregnant with my brother, Zaku, and I---the happiest time of my mothers and Dad's life...Or so they say(but she gavebirth to the demon spawn that is my brother, I mean really who would want to give birth to that). That was the year before their relationship when downhill. My brother and I were born September fourteenth.
Dad had always wanted a little girl and he got one, me, while my motherleft with my demon spawn brother. She let for a new job, a fresh start. In my opinion she was just running from the past. My mother moved to Otogakure to leave my brother without a father to see him grow up.
Then she left me. She left me, Tenten her only daughter, to grow up without a mother and half of a dad. I wasn't like the other girls...I had no mother to paint my nails and do my hair. All I had was my father who was lost at what to do with a child–even less a girl one. But he tried, I'll give him that.
He brushed my hair and put it in pigtails while I squirmed in my chair. He was the one who rushed from work to see my first ballet recital. Or picked me up when I got sick in school. All the things my mother was never there to do.
Sure, I, spend some time with the woman I would rather not talk to. Mostly summers, when Dad would drop me off. It was like a bitter, resentful routine where we would all try not to point out or make it aware of how awkward it was, even if we all fully knew that it was. Dad would say hello to Zaku's mother while Zaku and I glared at each other.
As soon as Dad would leave, Zaku would start making fun of me: my clothes, hair, my Dad! I would end up attacking him one way or another: hey Zaku you gonna end up like your mama and start wear--in' pink! We both know your dad isn't there! One time we got so rapped up in the fight that he punched me. I returned the favor by biting him so had his arm turned violet-purple!
I thought we would both get in trouble but, Zaku had the upper hand in this one and lied saying I hit him first. I think that was the second turning point of our family relationship 'cause after that...well it got ugly, really ugly.
I had figured it out that summer and I was only eight. She was only there for Zaku, my brother—my older brother by nine minutes. She was at his first football game and his first day of school. She was there to hold his hand when his shoulder was dislocated. But she had never, never once was there for me.
Jealously for my brother that caused hate for my mother. The hate for my brother was caused by himself. My brother was always the problem I start to believe that even if it wasn't true. Hate, pride, and envy for each other kept use from having anything close to a brother-sister relationship. I want to keep it that way…
I hate my mother and brother and, my brother hates my father and me, heh. See we never where a real family.
Brotherly Love
—Chapter 1—
God, please send that plane to Suna! Please!
"Tenten! Tenten!"
"...Huh...What?"
The dirty-blonde boy sitting next to Tentensighed, "You were spacing out, again!"
Realization dawned on her. She had been in Wonderland day dreaming again. As if reading her mind the boy next to her spoke out, "Tenten one of these days your gonna end up likes Alice...Or Shikamaru,"
"What's that—Oh, whatever," said ever-so-lazy Shikamaru replied.
They: Tenten, Naruto, Shikamaru, and Neji were sitting in Tenten house waiting for their friend Kiba. Tenten sighted, "I'm not in Wonderland any more...or am I just in the really bad, miserable part..."
"What are you mumbling about woman?"
"Shikamaru, It's quite simple...The demon spawn I have as a brother is going to be spending the entireschool year with me," Tenten said with a smile that screamed 'I'm the insane Joker! Bwha ha ha'. The room seemed to get smaller as the overflowing silence continued. So Naruto decided to unveil his news too, "My friend from Suna is moving here tooo~oo!"
"You don't have friends in Suna as far as I know."
"Yes, I do," The Huuyga scowled at the fact he had been proved wrong.
"He's Garra! I know I've talked about him, I know it! Um ...He had a pet named Shikaku! The thing tried to eat me!" He said with a smile.
"Well that's nothing to be happy about,"
"Yes it is Shikamaru! It's how I met him!" They had to admit Naruto met people in very weird ways including themselves.
"Hey! We are supposed to be talking about my problems, not people eating pets," Tenten cried out thinking about her brother and wishing she had been born an only child or a triplet. (She could force her other sibling to watch Zaku if there was a third.)
"Why is the brother we've never met coming here anyway," Shikamaru asked seeing that he wasn't gonna get a nap after all.
"His mother is having trouble with the house that they rented and has to move but she doesn't have the money. She got fired from her last two jobs so Dad offered to take Zaku in for a year," She sighed, "I'll be in hell on earth for the next year!"
"Wait! He is gonna be here for a hole year!" Naruto said shocked.
"Yup," Tenten replied trying to smile. Neji on the other hand was not afraid to show his displeasure for the situation. His frown deepened,"The one time we met you brother he was worst than Sasuke and had the intelligence of Naruto on a summer day. No offence," he waved his hand in Naruto's direction.
"None taken," the blonde said offhandedly; he was use to it by now. Shikamaru who had been watching the clouds out of the window of the living room started mumbling," His friends where real idiots to." Tenten shifted in her seat. The boys all thought it was because of the fight between Zakus' friends and her friends was a bloody mess.
Sasuke and Lee had both went home with a broken arm while Sakura was covered in scrapes that matched her bloody nose. Ino had looked the same a Sakura when she yanking one of other girl's hair to get her off Neji and Neji's prefect hair was tangled a knotted because he refused to hit said girl when she attacked him. Naruto and Tenten had nearly escaped getting hit by a car in the street where the fight had started.
It was one big misunderstanding that ended in practically paying the hospital the money to build for another wing. Tenten knew that the misunderstanding was all her fault. She was just wishing her brother wouldn't do anything to get anybody riled up.
"Open up! Police, are you kids doing drugs!" Knocking on the door and a loud voice told them that Kiba had finally arrived. Naruto bounded over to the door," No officer we ain't doin' no drugs!" Naruto opened the door to his friend almost immediately getting pulled into a one armed hug.
"You guys looked bored without me," Kiba smirk at the gang," Let's get you people movein' Choji's drivin'!"
"Shot gun!" Naruto shouted as is friends got up to get in the van Choji had pulled into the driveway. Kiba smirked when Naruto saw his dog, Akamaru, in the front seat of the car. Tenten started to giggle at Naruto pissed expression," Hey, Shika lock the door!" The lazy boy just muttered a sure and locked the door.
All of the kids scrambled to get in the car when Choji started the engine of the huge blue van. Tenten managed to share her seat with the gigantic dog in the front seat while the boys, with the exception of Choji, piled into the back seats. Choji pulled out of the driveway, heading to wards the house party at Sakura's house.
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