Okies I know I have a love for KankyTen but I also have a soft spot for NejiTen, so I'm mixing the both together .
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Tenten threw out old weapons on the rubbish heap outside the shed. She brushed a cobweb caught in her hair leaving a streak of dirt across her face. Neji should be doing this – as usual on a Saturday afternoon – he'd swanned off to train with the cronies AKA Lee and Gai their former teammates.
The radio beside her played some old song she didn't recognise but the lyrics were describing what seemed to be the failing marriage of hers and Neji's.
'Some hope', she thought.
She'd been nagging Neji for weeks to clear the shed, but like the millions of other jobs, she'd ended up doing herself.
'I sound more like my mother everyday', she thought. 'Driving him away just as my mother drove away my father, and the numerous "uncles" who replaced him'
She still loved Neji, but her feelings were stifled by the monotony of their marriage.
They used to have such fun together. Now there was always so much to do. The pressure of her job meant the weekend was the only time her had for housework and gardening. She knew marriage needed nursing through the bad patches, but was worried that hers was terminally ill.
Out went a broken katana, then a torn headband, then the "important" mission scroll that they retrieved on a "mission" but in fact it was a dud, a fake mission Tsunade had set up to see if Tenten and Neji were worthy of joining ANBU.
She smiled, remembering the way she teased him as he sat there trying to decode the language on the scroll he had never seen before, this caused him to be surrounded by book after book and many sleepless and late nights. As she had teased him so much about the time he wasted on trying to decode a load of gibberish, in retaliation he'd turned the hose on her until they both ended up soaking wet. The best part had been drying each other afterwards.
She sighed at the memory.
At the back of the shed she found the bikes. She'd forgotten they existed. Before they were married they'd often cycled the lanes of Konoha with no particular destination in mind. They'd eat their picnic by a riverbank watching the Genin tack back and forth trying new Jutsu and trying their hardest at numerous Taijutsu and Ninjutsu techniques. Neji often disapproved as she helped she Genin with correct postures but deep inside he was pleased at daybreak with her growing into the confident young girl to the independent woman she had become, he was pleased to call her his own. She knew remembering back to his Genin days was painful for Neji due to his hatred of the Head of the Hyuuga but his hatred had now subsided to a mere dislike. His love was Tenten was the strongest feeling he had. When it was a hot day by the river they'd dangle their feet in the water and watch the marsh harriers swoop over the edge covering most of what they could see.
On one of those outings Neji had proposed. It had started to rain and they'd sheltered in an old barn on the borderline of Konoha. With their backs against the hay bales, her head nestled into Neji's arm; they'd listen to the constant tapping of the rain on the corrugated iron roof, not saying a word.
Neji had broken the silence.
"I've been thinking Tenten, why don't we marry?"
"Are you serious?" she asked.
"Think about it, you can move out of your parents and come live with me in th-"
"Hyuuga estate right?" Tenten interrupted.
"Yes it will be bett-"
"Better than living with my mother?" Tenten said once again interrupting the Hyuuga.
"Yes because I don't want to see you suffer like you have from your mother's behaviour, I know being a Hyuuga won't be easier but you'll have me to guide you and protect you, especially from those…'dreams' " Neji replied gently stroking her hair reassuringly.
She knew exactly what dreams he was talking about. But they weren't dreams they were nightmares. Gaara had killed her father at the chuunin exam disaster of the Sand's betrayal. After that her mother had taken his death out on Tenten by hitting her, she could never hate her mother though, she loved her too much. But how could someone blame their daughter for the death of her father just because she inherited her father's determination and the most obvious one his eyes? She'll never understand.
After some thought she finally the answer Neji had hoped for.
"I expected a much more romantic proposal than that" she teased.
With that Neji stood up and melodramatically dropped on one knee, gazing at her with an almost boyish look of intensity. This was one of the situations where Neji left his cold shell to be what seemed to be a completely different person everyone knew.
"Miss Tenten, will you do me the honour of giving me your hand in marriage and becoming Mrs Hyuuga Neji. And of course I'd like the rest of your desirable body as well."
She'd burst out laughing and playfully pushed him backwards. Then she'd rolled on top of him enthusiastically and said, "Yes!"
Between kisses they'd talked of their dreams and the children they'd have. She wished it could have lasted forever.
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What do you think? Should I take the story down and scrap the idea or keep it and write the next chapter?
Review and tell me what you think. Constructive criticism which tells me I've done wrong I'll allow but reviews saying you hate the couple is just a waste of my time and yours. There is also going to be a small amount of KankTen in the next chapter or two. This story isn't going to be very long, 3 chapters max.
Kryssie xx