A/n: Hey all! This is my first Neji/TenTen fiction. I hope you like it.
Summery- It was a normal training session, until it started to rain. TenTen insisted that she and Neji finish their training. He willingly accepted. The next day TenTen catches a cold. Neji comes over to visit her and leaves an unexpected gift behind not meant to EVER be read by ANYONE. What will happen when TenTen finds it?
Disclaimer- I don't own Naruto. If I did, I wouldn't be on here right now telling a FAN fiction to all you people out there.
Chapter One:
Hyuuga Neji's Problem! The Accident of a Lifetime!
"What took you so long TenTen?" Lee was looking at the tired looking TenTen. Neji looked up from, his meditating to view at the half-way sleeping girl who was his teammate and secret crush. Who would know? He was just a human ice block, banned from any emotion whatsoever besides boredom and slight anger, with a VERY rare amount of caring toward the people closest to him, so to speak her.
"I forgot to set my alarm clock ok, Lee." She said bitterly to him.
"Morning Neji." She added this time on a happy note. He gave a nod to indicate he had heard her and acknowledge her greeting.
"Ok, Neji, hoe about we go spar and Lee and Gai-sensei go train together" He nodded and got up, walking over to the spot where the usually sparred.
They got into their stances and began. TenTen began throwing weapons at him, him dodging them with an occasional scrape. This went on for about an hour then a loud BOOM was heard followed by a cracking of lightning. Immediately following a down-poor that sent Gai and Lee running for shelter.
"TenTen, we should go inside, you night get sick." He said looking up at the sky as if searching for something interesting with his white eyes.
"No way, I can handle this Neji. Besides, I'm not that frail!" she said almost mocking him with her brown eyes. Her brown hair was starting to slip of it's buns and flopped lazily onto her back.
"What ever, it's not my fault if you catch a cold." he got back into position and they sparred for another hour or two.
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The next day while they where waiting on everybody to show for practice they noticed TenTen was absent again and with no explanation to cover. They waited an hour over for her to show up, alas, no TenTen to be seen.
"Ok guys, listen up! We have a new mission, say an A-ranked." Gai was trying to act hip and cool like is rival Kakashi by getting his students excited at the prospect of a new mission, only interesting one, Lee. "And that is to find TenTen!" Gai did his usual "Good guy" pose and Lee replicated perfectly his role-model. Neji rolled his eyes.
"She probably just slept in again Gai-sensei" Lee was trying to impress him with his ideas. Again.
"Nope. You're wrong Lee. I bet she is home and in bed sick with a cold. She forced me to stay and train for another two hours." Neji said this as if he was predicting the weather of Antarctica or reading an extremely boring book to some five year-olds.
"Well, we will just have to go and look and see if our beautiful flower of youth is feeling the wonderful power that runs through the veins of the young!" another good gut pose and he was jogging toward TenTen's place with Lee hot on his trail. Neji got up and ran 'ninja-style' to her house. He waited for about 15 minutes before Gai and Lee got there.
"Neji! The power of youthful love and affection is string within you, no?"
Gai shrunk down to chibi form with a very angry Neji hovering over him yelling-
"SHE IS MY TEAMMATE! BESIDES, WHY WOULD I WANT TO GO JOGGING ALONG LIKE SOME BAKA FOLLOWING YOU AND LEE AROUND!I'M NOT GONNA WAIT AROUND ALL DAY FOR YOU TWO TO WADDEL YOUR WAY OVER HERE! AND FUTHERMORE, I DO NOT LOVE HER!"
Neji and Gai returned to normal size with Neji panting from his loud speech in which he hadn't bother to breathe during. He glared at Gai who started twitching and finally turned around avoiding eye contact with anyone.
Lee was very pale and proceed to knock on her door shakily trying his best not to further anger the Hyuuga prodigy with joshing of any feelings he might have for their teammate.
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, Lee tapped on TenTen's front door uneasily and with caution.
"Who is it?" A very bored looking Ino was opening the door to great the guys.
"Hello Ino, isn't this TenTen-chan's home?" Lee asked with a hint of questioning.
"Yep, sure is. Well, since you're here now you can take care of her. See ya guys!" With that Ino walked out the door pushing the three males into TenTen's house.
"Told you she would be sick." Neji said in a matter-of-factly tone.
"Well, since you don't have a sparring partner Neji, and after you yelled at me, you get to stay here and take care of TenTen. Me and Lee will go train. We'll stop by later to check on you both after we're done. See ya Neji!" and then he and Lee exited in a rush leaving him with no other choice but to stay and look after her.
'Great,' he though as he walked up the stairs to her bedroom, 'I have to take care of a sick TenTen. Just what I need.'
He knocked lightly on her door and awaited and answer. He heard none so he opened the door to find a pale looking TenTen with her hair down sleeping peacefully in her bed on her side.
He saw that she was fine and headed to the phone down stairs.
"Hello?"
"Hinata, this is Neji, I need you to do me a favor."
"Oh, hi Neji, what do you need?"
"I need you run by the market and pick up something for TenTen."
"What would that be Neji-kun? Is she alright? Is she hurt?"
"No Hinata, she has a cold and is in bed. She will be fine."
"Oh, ok. Well, at least she isn't injured."
"I need you to get me some fruit and some aspirin. Could you stop by Ichiraku's and get two beef ramens to go? Neither one of us has eaten yet. Well, I know I haven't."
"Oi, Neji, I will if you tell me why you all of a sudden want to cater to her."
"Uh, no reason, just wanted to try and keep her happy, ya know, so Gai doesn't try and tear me to shreds if she gives a bad report. I wouldn't want to hurt him. She doesn't even know I'm here yet. Besides, she's asleep."
"Ok, be there in about 30 minutes, ok?"
"Ok, bye Hinata."
"Bye, Neji"
He hung up the phone and went in and stood leaning on her door frame smirking.
About 30 minutes later Hinata showed up with the food. She had got grapes, strawberries, bananas, and some other fruits, plus the ramen and aspirin. It had amazed her that a weapon mistress was out of aspirin.
She immediately left so she wouldn't be late for her appointment at the hair salon with Ino and Sakura, TenTen would have went with them because she could have told Gai and missed practice today and gone. Instead she ended up telling them to go ahead and meet there and that she would go next time. Ino had stopped by to check on her and was about to leave her asleep when the guys had shown up.
He went over to a chair in the corner of her room and sat down, taking a small, yet thick, book out of his bag. It was his most secret secret. His journal. He decided to write some in it while he waited for her to wake up and eat her ramen.
5/14
Dear Journal,
Today has been sort of bitter-sweet. I went to practice and saw that TenTen was missing. I acted like nothing had happened. Gai said we should wait an hour for her and if she didn't show then we got to go hunt her down. Yay! Not. It's not like I don't like her, because I really do. It's just Gai-sensei is so weird and acts like he knows about this burning passion of youth called love. I think he looks for it as hard as he can because he sure as heck doesn't have a love life. At least that I'm aware of.
Well, after awhile, (an hour to be precise) we got up and headed over to her house. Gai was all like, "oh Neji, you burn with the power of youthful love", or something stupid like that just because I got there 15 minutes before those clowns did. I started yelling at him and I have got to say, scared the crap out him. It was hilarious. Ino was walking out the door and said to go on in and take care of her.
We got in and Gai said I had to stay here and take care of TenTen. Alone. He was all like this is your punishment for scaring-the-crap-out-of-me type thing. Man, he doesn't know how much I'm enjoying being here alone with her. She is sleeping right now. She looks so pale, I wish she hadn't forced me to stay and spar with her last night. Poor thing, I hate to see her this way.
Hinata brought some fruit and ramen over. I'm waiting for her to wake up so she can have some lunch. I could just sit here all day watching her. If only she wasn't so pale and sick. Well, better go so she doesn't see me writing in you. No one can ever find out about you. Well, not until after I'm married toI don't plan on getting married anytime soon. But I think I know who I want to ask in a few years.
-Neji
He set his journal down on a side table without thinking. He went over and gently shook her.
"TenTen, wake up. It's Neji. Come on, you need to eat." Her eyes fluttered open making her appear completely innocent. He smirked and walked over and grabbed a tray with her ramen on it.
"Neji…what are you doing here?"
"Taking care of you. Gai had me stay here so somebody could make sure you're alright."
"Oh, thank you Neji." she sounded a bit disappointed because he had made it sound like he was here against his own will.
"Here, I had Hinata pick it up for you. It's beef. Is that alright?"
"Ya, Neji, I like beef, it's my favorite." she said with a cheery smile, well as cheery as you can be when you have a bad cold like so.
"Good. He take some aspirin. It'll make that headache go away."
"Ok, thanks Neji-kun."
He nodded his head in acknowledgement and sat down in a different chair that he had been sitting in. They both ate their ramen quietly.
After they were finished he took the bowls downstairs so she could take a shower. He would watch a movie until she was done.
When she got out of the shower and had got dressed. She walked over to her side table by her dresser and noticed a little brown book.
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