hey people!! IT's my FIRST Tenten and Itachi fanfic! ALSO THIS IS A NON MASSACRE FANFIC
yay something that doen't involve Pein.. .. maybe XD
He had noticed her a while ago, but was to shy to say or do anything. Sure he said hi, but he longed to have a real conversation with her. At first he didn't really care, but lately, she had been floating into his mind more and more. Itachi could be staring at the stars at night and her face would rear its pretty face; her warm chocolate brown eyes that danced with mischief and beautiful smile.
Itachi let out a frustrated sigh as he looked at the midnight black night sky. There was a crescent moon present that the clouds liked to cover up. She was in his thoughts again. 'why does her face keep popping up?' he mentally groaned, 'she has that Hyuuga prodigy...' Itachi shifted against the tree in his backyard. Yes, Hyuuga Neji did pose a threat to him on some level. 'i need sleep. . . tomorrow's Monday.' Getting up Itachi walked lazily across the grass to the back door. Quietly, he slid the glass door open and stepped inside his dark house, silently closing the door behind him and locking it. In an eerie silence, he made his way out of the family room, around the corner, up a short flight of wood stairs, down a hall and into his comfy room. 'i'll take a shower in the morning'. Itachi thought as he pulled his shirt over his head followed by his under shirt. he took of his sweats, put on a pair of basketball shorts, and went to bed.
The following afternoon at Maple Leaf High School...
"That's it Tenten! Use the power of youth!!"Gai sensei shouted at his female student.
said girl just rolled her eyes and sighed. She easily passed by Sakura and side stepped Naruto with the soccer ball. 'two mid fields down one to go.' Passing the ball behind her to Neji, she raced forward as he booted it up for her to trap and score. The ball was coming toward her and so was an Uchiha. 'sasuke...!' The two both jumped to head the ball but ended up trapping it between their heads. Sasuke won but as he landed and started to run, Tenten reached back a little and caught his foot with hers. He fell and she tripped a little. 'shoot!' Before the defenders were on her, the brunette kicked. The ball stayed low as it shot past Gaara and Choji making its way to the bottom left corner. TWWEEET!!
"Time! Good game everybody!"came Gai's enthusiastic voice.
"NOO!!" Tenten whined. she had slowed to a jog when the whistle blew but pouted when she saw her strike was saved. Saved by Lee.
"No surprise,"said Neji as his breathing returned to normal,"he used his speed to catch it before it went in."
"I know but I had that one!" the two, like everyone else, were headed back inside to change.
Inside the girls locker room, Tenten received lots of praise for her soccer skills.
Inside the boys locker room, Sasuke was being teased for falling(something he never did), and Lee was being praised for his lucky save.
Ten minutes later the bell rang ending the school day.
After the bell the soccer teams came in to change.
Tenten walked out in her lime green snow flake covered socks with two dollars. Her stomach growled, 'i'm hungry'. She walked slowly down the hall to the gatorade machine and stopped in front of it. 'hmm. . . orange or red?'She shifted her weight to her left foot holding her hand with her money to her lower lip in contemplation. 'what about yellow?' yet another flavor to choose from. The brunette put in her two dollars and pushed yellow.
SOLD OUT
'great' Tenten was thrown back into indecision.
"Um not to be rude or anything, but could you hurry up? I have to be on the field for practice and I would like a gatorade too."came a smooth male's voice.
Turning around, Tenten was surprised to see the Uchiha Itachi standing behind her looking down at her.
She blinked, "Oh sorry, hahaha" and let out a half nervous laugh.
He gave a smile and it disappeared, but his eyes remained warm like glowing charcoal. She smiled back and turned around and pushed the red gatorade;it started vending. Itachi crossing his arms, had to look away to hide the pink that was creeping across the bridge of his nose. He looked back in front of when Tenten walked away drinking her gatorade.
Outside on the football/soccer field the boys varsity soccer team was assembling. The girls varsity soccer team was walking toward the field followed by Tenten talking to the varsity coach for both teams.
"All right maggots! Listen up! Today we have a trial run," Coach Anko yelled gaining her desired attention, "She is here under MY recommendation okay?" Anko pushed Tenten in front of her.
Tenten stared with butterflies in her stomach at the juniors, seniors, sophomore, and freshman who stared back. Tenten recognized Temari a junior, Konan, Pein, Diedara, and Hidan all seniors, Neji her sophomore buddy, and Sasuke the freshman. She also recognized him and. Temari smirked already knowing what the girl could do.
"Now three laps and then get with your partners and stretch. Tenten, Sasuke, and Neji, you don't have to do the laps-" A chorus of protests went up as Anko continued, "- because I know you just had gym with that idiot Maito Gai."
A yes escaped their lips as the others went out to do their laps. Tenten found herself not only watching Pein, but Itachi as well. Itachi was one of the first to finish so Anko called him over to her and Tenten. Anko told the two that they would be partners for now as Itachi reached for his orange gatorade.
This one command made two hearts simultaneously beat faster and one sophomore glare death at the Uchiha.
This was going to be a long practice.
Itachi breathed out loudly and dropped his bag on his hardwood floor. 'that was... very interesting.' Flicking on the lights in his room he looked around.
"Practice was very interesting, neh?" Sasuke asked. Itachi didn't have to turn around to see the smirk on his little brother's face, it just dripped from his speech.
"What'd you mean?" Itachi turned around to face his brother who was leaning on the thresh hold, arms crossed.
"Tenten, you like her don't you?"
Itachi swallowed silently unnoticed, "What're you talkin' about?"
"I saw they way you were lookin' at her, you followed her every move," the smirk on Sasuke's face became more pronounced as amusement started to ease its way into his words as he continued talking.
Itachi started to glare, 'its that obvious? geeze i hope not... please let sasuke be the only one who noticed, please!'
"Sasuke, Itachi, dinner's ready!"
'mom you're a life saver!', "Coming!" Itachi yelled and strode past Sasuke and down the hall into the kitchen to eat.
Dinner passed with no talk of soccer practice and Sasuke's little discovery. Instead talk was filled with information about a $2 million business deal Fugaku sealed and the wedding cake Mikoto had to bake today.
The next day.
Tenten stared out the window separating her from outside, 'i wonder if i made varsity? oh man i hope i did... that way i'd have a valid excuse to see him! man, he looked so amazing during practice.' She breathed out and looked to the front of the class. Her science teacher was attempting to teach them with his thick i-know-how-to-speak-to-many-languages accent.
"Hey you think you made it?" Neji asked.
Tenten turned her head to look at him next to her, "Yeah I hope... Did I do good enough to get on?"
"If you didn't, do you think I would be asking you if you made it?" Neji snorted playfully.
Tenten got what he meant though and was to pleased for words. 'i can't believe i made it!!!! now i can see itachi every day during practice and during games!!!' she inwardly squealed. This little bit of inside news (accompanied by slight fear that she didn't make it) made the day fly by for her.
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In the girl's locker room after school Tenten's excited vibes weren't unnoticed. Temari only shook her head in amusement at her brunette friend who was practically jumping around in the row they were in, Konan was trying to stay out of her way and the other girls thought she was high or on something.
Out on the field both teams plus Tenten were gathered, waiting for Coach Anko to announce if Tenten made it or not; most likely the first.
'please let me make it!!' Tenten mentally begged.
'let her make it, let her make it' Itachi mentally repeated in hopes that she did.
The moment came.
"Tenten, you did very well at yesterday's practice. I was very pleased that you stole the majority of the throw-in's that put the ball in your teams favor," Anko began. Two hearts beat with anticipation. All eyes, male female, brown onyx pale lavender sky blue dark blue black light grey green, stared at coach. "Tenten, I'm glad to welcome you onto girls varsity soccer!"
A short round of applause happened that turned into laughter at Tenten's reaction. She had ran away from the group and went right into a series of flips: round off, 2 back hand springs, back tuck, back hand spring, ending in a back twist. She was to happy to care what they thought of her at the moment, all she cared about was Coach's last sentence.
"Okay maggots! You can celebrate after practice... NOW GO RUN! THREE LAPS AND THEN GET WIT YOUR PARTNERS AND STRETCH!!" Anko yelled startling everyone.
That is how their friendship got started, first being partners during stretching, they got to physically interact which led to playful teasing. Playful teasing led to small talk. Small talk led to small conversations and small conversations led to regular conversations. Regular conversations led to more personal conversations. Personal conversations led to them being completely comfortable with each other.
The season passed and it was now a week from the final game; the state championship. Needless to say practice for both teams were intense and a lot of pressure was put on them. Everyone was stressed and needed an escape. Coach had added extra Saturday practices from 12pm-3pm a month ago and didn't see anything wrong with that. The soccer teams however did and if you complained about it, you were given laps to do at the end of practice until you couldn't run anymore.
Friday at the end of practice...
"I don't think I can make tomorrow's practice..." Tenten panted to Neji as they did suicides as their cool down.
"I know but you have to," Neji panted back as he turned around and started back to the start line, Tenten following not to far behind.
"Yeah but I have a project and I'm to tired!" Tenten whined. "I haven't been sleeping well lately and I don't know why."
"What's the project?"
"I have to write a report on how cross country skiing started and what it is."
"Cross country skiing?? What's that?"
"EXACTLY!" she exclaimed. Neji snorted a laugh and shook his head as they both turned around for their third suicide. Only two more to go.
Tenten was almost at the other end of the soccer field when the tiredness finally took over. Turning around she jogged back as Neji ran at his same pace, not showing any signs of being tired. 'i bet he'd be tired too if he had itachi for a partner...'
Thursday before the final game during D lunch Itachi sat with his friends aka half of the boys varsity soccer team, some from the girl's team and some random people who had the same mixed lunch as him. He was surveying the cafeteria when the object of his hidden affection walked in talking to him. 'damn that hyuuga. why couldn't he be more like his cousin, hinata?' Itachi felt sightly annoyed as he continued to watch the two sit down at the end of a table in his line of vision across from each other. Temari joined them and sat down with her lunch. 'she looks happy, so cute...'
"Itachi, whacha lookin' at?"kisame asked.
Itachi blinked, "Nothin'."
"You're lookin' at her aren't you?" Kisame grinned.
"Who?", 'who's he talking about?'
"Tenten."
Itachi didn't respond. He knew that out of his friends, Kisame knew him best and could usually tell if something was up. This time, why did he have to be able to tell? 'is it THAT obvious?!' Itachi really wanted to know, first Sasuke notices that practice and now Kisame knows too.
"You're not responding," Kisame's voice was filled with excitement, "heh, wow you like her don't you?"
Itachi looked in front of him at Kisame, "What makes you say that?" If any thing, he was going to find out what keeps giving him away.
"The moment she walked in you couldn't keep your eyes off her!" Kisame was really enjoying this.
Itachi stiffened but quickly relaxed. 'so i stare too much.' He sighed and leaned his elbow on the table resting his left cheek on his left fist.
"Okay, I do" he confessed.
"How much?"
Itachi mentally rolled his eyes, "I don't know, more than like like, way more than that, but not 'i'm-willing-to-spend-the-rest-of-my-life-with-you' kind."
Deciding to keep this between them, Kisame lowered his voice, "So you want her."
"Bad."
Kisame sat up straight and blinked, 'did he just say that? did uchiha itachi really jus' say that?'
"Shocking I know. What d' I do?" Itachi groaned.
"Ask her out," Kisame said recovering from his state of shock
Itachi looked at him like he was crazy.
"You asked me what to do, so I told you."
"Fine... When?"
"Tomorrow after the soccer game. That way if we both win, it'll be like a victory date and it won't be so bad, but if they lose, you'll be there to comfort her if she's upset. Okay?"
Itachi nodded and resumed staring at a laughing Tenten and thought about how he would ask her out tomorrow.