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He was not jealous.
Neji Hyuga kept repeating this to himself as he glared, no, he mentally corrected, as he looked over in the direction of his only mostly sane teammate.
He and Tenten had been training for most of the day and he had relented and allowed her to drag him to the ever popular ichiraku. Once there the owner had quickly served them and then he came along.
He was a civilian boy, an Academy drop out who had been apart of their genin year but he had chickened out just before the exam and left to pursue a life as one of the many aimless civilians. As such Neji had never deemed him important enough to learn his name.
But though Neji had promptly forgotten about the rest of their failure of a class once he, Tenten and Lee had passed, Tenten had not forgotten. He had called to her and she had remembered him! She had answered back and they started a conversation.
A light blush decorated the boy's patrician features and he ran his hand through his already messy brown hair. Neji's eyes narrowed further as Tenten actually giggled at something that he said. He was not jealous but that was the final straw.
"Tenten, we need to get back to training." The Hyuga prodigy pointed out, quite gently he thought. The boy, the failure, had dared to glare at him.
"We're talking here, why don't you go and train on your own." Neji stiffened slightly and he belatedly realized that he had activated his byakugan after the impudent boy had dared to try to stop Tenten from training. He felt a flash of pride as Tenten spoke.
"You're right Neji. Just let me" she started to reach for her purse but an idea ran through Neji's head and he stopped her.
"I'll pay for it. You go to the training grounds, I'll catch up." Tenten had given him an odd look but then she nodded and ran off. When she was safely out of earshot Neji turned to the boy, his byakugan still activated and his face at its most intimidating. He was not jealous. He was doing it for Tenten's own good. After all, if she and this boy began to spend more time together it would interfere with her training and indirectly his own training.
"You will not speak to her again. You will not look at her. You will not be on the same side of the road as her ever. Do you understand?" Neji demanded. The boy looked as if he was about to wet himself as he nodded weakly.
"Good." And then he followed after Tenten.
He had not been jealous.
just a quick thing vaguely inspired by Cyberwolf, whose fics everyone should read, after you review this story of course