This is a rather short one-shot fic...NejiTen, but all about how a girl gets hurt. T-T. Copied this from 'Candy Mags' and decided to put in Naruto instead, and well, it rather turned out good. Please R&R!! ^-^. Thanks!! (Has a little bit of SasuSaku, as you can see from the beginning! :)


Sakura's POV:

Curious thing, how it started.

Tenten and I were out in the hallway one morning, on our way to the ladies' room when we saw Neji and Sasuke approaching us from the gym. About to cross paths, I blew the Uchiha a kiss which he pretended to catch (sorry, it's this thing we do), while Neji and Tenten acknowledged each other with small nods.

It wasn't one minute after our backs were turned when I heard a loud crash

Looking back, I saw that Neji had toppled over a giant trash can. I covered my mouth with my hand to stifle a shriek. This could only mean one thing!

" He was checking out Tenten!" Ino agreed. " I can't believe the Hyuuga's into you!" –"What's so u-unbelievable a-about it?," Hinata, Neji's cousin, asked. " Ever since y-you b-beat him at b-basketball, he's b-been looking at you l-like he's never

s-seen you before. It's a-all m-making s-sense now."

We stared at her with wide eyes. That was the first time we heard our shy friend speak out to us for that long! But, Tenten disagreed with us. " What are you talking about, Hinata? He's always spaced out when he's looking at me. And besides, Neji is such a ladies' man. He'll go after anyone with a skirt!"

She had a point. But as the weeks went on, we were less and less sure that Neji was just playing Tenten. In fact, we spent the next few weeks debating whether or not he liked her.

If he did, he sure changed his ego completely! Gone was the smooth, serious Neji who knew all the right things to say. In his place was someone who knocked things over, tripped over his own shoes and mumbled whenever Tenten was around.

Unlike before, Neji would profusely flatter every girl, this time, he'd casually pass food to Tenten first, ask her how she was going home before asking anyone else, and text only her with a question meant for all of us. He was acting so strange that Naruto and Shikamaru started to tease him about being ill.

" Do you even like him?," we asked Tenten a dozen times. She let out a sigh. " Assuming he likes me, and I really believe he doesn't, I'm just not…comfortable with this reputation," she chose her words carefully. " I mean, how many girls has he dated in our school alone?!"

" About four," answered Ino thoughtlessly. " No, five!," she corrected herself.

" That's in the last two years." Tenten made a face and I understood her reservation.

Not too many years ago, there was her 'summer guy', Rock Lee.

At first, typical Tenten resisted all of his advances. But this guy was tenacious, and she soon warmed up to him. Just as she was about to say yes-poof! He vanished. One month later, Tenten saw him canoodling with another girl at our coffee hang-out.

But something about the way Neji was acting made me think twice about writing him off. Once, after seeing Casanova, we got into a heated discussion about whether skirt-chasers will always be skirt-chasers. It ended when the Hyuuga forcefully said,

" People change, you know."

Tenten must've seen the change too, because after weeks of being 'tentatively' asked out, she finally agreed to dinner-with Hinata in tow. Later that night, I, Sakura Haruno, called Tenten to get the dish on the date. She picked up after several rings, and I could hear whimpering in the background. Uh-oh. Not good not good not good.

" So…how was it?," I slowly asked, careful not to pull it all out. The whimpers soon turned into quiet sobs as I pictured Tenten crying in Hinata's arms. " It didn't happen. We left soon after getting there," Ino replied in a tone too glum to listen to.

She hesitated, and I heard Tenten shout, " Cheater, Hyuuga bastard!," back into Hinata. The crying soon continued. " We…saw…Neji….," Ino replied very slowly, I was dying to hear her answer.

" With another girl…."

She hung up, and I set the phone on the table. Staring into space, I let out a cry, letting Ino's words sink in. It was totally all our fault, and we knew that Tenten would never trust a boy ever…again.


Awww....*sniff sniff*now Tenten's trust has totally disappeared! It is complete, but if you want me to continue it because it's good enough, that's fine with me! (I love NejiTen too! ^-^) Read and review!! Lots of candy- xYama-chanx +)