"Why do you want to spar with me?"
Tenten fidgeted and looked away.
"I wanna..."
She mumbled the last bit. He leaned closer.
"What?"
She glanced at him and crossed her arms.
"Don't laugh. Or smirk!"
He nodded, facial expression solemn.
"Whenever I go to the movies with Sakura or anybody, they tie me to the chair so I stop moving around."
He wanted to smirk. Oh, how he wanted to. But he kept his face as stoic as ever.
"Right..."
She threw her hands up and turned away, putting her hands on her hips.
"But why do you want to spar with me?"
"I want to be able to fight them off. I can't do that now, because I am one and they are many."
"And fighting with me will make you stronger."
She looked at him with a stubborn look on her face.
"Yes. Because you're you."
After sparring for two months with Neji, Tenten was able to throw off any movie going attack on her person and resist being tied down during the duration of the movie she was viewing. It was only after this that Neji was invited to their movies and he was the one to tie her down when she became too active in her responses to the movie.
"Neji..."
"What?"
They were whispering.
"Either remove your hand from sliding up my leg, or untie me so I can touch you too."