I know, new story, but this is kind of a teaser and I will continue work on The Ex-Girlfriends.

It's quite obvious that I don't own Naruto.

I've never had a last name, I've never had parents, and I've never had a boyfriend, but the one thing I always prided myself on was my perfect aim. No matter what I threw, fired, or punched, I always hit my mark. One hundred percent accuracy was my talent that got me placed on Team Gai. Lee wasn't remarkable in the beginning, but I was mediocre in comparison to the Neji Hyuga. He was a genius, a prodigy fighter, and born into a terrible circumstance. I've had a small crush on him from the day we met. Still, we have trained together for a year and he acknowledges me. My whole team does, and they are the only ones that ever have. I've tried to change the order of things, but it seems that I will always get second place in a team.

My confidence in my weapons faltered when Temari kicked my ass in the preliminaries. I felt so dejected and beat. She killed me without breaking a sweat. Neji, Lee, and Gai told me that she was the worst possible opponent for me to have; wind versus objects of destruction that depended on no air disturbance. They convinced me that I was good and that everyone needed training. I believed them and moved on.

There was a dream that I had though. I had always dreamed of becoming a great kunoichi like Tsunade. She was beautiful and the best of the best, and I wanted to prove to everyone that women can make better ninja than men. So that's why I trained like crazy without sacrificing my beauty. I hung a poster of her on my apartment wall to remind myself why I would train. I would also look up facts about her and write them on the poster. Like the fact that she has incredible strength; even stronger than master Gai!

Now you can see why I was terribly excited when I found out that she would be our fifth Hokage. I remember the first time I saw her was when she was buying alcohol, and I couldn't take my eyes off her. She had a dangerous quality to her that I wanted to have. She was everything I wanted to be. I wanted her to take me from my team where I was nobody, to be her apprentice where I would be somebody. I didn't want to seem demanding though. So I displayed my abilities to her fully. Whenever we got a mission from her, I was determined to be the star and the one that came through for the team. That rarely happened, but she still gave me a small smile whenever we completed a mission as if to say, "You may not be the best, but you will be." This only made me want to train harder, to prove that I was worthy of her verbally complimenting me. While I was training my butt off, someone got in the way of my plans.

Sakura never had any extraordinary talent for a shinobi. She was loud, obsessed over her teammate Saskue, possessed little power, and was never particularly pretty. But something changed when Saskue left though. She went right up to Tsunade and demanded to be her apprentice. When Hinata told me, I laughed and said, "Surely Tsunade refused her?" To my surprise, she didn't. From that day on, Sakura progressed at a supernatural rate. She was a good medic and was getting the hang of Tsunade's strength. This made me want to outshine her and prove to Tsunade that she had made a mistake in picking apprentices.

I was left out of a giant mission that the rookie twelve (I should say eleven) went on, and Hinata spoke of how everyone was counting on Sakura to survive. Even Neji was complimenting Sakura's abilities. She also told me that Tsunade took on Ino of all people as well. Ino was someone whom I really could not stand. I gave her a concussion once for bothering Neji during our training session (In my defense, her voice was breaking my concentration and I missed one of my targets). That left me as the only kunoichi in the rookie group not to receive any kind of special training or to possess any bloodline trait. I was suddenly in the back of the group and falling behind.

I had to go deliver a message from Gai-sensei to Tsunade one day. I opened her study door only to find her teaching Sakura some advanced medical jutsu. What really bugged me was the way Tsunade was looking at Sakura. She looked at her as a parent looks at their child when they're proud of them. Sakura walked up to me and said, "It's Tenten, right? I've never really seen you around before." I wanted to slap her and use her as a pincushion for my weapons, but I smiled and said, "Yeah, I'm Tenten. I'm always busy, so maybe that's why." She smiled and went to get some water while I gave the message to Tsunade. What really pulled at me was the fact that Sakura had this average, boyish figure whereas I was built with an hourglass frame and was rather pretty (not to be vain, but I was). I didn't' understand why Tsunade took Sakura under her wing when Tsunade herself was of legendary beauty.

After that, I went to train with Neji. He deflected all of my weapons as usual and came out without a scratch. I was thoroughly beaten up as my weapons proved useless against him. When I called for a break, he just rolled his eyes at me and I heard him mumble, "Why do I bother?" I told him I had to leave, and I don't think he cared. He never cares about anything. He left and I picked up my weapons in silence.

That day, I went home and tore down the poster of Tsunade. I took two pieces of paper and I drew Sakura on one and Neji on the other and wrote a phrase on each of them as well. I threw two kunai at them and they were stuck to the wall. From that day on, I forgot about my crush on Neji, and I forgot about becoming like Tsunade. I took another piece of paper and wrote, "Prove everyone wrong and surpass them." I threw a shuriken at that one and it stuck above the drawings. I had a new goal: Defeat Sakura and prove to everyone that I was not worthless.