Title – Ficlet to Ficlet
Started – 8-25-2009
Finished –
Characters – Neji, Tenten, and others
Genre – Romance
Rating – T for moments to come
Upfront Summary = Moments to moments, ficlets to ficlets of Neji and Tenten's growing relationship from young to old. A one-shot, drabble, and series collection for NejiTenLuva and all her support.
IMPORTANT!A/N – Edited for I Love My Fans for Valentines' Day in which I edit and upload for as many different writing projects as I can for Valentines' Day and spam your inbox! XD
A/N – Yeah! See that format change? FRICK YEAH MAN. XD
Common Key =
~~~(SceneChange/EndScene)~~~
"Dialogue"
Thoughts/Emphasis/Whispering/Non-English/Songlyrics/Flashback
EMPHASIS/LOUD
Narration
'So-called/Texts/Written'
Disclaimer = I do not own Naruto. Masashi Kishimoto does. If I did, there would be some heavily-implied back-to-the-future shiz going on that shows Neji and Tenten training together per usual, but the time-travelers take notice of their wedding bands. ;D
Hopefully I can write this dutifully even though I've lost interest in it *pulling a zeroxheat*.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Meeting)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I find her. I love her. I die.
She has my child and it will grow to be fine and strong.
That is the plan.
~~~(In another place and another time)~~~
Neji awoke to a dark world.
An even darker shadow was cast upon him, causing him to shudder.
It was the shadow of someone who surpassed him and one whom he could never defeat in placement.
Tears formed in his eyes at the mere idea of it.
He was born for inferiority.
A bird locked in its cage.
A tool summoned up by a greater, more powerful being just to be thrown aside when finished with.
In a way, it was the life of a shinobi.
But compared to the feeling he had when he lost love, shinobi days were preferable.
And then, the world began to appear to him.
He was Neji Hyuga.
And he was being watched by moonlit eyes.
Veins began to surface beside his own eyes.
He had not yet learned how to use his clan trait, but he felt the motivation pulsing through his watched body.
There! It was there! Watching him in disgrace, at his worst – it wouldn't for long.
It seemed to stray away from its hiding place and begin to walk towards him.
Neji gave chase and the spy fled.
But even if that being took him to the far ends of the earth, he wanted to seek and destroy it.
However innocent that creature appeared to be, he would never forgive it for what it observed in him.
Neji had caught up and, with no chakra infused in the act, palmed the fleer into a tree and finished with a hand upon its chest.
Air entered and exited their lungs excessively.
The dark forest the tap led him to would hide any screams made that day.
"Who?"
"What?"
"WHO ARE YOU?-!" Neji pressed his palm so hard against the wiretap's chest that he could feel the beating of its heart.
For some reason though, the heartbeat wasn't irregular in the slightest, as if it weren't at all fear-stricken.
"Who…?" the being said, as if it were barely piecing his words together. "Who…am I…?"
"Yes," Neji replied with a bit more calm in his voice.
"My name's Tian-Tian."
"Ten…ten?" Neji said as carefully as his stalker did.
"No. TEE-AN. TEE-AN," the child enunciated further.
"Tian-tian?"
"Tian-tian!~"
"Tian-tian!~" Neji almost lost focus and swore he would 'meditate' the embarrassment away later.
"Who are you?"
"I just said. Who are you?"
"Shouldn't you know, you were spying on me."
"What?"
"Don't play stupid!"
"I'm not playing!" the child said, holding its hands up in defense and Neji, being cautious, palmed its chest.
"Who sent you?-! Hiashi-sama, I bet!"
"No-!" He jabbed its chest again. "No! I swear I'm not!"
"How dare you spy on a Hyuga, you disgraceful worm! If you do not express your remorse, then I will dismiss you permanently! Say it!"
"Say what?-!" He jabbed her.
"Whatever it takes to remain alive!"
"I'm a disgraceful worm and I do not deserve to be in your presence!"
"Good." He removed his hand from the worm's chest and walked away.
He did not hear the spy's body collapse from torture and did not smell salty tears being shed except his own a short while ago.
Neji wriggled the fingers of the hand that attacked and noted how cold they had just become.
He remembered the up and down movement of the child's chest. Throughout all the shouting he made it do, its breathing not once became irregular. And the way it responded by admitting its class of a worthless invertebrate sadly reminded him of himself. He, many times, pushed away his strong pride to make the pain stop.
Even though he knew of no Hyuga with that name and the intruder indeed felt like an intruder, not a single being could stand to be so calm against him.
Therefore, it did not exist.
End of story.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Disregarded)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A/N – Haha, edited much more than I planned, but I believe it's better now.