Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, or anything else in this chapter!!!…if I did own Naruto I would put NEJITEN, SasuSaku, NaruHina & ShikaIno 2gether OH and I would kill Temari

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~Last Time~

Tenten smirked and jumped up with the ball and kicked it while in the air. The ball came hurdling past my head in a speed I could've matched if I was ready for it. Our whole team turned to Naruto as he slowly jumped up to catch the ball. He was gonna get it when all of a sudden Tenten appeared and head butted the ball in the net right past Naruto's fingers. Her speed was immense; she was faster then me, Sasuke or Kiba, the fastest runner's on our team. We all stared in shock as the girl's started celebrating there 1st goal on us. Anko started dancing in circles around Kakashi. Tenten just smiled at Naruto who was on the ground staring at his empty hands. For the 1st time in a long time…I was actually scared we might lose a soccer game…

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"I'm sorry did I hurt you?" Tenten's face was very concerned as she kneeled down to help Naruto up; he was still shocked he wouldn't stop gazing at his empty hands. There are few balls that Naruto doesn't catch, that's why he's our goalie, he never misses.

"Y-Yeah yeah…I'm fine…" Naruto looked up and stared at Tenten with blank eyes.

"Here I'll help you up" Tenten extended her hand to help Naruto up and he just kept gazing at his hands.

"A-Arrigatou" He took her hand and she pulled him to his feet.

"No biggy" Tenten replied as she ran back to her side to cheer with the rest of the girl's.

"How in the world did she pull that one off?" Sasuke quietly asked me.

"I dunno…she's got speed and that right leg of her's is pretty powerful too" I turned back to Naruto and nodded to him. He got the message and his eyes blazed with hatred and anger. No ball was gonna get past him now.

"You loser's ready yet?" Tayuya smirked while twirling the soccer ball on one finger. "Get over the shock 'cause we're just warming up"

I turned to Naruto who was getting angrier by the second. "Sasuke, attack plan C7"

Sasuke nodded. "Right"

"Pick it up guys" Shikamaru warned Gaara and Shino.

"Hurry up guy's seriously" Toki waved her hand in the air looking bored. "We're just getting started. Are you gonna take this long everytime we score?"

"We're ready. You guys have the ball, put it down and let's play" Sasuke glared at Tayuya who just kept smirking and twirling the ball like it was nothing.

"Alright, alright here" Tayuya threw Sasuke the ball.

"Go" he whispered.

He kicked the ball forward a little enough for it to count then sprinted off with Kiba inward then spread out; I appeared from the center and kicked the ball with all my might in the air. The girl's defense looked up distracted enough for Sasuke and Kiba to cover them entirely. I jumped up in the air and kicked it with full strength.

The ball lunged itself towards the corner of the goal. I smiled, that was an impossible ball to stop for the goalie. Hinata's face went automatically from alert to panic as she jumped toward the corner, she wasn't gonna get it. Sasuke and Kiba started running back to defense. Right when Hinata was gonna miss the ball it was gone…just gone…I looked around the field to find the ball at Tenten's feet. She had jumped and hit it with her head then set it on the ground. She was fast…really fast…Kiba went off and growled as he quickly challenger her head on, Sasuke backed up behind him just incase he didn't get it.

I set back up on defense with the other guys. Tenten and Kiba were swiftly charging at each other. Tenten smirked and kicked a rainbow; it went right over Kiba's head as she ran around him leaving him like an idiot standing there. Sasuke though was ready and you need more then that fancy trick to get him. For the weirdest reason Sasuke backed out and headed over to cover Toki who was approaching secretly. I saw Tenten frown slightly, apparently she was gonna pass it to Toki. Kiba had gone off to cover Tayuya but at the moment they were arguing with each other…not good…that left Tenten to me. I herd Shikamaru shift more backward leaving Gaara and Shino to cover the wings incase Toki or Tayuya were somehow able to get past Sasuke and Kiba.

Tenten slowed herself down to barely kicking the ball forward. She was looking for an opening, and I wasn't about to give her one. I charged full speed to her not really thinking about the consequences of just heading for her. I approached quickly and Tenten glared at me, she had stopped moving the ball completely. She stood there with her right foot on it. I stopped 3 yards from her to analyze the situation. If she goes left around me Gaara could stop her, and if she goes right Shino would give me an opening to get it across the field. Either way it was 5 on 1 right now and it couldn't hurt to be reckless just once. I continued sprinting to her, the edges of her mouth pulled to a small smile and she waited for me to come. I was falling right into a trap, that I knew but I couldn't let her look for a better opening to score on us like the last time.

"To slow, idiot" Tenten kicked the ball up in the air and cart wheeled back then did a full flip over my head, then head butted the ball past Gaara and Shino. She frowned when she saw that Shikamaru was still there. Shikamaru kicked the ball back giving it to Naruto. Naruto looked up for 2 seconds then powerfully kicked the ball past there defense leaving Sasuke a good shot. Sasuke and Hinata both faced each other and went for the ball. Somehow outta somewhere, Sasuke managed to pull ahead getting the ball in the net.

"Shit, you better enjoy that goal because it's the last one you're gonna get" Tenten whispered loud enough for just me to hear. She smiled out to everyone else and grinned. "Nice job, you guys just pull together on defense more, WE GOT THIS!!!" The rest of the girl's cheered and started getting pumped.

"Nice job Sasuke" I high-fived him.

"Hn…if it was any other game…I wouldn't have made that shot…it was just pure luck, the wind was at the exact angle for it to give me a better edge…but even so that was a too difficult shot to do other again" Sasuke panted and let his shoulder's drop.

"Then we're gonna have to pick it up…a lot…"

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(Half Time)

The score was 5-5 now…all of there shots were made by Tenten. Assists from Tayuya and Toki helped her get all 5. There defense is hard to penetrate, but we weren't exactly giving them an easy time either. Naruto blocked 10 shots and Hinata blocked 14.

"This is harder then I thought it would be Neji" Kiba ripped open the lid of his water bottle and dumped the water all over his head.

"Yeah, I know…we underestimated them to the highest degree…they shouldn't have this many goals on us" I was pissed, Tenten was gonna win this if they score one more goal…this can't be happening.

"We could try to piss off Temari and make her chase after us…then we could get past the left side…" Sai suggested.

"That's not gonna work…in a game, players should not show any sign of emotion" Haku pointed out.

"Yeah we all know that, all we need to do RIGHT NOW is block Tenten…we need at least two people to cover her" Kankuro looked over to the other team. "Clearly she's the only threat"

"Yes, we have to do that…even 3 players covering her if necessary" Shikamaru commanded.

Thunder started rolling over our heads and rain drops fell heavily on our heads. This day could not get any worse…the guys stared at each other and we turned to the girl's who were frolicking in the rain. They were apparently dancing and enjoying the heavy rain drops falling on there heads. I growled. They weren't even tacking this seriously.

"I'll cover her" I said threw my gritted teeth, "I admit she frightened me in the beginning but that will not happen again" I glared at my own feet.

"I'll cover her too" Sai raised his hand. "You're gonna need help"

"Hey that means I might as well help too" Kiba shouted with a big grin on his face. "The whole mid-field might as well have all the fun"

"So it's decided…if you're on mid-field then you cover Tenten" Shikamaru stated making sure we all herd. "Sasuke, Haku and Kankuro you need to attack at any chance you get, we need another goal"

"Hai"

"Alright then LET'S KILL!!!" Naruto yelled out at the top of his lungs and headed to the goal.

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(3 minutes left)

The rain hadn't let up and we were all soaked. We were still tied 5-5.

"NARUTO HEADS UP!!!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. Toki had shot from the right.

"Got it" Naruto caught the ball with his cat-like smile and kicked it toward Haku. Haku dribbled the ball a few feet before he was getting charged at by Temari. He passed it up to Sasuke who dropped it to Kankuro who shot.

"HINATA!!!" Hotoko turned around when the ball went over her head.

"Don't worry, it's all mine" Hinata jumped and tapped the ball with one hand and set it down with the other. "SPREAD OUT!!!" Hinata shouted over the thunder. I didn't know she had that kind of pitch in her. Or even a voice at all sometimes.

Tenten sprinted off away from me, Kiba and Sai and more towards her own side of the field. "GET DEFENSE!!!" I pleaded to the other 2. Without arguing or protesting they did as I commanded. Hinata punted the ball right over Tenten's head; she quickly followed it up and sprinted around Sasuke. Leaving her all to me.

Tenten eyed past me and grinned. I charged at her, as fast as I could. Tenten saw this and started playing with the ball at her feet. I stuck my foot where the ball should have been, in between her legs. She fully turned in a circle; my foot was stuck in between her legs, she pulled my uniform making me pull closer to her so our noses touched. "It's over" Tenten whispered in my ear before elbowing me in the chest making me loose my balance. I fell in a puddle of mud; wet, sticky, gunky mud. She charged past me with the widest grin on her face.

"AHHH" I punched the ground as hard as I could only earning me pain all over my knuckles. I turned to see if the defense were able to stop her.

Tenten maneuvered her way around Sai and Kiba heading straight for Shikamaru. He was ready though, she wasn't gonna get any closer then she was right now. Gaara and Shino charged towards her giving her pressure from all sides. No way she was gonna make it now. I felt the tension in the air. Then I saw it.

"SHINO GET BACK!!!" I shouted as panicked as ever.

Too late. Tenten took the opening and headed to where Shino was suppose to be set up and shot from Naruto's weak side. The ball was faster this time. Shikamaru jumped and tried to hit it with his head but failed. All eyes were on Naruto. He securely smiled and jumped for the ball. He was gonna get it. Tenten saw this and quickly plunged herself to the ground, she stood on her hands and with her feet tapped the ball over Naruto's head. And just with that tap we lost the game.

The girl's started cheering and hugged each other.

"AND THAT'S HOW WE DO IT!!!" Anko burst out laughing in Kakashi's face. "WE DON'T MESS AROUND!!!"

"Hn" Kakashi looked disappointed, which just pissed me off more. Thunder started coming down even harder then before and I was completely drenched in mud. I pulled my hair tie out since it was starting to fall anyway.

Naruto had fallen when trying to catch the last shot and he too had his face planted in the mud.

"Gomen Naruto-san" Tenten leaned down and helped Naruto up. "Guess I should have taken a better approach" she scratched the back of her head apagogically.

"I'm fine" Naruto's eyes were pitch black.

"Ok then…gomen again" Tenten bowed her head once then bolted to the girl's side, who were waiting with open arms.

The girl's picked Tenten up and raised her high up in the air, getting herself even more covered in rain. She cheered happily with her arms up and the rest of there team carried her inside to the gym.

"Plan on getting up any time soon?" Sasuke lended me a hand.

"…" I took his hand and stood up. I looked over to the rest of the team, they all had long faces and Naruto was still stunned. I looked down to my feet; these feet caused us to loose the game.

"Man, don't worry. Think of it positively, with Tenten on our side we'll win more games" Sasuke whispered. He knew what was really going on. I switched it around for the team but I couldn't fool Sasuke or Shikamaru. They were too smart for that.

"Yeah…sure…" I muttered and huddled up with the team. It was more then loosing this game, it was about pride…skills…and who could back up what they had…Tenten won and I lost, I had to except it. "I'm sorry team…I didn't know how good they would be…with the new girl and everything-"

"Don't worry Neji" Shikamaru but in. "We only have ourselves to blame not you. By half time we knew that Tenten was there only hope and we somehow let her slip through our fingers. We the defense is who to blame" Shikamaru stood up with Gaara and Shino beside him.

"Because of us, we lost" Gaara glared at the wet grass. "We were to defend and we failed"

"No, that's not true" Kiba stood "We the mid field let her get that close to our goal and we are who to blame"

"GUYS IF ANYTHING…IM WHO TO BLAME!!!" Naruto was in his daze and suddenly shouted to the team. "I wasn't good enough…I'm sorry…if I was just a little stronger-"

"Shut it…all of you" I yelled over everyone's complaints. "We obviously need to practice more…I as your captain will take the lose as my own default, but us as a team need to get better, stronger, faster and more precise with our kicks"

Everyone nodded once.

"Now let's head inside" I picked up the muddy game ball "We're all gonna catch a cold out here"

We headed to the door of the gym. The girls were having there little cheers and complimented Tenten on helping them through the game. She kept telling them it was no big deal. Then she looked over to me. She smiled and headed over, Hinata behind her.

"Hey Neji" She chirped.

"Niisan" Hinata looked down shyly.

"Can we talk?" Tenten grinned.

I glared at her. "Yeah, sure"

"Great" Tenten said happily "Hinata I can handle this" She smiled at Hinata who got the message and let us walk past her.

We walked simply out of the gym, I knew what she wanted to talk about and I wasn't about to walk deep into the school again just to hear it.

"I know what you want" I said sourly.

"Good, then this will be easier" Tenten cracked her knuckles and death-glared me. "We won, now you do your part"

"I don't go back on my word…I know what I have to do" She took a step closer while glaring at me and I took a step back. "If you don't believe me come with me yourself to talk to Kakashi" I turned around and was about to open the gym door, when Tenten shoved me aside making me fall to the floor.

"Ok but no funny business" she opened the doors and walked into the gym.

I got up and followed closely behind her. We both walked up to Kakashi.

"Hey, can I talk to you" I tapped his back. Anko peered over Kakashi's shoulder and grinned evilly, she knew what was going to happen.

"Yeah…what is it" Kakashi looked at me unenthusiastically.

"I decided to merge the guys and girls soccer teams" I stated with a monotone voice.

Kakashi stared blankly. "Of course, I'll go advise Tsunade-sama" Kakashi walked around us and left the gym, Anko walking closely behind.

"Heh, I guess the best person won today" Tenten smiled and laughed a little. I stared curiously at her.

"Hey, Neji what were you and Kakashi talking about?" Kiba wrapped his arm around my shoulder. "Oh, sorry my bad" Kiba let go of me and put his arm around Tenten. "Hey beautiful, you got some amazing skills" Kiba winked at Tenten and she blushed furiously.

"Ummm…thanks" Tenten gave him a light smile.

"Maybe we could get together some time and-"

"HEY GUYS!!!" Naruto jumped and wrapped his arms around both of them. "Whatcha talkin about?"

Kiba growled "YOU IDIOT!!!" he shoved Naruto off of him and turned around with a red tint on his cheeks.

"Geez, I was just being friendly" Naruto rubbed his head.

"Hey…guys I need to tell you something" I called to the rest of the guys who were just standing around talking to each other. Everyone walked over slowly. I turned to Tenten and she smirked, then just quickly turned around and walked away. She apparently was talking to her team about something. Most of them smiled and cheered, some were just standing there looking unsurprised.

"AW YOU SEE NARUTO!!! YOU SCARED HER AWAY!!!" Kiba furiously attacked Naruto.

"HEY IF ANYTHING SCARED HER AWAY IT WOULD BE YOU DOG-BREATHE!!!" Naruto slapped Kiba and turned towards me.

"What did you want to tell us?" Sasuke spoke up.

"I talked to Kakashi…and I convinced him that we would merge the girls team with our own"

"REALLY!!! KAKASHI CHANGED HIS MIND!?!?" Naruto bounced around in circles.

"How did you manage to pull that off?" Kankuro asked.

"I…convinced Kakashi that our team would be a million times better with all of us working together"

"That's great, now we have more power over the other teams" Gaara smiled. "We will crush everyone in our way"

Sasuke seemed uninterested. I guess he knew that it was gonna end up this way; I couldn't hide it from Sasuke and Shikamaru. They knew that it would be the other way around, if they won they would join and if we won they wouldn't. I switched it for the team for certain reasons but I guess it was all worthless anyway.

The girls approached us with smiles and smirks. Tenten in the front.

"Hey, new teammates" Tayuya smirked.

"THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!" Naruto pulled Hinata into a tight hug, "NOW WE HAVE 2 GOALIES!!! NOW I CAN SIT OUR FOR WHILE AND WATCH US PLAY!!!"

Hinata blushed as red as a tomato. "Y-Y-Yeah, i-it would b-be fun" She smiled dreamily at him which ticked me off. I took a step towards them before I was stopped by and arm that pulled me back.

"So how's this gonna work?" Tenten asked. "What are the new positions gonna be? And more importantly who's gonna be the captain? You or Hinata?"

"Well I say we figure this out tomorrow, I have a headache from all that happened today and I want to get some rest. I'm sure everyone else is tired too" I looked over to the crowd and everyone nodded.

"Kay, we'll pick everything up tomorrow" Temari slouched and walked away to the door exiting the gym. Everyone followed.

"You got it your way…I hope your happy" I whispered to Tenten before I started leaving myself.

She walked beside me and grinned evilly. "Yeah I got this my way. The strongest person won today Neji. And that person wasn't you" she walked away from me and caught up with Hinata.

Something inside me burned with anger. I felt like picking up a truck and chucking it at her. This girl was able to bring my self-esteem down to almost nothing, how can she change moods so quickly? I watched from behind as she smiled and laughed along with Hinata.

"You seem pretty upset" Sasuke walked with me.

"Nah…I just want to get to my dorm and sleep" I sped up and focused only on getting to my room.

"I hear ya, I'm pretty worn-out too. I might not even do the rest of my homework"

"Tomorrow we have study hall 1st hour. I'm gonna do it then"

"Yeah, that's a good idea" Sasuke took a left and headed to his room.

"Cya" I called and rushed to my own dorm.

Once I walked in I set my bad on the floor and just plopped on my bed. My bed was the closest to the door, so that was easy. Lee insisted on having the bed by the balcony so the sun would wake him up on Saturday's for his morning run. Surprisingly he wasn't here. He must be running extra laps again. It was 6 now and my body was exhausted. I sighed, it was too early for me to fall asleep, I didn't feel like doing my homework today…I reached over to the private desk next to my bed and graved my journal. I know, I know. Journals are for girls and stuff…but hey it keeps me calm other then meditating. And it's not like a diary like girls have. More manly if I do say so my self.

Monday, 6:08pm.

Today was surprising actually. There's this new girl named Tenten…and she absolutely hates me. I don't know what I did to deserve that, but I'm pretty sure she just hates me for being the captain of the boys' soccer team. So what if I didn't do anything to help the girl's soccer team? It wasn't my problem!!! ARG!!! She beautiful and everything on the outside but on the inside she's a total devil. I've seen the way she acts with everyone else. She's really friendly and nice with people but she's evil, mean, crazy and devious with me. I just I don't know why yet. But I will find out, I WILL find the answer to why she hates me so much.

"Hey Neji" Lee walked in and I shut my journal and put I away.

"Sup"

"Wow you look youthfully drained of all your youthfulness!!!"

"I could say the same about you" I smirked. Lee was covered in sweat.

"I just finished running 500 laps around the school" Lee sat on his bed and took his weights off his ankles.

"How heavy are those?" I pointed to the weights he had in his hands.

"Gai-sensei just gave me these new ones!!! They youthfully weigh 500 pounds!!!"

My jaw dropped to the floor. "And you can RUN with those on?" My eye started twitching.

"WHY YES MY YOUTHFUL FRIEND!!! I HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO ENDURE THE HEAVY WEIGHT SO I CAN YOUTHFULLY RUN FASTER THEN EVERYONE ELSE WILL EVER RUN AT THE STATE MEET!!! GAI-SENSEI IS WHIPPING ME INTO SHAPE!!!" Lee stroke the nice-guy pose. "you wanna try some for soccer?"

"…" they could improve my speed… "You got some…a little less heavy?"

"My lightest is a youthful weight of 150 pounds" Lee stated

"…" anything to get faster. "Sure Lee…can I borrow them?"

"WHY YES MY YOUTHFUL FRIEND I WOULD BE HAPPY TO LEND YOU MY BEGINNER WEIGHTS!!!" Lee jumped happily and rampaged threw his closet and handed them to me.

"Thanks Lee, I owe you one"

"It is no problem my youthful friend. Now I must youthfully take a shower!!! Cya later!!!" Lee graved his bag and walked into the shower.

My boredom came over me and I eventually turned on the TV and watched the national soccer league. After that I watched some boxing and MMA fights. Eventually I drifted off into sleep when my eye lids were so heavy I just let them close.

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