Aiiiye! Hello! Tis I, your fellow writer/reader – Symphonious a.k.a. Symphie! Big thanks to all those people who reviewed! Even though there weren't many reviews, I still greatly appreciate it. . Right! The next chappie!

Here goes somethin', more like nothin' but screw that!


I turned my head to look at the two approaching girls, and with a smile, I greeted them.

"Hiya! Ino, Sakura!" They waved back with the same smile, and greeted the boys. Those two were always late, and they had various, lame excuses. Once they said that they overslept, which seemed like a decent excuse, but the way they said it almost made it look like a joke. Both of them were blushing, and either rubbing the back their heads, or shifting nervously, and giggling at the same time. I could see the girls weren't very good liars.

But the boys didn't seem to mind – they just waved it off. But, the one time I was late, they nearly tore my head off my shoulders, and popped my eardrums! I had mental problems for about a week after that encounter with all the guys – even Shikamaru, who usually doesn't care enough to care – and I fidgeted away from them, even when they were in a classroom next door. Yeah, I have problems already, but they just turned my problems into issues.

I watched Ino and Sakura climb onto the stage and rush to the back on clicking high-heels, and flashy clothing. Those never usually wore high-heels on practice mornings, let alone three-inch, hot pink, sparkly platforms that didn't even hold the foot in place. I could never understand how they actually walked on those things. I remember the first time I tried walking on high-heeled shoes, I fell over the second I stood up. I also remember the sneer Neji gave me, and the red foot print on his cheek for a couple of weeks after that.

Ino and Sakura returned, and beckoned me to come to the back with them.

"Tenten! Come!" I gave the strangest look I could muster. Even though I didn't know what was going on exactly, I still had a slight idea. What were they going to do to me?

They dragged me to the back of the stage with them, and dropped me down on the bench of the changing room. I blinked, and the next thing I knew, Ino was trying to pull of my sweatshirt, while Sakura was untying my running shoes. I stared for a moment, before realizing it.

"Ah!" I yelped, trying to pull my t-shirt back down, since Ino managed to pull off my sweatshirt while I was in a daze. "What are you, lesbians?!"

Ino glared at me through her icy-blue eyes, and let go of my shirt, stepping back and crossing her arms over her chest.

"Fine, take off your shirt yourself, then." She hissed at me.

"No!" I cried, jumping off the bench, and shaking my foot out of Sakura's grip, and stumbling away, meanwhile hitting my back against the wall. I winced as the pain started to seep down my spine, but kept an expression of permanent surprise. What the hell were they trying to do? "If you two wanna be lesbians, go do it with yourselves! Leave me out of it! I'm straight!"

Sakura and Ino exchanged looks, and stepped away from each other in disgust, Sakura shaking her short, pink hair out of the way, while Ino fiddle with her own blonde locks.

"If I was a lesbian, I definitely would not be with her." Sakura growled, glancing at Ino was such a look, I was almost sure she was telling the truth. "Not that I am." She added as my expression didn't change. Ino just inched away silently, glaring at Sakura coldly, still slowly edging away. She was still trying to get away – quite slowly – when the wall met her shoulder, and the blonde forcefully pushed herself into it, while Sakura stood her ground, head high, and arms crossed.

"A-ano…?" A small, quiet voice broke the tense silence that hung above us three since the moment the blonde and the pink-head tried to undress me. "A-am I interrupting something?" In the doorway to the change rooms stood a short, thin girl, her white eyes –very much like that certain individual's – wide in slight surprise.

For a moment, none of us spoke. Ino, Sakura and I just stared at the girl with the same expressions we held earlier. I snapped out of it first. Pasting on a smile, I waved my arms around wildly.

"No, no! Of course not, Hinata-san!" This was Hinata Hyuuga, the certain individual's cousin. The two lived together, in that big, huge Hyuuga mansion I've seen only once in my entire life, but the image was printed in permanent ink within my mind. The house was so grand and perfect it seemed to me that Neji didn't deserve to live there, having the perfect life and whatnot. He such seemed too much of an asshole.

Hinata cocked her head to one side, holding a clip board to her chest tightly. She was our… 'manager', you could say. She volunteered to be our manager actually, and she only did it because Neji was in the band. If it wasn't for him, would have had some strange, fat, ugly guy for a manager, because some strange, fat, ugly guy tried to be our manager, but thankfully, we were all smart enough to turn him down.

At the same time, Hinata made more money than the band did. Hell, she even made more money than her own father – Neji's Uncle – which is quite… unusual.

Hyuuga Hiashi owned the Hyuuga Co., which was also competing with Sasuke's family's company – Uchiha Ltd.

Anyways, I never understood all this business stuff, and I don't think I ever will, because I always failed Business Class in high school no matter how hard I tried.

"I see…" Hinata muttered, eyeing the three of us with a knowing eye.

"Why do you ask?" My voice wavered nervously, and I felt my cheeks begin to burn white hot.

"Well, Neji-nii-san-"

Neji-nii-san? That bastard…

"- said that you guys were making a ruckus out here, and asked me to check on you."

I blinked stupidly. "Oh." God, I was an idiot. And I thought-

"What were you guys doing here, anyways? Naruto-kun said that he heard screaming." I blinked again. Screaming?

"Oh, that…" I chuckled softly, rubbing the back of my head with my hand. "W—"

"Tenten thought that we were lesbians because I tried to take her shirt off, and Sakura was untying her shoes." Ino said calmly, examining a fingernail out of girly habit.

"You guys aren't?" Hinata inquired. Clearly unclearly.

"Aren't what?" Sakura asked, looking dumbly at the young Hyuuga girl.

"Lesbians." At this, I tried very hard not to laugh. I snorted loudly, and covered my mouth with both hands, but I couldn't help but yell out in amusement. Hinata was good. She was always good with jokes. But, the white-eyed girl just glanced at me questioningly as I practically rolled on the floor, crying and laughing at the same time. Sakura and Ino just stood there, dumbfounded, their mouths open. Hinata giggled at them, and waved her hand. "I'm just kidding." But, Sakura and Ino didn't budge.

By that time, I was just giggling uncontrollably, sitting in the corner, holding my stomach as it throbbed slightly from my unstoppable laughter. Hinata eyed me with a small smile, and nodded. She turned around, and left the change rooms.

I breathed in and out, and calmed down after a short while. I started to change into my usual practice clothing that I brought with me in a small backpack. They were black sweat pants, and a loose spaghetti strap, and once I was finished, I stepped outside of the change rooms, where Sakura and Ino were glaring at each other warily.

Neji gave me a look as I stepped out onto the stage, and started to stretch my arms above my head. I noticed and stared back at him.

"What're you lookin' at?"

"You. Isn't it obvious?" I was taken aback by his sudden answer, and tried to step forward. Instead, I felt my self fall forwards as one of my feet hit the ground more quickly than I expected, while the other didn't even touch it. I let out a surprised yelp, and squished my eyes closed quickly, out of fear of hitting the ground face first.

I waited. And waited. But nothing hit me… at least anything that was hard. Opening my eyes, I found my self staring at a gray shirt, a soft hint of cologne tingling my senses. Something warm brushed against my neck, and a dreaded realization dawned about me. My face was pressed against Neji's chest.

I felt my cheeks burn, and my eyes widened in reaction. I pushed away from the Hyuuga quickly, tripped, and landed on my butt clumsily. But that time, my face was redder than a tomato, and I couldn't bring myself to look up at my… savior, I guess. I could still feel, his milky-white eyes bore into me, which made blush even more.

"Th-thanks, Neji." I managed to mutter, and glanced at my feet. For a moment, I just stared at that… thing… that was sitting on my foot, slightly more tightly than I would have liked.

"Tenten," My head jerked towards Neji as I glared at him with an almost loathing stare. I would have definitely liked to take all of my anger out on him. That smug bastard. "High heels don't suit you." His voice was on the verge of laughter, and I was surprised. I didn't think Neji was human enough to laugh.

"How do you know?" I snapped at him, grabbing the sparkling, pink… monstrous… deadly… UGH! I ripped the shoe off my foot, and jumped up quickly, my face still bright and red – but this time, from pure rage.

"I think I've known you long enough to know that, Tenten." Neji nearly sneered, pasting on his trademark smirk that could easily win over any girl's heart.

…just the way it had won mine. Suddenly, I felt like my heart had dropped down all the way to my feet, and my stomach was being ripped open. A lump developed in my throat, as I felt wave of sadness rush towards my eyes, and they started to sting. The frustration and anger that I felt earlier was long gone, and the only thing that was left behind was sorrow.

I was always touchy about the subject of myself. Everyone I knew acted as if they knew me, when I knew, deep inside, that they had absolutely no idea who I was – and am. They laughed with me, and hung out with me and everything, but it just wasn't enough. Every time the band went out together to celebrate, I always got the feeling that I wasn't wanted, that I didn't belong. I always told myself I was imagining things, but it just wasn't convincing enough.

I felt fresh tears starting to build up behind my eyes, but I pushed them back with all the self-control I still had left. My body started to shake slightly, and I shuddered as another wave of sorrow washed over me. I tried to ignore it, but my emotions were too strong.

"Tenten?" I didn't even bother to look up at Neji, fearing of what I might see if I looked into his lavender-hued eyes. Annoyance? Rage? Or worst of all… Pity?

"I'm fine, Neji. Excuse me." I whispered hoarsely, and turned away quickly. The shoe I was holding in my hand slipped, and fell to the ground with a loud thud. The sound seemed to echo endlessly as I rushed into the bathroom, locked myself in a stall, and finally let the imprisoned tears spill over my face and cheeks freely.


It's not that I hated my friends, it's just that… they… didn't treat me too well at times. Well, nobody's perfect, I guess. But, by the time my watch beeped, signaling six a.m. and beginning of practice, I had already left the bathroom in a happy mood. Though, at heart I still felt slightly upset. Well, that feeling never actually left me alone. Not since my parents died, anyways. They died in a car crash – a three-way car crash. Their car ended up in the middle, and it exploded. So, I was left all alone.

Until Sakura picked me up. We had been good friends since grade one, and when she heard about my parents' death, and how the government couldn't let me live alone in the house because I was underage – ten, to be exact – she had been nice enough to let me live with her until I was able to afford my own money.


"Tenten!" A worried Sakura jumped onto me, staring at me as if she had just seen a freaking ghost. "Are you alright? Everything okay?"

"Err…" I sort of… freaked, for lack of a better word. She started to shake me by the shoulders, making me dizzier than a ball rolling down a ski hill, and by the time she stopped, I wanted to throw up. "Yes, I'm fine. Stop freaking shaking me, Sakura!"

I pushed away from her, and put my hands to my temple, blinking furiously to stabilize my vision. It felt as if the world was rolling about me, and I was standing on something that kept on moving continuously. After a while of wiggling about, I lost my balance and fell on my butt again, but this time I stayed there, sitting on the ground. The place was still spinning.

"Tenten-chan?" Naruto's voice broke the sudden silence that filled the room, and everything was still a mess of colors, though the sounds came to me perfectly.

"Everything is… spiiining…" I whined, watching with a slightly confused expression on my face. "Ahh…" I fell onto my back, a stupid smile spreading on my lips without my notice.

"T-T-Tenten-chan?!" The world started to slow down at last, and when it finally stopped, I saw Naruto's face so close to mine, I jumped. The next thing I knew, I felt someone's lips on top of mine, and a pair of wide, cyan eyes staring right into mine.

What…

The…

FUCK?!

I pulled away from him quickly, feeling my face fire up again (for the third time this morning). I let out a yelp, and rolled away, but not realizing how close I was to the edge of the stage, flew right off it. Landing on the hard floor wasn't exactly my plan, and I got up quickly.

The last thing I knew was the surprised faces of the band members, Naruto's screaming, red-faced apologies, and everything went dark.


Well, that chapter made absolutely no sense. O.o

Explanations:

Yeah, right. This chapter was just… something… strange. Oh, and sorry it took so long! Writing from someone's point of view is really hard! For me, at least. Oh, and sorry for the random mood swings Tenten's having. She's not pregnant! That's for sure. Ew. And I just had to stuff in that kissing since there. Hehe… that was funny. Well, it looks like I'm not good with explanations!

Tell you what. You review me and tell me what you didn't understand, and I'll explain it in the beginning of the next chapter! Try to ask a lot of questions, because the people who read this after I update the third chapter might not understand something, so I'd like to explain everything that anyone doesn't understand. Thank you! Oh, and yes. Review and reading is a jutsu! READ AND REVIEW NO JUTSU!

Songs I have decided to use:

How to Save a Life – The Fray

The Reason – Hoobastank

My World – SR-71

Far Away – Nickelback

Savin' Me – Nickelback

U + Ur Hand – Pink

Rockstar – Nickelback (Already used)

Shut up – Simple Plan