The beginning of it all
I'm going to give the fire country credit because they have some of the best resting spots that I've ever rested in. I was laying near a tree with patches of flowers in random spots. The night sky was pretty cool too, I mean, I've never seen so many stars in just one area! It's a beautiful site to see! Maybe I'll get the guy s to come out here and just star gaze one day but I doubt that pain in the ass will allow them to go out for a day. I chuckled to my-self. I loved calling him that behind his back because he really was one. Ass. I started laughing out loud. I didn't realize this at all, I was laughing and enjoying my-self, boy, I haven't known what it was to laugh in a while. It feels good too, especially under the star-y sky. I smiled and rolled over to look at a flower. It was beautiful, I wanted to pick it. I frowned, picking a flower is just like taking it away from where it belongs and once you pick a flower it starts to slowly die. I sighed I didn't want that so I rolled over an looked back up to the sky. I closed my eyes and reopened them to see Sasuke looking down on me with an annoyed look.
"What happened? Your late," I said getting up. I brushed my-self off and set my hands on my hips slightly glaring at him. He gave me an equal look in return.
"I ran into a few obstacles along the way. Excuse me for being a few minutes late." He rolled his eyes at me and crossed his arms.
"Now, where are we going, girl," I glared at him.
"I have a name Sasuke and it's Tenten. Learn it and love it." I turned around and started walking in another direction. I noticed that he had a back pack on. Did he think that we were traveling far? I hope not because he is going to get disappointed. I sighed. I want to take a bath. I feel all dirty and itchy. I guess we can take a small detour at the water fall up ahead. He won't mind right? Of course not! Even if he does, he won't know where to go so, he has no choice but to follow me once we cross the fire country's border. I stopped for a minute to think sensing Sasuke stopping behind me.
"What are you stopping for? Don't tell me your lost." I laughed at that.
"No, I know where I'm going, I'm just thinking should I take the long way and kill time or the short way and make things more interesting." I tapped my bottom lip with my index finger as if I was thinking to my-self, which I was. I heard Sasuke sigh and mumble something. Alright! I choose the long way! Off we go!
"This way Sasuke!" I started marching off while thinking of a small tune to hum. We walked in silence, that is until we reached the 'pit stop' which, like I said, wasn't too far away. Since we went in the opposite direction that we were suppose to go this means that we are going the long way.
"Pit stop Sasuke! I want a bath real quick so take a break."
"What? We didn't even walk for more than two hours." I turned to face him and put my hands on my hips.
"It seems that way, but to tell you the truth it's been over four. Trust me, walking with me makes the time fly. I should know. I've been walking all my life. You have not, you've always stopped here and there at different places even if it was in the same area. If you walk to the store and back to your home it will seem like a few seconds to you, but to me it's like minutes." I tilted my head and smiled. I turned around to look at the beautiful site before us. The moon was full which cast a beautiful glow to the water. There was a medium sized waterfall that poured into the small lake. At the end of the lake there was a forming river. The moon hit just right so that everything in it's glow would have a faint blue glow to it. I sighed, I love this place.
"Well, if you excuse me I'm going in the water." Sasuke raised a brow and walked away to some rock near the lake to unpack a few things. I sat down and took off my shoes and sat them next to me. I walked out into the water channeling my chakra to my feet. I noticed that Sasuke had disappeared somewhere but he left his stuff where he sat. I smiled. I quickly made a shadow clone and striped down to nothing. I gave the clone my folded clothes to run over and sit them on a rock. I put my hands up and made hands signs then yelling out.
"Water style! Water Prison Jutsu!" It took me a while to learn that but soon enough my deformed water circles turned into perfect circles. I stepped into the glowing spear that basked in the moon light. I held my breath once my head reached inside of the water sphere. I closed my eyes for a minute then opened them to look around still holding my breath. I uncurled my-self up into a relaxing hovering like pose. I looked over to see that Sasuke walking threw the bushes with his head down. Suddenly looking up to see my form his eyes widened. He stood there of pure shock and surprise. I, on the other hand, started to scream, but didn't because I'm in water, and cover my-self. I held both my hands out to make my body form a 'T' shape as I spun around making the water look hazy to see through. I stopped spinning but the water didn't I was running out of air so I looked down to see the weak spot of the jutsu. I quickly dove threw the bottom of it swimming in the lake, naked. Great. Just great. I swam over to the waterfall so Sasuke wouldn't see anymore of my exposed body. I came up above the water behind the waterfall so you could only see the out line of my body figure. I watched as Sasuke's dark figure walked on the water over towards me until it stopped right on the other side. The only thing separating us is the thin layer of water falling between us. I can't tell which one is more embarrassing getting caught naked or the thin layer of almost see through water.
"What was that little stunt, Tenten?" I laughed a bit.
"Well honestly, I'm not too sure my-self what happened," I chuckled a bit.
"That wasn't my question." I pouted.
"It wasn't a stunt! That's just how I take a bath! I soak my-self then scrub my-self clean!" I yelled from embarrassment. I heard him chuckle.
"Shut up! You pervert!" I picked up a rock and threw it at him aimlessly. Of course you have to be very wide in order to get hit by that because I didn't even throw it near him.
"Trying to hit me, Tenten?" he chuckled
"Maybe!" I yelled back.
"Hn," I watched his shadow-y form bend down to pick up something and toss it up and down in his hands. I'm guessing it's a rock? He chucked it at me very lightly but it still hit me on the head. I felt something in me snap and I felt my-self get angry from too much embarrassment. He was clearly teasing me but I wasn't going to allow him to have an pleasure out of it! So I did something extremely stupid, I screamed and jumped through the water and tackled him. It all happened in slow motion right from where my head reached through the waterfall. I saw his surprised face as our bodies came in contact. I heard the crash of us fall into the water and all we could see were each other's eyes. We both looked into each others wide eyes. Then I realized our position, he had his hand on my bare waist. My chest was pressed up against his while both my hands were on either shoulder; our faces centimeters away. We were sinking at a slow rate, air bubbles left our sides as we sank lower into the bottom of the lake. He seemed to move closer and closer to me but I don't think that we could get any closer if even possible. Then he proved me wrong. The tips of our noses grazed each other's by a hair. Our lips were touching lightly. I saw his eyes close as he moved in to seal the final amount of space between our lips. Just as our lips met, another set of arms wrap around me and toss me out of the water and saw a figure kick Sasuke down to the bottom.
"Sasuke!" I was now in mid air while the other figure was still at the bottom of the water handling Sasuke. In a flash of movement another figure grabbed me and covered me up on the lake side. I looked at the coat and noticed the pattern. Black with red clouds. I gasped and looked up.
"Itachi?" I saw his intense gaze on the water. He looked down at me with more gentle eyes.
"Are you alright, Tenten?" I nodded. His previous gaze returned when Sasuke reached the surface gasping for air. I started to run out to help him but Itachi stopped me with an arm around me.
"What are you doing? Let me go, Itachi!" I looked back to Sasuke to see Kisame Jump out of the water with his sword over his head ready to hit Sasuke dead on. My eyes widened. I broke free from Itachi's grasp, but only for a split moment until he caught me again.
"Kisame! No! Stop! Don't hurt him!" I saw his face look up then back at Sasuke before his sword crashed against the water. I waited until the splash of the water cleared up to see Kisame holding his blade to Sasuke's neck.
"Tenten, what were you doing with him? And why don't you have any clothes on?" I looked back up to Itachi's angry face. I looked down a bit scared. I started to shiver.
"Tenten, answer me." I gulped.
"We weren't doing anything Itachi, I swear!" I slowly looked up at him to see his anger faded away.
"Alright, Tenten." He looked up at Kisame. "Kill him,"
"No! You touch him you'll regret it Fish boy!" I looked at Sasuke in the water who was staring at Itachi. I looked back and forth between the two. They looked so similar.
"Long time, no see, Sasuke." Itachi said
"Itachi," Sasuke started to glare at him.
"You guys know each other?" I looked up at Itachi. He looked down at me with a soft gaze.
"Yes, he is my little brother." My eyes widened. I looked at Sasuke. He started getting out of the water but Kisame still had his blade up to his neck.
"Tenten, get away from him! He'll kill you!" Sasuke said in a low growl.
"What were you and Tenten doing at the bottom of the lake, Sasuke, seeing that she isn't very willing to answer me," Itachi said while closing his coat up some more so my revealing body wasn't so revealing.
"What does it matter to you, Itachi? What does she matter to you?" He glared at him.
"She means everything to us, Sasuke." I looked to my right and left and saw Zetsu, Tobi, Deidara, Hidan, and Kakuzu. Everyone was here. I noticed Sasori wasn't here.
"Itachi where is Sasori?" Itachi looked down on me and said.
"He isn't done with his mission yet." I nodded.
"TENTEN!!!" Tobi ran over to me and 'stole' me from Itachi. Every one except Itachi, Sasuke and Kisame gasped at my exposed body. Itachi walked back over and wrapped me up in his coat again. I watched everyone glare at Sasuke.
"What, what happened Tenten? What did he do to you?" Tobi said in a worried voice.
"Did that little maggot touch you?" Hidan growled.
"Maybe we could get his head in for some cash," Good old Kakuzu, always thinking of money.
"You moron! Can't you stop thinking about money for a change and focus on Tenten. Clearly that kid did something to her!" Deidara yelled. Even though we did nothing.
"Tobi, find her clothes, or she will get sick." Itachi said. Tobi nodded and hopped off. I looked back at Sasuke with sad eyes. He wasn't looking at me, but glaring at Itachi. After a few minutes I couldn't take it anymore, I couldn't keep anything from them. They were like my older brothers, they knew something had happened that's why they wouldn't let it go. They were just waiting for one of us to confess. I bit my lip hard and lowered my head slightly. Of course this didn't go unnoticed by Itachi.
"Tenten, what are you hiding from us? You can't keep it from us." Itachi said. Tobi came running back with my clothes and handed it to me. Quickly, I dressed my-self behind a tree guarded by Itachi and Tobi. I walked out in my normal clothing, hands behind my back and my head lowered.
"Come on Tenten-chan! It can't be that bad!" Tobi said with encouragement. I sighed. Everyone looked at me.
"I started to take a bath using the water prison jutsu Kisame taught me," I bit my lip getting nervous again. This was hard. It was like admitting to your parents that you stole something, and not just in front of your parents but the police too. Tell me that's not hard. I closed my eyes tightly almost letting tears fall down my eyes. I felt everyone get a little more upset at Sasuke, but I know it wasn't his fault.
"Sasuke walked in on me and saw me bare," I blushed a bit. "I yelled at him and tackled him in the water and, well, um-," Sasuke cut me off.
"I kissed her." He said crossing his arms. I felt the temperature drop a few degrees. I opened my eyes to look up at Itachi. He had his eyes open wide like he was processing it all. I looked at everyone else and they all had on a similar expression on. Hidan and Kakuzu both looked extremely pissed off, Zetsu was getting excited, because most of the time he gets to 'finish off' the corpse. I find that gross, but that's how I like him. Deidara looked extremely jealous, he always flirted with me, but he never got that far with me. Itachi looked calm again for some odd reason. I started to walk away from Tobi and Itachi and over into the center of the lake where Sasuke and Kisame stood. Itachi was in front of me in a split second.
"What do you think your doing, Tenten?" I looked up at Itachi with a blank face.
"I'm going to Sasuke, is that a problem?" Itachi's gaze started to narrow at me as he let me walk by. I walked ahead to Sasuke. I looked him dead in the eyes, he looked right back with confusion.
"What are you doing, Tenten? Who are you to them?" Sasuke asked in a muffled whisper.
"Listen Sasuke, clearly you can see that they don't like you even more so don't do anything stupid." I said back in a whisper. He smirked.
"Like what?" He said in a normal voice. "Like this?" He grabbed my face into a forced kiss. My eyes shot open as he kissed me. He wrapped one arm around my waist and kept the other one by the back of my head. I didn't know how to respond at all. I was scared, shocked, angry, sad, I was down out confused. I felt an arm grab me and pull me away from Sasuke's hold. I looked up to see Deidara glaring cold daggers at him. His teeth were grinding and his hold on me became tighter and tighter.
"Deidara-sempai! You're hurting me!" I yelled. He looked at me with sorrow filled eyes.
"Sorry Tenten-chan," He gave me a half hug and patted my head. I smiled reassuring him. Deidara turned back to Sasuke with hate radiating off him.
"How dare you touch Tenten-chan like that!" He yelled.
"Sempai!" He turned around to look at me with a puzzled gaze. I wanted to tell him to do nothing but that was almost impossible. Itachi walked over to Tobi and told him something, he nodded and ran off.
"Itachi, what did you tell Tobi?" I looked a bit pale praying that he didn't do what I thought he'd do.
"Sasori is getting off his mission a little early this time Tenten." Itachi said. My face paled. He went to tell Sasori. I can't believe this. I dropped to the ground on my knees. Deidara knelt next to me asking me what was wrong. I knew what was wrong, Sasori. He hates other people I meet. especially when it's a boy. The last time I tried to befriend a guy he nearly raped me. Sasori will kill Sasuke and I don't want that to happen either! I have to save him but how is the question. I quickly got up and raced toward Sasuke and grabbed his hand pulling him to run with me.
"Tenten!" Deidara yelled.
"Stop this madness now Tenten!" Hidan yelled with Kakuzu and Zetsu behind him Itachi and Deidara hot on my trail.
"Sasuke listen to me! You need to learn this and learn it quickly! Channel you chakra to your feet while you are running make bounds, or leaps, or whatever. What ever you do don't stop!" He nodded.
"Keep up with me Sasuke!" I gripped his hand tighter and waited until I saw the chakra over flow to his feet.
"Good keep it up" We were moving faster than he has ever seen in his life time I bet. Itachi was still hot on my tail almost an easy foot away. I had to lose them some how so I thought quickly. That's it! My transportation jutsu!
"Sasuke, hold on to my arm. I'm going to stop short so be prepared and don't let go!" We kept running.
"Tenten! You aren't allowed to use your transportation jutsu yet!" Itachi yelled. He had another thing coming. I felt bad for disobeying him. He can punish me later for it. I held my hands up to make the hand signs. I had to do it perfectly or we'd be caught. Timing was everything right now. I concentrated my chakra to stop us dead. Itachi flying past us by a few feet away. I called out.
"Transportation Jutsu!" and in a cloud of mist me and Sasuke disappeared from the chasing scene. We ended up in a cave pretty far away from the group. I'd say somewhere on the border of the Leaf and Sand. I looked up to see rain clouds start to form over the beautiful moon and glowing stars. This could only end in disappointment for me and maybe, just maybe, death for Sasuke. He can't stay with me anymore. He has to leave or go somewhere else now. If he stays he will die. I don't want that to happen to a person like him.
"Where are we Tenten?" Sasuke asked.
"Somewhere near the Sand and Leaf borders." I said sadly. I walked over to the far side of the cave and sat down. Sasuke followed my example and did the same next to me.
"Why did you keep stopping them from hurting me." That I didn't expect at all. I started to wonder my-self.
"I don't know, maybe it was a simple whim," I shrugged. He gave me a 'I don't believe that' look.
"Really, because I think that every time you did something they were on the alert. Also the way you acted, it's almost impossible to say you acted on a whim." He was right. Maybe it was because, yea I don't really know.
"Maybe I just wanted a friend around, you know?" I looked out at the mouth of the cave and saw the light rain out side.
"No, I don't know." Smart ass.
"Being alone takes it's tole on you, and being around those numb skulls makes you want to know the outside world. They've been keeping me in their hide out for almost two months because of a resent accident. I have no friends or family so I guess I've been trying to make some. Everyone in that group knows that I don't belong with them and they all think I deserve a family. At the same time they don't want me to leave because I've been like a 'mother,' says Tobi, to them. I take care of them, clean them up after a blood bath, calm them down or make them smile when they really need one. We've known each other for two years and they don't plan on letting me go anytime soon. So like an eye for an eye, we watch out for each other. I help then they help me. The only thing is that I don't get to see anyone else and if I do it's not someone good. They want me to become one of them but they know that would only lead to my death. So they try their best to keep me out of harms way. That's why they get all defensive."
"What did you do to get them to help you?"
"Well nothing, two years ago I was found by the female of their group. I didn't know her because she died recently after she found me. She was the only female in their group and she always wanted another female to be with. I do remember what she looked like a little bit but I don't have a good memory on her. We must have had a good relationship because I remember us smiling and laughing a lot. She was like a mother to me. I just wish she lived a bit longer because, I remember after she died everyone was broken. I felt like it was my fault so I left the hide out. I was walking away and soon after they noticed I went missing. I ended up getting my-self ambushed by a number of sound ninjas. After a small beat down on my part, they found me. They took care of those ninjas and took me back to their hide out. I remember them scolding me for thinking it was my fault and getting my-self in danger but they just couldn't stay mad at me. They told the what was in the past is behind us and that we should move on and that's exactly what we did for the last two years. That's basically it." I pulled my knees up to my chin and wrapped my arms around my legs.
"Are you cold?" I shook my head.
"You?" He shook his head too. I sighed. I wonder if it's safe to leave now. I have to take Sasuke back to his village. I looked out at the mouth of the cave again to see the rain pouring down even harder than before.
"Looks like we're stuck here." The lightning cracked from outside lighting the cave up for a split second. I screamed and latched on Sasuke's arm. I started shaking. I froze my movements and looked up at a smirking Sasuke.
"Afraid of a little lightning, Tenten?" Yes!
"No!" I let him go quickly and scooted over away from him. Another Crack of lightning was let out and I was back in the same spot as I was before. Latched onto Sasuke shaking. I heard him chuckling.
"Shut up! I'm afraid ok! I admit it!" I buried my face into the side of his arm. I felt him wrap an arm around me, holding me tightly. I looked up to his tired face face. I curled my-self up into him and closed my eyes. Another crash of lightning hit near by our cave, I screamed and gripped onto Sasuke's shirt. I heard someone chuckle but it wasn't Sasuke. I looked out to the mouth of the cave to see a figure about my height with spiky hair and a long coat.
"Afraid of lightning, Tenten?" The figure walked closer to reveal Sasori. His amused face went from that to pure hate. He snatched me up and pulled out a kunai holding me defensively and tightly.
"Sasori-sama! No!" He charged at Sasuke, he is going to kill him!
