Disillusioned

By: Faraway Dawn & Kigen

Disclaimer: We don't own anything. But we are putting Kishimoto's characters to great use!

AN: This fanfic is the product of an RP. That's right a role play. If you can figure out who's who kudos to ya. And since I don't really mention it anywhere else, Neji, Tenten, and Lee are 20 going on 21. Therefore, members of the rookie nine would be 19 closing in on 20. What? You thought I'd let hormonal teenagers run rampant in our fic? Bah. Nah. Hormonal adults maybe…


Chapter 2

Neji immediately moved to take dominance but Tenten grabbed his wrists and restrained him. Now, it wasn't like he couldn't easily overpower her and take the dominance that should rightfully have been his, but he stayed still and submissive. There must have been some reason that Tenten was asserting herself, right?

Tenten pulled away, a smirk on her face when she caught a glimpse of the faint blush on his cheeks and the slightly dazed look in his eyes. "That's the way you're supposed to kiss me."

"How did you learn to kiss so dominantly?" Neji raised an elegant brow.

"We had to learn how to kiss, in school...and well, I hate to put this image in your head, but my partner was about as dominant as Hinata."

Neji's face was calm and poised but inside he felt like gagging. Despite the fact that Tenten had not meant it there was now a horrible mental image of Tenten and Hinata kissing. And oh dear kami-sama above the retinal agony that it wreaked upon him, Hinata was the only straight one in her relationship!

"Neji? Hello? Um... that last line didn't kill you, did it?" Tenten looked at his face with some concern. "Neji? Are you still with me?"

As Tenten began to wave a hand in front of his face Neji grabbed it to still it. "I'm fine Tenten," he was still grimacing inwardly from the mental images.

"Are you sure? Your face looks a little... off..."

"I'm fine."

"All right then." Tenten smiled. "Once you're one hundred percent sure you won't gag or something, pucker up."

"What?

"We still need to practice kissing. Just because I can kiss you properly, doesn't mean you can."

Neji sighed. "Can't we just be finished for tonight?"

"Are my ears deceiving me? Is Hyuuga Neji really asking to finish practice early? The world must be ending! Quick, we need to go check to see if Lee and Gai are still wearing spandex!"

Neji looked at her.

Tenten chuckled. "Come on. It was at least a little funny."

"Hardly."

"Right." Tenten leaned back. "You can't just stop anyways. When we're on the mission and you want to stop and head home, I'm gonna be heading right to the same house."

"I won't have to kiss you if we're alone in a house."

"You will if enemy nin are watching."

Neji sighed. "Let's get this over with."

"Glad to know kissing me is such a chore."

"Shut up and let me kiss you damn it."

"Swearing now? I'm honored to know I'm drawing such reactions out of you."

Neji was almost growling with frustration. Tenten had decided to be teasing and mocking today. He leaned over and kissed her, not to shut her up, as much as get her to stop talking. And yes, in his mind there was a difference between the two.

Tenten however, was happy to be silenced, she wrapped her arms around his neck, and happily kissed back.

Neji pulled back after a few moments, lips swollen. "How was that?"

"Better."

"Better?"

"Yeah, you're getting better; but you're still lacking…"

"Am I?" He asked noting the very faint blush that still tinted her cheeks when he kissed her.

"Yep." Tenten smiled. "Guess we'll just need to practice until you get it right."

Three hours later, Neji bit his tongue for the fifth time that night. Tenten had to be making this up now.

"Come on Neji. One more time. You've almost got it perfectly now"

"Tenten, we've been practicing kissing for three hours straight now. I know I had it 'perfect' with the fourth kiss."

"Yeah, the kiss part. We still need to work on expression and hand placement. It doesn't matter how lovingly you're kissing me if you don't look like you're enjoying it."

"My hand placement is precise and my facial expression is flawless. What else is there possibly to be corrected?"

"Your demeanor."

"You've corrected my demeanor sixty seven times-"

"Keeping count? Anal much?"

"I needed something more interesting to pay attention to rather then 'how to tilt my head just so it looks like I'm completely focused on the kiss' "

"Focus completely on this kiss instead of what number it is, and maybe you'd be able to tilt your head at the right angle."

"I am titling my head just like you instructed."

"And you jerk every time I touch you."

"You didn't need to stick your hand up my shirt."

"Yes I did! We need to act at least a little sexual with each other. We're going to be twenty-one year old newly weds, not a seventy-six year old married for forever and a day couple!"

"You pinched my nipple."

"And you were suppose to moan or something. Not push me away."

"I will repeat myself. You pinched my nipple."

"What? Did I squeeze too hard?"

Neji took a deep breath "We're supposed to be slightly sexual with each other. We don't need to be groping each other in public."

"And be mistaken as an incestuous, again sorry for the mental image, couple coming to terms with ourselves?"

"We aren't related."

"Keep telling that to the people mistaking that we are."

Neji looked at her, he wanted to be childish and say it, wanted to so badly…

"Now, we're going to do this again." Tenten leaned forward and pressed their lips together.

Neji automatically went though the learned movements, one hand cupping her cheek rough fingertips grazing and stroking softly at the skin below her ear.

His other arm slipped below hers, cradling the back of her head, eyes fluttering shut with a deceptive softness, tongue teasing, pleading lips pressing and opening. With a soft whisper Neji murmured against Tenten's lips. "If I had my hand where yours is now, I'd be slapped."

"If we're pretending to be married then I'm sure you've done worse." she whispered back.

"To you or to someone else?"

"If you did do this to someone else then you're not the honest man I thought I married."

"Oh? And what about your classes in the academy?"

"They don't count."

"Then my classes on seduction don't count either."

That perked Tenten up. "Boys had courses on seduction? Liar."

"We didn't have a course. We had a few classes." Neji corrected.

"Really? And who was your partner Neji?"

Neji's pale cheeks turned the lightest shade of pink. "That is not an important matter."

"Aw, come on. Spill."

"It's none of your concern."

"Why not?"

Because Neji didn't want to remember it. The warm and gentle hands, the body that was so submissive when he took charge, and so dominant when he was told to be submissive, the strange lips that fitted pleasantly against his own, the strong arms that cradled his body, and the soft mewling sounds that the boy made when Neji's hands caressed his body. Dear kami-sama, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th above, he should not have enjoyed making out with Lee AT ALL!

"Come on." Tenten pleaded. "You have to tell me."

"I do not have to do anything but follow my orders."

"Then I order you to tell me."

"We're not on a mission, and you have no authority over me." Neji pointed out.

"But I'm in charge of training right now." Tenten argued. "So I have authority."

"You are not the squad leader, nor does training count."

Dammit he was cheating, but Tenten wouldn't let that stop her. "I'll find out eventually."

"I'm sure you will." Neji humored her.

Tenten leaned forward. "Come on Neji. Please?" she fluttered her eyes. Neji resisted the urge to roll his own.

"Tenten, I have been your teammate since we were twelve. That never worked on me then, you think it'll work on me now?"

"I'm your fiancé now. It should."

"We're only pretending to be engaged."

Tenten nodded. "If we went by what people thought, we'd be siblings."

"Not if you keep pinching my nipples they won't."

"Squeal or gasp or moan or something, just once. I wanna hear it, please? I'll stop if you do."

"No."

"But-"

"No, and practice is over for tonight."

"Our mission is in a week Neji. We have to practice-"

"If anything needs practice, you need to learn to act meeker and less... Enthused."

"I'm your wife; I have every right to be enthusiastic."

"Not that enthusiastic." Neji sighed. It had been a long stressful day of kissing.

The week followed in a very similar way. More practice, much to Neji's increasing annoyance. Days were flying by that he normally spent training. A mere two days away from their departure date from Konoha, looked to be no different.

"Okay, today's mission-"

"For the eighth time Tenten, you are not the mission leader. And the mission hasn't even started yet."

"You said you didn't need couple's training anymore. So I'm going to give you a test, if you pass, then there'll be no more classes from me."

He stared at her incredulously as she explained his task. "I beg your pardon? You want me to convince him?"

"Oh that's only half of what you need to do. That will prove your deception skills to me." She smiled innocently flipping a kunai over each of her fingers before letting it rest in her hand.

He had a bad feeling about this.

"First you convince Kakashi that you and I are more than just a pair of old friends that might be seeing each other. You need to make him believe we've been together." She looked thoughtfully at the light passing through the trees above her.

"You want me to convince him that we have been, and are sleeping together?"

"Mhm. Not too difficult…" She smirked.

Why was she smirking like that? "The point of doing that is?" There just had to be some bigger reason this was what she wanted him to do.

"Because the gossip network is larger than this entire village's chakra networks combined." Tenten looked at Neji with a small smile. If Kakashi told one person, it would go everywhere in an instant. She was counting entirely on that. "After that you personally MUST convince Kiba."

"I don't care if he believes it or not." Neji answered picking up the last of her kunai. Practicing with her like they used to, had turned out to be very good stress relief, especially since now her fondness for explosive tags made it harder to counter her every attack. He had insisted that today they get in some training at least. "What good does convincing him do you anyway?"

"If you didn't care you wouldn't have hit him," Tenten thought for a moment before answering his question. "and convincing him means you know how to act sexual with me in public."

"I did more than just hit him." He muttered under his breath. Did she really say that he had to prove he could be sexual with her in public?

"My point exactly. You care just as much as I do about what he said. Really Neji, do I look like the kind of girl who would date someone out of pity?"

He did look at her, and no, no she did not look remotely like the kind of girl to date someone out of pity. As far as he knew, Tenten wasn't the kind of girl to, well, date.

"And are you even the type to ask someone out, much less pay them to go out with you?"

He gave her a look.

She knew it to mean 'absolutely not' or something along the lines of 'not even if I were dying.' She muttered under her breath. "Of course not, you're too good looking to need a pity date or to pay someone."

He cocked an eyebrow at her. She had already indirectly called him attractive and now she had very directly done it. "Am I now?"

He had expected her to react more. "Well yeah, really if you asked any random girl in the village out they'd probably say yes in a heartbeat. I know you don't pay much attention to the way the girls look at you but most of them would jump you if they got the chance."

He decided not to ask how it was she knew that.

"I'll set it all up just expect to be going somewhere tonight. You get to work on convincing Kakashi-sensei. We leave in two days Neji." She snatched the kunai he threw towards her out of the air and put it away. "I know I can pull off docile young newly-wed wife pretty well."

Neji held back his urge to roll his eyes. That was hard to believe with some of the 'training' she'd been putting him through.

"Anyway, I'll see you in an hour or so Neji. I've got to go finish packing." She rubbed her head in frustration. "Sakura and Ino are helping me."

Neji smirked darkly. Sakura and Ino could be quite annoying, and if they were helping Tenten pack, he was certain she would be in for at least an hour of hell. "I would pity you if you hadn't made me sit through that entire movie."

"You're still on about that?" She called over her shoulder running off. "Remember! One hour! Then you convince Kakashi-sensei!"

That hour didn't last nearly as long as he wanted it to. He waited a block away from her home and she smirked when she saw him. "Ready to go then?"

"Let's just get this over with." He said pushing away from the fence he was leaning against. They walked a short while before coming up on a particular store.

"Well, Sakura said he's always in there this time of day. Go for it Neji." She bit back silent laughter at his hesitance to enter the store. Oh just go in already Neji. Just remember, I'll be watching. A few minutes later, he managed to open the door.

Neji entered the small, seedy store, trying to withhold the look of disgust and embarrassment on his face. There were lewd pictures on the wall, lubricants, jellies, outfits, and he wasn't even going to look at the 'toy' section. Damn Tenten. Of course she'd come up with something cruel like this.

Sure enough, the perverted jounin was browsing through the erotic novels a few feet away from the overstocked wall of condoms. Neji heaved a sigh and headed over.

Kakashi glanced up slightly. He heard the door open and close. People generally didn't come into this particular shop at this time of day. He peeked over the edge of the book he had been glancing through. It would just have to be the last person he ever expected to see in a shop like that who came in too. Hyuuga Neji? Here? The novels just might have to wait a few seconds.

Neji examined the wall with annoyance. Why the hell were there so many different types of condoms? Different size he could understand, but what was the difference between ultra thin and mega thin? Flavored condoms? What's the point of that? Momentarily distracted, he pretended to ignore Kakashi's presence.

Kakashi flipped through one of the books again. He'd already read it, but the Hyuuga boy didn't know that. "Normally I'd only ever catch Kiba, Naruto, or Sasuke in here." he glanced at the wall Neji's eyes were fixed on. "Second on the right isn't half bad. What exactly are you doing in here anyway?" Kakashi wasn't entirely sure if this was in fact Neji in the shop. It could be another prank of Naruto's. A Hyuuga there of all places? The proverbial human glacier of the entire Hyuuga clan even? Well, it piqued his interest slightly.

"What does it look like I'm here for?" he shot Kakashi an icy glare that only Sasuke could contend with. A light pink graced his cheeks. "Now, go away." It was pointless, seeing as he was supposed to convince Kakashi he was dating Tenten, but he also knew that the jounin would not leave so easily.

"Oh touchy." Kakashi set aside the novel he had been flipping through in favor of another. "Well you're the last one I'd expect to see in here." Truth be told, he didn't think anyone could put up with Neji long enough for Neji to have any interest in anything at the store. Again, curiosity was getting the better of him. "So who's the shopping for anyway?" Maybe it wasn't one of the girls...

"Just because your students don't care for girls, doesn't mean I don't." he glared. "Besides, who I'm dating is none of your business. Go read more of your books if you want to be entertained."

"You mean to tell me you are dating someone then? News to me." Kakashi fingered through a new book. The kid simply had to be joking. Word would have spread through the single female population fast if one of Konoha's most eligible bachelors was suddenly no longer eligible, and if word got to the women, word got everywhere.

"I was trying to keep it away from gossiping mouths, though soon everyone will know if you have your hand in it." His shoulders were tense, his hands fisted. His body language practically screaming embarrassment and annoyance. His hand lifted to choose a box, when he paused. Exactly what size was he?

"So who is the lucky girl? Not many of the girls your age are still single except..." Kakashi stopped. No, not possible. He had a bad feeling the kid was going to ask him how he knew who was or wasn't single anyway.

"How do you know about the love lives of people my age?" He arched a brow, looking at the back of one of the boxes. Going by the directions, he was a large. "I'm not even sure I want to know what you're thinking."

"The only people who know more about people's love lives than Ino, are the Hokage, but she makes it her business to know, and Naruto, whose information source is Sakura. Rather reliable source, of course if Naruto gets a drink or two in him, all that information is divulged to me." Kakashi shrugged. Well the kid asked, he got an answer. "So, back to my first question. Who's the lucky girl?"

"If your sources are as reliable as you say. You'll find out soon enough." He was doing this so he didn't have to do anymore damn training with Tenten. He didn't want another movie. He didn't want another dinner at Akiko's. If he left Kakashi now, he'd have to endure all that, and probably worse.

Kakashi laughed quietly. Way too uptight to be faking it. He was really giving it his all to keep it secret, and his sheer embarrassment in the shop was a sign that he'd never really been in one before. Must be his first. Kakashi mused. "I don't think I'd even need to pry it out of a drunken Naruto." There were only a few girls that general age it could be, at least that were single. The first was unlikely, too shy, even more shy than the Hyuuga heiress was in her youth. The others were just fangirl-ish, and the last? Well, from what Gai had said the two of them were best friends. "If I had to venture a guess-no. I might believe you were dating someone, but her?" Konoha's own 'Weapons Mistress' was the only girl Neji was even seen with.

Neji's eye twitched violently, knowing exactly who Kakashi meant by 'her.' "I'm not seeing anyone of your concern Kakashi-san." He grabbed the box and spun about. "Now leave me alone. I have someone waiting for me."

Kakashi eyed Neji with intense interest. Well, at least it was very clear who he was seeing. That just left one question begging to be asked. "She's been sent on quite a few assassination missions recently, obviously chosen for her aim." The Hyuuga was annoyed, very annoyed. He saw the twitch of the boy's eye but- "She ever do anything kinky with those weapons of hers? I mean, so many of them, weapon master and all, you can't help but wonder."

Neji's jaw dropped, his cheeks turned a brilliant scarlet. "That's none of your business!" He would later deny that his voice had risen several octaves. Throwing more money then the condoms were worth at the counter, Neji stormed off, leaving Kakashi smiling behind his mask.

Kakashi just chuckled slightly as an old man paid for his things and headed out of the shop. Outside a safe distance away from the shop and Neji, Tenten finally released her jutsu, laughing hysterically. She'd have to cut Neji some slack today, that was the performance of a life time. From how it looked on her end of the shop, Kakashi even fell for it.

"I win." Neji spat later when he found Tenten. "That dirty pervert is convinced we're dating. No. More. Training."

Biting back laughter, Tenten held her hand up. "A-agreed. You've certainly earned a few days off." She still couldn't believe the extent he had taken his plan to, to convince Kakashi. "I-I hate to break it to you Neji b-but-" she was doing her best to not laugh. She was still reeling from Kakashi asking if she did anything kinky with her weapons. "You still need to convince Kiba. I promise it won't be half as embarrassing as that probably was."

"I convinced Kakashi. Kiba'll be convinced before tomorrow's over if we leave it alone." He glared.

Tenten rolled her eyes. "Neji he asked how much you paid me for a pity date. He's not going to believe it that easily." Kiba wasn't going to be fooled easily, Tenten was more than willing to give Kiba the credit he deserved for being the fastest of the rookie nine to tell they were lying. "Besides, just because you proved you can deceive a pervert, doesn't mean you can adequately act sexual with me in public. I've got it covered, girls got a lot of training on this stuff, but we'll talk about that later. Let me at least get you some lunch at a normal restaurant to make up for that ordeal." She jerked her head in the direction of the shop.

Neji paused. "And by normal restaurant you mean...?" if Tenten thought Akiko's was a romantic restaurant, he wasn't trusting her terms for normal.

"That Chinese place you like. What you didn't expect me to say something like Akiko's did you?" She laughed. She hated restaurants like Akiko's. They were good for only two purposes: training and punishment.

"I wouldn't put it past you." he agreed following. "I'll pay though."

"Oh no! You always pay, you deserve a meal on me Neji. After all this, you know you want to."

"No, I don't." he said. "If you're really sorry, you won't argue with me like always."

"Fine, you pay, but with my money." she gave him an apologetic look. "I promise I'll never argue about you paying again if you do."

"No. I will pay with my money." he was being stubborn.

"My money, or I'll tell Gai-sensei about that time you said you had a headache." She wouldn't put it past Neji to have forcibly forgotten that event. Neji didn't get sick often, and his control over the Byakugan wasn't so perfect back then, but when the two clashed…She bit her lip to keep from laughing at the memory. Neji saw a little bit more than he wanted to that day. "You probably shouldn't have told me what was really wrong. Makes for good blackmail now."

"And I'll tell Gai-sensei what those balls he bought you were really for." he had his share of blackmail too.

Tenten froze before resuming her pace beside Neji. Oh, that was an even more horrific day than Neji's 'headache.' "How about we split the check." She didn't even know how Neji knew about those, she couldn't remember telling him. She was a bit amused that he knew what they were really for though. "Consider it payment for you to retain your silence."

"Or I'll pay for the whole thing, and you drop it."

Tenten sighed in resignation. Neji wasn't going to be backing down, and sometimes arguing with him was more exhausting than her pride would allow her to admit. "Fine, but you're going to wish you'd let me cover half of it when I tell you where you're going tonight."

"I refuse to set foot in that hell of pink lace again." he swore. He was not going to Akiko's, even if it cost him his freedom.

"Oh, we're not going there Neji." She smirked. No, this place would be quite a few steps up from Akiko's by anyone's standards.

"What are you plotting Tenten?"

"You'll just have to find out later. You'll thank me for it one day though, I'm going to make it so it will take minimal effort for you to convince Kiba." she threw him a sideways glance. "That, and it will demonstrate easily in a manner of a few minutes that you can act sexual with me in public. Two birds with one stone. Hard to pass up a chance like that, and if you succeed, well two days of freedom before the mission starts."

"You're going to take me to a bar or something, aren't you?" He glared.

She smirked darkly. "Call it a club."

He stopped. "You are not taking me to one of those drunken raves to grind with you and a majority of Konoha's teenage population." He had seen this coming.

She stopped and shrugged. "That or Akiko's for your last two days a free man in Konoha before the mission. Take your pick. I'm not the mission leader but if I tell Tsunade-sama that you can't adequately fool one of our own friends, I doubt she'll let the mission get underway until you have." Tenten smirked well aware that she might actually win this argument. "Remember Neji, you have more mission experience than me, but I have more of this kind of mission experience."


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