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Tenten and Gaara started their training together, how will it turned out?

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

Tenten threw away her blanket when the sound of her alarm clock rang throughout her small apartment. She stretched her muscles out and then bent down to pick up the blanket before putting it on her bed neatly. Her living compartment was not really what she would call neat and tidy, but it was still appropriate. On the walls were lines and lines of weapon put up for display.

Not to mention the drawers, the cabinets, under the table, Tenten practically put her weapons everywhere. Neji, Lee and Gai-sensei came to her apartment once and nearly got their heads chopped off when Lee accidentally set off the strings that held a large axe on its place. Needless to say, she was considering putting an "Enter at your own Risk" signboard on her front door.

It wasn't time to relax right now, she had to go to the training field and fast. She jumped into the shower and in a record time of five minutes, she was all set to leave the house. "Hey there, Tenten!" the brown haired girl had no enough time to reply on her neighbour's greeting, she merely raised her hand and jumped onto the roof of an adjacent building. 'Three minutes to five, can I make it in time?' she pulled on her fingerless gloves and applied chakra to her feet.

Finally, she made it to the training field just when her watch struck five o'clock. "And I'm here!" she declared excitedly only to be greeted with an empty stare from the redheaded Suna shinobi. "Uh, hi. You sure are early today!" she chirped unusually high pitched. Gaara got up from leaning against the tree trunk and walked towards the training posts she was practicing her taijutsu some days before.

"Actually, I am on time. You on the other hand were late for fifteen minutes," he said coolly and set down his gourd. She didn't get it; she was there on time, right? Tenten looked at her watch again. 'Dang, it ran out of battery!' she hung her head in shame. The first day of their training and she screwed up, just great. Tenten rolled her eyes.

"Gaara-san," she ran towards him, her mind began rearranging words. "Sorry for my tardiness, I didn't realize my watch had ran out of battery," she explained, feeling a bit scared that he might flared up his deadly sand and crush her on the spot. To her surprise, he threw a kunai at her direction, which she easily deflected with one of her own kunais.

"Enough talking, we are already fifteen minutes short of spar time," he caught his kunai with a sly grin on his face. She cracked into a confident smile of her own. "Right then, let's start," she summoned a pair of katanas from her scroll and got into stance. He moved forward, and she copied his movement. When both of them were near enough, she slashed her katana but was quickly blocked by his sand. Tenten flipped over him and tried to attack him from behind. Gaara easily jumped away and turned to face her again. 'This is going to be interesting,' he thought as he commanded his sand to attack the bun haired girl.

Both were panting heavily by the time Gaara's watch struck noon. Tenten snapped her finger, and all her weapons that were lying around the training field flew back into the scroll. Her knees were shaking like mad; she could barely stand up properly. Gaara was proven to be a tough opponent, even without his sand filled gourd.

"Need help?" she gratefully accepted his hand to stand on her feet. His skin felt oddly coarse, but it still felt nice against her rough hands. Gaara was sweating heavily with some of his sand armour cracked here and there, his breathing was heavy. She was basically the same, but her cuts and wounds were actually bleeding. "Let's head for Ichiraku's. I'm starving!" she pulled on his hand, motioning him to follow.

They arrived at Ichiraku's and were not surprised to find a still-in-cast Naruto gulping down bowls of ramen. "Hiya, Gaara! Tenten! Where are you guys from? My, aren't you look bad, Tenten! Gaara was being mean on you? Remember Gaara, we're not finished yet," Tenten considered it to be an achievement for the blonde shinobi to talk that much with a full mouth.

"We're just finishing sparring, Naruto. And that's why we headed here, because both of us are hungry and we will surely be kicked out if we head to somewhere else. Now, aren't you supposed to be in hospital? Someone had come over to fetch you," Tenten sat on one of the stools and gestured at a very angry Shizune.

Both of them watched as Shizune dragged him away straight to the hospital. "So, what would you like to have, Gaara-san?" Tenten looked at the menu before glancing sideways at him. "Whatever you are eating," she nodded slowly. Well, that made it easier. "Ayame-neechan, two bowls of miso ramen, please," she ordered and set down the menu. He was staring off space. "So, err…," she tried to strike a conversation. "You fought great back then," both of them said at the same time. "Thank you," they said in unison again. Ayame set down two bowls in front of them. "Let's eat," she finally said. "Good idea," he replied, and both of them eat in silence.

Gaara closed the door behind him and set his gourd in one corner. "So how's your date, little brother?" Kankurou sprang to his side eagerly asking. "Was it fun, or was it dull?" Temari raised an eyebrow, trying to get him to talk. "What are you talking about? I don't understand," he answered sincerely. Seriously, his brother and sister freaked him out sometimes. "Gaara, when a boy and a girl spending time together doing something in privacy, that is called dating. So, how was yours with Tenten?" Temari asked, putting an arm across Gaara's shoulder. "That is called dating? Not training?" Gaara asked her back again, clearly confused. "Yeah, sort of like Temari does with Shikamaru all the time," Temari glared daggers at Kankurou. "You are so dead, Kankurou!" true enough, they had to go hungry for the night when Temari threw their dinner at the puppet user.

Gaara walked down to the training field at the same time the next day. Tenten was already there clearly waiting for him. "Tenten, you're early today," he noted. She scratched the back of her head cheekily. "Well, I kind of stab my alarm clock with my kunai so I had no idea at what time I woke up today," he blinked once at her statement, before turning away to hide the small smile that made its way to his lips. 'One interesting fellow, this girl,' he thought as he got ready to start their spar.

Exactly four hours later, Gaara decided that they should stop. Tenten pulled back the strings that she used to control her weapons and landed not far from him. "What is wrong, Gaara-san? It is still another three hours to noon," he did not answer, but motioned for her to follow him. The Weapon Mistress just followed him without questions, as they walked down the busy streets of Konoha, fresh from battle. Quite a number of people stared them as they walked passed by, but neither Tenten nor Gaara cared about it. Abruptly, he stopped in front of an old looking building.

"Are you sure about this, Gaara-san?" Tenten asked him with slight surprise. He tugged on her wrist and they both entered the building. Many clocks of all designs were hung on the wall, and rows of watches were put on display under the glass counter. "Pick one, I'm paying for it," she was bewildered when he urged her on, pushing her forward slightly.

Did Sabaku no Gaara had just told her to pick a watch, and he will pay for it? She looked at him with wide eyes. "Seriously?" he nodded and stepped next to her in front of the counter. "How about that one?" he pointed at a watch with black coloured watch, with silver needles and silver lining. Tenten looked and immediately agreed. It was simple but beautiful, and goes well against her skin. He took out his wallet and paid for the watch, before walking out of the shop.

"Gaara-san, thank you very much! You don't have to do all this you know," she had still not finished admiring her new watch. "Tenten, are we dating?".

"We are what? Why did you ask such question?". She felt her face grew warm.

"Temari said when a boy and a girl spend time together doing something in privacy, it is called dating. I'm a boy, you're a girl, and we sparred together, away from other people. Isn't that called dating?" he tilted his head slightly to the left.

"Well, I suppose it is," she stuttered and looked down at her toes.

"Temari said when dating, the boy usually buys something nice for the girl," he went further on.

"Oh, thank you. This watch is really nice," she began fiddling with the straps.

"Kankurou said after a date, the couple usually kiss each other good bye," Gaara said innocently.

"He said WHAT?"

Well, will they kiss? Wait for the third chapter! Until then, please review.. Thank you very much to all of you!