-1Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

The door of the shop swung open and Ino looked up from the desk. She smiled as her boyfriend, Shikamaru walked through the maze of flowers. He was accompanied by another boy with a stoic face and white eyes. He nodded when they were introduced to each other. They were just discussing something about types of flowers that would make a nice present for his aunt, when someone came down the stairs. It was a girl with her long brown hair tied up in a messy ponytail. She was holding a piece of paper and she walked over to Ino and held it out to her.

"Ino, since it's your day to cook and well since you can't. here's the take out we want." she yawned and didn't seem to have seen the two boys.

They stifled laughs as they watched an outraged Ino mouth wordlessly at her friend. Then she turned and looked at the boys. They blushed and looked away. She raised an eyebrow and rolled her eyes. Honestly boys were such wimps sometimes.

"What? You never seen a girl in pj's before?" she asked, unblushingly.

They had but this was different. Her pj's were made up of a too big t-shirt that hung off one shoulder and was tucked into the light pink panties on her bottom half. This was entirely inappropriate considering that it was about -4 degrees outside. This also succeeded in showing off her perfect legs and curves. She rolled her eyes and walked back towards the stairs she had come from.

"Tennie, I'm surprised that you aren't asleep right now." Ino said suddenly.

Tenten turned around and looked annoyed.

"I was. But they thought it would be funny to wake my up at the ungodly hour of 6:30 am in the morning because God forbid, it was too much work to just guess what I wanted for take out. I would love to be asleep right now. So if you'll excuse me I'm going back to bed. It's only 7:00 am on a Saturday. I can still get away with 2 more hours sleep." and with that she spun on her heel and stalked back up stairs.

It was a few minutes before they heard a scream and saw Sakura bolt down the stair, Tenten hot on her heels. Sakura was holding a large bundle of what looked like boy's clothes. She was laughing her head off and an enraged Tenten was chasing her around the shop. Then Sakura pushed the shop door open and held the bundle over a large pile of half melted snow. Tenten stopped dead.

"You wouldn't." she said to Sakura looking horrified.

Sakura said nothing but let an evil grin spread slowly across her face. She let the clothes slip out of her hands and Tenten yelled at her.

"Sakura Haruno! Give me my damn clothes back! Don't you dare drop another thing in that puddle, or so help me I will find chicken-ass head and take his first kiss for myself!"

Sakura gasped and dropped the rest of the clothes out of surprise. Tenten screamed and stormed out onto the street, still in her 'pj's' . she gathered up her clothes and carried the sopping wet pile into the back room and dumped it on the floor. She came back out with a face like thunder and grabbed Sakura by the ear.

"Just for that you can do my laundry for the next week." she said dragging her into the back room, ignoring the squeals of pain.

Neji almost laughed. Key word almost. His stoic face slipped for a second but he quickly regained composure. Shikamaru however did no such thing and chuckled at the sight of the two arguing girls. Suddenly Tenten turned on them and glared.

"What are you staring at, huh?" she snapped before striding upstairs to change out of her wet pj's.

She came back down as Neji and Shikamaru were leaving. Neji notice that she was dressed in a pair of tight jeans, and a white tank top. Her pink sweater was tied around her waist and she had her hair up in two buns at the top of her head. She glared at the boys as they left, clearly her bad mood was still in tact. She went to work and began sorting through the account books. She balanced the accounts and paid the bills by phone. She took one look at Ino's shopping bill and left it pinned to her bedroom door. Damn, that girl sure could use plastic. She walked down into the shop again and rearranged the flowers here and there. She played 'Sway' by the Pussy Cat Dolls (not really that bad of a song) in the background and dusted down the window display.

It was getting late and doing the bills had taken up most of her day. She had to skip lunch again and she was fiercely hungry. Her stomach ached but she pushed away thoughts of hunger and hurried to finish the display. She looked up and saw someone staring at her. She squinted through the snow and saw that it was that boy from this morning, what's his name, Neji? Yeah that was it. What the heck was he staring at? She stared back at him and realized that she was practically leaning through the window. She must look really weird. She shook herself and climbed out of the window display.

Neji watched as Tenten leaned forward. He saw her squint through the snow. Does she know how weird she looks right now? Then she crawled out of the display. The lights clicked off and he saw a white shape disappear up the stairs. He glanced at his watched and hurried back to his house. Crap, it would be locked up now. He'd have to climb through the window again. He walked slowly down the road and was soon swallowed up by the snow.

Tenten crawled into bed and thought about her horrible day. First, some really hot guy sees her in her 'pj's', then all of her clothes get dumped in a puddle, then she had to wear the tightest jeans known to humanity. Her legs nearly fell off. And to top it all off, some random old lady had yelled at her because they got her order wrong. It was just a bouquet of roses, but the stupid old bat hadn't said what colour roses she wanted. Finally she pushed away her thoughts and went to sleep. Maybe this was all a dream. Screw life, was her last thought.

The buzzing alarm clock went off right at 6:00 am, reminding Tenten that she had to get out of bed and get yelled at by weird old ladies for another 12 hours. She groaned and got dressed. After she ate she sat at the desk for an hour. Then she got bored. She went to the radio and turned on a random station. She looked around. There was no one in the shop. It was completely empty. She twirled along to the music and danced among the flowers and sang along.

"I don't want a lot for Christmas.

There is just one thing I need.

I don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree.

I just want you for my own

More than you could ever know.

Make my wish come true…

All I want for Christmas is…

You!"

"Hmm, you're not a bad singer you know."

She jumped. There he was. Always there to ruin her fun it seemed.

"Oh, hi. What do you want." she asked Neji rather rudely.

"I want to place an order and pick it up in five minutes." he replied looking at all the flowers. "What goes in the order is completely up to you."

"So you want to make an order, let me pick the flowers and then take it away five minutes later. You may as well just stay here." she said walking to the back of the shop.

"I think I will." he said following.

She began to pick out flowers for the bouquet and just to fill the silence she talked about random things that popped into her head then something worth talking about came into her head.

"So who is this for anyway?" she asked looking at him for an explanation.

"Oh no one in particular. Just an old friend." he answered evasively.

Tenten might not seem to be the type but she was a sucker for gossip. This didn't help her at all. She wanted to have a juicy story to tell tonight over dinner. Ino always had something to tell even when she was working the entire week. She tried again.

"What are this persons tastes, colours, and such. It would help me put the bouquet together faster." she offered.

"I think she'll like whatever you pick out. Just put in your favourite flower." he said, not dropping any hints at all. How annoying.

"Ok, I think I will." she answered.

Tenten sighed and picked out some random flowers. She threw in some white lilies for fun, and because they were her favourite flower. The she wrapped up the package and handed it to Neji.

"What's your favourite flower anyway?" he asked

"White lilies."

He paid and went away. Her day fell back into it's dullness and she fell asleep at the desk again. She was woken up by a very grumpy delivery man who was holding a bouquet of white lilies. She accepted the package and put it aside assuming that it was for Ino or Sakura or even the painfully shy Hinata. The name on the tag caught her eye. It read:

To: Tenten.

Merry Christmas.

P.S. I hope you like lilies. They only had white ones.

She stared for a second. The tag was written in perfect cursive and looked vaguely familiar. She flipped through the order book until she found what she was looking for. That was strange. She re read the tag. Nope, it really was for her. Weird. Why had he of all people sent her flowers? Is that why he had asked what her favourites were earlier? She shook her head, confused. Did this mean he liked her? Oh god. Her brain wasn't up to puzzling over things this complicated. It was too late for that. She sighed and dragged her feet over to the front of the shop. Time to close up.

After locking up and getting dinner made she ate quickly and climbed into bed, suddenly exhausted. She wanted desperately to sleep, but her brain wouldn't let her. It was too busy obsessing over the flower thing. She dragged herself out of bed and tiptoed out of bed. Once sown stairs she rummaged around for a vase. Then she took the lilies and put them in it. After carefully placing the vase on the desk she tiptoed back upstairs and got into bed again. She fell asleep and dreamed of white lilies.

Tenten jolted awake shortly after the sun came up. She looked at the clock and immediately felt wide awake. It was 3:00 in the morning. Then it hit her. It was 3:00 am and she was awake. Oh god. She yawned and tried to get back to sleep. After about an hour of just lying in bed she got up and got dressed. She had to wear a knee length skirt and a tank to. She pulled a white fuzzy sweater over top. Sakura had yet to do her laundry and Tenten was too busy all the time. Hinata and Ino wouldn't do it because they were 'busy' too. Tenten had no idea what they got up to. Tenten pushed her feet into her sneakers and wandered into the shop. It was early and still dark. Tenten turned on a small desk lamp and sat down. She soon lost herself in her thoughts. The mail slot rattled. She walked over slowly and looked at the white envelope that had been pushed through. It was addressed to her. She picked it up and slit it open. The same perfect cursive was elegantly written on the plain white sheet of paper. Inside the envelope there was a dried and pressed white lily. The fragrance was beautiful and Tenten held it carefully as to not break it.

Over the course of the week Tenten received several gifts like this, all addressed to her in the same elegant cursive. Even Sakura was impressed.

"My God. This guy must really like you. We can assume that it's a guy right?"

Tenten glared at her and showed her the signature. The writing was very similar. There was almost no difference.

"H-how can you b-be sure?" ask Hinata.

"She can't. he did ask for her favourite flower, and she's been getting all these lilies since then. I'm pretty certain that it's him but we should observe just to be sure." Ino said, nodding wisely.

The others agreed but Tenten had her own plans. If only he would come by the shop. Then she could put it into action.

At the end of the week Tenten again was woken up early for no reason. She got dressed and went downstairs. She wandered around the shop and straightened up a bit. She heard a rattling sound at went up to the front of the shop. A white envelope was sitting on the door mat. She quickly opened it and read it. There in perfect cursive were four words.

Love at first sight.

She threw open the shop door and ran out into the snow. The cold bit at her legs, exposed by her skirt. She saw a single dark figure at the end of the street. She ran down the street her boots leaving a trail of footprints in the snow.

"Neji!"

The figure turned around. She stopped in front of him. The wind blew around them sending waves of snow swirling around them. She held the letter to her chest and stared up into his eyes. Her legs were frozen but she didn't care.

"It was you? You sent me all those things?" she asked quietly.

He nodded.

"Why? Why me? Why not Sakura or Ino?" she looked at him searching his face for an answer.

He said nothing. He only pulled her into his chest. She realized how cold she was and snuggled into his jacket.

"Why?" she asked again.

"Just because." he whispered.

They stood in the middle of the street and by the light of the street lamps he lifted her chin so that she looked right into his eyes. Then he kissed her gently on the mouth. She responded warmly. They stood in each others arms, snow swirling around them and in the distance a boy walked by the flower shop and looked in the window. The girl there flashed a shy smile before running back upstairs.

Why do I feel this way?

Ok that's number two! It's Neji Tenten.

Guess who's next! Nope not telling. I'm keeping that zipped away…ok I'll stop.

Review please! Excuse any grammar, spelling etc. errors. Too lazy to fix them. Bah humbug…just kidding!