Author's Note: NejiTen, set at a time when they're older, say, earlier 20's.
Tenable
By Nessie
"Fight me."
This is how she is.
"I've been working with chain lately."
The most unpredictable woman.
"My theory is that they're thin enough to pass through your Kaiten, with the right concentration of chakra."
At sunrise, she can be lethal or lover, depending on her mood. She loves what she does.
"But they might be too light to resist the force of your chakra wall."
It's almost hard to believe they were leaving her bed only two hours ago.
"Well, we'll see, won't we?"
Or that she made love to him so gently it would seem she had never touched weapon. They are completely different people during training.
"Ready, Neji?"
He begins the rapid whirl, gravity defied all around him as the pull of his chakra lifts dirt and blades of grass from the ground. It is just Neji and the air, the intoxicating stream of power, and he drinks it in, feeling untouchable, feeling perfect...
Until an length of linked iron slices knife-like through the silver-blue vortex and coils around one outstretched arm. An opposite pull so strongly executed cleanly breaks his flow, and the chakra ebbs, revealing Tenten at the chain's other end.
"Not so invincible now, are you?"
He hadn't been invincible for months, when he'd let fall that final barrier between them and let her love him. At last.
Smirking, he gives the chain a tug with his free hand until her supple body careens into his, and the sensation of power surges once more. It wasn't like he had become weak, after all.
"Absolutely defenseless," the Hyuuga acknowledges before crashing his lips down to hers. Beneath him, her mouth parts in open invitation.
This is how she is.
Neji loves her for it.