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The next day Neji walked slowly to the training grounds. His vision was somewhat blurred from staying most of night thinking about the way Tenten had acted the night before. The thought of her liking him made his stomach turn. Just keep calm and maybe you won't notice anything different about her, he thought. But this of course didn't work considering that she had always admired him and just last night the fact of her crush hit him like a bag of bricks. That was a fact was never going to get off his mind any time soon either.
"Hey, Neji," A sweet voice called from behind him. A shiver went up his spine as he turned to face the sweet girl standing just a block down from him.
He smiled and waved. "Tenten," he said trying to hint the fact that he wanted to keep things friendly, but at a professional level as well. She ran over to his side and they walked together. She then brought up a conversation about the crazy stunts that Gai had him do yesterday.
He stared to get into a debate within his mind. I could tell her that I didn't do most of the stuff that Gai wanted me to that way she might think of me as pathetic. But Gai might tell her otherwise. Besides it would be to demeaning to my name. Maybe, I should tell her all about it. I mean it is the truth, but then she would have something else to admire about me… Or she would just laugh at me. God she's to hard to figure out.
He slowed down his pace a little so he could look at her without her knowing (or using byakugan) and his thoughts got deeper. Tenten felt like she was being watched. She could almost read his mind as they walked. His actions were to out of character and the only time would act like this was when he felt uncomfortable.
She began to feel uncomfortable too. She desperately wished that he would just keep going with the subject that she brought up.
She bit her lip to keep from blurting out things, but it didn't work. She spun around closed her eyes and yelled, "Come on Neji, is it really that hard to keep up on a conversation. I mean it wouldn't hurt to respond to make it easier on the both of us. Seriously is me having a crush on you that bad."
She opened her eyes wide and her hand quickly covered her mouth. Neji looked in shock and his eyebrow began to twitch. They just stood there staring at each other barely breathing.
Gai came jogging towards the two who stood in the middle of the street looking at one another dwelling on the words that came out of Tenten's mouth just a few minutes ago.
"Good morning you two. What's going on?" Gai jogged up between the two of them and kept jogging in place. Even though Gai stood between the two of them they still stared blankly.
Tenten came to her senses first and said, "Nothing. Nothing at all we were just…umm… Having a staring contest. You know how competitive your students are." She said in a matter of fact way while putting her hands in her pockets to make it seem more realistic.
"Sounds like a good challenge to me. I'll just be on my then. Let me know who wins and I'll see you at the training grounds." Gai had obviously fallen for the pathetic cover and he jogged away towards the training grounds.
She took her hands out of her pocket, crossed her arms, and laid back a little to show seriousness " Look Neji, I know you aren't all for this whole thing, but can we a least keep it out of our daily practices with Gai and Lee for their sake. Just try to make it through today. Ok?" She tried to act like she was somewhat mad at him, but it was hard blaming things on him when she was the one who blurted things out to him.
Neji just stood there like he hadn't heard anything. He didn't even bother to look at her as she walked away. He just stood there watching the building that Tenten stood in front of before she left.
She started to walk even faster the further she was away from him until she was running. Tears began to flow from her eyes. What have I done? I'm so stupid .He is probably going to hate me now. What am I going to now that Neji is going to reject me most likely? This will put such a strain on the group. She stopped under a large tree, curled up in a ball under it, and tried to think of the good times that they used to have when they were kids at the academy and how those times would be ruined if this didn't blow over soon.
Sorry if this story isn't going the way you want it to but I can guaranty that things get better later on. And also I'm sorry if you don't like the way I portray the characters, but I thought it would be fun to mix things up. I hope to write the next chapter soon. Hehe.