Normal pov
After religion it was lunch, Neji had told Tenten that she could eat with him and meet the rest of his friends. As they walked down the hall, they fell into a comfortable silence.
"Umm... Neji?" Tenten asked breaking the silence, "I was wondering how many girls he tried that on?" She had figured that Neji knew, by the way that he moved closer.
"A lot, he even tried it on my cousin, Hinata", (a/n I know that I already said that but Neji didn't tell Tenten), Neji told her, the anger still clearly evident.
"That's horrible, I wish I could kick his ass all over again", Tenten growled out.
"Well, you sure did a number on him, and Tsunade saw what he did, he's so getting fired, way to go Tenten!" Sakura popped up beside Neji and Tenten.
"Yeah, so, cafeteria, here, and we normally eat outside, so follow me", Neji stated, helping Tenten out of an embarrassing situation.
Leading Tenten by the elbow, they got their food, and went outside; met up with the rest of Neji's group that Tenten had seen earlier.
That's about the same time that she saw the red headed boy, she decided that now was a good time to ask the boy the question that was bugging her earlier.
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Tenten's pov
Neji led me around the cafeteria while we got our food and then led me outside, that's where I saw the red head with eyeliner, I also saw the punk math geek Temari, the emo I had yet to meet and the rest of the group I saw this morning, excluding Neji and Sakura, who were walking beside me.
I waited until I got to the group with Neji, I didn't do a thing, but as we got closer to the red head, my resolve diminished. I ran up to the boy, and stared.
"What?" asked the red head boy, my stare is known to make people nervous, and act so unlike themselves, the other option was that he wasn't used to the attention, or both.
"Well I was just wondering..." I gave a dramatic pause, just to make them guess what I was going to ask, "...if you were gay?", and with that everyone sweat dropped.
"Are you calling my little brother gay, you little, bitch!"
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Temari's pov
She called my little brother gay, to say I was mad didn't exactly cover it, and how could she even think that. So I called her a bitch not exactly creative, and one of the few things I could do without being expelled, they ignored name calling for some reason.
I waited for her reaction to be nearly as explosive as mine, no one likes to be insulted, 'I think there are some freaky people out there',okay off track.
She turned around and ... blink, blink, blink, blink , "no", she said calmly, and for a minute I forgot that I had asked a question, " I'm asking if he's gay, there's a difference".
"Why?", now I was actually wondering what even made her want to ask probably the most feared boy, next to Neji and a few others, if he was gay
"He's wearing eyeliner, EYELINER!", and with that I leaned forward over my brother.
"Gaara, is there something you're not telling me?" I asked, and he shook his head, "you'd tell me if you were gay, right?", I was sincerely concerned why my brother would wear eyeliner.
"I'M NOT GAY! I LIKE SA-SOMEONE", that was news; I looked over at Tenten and grinned.
"Well, you take insults better then buddy over there", as I said this I pointed at Naruto.
"I HAVE A NAME! IT'S NARUTO, NA-RU-TO!" screamed the overzealous blond boy, and I laughed.
I watched as Tenten walked over to Neji to speak with him, and then I chased Naruto, because he did something to piss me off again, that and it's fun.
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Neji's pov
When Tenten asked Gaara if he was gay, I was nearly grabbed her and was going to run away so that she would live at least to the end of the day, at least. But apparently that notion was not needed, because soon she had Temari asking.
"Ten bucks says that Gaara likes Sakura and vice versa, and another ten that they'll start dating", I nearly jumped when I heard Tenten's voice right next to me, but luckily I had more self-control then that.
"Fine, but you're wrong, there's no way a loner would like someone popular, and no one popular would like a loner", I said, wow that was the second time I said more than five words in a row, what was the hell is she doing to me!.
"Fine, we'll go ask Sakura, right now, we have all lunch to find out", Tenten said marching over to the pink haired girl, leaving me once again to follow like Akamaru following Kiba.
"Sakura?" Tenten asked in a very sweet voice, "can I ask you something?", again she asked not dropping the sweet and innocent voice.
"Sure"
"Well I was wondering if you liked Gaara". She seemed innocent in asking the question, never letting on that there was a bet riding on the answer.
"I do", Sakura then replied hurriedly, "but you cannottell him", she seemed to be getting over some sort of shock as she threatened us, well, Tenten.
"Oh, no of course not!", Tenten exclaimed in fake innocence, which means, well I have no idea what it means, but it can't be good, and then she smirked, she had something planned for Sakura's poor unfortunate soul.
"Well, Tenten, I need to explain some things to you", and I drew Tenten away from the pink haired girl, who began mumbling to herself about pie.
"Right, on to Gaara", she said and marched in the opposite direction, and once again I was left following.
"Hey, Gaara, sorry about earlier, I just had the urge to ask you, so I did", she said still using her sweet voice, "but I have another question".
"Hn"
"Well, while you were yelling about you not being gay you nearly said somebody's name", Gaara now had a suspicious look on his face, "and I was wondering if it was Sakura?"
"Yes, well you can't tell anyone that it is Sakura", Gaara said, giving Tenten one of his worst death glares, which pretty much said, 'if you tell her or anyone else, I WILL KILL YOU', which went unnoticed by the grinning girl.
"Tenten, come, I'll introduce you to my cousin", I stated coolly grabbing her elbow and leading her away from the violent eyeliner wearing boy.
"Neji" 'oh, Kami, that voice is going to give me nightmares', I thought as Tenten's overly sweet voice called my name.
"Hn", was my 'what?' but I didn't expect her to know that.
"You owe me ten bucks", she said and ran over to Shikamaru, who at the time was talking with my cousin Hinata.
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Shikamaru pov
I was talking to Hinata, one of the few things I do quite frequently, it's one of the few things I'm able to stay awake while doing; it's mostly because I can't hear her. That's when I felt weight on my shoulders.
"Hiya Shika-pineapple head!" the person sitting on my shoulders said, who I assumed to be Tenten, what gave her away was the fact that no one calls me that.
"Troublesome", I muttered, "What can I do for you Tenten?" I asked, and she still didn't move, not even to look me in the eye, 'this girl has no common courtesy'.
"Well, I was wondering, who are you talking to?" she asked, and that's when I remembered I was talking to Hinata, 'apparently I don't have common courtesy as well'
"Tenten, this is Hinata, Hinata Tenten, Tenten's the one who beat Ebisu, and Hinata is Neji's cousin", the weight finally lifted, but then I was pounded into the ground, Tenten didn't just get off, she jumped off and landed back on me standing up.
"So, your Neji's cousin, nice to meet you", I heard Tenten say, but couldn't see what was happening, because I was KISSING THE GROUND.
"Y-yes, I-I am, h-how d-do y-you kn-know him?" I heard Hinata stutter out.
"I have to show her around the grounds". Said a new person who I assumed was Neji.
"Was that supposed to mean something?" I tried to say, but I don't think they heard that, or understood.
"Don't know Shika-pineapple head", Tenten said, assuming she knew what I said, for all she knows I could have asked about the weather.
"Neji-kun, you made a joke, w-wow", Hinata said, almost like it was just her and Neji, but she remembered that Tenten was there, 'wait, OH MY GOD NEJI MADE A JOKE, I GOTTA GET AWAY!' I screamed in my head.
"Tenten let me up, I got to get away, Neji never makes jokes", I said, but I didn't expect any one to understand
"Hmm, interesting, well fine", Tenten said and stepped of my back, 'wow she actually understood'.
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Neji's pov
I heard my cousin stutter as she talked to Tenten, 'she never did tell me why she was so nervous around people', I shook my head and continued walking over to them in time to answer Hinata's question.
"I have to show her around the grounds", as I said this I pointed at Shikamaru, Tenten and Hinata laughed, and that's when I realized that I had made a joke, 'GAH, what is this women doing to me!', at the same time there was mumbling from Shikamaru, I didn't understand what he said, who would.
"Don't know Shika-pineapple head", Tenten said to Shikamaru.
"Neji-kun you made a joke, w-wow", she was doing so well, until she realized that Tenten and Shikamaru were still present, so close.
"mphmhp, mfr ma yr magy mndea bkas muks mnj shd ndui", Shikamaru mumbled getting mouth fulls of dirt, well most likely, and again no one understood him, who could understand mumbling. As if an answer to my question, Tenten let him up and he repeated what he said, which was, 'Tenten let me up, I got to get away, Neji never makes jokes', I scowled at that, no matter how true it may be.
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Sasuke's pov (a/n don't you just love the random points of view change, I'm kidding, its pretty annoying ne?)
I sat under a tree, completely shrouded in shadows, I watched as Neji brought a new girl to our usual hangout. Foolish, she's just another fan girl after our money; she just can act better then the rest of the annoying species, who couldn't control themselves around any rich person.
I watched as Neji followed her around, from Sakura to Gaara, and finally over to Shikamaru and Hinata. I continued to watch, with a scowl on my face, as Kiba walked up and Neji introduced the girl to him.
They laughed at something she had said, and Kiba went to talk to Gaara leaving Neji and the girl to talk amongst themselves, she pointed over to me and Neji probably told her who I was, foolish.
The next thing I knew she was in front of me, and all she did was stare, like I had seen her do to Gaara, and that stare made me slightly uncomfortable, though I would die before I admitted it.
Her brown eye's shifted from my black eye's to my hair and back, we stayed like this for a few minutes, I waited for her to realise who I was and squeal, for if she wasn't a Neji fan girl, then she was one of mine. all she did was cock her head to one side.
"Why is you hair shaped like a chicken's ass?", she asked in a sweet voice, I heard a short bark of laughter, I looked over at
Neji who was facing away, shoulders shaking lightly, I stared at him in shock, " if you think that's bad, he made a joke while we were talking to Hinata and Shika-pineapple head", again I was shocked, but the only difference on my stoic face was the fact that my eyes were two milometers wider.
"Hn", I said, hoping that Neji would understand, and ask what I wanted but it was over three words, so I couldn't ask it.
"He wants to know why you're not squealing, he thinks that your either don't know who we are, or you're an incredibly experienced fan girl" Neji said, pretty much exactly what I wanted to ask.
"Oh, neither, I know who the both of you are, but I'm the farthest thing from a fan girl", the non-fan girl said, 'damn I still don't know her name'.
"Her name is Tenten", Neji said, reading my thoughts, 'what did she mean by the farthest thing from a fan girl'.
"If you're wondering what I meant by that, well your just going to have to wait and see", Tenten said, now she was prying her way into my mind, 'STAY OUT DAMN IT!', what just because I show no emotion on the outside, doesn't mean I don't have any.
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Normal pov
The bell rang, right after Sasuke started yelling in his mind. Tenten was already half way down the school before Neji noticed, so once again he was left chasing after her.
Neji and Tenten walked to their lockers, which were conveniently located around the same hall, and upon looking at their schedules they discovered that they had the last three periods free.
"Looks like I'll be having the grand tour, Neji style", Tenten said turning to Neji and flashed him a grin.
"Looks like", Neji said turning away, "come on then, I'll show you everyone's locker", Nejistopped and turned back, flashing his own grin, which would have had any weaker girl's knees buckling, "and I'll also give you their combos".
"fun", Tenten said thinking of all the evil things she could do, until one particular evil plan formed, and soon they both fell silent.
"Tenten", Neji said suddenly, "how did you get Sakura and Gaara to spill like that?"
"Hahaha, I knew you were going to ask that, at some point", Tenten said grinning again, "you see, it's a little weird, whenever I look someone in the eye, and ask them a question, in that sweet voice you heard earlier, they can't help but answer no matter how much they don't want to, they will answer, they have to, it's not always a bad thing, sometimes it allows a person to see what they were feeling, even if they didn't know consciously", she paused, "the only problem is that it doesn't work on people that are gay", another pause, "would you like to try?".
"Sure", Neji replied, thinking that it was nothing, that it wasnt real.
"Okay, let's see, a general question?", she paused to think,"oh, got one, do you like someone?".
Neji's face changed from an emotionless, unbelieving one, to one of deep concentration, and then he answered, "yes".
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Tenten's pov
I laughed as Neji tried to stop himself from answering, I never really knew what compelled them to answer me, it was always a little weird, but the weirdest thing is when Neji answered I felt slightly hurt that he liked someone.
My father, when he was alive, found out this little 'power' of mine, and then he used it to see if his employees where honest, and if they failed they were fired, it also helped when he was making new business partners, to see if they were going to rob him blind or not. This made the Ashio corp. one of the biggest companies, right up there with, Uchiha and Hyuuga corp. (a/n they're separate, just s you know)
This is what I mean by when I said I was the farthest thing from a fan girl, I was a business rival, this was also the reason why I never said my last name, everyone would be talking about how unfortunate it was that they were dead, or there would be whispers in the halls like, 'her parents were assassinated you know'.
The funny thing is that it wasn't the gossip that bugged me most, it was the pity, I couldn't stand the fact that they assumed that I was upset about my parents death, when really I couldn't care less, they didn't care about me and so I don't care about them, the only people I ever considered my family was my brother my sister and my aunt.
My sister was now in America, my brother was running the company, doing a good job at it to, and yet somehow they managed to still care more about me then my parents did, and my mother was home the majority of the time.
"This is Temari's locker", Neji's voice broke through my inner ranting's, he had fallen quite after I questioned him, and I drifted off in to my thoughts not once realizing that we were still walking.
"Cool, anything valuable in there?", I managed to ask, bringing my focus around completely.
"Well, her math book", Neji answered not realizing that an evil plan was froming the minute he opened his mouth.
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Normal pov
"WHERE'S MY MATH BOOK?", screamed Temari as she frantically looked through her locker, for her oh so prized math book.
"SHIKAMARU HAS IT!", Tenten screamed back as she tossed the book to said person, who then looked from the book in his hands to Temari, and then took off out the door.
"To troublesome", Shikamaru muttered before estopping in front of Naruto, "NO I DON'T, NARUTO DOES!", he then yelled knowing Temari could hear, and then tossed the book to the blond boy.
"NO I DON'T SASUKE DOES!", Naruto yelled not even bothering to run, for once he was lazier then Shikamaru, either that or he was to petrified, he had been chased once that day already.
"Dobe", Sasuke muttered as the book landed in his hands, looking behind him, as he ran, he didn't notice Sakura and Gaara in front of him.
Sasuke ran right into the back of Sakura, who then flew forward knocking Gaara to the ground, and landing on top of him, their lips locked.
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Sakura's pov
I couldn't believe it, I was kissing Gaara. It's my worst nightmare, yet my dream come true.
I was to shocked to move, so we stayed there for a few minutes, until I regained some sense and jumped off of him. I looked around behind me, everyone was standing there looking just as shocked as I felt, well except for two, Neji and Tenten, Neji looked uncomfortable because it looked like Tenten was crying in to his shoulder, why she was doing that I'm not sure.
The silence surrounding the whole area, everything seemed frozen, what brought me back was Sasuke numbly handing Temari's math book back to her.
"So, I think it's about time I get going ", I said turning around and stiffly walking out of the school yard.
"Yeah me too", I barley heard Gaara say before he was right beside me, "uh... Sakura", he started, but I think he was waiting for me to give him something, in order for him to continue.
"Yeah?" I asked hoping my voice didn't betray my nervousness.
"I was wondering if... you would go out with me?", I was shocked, not because he asked me out, but because he managed to do it in a complete monotone, 'how the hell can he do that?', I asked myself, before I realized he was waiting for an answer.
"Yeah I will!", I said enthusiastic, and smiled, and for the first time in a long time I meant it, "we'll tell the others tomorrow", I said as I turned into my house that I didn't even realize was there.
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Normal pov (with Tenten, Neji and Sasuke)
"So, that was pretty awkward for them", Tenten said the silence driving her madder and madder as they were getting closer to her house.
"Hn", was the answer Tenten got from, as she named him, 'rich emo, bastered, chicken ass head', though she would shorten it to emo bastard or chicken ass head.
"Tenten where do you live ?", Neji asked, noticing that they were at his and Sasuke's street, there were three large houses, on the far end was Sasuke's, in the middle was Neji's, and on the end, which happened to be the biggest house, well neither Neji or Sasuke knew who lived there.
"Right there", Tenten said pointing to the largest house on the end, by the street. Tenten ran up to the house, but before she could open it a women stepped out.
"Tenten, dear, how was your first day?" the woman asked.
"Hiya Auntie", Tenten said, "I'll tell you all about it inside", Tenten walked into the house leaving the two shocked boys to walk into their own houses.
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Normal pov (next day)
Everyone was standing, sitting or leaning where Tenten had seen them the day before, everyone but Neji and Tenten were standing, Neji was leaning and Tenten was sitting up in the tree beside where he was leaning. The only person not there yet was Gaara and Sakura.
Within a few minutes they arrived, holding hands like the happy couple they were, Neji smirked, Tenten grinned, and swung down so that she was holding on to the tree branch with her legs, while her head was by Neji's.
"You owe me twenty".