I didn't check this chapter for spelling errors...so expect a TON of them. I mean you know me i always spell everthing wrong. ENJOY

"Now don't forget to wear a mask when you grab the princesses. No sense in getting ID'd here." Said Shikamaru. "Especially if one of the princesses escaped from us."

"Come on. A bunch of prissy little girls escape from us? Well that sure is highly unlikely." Said Naruto.

"As true as that is Naruto you know I like taking precautions." Said Sasuke who was leaning against the kitchen's wall. "Once Neji gets here we'll go over everything again."

As Neji walked in Naruto began to wonder about the four Kings he had encountered earlier at dinner.

'Could they truly have been the same Kings who joined forces and killed our Kingdom? I always imagined them to be cruel tyrants, but they seemed so kind and acted like little kids. How could they be the same kings?'

Neji didn't stop running with his princess on his back all night making him the very first person at the rendezvous point. It was a small shack in the middle of the woods but not far from a small clearing where there was a pound. Neji had tied his princess to a chair. She didn't wake up or stir for that matter, and it was nearly noon. Neji had on a mask that only covered his nose and mouth leaving his eyes exposed. He kept the door opened up and leaned up against the frame. It was pretty hot out and by noon it would be near ninety degrees. A light breeze blew in now and then but he didn't open the windows incase the princess tried to scream. He didn't bother gagging her since the chances of someone coming across their hideout was pretty slim, and he was probably going to be bored so he might as well have someone to talk to. That is if she woke up.

So he rested against the door. Sasuke would be pretty mad if he found out that he hadn't rested and just ran continuously, so he decided on not mentioning it. He then glanced at the girl and then back ahead. It was quiet. He wanted to enjoy the silence before Naruto and the others got there….but mostly Naruto. But thinking about Naruto made him think of what he had said earlier.

"She was King Hiashi's daughter, what did he look like?" asked Shikamaru.

"Long dark hair…like Neji's, and Lavender eyes….like Neji's."

'Eyes like mine…hair like mine. What does all that mean? People can look like other people but…I have never seen anyone with the same color eyes I have. When Naruto comes back with Princess Hinata I'll have to inspect her.'

Neji now began to feel uneasy. He grew up an orphan and never knew his family. He didn't even know his real name. The only thing he did remember was 'Neji'. That was the only thing that he could hear go through his mind. Different voices would say the name always in a kind way or sometimes in an ecstatic way. When he was younger and someone asked him what his name was the only thing he could tell them was 'Neji'. So then after his name was Neji, whether it belonged to him or not it was now his…and his only real possession.

"HUH!"

Neji tilted his head towards the princess. She was now awake.

"So much for the peace and quiet." He said as he took a step near her.

Tenten's neck was killing her. She felt as stiff as a bored. She went to rub her neck but her body was restrained. She couldn't move at all! Her eyes slowly opened and she took in her surroundings. When they landed on a figure of a man she gasped.

"HUH!"

He tilted his head towards her. His glare pierced her very soul.

"So much for the peace and quiet." He said as he took a step near her.

'If I could move my hands I could get out of here no sweat!' she thought to herself. 'Even so…if I used my powers he would know I was an Elementalist. I would be found and probably be worth more then I am as just the princess.'

"Aren't you going to talk?" he asked her.

She didn't respond and looked away from his eyes.

"It's fine if you don't" he told her as he went back over to the door frame. Her head shot back up at him. "I actually prefer you stay quiet."

It was so weird for Tenten to look at him. He seemed so familiar to her. His eyes scared her a lot. From where she sat they looked like ice, but his hair is what made him so familiar.

'Hiashi!' she thought. 'He looks just like Hinata's father. Almost exactly!'

She searched the room with her eyes. Just an ordinary room with several more wooden chairs and a beat up arm chair made of torn up leather. 'Living the big life I see.' She thought referring to her captor. She then studied him. His leaning posture showed her some shuriken poking out from under his black jacket. His pockets in his tattered jean shorts looked full of something too. He had bandages on his arms and some on his leg wrapping all the way up.

'So he's a skilled fighter, or at least appears to be one.'

"What do you want with me?" Tenten finally asked.

"Hm. You're voice isn't shaking at all. I'm shocked to say the least." He told her as he continued to stare out the door.

"Am I supposed to be scared?" she asked him. He shrugged his shoulders and turned towards her. Her heart froze as his eyes met hers. They scared her completely.

"Most people would…especially spoiled little princesses."

"Don't underestimate your opponent." She warned.

He smirked and let out a 'hmp'. "My opponent? You speak as if we were equals. Clearly you are no match for me…not many people would be."

'Would be? What does he mean? He must be at least my age or older.'

"Who are you?" she demanded.

"Neji, and I don't really mind telling you this since you won't be escaping."

"Then why do you wear a mask?"

She had gotten him and she knew it.

"Simply…orders. That is all." He looked back out of the door.

"So you're just a flunky? Ha, and I was worried." Tenten said sounding more relieved. Neji tensed at this.

"Say whatever you like, but you're still the one tied to that chair."

Tenten glared evilly at him. She loathed him heavily at that moment.

"So why did you capture me? Does your boss need some quick cash? Is he going to kill me? Rape me? Make me his wife? Eat me? Cut up my body and serve it to his pet dragon? Use me as a.."

"What's your deal?" asked an annoyed Neji.

"I'm just curious." She shrugged as she waited for her answer.

"I don't know." He said looking back out the door.

"Oh right…you're the flunky."

Within a second Neji disappeared from the door and reappeared in front of Tenten with a kunai at her throat.

"You have no idea who you're talking to." He growled.

"Something tells me you're not even allowed to put a mark on me." She smirked. Just then she felt something dripping down her face. Neji removed the kunai from her neck and showed it to her. At the tip was some blood. He had cut her left cheek.

"I can do whatever I want to you, as long as you're still alive. Any of that can include torturing you as we wait here."

Tenten then grew scared and her face showed it. Neji felt satisfied and then hid his kunai back in his pocket. He walked back to the door and leaned on the frame as he stared at her. When he looked back outside the door he heard Tenten ask him a question in a quivering voice.

"Y..your eyes……..Th..They're Hyuuga eyes."

"You know nothing about these eyes." He told her as he continued staring.

"They're lavender. Only Hyuugas have that color and no one else."

Neji's heart stopped and he looked right back at Tenten stunned. His arms began to shake a little. His eyes were Hyuuga eyes.

'Does this make me a Hyuuga? Is that possible?!'

"So you are a Hyuuga." Tenten confirmed with his silence. Neji then retained his cool composure.

"My eyes are this color for another reason, not because of where I am from." He told her without his eyes lingering away from hers. He then went right back to looking outside for the Umpteenth time. "These eyes are evil." He said as if he cursed them.

She gulped and her forehead began to perspire. He was beginning to scare her and she badly wanted to get out of there, and when she looked up at the door expecting to see him he was gone.

"Hm?" 'Where'd he go? I guess I should try to find a way to escape. There's nothing sharp around me and even my legs are tied to this chair. I'm obviously not his first prisoner. I wonder when everyone at the castle will notice I'm gone. Or maybe they have.' She looked towards the windows and the door to see if she could see the sun's position so she could know what time it was. 'Looks like it could be noon or one.' She decided. 'They're probably looking for me even now.'

Tenten sat alone for a half hour in silence. She didn't know where Neji went or when he would be back so she wasn't sure if it was a good idea to escape or not. In the end she decided to at least loosen her restraints. She shoved her body to the right against the ropes and then to the left. She repeated this for some time and they did seem to loosen but not enough so she could escape, only to be more comfortable.

"This really sucks." She said to know one. While looking down at her tied up body she began to grow angry. Here she was tied to a damned wooden chair that she couldn't break free from in her NIGHTGOWN! Her blood began to boil. She had kept calm long enough.

"LET ME GOOO!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. "That felt good." She sighed.

"Tenten!" yelled an eccentric voice.

"Oh my gosh….INO?!!!" she yelled as she began hitting against her restraints again. Unfortunately she had hit too hard to the right and fell over with a thud.

"Tenten!" Yelled the frantic Ino from outside.

Although she had hurt herself and felt completely embarrassed given the circumstances she was relieved that the others had come to look for her.

Footsteps were heard coming closer to the door, but they weren't rushing they were merely walking. Right before Tenten's eyes a guy walked in with Ino thrown over his shoulder like a rag doll. He placed her on a wooden chair.

"Man, it's about time!" he said as he fell to the floor on his butt exhausted.

"I don't weigh that much." Ino said sounding insulted as she stared down at her captor. "So are you just going to let me sit here on this chair or are you going to tie me to it?" she yelled annoyed.

"Ino!" Tenten yelled to get her attention. "What the hell are you DOING!?"

"Same as you, I being captured." She put bluntly.

"SAVE US! UNTIE ME!" She yelled.

"Don't even think about it Ino." warned the guy on the floor who was taking heavy breaths.

"He's right. Besides there's another guy outside. No way we could escape."

Tenten then gave Ino a look, one that she could decipher well.

"If worse comes to worse," Ino began to tell her. "We will."

Tenten then nodded in agreement. They would only reveal their powers only in a time of crisis.

"You'll what?" asked the guy.

"None of your business." Ino said rolling her eyes.

"Why haven't you tied her up yet?" asked the voice of Neji who was standing over the guy on the floor.

"I was getting there." He said as he yawned.

"You're really not good at this thing Shikamaru." Ino commented.

"So there are TWO flunkies." Tenten said understanding. She received hard glares from both guys.

"Shikamaru, tie her up and meet me outside." Commanded Neji as he left.

He did as he was told and tied Ino down to a chair just like Tenten, however nobody did anything about her being on the floor.

"Can you AT LEAST pick me UP!?" she asked Shikamaru as he was leaving.

He sighed and looked at her.

"no." he put simply.

Once he left Tenten became frustrated and shook her body rapidly making a bunch of noise.

"Grrrrr this is SOOO INFURIATING!" she yelled.

"Save your strength Tenten, you might as well stay there until the others get here." Ino told her.

"How come you're acting so calm about this?!" asked a frustrated Tenten. "And you had your arms free. You could have done something!" she told her a little more hushed.

"I know, but we all promised not to; and when I found out that we were all going to be brought here I decided not to resist until we all decided what to do."

Tenten sighed and then relaxed her body. "You're right. We'll just wait for Sakura and…wait! They're coming too?! How do you know?"

"Shikamaru told me." She put bluntly. "The guy who took me."

"He just told you. How?!"

"I asked him."

Tenten then sweat dropped. She would have fell over anime style, but she was already on the ground.

"So can you explain all of this?"

"Well, he said how two others would be taking Hinata and Sakura. They were already going to be here or they were on their way. That's all he told me." Ino looked over to the window.

"How come you're being so brave?" Tenten asked.

"Because I need to be." She said as noble as a princess would. "Plus, a hot guy kidnapped me…what's so scary about that?"

Tenten let out a small giggle. "You would say that."

"We'll know what to do when Sakura and Hinata get here." Ino said looking back at Tenten. "We'll kick their asses and run to the castle. There's really no reason to be afraid, it's kind of like a crash course in our abilities."

"Well that's true." Tenten agreed. "Except the other guy, Neji, he was really fast. He cut my cheek and I didn't even feel it."

"WAIT! He kissed your cheek?!" Ino asked excited.

"INO! Pay attention when I'm talking to you! I said cut."

"Well now that you mention it there is blood dripping off of your face. The rest of the view isn't so pleasant." She said meaning her nightgown and how it was riding up. "Is that the one I just brought you? I knew you would like pink silk."

"I sure did pick the right time to try it out." Tenten sighed.

"Well it looks great! I mean the upper half of you not the half where I can see your underwear."

"Je, thanks." Tenten said sarcastically. "It's exactly like the one you're wearing cept yours is purple."

"I wonder how long before the others get here." Ino said changing subject.

"Hopefully not soon, I just got comfortable." They both let out small laughs, but they weren't in any laughing matter. They were both still tied up in a small shack of some sort in the middle of God only knows where.

"So what are they up to?" Shikamaru asked Neji. They were standing by the pound both facing it and having their backs to the shack. Neji's face was concentrating hard and the veins near his eyes were all puffing out.

"They're…laughing." He told him.

"They aren't taking this seriously." Shikamaru said disapprovingly. "I don't even think I struck fear into my princess. She only wanted to talk."

"Mine got annoying. I just threatened to harm her and she got real scared." Neji said as his face began to relax. "There's something different about them."

"You think so too?"

"They're just too calm in this sort of situation. Some people would be calm, but wouldn't you think that girls would be freaking out more then this?" Neji asked as he looked at Shikamaru.

"To me it feels like they have some back up plan. I heard so when I brought Ino in. She said, 'If worse comes to worse we will.' So what does that mean?"

"Maybe for someone to come and help them?" Neji wondered out loud. "They could have been tricking you with their words."

"Well that's true. Maaaan girls are so troublesome." He said as he lay down on the ground. "And Sasuke and Naruto are taking forever."

"Do you think they got caught?"

"No way. Those two make a great fighting team. If their in a bind the other will help."

"It's just not like Sasuke to not be punctual."

"Hey, it happens to the best of us." Shikamaru admitted. "Besides, now we can go to sleep. Nothing wrong with that."

He closed his eyes. Neji looked out over the water.

"I'll just look for them anyways." He said as he began to focus his eyes. "Byakugan!" He shouted. He moved his head in the direction of the castle. He looked around a moment until he noticed Naruto and Sasuke running with a princess each on his back.

"So where are they?" Shikamaru asked.

"Less then a mile. They should be here in about ten minutes.

"Good. I could use a nap." Shikamaru said putting his hands behind his head and relaxing.

Neji looked down at his comrade and smirked. Soon the others would get here and the rest of the plan could happen.

When Naruto and Sasuke had arrived they each had a princess on their back just like Neji said they would. Naruto had Sakura and Sasuke had Hinata.

"Wait, don't you have the wrong girls?" asked Shikamaru.

"We had a hard time getting them, so we switched." Sasuke put simply.

"Well tie em up already." Shikamaru said as he yawned.

Sasuke quickly tied up the sleeping Hinata who was still knocked out, and when Naruto finished tying down Sakura she had begun to wake up.

"Wait." Sakura said in a weak voice. Naruto turned to look at her. Sasuke stopped at the door. "You're….Na..ruto."

"Yeah!" Ino said remembering. "The servant!"

"You were pretending to be one weren't you?" Tenten said figuring it all out.

"Well…" he said sounding solemnly. "I always wanted to be an actor!" he sneered. They all gave him evil looks.

"Come on Naruto." Sasuke said from under his mask. Naruto began to walk out but as soon as Sasuke was out of the shack he turned and looked at Hinata.

He was still upset that the girl he found to be gorgeous was the princess who he was supposed to capture. He looked at her sadly. She was so nice to him earlier. It was awful that they had to take her like this all because of something their fathers' had done. But he swore to always help Sasuke no matter what the cost was. They were best friends after all, and Sasuke had helped him countless times without hesitation.

Naruto continued his way out of the shack to his friends. They were all by the pound, and to Naruto they all looked like three black spots all huddled near each other since they were all wearing black.

"Naruto you ready?" Sasuke asked him.

He smiled at his friends. "Yeah, sure am. By the way did anyone notice the girl on the floor?"

Sasuke shrugged. "Oh well."

"So we just gonna leave her like that?"

"Didn't you?" asked Shikamaru.

"Hmp…good point." Naruto said crossing his arms.

"Now that we have them we should take them straight to the castle." Said Neji as he looked at his other friends.

"Right. We'll rest up and leave at nightfall." Said Sasuke. "For now we'll rest. Naruto make us some meals."

"Yes your majesty." He growled as he went back to the shack to grab some instant ramen. "But you're getting ramen."

"What else is knew?" said Neji.

A vein in Naruto's head began to throb.

When he reached the shack he realized that it would be awkward to go into since all of the girls in there would be giving him evil looks.

'Hn, I can handle a few girls.' He told himself.

He stepped in and got cold glares from the three girls. Hinata wasn't giving him any eye contact what so ever, and he didn't blame her.

"Now what do you want?" asked Ino.

"Hey! I'm just here to make us some food." He told them as he went to the corner of a room were a storage cabinet was.

"Oh! What are we having servant boy?" asked a delighted Tenten.

"You're not having any. And We're having ramen." He said trying to make them hungry.

"Blech! Ramen!" Sakura said in disgust.

"That stuff is so gross." Ino commented.

"Servant boy couldn't you have thought of anything better to make?" asked Sakura.

"Hn, you ARE all spoiled." Naruto hissed as he grabbed packs of ramen and put them all in a metal pot.

"We just have good taste." Tenten commented. "What taste were you brought up with?"

"Yeah servant boy tell us." Hinata said joining in.

"Hey I have FINE taste!" he hollered.

Sakura corked an eyebrow. "No you don't"

"Yeah, your taste tastes like ramen." Ino said in a gagging way.

"AMAZINGLY GREAT RAMEN!" He corrected them.

"I'll believe it when I taste it." Tenten said.

"Hm. I don't think so. You'll just have to take my word, and you can just use your noses while you smell us eat it."

He then charged out of the shack and out of sight.

"Damn." Cursed Sakura. "I thought that would work for sure."

"So guys, what do we do?" asked Ino. "These guys might want to kill us."

"No, it has to be more then that." Hinata commented.

"Well we can't just use our powers." Sakura said grudgingly.

"Can I just bring something up?" asked Tenten. "Weren't we going to tell our fathers anyways? Well now we might as well use them."

"She has a point." Said Ino as she looked at her friend still lying on the floor.

"No. We shouldn't use them unless it's a complete emergency." Sakura told them. "If things get hairy around here we'll escape with them."

Hinata nodded. "That's what we need to do. We're worth a lot now, but we could be worth so much more if we were discovered."

"Alright." Ino said.

"Fine, fine, you two win." Tenten sighed. She looked at Hinata's outfit and envied her. She had silk lavender shorts on with a long matching tank top on, but she was also wearing a pink robe. Sakura was wearing a very girly and frilly nightgown made of nice warm cotton. "Does anyone else wish we were taken when we were in better clothes?"

"Yeah." They all said at once.

Hidden in bushes yards away from the shack were two dark figures. The first figure came away from the bushes with binoculars.

"Yes, that's them. Those four girls will cost a real pretty penny."

"Why's that?" asked the other figure.

"Idiot! They're all princesses! If we get them we can hold them for ransom or for a reward!"

"What will cost more?"

"I don't know, but we're going to find out soon. Follow me!"

In a flash they disappeared.

As the four guys ate their ramen Shikamaru couldn't help but wonder why it took Naruto so long to get the ingredients.

"They were all calling me servant boy, and denying the amazing power that ramen has over ones soul and mouth. They were trying to trick me into giving them some so I could prove them wrong."

"Does sound like something you would do." Said Sasuke.

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Neji then added, "But you forget when It concerns something Naruto deeply loves,"

"AKA Ramen!"(Shikamaru)

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"His mind is clear and focused."

"SHUT UP ALREADY!" Naruto yelled with several throbbing veins in his head.

They all laughed at Naruto. Once he was cooled down Shikamaru motioned to the shack.

"Do you think we should feed them?"

"If you want to feed them so bad you can give them your own ramen." Said Sasuke as he continued to eat. Shikamaru went back to eating too.

When they had all finished eating Shikamaru took all of the dishes and washed them up in the pond. Neji leaned up against a tree and closed his eyes in meditation. Naruto sat and watched Shikamaru wash the dishes as if he was memorized by it. Sasuke grabbed the four roles Naruto had brought with him to accompany the ramen meal. They were pretty stale so no one ate them. He then walked them over to the shack, but stopped dead in his tracks when he felt the eyes of his comrades watching him. He turned to see Neji with his eyes opened and Shikamaru and Naruto with their heads turned.

"This bread is stale." He yelled to them. "We might as well give it to them."

There was no objection and Sasuke proceeded into the shack with a small blush of embarrassment on his face.

The second he had stepped in he dropped everything and ran back out.

"They're gone!" he yelled.

"What?!" they all yelled.

"Neji!" Sasuke commanded.

"Byakugan!" he yelled. He began to scope the area with his eyes. They soon grew wide in shock. "They're being taken away by two men! That direction!" he yelled pointing behind the shack.

"Let's go!" Sasuke yelled as they all jumped up into the trees being led by Neji.

"What do they look like?" asked Shikamaru.

"Can't tell. They're both dressed up in black. Each girl is over a shoulder. WAIT! They're stopping!"

"Where at?" yelled Sasuke.

"Some sort of shack." Neji told him.

"Robbers robbing a robber's goods?" asked Shikamaru. "The world is so dishonest."

They all continued to run through the trees with their destination being a full mile.

Ino was first to wake up in an unfamiliar room. She looked around and saw her friends all tied up on tacky wooden chairs just like before, except the shack they were in was more like a house. People were living in this one regularly unlike the other one.

One after the other each girl woke up with a small head injury.

"Where are we?" asked Tenten.

"No idea." Said Ino.

"Actually you're here in our shack." Came a deep male voice.

The girls all looked up to see two lean men who were wearing black outfits and had unshaven faces.

"Does everyone and their mom have a shack around here?" asked Hinata.

"When we get out of here we should get one too." Suggested Tenten.

"Yeah!" Sakura agreed. "But nothing tawdry like this. It should at least be livable."

"Hey! This place is perfectly fine!" the smaller of the two yelled.

"Well it is a step up from the last one we were in." said Ino.

"Mhmm." They all agreed.

"All of you shut up!" demanded the tall guy. "You're our prisoners now so you'll cooperate with us!"

"We didn't with the last four…what makes you guys so special?" asked Tenten.

The smaller one then ran up and punched Tenten in the stomach causing her to cough up some blood.

"Tenten!" Each girl yelled.

"Tenten?" asked the bigger one. "The Daughter of King Tenma."

"What of it?!" yelled Ino.

He smiled wickedly at Tenten as he cracked his knuckles. "This one won't be going back home. I have a score to settle with Tenma…and looks like I can even it right here." He went into his pocket and pulled out some brass knuckles.

"Oooooh, the shiny ones!" commented the smaller guy. "They're much cleaner then the last time you used them." He laughed.

"Tenten!" Ino yelled. She was limp and didn't move. They weren't sure if she was out cold or just in so much pain. "Sakura! We have to!"

"…Alright! And now that I think about it the last place we were at was MUCH better then this." she yelled.

!!!SMASH!!!

The side window shattered in with Neji and Shikamaru coming through it. Naruto and Sasuke kicked down the door and barged in.

"If you liked it so much we'll take you back right away!" Neji smirked as he stared down his two opponents.

A lot of spelling errors? good i don't wanna hear about it. I hope you were satisifed with this cause it's all i could get done before i went to sleep. Thanks for reading!