Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters except Tenten's parents. If I did I would change so many things…

Mean Daddy

Chapter 3: The Mission

"Yawn! Well better get ready to train. Neji's probably already there meditating and Lee and Gai-sensei should be on lap 57 around the village by now." said Tenten as she woke up just as the horizon started to glow with the sunrise.

It has been 2 months since they passed the chuunin exams and all the members of team Gai are now officially chuunin. They had gotten several C rank missions and two B rank missions.

She quickly got ready for training with Neji.

"Ugggg! How the hell do they get up so early in the gawd damn mornings?!" she thought to herself. In case you haven't noticed Tenten is NOT a morning person. Sunrise was the earliest you could get her up unless she was on a mission.

She ran to team Gai's training grounds where Neji was meditating under a tree waiting for her. She got her scrolls out and waited for him to be done. She sat in the tree that he was meditating under watching the sun completely rise.

As soon as the sun was completely rose over the horizon Neji opened his eyes and Tenten jumped down. This was there daily routine, rain or shine. If the sunrise wasn't visible they just started.

They walked out to the center of the field without a word. Neji was never one to talk unless necessary and Tenten understood this. She had become quite close to her teammate and knew him better than anyone. She understood him as was able to see the emotions in his eyes when everyone else saw coldness.

He was pretty good at reading her too, but there were still some things about her that he still couldn't figure out. Like her hesitation towards large bodies of water like lakes and oceans and deep rivers. She acted like nothing but wrong but he noticed her uneasiness when they had done the water walking exercise and on their mission to the Land of Waves. He never asked her about it but he thinks it might have something to do with the lake her saw her praying at a couple months ago.

Anyway… They trained for a couple hours but were interrupted by the number one hyper active knuckle head ninja of the Leaf (if you don't know who then your more of a baka than him).

"HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! TENTEN-CHAN!!! NEJI!!!" screamed Naruto. He returned just in time to take the chuunin exams 2 months ago and passed along with them. Him and Tenten had met at Ichiraku Ramen's, talked, and realized they had a lot in common being orphans and all. Now they were pretty good friends. Neji tolerated Naruto because he of what happened during the first chuunin exams when Naruto kicked his ass and proved that destiny isn't set in stone and etc.

"WE GOT A MISSION FROM HOKAGE-BAA-CHAN!!! WE GOTTA GO TO HER OFFICE FOR THE BREIFING!" he continued to yell.

"Naruto stop yelling. We're coming." Said Neji calmly, but Tenten could tell he was annoyed. Neji hated when training was interrupted, even by the Hokage for missions. Tenten giggled quietly to herself at the sight of Neji's annoyance while she picked up her discarded weapons.

All 3 chuunin then made their way to the Hokage's tower. When they got there Lee and all of the rookie 9, including Sasuke who had returned a month ago of his own free will after killing his brother and deciding to do the same as his brother and protect the village, were already there.

"Now that you all here, I have an A ranked mission for all of you." said Tsunade-Hokage-sama. "It's an assassination mission. This man, Tennotsukai Bikou, is an ex-ANBU scientist. He used to work in Konoha Lab 16, which is now abandoned." and held up a picture of a man with black eyes and short chocolate brown hair.

"He was the head of research there. It turned out they were doing experiments on the work Orochimaru had left behind. The research they were mainly focused on was creating weapons that kekki-genkei like the Byakugan and Sharigan can't see or defeat, mainly having to do with making chakra invisible in people and chakra enhanced weapons. They also were working on some kind of biological disease that no medical ninja can cure, including myself." continued Tsunade.

Neji's and Sasuke's eyes widened for a second then turned into cold glares and looked at the floor in frustration. Tenten, who had been staring wide eyed at the picture pulled her gaze away to look at Neji. She could tell he was upset and a little nervous about someone even trying to immobilize his eyes.

"Bikou and his team escaped us 10 years ago when they realized we were into their illegal activity and fled. We caught him in the village again 5 years ago and escaped again. We don't know why he was in the village 5 years ago. For all we know he was here all 5 years and we just caught him that night by accident. But we haven't had any signs of him since then until ANBU took this picture 2 weeks ago in a town in the Earth Country. We have been spying on him and today I received disturbing news from the ANBU keeping watch on him." Tsunade said while looking around the room, "Apparently he has finished and perfected the research."

There were gasps from everyone except Tenten who was staring at the picture again. Neji noticed her lack of reaction and turned to look at her to see what was wrong. For the first time in years he couldn't read her expression. Her eyes seemed to be swirling with raw emotions and she didn't seem to be paying attention to anyone except the picture.

"He is planning on selling it in a month. If our enemies got those weapons and attacked is not only would the Hyuuga and Uchiha clans be useless, but the rest of our forces would be killed of in a matter of hours. Needless to say, if you don't stop him, it will be the end of the Leaf Village! You'll leave immediately! Your mission is to kill Bikou and his teams and destroy all of his research before he has a chance to sell it! Shikamaru you are team leader since you have been chuunin longest. You have two weeks to find Bikou and his secret lab and complete the mission! DISMISSED!" she yelled then left the room, probably to get sake while Shizune wasn't there.

"HAI!" everyone yelled in union and then ran off to prepare. Tenten stayed alone in the room staring at the picture left on the desk of Bikou and his profile. "So after all these years your finally back. Whatever you're planning, I promise to stop it no matter what! I won't let you hurt anyone else." she thought to herself. She then left to get prepare and meet her team at the village gates.

Authors Note: what do you think so far? PLEASE REVIEW as this is my first story. Any ideas or criticism is greatly appreciated.