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A Date and a Kiss…or Two

Tenten

"Tenten-chan, please keep still," An exasperated Hinata pleaded with me.

"I'm sorry, Hinata-chan," I told her. "But I'm really, really nervous."

"Don't worry, you look beautiful." Hinata had managed to dress me in a lilac colored kimono. The sash around my waist was a darker shade of purple. The kimono ended in a slit at my ankles. I was also wearing one of her brooches in my hair. My hair was in a low ponytail but only because Hinata had gone all teary eyed. I kept my weapon holsters and other weapons hidden in the kimono. There was a knock on the door of Hinata's room.

"Come in," Hinata called. Neji walked in wearing a formal black kimono. He looked the same and didn't seem to think highly of these formal dinners. It didn't look like he put any effort into making himself look good. He stopped short of the door and looked me up and down, his eyes slowly moving from my ponytail and down to my ankles. He coughed.

"Er…you look great," He muttered before sauntering out of the room. Hinata giggled.

"Neji-niisan is right. You look great so go now!" Hinata said pushing me towards the door.

"Wait, you're not coming?" I asked her. How am I gonna hold up? I can't survive knowing that the only female Hyuuga I know won't be there! As if reading my thoughts Hinata said,

"Don't worry, Neji-niisan will be there with you." I was starting to feel nauseated. Hinata gave me one final push out the door and closed it with a snap. Thanks a lot, Hinata! I looked around Hinata's living room and saw Neji sitting against the wall, his eyes closed. He looked like he was sleeping. I tiptoed towards him and leaned down to…well…check him out. Okay I admit, I mean checking out my best friend? I'm sure most girls have checked out their best guy friend right? This is totally normal, right?

"Ready to go, Tenten?" He opened one eye.

"Yeah, the longer we stay the more I'm inclined to just go home." We left Hinata's room and Neji led me down more and more hallways.

"Neji, why doesn't Hinata come to these formal dinners?" He answered me as if people asked him this question everyday.

"This is a formal dinner for the Hyuuga males and their dates only."

"Oh." Neji stopped in front of a door.

"The dinner is a way to get to know the women better. To see if she has what it takes to marry into the family." Oh? Then I shouldn't worry about it much since I already have an arranged marriage with one of the other Hyuugas…?

"Have you ever participated in any of these dinners?" I asked him. I wanted to see if he really were a ladies man or not. "Have you brought other girls home for your date?" I waited in anticipation for his answer. He regarded me with a serious face.

"No, you're my first."

Huh?

The door opened and a servant let us in. I followed Neji into the room. It was large and the long table situated in the middle room was already full. Neji led me to two empty chairs next to Hiashi's and pulled my chair out for me.

"Thank you."

Then Neji sat next to me and dinner began. During the start of the dinner I could see the Hyuuga men sneaking dirty looks at me from all around the table. Even their dates stared at me. The Hyuuga men ranged from ages fourteen to nineteen. Neji and I were both sixteen. Looking at the faces of the Hyuuga at the table I noticed that most of them were around my age and older. I saw Shimari down the table and smiled in his direction. He smiled back and waved.

"Tenten, that's your name isn't it?" Startled I looked up at Hiashi.

"Yes, sir."

Hiashi laughed. The rest of the table followed.

"Neji tells me you're his teammate and that you specialize in weapons." Interested murmurs traveled up and down the table.

"Yes, sir."

"That would be something worth watching. Neji against you in a match? He tells me that you've trained together every morning for the past four years." This time gasps of interest traveled round the table once more. "Very impressive. Maybe you're the reason Neji is so powerful." Envious looks came from all over the table. I could feel Neji glaring at his uncle.

Dinner was actually fun. I didn't have to worry about anything. Well, during the dinner, but after dinner? That's a completely different story. Hiashi left after dessert and bade us all good night. When he left I turned to Neji.

"Where's he going?" Neji kept his eyes on his plate. "After dinner Hiashi-sama leaves and lets us get to know each other. This is the part of the night I worry about."He got out of his seat and pulled mine back for me. "My cousins can get…a little wild…,"

I followed Neji through another door where everyone had disappeared to. We emerged into another room that had cushions and pillows on the floor. Everyone was sitting on a cushion and talking. However when Neji and I walked in and occupied separated seats everyone stopped.

"So you're the Tenten that Hinata-sama and Neji-kun always talk about?" I looked for the voice and saw that it belonged to a beautiful girl. She had long, bluish black hair and wore her hair down.

"Yes, I'm Tenten but I doubt Neji always talks about me." I told her.

"Are you two together?" Someone else asked.

"She's a friend," Neji replied.

"Hey, you said she was your date," Shimari countered.

"She is a friend on a date with me," Neji muttered. He was beginning to get really pissed off. Without meaning to I giggled and saw the sides of his mouth twitch. He's trying not to say anything mean to me. Ha ha!

"So you're just friends and nothing more?" A random person asked.

"I'm sure he's made it clear in more ways than one," I told the room.

That's how the evening began. I made friends with everyone in there but most especially Shimari because I'd met him before the dinner. I was beginning to have a good time. Joking and chatting with the Hyuugas and their dates was really fun. I wonder how Neji's holding up. That's when the drinks began to pour out. By around 9:30 pm almost everyone had a drink in hand. I tried to look for Neji but the room was so crowded I couldn't even see him. I knew my parents would be worried so I decided to look for him to ask him to take me home. I'm sure he wants to leave as much asI do.But as I got up a drunken Hyuuga tried to pull me back down.

"Let me go, please." I told him. But he continued to hold on tomy wrist.

"Come on," he drawled. "Neji-kun isn't here anyway. I don't think he'd mind if I had a little fun with you…," Suddenly he activated Byukugan and looked me up and down from my chest to my behind. Oh my god! Neji, where are you! I'm gonna kill you for bringing me into this!

"Why don't you have fun with this!" I whipped out my kunai and made a motion to shove it through his chest. I feel violated! Dammit Neji where are you!

"What's going on here?"

That voice! I know that voice!

"Neji!" I turned around to the see the owner of the voice. It was Neji! I turned back to the pervert in front of me and stuck my tongue out at him. He and Neji immediately jumped into a staring contest. A long one too. After a few minutes in which I nearly fell asleep standing there between them, the other guy deactivated his Byakugan. FINALLY!

I felt Neji grab my wrist and pull me to the other side of the room. I was so tired I kept my eyes closed. For awhile I just sat next to him on a cushion, half asleep, and listened to the sounds of drunken Hyuugas making fools of themselves.

"Here, Ten-chan, have a drink with me," I opened my eyes to Shimari offering me an unknown alcoholic drink. Ugh, I hate alcoholic drinks! The smell was really getting to me.

"No, thanks." I told him politely. Shimari frowned.

"C'mon, loosen up a little? You're no fun. You should be a little like Neji over there…," Wait, what? Where'd he go this time? I turned to the sport where Neji was sitting just a few minutes ago. He was gone. Again. I sighed and collapsed on the cushion taking up all the space.

"Where has he gone?" I muttered.

"If you're looking for him he's over there." Shimari said pointing to the other side of the room. I opened my eyes and followed his finger in the direction he was pointing. OH. MY. GOD. I nearly collapsed again from the shock! Neji! Drunk? DRUNK! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! Not Neji! Not my Neji-kun! I looked back at the sorry sight in front of me. He was drinking from a bottle of sake and his hair was disheveled. He didn't seem to be extremely drunk like the rest of the room but enough so that he was as unstable as ever. This has got to be a dream! Neji would never drink! Never! But here he is drinking himself to waste!

"Hey, let's play a game…," some random person with no face worth remembering whatsoever suggested. A chorus of agreements followed this idea. Neji ignored them but became ever watchful with those eyes of his.

"Let's play truth or dare!"

You've got to be kidding me! Truth or dare! That's elementary! But look at the state of these people…yeah, Truth or Dare is fine with me.

"Shimari-kun, I dare you to act out a phone sex monologue." Phone sex? I watched and laughed senselessly as Shimari acted out one side ofa phone sex conversation. Looking at the clock I saw it was already past midnight. Oh well, my parents won't kill me. As long as I tell them I spent the night with the Hyuuga they won't mind at all.

I watched as random people were dared to do things and were asked questions that they had to answer truthfully. Nothing extreme. What's the worst anyone could do?

"Neji-kun, you're turn," said the girl who had suggested the game in the first place. I watched, interested at what they would make him do. "Truth or Dare?"

Neji was silent, thinking. "Dare." Ooh! This is gonna be good!

"Neji-kun," the girl said, drawing suspense. Oh, hurry it up already! "I. Dare.You.To," She stopped and looked around the room. Her gaze landed on me. "Kiss. Tenten."

My mouth dropped open in shock. I heard a few chuckles rise up among the crazy teens in the room. Wha-what? Kiss me?

"What?" The girl smirked at me.

"You heard me. I dare Neji-kun to kiss you. What's wrong? You said you were just friends. What's the big deal with one kiss?" Automatically my eyes searched for him around the room. He was staring at me with an odd expression on his face. What's he going to do? Is he really going to do the dare? Neji began to walk towards me. Oh, God. Oh, no. He didn't make any eye contact with anyone but me as he came to my side. I knew I should stop him. Stop him before he takes it out on me tomorrow. Oh, no. More bruises! More pain! I blinked. I gulped. He was approaching me to fast. But honestly, part of me was curious. Begging him to hurry up and just kiss me. While the other half begged him to stop. Stop and take me away from here. He stopped in front of me and took me in his gaze.

"Neji?" I called to him, almost shyly.

"Well, Neji-kun?" That girl was really asking for it! I tried to imagine my kunai sticking out of her forehead but I was still trying to buy myself time from the Hyuuga in front of me. Then, he smirked. His hair had come undone now and hung around his shoulders. Some of his bangs framed his face and made him look so innocent. But what he said next was the complete opposite of innocent!

"C'mon, Ten," How dare he use his nickname for me in public! "What can go wrong?"

One arm wrapped around my waist and the other behind my neck. In the brief second before his lips touched mine, he looked into my eyes. Then he kissed me, the taste of sake lingering on his breath. I wish I tried to resist. Push him away with all I had, anything to get him off me. But I didn't. I let him kiss me senseless in front of his cousins. In front of his family. After claiming that we were just friends! And it is clear, oh so very clear to me that he wasn't going to stop anytime soon.

Suddenly a rooster began to crow outside. Then more followed its chorus. I heard groans as people began to get up and leave. I knew the party was over, so why was Neji still kissing me? As I pondered this question, he stopped. I opened my eyes and looked into his. Clear, clouded, the same.

"I-I have to…go," I pushed him away and ran out the open door, back into the dining room, and out into the hall. I tried to follow the doors we had passed from Hinata's room. But I must've taken a wrong turn or something because I quicklyrealized…I was hopelessly lost!

I doubled back and tried to look for the hallway I had just been in. but I couldn't distinguish one hallway from another! Oh no, where do I go now!

"No, I won't die of starvation or claustrophobia because I got lost! I'd be a disgrace to all ninja! I'd shame Konoha! I can just see the headline! 'Idiot Kunoichi found Dead in Hyuuga Mansion!' NO! I'll embarrass him too! I, Tenten, won't die a fool's death!"

"Tenten-chan?" Hinata!

I turned around to see if it was Hinata but nearly jumped as a lone figure showed itself at the end of the corridor. It was definitely not Hinata! But only Hinata called me Tenten-chan! Who else could it be!

"W-who's th-there?" Kunoichi don't stutter! They intimidate! I whipped out my hundredth kunai for the night. Hey, after sparring with Neji I lose track of how much kunai I use on him. The figure stepped out of the shadows.

"Neji!"

Neji showed himself and observed me quietly. Is he still drunk? M-maybe I shouldn't be alone with him….Oh no! He's coming closer! Again his eyes never left mine as he came closer to me. Oh, what if this is like de ja vu? Is he gonna kiss me again? He stopped in front of me. I waited, tense, and he just stood there looking at me. I shut my eyes.

"You're so beautiful," he whispered.

Huh? Come again? The shock made me open my eyes.

"Wha…?"

Did he just say I'm beautiful? Hyuuga Neji calling me…beautiful. He leaned close. Here comes that kiss….

His arms slid around my waist, pulling me close. My mind was elsewhereand I didn't notice my hands go around his neck, through his silky hair. His lips met mine, and this time I didn't even think of resisting.

"Tenten, what are you doing," Someone yelled behind me.

That voice! I know that voice!

Throwing myself off of Neji I whirled around and nearly died from the second greatest shock of the night. Two clear, very angry eyes glared at me. In the Hyuuga clan you get used to seeing all the people around you with clear eyes. That wasn't the shocking part. The shocking part was that those eyes belonged to a familiar face that I saw almost everyday.

A very pissed off Neji.

A/N: hope you liked this chapter! i kno it's so unlike Neji but that seems like the best part! anyways please review!

Preview:

"MAY YOUR YOUTH BE FOREVER YOUTHFUL AS YOU PURSUE THE LOVE OF YOUR LI-," Lee broke off as Neji punched him in the face.