Okay! Another favorite couple: NejiTen! Yays! Lol. Anyway, I will continue with my SasuSaku one-shot eventually. I just want to finish with my favorite couple one-shots first. Alright? (Hopefully people won't kill me for this…) Dedicated to 01sweetxpnaii, a fellow NejiTen fan!

Protective and Possessive

Hyuuga Neji and Rock Lee were waiting for the one kunoichi on their team. Tenten. She was late which was really odd, considering she was the one who had suggested this. Well, in order for you to know what they're waiting for, we're going to need a flashback:

(Flashback)

Team 13 were done their usual training with Gai-sensei and Tenten looked bored as she huffed to her seat and they all began eating lunch. "What is it, Tenten?" Lee asked Tenten. She'd fought in an angry manner all throughout training. 'Goddamn Rock Lee.' That was all Neji could think as he watched Konoha's most handsome Green Beast as he acted all caring toward his Tenten. Tenten just didn't know she was Hyuuga Neji's property. Whenever a man even looked at Tenten in an odd way, Neji was there to glare them down. And of course the men stopped whatever it was they were doing. Neji is a Hyuuga after all.

Tenten smiled at Lee. Of course, this didn't help Neji's jealousy. He was already planning deadly ways to kill Lee in his mind. "Oh, nothing, arigato Lee." Neji did expect this answer, so he figured he'd ask Tenten himself once Lee left. There was a long silence as the three ate in peace. Then Tenten began speaking again. "It's just that…" Her voice drifted away after that.

"Tenten," Neji said her name in a warning-ish tone. Tenten smiled at the Hyuuga and looked away blushing. 'See that, Lee. I make her blush. NOT YOU!' Neji's mind screamed victoriously. Of course he didn't show it on the outside.

"I think we're drifting apart." She spoke in a small voice that the other two boys had somehow managed to hear by some odd miracle. "Doesn't it feel like that? Sasuke-san left the village and suddenly everyone's been acting like his depart means we'll all break off." It was true. Neji and many other members of the Rookie 9 went in search of the Uchiha. And they came back failing his retrieval. Ever since they failed that mission they all kind of drifted off.

"That's not true, Tenten!" Lee's determined voice broke Neji from his thoughts. "We are not drifting apart! Team 13, always and forever!" The Taijutsu master cheered. Tenten giggled in a girlish way, and looked to Neji for what he had to say. He was currently watching Lee with an unreadable look as he bounced up and down off the ground. 'No surprise. Neji's not going to talk to me. ME of all people.' Tenten thought solemnly as she looked down at her lunch instead.

"I agree with Lee." Neji's voice sounded… different. And when Tenten looked up at the Hyuuga, he was smiling. "We're not drifting apart. If anything this ordeal has made us closer." Tenten smiled widely and blushed as she looked back down at her lunch.

The silence was back again, until Lee finished his lunch and jumped from his seat on the ground. "I know! We should do something all together tomorrow!" He shouted, startling the Weapons Mistress and Byakugan user. "Like, see a movie or something!" Rock Lee suggested. Tenten didn't smile this time as she wiped her lip with a napkin and discarded her lunch and chopsticks into the nearby trash can.

"Okay. That sounds like fun!" Now she was smiling, and again the two were watching Neji for what he would say.

"Why not." He said in a nonchalant tone.

(Flashback Fade)

Tenten must've either run into trouble or… well… had a problem meeting up with them. Like… maybe she slept in or something. Neji tried to calm himself before his worry showed on the outside.

"Guys! I'm so sorry!" Tenten came running up to Rock Lee and Neji who were both about to kill something out of nervousness.

"Where were you?" Lee yelled, using his arms to express his point. "We were so worried we were about to come and get you!" Neji sighed and smirked to himself as Tenten blushed.

"I didn't mean to be a burden…" She muttered causing Lee to look distressed.

"Let's just go already." The deal was the three of them would all go to Ichiraku for ramen and then a movie. "If we wait here any longer the reservations will be removed." Tenten and Lee each had confused looks on their faces as Neji began walking away without them. He didn't need his Byakugan to know they had befuddled looks. "I'm a Hyuuga. Don't look so surprised."

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"Hey, guys, you don't mind if I sit… away from you do you?" The three were in the middle of their lunch when Lee saw some girl and wanted to talk to her- he'd gotten over his crush on Sakura after Sasuke threatened to kill him if he pursued her.

"Lee!" Tenten's voice had a whining tone in it. "No! Sit! See- we are drifting apart!" Tenten looked like she was about to cry and both Lee and Neji got nervous faces and sweat dropped as they tried to consol her.

"Tenten… Gomenasai. It was… wrong of me." Lee cried waterfalls as the blonde-haired girl left Ichiraku. (A/N: Renkon, wink, wink Kerri-chan) "Ano… I'll be right back. I need to use the restroom." With that said Lee ran after the girl. "Renkon-chan!" He shouted and ran after the mysterious pink eyed, blonde haired girl.

Neji sweat dropped and Tenten began hiding her face in her arms as tears slipped past her eyes. 'No matter how hard I try I can't hold my friendships together.' She thought to herself.

"Tenten," Neji's hand was rubbing her back and the other was smoothing out her hair. "It's alright. Tenten… you're really that worried about us breaking apart?" Tenten sniffled as she looked up at Neji, her eyes red.

"Hai. I was over Sakura-chan's last night, and… oh Neji-kun! You should have seen her! She cries so much for him!" By 'him' Neji could figure it was Sasuke. "It's just… too sad. And… it makes me really afraid. That you… or Lee… will do something as stupid as that." Neji smirked.

"I know I'm not that stupid. But I don't know about Lee." As expected this made a smile appear on Tenten's gloomy features. Then she narrowed her eyebrows in anger.

"Neji-kun! I'm serious! I'm really afraid," She hid in her arms as she began crying again. Neji pulled her against him and into a hug as she cried into his chest. "I'm so terrified. I love you so much… I can't help but feel Sakura-chan's pain." Tenten never cried and Neji was a bit horrified as to what to do. He figured he should do what he does best. Be protective and possessive. "I just don't want to feel the pain of someone you love so much… to leave you cold and alone."

Neji could never see himself leaving this village for anything. His friends were here. He'd made peace with the Main Branch. Tenten was here. The only thing he could think of was that he loved Tenten like a man loved a woman. And as much as that scared him, it intrigued him as well. "Shhh, it'll be alright. I'm not leaving. Ever."

"That's what Sasuke-san said to Sakura-chan!" Tenten pulled out of his grasp and ran out of the Ichiraku restaurant.

Renkon (the girl Lee ran after) and Lee walked back in to see Neji run out after Tenten. "What'd we miss?" Renkon asked Lee and Lee felt a hollow feeling in the pit of his stomach.

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Tenten went to the one place she always went to when she cried- her family's grave. Her entire clan was killed off in battle when she was only 8 years old. Just like Sasuke. So she could sympathize. And that's why she'd rid herself of her last name. She just didn't want people to look at her the same way they did Sasuke. She just wanted to forget it all ever happened. "Mother, Father…" More tears slipped from her eyes. It was now sunset and Tenten had to shade her eyes from the sun's low peak.

"I didn't know you lost them, Tenten…" Neji had a frown on his features as he approached Tenten's small form. She was holding onto the monument almost like if she were to let go her world would go spiraling down. "Arigato." That didn't help at all. Tenten cried harder. She could just feel Sasuke's pain and Sakura's as if it were her own.

"Sakura-chan said Sasuke-san said that to her before he knocked her out. And what are you saying thank you for anyway?" Neji felt a smile appear on his lips.

"For always being there for me. For always…" At this point Neji took her into his lap as he watched her finally look up at him instead of the grave. "Loving me. And… I… love you, Tenten-chan." Tenten smiled up at him before meeting his lips.

It was like a dream, but better. Because Tenten had dreamed about this kind of thing before. Neji was somehow a great kisser and this was his first kiss! He was gentle with way he gently nibbled her lower lip and caressed her tongue with his.

"Neji-kun…" She moaned against his lips.

"Nani?" Neji responded, but wouldn't let her have her mouth back.

"There's a man behind you." Neji whipped around with violent intent and Tenten giggled from behind him. "Just kidding. Geez, your protective and possessive."

"Damn straight." Neji smirked as he kissed Tenten again.

(Ah, NejiTen one-shots! I just love them so much! huggles Masashi Kishimoto! By the way, Renkon is property of minakonumnums. She's Kerri's own creation! LeeKon forever! Next will be either InoShika or NaruHina!)