Chibi: Hey! Today's word is Scoreboard! So…I guess I have to write a fanfic about a scoreboard…oh great…anyways, this chapter is dedicated to…ArticFox21 for being the first reviewer!! Thank you so much!
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Tenten was slightly irritated at Lee. He had bought an extremely annoying item at the store a while ago. He never left it out of his sight. Ever. How can one, lifeless, practically useless object have her at her wits end? Lee had bought a scoreboard. What's even worse, he used it to keep track of every sparring session that Tenten lost against Neji. It hadn't been intended that way. Lee was just keeping track of the scores. But Neji never lost, thus, Neji never got a little tally under his name.
You see, Lee actually had to minimize the space for Neji, since he needed more room for Tenten's tallies. That day, was the day that Tenten snapped. That day, was three months after Lee had bought it…
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Tenten collapsed to the ground, Neji had just deflected all her weapons…again.
"Yosh! My eternal rival Neji! You have a grand total of zero losses! Tenten, you have a grand total of…over 5 trillion!" Lee exclaimed.
Neji's eyes widened slightly, but not at the big number, noooo, it was because he knew, right then and there, Tenten would beat up Lee.
"Lee!" Tenten screamed, scaring both Lee and Neji. "You haven't even owned that goddamned freaking board that long!" She clenched her fists in fury.
"Ah! A lovely point Tenten! But, I did not only count how many battles you have lost to my eternal rival, but I also counted how many weapons he deflected!" Lee seemed proud. Not for long.
"How can you even count that high?!" Tenten shrieked, making Neji cover his ears. "I couldn't even count that high! And I'm the ones using the weapons!" her eyes had flames in them.
"Tenten! The youthful blossom of this tea-aaah!" Lee couldn't finish the sentence, because he had to shield himself…with…the scoreboard. Tenten had sent an array of lethal weapons at him, forcing him to cover himself, with the closest object, his scoreboard.
Neji smirked as he watched Lee yell at Tenten for breaking the scoreboard that had set her over the edge. He himself had gotten pretty damn sick of the scoreboard, but he never talked, therefore, he didn't complain. He had assumed that Tenten had just been too nice to say anything until today had set her over the edge. That's when he noticed things getting too out of hand. He saw Tenten taking multiple scrolls out, and Lee removing his weights, both furious at the other. Neji decided that now would be a good time to cut off this fight.
"Hn. Okay. Tenten. Lee. Stop." He stepped in between the two.
Tenten and Lee still charged at each other, ignoring Neji in the middle. Neji spun around quickly, gentle fisting both Lee, and Tenten to different tree's when they came within distance. Tenten stared at Neji in shock. Lee felt ashamed of himself.
"Tenten! Our youthful blossom! I am so sorry my scoreboard troubled you so!" Lee wailed. "For my punishment, I shall run 600 laps around Konoha!" his eyes sparkled with determination as he strapped on his weights and took off running.
Neji turned to Tenten, who wore a hurtful look in her eyes.
"Hn. What." Neji asked boredly. He didn't get a response from Tenten as she gathered her scrolls and began putting them away. "Hn. Tenten." Neji called out to her. Still, she didn't even look at him. Being the prodigy that he is, and how he's always gotten his way when it came to girls his age, he walked over to Tenten. "Hn. Tenten. Answer me."
Tenten looked him straight in the eyes, and that's when his own eyes widened in shock. She was mad at him. At him! What troubled him was why she was mad at him. He couldn't figure it out.
"Hn. Are you mad at me?" Neji asked, in shock. He watched her for a response.
"No Neji, I'm not mad at you! You're just the wonderful Hyuuga prodigy that gentle fisted his only training partner into a tree!" Tenten replied sarcastically, picking up kunai's from the sparring.
"Tenten it was just a stupid scoreboard. You and Lee were going to get into a serious fight that I didn't want to have to put up with." Neji groaned.
"That stupid scoreboard reminded me EVERY DAY how I could never win to someone at your expertise and level. When they organized the teams they organized it so they would be balanced, with an equal status. They didn't do that with our team! How do I know that? They put you and Lee, two freakishly strong people, along with ME, a freakishly weak person! And I get reminded that EVERY FREAKING DAY OF MY LIFE NOW, by a stupid scoreboard!" Tenten vented, feeling tears well up in her chocolate brown eyes. She clenched her fists so hard she could feel them beginning to bleed, so she sat down at the trunk of a tree.
Neji absorbed just about everything the girl had said. "You're wrong Tenten." Neji mumbled calmly. "When we began, you were in the middle, and Lee was at the bottom, and you know that." He sighed, sitting down next to her.
Tenten pretended to ignore Neji while she actually listened to him.
"Tenten. Lee just progressed, leaving you, and me, in the dust. He's progressed much for a ninja who is incapable of using neither ninjutsu or genjutsu." Neji explained. "Plus, you know that Lee didn't mean to hurt you're feelings with the scoreboard, he just got excited." Neji pointed out.
Tenten looked Neji in the eyes. "That's the most you've said in the past three months." She mumbled.
"That's because I have no reason to talk. It takes time away from training. I actually am not in the mood for talking right now, or training for that matter." Neji explained to the brunette.
Tenten was slightly speechless. "Oh…you don't want to train today?" She was in complete and utter shock. She decided that if he didn't want to train, he must not want her around, so she stood. A cold, ivory hand reached up and grabbed her arm, as he stood up.
"I didn't say you had to leave." Neji's eyes met hers. What Tenten saw scared her, but not in a bad way. His eyes were soft. "I'm sorry I…." he couldn't believe he was apologizing for hitting her, though he didn't exactly have a logical reason to.
"It's okay Neji." Tenten smiled warmly, glancing down at his hand, which was slowly making its way to wrap around hers. Tenten felt her back up against the tree again, but this time, not with as much force. Plus, she knew without the tree, she would've collapsed by now, as Neji's lips had found his way to hers in a gentle and long lasting kiss. Goddammit, I LOVE that scoreboard!
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Chibi: I hope you enjoyed! Please try to take the time to review, and THE NEXT RANDOM WORD IS: Ice cream