Yaoi and Het III
Chapter Three. Make-over anyone?
Tenten and Lee made their way back to Tenten's apartment without meeting any other ninja they knew.
Sai greeted them at the door with a bright smile and a pink tutu on. Tenten stood completely still inside the doorway simply looking at him. He looked so ridiculous.
"Something wrong?" Sai asked brightly.
"What are you wearing?" Tenten asked as she gestured to his all pink outfit.
"My youthful boyfriend loves this outfit." Lee said proudly. "Tenten-chan must be jealous of your outfit Sai dear." Lee said as he draped his arm around Sai's shoulders.
Tenten only shook her head and went into her bedroom.
"Are you ready for your make-over Tenten?" Sai asked as he followed Tenten into her bedroom.
"What are you talking about?" Tenten asked as she set her weapons and scrolls down in the corner of her room.
"You agreed to let me give you a make-over once you came back from training." Sai sang in a falsetto voice. "We can wait until after dinner." He said before he left the room.
Tenten had to laugh for a few moments. She had previously thought that Gai-sensei and Lee's outfits were the most ridiculous that she would ever see. She found that she actually liked it.
Sai made them a very light dinner. They all sat on the couch and watched the soap opera from the day before.
"There the guy goes again! His heart is broken! If he just turned to men he would have real fidelity in his relationships." Sai said with a mouthful of rice.
"He doesn't have to go gay. He could just get a woman who actually loves him." Tenten said in defense of her gender.
"Speaking of loving someone," Sai began, "Who do you love Tenten?"
Lee even leaned over in his seat. He must be wondering.
"I am a responsible kunoichi. I don't have the time to love." Tenten said.
"Bull." Sai said. "Sakura told me that, and then broke down and told me about her split love between Sasuke and Naruto."
Tenten frowned. "That's got to suck." She couldn't imagine loving two people at once.
"Tenten probably loves Shikamaru." Lee said obnoxiously. He actually knew how much Tenten hated the lazy genius. "She's always telling me how smart I need to be since I lack gen-jutsu and Nin-jutsu. So she must love the youthful Nara genius."
Sai's black eyes rested on Tenten's face. He was amused by the narrowing of her eyes and the anger coming to her features.
"Lee! You know how I feel about Shikamaru! I like him as a friend but I could never love him! I want someone who knows the value of hard work! I want someone who will spend every moment with me and help me grow into the person I'm meant to be!" Tenten screeched.
"So Neji Hyuuga?" Sai asked in his calculating voice.
Tenten's face immediately went red. "Ne-Neji? Why would you think I loved him?" She stuttered.
"Your reaction leads me to believe it. You also mentioned that you want the person to help you grow into the person you're meant to be, doesn't Neji train every day with you so that you can grow better with your weaponry and fuinjutsu?" Sai said.
"My youthful rival trains with Tenten-chan exclusively!" Lee exclaimed. "They spend hours together every day."
Sai smirked. "Then she must like the Hyuuga."
Tenten blushed furiously again. "Fine, I like Neji. But why does it matter?" She asked.
Sai smile and clapped his hands together. "We absolutely must help you to become beautiful for Neji then. Now that we know you love someone, we have to help you two get together." Sai said.
Tenten sweat dropped. "I'm not so sure about that."
"Nonsense!" Sai said as he jumped off the couch with everyone's dirty dishes.
Lee escaped the room when he could. He didn't want to mess with Tenten's make-over because Sai took them very seriously.
Tenten and Sai were sitting at the small coffee table. Sai held Tenten's hand in his own.
"Your fingernails are so disgusting." Sai said. "Don't you ever take care of them?"
"Yeah!" If they get too long then I file them down with the side of a kunai." Tenten said proudly.
Sai cracked a smile. "Spoken like the weapon master of Konoha I guess." He sighed as he reached for a real nail file. "I'm going to put them in a real shape."
Tenten hid the fact that she enjoyed Sai's attention. She had never supported girls who tried to change themselves for a boy, but surely changing the appearance of her nails was not the same thing.
Sai finished and stood up taking Tenten by her wrist. He led her into the small bathroom in her apartment. "I have to decide the perfect shade to paint your nails." He said as he held various nail polish containers up to her face.
Tenten frowned. "Why do you have so many? I never see your nails polished." She asked.
Sai smirked. "My toes." He said.
Tenten looked down at his toes and broke into giggles. Each of his toenails was a different color. It was like a permanent rainbow. "I love them!" She laughed.
Sai thanked her with a flourish and then exclaimed. "I've got it! The perfect shade to melt Neji Hyuuga's cold heart!"
He held up a dark red shade of nail polish. "It's called pure seduction. And I think it will like up to its name."
Tenten sweat dropped. "What is with you and seduction?"
Sai ignored her. He sat her down and properly painted her toenails and fingernails. Tenten later conceded that she liked the shade even if it was called seduction.
The pair ended up in Tenten's closet again. Tenten was standing back with her arms crossed and Sai was flipping through her rather small wardrobe. "Geez Tenten, didn't your mother ever sit down and tell you about proper fashion?" He asked as he held up various Chinese style shirts that she used for sparing.
"I don't have one." Tenten said with a shrug.
"Don't have what?" Sai asked.
"A mother. I don't have one." Tenten repeated.
Sai immediately felt bad. He scratched the back of his head. "Oh, well that's okay. I can show you myself." He said. "I'm sorry I brought it up."
"It's okay." Tenten said with a smile. "I never knew her anyway. If you never have something then you cannot miss it."
Sai wrapped Tenten up in his arms on instinct. "I'll love you more than any mother would!" He said as a real tear slid down his face.
"Sai." Tenten said. "It's okay. I don't need a mother. I've been fine this far."
Sai brushed his tears away. "Okay." He said as he cracked a smile. "I fear there is nothing we can do about your clothes without spending money, but you look pretty cute most of the time."
Tenten followed Sai out to the small living room and he ordered her to sit in front of the couch.
"You have so much thick brown hair. It's very beautiful." Sai said as he undid her hair buns. "I have a perfect style for you to wear."
"But I've always worn my hair in this style." Tenten protested.
"Well hairstyles can change." Sai said. "Someday mine will change. I want to grow my hair out like yours. Just let me try this new hairstyle on you, and if you hate it you don't have to wear it."
"Okay." Tenten said. "That sounds fair."
Tenten sat and let someone else touch her hair for the first time in her life. She'd never had anyone besides Ino Yamanaka and Sai take an interest in her hair. She mentioned this to Sai.
"Ino helped me out when I was first realizing I am homosexual. We spent a lot of time together." Sai murmured as he tugged and brushed pieces of Tenten's hair.
"There were a lot of rumors that you two were dating." Tenten said. "How was that?"
Sai laughed. "I was fine with it. Ino is a beautiful girl and I love her like a sister. She was very mad because she wanted Shikamaru Nara to know she was single." Sai said.
"So Ino actually likes Shikamaru. I didn't know that rumor was true. Doesn't Shikamaru like Temari of the Sand though?" Tenten asked.
"He doesn't." Sai said quickly. "Temari of the Sand also does not like him. She prefers Sasuke Uchiha these days."
"How confusing." Tenten said. "I hope there aren't any rumors going around about me."
"They all involve the Hyuuga prodigy." Sai said with a smirk that Tenten couldn't see. "I'm very glad that you trusted me enough to tell me that you do in fact, have feelings for him."
"Well it's a secret I've kept for a while. But don't think I love him like you love Lee." Tenten confessed.
"Hmm." Sai muttered. "And why do you think that?"
"I have never been loved before. Not by parents or by a romantic interest. So I have zero experience with love." Tenten said. "I've never wanted to have kids because I don't know how to be a mom having never had one myself."
Sai smiled weakly. "When you are ready, you'll know. I have faith in you." He said. "You'll make a fabby Hyuuga mommy someday."
Tenten's face went red. "Sai!" She yelled uneasily.
"Too fast?" He asked. "Do I need to wait longer until I make wedding jokes?"
"Yes!"
"Okay!" Sai declared after a few minutes. "I'm finished! What do you think?" He held up a mirror so Tenten could see what he had done.
Tenten was in shock. On top of her head was a beautiful collection of her hair. It was braided intricately around the center. She could even see that parts of her hair were lighter than the rest making the braided bun look extra beautiful with the highlights through it. Her face was also different. It seemed now that she had cheekbones.
"Wow." Tenten managed to say.
"You look lovely!" Sai said. "You could be a model with that face."
Tenten smiled. "I've never felt so pretty." She said. "Thank you Sai."
"Wait until you see Hyuuga-san tomorrow. He might explode from how beautiful you are." Sai said.
"Will you do this again tomorrow?" Tenten asked.
"Yes! And I even got more breakfast food so we don't have to eat at Sasuke's house again." Sai said. "We're not done with our little make over yet. He he." Sai said.
Tenten sweat dropped as Sai brought out two bottles of unknown substance. "Which do you want? Screaming orgasm or vanilla climax?" Sai asked in all seriousness.
Tenten inched away from Sai. "What are you talking about?" She asked uneasily.
Sai rolled his eyes. "Perfume sweetie. I guess you've never heard of it either right?"
"It makes you smell unnatural right?" Tenten asked.
Sai face-palmed. "Tenten dear, it makes you smell better. I would highly recommend it to you because you and Hyuuga-san train together and you get sweaty. This will just make it so you smell less like smelly dirty Tenten and more like happy clean Tenten."
"Oh." Tenten said. "I guess I'll use the vanilla one."
"Splendid decision!" Sai said. "I'll help you use it tomorrow. And I'll do your hair so it is perfect." Sai said. "Yay, this is so exciting!" Sai exclaimed.
Tenten smiled. "Thank you so much Sai. This all means so much to me."
The Next Day
Tenten and Lee strolled down the streets of Konoha together on their way to training.
"Tenten-chan, your hair is very lovely." Lee complimented. "My love really knows hair despite not having much of his own."
"He really does." Tenten said with a smile. "He is a wonder worker, I swear."
They came the clearing that belonged to their team and met their sensei and brooding teammate. "Ohayo Gai-sensei!" Tenten and Lee greeted.
"Greetings youthful students!" Gai said with a pink of light on his tooth. "Let us work now so that we may conquer every enemy in our paths!"
"GAI-SENSEI!" Lee yelled.
"LEE!"
"GAI-SENSEI!"
"LEE!"
The two strolled off together to begin their training.
Tenten approached Neji. "Hi Neji! What shall we work on today?"
Neji went, "Hn."
Tenten still smiled. "I have this new acrobatic thing I want to try and it requires that you-"
"Your hair is different." Neji stated.
Tenten blushed a little. He noticed! She thought. "Yeah, I wanted to try something new." She said as she touched her hair self-consciously.
"I like it the other way." Neji said as he looked away.
"It's just hair Neji. I can wear it differently sometimes." Tenten said. She summoned an axe out of her scroll and held it up. "Now, about my new move. I need you to hold this up and-"
"What is on your nails?" Neji said quickly as his white eyes grew large.
Tenten blinked. She was pretty sure Neji had never spoken this much before; he might hurt himself from over socializing. "I painted them." She said simply.
"And you smell different." Neji said as he sniffed. "Perfume?"
"Yes." Tenten said slowly. "I just wanted to try some new things."
"Are you trying to get the attention of someone?" Neji asked.
"Well uh…" Tenten said. With his eyes and all his years of knowing her he could tell when she was lying. "Yes. Yes I am." Tenten said. She decided to just say the truth because he would know otherwise.
"That is unnecessary." Neji said sternly. "If someone truly cares about you, they will notice you without you changing for them. Whoever you're doing this for is not worthy of you Tenten." Neji said quickly.
Tenten sweat dropped. "I'm a girl Neji. It's normal for me to do this. I wanted to do this." Tenten said.
"Tell me who you're doing this for and I'll teach him how to treat you properly." Neji said as he cracked his knuckles.
"No!" Tenten said as she panicked. "I'm only doing this because I told my friend -who shall remain unnamed – who I liked and they helped me do all this just to see if the guy I like notices." Tenten said. "I'm not being forced to do this; I just wanted to look a little better."
Neji hned again. "If you say so." Neji said. "Let us begin training. What do I do with the axe?"
With that Neji and Tenten began training as normal for the rest of the day. She perfected her new move with Neji's help.
Later in the Day
"Thank you for helping me Neji!" Tenten said excitedly as she picked up her weapons. "Tomorrow we can focus on you."
"Hn." Neji said. "I don't think the guy I worthy of your attention." Neji said. He turned to look right at Tenten with his white eyes. "But you do look nice, and he has no reason not to look at you."
Tenten blushed. "Thank you Neji."
A/N- I apologize right now if there are any errors, I have to give my sibling the computer before I can properly edit. So be easy on me Legend of Derpy, got it?
Please note- In a few days I will in essence, begin my school year. So updates will be more sporadic. I am very sorry.
