Disclaimer: See prologue or chapter 1

WHISPERS

By: Kyona Kopper

CHAPTER 2

Ten-Ten knew what she needed to do. It was very simple - she needed to break her Neiji and that stupid Sasuke Uchiha apart. The question was how to do it.

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Sasuke was very worried about Sakura. She's been quiet these last few weeks. She is still stalking me, but she's quiet. Neither Naruto nor Ino has gotten any kind of rise out of her.

While he really, really, really didn't like her habit of following him around and spying on him (in the bath on at least 5 occasions!), she was his teammate. And sloppy, distracted teammates meant that work didn't get done properly. It was hard enough with Naruto screwing up half the time, but to add Sakura to that? Sasuke just wasn't going to let it happen.

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"...so he just said that training was going to need to be post-poned for at least a week! Can you belive it Neiji?...Neiji? Neiji! Pay attention." (That would be Ten-Ten, yes.)

"Why are you yelling, Ten-Ten? It is annoying and very unbecoming of a ninja, and especially of a kunoichi like yourself," said Neiji in a very bland tone. As was usual, any time Ten-Ten began to rant he tuned her out. And rude or not, he didn't need her yelling at him.

Sasuke had been very distant lately. Why?

"Neiji! Didn't you hear a thing I said?" ranted Ten-Ten.

"No," he replied, "nor do I want to. When are Gai-sensei and Rock Lee showing up?"

"That's what I was trying to tell you about. Training has been cancelled for the week. Rock Lee has been behaving even more strangely than usual, and Gai-sensei is too worried about him to train us now. So we have to wait for Gai-sensei to figure out what is wrong before we go on any more missions." Ten-Ten said all of this in a rush, wanting Neiji to get at least part of it before he tuned her out again. She absolutely abhorred it when he did that, but apparently she rarely said anything of interest to him. Yet if she brought up Sasuke, she could actually hold his attention for a few minutes!

TBC

A/N: I need an idea for a flash back ... or not. Depends.