The next day, I decide to have breakfast with Neji. He takes me to a mini-bed and breakfast place. We relax for the morning as we watch TV and eat eggs and sausage. Neji caught me off guard as he takes my buns apart. I gasp and put my hands on my head, only to let Neji put my hair against his cheek. I smile shyly and look at the ceiling. He looks up at the ceiling with me then motions me to come outside with him to look at the clouds. We walk outside, before nearly getting ran over by Maito Gai Sensei and Rock Lee! Those two assholes always some type of stupid buffoonery shit! I twist my hair into a tight ponytail and stood in front of the both of them. Nearly colliding into them, they look at us and quickly scram off of me. They look at me, shakily and stutter their apologies. Neji shakes his head in secret. I look at him and sigh.
"What are you two idiots doing?!"
"Having a arm race!", yells Lee.
I eye him.
"Literally?", Neji asks.
"Yeah, literally! What did you expect, Nej?"
"Yes, dear Neji. We're testing our-"
"If you two clowns say youth!"
"YOUTH!", screams Lee.
That annoying bastard! I chase him around, grabbing him by the collar and bonking him on his bob-head. He scrambles behind Neji and Gai Sensei, who had his eyes widen and smirked.
"Dear TenTen...I don't know how you manage to put up with ourselves. I love your integrity! Maybe you should be the leader!"
I stammer.
"M-m-me? Sen-sensei...I can't. Neji's the leader, remember? He's better than I am. I'm just background character."
"No, you're not," says Neji. "Saying you're a background character is like saying you're useless. You're not useless! You're highly important to me...I mean, us."
Lee and Gai both cock their eyebrows up and looked at us. I was too busy looking at Neji.
Neji...do...do you really mean that...? Please tell me I'm dreaming...
"Thank you, Neji...and Sensei. I'll take the role of leader-along with Neji, of course."
"Great!", says Gai.
"Wait...I want to be something too!", whines Lee.
I think.
"You can be our hype man."
"What's that?"
"A person who gets us pumped for any type of situation."
"YES! I'll do an excellent job, TenTen, ma'am!"
"Go for it, Lee!"
"Right! Let's go, Sensei!"
"Alrighty then!"
They leave with over-excitement, leaving me and Neji wide-eyed. Shaking our heads to get from our Lee/Gai faze, we look at each other and smile. Neji wraps his arm around me and we walk off.