A/N~ Here is chapter 4! wow.. time goes by fast when you have fun. Anyways, Enjoy!


Neji's POV.

The sound of your weapons clashing with each other was still ringing on my ears.

"C'mon, guys. We have to keep moving!" Gai encouraged.

"Right!" Lee said, trying to get to Gai without stepping on someone.

"Tenten, are you alright?" I asked as I put my arm on her waist, and put her arm over my shoulders.

She nodded.

"Are you sure?" I asked, worried about the way she was leaning on me. It was like she was unable to walk on her own.

Then again, she was the one with the most cuts, and the one who had been poisoned.

"Yeah.. I'm fine. Don't worry about me." she mumbled.

"Tenten, you can barely walk." I pointed out.

She sighed. "At least the scrolls are still intact." she said with a small smile.

"Tenten, you are such a strong fighter! The power of youth lives brightly in your smile!" Lee said, his teeth shining like in those toothpaste commercials.

Gai gave her a thumbs up. "Great job, Tenten! You are surely my student! But, are you sure you're ok?" he raised a thick eyebrow.

"Yeah. I'm fine, Sensei. Thanks." she smiled weakly.

~Flashback~

"We won't go down without a fight. Give us the scrolls, and we could work something out. We don't want to have to kill you." Hisao exclaimed.

Tenten scoffed. "Keep dreaming. Who said we wouldn't fight?" she raised an eyebrow.

"You asked for it, babe. I don't want to hurt a girl, but I won't hesitate to if it'll keep me alive."

Her eyebrows furrowed.

I smirked. She was pissed, and when Tenten was pissed, things got ugly.

"Are you kids ready to die?" Hisao said, smirking wickedly.

We tensed as he started performing the Monkey, Rat and Tiger hand seals. He took out about 15 shuriken, and 15 kunai knives. "PHOENIX EXPLOSION!"

The kunai and shuriken suddenly egnighted. Hisao threw them at Tenten and me. Gai and Lee were already busy with most of the others. They were fighting about 100 feet from us. They knew to keep their distance when Tenten and I fought together. Katsuo and Hisao stayed behind to fight us.

As we dodged the first few, I noticed that whenever the combusted kunai came in contact with anything, it would explode In flames. (1)

Tenten noticed that as well, and dodged smoothly.

"Now it's my turn!" Katsuo said, performing the Snake, Dragon, Horse and Boar hand seals. "EARTH SECRET TECHNEQUE- STONE RAZOR!" he cried, and put his hands on the ground, forcing chakra into the earth. He converted the soil and stone into razor-sharp razors of earth, shooting them out from all the sides of the ground. They were as powerful and fast as kunai. (2)

I also noticed that his limit was almost up. He had used up a lot of chakra.

Tenten and I jumped out in the air, and into the trees.

"They have pretty good techniques, but not as good as ours," she smirked. "you ready?"

I smirked back. "I've been ready all my life. C'mon." I said, and she nodded.

Tenten took a small scroll, and opened it. She bit her finger, running the blood along the writing inside. There was a poof along with white smoke, and her Chain Wind Staff suddenly appeared. She got hold of it, and started spinning it.

I knew she was going to go for the first attack. I remembered Shikamaru's 'theory'

"The first attack's always a fake. It's basic strategy, the second move wins the match."

She spun it a for about 5 more seconds, and then threw it towards Hisao and Katsuo. It caught them off guard.

"What the-?"

"Dammit!"

One of them hissed in pain.

Tenten smirked, and took out two other scrolls. She nodded towards me. I checked the ground to see if the razors were still there.

They weren't. Katsuo had ran out of chakra, and the jutsu was broken.

I nodded towards her, and we both jumped down again.

"You kids are going to pay for that!" Hisao yelled, holding on to his arm. It was bleeding, and it wasn't moving. Not even twitching. He had lost complete use of his right arm.

I smirked. "Great job, Tenten."

Hisao looked at her with hate. "You're going to be the first to die!" he exclaimed.

Tenten smiled and raised an eyebrow. "Not today pal."

She placed both small scrolls on the ground. She performed the Tiger, Snake, Monkey, Hare, and Snake. The scrolls released smoke while also flying and spinning into the air in the shape of two dragons made of smoke. Tenten then jumped between the two scrolls, and started to rapidly summon and throw all sort of weapons.. at me.

I smirked as the two stood there, their mouths agape.

"W-what is she doing?" Katsuo exclaimed in a whisper.

"Is she trying to kill her own teammate?"

"Eight Trigrams Palm Rotation!" I yelled, and started to spin to parry the attack.

"What is going on?" Katsuo started to panic.

The weapons did stop, but Tenten had used her String Reeling Technique, and jumped in the air backwards, driving the kunai and shuriken and other weapons towards Katsuo and Hisao.

"I-it was a diversion! Their real target was always us! We fell for their trap, and lowered our guard!" Hisao said, amazed yet terrified.

They got hit with incredible speed. (3) I stopped spinning once Tenten stopped throwing. She jumped down, and smiled.

"It worked!" she beamed.

"Yes it did. It was very effective." I half smiled.

"IT'S NOT OVER YET! YOU MAY HAVE KILLED OUR LEADER, BUT WE'LL STILL FIGHT!" a guy with dark brown spiky hair yelled, and threw a poisoned kunai at Tenten. She didn't have time to dodge, and the kunai made a deep cut on her already wounded arm.

She hissed in pain, and pulled the kunai out. She threw it aside, and faced the guy.

"Big mistake." she said.

"Severe Leaf Hurricane!" Lee cried, and hit the guy quickly. Tenten and I just stared.

"N-no.. the scrolls.. we must.." Tenten threw a few kunai at him. The final attack silenced him. Forever.

~End of flashback~

"Are you sure your alright, Tenten?" I asked, and looking at her. She was panting a little.

"Yeah. I'm fine," she said, examinating her arm. She caught me trying to look, and shifted her position so that her wound wasn't visible to me. She didn't want me to worry.

"Let me look at it," I said.

"That's not necessary. I'm fine." she mumbled.

"Tenten, I'll use the Byakugan to check if you don't let me see your arm." I said stubbornly.

She sighed and rolled her eyes. "That's not necessary either."

"Then let me see it." I said. She sighed again, but moved her arm to give me a good view of her arm.

The poison had already coursed through her arm, I could see that. The skin around the edges of the cut was starting to get purple.

Byakugan! I looked for signs of the poison around her vital organs. Nothing. Good. She still needed to get treated immediately though.

"Tenten, your would isn't as severe, but we have to treat it as soon as possible," I said, and took out the X-antidote. Haruno had given Tenten 10 of the small bottles before we had departed.

"Just in case anything happens, this antidote can take care of it. Anything." she had said.

"Drink it, Tenten." I said, holding out the small dark yellow glass bottle.

"Uhh.. do I have to?" she asked, eyeing it with a disgusted expression. Her eyebrows raised.

"Yes." I said sternly.

She sighed in defeat. "Fine.. give me that," she said, and playfully took the bottle from my hands.

She twisted the bottle cap, and opened the bottle. She drank a little bit, and then started coughing.

"It's gross!" she said, coughing some more. She was holding the bottle at an arm's length away.

"Tenten. Drink it. All." I said, my voice monotone.

"...No." she sounded like a child.

"Tenten, I don't want to have to use force.." I said, raising my eyebrows.

Her eyes widened for a second. She took a deep breath, and drank all of it.

"Good." I said. She coughed for about 10 seconds, before taking out her water bottle, and drinking almost all of the water.

"Are you alright, Tenten?" Lee approached us.

"Y-yeah. I'm fine." she said, and with a hand seal, a poof!, followed by some smoke, all her weapons disappeared.

"Alright team. Great job! ONWARD WITH THE POWER OF YOUTH!" Gai yelled, and Lee straightened up immediately.

"Let us continue!"


I kept looking at Tenten for any signs that she was in pain.

Yeah right. Keep lying to yourself then.

...What are you trying to imply here?

I'm not implying anything. You know what I'm talking about. Don't play dumb.

Alright then. If you won't clarify, then I'll just ignore you.

Don't you dare ignore me!

...DON'T IGNORE ME!

..You're being ignored.

O: how dare you... _

"Neji... you can stop staring at me now.." Tenten said, smiling at the trees in front of us.

I blushed, and looked away.

She smirked, and then took a deep breath, her face turning serious.

I threw a few other glances at her, hoping she wouldn't notice, but then decided it didn't matter if she did.

I looked at her, and really saw her. Not just the Tenten she wanted everyone to see. Not that strong tomboy who can't stand "weaklings", but someone sweet and charming. Someone who really cared for her teammates, and injured people. I saw everything I wanted to see in someone. And what I saw, was her.


A/N~ FLUFF! -squeaks- ahem.. er.. please excuse my fan girl moment. Anyways :D hope you liked the action! O: I sure had some trouble writing it, but it's so much fun. ^-^ anyways. Thanks to everyone who has reviewed. I know this isn't long T_T but I was anxious to publish!

Anyways thanks for reading folks!

(1)~ Alright. I DON'T OWN THIS MOVE! I found it on some role playing website. This isn't mine. Someone else made it up (I think O_O) credit goes to Sance, whoever you are.

(2)~ Not my move either! this was found on the same website as the first one^, but the credit goes to Masakuni.

(3)~ Ok, so this move I made up. Well, I think I did.. I don't know if Masashi-Sempai already though of it, and wrote it, or if anyone else did, but well, hahaha. My imagination got the better of me, I think.

THANKS TO CHICHI11101 FOR BEING SO FREAKIN' AWESOME! O: girl, you are amazing. Love ya.

Also, thanks to all of you who have reviewed so far, added this to your favorites, and to your story alerts. The list goes on and on. I am seriously, touched O_O. I LOVE YOU ALL! THANK YOU! -starts freaking out-

Anyways, I hafta go and write the next chapter. Thanks for reading folks!

wow.. this is a really long A/N..ok. I'll end it here. Until next time,

~AliceOtaku