Hey people I have returned for now! I apologize for the late update but I tend to procrastinate a lot, that and I lack any and all motivation sooo...~ sorry once more! Right now it's currently past 1 in the morning (when I started it at least) and I am an insomniac...and so this chapter is born!


Recap:

"I have returned, my fellow teammates!", Just guess who it was...no really, guess, I dare you. I activated Byakugan, to check this guy out, (A/N: No, not like that!) when I noticed that he had the same chakra pattern as Tenten I got a bit suspicious, but when I noticed that Tenten and his chakra were swelling then tightening in their chests, that just threw me off. Squinting, I took a step back, my face in masked shock, the chakra it... it was compressing over their hearts, and they are still standing? How's that even possible! What's going on today!

"Hey, Ten, great to see you again, eh?" the guy smiled.


Tenten said, "Yah, been a while don't you think?"

"Heh, yah I guess but on these terms its not entirely the best time for a heart-felt reunion." the guy smiled.

She chuckles, "Suppose so..."

Their kind smiles turned to smirks as they slowly stepped backwards, the comforting gleam in their eyes disappeared and was replaced with ire and malice in an instant. Both hazel eyes locked in an everlasting glare as they said, "Ready or not here I come!" The baritone voice of the male mixing strangely well with Tenten's alto/soprano as they sprinted at each other.

Neji and Lee watched as their teammate and a stranger charged at one another. Neji activated byakugan once more and focused on their rapidly pulsing chakra it still seemed to be pressuring their heart into not beating but the original force of which had began to come at it seems to have started to dissipate slightly. He couldn't help but notice how Tenten and the stranger looked oddly alike, the same dark chocolate eyes now glistening with a barely noticeable tinge of amber sparking in them, their hair, both sets, put up in some form of bun, Tenten's in her usual twin panda buns, though a lot looser than normal I while the boy had his hair in a single tight bun atop his head. Style wasn't the only similarity with hair, both buns were filled with stunning hershey bronze colored locks.

But Neji had to admit, reluctantly might I add, that most of his observations were things he would connect to Tenten not some male stranger no matter how gay people seemed to think his was...why did people think he was gay anyway? He had a lack of response to either gender on the dating topic, maybe that was what set them off? In Neji's current distracted state of mind, he started to defend his 'straightness', as he called it, within his own head. But to settle the arguement once again, as this conversation had been frequent, Lee called out,

"Hey, wait! WHAT are you two doing!"

Neji refocused after a couple moments of deep thought (or five minutes of deep self argument) he looked back at the fight. From what he can see, they had brought weapons out at some point, there were shuriken, kunai, and the occasional metal bow staff that Neji was still curious to how Tenten got, but now they seemed to be fighting with hand to hand combat, it was hard to tell even with his byakugan, as they were moving faster than Neji could expect of Tenten, you see, Neji had set his standards rather low for his teammates from a young age and it seemed to have stuck...

He finally got a glimpse of the two when they stopped for a second panting and sweating heavily, the man had a couple of deep gashes across his torso and a senbon lodged in his leg, meanwhile Tenten was better only having a few long cuts on her abdomen, with several small scraps on her face. But now after a couple more minutes Lee's words registered in his mind, Neji gave them another thorough glance over, noticing now that they had a strange sword built over their left arms (A.N: if you've read Kekkaishi, it looks like Hiura Souji's power/attack form thing, and for those of you who haven't...) it was a thick, yet transparent mold of chakra over their fore-arms from the elbow down, that emitted a faint copper glow.

Lee was freaking out yelling random things about how 'If Gai-sensai were here...' and something about spandex saving the day...its nearly impossible to follow his conversations sometimes...and Neji didn't really think now was the best time to try to figure it out.

Tenten and her look alike made eye contact once more, with identical grimaces they launched. Furious glares in place, bang unsettled on their faces, while they leaped at each other left arms in striking position they clashed. Small explosions of chakra were made every time they collided, both of them were going at each other as if they had nothing to loose, which might actually be true...they didn't know. But they both had hoped that they were worth sticking around for.

The two of them separated, landing one foot at a time, and just as it looked like they were going to calm down and call it a quits they rocketed themselves at the other, using chakra to help them push off the duo drew their arms back in mid-air and struck, in one fluid, graceful swing off their swords, they plunged the chakra rapier into the other chest.

"TENTEN!" Lee was having a full on break down, earlier he was worried about his teammates actions and now he was scared for her life. Neji stood their shocked, too stunned to use his blood-line he watched helplessly as Tenten, with his sword still in her chest and same to him, fell to the ground with a solid thud.

After a couple minutes of recovery, Neji blinked a few times, looked at Lee, gave him VERY noticeable condescending look, as Lee was currently spazzing on the floor being the drama...thing he is. With a inaudible sigh he turned to the area in which Tenten had crash landed, the smoke cleared away considerably leaving only some dusty puffs left. But Neji had noticed that the air was swirling in a rather odd pattern, blocking the biting concern for his partner, he activated Byakugan and took a step back wide eyed.

The two of them were slumped in a kneeling position heads against the others shoulder, ignoring the wave of jealousy that past through him Neji continued to look them over. Blades still submerged in their chests, no blood was drawn, no previous wounds were open, no pain on their faces (in fact they both looked rather content) they sat there. But Neji also saw that the two were exchanging chakra, he pumped and equal amount of chakra into Tenten as she did to him, did they even realize how dangerous that was! With a single miscalculation of the distribution of chakra they're both dead! If either one ends up with more or less energy than they started...the consequences...are just to great! It can only done with a lot of practice but even then it might not work! (AN: I don't know if this is actually true...so mind correcting me if I'm wrong?)

Taking a closer look, after refocusing on them not their chakra, Neji found that they were both mouthing some foreign language in the others ear, it seemed Chinese from the faint murmurs he could actually hear. Deactivating Byakugan he closed his eyes tightly, feeling very confused at the moment...who WAS this guy? Did Tenten know him?She had to, he knew her name... What were they doing, and why is energy exchange necessary?

When the dust fully settled, he got a better look at them and saw a swirling orb of blue, green chakra wrapped around them like a shield. It resembles that time in the Chunnin exams with Naruto, that Neji knew all to well, but it wafted around without anger and malice it was just there, protecting the two.

"Bùguò tòngkǔ de shì bùshì hēhē mèimei," the boy said.

"Yup, always will be," Tenten responded, "Hey Sora, how confused do you think they are? And, go back to Japanese."

"Heh," 'Sora' grunted, "It's hard to tell...Mr. Constipated over there looks pretty confused, but the rabid idiot is unconscious, so..."

"Unconscious?" Tenten looked over to Lee then over to Neji with a sheepish grin on her face, "Sorry?" She closed her eyes, Neji noticed, she's hiding something...


Heheh! Sorry for the late update...been busy with stuff...Once again I thank all of my reviewers! And as of right now I'm too lazy to type everyones name so...Yeah...I didn't really get a chance to go over it, so sorry for any and all mistakes! This was written at many different intervals, so sorry again for the lack of smoothness or transition...

HEY! Has anyone else notice that the typical Neji responses of 'Hn' are also his initials H yuga N eji! And if they knew that then why does Sasuke say that too?

Midnight Insomiac: Yeah the tilda (~) was for like a sing song type thing.