And so the next chapter begins… poor Tenten. Why does she suffer? Because I'm the author and I say so. Oh, I'm so evil. Bad me. I'm really glad that a lot of people like this story. Like really really happy! So I thank you all! Right now, my parents put on Michel Jackson. They only like his music. They don't really like him as a person, so yea…anyways, I don't own Naruto or any of the characters. Enjoy!

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"Mom?"

"Yes?"

"Is he going to be ok?"

"He'll be fine."

"Can I keep him?"

"Its fine with me, but I'm not going to take care of him."

"OK!" Tenten gave a huge smile. She looked down at her new pet dog. Her mom and her had cleaned him up and gave him bandages. He was sleeping soundly in a pile of blankets that they lied out for him.

"What are you going to name him?" Tenten's mother asked. Tenten thought for a moment. Then replied, "Spirally."

"Spirally?" her mom asked.

"Yep! I named him after a person who I think is really cool." Tenten said.

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Tenten woke up once again. (why am I making her sleep so much?) It was still night. She rubbed her eyes and looked at her clock. It read 3:12 am. Tenten sighed to see what time it was. She knew now that she had waken up, she wouldn't be able to go back to sleep. She pulled the covers back up to her chin and laid there. She was staring up at the ceiling. She always hated being sick. Then she turned her head to the side to look at the other side of the room to see if Neji was there.

Sure enough, there he was sitting in the corner, wide awake, and staring right at her.

Tenten turned quickly to look at the ceiling again, hoping that he didn't see her. She shut her eyes closed just incase.

"Can't sleep?" Neji asked.

Dang it, Tenten thought. She turned to look at him again and then nodded. "What about you?" She asked.

"Not sleepy." He replied.

Sure…Tenten thought but said, "Oh."

"Listen, about the whole 'going into your drawers' thing, I'm sorry ok? I'm not a pervert, all I just wanted to do was help. But if you're really that angry, I'm sorry ok?" Neji stated.

Tenten squinted at the darkness. She couldn't really see his expression that well. She could see his figure, and she could sense that he was looking at her, but he was kind of blurry.

But what really was bugging her the most was this one question: Why does he seem so caring? This got Tenten thinking. It seemed too weird that he was asking for forgiveness. It just doesn't seem like it was him at all. She had seen him in the show. All strong and emotionless. He was Neji Hyuuga. THE Neji Hyuuga. The Genin genius. He was supposed to be careless about others. Sure he would help his teammates out, but it always seemed like he just did it for himself. He was supposed to be one of the cool characters of the show. So, why did he care so much now?

"Hello? Did you go back to sleep?" Neji asked. Tenten turned back to look back at him and replied.

"You're forgiven, I guess." She turned on her side so that her back was facing him. She had a slight blush across her face.

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After a restless night, morning came again. Tenten was wakened by the rays of the sun, but it was mostly because of the sudden burst of chill that came into her room.

"Come on now, Tenten. Listen, me and your mother are going to work, and because it's a Saturday and you might still be sick, you're going to stay here at home for the whole day. Make sure you try to get back at full strength to you can go to school on Monday, alright. We'll see you at 6! Bye!" Tenten's father told her. But she was still half asleep. When he closed the door after him, Tenten went wide awake. She immediately turned to the corner of her room to look at Neji.

But he wasn't there. Well he was, but he wasn't Neji anymore. It was Spirally sleeping in the corner.

Tenten just stared, dumbfounded. "What the…" She stared as the dog breathed in and out

slowly. She blinked a couple of times just to make sure she wasn't just imagining things. "Spirally?" she whispered.

He went on sleeping. "Spirally?" she said a tiny bit louder. Still no response.

"Neji?" she whispered. The dog twitched his ear. "Neji." She said more confidently.

The dog perched his ears up and opened an eye. Tenten sighed in relief that he was ok, but then stared in confusion at the little canine. Why is he…? She got out of bed and crawled toward the dog, who had opened both his eyes by now and was staring at the girl's strange actions. Tenten then stared down at him for a long time. So long it seemed like she was a frozen statue. The dog eventually got annoyed of this.

What?

Tenten fell backwards out of shock. "You…c-can talk?" she stammered.

Neji looked around at him self and answered I guess I can. It seemed that it wasn't that big of a deal to him.

"But you didn't move your mouth." Tenten said confusingly. Spirally yawned, I've been able to hear your thoughts and answer back to them ever since that night when you left for that party.

Tenten blushed, "S-seriously????" She stuttered. The dog gave a grunt in agreement, closed his eyes and placed his head back down. Tenten stared at the dog. It seemed liked he was really tired. He probably didn't get any sleep when I was sick…

You got that right. The dog responed. Tenten continued to stare at the dog confusingly. Then said in her mind, I'm sorry.

The dog opened his eyes again and asked, what for?

For causing you trouble. The dog closed his eyes again and grunted. Tenten then got up thinking that it would be best to let him sleep. But couldn't help but ask the questions in her mind. But…but how? Were you always Spirally? Or have been caught in his body or something?

The dog responded without opening his eyes or head. I have no clue how it happened one moment I'm human fighting some ninja, next moment I'm a pathetic little dog in some dark alley way.

Tenten thought over what he just said. It seemed to fit. She did find him in an alley way hurt with fresh cuts all over him. What exactly happened?

I said I don't know what happened. The dog said a bit annoyed. Tenten apologized and quickly thought about the last time she saw him in the TV show. She did remember him fighting a ninja from the sound village. Neji was winning but then the enemy did some weird powerful jutsu. The next thing was Neji collapsing. Then the ninja grabbed his body and ran off.

Tenten rethought the episode over and over again. D-did that ninja send him over here?

Hm? Spirally asked. Tenten turned to the canine. The ninja you were fighting, do you remember what he did to you? After he did that jutsu?

Neji went into deep thought. He didn't remember what the ninja did after the jutsu. All he remembered his mind going and coming back, like if he was fading. He felt like he was there and yet not there at all. It started to feel like if he was dreaming the whole thing. It was the strangest feeling he had ever felt. He couldn't think of anything after that.

Tenten looked at the dog with concern. He stayed quiet for a long time now. When she was about to ask him if he was ok, his eyes went wide and then there was a pop.

Tenten fell backwards in shock as the Hyuuga was now once again human and standing right in front of her. Neji also stared at himself in shock. He then looked down at Tenten who was shaking from the surprise. "Sorry, are you ok?" He offered his hand to lift her back up. Tenten stared at his hand for a while then grabbed it.

"You mean you can't turn back on your own?" Tenten asked taking her hand back when she was back up. Neji shook his head. "If I could, I would have a long time ago."

"You mean…that night…at the party…that was the first time you turned back to normal?" Tenten asked now a bit lost.

"What? Did you think I turned back into a human and stare at you every night or something?" Neji asked as he lifted a brow.

Tenten blushed. "N-no! I m-mean…don't …don't you think its just a bit too weird that you changed into a human right at the point that, that ……man was…going to…" Tenten couldn't finish. It was emotional that night. She was afraid to even think of the possibilities of what that man was going to do with her. Tenten dipped her head to stare at the ground.

Neji looked at her with no expression on his face, but deep inside he felt bad. He felt guilty. Guilty for not trying harder to stop her from going. To get off the subject he said, "It is weird. But I don't know how it happened. I just felt like something bad was going to happen and then, well, you get it." Tenten stared up at him. There were tears in her eyes.

When their eyes met Neji and Tenten blushed at the same time. Neji noticed that his face felt hot and he immediately turned his head. He was trying to avoid eye contact. Tenten also noticed his actions and smiled. She knew that he was trying to cheer her up.

Neji noticed her smile and frown as his face felt hotter. Tenten giggled at this. He defiantly acts different from the show.

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Well, first off all I want to apologize for taking a while. Im taking Exams next week, and my teachers have been giving us study guides after study guides. I am extremely sorry. Please forgive me. Anyways, I really hoped you liked this chapter and I hope you guys are not that angry at me for making this chapter short. I was trying my best to try to get it out earlier. So ill see you next chapter!

PS, I started a new story about Naruto and his dad being the fourth hokage, so go check it out if ya want.