Well everyone, revisions and all, this is the last chapter. I know the old version was up to chapter 6 or something and still not done, but the new version has longer chapters and a plot that sucks a lot less so I'm sorry if anybody preferred the old version…it's scrapped.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did, Neji wouldn't be such an ass.

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Neji immediately slid under Tenten's falling body to catch her dead weight. One look at the pained expression gracing her features and he knew this was no joke.

--In Tenten's Mind—

"Your boy toy lied about who you are so now, you'll die," a familiar evil ninja said. He shoved her against the full grown oak tree that sprouted from the ground behind her. "I always get my mark. But, you, yes, you'll suffer first."

Tenten seemed to be stuck to the rough tree bark by his sheer will to keep her there. He backed away with one arm still outstretched towards her. When he jerked his hand towards him, Tenten felt the chakra strings cut her with the stinging pain of a hundred deep paper cuts. The man made a few hand signs and a small flame crept down the connecting string towards Tenten's body, growing as it went. He let it lick at a spot of Tenten's skin as she shrieked in pain before he put it out.

--At the Training Grounds—

"Tenten!" Neji called for his teammate above her piercing screams. "Sakura! Do something!" Neji's voice was almost pleading. Sakura was already trying to heal her.

"It won't work! It's in her head so I can't heal her until she wakes up," Sakura deducted as her chakra had no effect on the bleeding and burned skin that was a perfect image of health just a minute earlier. Neji began shaking Tenten's shoulders.

"Tenten! Can you ear me? Wake up damnit!" Neji cried as Tenten's face twisted into more pain.

--Back in Tenten's Head—

Tenten could hear Neji's distant whisper getting louder. She wanted to go back to him and tell him that she was alright, but she was currently being beaten senseless and she was paralyzed. The other ninja was getting angry. He wasn't finished with her and couldn't have anybody pulling her out of the mental state he put her in. The enemy suddenly looked sideways as though somebody was calling his own name.

"You're lucky, you little bitch," he sneered at her, releasing the strings but catching her by the collar of her shirt to keep her upright. He cut a single line along her throat with a kunai.

"Just think of what I've done to you as a virus, and I'm your only antidote. I'll keep coming back for you until there's nothing left," he growled before he released her and disappeared.

--In the real world—

Tenten opened her eyes and immediately began coughing and choking as her mouth filled with her own blood. She struggled to spit it out fast enough but more kept taking its place. Tenten hated the taste of blood. It was always a sickening temperature of warm but the metallic taste reminded her of something that should feel cold. She was beginning to feel lightheaded. She couldn't breathe.

"Neji, Move! She's drowning in her own blood!" Sakura's voice registered faintly in Tenten's mind. She felt a comforting warmth spreading through her chilled body as another person's chakra forced her panicking energy away from her wounds to heal them. Tenten felt the putrid liquid stop filling into her mouth. She gasped and found air. Her chest relaxed as her lungs filled with oxygen.

"Thank…you," her raspy voice spoke to Sakura. Tenten's eyes shot open with worry as she suddenly knew where the enemy had taken off to.

"Neji?" she questioned, straining her ears to even hear his breathing. He put his hand on her back to comfort her.

"Yes?" He answered quietly, still shaken at her battered form. He was filled with rage but for her, he only felt love.

"It's Hinata…you have to…" She was forcing her words out, but thankfully that was all she had to say before Neji understood.

"Take her to a hospital and make sure she's ok," Neji instructed about Tenten before taking her by her shoulders, kissing her on the top of her head and taking off in search of his cousin.

"Where is he going?" Naruto asked.

"To save his cousin," Tenten offered no more explanation but closed her eyes as her healing continued.

--With Neji—

'Where the hell is she?!' Neji's mind screamed as Byakugan-activated eyes raked through the entire forest. Neji spotted the fight before he found Hinata in its center. She was in a large clearing and fighting against four ninjas: 3 men and one woman. Neji sped up.

Shikamaru was nearby, trying to do anything to get them off of her but in the middle of the sun-baked day with the sun's rays creeping in from every direction, there were virtually no shadows-anywhere. Even if he did have a way to use his technique, it would have been hard to get in. Nobody was concerned with him; the ninjas came for one reason-Hinata.

Neji immediately joined the fight. His white eyes apparently were his ticket to getting some attention.

--Back with Tenten—(These scene switches are getting annoying, aren't they?!)

"If you take it easy, you should be fine, but I think we should take you to a hospital anyway, like Neji said," Sakura informed Tenten. She was exhausted from having rerouted Tenten's blood back into her veins and having split some of Tenten's blood cells to replenish the masses of lost blood that had poured from Tenten in such a short span of time.

"So I'm good to go?" Tenten asked.

"Yeah, I guess—wait, go where?!" Sakura tried but Tenten was already gone. She rose to go after her, but Sasuke put a hand on her shoulder to keep her down.

"Take it easy. Naruto, go after her before she gets herself killed," Sasuke instructed. Naruto didn't even argue about being bossed around. He just nodded and was gone.

Tenten had found a way to move through these forests. She knew them her whole life and as long as she could place her hands upon the trunks of the trees that she passed, she knew which they were and where to go. She could almost see out of the other ninja's eyes. It was as though he had created a connection with her by taking her sight. He was literally a virus that was infecting her.

Apparently, he could feel her intrusion in his mind and was pushing back. Tenten's head felt like it was splitting open with pain, but through his eyes, she saw Neji and Hinata struggling against the four around them. Even the most powerful had his limit. Besides, without her there, who would cover his blind spot?

She reached the clearing and her only source of shadowed vision, his eyes, was cut off. She was in battle now, though, and wouldn't need anybody else's eyes. Tenten's hands flew to her weapons as her ears picked up every little footstep. She was still nervous about hitting a friend. Hearing Neji's grunt from getting hit was enough to shatter her fear. He needed her and she just had to trust herself.

Tenten took two kunai, one in each hand and pulled her hands by her ears. She thrust the two weapons out at an angle so they met at the same point, in the back of the head of the man restraining Neji. The body fell and Neji's line of vision connected with Tenten. His eyes went wide with worry about her. Now that she had taken out one of their own, the other three would not underestimate her again. He was lucky. She didn't need the protection he thought she would.

Her personal tormentor picked her out. He was ready to take out his anger on her without mind games and she was ready to tell him exactly where he could shove his overly egotistical attitude. He grabbed her wrist and she could feel the heat from the electrical sparks that had taken her sight.

"Don't look at their hands!" Tenten warned. "If they get those sparks too close to your eyes, they'll take your sight and infect you!" She only hoped that the others would trust her and not ask questions just yet.

"TENTEN! What are you doing?!" Naruto exclaimed as he arrived. Tenten didn't even hear him. All she heard was the person she was fighting. She had to concentrate to know where he was at all times. She recognized the sound of a katana as wind fluttered past her in the wake of the swinging blade.

"Fighting me in my own element? Bad mistake," Tenten smirked a grin that she had learned from Neji. She'd have to thank him later, but make sure he never used it on her again. She slashed at him with her katana and felt her entire arm jerk with the force of her stopped weapon against his. Had she been able to see, she would have seen sparks from the weapons sliding against each other.

Naruto had taken one of the men for himself and was just releasing nonstop attacks upon the poor man. When Naruto got into his battles, he was really unstoppable. Neji had gotten close enough to the woman to release jyuuken upon her. She never had a chance. Shikamaru was now protecting the exhausted Hinata who had fought off all four of them with weapons and slowly backing him into the trees where he would be able to use the shadows.

The man against Tenten was beginning to falter. She was relying on her other instincts by pure trust and moving only on instinct. She had felt his tactics before and she had been inside his mind. That was enough for her to just do whatever came naturally. Because she had no idea what she was going to do until she did it, he had absolutely no forewarning and was finding himself blocking less and less of her attacks. She swung out a leg under him as he lodged a kunai in her left shoulder. He fell to the ground and her blade sliced along his throat much like his did to hers back in her mind such a short while ago.

His breaths were short and smothered. Since he was down, Tenten finally heard the silence of the rest of the clearing and realized that he others had taken down their enemies. Shikamaru's was sufficiently strangled by his own shadow; the woman Neji was fighting had her entire body shut down by being poked to death and Naruto's had taken an ransengan to the heart.

"I will come back for you," Tenten's opponent swore through a gurgling breath. He began coughing and choking and Tenten knew the discomfort. She took pity on him. Death came quickly.

Tenten's knees buckled as she stumbled back and clutched a tree for support. She closed her eyes tightly in intense pain and held her hands to her head. Neji ran over to her and she finally forced her eyes open. She blinked a few times.

"I…I can SEE!" She exclaimed as she looked right into Neji's eyes before her, unbelieving that she was finally able to look at him again. Neji stared in disbelief before turning around to see the bloodied clearing with the four dead and mangled bodies.

"It's a shame that this sight is what you have to see after getting your sight back," he commented honestly. Tenten placed her hands on his face and turned his head so he was looking back at her.

"I couldn't have wished to see anybody else," Tenten whispered before leaning towards him and kissing him. Sakura and Sasuke had arrived just in time to see this.

"Oh…oh my," Hinata stuttered before blushing and firmly looking away.

Naruto was having a mini celebration in his head, 'We won! I kicked butt! I will be Hokag—woah. Did Tenten just really kiss Neji?' His jaw dropped as he stared in disbelief.

Shikamaru muttered something along the lines of "Troublesome" and "It's about time." Before worrying more about Hinata and her well being.

Inner Sakura was jumping up and down and throwing confetti everywhere. Even in her own little world, Sakura was sure that there would be mental confetti everywhere for a very long time. In a few years, she'd be doing some inner searching and find little mountains of the colored stuff.

Sasuke just muttered "whatever."

Tenten pulled back and smiled at Neji, swearing she was the happiest girl alive. Neji was ironically swearing that he was the luckiest guy alive. Tenten frowned.

"Hey, Neji. What ever happened to that guy we were supposed to protect on that mission we got assigned before I lost my sight?" She finally remembered the man.

--Elsewhere in the middle of NOWHERE—

Lee and another person are walking. Well, the other person is walking. Lee is running and jumping and skipping and…well you get it.

"I PROMISE I WILL PROTECT YOU OR I WILL DO 1000 PUSHUPS AND 1000 SITUPS AND RUN 1000 LAPS AROUND KONOHA AND—" Lee was exclaiming.

"I'm going to go CRAZY!!!" The other person screamed.

Everyone sweat dropped.

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I'm kind of sad that it's all over but it is. I'd like to extend a special thanks to all of my friends and my loyal readers and reviewers. Thanks for sticking with me even though I never updated and then when I finally did, I just rewrote it. I hope you enjoyed.

I would like to extend another thanks to the Grimlocks from of Charmed who served as inspiration for my enemy ninjas and their powers.

Lots of Love

Tenten