While on our little date, which I hoped would soon end
Tenten kept giving me a look I was unfamiliar with
"Is there something wrong, Tenten?" I asked, hoping she'd cease
I wasn't enjoying such attention, not one bit
"It's nice, don't you think?" Tenten asked me with a smile
Though I wasn't exactly sure what it was she meant
"I wish I could have asked you sooner." She said seemingly saddened.
I then realized she was speaking of the time we'd spent.
I wasn't really expecting any of this from her
Though she was my teammate, and I thought I knew her well
"She'd been all that time waiting to ask me on a date?"
In any case, I wasn't about to be put under some love spell
"Any sooner than this, I would have declined."
I looked Tenten in the eyes, as I told her quite succinctly
But when she didn't change her mood, I tried being "nicer"
Totally putting aside what my "old self' would think of me
"Cheer up, Tenten. We're here now. So let's just enjoy it."
I spoke hoping she'd finally break from her gloomy mood
"Thanks Neji, you're right." She finally said cheerfully
And I oddly felt much better, just by her change of attitude