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7. Swim
"Ugh! Neji, when are we going to reach civilisation?" asked Tenten grumpily. They were on their way back to Konoha after a mission and both ninja were covered in mud from head to toe. The first thing she wanted to do was have a nice long hot bath and to scrub all this gunk off her skin. She didn't particularly care that it was supposed to be good for her skin. She felt disgusting and dirty and she just wanted a bath, was that too much to ask? The sun shone down blisteringly and she could feel the mud beginning to harden.
Her team mate sighed and activated his Byakugan. "We should reach Konoha by tonight. There's a river a mile west from here though."
Tenten whooped with excitement and took off towards it. Neji hissed through clenched teeth with annoyance, "Tenten! Wait!" He ran after her. If she got ambushed by missing nin he was not going to give her the chance to blame him for it. The hardening layer of mud he was covered in was making it difficult to travel fast as well.
When he finally caught up with her, she was already removing all her weapons, dropping them lightly onto the ground. She then pulled her hair free from her hair ties, shaking it out, before removing her outer clothes and diving into the water in her undergarments without a thought about her modesty, nor the fact that she was in the presence of a very embarrassed male. Neji blushed deeply. "Tenten, what are you doing?"
She emerged after a few minutes, grinning and dripping wet. Her undergarments had quickly become transparent but she didn't seem to notice. "The water is cold!" she informed him excitedly. "Come into the water, it feels great and it gets the mud off as well!"
Neji stood stiffly by the river bank, "Tenten we should be on our way back to Konaha to give Tsunade our report."
"Oh don't be so uptight, she's not going to mind if we went for a little swim on the way home," cajoled Tenten. She splashed water at him before leaping into the sparkling blue river once more.
He watched her frolic for a moment, before removing his weapons and outer robes and diving in after her.
