will you be my special one? Thanks for being there for me, everyone.


7. One


It was Valentines day. It used to be no big deal for Neji. That is, until he realized he had fallen in love with a female ninja in Konoha.

Hiashi knew what was going on the minute he saw Neji trying to cut a heart out of construction paper, but failing each time. It's hard to cut perfect curves at age 6, you know.

"Perhaps you ought to buy a card instead of making one, Neji," Hiashi exclaimed as he placed a warm cup of tea in front of his nephew.

After another unsuccessful attempt at cutting out a perfect heart, Neji replied by throwing the pair of scissors in his direction.

"I want my valentine to be the best one! Tenten wouldn't approve of a store-bought one," Neji grumbled, and pouted with his arms crossed.

Neji worked restlessly for the rest of the afternoon, while Hiashi was trying to figure out what kind of girl could have possibly affected his nephew so much. Neji was so busy with his valentine card, he had forgotten to comb his hair that morning, and Neji never forgot to comb his hair.


However, while Neji was trying to figure out what a heart actually looked like, the rest of the boys in Konoha got busy themselves.

"My valentines card is way better than yours! I put a cherry blossom on mine," bragged a young Uchiha.

The group of tiny, six year old boys were huddled outside in the empty training grounds, showing off a variety of pink and red cards made for the six year old girls of Konoha.

"HAH! I'm giving Hinata a cup of ramen with my card!" boasted a young, blonde Naruto.

Soon enough, the large group of little boys were fighting and shouting at each other, their valentines cards getting wrinkled in the process.

However, the fight was stopped by the loud sound of a whistle. The little boys froze in their places as they turned their tiny heads to see a group of older boys smirking back at them.

They were only one year older than the little kids, but the older boys seemed to think that they were bigger and better.

"You little kids may think that you're valentine cards are the best, but our valentine cards are even better! Tenten will finally be ours, MUAHAHAHAHAHA!" exclaimed a crazy brown haired boy.

The group of boys standing behind him laughed in unison as they flashed their cards for the younger boys to see. The cards came in a variety of different sharp, weapon shapes, but they all had one thing in common - mini heart shaped candies were clumsily glued on.

Out of nowhere, Naruto, Sasuke, Kiba, Lee, Shikamaru, and the rest of the younger boys burst into laughter. The Tenten fanclub didn't take the laughter very well.

One of the boys with black, curly hair shouted and pointed at Choji, "What are you laughing at, chubby? Listen here, Tenten will be ours when she gets a glimpse of these cards!"

Choji choked on his laughter as he replied, "G-g-ood luck with that! Neji w-will c-crush you before you can g-g-g-ive it to her!"

The Tenten fanclub didn't seem fazed at this remark, however, and they stormed off to hand deliver their cards to Tenten.


One last thing to glue on, and he was done. Tenten was going to love his valentines card. It was pink and covered with glitter, making it shine and shimmer in the sunlight. It had lace covered edges and a picture of a kunai on the front.

It wasn't the best, but it was something Neji had made himself.

As Neji delicatley put the valentines card inside a paper bag, he stood up and left to go find Tenten, but what he didn't expect, was to find a whole group of boys crowded around the entrance to Tenten's apartment.

"What are you doing here?" Neji demanded coldy.

The throng of little boys, who were not even old enough to know what hormones were yet, whirled around in unison to see who had disturbed them.

Almost all of the little boys winced as they recognized Neji, but one little brown haired, and might I add, puny, boy was brave enough to step towards Neji.

"We're the official Tenten fanclub, and we're here to deliver our valentine cards to Tenten, personally!" he exclaimed, as he raised his arm to show off the red card he was holding.

If the throng of little boys had been smarter, they would have run away the moment Neji's eyes had flashed with anger. Then again, boys will be boys, not including Hyuuga's of course.

And so the violence began.


A few hours later, Tenten was sitting in her room, polishing her weapons when something floated through her open window.

As Tenten read, she couldn't help but smile lovingly, and laugh out loud to her empty bedroom.

It was a card, and Tenten didn't need to read the name to know who it was from. It had a picture of Lee getting pants'd by Naruto on the back.