Disclaimer: I, unfortunately, do not own Naruto.
A/N: I still blame summer reading for this…
Chapter 7: Jealousy's a B-
Tenten stood patiently outside the hotel on the account that they wouldn't let her in without a room pass, dressed in a red sheath dress that barely touched her knees and black red bottom heels, an outfit that Ino and Sakura forced her to wear for a party they were invited to. Her cheeks flushed a light red color from the makeup she was forced to wear and her lips shinned from the red lipstick she was dying to take off. For once, her hair was down in deep curls that touched her back delicately, and in her hands she gripped a small black handbag unsure of what to do with it without the straps attached.
She reached inside the small bag for the hundredth time and grabbed her phone and a small mirror. She checked the time, then her chest for any signs of the hickies showing up again, then hid them securely in the purse again. She seemed unfazed as she stood there, dress hugging her thighs, face seemingly older looking and breasts slightly lifted from the tight grip of the strapless dress. Even while people constantly kept approaching her, mainly men, asking her if she was waiting for a date or if she was alone tonight, she still never budged, swiftly giving nice rejections to every man that came to her. Her eyes appeared to be staring into the distance, locked on an upcoming object that she has yet to see. She reached in her bag again, pulling out her phone and checking the time. A low grumble left her mouth.
"Where the hell are you, baka?" She whispered softly. "I'll have to leave soon, and I don't think I can hold the taxi cab any longer."
Suddenly, the slamming of a car door echoed through the streets, catching her attention. She turned towards it with a smile as the long haired, white eyed boy walked towards her with his head low.
"Neji!" she chirped.
He looked up, distress dying the color of his eyes, and looked around at everyone but her.
"Over here you idiot!"
He reacted, staring at her confusingly till a surprised, yet delighted, look overcame all else. "Tenten?" he questioned.
She smiled as they both walked closer to each other. For once, she felt at ease in an outrageous outfit such as this, mainly because of Neji's reaction. She looked down at herself then at him and smiled. "What's up with the get up?"
"I could ask you the same thing." Neji laughed while taking his jacket top off. "Here, put this on, it's kind of cold out here." She did.
"So…" He began as he watched the small girl shift in his jacket looking like a small girl with or without the makeup. "Are you going to tell me what you're dressed like that for?"
"Only if you tell me why you're dressed like that." she teased, moving closer to him all attempts of flirting obviously showing.
"What are you doing?" He asked, noticing already her lame attempts at flirting but falling for them nonetheless. "Are you trying to flirt with me?"
She laughed a smooth laugh and pushed his chest teasingly without ever moving him, but left the question unanswered. "It's just that my friends said that with this look I could get any guy to break, so-ˮ
"You tried it out on me."
"Yup." She giggled.
Neji smiled again and moved closer to her, grabbing her by the waist, forcing her body to meet his. She moaned in displeasure and tried at pushing herself away but failed. Neji was too strong. "Why are you trying to leave?"
"Why are you trying to leave?"
"Because we're out in public, Neji! What if someone gets a picture of this! My peace will be over."
"Then shall we go inside." Neji cooed, kissing the base of her neck softly before sucking pleasurably.
"No, Neji, That's not why I came here."
"Really?" Neji puzzled, bringing his head back. "That's what I assumed you had came here like that."
"No. I came here like this cause my friends invited me to this party and they dressed me up like this before leaving me."
"Oh." Neji sighed, loosening his grip around her.
"So," She began. "I told you, now you gotta tell me."
He sighed before letting go of her. "I don't think that you'll like the answer."
"Tell me anyways." Tenten beamed.
Neji sighed again before looking around, scanning the area. "Okay," he sighed. "Yesterday…me and this girl went to this party thing and-ˮ
"What girl?"
"Kin. Anyways, we went to this party last night and-ˮ
"Wait, Kin? That bitch from the first time I met you? That Kin?"
"This is why I didn't want to tell you T-ˮ
"And what did you and Kin do last night Neji?" Tenten questioned loudly.
"Tenten, please, not that loud." Neji shushed her.
"No!" she screamed. "I can't believe you're that much of a man whore, Neji."
"Why the hell does it matter to you, Tenten? Remember, it was just a one night stand kind of thing. We'll never see each other again. It doesn't mean anything! Do you remember that?"
She said nothing. She just stared at him. "You know what, your right." She yelled. "It doesn't matter to me."
"Tenten, I didn't mean it like-ˮ
"And take your stupid jacket back!" she shrieked, throwing the thing at him franticly. "I don't need it. I don't need anything from you, Neji!"
"Well none of this would have never happened if you had just answered the damn phone when I -ˮ
"Its worse enough that you slept with me for the hell of it, but you also go around sleeping with sluts that obviously only want you for the money! For people you know that are just waiting for you to slip up so that they can steal everything from you! I mean, Kin, really! Out of all the people in the world, she has to be the worst case of the fame syndrome!"
Neji said nothing. He just watched her fume, listened to her scream at the top of her lungs, and tried his hardest to ignore the fact that other celebrities were now watching and worrying about her and him. His anger rose higher and higher with every word she uttered out of her mouth. All sight of the previous glee felt emotions vanished and were replaced by anger and frustration. He couldn't do anything, all he could do was wait for her to finish.
"-can't even believe you would do something so stupid, so idiotic, so…so…meaningless! I swear, I wish I never meet you! I mean, if I had meet Kankuro on that night instead of you then-ˮ
"Whoa, whoa wait. Who's Kankuro?"
"…Just a person I met recently."
"Oh! So you have the nerve to fight with me about some trivial shit, but you FAIL to take the time to mention your own flaws! Yet you have the audacity-ˮ He stopped and stared at Tenten's innocent look…and hated it. Half of his mind told him to rip it off; the other half told him to embrace it. He couldn't decide.
She really pisses me off! He thought. How in hells name came she get me this worked up over something so inconsequential! And then she has the nerve to pull this shit on me! She even has me cursing! Hardly anyone can get me to curse out loud! What is it with this chick that gets me…excited…?
"Okay, listen." Neji cooed after calming down. Surprisingly enough, Tenten didn't say anything. She just stared at him. "You're obviously on your period, or something, and that's why you're getting mad over something like this. So I have a theory. We take this upstairs, we talk it out UP THERE where no one can use this against us then we just let bygones be bygones. How does that sound?"
"Though your offer sounds like a trap yet at the same time a good idea," Tenten sighed, "I'm going to have to turn you down on that one."
"Why?"Neji yelled.
"One: I'm not on my period. Two: I have a really important party to attend to, and Three: I really don't think being in the same room with you is a good idea right now."
"I promise I won't do anything and the issue with your friends, you can call and tell them that you'll be a little late."
"Sorry Neji. No can do."
"Well what about…we sound so bipolar right now."
"Where did that come from?" Tenten laughed, playfully hitting Neji's chest, once again, causing no damage. "But I guess that is true."
Neji laughed. How does she do this to me? Does she have some special type of Neji attractant hiding somewhere on her body?
He sighed. "Look, Ten, I'm sorry about everything, does that make you better? I promise to never see Kin again. Is that okay?"
"…Yeah." Tenten smiled as she slowly walked backwards toward the Taxi that was still waiting. "See you later, Neji."
"You're still going to leave me. Even after all of that. Why did you come here in the first place?"
"Oh!" she remembered. "I wanted to tell you in person."
"Tell me what?" he asked.
"I have a date. So ha! I am not your friend with benefits."
"…What?"
"By, Neji!" Tenten laughed as the car drove off.
A date? He thought Then why the hell did you get mad at me? Ugh! I don't understand that girl!
At the party:
"There you are, Tenten!" Sakura cheered.
"I was so right about that dress that it kills me!" Ino's voice suddenly chimed from behind her. "If this dress doesn't get men running up to you, then I don't know what will."
"Please," Tenten moaned. "I had problems trying to find out how to get in and out of the taxi cab and I had a good 5 random men approach me on my way up here. There better be something good in this party for me, Ino, or I will never listen to you when the word party comes from your mouth. Ever!"
"Don't worry girlie. With this look and that body in that dress, you'll get something you'll enjoy."
"Like a date." Sakura giggled.
"She doesn't need that." Temari fumed. "She already has one."
"No way, with who?" Sakura questioned.
"Me." A deep voice came making all girls, except Temari, turn.
A familiar boy approached them. His hair, instead of spiked, was combed back in a neat style fitting to the type of party, his shoulders, broad and elegant, brimmed in the black suit he wore and his smile gleamed brighter than any other smile ever seen. Dark eyes stared into the group, locking dead on the smallest girl making the smile grow wider. "Tenten." The voice greeted.
"Kankuro." She answered back with a wild blush to add to it. "I didn't think I would see you here."
"On any other normal situation, he wouldn't have been able to even think about being here." Temari snapped. "But since I had to go running my damn mouth, and told him that you were going to be there in some outfit Ino and Sakura forced you to wear, he wouldn't stop begging, and I do mean begging, me to take him with me as a guest. Now I did everything in my right mind to keep him at home, but he was so damn persistent on seeing you, Tenten! So as of right now, I'm blaming you for why I have to baby sit, and for why I had to waste my time doing his hair, and for giving him the right mind to wear one of his home-made freaking suits! Thanks, Tenten! Thanks!"
"Oh, you made this suit?"
"THAT WAS NOT THE REATION I WAS WANTING!"
"Yeah. You know, I'm currently working on being a successful designer."
"YEAH, AFTER SPENDING 4 YEARS OUT OF DESIGNER'S SCHOOL!"
"Oh, you mean like Neji Hyuuga with his line, Destiny."
"DESTINY? HA! HE WISHES TO BE THAT SUCCESFUL!"
"Yeah, sort of. Hey, wanna go over there to talk, it's kind of noisy over here."
"DON'T YOU WALK AWAY FROM ME!"
"Yeah sure."
"ALRIGHT FINE! SEE IF I CARE! THIS IS THE EXACT REASON WHY GARRA IS MY FAVORITE AND NOT YOU! YOU STOLE MY BEST FRIEND, KANKURO! YOU STOLE YOUR NEE-CHAN'S BEST FUKING FRIEND! HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY NOW!"
"Temari, please, you're being too loud."
"USELESS PIECE OF TRASH!"
"Temari!"
"WHY CANT YOU JUST BE MORE LIKE GAARA AND HAVE LESS INTREST IN MY FRIENDS?"
"Ugh. Where's Hinata, I can't deal with this?"
"YOU STUPID, STUPID…BAKA!"
"Oh god, she started crying."
"Where's Hinata?"
"I DON'T NEED EITHER OF YOU ANYWAYS!"
"I-is she drunk?"
"Where the hell were you? Stop her!"
"FORGET YOU KANKURO!"
Meanwhile at Neji's shop:
Stupid, Tenten. Getting me this worked up! What the hell would you get mad at me for when you're doing the same shit? We weren't even a couple and you gonna gat that mad about something so trivial, so unnecessary! I'll show her!
"What are you doing, Neji?" Lee asked.
"Designing! Why?"
"J-just asking?"
Payback's a bitch, Tenten. I can't believe her. With Kankuro! Who the hell is Kankuro!
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