Star-Chan: Hello I'm finally done typing my next chapter! This chapter is mostly about Neji and Tenten, since each couple have there own little chapter, like the last one with Naruto and Hinata. Well hope you enjoy!
Disclamier: Do Not Own Naruto.
Chapter 7: Do You Understand Me Neji?
While Naruto and Hinata were on there little date, Neji and Tenten where having a nice stroll on the beach. They were walking hand in hand along the splashing waves of the ocean with there pants folded knee length.
"It's nice to have some quiet time, just the two of us huh Neji?" Tenten said letting her brown buns down to fly freely in the wind. She looked over at Neji who had the same calm facial expression.
"Yeah, away from that bet."
"Oh yeah, that too I completely forgot about it." Tenten sighed and looked at Neji who seemed spaced.
"Neji are you worried at all that we might lose?"
Neji shook his head and stopped walking, ushering Tenten to stop as well by pulling her hand back a bit. Tenten looked at the Hyuuga wondering what he had in mind.
"I'm not worried at all. I know everyone will make it through it's almost been a month since we started the bet, and nothing bad had happened so far." Neji said staring into Tenten chocolate colored eyes and watched her lips form a small smile.
"But, Ino and Shikamaru…they were the first to get into a fight, I wonder how Naruto and Hinata are doing, Sasuke and Sakura seem okay to me." Tenten said frowning again thinking about Ino and how hurt she must have been seeing Shikamaru with another girl.
"Don't worry, I don't doubt our relationship. I am sure we can get though anything. That's why we're here together, to face and conquer problems. That's how love blooms and deepens."
"I love you Neji." Tenten said kissing Neji on the cheek lightly and blushed. The older Hyuuga looked away and blushed a shade of pink. Tenten smiled at how shy her boyfriend was. She jumped up and splashed water all over the still blushing Neji who snapped out of his trance and looked down at his wet pants and wet t-shirt. He heard Tenten laughing at him. She knew that Neji had this thing about not getting wet in clothes other then swim shorts.
"Tenten, now I'm all wet! You're so going to pay, you better start running." Neji said to Tenten who gasped and started running the fastest she could away from her angry boyfriend who wasn't far behind her. Neji was now right behind Tenten. He put his hands in the water and pushed a wave of water towards Tenten's back and got her all wet. Tenten screamed from the coldness touching her skin and turned around to face a still angry looking Neji, when Neji gets mad he can get so competitive. Tenten smiled. She put her arms around Neji's neck and kissed him sweetly on the lips and pulled away.
"Neji, don't need to get that mad, your clothes will dry." Tenten said to a once angry looking face to an again dazed blushing Neji and giggled. They started walking hand in hand along the shore line again letting there hair get tangled in the cool soon to be summer wind. Tenten watched as the waves crashed on to the shore and watched it being pulled back into the ocean. She smiled at how peaceful it seems. Tenten looked over at the Hyuuga who had his gazed locked on the view in front of him. Neji sensed that Tenten was looking at him and turned to look at her.
"Is something wrong Tenten?"
Tenten shook her head and laid her head on Neji's shoulder. She loved him so much. Neji smiled and removed his hand from Tenten's and wrapped his arm around her drying body. He loved her so much. Tenten continued watching the waves crash in and out she grinned and looked down at Neji's pants, they were still wet, perfect. She lifted her head off Neji's shoulder and smirked. Neji raised a brow, knowing when Tenten smirks, it's never good.
"I don't like that look your giving me Tenten…" Neji said to Tenten worriedly. Tenten grabbed Neji's hand and ran towards the waves.
"Tenten, NO what are you doing?!" Neji called out to Tenten who burst out laughing. Neji tried pulling away, but Tenten's grip on Neji's hand was too tight. He sighed seeing his efforts were hopeless and gave up, he was already wet, doesn't matter if he gets more wet. They continued running far out enough so the waves were ready to crash against them. Yes, against.
"Tenten, are you sure about this?" Neji watched the huge wave of water coming closer and closer to them.
"Neji, its fine, were not going to get wet." Tenten said watching the wave come closer and closer her grin growing bigger. The wave was now about two feet away from them.
"Tenten…" Neji said holding onto Tenten's hand tightly preparing for the impact of the icy cold water.
"One…two…" Tenten screamed the numbers out with joy watching the water inch near them. "THREE, RUN!!" Tenten said grabbing Neji's hand tight and ran away from the crashing wave laughing and screaming as the water rushed past her ankles and then feeling it pull back into the ocean. Neji looked at Tenten laughing with joy, and couldn't help but laugh along. It was stupid, but that's what Neji loved about Tenten, her stupid unpredictable personality.
"Tenten, you are so strange." Neji said after they had gotten over laughing.
"But, you have to admit it was fun right?" Tenten asked. Neji looked away, he knew it was fun, but he didn't want to admit it. He hesitantly nodded and smiled in response.
"Want to do it one more time?" Neji said, not waiting for Tenten's response took her hand and ran towards the waves again. They were once again standing in front of an incoming wave, both smiling happily. They did there countdown.
"One," Tenten said jumping up once because of her adrenaline.
"Two," Neji said releasing Tenten's hand from his. Tenten looked at him confused but didn't have time to question why he had let go of her hand. But her question was answered when she screamed "THREE!" and Neji's picked Tenten up bridal style and ran away from the wave once more. This time, they couldn't make it far enough in time and got wet, well mostly Neji. Tenten was holding on to Neji for her dear life, but was laughing with joy at the surprise her boyfriend gave her. She saw the water rush pass her and Neji and saw it retreating back into the big blue ocean again. Tenten looked up and Neji who chuckled lightly that soon turned out to be a stomach hurting laugh. Tenten laughed along with Neji, it's not never day Neji is so happy. She kissed Neji lightly on the cheek and he stopped laughing immediately and turned a light shade of pink. She giggled.
"Um, yeah…" Neji said still blushing and set Tenten onto the sand. There were a few moments of awkward silence, Tenten wondering why Neji is so quiet and Neji thinking why he acted so out of character just then.
"That was fun!" Tenten said breaking the silence that startled Neji slightly. He smiled and took Tenten's hand in his.
"Let's go home and get changed first before we do anything else. I don't want you to catch a cold." Neji said leading Tenten to the direction of the Uchiha house.
"No, I'm afraid you're going to be the one getting a cold, look at you! You're soaked from your shirt to your pants!"
"I'd rather I get a cold then you, Tenten." Tenten smiled and blushed after hearing how caring Neji is towards her. The rest of the walk to the Uchiha house was quiet, but it was the good kind of quiet, the kind where you're just enjoying being with the one you love. They arrived at the house a few minutes later and opened the door to Sasuke's house. They both made there way up the stairs when they started hearing some, strange moaning sounds.
"What was that?" Tenten whispered to Neji who looked just as confused as she was. They listened to it again, and they followed the noise to…Sasuke's room. Neji looked at Tenten. He pulled her a fair distance away from the door so that whoever was inside could not here them.
"Naruto and Hinata are out on a date, and Ino is somewhere unknown and so is Shikamaru…so the only one left in the house is…"
"Sasuke-kun… stop it!" Neji and Tenten both heard Sakura's voice giggling in a childish way. Both there eyes widened and walked a little closer to the door so they can hear better.
"Not a chance Sakura, I'm enjoying this."
"A-Ah…you're going to fast…go slower…" Neji and Tenten both heard Sakura moaning.
"I can't help that I'm so damn good at it …ah…yeah…stay like that…I like it that way." They heard Sasuke say. Even though Neji and Tenten couldn't see Sasuke, they knew by the tone of this voice that there was a big smirk plastered on his face.
"But I'm a beginner I don't care how good you think you are just go slower would you? Ah…Sasu-keee!" Sakura groaned louder now.
"Would you be quiet Sakura, you're too loud."
"It doesn't matter Sasuke, no ones going to be home until tonight we can do this all today. AH!! I cannot believe you just did that." Tenten and Neji jerked when Sakura screamed out. "I told you Sasuke-kun, your going too fast, slow down…ah…yeah…that's right keep it at this pace and everything will be fine."
"Sakura you complain too much, you're lucky I'm doing this with you, I don't do this with just anyone you know? The things I do for you…"
Sakura giggles. "If you don't do this with me who else would you do it with? Besides, you know you love it Sasuke-kun."
Neji and Tenten were so surprised by what they just heard. Neji inched his hand near the door. Tenten slapped his hand away.
"What are you doing?" Tenten hissed at Neji who smiled sheepishly.
"I want to see if the door was locked."
"Stop being nosy, if what we're thinking is correct you don't want to just barge in on them like that!"
"Tenten, stop lying you know you're nosy about this too." Neji gave her an I-know-you-want-to-know face. Tenten sighed, it was true, she was just as curious as Neji was to find out what Sasuke and Sakura were doing, though they had a pretty vivid picture in there mind. More giggling came from the room. Neji's hand touched the knob and gives it a light turn. It was locked.
"What was that?" Sasuke said as Sakura stops giggling. Neji and Tenten looked at each other with a "oh shit" face.
"Did you hear something Sasuke-kun?"
"I thought I heard someone try and open the door."
"You're probably just imagining things, come on lets continue…I'm dying waiting here." Sakura said and giggled.
"You asked for it." Sasuke said and more giggling started up again. Neji and Tenten tiptoed to there rooms down the hall and sighed in relief. If Sasuke had found either of them at the door invading there privacy, he would kick both there asses.
"That was close huh?" Neji said taking a deep breath to calm his nerves.
"Yeah, it was…so yeah I'm going to go change…you should too." Tenten said trying to change the subject after feeling very awkward semi-spying on Sasuke and Sakura. They both went into there rooms to get changed. Tenten took off her wet clothes and threw on a pair of faded blue jeans and cute green t-shirt. She blow dried her hair and put in back in her usual buns. She opened the door to see that Neji's door was already opened, she went over and peeked inside, but Neji was no where to be found inside. She heard some cheering from downstairs and walked down to the living room to see Neji sitting on the couch wearing a new white dress-shirt and some blue jeans. She walked over and plopped herself next to him, wrapping her arm around his and laid her head on his shoulder.
"Hey, are you going to watch basketball all day?" Tenten asked as she watched Neji's eyes being glued to the screen.
"Pretty much, I mean since there's nothing better to do."
"But we still have a whole afternoon we can spend together…don't you want to do something? Like maybe the mall?" Tenten suggested as Neji pulled his eyes away from the TV and looked at Tenten like she was crazy; the mall…after the last little "Victoria Secret" experience, Neji hated the mall especially going with Tenten.
"Don't worry; I won't force you in a girl store this time. I promise." Tenten smiled innocently at Neji who still seemed hesitant. She had to use her cuteness to persuade Neji, because once a game is on TV he would never want to go anywhere. She pouted her lips and gave Neji the most adorable puppy dog brown eyes possible. Neji sighed and turned off the TV and agreed. Tenten yelled in joy and Neji covered her mouth with his hand.
"Sh…don't forget the two upstairs, they don't know where here, let's get going before one of them decides to come down." Neji said taking Tenten's hand and headed out the door. They arrived to the mall half an hour later.
They walked around and looked at a bunch of stores though Neji didn't seem very happy to be there. Tenten stumbled upon a photography store and her eyes twinkled at how beautiful the girl and boy were on the pictures taped to the window.
"Neji look isn't these pictures beautiful?" The picture was of a guy and a girl, a couple. The guy was wearing a nice blue dress shirt, while the girl was wearing a strapless blue knee length dress decorated with ruffs at the bottom to make it a bit puffy and sprinkles embedded all over the dress. The boy had his hand encircled around the girl's waist as the girl smiled and a blush was visible on her face.
"Yeah, there pretty." Neji answered Tenten dully. Tenten looked over at Neji with those adorable puppy dog eyes and a pouting mouth again. Neji looked at her hopelessly and shook his head.
"Tenten, there way to expensive, and you don't even have a dress with you. So don't beg me to take them with you."
Tenten frowned and continued walking away from Neji with her eyes glued to the floor. Neji felt guilty and ran after her and embraced her from behind, holding her tightly in his arms.
"Tenten I'm sorry, how about I take other pictures with you?" Neji said to Tenten who turned around and looked at him.
"What kind of pictures?"
"Come with me," Neji said taking Tenten's hand and took her to the other side of the mall where the photo booths are.
"I heard Sasuke and Sakura take these kinds of pictures all the time, very cute and sweet don't you agree Tenten?" Neji said taking Tenten into a booth that was decorated with pink and blue paper. Tenten smiled lightly and nodded.
"Come on it'll be fun," Neji said putting five dollars into the machine and selected the type of backgrounds he wanted. Tenten pulled the clips from her buns and let her brown hair flow down her back.
"Ready?" Neji asked Tenten who nodded. Neji kissed Tenten on the cheek for the first picture as she smiled. The second picture was Tenten kissing Neji back on the cheek and him smiling. They third picture was a normal one, both of them smiling. And the fourth one was a funny faced one, though Neji's was more of a serious face, since he was bad at making funny faces, if he tried it would probably look like he was retarded, literally. Tenten's though was really cute with her tongue sticking out to the side and eyes crossed. The pictures printed and they took it from the machine.
"See, wasn't that much better then the professional ones?" Neji asked Tenten as she nodded. Neji pulled her into his arm and gave her a small peck on the lips.
"So what do you want to do now Tenten, music store, sports store, anything?" Neji asked as he took Tenten's hand as they walked towards the stores.
"Where do you want to go Neji?" Tenten smiled sweetly to Neji. She decided to let him pick since he took pictures with her, hence the fact that he hated taking pictures and missing the basketball game on TV, it was the least she could do.
"Sports store it is, you like them too right? We can pick out a new basketball and play one on one later!" Neji said to Tenten who nodded and agreed. Sometimes Tenten wonders if Neji ever thought of her as a real girly-girl. She was a bit tomboyish but that doesn't mean she doesn't want to put jewelry on sometimes, or do something to make her look beautiful. As they were walking to sports store Tenten came across a jewelry store. She spotted something on display in the window. It was a charm bracelet with little hearts and stars charm hanging from it. She fell instantly in love with it, she wanted it.
"Neji, don't you think this bracelet is so pretty? Oh and look it has a matching necklace with it too!" Tenten said shaking her boyfriend's hand urging him to look at it giving him a slight hint that she wanted it.
"Yeah it's very beautiful just like you, you're pretty enough without it. No need to waste money on something that makes you beautiful when you already are." Neji said pulling Tenten away from the window and onto the sports store. Tenten sighed and reluctantly followed along, though Neji didn't seem to notice.
The day had finally come to an end. Naruto, Hinata, Neji, and Tenten were back from there dates. Sasuke and Sakura had finished what they had been doing earlier, which Neji and Tenten are still curious about, and Ino and Shikamaru still haven't came back. They were all sitting at the Sasuke's dinner table; there was silence in the whole room. Nothing was heard except the chewing of the pizza they had decided to order and sometimes a loud slurp from Naruto drinking his soda. Sasuke and Sakura looked at each other confused at what could have happen when each couple had there own dates today. Hinata seems flustered, Tenten was frowning, eyes watery, Neji and Naruto was acting like there usual self, like nothing was wrong.
"Are…you guys okay? It's unusually quiet today." Sakura decided to ask to break the very awkward silence that surrounded her. Neji and Naruto shrugged while Hinata and Tenten both sighed. Sakura was going to ask the girls what was wrong, but the doorbell rang. Sakura excused herself from the table to get the door. She opened it and was surprised to see her blonde friend standing in front of her.
"Ino," Sakura jumped hugged her best friend. "Where have you been, you know how worried we all were about you?" Sakura said pulling away from Ino and looked at her swollen eyes. Ino smiled slightly.
"Sorry forehead girl, I needed sometime alone, I'm starving! Did you guys make dinner yet?"
"Yeah…Sasuke and I were kind of busy doing…stuff. So we just decided to order some pizza, there's still some on the kitchen table go help yourself Ino-pig." Sakura and Ino walked into the kitchen and gasped filled the room and sighs of relief that Ino was okay and back at the house. Ino looked around for someone she thought she would see.
"Where is Shikamaru?"
"He ran off looking for you and still hasn't returned I wonder where he is right now." Tenten answered the blonde.
"I'm kind of worried for that lazy-ass." Naruto said after burping loudly and disturbingly.
"You don't have to worry, I'm okay." Everyone turned there attention to the lazy boy standing at the doorway of the kitchen. Ino looked away and excused herself and walked up to her room. Shikamaru also said he wasn't hungry and went upstairs as well. Everyone in the kitchen remained quiet.
"Uh…Sakura, I'm not that up for pizza right now…I think I'm tired, I'm going to go wash up and sleep." Hinata said walking out of the room.
"I think I'm going to help out Hinata, besides I'm a bit exhausted too." Tenten announced and followed Hinata up the stairs. Naruto stared at Neji who stared at Sasuke who was staring at a tomato. Sakura looked from Naruto to Neji and sighed. She grabbed Sasuke by the wrist just when he was about to grab the oh so delicious tomato, and dragged him out of the kitchen.
"What is it Sakura, I wanted a tomato."
"Oh, it's nothing, I just happened to feel like pulling you aside and talk to you." Sakura said sarcastically and rolled her eyes at how Sasuke could want his tomato more then to find out what happened between his friends.
"If you say so…" Sasuke said and started back into the kitchen when Sakura grabbed him by the shoulder and pinned him to the wall.
"Sasuke…"
"I get it; I get it, I was just playing around. So what the hell do you think is up with them?"
"I don't know but I think the guys did something wrong since it's mostly Hinata and Tenten that are looking sad. You go talk to the guys and I'll take the girls we need to solve this tonight, if we go to school tomorrow with all of them fighting that could hurt us real bad for the bet. And who knows what that bitch Karin would say. So we'll meet up in an hour, my room got it?" Sakura said to Sasuke who started to smirk and nodded.
"And you can't risk losing me, is that right?" Sasuke teased a blushing Sakura who looked away trying hide her blush.
"Of course I can't risk losing you, if I lose you who else would I play with?" Sakura grinned as Sasuke's smirk grew bigger, remembering there oh so eventful afternoon. They headed back to the kitchen to see that everyone has left. They assumed they all would be upstairs. Sakura opened the door to Hinata's room and saw that Tenten and Ino were there as well.
"Alright girls, it's only us, now spill."
Star-Chan: Okay! well heres chapter 7! SORRY you guys that it took so long, its just that I have been busy with school and I had the flu for a week then another little cold after that TT plus all the projects and stuff at school. SIIGH so yes! it's finally spring break for me! Time to kick back and relax and write my story.
So does Neji really understand our Tenten like she think he does? WHAT was Sasuke and Sakura really doing in the room? Will things work out for Ino and Shikamaru?! Naruto and Hinata? Neji and Tenten?! Sasuke and Sakura?! seems like everyone is having there problems, except Sasuke and Sakura...well you'll have to stick around to find out what happens next!
Next Chapter: When Everything Starts to fall apart
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