Legend:

'Tenten's PoV'

'Tenten's inner self'

'Neji's PoV'

'Neji's inner self'

"Talks"

Flashbacks…

They were staring each other for a long time that they did not realize that someone opened the door.

"Neji-niisan!!! Neji-niisan!!! Otou-sama wants to talk to you!" Hanabi happily shouted opening the prodigy's door.

Neji and Tenten still oblivious from the intruder still continued to stare with each other. Until…

CLICK

A blinding light caught their attention.

"I'll make sure Otou-sama will see this picture!" Hanabi shouted in a sing-song voice while running along the Hyuuga corridor.

"Uhhmm… Neji, Hanbi-chan just took a picture of us in this situation." Tenten shyly informed the still mesmerized Hyuuga.

"Huh? Oh right."

Neji leave the stunning beauty under his sheets while running to catch a certain annoying she-devil.

"HANABI-SAMA! Get your butt here in an instant." Then, a shriek from the one and only Hyuuga prodigy could be heard from the whole mansion.

"Hiashi-sama, I'm sorry for the noise but—" Neji bowed and curtsied when he bumped to the clan leader in front of him.

"I don't need your buts Neji."

"Come to the meeting hall in 30 minutes and bring Tenten with you. The elders want to talk something about the both of you." Hiashi continued impulsively.

"Hiashi-sama with due respect why is Tenten coming?" Neji asked surprised from the information given by the clan leader.

"You'll just know when both of you will be there." Hiashi answered while leaving Neji alone in the corridors.

At the meeting hall together with the elders…

"Neji, Tenten, come inside and sit." Hiashi ordered upon seeing the two entering the hall.

"Hai!" the two replied in an instant and sit beside each other at the end of the table facing the elders.

Due to the formality needed in this meeting Tenten was required to wear traditional robes. But seeing Tenten has none she was obliged to wear the traditional ladies Hyuuga robes that are only being worn during engagements or marriage.

xXx…Flashback… xXx

An old lady went inside Neji's room that caught Tenten by surprise. The old lady looks as if she would eat anyone that went against her will. She really looks tough from the outside.

"Tenten-san, Hyuuga-sama requests your presence in the meeting hall together with Neji Hyuuga-sama." The old lady addressed upon entering the area.

"Thank you… uhhmm…" Tenten thanked but also asked for the old woman's name."

"Noemi."

"Thank you, Noemi obaa-sama." Tenten politely repeated her thanks.

"Do you have any traditional clothing way back home?" the old lady asked graciously.

"Actually none, I don't have anything that suits the Hyuuga's taste."

"Oh, but Neji Hyuuga –sama sure approves your liking." The old lady whispered almost inaudible for Tenten to hear.

"If that's the case," the old lady continued in a normal voice, "you would have to wear in the traditional Hyuuga robes."

"Eh?! I'll be wearing those big clothes Neji used to wear?" looks the old lady skeptically.

"Hahaha…" the old lady gave a hearty laugh looking at Tenten's priceless expression. "No,no,no my dear, you'll be wearing the robes made for the oujo-sama's of the house." She continued.

"Eh? But I'm not even one of them! I couldn't wear that kind of clothing." Tenten protested.

"Ah, you'll soon be one though, my dear."

After the long argument between the two women in the room Tenten was now wearing a beautiful traditional Hyuuga robes. It is embedded with pink cherry blossoms that have gold dragons around it. The dress was really fit to Tenten as if it was made just for her.

"Actually my dear, these robes are the robes that Neji Hyuuga-sama's mother wore on her engagement with Hizashi-sama. (1)"

"What? I can't wear this! This might be important to Neji."

"Ah-ah, you can't remove it now that would ruin your hair."

Tenten was now wearing half her hair down showing her long wavy tresses some of it was locked with Chinese hair chopsticks that has sparkly kunai hanging on the end. The old lady pushed Tenten out of the room. Right on time Neji was about to go inside.

"I think you're already to go." It's all Neji could say after looking intimately at the lady laid before him. She really looked stunning in her mother's clothes.

'Wai…What? Tenten's wearing his mother's clothes?' There is something wrong in this situation. But he really didn't mind. It actually fit her that he wants to see her in those clothes for a long time.

xXx…End of Flashback…xXx

"Hiashi-sama, what do you require our presence for?" Neji asked respectfully at the clan leader seeing that this is an important matter considering the elders are all present.

"As you remembered it's been a year that we removed the cursed mark from the branch family." Hiashi started.

Neji cringed of the thought about the curse mark but still didn't show in his outer mask. But Tenten noticed it that made her hold his hand tightly under the table.

"I see… But I don't see any reason of Tenten being here." Neji said, disrupting the leader's words.

"Actually that's just the start of the reasons why I asked for Tenten's presence." Hiashi calmly answered back with full authority in his voice.

The authority in the clan leader's voice reach Neji's nerves that made him shut his mouth for a while.

"Since as we already know, Neji's curse mark was now removed and also I'm getting older…"

With that comment Tenten let out a slight giggle that made Neji tap her in her hands to shut her up. But deep inside Neji he was also having a loud snicker at the comment.

"Ahem… As I was saying… The heirs of the Hyuuga clan now are Hanabi, Hinata and Neji."

At this statement Tenten's eyes was now full of gleam trying to calm herself for congratulating her long time team mate and crush… coughcough… love by giving a warm embrace whenever she felt proud of him.

As for Neji, he knows where this was going but do not know how to stop this before the clan's rules would ruin their friendship and spill out his secret affection for his team mate.

(A./N.: Whaaa… Phew after a loooooonnnnggg time… I finally have the next chapter… This is my super late Christmas and New Year's fiction! Hope you'll enjoy : )!" As always Naruto is not mine!!!)

(1) I forgot what's Neji's father's name… hehe… would someone tell me?