Mmkay. Chyapter noine! My evil plans shall be revealed.

Chapter nine: God Dammit Naruto!

Tenten observed the humble hotel room carefully. There was a small kitchen section, a bathroom in the small hall next to the entrance, two single beds situated next to each other with lamps on either side. A phone sat on a small nightstand in between. There was an area next to the kitchen with a chair, a couch, and a TV, and beyond was a balcony facing east towards the sunset (They're in Japan.). Neji had long since disappeared into some chamber of their room, so she sat down on her bed and inspected the contents of her pack. She sighed and fell back on the covers, observing her favorite kunai. A door opened. She snapped up to see a damp Neji emerge from the bathroom with a towel on. Only. A. Towel. "Your turn." He stated flatly. She withheld a blush and moved towards the bathroom. " I don't see why you're embarrassed." Tenten stopped. " You saw me bathing on the last mission."

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Tsunade laughed so hard that Ton-ton almost fell out of her lap.

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Meanwhile, Neji was praying that she wouldn't come out soon. He was still getting dressed, despite a cocky smirk that was plastered onto his face. He paled slightly. I can't find it… The door that connected his room to Naruto's opened.

"Oi…" said Naruto," The pervert broke our shower." Neji nodded.

" Wait for Tenten"

He relayed the message to her via yelling, and she emerged, wet, a few moments later. Also in a towel. Naruto was unaffected, but Neji was suppressing a nosebleed. She whipped on her bathrobe so fast that Neji couldn't have seen anything, with or without his byakugan. Tenten walked to the balcony and the white-eyed Hyuuga followed. She looked out at the sunset. It was gorgeous. A line of flame orange graced the edge of a small mountain range. The brightness at the horizon faded into rich ebony, dotted with small stars. Neji was enjoying a different view. He looked at her face, studying the soft lines of her profile, and soon, he couldn't help but move his eyes down. She was wrapped in darkness, but the curves of her body were outlined in the fading light. He reached out and pulled her closer, just then remembering what he had failed to find earlier. His shirt. (AN: convenient, ne?) He neared her face and they both shut their eyes, waiting for the touch of each other's lips.

"OI!"

Neji exhaled in frustration. Naruto hadn't seen them yet.

"What." He called back so flatly that the author was forced to use a period for emphasis. He threw Tenten an apologetic look for a split second. She understood. They pulled apart and walked slowly into the room. Naruto said he was hungry so Tenten made onigiri for the three of them. The mission would start tomorrow.

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Tsunade let out a groan of frustration. "They were so close, too! I new Naruto would interrupt things!" Kakashi shook his head in disappointment.

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Sunlight interrupted Tenten's sleep. Neji was up, no surprise there, and Naruto was sleeping on the couch. Apparently the pervert next door, whose name was Enma, had a/some girl(s) over. Neji kicked Naruto off the couch and told his sleeping form to get ready. They were out the door by eight. Naruto spotted a white head and some familiar chuckles coming from the fence outside the spring.

"Ero-sennin! Sensei!" Jiraiya stood up, grumbling. His eyes lit up all of a sudden.

"And who is this?" He inched over to Tenten. She frowned and was a bout to pull out a kunai when Neji, of all people, gave Jiraiya a swift kick in the ass. He explained the mission simply and flatly, while Tenten smirked in triumph and Jiraiya held his wounded rear. Naruto was unsuccessfully trying not to laugh.

"Okay then," began Jiraiya. "Let's bathe first, though." He chuckled evilly at the thought of Tenten, who then smacked him.

"Fine." She said." But I'll rely on those two to keep you in check." They all got changed (into towels) and ended up running into each other outside the same hot spring. Before they could argue about who was right about what, Jiraiya pointed to a sign above their heads.

"Holy shit." Exclaimed Tenten.

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yay. Evilness. I discovered the most interesting word while trying to type deliriously. Sqid. It's just so cool. I should use it more often. It's right up there with squatch. Dude, you're such a squatch.