Ten: Secrets about friends are bad. Secrets between friends are necessary sometimes. Secrets kept between friends and away from anyone else is plain lucky. But they pull it off flawlessly.
This one is pretty long. Actually, this may have a continuation of three or four chapters…all at random times.
Now a message from the author:
Oh noes…the espionage chapter. Ya'll see it coming.
Holy flipping crap, I have ten chapters and I haven't deleted this story-thing!
OMG! But anyway…I wanna thank you peeps and Strife for reviewing cause without you, this story would have died. Right now this is all I'm working on, but since I have no plot to go from it's hard to come up with mostly un-clichéd oneshots.
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-Rose, your NejiTen obsessed author.
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P.S.S.- Sorry for any missing lines.
Neji and Tenten sat on top of a building.
"So, we have exactly fifty-two minutes, forty-two seconds and twelve milliseconds to accomplish this mission."
Neji nodded, but in case no one saw him he added an "Aa." (A/N: "Aa." Is more of a Sasuke thing but…oh well.)
"Well…could you respond in a somewhat human manner?"
"YES. We'll leave soon."
"Come back to my apartment. I have to change." Tenten said.
Neji shrugged, as if to say, "Why not?"
Neji was taken aback by Tenten's outfit.
(A/N: If you don't want to read this stuff, feel free to skip to the next paragraph.)
The dress was tight at the top, having thick straps connected to the dress with two black buttons. The top was white and gray striped. A large ribbon cut the torso and below into two sections. The bottom was long, wavy, gray, and stopped at her calves. Tenten's eyes were shadowed purple, and her hair was in one beautifully messy bun.
If this were anyone else, Neji would tell them that they looked like some sailor girl.
But Tenten was a smart, sexy, sailor girl.
"You look…good." Neji choked out. "Uh, why is your hair in a bun?"
"I don't know…it matters?" Tenten waved her hand. "And two, so do you Neji, beautiful as always." Tenten said jokingly. She wheeled around and opened the door.
How did she just compliment him (even with the sarcasm) like that without feeling like he did about the compliments?
"Well, we have things to do! Come along, little misguided Neji." Tenten chided, grabbing his hand and pulling him with her.
A large ballroom on the south side of Konoha
1900 hours
The duo stood outside of a building. Tenten peeked into a window, and Neji sat under a wall next to Tenten. He fiddled with his watch.
"Our suspect is in here. I will charm her and you will take the other one down, and hack into the mainframe. I'll join you soon thereafter."
Neji stopped and looked up. "Um, Mizukari Lira is, last time I checked, a woman."
Tenten looked at Neji, her lips in the thinnest line. "Our jobs call on for desperate, awkward measures. Just do your job…and what are you messing around with?"
"The radioactivity levels in this place are off the chart."
Tenten raised an eyebrow.
"Oh? You don't have a built in Geiger counter in your watch? Hmm." Neji intoned.
Tenten ignored this. "Well…that's some completely redundant information, Neji. We're splitting up now." She left him there.
Tenten entered the building casually sifting through people dancing. A small band played swing music. Neji was behind her.
"Neji…you go the other way!" Tenten scream-whispered.
Neji shook his head. "We're dancing, just in case one of us gets a fatal blow to the spine or anything." Tenten nodded in understanding and slipped her gloved hands into Neji's. Tenten put
her head in the crook of Neji's neck. "You know we aren't supposed to have these romancing things, Neji-kun."
Neji cut her off. "Agent 46, my dear."
"Agent 46-kun, then. We can't do it. People can't love and be secretive at the same time. It gets people killed. Lots of people."
Neji smirked and shrugged, swaying to the beat with Tenten. "Well, yeah, if you think about it like that, somebody ought to die."
Tenten lifted her head and looked at him, not enjoying his joke.
"Look Tenten," Neji began.
"Agent 77…" Tenten said.
"Whatever. I love you and you love me. That's all that matters. Now…there's Lira, go seduce her or whatever you need to do. I'll get past the guards." Neji said, and kissed her.
Talk about role reversal?
Neji departed, suddenly disappearing from view, mixed into the crowd of snobby upstarts.
Tenten shook her head and followed the entourage of Mizukari Lira. "Lira? Oh my God! You're so awesome. Can I get your autograph?" She yelled.
"Get in line, honey 'cause…" Lira paused to look at Tenten and stopped. "Oh, my…aren't you pretty?" She crooned.
"Oh? I am? I am?" Tenten said, confused.
"Yes…you are. Why don't we go into the foyer and talk about it." Lira said.
Tenten got a look of surprise (only almost to the level of mock) and suddenly understood. "Ohh…mmm. I could talk about it with you."
Lira motioned for Tenten to follow her. Tenten obeyed.
Neji stared…maybe glared…at Agent 77 going with Lira. "Phase One of Operation Snake Charmer complete." He muttered, folding his arms, looking at his watch.
1909 hours-minutes
Barometer: 6 mph
46 minutes until mission ends
Knockout gas flavor: tropical fruit
Geiger: ??
"I wonder what happened to the Geiger counter," Neji mused. He thought as he walked casually through restricted hallways. Neji looked up seeing a camera staring at him. He pressed a button on his watch, launching a miniature harpoon into the camera and through the wire, shutting it down. He snaked against a wall checking the corner, seeing three guards patrolling a door, gilded and archaic. "God…" Neji whispered. "Too easy these days. Too easy."
Tenten sat there, trying to look confused and innocently sexy. She sat cross-legged on Lira's bed. When Lira returned, she was wearing considerably less than her evening dress. Tenten looked a little frightened. She manipulated her voice, making it dry. "Oh…uh…Lira-san. You uh…" Tenten began, averting her eyes from Lira's piercing green ones.
"So…my little poppet, what is your name?" Lira said, somehow throwing seductiveness into a simple question.
"Uh…my n-n-name? My name i-i-i-is Kari." Tenten stuttered.
"What a beautiful name…suits a beautiful girl like you." Lira said, sitting down next to her.
Tenten couldn't help herself but look. Lira only wore a robe and a very risqué nightgown. Her long chocolate hair cascaded down her back and her porcelain features reminded Tenten of Marilyn Monroe with brown hair. She envied Lira; Neji would just worship her like a goddess if she had the looks.
"So…uh, what am I in here for?" Tenten asked, knowing full well anyway.
"I think you know," Lira said, and cut off any further conversation with a kiss.
Now, in any other situation, Tenten would have pulled away and slapped Lira. She told herself a mantra. If you complete this mission you'll be promoted. So don't break away. Complete the mission. Don't break away. Just go along with it and it'll all play out. Complete. Don't break. Go along. Complete. Just relax and pretend it's Neji. Don't break. Go along. Pretend. Complete.
Lira pulled away and Tenten needed more time. She needed to give Neji enough stall time. Tenten already knew that no one would bother someone as promiscuous as Lira Mizukari when she's in a bedroom with someone.
Tenten prayed that they made this mission, or Tenten wouldn't be a very happy agent.
Neji had managed just slipping past the first guard, knocking him out with a silent swipe of his hand. He held the guard's limp body, dragging him and throwing him into a closet. Neji must've done something too loud, because the other two men in black were staring him straight in the eyes.
"Hello my good men, what brought you here to this party?" Neji inquired, brushing dust off of his suit.
"This area is restricted, my good man." The guard said mockingly, towering over Neji by a good two feet.
"Oh, I'm aware," Neji said, now fixing something on his watch. "What're you doing?" The man said gruffly, looking at the smooth man in the off limits area.
"I'm sorry, but I can't just seem to fix the time on my watch. Can you smart men fix it for me?" Neji asked, putting his arm out. The two men peered over the arm and looked at all of the shiny buttons. "Which one do we push?" One said stupidly.
"Uh, try the blue one?" Neji guessed. One of the guards pushed it and a burst of blue air came out.
"Fruity…" A guard said, clumsily slinking down and then falling over. The other one followed suit.
"That it is. That it is," Neji agreed, stepping over their unconscious bodies. He proudly opened the boldly place doors just to find…another hallway. He sighed, pressing a button on his watch.
Tenten had been doing this thing, as she'd like to refer to the situation as, for about half an hour now.
Complete.
Neji -officially- should be far enough to have her end this. Tenten punched her in the stomach.
Lira flew backwards and landed on her feet.
She kept her cool, no matter how bad everyone else would look here. "So, you're the infamous Agent 77…" Lira said, cracking her spine.
"You've heard of me? So flattered," Tenten said, visibly angered that Lira wasn't hacking blood yet.
"I've heard many things, my dear. Maybe that you're the most conniving agent in all of Konoha. I've also heard other things…" Lira said, looking up, beginning to walk towards Tenten.
"Like what? I'm curious." Tenten replied moving forwards.
"Well…I hear that you've been getting on very nice with your partner in crime, Agent 46? Is it true?" A step forwards.
"No. And-and aren't you doing the crimes here? Besides anything anyone'd let your ears hear…it must be something ridiculous." A step forwards from Tenten.
"Ohh? Is that some hesitancy I sense?" A step for Lira.
"No, besides your stupid rumors aren't my problem, lady," Tenten said, scoffing. "This ends now. I can kill you with anything in this room. You want to be murdered by this newspaper? That'd be a painful end."
"I'd love to see," Lira said.
"Nah, that'd be too hard to explain to the Chief." Tenten said. She picked up a glass and pitched it at Lira. She leaned over and the glass shattered against the wall into a lot of pieces.
Tenten frowned and picked up her estimably expensive lamp and threw it at Lira. That missed too, exploding into a million pieces.
"You're missing. You've killed all of my sisters with one blow. What happened?" Lira mocked.
"Nothing…I've been working with the analysts back at Control on my strategizing skills." Tenten said, pouring a pitcher of spring water onto the tiled floor. "Alright, O Majestic One, hit me up."
Tenten figured she only needed hand-to-hand combat for this bat. (A/N: pun partially intended.)
Tenten punched Lira in the face while Lira retaliated and threw a punch at Tenten's gut. Tenten dodged, trying to push Lira on to the ground. She slipped away staggering back. Lira came back and pinned Tenten by one shoulder on the wall. Her other hand was uncontrolled, moving freely down her face and chest to her stomach, and she suddenly punched her in the gut, completely winding her. Tenten wheezed, and tried to shake out of Lira's surprising tight grip.
"You're so beautiful," Lira said smirking. She punched Tenten again. "You're smart too," Another punch.
Tenten wretched of Lira's grip, decking her square in the face. Not missing a beat, Tenten pushed her down, and pulled out a knife. Tenten slashed and gashed at Lira, making small cuts in her skin and clothing. Lira got past a few of the slashes, but she slipped on a piece of glass, falling comically onto the tile floor unconscious.
Tenten stood for a minute observing her victim. "Sorry, dear. I've got better things to do." Tenten muttered, walking away.
Neji stood there in the hallway looking, analyzing. There was a grand hallway leading to a grand door that obviously held the main computer. Neji wondered how he should go about this when a hand touches him. "Agent 46, so good to see you, my darling. Shall we continue?" Agent 77 said, poking 46's shoulder.
"Yes, well, do you think this hallway is rigged?" Neji mused, hand on his chin.
Tenten pulled out a container of eye shadow and threw it at the ground, causing it explode and smoke in a purple haze revealing several red lasers. Tenten threw on an expression of mock surprise. "What? You don't have Infrared Ray Seeking Eye Shadow? Hmm…" Tenten intoned.
Neji muttered something and folded his arms. Tenten grinned and raised a finger. "Watch me carefully, and we won't set the alarm off." The petite brunette proceeded to do a series of complicating twists and turns and acrobatic moves. Neji coughed.
Tenten waved as a signal for Neji to come on. He jumped onto a shelf and crawled to a bookshelf, then jumped onto a chandelier swinging and leaping next to Tenten.
She pouted. "It would impress me if you actually went through the lasers."
"Oh well." Neji said flatly.
Tenten rolled her eyes and opened the door, slipping inside silently. She looked at a finely furnished room with a single computer. Neji followed, immediately going to the computer. Tenten stood near the door.
Neji had clicked his way into Control Panel, clicking on an icon called "Op.Snake.Chaos.exe" It brought up a window saying "Access Code?" and a pad emerged from the computer.
"Crap…I need DNA and a code," But then he got an idea. "77, you have some of Lira's DNA on your dress, come over here." Tenten came over and Neji tartly pulled a hair off of Tenten's chest. "Thank you, go away." Neji placed the hair on the pad and it snapped shut inside the computer.
"Access granted," The mechanical voice announced happily.
A series of screens popped up with various headlines.
Uranium Plant Explodes in Freak Crash
The Benefits of Nuclear Power
Harvesting Chemicals
…Cockney Rhyming Slang? (Maybe it was for a secret way of speaking to each other?)
Chaos: Join the Fight
And the Control Database of Agents?
"77, look at this." Neji said, pointing at the Control Database.
"How'd they get their unsharpened little claws on this? We need to delete it!" Tenten cried.
"No, we can't alter anything on this computer," Neji disagreed, leaning back in the chair he sat in.
A new voice interrupted the conversation. "Agents 77 and 46. A pleasure to see you."
That's the end of the first part, now, the next one won't be the continuation. It'll come back randomly.
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-Rose