Chapter 10

8 months later

Tenten POV

It was after school on Friday December 10th of our senior year and it was snowing hard. The streets were all closed due to slippery roads and zero visibility.

I sat in my room with Neji, our arms slightly bloody from our recent cuts. Our depression was always worse in the winter. We didn't know why, it must be the weather.

My mother had cut back on drinking since being picked up by the police eight months ago, but she was slowly getting back to where she was before.

It was later at night so my brothers were already in bed. Leah was in her room skyping with one of her friends and my mother was in her bedroom on her computer.

Neji held me tightly to his chest as I let tears escape from my eyes. I couldn't take it anymore, it was just too much.

I heard Leah laugh from the other room; it must be nice to be happy all the time…I thought.

I buried my face in Neji's shoulder and choked back a sob.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" he asked me in a whisper.

"Yes," I said wiping away one of my tears.

"Just like we planned?"

"Just like we planned," I assured.

I could tell he was trying to be strong, but every once in a while a stray tear would escape from his eyes.

I reached up to turn off my lights and laid back down on my bed to let our eyes adjust to the darkness.

I squeezed the sharp object and winced when it sliced open my hand.

"Are you ready?" he asked.

I nodded, "yeah…"

Sitting up, I gripped the blade between my thumb and pointer finger and touched the tip to my left wrist.

"Tenten…before we do this, I love you. I love you so much I'm willing to die for you, for your happiness. I can't imagine my life without you"

I watched as more tears fell from my boyfriends beautiful white eyes. "I love you too Neji, I love you so much I'm willing to die for you and your happiness as well."

I leaned over and gave him one last kiss. Our foreheads touched, "on the count of three," he said.

"One," I whispered.

"Two," he whispered back.

"Three," we said together.

We whimpered as the blades cut deeper into our wrists then ever before.

I watched as the blood from both of our wrists dripped down onto my bed. I started to feel faint and I could tell Neji had too. We slowly lay back down and my hand found his.

I heard Leah laugh from her bedroom once more…then everything went black.

3rd person POV: Elizabeth

Elizabeth sat quietly on her bed reading through a few emails. She could hear her youngest daughter laughing from her bedroom and her two boys quietly snoring in the room next to hers.

She smiled and thought I'm so lucky to have such wonderful children. She really did love each and every one of her kids. She knew she wasn't very good at showing it most of the time. She hated that she turned to alcohol to relieve the pain of her husbands leaving.

Tenten hates me…I just know it. Elizabeth really felt bad for shutting down and leaving her oldest to take care of her children. It was her job and she dumped it on a child.

Tenten and Neji were currently in Tenten's room and it was getting late. It was time for Neji to go home.

Elizabeth made her way down the hall to Tenten's room. She lightly knocked on the door and opened it.

"Tenten," she said snapping the lights on. But what she saw was unexpected. Their faces were pale, both teens had both their wrists slashed and they were surrounded by their own blood. Their chests barley rising then falling.

She screamed at the sight.

"Mom, what's wrong?!" asked Leah from the hall.

Elizabeth couldn't stop Leah from coming in.

She stopped dead in her tracks at the sight of her dying sister. She screamed.

"Leah," their mother choked out, "get me the phone."

She turned and took off down the stairs.

When Leah returned, Elizabeth quickly dialed 911.

"911, what is your emergency?" asked the lady on the other line.

"M-my daughter and h-her boyfriend, they're…their wrists are slashed," she sobbed.

"Ma'am, please calm down, where are you? We will send an ambulance right away."

Elizabeth gave her the information.

"An ambulance in on its way ma'am, would you like me to stay on the line with you until it arrives?"

"N-no…that's okay."

She hung up and quickly looked for something that could stop the bleeding.

"Leah, I need you to go downstairs and wait for the paramedics."

She nodded and ran down the stairs again.

Elizabeth ran to the upstairs bathroom and grabbed whatever rags she could find and wrapped them around both Tenten's and Neji's wrists to try and stop the bleeding.

She could hear the sirens coming up to the house, then she heard the front door swing open and the paramedics came up the stairs with Leah on their heels.

Both Tenten and Neji were lifted onto the gurneys.

"Mommy, what's wrong with sissy?" one of the twins asked from their bedroom door.

"Shh…everything's going to be okay, but we have to go to the hospital now. Go get your shoes and coats on please."

Leah took the twins down the stairs and got them ready to leave.

Neji and Tenten were lifted into the ambulance.

"Ma'am," said one of the paramedics "would you and your family like to ride with in the ambulance?"

She nodded still in shock at the sight of her daughter and Neji is such a deathly state.

When they arrived at the hospital the receptionist in the emergency room got a hold of Neji's mom.

As they were being rolled out of the ambulance and into the hospital the paramedic explained the situation to the doctor. "Neji Hyuga age 18 and Tenten age 18 were found in her bedroom with both of their wrist deeply slashed in a suicide attempt. They both lost a lot of blood, their going into cardiac arrest."

Suicide? That can't be what this is, Tenten and Neji weren't depressed. But how could she know? She spent most of her waking hours drunk.

Elizabeth, Leah and the twins were ordered to stay in the waiting room.

Yume rushed through the doors of the ER with Hinata and Hiashi.

"What happened?" she asked with fear in her voice.

"T-they tried to kill themselves." Elizabeth answered.

Tears started to fall down Hinata's face, "if only I would have told someone…"

"Hinata, what do you mean?" asked Hiashi.

"Ino, she told me that Tenten was cutting herself and I asked Neji about it…he told me he was doing it too. He made me promise not to tell anyone," she sobbed.

Just then Lee, followed by Shikamaru, Sakura, Ino, Naruto and Sasuke all came running though the ER doors.

"Naruto," Hinata sobbed again as she ran into her boyfriends arms.

"What happened?" asked Sasuke.

"Sasuke," it was his father, "what are you doing here?"

"Lee called us and said that Neji and Tenten were rushed to the ER, what happened?!"

"They've attempted suicide; they both lost a lot of blood and they're going into cardiac arrest."

"What?!" the group yelled in shock.

Ino and Sakura were crying now. "N-no…there going to be okay right?" asked Ino worriedly.

"We don't know yet."

A/N: OOOOHHH! Cliff hanger! This chapter is so much better then the one before it! AHHH! What's gonna happen!? Review!