A/N: I know this took long, sorry.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, not at all, and never in my whole damn life.

"Hey Neji," he heard Sasuke's voice looming over him, "wake up, damn it."

Neji sat up from his bed and rubbed his eyes with the back of his hands, he glanced at the alarm clock by his side. 10:10.

"It's only 10:10, Suck- suke," he groaned.

"Only?"

He wanted to nod, until a thought ran through his mind, reminding him what day it was. Monday. It was a school day.

"FUCK," he jolted back up, "HELL IT'S MONDAY! WE'RE FUCKING LATE!"

Sasuke scoffed, "about time you figured out. What's the matter with you, gosh."

He looked around for Sai and Shino, "where are they?"

Sasuke turned away walking back to his room, "went to school, you do remember that today is Shino's first day in the ingenuity class, do you?"

Neji made a face, "so? Does that give them reason to leave the house without waking us up?"

Sasuke ignored the question and walked out of Neji's room.

He got up from his bed and changed his clothes, packed his bag and gobbled the first thing that he saw on the breakfast table, a donut.

He grabbed his keys from their usual spot and started his car engine only to realize that it wouldn't start.

"Damn it," Neji cursed, "start you fucking piece of metal! Start!"

As if the car understood what Neji was saying, it broke down before his very eyes.

"Come on," Sasuke said coolly from his car, "I'll give you a lift."

Neji hesitated, as much as he wanted to, he didn't Sasuke to feel that he was in a way inferior to him. In many ways Neji was much more mature than Sasuke and he did have a larger fan base, right.

"If you're going to take public transport," Sasuke spoke, breaking his chain of thoughts, "at least know which bus number you're supposed to board."

Neji didn't catch that, public transport was something almost alien to him.

Sasuke sighed, "you have to walk ten blocks to the nearest bus stop, wait for bus number ten, it'll probably take around ten minutes to arrive. Stop at the tenth stop which should be the train station, board the train and alight at the tenth stop, walk for another ten minutes or so before reaching the school."

Neji can't help but give Sasuke a very stupid looking face, "what?"

Sasuke sighed, "I knew it, just abandon your damn pride and get in, we're already damn late."

Neji and Sasuke walked casually into the classroom, like there was nothing wrong with being late.

It was Kakashi's period.

Neji looked around the class and realized that Shikamaru and Shino had already switched to the ingenuity class, that was quick.

"Sit down the two of you," Kakashi said, handing Sasuke and Neji their graded assignment back, "congratulations, Neji you scored full marks for this test."

Neji received the paper and on the top right hand corner, written in red and bolded with a large circle, was 10/10.

There was a shiver that went down his spine, "10…" he thought, "I had seen too many of these already, it's becoming scary."

Then it hit him.

"It may be a sign," he thought walking back to his own seat.

And as he was doing so, he came to a seat that was rather different than he had imagined. His seat by the window, beside Sai was a little different.

"Believe me," Tenten, who was sitting at where Sai was supposed to be seated, muttered, "I hate this as much as you do."

"Tenten?" he screamed in his head, "Tenten? As in one zero one zero? As in one thousand and ten? As in 1010, 1010? That Tenten?"

Fuck, he's going insane.

He turned towards Kakashi, "please tell me I'm not sitting beside her."

Kakashi thought for awhile, "okay… I'm not going to tell you that you're not not supposed to sit beside Tenten."

Neji wanted to kill him, "isn't that the same as telling me I have to sit next to… to… Tenten?"

"Hey Neji," Kakashi said, seriously, "not everyone here likes there new sitting arrangement."

It was then that Neji found out that everyone in the class was not where they're supposed to be.

"The principal had specifically noted that it was mandatory for the pupils in our class to rearrange our position as she sees this as a possibility of the recent online internet scandals," Kakashi added, "she specifically stated that Gaara, Sasuke and Sakura are not to sit any where near each other. Gaara, Shikamaru and Temari can't be together. Neji, Ino and Sasuke can't be near each other. Lee, Kiba and Naruto to be separated as their too loud together. And Naruto has to retain his original seat as he is disruptive," he kept the note in his pocket, "took me awhile to sort you guys out."

Now he was sitting next to Tenten, behind them were Temari and Sakura, as well as Ino and Sai which are all the way back. On the row next to them is Naruto and Hinata, Kiba and Kankuro and the last row, empty. The final column consisted of Sasuke and Lee, Chouji and Anko and Gaara and Matsuri.

"Neji," Kakashi said, "sit down, it's not like Tenten's going to eat you up, besides, there is a possibility that you may not be sitting next to her. The principal is coming to check on the arrangement and she might want to do some changes."

Neji nodded, "eat you up would be an understatement," he thought, and glanced worriedly at the unhappy Tenten, "more like take over my life."

During Biology, Neji heard some strange noises coming from the table behind him, he had to turn back and check to remember who it was. He wasn't used to the new seating arrangement.

"Temari," he whispered, "can you keep it down?"

"Sorry," she replied, "shut up you weasel!"

He turned back again, "what did you call me?"

Temari tried to get what he was asking, "oh.. oh no, I wasn't calling you a weasel. I'm talking to… Sakura."

Neji looked at Sakura, she was attentively listening in class, ignoring his gaze.

"She doesn't seem like the talkative type," he said skeptically, "what is it?"

Temari rolled her eyes, "it's none of your business, now go."

"If you make another sound," Neji warned, "it will soon be my business."

He turned back to face the front, he tried to continue from where left of.

"Characteristics of enzymes," he read the board, "ok, Neji," he said to himself, what are the characteristics?"

He tapped the table, trying to think of the answer, "er… they're specific, required in minute amounts and…"

She was making those sounds again.

He was about to turn around before Tenten stopped him, "if you must know, whatever that was making those sounds is a weasel."

Neji faced her, "a what?"

"Are you deaf? A weasel."

He scoffed, "a weasel?"

"Yes, a weasel dumbass!"

"I don't believe it," he said, "how did she manage to bring a weasel into the class? Or better yet, how did she get it?"

"She and Shikamaru found it on some hill," Tenten said keeping her volume low, "don't ask me what they were doing there."

He turned around and this time, he saw traced of fur on Temari's table, "there really is a weasel."

"Told you," Tenten wrote something on her textbook.

"How long have they been keeping it?"

Tenten stopped writing and thought for a while, "I think ten days."

"I should have guessed."

"Ok," Gai sen- sei said, "let's learn about youthful MOLE today!"

Gai was the class's chemistry teacher.

"Ok youthful Avogadro thought of a way…" Gai said.

"Avogadro is dead sen- sei," Sasuke interrupted, "that's not very youthful of him is it?"

Gai shook his head, "no, Sasuke, that's not very youthful of you to interrupt while the teacher's talking."

Sasuke rolled his eyes, "whatever Gai sen- sei, can you just get to the point?"

Sasuke didn't like Gai, not at all, he thinks that Gai is curding his intelligence by infecting all his stupidity to the students. Naruto was enough, now it had to be a teacher.

"No, un- youthful Sasuke I can't get to the point," Gai said, "unless you can tell me how many particles one mole of particles contain."

He didn't know. But he also didn't want Gai to continue blabbering away about some youthful dead guy and how he mysteriously stumbled upon this discovery. He wanted to get straight to the point, finish this damn chapter and go to the next, cause guess what? Mid years were arriving and they barely covered half of what they're suppose to cover before the exams.

There was only one person he knew that would read before hand and that was none other than Haruno Sakura. But too bad they weren't near each other, now the whole class was going to undergo a brain drain session because of him.

"6 X 10 to the power of 23 particles, sen- sei," Sakura stood up and answered the question that was meant for Sasuke.

Gai smiled and gave Sakura a thumbs up, "as smart as always youthful Sakura."

Neji was literally about to zone out, although Gai can be really comical and nonsensical in class, it was altogether really boring and hard to keep to a certain level of enthusiasm all the time.

He laid his head onto the table and shut his eyes, prepared to fall into dreamland, "wake me up when chem is over."

"I'm not your maid," Tenten muttered, kicking his leg.

He ignored that and went into sleeping mode.

"So," Gai turned to the board and wrote down the theory, "the Avogadro constant states that one mole of particles contain 6 X 10 power 23 particles, and if you're wondering what is 10 power 23, it is: 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10x 10 x 10x 10…"

God, now he was hearing it in his dreams too, "kill me."

He sat up, "KILL ME!"

Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at Neji with a what- the- hell look.

"I was telling him a ghost story," Tenten lied.

A normal teacher would reprimand Tenten for not paying attention in class, but Gai wasn't a normal teacher.

"Really," Gai came over to their table, "tell me!"

Tenten glared at Neji from the side of her eye, "you owe me one," she muttered.

And the curse of the number 10 continues to strike him.

During Physics…

"Class," Kakashi said, "you will be tested on heat transmission in the next lesson, so do remember the different ways heat is transmitted."

Sakura raised her hand, "how long is the test?"

Kakashi thought for a while, "well it's a short test, I'm aiming for 10 questions, one mark each, so 10 is the total. I guess the test should be 10 minutes then."

Neji banged his head on the table, cause guess what? The test was on chapter 10.

During History…

"Neji," Iruka called, "name me at least 10 social impacts that came about during Hitler's rule."

"Err…" he haven't been studying history at all, it was boring and totally unnecessary, "I don't know."

Iruka shook his head in disappointment, "I guess I'll have to call register numbers then."

"Let me guess," Neji wondered to himself, "register number 10?"

Iruka tapped on the table, "ok, this month is the second month, so 2…"

Neji sighed in relieve, "haha, the curse is wearing off!"

"…plus 8 is ten," Iruka said, "register 10, who is it?"

Neji felt a 5000kg weight fall on him, cause guess what? He was register 10.

During the Lunch Break…

Neji was queuing up for his food, when it was his turn he told the lunch lady the orders for Sasuke, Sai and himself.

"One beef burger with Coke, one Pancake set with extra honey and one spaghetti with extra cheese, how much?" he asked.

The lady logged in the orders and printed the receipt.

He was praying- no begging- that it wasn't ten dollars, or better yet, ten dollars and ten cents.

"8 dollars," she said.

He spaced out.

"8 dollars," she repeated, "are you deaf?"

"8 dollars?" he said, "really?"

"I can charge you 10 dollars if you want," she said.

Neji was about to kindly decline when someone interrupted him.

"Yes charge him 10 dollars, I'm getting onion rings."

He turned to see who was the horrible person who totally, permanently ruined his day, and guess what? It was Tenten.

"You owed me one," she said, "remember?"

During the Lunch Break Part 2…

He sat with Tenten and her friends since: number one, they were his friends, number two, Sasuke and Sai were already there.

He gave Sasuke and Sai their order and Tenten her onion rings and sat down.

"Oh," Temari started, "I almost forgot to tell you guys I'm not coming back for dinner."

"Let me guess," Ino said, "you're going on a date with Shikamaru?"

"You guys got it going really quick," Sakura squealed, "how cute."

Temari smacked Sakura's back and made her choke momentarily, "not you too! Come on, we're just going to the video store-"

"Can't you think of some place more romantic than the video store?" Ino interrupted.

Temari shot a glare at Ino, "no I can't, I'm sorry to disappoint you. And I was saying, we're going there to buy DVDs cause their selling their DVDs for 10 for 10 dollars."

Neji dropped his spoon, "what did you say?"

Temari grinned, "I know it's unbelievable selling each for a dollar."

"No, no," Neji said, rudely, "what did you say?"

"Their DVDs are going at 10 for 10 dollars," Temari said, "why? Are you interested?"

"NO!"

"Chillax Neji," Sasuke patted his back, "you're seriously freaking out."

"I think he skipped his anger management class," Sai suggested.

Neji glared at him, "it's called Yoga."

Sasuke laughed, "whatever, it's still the same. Anyway, you only attend one of their lessons out of the…"

"Ten," Sai added.

Neji screamed into Sai's face, "WHY ARE YOU GUYS HAUNTING ME?"

"Oh my fucking gosh Neji," Tenten yelled at him, "stop it, you've been at it the whole time in class. It's pissing me off."

"I'M PISSING YOU OFF?" Neji screamed losing all forms for his sanity, "WELL IF YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED, YOU'RE THE ANNOYING ONE, ALWAYS BOTHERING ME AND HAUNTING ME. WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT BITCH?"

There was silence.

"Um…" Sakura broke the silence, "I have trig homework to complete."

Everyone knows that she was lying cause she always does her homework at home.

"I'm hungry," Hinata stood up, "need to get something to eat."

She was lying too because everyone knew Hinata had the smallest appetite in the world.

"Need to change my pad," Ino said, "it came this month."

"Again?" Temari asked.

Ino shot Temari a glare, "no, I haven't got it yet, this is the first time this month."

When Ino walked away, there were only Sasuke, Sai, Neji, Tenten and Temari left sitting on the table.

Watching the silence.

"Well, I need to use the bathroom," Sai said.

"What?" Sasuke snapped, "it's your time of the month too?"

"Very funny," Sai said, "just checking on my dick, see if it's still intact."

Temari spat out the water she was drinking, it went all over Sasuke, "what the hell Sai, I'm consuming food."

"Technically, it's water," Sasuke said wipping the water off his clothes with a tissue, "and you didn't consume it, you spat it, spat it on me. Now I have to go to the toilet too."

Temari glared at the two of them, remembering never to forgive any of them for leaving her with the two most angry people at that time.

"So," Temari said intending to break the silence and chill the atmosphere.

"TEMARI!" She recognize Shikamaru's voice from afar.

"I got to go," she stood up, "you know… he needs me, so… um… bye."

They shot daggers at each other, curse the other party in any way they can, using swear words as if there was no tomorrow.

But then, Naruto came along.

"Oh," he exclaimed, "so now the two of you are going out?"

"HELL NO!" they shouted at him in union.

Ino was walking along the hallway, going back to class when she saw Sai and Sasuke in a distance.

"How'd you get away?" Ino asked the two of them.

"The toilet excuse," Sai said, "but it isn't really an excuse, cause your friend Temari spat water all over Sasuke."

She felt a cold happiness inside of her, like she was thanking Temari for spitting on Sasuke, like she was glad that he was spat on. After rejecting her in front of the whole school, and permanently damaging her status, he still dare become her friend. Fine, she'll allow him to come into her circle of friends, but he'll have to beware cause she was going to slowly tear his pride, his dignity, his status, his coolness into tiny, tiny bits. He won't dare reject her any more, he would come wanting her, on his knees he'd ask for her forgiveness. Pure, rich, thick revenge. It was like coffee, bitter, yet vengeance never tasted so sweet.

"You deserved it," Ino said walking away, "Suck- suke."

Temari found Shikamaru near the vending machine, apparently hiding from someone.

"Thank you," she came over to him, "you S-A-V-E-D me."

Shikamaru raised a brow, "you're being kind today."

She smacked his arm and joined him in 'hiding'.

"Now's you're turn to S-A-V-E me," Shikamaru turned to her, "you see that girl over there?"

Temari looked towards the girl he was pointing to, "why? You like her?"

"WHAT?" his voice became all high and pitchy, "what? Hell no, she is so damn annoying."

"Not troublesome?" Temari suggested, "cause that's what you frequently call me."

Shikamaru looked at her, "she is nothing like you, believe me. You're bearable, she's… she's unbearable, it kills."

Temari nodded, "so what do you want me to do?"

"Lure her away," Shikamaru said, "get her away from me."

She laughed, "she's that bad?"

"Fill you in after school," Shikamaru whispered, "now go."

She walked away from the vending machine, feeling Shikamaru's gaze on her. She made her way towards the girl he pointed out, one with her hair tied in two pig tails and round glasses. Your typical nerd.

"Excuse me," she tapped the girl's shoulder, she seemed to be looking for something, "are you looking for something?"

She turned around and seemed pretty surprised when she saw Temari, "yes, in fact I am. I think you should know where it is."

Temari nodded slowly, "how do I know where it is if you don't tell me what you're looking for?"

"I'm talking about Shikamaru," she said curtly, "where is he?"

"What makes you think I know where he is?" she shot back, she didn't feel like being nice to this little nerd face anymore.

She smirked, "cause you have him in your pocket, letting him think that he's yours. Well let me tell you something, witch, when he is broken from your genjutsu, he'll come running to me, so enjoy him while you can."

"Witch? Genjutsu?" Temari couldn't stand this bitch, "you're talking like Shikamaru's Channel wallet we're fighting for. Well let me make this clear to you missy: number one, don't talk about Shikamaru like he is some kind of product you can buy and keep, number two, we're so not fighting for him, at least not me, number three, I hate Channel."

Just when Temari's about to walk away, the girl grab hold of her arm, "number four, if Shikamaru ever asks you to be his girlfriend, would you?"

She turned and faced the girl, "I don't know who you are and what you want from me, but all I know is that Shikamaru doesn't want you hanging around him and has personally sent me to 'lure' you away and if you really like him, listen to him and just leave him alone."

"I'm afraid I can't," she said before Temari could walk away, "I know he doesn't like me, not yet, but if I have to, I will do whatever it takes to have him in my hands, even if it means eliminating the competition."

Temari felt uncomfortable inside by that statement, she felt uneasy, like her life is at stake. Quickly, she picked up her pace and reported back to Shikamaru.

"Remember what we planned today ok?" Temari told him once she returned, "you must never, never forget, you must come even though your life is at stake, I will keep waiting at the school gate for you, I won't leave until you come. Understand?"

"Relax, Temari," Shikamaru gave her a weird face, "I mean, I will be there, wouldn't miss it for the world."

"Right," Temari laughed, "there will be no world if you miss it. That damn bitch threatened me."

"What did she say?" Shikamaru asked.

"No matter what it takes she'll get you, even if it means eliminate the competition," Temari scoffed, "how can she see me as competition, I mean she was pratically shooting daggers at me!"

"Shooting daggers?"

"Yeah," Temari said, "she won't dare kill me."

Shikamaru stopped on his tracks, "but she dares kill an animal."

They ran at light speed towards the classroom, towards Temari's new table and Shikamaru watched Temari ransack her whole table to find that fur ball.

Hinata was watching the two of them the whole time.

"It's not here," Temari said zipping her bag, "it's not anywhere."

"She took it?" Shikamaru asked.

Temari nodded, "most probably."

There was silence. Only Neji, Sasuke, Sai, Sai, Ino, Hinata and Tenten were there at that time.

"Oh well," Temari sat down on her chair, "nothing we can do about it."

Shikamaru agreed.

"Hey Shikamaru," Sai smiled at him, "where's my brother?"

"He was in the school backyard," Shikamaru said, "examining bugs."

Sai's smiled eye widen, "freako."

"Oh My God," Hinata exclaimed, "you two are the two most heartless people I've ever seen in my life."

"No, I just can't be bothered," Shikamaru said, "she's the heartless one."

"Whatever," Ino said, "Sakura brought it to the toilet, it was dirty."

…

"Can't you guys at least show you care?" Hinata demanded.

"OH GOODNESS! THANK GOD OUR DARLING WEASEL IS SAVED!" Temari acted out, "I ALMOST DIED OF A HEART ATTACK."

"That's better," Ino laughed.

And just when Neji thought the curse was wearing off…

"Damn it!" Temari cursed.

"What?" Shikamaru asked.

"I dropped my phone like 10 times today," she said picking up the phone on the floor.

"That's going to leave like ten marks."

During English…

Kakashi handed out their recent English test back to them after marking it. He looked thoroughly disappointed.

"I am very upset with your tenses," Kakashi said, shaking his head.

Neji jolted up from his sleeping position, "ten- ses?"

"Yes Neji," Kakashi seemed to have heard him, "your ten- ses," he turned to face the class, "so want you guys to go back home and write a ten thousand word essay on how tenses should be used, and do your corrections in green, copy each question ten times and hand it in by tomorrow, ten sharp."

And Mathematics was the worst…

Kurenai was writing a question on the board an explaining to the class, how to go about solving equations.

"So all you have to do is to bring over this 10, so that all the unknowns are on the other side and solve this side and you get 10. Then go on to solve the other side and you get 10x," Kurenai wrote, "so if 10x is equalivalent to 10, what is x? Naruto?"

"Ten?"

"No," Kurenai rubbed her temples, "10 divided by 10 is?"

"Ten?"

"Ok, pay attention Naruto, what is ten over ten?"

"Ten."

"Are you trying to kill me?"

"No, I said my answer was ten."

"It's one Naruto," Neji interrupted, "the answer is one."

"Since you're so smart Neji," Kurenai handed him the marked, "answer that question."

Neji sighed, "question ten?"

Kurenai nodded.

He didn't know what's worst, doing question ten or have question ten's answer be 'coincidentally' ten to the power of ten?

He didn't listen when Fumiko showed them the foot drills, because what she kept saying was: "10 sets of 10 to the right, pivot, then 10 sets of 10 to the left, pivot, remember to swing your arms, not to high, at about 10 degrees or so. Get it?"

So he decided to confide in Sai, the only one he dared to talk to. Cause he knew Sai wasn't the type who would rub into the issue and give stupid advice.

"… and I see the number ten EVERYWHERE!" Neji complained, "it's killing me, tearing me into bits and eating me from the inside."

Sai laughed, "now I really think that you are cursed," Sai stated, "cause what do you know? Tenten said the exact same thing about you."

"What?"

"Ino told me," Sai said, "you know how we don't really listen in class."

"What the fuck is wrong with me today?" Neji screamed, "this feels like a horribly written chapter of a fanfiction!"

"You read fanfiction?"

"Maybe…"

There was an awkward silence.

"Just, just think of a solution," Neji said, "to rid me of this curse, cause normally your ideas seem to work."

Sai thought for a moment, stroking his chin and nodding to himself. He tapped his fingers onto his cheek and looked at the ceiling of the toilet.

"Cut the act, Sai," Neji smacked his arm.

"Kiss her."

"What the fuck?" Neji almost flew backwards, "have you permanently lost all your brain cells? Why the fuck should I kiss her?"

"Because…" Sai said, "you said my ideas always seems to work."

Neji wanted to argue back, but he didn't have a good reason to, "give me a rational reason."

Sai sighed, "well, for starters, a kiss can change a lot of things, turn it good, turn it bad, either way, but it always changes something."

"Example?"

"Lets see," Sai thought for a while, "you know how Sleeping Beauty was awakened by the prince's kiss, right? And how Snow White was revived by her prince's kiss too. And the little mermaid, she had to get her true love's first kiss to gain back her voice. The stories always involve 'a true loves first kiss' to require a problem to be resolved."

"I said something rational," Neji enforced, "not something that came out of someone's imagination."

"A kiss can kill you too," Sai said, "poison Ivy did that to-"

"Sai," Neji interrupted him, "I want to tell you that this, what I'm experiencing now, is not a story, it feels like one, but sadly it is not. So please stop this stupidity and please, please seriously help me out."

Sai stood up, "I draw the future and listen to the past, as for the present, the most I can help is through advice, if you're not taking me seriously, then I shan't waste my time. We have an exhibition coming up and Konan would be angry if I can't contribute at all."

Neji was silent as Sai walked toward the exit of the toilet, but before he could leave, Neji stopped him.

"You sure about this?" Neji asked before Sai could leave.

Sai looked back and smiled his calming smile, "God damn it, just kiss the girl."

Alright, he might kiss her.

"Shika- kun!" was what Temari could hear from a mile away and coming closer.

She was walking to the school gate with the single intention of waiting for Shikamaru, but apparently, he was waiting for her. She quickened her pace as Shikamaru was frantically beckoning her over.

"What?" she asked when she met him, "you're worried she would bother you?"

"More like follow us," Shikamaru said opening the door for Temari, "get in."

Temari obeyed and slid into the slick limousine, followed by Shikamaru.

"Ok," he told the butler, "you know to where."

Temari looked through the back window and watched as the girl's figure became smaller and smaller as they drove further and further away.

"I kind of pity her," Temari said, once she could no longer see the girl, "we know that she's like following you, but we chose to ignore her."

"Don't pity her," Shikamaru said, "and it wasn't us who ignored her, it is only me."

Temari kept quiet.

"She stalks me," Shikamaru said softly, "everywhere I go, she follows, she knows everything about me when I know nothing about her. Normally I wouldn't care about such things, but… I don't know, her whole demeanor is frightening."

"You know what?" Temari said, "this is the first time you're so honest to me, thank you."

"I know," Shikamaru agreed, "it scares me too."

"We'll just focus on grabbing good DVDs and coming out of the whole sale alive," Temari smiled, "right?"

"Alive?" Shikamaru repeated, "why did I ever agree to this?"

"Let's just say," Temari hesitated for a while, "I have grown to become one of your best friends."

"Those were the first words that came out nicely from you mouth," Shikamaru grinned, "troublesome."

The place was packed when they got there, everyone was pushing anyone just to get to their favourite DVD rack. Shikamaru and Temari had managed to cover the horror, fantasy, romance, adventure and inspirational movie racks.

"We're skipping the next one," Temari said as they sqeezed their way to the next rack containing a different genre of movies, "I don't think any of us would like this one."

"This is possibly the first time I am hardworking enough to push past so many people, troublesome," Shikamaru said, "what is the next one anyway?"

"Old movies," Temari replied, "as in those mega old ones, like those they show on the Turner Classic Movies Channel. It'll bore anyone, especially you, to hell."

They managed to squeeze past to the Old Movies rack and wandered around the aisle, it was practically empty.

"You're right," Shikamaru said looking around, "it'll bore anyone."

"But not everyone," Temari said and pointed to the rack next to theirs, "look who decided to drop by."

Shikamaru looked towards the direction Temari pointed to and true enough someone was there,

behind the rack,

watching them.

"Fuck," Shikamaru almost jumped, "it's her, it's Shiho!"

"Shiho?" Temari asked, "oh… the stalker girl?"

Shikamaru ignored whatever Temari had just said, "stop following me, Shiho, this has got to stop."

"Is it wrong to be a little obsessed?" She asked.

"You're crazy," Temari muttered, "we can report you."

"If you do," Shiho said looking at a shiny object, "then I'll have to resort to desperate measures."

Then she flashed out a knife, "like killing."

Shikamaru held Temari by her arm and started pulling her away, "we have to get out of here."

They left in the crowd, and slowly, Shiho's insane face disappeared behind them. The two of them made their way to the cashier and Shikamaru tossed out a fifty- dollar bill from his pocket, "keep the change," he said and they ran out of the store into the limousine.

"This can't be happening," Temari said once they were far from the store, "I mean, one stalker after another, what kind out luck do we have?"

"A bad one," Shikamaru joked.

Temari looked at him, astonished, "my life is in danger because of some insane fangirl of yours, and you're making jokes at this point of time. This… this… is like some rip off movie, the characters are going into one trauma after another."

"Move to my house," Shikamaru said, "the security there is tight, I can ensure you nothing unauthorized can enter."

Temari scoffed, "now I'm starting to think that this is some elaborate plan to get me to come live with you, did you pay her to act all insane? She's a really good actress, she scared the shit out of me."

"Troublesome," Shikamaru muttered, "you're thinking too much."

"I can take perfectly good care of myself," Temari said stubbornly, "I don't need your help."

"Then suit yourself," Shikamaru said, "don't blame me if you find yourself dead the next morning," he paused, "you can't actually, cause you're dead."

They were quiet.

"I hate you," Temari said, "cause now I have no choice but to move in."

They doorbell rang when they were eating their dinner, Ino went to get it since she was the closest to the door.

"Yes?" She opened to the door, to find a shocking revelation, "Neji? Oh my god, what are you doing here?"

"Yes," Ino thought, "he is finally going to ask me out, after such a freaking long time, yes! Haha, plan 'make Uchiha Sasuke come down to his knees' is commencing!"

Or maybe not.

"Um…" Neji had to cover the first step, "I want to see…"

"Do you want to come in?" Ino asked.

"NO!" Neji almost yelled in her face, "I mean, I just need to see someone."

He didn't want to, because, what if he goes inside and chances upon more things that remind him of that horrible number; ten? He would be entering the territory of ten and what if she had her whole room decorated in ones and zeros! It would kill someone who took signs seriously like him.

"Ok," Ino said, "who do you need to see."

He didn't know why she was raising her eyebrows up and down and up and brow, but what the heck, at least she wasn't doing it ten times. Or was she?

"I need to see Tenten," Neji said.

Ino eyebrows stopped their twitching, "Tenten?"

She said as if she didn't know anyone called Tenten.

"Are you sure?" Ino asked, "you're calling Tenten, my friend."

Neji nodded, "yes, I'm sure."

Ino eyed him suspiciously, "Tenten," she called.

Tenten appeared from the dinning room, dressed in her nightie.

"What the hell?" Tenten said when she saw Neji, "did you come here to express your intense hatred for me?"

"No," Neji said uneasily, "what I'm about to do is going to permanently damage you and me, but I have to do this cause… I need to."

He couldn't tell her that he was haunted by the number ten.

"Are you going to show me a magic trick or something?" Tenten was at the doorstep already.

Neji shook his head.

"Cause I really need to…" Tenten's voice was blurred by another empowering voice in his head- Sai's.

"God Damn it," Sai's voice echoed in his head, "just kiss the girl."

Neji inhailed deeply, this was going to take alot of willpower.

"… the girls are probably waiting for me," Tenten continued talking as if Neji was still listening, "the food is getting cold, so I need to-"

She was cut off.

By a kiss on her lips.

Yes,

He kissed her,

on her lips.

He had pulled her by the collar of her nightie and caught her lips before the chance went away. He held her close as he feel her soft, damp lips collide with his, pale, cold ones.

His touch was ice cold, but what she felt inside was burning hot, flaming, it was numbing her mind, body and soul. She couldn't move, partially because of his grasp and her shock.

Neji's hand was tracing her neckline, feeling her collar bone under her skin and proceed to cupping her jaw bones and feeling her warm, fiery cheeks in his palm.

Tenten found her hands at his shoulders, she allowed them to go down to his chest and feel the hard muscles beneath the soft fabric of his shirt. She followed it's contour and pressed herself against it.

After a few seconds went by, Neji pulled away. It was more then what he had originally needed. Tenten backed away and scowled at him.

"Why the fuck did you do that?" She demanded, "that was… god, you're annoying."

She watched him take two dices from his pocket and tossed them to the ground. She watched them rolling around in circles and finally come to a stop.

"Two and four," Neji read out the numbers on the dice, "six. Thank god it worked."

Tenten signed, "now you're being really stupid."

Neji stood up and faced her, "thank you."

She crossed her hands, "I don't know what I did, but, you're welcome?"

He smiled and walk away, leaving Tenten behind with a memory of a kiss.

A/N: So you must be wondering, why did Neji take the whole 'I see 10 everywhere' thing so seriously, well I guess it's because he takes signs seriously and hence, they have a bigger impact on him than on anyone else. So here was chapter ten. Hope you enjoyed.

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