A/N: I'm drawing out the mission. Grrr... This is another sort of intro chapter. But its an extemely important one... i guess. You decide for yourselves.

Enjoy!

"I don't need any babies. So if you don't think you can handle it get out of my office." She said scrutinizing the three teammates. When no one left she straightened and continued.

"All right, as you may know, there has been a stir up at the border between the land of fire and grass. My earlier team was supposed to maintain order and keep watch for any suspicious activity….." she sighed, "But I received a distress call about an hour ago. So I need you three to go check it out."

Tenten let out a small sigh.

A border mission. That's seems easy.

She thought.

Tsunade must've heard her relief because she then faced the group again.

"Don't let your guard down. This isn't as easy as it looks. I want you all to be cautious."

The team nodded their heads solemnly. Tenten tried not to show her embarrassment.

"Good," Tsunade confirmed, "Now here are you coordinates. Just go." She said ushering them out of her office. Neji took the map and slipped it inside his knapsack.

"We won't need this." He said. He looked at Tenten. "Are you ready to go?" he asked.

Tenten nodded, all the while avoiding his eyes.

"Good, Lee?" he turned in Lee's direction.

"I AM SO READY!" said Lee, pumped as ever. He 'wooed' a couple of times and set off for the gates, leaving Tenten and Neji behind by themselves. They soon fell into a comfortable trot, the gravel crunching under their feet the only thing breaking the silence.

Tenten could feel the awkwardness. It was suffocating. She felt she must break it but then again she didn't want too. She had to make it so that Neji doesn't like her. She had to keep up and not falter. Soon a wisp of brown hair whipped her face. Tenten snapped her head up to see that Neji had taken the liberty of walking in front of her. He was going at a fast pace, completely abandoning her. Suddenly she felt all alone.

Neji turned his head so he could see her, she saw a smirk upon his lips.

Asshole. You're not going to win.

Tenten let her competitiveness take over her fear and she doubled her pace surpassing Neji. She looked back at Neji and smiled. Apparently he wasn't done yet, for he doubled his pace and passed her with ease, again turning around to silently gloat.

Tenten wouldn't have that. She began to run full force down the path, leaving Neji in the dust. She let out a small chuckle.

"Loser." She breathed.

"Loser?" Came a voice from beside her. Neji was running along comfortably beside her, hair whipping around his face. Tenten panicked and ran faster. She wasn't about to lose this game.

Soon they were both running down the path laughing. They ran past Lee and almost knocked him over. They heard his,

"Hey! Guys! Wait for MEee!"

Fade off as they ran.

"Ok! Ok! You win." Said Tenten panting heavily, knees buckling.

"Naturally," said Neji, smiling, and continuing to walk. Tenten got up and kicked his ass (literally). Neji jumped and turned around, hands rubbing his injured area.

"What was that for?" he asked incredulously.

"For being a jerk." Said Tenten smiling and continuing on ahead.

"How was I a jerk?" asked Neji catching up to her.

"You just were." Said Tenten giving a mysterious smile.

"I'm sorry." He said.

Tenten gasped a little and glanced at him, his eyes were wandering up ahead not paying attention to her, but she knew he was watching her in his peripheral vision.

That was unexpected.

She thought. For Neji to suddenly gain some humility and apologize for something he really wasn't. Tenten was just joking, he wasn't really a jerk…. All the time.

Suddenly it hit her.

He really does love me.

Tenten didn't know why or how but that suddenly popped in her mind.

And I really love him.

It was like a veil had been lifted. She could see past all her doubts and fears and see the truth, the naked truth. She didn't care about Hiroki anymore or what he did to her. She was just a love struck child, she had moved along a lot since then. She had gotten stronger emotionally and physically. And deep down she knew Neji wouldn't look at her any differently if he knew how weak she had been, if he knew what had happened to her. The Byakugan can see all but love is blind. He is already blind to her flaws and mistakes, all he saw was her and how great she was.

She looked over at the lavender-eyed Hyuga and smiled inside.

She then slipped her hand into his which caused his lavender eyes to direct themselves upon her. She blushed.

He bent down….

She stood on her tip-toes…

And Tenten felt the stomach butterflies she had just tamed flutter around again….

They were so close….

"Hey! Do not leave me back there again! I was lonely!" screamed Lee jumping in between the two, ruining their perfect moment. Neji scowled at Lee who seemed oblivious to the fact that he had just interrupted a life changing moment.

"We should double our paces, we must get there!" yelled Lee ushering both shinobis forward all the while staying in between them.

Tenten gave a weak smile as doubts again fluttered her mind. She was a strong believer in karma and destiny and all of that crap so naturally she worked out a crack theory that her and Neji weren't meant to be together.

It was the post rejection kind of reasoning.

We're not meant for eachother. If we were Lee wouldn't have interrupted our kiss. We would've kissed and have been done with it. We're not meant for eachother. The godly world is trying to tell me something.

Like if we had started going out we may break up our team or one of us may be killed on a mission because we were so absorbed in each other. And besides Tsunade doesn't approve of relationships between Shinobi on the same team.

That's it. It's a bad idea.

Tenten sighed.

She had gotten rid of all doubt and regained it in about the course of five minutes. Even though she tried to convince herself her knew reasoning was purely for the reasons she had just stated 

deep down she knew it was fear, she hadn't really gotten rid of it. Right before she kissed him she thought she had gotten rid of all of it but there was one sliver and it just grew with every passing second. Now she was disappointed in herself, she had just gotten rid of it and was disappointed that it was still there so she deluded herself into thinking her and Neji was a bad idea for reasons that didn't matter.

Tenten grabbed her sinuses. She was so confused.

A/N: Review, I need some of dem.