Yeah, not really much to say for this chapter enjoy!

Chapter 11; Court date; The trial part 1

For the next two weeks since New Years Neji slowly wormed his way deeper into Tenten's broken heart weaving it slowly back together. Everyday Tenten found a white rose or two on her desk, and on some occasions three. She humored him by keeping the roses in a vase on her desk. Filling it everyday with fresh water. He flirted every now and then giving her compliments, or when he would thank her for something give her a peck on the cheek and then leave. She found his cheesy romantic moves...nice. Yet, as all this progressed, Neji discovered another one of Tenten's secrets, a deep child like fear she kept deep in her heart.

It was a Saturday night and they were working late, Tenten stood next to him with a stack of papers in one arm and in her other hand was a paper that she was reading out loud to him as he typed away at his computer. As she was finishing reading it off to him she began to lower the stack on the table. The moment her fingers left it and she was about to finish the last sentence there was a loud THWOOOM and they were shrouded in darkness. Tenten screamed and dropped the paper quickly covering her mouth, Neji had jumped slightly at her scream but was other wise unfazed by the sudden darkness. He turned to where he knew Tenten was, he stood up, the leather chair slightly squeaking as he did, he heard a quiet gasp

"N-neji i-is that you?"

"Yes, it's me, it seems there's a city wide power outage, I guess well have to wait till the lights come back on, then well leave." He received no response, but he swore that he could hear her hyper ventilating.

"Tenten?" she stopped

"are you alright?"

"f-fine"

he smirked"you're not afraid are you?"

"O-of course not!" he could almost see her cheeks puff in annoyance as she would cross her arms over her chest.

His eyes quickly began to adjust and he could make out her petite shape in front of him. He smirked 'might as well test it' he reached out his hand and skimmed his finger tips up her thigh, she gasped and jumped back

"N-neji i-i s-s-swear-!"

"I thought you weren't afraid?"

"you touched me!"

"did I?"

she was silent for a moment "d-dont play with me! I dont like that!"

"so you are afraid?"

"no!" he reached out and grabbed some strands of hair that rested on her shoulder, she squeaked and slapped his hand away "stop that!"

"i dont know what you're talking about?" he quietly and nonchalantly made his way around with out her noticing. He pushed the hair from the nape of her neck away, she froze, he then blew on the back her neck, she shrieked and turned around while clasping a hand to her neck

"ASSHOLE!" she was slowly backing away from him, he quietly made his way around her again, as she bumped into his chest he then wrapped his strong arms around her waist. She screamed 'im having way to much fun with this' He chuckled deeply into her hair making her stop and then begin to pound on his arms yelling insults and profanities at him.

"just confess Tenten, that's all I want." she huffed

"so," he turned her around in his arms. "are you afraid?" he sat their silently starring at the silhouette of her head, she didn't speak but instead she brought the side of her face to his chest with her arms wrapped around him tightly, and nodded her head, she then buried her face deeper and listened to his heart beat.

"i'm here" he kissed the top of her head, her scent invading his senses "everything's going to be okay." he rested his cheek on her head taking in a deep breath then letting out. She didn't speak but her grip tightened on him, and she obviously relaxed. This is what he wanted for the rest of his life, to be her safety line, the thing that protects her and comforts her, and makes every little thing better, the one that she knows no matter what will always love her and be there for her. He still has work to do.

He was tired of standing after a bit and walked over to the nearest wall and sat down leaning against it, Tenten stood awkwardly infront of him, he smiled

"come on, it's fine" she slowly got down on her knees and crawled over to him, getting on his lap nervously and snuggled into him. He wrapped his arms tightly around her and rested his cheek against her head. Lightly rubbing her arm with his thumb. There was suddenly a loud noise making Tenten jump and grip on to him tighter, but it was just the AC turning on. He didn't tell her that, so he wouldn't embarrass her and just tightened his hold on her back.

She pressed her face into his chest as she meekly said "don't go...okay?"

he smiled and looked down at the outline of her head "i wouldn't dream of it."

* TIME SKIP *

February 11, Neji and his co workers are having a meeting and Tenten is present taking notes, Valentines day is just around the corner and the business is going crazy preparing. Neji sat their listening yet eyeing Tenten at the same time. She was wearing a very loose and flowy black off the shoulders top that was long sleeved, along with a pair of tight black high rise pants, her shirt was tucked in. She wore her usual flats and her hair was down and perfectly straight. It was the most upper body skin she'd ever shown at work, but he wasn't complaining. Every now and then though when her hair moved he could faintly see the scars and raised skin on her shoulders, but they hardly existed anymore giving him some comfort. Yoko suddenly appeared at the door way, everyone excluding Tenten looked up.

"Mrs. Tenten?" she resumed writing

"yes, Yoko?"

"you have a visitor" her writing stopped and her eyes searched it a bit then she slowly turned to Yoko.

"a visitor?"

"yes, he said that he was very important, and that he just had to see you." Neji was taken aback 'he?!'

Tenten voiced his thoughts "he? I wasnt expecting anyone? Whats his name?"

"Well he didn't ex-"

"TEN CHAN!" a man suddenly appeared next to Yoko in the door way he had silver hair that he kept in a low ponytail with black eyes and a pair of large round glasses. He was wearing what looked to be white medical scrubs, tennis shoes on his feet and a winter jacket,

Tenten blinked a few times "uh?" the man ran forward and wrapped his arms around her standing to full height, her with him and swinging her from side to side.

"oh how i've missed you! It's been so long!"

"c-cant bre-eathe!"

Sai came to her rescue "i think you're suffocating her." she was immediately put back down as she tried to catch her breathe, the man took no notice though as he began to speak a mile per minute about things Tenten didn't even know about. She blinked a few times and looked at the guys for help, they were as confused as she was, even Neji. She sighed as he suddenly stopped

"look i'm sorry, but I really don't know who you are."

"oh Ten chan! It's me! Kabuto!" Tenten stopped for a moment as she starred at the peculiar man in front of her, the name and now that she looked at him did seem familiar, but he seemed out of place.

She looked into his eyes and saw a certain glint in them that she had never seen before but in one other person, she mentally gasped at the realization...

* FLASHBACK*

For some reason Orochimaru had asked her to come with him to run a very important errand. They got out of the car when Tenten suddenly realized where they were, she began to follow him as he walked towards the building and inside

"um sir?"

"yesssss, Tenten?"

"what are we doing at an asylum?"

"were vissssiting my little brother" Tenten continued walking beside him but was in shock 'little brother? What the hell?' When they entered he approached the front desk and began to ask the woman to go see his brother, the woman typed a bit on her computer and then asked them to follow her. They followed the tall chubby woman up a few flights of stairs and down some hall ways, Tenten was a little on edge as it seemed the mentally unstable people she saw were only getting worse and worse the deeper and deeper they went into the ward. They suddenly stopped in front of a white door. The woman took out a rather large key and opened it, she entered with Orochimaru and Tenten following her. First thing they saw was a wall with a chalkboard size window and a door to the right of it, it looked into a white room, there was a man sitting on the floor with a straight jacket on, his knees were bent and it seemed as if he was looking at something in his lap, but they couldn't see it due to his legs, every now and then an amused grin came to his face with a laugh. Tenten watched him and blinked a few times

"yessssss, Tenten, even though we look nothing alike, that issss my mentally unsssstable little brother." The woman suddenly opened the door,

"hes reading at the moment" Orochimaru nodded

"come, Tenten" she was slightly taken aback 'go? In there?' but she still followed she watched the boy as they entered and remembered what the nurse said, 'he's just reading, he doesn't seem...that...oh' As Tenten neared him she saw there was nothing on his lap, he was hallucinating. She looked over as she saw Orochimaru squat in front of him he motioned for her to join him she walked over and kneeled next to him.30 minutes passed of her boss talking to his brother and her every now and then being in the conversation, his brother seemed to really take a liking to her calling her Ten chan. She sincerely doubted him and Orochimaru were truly related, until she truly looked at his eyes, that malicious glint was still in them, that was when she knew.

As they were leaving she asked "sir, why is your brother kept under so much security? He doesn't seem that ill?"

"You sssssee Tenten, my brother may be crazy, but he'sss not sssstupid."

* END OF FLASHBACK *

Tenten's heart raced increased, she also remembered why he was put there in the first place, he had murdered their parents in cold blood, and apparently another time a bird had gotten in the vent of the hospital, and it wasn't till a few hours later when he was covered in blood and guts of the poor thing that they realized he had eaten it. She peered at his clothes again and realized they were from the ward, She had to act fast, she looked and realized Yoko was now standing behind Kabuto, watching them wearily.

"oh Kabuto! Of course! How could I forget! Im so sorry! Ive just been so busy lately, it's so good to see you!" she then jumped up and wrapped her arms around him, she didn't notice how Neji's eyes went ablaze with jealousy, but It was quickly put out as they all noticed that Tenten was mouthing desperately to Yoko to call security. She nodded her head and left the room.

She pulled back with a tight smile

"here sit sit, tell me whats been going on"

they all watched and listened as the boy spoke utter nonsense to Tenten, but she seemed to understand him perfectly she would nod and smile and laugh, and put in her voice at certain parts of the conversation, but they all knew she was nervous. It was unusual for her, she was always so calm, Neji watched as she played with the fabric that poofed out from her tucked in shirt, and how she played with the top of the shirt, 'she's not even trying and she turns me on' Suddenly Yoko stepped in and whispered something into Tenten's ear, Kabuto took no notice. When she left another tight smile came on to Tenten's features

"hey, Kabuto, do you wanna do something fun?"

he looked up at her with happy eyes "oh yes! Yes!"

"well..." she started as two security guards walked in "these are my friends Toshiko and Shotzu, they're gonna take you to a special fun place for special people."

realization came to the guys

"really? What kind of special place?" he jumped up with excitement

"it's a secret silly! I cant tell you!"

"will you come with me Ten chan?!"

"no I cant im not special enough, but maybe ill visit, hows that sound?"

"okay!"

"now be good and go with my friends okay?"

"okay Ten chan! Ill see you later!" Tenten stiffly smiled and waved goodbye as the two men escorted him out. When he was gone she whipped around and all but lunged at the phone in the middle of the table, she dialed a number and tapped her nails on the table as it rang, the boys listened to her speak

"What the hell is your problem?!...YES! Your problem dumb ass! Do you have any idea what your brother is doing?! …...Oh, don't play coy with me! Why the hell is he not in the asylum!... you arrogant jerk! He's not well he's sick! Im sending him back, and your lucky im not going to accuse you of helping him get out! What do you want a serial killer or something?!...you'd like that wouldn't you?...excuse me?...your sick...BURN IN HELL!" She slammed the phone on the receiver and walked away from the table shoving her hands into her scalp and taking in deep breaths.

They watched her silently, Yoko returned with a wireless phone in hand

"Ms. Tenten you have a call." she was banging her head against the wall

"who is it?" Yoko didn't speak, Tenten stopped and looked at her

"its... " The boys glued there eyes to Tenten to see what she would do, she slowly walked to Yoko, grabbed the phone and hissed

"what?" she began to walk out, the last thing they heard was "oh yeah dip shit of course I didn't know that you were sueing me for your fucking hair!"

they watched the door for when she would come back in, Yoko stood closely too it, tightly gripping her hands against her chest, she suddenly took a few steps back

"is something wrong Yoko?" Neji rose an eyebrow and eyed her carefully

"Ms. Tentens aura just changed dramatically." she responded with a shaky voice

"aura?" Naruto looked around at the others.

Suddenly Tenten burst in and shoved the phone back in to Yoko's hands while grumbling with livid eyes, she grabbed her things and her purse

"and where do you think you're going?" she turned to look at Neji

"to talk to my lawyer"

"why?" she began to leave

"because apparently I have to be in court in THREE MOTHER FUCKING DAYS!" she stormed out with Yoko jogging behind her

"Tenten wait! Something was left for you!" she stopped in her tracks and turned as Yoko went behind her desk and pulled out a silver snake paperweight, she put it in Tenten's hands she examined it carefully

"who brought it in?"

"Kabuto" she continued to examine it and turn it, she suddenly gasped and her eyes went wide with horror as she saw the dried blood completely covering one side 'this is...' she dropped the thing to the floor as if it had burnt her, when it met the floor the head of the snake broke off making a sound that resembled glass breaking, while the larger part of the weight made a loud clattering sound, she stepped away from it carefully.

"Tenten! Are you alright? Whats wrong? What happened?"

Tenten shook her head and tore her gaze from the paper weight "n-nothing, I have to go."

The boys silently sat there until Neji turned to Sai " I thought you said these types of cases weren't settled till a full year has passed, it hasnt been a year."

Sai began to stroke his chin in thought "that's what im wondering, this Karin girl might have more power than we thought."

Neji turned to Saskue " what did you find out about this girl?"

"well nothing really important she's 24, Tenten and her went to high school together, she's 5'4'', has brown hair, her dad is filthy rich, and apparently she's the president and founder of the Neji Hyuuga fan club...that's creepy man."

Neji tried to ignore the last part "anything else? Anything unusual or actually important?"

"no, not really, all I really know is that she's never worked a day in her life, and from other digging I did, she tortured Tenten in high school day in and day out."

He thought a moment "why? What happened between them?"

"hey, that was the first thing I asked, but I never got an answer cause nobody knew. All they knew was that Karin hated Tenten while Tenten hated her. Karin was popular in highschool while Tenten was a "nerd", maybe she just found her easy to pick on?"

Kiba, Lee and Naruto laughed "are you kidding me? Tenten? That girl is a ticking time bomb just waiting to explode."

"yeah, she doesn't let anybody walk all over her."

"they are right! Ms. Tenten is very prideful and strong, I dont ever imagine her being weak!" Neji was silent for a moment, thinking how he had seen what she never wanted anyone to see, her being weak.

"true" Shikamaru started "but people change and-" he stopped as everyone heard a noise like glass breaking.

"what was that?"

"i dont know?"

"lets go check it out." Neji stood from his chair and walked out.

They walked towards the receptionist desk where they saw Yoko kneeling on the floor picking up the pieces to something metal.

"Yoko are you alright? what happened?" Neji held out a hand to her

"oh im fine" she grabbed the hand and stood up while brushing off her skirt"i'm just worried about Ms. Tenten is all, you see," she held out the pieces of the paperweight for them to see "that Kabuto boy told me to give this to her as a gift, and when I handed it to her she started looking at it, and as if the thing had bit her she dropped it and she seemed utterly terrified by it, the things creepy dont get me wrong but, I just dont understand?"

Neji took the pieces from her and began to look at them "where is she now?"

"she just left sir" he turned it over and something caught his eye, along the side was a maroon colored substance in the cracks of the scales and slightly staining the metal, he looked towards Sai and threw it to him

" have a look at that would you" he nodded his head and left. The boys assured Yoko that it was probably nothing and that everything would be fine. Neji then walked into his office and sat down in his leather chair turning it so he was facing the glass wall 'what's going on?'

TIME SKIP *

Tenten drove into the parking lot of the court and realized it was quite full, she prayed it wasn't for her case, if it was she was more than sure she'd stab someone. She got out of the car with her bag and walked into the building, right when she did Tsunade was sitting there on a bench wearing a gray suit jacket with a gray skirt that was a few inches above the knee with a white button up underneath that showed a lot of cleavage. She smiled at her and Tenten did like wise

"sorry, did I keep you waiting?" they began to walk towards the court room

"no not at all I had practically just arrived myself , by the way im glad you took my advice, nice out fit" she winked at her and Tenten lightly blushed causing the beautiful woman to laugh. Tsunade had told her that the judge was a perv and they might be able to get him in their favor if he saw a beautiful woman, Tenten wore a tight long sleeve white scoop neck, she then wore an icy blue tight high rise pencil skirt that was half an inch shorter than mid thigh, she also wore a pair of black 3 inch heels, with half of her hair brought up with an icy blue bow

"love the bow by the way"

Tenten laughed "thanks"

They began to near the courtroom

"Tsunade, are we going to have and audience with our case? Like strangers sitting their listening and watching this all happen?"

"yes of course why?"

"i'm just hoping their wont be many"

"well..." they were now standing in front of the door and when they opened it Tenten was met by a sight of a courtroom that looked like it was on the verge of bursting with people. One of her purse straps slipped down her shoulder, her mouth was agape and her eyes wide. Tsunade rubbed the back of her head with an anime sweat drop

"it's not that bad, really" but Tenten was still in shock. She grabbed the girls arm and led her in, they walked to the front and sat in their proper place to the right of the court room. Tsunade began to take the proper things out of her bag and laying them out in front of them.

"pssst." Tenten stopped and looked at both of her sides but saw no one 'I must be hearing things' "pssst!" 'great way to start off the first day Ten' "pssssst! Tenten behind you!" the voice whispered loudly, she whirled around in her chair and almost fell out of it, when she saw who it was.

It was her boss's and she was about to have a fit, she looked around wildly and whispered

"what are you guys doing here?!"

Neji answered "you are an important employee, how could we not come?"

"yes dear Tenten we will be of moral support!"

"yeah!" chimed in Naruto. She sweat dropped while cocking her head to the side in defeat, and slowly turned back around in her chair 'why me?!' she straightened up 'come on Tenten, it's fine, it couldn't get any worse' the doors were suddenly slammed open as she heard the click of heels entering and that nasally voice say

"I'M HERE I'M HERE! NOBODY WORRY!" 'oh what do you know, I was wrong' Tenten turned in her seat and glared at the red head who walked in with her apparent fanclub behind her cheering her on. She groaned while rolling her eyes, but then something caught her eye 'Karin's hair it's... long' a smirk came to her face as Karin began to strut by, she saw her and turned towards her glaring

"and what are yoouuu smiling about panda?" she inwardly flinched at that nickname, only her friends were allowed to call her that

"oh nothing, I'm just admiring that hideous wig on your head"

she gaped "for your information they're extensions!"

"they're hideous" she dully replied

"no thanks to you!" she huffed and turned her head while crossing her arms "oh but what am I getting all worked up about?" she gave Tenten a side glance " My lawyers amazing and he'll leave you wishing you never messed with me!" she pointed a thumb to herself

"and who would your lawyer be?" Tenten raised an eyebrow, Karin only smirked

"that, would be me." a pale hand suddenly came to rest around Karin's waist, her eyes widened 'that voice, it can't be...' she snapped her head at Tsunade she looked concerned for her. She then quickly looked up and saw the man she never wanted to see again

"Orochimaru" her eyes narrowed

"Tenten, you look" his eyes raked over her "delicious"

She cringed obviously in disgust

"what are you doing here? And how the hell did you become a lawyer?"

" Now, Tenten, you don't think that I would be a CEO and yet have nothing to fall back on did you?" she starred in shock "oh, I hope you liked my gift by the way." He smirked as he walked away with Karin

"YOU-!" she was a about to lunge at him, but Tsunade quickly caught her and sat her down.

"he's an ass I understand that, but we cant go hurting him, it could look very bad on us." Tenten crossed her arms and nodded her head silently.

"All rise for judge Jiraya."

Everyone stood and silently watched as a tall man entered with long white hair that was tied in a low ponytail, he had red lines going from under his eyes to the bottom of his face he looked up when he was getting to his chair and took notice of Karin in he skin tight purple extremely low cut button up and her very short black skirt and fish nets with stiletto heels. He was obviously pleased, but his eyes only seemed to get even happier as he saw Tenten's out fit with her extremely curvy body, she was sure that she almost saw him drool, but he quickly gained his composure and told everyone to sit. Once everyone was seated, he looked at his paper and said

"alright prosecution will give their opening statement first",

suddenly Tsunade stood, "I thought we agreed that defense would go first?"

he looked at her and smirked "true, but I changed my mind, and it is my court room so i'll do what I want" Tsunade scowled and set down in her chair with fist tightened 'damn him'. Orochimaru smirked as he approached the podium.

After Orochimaru went Tsunade went, and then it was time to send up witness' to the stand. The first was a doctor who had apparently seen Karin after her "attack" Orochimaru questioned him first

"Sssso tell me doctor Raku, how did Karin approach you when she firssst entered your office?"

"well, she seemed quite shaken, she was crying hysterically, and limping, and seemed scared for her very life."

"and what did sssshe tell you happened to her?"

"she had told me that a crazy woman had attacked her for no reasons what so ever"

"and you ssssaid sssshe was limping?"

"yes"

"that would mean that sssshe would have had to been physsssically harmed"

"yes it does"

"what'd you do for her?"

"well I sent her to a psychiatrist for a week, she was quite shell shocked, she apparently suffered nightmares after her vicious attack"

Orochimaru smiled "that will be all"

he strutted back to his chair then sat down. Tenten sat there and had crumpled the notebook paper that had been in her hands, Tsunade stood from taking her notes and approached the man at the stand

"Tell me doctor, when you examined Karin after this "vicious attack" what were her injuries?"

the doctor sat silently for a moment "other than a bruise or two, nothing really"

"but didn't you say she was limping?"

"well yes-"

"so there's no actual evidence though that their was an injury to cause the limping."

"well no"

"so was she faking it?"

"well...more than likely...yes" whispers started in the room

"and when you sent her to the psychiatrist, did your medical help conclude that she really needed this?"

"not exactly, she came to me a day later saying she needed to go see one, how she was traumatize."

"ah, I see, so other than a few bruises, she never exactly had any type of true harm done to her that you truly knew of?"

"exactly"

she slowly nodded her head "that will be all." she walked back to her desk and smiled at Tenten.

"do you have anything else to say Orochimaru?"

"yess, your honor I have sssome photo graphical evidence for the doctor to identify."

Tsunade began to flip through the packet, but noticed that there was no mention of photo graphical evidence to come from Orochimaru, she stood

"objection! He didn't mention that he would be giving this evidence to show what so ever!" without even blinking Jiraya looked at her and said

"over ruled" Tsunade was in shock, but then grumbled and sat back in her chair angrily.

Orochimaru smirked as he walked over to a projector that had just been brought up and turned it on. He then took out a clicker, and the lights dimmed slightly, a picture of the front of Karin's stomach appeared and on the bottom of both of her ribs were purple and black bruises, Tenten and Tsunade studied them

"tell me doctor what kind of bruissess would thessse be?"

"wel they're bruises on her skin where the floating ribs are located and those would be most common if a person were thrown to the floor and then sat on or if a weight of any kind was then applied with great force."

"and how sssevere would you sssay these bruisssess are?"

"well those small flecks and veins you see, represent internal bleeding, of course that's how all bruises form, but hers was a bit more severe."

"and thessse were the only two bruisssesss on her correct?"

"yes"

Orochimaru turned to the doctor "they seem much more that just two little bruissess though, what kind of pain wasss ssshe experiencing?"

"well since it was on the ribs and your ribs expand and contract to adjust for your lungs, she was probably quite sore, making breathing a bit painful." Orochimaru smiled and clicked the clicker, the lights going back to normal and the projector turning off

"that will be all"

"Tsunade do you have anything else?" she studied her notes for a moment then sighing and closing her eyes she shook her head saying

"no your honor."

"good, then you may call your first witness."

Temari was now sitting on the stand giving a reassuring smile to Tenten, she gave weak one back.

"so Temari tell us, what is the relationship between Tenten and Karin"

"not a very good one"

"could you explain a bit more?"

"for as long as I can remember they've never gotten along what so ever, always arguing and what not as they got older."

"and your Tenten's best friend correct?"

"yes."

"for how long?"

"since high school"

"have Karin and Tenten been adversaries since high school?"

"yes since the first day"

"Did they ever fight? Physically or verbally?"

"well, in high school Tenten was kind of an outsider, didn't really talk to many people, wasn't the most popular or anything, she still had her friends of course, but Karin really bullied her, and Tenten never exactly defended herself."Tenten looked down, slightly in anger at her self and a little embarrassed as she recalled those days.

"Did anyone stick up for her?"

"well, the "friends" in her grade never did, and me being a year older than her, I never saw her through out the day, she was alone."

"and what did Karin's bullying consist of?"

"she would usually make fun of the way she dressed, her looks, she would call her a nerd, and say and spread rumors while saying other awful things."

"So Karin was the one to always start something with Tenten?"

"yes Tenten would never intentionally put herself out there."

Tenten felt old feelings of hurt come back into her chest that she hadn't felt in a while, the remembrance of the teasing and the name calling all came back to her, all the cruel things people said to her... She put her hand against her chest, she hadn't felt this in years...and this is why it hurt. From behind the banister Neji watched Tenten's figure when he suddenly saw her bend her back a little forward as she brought her hand to her chest, her breathing became a bit heavier, then after a few minutes she stopped and acted like nothing had happened, he raised an eyebrow at this. Tsunade soon finished questioning Temari, nodding her head with a satisfied smile as she believed she gave everyone a good description of who Karin really is. Then it was Orochimaru's turn, and he only angered Temari.

"ssso, Temari" he gave her what he thought was a flirtatious look, but she only glared at him "you sssaid that Tenten wasss an outsssider, didn't really talk to people in high ssschool? Right?"

"yes"

"ssso dont you think that kind of behavior, makessss people ssssee you assss a sssstrange persssson, different?"

She hesitated and raised an eyebrow as she answered "...i guess?"

"ssso really it could be jussstified that Karin had a right to bully her consssidering she put hersssself into that ssssituation" Tenten's head shot up from watching her lawyer take notes, she sent a heated glare towards the back of Orochimaru's head, as Temari gave him one from the front

"excuse me, but I don't find it correct to bully anyone at anytime, no matter the reason"

"oh really?"

"yes! Karin purposefully did anything in her power to make Tenten feel less and less like a person as everyday went by, it was her goal to see Tenten cry"

"ssssso then why didn't Tenten ever tell anyone? A teacher, a counsssselor even? Wassss she doing thissss for attention?" Tenten began to grit her teeth, Temari's voice went cold

"for your information she did tell several teachers and counselors the first years of high school, but none of them gave a damn so she was on her own, high school was a living hell for her" she gritted out the last part. He studied her a moment longer then concluded his questions. With that Temari was lead from the stand, and as left she gave a reassuring smile and wave to Tenten, she was wishing her luck.

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