"I thought I told you to disappear." Temari said angrily.
Tenten smiled at her. "And now I'm telling you to get off my back, and to stop trying to make yourself known in such a cruel way." She replied as kindly as she could. "Just, cruise for a while." Tenten smiled at her and walked off, feeling better already.
Temari looked after her menacingly. "That little brat! If it hadn't been for her meeting Neji, she would have never entered this world."
Kin and Hinata nodded.
"So, if she no longer can meet Neji. If Neji HATES her. She'll be forced back into her lowly little pathetic life."
Kin and Hinata nodded.
"Girls, I have a plan."
"Hey Tenten!" A group of girl and boys yelled.
"Hey guys." Tenten called.
Ino and Sakura appeared. "I think someone's getting adjusted."
"Am not!" Tenten said. "I'm just…cruising." She smiled sweetly at her friends.
"Popular much."
"Far from it. I just had a talk with the Popular Threesome and they probably hate me now."
"Is that a good thing?" Sakura asked.
"You know, it is."
Ino and Sakura raised their eyebrows.
"Want to head up to the dorm?" Tenten asked, swaying her arms with each step. Sakura and Ino nodded.
They stopped in the middle of a busy hall. Tenten grinned. "HEEEEELLLLOOOO!!!!" She called. Everyone turned and stared at her. She smiled and waved.
Sakura suddenly grabbed Tenten and started shaking her. "Who are you and what have you done with my Tenten!" She gasped. "You're an alien aren't you! You've taken my sweet little Tenten and you're experimenting on her as we speak! No wait!" Sakura gasped again. "You're a spy from the government."
"No." Tenten replied.
"And evil vampire?"
"No."
"A blood-thirsty zombie."
"No."
"My…mother?"
Tenten laughed. "Sakura I'm still me you know. I'm not an alien, or a government spy or a vampire or a zombie OR your mother. I'm me. "
Sakura nodded. "Riiiight."
Tenten, Sakura and Ino walked side by side. The sauntered up the stairs, giggling and laughing.
Tenten opened the door. She was smiling.
"Wanna go swimming?" Sakura asked.
"I would, but I've never been."
"We so should! You never wanted to because you said people would see you."
"You have a point."
Sakura and Ino squealed, they were loving their new and improved roomie. Tenten looked at Ino's dresser. There was a plate sitting on top of it. She looked at it, there was dead flies on it and some cellophane wrapped around it.
"Ew!! Who the hll put this plate up here?!" She said, throwing it away. "Sicko's, what are we? Cavemen?"
"It's 1:30, we should go to bed." Sakura whined.
"Awe c'mon Sakura, I like talking." Ino said.
"Sakura's right." Tenten said.
"Grrr…fine! But if you want to talk anytime, come see me!" Ino said. Tenten and Sakura climbed off of the top bunk. Sakura returned to her bottom bunk, and Tenten to the little twin bed.
"Turn the light off!" Sakura whined again.
"Fine fine!" Ino growled. It went black.
Sakura fell asleep first, and then Ino. Tenten last. They all lay silent. Tenten squirmed nervously, beads of sweat forming on her face. She was asleep, but she could feel a pricking sensation on her arm, the sensation grew hot, and turned into pain. She let out a wail.
3 days later….
"Where is Tenten?" Neji asked, walking up to Kiba and the others. "Have you seen her."
Kiba smirked. "I haven't for 3 days. She completely disappeared after that. So did her friends, Ino and Sakura."
"TskTskTsk" Someone said.
Neji turned. Temari was standing there, with her arm around Shikamaru.
"What do you want?" Neji nearly growled.
"Have you guys seen Tenten?" She asked.
Everyone shook their heads. Temari raised her eyebrows. "I thought she would have been back by now."
"Where is she?" Neji inquired
Temari pulled him over down another hall. "Why do you want to know?" She asked.
"Because I haven't seen her in 3 days." Neji replied.
Temari sighed. "She's visiting her boyfriend in her old town." She said. "I don't know why. They say long distance relationships never work."
Neji could feel his face twist with shock. "Ex?" He asked.
"Of course not!" Temari snapped with a laugh. "Who in their right mind would visit their ex? No she's been dating him for like 4 years. She kept it up until now. Talented isn't she? Neji-kun?"
Neji could feel himself flare up with anger. "S-she's been-d-dating-" He turned away. A grim smirk slid onto her face.
"Don't hate her." Temari said.
"I'm afraid it's too late for that." Neji snapped angrily and he disappeared.
"Tell me what happened.' Sakura's mother asked over the phone.
Sakura turned, she was standing in the ICU along with Ino. "It happened like the days ago." She began. She looked worriedly around the waiting room. She desperately wanted to go see her friend. Ino was sitting in a chair, her face pale, while Sakura remained standing. "We just went to bed and then like, in the middle of the night, Tenten started like wailing in her sleep and I like said, 'Shut up Tenten!' and she kept on wailing, so Ino , like, woke up and was totally telling her to be quiet. And then I got up and went over to her and like, shook her, and she was all red and sweaty and it looked like she was crying. I totally started getting worried, so we like, turned the light on, and I pulled her covers off and she was like totally choking! She said she couldn't breathe. I was like, 'Have you eaten anything?' and then she was like, 'no.' and I was like, 'are you hurting.' And she totally nodded, and I rolled up her sleeve and looked at her arm and there was a spider bite on it. Mother, you do not know how awfully allergic she is to spider bites!"
Ino sank lower in her chair. Even hearing Sakura tell her mother about what happened that night was scary.
"Yeah," Sakura continued, "So I like totally called an ambulance and they came they totally took her to the city hospital. They had to put her in the freakin' ICU!"
"How long has she been admitted?" Her mother asked.
"She's been here for 3 days, and there's no sign of her getting better. We've been staying here too for 3 days. I can't go back to the dorm without her."
"Don't you have some sort of plan for her allergy?"
"Yeah, we have this special stuff in our room that prevents a spider from ever entering. Someone had to have put it there in order for it to get in. And keep it under cellophane on a plate or something, or else it would die." Sakura gasped. "Oh my god! Someone tried to kill Tenten!" Sakura began to pace, pondering while her mother talked.
A doctor came into the waiting room, smiling slightly. He motioned for the girls to come.
"Oh my god! They're allowing us in! Yeah, bye!" Sakura hung up her phone and followed the doctor. Ino followed closely behind Sakura.
"Is she okay?" Sakura asked.
"She's better." The doctor said. "She might even be able to go home today."
"Seriously?!" Sakura asked.
"No not really." The doctor sighed. "But probably tomorrow. And I'm not kidding."
Sakura sighed. "As long as she doesn't die."
"We're going to move her to the normal hospital. The ICU is no longer needed for her." He opened the door.
Sakura felt tears enter her eyes as she looked at Tenten. She was on a bed with an oxygen mask tied to her face. He eyes were half open.
"Tenten?" Ino asked.
Tenten waved. She grabbed a piece of paper that had been sitting on her little side table and held it up. What was written on it surprised Ino and Sakura. It was as if she had guessed what was going to happen.
I'M FINE. DON'T FREAK, AND DON'T CRY. OMG, SAKURA, DON'T CRY. I WILL HURT YOU IF YOU DO.
