Eleven: Neji has fond memories. They make him cry. (Y'know, sitting-in-the-shower-alone-and-naked-biting-your-knees kind of crying.) That's alright though. Tenten swears that none of it happened, either.
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Mes Uno
"Wow. That's a bit awkward. Besides, how'd this happen anyway?" Tenten said blankly, staring at the plus sign.
"Well…it all started when I-" Neji began, smirking.
"Not what I meant, smartass." Tenten replied tartly.
"Well, I guess this is going to be a few painful months of my life." Neji muttered.
Neji's sarcasm fell on deaf ears. "I can't believe we're having kids."
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Mois Deux
"Neji, can you come over here?" Tenten called from the bathroom.
"Sure."
"What is that? What is that?" Tenten said nervously. Neji peered over the sink to look.
"That is a spider, Tenten."
"OH MY GOD! A SPIDER? KILLITKILLITKILLITKILLIT…KILL IT!" Tenten shrieked, hopping onto the seat of the toilet.
"But you love arachnids-" Neji began, but was cut off.
"I HATE EIGHT-LEGGED THINGS! God, Neji, kill it!"
"Fine, fine, cool off will you!" Neji gave in, squishing the spider with his finger.
"My hero!" Tenten swooned, hugging Neji.
She stopped and sniffed Neji's shirt. "Wait, I smell perfume! It's not my Pink Sugar!"
"I was…" Neji began, but was cut off. Interrupting people was one of Pregnant Tenten's habits.
'Talking to Hinata who wears this fancy perfume that Naruto gave her, when she patted my shoulder…'
"Oh my God! Are you having an affair?" Tenten accused.
"What?" Neji tried to intervene.
"You went off with some skank, after getting me pregnant?"
"What skank? Tenten, are you okay?"
"Don't play stupid with me Hyuuga, I can feel it." Tenten glared and pointed in his face.
"Tenten! You're talking like some insane shut-in!"
Neji ended up in the basement that night. It was pretty damn scary down there too.
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Monat Drei
It was in the disturbingly serene period of time with Tenten, (i.e., not accusing Neji of cheating, or acting generally disturbing), that Tenten had an ultrasound.
Neji said it was odd.
Tenten said it looked like a tiger cub in a brawl…with a goat?
So…two?
Twins?
Awkward…
Tenten patted her stomach, and then she burped. "Oh my,"
Sakura stared and so did Neji.
"Excuse me…god!" Tenten said, scoffing.
"I worry for both of you," Sakura said mock solemnly then laughed. Neji squinted and murmured, "I worry too…" He shuddered.
"Any of you guys have calamari? I love calamari!" Tenten said gleefully.
So…maybe not so serene.
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Mensis Mensis Quattor
Neji had just gotten back from a long two week mission and he finally settles into his own bed for once…then…
"Neji! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN! I suffer for a whole month," Tenten began.
"It was two weeks-"
"And you don't even greet me? You hate me! Why would you hurt me like that?"
"Tenten, I'm so sorry! I guess I just forgot! I just got back from an assassination mission!" Neji defended, lifting his mask, revealing his sorry features.
"Oh…well…wanna cuddle with me?" Tenten offered.
Neji only had a few decisions. 1, say no and end up in the basement. Or 2, say yes and end up doing nothing besides hugging and sleeping.
"I will, Tenten my love." Neji pulled her close and embraced her warm body. They fell onto the bed and all of Tenten's unruly, disorganized, yet beautiful deer brown hair fell into Neji's face. It smelled of various flowers, and brown sugar, and vanilla. He inhaled heavily, letting the familiar scent fill his nose. The feeling of home was back.
Neji did not end up in the cold scary basement that night.
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Mwezi Tano
"Neji, we need names. Cool names. So fucking awesome that the other kids'll be like 'Why didn't my parents give me that name?' Then I'll say, 'Well, that's 'cause your parents weren't awesome enough. Sorry Jimmy!'"
The sun shined through the window, illuminating Tenten in a slightly intimidating manner.
"Hn." Neji grunted, lips curling up at the absurd statement. He was currently reading Pride and Prejudice. (A/N: Which I have only read ten pages of, but it seemed like something he'd read.)
Tenten threw a very large book onto the kitchen table where they sat.
"What's that?" Neji asked, curious.
"This is all of the names of my relatives I have on record! My grandmother gave it to me." Tenten said in that overly gleeful voice.
Neji swore Tenten was an orphan. But was Neji going to question the Almighty Pregnant Tenten?
Hell no.
The book was taller than the vase of flowers perched on the table. Or the orange juice Neji possessed.
Neji reluctantly marked his page in his book, and peered over the book.
Harukina Saruki, 1601-1681
Harukina Sayuki 1601-1677
Tarkai Mekaru 1700-1777
The list continued for pages and pages.
"God, Tenten, how are you going to even begin to pick names with a book this big?" Neji said, about to pick up Pride and Prejudice again when Tenten said,
"Well, Neji, if that doesn't work…" Tenten began, furrowing her brow. "Oh, I know how to go about this."
"I'll pick the name for the girl, and…"
"No, if we are going to do it like that, I'm picking the girl's name," Neji said sternly.
"Why?" Tenten asked, drinking some of Neji's orange juice.
Neji ignored this, (he learned to share anything and everything to a different level with her now), and continued. "Well, I…I just do." Neji sputtered, showing a rare sign of confusion and bashfulness.
"Whatever." Tenten said. She sipped some of the juice. "Neji, do we have any pickles?"
"In a second Tenten." Neji muttered, banging his head repeatedly on their kitchen table.
"Okay, well, I'll wait. So what'd you have in mind?"
"Well, do you remember when it was your birthday and Lee was forced to drink watered down fruit punch all night so he would not rampage and cause generally unpleasantness?"
"Yeah…I remember that," Tenten said, looking up into memories.
"Do you remember two days after?"
"Yeah…"
"Well remember that evening when we went stargazing, and we found Orion?"
"Yeah, that was so sweet of you, Neji-kun!"
"So, I was bored while I was in your old apartment once, so I looked at your star chart and found…the most beautiful name…"
"Lynx? Auriga? Musco? Triangulum Australe?" Tenten pushed.
Neji's pale, lavender eyes glistened childishly.
"Bellatrix."
"Like the matrix?" Tenten said, cocking her head to one side. Neji's reverie shattered into a million pieces.
"Um, no, the left shoulder of Orion. Isn't it pretty?" Neji said, tracing an imaginary line on the table.
Tenten stared for a while. The look that probed his darkest thoughts and switched the books on Neji's proverbial bookshelf, Neji almost shuddered. Tenten's amber eyes were serene, unmoving, and she broke the stare, folding her arms.
"It's truly wonderful, Neji-kun. I love it. I love you." Tenten said, completely monotone, but still with every ounce of emotion Ino would say it with.
Neji smirked, he passed a test.
What was the test about?
He never knew.
…and, he probably never will.
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Tsuki Roku
"Damn it to hell, Hyuuga Neji! Wake up!" Tenten whispered.
"Hunh?" Neji murmured.
"Neji, I have compiled a list of things I'm hungry for, go to the store and buy them for me." Tenten commanded, handing her husband a piece of paper.
"Tenten, it's three in the morning…" Neji said pleadingly.
"Neji-kun…please? Do it for your dearest love, which makes your days illuminated with sunlight!" Said girl replied, just as pleadingly.
"Tenten, I told you not to read things I wrote! Fine…I'm going."
Neji went to the store, tired and feeling dirty in old clothes.
It was horribly lit, and Tenten's handwriting was some kind of chicken scratch, from a Portuguese chicken.
Neji-kun, please get this stuff from the store for your dearest moonflower:
Vanilla filled doughnuts
Pickles (Which you promised me a while ago but never actually purchased.)
A Twix bar
A package of edible flowers
Portabella mushrooms
Ramen
Cherries
And some chocolate chip cookies
Your dearest moonflower,
Tenten
Neji sighed a the-weight-of-the-world-is-now-perched-on-my-shoulders sigh.
He went down the list stopping at cherries, because he saw no cherries. Neji was on the verge of crying.
He turned around just in time to see an elderly woman holding the last bag of cherries.
"Hey Lady!" Neji cried, hysterical. The lady turned around and waved. "Hello, you young man! Have you been-"
Neji pounced on her, stole the bag, and grabbed a box of cookies on the way out.
Neji felt proud as he opened the door on the western wing of the Hyuuga compound.
Tenten was sitting under a single light, looking ominous and interrogator-like.
"You took a while, but I see you've gotten everything I wanted!" Tenten said, grabbing the bags and grinning.
"Hn." Neji replied and collapsed onto a chair.
"I appreciate it Neji-kun! All the things you do for me, I should be ashamed!" Tenten said, biting a pickle.
"Hn."
"Want some pickles?"
"No."
A knock on the door the next day revealed a very angered Ino.
"Yamanaka." Neji said, acknowledging kunoichi's presence.
"Neji. I have a bone to pick with you. Did you or did you not go to the supermarket last night and see an elderly woman?" Ino interrogated, inviting herself in.
"I did," Neji said, and calmly shut the door.
"Did you or did you not attack a woman?"
"I…may have…"
Ino frowned and slapped Neji. He looked confused, surprised, stupid, and shocked in one look. One quick look.
"I did!"
"You re-broke my grandmother's hip!" Ino raged, slapping Neji again. She went into his fridge and took the cherries and a chocolate chip cookie.
Ino glared and obnoxiously took a bite before departing.
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Mese Sette
"Holy crap!"
"What?" Neji asked.
Tenten patted her large stomach. "One of them kicked!"
Neji nodded in understanding.
"I've found it, Neji," Tenten cried, quite suddenly.
"Huh?"
"Hikaru, because this moment is the light of my life. Hikaru, only to bring goodness…and…awesomeness…and...Well…Hikaru's his name." Tenten said, placing her hands together.
Neji nodded again. "I am happy you've had a revelation."
"I am too! So, you wanna play Twister?"
"No one's playing Twister, especially not you Tenten." Neji rejected the idea.
Neji was also as flexible as a wooden board on Antarctica most of the time.
"Well…Ohh…" Tenten mumbled.
"Hn?" Neji grunted.
"I don't feel very good…"
Oh lord.
The multitude of sicknesses Tenten had throughout her pregnancy was disturbingly large.
She closed her eyes. "I'm okay,"
After about three minutes passed, Tenten seized Neji's knapsack and emptied her stomach into it.
"Sorry, Neji. Did you have anything important in there?" Tenten apologized, wiping the side of her mouth.
"No, just some keepsakes, pictures, memories, mission files and such. Nothing I need. Nothing I need."
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Manad Atta
Playing Go was a new thing that Tenten and Neji pursued.
Of course, Neji had played before with Shikamaru, (who would always kick him squarely in the hindquarters.), but Tenten was one for training and such instead of sitting and playing board games.
"I win, Neji-kun." Tenten squealed.
"What? How?"
"Well, if you wanna put it this way; I've laddered you, netted you, and snapbacked you at least three times each. Don't forget the ko rule." Tenten said, feeling quite intellectual.
"Whatever, I'm having a day today."
"Be jealous!" Tenten said, getting up and striking a pose.
"Whatever," Neji muttered.
"You're jealous! You're jealous! You're jealous because I won! You're jealous!"
"Come now, Tenten-chan, you're just bragging now."
"Why yes, my dear, I am! Glad of you to notice!" Tenten said, shuffling around the room happily.
Neji finally noticed that Tenten had finally changed her wardrobe. Tenten had originally worn tight-fitting clothes and her trademark baggy pants. Now she had gone to anything loose and wavy.
It was a different kind of sexy.
Tenten was wonderful all the time.
Tenten was funny and immature all the time.
Tenten was smart and strategic.
Tenten was beautiful.
Tenten is perfect.
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Mecru Devyat'
Neji sat, reading a different book now, Little Women, comfy and serene as can be. Tenten sat next to him, looking over his shoulder.
"What's this about?" Tenten asked.
"Well, there are these four sisters – Josephine, Meg, Beth, and Amy…" Neji trailed off as a low sound emitted from Tenten's throat. "Ten, are you okay?"
"Oh Neji…I think…think that…"
Neji dropped his book, mortified.
"Well, only a few things could be happening, Neji. Either I'm turning into a werewolf, aliens are about to leap out of my throat, or...maybe you may want to get me to the hospital, because I'm about to have twins!" Tenten roared.
Neji nodded, in spite of fear, and the slow dawning of this information.
The soon-to-be mother pulled herself up, grabbing Neji's hand and pulling him along.
"Yeah, Neji-san, how do I put this lightly…oh yes…get the hell out of the delivery room!" Sakura said, pushing the man out.
"Meh, welp ish meh…" Neji babbled, allowing himself to be pushed away.
He sat down. In a vain attempt to calm his mind down, he picked up a magazine and flipped through it.
Neji froze in confused shock once he heard his wife's shrieks and screams. Biting a fingernail, he looked up and saw the sign "Waiting Room"
Moor, war, gin, ring, gait, rot, rat…
How many words could he make out of the phrase?
Neji pondered the thought, and suddenly, Sakura was back. She nodded, and Neji followed, much like a beaten dog.
"'Sup Neji-kun," Tenten greeted, nodding weakly.
'Sup Neji-kun? Was that all the second-most-disturbingly-bipolar kunoichi had to say to Neji?
"Here's Bellatrix, and that one's Hikaru." Tenten said, eyes closed.
"How do you know without looking?" Neji inquired, tickling Bellatrix's chin, and kissing her forehead. Bellatrix stared, pallid eyes full of things no one knew.
"A girl just knows, my dear Watson."
Dear God, I end it here. I didn't plan for this to be so long…Well, anyway, (you probably shouldn't) expect the late 4th of July/Fireworks oneshot thingy. Also, this has been like...sitting in my documents for like a week now...mostly cos I hate how it came out. Well, I did it anyways.
-Sorry for holding your lives up!
-Rose
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P.S., I hope I didn't confuse anyone with those foreign words.
Here's the answer:
"Mese Sette"
Mese is Italian for month and sette is Italian for seven...figure it out from there.