. Lucifer .
Naruto Fanfic by Sunshinegirl09
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters. Only storyline.
Tenten
Chapter 12: Assassins
"Hit me." I said it through gritted teeth, the expression on my face stern and serious.
"Excuse me?" Neji folded his arms.
It was right after school. I pulled him behind the building that the dorms resided in.
"I said hit me." I repeated. "Are you deaf?"
Neji scoffed.
"Tch. Are you fucking insane?" He questioned with an eyebrow raised.
"I'm crazy." I quickly explained. "There's a difference. So hit me."
I folded my arms that shivered against the light breeze of the April air.
"Why should I?" Neji grumbled, annoyed.
I rolled my eyes and turned towards a crowd of kids walking into the building.
"Hey everybody!" I shouted towards them. "Did you know Neji's not wearing any underwear?"
Neji's eyes widened and he punched me hard in the shoulder.
It really hurt to be honest but only a smile spread across my face. It was exactly what I wanted.
"Happy?" Neji asked.
"Hmm ... And he didn't brush his teeth this morning!" I cried to the kids.
Neji raised his fist once more and went for my shoulder except this time, I blocked it with my hand. That still hurt, but my shoulder was spared.
Finally the pale boy raised both his eyebrows and smirked in realization.
"You should've just said you wanted to train." He informed me.
I sighed.
"Well I didn't think a stoic bastard like you would accept such a task." I admitted.
Neji frowned.
"Come here." He told me.
Nervously, I walked forward in front of him.
"Give me 50 push ups." Neji commanded, pointing towards the ground.
My eye twitched. If that was how he wanted it ...
I got down on my hands and knees. Then I took in a deep breath before lifting my knees off the ground. I started to do one push up, down and up before Neji stopped me.
"What are you doing?" he asked with a sigh.
"A push up." I grumbled.
"All the way down." Neji informed me with folded arms, standing above me.
"What?" I inquired, falling out of my push up.
"Stay." Neji shoved me back into position.
It hurt a lot and my arms burned.
Neji walked around the side of the building.
"Don't you dare move." He called over his shoulder.
In about a few more seconds he returned with a brick in his hand. I was scared for a second that he was going to put it on my back or something. Instead though, to my relief, he put it under me. I still didn't reach it though.
"Your chest needs to touch that every time you go down." Neji ordered.
"Are you serious?" I demanded, arms shaking.
"What? Does it look like I'm kidding?" Neji wondered, cocking his head to the side.
My arms weren't cold anymore. They shook, all the way down to the brick and back up. I did two more, hardly avoiding collapsing and wondering why I was so weak and how the heck would I be able to even get to fifty.
"You can do them in sets of ten." Neji said. "But tomorrow it will be in sets of twenty."
With my face burning red I stated annoyed, "Fifty isn't divisible by twenty!"
Neji smirked.
"Of course." He confirmed. "Tomorrow you have sixty."
I collapsed at ten, breathing heavily.
Neji shrugged.
"Guess you really are weak." He commented at my shaking body.
I would've been fine with doing push ups if I hadn't had to go all the way to the brick that seemed to be smaller than normal bricks.
"You have a 30 seconds." Neji continued. "Until your next set."
oOoOo
I rubbed my arms repeatedly, staring up at Neji angrily. The last fours sets of push ups had been horrible. I was so weak and just doing ten was bad enough when it came to ... the brick. Brick was now a word I couldn't stand in my vocabulary.
"Done with that?" Neji asked, talking about my constant rubbing of my arms.
I frowned.
"Yeah. Now what?"
Neji folded his arms and without thinking, answered, "100 crunches ... " He smirked. "With the brick."
"Tch." I scoffed. "Watch me."
I may have been terrible at push ups, but anything to do with my stomach was my forte. So I set the brick on my chest, dirtying my uniform. Then I started to do crunches. The first twenty weren't bad at all because my stomach was like a rock. After that it got a little difficult but nothing was too hard until fifty. It was embarrassing having to work so much in front of Neji, who was watching and observing me like a hawk, but I was determined to get the crunches right.
So I did my hundred and then totally collapsed, grasping my stomach.
Neji sighed.
"Not bad." He commented. "However towards the end you weren't going high enough."
I grimaced but didn't reply for about a minute.
"Now what?" I asked.
"Stretching." Neji remarked. "How flexible are you?"
"Very."
"Show me." He commanded.
I went down into my center splits. All that gymnastics from when I was nine wasn't all for nothing I suppose.
Neji raised an eyebrow.
"That's odd." He observed. "You're strangely pretty flexible. Can you do your other splits?"
I did a split roll into left leg splits and then switched to my left after twenty seconds.
"Well your flexibility won't be a problem." Neji concluded with relief in his voice. "That's normally the reason it takes so long to train someone combat. Since your flexibility is that good it won't take too long."
I nodded, rolling out of my splits, rubbing my arms once more. They still hurt from the push ups.
"So why did you want to train?" Neji asked me.
I sighed, falling back onto the new grass.
"Because ... I felt so useless yesterday." I replied solemnly, looking at the sun setting in the distance.
"Useless?" I saw Neji raise his eyebrows again for the umpteenth time. "Weren't you the one who completed the mission?"
"On a whim." I argued.
Neji rolled his eyes.
"Just get the fuck up." He mumbled.
I got up and before I knew it, he had my arms around my back and I was pinned.
"What would you do in this situation?" He questioned in my ear, his hot breath making my heart race.
I furrowed my eyebrows, annoyed by the pain in my shoulder that had just increased because of Neji.
Where does he think I would strike?
His stomach. Or his shin ...I can't go there so ...
With force, I stomped on his foot and his grip loosened slightly but still stayed.
"That wasn't terrible ... " Neji stated. "No one would anticipate a blow to their feet often but still ... It would be easier if you broke my arms."
"How am I supposed to do that?" I questioned.
"Try flipping me over and then jerking back so the weight is all on my arms." Neji explained.
"Well how the hell do I flip you over my head?" I grumbled.
Neji was making this harder than it should've been. He should've just given me a much simpler solution so I would tweak out of such things, but no. Now he had this flipping idea implanted in my head.
"What's going on over there?" It was Sakura, who was smirking at the awkward scene displayed before her.
"Pain ..." I growled. "That's what's going on ..."
"Flip me." Neji repeated.
"How," I repeated. "the fuck am I going-"
"Okay there is something wrong here." Sakura stated, rolling her eyes yet laughing loudly at the same time.
She walked away, calling over her shoulder, "You have fun with that Tenten!"
"Bitch please ..." I mumbled, not really meaning to call her a bitch.
"Are you going to do something or not?" Neji wondered.
I wriggled my fingers a few times. Neji was leaning on me and making it hard for me to move at all. Flipping him over my head was out of the question.
So why not jump?
I bounced up and down, annoying Neji highly.
"What the hell are you doing?" He asked me, tightening his grip.
I knew what I was going to do now. Lifting him straight over my head would be difficult. So instead I dropped to the ground and then pushed him over, somersaulting myself so my arms wouldn't twist and break in his grip. I actually ended up landing on him.
Neji still had my arms though. Oh well. I flipped him.
"Not terrible." Neji commented. "But sloppy and unreliable. Don't even think about doing that in real life."
I shrugged, stretching as he released his tight grip.
"Can I go back now?" I questioned.
"One more thing." Neji grabbed my wrist and swung me back. "Idiot. We have to work on your damn reflexes."
After that I didn't know reflexes could be so painful.
oOoOo
The next day after school, it was hard. Neji made me do more push ups and my arms were already sore from the day before. The crunches were increased to 120 ... there were even more situations that he gave me to try and escape from. He had several positions that he made me work from and he made me extremely exhausted.
Wednesday was the same. The crunches were moved to 130 ... more push ups in high sets ... and I now could successfully escape through a couple of situations, though Neji told me that I was still sloppy. It was the third day so I should've been even more tired however I was the same as the day before, which was still pretty worn out still.
Throughout that week, Neji didn't take me on any assassinations. He said that he spoke to the Devil and told him what he was doing. Speaking of which, I hadn't talked to the Devil in a while however there were a couple dreams that he had been in, haunting me,
Sakura, Ino, and Hinata were slightly worried for me. When I arrived at school my eyes would have dark circles from lack of sleep. Neji never worked me past nine but because of my body being all hyped up at that time of the night, I hardly slept. Also, I was a little slow at everything going on around me.
However. By then end of the second week, things started to change. My body was beginning to get use to the push ups and awkward conditioning I had to go through. Energy seemed to be returning. My reflexes were quicker. 17 days of endless work made a difference. But it still wasn't over.
"Tenten." Neji said after 21 days, a warm Saturday in early May. "There's something else you must learn."
"Something else?" I wondered.
"Yeah." He remarked. "It'll be hard for an over emotional girl like you though."
I bonked him on the head.
"Ow." He growled. "What the fuck?"
"Be nice." I ordered.
Neji folded his arms and stared at me with an intense glare.
"Get serious, Panda." He commanded, flicking my nose.
I rubbed my face, annoyed. Neji was being too much of a jerk. He should be proud of me.
"So what is it I need to learn?" I inquired.
Neji sighed.
"Mental stability." He replied. "The ability to stay calm in terrifying situations and think through them clearly."
This sounded troublesome ... especially for a girl like me. I was the kind of person who would overreact even if a situation didn't call for such a reaction.
"Tenten," Neji said. "A man holds a detonator. It's to blow up that school-" he points the high school. "with all those innocent kids. Unless you kill me right in front of him, the school gets blown up. But, if you do what he says, the school is spared."
I blinked, astounded.
"What do you do?" Neji asked, testing me.
I folded my arms.
"Neither."
"Pardon?" Neji questioned. "That's not a damn option."
I sighed.
"I would choose neither." I repeated. "I would probably just attack him no matter the situation, or get myself killed so I didn't have the decision weighed upon me. I'd rather die than have innocent lives die because of me."
Neji rolled his eyes.
"You were supposed to choose me." He informed me.
"Oh hellz no." I answered. "You may be the most stoic bastard ever to roam the Earth-" glare from Neji "but you don't deserve to die over it."
Neji was taken aback and didn't know how to answer. So that jerk changed the subject.
He sent a punch flying towards my stomach and I blocked it with a kick.
oOoOo
It was about nine when I decided to take a shower. I grabbed some yellow sweats and an orange cami and put them in the bathroom. Setting my iPod down, I started to take of my shirt and something caught my sight in the mirror. My freaking stomach.
"When the hell did I get abs?" I wondered aloud. "Fricken six pack ..." I murmured under my breath.
Then when my shirt was removed, I looked at my arms ... they were still small but muscular at the same time. Nice and toned.
I smirked at myself in the mirror. This was pretty sweet.
My body was no longer awkwardly skinny. It was healthy and toned.
So I got in the shower happily, finally noticing the difference compared to the month before that. While in the shower, I sent random kicks in the air, nearly missing kicking my head.
After my shower, I raided my mini-fridge and pulled out strawberries and whipped cream. And while listening to a lot of music and eating strawberries, I laid on my comfortable bed, surrounded by the awesome colors of my room.
oOoOo
"Sweet body." Naruto commented, checking out my arms that I was stretching out at lunch. "Someone's been training with Neji."
I smirked.
"Yeah." Then I looked all the down that table at the ice cube himself.
He was eating a salad slowly, eyes transfixed in a daze.
Kiba patted me on the back.
"Good job!" He congratulated. "No one ever survives his training."
I raised an eyebrow, looking at the pissed Hyuuga.
"Gee I wonder why." I said, folding my arms.
"I know you're talking about me." He informed us.
I gasped. How the hell does he hear such things from across the table. God. Along with super vision did he have super hearing?
"Oh don't listen to him." Ino stuck her tongue out at Neji.
"Yeah." Sakura put in. "You're a real assassin now!"
A/N: And for the record, Tenten has definitely not reached her full potential yet. She hasn't been on a true assassination assignment yet either. Just wait xD Lol. Neji's training is like my dance class. Speaking of which, I had it from 10 AM to 2 PM then I had to go back at 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM to help mentor and choreograph the little kids' dances. Baha too much work for a hormonal fourteen year old. Lol I'll explode. Anyway, I hope you guys like the direction of the story ... thanks for ready=)
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