another short chapter i sorry, but as ive said before it's all part of the plan! btw i have another story that im working on and ill start posting that today only the first chapter, it's not as long as this one and the chapters are much much shorter it's called Asylum and again its nejiten!

Chapter 12; the trial part 2

"Orochimaru you may proceed with your next witness"

"thank you your honor, my next witness will be Ms. Tenten" gasps and whispers went around the room as Tenten whipped her head to look at Tsunade

" objection!" she stood and slammed her hands on the wooden table.

"oh?" Jiraya raised an eyebrow.

"My client, nor I, were informed what so ever that she would be going on the stand, shes unprepared!" Tenten watched the judge think it over, she noticed his eyes slide to the side for a moment then back to Tsunade

"over ruled"

"what?! You can't be serious?!"

"oh, I am" Tsunade was in disbelief, but she quickly collected herself and sat down angrily, while trying to pep talk Tenten, into thinking everything would be okay and that there was nothing to worry about, even if she still had to go to the stand. She took in a deep breath then stood and walked over to the police officer holding open the bible, she sighed as she placed one hand up and the other on the book

"do you swear to say the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"

"i solemnly swear" he closed the book gently on her hand and then she sat in the swivel leather chair behind the mic on the podium.

Orochimaru sauntered towards her, she watched him with a cold gaze

"so Tenten, I hear you're quite famous with your temper?"

"i guess..."

"and how long have you been a secretary?"

"4 years" she raised an eyebrow at the sudden change in subject

"quite a bit of time, almost half a decade" she nodded her head silently

"tell me, have you ever slept with any of your employers?"

She almost choked on her own spit "i beg your pardon?"

"have you ever head sex with one of your boss's"

"no"

"none what so ever?"

"no"

"what about oral sex?"

Tenten's cheeks began to go a bit pink at this subject, this was embarrassing "no"

"ever given a blow job?"

she looked at him incredulously "no I have not"

"so you're a virgin?"

"yes, I am"

"are you sure about that"

she gaped at him "are you implying something?"

"no not at all" he walked to the other side of the stand watching her "have you been checked by a gynecologist?" she looked taken aback and she glanced at Tsunade, she looked like she was ready to break the pen in her hand in half.

"i have no reason to go to one"

"and why's that?"

"well I am a virgin, and to go to a place like that when you havent had sex, it can be quite painful."

"are you trying to hide something?"

she began to clench the arms of the leather chair "what?"

"i find it quite incredulous that you haven't had any sexual intercourse what so ever"

Tsunade stood "objection!" but the judge ignored her

"i have no reason to lie, im a virgin"

"you seem a little angry"

"i advise you quit pushing it"

"your honor!"

Jiraya finally took notice of Tsunade

"he's intentionally insulting my client, he's leading!" suddenly Tenten noticed Orochimaru reach into his breast pocket and poke out a 500 dollar bill, and then smirked as once again the judge over ruled, she narrowed her eyes 'bastard'

"so tell me Tenten are you angry?" there was silence as everyone heard several small pops come from the front of the room. Jiraya leaned over to look at Tenten and saw she had popped ten holes into the chair from how much force she had been digging her nails into it.

"not at all" she calmly stated, the judge blinked a few times, sat straight in his chair again and pulled at his collar uncomfortably. Orochimaru frowned, but it quickly went away as he brought out a small poster board that was hidden behind a piece of cloth, he set it a little ways off from Tenten so everyone could see

"tell me, have you had any work done?" she heard Karin snort and shot her a glare,

"no I have not, my body and the way I look is completely natural, unlike some people" she shot a glare and Karin only glared back.

"hm. Really? Because I have to say you look quite different from high school" he began to reach for the cloth, Tenten's eyes widened 'oh no' he removed the sheet and too Tenten's complete horror it was her yearbook photo from softmore year. She smacked a hand over her eyes in embarrassment as she heard snickers and snorts from the people in the room, she removed her hand and huffed while looking at the awful picture. She had glasses back then and they were dorky thick rimmed round ones, along with awful braces and frizzy hair that was put up into two childish buns on her head, she was wearing an old baggy t shirt, and even though you couldn't see it, she was more than likely wearing a pair of baggy jeans. Orochimaru smiled at her obviously amused, her cheeks had become red

"lovely picture" she scowled "so tell me, how did...that, become this?"

"braces came off that same year but I got lazer eye surgery when I was 20, I kept those buns till after senior year, and the reason you can't tell that I had the same body then as I do now is because I wore baggy clothes"

"low self esteem?"

her eye brow twitched "that's personal"

Neji was having trouble restraining himself, this bastard was doing nothing but embarrassing Tenten, and intentionally trying to make her mad. He just wanted to wring his pale freak neck, but he had control, he took some calming breaths and tried to relax.

"but why I ask would a girl like you have low self esteem, and care so little of the way she looked?" he eyed her "i mean something must have happen, something deep, personal, family like maybe?"

it all clicked in Tenten's mind, he knew and he was about to spill everything.

"What are you getting at?"

"where's you father Tenten?"

she stiffened "dead"

"aw that's to bad...but what happened when you were younger with daddy? You were daddy's little girl you should know"

she flinched at how he said 'were' "he left the house"

"he left the house!" Orochimaru repeated and turned to look at everyone then back at Tenten "and why did he leave the house?"

"...he went to be with another woman"

"uh huh I see, and he started a family with this other woman didn't he?"

Tenten was silent, but difficultly responded "yes"

"and he had children" Tenten stayed silent "and if im correct, a little girl" he eyed her dangerously "you weren't the most important thing in his life any more"

"shut it" she spit out through gritted teeth, Tsunade stood

"you were no longer his.. oh what did he call you when you were little?"

"objection!" she was ignored

"shut. up."

"it goes with a song... something about rainy days.."

"stop it."

"objection!"

"oh that's it you were his little sunshine, he would sing that to you wouldn't he?"

"i said shut. up."

"your honor!" Jiraya continued to ignore her

"but when that little girl came-"

"stop."

"you"

"shut it!"

"were no longer his sunshine were you?"

"shut up!"

"she was"

she clenched her eyes shut and slammed her palms over her ears while shaking her head "shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"

the room went dead silent, nobody spoke, Jiraya sat their silently then quietly said

"well take a 15 minute recess then continue with the case"

he slammed his javelin and then walked out. People rushed out the moment they were given permission, practically tripping over each other to get out of the heavily tensioned atmosphere, it was suffocating, but Tenten didn't move, she couldn't, the muffled noise of people soon faded and it was mostly silent. She then heard muffled footsteps approach her, it wasn't a woman, the sound was to heavy, she then heard a voice that she could recognize even through her own muffled hearing, call her name

"Tenten"

she hesitated a moment, but then opened her eyes slowly and realized her chair was facing towards the left and their in front of her was Neji squatting down, and watching her with pain filled eyes. She blinked a few times, her eyes began to burn a bit, he watched her a second or two more before he did something unexpected, he opened his arms towards her, she blinked and looked at his face to his arms to his face again. He watched her steadily, when he noticed her bottom lip began to quiver, she slowly began to lower her hands from her ears, then quickly lunged forward and wrapped her arms tightly around his neck, chocking back whimpers and sniffling as silent tears rolled down her cheeks. He wrapped his arms around her small waist tightly, letting her know that he wouldn't let go, he stroked her hair and whispered reassuring words into her ear.

10 minutes later Tenten had finally calmed down just when people were filing in again, and just as Neji left her to join the other guys he kissed her on the fore head and walked off, she blushed momentarily but then brushed it off quickly as the judge came back in. Orochimaru and Karin were seated discussing something when the judge interrupted

"Orochimaru are you ready?"

"yes your honor I am"

he stood and walked towards the stand where Tenten sat. The room was silenced, as they watched the two. And so he began

"Now Tenten it has been proven over sometime that you can be quite violent when you choose to be, correct?"

"yes"

"how violent?"

"i woulnd't kill if that's what you're thinking"

he studied her a moment "right, then tell me what was your reason for attacking Karin so violently"

"she brought up the fact that she slept with my father when we were in high school" people gasped as Orochimaru's eyes widened a fraction, she smirked "did I mention we were only 15"

people began murmuring and looking at each other in shock Karin was stunned and looked around nervously

"quiet! Settle down people!" Jiraya slammed the javelin and the noise soon stopped.

"she didn't tell you? Oh what a shame" she said in mock pity, he glared at her

"but does that really give you a right to attack her the way you did?"

"she asked for it, she came to me while I was working, in my office, in my building, to purposefully verbally harass me, nothing more nothing less." Orochimaru seemed to be getting a bit nervous, she inwardly smirked 'running out of material...good'

"is it true you self harm?"

her eyes widened "that's personal"

"answer the question"

"no, this has nothing to do with my case"

" i-"

"Orochimaru the girls right, we can't waste anymore time on useless information that's getting us no where, we only have an hour left and ill need a verdict by the end of it." Orochimaru shut his mouth then grinded his teeth as he bit out a fine and then stormed off. Tenten was then relieved from the stand and thank fully was able to go back to her seat.

After that more and more doctors came in defending Karin's case and then Karin went up to the stand, Tenten watched as she puffed her chest out more for the judge to see, she rolled her eyes in annoyance. Orochimaru questioned her first,

"so Karin" he started off "can you tell us your side of the story?" Karin acted like the idea of remembering the event was awful, but that she would tough it out for the sake of the case, Tenten clenched an unclenched her fists as she spoke, dry sobbing and shedding crocodile tears

"it was awful! I hardly said anything really! Before she full on attacked me with those scissors, im traumatized now!" she sniffed loudly"i literally saw my life flash before my eyes! I thought I was going to die!" she began blubbering, Tenten silently smacked her forehead, 'this is embarrassing' Orochimaru only nodded his head sympathetically then asked

"now Karin do you think you could show the court room the damage that was done?" she blinked silently for a few seconds then looked Tenten straight in the eye, she saw a mischievous glint that immediately put her on edge

"of course"

Everyone watched as she grabbed her scalp from the middle of her head to reveal a bald head! Everyone gasped in shock and Tenten and Tsunade almost fell out of their chairs.

"you said those were extensions!" Tenten yelled out accusingly

"yeah. I lied" The judge slammed his javelin again for everyone to calm down.

"Now Karin, is it hard for you to deal with this?"

"yes, it really is! My hair was my life, my everything! And then she just cut it all off! It was patchy and near my scalp, so I had to shave it all off, look! Look at the scratches!" She turned head to show any red scratches on the back of it. Tenten opened and closed her mouth in shock. Orochimaru turned to look at her and smirked

"that will be all" Tsunade quickly took his place and began firing questions.

"Are you sure Tenten cut so close to your scalp?"

"of course im sure! Didn't you see the scratches!"

"but if I'm correct" Tsunade took out a picture from a folder in her hand

"this was all the hair that she cut" the picture was in black and white from a security camera where it showed Karin underneath Tenten and her hair was a little shorter than shoulder length "so I ask how was it possible if Tenten only cut the hair a little past your shoulders?"

"that pictures fuzzy it looks longer, its actually much shorter"

"alright then, now back to sleeping with Tenten's father" she went tense

"you were 15, you do realize that you were a minor, that was illegal"

"o-oh please I was 18! Tenten just got her facts mixed up!"

"liar!" Tenten stood from her chair and glared viciously at Karin

"what'd you say?!"

"liar!"

"i was 18!"

"no you weren't you slut, you were 15! you're under oath!"

"that's why im telling the truth!"

"bull shit!"

"you littl-!" Jiraya began to bang his javelin on the wood repeatedly as he gave them both a glare, Tenten plopped back into her chair non to happy, Karin crossed her arms in a huff, Tsunade continued questioning her, and soon they were at the end of their case.

With closing statements, the judge asked everyone to wait quietly and patiently while he chose the ending verdict. Tsunade clicked and unclicked her pen nervously as Tenten decided to distract herself by looking through her lawyers notes. 10 minutes later Jiraya returned Orochimaru, Karin, Tenten and Tsunade stood waiting patiently.

"i've looked through the evidence thoroughly and gone over what you all have said and done, and ive come to my decision, in the case of Ms. Tenten paying Ms. Karin $900,000 as a fine for damage done to her...hair?" he raised his eyebrow " Ms. Tenten must pay this fine, while Ms. Karin will pay her $500" Tenten was confused, 'what?' "and Ms. Tenten's fine must be payed in cash. That will be all, case dimissed" he slammed the javelin three times then stood up and, everyone with him, and then left. Tenten was in a state of shock as she collapsed back into her chair and dropped her face into her hands, and began to push them into her hair

"Told you i'd win" she heard Karins voice and then her cackling laugh, but she hardly payed any attention to her. She heard the seat next to her squeak, as a warm hand came onto her shoulder.

"Tenten, im so sorry that I couldn't do more, lady luck just wasn't with us" Tenten looked up, her hands no longer in her hair, she gave a smile, but it didn't reach her eyes

"it's fine, you did your best, we all did but...i just" she covered her mouth with her hand as her eyes looked into space "i just dont know...how im going to..to pay for this." Tsunade's heart broke at her words, she could only do one thing for the girl and that was giving her a hug, and so she did. Tenten half halfheartedly returned it, but was still thankful for it. After a bit they pulled away

"i should probably get going so I can get all of this sorted out" she slowly stood with her bag "thank you Tsunade, for everything" Tsunade smiled

"your welcome" as Tenten began to walk out of the courtroom, her attention was caught by the guys standing their giving her sympathetic looks, she blinked and starred at them with a curious look then Lee came at her with tears in his eyes and choked her into a hug, Naruto not too long after.

"guuyys, take it easy, im fine" Lee continued to rub his cheek against hers, she grimaced as his blubbering wet face was covering hers with tears. she was finally able to pry them off, Shikamaru stepped forward

"are you sure?"

"it's a big fine" Sai continued

"yeah I know, but ill pull through"

Neji stepped forward "you know Tenten we dont mind help-"

she cut him off "no. I wont borrow anyone's money, it needs to come from me, dont worry," as she walked past him she patted his cheek "i got this" they watched her leaving figure, not turning around once.

Neji sighed "stubborn woman."

review please! and im sorry Tenten didn't win dont hurt me!