Hexx: Hey, I am here and so is….

Shino: Yo.

Hexx: I didn't call you yet!

Shino: You are making me get yelled at by Kiba soon so….

Hexx: DON'T GIVE IT AWAY BAKA!

Shino: You can't tell me what to do.

Hexx: o.o eh?

Shino: You don't own Naruto.

Blue, Kin and Hexx all sweat drop.

Tenten had finally reached her own room. After closing the door and firmly locking it, she began to make her slow travel to the bathroom for her first-aid kit. A knock at her door.

"Ms? Are you in there? Neji-san told me you needed a Medic." Tenten heard an unfamiliar voice call out. She glowered at the door, hoping her aura was giving the person the hint to leave.

"I do not need you help!" Tenten told the person. After several coaxing statements from her guest, she again told him she would not open the door.

"Then I am sorry for the intrusion Ms." Tenten thought that meant he was leaving.

Ha.

Tenten gave a scream as he 'proofed' into the room beside her. She pitched her lamp at him before flailing backwards onto her couch like a drunken idiot. Her head throbbed too much and her vision was blurring from the dark blood that was dripping into her face.

"Please don't fight back Ms. you will only cause more pain to yourself." The man said. He said it with a hint of smoke on his breath. Through blurry brown eyes Tenten chought the sight of a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.

The last thing she did before slipping into sleep, was snatching the cigarette from the man, taking a drag, and then stabbing the butt out on her couch.

"No smoking."

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Asuma grumpily made his way back to the other shinobi who lived in the castle. He relit a cigarette and took a long slow drag.

That had been his first in counter with Neji's attendant. Even though she had been living in the same building as all of the shinobi, only Leo had ever met her. As he finally opened the door to the shinobi private sitting room, he wondered why he had gone to take care of her instead of the actual medic, Kurenai. Then he remembered. Because she was out on a mission with that weird man in the tights.

"Yo. How did it go?" A brown haired ninja chewing on a senbon called. Asuma glanced his direction.

"Genma, that girl had so many scars on her, I don't think they all came from just now."

(Okay, NO ASUMA DID NOT MOLESTE OR LOOK AT HER LIKE THAT! He removed her shirt, LEFT THE UNDERSHIT ON! Wrapped her wounds on her arms. Then he wrapped up her head. Okay? NO PERVERTEDNESS INTENEDED!)

"Well, what do you think? She was a slave at one point. Her other owners might have beaten her." Genma said, switching his senbon from one side of his mouth to the other.

Asuma shook his head. "To recent."

Genma looked at Asuma doubtfully. "No offense man, but you don't have the best training with identifying wounds."

Asuma took another drag on his cigarette and then said, "I know a bruise takes at least twelve hors to appear and last for about a month." Genma looked at him as if to say, 'so?' Asuma went on, "So, in the past month, she must have been doing a lot of something that got her so many bruises. I am waiting for Kurenai to return before someone checks to see if she has similar wounds anyplace else."

Genma ran his hand over his shaggy brown hair. (Why do ½ of these characters have brown hair? Can't someone have black hair or something?)

"Do you think Neji hit her?"

This seemed likely. Well, at first.

"No. He at least, not without her permission." Asuma stated. Genma looked at him and waited for an appropriate response.

"I have been told that she is never far from Neji really. She lingers behind him a lot. Sometimes even when she is not needed. And Rebecca said they often go out into the garden late a night, only to return even later, when most people are sleeping."

"What, you think he is dating her?" Genma asked slyly. Briefly imagining the cold Hyuuga prince with the (as he had heard) short-tempered foreigner.

"No, more like sparing with her." Genma's smile deflated instantly. Sparing? Why in gods name would he do a thing like that with her?

"YOSH!" Like nails dragging down a chalkboard, a large version of Lee hopped into the room. Followed closely by a female medic ninja. Her black hair (YES CHANGE OF PACE!) Swung loosely around her shoulders.

Before she could adjust herself, she was accosted by Asuma and quickly led away. As Asuma explained about the young girl.

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After Kurenai examined Tenten and used chakra to heal her head wound, reemerged from the room to find Genma also standing beside Asuma.

"You were right Asuma. Her wounds are recant, but not as recant as today."

Asuma held a hand out to Genma, who dropped two gold coins into his palm. Kurenai frowned deeply at them both. Asuma gave her a sheepish smile.

"Let's go find Neji."

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Neji had been in his room, reading an old scroll when he heard a firm knock on his door. He rolled up the scroll as he walked towards the door. It opened before he reached it and three members of the castle's shinobi entered the room.

Before he could say anything about them entering in such a fashion. He found them all bombarding him at once with several questions.

They didn't seem to be saying anything that made sense to the Hyuuga, because he just started at them with bored eyes. Then,

BAM!

"NEJI! SHUT UP IN HERE! MY GOD! I HAVE A SCREAMING HEADACHE AND IF YOU EXPECT ME NOT TO SPAR WITH YOU TONIGHT BECAUSE OF IT, THEN YOU ARE DEAD WRONG! LET ME SLEEP AND THEN I WILL KICK YOU'RE…."

Tenten stopped screaming upon seeing the other people in her wards room. Upon seeing Asuma, she marched across the room, snatched the cigarette out of his mouth, and then placed the burning end on her hand.

"I said no smoking." Then she left.

This had left some mouths open. Neji crossed the room closed his door and then offered the three shinobi's seats.

"Neji-san, why dose she spar with you?" Genma asked. Neji smirked at him and told him,

"She lost to me once and she says she will try again and again until she wins."

"So you attack her full force?" Asuma asked. Neji nodded, saying,

"She fights full force plus something extra. The least I could do is return her favor."

"How many times have you used gentle fist on her?" Kurenai demanded. Neji narrowed his eyes at her. She went on to explain,

"The muscle in her stomach has an internal scar, in the shape of your hand." She informed him. He closed his eyes and told them all,

"Once. I used it on her once, and then never again."

The questions went on for a little while longer. Then, when Tenten had again come into the room to call Neji out for their spar, Kurenai told her all she could have was bed rest. And after some struggling and arguing, Tenten was locked away in her room for the night.

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Tenten spent her first day off in her room. With Hinata and sometimes Hanabi for company. She felt the thick gauze of the bandages that encircled her head. She had several

She cursed the female medic. She had slipped in-between the worlds of awake and a sleep in and out of the day. She had read, sewn a few more pairs of pants, chatted and ate. She felt so useless, not doing anything.

When Tenten woke up for what felt like the twentieth time that day, she found herself staring into pitch black.

This confused her.

Even when she was awake in the middle of the night, she could see around her room. She made sure her eyes were wide open. She still saw nothing. Then she began to scream.

"I'm BLIND! CRAP! KUSTU SASUKE YOU MADE ME BLIND!"

A snicker.

Tenten stopped. She had been hopping on her mattress on her knees. She distinctly heard a snicker. She stretched an arm out in font of her, searching around for her invisible watcher.

She felt herself slip off the edge of the bed. She felt someone slip their arms under hers. Her chest hit someone else's and then the snicker rumbled from the apposing chest.

Tenten felt her knees softly bump into the floor. She began to bang on the person's chest with her fists. She growled at him/her. The arms tightened slightly before she felt them release her. Then, blinding light.

"AGH!" Tenten shielded her eyes from the bright light. She blinked a few time and then saw something that annoyed her.

"NEJI!" She smacked him in the chest. He was smirking at her, and holding a black blindfold in one of his hands. Tenten crossed her arms and fumed.

"Tenten is this the closest to a dress I am ever going to see you in?" Neji asked her. Tenten looked down at her yellow nightgown.

She felt very odd, sitting with her back on her bed and with him sitting in front of her, with his ankles by her hips, one on each side. Tenten tried to cock her head but winced as the pain stabbed gently.

"I think it is. Dear Sir." Neji frowned. Every time she wanted to annoy him, that is what he was called.

"I want you to leave now. Since your little stunt has sacred about six years off my life." Tenten informed him, getting back into her bed and wrapping the blanket around her in an adorable fashion.

"Fine, I will." He turn's to leave.

"Neji?"

"Hai?"

She is beside him now, arms around his neck and tieing the blindfold into his mouth like a gag. She smirks at him before leaping over her headboard and back into her covers.

"Very funny, Tenten."

Hexx: Okay, I have no idea wear any of this came from. But now that Shino blew part of next chapter, I think I will make it come out in 2 weeks. Just so you can all simmer over it. OH! And I KNOW Kurenai isn't a medic nin. BUT remember in my story I said the only girl ninjas are medics.