A Night On The Boardwalk

Here it is!! After this chapter will be the epilogue, so I guess this is the last CHAPTER. Enjoyyy...:P

Wow. This chapter really sucks. :P

"We're here, Tenten."

I looked around. Obviously, I'd found the right place, since it generally looked like shit. I turned towards her, and smiled.

"Thanks, Mom. Sorry for making you come all this way just for me," I said, before reaching for the car door's handle. I was just about to open the door, when she called my name. I whipped my head around. My mom embraced me in a warm hug, before planting a small kiss on my forehead.

"Anything for you. Do you want me to come with you?" She asked.

Yes.

"No, Mom. I'll be fine." I opened the door, and let myself out. "Love you."

"Love you too, sweetie."

I walked up the stone steps that lead to the foyer. Secretly, I wished that my mom, my friends, Neji, and of course, my father were all walking up these stairs with me. However, now, I'm smart enough to know that life's tough. Some things you have to do by yourself.

And I guess this was one of them.

"Ah, I was waiting for your arrival, my dearest Tenten."

I had to resist the urge to gag in my mouth, as Orochi's butt ugly face was pressed against mine.

"Suck it." I growled, causing the poor man to stumble back a bit.

He chuckled, before leaning over to stroke my (which I wish wasn't) bare arm. "Tsk, tsk. Such tainted minds in our society lately."

"I can tell," I mumbled.

I absolutely HATE phedophiles. They're so creepy, hitting on little kids, such as myself. I mean, I'm all in for the yummy age gap in between people, (because it makes everything smexier), but seriously, if you're a 53 year old fart, hitting on a 17 year old girl...now THAT is a bit extreme.

Orochimaru smiled. "Now that we're both on the same page, I'm just going to have a look at a place that perhaps you could stay in. Don't worry about the registrations," he began to lick his lips, "I'll take care of all that jazz." He then marched off, leaving me, myself, and I at the front entrance.

There were many showcases, containing many items such as trophies, old jerseys, and many photos. One particular photo caught my interest. In it, was a couple of young adults enjoying life, each holding a Coke in hand, smiling happily. One of them looked quite familiar, although I couldn't exactly tell from where.

"Nice photos, aren't they?" A manly voice said from behind me. I turned around to find Suigetsu smiling softly at me. I turned back to the photo. I pointed at one of the boys. "Is that you?"

Suigetsu nodded, before smiling. "God bless college parties!" I giggled a bit at this comment.

He cocked his head to the side. "So, what brings you here? Hunting down more basketball players?"

I shook my head. "No, I'm here to stay."

"Sounds cool." Suigetsu glanced at the door, and back at me. "Listen, I have to go. Some of the boys are heading out to grab a bite to eat. Maybe later on, you could swing by and join us."

I smiled. "Sure, sounds like fun. See ya!"

"Bye!" Like that, he left. As if on cue, Orochimaru walked down the corridor, soon in my presence.

"Listen, toots, I found a room for you to stay in. Hope you don't mind living with a roomie." He stated, as he grabbed my bag. I followed him.

"Oh, don't worry about that. I have tons of experience with that kind of stuff." I replied.

Tons.

"Heh, good to hear. Oh, and this chick is hot, so you may get burned a bit. I sure have, cause she stole away my soul..."

I chuckled. "Keep dreaming, wonder-boy! She's too young for you." We stopped in front of a door, before Orochimaru fumbled a bit with the keys, opening the door for me. I grabbed my bag from him after saying thank you. Then, the fun part: slamming the door on his face.

I collapsed on the bed, feeling the urge to relax. And, surprisingly for a crappy school, the beds were nice, and comfy. Or as I like to say: spastastic.

About 15 minutes into my relaxing session, my cell rang. I really didn't want to answer it, but I knew I had to.

"Hello?"

"Turn around." The caller demanded. Being the gullible girl I am, I turned around, to find myself staring directly at...

Her.

"T-Temari...?" I asked. She smirked, before throwing a pillow at my head. "That's my name."

"What the hell are you doing here!?" I asked, throwing the pillow back at her.

"That is the question I should be asking you. What brings the little bitch over to my dorm?" Temari spat at me.

"This happens to be my dorm too." I replied, ignoring the few spit particles that creeped onto my face.

"Since when?"

"Since...21 minutes ago." I told her. She rolled her eyes, before grabbing a towel from the closet.

"I'm going for a shower." She stated. I snorted.

"Thanks for telling me. Now, I'll join you, and smother you in chocolate."

"Sicko. You're even worse than Orochimaru." Temari said, before turning towards the bathroom.

"Wait!" I called, causing her to turn around. Something had been off. I needed to ask her something very important, that I wanted to know the answer to for awhile. Of that incident. "D-Did you do it?"

She raised a brow at me. "Did what?"

"Drug him. Drug Neji." I replied, staring at her.

"Yeah. What of it?" Temari was glaring at me by this point.

"Well, no ordinary person would drug someone without any motive."

"Wow. No shit." Temari said, with a snort.

"You fucking bitch." I said through my clenched teeth.

"Joy."

I rolled my eyes, trying to keep myself from exploding. "So, let's hear it. Why?"

Temari sighed, before sitting at the edge of my bed. We looked at each other, before she finally explained. "Kankuro's my brother. His team has always won. All of a sudden, he looses to some big shot with gorgeous hair. It's not right. So, we knew your team would..."

I cut her off. "Wait, who's WE?"

Temari shook her head in shame. "Honestly, are you retarded? My father was the bartender that night, so at the club, we organized a little treat for your little friend. No one beats us and gets away with it." She turned to me. "Are you satisfied now? If you don't mind, I'd like to go bathe now." Temari then got up, and headed for the bathroom, slamming the door when she was fully inside.

Me? Well, I was completely bamboozled. What a bunch of shit. I sat up, glancing around the room, as if I was looking for something. I then realized what I had been looking for, as I spotted my bag in the corner. I pounced on top of it, and grabbed my journal. My mind was filled with crap, and it needed to be emptied. As I was searching for a pen somewhere in my backpack, I didn't even notice that something fell out of the journal. When I found a pen, I looked down at the floor, noticing a picture. In fact, it was THE picture. The one with all of us together, at that time Ino made us watch that horrible movie. I picked it up, and simply stared at it, letting all the memories of that day come rushing back.

Then, I noticed something a bit weird. I never kept any photos in my journal, so how did this beast suddenly end up here?

Oh, shit.

I opened up the journal, and scanned the pages quickly. It wasn't mine.

It was Neji's journal.

I sighed, before returning to the beginning of the book. Hey! It wouldn't hurt to read a little bit...

April 19

Today Anko-sensei assigned Tenten and I these journals.

She said we had to write in them everyday, otherwise, 'something bad'll happen'.

However, she never said that we had to write about anything in particular.

She just said: WRITE EVERYDAY.

I bet Tenten'll never realise this, but since Anko-sensei only said WRITE EVERYDAY, I'm going to be the smart one, and write.

EVERYDAY.

Neji.

What does that mean? I flipped the page, before chuckling to myself quietly. Sure enough, Neji wrote. In fact, all Neji did, was write the date.

On every page.

For everyday.

"Smart ass," I muttered to myself quietly. Man, I'm such a mush pot. It's only been a few hours, and I'm already missing his uber-cocky-ness.

"Yo," Temari called from behind me, while tossing her wet towel on my head, "I'm heading out with the guys. We're all grabbing a bite to eat. Later, loser."

I threw the towel back at her, causing her to yelp. I smirked, as she pouted, and stormed out of the room.

Okay, I have to say: Konoha University is definitely one of the grossest looking universities ever. Also, the most boring.

I had absolutely NOTHING to do. For 40 minutes straight, I paced our dinky room. 129.5 times.

Back at the academy, we'd all be laughing at the gayness Sasuke and Naruto shared, and Ino and Shika's battles. Or we'd be getting hushed in the library for making to many pervy comments at an 'inappropriate tone'. Or having our long poker sessions, betting chores instead of money.

Whatever we used to do was all gone.

Because.....of certain circumstances...

Suck it up.

I sighed. It was my decision to leave, so it's my responsibility to stay.

A loud noise coming from the window interrupted my emo moment, so I slowly walked over to where the racket was coming from, only to gasp.

"Karin!??" I exclaimed, before opening the window. There she stood, her face pressed against my window. "What in the world are you doing here??"

Her eyes softened in the most weirdest way, as she slowly began to speak. "I need to talk to you."

I rolled my eyes. "Look, if you're here to bitch at me more, then let me tell you: I'm. Not. Interested." I said, controlling the urge to scream by clenching my teeth.

She sighed. "Neither am I. Will you please let me explain something to you?"

I thought about it for a few minutes, before nodding. "But not in here. Let's take a walk."

She smiled, before climbing down the school.

"So, if you're not here to yell at me, what are you here for?"

Karin shoved her hands in her pockets, before staring at the sidewalk.

"..."

"...?"

"..."

I rolled my eyes, before sighing. "Look, I didn't climb out of my own dorm just for the heck of it. Spill it."

After a brief moment of silence, Karin finally began to speak. "I just needed to tell you how wrong I was. I was the bitch, not you."

"...That was probably the under statement of the YEAR."

"Would you let me finish!?" She spat, scaring me a little. She sighed, before continuing. "I was being selfish, and just wanting Neji to be happy. I always thought that was with me, so I tried everything to make that possible. Now, I realize that it was never me that provided him with happiness; it was you."

I stopped walking, just to stare at a bug that was smooshed against the sidewalk. "H-How do you put all this together? How do you know?"

She smiled softly. "Right after you left, I paid a visit with Neji. I've never seen him so heart broken, and depressed. He really loves you. I realize that now."

I shook my head. "How can you all of a sudden assume that!? It hasn't been 2 hours since I left!"

Karin chuckled. "That just proves how much he needs you." There was an awkward silence between us. "Look, I'm not saying that I'm all of a sudden best friends with you, but if you're what Neji needs to be happy, I'll be willing to work and cooperate with you."

Slowly, I started smiling. "Thank you for telling me that. I really appreciate it. However, there's nothing I can do now. I'm here."

She nodded.

We continued talking and walking, laughing at the stupid stuff we did. I hate to admit it, but it was actually somewhat nice socializing with her.

We ended up in front of a diner. Don't ask how, our feet just led us there. We were talking about something funny, when I noticed someone come out of the diner. He had no idea we were there, and she didn't know he was there either.

So I preformed my magic...

"Suigetsu!!!" I called out to him, waving my hands around. He looked up at me smiling, but it dropped when his eyes met Karin's.

"K-Karin...?"

"Suigetsu...???"

They stared at each other, before Karin threw herself on him. They started acting lovey and gross with each other, so I took it as my cue to leave.

I got closer to the diner, sighing in happiness as my favorite song came on. In fact it was THE song Neji and I danced to. I started humming the verses, just as the pouring rain started falling down even harder.

I looked up at the sky, and wrapped my arms around myself. "I'm a house of cards in a hurricane..." I began to sing.

"A wreckless ride in the pouring rain..." A manly voice said from behind me. I turned around, to see Neji, soaking wet slowly walking towards me.

I smiled, and walked towards him. We met, staring at each other. "She cuts me and the pain is all I wanna feel..." I whispered.

"She danced away just like a child..." Neji sang, taking my hand, raising it, and spinning me around.

"She drives me crazy, drives me wild..." I said, taking his hands in mine. People were starting to come out of the diner to stare at us, but we didn't care.

"But I'm helpless when she..." He whispered taking his finger and poking my giant dimples.

"Smiles..." I finished, staring at him. We stood there, looking at each other, before I slowly wrapped my arms around his neck just to hug him.

That was all I needed.

We pulled away from the hug, before I chuckled. "Nice journal, by the way."

He smirked, before kissing me gently on the lips. "I knew you'd like it."

"Shut up." I whispered, hugging him again. "You can't even go 2 hours without me..."

"Hn. Whatever. It's not like you can..."

"TENTENNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Someone shouted from behind us, followed by a million of others.

We broke apart to see the entire gang slowly getting closer to us, as they all stuck their heads out of the window of Sasuke's jeep.

"Hi guys!!!" I exclaimed, as I ran towards them.

Sasuke rolled down his window, as he gripped the wheel. "Would you two love birds just get in the car??"

Sakura blinked innocently at him. "As far as I'm concerned, you and Naruto are already in the car..."

Sasuke growled, as we giggled.

Ah, yes, I love them.

I never want to be apart from them.

DONEEEE!!!!

Remember, I still have a chapter after this, so don't leave me as yet...:)

After that will be the sequel, but it won't be (hopefully) that long...

After that, I want to get started on my SasuSaku one...:)

The epilogue will be out soon, since it's not going to be that long :)

Sorry for the big wait by the way...and sorry for the crappiness of the chapter...I just needed to explain everything that happened and get it wrapped up...

See ya at the epilogue!