Chapter- Twenty-Five (Turning to a Life of Crime)
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Serena- Yup, that's true…
Turning to a Life of Crime…
Team Gai stood in Tsunade's office. Lee was in the middle, separating Neji and Tenten. Tenten refused to look his way.
"Well, Tenten," the Hokage began, "What was this teamwork-building activity that you chose?"
"WHAT? YOU MEAN WE STILL HAVE TO DO THAT?" she screamed.
"OF COURSE YOU DO! WHY WOULDN'T YOU?" Tsunade slammed a fist on her desk.
Tenten remembered in the nick of time that Tsunade didn't know that she and Neji were even together, and especially not that they had broken up. She had been so busy trying to keep her mind off Neji that she had forgotten about this.
"Hmmm," she thought.
I was going to go elephant napping, but I think…
"Let's go caroling!" she screamed, punching the air.
"THAT IS A WONDERFUL IDEA, TENTEN-CHAN!" Lee screamed, too. He didn't know about Neji and Tenten, either. He was to busy concentrating on youth to realize the tension between his teammates.
"…" Neji said.
"Get out and do it now, I'm expecting guests." Tsunade said, pointing to the door.
"OH SHUT UP!" Tenten screamed, "YOU HAVE NO SOCIAL LIFE AND YOU KNOW IT!"
"WHY YOU…" Tsunade threw her sake bottle, but Tenten ducked. Lee grabbed Tenten and ran out of her office, fearing her wrath. Neji followed, silently.
…
"Deck the halls with boughs of holly! Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, laaaaaaaaa!" Tenten and Lee sang, as someone opened their front door.
"Get lives." The person said, and slammed the door.
That was about the seventeenth person to do that.
"Well, that's just great!" Tenten spat, "Why doesn't anyone like our singing?"
"…" Neji said.
"The very power of youth travels through our voices, we must not give up now!" Lee yelled, punching the air.
"Okay, change of plans," Tenten stroked her chin, thoughtfully, "I say that since I'm pissed off we will go and rob a store!"
"BUT TENTEN!" Lee squealed, horrified.
"…" Neji said.
"And I choose….THAT STORE!" Tenten yelled, taking off, leaving Lee and Neji with nothing to do but follow.
"Everybody remain calm, and put your hands up!" she screamed, running through the shop door, wielding a kunai.
…
"YOU HELD UP A STORE!" Tsunade screamed so loud Tenten, Lee, and Neji's hair blew back from the wind.
"Team building." Tenten reminded her, timidly.
"True," she mused, "Ah, what the hell I don't care." She chugged her sake.
"Yay!" and Tenten ran out the door.
…
Neji actually didn't feel better upon seeing Tenten. He felt worse, as soon as she was gone he was empty again. Her cheerfulness was the most beautiful thing in the world to him and made him a completely different person. Tenten melted his icy persona, inside and out. He was proud that at least he hadn't been caught staring longingly at her. She didn't look his way once.
"Yo! Earth to Neji!" Hanabi yelled, snapping her fingers in front of his face.
"What do you want?" his voice was full of acid. His stupid cousin had stopped his flow of Tenten daydreams.
"Just reminding you to breathe, that's all." She muttered, but then her face lit up.
"You know what?" she asked, and then not waiting for him to even answer continued, "I'm gonna get you to forget about Tenten-chan!"
"How do you know…" he began to ask.
"Oh, Ino-chan told me. Come on, let's go!" she dragged him by his shirt.
Neji should have known that it was the most gossipy girl in Konoha that was spreading the news. Either her or Sakura, who unfortunately, were both close of friends of Tenten and would know about guys she dumped. (Serena- Don't get me wrong, I'm an Ino fan. Sakura…mmm, she's okay.) Neji let Hanabi drag him all the way to the center of town, before the question started.
"Where are we going?"
"We're here." They had stopped in front of the enterance of one of the gardens where a lot of rich people always went to have lunches or dinner. Beyond the swirls of the iron gate, was colorful, blooming flowers, perfect green grass and many little ponds with pure white swans paddling on the top. There was also many white tablecloth clad tables, with the usual restaurant centerpiece. People in fancy outfits and kimonos sat at the tables eating their meals or taking leisurely walks or canoe rides.
"Hn?" (Serena- Yes, that is how Neji asks questions now.)
"This is what I do when I'm depressed," Neji couldn't imagine Hanabi depressed, but didn't interrupt because he is Neji, "I go and steal something, you will watch and follow suit."
She through the gate, and smiled at the waiter that greeted her. Neji followed her.
"Don't you have to pay to get in here?" Neji asked.
"You're supposed to, but since we're Hyuugas we look rich and they don't care as long as shabby people don't come in."
Weird.
Hanabi went up and snuck in the side of the kitchen. She rummaged through some of the shelves, and then her head popped back up.
"Neji! Go! Go!" she had something tucked against her. Neji didn't have time to wonder what it was and just obeyed and ran, Hanabi right on his heels.
They ran all the way to the edge of the garden and hid behind a gigantic rosebush trimmed in the shape of a dragon. Hanabi proudly held up her stolen object—a pink and white steak. Neji looked at her like she was insane.
"Why a steak?" he asked her, poking at it.
"Why not a streak?" she snapped back, pulling it out of his poking reach.
"And what have we back here?" a guy in a uniform asked, peaking behind the dragon-bush.
"Uhhhh, hi?" Hanabi smiled.
"Why do you have a steak?" he asked, "Did you pay for that?"
"Yeah," she lied, slowly.
"I don't believe you."
…
"My own kin…" Hiashi sighed, shaking his head slowly.
Neji and Hanabi knelt before him, heads down.
"What, may I ask, was going through your heads? Why did you feel the need to steal a steak?"
"So… we could eat it?" Hanabi answered, thinking of the first thing off the top of her head.
Her father shook his head. "I am very disappointed in you both. I would have thought that both of you would be more mature than this. Especially you Neji, being seventeen."
"…"
Hiashi sighed again and left the room. Hanabi peeked up at Neji and had a sparkle of mischief in her eye.
"You know…" she began slyly, "I still have that steak…"
End Chapter
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