Dun dun dun… You know, things always need a plotline and I refuse to write crap.
PART ONE
'Tenten!' Neji and Lee called out, running towards Neji's home. Naruto had immediately called the both of them, even going with them to check on the Weapon's Mistress.
It's too bad all the speed Neji and Lee spent years gaining wouldn't help. The first thing Neji heard was his daughter's cry for him. 'Dad! Father!' She called in a trembling voice that sounded wrong. Tenten's children… their children never cried.
'They took Mom!' Fuyuki yelled, his voice sounding just as strange. Neji didn't bother slowing down even as his heart plummeted. They… took her. They took Tenten. The only thing that kept him moving was the sight of his children, kneeling on the ground.
He slid harshly on the ground and enveloped them in his arms. They were cold and shaking but they were here, safe. At least they were safe. 'We got in the way! She was fighting… she could've won…' Fuyuko looked up at her father with her red-rimmed white eyes.
Fuyuki nodded in agreement, his cute face contorted in guilt. 'We thought we could help but Mom had to give up to save us. Our fault!'
'Not your fault.' Neji said sternly. His children went quiet, looking at their now furious father with cautious eyes. Rock Lee looked at his teammate with concern and then looked into the forest. Maybe if he ran his hardest… he could catch up… but they were probably underground by now. He looked at his children and they saw grief. 'I will get your mother back. I'll get her back. Don't worry.' Neji assured in a softer tone.
Naruto held his arms out to Fuyuki with a determined face. 'Come on. You two should hang out with Kairi and Kaisho. Hinata-hime will take care of you.' Fuyuki nodded and Neji picked up Fuyuko. The two still refused to cry.
The moment they appeared and Hinata saw that Tenten wasn't with them, she knew what happened and called for her kids. They didn't know what happened but they smiled and rubbed the sleep from their eyes upon seeing their cousins. Naruto grinned at his children and the Hyuga twins ran forward, collapsing in their cousins' arms.
'Dad?' Kairi called, confused as she let Fuyuki bury his head in her shoulder. Blue eyes met and Kaisho looked up too, busy as he was holding a shivering Fuyuko.
'Why don't you stay with them awhile? I'll explain afterwards. I'm just gonna talk with Neji. Hinata-hime?' Naruto called to his wife. She went forward immediately, putting Neji between herself and Naruto as they walked away. The moment they were away from the kids, Neji looked up with murderous intention. Lee shifted nervously.
'I'm going to kill them.'
'Neji-nii-san, Naruto already sent Team Prodigy and Team Dojutsu on a stealth mission. Once they see Tenten enter, they will infiltrate and form a rescue tactic.' Hinata tried to reason, letting Naruto ruffle through some papers and then forming a few quick handsigns. Shikamaru poofed into the room.
'Tenten's been taken, send the message to Hitomi and Tenshi-hime.' Naruto told his lazy friend immediately, shoving the paper into his hand.
'Damn.' Shikamaru swore before looking at Neji. 'I'm sorry, Neji.' He offered before poofing away to deliver the message.
'Trust in your team, Neji. Tenshi-hime won't let you down. And neither will Hitomi. We'll send in a rescue team once we got all our information.' Naruto told his friend but Neji wasn't assured.
He narrowed his eyes instead. 'I trust that I will be one of the members in that team?'
Naruto grinned at this and nodded. 'Yeah you are, I'm in too.' This on the other hand, made Neji feel at least fractionally better. Naruto doesn't know when to give up so he won't give up till they get Tenten back.
PART TWO
'Shit. They took Tenten. Tenten's the Iwa kid?' Hitomi muttered, watching as her friend was led into the base.
'Neji-sensei's wife?' Raiden asked with wide eyes, his face paling. It was sensei's wife. The Kuroiwa heiress…
'The decision is made then.' Masaru murmured quietly. Daisuke tensed.
'Yes, it's time for you to go. Send the report. Get back-up fast.' Hitomi ordered, packing her things and checking her supplies. 'Daisuke. You go too.'
'You need someone here. You'll be alone then. At least one.' Tenshi bargained, her and her Deva Path wearing similar expressions of concern. Hitomi pulled down her mask to smile at her.
'Honestly. I would. But none of you have the satisfactory skill for spying and stealth.'
'I do.' Sanagi said in a hard tone, glaring at his sister. 'I do and you know it.'
'Sanagi… I have a different duty to fulfil when it comes to you.' She said, ruffling his dark hair. 'When I named you, I promised to protect you.'
His eyes went soft then and he turned to his teammates and threw his arms around both of them. 'Tell sensei I'll watch out for Tenten-san. Take care.' Hitomi looked at her brother carefully as he turned back to her and smiled. 'I'm sorry, nee-chan, but I'm too selfish to let you do that.'
Hitomi stopped and stared at her brother. She trained him, protected him, loved him for all the years he lived. She liked being a big sister. Could she deny him having the pleasure of doing the same? She decided quickly and turned to her own teammates. 'Don't miss me too much.' She commanded with a smirk, pulling Masaru into a hug and kissing Daisuke while his heart played her melody a little louder than usual.
Then she pulled up her mask and activated her eyes. Sanagi did the same and without any warning, she grinned at him, grabbed his hand and jumped out right in front of the base. 'Hitomi-nee!' He hissed in shock.
'This is the easiest way in. Fight but not too hard. Make it believable.' She whispered back as a couple of guards came out to meet them.
'Huh. I thought I could feel eyes on me. Makes sense now. You guys wanna come in?' The young girl asked politely, grinning cheerily. Hitomi raised her brow in question.
'You have kidnapped Tenten Hyuga. Release her immediately.' Sanagi ordered imperiously copying the tone he once heard Sasuke using.
The young girl beamed wider. 'Calm down. If you're friends of the young Mistress, I'll be honoured to escort you to her and the Master. Come this way please.'
Sanagi eyed her suspiciously and Hitomi stretched out her range, scanning the area with her Byakugan. Surprised by the lack of hostility, she deactivated her eyes swiftly. She took Sanagi's hand and tugged him with her. 'Come brother.' She whispered, following the Kuroiwa ninja. 'Let's find Tenten.'
Returning his eyes to their dark abysses, he trusted his sister completely and followed her into the enemy's lair.
PART THREE
Tenten looked at the man standing in front of her. He was middle-aged and dressed in ninja clothing, his headband bearing the slashed Iwa symbol as well as the Kuroiwa symbol. Being Tenten, her observant eyes even caught the silver ring on his finger that bore the Leaf Village symbol. Other than that he bore next to no resemblance to herself.
'My daughter, I have not seen you since I first held you on the day you were born.' He said, his gravelly voice holding the Iwa accent, his tone softened though. Tenten studied him carefully. She knew how to tell truth from lie. Neji taught her.
'I am a child of Iwa then.'
He smiled, looking pleased that she was not at least, kicking and screaming at being kidnapped. 'Only half. Your mother was a Konoha ninja. I sent you to her village because she requested it of me before her death. It was at that time she gave me this.' He explained, holding up the hand with the ring on it.
Tenten swallowed. He was telling the truth. This man was her father. She didn't know how to react. She spent her life without a father. Any parent. The closest thing she had to one was Gai-sensei and he was like a seven year old. She felt nothing. She had stopped wishing for a parent very may years ago. But she knew what it was like to be one. Her eyes stung and she rubbed at them furiously. 'I will not speak unless you ask something.'
This was fine by her father. He understood well. She was very much like her mother. Reasonable yet stubborn, according to circumstances. 'You married. Into the Hyuga clan. That must've been hard.'
'What the hell are you talking about?' She snapped suddenly. It sounded very much like an insult to her.
'…Weren't you forced to marry a Hyuga?' He asked, confused. From what he knew, Hyugas arranged their marriages very carefully.
'Are you crazy? No one can make me do anything. I spent years melting that ice cube of a man but he's affectionate and caring and protective underneath. He's the best sparring partner ever and changed the ways of the clan. Neji Hyuga is the man I love.' She lashed out in a furious rant. The man didn't even flinch.
'My people tell me he treats you well and judging by that there's no doubt about it. I'm glad. I heard your children tried to come to your aid whilst you fought with my men.' He smiled serenely. This made Tenten angry. Beyond angry.
She clenched her fist around a kunai and began to spin it dangerously. 'Your men threatened to harm my children. Your grandchildren, you heartless bastard.' She growled in fury, sending the kunai forward with deadly accuracy. He moved quickly and the kunai embedded deep into the wall behind him.
A frown marred his face. 'None of them would dare harm a Kuroiwa child.'
'They are Hyuga, not Kuroiwa. Same as I am.' She spoke defiantly.
He went back to smiling but walked to her kunai, pulling it from the wall and twirling it expertly, much like the way Tenten did. 'Of course. I'm not denying that. But the way you threw this fine weapon which I can tell you made yourself, that is what shows you to be Kuroiwa. It is why I have brought you here to become my heir.'
