6 Months with the Hyuuga Family
By: Whipped Coffee
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Disclaimer
I don't own Naruto.
If I did, I wouldn't be here, now would I?
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Month Two
Day Fourteen
Chapter Twenty-Eight—Love Like That
"Tenten?"
"I don't think she heard you…"
"No, really?"
"Stop with the sarcasm, Kairi. Are you on a sarcasm rampage today?"
"At least I don't talk like a have a stick up my ass today."
"What did you just say about me?"
"See? Total stick up your ass."
"Would you just shut up? At least I have an ass…"
"Poor retort, Ino. If I didn't have an ass right now, then how would I be sitting down?"
"…"
"Exactly."
"Whatever. Tenten! Did you get enough sleep or are you dozing off?" Ino asked looking intently at Tenten.
She blinked a few times before she saw Ino's intense gaze. "What?" She asked almost inaudibly, sitting up straight, since she was slouching a bit before.
Ino leaned back in her chair and sighed. "She's a lost case," she mumbled to herself.
The three girls were in a quaint little café—different from the one Kiba and Shino worked at. The café was in an enormous shopping mall—the reason for the huge noises in the background that kept distracting Tenten.
Ino pouted at Tenten, who in return, stared at something behind Ino. Ino raised a brow at her actions—she knew that there was no one behind her, except for a plant. Ino stirred her coffee and looked up at Kairi. She mouthed the words, 'she's dead', to Kairi and she nodded along, agreeing with her.
Ever since Ino met up with Tenten in the party (or close to the end of the party, if you wanted to be exact), she had been a bit dazed, like she was just sleep walking. Neji didn't show up at the party after he dropped Tenten off, and Ino was quite suspicious of that.
Kairi and Ino did everything they could last night of get anything, just anything out of Tenten, but she had kept her mouth shut. She just shook her head and smiled at them, like nothing had happened.
'Bullshit,' Ino had thought. 'If nothing happened, then why would Neji take Tenten for a three hour trip, missing the best party ever?'
It still didn't make sense. Ino had confronted Neji when she dropped by the Hyuuga Manor earlier. He had said nothing, showed nothing, and if it was even possible for Neji, thought about nothing. She knew that it would be hard getting information out of Tenten—but she didn't think that it'll be this hard.
When Ino looked back at Tenten, she found her still staring at the plant behind her. Ino groaned, slamming her hands down on the table as she slouched down in her seat. Tenten seemed to have responded to that—she blinked a couple of times before looking at Ino. Kairi grinned, finding it amusing that Tenten finally coming back to her senses.
"Finally!" Ino said, tapping her fingers on the table. "We don't we lost you to your fantasy world," she said, narrowing her eyes at Tenten, who just grinned sheepishly. "Now, are you going to tell us what happened or do we have to beat it out of you?"
Tenten rolled her eyes, knowing that the threat was empty. "I can't tell you guys what happened—," she stopped, knowing that she had slipped up. She started slowly, trying to figure out what words to use, "because… nothing happened," she finished lamely, playing around with her croissant.
Ino had dragged her out of the house before she had a chance to get out of bed. While she was brushing her teeth, Ino had stormed into the bathroom, shoving clothes onto Tenten's body. Thankfully, Tenten kicked Ino out of the bathroom before she did anymore damage to her pride. I mean, did she really need to have Ino change her own clothes for her?
"Oh yeah," Kairi rolled her eyes. "Don't think we'll stop asking after that excuse."
Tenten sighed. "Can't you guys just drop it? I told you before and I'm telling you now—nothing happened when Neji and I went up to that friggin mountain!"
Kairi and Ino widened their eyes at Tenten. They didn't say anything (or even moved) for a few seconds before they both blinked and processed the information to their heads. Tenten groaned, mentally smacking herself as she thought back to what she had said.
'Why, oh why did I make that slip-up? Now they'll know that that's the place where Neji took Sakura and I'll be forced to explain what happened…' Tenten groaned once again as she pushed the croissant away.
Ino smiled, and then squealed as Kairi just grinned. "Oh my god! That's the place Neji took Sakura!"
"So," Kairi asked, eyeing the piece of croissant that Tenten pushed away. "Did he ask you to be his girlfriend?"
Tenten looked confused. "No," she said. "Why would he?" She saw Kairi eyeing the croissant, and pushed it towards her. Kairi smiled happily as she ate it.
"Because that's where Neji asked Sakura," Ino explained as she took a sip of her coffee. "Or, at least that's where I think he asked her. She said something about a mountain," Ino said, shrugging."
"Are you sure he didn't ask you?" Kairi asked, a little muffled through her croissant.
Tenten shook her head. She thought that he would, when he first brought her there. I mean, why would a guy bring a girl to a dang mountain if he wasn't planning to make it as a date and ask her to be his girlfriend? That just doesn't make sense.
But apparently, there were a million of different reasons as to why a guy would bring a girl out to a mountain in the middle of the night, on the night of the biggest party ever, hosted by one of her best friends. Yeah, there were millions.
Like this one: he could bring her up there to explain the relationship between his ex. Oh yeah, everyone loved to hear that story from the guy/girl that he/she likes.
"Well, why would he bring her up there if he didn't ask her to be his girlfriend?" Ino asked, not getting it. "That makes no sense."
'Exactly what I was thinking,' Tenten thought grimly.
"So, what did he bring you up there for?" Kairi asked, polishing the croissant off.
"Well…" Tenten said, debating on the fact if she should tell them or not. Neji didn't actually tell her not to tell anyone… but even though he didn't say anything, she still felt like she shouldn't say anything. Did that even make sense?
Kairi and Ino looked expectantly at Tenten, who was looking even more nervous by the second. She sighed deeply as she looked at them in defeat. "Fine, I'll tell you guys…" She muttered. "He took me up there… to tell me what happened between him and Sakura…"
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"Why would you bring me to a place where you met Sakura…?" Tenten asked, looking confused.
"I asked her to be my girlfriend three weeks later," Neji continued on, ignoring what Tenten had said. She glared at him for that, but didn't interrupt, seeing as though she was going to get ignored anyways.
"You're probably thinking that it was a fast relationship, since we only met three weeks before we got together," he said, touching a snowy leaf. "But something about her felt right. Something… that I felt with you," he said, looking at Tenten.
She immediately turned to another direction, her face getting redder by the second. 'Is he telling me how it feels? Is he asking me to be his girlfriend?! WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HE DOING?'
She heard him sigh, and the snow crunched under his shoes as he sat on a snow covered log. She slowly turned around to look at him, to find out that he was looking at the city lights once again. She walked slowly towards him, and sat down next to him.
"She was only a year younger than me," he said quietly, after a few minutes of silence. "She went to the same school as the Uchiha prodigy," he said with a smirk. "We weren't on such good terms back then," he said, referring to Sasuke, "but Sakura made us become friends with each other…" he said, quietly.
"Seems like Sakura made quite an impact on your life…" Tenten mumbled to herself, drawing random lines on the snow.
"I remember that she was lost—and I was up here enjoying the view. I… I just can't explain what I felt when I got to know her," he said, starting to get quieter with each word. "When we finally got together, Uchiha was pissed." He said, at his normal voice again.
"Everyday I saw him when I was with Sakura, he glared at me. She didn't notice though—and I was glad she didn't. I knew that she was head over heels in love with him before I came along. I had no idea why he didn't get together with her if he liked her back," Neji said, looking down at his cold hands.
"I'm guessing you heard what happened to Sakura when she was alone with Sasuke at that party," he said, not looking at Tenten. "He tried to kiss her, and take advantage of her when I wasn't there," he had said this calmly, with just a bit of irritation. "I was furious at him. And Sakura was even angrier."
He looked up at the night sky, reminiscing the memories of the three. "We had the greatest times together."
Tenten didn't say a word to interrupt him. What could she say, anyways? It wasn't in her place to tell him what she thought (okay, maybe she could, but she didn't have the guts). Plus, Neji probably wouldn't appreciate being interrupted.
"But then… problems started to happen," Neji said. "She seemed tired every time we were together, and she always seemed distracted. It's as if her body was there, but her mind was never. I confronted her on what happened," he said, drawing something in the snow. "But that was the worst thing I could've done. She said that nothing happened, and I got angry, thinking that she was lying. She got angry at me, because I wouldn't believe her," Neji paused, taking a quick glance at Tenten to see if she was bored. "It was a stupid fight," he said. "And it was also our first big one."
Tenten looked at Neji questioningly. "I thought that you guys were the perfect couple," she said, with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.
Neji didn't seem to catch that sarcasm, however. "Yeah, well, even the perfect couples have their fights."
"Wait—I thought you said that was your first fight. You guys fought before?" Tenten asked with a confused expression.
"It was our first real fight," Neji said. "Or at least, I thought it was. We had little arguments before, but it wasn't as big as this one." He said. "No one figured out that we had had arguments when we were alone. Apparently, to them, we seemed like we were the 'perfect couple'," he said quietly. "I thought so too, but then Sakura thought otherwise."
"What happened?" Tenten asked. She knew that she didn't have to ask, since he was going to tell her anyways, but she felt the need to.
"After that fight… she didn't talk to me for two weeks. I don't think that she talked to anyone…" Neji said. "The girls grew suspicious, and Uchiha still gave me those hate glare," Neji said, with a small smirk when he mentioned Sasuke. "I tried calling her, but her phone's always off. No one would pick up her home phone, and she never came back to school. It was like she never existed."
"So after those two weeks… She left?" Tenten guessed.
Neji nodded. "We finally had the guts to visit her house. But then guess what?" Tenten didn't answer, knowing that it was a rhetorical question. "The house was already sold, and the new owners told us that they moved to America. 'We had just missed them', they said," Neji said, with a bitter look on his face.
"Wow…" was all Tenten could say. It's not like she knew what else to say. She knew that if she said something else, Neji would take it the wrong way. "So… what did you guys do after that?" Tenten asked.
"We were all furious. At least, some of us were. The girls thought she had a perfectly good explanation for not telling us something important like that. So they still had hope after three weeks of no information, or contact. 'She needs more time,' they said," Neji paused as he played with the snow. "Time my ass. I'm her fucking boyfriend, and she didn't even say anything to me," he chuckled darkly. "I guess you could say that I was a wreck. Her sudden… disappearance," Neji said, slowly, as if he didn't know what to call her departure, "made me feel like I was worthless. What was I to her if I couldn't even be trusted to be told what happened?"
"You shouldn't feel that way!" Tenten shouted, a sudden burst of energy exploded inside her when she heard that. "Maybe something happened to her and she was… worried about what you would say!"
"I'm her fucking boyfriend!" Neji shouted back. "Do you know how ashamed I was when everyone asked me what happened to her? I couldn't even answer that damn question… why should I be called her boyfriend when I can't answer that?"
Tenten sighed. "Why do you guys all think like that…?" She muttered to herself. "Why would you think that?! If everyone else didn't know, shouldn't you feel relieved? That means that you're still her boyfriend to her, and she doesn't hold anyone else higher than you!"
"But that also means I'm on the same level as everyone else—"
"SO WHAT? Get over it Neji! It's been a few months already! Get over the past and look forward to the future! Stop fucking sulking over something like that!"
It's easy for you to say! Have you lost anyone that you've loved?!"
Tenten fell silent. She knew that she didn't, and Neji knew as well. So there was no point in lying if she did. "No, I didn't," she said calmly. Neji was about to say something before she interrupted him. "So what? What if I never felt the feeling of losing someone? Is that your way of saying that I can't feel? I bet you've never felt the feeling of no one every wanting you. Have you ever felt that?" Tenten retorted back, glaring at Neji.
Neji didn't say anything at first, but then he spoke up. "I didn't," he said quietly, as he stood up. Tenten stood up slowly with him, a bit confused as to why he's standing. "I'm sorry," he apologized, looking at Tenten. "I let my anger take over me," he said, as he started walking down the mountain. "Let's get you to that party," he said.
Tenten followed him slowly, thoughts racing through her head. "It feels painful," Tenten said, as she walked behind Neji, "when I see you brooding over what happened."
"Tch," Ino said, looking at an over priced dress. "This does not work," she mumbled to herself as she threw it behind her.
"Hey!" Kairi shouted, glaring at Ino as she dodged the flying dress. "At least put it down instead of throwing it!"
Ino rolled her eyes as she looking through more racks of outrageously priced dresses. Tenten sighed as she observed the two from the side. They had been going to more than twenty shops already, and Ino couldn't make a decision on what kind of dress she wanted.
"Too small. Too big. Too long. Too short! Do you think I'm a hooker?!"
She had been hearing that ever since they left the café where Tenten was telling them what had happened. They didn't say anything except give her sympathetic looks. And after that, they dragged her away, trying to get her mind off of the negative thoughts. Though, she knew they would be talking it over together with Hinata. Hinata had declined on the invitation to the mall today—for reasons the three did not know why.
"Tenten! Get over here! Don't think anymore! Just look at clothes!" Ino shouted at Tenten, with her hands on her hips.
Tenten rolled her eyes as she gave Ino a mock smile, "Yes, mother."
Ino glared at Tenten, but had a smile on her face. "Let's go shopping then!"
Tenten didn't want to ruin that smile Ino had on her face (more like she didn't want to face the wrath of Ino's anger), so she kept the sentence, "We're already shopping…" to herself.
"I am so tired!" Kairi complained, as they sat on a bench in front of the mall. She rubbed her feet as she sighed.
"That was so fun," Ino gushed, as she grinned at all her shopping bags. Then she frowned. "We should've asked the guys to come… then we wouldn't be this tired from carrying our own bags," Ino said with a sigh as she leaned back on to the bench.
Tenten rolled her eyes as she put her chin in the palm of her hand. She stared off, deep in her thoughts.
"Oh my god," she heard Kairi say. "I'm tired enough, why the hell did those girls have to come now?!"
Tenten turned to look at Kairi, who looked exasperated. She then looked at Ino, who rolled her eyes. Tenten looked ahead for herself, to see what Kairi had meant.
'Where have I seen those girls before…?' Tenten thought, as those three familiar looking girls approach Tenten.
"Tenten," a really familiar high pitched voice greeted.
'Oh god. It's them again.'
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