Hexx: Kin turn your music down and Blue turn yours up

Hexx: Kin turn your music down and Blue turn yours up.

Kin: You guys are so mean to me. It's not fair.

Hexx: No, it isn't. How about this, you do the intros from now on.

Kin: Really!?

Blue: Unless one of the readers complains.

Hexx: Yeah.

Kin: All Right! Hexx Does Not Own Naruto.

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Tenten lay in her bed. The night time noises soft and barely audible. She needed sleep. Two more days till she would fight Neji. Two more days till she would be attempting to knock him on his back and sit on him.

She closed her eyes and sighed. If she could do that once, even if just for a few moments, she would be happy. But despite all her efforts, it was always her on the ground and him holding her still.

She yawned and flopped on her stomach and then onto her back again. This wasn't helping, she reminded herself. She didn't know what else to do. She was wide awake. 'I wonder if Neji is up.' She thought. Sitting up she shoved the blankets off of her.

It wouldn't hurt to check.

Swinging her legs off the bed her bare feet touched the wood floor. She shivered and stood, her yellow nightgown rustling just above her scrapped knees. She opened her door and slid out silently. She made sure no guards where about, as she opened his door.

After the door was closed tight, she turned and frowned. He wasn't in bed. He wasn't even in his room. Where could he be? She wondered, walking further into the room. No sign of him anywhere. This wasn't right. She knew he had been in here when she had gone to bed.

"Tenten?" His voice was so close and so quizzical that Tenten screamed. It only came out as a muffled shriek, since his hand clamped over it when she took in her long breath.

She let out a shocked sigh when he let go. She stepped forward, and then turned around to face him. He was looking at her with those unreadable eyes of his. Huffing she tossed her head.

"Why aren't you in bed?" She demanded. He blinked.

"Why aren't you?"

"Can't sleep." Tenten's eyes widened and then narrowed as she stared at his wall. Why did she just blurt that out like it was nothing? She used to keep everything to herself, and then to Mei. Not that you can keep anything from someone living in your head.

"So your just checking up?" He asked. She nodded and stifled a yawn.

"I'm not used to going to bed so early. Usually I fight you and then sleep, my schedule has been off for days." She didn't mention that she normally would have worked on the dress, since it was finished.

"Well that's a shame. Considering you will be dancing tomorrow." He said. She nodded and then snapped her head around to face him.

"What?"

"You remember don't you? I do believe you where speaking with Ino and Sakura about it that day you and Leo had that spat during the soccer game." Neji said. Tenten paled, it had been a month. She had hopped she had missed the ball.

"D-didn't that already happen?" She chocked out. Neji shook his head. "How come?"

"Because Chi chose to remain in the castle until things where absolved." Neji said, his voice and expression amused.

"What things?" She said. Her hands planted on her hips and her eyes darting like a trapped creature.

"You, and don't make me explain" He said quickly when she opened her mouth to protest. "Because you know exactly what I mean." Neji smirked as she flushed a rosy color. No denying it, she was cute when she did that.

Neji mentally slapped the shit out of his brain. He shouldn't think those things about her.

"I'm not wearing a dress." She told him, pouting slightly. He shook his head

"Don't tell me, tell the people who will be stalking you in the morning. Tenten got a pained look on her face at the thought.

"Can I hide out in here then? Till they go away?" Neji chuckled.

"Come now is it really that bad?" He asked her, and she nodded quickly, her ponytail flicking about like an actual Pony's tail.

She yawned again, stifling it with the back of her hand. Neji raised an eyebrow at her. She looked exhausted. Walking over, he took hold of her elbow. The warmth of her skin made his skin hum with static.

She obligingly leaned into him when he pulled her closer. She yawned again, this time into his shirt as he led her back to her room. When he bent his knees to pick her up, he was met with no resistance. She was already asleep.

He wanted to laugh, but that might wake her so he gently placed her into her bed and drew the covers up to her shoulders. She sighed pleasantly and rolled onto her side, snuggling into the sheets.

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The chase was on.

Tenten darted into the library, her breath askew. This wasn't right, they didn't have any training, so why where they gaining on her?

Tenten scaled a bookcase in the corner and pressed her back to the wall. Even if they found her, they wouldn't catch her.

Or so she thought.

Sakura and Ino, although not the brightest bulbs, where smart when it came to strategy.

Or in this case, manipulation.

Once they found her, upon not being able to reach her they called for backup.

Aka Lee and Naruto.

And Kiba, but he didn't help catch her; he just tracked her for the other two.

"This is abuse I'm sure of it." Tenten stated from their hold. Lee was holding her around the waist, tossed over his shoulder sack of flour. Naruto was nursing his wrist.

"Oh, we abused you?" Naruto said, annoyed and whiny. "You broke my wrist!"

"Oh can it!" She snapped. "It isn't broken, it isn't even sprained! It's just sore." She crossed her arms over her chest and pouted. Letting her neck relax she faced forwards, or down, considering she was facing the floor.

"Tenten-Chan! That's not very kind to say!" Lee scolded. Tenten only kicked his chest.

As they passed Neji, Sauske, Choji and Shikamaru, the four boys stared at the three boys and the captive passing them. Lee waved Tenten and Naruto where to busy arguing to notice and Kiba chuckled.

"Neji….." Sauske began, but Neji cut him off before the raven haired boy could make a retort.

"Ino is gonna be bald if Tenten gets hold of her" Shikamaru stated, running a hand over his head.

The others nodded in agreement.

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"What's wrong with her!?" Sakura said, alarmed. Tenten was lying on the ground, not breathing and not moving.

"Call a medic! Quick!" Ino was saying, "Wait, Sakura aren't you training to be a medic!?"

"Yes but I can't help if I don't know what's wrong!" Sakura wailed, she dropped to her knees and started shaking Tenten's shoulders. "Wake up! Tenten? Can you hear me? WAKE UP!"

The door opened and Neji came in, tailed by Hinata, who had gone to find him. Naturally the others showed up a moment later, sticking their heads into the princess's room without entering.

Neji didn't say anything as he knelt down and picked Tenten up. He held her bridal style, on arm under her knees and the other behind her back near her shoulders. Then he turned, and walked out.

"Better not follow," Hinata said, shaken. She leaned against her wall, clutching her chest. Sakura was in shock on her knees and Ino was crying into Shikamaru, who just stood there looking up.

Neji walked down the hall, heading to the ANBU tower. About halfway there he heard her chough. Stopping he looked down.

She was blinking and shaking. She was breathing as if she couldn't get air into her body fast enough. She had been under a long, long time.

Almost 15 minutes.

Her hand closed around a handful of his shirt cloth. He just stood there as she regained her bearings.

"Oi….what happened?" She asked. Neji looked down at her.

"You had a fainting spell…." He said. She nodded and looked down.

What she had seen upset her enough to cry, but she wasn't going too.

So instead she covered her face and let out a shuddering sigh.

Her memory was large and sharp, and it upset her for a number of reasons.

First, because it told her that she had lived in a palace, making her a very highly ranked royal.

Second, that her whole life had been full of horrid, full skirted dresses.

And third, that it had given her a bit more of her past. Why couldn't the memories stay locked up in her head where they wouldn't interfere with her life? It didn't make sense.

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Hexx: Finished, hope you all enjoyed it.

Blue: Bet you all forgot Chi was going to have a ball didn't you? Didn't you?

Kin: Blue, they aren't that forgetful.

Blue: You forgot Kin.

Kin: -.-