Overall Season Two Theme: Stand Up by J-Min
Episode Theme: Better than I Know Myself by Adam Lambert
Song One: Alarm Clock by SHINee
Song Two: Darkness Eyes by DBSK
Song Three: Better than I know Myself by Adam Lambert
Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you. –Sarah Dessen
"Really good! Awesome stance Sana!" Sakura clapped as the young girl finished her twirl. She blushed a bit and bowed to the elder as the music seized.
"Thank you Miss. Haruno!" she said quickly as she went back to stand in line with the rest of the girls.
"Who's up next?" Sakura smiled. A few hands shot up, followed by chanting to be picked.
"Uh, Ino, you pick this time." Sakura murmured. Ino, who stood next to her in turn rolled her eyes.
So the girls stood Monday afternoon at their brand new job teaching dance at the Konoha dance studio to elementary and middle school girls.
All the young girls stood in black tank tops with matching black leggings. While each member stood in the same outfit aside from a scarf of their signature color hooked on their waist so they would be identified as the teachers.
Monday through Friday from four p.m. to seven p.m. along with thirty dollars an hour per teacher. The girls were ecstatic. After figuring out that they'd only have to be paying one thousand dollars a month and with the combined money they would be making more than enough every month.
Shorter hours.
Better pay.
Living the dream, according to Ino.
"Ranra, why don't you try?" Ino smiled down the shy fifth grader.
She shook her head and hid closer behind the other girls.
"Still?" Ino sighed.
"You have to be patient with her Ino. She'll come around." Hinata smiled as she stepped up and patted the young girls head, she whimpered in turn.
"Don't worry Ranra, you can try when you're ready."
"Alright girls, I think those are enough free style warm ups" Sakura announced, a few of the girls groaned and whined.
"Don't worry guys at the end we do some more, but right now we've gotta start today's lesson!" Megami beamed. The young girls perked up at the sound.
"Now before Kurenai-sensei left she told us you guys had started belly right?" Sakura asked.
The girls nodded. "We we're going to work on hip movement!" one sixth grade girl named Muyoi called out.
"Good, then we'll pick up from there. Everyone pick a spot and keep a decent distance from anyone!" Sakura called.
The girls eagerly spread out in the dance studio. Megami stepped over to the get the music ready while the other three girls situated themselves.
"For belly dancing" Ino started, "It's all about feeling the music through your body as you would any dance, but in this particular one you work with your hips at the beat of the music."
She started by clasping her hands together as the Arabian music began, bringing her left hip up then back down, then repeated the motion with her other side.
"Try it with me. Don't worry about flexibility right now just do your best."
The girls followed behind her as the young girls began working.
"When the next beat hits I want you girls to try it with your stomachs. Roll in a slow half-circle motion. After that we'll go one by one to work on hip movement." Ino explained.
One fourth grade girl frowned as she tried to move her hips easily the way her new teachers did, but when she couldn't she grew frustrated and stopped.
Hinata glanced at her and smiled sadly, she quickly walked over and seized the music to most of the girls surprise.
"Whuna? What's the matter?" she asked as she walked up and bent down to her.
"You guys make it look so easy? How do you get your hips like that? I can't do it like that." She pouted.
"It takes practice." Hinata explained sweetly.
"Yeah, we've been dancing for as long as we can remember. You won't get it in an early hinch like that." Megami smiled.
"We're going to help you guys all along the way so don't get upset if you don't get it on the first try" Ino beamed.
The young girls smiled and nodded.
"Could we see a dance from you guys? Kurenai-sensei always shows us the full dance first before we try the moves!" a dark brown haired American girl named Tina suggested. The girls nodded in agreement.
The four teachers glanced at each other and lightly smiled.
"Okay" Sakura shrugged.
Hinata stood up and backed up to be next to the other girls. Megami quickly ran to get different music going.
"Feel free to jump in and try it if you'd like!" Sakura called as it began.
As the music went on together the girls situated a clean belly dancing tutorial.
As they continued some girls stood up to dance with them as they randomly did.
"Hey?! What do you guys think about doing a little dance for the high school Wednesday morning?! Before school?" Megami called.
"Yeah!" most of the girls chanted.
"If you're into it go ahead and sign up at the end of class!" she called again as she dropped her head then picked it up with a swirl of her hips.
Hardly anyone noticed as the door opened and a select few walked in.
Ino worked her hips with her arms up in the air. Her flat abs flowed along at one point during the music with the rest of the girls.
She gasped when those hips continued to sashay with one hand on each side of them.
She twisted around in shock but then quickly smiled at the figure behind her.
"You should really start thinking about putting those hips to good use." Shikamaru smirked.
"Wow, someone's awake today." She giggled as she swayed along with him.
"Hold up! Hold up!" Sakura called as she rushed to the music. At the touch of the stop button the adolescent girls stopped their dancing and gasped.
"It's OMEGA!" "Omega!" "No way! It's not possible!" "It is really them?!" the girls whispered among them.
"Yeah, they're dating them." Nako said matter-factly. "No way really?!" one girl in the group gasped.
"Yeah! I met them myself!" she said confidently.
"What's up Nako?" Naruto smiled, ruffling her hair as he passed by.
The girls gasped again as she blushed. "Nako! You're so lucky!"
"Wanna tell us what you're doing in a dance studio?" Sakura smiled as Gaara wrapped his arms around her hips and swayed them.
He lightly shrugged, "we received an off day so we decided to see how your first day of work was going."
"Congratulations" Sasuke smirked as he poked her forehead, "you haven't blown anything up yet."
"The hell you mean yet!" Megami yelled.
"What are you guys doing right now? Need any help?" Naruto asked, being the dance prodigy that he is.
"Belly dancing" Hinata giggled. He took a step back, "oh, not into that!"
"Hey! We're trying to teach a class here!" Sakura giggled as Gaara kissed her neck while she unsuccessfully tried to push him off.
Though a particular member of Omega hung back, expressionless as the young girls watched him.
"I thought you said they were all going out with them." A girl whispered to Nako who lightly shrugged in return, confused herself.
Suddenly, to everyone's surprise the door burst open then slammed back as quickly as it had done.
"Hey! Sorry I'm late!" a young voice called.
The girls let go and turned their attention to Tenten who stood with her hands on her knees, breathing heavily dressed in the same outfit as the girls, aside from a green scarf on her and a dark green work bag on her left shoulder.
"You're late. First sessions actually almost over." Sakura said blandly.
Tenten laughed and scratched the back of her head nervously. "Sorry, I was with Kao, he dropped me off because you know, no car and my bike wouldn't start." She shrugged.
"Who're you?" one girl called.
Tenten smiled to the small fit of about thirty girls, "your fifth teacher, my name's Tenten it's nice to meet you all."
"Are you Neji-kun's girlfriend?!" one girl randomly called.
"H-hey! Eui that's personal!" Sakura said back to her.
Tenten shook her head nonchalantly and smiled, as if the question was as simple as asking her age, "no."
On the other side of the studio Neji hung on the wall with his earphones purposely in, turned away from everyone and everything else.
After the breakup just three days before Tenten left everyone in the OMEGA mansion in utter shock. Neji yelled and questioned her decision multiple times and why she had cheated on him but she always stated that 'it's just over' and 'she just doesn't want to deal anymore.'
The girls aside from Megami didn't speak a word of it at the mansion and when they returned home to her. Megami kept asking questioned but continued to be pushed away and ignored. Tenten had even slammed the door in her face when she tried to enter her room to talk about it.
She returned everything he'd ever given her including the Mercedes, packed the photo's they'd taken and put them in the basement, cleansed her phone of the pictures they'd shared and ignored his calls.
He eventually stopped calling her Saturday afternoon and hasn't spoken to anyone since.
Saturday though Naruto informed him that Hinata told him she'd began seeing a guy named Kao who was in college and a few years older than her.
He slammed the door in his face as well.
Since then, tension between the ten of them has been rocky.
"Well while we still have some time let's get down to business huh?" she smiled truthfully as she stepped up.
The boys released and quickly headed over to where Neji stood so they could watch.
"What have we gone through?" she asked.
"Introductions, warm ups and we were doing belly dancing when you showed up." Ino explained.
"Really? Sure didn't look like it" Tenten laughed.
All but Megami returned the jester.
As the rest of what was left of the three hour session progressed on Tenten caught up with the dance session and near the end, when night time began to fall the mothers, fathers, and or siblings came for them few by few.
The teachers took their seat on a bench when each girl had left and or signed up.
"Perfect, so it looks like the girls are willing to do this little performance thing." Sakura smiled as she read down the list. "We made it through the first day!" Megami chanted, fist pumping.
Tenten opened her mouth to add something but was stopped at the sound of her cellphone.
"We should go celebrate!" Ino gasped excitingly as the boys stepped up.
"I hear celebrating!" Naruto chanted, "Where are we going?"
"Mani pedi's!" Ino squealed. "Whoa" Naruto smiled nervously, holding his hands up as he backed up a bit.
"No." Sakura said, then smiled, "how about we just see a movie?"
"Sounds good." "Yeah!" Naruto followed after Gaara.
"Sorry guys, can't make it." Tenten said as she held the speaker of her phone with her other hand.
"Huh?" Megami asked, "what do you mean?" Hinata asked sadly.
"Well Kao wants me to meet him so I've got to run, he's here to pick me up."
"Can you blow him off for a second? You haven't left his side since Saturday," Megami said blandly.
"Sorry," Tenten shrugged nonchalantly as she picked up her things and nodded to them.
"I'll catch you guys at home!" she waved as she ran out the doors.
"Yeah right." Megami spat.
Sakura shrugged, "oh…well, come on before we miss all the good show times."
The gang nodded in agreement as the girls picked up their things and began to make their way out.
Megami stood back to collect her bag as Neji was last to leave.
She glanced at him and when he felt her eyes on him he turned back to her with a blank expression.
It remained that way for a couple seconds then he turned around and walked out.
Megami sighed and sat back down in the bench.
"Something's seriously not right…and I can't believe I'm the one who knows it, I can barely count to fifty without stumbling…"
(^A.H^)
The next day at school filled the gang with a massive amount of hype.
It seemed everyone had discovered that one of the five famous power couples had called it quits, or at least one of them had.
The fangirls were beyond ecstatic; Neji didn't catch one second alone in the court yard early that morning when the boys arrived.
He didn't bother to wear them off, or even play along as he did when the both of them were even dating. He just, as he had been doing, kept his earphones in as he let himself in the building.
The girls met up with their respective pair as the courtyard began to clear.
"is Neji-san alright?" Hinata asked sadly. Naruto turned to the front doors and put his hands in his pockets, he shrugged.
"I have no idea. He hasn't said a word to us; he's just been up in his room."
Sasuke tsked, "it doesn't matter how he feels, just as long as he gets his part written for the album."
Megami instantly slapped him upside the head; he flinched and twisted to her, glaring. "What the hell's your problem?!"
"Can't you be a little more considerate?! Asshole!" she yelled.
The girls stared at her in confusion and proceeded to retort until the sounds of an unfamiliar motorcycle were heard.
The gang and the majority of people still outside turned to place who it was.
Sitting on a black Suzuki Vstrom dl650 motorcycle was an unfamiliar guy as he wasn't visible with his black helmet over him. The rest of him flared a white wife beater that clung to his muscles and black fit jeans with various tattoos along both his arms.
Sitting behind him in the school uniform and shoulder bag was Tenten who began to get off.
"I was wondering why she didn't come home last night." Sakura said dully as she crossed her arms.
When she was off she waved to the man behind the helmet. He waved a black glove back and proceeded to speed off.
With a smile on her face Tenten turned around and when she noticed the girls, waved.
"Morning," she smiled.
"Is that Kao?" Ino asked, tilting her head as she watched the motorcycle.
"Yeah, he brought me home this morning and brought me back. I just can't figure out what's wrong with my bike," she sighed.
"Oh well, come or we'll be late for class!" she called as she went ahead and began walking herself.
"A little quieter than usual isn't it?" she continued as they all began walking.
(^A.H^)
"Students of Konoha high!" Shizune's voice came on the intercom as the school settled itself after the bell.
"It's finally here! Konoha high's annual Sports Banquet this Saturday! Here we honor all participants of any sport in the last school year such as tennis, karate, basketball, cheerleading and etcetera. Awards will be presented to the top athletes of course like 'top female athlete' 'speed demon' 'or even Mr. and Mrs. Congeniality voted by your peers."
"Seniors who have played on any sort of team in all four years whether you have attended Konoha high or not, are required to attend (according to Principal Tsunade that is.) This will be where three sports scholarships will be offered to only a select few so be prepared! Tickets are on sale now and you must identify yourself as a sports participant when you buy your ticket with coach Gai and coach Anko. The ball will be this Saturday at eight in the Tokyo super hotel where, as I have mentioned, the senior prom will be held. Speaking of such, seniors, at the start of sixth period please head down to the first auditorium to pick up seating for graduation. And for the entire school, tutoring and final exam prep will start this Thursday. Thank you and have a great day!"
When the intercom seized the girls instantly turned their attention to the guys.
"We've never had a sports ball in Ame," Ino frowned, crossing her arms.
"It's really cool!" Naruto beamed.
"We win an award for something every year." Shikamaru said.
"I'm gonna aim for that sports scholarship," Tenten said confidently.
"Hey we're all a shoe in for them!" Ino laughed.
"but I'd prefer it if they handed out design school scholarships though."
"Isn't design school for graduate college?" Sakura chuckled. "So's medical school!" Ino retorted.
"It's called majoring," Sakura stuck her tongue out. "We're going aren't we?" Sakura pouted as she nudged her forehead with Gaara's.
He smirked, "I'm a little more into neuroscience."
"Ha!" Ino shot back.
Sakura frowned and smacked him while the rest laughed in turn. Tenten focused her attention on her cellphone as they continued talking.
Upon noticing Hinata stopped giggling and directed her attention towards her.
"Who're you texting Tenten?"
"Who do you think?" Ino smirked.
Tenten laughed and shook her head, "no he's in class, my mom wants to know where my nighties are."
"Why?" Naruto asked.
"She just found one of my onsie's and started crying."
"Aaaw!" Ino said. "Hard to believe you have boobs now. Maybe you should get the onesie back and start wearing some diapers, you seem to wet yourself every day now don't you!"
"Hey! Shut up!" Tenten laughed as she pushed her.
Megami tilted her head to the side and watched Neji once again. His earphone's remained in, and at the hint of music it was blocking out everything around him, especially Ami who clung onto him like dryer lint.
He stared out the window as he sat away from the group with his left palm under his chin.
She frowned as everyone else continued onto their discussion of their younger years.
Something had to be done.
Something.
(^A.H^)
So the day went on and the silence of a particular member of a popular band did not diminish. The fangirls didn't seem to notice or mind.
Neji didn't come to lunch but was in Kurenai's classroom even before she was.
No one paid mind though, maybe he just didn't feel like talking today, some thought.
"Tenten!" Kurenai said as the girls made their way in.
"Yes?" the bunhaired girl smiled as she stopped while the other girls began passing by them.
"I heard what happened…are you…alright?"
"What happened?" Tenten frowned. "You and um…Neji…" she said slowly.
Tenten rolled her eyes to Kurenai's slight surprise.
"We're doing free for all performances today aren't we?"
"Well, yes, but—"
"Could I go first? I'll explain it with music." She smiled.
"I…guess," Kurenai said, confused.
"Tenten, are you sure—" without another word Tenten moved passed her and took her seat next to the girls and the guys.
"Good morning class." Kurenai said softly just as the bell rang. "As I said before yesterday I'm going to let today and if possibly the rest of the week be a free for all because of random check ups that might come up in my schedule."
Before Kurenai could even continue Tenten shot her hand up. Kurenai gulped and the rest of the girls stared at her.
"Tenten? I assume you'd like to go first?"
She nodded and smiled as she stood up and sashayed up the stage.
When she was next to Kurenai-sensei she leaned in and whispered her song of choice in her ear. Kurenai frowned and mouthed a 'why.'
Tenten said nothing as she picked up the mike. Hesitantly Kurenai walked over to make the music ready.
The girls watched in anticipation as Tenten smirked down to them.
For the first time in the day Neji had his earphones out. Only because he wouldn't be able to hear the music over the sound of her voice anyway.
The class listened as the familiar music picked up. The girls raised a brow at her choice of song then their eyes widened when she began singing the lyrics to 'We are never getting back together.'
The majority of the class seemed to like it, while the gang in turn stared at Tenten as if she were an alien.
She was mocking him.
She was making fun of him.
She was throwing her words back in his face like hitting him with a truck.
The girls turned their attention to Neji who clenched his fists with his head down.
"This is kind of a bitch move." Ino mumbled.
Tenten sang happily and bounced across the stage, by now most of the class was cheering but she continued to keep her eyes on her very own ex-boyfriend.
Before the second chorus could even hit Neji's chair was flung to the other side of the room to the shock of some people.
He stormed out and slammed the door behind him.
Finally, fed up Sakura stood and hopped on the stage to Tenten's confusion as she continued to sing.
She forcibly unplugged the mike so that her voice could no longer be heard. Kurenai assisted by stopping the music.
"What's your fucking deal?!" she demanded with one hand on her left hip.
"That's enough." She said slowly.
"Just…stop."
Hinata ran out to search for Neji on the other hand.
"Neji-san!" she called.
"Neji-niisan!" she yelled again.
At the sound of a running engine she walked towards the high window in the middle of the hallway.
She half-heartily watched the limo that waited just before fifth period harshly speed out and into the street.
"Where did Neji go?" Kurenai said hastily as she stepped out of the classroom.
"H-he left," she breathed.
"He just left."
(^A.H^)
Halfway through sixth period the boys left for the studio to continue working on the album, while the girls remained in school and worked with Gai on Friday's upcoming basketball championship, just the day before the award ceremony.
"I should have known he'd run off here." Sasuke sighed as the driver who had just explained Neji's whereabouts let them out of the limo that had returned for them.
The boys began walking inside the large studio where the camera workers, producers and such were busy making preparations for theirs and other upcoming events.
"There you guys are!"
The boys turned around at the sound of Kabuto's voice as he jogged up to them. "I was wondering why you didn't come with Neji."
"Yeah well, he kind of just stormed off and took the limo before school ended." Shikamaru explained.
"Where is he?" Gaara questioned.
"Recording studio one. Be silent, he says he's busy."
(^A.H^)
The remaining members of Omega stepped into one of five recording rooms in Konoha's HEBI studios.
As soon as they took the first step in they were met with the sounds of a piano mixture, drum chimes, violins, and extra unnamable pieces of music.
Neji sat in a chair in front of the neve VR60 state of the art sound recording equipment. When he messed a bit with the music he swung to the other side and wrote something down.
The boys stood back and simply watched him for a couple minutes until the music was finished and he stopped writing.
When he was done he leaned back in the chair and lightly sighed.
"You can talk now." He said stonily.
"Who died and made you queen?" Sasuke smirked as he stepped up.
"Music sounds good, what's it for?" Shikamaru questioned as the boys spread out and he walked up to the sound.
"My part of the album."
Naruto leaned down to his face and examined him. His hair was lightly stringy as if it had been pulled to the point of falling out, his eyes were dark and cold but an emotion still couldn't be placed within them. His tone was more menacing than usual and his fingers were blood red, like he was forcing himself to come up with something good.
"Are you okay?" he asked hesitantly.
"What the fuck are you talking about Uzumaki? I'm perfectly fucking fine leave me the fuck alone." He said without taking his eyes off the recording glass.
"Geez chill! Since when do you manage the potty mouth?!" Naruto said as he stood up straight and backed away.
"Just get in the damn studio so we can record, I don't have all day." He snapped.
"Listen Hyuga, you'd better calm the hell down before you start throwing a bitch fit!" Sasuke yelled.
"So Tenten cheated on you, and dumped you!—"
"Shut up Uchiha…"
"What girl haven't you done it too? So suck it up and stop pouting! Your making everyone else look—"
Only Naruto gasped when Neji stood up and slammed the young Uchiha against the wall.
"I'm getting really fucking sick of you Uchiha. It always seems like you've got something to say and it pisses me off. I have never cheated on a girl in my LIFE but maybe you need to take a look back to that redhead of yours, haven't you been the innocent one? Hmm?" Neji mumbled and smirked.
Sasuke's emotion remained dull as he clenched his shirt further.
"Guys, come on! You're acting like little kids!" Naruto protested.
"Seriously, could the both of you just calm down so we can be done and out of here?" Gaara demanded.
"How does it feel to look in those precious little eyes and know that you've stepped over a boundary that would crush her?" Neji whispered.
Sasuke simply smirked back, "at least I can actually look at her. How does it feel to know that she's probably screwing some other guy right now? Hm?"
Neji slammed him back against the wall.
"That's enough!" Naruto yelled,, rushing up.
He pulled the both of them apart and glared.
"Why don't the both of you just shut the hell up and get to work?! You're pissing everyone off!" he yelled.
The clan gentlemen stared at each other with blank expressions as Naruto stood in the middle, breathing heavily.
Neji was the first to step into the recording studio and when the door closed behind him Shikamaru turned to Sasuke.
"Can't you NOT be a dick for five seconds? You know it's eating him up inside right now."
"Hn." Was all he said.
"Someone just go get a recorder so we can do this already." He said coldly.
(^A.H^)
Four hours later, after work the girls situated themselves at home in the living room.
Sakura preoccupied herself with homework. Ino painted her nails. Megami drew manga and Hinata read The Hunger Games.
"Going out!" Tenten called as she jogged down the steps in a black leather skirt and white tank top with black leather ankle boots.
"There's a big fucking shocker…" Megami mumbled. Ino threw a nail clipper at her and shushed her.
"Where are you going?" Sakura asked, smiling as if she didn't know.
"Kao and I are going to the car show in Tokyo. I'll be late," she said quickly.
"Really? Can we come?" Ino beamed, who was actually a fan of cars herself, not what went behind the engine as Tenten loved, but the design more.
"Sorry blondie, it's a date." She smirked.
"What kind of a couple goes to a car show for a date?" Ino asked blandly.
Tenten huffed, "a couple that's in to cars! You said the exact same thing when Neji took me to the—"
The girls stared at her as she stopped herself and looked down.
"Bye." She said plainly as she walked out and slammed the door behind her.
The girls looked to each other and slightly smiled a bit, then returned to their current work.
Well at least they knew one thing.
She definitely hasn't forgotten him.
(^A.H^)
[Neji] Even today, I'm drenched in my sweat
I woke up from my sleep, I can't believe it, oh I (horrible nightmare)
[Naruto] Inside the dream that repeats every night
You leave me coldly like a lie, oh I
[Sasuke] I still can't believe it, your lips
[Gaara] I can't let you go yet
When it feels like they'll (kiss) touch my cheek
[Shika] I can't erase you
[All] I hope my alarm clock rings quickly and wakes me from this dream
Turn back the time that feels like a nightmare and throw away our break up
I can't escape from this horrible broken dream that's frozen into place
I hope the alarm clock rings loudly and wakes me up, oh quickly
[Naruto] Wake me up
[Shikamaru] Like a flower that falls after a small raindrop brushes against it
It may not be a big deal to you (Let's break up)
[Gaara] But I fall into a cold sleep at your cold words
I feel like I can still catch your mirage, oh please
[Sasuke] I still can't believe it, your scent
I can't get rid of it, it's seeped (deeply) into me
[Neji] This must be a dream
[All] I hope my alarm clock rings quickly and wakes me from this dream
Turn back the time that feels like a nightmare and throw away our break up
I can't escape from this horrible broken dream that's frozen into place
I hope the alarm clock rings loudly and wakes me up, oh quickly
Inside the nightmare, I, I lose my way, I, I
Inside the nightmare, I, I lose my way, I, I, inside the nightmare
[Gaara] I can't believe that you left, I'm in denial of our break up again
[Sasuke] I know that our separation and this moment are not dreams
[Shikamaru] But I can't accept it, I can't bear the reality
[Naruto] Come back again, this reality is like a nightmare
I need you, oh
[All] I hope my alarm clock rings quickly and wakes me from this dream
Turn back the time that feels like a nightmare and throw away our break up
I can't escape from this horrible broken dream that's frozen into place
I hope the alarm clock rings loudly and wakes me up, oh quickly
[Sasuke] Quickly (wake me up) wake me up
I wake up from my long sleep
And pass a road darkened by the dusk
Lost in deep thought, I picture you again
I throw a stone at a still lake
I draw a small circle again and again
I picture you, I picture you
I picture you, I picture you
After the song finished the boys remained silent and unmoving.
All except Neji though, who made his way out of the recording studio, then out the door.
"Where is he going?" Kabuto asked quickly as the door slammed back.
"That was…depressing…" Naruto mumbled as the boys took the headphones off.
"Damn, haven't seen him have it this bad since Kaede left." Shikamaru sighed.
"Oh well," Kabuto shrugged, "what's this called?"
"He said Alarm Clock." Gaara answered in the absence of Neji.
"Alarm Clock..."
(^A.H^)
"Are you girls ready?!" Sakura smiled as she bent down to the lot of young girls who woke up earlier than normal.
A few girls yawned as they weren't used to the earlier hours since they attended middle and elementary school, some girls chanted, others backed away shyly as they stood in the courtyard earlier than usual as some high school students began to arrive.
"They're looking at us…" one girl mumbled shyly as she stared at her toes in her sparkling flip flops. Since it was Wednesday, free day for all the Konoha school students the girls stood in their own unique style of clothing.
"Don't be nervous, you girls will do great!" Megami reassured.
Hinata stood in a loose white knee length skirt with a light blue tank top. Sakura stood in a tight mid-thigh purple skirt with a matching tube top. Ino stood in a fuchsia off the shoulder top with black knee length yoga pants, while Megami stood in black ankle touching leggings with a dark yellow knee length wrap around her waist and a white halter top.
The young girls didn't seem very confident to dance in front of high schoolers. A few set were ready but most chose to stand in the back.
The girls sighed as more kids began to enter the school, confused at the set of kids on the gravel part of the courtyard.
"Here, we'll start, whenever you're ready to jump in go on ahead."
The girls nodded. Hinata went ahead and started the music.
Sakura and Megami began their claps as Shakira's 'Hips Don't Lie' began to play.
The girls moved together with the music, and soon enough the Konoha high students began to gather around them.
The students, who knew full well of the girls dancing abilities clapped along to the song and cheered as the girls moved their hips.
Slowly, but surely, the little girls began to join in and dance with them. Before they knew it the group was moving along to the song in a large circle.
"Miss. Sakura! This is fun!" Nako whisper-squealed as they moved together. Sakura smiled and nodded.
Though inside herself her smile saddened, it would make it a lot more fun if their group was full.
As their dance party continued with Shakira influenced music and dances the boys limo stopped on the courtyard.
Naruto popped his head out of the window in shock as he watched the school watch them and clap as little kids and their girls danced sensationally in a circle.
"Looks like the girls got the dance party started! I'm joining in dattebayo!" the blond yelled as he pushed the door open to the shock of the driver and ran out in his dark green cargo pants, red t-shirt and necklace with a Red Sox baseball cap.
"Better go stop him." Shikamaru groaned as he sat up in black fit jeans and dark brown button up shirt with a matching fedora hat.
"Has that ever worked?" Gaara smirked as he began to step out in dark blue loose blue jeans and a white t-shirt with black sweat bands on each hand.
Sasuke smirked and slightly chuckled as the three boys began to make their descent out of the limo, he stood in dark red skinny jeans with a dark blue v-neck shirt and a dark red trilby.
Neji hung back in the limousine, simply staring out the window as cars passed by.
"Whenever you are ready master Hyuga." The driver said kindly.
"I'll just be a minute." He mumbled, his right hand under his chin.
He listened to the slightly distant music and the laughing and cheering of the dancers and watchers.
Images of times when Tenten would dance with the girls in the studio when the boys were busy came to mind. He took to heart when the boys would be set free, then sneak up on them and join the dancing.
He'd twirl her around.
She's laugh.
They'd kiss.
They'd end up back in his room.
They'd sleep together. As always.
She'd tell him she loved him.
He'd—
He stopped and stared as the same familiar black motorcycle from the day before pulled up next to the limo.
From where he sat, he one could see into the limo, but he could see out.
He flinched when he saw her on the back once again.
She stood in jean shorts with black knee length leggings and a red one shoulder tank top.
As she got off she slowly removed the helmet of her personal driver.
Finally.
He finally got to see his face.
Barely though.
Neji watched as she very openly made out with said 'Kao' right next to him, unbeknownst to her anyway.
He slid down the leather seats and crossed his arms. He clenched his eyes closed and dug his face deep into the red leather.
"Master Hyuga?" the driver asked, concerned.
"Just close the damn door…take me back home."
"Right away sir." He said quickly.
He didn't know what was wrong with him. She's just a girl, a girl he'd grown to like nothing more.
But she'd sunk low.
All through their relationship he'd never cheated on her.
Well, he'd never intentionally cheated on her.
Well, he'd never intentionally cheated on her on his own will.
He groaned and clenched his hair.
Maybe she was right.
Maybe he didn't deserve her.
(^A.H^)
"Look who's LATE again." Sakura smiled, but with a cold tone.
"Yeah but I'm here now!" Tenten beamed as the courtyard began to clear. "So let's dance!"
"We're done. The girls are leaving for school," Ino shrugged.
"Really? I missed it? Sorry about that," she shrugged.
"You know, maybe if you'd spend as much time working with the girls as you do with this Kao character, they'd like you a lot better." Sakura said seriously.
"Hey, I said I was sorry," Tenten laughed coldly. "Don't need to be harsh."
"Just being real with you, that's our job isn't it?" the cherry-blossom girl spoke as she turned around as began heading in the direction towards the building.
Ino huffed and began to follow behind. Hinata gave her a sad smile a she followed. Megami stared at her for a moment, then turned and followed as well.
Tenten rolled her eyes simply as she went after them.
The boys (most of them) hung back.
"Where do you think Neji is?" Naruto said, squinting over the rays of the morning sun.
"Well after that show in the street I'd say he hitched a ride in the limo and took his ass home." Shikamaru concluded.
"Skipping school? Over a girl?" Gaara said, slightly surprised as this had never happened before, not even with Kaede."
Sasuke sighed.
"He's seriously starting to turn into a pansy."
"You know you could be a little nicer. Take a walk in his shoes," Naruto shrugged.
"What do you mean?" Shikamaru asked.
"Well, what if one of the girls dumped anyone of your sorry asses, I'm sure you'd be hung over it," the blond nodded.
The boys glared as the blond happily continued on.
(^A.H^)
"—And to this day, the mystery of the incidents leading up to Edgar Allen Poe's death are still unknown, the cause of his death is still unidentified and vague. With that said, we're going to be reading a short excerpt from a small poem he wrote near the time of his death. I want you all to find six subtle hints of the meaning behind the poem and indentify them, you will have to do this on your final exams." Kakashi explained, then slammed his book shut.
"Oh my god! Kakashi-sensei I think that's the most you've said all year!" one random student yelled.
Most of the class nodded and cheered in agreement.
"Don't patronize me you adolescent assholes," he warned.
"Getting notes?" Gaara asked politely as he watched Sakura scramble down.
"Are you kidding?! Final exams are coming up and I have to maintain my 5.0 average if I want to gain valedictorian ship. They're only doing two this year and I have to be one of them!"
"Well we all know Shikamaru is a shoo-in for valedictorian ship—however hard that is to believe," Ino rolled her eyes, "that only leaves one spot. Once again you, Sasuke, Gaara, and Neji have the best grades in school aside from Shikamaru."
"I haven't taken any advanced placement classes this year, so I don't think I'll be picked," Sasuke said coolly as Megami painted Mr. Bear next to him. Naturally, he did not care for his grades, however good they may be, or not.
"so then Sasuke's out. That just leaves—"
The gang quieted at the sound of a familiar springtime chime.
Sakura pulled out her pink covered Galaxy S3 and answered.
"Hello?" she mumbled.
"Hi doctor Hana, how are you?"
They remained silent for a moment.
"Really? Okay, I'll let her know."
She hung up and put her phone back into her pocket then turned to Tenten who stared at her.
"Could we talk for a second?"
Silently, Tenten stood up as Sakura did. The gang watched as they began to head out.
"Hey wait!" Megami called.
The girls froze in place,
"What was Doc Hana calling about?"
Sakura turned back and smiled sweetly, "it's nothing Mega, just a messege from my dad,"
"What message then?" she asked again.
Sakura sighed, "It's personal,"
"Well that's weird. I thought we promised we wouldn't keep anything from each other? That's our rule isn't it?"
"Well this doesn't fall on that rule!" Tenten snapped. "Mind your own business for today,"
With that, she stormed out of the room.
"WHAT'S HER DAMN PROBLEM?!" she yelled, lunging only to be caught back by Sasuke.
"Just let it go." He ordered.
Sakura shook her head and mouthed an apology as she walked out herself.
"You haven't been for a checkup in a week. Dr. Hana has been trying to get a hold of you but you keep ignoring her calls!" Sakura yelled, pacing back and forth in the empty hallway.
"She's worried about your vitals! Someone as far along as you shouldn't be off on their own. I don't know why you broke up with Neji and I have no idea what you're planning on doing from this point on but you can't ignore the fact that you're carrying his baby for much longer," she whisper-growled.
"Yes I can, only you and Ino know right now. From this point on I can just pretend it's Kao's baby. No one will know," she shrugged as she leaned against the wall.
"But we'll know! You'll know! Are you seriously considering keeping him from his own child,"
"Does it matter?! He's the one who got be pregnant. If all goes wrong I'll abort it, give it up, I don't know—!"
Sakura slapped her across the face. Tenten froze, her face turned to the right as her cheek burned red.
"You have no idea how hard it is to take care of a baby, especially before labor. It was one of the most painful experiences of my life. Thinking about what I want to do with it, my life from here on out, everything. It's never going to be as simple as 'abort it' or 'give it up' because it's your child. The next seven months of your life are going to be hell let me tell you that, unless you have the right people by your side. But right now you're not doing such a good job at that," she spat.
Without another word she turned and headed back towards room 429.
Tenten remained against the wall, her face blank and her cheek still turned as she stood in silence.
"WHAT'S HER FUCKING PROBLEM! WHO THE HELL IS SHE TALKING TOO! HUH? I'M JUST TRYING TO HELP SHE DOESN'T NEED TO GO ALL BITCH-MODE ON ME! I'M SO MOTHERFUCKING PISSED I'LL KILL HER!" Megami yelled, slamming her fists against the weakening windows.
"We can see that," Ino rolled her eyes. "Calm your damn temper, maybe they just needed to be alone."
"If she had said that I would have understood! But she just went and—"
The door slid, Sakura stepped in calmly and casually walked back to Gaara's lap.
"Is everything alright?" Hinata asked.
Sakura smiled and nodded, "nothing has ever been better, really."
(^A.H^)
"Yo! Hyuga!" Sasuke called as the boys stepped back into the mansion.
As told they were supposed to head to the studio for recording but were forced to come and pick up Neji.
"Master Hyuga is in his room," Geevs spoke as he moved aside.
The boys headed up the long stairs.
"Neji! Get ready we've got to head to the studio!" Naruto added.
"Can't he hear?" Shikamaru sighed.
The boys stopped at the faint sound of music upstairs.
"Sounds like it's coming from where we think it is," Gaara spoke.
Sasuke rolled his eyes as the boys continued upstairs.
Sasuke kicked open the door, the boys stood outside at the sound of the blasting heavy metal music.
"That's funny. We thought you never listened to this type of music," he smirked.
Red-faced, Neji drowned down the remaining drops in the bottle and threw it out the open window. Shirtless, with his hair down and glaring as he flopped onto his bed.
He lazily picked up the remote and held it towards his left where the internal music player. At the click of a button the music seized and the remote, with his arm, dropped back to his side.
"What the fuck do you want."
It was not a question, which the boys could see, it was a harsh demand to know what they wanted and especially what reason they had for being in his room.
"Time for work," Gaara sighed.
"Get out."
"Look we would gladly leave you alone but we kind of have a record company and billions of fans to appease too." Shikamaru explained.
"I'll work on another song, here, but I'm not leaving, not today."
"This is pathetic," Sasuke sighed.
"Aren't you the one who's always telling us girls aren't worth our trouble.? That it's either us, or them?" Shikamaru asked.
"You don't honestly believe I'm acting this way because of her do you? I couldn't care less who she wants to be with, I didn't like her that much anyway."
"Then why are you drinking and acting like an asshole, more than usual." Sasuke said plainly,
"Why do you care? If you're only here to force me to go to the studio then your out of luck. I'll get the songs done but I'm not moving, got it?" he snapped coldly.
Sasuke raised his hands in defense as Naruto looked on sadly.
"Your call, just call us when you're ready to let her go." Gaara nodded to him as he stepped out of his room.
Sasuke and Shikamaru silently followed suit, letting themselves out as Naruto stood behind, leaning on his door.
"You know…it's okay to admit that you love her…" he slightly whispered.
Neji twitched.
"You're only hurting yourself by acting this way." The blond smiled as he held onto the door knob and slowly backed up until it shut.
Neji clenched his teeth and held his head as he turned over on his large bed, knocking over a few beer bottles.
It's not like him to drink during the day.
Hell, it's not like him to drink at all, when not at a part or anything.
The rims of his eyes grew dark and red, as if he hadn't slept in weeks, more likely a week.
He opened the small dresser he kept beside him and pulled out a picture of her, smiling sweetly from her birthday party.
He glared at it as he sat up, his head ringing.
He clenched the photo with both hands until the case cracked in his palms.
He stood up abruptly and threw it, letting it smash against his while. The photo inside floated to the ground until it stopped on top of the glass.
He grabbed his phone from the side of his bed as he lay back down.
He clicked a familiar contact and held it to his ear as he closed his eyes.
"Wussup?" a familiar, cheery voice answered.
"Can we talk?" his voice cracked back.
(^A.H^)
A few hours later, the Hyuga clan member lay sprawled on his bed in the dark of night, a slight headache pulling into his skull.
His door burst open, only making his head ring.
"Could you be a bit more gentle?" he growled.
"Hey, it's not my fault you can't handle your liquor," the female voice laughed.
He sighed and lifted himself up to face the girl before him.
Megami smiled in her work uniform, a workout bag on her right shoulder as she held the door knob with her left hand.
"Never took you as the drinking type Hyuga, dattebane!" she laughed as she walked in, closing the door behind her.
"Please don't say that word," he groaned as he flopped back onto his mattress.
"Then why did you call me here? You said you wanna talk and that you need my help, well I'm here," she shrugged a she sat on the corner of his bed, dropping her bag.
"I called you, because I want you to help me get over her," he said blandly.
"Get over her?" Megami said, slightly aghast, "it's barely been a week!"
"Well she seems to be doing fine jumping back without me, I can do the same. Do you have any idea who I am? How many girlfriends I've had?" he snapped.
Megami rolled her eyes as she leaned back onto his bed.
"Why would you think that I'd come and help you let go of one of my best friends? We'd all like it better if you guys got back together."
"Because I thought you'd be the only one good enough to help me with it. Ino's too strict, Sakura probably wouldn't want too, and it would just be weird to ask my own cousin. That leaves you, who's had her heart broken just ennough times to have enough knowledge on how to bounce back,"
"Thanks for the compliment," Megami smiled coldly, popping a nerve. "Dick."
"You know what I mean. What did you do after Sasori cheated on you?"
Megami sighed, staring up to the ceiling.
She laughed a bit.
"Is it a touchy subject? Sorry," he murmured.
"No it's fine, really. I don't think you'll like my reaction to having to listen to him do it with some girl while I was right under the bed," she laughed.
"What did you do that was so bad?"
She smirked as she turned to him, he raised a brow.
"Get wasted."
"Are you serious?"
"Hey, you seem to be doing a good job of it!" she laughed, "I was a druggie back then, it was from him anyway. My outlet to the guy I'd put my heart and soul into was getting high, puffing smoke, and drinking until I couldn't feel."
"Damn," he mumbled. She nodded in response.
"So, why don't I give it a shot?" he suggested.
"Hey! I'm not encouraging it!" she protested, "I haven't touched a drop of liquor since! I spent a year in rehab because of that shit!"
He narrowed his eyes, "that is a complete lie and you know it. What about the party? You drank then."
"Well, that was only a bit, and it was a party…" she mumbled.
"Then why don't we go to one?" he sighed, scratching the back of his head.
She raised a brow, "what did you have in mind?"
(^A.H^)
"So where did the redhead run off too?" Tenten laughed as she walked into the living room as Neko ran around, Ino read a magazine, Sakura read a work, and Hinata worked on dinner in the kitchen.
"She said she got an emergency call and had to head over," Ino explained without looking up.
"Shouldn't you be more concerned about the fact that you missed work again?" Sakura questioned, looking up as Tenten stood by the door.
Neko ran up and wagged his tail at her legs.
She smiled down at him without answering.
"You aren't getting full pay if you don't come, and that's effecting us. We need all five of us working if we're going to be able to pay for the house every month. You're going to have to stop seeing Kao, at least for the work hours," she ordered.
Tenten rolled her eyes, "who are you my mother? I'll do whatever I damn well please,"
"Well if you feel that way maybe we'll just ask Kurenai-sensei to have you fired," she said nonchalantly.
"Sakura!" Ino slightly gasped as she shot her head up.
"Go ahead; this whole babysitting thing is cutting into my time any—"
"Shut the hell up!" Ino yelled, standing up.
The girls quieted, Hinata stepped into view.
"We need you just as much as we need anyone else if we're going to pay for this house! So don't you even think about quitting out on us because of some guy!" she growled.
The girls remained silent for a few moments, staring at each other.
Tenten tsked as she bent down and picked Neko up.
"It's been a long day, I'm heading to bed," she mumbled coldly.
The girls stared off at her as she stormed up the steps with Neko in her hands.
Ino flopped back onto the couch and held her hair.
"What the hell is happening to her?"
"Better yet," Sakura mumbled, "what the hell happened to her?"
(^A.H^)
"Ooh! What about that one?"
"No, too short,"
"What about her? Great legs on that one too."
"I don't see it."
"Okay, what about that one over there! She's got a great rack on her huh?" the redhead smirked as she nudged him.
Neji raised a brow and turned his head to the smiling redhead.
"Are you sure you're not a lesbian?"
"I'm at constant battle with myself."
"What?"
"What?"
Neji shook his head as they both turned back to face the front. The two leaned on the bar counter as they stood in the Tokyo Teen Club Wednesday night.
Many young adults, mostly college students, danced on the floor, swaying their hips and pumping their fists to various techno music.
Neji stood in an unbuttoned collar shirt with a black shirt underneath, along with black pants and a beer in hand.
Megami still remained in her work clothes, which consisted of her black sports bra and knee length tight yoga pants.
"If you get hit on don't come crying to me," he mumbled as he took a sip.
She rolled her eyes, "it's not like you gave me a chance to change, I'm the one who's going to have to drag your drunk ass home anyway," she smirked.
He glared as he drowned down what was left of beer and slammed the bottle back onto the counter.
"So are you going to go meet some girls?" she asked, examining the bar counter.
He scoffed, "are you kidding? I don't meet girls, girls meet me."
Megami raised a brow as he effortlessly moved through the crowd, catching the eye of many girls.
She rolled her eyes, as she leaned further onto the counter.
"Maybe that's your problem…"
"Excuse me, miss?"
Megami turned her attention to her right, there to face three college boys smiling genuinely at her.
"Can I help you?" she asked, raising a brow.
"We saw you over here and we were wondering if you wanted to play a little game with us," the first in front spoke.
"What kind of game?" she asked hesitantly.
He laughed a bit, "relax, it's just a little drinking game. See, what we do is you have to guess something about someone, like a favorite color or food or something and every time you guess wrong or they guess yours you have to take a drink."
"Your boyfriend is welcome to play too!" the third in the back spoke.
Megami scoffed, "He's not my boyfriend. He's my boyfriend's best friend," she said nonchalantly.
They raised a brow at her.
She shook her head, "so not what you think. Thanks for the offer, but I don't drink."
"Oh come on, it's just for fun! You seem like you could use the loosening up," another spoke.
She smiled a bit and slightly shook her head no again.
"Are you sure? Its better then standing around all night, isn't it?" the one in front ushered.
She sighed, glancing to the dancing people on the multi-colored lit floor.
"Um…how do you play again?"
(^A.H^)
"Uh! Hi!"
The distant Hyuga looked up, after day dreaming about current events. He turned his attention to a light blond haired girl a couple inches shorter than him.
"You! You're Neji Hyuga! Right? From Omega?" she beamed.
He, blankly, gave her a once over, staring at her loose black and blue crop top with a soft amount of cleavage, with dark blue short shorts and midnight blue five inch pumps that did her slender legs justice.
"That's my name," he smirked, staring at her chest shamelessly.
"I knew I recognized you! I'm a huge fan of yours!" she said excitingly. "My name's Odori, I'm a first year at Tokyo University,"
"Great to meet you," he smiled, shaking her hand.
"Are you here alone?" she asked as they let go, raising her voice a bit and looking around at the sound of the music.
"Sort of. I'm here with a friend of mine. I came hoping to meet a few nice girls, it seems like this place didn't disappoint," he smirked.
She blushed a bit, even though it was hard to see through the varying colored lights, and looked down.
"Do you want to skip the dancing and just get out of here?" he asked, pointing a thumb to the stairs that led to the rooms for club attendants that wanted to more than what the dance floor offered.
"Sure," she smiled as he took her hand and led her up, passing by a merry-making redhead and a few college boys.
"Okay, how about this. Favorite color?" she asked.
The first boy, with dark brown hair thought for a moment as he looked her over.
"Hmm…I'm going to go with…white!"
"Damn it!" she groaned as she picked up a shot cup.
As she finished drowning it she cringed, "how did you know?"
"I just assumed with the white roses on your tattoo and the white rims on the tattoo on your upper right arm," he explained.
"Now it's your turn, favorite food?" one in the middle asked.
"Umm, I'm gonna say Teriyaki! You seem like that type of guy," she smiled.
The first shook his head, "Actually it's Nabe, I'm more of a winter person," he smiled.
"you lose again," the other two laughed.
"Shit…" the redhead mumbled, giggling as she picked up another shot.
"I…I…I thought…I thought you had a…girl…friend…ahh…" Odori lightly moaned as he kissed and licked her neck, while the both of them sat on the mattress.
"No…" he murmured as he laid her down, pulling up her crop top in the process.
"Weird…last time I read about you..there was…there was this…girl—"
"We broke up," he said quickly.
"Really?" she sighed, "It's funny…when I read…you two seemed so—"
She twitched as he pulled her up by her hair. She stared fearfully as he glared at her.
"Shut the fuck up." He ordered.
She nodded slowly as he tossed her shirt onto the bed.
He lowered himself onto her neck once again, licking down as she moaned lightly, tossing her head back.
Frequently, he hesitated but then went ahead again.
He trailed his hand down her stomach to her legs, she shivered at the benign touch.
Though she remained confused, she'd expected his antics to be quicker, especially in the state they were win.
He mentally fought with himself as he thought the same thing, usually girls came easy and he was always on top, but he just couldn't bring himself to go any further with her.
"I'm sorry," he growled as he pushed himself up.
"Huh?" she frowned as she slowly sat up.
"I can't do this. Not with you," he snapped.
"Did I do something wrong?" she whispered as she picked up her shirt and covered her dark pink bra.
"No, I did." He growled as he stood up. He twisted around and slammed the door behind himself.
With the door closed he leaned back on it and ran his right hand through his dark brown hair. The running quickly turned into both hands tightening and clenching his hair as he sat down in frustration. Moreover, sexual frustration.
The girl didn't feel anywhere near as good as Tenten felt.
Her freedom, her attitude, her domination.
He clenched his teeth as he gripped his hair and dug his face in between his legs.
He stormed down the hall and down the stairs back to the main club.
"Uzumaki!" he yelled over the music as he stepped into the various lights. "Uzumaki!" he yelled again, "we're leaving!"
He twisted around furiously, looking for the redhead he'd left.
He sighed at the sound of familiar, and frankly annoying, laughter.
He turned around to a small lounge in the corner of the club. On small leather couches sat three college boys with beer bottles in one hand and a cigarette in the other.
In front of them sat a laughing redhead with a cigarette in between her left fingers, with blood shot red eyes and cheeks and twelve shot cups in front of her.
"Son of a bitch…" the Hyuga growled. "everyone's going to kill me."
"Ey there ya are!" the redhead gurgled as she looked up.
She lazily waved her right hand and patted his stomach, "come'en join the partay Yuga! I's just tellin' these bastards bout you and Tennie!" she laughed as she brought the cigarette back to her lips, puffing out a cloud of smoke then settling back, "And how yur tryna find'a new fuck buddy so ya don't gotta think bout her!"
"Which one of you gave her that?" he snapped, ignoring her comment.
"We thought she could use one," the first boy laughed. "It looks like she's a lot more fun when she's drunk or stoned—"
A few residents gasped when said boy found himself crashing into the glass drinks over the bar counter.
Still glaring, Neji twisted back around to the two boys who stared, shocked.
He knocked the cigarette out of a confused Megami's hand and pulled her up.
"Ya know, I haven' smoked in five years!" she laughed, "or twelve. Seven? I don' really member," she sighed.
"Yeah, and it's going to stay that way," he sighed.
Luckily for him, she wouldn't remember a thing in the morning. He just had to get home and relax himself, the night wasn't going in his favor.
"I can't take you home," he growled. "If the rest of the girls see you like this they'll cut off my dick and I'll never get Tenten back," he mumbled.
His eyes widened at the words that left his mouth.
Megami, aware, gasped, "So you do wanner back!" she squealed.
"Shut up and come on!" he pulled her left arm forward. She stumbled as he dragged her up the stairs.
He pushed her against the thick wall, she cringed and held her head.
"What gives!"
"You aren't going to speak a word of what I just said. I don't want her back, got that?"
She groaned, twirling around, "No fun! Let's go back to the parteeey!" she whined.
"shut the hell up and let me figure out what to do with you," he barked.
"You know they were playing one of ya songs earlier!" she said randomly.
"It was 'For Your Entertainment' member?"
"I wrote that two years ago when we had singles in an album," he answered as he paced.
She nodded quickly.
He stumbled when she grabbed his arm, staring at her confused.
"Ra-memba?" she gurgled, giggling as she put his hands on her waist and she lazily set her hands on his shoulders.
His eyes shifted from her face, to her cleavage, to her legs, and back as she swayed her hips.
"No escaping when I start, once I'm in I own your heart, there's no way to ring the alarm...so hold on until it's over!" she sang as she swayed her hips, upper body, and head back and forth.
"Come on! Dance with me!" she breathed before continuing the song, "Oh! do yeah know whatcha got into?! Got a feeling what I'm 'bout to do...cause it's abouta get rough for you! I'm here for Your Entertainment!"
"We don't have…time for…" he mumbled as he found himself moving to his own song, his own hips nearly clinging to hers as his hands on her waist sub-consciously navigated a little farther down to her bottom.
She hummed the song as she swayed her head back and forth, stopping for a moment to stare at him as she breathed heavily.
He gulped as he stared back at her.
Leave, before you do something you'll regret.
(^A.H^)
Tenten glared at the ceiling as Neko walked in circles on her bed, trying to find a comfortable spot.
She lay in her pajamas, her hands spread out across the bed.
"What do they know anyway?...I know I'm doing the right thing…" she snarled.
"He's hurt me more than enough times, it's time for me to go forward…this is the way it's supposed to be…right?" she asked, turning to Neko.
He whimpered as he hopped off her bed, walking towards the door.
"So now you hate me too?" she called as the small dog squeezed through the crack in the door.
She groaned and flopped back onto the bed.
"I don't need that jerk, Kao is amazing and it's going to stay that way," she reassured herself.
She smiled and nodded as she lifted herself up.
"They'll learn, eventually," she beamed as she settled herself onto her bed.
She picked up her phone from the dresser next to her and dialed a number.
"Hello? Kao? Hey, could I come over?" she asked.
"For all I know that guy is probably sulking or doing nothing in bed." She thought.
(^A.H^)
I'm just in deep, in a blue sea of lonliness
I don't know how? But I was froze and couldn't move forward froze as in stopped not as in cold.
The lies come unstuck and are falling down in broken little pieces
I smash them with my hands and blood drips down
I hide in weakness from the dark in my mind
He kicked open the door as he quickly stepped in, it slammed back against the wall, hard, nearly creating a hole.
With her legs still locked onto his waist, their lips fought furiously as he slammed the door back with equal force, trapping them in the dark off the room.
The music from below still blasted in a muffled noise as their tongues fought.
Letting go, he dropped her onto the bed, both breathing heavily as he stared down to her vulnerable body.
Quickly, he tore off his collar shirt and furiously pulled his shirt up as if it were choking him.
He tossed both items to the floor and proceeded to climb on top of her, a predatory stare in his gaze as she ran her right hand down his chest, her chest rising and fall in low breaths.
A waterless world would come to a halt
so I face the suffering without a way to escape
She sighed and stared into his eyes as he cupped her cheeks and kissed her hungrily.
He brought his hands down to the rim of her black sports bra and pulled it up, letting go for just a moment to toss it to the floor.
He lifted her up and unclasped her dark blue bra as he nipped on her neck.
She tossed her head back and moaned as he licked from her neck down to her newly exposed breasts, throwing her lingerie like waste as he tasted every area of her perky breasts. She moaned again and clutched his loosened hair with both hands on each side of his head.
I seek in the dark because there is no light here, and the feelings deep in my heart have died
There's darkness on my eyes, so I'll continue wondering in the valley of dreams
I search for answers that I couldn't see yesterday, today, or tomorrow
Where should I... Where on earth should I go?
He brought his hands down to her waist and pulled down her pants as he began navigating his tongue down.
Her chest rose and fell as he licked down her stomach, she removed her hands from his hair and held the backboard of the bed for support. He hooked her matching thong with one finger and looked up to her, sliding them down with her pants. She lifted both her legs up to allow him to remove both items of clothing and throw them with the mess on the floor.
He pushed her left leg down and held her right with his left arm as he sat between her legs. He brought himself down, licking down her leg until his tongue met her private area.
She cried out as, for the second time, Neji's tongue tasted all of her. He clutched her right leg and dug his fingers into her left as he hungrily licked and sucked on her while she moaned for more. She twitched and fidgeted when two fingers joined his wet tongue after some moments.
After a few moments more her body arched up slightly in a shaky climax. He slightly lifted himself up with dead eyes as he ran his tongue over his lips.
But to his sudden surprise, she lifted herself up and pushed him around until he met the bed and she was on top. and in between his legs
Even if I gently touch me, I'll break immediately
I don't need you to lie to me with momentary kindness
Because I've closed the door to my burdensome heart
I've been in agony and can't even breathe
I just give in to frailty now
He stared, shocked as she, still breathing deeply, unhooked the belt of his pants. He raised a brow when she pulled down his pants and shorts underneath without taking her eyes away from him. As she did he found his eyes on her breasts once again, forcing his shaft to become harder as she threw his pants and shorts off the bed.
Suddenly he clutched the sheets tightly as her tongue met said shaft.
He clenched his teeth as she swayed back and forth, happily tasting, licking, and attenuating him as he grinded into her, turning his head and clenching his eyes shut as his elbows rested on the mattress while she took all she could of him into her mouth.
And so the egoism of my sins.
There's a fortress of darkness that eminently blocks the way
So I seek in the dark, there are no lights here
I closed my eyes and smiled, darkness on my eyes
My feelings have gone back and forth and are disturbing me
I... I'm in despair and can't find the answers.
He tossed his head back as he clutched the top of her hair, pushing her further down as his breathing rose, the burning fire that desperately craved such an experience for the longest while, rising.
Her innocence and inexperience in bed seemed nonexistent if she took down a few drinks.
He grunted as he finished. She rose and shook, licking her own lips. He rose up halfway to meet her, both breathing heavily as they into one another's eyes with a desperate, reckless lust.
She gasped a bit when he twisted her around. But before she could collect herself he forced himself inside her.
His breathing was rugged as she moaned loudly. Watching her erotic expression, her eyes shut as she bit her bottom lip when she wasn't moaning, and her breasts bouncing, turned him on more. He thrusted harder, forcing her to cry our more as his pace became quicker and more ruthless.
"God!...Neji!...Fuck me...!" she cried out, barely coherently.
"...fuck...!" he growled furiosuly as he pounded into her.
When they both finished, Megami with a load moan and Neji with an angry curse, he brought her back up and twisted them around so that she was on top as they slightly sat up. She dug her nails into his shoulders and dropped down onto him with a cry. His nails dug into her back as she bounced on him. She threw her head back and wailed when he bit down on her breasts.
Raindrops falling from heaven
I couldn't remember
They took away my love so weak
It's raining on my heart
My stupid broken heart
Baby please, don't go
No light, no sound
He, without knowing, growled a name that had become unfamiliar to him in the last week.
But neither noticed as they worked their lust-filled bodies together.
A waterless world would come to a halt
so I face the suffering without a way to escape
Their process continued some more as the night dragged on. On different areas on the bed and in different positions, Neji ruthlessly released all his frustrations into her.
Megami bit down on the pillow, tears streaming down her eyes as, after an hour, he was now in her from behind.
With little knowledge, images of the girl he once knew floated through his mind as he carelessly forced himself in and out of Megami.
The times they had.
The moments they shared.
The nights they felt.
She cried out in more pain then pleasure when he forced himself deeper inside by pulling her hair back, forcing her head back.
"Neji...it...it hurts...please..." she said, barely above a whisper.
He slowed at the sight of her when he felt something he hadn't experienced since his parents passed.
Tears formed in his eyes as he angrily forced himself again. They both culminated, but he cried out with more anger as she did with tears.
She whimpered and shook as he pulled out of her. She shook as he fell on the bed, in a moment she fell on top of him.
She lay on top of him, her eyes gray, her hair stringy, and her sub-conscious fragile. In a few moments she closed her eyes in exhaustion as she continued to shake, he held her against him, pulling the blanket on top of them before wrapping both arms around her.
He stared up to the ceiling, his breathing slightly heavy as he closed his eyes tightly.
He opened his moth slightly in a whisper, his eyes tightly shut.
"...Shit."
EEK IN THE DARK. HERE IS NO LIGHT. CAN'T SEE THE LIGHT.
SEEK IN THE DARK. FEEL THE DARKNESS IN YOUR EYES.
(DARKNESS ON MY EYES)
(^A.H^)
He sighed in relief when he found the driveway vacant of a white stretch limo. Thankfully the boys were working late or he would have serious explaining to do.
At midnight he carried a sleeping Megami bridal style back into the house with a blanket covering her naked body and her work bag and tossed clothes inside.
With blood shot eyes, a fatigued expression, an empty feeling, and a distraught and messy appearance himself, he locked his car and kicked at the large front doors.
Seconds later, after what he assumed was a security check, Geevs opened the door with a shocked expression.
"Lord Hyuga—"
"Don't. Say. A word," he ordered as he stepped in, moving passed him.
The night maids stood by, watching as he walked in with the sound asleep girl.
He, tiredly, trudged upstairs, ignoring the silence and shocked expressions of the workers, who he assumed could easily figure out what had happened between them.
Well, he knew if they wanted to keep their jobs they would keep their mouths shut.
He kicked open his own door, breaking the handle in the process.
Without turning on the lights, letting the light of the moon act as it, he laid her down onto the bed then walked towards his walk in closet.
A few seconds later he walked out with his soccer jersey.
Sighing, he pulled off the cover and stared at her naked body.
He hesitated, momentarily staring at the things he had touched with the lust he wanted to release to Tenten. The body he was forbidden to ever know of.
Quickly, he forced the jersey over her head and through her arms then dropped her back onto the bed.
He stood up and pulled off his own collar shirt and black shirt.
Exhausted, he sat at his desk and leaned on his right fist.
This would be his secret. She wouldn't remember a thing when she woke up, thankfully, so only he, and quite possibly the workers downstairs, would know.
This was her fault. She brought this onto him.
He didn't know what reason she had for cheating on him, for breaking up with him. Sure he had been a jerk in the past but that was then, he had already promised he was taking steps to better himself; old habits are hard to break.
But she refused to wait, and the aggravation of not having her with him brought a monster out.
A monster that craved her so much to the point that he would, mindlessly, have animalistic sex with his best friend's highly intoxicated girlfriend, who he had also let do various things to him, and who had done forbidden things to.
He clutched his hair and took a deep breath again.
He couldn't go on anymore.
Whatever means necessary, he would get her back.
(^A.H^)
He groaned at the sound of a loud bang, he covered his still red eyes with his hand as the shine of the sun blared in his light purple room.
"Oow…" a shrill voice whined.
He sighed and lifted himself up from his chair, stretching, seeing as he managed to fall asleep in the odd position he was in.
"What the hell!" Megami groaned as she lifted herself up after falling onto the floor.
She screamed, holding her head tightly.
"Ah! Shit! My head! What the fuck?!"
She looked around, confused, then looked down to herself to the two-sizes-too-big blue and white number 64 jersey she slightly recognized.
she ran a hand through her stringy hair then ran a hand down her face with burning blood shot eyes.
She blinked as she felt bare below, still holding her head she slowly stood up, cringing at the tightness below her.
She slightly jumped back when she saw Neji coolly sitting shirtless with his legs up on his desk and his arms crossed on his abs.
"Hey! Why the fuck am I in here Hyuga?!" she demanded, "and why the hell does my head hurt so much?! Where's my god damn panties?! My crotch hurts like a bitch!" she demanded and yelled out loud.
"Yo Neji! What was all that noi—"
Both stopped and turned their attention to the blond blinking furiously in orange ramen patterned pajamas, his mouth agape.
"What's all that freaking noise, my alarm hasn't even rung yet!" Shikamaru yelled as the rest of the boys made their way to the Hyuga's door.
They stopped and stared at the bottomless Uzumaki sibling wearing one of their members shirts.
Megami burned red and squealed, pulling down the longish, but not long enough, jersey and turning around.
"If you look I-I'll punch you!" she threatened, blushing.
Sasuke pushed his way through, knocking Naruto and Shikamaru off their feet. He turned his glaring attention to Neji who sat calmly.
"So, Hyuga." he snarled, "Is there a good reason why my girlfriend isn't wearing pants-"
"Or anything else!" Megami cut in.
"Or anything else," Sasuke snarled, "except your jersey in your room? Or do I have to beat it out of you?"
Neji closed his eyes and blew out a breath as they all stared at him.
(^A.H^)
"So what the hell happened to you last night?" Sakura questioned as the girls headed towards the building later that morning.
Megami slightly shrugged, "Not really sure. Neji called me and asked for my help in getting back into the 'game.' We went to a club and I drank because of this game I played with some guys. He said he had to leave some girl he was with because I started going wild and stripping, then I passed out so we had to leave," she shrugged.
Ino rolled her eyes, "of course, you can't be helped if you have one shot. Anyway, what do you mean by getting back in the game?" she questioned.
"He wanted to meet some girls to so he could stop thinking about Tenten. The last thing I remember was him walking off with some blond chick with pretty awesome boobs,"
The girls stared at her. Sakura sighed and shook her head.
"They must have hit it off, he doesn't look to bad today," she smiled proudly as the boys stepped out just as a motorcycle pulled up next to the limo.
"Well it's good that Neji-niisan was with you," Hinata smiled.
"Yeah, there's no telling what you'll do when you're wired, it's like you're a completely different person who wants to screw anything with legs," she laughed as the boys stepped up.
"Morning!" Tenten squealed as she ran up, her bag bouncing.
"Where did you go? We saw you leave this morning we thought you were going straight to school," Sakura questioned.
She beamed a bit, putting a skip in her step as the ten of them began walking towards the building again as they had done when they were all together.
"Had a little…business to take care of, if you know what I mean," she winked.
"It not even been a week yet, don't expect us to be used to your…before and after school programs," Ino shook.
Tenten laughed in turn.
Sakura glanced back to catch Neji's expression.
Surprisingly, he seemed as calm and relaxed as he had been before the break-up.
She frowned a bit, remembering what Megami had said about the whole 'finding a new girl' thing.
Maybe it had worked out.
"Hey!"
She jumped as she turned back to face Ino.
"What?" she snapped.
"We're going dress shopping after work today," she ordered.
"What?" she asked, confused.
"Hello! The sports banquet is in two days! We have to pick out new dresses,"
"Ino, we have plenty of dresses as it is. Half of them made by you," Hinata smiled.
The blond waved her cheetah print nail polished hand, "I don't have time to make what you know is going to be better than whatever we find in Forever 21, so we're just going to have to buy something new. You know damn well I don't use any dress twice," she scoffed.
The girls rolled their eyes and laughed as the boys trailed behind.
"I've got spring fever, so I'm thinking bright colors," the blond sighed dreamily as they sat down in the ferry of students.
"Of course you guys have to match with us," she explained, turning to the boys.
"Seeing as my dress will be yellow, Shika-kun will have a dark yellow bowtie. Naruto will have a blue bowtie; Gaara will have a dark pink—"
Naruto snickered, which resulted in a smack upside the head from Gaara.
"—Sasuke will have a white tie, and Neji will have a—"
They silenced as Ino's smile dropped and her pointing hand fell.
"Never mind…" she mumbled.
Tenten laughed as the rest remained quiet.
"I don't think you'll have to worry about matching us up. There's no way I'm matching up with him,"
Luckily, Neji was distracted with the earphones in his ears, thinking, lost in space.
"You don't need to be so harsh," Megami said coldly.
"Whatever, I'm going with Kao, if you want Ino you can use my colors so we can match, looks like someone's going to have to go plain," she giggled.
"Tenten!" Hinata gasped.
"What? It's not like he's got any feelings?" she tested.
"How would you know?" Megami snarled, "if you would get off bitch-mode for five seconds—"
"Oh shut the hell up," Tenten sighed, "I'm not in the mood for your any of your words of wisdom. Whatever I feel like saying I'm going to say, so mind your own damn business," she demanded.
Before anyone in the room could blink Megami was up through the desks, tackling her to the ground.
The desks were tossed to the side as both girls fought. Punching and pulling each other up, slamming heads against the floor.
Sasuke forcibly pulled a struggling Megami up and held her back as Gaara did the same for Tenten.
"YOU STUCK UP BITCH!" the redhead yelled through bleeding teeth.
"EVER SINCE YOU BROKE UP YOU'VE BEEN NOTHING BUT AN INCONSIDERATE SLUT!" she screamed.
"NO ONE ASKED YOU TO STEP INTO MY PERSONAL BUSINESS!" Tenten yelled back, her forehead bleeding.
"Stop! Both of you!" Hinata yelled.
"WHAT THE FUCK'S WRONG WITH YOU?!" Megami demanded as she tried to lung for her over the tables, only to be held back by Sasuke.
"STAY OUT OF MY FUCKING LIFE!" Tenten yelled back.
"Calm down!" Sasuke yelled.
"Tenten, come on cool it," Gaara demanded.
Megami stopped struggling. Breathing heavily as blood dripping from her teeth.
"Get off me!" she growled, pulling out of Sasuke's grip.
"You know what," she sighed, "I'm done."
"You can go on, screwing whoever the FUCK you want. Don't tell me anything anymore, don't even talk to me." She breathed, waving her hands.
She bent down and picked up her bag as Gaara let Tenten go.
In silence she stood straight and headed towards the door. Slamming the slide back.
Ino and Naruto were the first to go after her, Sasuke slowly walked out after.
"Tenten…are you alright?" Hinata asked hesitantly as she reached for her.
"Don't touch me," she ordered.
The Hyuga girl settled her hand down and slowly backed away.
Sakura walked up and looked at Tenten as she helped lead Hinata away.
Tenten glared towards Neji who seemed oblivious to everything that had just happened.
She herself picked up her bag and stormed out.
Sakura walked forward to go after her, only to be stopped by Gaara, who held his hands on her hips to seize her.
"What are you—"
"Just leave her alone for now. She just needs to be alone." He assured.
She settled back and stared off to the doors.
So, she thought, everyone's finally at their wits end…
(^A.H^)
For the rest of the day the girls distanced themselves from each other to better one another. Still, Tenten did not show up to work but Sakura didn't have her fired. No matter how much they fought their friendship remained tight.
Friday come around as did the girls championship basketball game.
The new found Konoha high Foxes won 85 to 64 on account of two vicious players who dominated the court on their own, just because they didn't want to be anywhere near each other.
The same followed for dress shopping. Blowing the girls off again, Ino was left to pick out Tenten's dress without her.
Finally, the night of the sports ball arrived…
In one of the many ballrooms in the famous Tokyo Hotel sat the makeup of the Konoha high annual sports ball.
At eight o'clock sharp all athletic students of Konoha high began to make their way into the hall.
Dressed in fine knee length dresses and straight suits and ties, they nosily took their seats around round tables with tan and red silk table drapes, aligned with golden silver wear, chocolate appetizers and red and dark orange Gladiolus flowers.
In front sat a stage where a select set of orchestra sat playing music. Near it, a long table of waiting dishes with waiters and waitresses behind stood.
At the very front of the hotel, a long white limo pulled up.
Residents and of course students gawked as a man stepped out of the driving end and walked quickly to the other side.
He bowed as he opened the door. A light yellow strappy high heels popped out, sparkling in the night.
Soon, a full body figure stepped out in a short barely knee length loose yellow dress, tight at the waist.
Ino sighed happily as she stepped out. Right behind her Shikamaru stepped out in a black tuxedo with a dark yellow bowtie as planned.
After, Hinata stepped out in a loose knee length sparkly blue halter dress, her hair up neatly. Naruto stepped out behind her with a black tuxedo and a bright blue bowtie.
Behind them stepped out Megami in a tight white one shoulder knee length dress, Sasuke followed out in a black suit and a white bowtie.
After them walked out Sakura in a hot pink nearly knee length sparkly one shoulder dress, after her came Gaara in a black suit with a dark pink bowtie.
Finally, out walked Neji in a black suit as the others, with a plain black bowtie.
Behind them, Tenten stepped up in a dark green strapless knee length dress, holding the hand of the fated Kao in a black suit with a dark breen bowtie, coming from his motorcycle.
Without acknowledging the rest of the group, who had already met Kao at the door, the two went ahead.
The girls ignored it so, pushing off the tension between them in order to indulge in a much needed night of relaxation.
"Chin up ladies!" Ino ordered.
Sakura turned back to Neji who nonchalantly fixated his bowtie, as if there was nothing awkward about him, being him, not having a date.
She smiled and took a few steps back to him, to Gaara's surprise.
"Come on, you're going to walk me in," she ordered, taking the Hyuga's right arm, to his shock.
"Excuse me?"
Megami smiled as she jumped back as well, beaming.
"Allow us to be your escorts tonight Mr. Hyuga,"
Ino giggled as she clung on as well, again to Neji's surprise.
Hinata smiled and joined in until all four of the ALPHA members were on his arms, like his dates.
They giggled as they led him in.
The boys stood behind, blinking.
"Hey!" Naruto whined, "what just happened?!"
(^A.H^)
"Welcome students of Konoha high school to the fifty-sixth annual sports banquet!"
The students quieted as they turned their attention to Tsunade, who stood in a tight soft yellow off the shoulder dress and matching high heels.
Alpha and Omega sat in at their own table, with a added member brought by the bunhaired member of Alpha.
To make matters worse, Tenten was forced to sit between Kao, and Neji.
"I, your principal, and the other members of the school board along with Konoha high's athletic teachers are proud to give you this night. You've all worked hard this year, and for the seniors who have remained in the sports world up until this moment, we thank you for your hard work over the last four years," she smiled.
"So tonight, awards will be presented to the top students as we eat, and three scholarships will be handed over to three great seniors who deserve what's coming towards them. Before we begin to eat I would like to ask the leaders of this year's sports teams to please stand up and head to the stage,"
The students clapped and watched as the head of the kendo team, cross country, softball, baseball, wrestling, and ect. Stood up and walked to the front.
Sasuke, Neji, Megami, Gaara, and Ino stood as well, as the captain and quarterback of the football team, captain of the soccer team, captain of the girls basketball team, captain of the boys basketball team, and head cheerleader. Even Lee, who was captain of the track team rushed up.
"Look at Ino, she looks so excited to be up there," Hinata smiled.
"You know she loves being congratulated for anything," Sakura rolled her eyes.
"I thought you were a captain Tennie," Naruto questioned.
"In Ame I was head of a lot of sports, but I died down a little this year," she explained, Kao's arm around her shoulders as they clapped for the leaders who were presented with plaques.
"I'm only really looking out for that scholarship though. You can only get one if you've played in two or more sports in all four years, no matter what high school you attended," she said, determined.
As the group headed back to their seats with the other leaders, they sat back down.
Ino flaunted her plaque proudly.
"More where this came from!" she reassured as Tsunade assured for the students to begin their meals.
(^A.H^)
"—So, this year's Mr. And Mrs. Congeniality award is presented to Hinata Hyuga and Naruto Uzumaki, for their outstanding show of support and determination in basketball and cheerleading,"
Hinata burned red as Naruto smiled and waved to the clapping students, holding her hand as he guided them to the front.
"Those two totally deserve it!" Sakura said over the clapping.
"Cute!" Ino beamed.
Halfway through the night, students had been up and down the stage, excepting awards and giving them, mainly seniors.
Over the night the ten of them had received many awards. Tenten and Megami each received the TomBoy award for being on all boys sports teams. Sakura received the Workaholic award for her organization in the cheerleading squad, and Ino, to her utmost excitement, received the Queen Bee award her domination.
"The next award goes to a few young girls who has shown that, with a little flare, anything is possible," Anko spoke as she stepped up while Naruto, Hinata, and Tsunade stepped down.
"They brought up a downing team and enforced the pep our cheer squad needed badly. Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to present this year's Pep award to Ino Yamanaka, Hinata Hyuga, and Sakura Haruno,"
Claps arose again as the three beautiful young girls stood up and headed up again.
"Tired!" Megami whined as she leaned on Sasuke's shoulder. He patted her head and nodded to her.
"What's after this?" she asked.
He opened the red and gold pamphlet in front of him.
"Next is the senior honors and scholarships, a speech from Guy-sensei and the sports department leaders, me and Neji, then closing ceremonies,"
"Finally!" Tenten groaned.
"What?" Kao asked, finally speaking up.
"The scholarships! I've been waiting all night for this," she said, determined as the three girls came back down.
Tsunade stepped up onto the stage again and smiled a bit sadly as she stood on the stage.
"Will the seniors of this years graduating class please rise!" she ordered.
Up rose the soon to be graduates who calmly stood among their peers, looking dominant and powerful.
"Whether you have just participated in a sport this year, or have been in this department for all four years, Konoha high school honors you will your hard work and great achievements. In a matter of weeks you will no longer be high schoolers, but full fledged adults, you will rise up and show the world the power and determination, the sweat and tears, the cheers and hits you've taken to make Konoha high's sports team the most dominant in Japan. Whether you hold the championship title," she smiled down to Tenten and Megami, being the only seniors on their team.
"Or are about to head towards it," she looked towards the five members of Omega, who still had their basketball championship under way.
"You are all champions. And wherever you may go, Konoha high wants to thank you for all your hard work and help. Ladies and gentlemen, this years graduating class!"
Loud claps arose again as the seniors stood proudly, confidently.
"You may be seated," Tsunade spoke as the claps died down.
As they sat down she opened her mouth again.
"Tonight, Konoha high, as it does every year, will be presenting three full sports scholarships to seniors who have shown a broad arrange of hard-work in all four years. These were not easy, and picking through them took a lot of thinking but these three have strived in excellence and deserve these scholarships more than they can imagine," she smiled.
She looked down to the podium to read aloud the names.
"Rock Lee!" she called first.
"Yosh!" he chanted, jumping up in a white collar shirt, black tie and dress pants as claps went around.
"Neji Hyuga!"
Neji blankly stood up, his hands in his pockets as the students cheered.
As Tsunade handed him the plaque and scholarship he stood next to a still excited Rock Lee.
"And finally—"
Tenten held her breath.
"—Ringo Noyamano!"
Cheers elated again as the long dark pink-haired girl stood up, a bit surprised. Head of the gymnastics, skate, karate, and softball team for four years running.
The remaining members of Alpha and Omega looked back to a shocked Tenten.
"Ten?" Sakura called.
The bun-haired girl looked down as Tsunade spoke a few words about the scholarship winners.
Tenten clenched her fists on the table.
"There are other scholarship opportunities, hundreds even," Shikamaru tried to reassure.
She lifted her head and glared as Neji came back to the table.
Neji raised a brow at her as she glared at him.
"It's always going to be all you…isn't it?"
"What?" he asked, surprised that she was even talking to him.
"Tenten?" Kao mumbled without looking at her.
She stood up abruptly, still glaring.
"It's always you!" she challenged.
"What's your damn problem? Are you mad over a little scholarship? I'm not the only one who got one," he challenged.
She sighed and looked down.
"I can't do this anymore…" she mumbled.
Without another word she twisted around and headed to the door.
"Tenten!" Sakura called.
Before she could even stand Neji was already up on his feet.
Surprisingly though, Kao sat calmly and let him go.
She pushed open the doors and stormed out, taking a shaky breath as she leaned on the wall.
She held her mouth and stomach at the sickening feeling at the pit of it.
Instantly, she lifted herself up and let go of her features as Neji stepped into the hallway.
"What's your deal? You broke up with me and slept with another guy before you even had a chance to contemplate it! Now you're mad at me for winning a scholarship I don't even need!" he yelled.
"What do you want from me?!" he demanded.
"I want you to stop being so unfair!" she yelled back.
"It's always you! It's always all about you! I broke up with you so I could let go of the second place look!" tears began to form in her eyes.
"You've always got some excuse for not loving me! You're always looking at other girls and not thinking twice about how I feel about it! You know what?! Eventually people get tired of being in love all on their own! You were a horrible excuse for a boyfriend and I hated it! I hate you!" she cried.
He simply stared as her breathing rose up and down.
Eventually, when she settled they stood in silence.
Shockingly, he smiled, to her confusion.
"You talked to me…" he mumbled.
"What?"
"Come back inside." He spoke, "there's some things I want to tell you that I can't really put into straight words," he sighed.
She raised a brow as he led her back inside without touching her just as Gai-sensei stepped down and Sasuke stepped up to speak.
"Tenten? Are you alright?" Ino questioned.
Before she could answer Neji stepped up.
"You, drums," he pointed to Naruto who raised a brow in turn.
"What's going on?" Hinata asked, confused.
Without saying a word Naruto jumped up and walked around to head up to the orchestra.
He turned around to face Tenten who refused to look at him.
"I'm not…" he started.
"I've never really been…" he tried again, looking down.
"I've never really been good at saying what I want to say…personally through word of mouth, so I write it down. If you're going to do anything besides hate me at least listen to the lyrics,"
Slowly he backed away, heading towards the stage where Sasuke waited for him.
To the confusion of the sports students he passed Sasuke and instead walked to the orchestra and spoke with them.
After a couple moments of nodding and understandings Naruto sat at an unused drum set, smiling.
"Is Neji-kun going to sing?!" girls squealed as he stood in front of the microphone.
Sasuke smirked and stepped down to watch.
Ignoring the talking and confusion he focused his eyes instead on Tenten who averted hers.
Still so, he smiled and began.
Cold as ice
And more bitter than a December
Winter night
That's how I treated you
And I know that I
I sometimes tend to lose my temper
And I cross the line
Yeah that's the truth
I know it gets hard sometimes
But I could never
Leave your side
No matter what I say
Cause if I wanted to go I would have gone by now,
But I really need you near me to
Keep my mind off the edge
If I wanted to leave I would have left by now,
But you're the only one that knows me
Better than I know myself
All along
I tried to pretend it didn't matter
If I was alone
But deep down I know
If you were gone
For even a day I wouldn't know which way to turn
Cause I'm lost without you.
I know it gets hard sometimes
But I could never
Leave your side
No matter what I say
Cause if I wanted to go I would have gone by now,
But I really need you near me to
Keep my mind off the edge
If I wanted to leave I would have left by now,
But you're the only one that knows me
Better than I know myself
I get kind of dark
Let it go too far
I can be obnoxious at times
But try and see my heart
Cause I need you need now
So don't let me down
You're the only thing in this world I would die without
Cause if I wanted to go I would have gone by now,
But I really need you near me to
Keep my mind off the edge
If I wanted to leave I would have left by now
But you're the only one that knows me
Better than I know myself
Cause if I wanted to go I would have gone by now,
But I really need you near me to
Keep my mind off the edge
If I wanted to leave I would have left by now,
But you're the only one that knows me
Better than I know myself!
Even through the confusion claps arose, thinking it to be a part of the nights schedule.
He hoped, for heaven's sake she had focused on the words rather than the music. There he was able to say almost everything that was being held up inside of him.
He picked up the mike and stepped down as Tenten stood up, confidently.
The room remained silent as she opened her own mouth to speak.
"So that's it huh?" she said aloud.
"You think that, if you, write me a song that it makes everything okay?"
He smirked as he stepped up to her, looking down to her a bit.
"Well, it doesn't. It's not going to make me take you back, you're going to have to try a little harder then—"
To the shock of the current residents and especially Tenten herself,
He cupped her cheeks and kissed her.
As she tried to nudge him off he himself slowly began to let go.
When there was a comfortable space between them he held the mike to his lips and took a deep breath, staring straight into her eyes.
"I love you."
Her eyes widened at the words he spoke so cleanly, so shyly, as did the eyes of the sports students.
"I love, everything you are and everything about you. I can't stress enough how sorry I am for being so horrible and inconsiderate to you but I'm painfully hoping you will forgive me."
He didn't feel the need to repeat the words he'd spoken in the song, he couldn't bring it out in himself. But he knew it hurt to be without her.
He took a deep breath, a small part of him was screaming for actually coming out with his feelings in front of none other than his teammates, but most of him was ecstatic for admitting it to himself.
Tenten's face remained in a shocked state as he uncomfortably waited for her response.
Moments later, she finally groaned, to the bewilderment of others.
"You bastard!" she yelled angrily.
He stared, taken a back a bit.
Instead though, she jumped him.
"It took you fifteen episodes to finally say it!" she yelled.
"What?" he asked.
"I mean two months!" she laughed through tears.
Nevertheless, cheers rained, and shockingly, even Kao clapped.
"Why are you clapping?" Naruto asked.
"Huh?" he asked, confused, then smiled and nodded in understanding.
"Oh, I should probably let Ten explain," he chuckled.
"What?" Sakura asked as she twisted back to the bun haired girl who stood up with Neji.
"What's he talking about Tenten?" she asked.
Tenten smiled sheepishly.
"I've got a lot of explaining, I know, but there's something I have to do first," she sighed, then took a shaky breath.
She took the microphone from Neji's hand and tapped it a bit.
"Excuse me? Could I have everyone's attention?" she called as the students settled.
"There's something I'd like to say! Something I should have said some time ago but didn't because I wanted to hear the words that just came out of his mouth first!" she explained, then turned to Neji.
"So, I have a question. Do you really absolutely love me?"
He nodded, smiling.
"Would you do anything for me? Do you promise to care about me? No matter what happens between us?" she asked hopefully.
"I promise," he said easily.
She beamed brightly, tears forming in her eyes.
"That's great then, Neji," she sighed, holding her stomach.
"Hm?" he asked.
"I'M PREGNANT!" she yelled happily into the mike.
"WHAT!" Tsunade, Naruto, Megami, and many others yelled. Hinata gasped, Shikamaru's eyes widened, Sasuke raised a brow, Gaara looked taken a back.
"Well looks like the cats finally out of the bag," Sakura breathed a sigh of relief.
Neji's smile fell and his eyes widened to replace it. A highly shocked expression covered his face.
She dropped the mike and turned back around.
"Now, time for some excuses!" she laughed.
(^And so...^)
"So that's why you went all bitch-mode on us!" Ino gasped.
"You planned this all along? With him?" Sakura asked, pointing towards Kao who seemed relaxed.
The group sat relaxing at their table as many had already left.
As they did they either congratulated the couple on their new formation, or Tenten for her upcoming child.
Tsunade on the other hand, demanded to see them Monday morning.
The room remained almost empty as such, clearing began.
Tenten nodded.
"We did have sex, that's true. But afterwards I was so angry with myself and afraid to go to Neji, it felt like the right thing to do at the moment but it only made me feel like crap. So instead we decided to form a plan where we could use this to get him to say the words I know he wants to say but refuses to. It hurt to break up with Neji a lot but you've gotta admit he deserved everything that came to him, he hasn't exactly been the world's greatest boyfriend but somehow I still love him," she sighed.
"I had to act the way I did so you guys wouldn't suspect anything. I lied about my bike so I could have an excuse to ride with Kao, I skipped work days and came home late so you guys would think we were so in love. I even had doctor Hana call you and convince you that I wasn't coming in for my check-ups, I really did want Neji to hurt like I did but it was never satisfying." She frowned then turned and mouthed a thank you to Kao who smiled brightly in turn.
Ino and Sakura turned to each other and laughed as Tenten turned to a distraught Hinata and Megami who glared at nothing.
"I can't stress enough how sorry I am for not telling you guys , I know we have a pact about secrets but at the time I was so scared and so hurt I didn't know who to tell or what to even say,"
"We're your sisters Tenten," Hinata smiled, "you can come to us for anything. But if there's ever a time where you feel something is to personal for words then it's all on your own,"
Tenten groaned and brought her into a hug.
"That's why I love you Hina!" she breathed.
She let go and turned to Megami who remained distant.
"Mega…I'm sorry for the things I said, I know cheating isn't your road and I know what I did was harsh but I—"
She punched her in the face.
The girls remained silent and calm though.
Tenten took a deep breath and slowly turned her left cheek back.
"Okay, I deserved that."
She punched her again, on the right this time.
Tenten coughed, "okay, deserved that too."
"You bitch! The first is for acting like queen bitch all week! The second is for not telling me I'm gonna be an aunt!" she yelled, pulling her into a hug.
Tenten sighed and smiled as the girls came forward and hugged each other.
"How did this happen anyway?" Megami asked.
"The very first time we had sex," Tenten sighed.
"The bastard forgot to use a condom."
"So you've been pregnant this whole time? Wow!" Ino laughed.
"Hey guys, I think Neji went into shock!" Naruto called.
The girls turned their attention to where Neji sat with the same expression he had taken up when she revealed the incriminating news.
The boys surrounded him.
Tenten let go and stood up, walking over until she faced him.
She bent down and stared into his eyes.
"Neji?"
He blinked, looking towards her, his expression still in shock.
"Is it true?" he whispered.
"Are we really going to have a baby?"
She smiled sadly and nodded, standing up straight to hold her stomach.
"In seven months….we're going to be a family." She mumbled.
In a swift second Neji was up with his hands around her waist, swinging her around.
The gang watched the future parents in happiness as she swung around.
Tenten mentally sighed in relief. She thought back to the time when they entered the gypsy store, where she saw a small family she had thought was her own parents and herself.
But now she knew.
Now she knew what it really meant.
Neji brought her down and kissed her. As they let go Tenten happily threw her head back and cried cheerful words,
"WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A FAMILY!"
Await the future Hyuga-Sento child, the adventures rain on.
T-o-B-o-C
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