Hexx: You guys know I really do try to get these done as fast as possible for you guys right?

Kin: We're sorry last chapter was so short D:

Blue: . . ..

Hexx: Anyway, without further adu,

Tenten: They do not own Naruto!

Tenten stood in the middle of the courtyard, her arms crossed tight over her chest, her eyes darting back towards the door and around her. Strapped to her pants was her kunai set, and tucked into her pockets, her scrolls.

"Are you sure you know how to use them?" Mei asked her, lying carefully on her pregnant belly.

"Of course" Tenten replied, suppressing her antsy nerves by sitting down on the stone bench. This act did not stop her eyes from continuing to roam around the courtyard, looking sharply at everything that moved. Her quick eye motions alerted Mei almost instantaneously.

"If you know how to use them, why are you so nervous girl?" She asked in a drawl, rolling her large black head around on its neck in a stretch. Tenten made a 'tch' sound as she turned her head sharply.

"It's not that" She muttered. Mei drew her head up curiously.

"Oh? Then what"

"It's just" Tenten gave a grumpy sigh "Neji is late, and he never is. Something happened or he is someplace out in the courtyard stalking me already" She propped her elbows on her knees, her hands cupping her chin as she stared through her brown bangs at the side of the castle. Mei chuckled.

"Afraid he'll hear you talking to me?" She said, swishing her tail "Or, as it will seem, yourself?"

" . . . " Tenten opened her mouth, about to say something harsh when she heard the door open. Looking up she saw Neji strolling hurriedly towards her, adjusting his own weapons pouch as he did so. He looked irritated, and rather rushed. Standing Tenten walked towards him, stopping after a few steps. "Where were you?" She asked him.

"Nowhere" Neji said, jerking on the knot of his black fabric forehead cover. After he was satisfied it was secure, he looked at his attendant. "Ready?" He asked.

Tenten had been about to peruse his 'nowhere' comment but decided against it, sighing she nodded, smirking. "You won't have an easy time this time Neji" She said with a hint of amusement, her eyes glinting.

"Hn" Neji said, smirking his own brand of smirk. Tenten noted his 'hn' was more of a friendly tease then a superior one. Squaring her feet, she leaped back so that she was standing on the bench, and then back flipped into the bush, putting more distance between them.

He paused a moment, letting her get her distance before he darted into his own cover. Activating his bloodline limit he searched the grounds for her. She was there, up on the wall, patrolling, looking for him. He smirked. So she was a tactical fighter now?

Tenten herself was watching him, noting all his movements. Every muscular move he made, which were few. His eyes looked closed, and he hardly stirred. Reaching into her kunai holder, she removed three and a bit of ribbon, working quickly.

Holding one in her teeth, she threaded the ribbon through the holes on each end of the kunai, knotting them tight. Then, gripping the ribbon in hand, she moved, jumping off the wall and slipping through the wooded area.

Her face was flushed, and she didn't know why. She had felt it happen when she had been watching him. Every corded muscle flex as he prepared himself for her assault. Glaring furiously she shook it off and clambered into a tree, removing the kunai from her mouth.

With a whirl, she swung down from the tree, one hand on the branch above her head. In a swirl she took the kunai that had been in her mouth and hurled it at him, swinging back into the tree. The kunai flew straight at his head and for a moment she panicked. What if he didn't-

Neji's head all of a sudden jerked to the side and the weapon landed in the dirt, burying itself up to the hilt. She let out a relieved sigh and climbed higher in the tree.

Neji barely glanced at the weapon and moved towards the base of the tree. Leaping smoothly into it he paused and looked for her.

One kunai swung at him, and he jerked back, as it swung past. It then circled back around the tree, holding tight. It was then that Neji saw the ribbon. Before he could react she swung down, griping the other end of the ribbon like it was a rope. Pulling on it she changed direction in mid air and her feet slammed squarely into his chest, knocking him back out of the tree. She landed on the branch he hand been standing on in a crouch, the ribbon still wrapped round one of her wrists.

He plummeted and did something with his hands rapidly, vanishing into smoke before he hit the ground. Tenten jerked the kunai free of the tree, holding it at the ready and jumping into the smoke. She landed in a crouch and a few seconds later spun kicked outwards, connecting with his ankle as he had been about to bring his other heel down on her back. Jumping away, she hurled the kunai at him again.

It's a safe thing to say that they were serious about their fight this time. Before it had just been an extra practice for him and something for her to do, but now at this moment, there was an urgency to one-up the other. She had to win, she had to beat him, and he had to stop her. He needed to get closer to her to catch her, and she knew it. Apparently while he had been learning, she had too.

Pushing off the wall and flipping onto a branch he chased after her. She had a good five-foot minimum between herself and him, and it was growing. She was getting higher and higher and he prepared himself to deflect her weapons and catch her when she went to climb down.

But that was not her plan.

Tenten got to the top of the tree and paused, long enough for him to be close enough to touch her ankle. Then with a wicked smile and a mocking salute she jumped up and back, out of the tree spiraling down towards the ground. As she was flipping she flicked open the scroll Neji had found in her room before, and glided her thumb over it. His eyes caught site of the slash of red before a huge cloud of smoke erupted from her paper.

"Watch out for the rain of steel!" Her voice sang out as then billions of throwing needles sailed through the air where nothing had been towards Neji, who jerked back in surprise that he couldn't hide from his face. His Byakugan activated as fast as he could and he substituted himself to avoid her attack.

But now he had her tracked.

It didn't last much longer. Her attack had left her exhausted, and panicked. She hadn't seen him vanish and now feared he had not had enough time to get away. She broke from her stance and ran back towards where her attack had sailed, the trees, ground and even some flowers pierced with needles. "Neji!" She shrieked upon not finding him.

"Yes?" He asked plainly from his hiding spot, a smirk on his face as her own turned red.

"Jerk!" She shrieked, diving her hand towards her other scroll. His eyes narrowed. Hell no. He jumped out of his spot, across the small space and tackled her down. She shouted at him as he twisted the scroll away, flipped one handedly to his feet and sprinted away.

The battle ground to a halt and became a full-blown game of keep away. Once her stamina started wearing thin, Neji knew he had her.

Behind a tree he paused. She ran by, and he reached out, snagging her around her waist and pulling her back against him. She thrashed and scratched, kicking him sharply in the shins making him swear against the back of her head. Turning he pinned her belly to the tree trunk and took one wrist in each hand, wrapping them around the tree.

They paused, him pressing his chest against her back, his hands gripping her as they panted and relaxed. She let out a puff of air and started to giggle.

"What?" He asked and she just shook her head and giggled harder. "What!?" He asked again, turning her around. She smiled up at him, and then pounced.

Knocked flat on his back Neji made a grunt before she sat on his chest. He felt the light press of steel against his throat and he lifted an eyebrow. She was beaming, and the smile turned into a smirk. He returned it with one of his own, making her laugh again.

"You win"

"I know," She said, hopping off him and planting her hands on her hips. "Where is my scroll?"

"Where did you get it?" He asked, propping himself up on his elbows. She shrugged

"I made it."

"Did you have any help?" He saw a pause that would not have been notable to anyone else.

"No"

"Hm" He mumbled something and reached into his pocket, tossing the still tied parchment to her. Snagging it she shoved it happily into her own pocket. "Now go clean up" He nodded at the needles still buried into the area. She giggled again and strode off.

"No, no, no like this" Tenten leaned over and placed her hands over Hinabi's and moved them properly over the piano keys, pressing up and down to the right pace.

"Like…..this?" The smaller girl asked and prattled off a few more keys, missing fewer this time. Tenten nodded and the girl beamed.

"Teaching her a Wedding March?" Tenten looked up and smiled at Rebecca and Hinata who had come into the room as Tenten had asked them earlier. Tenten darted past them and closed the door, twisting the lock. "What, what are you doing?" Rebecca asked her softly.

Tenten leaned her back against the door and beamed at them. "I have something to show you." She ran to the closet and pulled the doors open, stepping back so they all could see. The white dress Tenten had been sewing in the dark bits of night that where not saved for fighting or sleeping hung on the hanger alone. Hinata let out a gasp as Alice came to stand beside Rebecca, whose mouth was covered by her hands and her eyes full of tears.

"That amazing" She laughed, smiling and whipping her eyes. She opened her arms and motioned to Tenten, who dove into the hug and squeezed her fellow attendant tightly. Hinata was rubbing Rebecca's back and Alice had lifted Hinabi up to hug onto Rebecca as well.

"Sunday" Tenten whispered, holding onto the other woman's hands. "Sunday the king has agreed to marry you together himself."

Rebecca and Alice stuttered in surprised, while Hinata gapped. Tenten nudged Hinabi back to the piano. "So back to work! You have to have this perfect!" She teased, sitting beside the princess at the instrument.

"Don't be such an asshat" Tenten snapped at Shikamaru as she followed behind the boys across the drawbridge towards the village. He shrugged.

"Lying about who was teaching you was stupid," He said "And that's the truth."

Tenten glared daggers at Neji's back up ahead, wishing she could smack him. He knew, he had known and he hadn't told her. Instead he informed Lee and Shikamaru, who were now accompanying them to meet with Kakashi.

"You are all hopeless," She said flatly.

"We could tell the others and then you would really have an issue, imagine the heart attack Naruto would have if he heard about this." Neji pointed out. She didn't respond and he stopped, turning around to look at her. "Tenten did you hear me?"

If she had she made no indication. She was standing rigid in the middle of the drawbridge. Before anybody could move she stumbled to the side and fell right off into the water.

"Shit!" Neji took a step forward, jumping back as an ANBU member sprung after her, after materializing out of nowhere. The three ran around to the grassy bank where the attendant was being hauled onto the land by the red head.

"She isn't breathing, move" The ANBU lightly placed his hand on Neji's chest and pushed him back gently, as he pressed on Tenten's stomach, making her gurgle and spit. Her eyes were open and silted.

Silted like a dragon.

"Shit, shit, shit" Shikamaru stared beside Lee as the ANBU mumbled to himself. "Neji keep pressing her stomach to get the water out, I'm going in."

"Going in where?" He snapped before the ANBU pressed his thumb against the girl's forehead. There was a whoosh of air and the red head became stiff as stone. "Hey, HEY!"

"He isn't there," Shikamaru said, stepping forward. "He is in her brain, these are like Ino's clans abilities." The three stared at the girl who was moving her mouth like she was babbling but no words were exciting her mouth.

"What's happening?" Lee squeaked.

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"What's happening!?" Leo shouted at the dragon inside the comatose girls head, who was screeching and writhing, shouting things in the ancient language. "Mei!"

"Their coming!" The dragon queen spat, slamming her claw down at him in rage. "My twins!"

"Why couldn't you have just laid eggs damn it!" He shouted back "You're not a damn mammal!" He dodged another swipe.

"Silence fool!" She spat "I am a Queen of dragons! I conform to however I want!" She slammed her tail against the inner walls of Tenten's mind, making the girl gasp loudly.

"Tenten? Wake up idiot!" Leo could hear Neji shouting at her from the thin walls of the girl's skull.

"Stay still!" Leo ordered. Mei roared at him.

"It hurts to much to be still! It's a pain I can not explain to you MAN!" She roared again, tossing her head back and stomping.

"Should have laid eggs," Leo muttered under his breath, jumping forward and onto her back. He was almost tossed and slashed, but he managed to mark the head of the dragon. "Sleep," he whispered as the dragon slowed "Sleep and I will deliver your children."

"Hurt them human, you will never get out of here." She hissed, sinking her head to the ground and letting out a snarl. Leo ignored her and wished to himself he had back up.

How in the HELL was he going to bring two dragons into the world?

And heaven forbid they imprinted on him like baby ducks.

Hexx: Don't look at me like that.