We weaved through the village streets, Tenten always several steps ahead. There was a little small talk, but most of it resulted in one word answers.

I noticed how tense she suddenly became once we entered a more secluded warehouse district.

It couldn't have been from being in a sketchy location; she was a ninja. There was no way Tenten was afraid of being mugged. Plus, all of the buildings seemed to be in a nice condition, though many wooden building's paint was pealing with age. There were a lot of them packed together, not many people moving about.

I couldn't get a good look at her face unfortunately, though I'm not sure how much clarity it would really have given me.

Eventually, we reached a large plain two story building that perfectly matched the style of the rest of the area. Tenten paused for a moment before pushing the side door open, knocking in some sort of pattern.

Wow, these guys were really going through all of the secret keeping motions, huh?

Tenten went in first, I following a bit hesitantly behind her into a small hallway as someone closed the door behind us.

My mind ran back to the simple attack and defense patterns I had finally learned earlier this week; my hand reaching to be close to my kunai pouch.

You can never be too careful in the Naruto world.

We soon approached another door.

"Right this way."

I followed her inside, but not before taking one last look behind me.

The first thing I noticed when I entered was how loud it was in the room.

…Was that construction work I was seeing?

The building itself was pretty much just one giant open room. People were scattered about doing various things that looked like-

No that couldn't be right… Those flowers could be for anything! Ok, that did look slightly like an alter, and they did have a lot of chairs in here-

The thing that really shook me from my analysis was that I had finally found Sakura. She was standing on top of a crate in the room, clipboard in hand and giving orders to the workers around her. Some I recognized from the Construction depot. Everyone though seemed to be too preoccupied to notice our entrance.

As many of the elements slowly started to come together, I could feel my mouth slowly dropping open.

"…Is Sakura planning a wedding?!"

Tenten just solemnly nodded, her focus not straying from the work going on around us.

"She, Ino and Hinata decided to do this for Kakashi-sensei."

I wanted to flail out like a little kid and have a temper tantrum then and there.

THOSE GUYS LIED TO ME! THEY CLAIMED THEY HAD NO IDEA WHERE SAKURA WAS!

Then I did all of that running around for days on end for absolutely nothing….

Muderisnottheanswermurderisnottheanswermurderisnottheanswermurderisnottheanswer

I turned to Tenten, trying my best to real in my anger.

"You do know that the Anko-san and Kakashi-san aren't actually together right?"

She nodded, expression not changing.

"I know."

Hallelujah! At least someone sees the light!

I was about to burst out into tears of joy before my thoughts caught up with me.

Why was I suddenly being let in on all of this? Plus why was it Tenten who was asking? We barely knew one another. Had she seen me trying to convince people earlier?

"But why am I here?"

Her eyes narrowed, eyebrows scrunching together.

"Something needs to be done."

I couldn't agree more. She was probably just looking for someone to help her that saw it the same way.

"I think so too, but why do you care? I mean, it's not like he's your sensei or anything."

She suddenly tensed up, body freezing to the spot.

"Tenten-san? Are you oka-"

I found myself being forcefully dragged off into an empty corner, practically ripping my arm off in the process.

One we were out of the view of the workers, Tenten clamped her hands tightly down on my shoulders, staring me down fiercely.

"Wikipedia."

H-Huh?

"Um, do you want me to contact elder Wikipedia or something? I mean, he's back at my village so-"

"Soccer."

I felt even more confused.

"Yes, that is the thing we were just doing-"

"Google. Baseball. Basketball. Football. Tennis. Badminton. Curling."

I could feel my heart rate suddenly accelerating again.

Why was she bringing up stuff I said about the real world? Why did she care?

…Maybe she figured out the truth that people didn't think was real?

Something was just not right with Tenten today. This whole confrontation wasn't adding up. As a ninja I could understand wanting to protect the village, but this was a wedding!

"I-Is there something you want to ask me?"

Tenten's eyes narrowed, grip on my shoulders becoming strong enough that it started to hurt.

"Tell me. What do all of these things have in common?"

"I-I um-"

I could feel myself starting to shake, a bone chilling aura radiating of off her. I silently begged for someone to notice, but the rest of the area was blocked from my view by stacks of crates.

Tenten had picked a good spot. No one noticed us or could hear over the noise.

I gulped.

"I said them…?"

"Exactly."

I had to do a double take on that response.

"H-Huh? Seriously?!"

She nodded, letting go of my shoulders in exchange of a sudden kunai to the throat.

My heart skipped a beat.

"Hey- D-Don't you think this is a b-bit drastic?"

Tenten ignored me with a murderous glare.

"What do you think you're trying to do?"

"I-"

Wait.

This all seemed very off for some reason. It was more than just anger radiating off of Tenten in droves. It was almost-

Almost like she was another person entirely. It felt oddly familiar.

Quoting back my words to me, the out of character responses, an odd fascination with this non-cannon event-

"-Are you really Tenten?"

The girl raised an eyebrow.

"Why do you ask that?"

Heck, if I was going to die here I might as well tell the truth.

"N-Nothing adds up. I don't get why anyone would get so upset over a few strange words. Plus in my opinion Tenten has been such a two-dimensional undeveloped character that I don't think she's capable of acting like this. She has about three defining personality traits and the fact that she uses weapons is one of them."

The girl's eyes widened considerable amount, kunai lowering from its position on my neck.

She quickly back away at an incredible speed, leaving me to do the same.

We stood in tense silence for a couple of seconds, the construction noise behind us filling in the blank space.

Eventually the girl looked up, her features drained of color, voice volume dipping down several notches.

"You know, at first I just thought this was some random event that happened during the two and a half years before Shippuden that one ever saw; but when I noticed you knew things people from this world weren't supposed to, I started to wonder."

Wait- She knows about all that? How? Does that mean-

Without notice her eyes were once again filled with suffocating killing intent.

"But today just proved it to me. You're the real reason this is all happening. I heard the rumor from Sakura, who told me she heard it from you."

I was still too stunned to know what to say, but holy crap. Nothing is making sense to me. My heart was pounding so hard I was afraid I was going to have a heart attack then and there.

"Do you know how many hard years of my hard work you're about to ruin?!"

W-What did I do to her?! Why am I the target here? I could understand why Kakashi had something against me, but why her?!

My mind just could not process this at all the moment.

"T-This has to be some kind of joke."

Her eyes narrowed.

"I'm afraid it isn't."

I took a step back, trying to desperately grab a weapon for comfort, ignoring how much my hands were shaking.

A small voice in my head continued to tell me how pointless it really was. She was a trained ninja. I'd be dead before I could do anything.

I told it to shut up.

The girl wasn't quite done talking yet.

"I've spent all of this time making sure not to mess with cannon, but then you come along and screw up everything for me!"

She walked forward, easily closing in the gap.

My fingers had finally found a kunai handle, but I paused.

"B-But why?"

I could see veins bulging, her face turning a bright shade of red.

"Why?!"

That question must have been her breaking point. It was when she really snapped.

"Why?! Because I don't want the people I care about to die!"

She then spouted several choice words directed towards me.

I froze to the spot as she swore, my mind failing to process any of this. Just what exactly did people dying have to do with a non-cannon wedding?

Maybe that was pretty low on the list of things I should have been asking myself at the moment, but honestly; it did not correlate for me at all. My fear somehow drifted away enough for it to ask this too.

"I know some people say marriage is like a piece of them is dying inside, but isn't that a little drastic…?"

I flinched back at a punch stopped right in front of my face.

Bad choice of words.

"Y-You…"

The ninja pulled back her fist which I noticed was subtly shaking, her face contorting.

"Don't get anything at all."

I stood dumbstruck as she paced around the little corner, face buried in her hands. She didn't speak to me for the longest time, only muttering quietly to herself as she walked around.

It felt awkward just standing there, not to mention nerve racking. The girl was pretty unpredictable with these mood swings. It did however give me a moment to process.

Tenten, or whoever she is, was stuck in the Naruto world just like me. During my short stint of reading way too much Naruto fan fiction, I think I read a few self inserts in there.

I wasn't alone in this.

And I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad about that.

The girl eventually stopped, turning to look at me with a steady stare.

"Neiji and Lee. Those two are like little brothers to me. I won't let anything happen to them, understand?"

I felt inclined to nod.

She exhaled before sporting a new, more relaxed frown.

"I didn't do anything at first because I thought this was just the plot of some dumb filler arc, but by the time I figured it out…"

Her posture crumpled.

"You know the domino effect right? One small change leads to another, then another, and so on?"

"Y-Yes…?"

"Who knows what will happen if this all goes through? I won't be able to know the future anymore."

Ah.

Things were making sense again.

I frantically waved my hands in front of me.

"Don't worry; I was already trying to fix this!"

She quickly snapped back at my comment.

"Yeah, well you better hurry it up then! They're planning to throw this surprise wedding the day Anko gets back from her mission!"

My thoughts were once again spinning.

"Why are they doing this? How could they just up and throw a wedding without confirmation?"

I could see her facial expression twitching pretty badly.

"Ino and Sakura just decided to do this and Hinata somehow also go involved the way."

Uh…

"Why would people believe them?"

"I'm not sure. I think Tsunade-sama just went along with it because she wanted to do something to thank Kakashi and raise general moral."

I groaned.

"Of course."

Tenten buried her face in her hands.

I couldn't help but gently pat her on the shoulder. I finally understood where her frustrations laid.

"But it's not like Anko would actually go through with this right?"

"I think she would."

"What?"

The girl limply nodded.

"She'd probably just go along with it to screw with people. It won't matter if it all happens for real or not."

I felt like crying.

"That wouldn't do anything to clear up the rumor… But what about Kakashi? He wouldn't knowingly show up here."

"That's why it's being kept a huge secret. Everyone has been told to keep it very hush hush."

"Well, you told me pretty easily."

"I needed to see if you were who I thought you were."

"…Point taken."

Another long pause.

"So… Uh, what country are you originally from?"

"Canada."

"…Naruto fan?"

"Not much anymore."

We just stood awkwardly across from one another.

"…I'm going to go over and talk to Sakura. Hopefully I can convince her."

Tenten nodded.

"I've tried to, but nothing has worked so far."

How deluded about this pairing could people be?

…

I approached were Sakura was standing, but she didn't even notice me until I loudly called out her name. Before she could say anything, I immediately cut in,

"Sakura-chan, everything I told you about Kakashi-san and Anko-san was completely wrong. I was completely and utterly mistaken. None of it was true at all."

She looked at little surprised at my outburst, but easily tossed out her rebuttal.

"What do you mean?"

Sakura gave me the same look many people had lately. Like I was absolutely crazy and didn't know what I was talking about.

"I got it wrong. I'm really sorry for misleading you like that."

To my surprise, Sakura just smiled back.

"You shouldn't apologize Mako-chan, it turns out you were right after all!"

Uh… No… If Kakasi's reaction was anything to go by, I was very, very wrong.

"…Why do you say tha-"

Sakura turned for a moment to shout out some directions to one of the workers. Once she recited a couple of tasks, Sakura brought her full attention back.

"Sorry, I've been very busy lately. What was it you were saying?"

"I just wanted to know why you now I think what I said before was correct."

Sakura blinked a couple of times in confusion.

"I spoke with Tsunade-sama about all of this first of course, and she confirmed it all as true."

"Are you completely sure?"

She nodded.

Okay, I was definitely not going crazy. There was no freak'n way this was now suddenly a thing. I guess I could understand why she would believe Tsunade over me. First of all she was the Hokage, and I hadn't really known Sakura that long. We were far from being best friends. But still, I needed to break through to her.

"Sakura-chan…"

I could feel the oncoming head ache starting to form.

"I think the Hokage was mistaken."

She looked like I had just slapped her in the face.

"Tsunade-sama knows Kakashi-sensei better than almost everyone! I think she'd be right!"

There was a long stare down between the two of us, I being the first one to flinch back and divert my eyes after a long couple of seconds.

I was getting nowhere fast with this approach. The only thing I was succeeding at was ticking off Sakura. I guess insinuating that someone's master who they deeply respect is a liar might be a bad idea…

Making people hate me seems to be my specialty as of late.

"Just… Just what can I do to convince you?"

Sakura just shrugged; though I noticed a slight narrowing of her eyes before looking down to flip through her clip board.

"If she changes her mind and tells me just that."

Well, I guess at least now I had a goal in mind. But talking with Tsunade-

I'd been trying to avoid that. Something in me just wanted to flee and get as far away from her as possible. I'm not sure why exactly; in the long run she was a trustworthy person. It's just-

Well, I still needed to fix this and that was exactly what I was going to do.

I noticed Tenten glance first at me as she walked up towards us waving and smiling.

"Hello Sakura-chan! How have the preparations been going so far?"

Sakura instantly broke out of her less than great mood, replying with a bright smile.

"Pretty well! Was it you who brought Mako-san along?"

I got the distinct impression she wasn't very happy about that.

"Yup! I thought she'd be interested."

Before this could quickly turn into a long and drawn out conversation, I excused myself.

"Well, this has been very… interesting but I need to head out. I have to go back and fill in the holes at the training grounds and put away all of the equipment."

Sakura looked a little surprised. I guess she was expecting me to debate with her more.

"Oh- Alright. Next time I'll see you will be at the wedding I suppose."

Not if I could help it.

"Um, maybe!"

I bid the two of them farewell before actually heading back to my specified located. I had so much clean up to do...

And then a visit to the Hokage.

AN: This ended up taking forever to rewrite. TT_TT I would like to thank KittyCaterpillar for being my beta for this chapter and Falcon's-Fang with all the help plot-wise.

I'm probably going to come back and fix a few sentences here and there, but for now I'm just happy to get this posted.