Naruto Primer Lost Chapter: Lil Tenten

First Place

We've touched on this a million times, but you all know that Tenten has absolutely no character development so that is the reason why she didn't get a Lil chapter the first time around.  We TRIED to write one for her and for a little while she was going to be going out for Halloween but we decided that would be a better one for Itachi in the first Naruto Primer.  But like we said before with Lil Hinata, this is exactly where Tenten's Lil chapter belongs.  In the LOST chapters!  Unfortunately, this will probably be another one of those chapters that is more than half dedicated to Neji and Lee and only LABELED as a Tenten chapter but that's what happens!

Tenten wasn't ALWAYS in the shadows of her teammates!  Mostly because they weren't always her teammates!  But that's beside the point!  Let's show you with Tenten's version of the Magic Crystal Ball of the Past!!

It was the last day of school and Tenten was ten years old.  Iruka was standing in front of the class with the list of students, preparing to ramble off the ranks in the class so each person would know what they had to work on for the next school year.

"Once again, the student that took first place for five years running is Hyuuga Neji!" Iruka announced.

Tenten leaned over and looked down the line to see Neji sitting in his seat looking as though he couldn't care less what rank he had.  Of course, Tenten knew he WOULD care if he was in one of the last places but she decided to pay attention since Iruka was about to announced the best female ninja in the class for the year.  The other boys in the class groaned.

The year before, Tenten had been the second best female ninja.  The year before that, she had been the third best.  And yes, the year before that she had been the fourth best.  She was pretty confident with the fact that she was slowly moving up in rank and only hoped that she could win first place.

Unfortunately, the girl who had been in first place had been in first place for the past five years, just like Neji.  Still, Tenten had been working harder than she had ever worked over the entire year and was hoping that her hard work would pay off.

"The first place female ninja in the class is Tenten!" Iruka said.

Tenten threw her hands over her mouth to keep herself from gasping too loudly.  The other girls in the class gave sighs of sadness, but especially the girl who was in first place for the past five years and now had to settle for second.

But Tenten didn't care.  Now she was the best female ninja in the class.  She'd be the one called up to do examples and demonstrations with Neji.  Somehow she would have to hold on to that title.  The only thing she could think of was different ways she could train herself for next year as Iruka continued to go down the list and announce everyone else's ranks.

"And…er…again…" Iruka said as he reached the end of the list.  There was a moan and then the sound of someone's head slamming down on the table.

Tenten shook her head at that Rock Lee.  He would never amount to anything.

Now that school was over, Tenten could do all sorts of things!  She figured she'd go out to ice cream with her friends to celebrate the end of the year and, secretly for herself, her new rank in the class.

All the other grades were running around and being happy that they were free outside the academy.  Tenten tried to find her friends, but it was close to impossible in the mob.

"Great job, Tenten!" came a voice behind her.  She turned around and expected to see one of her friends but was only faced with Lee.

"Oh…hi Lee." She said.

"Bye!" said Lee as he quickly ran off to go and train, and probably congratulate other people too.

Tenten watched him go and then realized that if she wanted to stay the best female ninja in the class then she would have to work at it too.  She couldn't just go out to ice cream whenever she felt like and most certainly could not take a break at any point.  And as she looked around, she could tell which kids had ranked first in the class and which had ranked last because those were the ones hurrying off into the forest to find a place to train as opposed to hurrying off to celebrate.

There, on the steps of the academy, Tenten made a vow.

"I vow to become a great female ninja, just like Tsunade!" she said, putting her hand over her heart.

With that, Tenten ran off to find a clear spot in the forest to train.