A/N: this is my first attempt in writing a naruto fanfic...hope you people will like it...and if there is any characters appearances mistake...please correct me! Other than that...enjoy this chappie!
I will be Waiting
aki-child
Chapter 1: A Good Question"Neji, I challenge you to a tree house building contest!" A bobbed hair kid, called Lee, pointed his finger at his teammate. "Will you accept my challenge?"
A girl who was leaning against a tree, sighed in annoyance, "Come on, Lee. Why do you always want to challenge Neji?" the girl uncrossed her arms as she walked towards the green clothed teammate, "Just give up."
"Tenten! Why are you always on Neji's side?" Lee asked the girl with a tingle of jealousy in his question, "Are you two in a relationship or what?"
"What!" Tenten immediately reacted to his stupid question, "Lee, I just thought that-"
She stopped her sentence when Neji, who was sitting on a tree branch, jumped off and landed onto the ground, "Don't bother arguing with him, Tenten," his cloudy eyes met the girl's brown orbs, "Gai sensei told us to build a shelter anyways; a tree house will make a great shelter." This boy whose hair was tied in a low ponytail stepped in front of Lee, "I accept your challenge."
"Oh boy..." Tenten slapped herself on the forehead and sighed, "While you two were competing, I will get you guys some fruits, alright?" There was not reply but she knew that both of them heard her. With that, she walked off into the forest, alone.
As she continued walking deep into the forest, the yelling and hammering noises were disappearing. "Finally, no more non-sense talking from Lee..." She stopped her exploring when she reached to an apple tree. "Apples will be good..." She took few kunai from her belt and threw them at the apples. Then, of course, the targets fell off from the tree and onto the ground.
Tenten knelt down to pick up the fallen apples. Suddenly, she heard the bushes rustled behind her. She quickly turned around to the sound and prepared to greet the unknown enemy. She stared into the bushes and a pair of bloody red eyes opened within the unmoving bushes.
"Alright..." Her hand searched for her weapons and her counted, "On three then. One..."
She dropped the apples onto the ground noisily.
"Two..."
She focused her eyes onto beaming red eyes.
"Three!"
As if the creature was listening to her order, it jumped out from the bushes along with two other wolves. Two bulleted to Tenten as another one circled around the battlefield, waiting for a chance to attack. One of the wolves lunged at her shoulder while the other one clawed from behind.
She threw the kunai at the wolf to stop its frontal attack but at the same time, she felt a sharp claw sliced through her arm. Ignoring the pain and the blood tripping from her left arm, she turned around and stabbed the wolf, which just succeeded in wounding her, with her weapon.
Looking at the two dead wolves in front of her, she began to count. "One...two...Now where's the third one?"
Tenten turned around to find her last opponent but she only found that she was too late. It was too late for her to react. The wolf leaped into the air few meters above her and smiled at her with a devilish grin...
A screamed then echoed in the forest and slowly faded away...
With a grunt, Tenten opened her eyes and was greeted by a ceiling of an unfamiliar place. "Where am I?" she rose from the bed so hurriedly that caused the pain to run even quicker through her injured body. "Owch..." She placed a hand onto her wounded arm and yelped.
"Be careful..." a cold voice sounded beside her, "you shouldn't move so fast when you have wounds on your body."
Tenten looked over to where the voice was and it was Neji. "Thanks..." she smiled and switched her gaze onto her blood soaked pink tunic.
"Here's some clothes to change into," he handed her a big shirt and a pair of baggy shorts. "We...didn't dare to give you a bath since we are all guys," he stood up from the chair and headed towards the door. "Scream...if you...well...need any help." Then, he closed the door behind him, leaving Tenten sitting on the bed alone.
I guess this is the tree house they built...or one of them built...
She allowed her bare feet to land onto the cold wooden floor; she walked towards the door, which led to the bathroom and pushed the door opened. There was a wooden tub, filled with smoking water, in the middle of the room.
They must have got the water ready for me to bathe...
She removed the elastic from her hair buns, letting her brownish hair to fall onto her waist; she discarded her clothes. She stepped into the tub of warm water and carefully not to soak her wounds with too much water.
She sighed in relief and ran a hand through her smooth hair. She loved how the warm water hitting gently onto her skin; she loved the way how the place was all quiet...
BANG!
No...maybe the quiet part was an incorrect statement after all...
The loud sound from the ground floor caused Tenten to snap out of her relaxed mode.
"What in heaven was that?" She thought to herself as she grabbed a towel and grabbed it around her skim body. She tucked her hair behind her ears and slowly opened the door. The moving door made a small pitch of squeak but the noise was barely noticeable under a noisy circumstance.
Could an enemy launching an attack right now? or...should there be a fight downstairs already?
Gathering her courage, she tumbled downstairs as fast as she could. She ran to where the noises were coming and...
"What happened!" Tenten asked in fast and high tone as she saw Lee clenching hands into fists and yelling at his sensei with rage. "What...why...what?"
"Nothing is happening..." Neji stood behind her, staring at the student and teacher argument. "Gai-sensei was saying that maybe we should all take a break from the mission since you are injured..." he crossed his arms over his chest and continued, "But Lee insists that he wants to stay with Gai-sensei," he took a deep breathe and turned to look at Tenten, "But I think it will be-"
Neji lost his voice when he finally noticed what she was wearing. He turned his head away from her direction quickly as he found his face burning up in embarrassment.
Great! Now she thinks I am a pervert...but she looks so feminine when her hair is down and when she is dressed...
He mentally slapped himself on the face for thinking that way.
Clearing his throat, he spoke, "Tenten...I think it will be the best if...you go and get dress now."
Tenten looked down and realized that she was dressed in nothing but a piece of towel.
OH MY GOD!
She ran back upstairs in a speed of light and closed the door after reaching to a room. She leaned onto the closed door and breathed heavily. She found herself blushing at that incident; she found herself blushing at her own stupidity.
Great! Now Neji thinks I'm easy...
She cupped her cheeks with her hands and regulated her breathing.
If I...if I...Oh never mind! I can't think of an excuse to make myself feel better!
She grabbed the clothes Neji gave her earlier and put them on. She then cleaned her hair dry and tied the hair back to two buns. She wrapped the forehead protector around her forehead and picked up her courage to walk out of the bedroom.
The two genins were walking beside each other but without speaking a single word to each other. Wanting to end this awkward moment, Lee finally broke the silent by saying, "Tenten, how are you feeling?"
"Oh...I am fine..." As much as she wanted to answer no, she wanted to hide the pain from her teammates and sensei so that they would not worry about her. "Thank you for the remedy and the medicine..."
"It is my responsibility to cure my student when she is injured, right?" Gai-sensei turned around and flashed her a "nice guy" pose. Tenten smiled and nodded her head in agreement. "You shouldn't do any training today, okay?"
"Yes, sensei..."
Tenten sat by a tree as she watched her two teammates trained with her sensei. It was funny. But she found herself not able to take her eyes off of the certain person, Neji...
Am I in love?
End of Chapter 1A/N: I was going to make it a one shot...but gave up because I realized that one shot is hard to write! You have to stick every detail and a plot line in one chapter? No way man! Anyways...hope you enjoyed the fiction so far...please dun flame and please review please! -bows-