Smile

There are times when Tenten found herself staring at him. Like an invisible thread sewed through her lashes that tugged to the sky, she couldn't look away. When he met her stare, her cheeks would flush and his would not, and she wondered if he really didn't feel anything at all or if it was just for show?

When she could meet his gaze no longer, her eyes would study his features. She loved his nose and how perfect it fit his face, his cheekbones stamped with nobility, and how his jaw line met the bottom of his ears after a sharp curve. Most of all, she loved his lips.

She imagined what they would look like if they were to genuinely smile. She had a dream of him once, and for some reason or another he ended up breaking into a smile. In reality she didn't know what it would look like and her mind's eye warped his perfectly pale face into something horrific.

Dreams scared Tenten sometimes because she knew they reveal the subconscious. So she is always hoping that he will be a brooding and handsome image in her life; Something stable to depend on. At other times, she hoped he would find happiness and just break his own barriers.

After studying his face for the hundredth time she'd meet his gaze again, where his eyes had been waiting. Then she would give a genuine smile by demands of her subconscious.

Will his stoic face remain and leave me feeling foolish? Will he smile back and trample his own image? Did I smile just to teach him how?

Tenten always looks away and never finds out.

Fin

Other than that really sad smile Neji flashed after he lost to Naruto, I haven't seen him really smile. A few smirks here and there, but I really wonder what it would look like.