Finally… it's the fourth day! The last chapter took ages to write… anyway- almost done!

Thanks to: Georgina (for direct quotes), Patricia, Josh, Keiren and Emma, all of whom contributed to this chapter… and also to the awesome reviewers- thanks for continuing to read!… Rated for Language!

Cliché alert! runs away to cry

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DAY FOUR

Tenten wondered for the seventeenth time in five minutes why she was being submitted to such torture. Ino, Sakura and Temari were trying to pick out a totally 'faboo' and sexy outfit for tonight, and were continuously pressing coat hangers against her shoulders, muttering and throwing it into a growing pile of discarded clothes, while Hinata sat on the bed, surrounded by the world's largest collection of makeup.

The day had passed in a blur- something Tenten hadn't wanted it to do ever since Neji had woken her up for the second time in two days. The Hyuuga had actually been getting revenge upon Lee who had woken him up by screaming out something incoherently in his sleep.

At breakfast, Kurenai had announced the day's activities, which resulted in screaming by four girls- Sakura, Ino, Hinata and Temari- and groans from most of the male members of the camp.

"A disco!" Tenten groaned. This would mean having to endure hours of 'preparation' by the standards of normal girls.

Neji smirked at his kunoichi's comment and just kissed the nape of her neck, making her shiver slightly.

Initiative and challenge activities had been spent listening to the four girl's continuous discussion about what to wear. Meanwhile, everyone else was screaming at some one or getting stressed out.

"Team work… none… team communication… not the sort we need… lateral thinking…" Kakashi looked up from the clip board. Shikamaru was lying back looking at the clouds, knowing full well that he could solve the problems, but waited for someone to ask him if he would like to offer his input. Naruto was an orange blur, and he was ordering everyone around, arrogantly claiming that he knew the solution and that it was easy, but not really contributing otherwise.

"…none." Kakashi ticked the appropriate box and picked up his book.

Orienteering had been easy. Ino and Temari had, by some misfortune, been placed together, and were loudly talking about underwear, much to Chouji and Shikamaru's discomfort.

Naruto was trying hard to not shout and read the compass, but it didn't work. He became mixed up with the bearings and the device was passed along to Sakura, who handed him the slip of paper on which the mark of each check point would be punched.

Neji's Byakugan had been the thing that had helped Team Gai the most. Lee had been sent in to stamp the paper, due to his camouflage ability, and Tenten had scouted everyone else's progress.

Much to everyone's surprise, Kiba, Shino and Hinata had come out on top with their superior tracking and hunting skills.

Tenten smiled as she remembered going sailing. A sharp poke in her shoulder and a "Sorry!" from someone made that smile fade away, but the memory was still there.

Temari had been given the task of keeping the winds fair and blowing steadily, and Lee had managed to some how get knocked off the boat by the boom. Tenten was glad that Shikamaru had persuaded him to take the weights off at the dock.

The weapons mistress had paid no attention to anyone, just admiring the sparkles on the water, the wind making her hair, unbound due to Neji's request, flutter in the wind like silk ribbons. The water was bright blue yet clearer than diamonds, with slivers of gold darting about beneath the surface. The salty tang of the air was wonderful and the kunoichi tried hard to remember that they were not sailing on the ocean.

Neji glanced in Tenten's direction. She was sitting up on the gunnel with a dreamy smile on her face, leaning back and letting her finger tips trail in the pristine water. She was beautiful, mysterious, feisty and innocent. Most of all, he realised, she was the one he loved, and… and she was his. Neji's fingers brushed Tenten's and he drew them into his own.

"Tenten…"it didn't matter that they were on a small sailing boat with seven other people. For him, Tenten was all there was, and all there would be.

His other hand traced the contours of her face, outlining her almond chocolate coloured eyes and those lips that he loved kissing.

Tenten gulped, thinking that her dream from yesterday… might be coming true?

The boat turned and headed back to shore and Tenten slid off the gunnel. She was now safe within Neji's embrace. She sighed and gently twined her free hand into Neji's long silky hair, unbound like her own. She leaned on his shoulder which seemed made for her, and he leaned his head on hers. He breathed in the scent of her hair, which seemed to become more and more intoxicating every time he caught the scent of the kunoichi's hair.

Temari watched everyone else on the boat- Sakura and Sasuke, Naruto and Hinata and Neji and Tenten. It didn't seem fair. She began to sing, softly to herself, a slow lament of love.

A few minutes later, Tenten helped Temari out of the small vessel.

"Thanks Temari." Tenten couldn't help but feel slightly guilty for the older kunoichi- she didn't really have anyone special in her life, and the only one she wanted to have wanted someone else.

The kunoichi from Sunakagure brightened up during dinner, as the theme of the disco was announced to be 'goodies and baddies'- the title was courtesy of Gai-sensei.

Now, Tenten was standing in Temari's room. Sakura and Ino had brought their clothes over to help dress the indifferent kunoichi and the unsure Hyuuga heiress.

"Who are you going as?" Tenten asked, eyeing Sakura and Ino's short, skimpy and completely impractical outfits with a puzzled look on her face.

"We are the… hey this one would look good on you!" She held up a black mini skirt and a sparkly halter neck top. Tenten grabbed the coat hangers and threw them onto the discarded clothes pile with a growl.

Temari clapped her hands.

"Everyone, I have, the perfect idea!" She squealed and jumped.

Needless to say, everyone was shocked upon the girls' arrival.

The lights had been turned low and there were bright lights at the entrance, like multiple spotlights to illuminate those who entered the room.

Ino entered first, her white blonde hair unbound yet curled tightly. Her makeup was cool, glittery and frosty, and she wore a pale blue sleeveless summer dress, the band running across her forearms sparkled.

Sakura entered next, wearing a hot pink mini skirt and a slinky silver halter neck top with almost invisible straps.

The next entrance made jaws drop.

Hinata's hair was long, and as white as her eyes, with a streak of its ordinary colour tucked behind her left ear. She wore a short strapless dress that was as black as midnight. It was made out of lace and silk, and the skirt was cut into uneven jagged strips that fluttered as she walked, making her pale skin look like it glowed. Temari had made her lips a blood red and her eyelids a smoky grey, accentuating the pale silver of her eyes.

She smiled as Naruto ran up to her to escort her down the last remaining steps.

Temari's entrance made the distance between the floor and their jaws even smaller.

Her hair was unbound, but jet black with red fiery streaks. She had applied eyeliner liberally to her eyelids just under her black (and red flecked) eyes; her lips were crimson and she wore a dress the same colour as her lips that revealed a little bit more than it covered. It was a halter neck dress, with a deep v cut. There were small slashes that revealed skin around her hips, trimmed with black ribbon, and her skirt, which fell halfway down her thigh, flared out when she spun around.

Tenten was the last. Of all things, she hadn't wanted to be. She was too plain, yet she felt too bare and like a show pony.

Neji thought otherwise. The short white strapless dress hugged all of her curves. A baby blue ribbon cut her dress diagonally and her hair had been brushed and left unbound, as it was. She wore no jewellery, no makeup and no weapons. Tenten was grateful for Neji's support as he rushed up to help her- these 'stilettos' or stilts, as she had renamed them, were extremely hard to walk in, for all of her athleticism.

"You look…"

"Horrible? I feel it…" Tenten muttered.

Neji kissed her.

"Beautiful. Just like always."

Tenten smiled.

"Well I guess I can say the same thing for you." Tenten said, looking at his clothes with approval. He was wearing a black button-up shirt and dark jeans. Simple, but it was him.

Lee was the self appointed photographer. He had already taken several pictures in the duration of the camp and often wondered, like he was now, what the developers would think if they saw the shinobi of Konoha… he left the question unfinished and unanswered.

Shino, the silent observer, stood in the shadows and watched his team mates dance. Akamaru soon slunk over to where he stood, not liking the crowds, and wanting some attention from someone he knew. Shino smiled briefly and rubbed his head.

Chouji munched on the pretzels in the enormous bowl. He looked at Shikamaru, who was staring at the incredibly radiant Yamanaka Ino. He poked his friend and shoved him in her direction, without uttering a word.

Temari was dancing with Sakura when he came. His eyes belied his sure steps. The sand kunoichi took him by the hands and began moving her body in time with the music, her red and black hair flying. She spun around and suddenly, he was gone- replaced by Inuzuka Kiba.

Tenten self consciously crossed her arms. She felt like she was just wearing a towel with a ribbon on it. Neji smirked and put his arm across her shoulders.

"Neji? About that favour yesterday..." She smiled and stood up, and placed a hand on her hip, smiled dazzlingly and flicked her hair over her shoulder. "Dance with me?"

Neji smirked and took her, by the hand, out on to the dance floor.

He knew he really didn't have to, but he wanted to- he felt like he needed to. He wasn't one for dancing, but why he had let Tenten make him do so was simple- he was addicted to her (that and the fact that he was scared he had sold his soul to some kind of freakish demon inside of her). He was addicted to the intoxicating scent of her hair, the slight colouring of her cheeks, her feistiness and that unique sparkle in her eyes. He wouldn't have her any other way.

"Tenten." Neji pulled her roughly into his arms and kissed her with passion. He growled possessively as her tongue merged with his and she threaded her fingers through his hair, and rested her hands on his scalp. Neji moved his hands from where they rested on her hips and slid them up her back, just half covered by the white dress.

There was a click. And then a second click.

Tenten groaned against Neji's lips, the Hyuuga genius just tightening his hold around her body, refusing to let her go.

They heard Lee wander off and broke apart, slightly breathless.

"Let's go to the pier." Neji suggested, handing her a cup from a table as they walked outside.

Tenten and Neji sipped at the fruity punch. Tenten had slipped out of the despised stilts.

"You go on- I'll just drop these on Ino's porch." Neji nodded and Tenten walked back in the other direction, catching, coincidentally, a glimpse of Shikamaru and Ino standing very close together, holding hands.

"Shit." Tenten ran as fast as she could to Ino's cabin, threw the shoes on the steps, and ran to Temari's small house.

"Temari!" Tenten banged on the door. There were no lights on, and no apparent life inside.

She sighed, frustrated, and headed towards the pier where Neji was seated, with Temari, who was leaning against his shoulder with the red streaks in her hair standing out from the black of Neji's shirt and her hair. Jealousy flared up inside like a roaring bonfire and Tenten opened her mouth to scream something (what she would say was unknown to her) when the kunoichi gave a massive sniff. Neji was patting her shoulder in a non-committal fashion, but it was probably because all of her mascara and eyeliner were running onto his shirt, mixed with her salty tears.

"She was with him! She knew…" Temari's rant became muffled.

"Temari, it's Tenten. Come on – you have to get some sleep." Tenten, with Neji's help, help Temari up. She became entrapped in Temari's hug. She had stared crying again, and the black cosmetics were trailing down her shoulder.

"She knew and she still did it! She…" Temari's rant turned to meaningless mumbles.

"Come on," Tenten said kindly. "We'll help you get back to your cabin."

They walked slowly back to the small dwelling and Temari flopped down on the only clear patch on the bed. Neji sat on the only patch of floor that wasn't covered by clothes, and Tenten rummaged around for makeup remover and cotton pads.

Temari sat up as Tenten approached and said, with a teary hiccough, "Henge!" her hair and eyes turned back to the way they were. She shut her bloodshot eyes and Tenten wiped away the black eye shadow and mascara.

"Go and change. I'll clear your bed and then you can go to sleep." Temari walked slowly into the bathroom.

Tenten instructed Neji to stow all of the makeup on the bed into Temari's makeup box while she roughly threw all of Sakura and Ino's clothing into their proper bags, then used chakra to place them at the door.

Neji watched her silently. He was glad, privately, that the other three kunoichi had dressed her for the occasion. Her dress revealed every shift of her hips which swayed as she moved which, in turn, caused the skirt to flutter, drawing the Hyuuga's attention to her long and shapely muscular legs. Neji did not drool. He was too polite. If he had, though, he would have died of dehydration a very long time ago.

Temari came out of the bathroom, in her pyjamas. Some where along the line, her sadness had turned to rage.

"She was slut dancing with him, that bitch!" she yelled.

"Slut dancing?" Neji inquired, an eyebrow raised.

"No! It wasn't even close! All she had to do next was roll on a fucking condom!"

"Sorry?" Tenten was recovering from the shock of her friend's outburst.

"Here!" Temari pulled Tenten up against her and began to dace flirtatiously around her. "That is slut dancing." Temari began to slowly and seductively move her body, and Tenten took a step away.

"That, children, is two seconds away from sex. Only closer. I'm sorry Tenten; I just don't love you enough to demonstrate properly."

Tenten smiled nervously.

"I'm sorry, but I still don't get who this is between." Neji stated.

"I like you and all, but for a genius, you are really dumb." Temari said.

"Hey!" the Hyuuga was offended.

"What? It's my opinion." Temari smiled.

"So Shikamaru and Ino…?" Tenten asked.

"I hate them! I am never talking to them again!"

There was a moment of silence.

"I don't get it! I've liked him since forever, and he still fell for that bitch!" Temari shouted. She gave a jaw cracking yawn, her eyes red and bloodshot. Temari curled up in her blanket as Neji and Tenten walked out, turning off the light and shutting the door.

The pair held hands once again and resumed with their walking; only this time, they headed up to the small waterhole.

With some chakra and some help from Neji, Tenten climbed up onto the huge rocks surrounding the water. She sat beside her boyfriend and leaned against his shoulder, giving a small sigh of contentment.

"Neji? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly effortlessly, without chakra or anything having to keep your feet from touching the ground?" she asked dreamily as he leaned his head against her own.

"No, but I do wonder about other things though." Neji replied

"Like what?"

Neji kissed her forehead.

"Things like what life would be like without you… okay well it's more like why I can't bear having you not with me…"

Tenten looked up into his eyes, which were much like the full moon. She wanted to fall into those deep pools of mystery, desire and power.

"I think I'm falling in… I am falling…" Something happened and Tenten slid off the rock and fell into the water.

Tenten resurfaced seconds later after bouncing off the bottom of the lake. Neji was smirking down at her from the surface of the water.

"That's not fair! You made me fall off!" Tenten coughed and shivered in the water. She reached up and pulled Neji in with a sudden movement.

"Are we even now?" Neji asked, shaken by the expression on Tenten's face.

"Yeah, yeah…" Tenten swam steadily back to the edge and stood on a small rock. She stood up.

"I don't think Haruno will appreciate the fact that you ruined her dress." Tenten smiled ruefully and then she realised something. " Neji! YOU PERVERT!" The Hyuuga winced as the shout echoed for a few minutes.

"What? It's not more than what I can normally see…" Neji muttered under his breath. Unfortunately for him, Tenten heard and tackled him as best as she could in her current attire and position.

Neji coughed up water and looked up at Tenten, blinking water out of his eyes.

"Say it." She commanded.

"Say what?"

Tenten dunked his head under for a few moments.

"Say it."

"I'm sorry?"

"Good."

Neji smirked and Tenten made sure that he resurfaced a few seconds later, coughing.

"Don't smirk! Do you have any idea how much it pisses me off?" Tenten shouted.

"You're only saying that cos you think it's sexy." Neji smirked again, only after he swam out of her reach.

A few minutes later, Tenten dragged Neji out of the water. He coughed up some more water.

"Yay! I won that one! We're even now!" Tenten happily helped up Neji and kissed him. Neji groaned after her lips left his and she smiled sheepishly. "I'm sorry. I think I got a bit carried away…" Tenten waited for Neji to catch his breath before letting him take her hand and lead her back down the hill to their cabin.

Tenten made sure to stay out of all sources of light, cursing Neji for making her fall into the water- she didn't want anyone seeing her in the almost half naked state.

Neji smirked as she opened the door and only turned on the lights when she was fully inside and had shut the curtains.

Neji continued to smirk as she spun around, trying to get to that one seemingly unreachable spot on her back where the zipper began.

"Neji? Can you please help me?" She asked after a few moments.

Neji's smirk seemed to be tattooed onto his face. Tenten scowled at him, and turned her back, gathering her dripping wet hair over the front of her left shoulder.

The kunoichi felt goose bumps spring up on her arms as he kissed the nape of her neck. His mouth drifted slower down her back and she jumped slightly as he kissed a highly sensitive pressure point on her back.

"Neji! That tickles!" She squirmed, cringing as she heard him smirk as he kissed her again, lower.

The Hyuuga gently and slowly pulled the zipper, kissing every newly bared inch of creamy skin it revealed.

The dress fell to the floor and Tenten shivered and blushed, never actually been this consciously exposed in front of Neji.

Tenten turned and kissed his neck, feeling his pulse beating wildly beneath her lips. She drifted lower and undid the first button on his shirt, gently nipping his collarbone as she passed it.

Neji found breathing become the most difficult thing in the world as the kunoichi's lips travelled further down the dimensions of his muscular chest and stomach.

Tenten unfastened the last button, and Neji shrugged off the black shirt. She inwardly smiled as Neji tensed when she kissed his belly button. Neji thought his heart stopped beating.

"Neji?" Tenten stood up. She hadn't planned going any further than that but the silver eyed Hyuuga looked dazed. "Are you okay?"

Neji gulped.

"Yeah. I'm fine."

Tenten laughed and kissed his cheek.

"I'm going to have a shower. I hope that eyeliner comes off with soap."

Tenten grabbed her towel, soap, nightie and underwear and walked, still very close to being entirely bare, into the bathroom.

A few minutes later, there were several loud knocks on the door.

Neji opened it and shoved some blankets into Lee's face.

"What are these for?" Lee asked.

"You're sleeping outside."

"Why?"

"We don't like to be woken from pleasant dreams. Goodnight." Neji smirked as he moved to shut the door. Lee stopped him.

"Tomorrow, everyone wants to cook breakfast for Kakashi, Kurenai, Asuma and Gai-sensei, to say thank you. Can Tenten…?"

"Yeah. What time?" Tenten walked out of the bathroom, wrapped, once again, in her fluffy white towel.

"Uh." Lee picked up his jaw from where it lay on the ground. "I don't know. Ino's doing a good job in making sure that they're all going to be up all night. Her youth is burning! Anyway, I think breakfast will be anytime around ten because we're just spending the day by the river, and leaving at one."

"Cool. Night Lee!" Tenten said as Neji hastily shut the door.

Neji turned around to face the towel-clad Tenten.

"You're only wearing a towel!" He shouted.

"What? So?"

"Lee was staring at you!"

"He's like my brother! He wouldn't think of me like that!"

"But he saw you! In a towel!"

"We've established that! Anyway, you've seen me in a towel!"

"It's different!"

"How?"

"Uh I don't know…" sarcasm pooled on the floor. "Because, uh, you're my girlfriend?"

Tenten laughed and kissed the confused Hyuuga.

"What was that for?"

"Saying I was your girlfriend."

"Okay… what happens whe…if I say I love you?"

"I'll think about it." Tenten smiled and turned around to pull on some underwear.

Neji came up behind her and kissed her shoulder.

"Tenten?" She leaned against his head, resting on her shoulder, to show that she was listening. "I love you."

Tenten said nothing. She just sighed and turned around and looked into his silver eyes, studying them intently. His irises were just faintly outlined by another hue of the sparkling grey colour.

"I love you too."

Neji released a relived breath he had not realised he was holding.

"I love you so, so much." Neji breathed onto her lips before capturing them in his own.

Neji wrapped his arms around her in a way they had both become accustomed to- protective and possessively. Tenten threaded her fingers through his damp hair and rested her hands on his neck and slid them down his bare back, and then brought them the rest on his neck once more. They stood this way, their mouths firmly locked, their tongues interlaced, both feeling the blood rush through them.

Tenten felt her hands move. They unbuckled the belt, slowly, as they kissed, then removed his pants. When she opened her eyes next, she was on the bed, the towel unravelling, and Neji was beside her, kissing her intently wearing only his boxers.

They stopped for air.

"I love you." Tenten said again, smiling.

Neji smiled back at her and kissed her earlobe, whispering the same thing into her ear. He kissed her once on the lips, sweetly, lingeringly and then kissed her neck, her pulse thrumming steadily under her smooth skin.

He left a trail of soft loving kisses down to her navel, hearing her laugh slightly as he licked it.

He then tossed the towel out from the bed and lay beside her, stroking her face.

"Neji? I…"

"It's okay."

"No you don't get it… you don't understand." Tenten took another breath to explain what she wanted, but Neji kissed her, driving all thoughts from her mind.

She broke away and looked into his eyes. All of the mystery which had been there earlier tonight was now absent, like his clothing, leaving only desire.

Tenten kissed his forehead, and moved down to his temple, then to his earlobe and the tip of his nose, then chin, deliberately missing his lips. The kunoichi licked his Adam's apple and collarbone.

"Tenten? What are you…?"

Tenten placed a finger on his lips, and then proceeded to kiss her way down to his navel, much like she had done before. She kissed it softly and then traced it with her finger.

She returned to lie beside Neji, who kissed her lips, which were now swollen.

Neji gently traced her curves with his hand, noting Tenten's shiver. He stopped and looked down at her, concern in his eyes.

"Are you okay?"

"Um. Yes." A glimmer of unshed tears appeared in the corner of her eye as she sat up.

"If you don't want to…" Neji's voice was soft as he, too, sat up.

"I love you Neji. I just don't think it's the time or place…" a tear slid down her cheek.

"It's okay. You don't have to worry about a thing. I love you- and nothing can change that." Neji gathered Tenten in his arms and kissed her hair as she cried.

"I don't even know why I'm crying…" Tenten sniffed. "It's just that…"

Neji placed a finger on her lips.

"You don't have to explain anything." He said simply.

Tenten smiled despite the tears and collapsed in his embrace, then yawned. Neji smiled gently and picked her up and used chakra to turn off the lights and flip the blanket back, then slid into the bed Tenten, still as naked as he was, in his arms.

She kissed his shoulder.

"I love you." she breathed, before kissing his lips and falling asleep, in his arms, skin to skin, heartbeat to heartbeat.

That was long.

I can't write about sex (I'm too young! Hahaha) or whatever who wanted to happen in this chapter. Secondly, I don't like the pairing of Ino and Shikamaru (sorry!) but I just thought that Georgina's quotes sounded better coming out of Temari's mouth. laughs at own insanity.