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Legend:

'Thinking'

"Talking"

Emphasizing

Chapter 4:Undeniable jealousy

'Should I wear it or not?' Tenten thought, staring at the white dress in front of her.

"Tenten! Why aren't you dressed up yet the party is like going to start in 15 minutes" Sakura exclaimed suddenly entering her room.

"Sakura? What are you doing here?" Tenten asked.

"Oh, Hinata invited me" Sakura replied.

'Great someone to force me wear the dress'

"Why don't you change already?" Sakura said.

"I don't want to!"

Sakura put her hands on her hips "We spent the whole day yesterday shopping just for you to look nice and we aren't going to waste that" Sakura said sternly.

"But Sakura! It's a dress!" Tenten said pointing accusingly at the dress.

Sakura put her arms in front of her chest

"You are going to wear that dress even if that means that I have to force you to" Sakura said advancing towards Tenten.

"B-But Sakura" Tenten reasoned but too late Sakura was already dragging her to the bathroom with the dress, a hairbrush, make-up and accessories.

After 30 minutes...

"Sakura-chan? Tenten-chan?" Hinata said entering Tenten's room.

"Oh, hi Hinata, are we late?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah 15 minutes late, where's Tenten?" Hinata asked seeing that Tenten isn't with Sakura.

Sakura looked at her back and sighed.

"Tenten, can you get out already?" Sakura asked through the bathroom door.

"No way!" Tenten shouted.

Sakura sighed again

"She's embarrassed" Sakura said to Hinata

"Tenten-chan, you're already late" Hinata said.

"I don't care" Tenten replied stubbornly.

"Tenten if you don't get out of there..." Sakura warned threateningly.

Still no progress.

"If you don't go through this you're going to fail your mission" Hinata said hoping that it would work and fortunately Tenten came out.

Hinata gasped. "Sakura, what did you do?"

"Oh, nothing just a few make-up here and there" Sakura replied quite proud with her work.

Tenten groaned she looked at herself in the mirror; she was wearing the dreaded dress, along with a silver chain necklace with a silver heart pendant.

She also had tear drop earrings that were quite heavy and silver heels. Sakura also forced her to wear a tint of make-up which consisted of lip gloss and a little blush-on.

But the worst part is her hair it. Was. Loose.

It now reached up to her elbows and was a little curled at the bottom.

Nobody as in nobody ever saw Tenten's hair that way so it was weird that she has to show it to everyone.

"You know I never knew that you had such beautiful hair" Sakura said.

"Tenten-chan let's go father is waiting for you" Hinata said smiling.

Tenten gave out a last sigh and followed Hinata downstairs with Sakura following.

'This is going to be great one hell of a party' Sakura thought.

"Sorry if we're late, we just had a little problem" Hinata said to her dad.

"That's alright, Hinata, but where is Tenten?" He asked.

"She'll be here any second now" Hinata said smirking a little.

"Where's Neji-nii-san?" Hinata asked.

"Right over there" Hiashi said pointing to where Neji was.

"Sorry if I'm late!" Sakura said smiling.

"Where's Tenten?"

"Here" Tenten grunted behind Sakura.

"We'll go sit down now" Hinata said to her father and went to their table...the same table where Neji but what's worse is she has to sit next to him.

"Um...Tenten we'll just go get something important upstairs okay?" Sakura asked.

"Sure" Tenten said hesitantly.

Sakura smiled and left with Hinata.

Neji took a hidden glance at Tenten 'She looks...beautiful' Neji tried not to blush and successfully didn't.

Tenten shifted uncomfortably on her seat from the glances she was getting from boys also from Neji 'Why does he keep stealing
glances?'

"Neji can you stop it" Tenten said.

"What?"

"You keep on looking at me it's annoying" Tenten said coldly.

Neji didn't respond anymore.

"Excuse me"

Tenten looked at the owner of the voice and saw a very...good-looking guy; he had dark raven hair and amethyst eyes.

"Yes?" Tenten asked.

"I haven't seen you around in the Hyuugas before, you're very attractive" He said.

"Um...Thanks, I'm actually their new secretary here" Tenten replied blushing lightly for the first in her 18 years of life.

"Oh, I'm Katsuo Shizuka from the lightning country" He introduced expanding his arm.

"I'm Tenten" Tenten said, blushing lightly while shaking his hand.

Neji's eye twitched from annoyance, 'Who does he think he is?', he never liked this guy since before and he's hating him even more now even though he doesn't know why. Maybe because he was hitting on Tenten? Impossible Tenten's no more than an old teammate that's all.

"Do you have a boyfriend?" Katsuo asked.

"None" Tenten replied.

"Really? I never thought that a beautiful girl like you wouldn't have one" Katsuo said.

Neji rolled his eyes.

"Um...I don't always dress like this you see, and I haven't found the right guy" Tenten said. 'I think'

"Me neither, you know I think we'll get along very well" Katsuo said.

Tenten smiled 'He's...such a gentleman unlike...Neji'

"Is it okay if I sit here" Katsuo asked.

Tenten shook her head "No it's okay"

Katsuo smiled and took a seat beside Tenten

"So...how long have you known Neji?" Katsuo asked.

"I was her teammate before that's about it" Tenten replied.

"Doesn't he act a bit cold to you?" Katsuo asked.

"A lot of times actually, sometimes I would think he even hates me" Tenten replied truthfully.

"But...do you have anything for him?"

"What? Of course not he's jus an old teammate that's all" Tenten said.

"Then is it okay if you go with me tomorrow to the Hyuugas annual celebration?" Katsuo asked.

Tenten looked confused for a moment "There's a celebration?"

"Yes there is it's kinda like a ball or something" Katsuo said.

Tenten smiled "I'd love to"

Neji glared at Katsuo dangerously, he had no right to ask Tenten to the ball.

'Why am I suddenly feeling this way, it can't mean that I'm...jealous' Neji thought

Neji looked at Tenten for a moment 'She seems to be enjoying herself' Neji thought bitterly.

Neji then remembered what he called Tenten before. 'I didn't hurt her feelings did I?'

'Maybe that's why she hasn't talked to me'

"Tenten, can I talk to you outside" Neji said coldly.

"Can't you see that she's talking to me, Hyuuga?" Katsuo said standing up.

Neji glared at him and so did Katsuo.

Tenten cleared her throat "Neji I'm talking to Katsuo right now so can I just talk to you later" Tenten said.

"See Hyuuga, she doesn't want to talk to you?" Katsuo said smirking.

Neji just glared at him and grabbed Tenten without another word fortunately Katsuo didn't stop him anymore.

"What do you want Hyuuga?" Tenten snapped.

Neji stopped walking and turned to face Tenten

"I want you to avoid him"

"What?" Tenten asked.

"Shizuka, he's just using you"

"Sine when did you start caring?" Tenten snapped.

Neji stayed silent.

"I'm not going to avoid him Hyuuga, he's a much better person than you" Tenten said.

Neji didn't know why but when she said that he felt hurt?

"If you're upset because I called you pathetic then...just get over it" Neji said. That didn't come out right.

For a minute there Tenten thought he was going to apologize 'I forgot Hyuugas never do'

"This conversation is over" Tenten said and returned to her seat.

Neji mentally slapped himself 'That wasn't suppose to happen'

Sakura and Hinata saw what happened and didn't like it one bit 'Who's that Katsuo Shizuka anyways?' They both thought.

"What are we going to do now?" Hinata asked.

"We need to know who that Shizuka person really is" Sakura said.

"But what about Neji-nii-san?" Hinata asked worriedly.

"I think he's jealous" Sakura said smirking.

"Jealous?" Hinata asked.

"Yeah, didn't you see how he was angered when Katsuo and Tenten were talking?" Sakura said.

"But they seem to be fighting" Hinata said

"Why don't I talk to Neji about this and you investigate about Katsuo" Sakura said.

Hinata nodded.

'This is getting spicier' Sakura thought smirking.

TBC

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