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A Dazed Conversation: The Neji and Sasuke Series

Chapter Seven: Dialogue Other Half Special: Simultaneous

Sakura and Tenten's faces were red. Like, RED RED RED RED RED!

"Geh…" they said.

Sasuke and Neji took off their clothes and stepped in. (A/N: Hey, hey, hey…no naughty minds and drooling! Sigh I knew this was a bad idea…)

Each of them leaned against a rock, happily relaxing the warm, warm water.

Sasuke eyed the small string that held Neji's hair and his bandages.

He pointed a finger at them, right in between, barely missing Neji's hair. Neji just stared. 'What's he doing…?'

Then, Sasuke used his other arm to grab a kunai and then chucked it at Neji, Neji not moving. The string fell off, but the bandages stayed in tact. The string fell and down tumbled Neji's hair. Neji frowned.

"Uchiha. If you wanted me to take it off, you could of just spoke." he said bluntly.

"Yeah right. And you'd listen?" Sasuke replied, rolling his eyes.

"Hn." Neji reached up and took off the rest of his bandages and bands. He set them aside, letting his front bangs fall forward slightly back in place.

"Now. You look more relaxed." Sasuke remarked, rotating his head slightly to the side, still locked on Neji. (A/N: Not like that, yaoi-fanatic-ohs.)

"Hn."

"So tell me, Hyuuga, you kissed Tenten?"

"I should be saying the same thing about Haruno, Uchiha." Neji smirked. "Imagine that, Sakura UCHIHA."

"That goes the same with you, Hyuuga. Tenten HYUUGA."

This only made more sweat and blush appear on the poor kunoichi's faces. They wanted to leave, but it was so tempting!

"Well, you'd WANT her, would you Uchiha?"

"Maybe…you'd want Tenten would you?"

"Probably."

The prodigies exchanged looks. Then, they both sighed in defeat.

"Face it. We want them."

"Er…her…"

"Yeah." (A/N: These three lines were said at the same time.)

Now could it be possible that they were blood red in the face by now? Sakura and Tenten that is.

"But that's a couple years from now. No need to worry about it at the present time." Neji said, retreating back into this relaxed mode.

"Mm." Sasuke followed.

Sakura and Tenten tried not to notice how lean they were, but it couldn't be helped. They could of sworn that half their bodies blood was concentrated on their face now.

This is when I finished off my last bottle of Lipton Green Tea with Citris flavor! TT Noooooo!

Okay, back to the story.

"I must say, I'm enjoying this." Sasuke said, enjoying the soak.

"I haven't had a time like this for what seems ages." Neji agreed.

"Do you think we should tell anyone?"

"No. We found it. It's our property. No need to let it go public."

"Yeah. But we can make exceptions."

"Of course. Added with a couple rules of course."

The prodigies smirked.

This, only made Sakura and Tenten confused, not lessening their blush.

"Besides, inviting Naruto and them, would probably cause a commotion."

"Lee would dry up all the water with his 'Burning power of youth'." Neji said.

"What does he mean by that anyway?" Sasuke asked.

"I have no idea…maybe something with being young, probably." Neji responded. "He calls me that all the time, saying, 'Oh! Neji! You live on with your flaming youth of beauty!'." Neji mocked Gai.

Sasuke laughed.

"I bet I know one person who would be saying, or thinking, 'Damn Right!' right now." Sasuke said, taking a quick glance to the side.

"If he had referred to you, I know someone as well." Neji said. He didn't take any glances.

"Well, isn't that obvious?" Sasuke said, meekly lifting a hand before relaxing it again.

"You do have some emotion for her, but yes, it is obvious." Neji smirked.

"How do you know that?" he challenged.

"Because Ohohen typed it up there." Neji points up there.

XD Joking, joking. In my former stories, the Megaman ones, I always have interruptions like these. They think it's funny. I don't know about you guys though. o.O Naruto reviewers/readers and Megaman/Rockman.exe reviewers/readers are different.

"My, aren't you slow. You were the one who said, 'Face it. We want them' with me and 'Maybe' when I asked you, Uchiha." Sasuke remembered.

"Oh. Yeah."

"What about Kakashi-sensei?" Neji asked.

"Late."

Neji shook his head.

"Really. Gai-sensei and Kakashi-sensei are really different. One is super early, one is super late, if I haven't mistaken."

"You have a very good point." Sasuke paused. "Opposites attract?"

Silence lingered around.

They gagged. "…ew…" they remarked shortly, simultaneously.

"Mind has wandered into the wrong direction…" They said, making an attempt of the hideous images that hung around in their head.

"Homosexual…please…no…" Sasuke sighed.

"Indeed. It would be a disgrace, for us to be their students."

"Mm."

They both sighed.

"Relaxation…Paradise…Heaven…"

(A/N: Anyone seen that picture with Tenten taking down her hair, then Neji's like, CHIBI, all over her hair, and like "Sigh Heaven…" or something like that? I have it! NejiTen fans rejoice! Email and I'll give it too you! ) When I find it first…XD Okay, back to the story, sorry for the interruption.)

Sakura and Tenten wanted to laugh, seeing that the boys were so settled in. They truly had never seen them like this. Ever.

"You know, I've always wondered, who would win?" Sasuke broke the silence.

"What?" Neji didn't understand. "What do you mean?"

"You know. I think it's presently clear that we're both equal, but what about Naruto versus Lee?" Sasuke asked.

"Lee is a very, very good taijutsu user. He will become a taijutsu master, soon, I know it. He is a very good teammate."

Sasuke nodded, understanding. "I agree on that."

"But, I still am opinionated that Naruto would win." Neji said. "Naruto and Lee have a lot in common, never giving up, determination, confidence. But Naruto would still win."

"Yeah. I would say Naruto too. I mean, sure, that dobe is a dobe, but he's not weak. Not weak at all. He has an immense about of chakra, he's powerful teammate."

Neji paid attention.

"But, Lee isn't weak either. It's just that the odds are against him in terms as these."

"So it is agreed. Naruto would win." Neji answered.

"Yes. Well, what about Sakura and Tenten?"

"We don't know. Tenten is very intelligent at calculations, and is very good with weapons. She has a hundred percent accuracy with projectile weapons, and is very good with close combat range as well. She can use weapons as the Bo, and she's practicing with a practical sword, currently."

"Oh. The one with the bells and the red string?"

Neji nodded.

"She's very quick and agile. Her agility, in particular, is advancing everyday. I see it and can tell, every time I train with her or them."

"Mm. I happened to be passing by your training grounds one day. Saw her training."

"Yes. The day that she arrived early. She was quite worn out when we arrived. So she didn't train much with us. But she was very quick when we left."

"Yes. Your team does seem to be the ones that originate with speed."

"That is agreeable. Your team is powerful as well. I, would not like to be hit by one of Haruno's punches."

"No. You wouldn't. She once hit Naruto half-way to the Hidden Sand territory once."

"Well, her strength is influenced by Tsunade-sama's immense strength."

Sasuke nodded.

"Sooner or later, she'll be doing it like Tsunade-sama. Just tapping the floor with her heel, and we have another major critical earthquake, yet another devastation of Konoha."

"I'm sure Tsunade was only taking it easy when she pokes people." Neji said.

"Imagine if she was poking people like the fan girls and kunoichis were poking people these days." Sasuke wondered out loud.

"Ah…the population of Konoha would decrease intensely." Neji answered.

"Thankfully, Sakura does not poke people much." Sasuke said.

Neji laughed. "No. She doesn't!" He said, humor in his tone. "She punches them!"

Sasuke laughed with him.

"Good point!" Sasuke laughed.

Sakura watched them laugh, unsure of what to feel. Then, she felt someone gazing at her. She looked beside her to see Tenten staring with her with wide eyes.

"What?" Sakura asked.

"Y-Your strength…is influenced by Tsunade-sama's?" Tenten asked, unusually cautious.

"Uh…yeah…"

Tenten started backing up a bit, taking a rock and throwing it at Sakura. Sakura jerked and caught the rock, only to find it turned into sand, falling out of her hands.

"Oh my god…" Tenten picked up a rock cutely and started squeezing it.

"I…cannot do that." Tenten said, awed.

Sakura sweatdropped.

"I'm speechless." Tenten remarked.

"So, exactly WHO would win? Sakura or Tenten?" Sasuke thought out loud.

"We don't know that either. I mean, Sakura, with her immense strength. Her agility is good, but is far from comparable to Tenten's. Her intelligence is accountable though. So, it really is unknown." Neji sighed.

"Tenten did have one year more of experience of being a kunoichi then Sakura, and she is one year older, as you are." Sasuke said.

"Well, we were one of the teams who WEREN'T rookies during the chuunin exams." Neji replied. "We were quite surprised to find that there were going to be rookies at the chuunin exams. We were eager to see, what results you rookies would really produce."

"Oh yeah…I remember. Your team were the ones confronting the two ninjas before. You really were weak when we first saw you. Being beaten up so easily." Sasuke smirked.

Neji looked surprised.

"You still haven't found out?"

Sasuke slowly raised an eyebrow.

"What?"

Neji chuckled to himself.

"What's so funny?" Sasuke was getting a bit upset.

"You still haven't found out, that, that was a plan to see exactly, what you rookies had? Kakashi-sensei's team in particular. We wanted to see what the Copy Ninja really had."

Sasuke was shocked. He remembered how Tenten and Lee's bruises were gone in mere minutes. Not even actually. 'All recovery was completed within a fifteen second range…' Sasuke was shocked.

"We are trained." Neji smirked. "We don't back down from small punches and kicks like that. Lee was only being generous, saying he didn't want to attract attention. Tenten just made an attempt to be gentle and act more female-like."

Sasuke frowned. He finally found out years later.

"But don't feel bad. Your team has accelerated greatly over the years." Neji said. "We were impressed, on how you saw away from the illusion so quickly. Sakura especially."

Sasuke made a face. "Sakura…is the most intelligent one in our team."

"She passed with the highest grades. Surpassing even yours." Neji said. "So I heard."

"Yes. It's true she did." Sasuke sighed. "I cannot believe I found this out years later, after the chuunin exams."

Neji agreed. "Yes. I am surprised."

"But do not worry." He said. "We shall probably be in second to your team very soon, as I must admit." He closed his eyes. "And I'm sure my teammates would agree. Your team is truly strong. But we will not live in vain. Being second is good enough. We shall be known to be in second. We won't take a place that is not rightfully ours."

Sasuke was really shocked at this. Neji finally accepted defeat!

"I said soon, Uchiha. SOON. Not until you pass me, nobody will know who's team is best." Neji smirked.

"I'll agree with you on that. Your team is not bad either. I was even surprised during the Chuunin Exams, and I have still yet to see the rest." Sasuke said.

"Now…we have made our confessions, do you think someone else should?" Neji smirked.

Sakura and Tenten just stared. 'What do they mean by that…?' they thought.

"That's agreeable. I mean, we eavesdropped before, now what about them?" Sasuke smirked.

"Tenten."

"Sakura."

Both prodigies turned their attention towards the bush. Neji turned his head.

"You may come out now. No use of hiding now that you have already been seen." Sasuke said. "Besides. I'm pretty sure you saw them before I did, didn't you Neji? Even without your Byakugan."

Neji nodded.

Sakura and Tenten were too shocked and blushing to move.

Sasuke sighed.

"They're not moving."

Neji shook his head. "No. Then we'll make them move."

"What?" Sakura and Tenten hissed confused.

Before they knew it, somehow someone had changed them into bathing suits and towels, then pushing them over into the hot springs.

"WAAAAHHHH!" They yelled. Sakura had screamed.

It turns out, that Neji and Sasuke had made a Kawarimi of themselves, quickly stripping them of their clothes and putting them in new ones, also shoving them in before disappearing.

(A/N: OMFG. I know…I can't believe I used the word 'Strip'. Anyway, it wasn't Kage Bunshin. I know that's not possible, but I want to reserve Kage Bunshin to Naruto and Naruto only.)

Sakura had collapsed and landed on Sasuke's lap. Her whole face was red. As Tenten did fall into Neji's lap, red in the face as well.

"Ah…guilty." Sasuke smirked, brushing away a strand of hair from Sakura's face.

"We are now equal." Neji said, taking off Tenten's headband and setting it aside beside his. Sasuke did the same.

Sakura and Tenten were to shocked to speak. Finally, Tenten pulled up all her strength.

"S-s-so now what!" Tenten tried to yell, but it cam out a bit higher then a whimper.

"Y-Yeah!" Sakura didn't succeed either.

This only caused Sasuke and Neji to smirk and snicker.

Sakura and Tenten growled. They were lying with their torso down across their laps, and now they're snickering and taunting them!

Sakura raised a hand, ready to smack Sasuke half-way to the Village Hidden in the Waterfall. Tenten was about to punch Neji.

And they did.

Almost.

Sasuke and Neji caught their arms, yanked them up painfully, then eased it by kissing them, pulling their arm behind them, and their other arm on their waists. (Sasuke and Neji's arm on their waists.)

Sakura and Tenten swore if their face got any redder, they'd explode. The pain of being yanked up and hurting their waist was gone. I mean, Sasuke and Neji's hand is on it! But that didn't really help their ripe face.

Sasuke and Neji played with their mouth and lips, growling. (A/N: I'm twitching…) This caused Sakura and Tenten to giggle, finally deciding to kiss back. They felt the prodigies smirking. So, they got a bit upset, and kissed them as passionate as they could. And to their content, Sasuke and Neji shuddered. What was this, a kissing war? If so, the prodigies were holding back. They forced them closer, kissing them even deeper then before.

Sakura and Tenten were this '¾' close to fainting. They pushed them apart before they did.

The Uchiha and Hyuuga were smirking. "I won." They said, then exchanging glances, "We won." They said. "To be exact."

"I hate you…" they said.

"We know. That's why you love us…riiight?" Sasuke said, just trying to be annoying.

"What he said." Neji pointed, grinning.

The girls were now sitting upright, frowning cutely and blushing.

"Give in." Neji said. "You know you want to."

"Yes Sakura…Why don't you?"

Sakura and Tenten growled. They grabbed their lover's head, and pushed them into the water, enough to escape another place in the hot spring. They held each other's hands in fear. They stared…alert…making sure no one came near. They decided to play around a bit.

Suddenly, they felt someone their leg. They gasped, shrieking. Sasuke and Neji had swam over to them. They rose out of the water, and cornered them. Hand on each side of their head, pinning them with their wrists. They leaned in, and connected their foreheads.

"Say it." They said.

"Shut up." Tenten growled.

"I already did." Sakura hissed.

"Save the ferocity for the kisses you'll be giving us after this day."

Sakura and Tenten blushed. Silent.

"Fine."

They let go of their wrists, and started away.

Sakura and Tenten exchanged sincere looks, then looked back at the leaving company. They watched as they walked away slowly in the water.

Unknown to them, they were smiling.

But they didn't know that.

Sakura and Tenten giggled then leapt up into the air. They crashed down on them, resulting in a huge, big, glomp!

"Eh?" Yeah, so, even if they were smiling, they did NOT expect this to happen.

SPLASH!

They fell into the water with a great splash. The prodigies stared at them while underwater, watching them grin happily. Then they pulled out a sign that said "I love you. I really do." on it in red Japanese calligraphy with a heart. The prodigies winced at this.

What a way to confess your feelings. How complicated.

The kunoichis pulled them out of the water, and then giving them a big hug. Their towel had fallen off, and was now on the prodigies head.

(A/N: Don't give me that look. I said they were in bathing suits. Sakura's is a half piece pink, Tenten's is…um…light green? I don't know…Light green and pink whole piece? I don't know…half piece?)

"Nah…We'll say it." Sakura smiled happily.

"I love you! …Again!" Sakura grinned. Sasuke blushed this time.

"I never thought I'd be saying this Neji. Especially to someone like you…"

"What!" Neji was a bit upset.

Tenten giggled. "I love you, Neji." and hugged him tighter. Neji hugged her back.

Sasuke would of hugged Sakura too, if Sakura wasn't so close to killing him from hugging him tighter.

Neji and Tenten glanced over to Sasuke and Sakura.

"Sakura! You're killing him!" Tenten exclaimed.

"Uchiha. I suggest you do something before Haruno suffocates you."

"Ah! Gomen ne, Sasuke-kun!" Sakura apologized. "I don't know my own strength!"

"Yes you do." they all said simultaneously. (Sasuke, Neji, Tenten.)

"He he…" Sakura laughed nervously, sticking out her tongue cutely. Sasuke saw this as an opportunity, and kissed her while he still could. This time, Sakura gladly responded, settling into his embrace.

"Alls well ends well, huh Ne-" She turned and was cut off, with Neji grabbing her and kissing her as well.

After that point, they just settled in, happy with each other's company. But then the kunoichis got a bit mad after that day since they started to pull pranks. Nobody knew it was them, that is, except for Sakura and Tenten.

But Neji and Sasuke acknowledged the fact that they were very friendly rivals. They were partners as well. They lived a good life, with Tenten and Sakura. Happily spilling ink on people's chairs, sticking notes, abducting and posing as certain people as well. Though it was disgusting. They also baked up several batches of pies to splat too. Oh, they were laid all over Konoha.

Tsunade was a infuriated and twitching when she found a rotten pie in her office. The duo had put 'To: Tsunade-baa-chan' to make it look like it was Naruto's doing. And it worked. Naruto looked like a pig after being beaten up by Tsunade.

And when they were tired, they'd go training the next day, leaning against a tree, with their loved one's comfort.

And that…was all they needed.

And the pranks for entertainment of course.

Now THAT, was what they REALLY needed.

Almost.

Ohohen: T.T I tend to do that a lot. I can't decide how to end stories, and I just start rambling on until I think of something. You see, I don't have this all planned out. I think about what to type next…AS I TYPE. Which is either good or bad. Mostly it's good, but it's hard and bad for me when I'm trying to end stories.

Wow…it was longer then I thought. I was planning on for it to be ten pages, and I started to get Sakura and Tenten in the hot springs at page seven, thinking that I'd never make it to page nine even. But it turns out to be ELEVEN pages, not counting the author's note (My note; This note) on page 12.

Yup. Well that's the end! Hope you enjoyed and thanks for reviewing!

…not.

There's going to be a single, weird, short, drabble-like chapter that will be submitted later on. So stay tuned! It'll be the second ending.

But all this second ending crap will only happen if you want it to! So vote to say yes or no. It's going to be a ShikaIno, NaruHina, add-on. So, you ShikaIno and NaruHina fans won't be disappointed:D Yeah…or something like that…

Well, this will be the official ending if you guys don't want a second ending. So it's a yes or no. And please don't say 'I don't care' if you do, I hope you die an early death. :P

If it is a yes, then that's nice as well. I mean, I'm a ShikaIno and NaruHina fan as well. It's just that it's going to be hard to stick them in the summary.

In the beginning, when Sasuke and Neji glance to the side of the bushes, Neji doesn't glance because he had his white eyes/Byakugan, even if it wasn't activated. I know that's not possible, but I just want that to be clear.

Please review for this chapter!

This was completed 9:22, May 6th, 2006, Charlotte, North Carolina.

This will be submitted May 7th, 2006.

Thank You. (Gosh…How cheesy…Goes off to see episode 183...)