Pairing: Neji/Tenten
Just like Milk
With his eyes as white as milk he reads her like a book.
Turning one page when she throws all of her weapons, even the ones hidden deep within, at him, eyes on fire with anger and mouth set in a firm line of determination. 'Please, let him break through it' she thinks and he reads.
Turning the second page when she hisses darkly under her chin, in the dead of the night with a kunai deeply lodged into her back, blood trickling down and soaking into her shirt. He narrows his eyes, and something akin to anger spirals in him, because she's hurt and he's right there next to her.. But 'still too weak' she thinks and he reads.
Turning the third page when she stumbles in her tired footsteps and collides with his tall back, grasping his arms in a try to steady herself again. He can sense her breathing on the small opening of his shirt, and it's tingling on his skin and making him bite his tongue. 'Oh God, not again' she thinks and he reads.
Turning the page twenty-two, when she's there, underneath and ready and so alluring that the very word should be criminal, but she's there. Just like that, with her hair spread all around her face, like a halo, and with her lips more rosy than normal and with her eyes closed in need. He can feel her against him, warm and hot and he's afraid to admit, completely and utterly his. 'I love you too much' she thinks and he reads.
Page by page, with his eyes as white as milk he reads her like a book
Tenten is so very scared, on the border of 'I do', and 'No, please', there's that primal fear inside of her while she thinks about what's yet to come - when he knows her from heaven to hell and when he finishes with turning the last page.
And Neji with his bloodline, ('and eyes as white as milk' she thinks), can without reading already see the written words, etched in time and Fate...
The End