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Tauren Paladin says: Hello everyone. If you waited a lot for the second chapter, here's your reward for being so patient. Remember: patience pays.

I forgot to write this the previous chapter, but there might be some NaruHina or/and ShikaTema too.

Also, I would like to thank Ceasg-sama for being my master and for helping me when all things seem to be going downhill. And I would like to thank all of you who are reading this story and reviewing.

I think it's enough for the award-winning speech.

Disclaimer: Naruto is and will never be mine, if I owned Naruto, maybe this would be a special manga or something.

At the theme park

Chapter 2

The dove was flying under the morning sun. It looked like a Flash of white in a sky of blue. Seemingly tired, the dove rested its talons on the branch of a pine tree. It folded its wings and just sat. The sun had just risen, so there were no loud sounds in the leaf village yet. For some reason, the dove directed its glowing eyes to the direction of an open window. Curiously, it flew there, hoping it would find some food.

The bird was attracted by the shiny room, but what had caught its eyes was a young shinobi. He had long, silky hair, which was untied. His eyes closed.

Suddenly, the lad opened his eyes.

Neji threw himself up straight. He wasn't in the best mood because of lack of sleep. Neji's attention was quickly focused in the small, white bird that sat beside his window. He smiled and motioned the dove to come to his hand. It quickly agreed and jumped to Neji's hand. The bird was like a mirror for him. He could see himself in the dove.

A small creature, It's destiny in the hands of a larger being. Of course, the bird could fly away if it wasn't being watched by him. But, still, it had to do everything the larger being commanded.

Neji let the dove go away. The young ninja could see how the bird spread its wings wide open, and took flight into the endless sky.

Neji hoped he could do the same as that bird someday…

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An intense beam of sunlight shot through Tenten's window. But, she was already up by that time. She had woken up early. The kunoichi had just finished bathing and was cooking her humble breakfast, a scrambled egg.

Tenten started humming a tune while she added some pepper to her egg. She was kind of excited about the mission, but she still wondered if it would be enough with only the three of them. I mean, Konoha land was a really huge park. Once, she passed by its construction; and she had to walk about 3 hours to get to the other side. She thought about it as she served herself a glass of milk.

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"AH! It's hot!" Yelled Lee after burning himself with a gush of hot water.

He had already packed stuff for his four-day mission in Konoha land.

After, erm… a temperature readjustment, he bathed normally and proceeded to dress up.

He chose his usual green spandex suit and headed to the meeting spot, even if it was about 5:00AM then.

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After having packed, Tenten locked her door and went to the training fields.

When she arrived, she took a shuriken from her pouch and threw it at the nearest target.

Tenten knew that the park attractions would distract her a lot, so she thought it might be a good idea to practice a little bit before going to Konoha land. She knew she wouldn't be practicing a lot there.

Before the shuriken hit its mark, it was moved from its course by a kunai.

Tenten knew perfectly who had thrown the kunai.

"So you came early." She said as she took three senbon from her holster.

No reply…

Grinning, the brunette threw the senbon to the largest tree in the training grounds, just to see them be deflected by a kaiten.

Tenten smiled at him. He smiled at Tenten.

After a while, both were rushing towards each other. Before making contact with Neji, Tenten threw her kunai at him. It was a classic move, but this time, the one who threw the kunai was just a bunshin. Neji realized his mistake when the illusion disappeared and the real Tenten launched herself into the air.

He quickly assumed the Jyuuken kata and started deflecting the millions of weapons that were being thrown at him. Then, he rushed towards her.

Tenten knew she had to act when she saw her opponent charging at her. She regained her composure and drew a tanto she had been hiding for a secret move she liked to call "Backstab."

The kunoichi readied herself, she was making the right hand seals when she noticed Neji had stopped just in front of her. Stupefied, she fell on her back.

"Why did you stop all of a sudden?" Tenten asked as she lifted herself from the ground.

"We are going to be late if we don't go right now. Besides, if we keep training, we won't have enough chakra to be in duty all day." He answered.

Neji picked his bag up and ran towards Konoha land. Tenten followed him.

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"It's almost time…" Said Tsunade as she impatiently watched the clock's needle move.

Kakashi, Gai, Kurenai, and Asuma were waiting for their disciples to show up.

Rock Lee, Sasuke, Shino, Kiba, Hinata, Chouji, and Shikamaru (Why? Considering he is a lazy bum? You might ask yourselves.) Were already there. Probably because they had nothing to do.

Seconds later, Tenten and Neji arrived. They were seconded by Naruto.

The brunette's doubts were cleared when she saw the other guys there as well.

"Sakura-chan isn't here yet?" The fox boy asked his teacher, who was plain lost in his infamous orange book.

"If Sakura-san were here, we would not be so bored, Naruto-kun." Lee said.

Naruto just crossed his arms and waited.

Minutes later, Sakura and Ino arrived to the meeting spot. They were wearing unusual clothes. Probably to impress their crush.

Tsunade cleared her throat and turned to the Ninja.

"Now that you're all here, I'll give you instructions." She said as she took four scrolls from nowhere.

"These are your maps. You will patrol the areas indicated in the map, since it might get boring if you patrol the area everyday, you will switch patrol areas each day.

You have unlimited tickets to all rides and events, but you have to pay your food!"

Chouji frowned after she said that.

"You can switch team members from your team with another team if you feel like visiting another area, but you should always have three members per group so the security doesn't get weak on one area. And you may only go on a ride every two hours. We don't want you to have fun while bandits wreck havoc on the park! Are the Instructions clear!"

Everyone nodded. Tsunade threw the scrolls to each team. Neji caught his team's scroll and opened it. Tenten and Lee came closer to see the scroll.

It seemed that Neji's team was assigned to the gift area that day, followed by the games area the next day.

Tsunade cleared her throat again. "In The Grand Opening, which will take place today, you must secure the Entering gates. Don't let anyone rush in without his or her or even its ticket! And make sure you make everyone proceed in order. If there's anyone who pushes, stop that guy and send him to the back of the line! UNDERSTOOD?"

"Ano… Isn't that a bit too harsh, Hokage-sama?" Hinata asked shyly as she played with her fingers, yet not daring to take her eyes off the Hokage.

"NO! It is clearly stated that all trouble makers will be punished!" Tsunade answered in an adamant tone.

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Soon the Grand opening was about to take place. Each team was assigned to a gate.

Two teammates had to make the line go in order, while the remaining ninja had the task of verifying tickets.

A considerable crowd had already gathered In front of the park, there were even some who had camped the last night in order to be the first in the line. The mobs of people were impatient and disordered. But it only took a single phrase from Tsunade to shut them all up.

"Kunoichis and Ninjas!" exclaimed Tsunade through the megaphone. Everyone cheered and screamed.

"As of today, Konoha land will be open for all people!" The crowd cheered even more.

"We promise to bring to you all the entertainment we can possibly bring!" The crowd was going insane.

"But you have to pay all the taxes so we can improve Konoha village!" This time, all of the people had stopped cheering and laughing for obvious reasons.

Then, Shizune appeared and whispered to Tsunade in the ear.

"Hokage-sama, just continue with the opening."

"Alright… Erm! Please enjoy Konoha land! And have a lot of fun!" Tsunade exclaimed just before the gates opened.

The incontrollable fans around Konoha were acting like a powerful wave that needed to be controlled. Tenten and Lee made all possible efforts to bring the people to order while Neji made sure the guests didn't bring anything hazardous using his world-renowned Byakugan.

On the next gate, Ino and Chouji were trying to calm the people; it was probably the slowest line, since Shikamaru was too lazy to move or check tickets quickly.

The third gate was working very well, While Shino and Hinata made order while Kiba and Akamaru sniffed the tickets to see if they were fake.

Naruto's line was probably the messiest one. It roared with the force of a thousand guests complaining. Sasuke's Sharingan made him a fast worker, but Naruto and Sakura's trouble with the guests made the line and incontrollable one.

Finally, after two and a half hours, all the guests were enjoying the park. The teams quickly went to their patrol areas.

Lee handed a copy of their room key to Tenten and Neji. They made a split-up plan that would allow them to cover a wider area of vigilance, if anyone needed help, the other two would rush to the area where their teammate was.

Besides a mother who had lost her baby, and a pair of mischief makers, nothing serious

Had happened. At sunset, team Gai reunited on the Central fountain of the Gift area.

"Yosh! So we can go shopping now!" Exclaimed none other than Lee who, after telling his teammates, rushed to every gift store, probably to find something for Sakura.

And, again, Tenten and Neji were left alone.

Neji knew he had to focus on his mission. Nonetheless, he wanted to buy something for Tenten.

"So… can we go shopping now?" Asked his double-bunned friend with puppy eyes of course.

"You can go if you wish to, but I must stay and make sure our mission succeeds." Responded Neji.

"Alright… I won't leave you alone…" Tenten said sadly. She continued with the vigilance after they had finished their talk.

Soon, the moon was high on the night sky. No guest was walking the streets by then. They had gone to the hotel or to their homes. It was very late.

In spite that fact; there were some gift shops open.

Neji, noticing that Tenten had fallen asleep, carried her bridal style to their room, where he found a semi-naked Rock Lee snoring loudly on a bed. He left his Tenten on a bed and rushed to a gift store. He purchased a small gift and returned to the room as fast as his stamina would allow him. Closing the door, he left the tiny box beside Tenten's bed.

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Shikamaru wasn't sleepy at all. The lazy pineapple was switching channels on the rooms TV.

"Nothing good on the TV" He said as he walked towards the small veranda.

The cloudless night was perfect for the stars that night. Shikamaru assumed his cloud-watching position and gazed at the stars.

Seconds later, he felt a stream of air breezing through his face.

"I didn't know you were here, Temari…" He said as he lazily turned his head to see the sand kunoichi arrive just behind him, he had finally found something to do…

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Tauren Paladin says: Wow, It was a long chapter wasn't it? Oh well, if there are any errors on the Fic, Please tell me.

So, do you like the story so far? I, as a writer, hope you had enjoyed the story.

Sayonara!