Author's Note: Yoyo! Sorry for the last chapter, I forgot to edit it. I'm sure it's getting a little confusing, eh? Sorry... I'm trying to edit this one. It's my first after all... SORRY! (but again, pleaseeeeeee review)

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Chapter 2

Neji kept silence as he and his teammate walked towards their training ground. His translucent eyes gaze at the full moon up above. It was beautiful, very beautiful.

"It's been a while since the last time the three of us trained together, ne?" said Tenten, breaking the silence. She, too, glanced at the moon above them. "We're all too busy with our missions as Jounins. Now when we're together, Gai-sensei is not around. It's hard to be together with this rank of ours. Always on solo missions."

"Not always," Neji crossed his arms across his chest as usual. He didn't even glance at his teammate. "You have your genin team."

"Ah, those kids!" Tenten sighed at the thought of the three genins under her wings. "They're all so hard to control!"

"It's not surprising if we look at the captain."

"Excuse meeeee? What did you say?"

"Nothing."

"Argh! Always like that!" Tenten looked away, pretending to be mad. She put her hands behind her head lazily. "But at least my team never shouted 'the springtime of youth shall prevail!' in every mission!"

Neji chuckled a little. He knew perfectly well which team it belongs to. Tenten grinned when she heard him and added, "And… Who's the leader of the last team? The very silent, serious bunch of genins? Oh, Hyuuga NEJI! For goodness sake, they need a little emotion! It's not healthy to keep them like that!"

"I just want them to focus," Neji tried to defend himself, but didn't show any changes in his face. "It's essential for their progress."

"Yeah, right. Being emotionless is definitely not a progress."

"They learn not to let emotion interfere the mission. It is a progress of maturity."

"Whatever, Leader…" Tenten yawned widely. After a few moments of silent, she sighed heavily.

"It's so boring now," she said. "Where are the others Jounins, actually? And I heard most of the ANBUs are away too."

"A lot of S-rank missions flooding the Hokage office," answered Neji. "Sakura told me that Hokage-sama must send the best Jounins we have while in the same time maintaining our village's security level. She decided to send people like Gai-sensei, Kakashi-sensei, and other Jounins away and let us young Jounins stay to guard here."

"That explains why our former team is complete, just like the other old teams," Tenten nodded her head in approval. "Anyway… Orochimaru never gets tired, isn't he?"

"No."

"And because of his last attack, our village's shinobi reduced to the lowest."

Neji nodded slightly.

"And… the Suna siblings who back us up already on their way home because Gaara is a Kazekage now and he can't leave Suna for a long time."

Again, he nodded.

"So… this village is completely ours to defend."

Once again, another nod.

Tenten sighed exasperatedly and said, "We're so defenseless, eh?"

"No," said Neji. Tenten quickly looked up at him. "Konoha has us. We're the defense. It's not as defenseless as you think."

"Well… yeah, I mean…"

"Don't you trust yourself and your comrade?"

Tenten opened her mouth to say something but closed it again. After a while she grinned and said, "Sure. Everything is fine."

"Right," Neji smirked at his teammate. "Everything is fine, Tenten."

Something in his voice made her blushed. Tenten quickly looked away, trying her hardest to repress the burning red blushing on her face. Why? What happened? He didn't do anything, but why did she…

"The moonlight is bright tonight."

Neji's voice rose to the air. Tenten pretended to glace at the moon, trying to calm herself down. The moon's shining brightly, sparkling silver. It wasn't an everyday scene.

"Beautiful, isn't it?"

Now that's unusual. Neji asked her opinion about the sky? Tenten slowly turned to face her teammate, only to see him gazed back at her. Her heart temporarily stopped. Nothing could beat the feeling of being seen as a whole like the white eyes could do. To make everything worse, those white eyes were belongs to Hyuuga Neji.

"N-Neji?"

Her teammate didn't answer at all. His eyes flickered at the call of his name but nothing happened. Neji looked at her deeply and smirked. Tenten couldn't help but to blush again.

They were teammate, teammate for eight years. Since their genin days, they were always together. When Gai-sensei started to focus on Lee, they trained together. Always, even when they have their own little genin team to command. Those were simple, unimportant moments, but they grew with it. They grew into it.

Now, they were in their early days of twenty years old. Chemistry was playing something here.

Gust of wind blew past them. The brown eyes of the brunette meet the calm gaze of the Hyuuga. Neji smiled, a warm smile. That was enough to made her melt, enough to let her breathless. It was too good to be true, to good to be… Neji… But he smiled. And he was Hyuuga Neji.

"Tenten…"

His voice erased all of her questions. In fact, it erased all of her mind away…

"Would you… be my…"

And there came the mood-destroyer.

BOOM!

The ground shakes when four giant snakes appeared outside the west, east, north, and south wall of Konoha. Hundreds of ninja emerged from the dark wood, invading Konoha in a great wave of shinobi. The sound of emergency horn roaring in the night sky. The villagers woke up from their slumber, only to witness the massive invading army overwhelming the village. Examining from afar was Orochimaru. The destruction of Konoha began.