Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Geez…how many times do I have to repeat myself to get this through your thick heads? Just kidding…
Chapter 2: Enter Team Gai
The next day, Tenten awoke from her sleep to find that she had her own human body again.
'Heh. Guess that it was just a dream. Nothing to worry about.'
Smiling with relief, she stretched out her limbs and then proceeded to gather her weapons for today's spar. As she did, she wondered, 'Could there be a slight possibility that it was real?' Nah. Those events that happened yesterday were probably figments of her imagination.'
Humming a cheery tune, she strolled calmly out of her house to the training grounds.
O.o.o.O.o.o.O
"You're late," stated an irritated Neji, when she arrived. Taken aback, Tenten glanced at her watch. It read 9:56 am, not 9:00, which was the time she and her teammates had agreed upon to be there to practice every day.
Her other teammate, Lee, also reprimanded her for being tardy, but in a different way.
"YOSH! TENTEN, YOU SHOULDN'T LOSE THE FLAMES OF YOUTH SO EARLY IN YOUR YOUTH BY BEING LATE!!!!!!!"
And in addition to Lee's shouts were also Gai's.
"TARDINESS IS NOT A YOUTHFUL THING, TENTEN!" exclaimed Gai.
"Sorry, Gai-sensei," Tenten replied back, almost automatically.
"ALL RIGHT! NOW WE SHALL BEGIN OUR YOUTHFUL TRAINING!!!" yelled Gai with a brilliant flash of teeth, almost instantly forgetting her lateness. Instinctively, she stepped near Neji. She absolutely did not want a repeat of the first and last time she had sparred with Lee, when she had become deaf for two weeks because of his loud voice. Neji, who had sparred with Gai that time, had also become slightly deaf from the words of encouragement the Gai gave him (while the fight was in progress). Thus the two, decided that, in order to minimize hearing loss, they would train with each other and leaver Gai and Lee to do their shouting with each other.
Walking off to one of the practice fields, she and Neji took their starting positions and began.
O.o.o.O.o.o.O
Tenten started out by going on the offensive, using Soushryouu to attack. As rain after rain of weapons hurtled toward him, she saw him spinning, performing Kaiten to block her onslaught of sharpened objects.
'Good. I'll do this until he's tired so I can win against him using my new technique. He doesn't know I have a new technique, so I can surprise him.'
She pulled back her weapons using her chakra strings and once more, threw the weapons at him hoping to weaken him enough so that he wouldn't be able to use his Kaiten.
He saw the attack, as she knew he would, and spun again.
'Good. He must be getting tired.' She grinned. Unusually, though, her back began feeling heavy again, almost pulling her down. 'Strange.' She had just begun the fight; she shouldn't be feeling this tired yet. Twisting her head around to look, she almost knew what was going to be there. Looking back, she saw the tell-tale black bumps slowly erupting out of her clothing.
'Shoot. How do I get out of this?' Neji was already preparing to use Jyuuken on her. Tenten cleared her throat and quickly mumbled a feeble excuse to escape from the fight.
"Er…um…Neji…sorry…but I really need to go home right now. I feel a bit sick." With that said, she turned and made a mad dash to her home all the while feeling the dragon wings grow upon her back.
In the safety of her room, she pinched herself to make sure it was not a dream. Feeling pain, Tenten realized that it was real. Yesterday's events truly had happened. And she was indeed a monster.
O.o.o.O.o.o.O
Neji watched Tenten's back disappear into the streets of Konoha. Her behavior recently had been strange. She had no reason to lie to him; therefore, she must be guarding secrets from him. He knew that Tenten was not the type to continuously hide what she thought, so this was probably very important, important enough to affect Team Gai's teamwork.
Also, were her shoulder blades actually growing, or was that just a sign that his blessed eyesight was beginning to fail him?
A/N: Sorry I didn't update for so long…I had 3 weeks of camp…And then I had homework to finish for school…and also I didn't exactly know the spellings of the attacks…This is my first time writing an actual battle scene, so could someone tell me how it was??? Thanks.