Updated 1/8/2019
He was running full speed on the rooftops until her apartment came into view. Sure, he had been there before, but never alone with her. At this thought, his head became a blur of emotions he didn't think he possessed until just last week when they basically busted at the seams from him.
He slowly crept through her window of what must have been her bedroom. He glanced at the empty bed with a disapproving look.
It's nearly 3AM! Why is she not in bed? He pondered to himself.
He crept open the door that opens into her small living room. That's when he saw her, sprawled out one leg over the back of the couch, one hand behind her head and the other draped on the floor. Her hair was sporadically thrown in all directions, and on top of all that, she was drooling.
He let out a small smile, this was not the most "put together" look he has ever seen before. Though, he can't help himself but think it is adorable anyway. He did feel slightly guilty at seeing her at such a private moment, but he pushed those feelings aside.
He slipped over to the couch and gingerly picked her up only enough to let himself sit and then rested her head on his lap. She didn't even seem phased by the contact.
His skin was burning from it.
He began to brush her hair out of her eyes, she started to stir in her sleep and then her eyes began to flutter open. Once her eyes adjusted to her surroundings they opened wide with almost a scared look. They quickly softened when her gaze met with his own.
Out in the field sleeping like this could be deadly, but in your own home, in your own village many shinobi let their guards down.
She bent at the waist and stretched her arms above her head, let out a yawn and ran her fingers through her untied hair.
Looking at the clock she said, "Neji, its 3AM what you are doing here now? Yesterday you said you were coming tonight, not tomorrow morning."
He sighed and looked off into the distance, he felt bad that he hadn't been able to come sooner.
Knowing he wasn't going to answer right away, she laid back down with her eyes looking up to his like this was a normal position for both of them. He began to play with her hair again, pressed a gentle kiss to her forehead, which she blushed at.
"Believe me, I wanted to, our meeting lasted much longer than expected and even after, can you imagine trying to sneak away from all those Byukaguns?"
She let out a small smile. "Well, I would assume that one with a Byukagun would be the best at getting away from one."
"I don't believe 30 or more clan members and elders to just one me is fair in your assumption."
"Ah, whatever you say." She smiled sat up on the couch and crossed to her legs to face him.
If looks could do you in, he would have died right there. The sleepiness still present in her body language, her long hair draped over her shoulders and she had the most innocent look on her face.
She began to speak again but caught herself before she could start and looked up from her hands to his face. Her whole demeanor changed suddenly.
"Well you said you wanted to talk, here I am."
He had almost forgotten the reason he had come here, he had to explain himself to her. She was not one for puzzles, and he knew she had far too many pointy projectiles in her possession to piss her off. He knew it would be best to be up front and honest with her, the best he could at least.
"Yes, I again wanted to apologize for my sudden actions yesterday. You see, being a-." He cut himself short, disappointment filled his eyes. He didn't know how to let her in. On the surface, it's like he wants to tell her everything, have her fill the void. He has never let anyone this close to him, and to be honest, it scared the hell out of him.
She reached out her hand and gently rubbed his forearm to relax him.
It was just like her to know exactly how he was feeling. Even as friends they had been so close to almost always know how the other felt.
Taking a deep breath, "Being a member of the branch family every move we make is determined by the elders, as you already know…" He looked into her eyes, "including those of dating."
She shielded away her arm at the sound of the word. It was not a taboo word in her vocabulary, but it was still one that stated commitment. Shinobi, in general, don't like commitment. Their life is too unpredictable to be stable for your self, let alone to have someone else depend on you to come home from a mission.
Not having a dignifying surname for herself, it was hard for her to truly grasp what kind of position he was in. She knew that just by him being here, in her apartment, alone, at this hour of the night would cause an uproar in his clan. He truly wondered if she could handle what he was about to ask of her.
"I would like to do things right for you, but I know I cannot. Above all else, I would like nothing more than to make you mine, that is if you agree."
He leaned in so she could feel his breath on her neck. He could hear her heart skip a few beats, it almost made him jump.
"Will you be my mistress? My weapons mistress?"
She laughed out loud. "Mistress? What is that supposed to mean?"
He grabbed her around the waist and pulled her into his lap.
"You know what I mean. I want to reiterate the fact that this is not the ideal setting, I want to keep you away from the elders, and they can be mean, harsh and sometimes downright evil in their old-fashioned ways. So I thought the title mistress would be a good fit. The weapons part can be dropped but I do know how much you love your ninja tools."
Looking at her, he just thinks to himself how sweet this girl is. His girl, and he would not throw her to the evil purpled eyed wolves. She was not weak in any means, not mentally and for sure not physically either, but clan elders have a way to bring out the worst in people.
"I don't understand, if the elders are that much of a problem, why are you here at all?"
He kissed her forehead. Neji was never one to defy rules. Even though as he grew older he was more independent, the clan still ran his life.
"Honestly, I wish I knew."
He smiled one more time before pressing his lips lightly to hers for a final time.
He swooped her up into a bridal style carry, and he drooped her onto her bed.
"I must return to the compound before someone notices my absence. Now get some sleep in your own bed, not that couch."
"Can't you stay for a little while longer?" Looking up at him with puppy dog eyes.
Without responding he pulled the blankets over her and whispered into her ear.
"Goodnight, my weapons mistress."
He was gone, shutting the window behind him.
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The sun was shining through the curtains once more for what seemed like a lot earlier than normal, but in all honesty, it was approaching midday. Disappointed with herself, she began to wake and prepare herself. She had no missions assigned and no group training today, it was a day to do some individual training and relax. She gathered her training items and made her way out to the practice fields.
It wasn't till the walk to the training fields did it hit her about what had happened last night. Neji had asked her out. Well sort of, the best he could, who would expect Neji to do anything against the books, but hell, this was a new Neji she wanted to know more about. No matter what she thought about him, it made her stomach fill with butterflies. She understood and would be patient with him and his stupid clan.
Arriving at the training grounds she decided to start with practicing her food sealing first, so hopefully, by the time another long term mission came along, she could seal some simple food items for lighter travel. She removed a pack of crackers from her bag and one by one she attended to seal them into a separate food scroll. Using different amount of chakra on each one as an experiment.
After all were sealed, she began to unseal them. Some would come out smashed and broken, others that weren't damaged she would take a bite of and immediately spit it out.
"Blah, taste like stale bread." She said out loud to herself.
The ground suddenly began to shake beneath her feet. She looked over to where the noise came from and saw flashes of pink and orange in the trees. Before she could respond there were 15 Naruto shadow clones getting flown back towards her. She grabbed her scrolls and ran for cover under a tree.
"Hey ohh that hurt, Sakura-chan why do you have to hit so hard?" the blond yelled out
Sakura had a smile on her face, everyone knows how much of a hot head she could be and this was a good way for her to take out some frustrations. Better him than me, she thought. The green eyes quickly found Tenten taking cover under a tree.
"Shut up Idiot!" She yelled, and in an instant her mood changed, "Sorry Tenten! Didn't see you there! What are you doing?" The pinkette made her way over.
"Oh your fine Sakura, I just wanted to stay out of your way. I was just practicing my sealing techniques."
Naruto had made his way over to the pair by now.
"Oh, more weapons?" His face scrunched, recalling all the times he's taken her pointy objects on his rear-end.
Tenten smiled, "No, not today I am practicing sealing food, it just never unseals the same way it went in."
"Well maybe you should seal some of Sakura-chan's food pills so they could become edible," Naruto said slyly.
Sakura whacked him upside his head with her fist, "What did you say?" Her ears were basically fuming with smoke.
"Oh, nothing Sakura-chan!" He said backing away rubbing the bump forming on his head.
Tenten laughed, every team had to have one member who didn't know how to keep their mouth shut, though Naruto was by far the worst out of the group.
"Anyway, Tenten!" Sakura said with yet another mood swing to good now, "I forgot to mention, we are all going out tomorrow night for dinner and some drinks!"
"What's the occasion?" Tenten responded
Naruto jumped in, "It's the first time in ages that everyone is in the village all at the same time! Shino and Kiba get back today from a mission and then we will all be here!"
Since becoming Jonin it was becoming more and more common for teams to be sent out as parts and not a whole as she and Neji had just done. Senseis were still around to help train, but not nearly as much and not for missions all the time.
"Wow has it really been that long?"
"Yeah it's been at least a year, so what do you say? Are you coming?" The pinkette asked.
"Yes of course, where and what time?"
"Met us there at 7, and it's the sushi bar right down the street from the Hokage tower. Maybe after there's a dance club down the street" Sakura said.
"I will see you there for dinner at least, not sure about dancing. Now I am going to get some target practice in before I go home." She pulled out her weapons scroll and unsealed some kunai from it. The two began to wave and walk away.
"Okay bye Tenten-chan!" the blond exclaimed.
She waved goodbye and without looking sent a projectile behind her into a nearby tree.
She spent the next few hours repeating the same motion when she noticed a familiar charka in the area. Sending another kunai in his direction it sunk into the tree right next to his head.
"You know you could have hurt me."
"You know if I wanted to hit you I would have." She let out a smile.
After he pulled the kunai from the tree he tossed it to her and approached her.
"Come on, let's go." He commanded.
"What? Why? I'm not done training yet, I haven't even got out the senbon!" She said with a whimper in her voice.
"Fine, I guess I'll take my cooking skills elsewhere."
"Wait, what do you mean cooking skills?"
"Well, since I can't really take you to dinner without people trying to put knives in one of our backs, I was going to cook you dinner." He held up a sack of groceries.
She noted it was going to take some time to get used to this Neji, a warmer more thoughtful Neji. Her stomach began to rumble, at the sound of food.
"You know, that doesn't sound half bad." She gave a flirty smile toward him. "But what about your clan?"
"Don't worry." He responded so calmly and place a hand on her cheek. "They believe I have village duties for the night and the village thinks I have clan duties for the night."
"Oh wow, we have quite the rebel on our hands', ladies and gentlemen." She gave him a round of applause and laughed at her own joke.
He pulled her closer till their bodies were almost touching. "I have a few more things to grab, head home and I will meet you there in 20 minutes."
He kissed her on the lips once again and was gone.
Running up the steps to her apartment she flew open the door and placed her scrolls and her bag on the floor. She then entered the bathroom and took a well deserved relaxing hot shower.
Her thoughts overtook her body once more.
I still feel like a need to pinch myself, I mean, deep down this is all I ever hoped for deep down, in a hidden away corner. Even though most of the time I would never let it surface on my thoughts. He was always so cold and distant up until after the war. He isn't nearly as bright and cheery as Lee or Naruto, but it was still an improvement from the human ice box he once was in the genin days
How am I going to keep a secret from everyone? It seems like when he is around my emotions take the front seat, but I have to stay in control for Neji's sake. He already has it so rough in the bastard clan and I will not make it worse on him. He can calm his emotions so easily and simply, I cannot. Just at the sound of his name or a brush of his skin, I'm sent head over heels into a whirlwind of emotion.
Composure.
Composure would have to be my new best friend.
A knock came at the bathroom door and zapped her back to reality.
"Uh, who's there?!"
He opened the door slightly just to make sure she could hear him but kept his eyes averted.
"Who do you think it is?" She smiled at the sound of his voice. "I just wanted to let you know I'm here and I'm going to start to cook."
"Okay, give me a minute."
"Very well." He shut the door and went back to the kitchen.
She washed the remaining soap out of her hair and then began to dry off. Then she realized, she didn't bring any clothes to the bathroom and would have to walk next to the kitchen.
Where Neji was.
In her skimpy little thing, she called a towel.
Basically naked.
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Dicing up onions and peppers for the stir fry he looked around her tiny apartment. It was a quaint little one bed one bath, but it was perfect just for her. She had a small TV with the couch she liked to sleep on along the other wall. The kitchen was a makeshift dining room as well with a small 2 person table pushed into the corner.
He then heard the bathroom door open and glanced in the direction. He instantly blushed and drew away his gaze when he saw what she was wearing, or lack of for the matter. She didn't seem to notice as her eyes were on the ground, but he could have sworn her cheeks were just as red as his.
He returned to the cooking and added the chicken to the vegetables. When she returned to the kitchen it was another site to behold.
She was wearing a large black hoodie with a pair of white short shorts they hugged her curves in the perfect places. She was using a brush combing through her wet hair.
"What are we having?" She asked
"Chicken stir fry, if that's alright?"
"Of course, thank you." She kissed his cheek.
He was so unused to that type of contact, but he for sure wanted to know more about it. She was just so tempting and alluring without even trying.
"Sit down, it's almost ready." He plated them each up a serving, starting with her of course.
"Thank you." She said again.
"No thank you for having me over."
She laughed, "You know, I think I would invite anyone in that offered to cook me dinner."
He just smiled back at her. His cheeks were burning, he had done more smiling the last two days than the rest of his life.
"So did you talk to Naruto or Sakura today?" She asked.
"No, why?"
"Oh, it seems that after Kiba and Shino return from a mission, all of us will be in the village at the same time for the first time in a year. So they wanted to go out to eat and celebrate tomorrow night."
She took another bite of her food.
"Where?"
She swallowed what she had been chewing, "Oh that sushi bar down by the tower. Are you going to come?"
"I have clan duties, but I'll see what I can do."
"Oh, so you're going to bail on me on our very first public appearance?" She said with a sarcastic tone.
His face scrunched at her words. It's only been 24 hours, who the hell did she tell? Does she not know that this is for her sake? He wasn't happy about the situation either.
"I'm kidding, take a joke. My lips are sealed." She did the zipping lips and throw away the key gesture.
"Anyway..." she sighed. "Are you done?" Pointing to his empty plate.
"Yes thank you." She put both their plates in the sink.
"So how much time do you have Mr. Hyuga?" She led them both over to the couch and started flipping through the channels.
"I suppose an hour or two, then I need to return to the compound."
"Do you want to watch a movie then?"
"Sure. What do you have?"
"Well mostly action, you know I can't stand those chick flicks."
"Whatever you chose is fine."
She made her way over to a bookshelf filled with movies. "Okay, this is one of my favorites. It's about a ninja that gets banished from his home because his evil twin pretended to be him and killed a bunch of people."
"Sounds good to me."
They settled on the couch and began to watch the film. Lots of action scenes with body parts flying and blood gushing. Every so often she would inch herself closer to him. As if it was natural, he raised his arm above the back of the couch and settled his hand on her shoulder pulling her even closer. Pulling his other hand across his body he reached for her hand and intertwined their fingers.
"So this is us now then." She said looking up at him then back to their inner locked fingers.
"I suppose it is."
"When did you know?"
"What do you mean?"
"Oh, you know what I mean." She turned to face him and began running her other hand through his hair.
"Hm." Was all he could be out and they sat in silence for a few moments "Well, to be honest, I've known for a long time, just never realized it" He thought back to their early genin days. At first, he found her annoying like every other girl he had ever known. As time moved on, she began to set herself apart and even became a friend. As the world went to shit she was one of the, if not the best one he knew would have his back. He knew that she would be there to guard his blind spot and he would do the same for her. It just so happened that she had a chance to really show her colors when he was injured. So that had to be the day that he knew for sure.
"You know, me too." She began trailing kisses down his neck. He shivered at the touch.
Total oblivious to the movie that was still rolling in the background. He pulled her into his embrace and kissed her gently. She positioned herself with both knees on the outside of his waist, sitting in his lap. She threw her hands over his shoulders and interlocked them on the other side of his head.
Both of his hands were on her waist. He could feel tightness in his pants. He tried as hard as he could to restrain the beast that had a mind of its own.
But Kami, this is excellent stress relief.
Their lips were locked in a stalemate, neither one wanting to retreat back for air. She bit at his bottom lip and let out a whimper in pleasure when his hands more firmly felt the sides of her outer thighs. He sunk back down deeper into the couch. Her body pressed even more tightly against his own than before. Their breathing escalated to pants and gasps for air. Then he trailed his tongue along her jawline and down her neck.
Kami, she tastes so good. He said to himself. Why did I not act on this sooner? Dam the clan and all their rules! Oh shit, what did he just think?
She began to tug at the bottom of his shirt. He pulled back and opened his eyes, he noticed the movie credits were running.
"Well look what you did, I don't know how the movie ends." He whispered into her ear.
"He saves the day and gets the girl like every other movie, happy?" she giggled.
She tried to continue where they were. He pulled back again.
"No, I'm sorry I have to leave." He picked her up bridal style once more and brought her into the bedroom, pulled back the covers and placed her on the mattress just like he had done the night before.
She looked up at him, "Are you sure you can't stay just a little while longer?" She lifted her blankets inviting him into her bed.
Just with that look in her eyes, he wanted to give into her.
"Yes, I'm sure, another time."
He pushed back her hair and kissed her on the lips, and then her forehead.
"Have a good night's rest. I will see you tomorrow at the dinner."
"I'll hold you too it then." she whispered.
Out the window, he was gone.
X
Standing outside the restaurant waiting for the rest of group to show, she was uncomfortable. Sakura, Ino, Temari, and Hinata had shown up right before she was going to walk out the door. Ino had thrown a fit at what she was wearing, just some simple jeans and a black baby fit tee. Ino had made the argument that "you never know who will be there." As an excuse to take her back to her house and put her in a tight little black cocktail dress and made her put her hair down, and slapped on a pair of sexy leather heels. She felt so exposed and uncomfortable.
She already knew who was waiting for her, even if the others didn't know.
Shikamaru, Choji, Sai, Naruto, Lee, Shino, and Kiba walked around the corner.
At first, she was disappointed that she didn't see him, but he did say there were clan things he had to take care of first. He would come later.
Ino seemed to notice just as quick that Neji wasn't among them.
"Where's the Hyuga?" She said.
Without thinking Tenten spat out, "He said he had clan duties, he'll come later."
A few of the others raised an eyebrow to her
"Hinata why don't you have to be there?" Asked Ino.
Putting her two index fingers together and her voice barely auditable. "Well since Hanabi-chan has taken over as clan heir, I am not required to attend all the meetings. Neji-kun must attend because he has been working with her on her skills."
"That still doesn't answer how would you know what Neji is doing?" Ino said with an evil glimmer in her eyes pointing at Tenten.
Oh shit. She had told Ino nothing was going on and the way she responded so nonchalantly, it was feeding right into her conspiracy theory, though now it was true. The blonde's big mouth would have it to Hyuga ears faster than they could eat dinner.
"Uhhh err… were teammates? Why wouldn't I know?" She said coolly, still hoping no one would notice.
Everyone seemed to wave it off and they walked into the restaurant.
It was a nice restaurant, not too fancy, but more formal than the street stall of Ichiraku Ramen. The 12 of them sat at a large long table leaving one chair on the end if Neji showed up late.
Ino had ordered Sai beside her and he had another blank smile on his face. Naruto had sat next to Hinata and was whispering something in her ear that had made her face red. Lee was trying to chat up Sakura. Temari and Shikamaru were just simply sitting next to each other. Choji, Kiba and Shino were sitting at the other end talking among themselves. Tenten took the seat across from the empty one next to Temari.
Ino stood and raised her glass to get everyone's attention. "Hello everyone! I'm glad everyone, well almost everyone, could make it." She rolled her eyes. "There's enough food for everyone. I've also ordered some sake, but none for you!" She pointed a finger at Lee.
Oh yes a drunken Lee could turn the night sour very quickly
The dinner started very simply with some small conversation, mostly about the upcoming festival and wedding. Everyone had had their fill of food, including Choji. She kept glancing over at the empty chair waiting for it to be filled by the one and only Neji, but he never showed. Everyone was feeling quite lose from the drinks. When everyone was done Ino stood to talk again.
"Okay! Since everyone is done, let's take this party down the street!" She stood dragging Sai behind her.
"Wait!" Tenten yelled, "Where are we going?"
Sakura answered her, "Come on girl I told you we are going dancing!"
"Yeah, Sakura even has her date meeting us there!" Ino yelled as she exited the restaurant.
She could hear Naruto running after her saying, "WHATTT Sakura-chan?"
Temari and Tenten gave each other a nod and followed after her with the others behind. Having everyone together was nice, even if they would be in an awful place such a club.
After a quick walk down the street, they were headed inside. Ino had already called ahead reserved a large corner VIP booth that could fit everyone if they squeezed tightly together. She had also yelled for bottles of sake and other drinks to be brought to the table.
Izumo had shown up and guided Sakura to the floor. After Sakura had politely calmed him down and introduced the two again. Even after that, Tenten could see Naruto with his arm around Hinata, but eyes on Sakura and her new 'friend'. Ino, Sai, Shikamaru, and Temari had all began dancing with each other. Choji, Lee, and Shino had started up a conversion. She took a place on the booth and Kiba had approached her.
"You know Tenten, you look really good tonight." He said with a wink.
"Oh thank you, Kiba." She said with some hesitance. "Honestly though, Ino made me wear it."
"Ha figures, but you should wear it more often like I said you look nice." He said with a wink.
She nodded not really knowing how to respond. She was very uncomfortable in these clothes and any compliments about them. It was just Kiba thought and he was just being nice.
"So I haven't seen much of you or your team in quite some time. How is team Gai?"
"Oh you know, we are well, we don't always go on missions together anymore, but does any team really?"
"Yeah I know what you mean, Shino and I go on a lot of tracking missions together but it's rare for the three of us to go out. Let alone Kurenai sensei."
"Oh yeah you two just go back last night, how was the mission?" She asked with interest.
"Easy. Just tracked some low-level criminal that had been reported about robbing graves for jewels." His chest puffed out in pride. "Between Shino's bugs, Akamaru and I's noses, they didn't stand a chance. But hey can I get you another drink?" He noticed that her drink was nearly empty.
"Uh, Sure." She replied.
As he made his way over to the bar, her blonde best friend appeared.
"Oh, I see that look in his eye! I don't blame him you look sooooo good! Ask him to dance and come join us!" Temari took another shot of her drink and joined Shikamaru back on the dance floor.
Oh, Kami, what had she gotten herself into? She would have one last drink that Kiba would bring back and then head home.
"Here." He handed her the drink, but let his hand linger a little longer than it should have.
"Thank you." She responded shortly, but polietyly.
"So Tenten tell me, are you seeing anyone?.." He asked with a slight hesitance sound in his voice.
She gulped hard and could have sworn she had broken out in an instant sweat. It had only been a day, she couldn't let it slip now. Neji would never forgive her. She hated being put on the spot, and for a kunoichi, she was just horrible at lying. She was happy this was Kiba and not Shino, she could maybe get the lie past him, but defiantly not the latter.
"Oh me?" She laughed, "Kami, no!"
She noticed a spark in his eyes perk up.
"Oh, so it would be alright if I asked you to dance?"
Her eyes shot over to Temari who was staring with a huge grin on her face. She knew if she turned him down the girls would find it suspicious. Kiba was a good looking nice guy, besides some of the dog tendencies that ran in his family. His fan base wasn't quite as big as Neji's, but she could name a hand full of girls who would jump the Inuzuka heir given their chance.
She had to think quickly, what was the best way to handle this? She didn't want to sound uninterested but not too eager either, she had to play the part well. So play it safe in the middle.
"Uhh… I don't know how."
"Oh come on! You don't need to know how to this type of music! You just do it!" He said shaking a wiggling his body about. "So is that a yes?"
She took a deep breath. "Okay."
He took their drinks and sat them on the table, grabbed her hand and pulled her to the dance floor. She got winks or smirks from all three of the other girls. Kami could she catch a break? Her emotions had been all over the place for the past few weeks, even more so since just yesterday in the mere hours of the morning.
Then she thought, what would happen if he walked in right now? She didn't know Neji to be a very jealous person. Though in a reverse situation, she couldn't help but want to put projectiles in the back of some other girl dancing with Neji.
They arrived on the dance floor next to Temari and Shikamaru. Temari gave another approving nod while Kiba whispered something into Shikamaru's ears that she couldn't hear. Then he lightly placed his hand on her hips and began to sway back and forth to the music with her.
This was…. Fun? Nice? She really didn't have a good word for it besides she liked dancing like this. She had been out dancing with the girls but never this much ass to crotch contact with a guy, it was interesting. She couldn't help but think how much better it would have been with Neji, though Kiba wasn't as bad as it could get.
Neji dancing like this would be a site to see. He probably knows some of those fancy rich clan dances that were accompanied with a horrid traditional costumes and props. When you're never invited to go to meetings with royalty like he was, there was never a reason to learn them. This kind of dancing would be deemed vulgar.
The song ended and seamlessly turned into another one, she peaked back at him to see a big grin on his face. "See? There's no 'I can't' when dancing like this. You are actually very good."
"Yeah, I guess so."
She turned her head back around to see Temari with another reassuring wink. Kami she wasn't helping the situation, what was up with all the winks?! Kiba was a nice guy but she simply wasn't interested. Even if there was no Neji- whatever you call us- she would never go for Kiba. Not that one night of dancing and letting him down would be a heartbreaking moment for him, she didn't want him to have the wrong idea.
"Hey Kiba?"
He was still swaying with the music his hands still lightly pressed on her hips. His lips were pursed into a straight line with one tooth overhanging the bottom lip.
"Yeah?"
She turned around to look him in the eyes.
"Thank you for the drink and the dance, but I don't want to give you the wrong idea but…"
"Ha, I knew it." He cut her off.
"What?" She responded without thinking.
He lowered himself to her ear, "I know your crazy about the Hyuga, and I can faintly smell him on you. I wondered if it was just from a training session, but after being this close I know it's not that kind of smell. Don't worry, your secret is safe with me. Well maybe Akamaru, he loves to gossip." He said the last part with a laugh.
He pulled away from her ear. The whole time he was talking, he was so quiet she knew no one could have heard it, but her face flushed red and looked around waiting to see everyone's eyes on her, but they weren't.
She looked back to him, "Promise?"
He nodded yes, "If you're ready to go, have Lee walk you home, or I will if he can't."
"I don't need anyone to walk me home! I'm fine by myself!"
"Well honestly I don't doubt you, but it's late and I'm more afraid of you-know-who finding out I was the last to see you before you walked home alone at midnight after a few drinks. He's always been so protective of you, I can't imagine what he's like now."
"Fine." She mumbled and walked towards Lee. "Lee comes on I'm going home, want to walk with me?"
"Oh yes, Tenten! I would love to accompany my beautiful youthful teammate home!"
She said her goodbyes to Temari and everyone else and pulled the green jumpsuit wearing teammate to the street.
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Thanks for the few reviews and follows, I've noticed it really helps motivate a writer, so I've been trying to comment as much as I can on other work. If you're interested, send me a message with a link to one of your stories and I'll let you know what I think.
My favorite reviews are about character development, that's the main reason why I fell in and am still in love with this whole Naruto universe of manga, anime, video games and fanfiction. So if you think I am not doing a character justice, I want to hear it!
-Blinkstated