EDIT: Did some major edits because I uploaded the wrong file. My apologies. It's fixed now.
Disclaimer: Naruto ain't mine~
Finally! The NejiTen I had promised! It took a while, I'm sorry.
Enjoy!
Dedicated to: Light (Thanks for your help!)
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"Mm...you smell so nice."
A lovely laugh made him smile.
"You always say that..."
Neji ran a hand through her hair, enjoying the soft texture of it, while positioning himself even closer. Her skin on his skin felt ridiculously enchanting.
"I say it," he responded while nipping at her ear, "because it's true."
A pair of warm hands found their way to his face and pink lips molded unto his own. Even though her face was somewhat hazed over he automatically knew that she was beautiful and that she was his.
"Neji..."
"Neji..."
"Neji!"
The Hyuuga prodigy's eyes snapped open only to instinctively dodge a giant gush of water that would have thrown him down the nearby precipice. He could scarcely see for it was nighttime and there was dust and gravel everywhere. Blood was falling from a wound he had on his left bicep and he could tell that he had at least two ribs broken from an earlier impact.
"Fire Style! Fire Hydra!"
He felt the heat before he saw the fire. A large snake-like creature with red flames for eyes and yellow ones for canines crashed into a good number of trees, causing destruction as it went. The sheer power of it momentarily stunned the Hyuuga. He could sense the enemy's strength and with his Byakugan saw how the dark chakra remained strong and vigilant.
While more attacks and explosions resounded around him only one thought went through his mind.
"We can't beat them."
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It seemed ridiculous, but it was true. The shinobi his team had encountered had been too many for them to handle. They couldn't do it.
They couldn't beat them.
It seems that his team leader and former sensei thought the same for through the static coming from the communicator on Neji's ear, one word, clear and resounding, made it through the chaos and into his ear.
"Run."
But there was nowhere left to run. Their team had been pushed toward the edge. It was impossible for them to flee.
Impossible for them to survive.
Thanks to the Byakugan, Neji could make out a figure in between the smoke and dust. The person made a number of hand signs-too fast for even the Byakugan to detect.
"Rock Style! Rock Avalanche!"
"Neji..."
"Neji."
"Neji."
The Hyuuga woke with a start, sweat beading down his forehead and eyes wild with surprise. Hands immediately held him down.
"Woah, take it easy. You're still hurt." The voice was female but unfamiliar. The young man turned to owner only to meet with emerald green eyes and oddly colored pink hair.
Neji looked at the person in confusion. "Wha...who are you?"
The woman mirrored his look. "Well, I'm Sakura...your doctor and friend…Neji. Don't you remember me?"
Neji looked at her again and then around the room. More unfamiliar people stood there, all of them watching him. "What," the young man shook his head. "Where am I?"
Another person, a pretty girl with long dark hair and pale lavender eyes stared nervously at him while touching his hand uncertainly. "Neji-ni-san, you got hurt on your last mission. You've been in the hospital ever since."
Neji removed his hand from her grip in uncertainty. "What mission...and who are you?"
There was a collective gasp from everyone in the room. Another person, a man with long hair and gray pupil less eyes frowned in apparent concern.
"Haruno, what's happening? Why can't he remember his own cousin?"
Cousin?
The pink-haired woman shook her head a few times. "I believe that Neji is suffering from some memory loss," everyone-including the young Hyuuga-gave her shocked looks, so she added, "but I'm sure he'll recover soon enough."
"Memory loss." Neji repeated, noting the sour taste the words took in his mouth.
"Neji." The young man kept looking at his hands in wonder.
"Neji," he didn't look up.
"Neji." The hand on his shoulder made him look at Sakura again.
He frowned slightly. "I take it that's my name."
Sakura nodded with a controlled look on her face. "Tell me...what can you remember? Anything is good. Be it a word that calls out to you, a certain smell, a sound, a texture. Anything."
Neji nodded uncertainly and searches his memories for something, anything. It was impossibly blank. Everything until the moment he woke up was gone, completely erased. It made no sense however, he knew how to speak and how to think so surely he must have learned that from somewhere. Where that was, though, was a complete mystery to him.
"I can't...I can't remember anything."
Sakura took immediate notice of the desperation in his voice. "No! It's okay. Take your time. You hit your head on the last mission you went on. This is understandable."
The man that had talked before shook his head and leaned back against the wall. "I can't believe this."
"Hyuuga-sama, you need to calm down and let him think." She turned to Neji. "Think back, Neji. What can you remember?"
Following her command, Neji closed his eyes and concentrated, willing his brain to make him remember. What had he been doing before arriving at the hospital? Who were his friends? What about his parents? He knew that he was in at least his early twenties so...did he have a lover?
Tenten.
The name appeared out of nowhere. Six large bold letters stamped on a white surface all for his viewing. Beyond that name he found nothing. Neji opened his eyes. "I think I remember something though I know not the significance of it."
Immediately, everyone in the room perked up. His so-called cousin spoke up. "Tell us. Like Sakura-san said, anything that comes to mind is good."
Neji nodded. "When I thought deeply, a name suddenly popped up, but that's all I can remember. A name."
"Go on then, tell us the name."
The young man took a deep breath.
"Tenten..."
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Might Gai exited the room with a large smile on his face despite the recent occurrences. He had been in the room when Neji had woken up and he had also been slightly devastated when the young man claimed to remember nothing.
Tenten.
He did remember something and the former sensei had breathed a big internal sigh in relief when the name was spoken. Of course if Neji would remember someone it would be Tenten-his fiancée.
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A half an hour later, Neji stared at the door when it opened only to be disconcerted that it was yet another person he did not know, but knew had been in the room before.
The older man with hair in the shape of a bowl gave him a smile. "I haven't a time to introduce myself. My name is Might Gai...does it ring any bells?"
Try as he might Neji shook his head solemnly. "It does not. I'm sorry."
Despite this Gai kept his smile. He looked behind him with a hidden grin before speaking again. "Neji, you said before that you remembered a name, right?"
The young man nodded, "yes, Tenten."
"Well, this is Tenten."
Gai stepped aside and the most beautiful woman Neji had ever seen walked in.
"You," he said almost desperately. "I-I dreamt with you."
Tenten blinked a few times and looked around but remained silent. The stares from Neji's family were enough, but for said person to remember just her? Dream of her?
The pink-haired doctor was all smiles. "What did you dream?"
Neji tore his gaze from Tenten and looked at Sakura. She nodded in incentive and the Hyuuga suddenly had a powerful urge to blush. He avoided the woman's eyes. "Uh...we were..." He looked at Tenten again and he noticed she had tensed up.
Sakura noticed as well. "You were what? Hugging? Kissing? Having sex?"
Everyone in the room looked at her in shock and Neji's uncle looked like he was going to murder someone. "That is preposterous! My nephew cannot-"
Sakura waved him off. "Feelings are strong and memories where there is a high exchange of feelings are hard to forget." Before someone else placed a rebuke Sakura cut them off. "Here, I'll show you."
She looked at Tenten who seemed to be glued to the floor. "Tenten, come over here...make room for her."
Though they looked at her in heavy disapproval-except for Hinata and Gai-while she followed directions, she went besides the bed. Sakura then placed her face-to-face with Neji who was a step away from drooling.
"Hold hands." Both young adults looked at her and she smiled. "Do I have to show you how to hold hands?"
Tenten turned away from her and grabbed Neji's hand. He breathed out and looked at the way their hands fit together and his dream suddenly became more vivid.
He remembered her flushed face with her dark hair splayed around her, some of it sticking to her neck, cheeks, and perfectly shaped breasts alluringly. He also remembered her breathing, soft and controlled one moment, hectic and hard the next. And he remembered how her fingers would trace lovely patterns on his skin while her body and his...
"Neji."
"Neji..."
"Neji."
He snapped out of his reverie and looked up at the medic. She raised an eyebrow suspiciously. "You seem to have remembered something, what is it?"
Neji looked at Tenten and frowned. "Doctor, you said strong feelings are hard to forget, correct?"
"That's right."
He raised a hand and softly passed it along Tenten's face. "I only know your name yet...yet..." He narrowed his eyes, "I'm in love with you, aren't I?"
Ignoring the curse from his uncle, Tenten looked down at their joined hands and smiled, bringing with it a flurry of memories where they did a number of different things-innocent and not-together.
"I'd like to think so," she finally said and her voice filled in a few loopholes in their relationship and added a few other ones that weren't so good to digest. Now he understood why his uncle...wait. His uncle, the clan….Another flurry of memories overwhelmed him so much he had to hold on to Tenten for support.
"I remember," he whispered, "I remember how they don't want me to marry you," he said while meeting looks with Tenten. "How there was an arranged wedding...and then..." He shook his head. "I believe I can remember everything now."
"Can you remember the mission?" Tenten asked in her heavenly voice.
Could he remember...
"Rock style! Rock Avalnche!"
As the stones started falling the Hyuuga spotted Tenten fly back and give a good number of back flips before settling on the ground. Immediately, he knew she wouldn't be able to doge the jutsu so in a blind, desperate attempt, he rushed forward.
And got in the path of the jutsu.
"Neji!"
"Neji."
"Neji…"
The Hyuuga snapped back to the present with a far off look to him. "I saved you..."
The beauty gave him a disapproving look. "You took the hit and got yourself hurt."
He actually let out a chuckle. "You wouldn't have been able to dodge it."
Tenten narrowed her eyes and removed her hand from his before crossing her arms. "Of course I would have been able to! But you just had to get in the way and get hurt!" She bumped his head lightly with a closed fist and he smirked.
With some protest from his body he leaned forward and trapped her in a hug. "I'm just glad you're okay," he mumbled and he heard her let out an amused breath.
"I'm the one who's supposed to say that, dummy."
"…I love you."
There was a pause before he heard her sniffle and her arms tightened around him. "Don't ever do that again. I thought I lost you."
Despite her words, he smiled. "You didn't. That's all that matters now."
"I love you too."
Neji inched back and took her chin in his hand before their lips met.
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I don't like the ending, but it was the best I could come up with. It kept giving me trouble so I just gave up, sorry about that.
(It doesn't help that I have no beta.)
Anyway, I still hoped you enjoyed reading.
Should I do a lemon next time? hehehe.
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