A/N: Finally chapter 6 is finished! I hope you all will enjoy it very much! ^^

Fun fact: The knife and spoon have since ancient time been used as eating tools in Europe while the fork first became a common eating tool doing the late middle ages, but it has existed for far longer!

I apologize for any grammar errors /spelling mistakes there may or might be. I try my best to avoid as many as possible.

Main pairing: Nejiten
Side pairing(s): Naruhina and possible others
Warning(s): Possible OOCness, medieval era, mild mature hints,

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto!

A Sense of Duty
Chapter 6: A Sense of Manners

Tenten stared blankly at the stew pot standing in front of her on the table. The almost transparent white smoke carried the scent of the soup over to Tenten's nose, which only made Tenten grew even hungrier than she previously had been.

She looked down at the small wooded bowl and then took a look at the metal spoon next to it before she looked at the metal knife with a raised eyebrow.

"If we are having soup, why do I need a knife?" She wondered.

Neji was sitting on the opposite side of the table. He felt a bit disappointed in what they were having, not because he did not like it.

"How can I teach Tenten the proper mannerism of a lady when we are having soup? Even Tenten should know how to eat soup properly!" He sighed deeply to himself.

"Why are you sighing?" Tenten asked Neji out of nowhere.

"Huh?" Neji looked at Tenten with a confused look on his pale face.

"I asked you, why are you sighing?" Tenten repeated her question.

"It does not concern you, I can assure you of that, just me thinking out loud I guess" Neji explained with calm tone.

"I have been noticing that you have an odd habit of sighing, is there a reason for that?" Tenten asked while she looked at Neji with interest. Neji found himself flushing a faint pink.

"N-no, I d-do not sigh t-that often, you must be imaging things!" Neji denied with pink cheeks.

A devilish glint in Tenten's eyes and catlike smile formed itself on Tenten's face.

"Seems like I just found another weakness of yours, Neji" Tenten grinned like a cat.

"That is hardly a weakness, just you trying to make it appear as one" Neji told Tenten, who merely smiled and said:

"Never underestimate a bad habit, it might bite you from behind in the future"

Neji looked at Tenten with narrowed eyes and his mouth formed firmly in the thin line, trying to hide his annoyance away from Tenten.

"Let us just eat" Neji shortly said before he clapped his hands together.

A short while after a maid with light brown hair walked into the dining room.

"Master Neji, Miss Tenten, I have been sent here to serve you two by Lord Hiashi himself" The maid explained before she politely bowed down.

"For lunch, you two will be having a hot yellow pepper soup with bread and boiled carrots" The maid continued her explanation while began pouring the soup over to the two before she placed the bread next to the soup while the boiled carrots were added into the soup itself.

"What do the master and the miss wish to drink?" The maid politely asked.

"Tea, please" Neji replied before he looked at Tenten, waiting for her to answer.

"Ehm I really do not know what I want," Tenten grinned foolishly, "What do you think I should have?" Tenten asked the maid, who looked at her with surprised look on her face.

"What do I think?" The maid blinked confusedly.

"Yeah, you work here, so you should know what tastes good and what does not" Tenten reasoned.

"Tenten!" Neji hissed at Tenten.

"What? I was only trying to be polite" Tenten pouted her lips.

Neji gave Tenten a skeptic look before he looked at the maid and bowed slightly at her.

"I apologize for her behavior, she is…" Neji paused as he looked at Tenten from the corners of his eyes," Not used to things here yet, I have yet to teach her some proper manners. I hope you can forgive her for her careless behavior" Neji finished.

The maid, who was blushing a deep shade of pink, looked at Neji with a look of both shock and panic.

"I-it is o-okay, master Neji, I was not being fair towards your lady. She has never been here and does not know what we have to offer, it is my fault!" The maid bowed down before she turned to Tenten and said:

"Miss Tenten, I know Lady Hinata likes to drink pomegranate juice, so maybe you would like to drink that" The blushing maid told Tenten, who looked at the maid for a moment before, she while nodding her head said:

"I like Hinata, so I think I will like the same as she likes, I take it!" Tenten grinned at the maid, who nodded her head and left to bring the drinks.

Tenten looked at Neji with a sly smile on her face.

"She likes you!" Tenten pointed out loudly.

"No, she fears me and thinks we" Neji pointed at himself and Tenten, "are in love" Neji corrected Tenten, who looked at him with her mouth agape.

"She what?"

"Quite looking like a fish and eat your soup, I am sure you know how to eat with a spoon" Neji said to Tenten while he ignored the outrageous look on her face.

"Stupid old man, stupid hero and stupid maids with dirty fantasies" Neji could here Tenten mumbled under her breath while he took a sip of the hot soup.

Tenten took a bite of her bread and began chewing loudly.

"Tenten, close your mouth when you eat" Neji commented.

Tenten stopped chewing and puffed her cheeks up in anger before she swallowed the bread forcefully.

"Quit telling me how to eat!" Tenten hissed at Neji.

"Well my uncle did say that I had to teach you some proper manners, I believe how to eat properly is one of many manners I am forced to teach you, sadly" Neji explained before he sighed at the very end.

"What do you mean by sadly?" Tenten asked with an angry look on her face, which seemed to be steaming.

"Nothing, I am just wasting my time with a hotheaded, improper, "Neji paused to look at Tenten, "Individual, instead of using my valuable time on more important matters" Neji took another sip of the soup once he had finished his explanation.

"What kind of important matters? Being a boring, duty man?" Tenten raised an eyebrow at Neji.

"It is called a man of duty and I am not boring! I, unlike you, have things to accomplish while you sole purpose in life is to beat up men who calls you a woman and annoy me!" Neji harshly explained to Tenten, who reacted by slamming her hands down on the table while standing up.

"You think you have me all figured out, well you have not! I do, in fact, have things to accomplish, not that it is any of your concern! My goal is mine alone and I could care less what a rich, little, sword fighter like you think of me, as long as I know who I am and what I wish to accomplish with my life, everything is just fine!" Tenten shouted out loud, making Neji's eyes open wide in shock.

A silence followed.

Neither of them spoke a single word.

Tenten was panting due to yelling while Neji had been left speechless by Tenten's sudden outburst.

Had he been judging her too hard?

"Stop blaming yourself! It is her own fault that I have judged her as someone without any goals, without any boundaries" Neji reasoned with himself as he suddenly had a bad feeling in his stomach and it was not the food.

No, he felt guilty for judging Tenten unfairly.

"Sorry" Neji suddenly said out of nowhere.

Tenten blinked at him as Neji stood up.

"Huh?" She looked at him confusedly.

"I apologize for judging you before even knowing you properly, it was very unfairly of me to do so" Neji took Tenten's hands in his and looked her in the eyes sincerely as he spoke.

*Clash*

The sound of something making apart on the floor echoed through the room. Both Neji and Tenten broke out of their little moment to look towards the sound with eyes open wide.

"I-I apologize for interrupting" The maid from before stuttered out while blushing.

Neji and Tenten looked at the maid with lifted eyebrows before they both realized that they were still holding hands.

"Let go of my hands!" Tenten ordered Neji.

"Why did I apologize to you again? Because I am considering taking it back" Neji said while he released Tenten's hands.

"You already apologized and I do not like returning things" Tenten pointed out.

"Why does that not surprise me?" Neji groaned.

"Hehe" Tenten grinned.

From the sidelines the blushing maid watched the two bicker at each other while she mumbled:

"The sexual tension between them is too strong to ignore, Master Neji has finally found his princess" The maid dreamily sighed.

"I have to admit Neji's taste in women is surprising! I mean sure she is really and mean really good looking, but by God's stinky feet she can be scary!" Kiba ranted on about Neji's friend to Naruto, who nodded his head as he agreed:

"Very scary, I almost wetted my pants because of her!" Kiba gave Naruto are nauseated look.

"Too much information, Naruto, I really did not need to know that" Kiba told Naruto with a disturbed look on his face.

"Oh sorry, my bad, it kind of slipped" Naruto grinned awkwardly at Kiba, who replied by saying:

"Well, let us just be glad that Lady Hinata is not like that woman. She, unlike miss devil, is kind, nice and sweet, not to mention really cute"

Naruto nodded his head eagerly.

"Yeah, yeah, Lady Hinata is sooo kind!" Naruto shouted out loud with eagerness. Kiba grinned at his friend and was about to say something when…

"LADY HINATA, WHAT HAPPENED? ARE YOU OKAY?" A female voice shouted out so loud that it echoed through the area near Naruto and Kiba.

Kiba looked at Naruto suspiciously.

"Naruto, did you do something?"

Naruto looked at Kiba with his mouth agape, completely speechless.

"B-but how can I be over there, if I am here?" Naruto asked Kiba with a confused look on her face.

"Oh right, you got a point there, it is just normally whenever something happens to Lady Hinata it is mostly because of you" Kiba pointed out.

"Why mostly me? What do I do wrong?" Naruto blinked with a lost expression.

"I do not know, but whatever it is Lady Hinata must be allergic to it" Kiba concluded.

"So, she is allergic to me?" Naruto asked while he cocked his head to the side. Kiba shrugged and answered:

"How should I know? I am not physician"

"NARUTO UZUMAKI!" An extremely angry female voice yelled out loud. Kiba looked at Naruto with big, shocking looking eyes.

"So you did do something!"

"What? No!" Naruto objected.

Suddenly an angry looking blond-haired woman walked towards the two males with a dark aura surrounding her and a look on her face that could scare away everything that moves.

"Na-ru-to U-zu-ma-ki!" The woman said with step she took forward towards them.

"Ahhhh the devil's sister! Please spare me for whatever I did! Have mercy! I am innocent, in more than one way!" Naruto pleaded endlessly as the woman took him by the collar of his shirt and looked deep into his eyes.

"Why did you have to say that out loud?" The blond asked Naruto harshly.

Naruto blinked confusedly at her and asked:

"Say what out loud?"

The woman's grip on his collar tightened and she pulled him closer. Naruto could feel the heat of her anger against his forehead.

"Do not play stupid with me! You yelled something out loud, which made Lady Hinata faint!" The blond woman explained.

"Oh," Naruto stared for a moment before he grinned foolishly, "All I said was that Lady Hinata was kind" Naruto rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly.

"You fool!" The blond woman yelled out loudly as she smashed Naruto down to the ground.

"Ouch, that must have hurt" Kiba winced.

"Do not think I have not seen you, Kiba Inuzuka!" The woman pointed out, looking at Kiba with angry blue eyes.

"Wow such beautiful blue eyes" Kiba thought to himself as she found himself staring at the blond women's blue eyes.

"Quit staring, pervert!" The woman shouted out after him.

"I was not staring! Just looking!" Kiba denied with a panicking look on his face.

"Hmph" Was the woman's angry respond before she nudged at Naruto with her feet:

"Wake up, I am not done lecturing you!"

Meanwhile Kiba was just staring dreamily at the angry female, looking her up and down while mumbling:

"I think I understand why sir Neji likes that angry brunette, the anger just makes them look even more beautiful!"

Suddenly Kiba was hit in the face by a shoe.

"Ow!" He moaned out in pain as he fell to the ground.

"I told you to stop staring!"

"Well that was one tasty soup! Remind me to thank the cook" Tenten told Neji with pleased looking expression.

Neji gave Tenten a small smile, which confused Tenten.

"Why are looking at me with that expression? It is kind of freaking me out" Tenten shivered.

Neji chuckled before he replied by saying:

"I am merely expressing my joy of hearing nice words, for once, coming out of that mouth of yours"

Tenten pursed her lips and lowed her eyebrows with a suspicious look on her face.

"You are hiding something," Tenten pointed out, "Tell me what are you hiding?" Tenten demandingly asked Neji, who denied her accusations:

"Nonsense, you are being unreadable, what would I even hide?"

"You tell me because I do not know, all I know is that there is something you are not telling me" Tenten pointed out while she stared Neji intensely in the eyes.

Neji stared right back at Tenten with narrowed eyes before he sighed and closed his eyes.

"Not telling you anything since it does not concern you!" Neji said as he turned around.

Tenten face heated up in pure annoyance of knowing Neji was hiding something and that he refused to tell her what! The nerve of him! How dare he push her curiosity so far? What can she do to make him tell her?

"Wait a minute!" Something in Tenten's eyes started to spark as she got an idea that if she had luck on her side could help her make that Neji speak out.

"Tenten, why do-" Neji froze as he suddenly felt the pressure of a soft body pressing against his hard one.

"Tenten is hugging me!" Neji mind screamed as he felt his blood go to his cheeks.

He swallowed nervously while he tried to keep his breath calm.

"Sir Neji" Neji heard Tenten purred in a whisper into his ear while he felt her warm breath on his earlobe and the back of his neck.

"T-Tenten?" Neji managed to speak out with low tone.

"Tell me what you are hiding, sir Neji or should I call you Master Neji?" Neji could just imaging the sly smirk on Tenten's face.

She was doing this on purpose!

Neji smirked to himself.

"Well, two can play that game" Neji smugly thought to himself before decided to play along with Tenten and her little games.

Neji turned around to face Tenten while he wrapped his arms around Tenten's slim waist and pulled her closer to him to Tenten's great shock.

"I am sorry, Lady Tenten, but I am afraid I cannot tell you" Neji explained to Tenten with smooth sounding tone.

Tenten blushed a little and puffed her cheeks up before she hit Neji on the head with her fist.

"Ow!" Neji winced as he held on to his, now hurting, head.

"That is what you get for calling me 'lady'! I am not a lady!" Tenten loudly explained.

Neji sighed to himself.

"Well you were the one, who started it by calling me 'sir' and 'master'" Neji pointed out.

"Hmph!"

"How about a duel in archery, Tenten? Maybe that could clear as well as calm your mind" Neji suggested.

"Nah, not in the mood" Tenten yawned.

"And why not? Scared?" Neji smirked at Tenten. Tenten's face turned a slightly angry red color before she said with her cheeks puffed up:

"No, I just cannot duel you, at least not at the moment"

"And why is that? If you need a bow, then you can just borrow one, we got plenty" Neji told Tenten, who shook her head:

"No, that will not do, I need to use my own equipment"

Neji looked at Tenten for a while, waiting for her to do something, but Tenten did not make a single bit of movement.

"Okay, then go get it" Neji finally decided to break the silence.

"I am afraid I cannot" Tenten informed Neji, who gave her a weird expression.

"May I ask why you cannot?" Neji asked.

"I left it at home!" Tenten exclaimed out loudly. Neji literally fell over.

"What?!"

"But it is on its way!" Tenten added. Neji stood up again.

"Really? So when will it arrive?" Neji asked while he tried to conceal his embarrassment for falling over.

"I have no idea! It took me 4 days to get here" Tenten rubbed her chin thoughtfully. Neji looked at Tenten with shocked expression.

"4 days?" Tenten nodded her head, "Now that you mention it, where do you even come from?" Neji looked at Tenten with a questioning look.

"Where I come from?" Tenten rubbed her chin, "A small town just outside of the Suna Kingdom" Tenten answered.

Neji looked at Tenten with shocking eyes.

"And you traveled alone?" Tenten nodded her head, "Without your archery equipment?" Again Tenten nodded her head, "In other words you traveled alone, weaponless"

"What! No! Not weaponless!" Tenten corrected while she lifted her skirt up high, exposing her left smooth looking thigh and the dagger, which was secured around her thigh by some kind of belt made out of brown leather.

A faint redness slowly started to appear on Neji's pale cheeks as Neji realized that Tenten had raised her skirt a little too high, not only was she showing him the dagger on her thigh, but a little bit of her underpants.

A picture of the half-naked Tenten he walked in on appeared in his mind.

"Quit picturing yesterday's incident!" Neji cursed to himself.

Neji quickly shock the picture of Tenten's half-naked body and her white undergarment off his mind as Tenten started to speak:

"See," Tenten referred to the dagger on her thigh, "Not weaponless"

Neji raised an eyebrow and looked at the exposed thigh skeptically.

"While you may be skilled at using your dagger, I highly doubt it would be helpful if you were ambushed by robbers" Neji asserted.

Tenten looked at Neji smugly as she removed her dagger from the belt around her thigh and without even looking at her surrounding throw it at the tree standing behind them.

Bulls-eyes!

The dagger hit right in the middle of the tree and left Neji in shock.

"How… how did you do that?" Neji looked at Tenten, who grinned at him smugly.

"Not to brag, but I am more than just your average archer! In fact, I am the best archer you will ever meet on the northern continent!" Tenten replied with proud, yet cocky smile playing on her lips.

Neji was about to say something then a loud voice yelled out loud:

"LADY HINATA, WHAT HAPPENED? ARE YOU OKAY?"

Both Neji and Tenten were startled by it.

"I think our conversation ends here, Tenten, I better go see if Lady Hinata is alright" Neji explained to Tenten before he ran off.

"Wait up, Hero! I am coming with you!" Tenten yelled after Neji as she followed him.

"Okay, what exactly happened to her? She looks fine to me, aside from being unconscious" Tenten said while she looked confusedly down at the unconscious Hinata, who was lying on the ground with a piece of thick fabric underneath her head, supporting her head like a pillow.

Hinata looked like she was peacefully asleep to Tenten.

"If I have to guess, I will have to say that there is only one person I know, who can make Hinata faint in the middle of nowhere" Neji explained while he looked at his cousin pitifully.

Tenten looked at Neji curiously and asked him:

"Who?"

Neji's eyes narrowed as he answered:

"Naruto Uzumaki"

Tenten gave Neji an outrageous look.

"Really? Him? Why? Is she in love with him or something?"

"Sadly, she is" Neji replied with a sigh.

"I feel sorry for her" Tenten stated. Neji looked at Tenten and asked:

"Why? He is quite harmless, not to mention really dense"

"Not because of him, but… well I feel sorry for her because love is well… in my opinion a curse, which always lends us to misery and pain, no matter what. Love cannot stop death from taking everyone you love away from you because in the end love gives birth to more sorrow than happiness" Tenten said with cold, serious tone.

Neji looked at Tenten with a somewhat surprised look on his face before he closed his eyes and smiled while he said:

"I agree with you, love does hurt us more than it makes us happy. It is sad, but very true"

Tenten looked at Neji with soft smile on her lips.

"Yeah, it is sad" She agreed with a hint of sadness in her soft-spoken voice.

"W-what h-happened? Where I am?" A confused sounding voice asked softly.

Neji and Tenten looked down and saw that Hinata had woken up.

"Lady Hinata?"

"Hero's cute cousin?"

Hinata was taken a bit aback when she suddenly found herself in the arms of Neji's friend, Tenten.

She blinked.

"Ummm you know you can call me Hinata" Hinata softly told Tenten, who smiled at her.

"Fine, cute Hinata!"

"Hinata is just fine" Hinata tried once again.

"Tenten, you heard her, she wants you to call her 'Hinata', not anything with the word 'cute' in it" Neji clarified Hinata's words to Tenten.

Tenten stuck her tongue out at Neji.

"Tsk, you are such a child" Neji muttered under his breath.

"Rather a free-spirited child than a humorless adult" Tenten joked.

"I do have humo-"

"NARUTO UZUMAKI!" The same voice that had yelled at few moments ago yelled out loud once again.

"Ino?" A startled Hinata mumbled in confusement. Looking around her only to realize that her handmaiden was not in sight.

"Ino? Who is Ino?" Tenten asked Hinata with curios looking eyes.

"Ino is Hinata's handmaiden, as well as Hinata's mother substitute" Neji explained to Tenten, who opened her mouth in a 'o' like shape when the word 'mother substitute' escaped Neji's mouth.

"Mother substitute?" Tenten repeated while she rubbed her chin, trying to understand what Neji was implying.

"Cousin Neji, why are being so unfair? She is not my mother substitute, she s my friend!" Hinata looked at her cousin annoyingly.

"A friend with a mother complex" Neji shortly replied before he started to walk away.

"Where are you going, cousin Neji?" Hinata asked her cousin.

"Yeah, trying to get away from me?" Tenten shouted after Neji while she ran after him.

Neji stopped walking, which caused Tenten to run right into his back and fell into the ground on her bottom.

"Ow!"

"Are you okay, Tenten?" Hinata asked Tenten with a worried look on her pale face. Hinata ran over to Tenten and tried affectless to help the fallen woman.

Tenten stood up, ignoring Hinata's attempt to help her up and breathed out:

"I am sorry if I may sound rude, but do not try and help me" Tenten looked at Hinata with cold eyes.

Hinata found herself standing still as she saw the look in Tenten's eyes. Cold, shadowy brown eyes stared right into Hinata's pale lavender ones.

Such cold, icy look.

It reminded her of… that look, that awful day, the feeling of being helpless.

"The only person I have seen looking at me like that was Neji back when I wanted to comfort him after my father told us that Neji's father had been killed. Have she too experienced something similar?" Hinata wondered to herself as she remembered how cold and angry Neji's eyes were back then it happened.

FLASHBACK

A young Hinata was playing with a young Neji and a very young Hanabi in the giant Hyuuga manor's garden.

The fall had just begun.

"Cousin Neji, cousin Neji, look at what I found in the garden!" An exciting sounding Hanabi said to her older cousin as she showed him a big, red apple.

Neji smiled at his younger cousin.

"That is a really nice looking apple you got there Hanabi, where did you found it?" Neji asked.

Hanabi jumped in excitement and began, eagerly, to point out where found it.

"Over there! Over there!" She replied eagerly.

In her eagerness the apple was thrown out of her hand, but was luckily catch by Neji.

"Careful, Hanabi" Neji explained to Hanabi as he gave her the apple back. Hanabi nodded her head and ran over to her sister.

"Sister, sister! Look, I found an apple!" Hanabi yelled to Hinata, who was watering the flowers.

Hinata looked at the apple and smiled at her sister.

"That apple looks tasty, it is for me?" Hinata asked her sister innocently.

"No, it is mine!" Hanabi pulled the apple close to her chest. Both Neji and Hinata laughed at her reaction.

Suddenly the joyful moment seemed to vanish as one of the maid came up to them with serious look on her face.

"The master has requested to see Lady Hinata and Neji, please follow me" The maid said before she turned around and walked back into the manor.

Neji looked at his cousins.

"You stay here and wait for us while we are away, Hanabi" Neji told his younger cousin, who nodded her head.

"Okay, I will wait here and look for more apples!" Hanabi replied with bright smile.

Neji smiled softly at Hanabi before he turned to Hinata and said:

"We better go, Hinata"

Hinata nodded.

"Yeah" The two left afterwards, running over to the maid, who was waiting at the entrance of the manor.

Once they had arrived at Hiashi's study the maid left.

"Uncle?" Neji looked at his uncle with confused eyes.

Hiashi was standing in the middle of the dark room with narrowed eyes and somewhat frustrated, yet sad look on his face.

"Neji," Neji looked up at his uncle, "I am sorry, but I have to inform you that your father…my brother… has left …this world" Hiashi finished with devastated look.

Neji blinked confusedly at his uncle. He felt a sudden need to cry and a sudden feeling of loneliness.

"W-what do you m-mean by l-left this w-world, uncle?" Neji confusingly asked his uncle.

Hiashi looked down at his nephew with sad expression, finding it hard to be the one to ruin the happiness of his nephew by telling him the cold reality.

That his father was dead! Gone! Never coming back to his son! Just like his mother!

"Your father, Neji, is dead, he was killed" Neji's eyes widened and his eyes became teary as the words escaped Hiashi's lips.

"N-no, m-my *sob* f-father is not *sob* d-dead! He cannot die! He told me himself! He promised to come back! He *sob* promised!" Neji cried as in pure agony. Tears falling endlessly from his small, pale cheeks as he collapsed on the ground.

His father could not be dead! No! It is all lies, lies!

Not far away from the crying Neji stood a frozen Hinata.

Silent tears where fallen down her own cheeks as she watched her cousin cry.

She walked over to him and attempted to comfort him by wrapping her arms around him, but he pushed her away coldly.

"Do not touch me!" Neji gave Hinata a look of pure hate and anger. A look that could freeze hell over.

A look that Hinata would never forget.

Cold pale eyes.

Hinata from off.

"Sister? What happened? Where is cousin Neji? Why are you crying? Sister?" Hinata's sister continuously asked her sister, who did not answer a single one of them.

Uncle Hizashi was gone and cousin Neji would never be the same person again.

END OF FLASHBACK

"Hinata?"

"Huh?" Hinata broke out of her thoughts and found herself staring into Tenten's clear, brown eyes.

"Her eyes are back to normal" Hinata blinked.

"Are you coming or not?" Tenten asked with a lifted eyebrow.

"Oh, of course!" Hinata ran over to join Neji and Tenten.

Tenten grinned at Hinata.

"Oh that reminds me," Tenten recalled something, "I am sorry if I frightened you back then, I did not mean to scare you like that" Tenten apologized sincerely.

Hinata looked at her cousin, then back at Tenten with a skeptic look.

"Cousin Neji, made you apologize, did he not?" Hinata asked with a lifted eyebrow.

"No, he did not! Like I will ever obey his orders?" Tenten denied with red cheeks. Neji merely smirked at Tenten while Hinata giggled.

"I accept your apologize, but I am sorry as well. While I do not know you like Neji do, I do know that you like to do things on your own and I had forgotten that, sorry" Hinata bowed down apologetically.

"Know me well? He has only known me for a day" Tenten pointed out as if Neji knew nothing of importance about her.

"I believe I know you better than you think, Tenten" Neji smugly said.

"Tsk as if" Tenten stubbornly replied.

"Ehm were we not supposed to go look for Ino?" Hinata looked hopelessly at the two, feeling a bit like the third wheel.

"Oh right, off we go!" Tenten shouted out pointing her arm out in a random direction.

"Wrong direction, Tenten" Neji commented. Tenten's ears turned red.

"Shut it, hero!"

To be continued…

A/N: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter!

We got a flashback involving Tenten's past in the previous chapter and now we got one involving Neji's past from Hinata's point of view. Hinata sees similarities between them that they are unaware of and the maids ship them together!

Ino and Tenten share a few similarities. But while Tenten is a fighter, who can travel alone with just a dagger, Ino is not a fighter, just a woman with dangerous temper xD

Oh and Kiba is developing a crush on Ino ;)

Leave a review and tell me what you thought of the chapter :)