A/N: Chapter 7 is finally up, I apologize for the slight delay ^^' Hope you all are going to enjoy it!
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 7: A Sense of Lecturing
"Now, have I made myself clear?" Ino asked Naruto and Kiba with a harsh tone.
The two had each received a large, red handprint on their right cheek and both of them where currently on the ground staring at the angry woman before them.
"Lady Hinata's maid is scary, very scary" Naruto told himself while he caressed his sore cheek.
"Running into crazy, yet beautiful women seems to have become a habit, a really painful habit" Kiba thought to himself as he sighed deeply.
"ANSWER THE QUESTION!" The angry blond shouted at them loudly, startling the two men.
"Yes, sir-oops I mean yes, miss! We understand!" Naruto hastily spoke out. Kiba nodded his head and said:
"Completely! We have learned our lesson! Naruto to will never call Lady Hinata cute again!"
"Indeed! Lady Hinata cute? No, no, no, she is not cute! She is… ehm anything, but cute!" Naruto spoke out with a foolish grin on his face.
Ino looked at Naruto with angry eyes before she hit him on top of the head.
"Ow! Why did you hit me?" Naruto asked while he rubbed his head.
Ino took a hold on Naruto by his collar and pulled his face close to hers.
"I told you not to yell them out loud, not mean the opposite. I will personally hunt your down if you ever hurt Lady Hinata's pride in any way you possibly can!" Ino warned Naruto before she released her hold on his collar.
Naruto hit the ground and rubbed his sor neck as he lifted himself up to look at Ino.
"But… Ino, right?" Ino looked at Naruto, "Why do you care so much about what I say or yell out about Lady Hinata, I mean no harm with them. They are just harmless compliments, Kiba talks about her too, but it was me you are angry at. Why is that?" Naruto looked at Ino with confused looking eyes.
Ino hard eyes turned somewhat soft before she replied:
"Because while you may not be completely unaware of it, the things you say about Milady means quite a lot to her personally and I would hate to see her sad because of something you may have said without actually thinking of the consequences they may have"
"I am still not understanding it" Naruto cocked his head to the side confusedly.
"No wonder everyone calls you dense, if you cannot see the obvious" Ino pointed out.
"I am not dense! I am very good at figuring things out" Naruto defended himself.
"Sure, Naruto, and my mother is the royal gardener" Kiba sarcastically said to Naruto.
"Really? How come you never told me? I thought she was a dog tamer" Naruto looked at Kiba surprisely while Kiba face palmed himself.
"Idiot! She is a dog tamer!" Kiba informed Naruto.
"But, but you just told me she was the royal gardener?" Naruto looked at his friend with a completely lost look on his face.
"It is called being sarcastic, Naruto, you know an ironic way of speaking" Kiba explained to Naruto.
"Ahhhh- Wait, what does ironic mean?" Naruto asked with clueless expression on his face, which caused Kiba to fell over.
"Idiots" Ino muttered under her.
"Ino!" A voice called out.
Ino, quickly recognizing the voice, turned around.
"Lady Hinata, you have woken up? Are you okay?" Ino asked her master with a concern look on her face. Ino ran over to Hinata and placed her hands on her master's shoulders.
"I am fine, Ino, no need to worry" Hinata smiled kindly at her handmaiden.
Ino sighed out in relief.
"Thank goodness, I was so worried about you, but not to worry! I have just taught those two fools a lesson they will never forget, you will never faint in the middle of nowhere ever again!" Ino assured Hinata.
"Okay? What exactly did you do?" Hinata asked Ino, having an odd feeling about Ino's way of teaching a lesson.
"Oh nothing really, just a quick little, harmless talk," Ino smiled warmly, "With my fist" Ino then turned and with open arms she pointed at Naruto and Kiba, who both had a handprint covered cheek.
"Hello Lady Hinata, how are yo-OW!" Naruto received a slam to the head. "What did you do that for, Kiba?" Naruto looked at Kiba while holding on to his head, protecting it from getting slammed at once more.
"You are such an idiot, Naruto!" Kiba yelled at Naruto, who looked at him completely cluelessly.
"How am I an idiot? What did I do wrong?"
Kiba face palmed himself.
"Well because Ino just told you that the things you say can cause Lady Hinata great harm, which means no talking to Lady Hinata" Kiba explained to his dense companion.
"But all I was going to ask was how she was today" Naruto blinked.
"She just fainted you idiot, what person would feel fine if they have just fainted?" Kiba asked with an outrageous expression.
"Ehehe… No idea" Naruto admitted miserable.
"I figured" Kiba muttered with an unimpressed expression.
From afar Hinata watched Kiba and Naruto speak. She looked at Ino with a confused expression when she heard what Ino apparently had told them.
"I know Ino is only trying to help me by telling Naruto not to act as wild and energetic around me , but I really do enjoy this side of him even if he is completely unaware of the feelings I have for him. I would hate it if he stopped speaking to me" Hinata thought to herself.
Hinata took a deep breath.
"Here goes nothing, I have to defend Naruto's friendly nature!" Hinata told herself with determination as she open her mouth to speak, but someone else beat her at it.
"Excuse me, mother, but why are you being so harsh on those guys especially that Naruto fellow? I admit he is… well they both are idiots and perverts, but I am sure they had no intentions of making Hinata faint. It is not their fault that Hinata is in lo-Mmmm" A pale hand covered Tenten's mouth, preventing her of finishing her sentence.
"I think you got you point out, Tenten, no need to say things that are not yours to tell" Neji told Tenten as he removed his hand from her mouth.
Tenten gave Neji an annoyed look.
"Never do that again" Tenten warned Neji with a pointy finger, Neji merely shrugged his shoulder.
"We will see"
"Who are you calling 'mother', your harlot!" Ino snapped, glaring at Tenten with angry eyes.
"I-Ino, please be nice" Hinata desperately tried to calm Ino down, but it was already too late.
Tenten had heard her.
"What did you just call me?" Tenten looked at Ino with dark expression and anger filled eyes.
"I do not think I need to repeat myself, you heard me clear enough" Ino replied while she glared at Tenten harshly.
"Do," Tenten lifted her skirt up a bit, "Not" She moved her hand towards her thigh, "Insult" She took her dagger firmly in her hand, "Me" Tenten lifted her hand, ready to attack the blond, but was stopped.
By Neji.
"Tenten," Neji began, "Please, drop your weapon. She did not mean to insult you that harshly, she was acting out of anger just like you are now! She does not know you and how you feel about your own pride, just like you do not know her and how she feels about her pride" Neji softly spoke into Tenten's ear while he ran a hand through Tenten's hair, trying to calm her down.
Tenten let out a sigh.
Her grip on her dagger loosened and the dagger slipped through her hands.
The dagger fell to the ground.
Everyone was in shock.
"Cousin Neji, really likes her more than he is aware of" Hinata thought to herself as she watched the display before her.
"How come sir Neji has luck with the angry ladies and I do not" Kiba wondered to himself, feeling jealous of Neji.
"Am I allowed to say 'hello' to Lady Hinata or is it still forbidden?" Naruto asked himself confusedly.
"Is this the woman Lady Hinata was talking about? The one, who her cousin seem to have fallen for?" Ino blinked while she had a somewhat bad taste in her mouth. Somehow she felt bad for insulting this woman without knowing her. It was very unfairly of her to do so.
"But I was angry and so was she, I guess" Ino sighed deeply to herself. How she hated feeling guilty.
Meanwhile Tenten was starting to shiver due to Neji's constantly breathing against her neck.
"Stop breathing into my neck, it gives me the chills!" Tenten shouted out with reddish cheeks as she pushed Neji away from her.
Neji merely chuckled, but said nothing to her instead he looked at Ino and said:
"While I really could care less about Tenten feeling insulted or not, I do not enjoy being stuck with Tenten when she is angry. So could be so kind and say sorry, you do not even have to mean it" Neji whispered the last part.
Ino lowered her eyebrows skeptically before she shrugged and said:
"Sure, she deserves an apology anyway. I admit that I was not being fair towards your lady"
"Your lady?" Neji's ears picked up at what Ino had said in the end.
"She is not my-" Neji stopped speaking when he realized that Ino was not listening to him anymore.
Ino had walked over to Tenten, who had just placed her dagger back to where it belonged.
"Miss Tenten?" Ino began.
Tenten looked up. Her eyes had softened and instead of dark brown, they were back to their usual hazel brown.
"That is my name if you quit the miss" Tenten replied.
"Fine, Tenten it is then," Ino nodded her head acknowledging, "I wanted to apologize for insulting you so harshly by calling you such a discriminated word, it was uncalled of me to do so" Ino bowed her head apologetically.
Tenten looked at bit surprised, but gave Ino a smile.
"It is as easy as forgotten, I am sorry I called you mother, but I only did so because Neji here told me that you have somewhat of a mother complex when it comes to Hinata, also I did not know what else to call you" Tenten grinned.
Everyone looked practically dumbfoundedly at Tenten.
"That woman's emotions are completely out of control and so unpredictable!" Everyone thought to themselves.
"Did sir Neji really say that?" Ino asked Tenten. The look on her face told everyone that she was not in the mood to be fooled with.
"He did!" Tenten answered with a grin.
"No, I did not!" Neji denied.
"Did too!" Tenten shouted out loud.
"I did not!" Neji shouted back loudly.
"I think you did actually, cousin Neji" Hinata told her cousin.
"Yeah, Hinata! Take that, Neji!" Tenten cheerfully exclaimed.
"Whose side are you on?" Neji asked his younger cousin with angry eyes.
"Ehmm no one's side!" Hinata awkwardly tried to say.
"She is on my side, Neji, because she agrees with me" Tenten grinned smugly as she stuck her tongue out at Neji while she pulled an arm over Hinata's shoulder, pulling the pale girl to her side.
"I am sorry, cousin Neji" Hinata apologized.
"Nevermind, does it really matter. Hinata is fine, the two idiots have learned their lesson, at least for today. You and Tenten somehow managed to put aside anger and bury the hatchet, everything worked out well in the end" Neji calmly explained.
"Maybe, but I still deserves an explanation for why you think I have a mother complex" Ino told Neji.
Neji sighed out:
"Fine, you worry too much about Hinata like an overprotected mother," Neji looked at Tenten, "Tenten, we have to go now"
"What? Where? Right now?" Tenten blinked as Neji took Tenten by the wrist and dragged her off to where he only knows.
"You call that a proper explanation? Come back here, sir Neji, and explain yourself properly! I demand a proper explanation!" Ino yelled after them.
"Ino, calm down" Hinata tried to reason with Ino, who was clenching her hands in frustration.
"By God's name!" Ino cursed under her breath.
"No need to curse, Ino" Hinata insisted with a nervous smile on her face.
"Awww Lady Hinata is so kind" Naruto uttered out a little bit too loud.
"Shhh Naruto, she must not hear you or else she might faint again" Kiba reminded Naruto.
"Oh right"
Inside the manor Neji was still dragging Tenten along with him.
"Where are you dragging me off? Could you please release my wrist, I can almost not feel it! Why did we even have to go? I do not remember you telling me we were going somewhere aside from checking on Hinata" Tenten continued to ask Neji questions as he dragged her off.
Neji stopped walking and turned to look at Tenten.
"You do remember that I told you my uncle had invited someone over to help me teach you a little about proper mannerism, do you not?" Neji asked with raised eyebrow.
Tenten looked at Neji for a moment before she admitted:
"No, I do not" Neji almost fell over.
"And why do you not remember? I told you at lunch that the son of the queen's advisor was going to come over" Neji explained to Tenten.
FLASHBACK
Neji looked at Tenten with shocked expression.
"That Tenten has literally no sense of proper eating manners!" Neji told himself as he watched Tenten skip between slurping the soup and chewing the breed and carrots loudly with her mouth open.
"Tenten, stop slurping and close your mouth while you chew, it is disgusting to watch" Neji demandingly told Tenten, who stuck her tongue out at him in a child-like manner.
"Just let me enjoy my meal and keep your mind off my eating habits" Tenten replied while she continued to chew her food.
"I would have loved to just let you do as you please, but the deal we made with my uncle includes me teaching you some proper manners and that also means," Neji paused, ", Tenten, no elbows on the table!" Neji almost yelled while he pointed at Tenten elbows, which she had placed on the table.
"My elbows do no harm to the food, so I really do not see the problem in them being on table in fact I can use them to support my head when I get tired of you and your manner talking" Tenten gave a teaseful yawn.
Neji sighed.
"Well then it is a good thing that I have someone, who is ready to help me teach you some manners" Neji smiled to himself as he spoke.
"What?" Tenten looked surprised.
"Yeah, you heard me. I figured I could not teach you simple mannerism on my own, so I managed to ask my uncle to invite a certain friend of mine over to help me what should we call," Neji rubbed his chin, "Oh yeah tame you" Neji finished.
"You have friends?!" Tenten blinked shockingly, completely missing the comment Neji made about taming her. Neji's face turned red and he yelled:
"Of course, I have!"
"Unbelievable" Tenten mumbled under her breath.
"Nevermind, my friend is the son of the queen's advisor, so he is kind of an expert when it comes to manners and etiquette" Neji explained calmly.
"I really cannot stand advisors!" Tenten moaned out miserable.
"And why not?" Neji asked Tenten, who was crying fake tears of misery.
"They take rules far too seriously!" Tenten cried out.
"I am sorry you feel that way about advisors, but my friend is only a son of one, not one himself" Neji clarified to Tenten, hoping she would stop complaining like a 5 year old.
"Okay, so do you friend have a name? Or should I just call him 'advisor son'?" Tenten asked Neji at short moment after.
Neji looked at Tenten for a moment before he answered:
"His name is Shikamaru Nara"
END OF FLASHBACK
"Oh yeah, that name does sound familiar to me in a way" Tenten admitted while she rubbed her chin thoughtfully.
"Why did I say yes to my uncle's stupid deal again?" Neji asked as he sighed.
"Something with you wanting to become a part of some knights" Tenten replied without much care it whether she was right or not.
"It is the Knights of Konoha!" Neji corrected Tenten with an annoyed look. How dare she call THE Knights of Konoha just SOME knights! The nerve of her!
"No idea who they are" Tenten told Neji much to Neji's horror. How could she not know them? The best of the best warriors in the Kingdom of Konoha! The Knights of THE queen, the protected of Konoha, the ones Neji wish to become like to honor his decease father and bring glory to his family!
"What?" Tenten looked at Neji confusedly, "Why are you looking at me as if you have seen a ghost or something?"
Neji placed his hands on Tenten shoulders and looked her deep into the eyes as he said:
"How can you not have heard of the Knights of Konoha, everyone knows them!"
"Well not everyone since I do not know them" Tenten pointed out.
"Well then," Neji took a breath, "I guess I have no choice, but to explain to you who they are"
"But what about your friend, the advisor son? Was we not supposed to meet him soon?" Tenten asked while she cocked her head to the side.
"We are, but he will not arrive until later" Neji explained to Tenten, who looked at him surprisely.
"Wait a moment! I thought we were in a hurry! Then why did you drag me off when he has yet to arrive?" Tenten asked demandingly.
Neji blushed faintly while he avoided eye contact.
"Because," Neji paused, "I could not let you and my cousin's handmaiden, Ino, be with each other for too long" Neji finished while he looked away from Tenten.
"Why not?" Tenten asked Neji, getting a bit annoyed by the fact that he was trying avoid eye contact with her.
Neji looked at her with narrowed eyes and faint red cheeks.
"Because I fear the consequences of you two getting along far more than you two not getting along with each other" Neji admitted.
Tenten looked at Neji for a moment.
She blinked.
And a Cheshire cat smile appeared on her face.
"Tenten, remove that smile on your face this instant!" Neji ordered Tenten. He did not like that look, at all! That woman and her perverted way for thinking, always trying to catch him in a weak moment!
"Why?" Tenten cocked her head to the side with an innocent expression on her face.
"B-because it is very annoying!" Neji lied with a faint pink blush on his cheeks.
"Fine!" Tenten crossed her arms over her chest while she turned her head away.
"Tenten?" No response. "Tenten?" Still no response. "Tenten?" Once again, no response from the angry miss.
Neji narrowed his eyes and bit his own lip in annoyance of being ignored. Oh, how he just hated being ignored in such a childish manner.
"TENTEN!"
"Okay, I give up! What?" Tenten finally gave in.
"The Knights of Konoha" Neji said shortly, expecting Tenten to remember what they were talking about a few moments ago.
"The who?" Tenten blinked and Neji grew pissed.
"Let us go to the study" Neji said as he walked off.
"What! Why? Hello, wait for me your stupid bastard hero!" Tenten yelled after Neji as she ran after him.
Bored looking eyes stared at the main entrance to the Hyuuga manor.
Dressed in a simple loose dress shirt, black trouser, brown leather boots and with his brown hair pulled up in semi-loose high ponytail, Shikamaru Nara sighed deeply to himself.
"I could really use a nap" He thought to himself as he walked up to the door and knocked on it.
*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*
Shikamaru knocked on the door three times. A moment afterwards a maid opened up the door.
"Can I help you sir?" The maid asked politely.
"Yes, I was invited over by Lord Hiashi to help his nephew with something" Shikamaru explained to the maid, who nodded her head.
"Oh yes, Lord Hiashi did mention a sir Nara coming over" The maid recalled.
"Well that will be me, Shikamaru Nara at your service, miss" Shikamaru replied. He bowed slightly at the maid causing the maid to blush a slight pink color out embarrassment for not realizing that he was the guest her master had mentioned.
"Oh welcome sir Nara!" The maid bowed, "I will escort you to Lord Hiashi right away" The maid explained politely. She moved away from the door, letting Shikamaru walk in before she closed the door behind him.
"Follow me, sir Nara" The maid said as she began to walk towards her master.
Shikamaru followed her. Despite the fact that he had visited the Hyuuga family plenty of times not all the maids seem to know him and he never knew where Neji or where Neji's uncle were in the giant manor.
"Sometimes I wonder why they have to have so many rooms! It is like the queen's castle too many rooms to too few people!" Shikamaru thought to himself as he followed the maid.
The maid stopped in front of a room and knocked on the door.
*Knock* *Knock*
"Who is it?" A male voice asked from inside the room.
"I have brought sir Nara to you as you told me to do, Master Hiashi" The maid explained.
"Send him in" Hiashi informed the maid, who nodded her head and turned to Shikamaru.
"You can walk in, I will make my leave now" The maid bowed before she left.
Shikamaru walked over to the door, took the handle and pushed the door open.
Inside the room Hiashi was setting by his desk writing. He turned on his chair and said:
"Ah Shikamaru, it is good to see you" Hiashi greeted Shikamaru politely.
"It is good to be here, it had been awhile since I have been here" Shikamaru replied while he bowed politely.
"It has, now tell how are you parents doing?" Hiashi asked Shikamaru kindly.
"Great, I guess" Shikamaru answered.
"Oh good, good!" Hiashi chuckled.
"I am sorry, Lord Hiashi, but I am guessing you did not invite me over just to talk about my parents, I am right?" Shikamaru assumed with a suspicious look on his face.
Hiashi chuckled:
"You are correct as always, you truly are an intellect young man, Shikamaru"
"So, why did you invite me over, Lord Hiashi?" Shikamaru pressed.
"Well technically it was not my idea to invite you over" Hiashi explained to Shikamaru. Shikamaru nodded his head slowly before he replied:
"I figured. It was Neji, right?" Hiashi nodded his head, "What do he needs help with?"
"A girl" Hiashi replied shortly.
Shikamaru blinked.
Shikamaru was left speechless, he was in shock.
"A girl? Neji needing help with a girl? Neji with a girl? Neji liking a girl? Neji meeting a girl in the first place? A girl like a real girl in flesh and bones?" Shikamaru thought to himself shockingly. He could not believe his own ears.
Another thought run through his head.
Why did Neji need HIS help?
"Like I am any better at girls than him, I am just like him! My duty comes before my love life, which is quite none-existing!" Shikamaru reminded himself.
"Why does he need my help? It is not like I am any better at girls than him" Shikamaru looked at Hiashi with a questioning look.
Hiashi suddenly started to chuckled loudly.
"Oh no, no! Not helping him in THAT manner!" Hiashi informed Shikamaru with humorous expression.
"Oh," Shikamaru blinked, "Then please enlighten me in what exact manner does he needs help with?" Shikamaru crossed his arms over his chest as he spoke.
"Well to make a long story short yesterday I told my nephew to go relax and he returns with a girl, well woman to be exact, with a quite colorful personality I might add. I made a deal with them in the form of a challenge. They must learn from each other and one of the things my nephew needs to teach his new friend isproper manners of a lady" Hiashi finished his explanation.
"Okay and that brings me back to my previews question, why does he need my help?" Shikamaru asked once again.
"Apparently my nephew has a little bit of trouble with her and needs a little bit of guidance" Hiashi answered.
"Okay, so do you by any chance know where you nephew is right at the moment? Or do I have to for him myself?" Shikamaru looked at Hiashi, hoping he would know the answer since having to look around the entire manor after Neji would be a pain in the behind.
"I may be his guardian, but I am not his nanny" Neji told Shikamaru, who lifted an eyebrow.
"So you do not no where he is?" Shikamaru asked, feeling a bit disappointed.
"Yes, I do not know for sure, but he is most likely either in the garden or in one of the study rooms" Hiashi explained while he took a seat down on his chair and lifted his quill up to continue his writing.
"Okay, I think I will go look around and maybe ask the maids. It was good seeing you, Lord Hiashi" Shikamaru said to Hiashi as he made his departure.
As he had left the room he sighed to himself deeply while leaning against the door.
"I guess my nape has to wait for later, you own me one, Neji" Shikamaru tiresomely thought to himself as he began his searching for Neji and Neji's girl friend.
In the study Neji had began his explanation about The Knights of Konoha.
"The Knights of Konoha, also known as the Queen's knights, are the best of the best swordsmen in the Kingdom of Konoha. The original ones were chosen by the Queen herself, but the new ones are chosen by the older members now because the Queen is too busy ruling our wonderful kingdom to take care of selecting new members" Neji explained with proud look on his face.
Tenten, on the other hand, looked somewhat bored.
"That was it? I was expecting a long history lesson, not one this short" Tenten admitted bluntly.
Neji looked at Tenten sternly and said:
"I am not done yet, so please no speaking until I am finished talking"
Tenten looked a little bit taken by surprise.
"B-but you-"
"Hush, Tenten, I am not done talking" Neji cut Tenten off by lifting a judging finger at her.
"Tsk" Tenten mumbled under her breath.
Neji choice to ignore her and continue his explanation:
"The Knights of Konoha are considered to be the heroes of my kingdom, unlike most other swordsmen they are not forgotten even after they have died. No, they are remembered and their memory forever lives on, which is one of the reasons why my main goal in life is become one, a knight of Konoha" Neji finished.
Tenten looked at Neji with a bit of surprised look on her face.
"So your reason for wanting to become one of them is to be remembered after your death?" Neji nodded his head, "That is… quite lame of you" Tenten bluntly admitted.
Neji gave Tenten an outrageous look.
"Excuse me? Lame of me? How is that lame of me?" Neji demandingly asked Tenten, who shrugged and replied:
"Well because it is lame of you, your main goal in life is practically to be remembered"
"Who does not want to be remembered?" Neji questioned Tenten.
"That is not what I mean, what I mean is that you have a family that surely would remember you, so I really do not understand why you need the whole kingdom to remember you" Tenten explained.
"I would love to explain my reasons more deeply, but they are far too personal for me to discuss them with someone, who I barely know or fully trust" Neji told Tenten honesty. It was true his reasons from what he had told Tenten sounded quite arrogant and he would have loved to give her the real reason, but sadly he cannot because the real reason is too personal for him to explain it!
"The feeling is mutual, Hero," Tenten winked at Neji, "We both hold a dislike towards each other, but are forced together by your weird uncle" Tenten finished with a grin.
"You are right on that, I guess we could see our relationship as a love-hate relationship" Neji said with a somewhat suggesting tone in his voice.
"Guess so since you apparently just love to hate me" Tenten teased Neji with a sly smile on her face.
Neji flushed and looked away.
"No, I do not!"
"Hehe, if you say so" Tenten rolled her eyes.
Neji sighed deeply.
"Tenten, why do you have to be such a pain all the time?" Neji asked Tenten, who looked at him confusedly before she grinned and answered:
"Because I love the way you react!"
"The way I react?" Neji blinked confusedly.
Tenten nodded her head eagerly:
"Yeah, annoying you just makes my day!"
"How can you be so sure, you have only known be for a day" Neji wondered.
"I could always show you" Tenten told Neji with a sly expression that Neji did not notice.
Neji shrugged and replied:
"Fine, be my guest and show me"
And Tenten did.
By tackling Neji to the ground.
Neji winced a bit. Fallen on your back hurts quite a bit after all unless you hit something soft, which Neji, unluckily, did not. Nope, he the cold and hard woody floor.
Feeling a shifting weight moving on top of his hips and chest area Neji opened his eyes and saw…
Tenten sitting on top of him with a sly grin on face.
Oh how Neji did not like that sly expression on her face.
"Get off of me, Tenten" Neji managed to say while he winced a bit.
"No," Tenten shifted a bit, "Because this is annoying to you and that was what you asked me to show you" Tenten said while she moved her face closer to Neji's.
Neji could feel Tenten's breath on his lips.
Pale, lavender orbs meets deep, brown orbs.
The weight on Neji's torso increased as Tenten used all her weight to keep Neji from getting off of her.
Neji opened his mouth to speak out again, but someone else beat him at it.
"Well this is surprising"
Both Neji and Tenten froze and turned they heads towards the intruder.
A man dressed in white and black with his dark hair pulled into a high ponytail was standing, leaning against the entrance with sly smile on his face.
Tenten blinked confusedly while Neji's eyes narrowed, knowing who the man was and what he was thinking.
"Shikamaru Nara, this is not what you think it is, I can only a sure you that"
To be continued…
A/N: Done! Hope you enjoyed it! :D
More moments between Neji and Tenten ;) True be told Neji and Tenten does not see their moments as romantic… yet! But everyone else does!
Shikamaru has been introduced, I just love writing him!
Leave a review and tell what you think :)