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Chapter 4: Confusion

"TENTEN!!" Lee shouted, the sound surrounding the guys as they stared at the scene in shock.

There was blood everywhere. Blood streaking the walls of the alley, blood pooling around Tenten's motionless body, blood soaking into the scraps of fabric littered around them, blood covering various weapons that were scattered on the ground, blood sprinkled on a smashed hamper, blood seeping into the cracks of the narrow alleyway. However, the boys were not staring at the blood, but at the figure of the unmoving girl.

Lee ran to his teammate, trying to see the extent of the damage. Cuts and bruises covered her body, streams of blood streaking her legs. Her chest rose and fell gently, making him sigh with relief. She was alive.

Naruto was livid. So what if Tenten wasn't his teammate? What if she wasn't exactly his best friend? She was his comrade. He had gone on countless missions with her, and she had saved his skin many a time. She was a nice girl . . . She didn't deserve to get hurt like this. His eyes flashed red, before he closed them, as he took deep breaths, having an internal battle with the demon inside of him.

Kiba shrugged out of his heavy jacket, handing it to Lee. The latter accepted it silently, and wrapped the girl with it.

The Inuzuka froze as the scent of the air around them hit him. There was the masculine scent of the guys around him, the smell of blood, and Tenten's feminine scent. However, there was something else . . . Then it hit him. He was smelling . . .

Shino stared at his teammate, immediately knowing something was wrong. He narrowed his eyes. Kiba must be onto something . . .

Kiba drew in a shaky breath, shocked at his new findings.

"Tenten . . . " he unconsciously shivered, "Tenten was raped."

The words echoed around them as the guys tried to digest this new piece of information.

"You're sure?" Lee asked, hoping that the Inuzuka's nose was wrong for once.

Kiba nodded sadly as his nin-dog whined, "I can barely smell it, but the smell of sex is definitely there. Akamaru can scent it too. And, judging by her appearance, it wasn't willing."

Shikamaru glanced at the blood on the wall, "Going by the blood, it must have happened hours ago."

Kiba and Akamaru both tried to get a scent, but couldn't, "We can't find who it was. The smell of blood overpowers it. The smell of sex is faint as it is. They must have left a long time ago."

Chouji gripped his forgotten bag of chips, "How the hell did this happen?" The usually calm Akimichi's eyes were narrowed, fury burning in him. A fury that he felt only when his comrades were hurt. Tenten was definitely hurt.

"A rarely used alleyway . . . no one would notice too soon," Sasuke mused to himself.

Naruto shouted, "Dammit! Who the hell did this?"

"It doesn't matter at the moment," Sai spoke for the first time.

"What the hell? Of course it matters!" Lee all but screamed, turning on the ex-ANBU Root member.

"He's right," Kiba countered, "She needs treatment now."

Kankuro looked around, "How long would it take to get to the hospital?"

Shikamaru looked at all the blood around the place, "I think most of this is her blood. In that case, she's probably lost too much to last much longer."

"She needs to be in the emergency room now!" Lee began to panic, but Shino shook his head, "It may be too late for that."

"No!" Gaara said, suddenly, "Today, Temari said something about having female bonding time with the girls at Hinata Hyuga's home. It's close and Sakura and Ino would be there. They would be able to do something."

They all turned to look at the Kazekage, nodding at his straightforward logic. They ran to the Hyuga Compound, knowing that with each second, Tenten's life was slowly ebbing away.

Neji shrugged on his Hyuga robes, grabbing a pair of training shoes from the floor beside his bed. He began to organize his kunai pouch, before going to rummage in his drawers, trying to find some more weapons.

"Almost there!" Lee hugged Tenten's limp form to him as they sped towards the Hyuga Compound, "Stay with me, Tenten. Stay with me. Almost there!"

They landed in front of the large doorway of the Compound. Kiba started banging on the door loudly.

"Damn it!" Naruto shouted, "It's an emergency!"

A servant opened the door, about to turn away the group of boys when Gaara stepped forward.

"Lord Kazekage!" The servant bowed to the Leaf's political ally.

"I would like a word with Lady Hinata," Gaara growled dangerously.

The servant hurriedly opened the door wider, knowing that angering the Kazekage would anger the Hokage. Angering the Hokage would anger Lord Hyuga. That wasn't a position they would like to be in. So, the boys entered, rushing past the bowing servant, as they headed towards Hinata's room. Kiba ran with mad speed to Hinata's room to warn the girls.

Sakura sorted through a bag of cosmetics, "Hinata, brown of black?"

Ino frowned, looking up from where she was painting Temari's nails, "Black eyeliner, definitely. That way, her pale eyes would be able to stand out."

Sakura grinned, "Right!" She ran the eye pencil over Hinata's lash line as a disturbance was heard outside the compound.

Sakura put the pencil away as she reached for mascara, "I wonder who it is. It's almost midnight."

"I-It could be--" Hinata was cut off as running footsteps were heard coming closer.

The door of the room was thrown open. The girls turned around, about to protest the intruder, until they saw a disheveled looking Kiba stand in the doorway.

"Clean up! Emergency! Emergency!" Kiba panted out, not being able to string a complete sentence together. Hinata nodded, knowing that Kiba would never make a joke like this. If he was this worried, this was a real emergency, indeed. She started clearing the bed of makeup, magazines and hair styling items. The other girls, helped her, though they still didn't understand what the hell was going on. Technically, Hinata didn't understand either. She was sure she would, soon enough.

Then, Lee burst into the room, followed by a horde of boys, whose faces showed everything from anxious to pained to absolutely terrified.

Then, the girls' focused on what Lee was holding in his arms. Correction, who Lee was holding in his arms.

"Tenten!" Sakura gasped, as Lee placed her on the bed.

Hinata looked horrified, staring at the sight of Tenten. So, this was why Kiba was so upset!

"Hinata!" Sakura snapped, tying her hair back from her face, "I need bandages and clean water!"

"Temari!" She turned to the wind wielder, "I need that red knapsack of medical supplies!"

She turned to Ino and the two of them began to look over Tenten's wounds.

As their hands, emitting green chakra, were gently placed on Tenten, the girl screamed, "NO!! NEJI! No! Don't . . . Don't hurt me! No!! NEJI!!"

The door to Neji's room slammed open, just as Neji was wrapping his arm in bandage. He sighed, continuing to roll the bandage around his arm, thinking that Hanabi was throwing another temper tantrum when he was lifted off the ground by his collar. He found himself staring into the eyes of none other than . . .

"LEE! What the hell are you doing? Why the hell are you here? Damn it! Let me down!" He was answered by a punch in the jaw, which sent him crashing into a wall with power that made a crater upon impact and made a picture fall of it's perch on a shelf. The faces of the Konoha 12 were framed by the broken glass. Lee grabbed him again, and slammed Neji against the wall with a loud smashing sound, making another dent in the all to match the first.

"Lee! What the hell?" He coughed as his male teammate slugged him in the stomach.

"What the hell did you do to Tenten?" Lee screamed at the Hyuga prodigy. Neji stared blankly at him, and was kicked in the side, causing him to crash to the ground.

"Why did you do that to Tenten?" Lee shouted at Neji. Neji became furious. The frustration that he had felt all day became fuel for his anger, "What the hell? WHAT THE HELL?! If anything, you should be asking Tenten what the hell she did to me!" He blocked several of Lee's punches.

"Well, how do you explain her almost bleeding to death in an alley, screaming for you to stop hurting her?" Lee kicked Neji, but Neji had stopped blocking, only staring dumbly at Lee, "What?"

Lee kicked at the Hyuga, "You heard me! She was in an alley, unconscious. We brought her here, for Sakura and Ino to heal, and she was crying and screaming for you to stop hurting her."

"Byakugan!" Neji looked in the direction of Hinata's room. Sure enough, there was Tenten's chakra signature. However, her chakra was almost depleted and it was very, very weak, distubingly so. Ignoring Lee, he charged towards the room, only to be blocked by several other ninja.

"Dammit! Naruto! Let me go!" He aimed a punch at Naruto, but was hit by Kiba, "Damn it! I didn't even do anything! What the fuck are you doing? Let me fucking go!"

"So you admit it?" Shino asked, quietly.

"What?" Neji asked, confused.

"You fucked her," Sai's three words sent Neji's world plummeting down.

All the guys had run off to give Neji a piece of their minds, leaving Tenten with the kunoichi. Sakura and Ino didn't wait for the boys to come back and give an explaination. They immediately started healing the injured girl. "Temari!" Sakura barked, "Hold her down! This will hurt like hell!" Temari held down Tenten as Sakura and Ino started to draw out the dirt and bacteria in her wounds using water and chakra. Tenten screamed, as Hinata wiped her brow.

Ino began to heal the wounds and bruises while Sakura applied a little bit of chakra to Tenten's forehead, soothing the pain. She joined Ino in healing her as Temari and Hinata began cleaning up the mess of Tenten's shredded clothes, Kiba's ruined jacket and the blood soaked sheets.

Tenten opened her eyes groggily. The pain she felt earlier was gone, but the humiliation and the fear was still there. Sakura was just healing the last of her bruises as Ino, Temari and Hinata left the room to find something to eat when Tenten sat up.

"How did I get here?" Tenten looked around wildly. Sakura looked up from a shallow cut, "Well, from what Hinata collected from the guys, they were going on some sort of a "male bonding time". Don't ask me what they were thinking of doing, I don't really want to know, considering the last time they "bonded". So, they were on the way to the Hyuga Compound to get Neji when they saw you. Lee had a major freak attack and you lost a lot of blood. Well . . . if it weren't for Naruto's dumb idea to have the guys go out and meet at midnight, you would have lost too much blood by the time someone saw you the tomorrow. So, they brought you here, because us girls were having a sleepover, which you missed, by the way, instead of to the hospital, because you already lost way too much blood for comfort. And, now you're here." Sakura fumbled inside her knapsack, before retreiving a small packet, from which she extracted a small sphere, which she tossed to Tenten, "Eat this!"

Tenten caught the object and popped it into her mouth, chewing slowly on the blood pill. She looked down at herself. There were no scars, no marks to show for the terrifying day, yet, she knew that the marks he left on her were much deeper than anyone could comprehend. They were permanently intoned into her, and she would never forget it, no matter how hard she tried. Her eyes watered, but she tried hard not to let the younger girl see her tears.

Sakura saw Tenten's internal struggle, and knew that she couldn't help very much. Still, she knew that it must be hard to cope with the fact that she was beaten up and hurt while she was supposed to be a ninja. She decided to help and comfort the brunette.

"Hey," Sakura lifted Tenten's chin with a finger so that she looked the pinkette in the eye, "Let it out. It's okay. I won't laugh. I won't tell anyone. I swear." God knows how I would feel if I was beaten up in the middle of my town, without anyone noticing. I mean, for pity's sakes, I'm a ninja . . . Sakura sighed mentally, Still, everyone makes mistakes. Besides, seeing the wounds on her, and the amount of blood she lost, she must have been terrified.

Tenten bit her lip and buried her face into Sakura's red shirt as she cried out the hurt, the pain, the terror and the humiliation. Sakura didn't laugh at her, didn't mock her, didn't show disgust at her weakness. She just whispered into Tenten's chocolate locks and patted her back comfortingly.

Hinata, Ino and Temari entered the room with some snacks and tea. They saw Tenten and immediately flocked over and comforted her.

Tenten sniffled, thankful for her friends, before rubbing her eyes, "Okay, better now." She could still feel his hands on her, but she didn't want to dwell on it. Instead, she asked, "Hinata, do you mind if I borrow your shower?" Hinata nodded, motioning for her to go into the bathroom connected to her bedroom. She went to her closet and grabbed a fishnet shirt, a sleeveless shirt, shorts, and some undergarments before joining her.

Tenten felt Hinata's presence behind her as the pale eyed girl entered the bathroom. Tenten felt comfortable around the gentle girl.

Hinata placed the carefully folded clothes on a rack in the bathroom, "Y-You don't h-have to put on a brave front, Tenten." She touched the girl, gently on the shoulder, "W-We want to help . . . I-If we can . . . " Tenten managed a small smile at Hinata's sincerity, "Thanks, Hinata." The Hyuga heiress blushed, and stepped out of the bathroom to give Tenten some peace.

She stepped into the shower, the hot water pouring onto her skin. It touched every single spot on her, and then . . . all the memories came back. All the things she tried to keep suppressed came flooding back. His hands, his mouth, his . . . oh God! The pain . . . the pain . . . the PAIN!! She scrubbed at her skin viciously, ignoring the stinging pain of newly healed skin being rubbed raw. She wanted to get the feeling of his touch off of her. She wanted to get rid of the feeling of him pounding into her. She wanted . . . she wanted . . . it to all just be a bad nightmare . . . But that's impossible. Because this wasn't a nightmare. This was reality. This nightmare wasn't going anywhere. The tears streamed down her face, unchecked, mingling with the soap and the water, as her body shook as she vented out all her pent up emotions.

Neji stared at Sai in shock, his mouth opening and closing, but not making any sound. He turned, and saw all the other guys staring at him intently.

They . . .

Yes . . . They think you fucked Tenten . . .

And . . . no fucking way . . .

Technicall--

Shut the HELL up! I don't need this right now!

He shook his head, unable to fully comprehend what the others thought he did. He walked into his room, followed by all the other guys.

They silently found their places around the room. Sai, Naruto, Kankuro and Lee sat on the bed. Shino, Gaara and Sasuke sat in the only chairs in the room. Shikamaru sad on the floor, leaning on the wall, and Kiba Akamaru sprawled out on the floor by the bed. Chouji sat beside the desk, leaning on the table. Neji leaned on the wall by the door, acutely aware of all they eyes glued on him. It was unnerving, even for a skilled shinobi like him. The silence was becoming harsher and harsher, grating on already frayed nerves.

Kiba finally broke the silence, "We expect one hell of an explanation from you."

A/N: If this is confusing you as to why the girls aren't reacting as they should by taking things too calmly, the didn't know that she was raped. They just thought that she was beaten up and left for dead. So, they just healed her wounds, and comforted her because they thought she was shaken after she was nearly killed. Technically, she was shaken and technically, she was nearly killed. But her mental trauma was much more than they originally would have thought.

And . . . this chapter was pretty much another filler. I mean, it has more plot developement than the last chapter . . . but there's still not much going on. The next chapter will be much more interesting . . . I hope . . .

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