Chapter 14:

What would you do for your most precious person?

How far would you go for them?

You will come to me.

Whether you like it or not,

You will come to me

And you will follow my orders.

And we will be meeting soon.

Tenten snapped her eyes open. She was breathing hard as she sat up.

'...What was that dream?' Tenten thought as she looked around her room making sure that there was no difference. When she knew for a fact that nothing was different, she fell back into her bed, sighing. This was the 3rd time she had seen that dream. By now, she was almost completely sure that it wasn't a coincidence.

'But this was the first time that 'See you soon' came out.' Tenten thought. 'Is something coming?' She looked out the window. It was cloudy and looked like it was going to rain.

"?" Tenten heard footsteps outside her door. She backed up in to the corner staring at the door. The footsteps got closer and closer.

'What should I do?' Tenten's mind raced as she looked around frantically. Finally, she noticed the kunai sitting on her desk. She ran off her bed as quickly and quietly as possible and grabbed the kunai just when the door opened.

Tenten pulled the kunai back ready to fling it.

"Tenten!?" Lee's voice burst into the room as he flung the door open. He looked around frantically before spotting Tenten and running over to her.

"What is it Lee?" Tenten asked putting the kunai down and relaxing a little. Although she was still tense because Lee had just jumped into her room looking panicked.

"Do you know anything?" Lee asked turning to Tenten.

"...Know what?" Tenten asked a little surprised.

"...So she doesn't know." Gai-sensei said entering Tenten's room as well. Gai looked under the weather, which scared Tenten since Gai-sensei always seemed to be the happiest person around.

"Did something happen?" Tenten asked even more curious now.

The two said nothing. They looked as if they would rather go on not saying anything at all. But that look let Tenten know that she needed to find out what was going on. Tenten's expression turned into a more serious expression as she looked up at her 2 room mates one more time.

"Did something happen?" She repeated evenly.

Gai-sensei sighed knowing that he wasn't going to get out of it this time.

"...Tenten, I don't think I should say anything. Instead, you should go see Tsunade. I think she needs to tell you most of the things anyway." Gai-sensei said backing away from the door. Tenten looked up at Gai-sensei one more time, then finally nodded and proceeded to leave the room.

"Tenten!" Lee called. Tenten turned around to look at Lee.

"What?" She asked him.

"...Good luck." He finally said.

"Thanks." She said not quite sure how to respond, and then turned around heading toward Tsunade's workplace.

"Hello?" Tenten said opening the door and peeking in.

"You're here." Shizune was already waiting near the door. She greeted Tenten before leading her to where Tsunade was. When they got there, she slowly opened the door as to not make too much noise.

"...Tsunade-sama, she's here." Shizune said.

"Let her in." Tsunade said. She was sitting at her desk and looked like she was in a hangover, which might actually have been the fact.

"Hello...'Higura' Tenten." Tsunade said as she looked up at Tenten.

"How was it...?"

"Successful."

"Good, now it's all set."

Snickering could be heard all around the dark room from the dark figures that surrounded the room.

"B-But I don't have a last name." Tenten said a little surprised.

"Heh. Everyone has a last name. You just didn't hear about yours till now." Tsunade said. "Yes, your father's name was Higura Tetsuya. Of course, he dismissed the last name for a couple of reasons.

"Wait! You knew my Dad?" Tenten asked.

"Yes I did. We went to school together. As did your Mother."

"Then you know about my family?"

"I can't answer all of your questions, but I do probably know more than you do at the moment."

"...Tsunade-sama, what is going on?" Tenten asked looking down. "There seems to be something wrong, but no one will tell me anything."

"...That is precisely because you have a great role in the exact problem." Tsunade replied.

'Great Role?' Tenten thought.

"...Your mother was a beautiful woman. She was well-liked by many." Tsunade said. "I was one of her best friends. Sometimes though, I wish I wasn't. Because...it was my entire fault." Tsunade said looking down, her head resting on her hands that were propped on the desk.

'If I wasn't there, if I wasn't here friend...this would've never happened.'

"Your fault?" Tenten asked. "But how could it be your fault?"

"...If I hadn't gotten them to meet each other, nothing would've happened. No one would've had to die."

Tenten stood their stunned by the words that came from Tsunade's mouth. But more stunned by the way they came out. The words were filled with regret and sadness, she spat them out cruelly.

"I thought I could just ignore it all. But as soon as I had found out that your parents had enrolled you into this school, I knew that was going to be impossible from now on." Tsunade said looking up at Tenten. Her smile filled with shame and embarrassment. "I didn't talk to you because I thought everything was going to go smoothly as long as nothing happened. But once again, I was wrong. Something did happen, all due to the fact that you are here."

"Why am I that important?" Tenten asked not believing the things that came out of Tsunade's mouth. "I'm just an average girl with no parents, trying to get through life. What sets me apart from the 4.0 students and 1st place athletes?"

"2 reasons. All of which you can not change no matter what you do." Tsunade said pointing 2 fingers up.

'2?' Tenten thought.

"First, your bloodline in the ninja world. Like the Uchihas, your family disappeared all at once as well. Your great-grandfather was one of the few survivors who has passed down the blood which is in you. Having a person with the bloodline you have can be very useful when you want to take over the world."

'That's why Orochimaru is after me.' Tenten thought.

"What is the other reason?" Tenten asked eager to get everything she could from Tsunade.

"The 2nd reason was my entire fault." Tsunade said.

A pale hand held a picture of a happy family in its hand. There was a young man and woman smiling while holding a baby girl in their arms. The hand slowly came around the picture, crumpleing the picture.

"Finally, this will be no more." A voice was heard, followed by chuckling as the hand tightened around the picture.

Chapter done. Tenten's family secrets are slowly revealed but the biggest secret is in the next chapter, plus something very shocking will probably be revealed! Stay tuned!

Okay, 2 things I wanted to say: (2 reasons from the story as well!)

1. Great job people! We beat year 2 in reviews and we've gone over 100 too! Keep reviewing though!

Tobi has 122 stars and is super happy right now! XD

2. One of my favorite writers just quit writing because they weren't 'feeling' it or something. Upsetting isn't it?

They deleted all their stories and stuff. XP

I swear to all my readers that I will keep on writing unless I am banned from even touching the computer. I seriously promise, even if my writing is looking crappy I'll keep on going because I know you have to keep on going to be a good writer.

I hope all the writers reading right now keep going on with their writing as well without quitting.

P.S. Neji is often misspelled as Negi. Now for all people who have done that, Negi is green onion in Japanese. So I suggest you make sure you haven't done that in your stories because it seems to be a common mistake that is cracking me up all the time.

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Honors:

NinjafrogHNM for annoying the hell out of me with her 'ja!' and other short Japanese words put in randomly throughout sentences. (A ton of people do it, but don't worry, that was just a joke.)

But she reviews every time so it makes me happy!

Even if I can't read her story because it's Shikaino o.O (sorry, no can do)

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