Sparring Forgiveness

The weapons were easily deflected with the use of his Hakkesho Kaiten, then took out two of his own kunais and threw them, Tenten easily dodged one but the other nicked her at the upper part of her arm. The cut was barely visible but it had still made a slight cut in her clothing. Tenten knew she had to be more careful before trying another barrage of weapons from her special technique Soushouryu. Neji would have spoken up to tell her that her weapons were useless when used this way against his ultimate defense but was silenced by the piercing pain that shot threw his back. Tenten was able to land a kunai into his back without him being able to detect it.

He knew long ago about his blind spot on one of the joints near his spine but by focusing chakra into it, he was able to sense if any weapon would try to pierce him from that directions. Either that or the chakra he build up to place at the point could easily have knocked the weapon off course and move it into a degree that his Byakugan was able to see. Even though Neji did feel some pain since the kunai had planted itself deep into his back he did not even flinch, ignoring the pain he reached back and pulled the kunai out to see that it was half of a kunai. The design and structure was the same as a regular kunai extra sharp but sliced down from the center. This had to be the reason why he had not sensed its presence getting closer, but he still was not completely confident that the shape was the main reason why it had struck him. Tenten stood on the ground only a few yards away and sensed his feeling of uncertainty. She'd explain later about the weapons and how she was able to come to a hypothesis when she found out about the special weapons hidden in her scroll.

Tenten summoned a long wooden staff and started to run forward toward Neji spinning the wooden staff to get a better feel of her summoned weapon and use the familiarity to her advantage. She moved her hands to swiftly push the staff like a joust and caused Neji to focus chakra into his hand to grab onto the wooden staff to prevent the blow from causing him any damage. However, once his hands touched the wood, he felt his chakra being drained in a way. Tenten saw what her weapons where done and could tell they had been made after countless hours of patients and skill but this had just blown her away. These weapons were precisely made to use against Neji to beat him.

These weapons, was she really that skilled? Or was it something else, did she want to beat Neji that badly? Or maybe it was something simpler, did she want to prove that she was stronger then him, that the reason was as simple as trying to impress him.

Tenten held the staff firmly and tried to swing it around to target his side. If she could somehow injury his side for a moment, his movements would not be at full potential. Thus, giving her a greater chance to strike and cause a more damaging blow. The blow would not place any major damage to his vital organs, but just enough to break through his male pride and convince him to admit surrender to her.

Tenten used the staff and took another shot at his side but it was blocked by Neji's chakra filled palm. Neji was getting tired of having his chakra being drain and concentrated extra chakra into his hand before grabbing the staff and shot a large amount of chakra through. The chakra blasted out of the other end, sending Tenten flying backward who quickly regained balance and took out a kunai quickly to throw it toward Neji. The kunai moved in one motion and slashed Neji's chest. Chakra string was attached to the end of the kunai and with a flick of the wrist, instead of piercing Neji, it slashed him. If Neji had moves back in the right amount of time, his injury would have been more sever.

Growling, Neji held his newly slashed wound. He was getting soft, this had never happened between them before; he used to be able to easily dodge her attempts. Today should have been no different. The only reasons he would have made a mistake is because of his own carelessness with the use of his chakra. Then again there was something different about her, she seemed more determined then ever in winning. He'd have to be more careful.

Tenten knew that his chakra level would be used up soon, his movements were sluggish and his acuteness was weakening, soon she would have him on the ground in a matter of minutes. However she was running low on plans of attack so at the moment they were both equally balanced in who would rise up the winner of this match.

Neji had to conserve what was left of his chakra for one last good attack. Tenten stood her ground and used her scroll to summon the remaining weapons left and as Neji started running toward her, she waited till the time was right and threw them. Knowing that Neji would probably use Kaiten as the defense, she got ready to run forward and use a close combat move to finish him off. But instead of using the Kaiten, Neji took the barrage head on to be stricken by most of them. Tenten was surprised by the move and would have stopped if Neji hadn't appeared right in front of her.

"Jyuuken" With his palm he trusted forward causing the release of his remaining chakra and pushing Tenten back into the truck of a tree. Before Tenten could open her eyes to scan where Neji was, she was being held against the tree. Neji's left hand held her wrist together as her legs were slightly separated by Neji's knees incase she wanted to try and give him a good kick in his lower region. His right hand was on her waist to hold her more securely against the tree trunk.

"I win." Neji said softy into her ear. His grip was tight but it didn't cause any real harm to her wrist. However Tenten really didn't like the position she was placed into. If anyone saw them, it would have looked as though Neji was going to do something that she really didn't want to image him to do, especially to her. They were too young. Well technically, she was too young.

"Neji how did you-" Tenten started but then saw the trail of blood dripping down his left arm and onto the ground. He took the weapon attack head on but at the split second let loose a small amount of chakra to surround his body to set the weapons slightly off course; however that didn't be a few weapons still were able to catch him along the side of his arms. The damage Tenten received from his attack could have been more sever if Neji had not release a little more chakra to block the weapon she had thrown at him. Both of them were sweating and panting for breath, exhausted.

This sparring match was more then just a challenge for each other to test there skills and to find the stronger opponent, it was to make amends. All of the spars they had with each other were to strengthen their bond. This was how Tenten was able to see the true Neji, not the heartless cold Neji he would portray to others to hide his own weakness. In the practices against her, he would open up a little every time.

Shivers were sent down her body as she felt the warmth of Neji's breath trail over her neck. He was leaning more onto her as to pushing her against the tree. His right had was not keeping her in place anymore, it was caressing her stomach was seemed to expose in the position he held her in.

"N-Neji…" Her words trailed off as Neji's mouth kissed a trail along her shoulders, to the collar, up her neck and onto her soft lips. The kiss was different from his previous chaste kisses, this one was more demanding, it would not accept no as an answer.

A/N: I know in this chapter when she was sparring against Neji, there was a mix of Tenten's words of the past and future but there is a reason for that. Her mind is really still in the past but she's currently in the future so there is instability between references from the future and past. Also the fight was sort of a way for them to make Neji become on good terms with her again in stead of him doing something to nice. This is just to ease out some uncertainty if there is any.