A/N: This chapter is dedicated to Kane-the-Warrior for requesting the NaruSaku couple. This couple gave me an idea for a later event in the fanfic. I decided that there will be NaruSaku evidence here and there in the chapters.

Confusion in her Head

His lips continued to kiss her lips hastily as if this was the only thing that would keep him breathing. His hands continued caressing her stomach before it moved up her belly, pushing her shirt up. Then it traveled to her back and started rubbing before he gently trailed his fingers up and down her spine. This action caused Tenten to inhale sharply tensing at his touch.

There was something about Neji that Tenten just couldn't get away from. She knew if her brain was at all functioning, she'd have smacked him again and yelled, but that wasn't what her hands were doing. No, her hands were moving over his shirt, feeling his muscles through the fabric and feeling the warmth that seeped through into her blood. Something moist and sticky to the touch.

It was then that she took her closed eyes away from his to look at the liquid on her finger tips as her eyes opened. The slash she had made on his chest had caused blood to leak out, staining his clothing. Quickly she pushed him off seeing the red fluid on her finger tips.

"Neji-" Tenten started to speak in a surprised manner, however he cut her off.

"It's nothing." Neji looked down, the wound really didn't hurt, and he was too caught up to notice the various wounds on his body drenching his white, now red clothing with blood both dry in a mahogany color, to fresh brilliant red color. "I don't feel-"

It was Tenten's turn to cut him off. She had had enough of him just rudely interrupting her, now it was her turn.

"No you listen here Neji. You can't just manhandle me after sparring and hope that'd I'd just ignore the wounds that are all over you're body. They could get infective or worse. We are going to get them cleaned and bandaged right now." Tenten didn't even wait for his reply as she grabbed his arm as started pulling him out of the training area. On the way through the various shops, they passed by Tsunade's office.

"Hey Neji! What happened? Did you get beat bad by a girl?" Naruto shouted at Tenten and Neji who were passing the office. Sakura, who was standing beside Naruto, saw the new angered expression on Neji's face and started to yell at Naruto's rudeness. That was only after she punched the back of his head.

"Ow Sakura, that hurt." He wined.

"Don't be so rude to them!" Sakura shouted before greeting Tenten and Neji.

"Tenten are you feeling better already? I though-" Naruto had noticed that Tenten seemed to be acting herself and wanted to ask why until Sakura cupped his mouth with her hand.

"Idiot, she may not want to remember." Sakura whispered into his ear sternly. Naruto tried to speak to question her for an explanation as to why but couldn't since her hand was still placed on his mouth. Realizing this, Sakura quickly pulled her hand back to place it beside her as Naruto placed his hands behind his head not even noticing the faint blush that appeared across Sakura's cheeks.

"She seems fine to me." Naruto stated back not sure of what he did wrong.

"We have to leave." Neji said rather abruptly as he tugged Tenten to start walking in which she did. Tenten really couldn't figure out what was with those two. The last time she remembered, Sakura was always near Sasuke. Usually she would scowl and yell at Naruto, but this conversation between then seemed almost…playful. She really had to idea of how to sort that out.

"Yeah see you another time Tenten." Sakura waved with a fake cheerfulness. Tenten just looked back with a confused expression but decided it was better off to leave some questions unanswered. Tenten took one last look back before she saw Naruto and Sakura turn to leave toward Tsunade's office. Neji started to tug her along until they reached the Hyuuga manor. He was about to pull her inside when she protested.

"Wait, I need to go back home and change into a new pair of clothes first. I'll be right back." Tenten pulled away from Neji to turn and walk in the direction of where she knew her house to be in, only to have Neji grab her wrist.

"Neji I'll be right back." Tenten said trying to take her wrist back but Neji held it in a tighter grip which caused her to wince slightly. Seeing that, he released his grip but he still kept his hand on hers.

"You live here." Neji said bluntly. Tenten gave him a confused look.

"What are you talking about?" Using his right hand, the hand that was holding her left hand, Neji raised it which confused Tenten more. That was until she noticed it. Why she hadn't noticed it before shocked her. On her ring finger was a very thin but lovely silver band. On the band was unscripted 'Tenten' and next to that was the Chinese characters that spelled her name which also meant sky. Her eyes widened at the sight. She didn't understand what this meant. Were they…

Married?

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?" Neji sighed, she was back to yelling again.

"Calm down." Neji really didn't want the whole Hyuuga manner to hear her yelling.

"HOW DO I CALM DOWN? DO YOU MIND EXPLAINING WHY THERE IS A RING ON MY FINGER?!" Tenten was hysterical. She was now what 24 and married already. Did she have children as well that she didn't know about? Before anymore questions could fill Tenten's mind Neji moved it without her knowledge and kissed her. It was a soft kiss but nether the less it that made Tenten just calm down for the moment. Neji moved away, she didn't hit him this time. All she did was stand still under his gaze looking down to avoid staring at him. This day was too much for her to handle.

Neji took a small step closer so that her body was against his and wrapped his arms around her body, pressing her closely against his chest in a possessive yet loving way. He bent his head down slightly to kiss where her shoulders meet the neck. It was a tender spot where Tenten hadn't even realized she could have had. Her eyes instinctively closed and she could feel the remaining tension in her body just release itself out until she had to lean on Neji for support or she would have fallen. His scent was intoxicating and mixed with his warmth was something she would have thought she'd never get a chance to feel. Whenever they'd train, she would either take a long range approach and stay as far as she could so that the Byakugan wouldn't notice her as much and to not be anywhere near his presence, or try a close range approach with a kunai to kunai spar match. This type of spar match ended up with her in a worse condition then if she were farther. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she yearned for his protection.

Her mind became numb from the bliss, she was so tired now. The sparring match they had together had taken out much of her chakra and she didn't know how much she could hold up before sleep would overcome. Her eyes were already close and they seemed locked shut. Finally giving up the struggle to stay awake, she allowed sleep to take her away into the same smoothing-ness that Neji brought her to. Neji stopped his gentle kisses and carried her inside to the bed they were sleeping in this morning.

Naruto and Sakura had reached Tsunade's office and Naruto opened the door for Sakura and him to enter. Tsunade was sitting at her desk with papers piled up and Shizune holding Ton Ton next to the desk. Tsunade was still reading through various sheets and documents of paper before looking up at Naruto and Sakura.

"You finally arrived." Tsunade said. She had sent a messenger to call for them to come a few hours ago and still they had not shown up yet.

"Sorry Tsunade-san, Naruto and I just got a quick bit to eat before walking here." Sakura said apologizing for the tardiness.

"Now that you're here we can discuss the matters at hand." Tsunade said.

"We meet Neji and Tenten on our way here and she seems fine." Naruto explained knowing what Tsunade meant by the 'matters at hand'.

"Naruto you know there was something different with Tenten today." Sakura said thinking that it was unbelievable that Naruto had not noticed the difference in Tenten's behavior, especially when she was with Neji.

"I know already the poison has taken affect, I thought that the antidote I had given her would have destroyed the poison but it only contained it for a short amount of time." Tsunade said, she had stayed up late for three days now trying to figure out a way to destroy or even contain the poison that had forced its way into Tenten for a little longer but there was nothing that could be found yet.

"ISN'T THERE ANYTHING ELSE WE CAN DO? There has to be something to help her!" Naruto shouted. Over the years team Gai and him had become close and he just couldn't take the fact that someone he knew was in pain. Especially since him thought it was his fault, that he was to blame for this that if he'd just done something sooner, tried harder that none of this would have happened.

"All we can do is let Neji help her heal. I'm sorry to say that that is all that we can do for her. But we can find who did this." Tsunade said gripping the pencil she held tighter. "I have a mission for you. Go to the place where Neji had found her and track down the contents of the poison. Be careful."

"Right." Naruto and Sakura said in union.