Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

GAI'S INTERFERENCE

"NEJI, HOW COULD YOU?!" rang the voice of a certain weapon's mistress and Hyuga prodigy's former sensei through the small apartment where the two currently laid sleeping in bed together.

"It's nice to see you show up only half an hour late, Kakashi!" the fifth Hokage said sarcastically, "Guess having Itsu around has made you a little more punctual." (1).

"I was on my way here this morning when…" Kakashi began.

"Don't even start with me!" Tsunade interpreted the rehearsed excuse. "This is a very important mission, and I'm trusting the three of you with it because you've proven to work very well as a team. Kakashi, I was going to put you as team leader, but if you can't handle the simple task of showing up on time for a mission briefing…"

"HOKAGE-SAMA!" yelled Gai as he stormed into the Hokage's office, dragging two very disheveled and underdressed young jonin along with him; followed closely by a younger clone of himself.

"What is the meaning of this?!" asked an even more ticked off Tsunade.

It was bad enough that the Akatsuki were creating more problems lately, and that one of her best shinobi wouldn't give her the respect she deserved, but now here was Gai rushing into her office pulling two of his former student's, who were struggling to free themselves from his grasp, along with him. (2)

"I AM AFRAID I HAVE HORRIBLE NEWS. I HAVE JUST COME FROM YOUNG TENTEN-SAN'S APARTMENT, WHERE I FOUND, MY ONCE HONORABLE STUDENT, NEJI-KUN, DEFILING OUR MOST PRECIOUS FLOWER." A tearful Gai explained.

Neji began to slightly twitch at the choice of words that came out of his former sensei's mouth, while Kakashi and Genma smirked and inwardly congratulated the Hyuga prodigy.

"Nothing happened!" Neji and Tenten yelled out at the same time.

"YOSH! MAYBE NOT THIS TIME, BUT WHAT ABOUT WHAT NARUTO TOLD US YESTERDAY?" questioned a tearful Lee.

"What did he say?" asked Genma, very interested in the story that lay behind this hilarious scene before him.

"That's none of your business Lee!" the normally cool and collected Neji scolded his old friend.

"BUT IT IS, MY ETERNAL RIVAL!" Lee proclaimed, "AND I SHALL FIGHT YOU TO DEFEND OUR PRECIOUS FLOWER'S HONOR!"

"Hn." was Neji's only reply.

"You don't have to do that, Lee." said an exhausted and somewhat embarrassed Tenten.

This wasn't exactly the conversation she wanted to be having, especially not in front of people who had no business knowing what had occurred the night before. Neji and Tenten had planned on coming to the Hokage to ask for her advice on how to resolve the inevitable conflict that their situation would likely cause, not only in the village, but with the Hyuga clan in general. But their plans had NOT involved telling two of the most perverted shinobi in Konoha, or the most overdramatic shinobi ever. (3)

"What is this all about?" a calm and rational, silver haired jonin asked (4).

The room was quite for a moment. Neji waiting for Tenten's reply to that question; he didn't want to pressure her into anything she didn't want to do, and if she didn't want to tell them yet, he wasn't going to make her. Tenten was debating on whether or not she should tell them all now, or wait until Neji and she were alone with the Hokage, as they had originally planned to do. She suddenly felt a strong hand gently squeeze her hand, and she felt confident enough to just get it over with.

"TENTEN-CHAN IS PREGNANT!" Lee informed the room, beating Tenten to the punch.

The flames of rage in Gai's eyes burned brighter, as the faces of the rest of those present fell in disbelief and shock.

Finally the Hokage spoke. "Is this true Tenten?" asked Tsunade.

"H-Hai" Tenten replied, nodding her head up and down quickly.

"And I take it Neji is the father?"Tsunade inquired .

"Hai!" replied an unshaken Neji.

"And you're sure about this?" Tsunade asked; referring to the pregnancy.

"Sakura told me." answered Tenten, "she said it came up on the blood test I took a short while back."

"I see." said a stunned Tsunade.

This was indeed a crisis. It wasn't only that the two were far too young, both still in their teens. It wasn't even that they were not married. It wasn't even all that much that they were from two different social classes in the village. It was that Neji was a Hyuga. And more than that, at the rate he had been going, he might become the HEAD of the Hyuga clan, the first time any branch member ever reached that merit. But now…

"This complicates things." Tsunade stated.

"We are aware of this." Neji responded.

"It's going to be difficult." Tsunade told the two.

"We know." Tenten replied.

"And have you thought of what you will do?" Tsunade inquired.

"We want you to marry us." Neji stated without batting an eye.

TBC...

A/N:

(1) I was going to cut out the "Itsu" bit... but I decided to keep it because I kept it in the companion story... just the same... it doesn't make much of a difference... it's just an OC from a different story by that name.

(2) Kakashi

(3) Kakashi, Genma, and Gai respectively.

(4) Originally that was meant to be Itsu, but if you want to think it's Kakashi, that's fine too