A/N: Yo! I was getting so excited writing this story. I love the way the ending plays out in my head. The ending of the whole story that is, just not the chapter. I hope you enjoy this chapter! Please review!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Death Cab for Cutie, I Will Follow You Into the Dark, The Postal Service, or Sleeping In.

I sighed. Lee and Neji had started yet another one of their on-the-way trivia sessions. I tried to drone them out, but it was hard. My MP3 player had been running out of battery juice lately, so I wanted to conserve it for a little bit. I was tempted to remove it from my pouch and start listening to it, but my lack of batteries was telling me to save it for later.

So, I just listened to them babble on and on about random points of interest in Konoha and jutsu.

"Okay Lee, third question. What des the memorial stone represent?"

"That is an easy one, Neji. It represents all the ninja who died in battle, and is a memorial to their heroic deeds. Now, name all of the eight gates."

"Opening, rest, life, pain, closing, joy, shock, and death." Lee nodded; Neji was correct, as always. "My turn. What is chakra?"

"I can not remember. Please hold on a second." Lee ran along, lost in thought. I couldn't remember exactly what chakra was, and I always prided myself in my brilliance.

"Hmmm? The great Lee cannot remember what chakra is? How about you, Tenten?" Of course. Neji turns to me. Humiliation at it's finest.

I just smiled, looking at Neji like it's an easy question. "Chakra is the energy in your body needed to preform jutsu. Duh."

"Anyone could have told me that, Tenten." Oh, haha. Neji and his great sense of humor. "Just tell me where the chakra come from. What two things are combined to make this chakra."

Leave it to the Hyuuga to know what two things have to be mixed. I just rolled my eyes. "Anyone can tell you that, Neji!" I responded, making it sound like it was all too easy.

"Okay then. I'm waiting." Why can't he just pretend I know and ask Lee?

"AHA!" I was saved. Lee had remembered. "Chakra is a mixture of the energy present in every cell of the body and the spiritual energy gained from exercise and experience. Once these two energies mix, they can be sent to the chakra circulatory system, therefore making it possible to manipulate the energies into things that require chakra."

How does he know that? I started at him with a questioning glance, and he shrugged.

"You are correct." Neji nodded. "Your turn."

"What is the air speed velocity of a swallow?"

"African or European?"

"I don't know..."

And with that, I decided I was going to drown them out. I mean really, swallows? I shock my head, and turned on my MP3 player, slipping the earbuds into place.

'Love of mine some day you will die, But I'll be close behind, I'll follow you into the dark.' I mentally squeed. 'I Will Follow You Into the Dark' by Death Cab for Cutie was an amazing song.

'No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white. Just our hands clasped so tight, Waiting for the hint of a spark.' Every time I heard it, I imagined Neji singing it to me. I imagined he and clasping our hands as we walked into the unknowing world together. I imagined I was the love of his life. My fantasies were so nice.

I had gotten caught up in my daydreaming again, failing to notice Gai-sensei, Neji, and Lee tense up. When I glanced over at Neji and Lee, they had stopped talking. I was about to take my headphones out and ask them what was going wrong when I heard one of my absolute favorite songs come on.

'Last week I had the strangest dream. Where everything was exactly how it seemed. Where there never any mystery on who shot John F Kennedy. It was just a man with something to prove. Slightly bored and severely confused...' The words of The Postal Service rang in my head. I relaxed my muscles, and skipped along.

It was then I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned to look, and was face to face with Neji. I turned off my MP3 player, and slipped out the earbuds.

"Yes, Neji?"

"We're being followed. We'd all appreciate it if you kept that thing off for a little while." I nodded, awestruck. How could I have missed the fact we were being followed? I wanted to slap myself in the forehead repeatedly.

Oh man, what Neji must think of me right now. So caught up in my own thoughts that I didn't notice what was going on. I just stood there, seeing as we all had stopped, berating myself. I slipped my MP3 player in my pouch while cursing my stupidity.

The only thing about berating yourself is that you semi-forget what's going on. Your body is there... It's just your mind has gone into it's own world for a bit. I was like that as Neji looked around, Byakugan on, looking for our followers.

When I finally came to my senses, I drew a kunai. But it was too late.

"TENTEN!" Lee screamed. My eyes widened in shock as a kunai pierced my right arm. It stung; I suspected poison.

Then our ambushers came out of nowhere. There were five of them. I felt stupid for not realizing they were there, but it was too late for that now. One of them started the Kage Buushin no Jutsu, and clones appeared, surrounding us. Neji got into his stance, I took out a few kunai, and Lee and Gai-sensei started the hand to hand combat.

I threw a kunai at someone who was headed straight for Lee's back, making it disappear with a poof. He nodded his thanks after making three of them disappear.

I was busy fighting my own battles by then. I had pulled out my staff by now, and I was holding them back. I threw needles every chance I got. I could hear Gai-sensei behind me, smashing clones everywhere.

"This is useless. We're only fighting clones!" Neji said, as he shoved two of them in the stomach, resulting in two poofs.

"But we will never know where the real ones are if we don't fight the clones. They cannot have that much chara to keep this up forever." Lee elbowed one, while ducking an attack from another. I could see them, as I had to turn around to fight some other clones.

"Thats what I thought about Naruto," Neji muttered.

"But Lee, we don't have enough chakra or stamina to keep this up for that long," I pointed out. I narrowly missed two shuriken laced with poison. I might not be a poisons master, but I could tell when a weapon had poison on it. The tip was slightly darker than the rest of the weapon, an easy target to see for the trained eye.

Poison...

None of the shuriken so far had had poison on it. Only the first kunai and these two had poison...

That meant the attacker was behind me! I spun on my heel, attacking more clones as I searched for the source of the poison laced weapons. Some more clones ran at me.

"Hmm... she must have figured it out. She is looking almost directly at us, yet can't see. It will only be a matter of time before she can tell white eyes, though. Take her down immediately." I kept searching, unaware of the orders for my death.

I just knew I had to keep attacking the clones. One by one, the clones poofed away. But my body was becoming weaker; the poison had been strong. I winced in pain as my arm began to burn badly.

But nevertheless, I kept fighting. That's what ninja are trained to do.

I kept attacking with my weapons, watching the clones go away. Until, one of them didn't go away. I had hit a living person!

Instead of focusing on the other clones, I just focused on him. I jabbed and stabbed, aiming my attacks directly at his body.

The pain in my arm had now extended to my leg. A kunai hit me, rendering my leg useless. I stood, weight supported by the staff and my usable leg. Neji and Lee were having no better luck, I presumed, as there were still so many clones.

Even though one leg was useless, and my arm was stinging, I kept throwing my needles and my kunai. These clones were not going to win.

My stamina was running low. It was getting harder and harder for me move at the same pace. My leg was bleeding pretty badly now. I held it as I aimed my weapons. They didn't miss their mark, as expected. I turned to face Neji; I had found the actual people! I opened my mouth, expecting to tell him the good news.

What I didn't expect, though, was the immense pain that went through my body.

At that moment, five kunai pierced my flesh.

One went through my other leg. Another hit my left shoulder. One of the larger kunai had struck me in the right section of my chest, to close to my heart for comfort. I tarted coughing up blood as one went through my lower back.

I could have stayed conscious if it weren't for the kunai hitting the back of my head. That brought the most pain of any of them. I fell forwards, vision blurring quickly.

I could faintly feel the hardness of the ground underneath my head. My mouth was dripping with blood, my body slowly becoming consumed with poison.

It hurt. Badly.

The last thing I heard before I went under, before everything went black, was someones voice calling out to me.

"TENTEN!"

I had never heard my name said with such passion, such caring, such... love.

The voice wasn't Gai-sensei's, I knew that.

But as I felt the world shutting down around me, I could only think of one thing.

Was it Lee, or was it Neji?

A/N: I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! Erm... please review, of course! Oh, and Tenten's songs are actually based off of my MP3 player. Hehe! I hope you all listen to some of these songs that I put in here, they're really good.

Oh, and please check out the story by my good friend Reels; it's called "Average Ten." It's a good story, and the plot she has devised for it is amazingly well thought out.

There is a reason I shouldn't be allowed to type authors notes after 11:30 at night... I get too rambley and weird. xD Well, anyway.

Rai