I'm not dead. I just take time writing.
This is in authors POV because I it would be hard to write a battle in someone's view. Next chap will be in our main female character point of view.
04: Just the Hyuuga maid
She almost felt like when she was one of the few girls in the Ninja Academy… No one saw her as a great deal.
She was there for five days and everything was going as planned. Sort of. But she was still the maid, Neji her superior and Hiashi-sama inviting her to chat about the state problem and some random stuff. But then, everything changed because of an announcement.
It started in the morning when she found out that they needed to choose a new army general. The last general resigned because he found a wife and married her. And now they needed a new army general.
Tenten didn't even ask Neji if she could join. She suspected Neji wouldn't need her in the mean time because he was the one judging the soldier. She quickly asked for hairgrips from Ayame and fighters clothes. She took her hair from the buns and slowly she had her hair all hidden with the help of hairgrips. Her hair almost looked like Lee's. Just that it was brown and much softer. She got bandage in her chest making sure her breasts wouldn't appear.
She waved at Ayame whom was still shocked to see Tenten like that. But it was really cute to have Tenten around showing everyone how she improved everyday, always reaching her best. Day by day. Ayame could almost feel motherly attached to the girl. It was ok that she was only four years older than Tenten but the feeling came whenever she was around.
Keep cool. Breath and walk there. And when you do, you'll win. She was thinking while going to the sparring ground for soldiers. They looked at her strangely but she didn't care. It was today Neji wouldn't pity her because she was a girl and would fight with all he had.
And she'd kick his ass. She could just feel it.
Neji soon will know how females could be in the same step by them. Equals.
She was surprised that Neji wasn't even sweating from all those fights. She, now, respected Neji, who showed no emotions and that just had a way to frustrate the opponent.
She sat waiting for Neji to finish his sparring with someone in the soldier's uniform. She looked around and found that she's only one who isn't with the uniform. She felt out of place. But that's nothing when she's up for the challenge.
She then noticed someone was already sparring with Neji. She sighed. She wanted to end this fast. It wasn't fair. Who dares to challenge him before she does? Then she saw who was sparring with Neji; Lee. You could easily see Lee was trying his best but he ended like everyone else: beat.
She soon got up, anger filling her senses. Lee and she had done a running-pact that they became related. She was his 'sister', now. Isn't it normal that when your brother is suddenly bullied you go and get revenge?
And she'd do it. Now.
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When she challenged him he just looked from up to down and down to top. After he got a look at her she received a scowl from him. She glared. What now? Did he think that she was only a bit strange she couldn't be fitted to a challenge?
"What are you doing here, Ne-kun?" He asked sternly. Tenten just got her face with shock. He found it was her already? Sigh, no backing back. She grinned, "I came to challenge you, Hyuuga Neji. I'll show you that I'm capable of winning," she challenged him confidently but in her mind it was something else; please, at least let me scratch him…
Neji just grinned. So he was up for a challenge? Great. She got four hairgrips in each hand, making it her weapons. Her hair was slowly coming out. She saw that the soldiers stopped whatever they were going to watch the fight.
She then backed some steps and then jumped, throwing the hairgrips targeting him. She already knew that it wouldn't work. It was just a distraction. She then tore some of her shirt and bit her finger and henged two scrolls. When she saw blood, she, as fast she could, wrote something on the scrolls and did serial hand seals. And then, weapons danced toward Neji.
Rising Twins Dragons are the best.
Neji didn't seem to move and the attack hit him fully. She grinned madly. Then, after the
smoke cleared, there laid several woods on the floor. Kawarimi no Jutsu (replacement), she realized. Damn, it was so obvious it would be something like that, She thought.
Then she was hit in the back. She was on the floor, breathing had. She concentrated her strength once more and stood. She tore more of her clothes and wrote with blood again. She then took sixteen hairgrips, eight in each hand. Her hair flowing, all messed.
She was a mess. Her hair wasn't in a bun the way she liked. She had to tear a part of the shirt Ayame gave her, she couldn't even scratch Neji and she wasn't fighting with a kunai. Not even a shuriken. Hyuuga-sama's order. It was pissing her greatly.
It was hard finding Neji's presence among all those soldiers. She thought of how much in the Ninja Academy she was always the last once to sense somebody. She remembered how the girls won doing tricks and…tricks!
When she found him, she held the clothes and ran toward him with the hairgrips. She pushed the soldier that looked at her strangely. A way she couldn't tell. But it didn't matter.
She quickly held onto Neji. She hugged him, who was with a shocked expression all over his face. She then got two kunai from his weapon bag. It seemed like he was still in shock. She then kissed him on the cheek, grabbed his hands and then, with the clothes she tied his hands with the help of the hairgrips.
She won. She really did.
She let the excitement burst out within her. She jumped up and down shouting excitement yells. She then realized Ayame was there, smiling at her. She ran and hugged Ayame and cried.
"Hey, girly…You won, but it didn't count," a soldier told her, glaring at him. The rest conscious soldiers glared at her as well. "Yeah…You a girl. A maid." Another said. The soldiers agreed. Tenten was boiling inside. How dare they? I won fair and square! She thought angrily. "You took our time challenging Neji-sama. It's soldier honor in here."
"Then come and fight me, if I win, I get to practice in here any time I want," she challenged them. They prepared to battle. Thank God she got the kunai from Neji. She would win from every soldier in here. And not using tricks. Fight with punches, blood and jutsu.
Just the way she liked.
She had hard time fighting with them all. It was so tiring having to rip clothes and bit herself for blood. Worse was to make the Rising Twins Dragons with them attacking. But she'd always beat them up. She didn't care what the consequences she'd face after this. Her honor was in this as well. What took them to get through their thick-head that woman can also win?
She was panting really hard. There were six soldiers standing around her. She was almost loosing consciousness. She prepared to rip another part of her pant when she heard Neji ordering to stop. It was humiliating to see how they got their heard down just because of one voice.
"Now…I think Ne-kun had enough. Tomorrow you six come and challenge me. I'll choose the next army general then," he spat at them. "And…If you men didn't notice, I asked Ne-kun to fight. If you can't win a woman, think about a man and the risk of being in a danger situation." He then left, motioning to Tenten and Ayame to follow him.
When she passed by a soldier she heard him saying to her that 'just because you a pretty girl it doesn't mean you can win him…'
Was he saying that because her long hair was down and because she was showing lots of skin?
"It was beyond stupid to do that," Ayame lectured her as she applied bandages on Tenten. "But you helped me and you didn't say a thing earlier. I can blame you as well," Tenten replied lazily. She was left with plenty of scars. It hurt pretty much a deal.
"Even so…You kissed Neji," Ayame told her flashing a grin. Tenten blushed. "I needed to do that to distract him…" She told looking away. "But you did it anyways…" Ayame sing-sang. Tenten just scowled.
"Te—Ne-kun! Hiashi-sama is calling!" Lee shouted entering her bedroom. "Lee! Go away! I'm bandaging Ne-kun!" Ayame shouted back. They kept yelling at each other that Tenten didn't even want to tell them she was leaving to find his highness.
Man…another broken rule. Sigh. And she only wanted some days without doing real work. Was that asking too much?
She entered Hiashi-sama's room and waited for someone to show. He called her and didn't appear?
"So my nephew's maid is making a scandal...You should realize that by now, the Sand already knows about The Hyuuga Maid," a voice told from the doors. It seemed that Hiashi-sama just arrived.
"Err…you see, Hiashi-sama, I only wanted to spare…" She tried telling him. "I see…But that isn't a reason to beat my soldiers," He replied, sitting in his chair. "Well, he kicked Lee's ass...! It's a brother to sister thing. I needed to do something!" She replied, trying to make a point in the whole mess.
"I must tell you that this afternoon Aburame Shino and Gaara of the Sand are coming. I'd like if you act as a maid for just two days, and if you do your duties, I might let you with your weapons," He told her, business like.
"Yes…And may I ask if they are staying for the night?" She asked, hoping that they wouldn't. It was pretty visible that if rules from clans were coming, so would the guarding. And she hell knew that it's a pain to feed all of them.
"Yes they are, I'll ask to prepare guest room in the north ala, and then ask for a huge dinner," He told her and then motioned for her to leave. Yes…I do the work and you stay seated.
"Also, you may wash your hair. In the guest room from the south area," He said.
It feels so great to wash my hair not worrying if someone is looking or that it will be smelly. Ok, I understand that Hiashi-sama only allowed me in this because head Clans were coming. Crap. And to think I'll need to accompany them here and there, stay quiet while they talk and all that shit.
Pain. If you ask me.
I'm here, working as a maid for five days and there's three people knowing my true identity. Yes, three. Ayame discovered that I was the blacksmith when she asked why I had weapons with me. I told her because this and that. Then she asked why it didn't have Tenten's seal. I told her because I did it. There was no need for people to know my weapons. Then she asked why I knew so much and I told her 'dah…Because I do them'.
And that was the end. She promised not to tell a soul. But then she kept asking things about work outside the Hyuuga state and all. She told me she wanted to work outside. I promised her I'd look for something when I finished this 'mission'. She was so happy. It made me happy as well. I like to know I have her as a friend.
Lee doesn't know she knows about Tenten, or else he would make a huge scene. Or me. Because Lee would be shouting my irresponsibility to everyone within a mile range. And I'd need to shut him up. With weapons.
Hinata is writing every two days to tell how she's handling. Well, economic and politics talking. She keeps writing that Naruto's land is soft, so there will be plenty of production etc etc.
She did send me (secretly) a letter telling that Sakura appeared there to talk to Shikamaru and that Naruto's crush increased like twenty percent more. That he is seeing her just as a friend. And that she has no hope for them and their marriage.
She also wrote that she's making small things for him to notice her but Kiba; the new guard, is the one who notices it. And that she is sure Kiba likes her but she isn't into him. But maybe she should give a chance because Naruto won't look at her so soon. She found out that Sakura is leaving for the Uchiha State to take care of an ill patient. That her case was more important because it was mission, not a break.
I want to know who Sakura is taking care of, because the Uchiha's were very famous for the eyes that hold the Sharingan blood line. 'Were' being the key. There is a rumor going on that a member of the clan killed everyone leaving only the youngest brother alive: Sasuke. Pretty hot, but seen him only once.
I wrote to Hinata, telling her to keep fighting, to keep dreaming etc etc. All those pretty stuff you find in poetry book. But the truth is, I really want to believe there's hope for them. Just like my mom had with my dad.
My mom loved my dad since they were introduced by my dad's mom. My dad wasn't really interested in my mom because she had Chinese blood, and in that time, China was having conflicts with us. But my mom kept doing small things for him that he soon got in love with her. Then they married and had cute-little-me.
In the first four months everything was fine, until my dad was called to war to seal some demon. He died. My mom believed he would come back, always making food for three and looking at the front door every second. When I was seven, my mom decided she couldn't make him wait more. I asked what she meant but she never did tell me.
Now I understand that she died to find him in heaven. A place where people find true happiness within their soul. To keep their love again. Together.
Juts like my name: heavenly.
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In the shower, Tenten found herself crying. Remembering 'rule' number 25 in the ninja's guide: 'a shinobi can't demonstrate his feeling no matter the situation. The mission is priority and his heart can't show a single tear'.
Done that. She wiped the silly tears and buried her past in the back. Where no feelings could reach.
A/N: err…Sad ending? Suppose. But Tenten needs a background. Sorry for the delay. I'll update asap.
About her name: there is the meaning for Tenten that is 'here and there' (or 'little by little' - almost step by step). But I read in a site that Ten can mean heaven / sky and ten two times (Ten-ten) means double heaven: heavenly.
Steps: I already have the plot formed to the sided fics in this universe (the sasusaku, naruhina and inoshika fic). As you could see, I gave a light idea on what the fics would be.
Thanks so much for the review and patience!
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MisSs005: She won this because Neji can't deal with emotions. Being hugged after so many years gave him a shock. So she could win ;D (you said that if she won it would be too OOC).
Krissel Himura: There! She bathed. Also, Neji wasn't soft with her because she challenged him and his abilities. He couldn't live that.
Mimiru-Sama: Tenten is Neji and Lee's teammate. She is a weapon user. She doesn't really have a role in the Naruto series but I still like writing her character.
Mornings Light: I know…Would you beta/edit this for me?